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1. Breann Johnson Breann Johnson Actress, Red Wing Breann Johnson, most known for Red Wing, was born in Spokane, Washington and is the youngest of three. Breann, also known as "Bree" or "B" to her friends, began acting at the young age of eight in her very first stage play. She has done many stage plays since while attempting to pursue other hobbies such as martial arts...
2. Krysten Ritter Krysten Ritter Actress, Confessions of a Shopaholic With her model looks and quirky style, actress Krysten Ritter is fostering an impressive body of work that encompasses both film and television. Ritter starred alongside Jay Baruchel and Alice Eve in Dreamworks' comedy, She's Out of My League. She played "Patty", the audacious and frank best friend and business partner of "Molly" (Eve)...
3. Theo James Theo James Actor, Underworld: Awakening
4. Shane Black Shane Black Writer, Kiss Kiss Bang Bang Considered one of the pioneer screenwriters of the action genre, Black made his mark with his Lethal Weapon screenplay. He also collaborated on the story of the sequel, Lethal Weapon 2. Each successive script he turned in had a higher price attached it, from The Last Boy Scout to The Long Kiss Goodnight, and in between a re-write on the McTiernan/Schwarzenegger Last Action Hero script.
5. Anna Popplewell Anna Popplewell Actress, The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
6. Benjamin Bratt Benjamin Bratt Actor, Miss Congeniality The middle of five children, Bratt hails from a close-knit family. His mother, a Peruvian Indian from Lima, moved to the U.S. at age 14. He grew up in San Francisco.
7. Lee Perkins Lee Perkins Actor, The Red Machine
8. Ben Cross Ben Cross Actor, Star Trek Ben Cross was born Harry Bernard Cross on December 16, 1947, in London, England. He began acting at a very young age and participated in grammar school plays -- most notably playing "Jesus" in a school pageant at age 12. Ben left home and school at age 15 and worked various jobs, including work as a window washer...
9. Jon Tenney Jon Tenney Actor, Beverly Hills Cop III
10. James Mangold James Mangold Director, Walk the Line
11. Xander Berkeley Xander Berkeley Actor, Terminator 2: Judgment Day Xander's father was a painter and his mother a school teacher who sewed, providing him with costumes (his preference over toys). School plays and Community Theater were next. An experimental theater troupe in the area (which was an offshoot from Joseph Chaikin's Open Theater in New York) took Xander under their wing when he was 16...
12. Miranda Otto Miranda Otto Actress, War of the Worlds
13. Thurane AungKhin Thurane AungKhin Composer, Thurane! Born December 16, 1964 in Scottsdale, Arizona; Thurane's father was a Burmese immigrant and his mother is of German-Irish descent. His mother sang him lullabies at bedtime and many were Christian spirituals. Thurane took piano lessons, struggled with the violin, sang in choir and played the baritone horn in concert band throughout grade school and junior high...
14. Peter Dante Peter Dante Actor, Grandma's Boy
15. J.B. Smoove J.B. Smoove Actor, Date Night
16. Amanda Setton Amanda Setton Actress, What Happens in Vegas
17. Hallee Hirsh Hallee Hirsh Actress, You've Got Mail Born in 1987 at Offut Air Force Base of military parents, Hallee started acting professionally at age 3 while her parents were stationed in Pensacola Fla. She had her first stage role at age 3, was discovered by agents, and immediately began booking commercials first in Florida and, soon after, in New York...
18. Sam Robards Sam Robards Actor, American Beauty
19. Billy Gibbons Billy Gibbons Soundtrack, Armageddon
20. Liv Ullmann Liv Ullmann Actress, Persona Liv Ullmann's father was a Norwegian engineer who used to work abroad, so as a child she lived in Tokyo, Canada, New York and Oslo. In the mid-'50s she made her stage debut and in 1957 made her film debut. She really became successful, however, when she began to work for Swedish director Ingmar Bergman in such films as Persona...
21. Philip K. Dick Philip K. Dick Writer, Blade Runner Philip Kindred Dick was born in Chicago in December 1928, along with a twin sister, Jane. Jane died less than eight weeks later, allegedly from an allergy to mother's milk. Dick's parents split up during his childhood, and he moved with his mother to Berkeley, California, where he lived for most of the rest of his life...
22. Alison La Placa Alison La Placa Actress, Fletch Born in New Jersey and raised in suburban Chicago, Alison La Placa earned a degree in drama from Illinois Wesleyan University and received extensive training in classical piano and voice. She has starred on stage in regional productions of the musicals "Dames at Sea" and "Company," as well as the Los Angeles Cast Theatre's production of "Strider." She resides in Los Angeles with her husband...
23. Jane Austen Jane Austen Writer, Pride & Prejudice Jane Austen was born on December 16th, 1775, to the local rector, Rev. George Austen (1731-1805), and Cassandra Leigh (1739-1827). She was the seventh of eight children. She had one older sister, Cassandra. In 1783 she went to Southampton to be taught by a relative, Mrs. Cawley, but was brought home due to a local outbreak of disease...
24. Jonathan Scarfe Jonathan Scarfe Actor, The Sheldon Kennedy Story
25. Lola Créton Lola Créton Actress, Goodbye First Love Lola Crèton is a French actress. Her first debut was in a short film, Imago. Her first serious role was in Barbe-Bleu, directed by Catherine Breillat. She plays Camille in Goodbye first love, a film by Mia Hansen Løve. The film was an official selection at Locarno and New York Film Festival.
26. Michael Jibson Michael Jibson Actor, The Bank Job Michael Jibson is an English actor born in Hull, East Yorkshire. He is married to the stage actress Caroline Sheen. His father, Tim Jibson, is the programme director of KCFM in Hull. His brother is the actor Paul Jibson. He trained with the National Youth Music Theatre, appearing in their productions of Bugsy Malone...
27. Joyce Bulifant Joyce Bulifant Actress, Airplane!
28. Maruschka Detmers Maruschka Detmers Actress, First Name: Carmen Maruschka Detmers was born in the Netherlands in 1962, but moved to France when she was a teenager to work as an au-pair. During her time in France, she came to the notice of French avant-garde director Jean-Luc Godard and was signed to played the female lead in First Name: Carmen, also appearing in Devil in the Flesh. Other films include Hanna's War and The Mambo Kings...
29. Terence Knox Terence Knox Actor, Children of the Corn II: The Final Sacrifice
30. Kathleen Marshall Kathleen Marshall Actress, Pretty Woman Kathleen Marshall is a graduate of Northwestern University who made her New York theatre debut in the Off-Broadway production of 'Wrong Turn at Lungfish' at the Promenade Theatre. Other stage credits include the LA premiere of 'Life Beneath the Roses', 'The Odyssey', 'Medea', 'Antigone', and 'Pastorale'...
31. N!xau N!xau Actor, The Gods Must Be Crazy N!xau, a San from the Kalahari Desert, was discovered by director Jamie Uys and cast in the lead role in the 1980 movie The Gods Must Be Crazy. He received only a few hundred dollars for his work in that film, but was astute enough to negotiate for over half a million for his appearance in the sequel...
32. Daniel Cosgrove Daniel Cosgrove Actor, Van Wilder
33. Joe Absolom Joe Absolom Actor, Long Time Dead Born in 1978, Joe Absolom began acting in 1990 at age 11 in a peanut butter advertisement. After appearing in Antonia and Jane , he achieved fame as Matthew Rose in EastEnders in 1997 at age 18. After leaving EastEnders in 2000, he has appeared in Long Time Dead, Extreme Ops and also popular television series Doc Martin and Vincent and most recently Personal Affairs .
34. Bryce Robinson Bryce Robinson Actor, Marley & Me
35. Bill Hicks Bill Hicks Self, Bill Hicks: Sane Man Born in Georgia but raised in Houston since the age of 7, this self-described "Prince of Darkness" was compelled to use the comedy stage as his philosophic soapbox. At 13, he would sneak out of his suburban house to hustle his way onto open-mike night rosters. In two brief decades, Hicks worked his way up the sweat-stained comedy ladder to national exposure on The Tonight Show...
36. Noel Coward Noel Coward Writer, Easy Virtue Noel Coward virtually invented the concept of Englishness for the 20th century. An astounding polymath - dramatist, actor, writer, composer, lyricist, painter, and wit -- he was defined by his Englishness as much as he defined it. He was indeed the first Brit pop star, the first ambassador of "cool Britannia." Even before his 1924 drugs-and-sex scandal of The Vortex...
37. Florencia Lozano Florencia Lozano Actress, Perfect Stranger Florencia is most thankful that her parents moved to the United States from Argentina because she's "had so many opportunities having been born and raised here." Playing the witty, intelligent, hard as nails attorney Tèa Delgado is Florencia's first television series. She has acted in regional theatre in such plays as "Hamlet." Describing herself as curious...
38. Scott Bailey Scott Bailey Actor, Guiding Light
39. Larry Poindexter Larry Poindexter Actor, S.W.A.T. The son of Tony Award winning lighting and set designer H.R. Poindexter, began acting in college, first appearing in summer stock in his native Texas, prior to moving with his family to Los Angeles (after spending a number of years in New York). First jobs in Los Angeles were with Franklin R. Levy and Catalina Production Group (which included a young producer named Leslie Moonves)...
40. Robert Kerman Robert Kerman Actor, Cannibal Holocaust Robert Charles Kerman was born on December 16, 1947, in Brooklyn, New York City. His father was a pickle maker and his mother did bookkeeping for the family business. He grew up in a in a middle-class Italian-Jewish neighborhood of Bensonhurst, sharing a two-family row house with his aunt and parents...
41. Ludwig van Beethoven Ludwig van Beethoven Soundtrack, Django Unchained Beethoven was the child of a Flamian musician family and became a member of the electoral orchestra of Bonn in 1783. In 1787 he studied at Mozart's in Vienna and in 1792 he moved all to Vienna becoming a student of Joseph Haydn. The Vienna High Society loved him as a piano player as well as as composer...
42. Frida Hallgren Frida Hallgren Actress, As It Is in Heaven
43. Arthur C. Clarke Arthur C. Clarke Writer, 2001: A Space Odyssey Arthur C. Clarke was born in the seaside town of Minehead, Somerset, England in December 16, 1917. In 1936 he moved to London, where he joined the British Interplanetary Society. There he started to experiment with astronautic material in the BIS, write the BIS Bulletin and science fiction. During World War II...
44. Christina Cabot Christina Cabot Actress, Fight Club The youngest daughter of jazz trumpeter Joe Cabot and singer/actress Cindy Lord, Christina was born in New York City and raised in an artistic household 20 miles north of the city. She attended New York University's prestigious Tisch School of the Arts, and while there trained with many renowned teachers (including Stella Adler)...
45. Steven Bochco Steven Bochco Writer, NYPD Blue Attended Carnegie Tech (now Carnegie-Mellon U) as a playwriting major. Barbara Bosson, Michael Tucker, Bruce Weitz and Charles Haid were classmates; he and Tucker drove cross-country to Hollywood for full-time jobs at Universal, where Bochco would remain for 12 years. In 1978, he moved to MTM Enterprises...
46. John W. McLaughlin John W. McLaughlin Actor, The Touch
47. Terry Carter Terry Carter Actor, Foxy Brown Terry Carter, a native of Brooklyn, New York, is a graduate of Stuyvesant High School in New York City. He attended Hunter College, Boston University - School of Communications, U.C.L.A. - School of Theater, Film, and Television, and St. John's University School of Law. He earned a Bachelor of Science degree in Communications from Northeastern University (1983)...
48. Benny Andersson Benny Andersson Soundtrack, The Hangover Part II Benny Andersson was born in 1946 outside of Stockholm, Sweden. His father and grandfather both being musicians, Benny was introduced to the accordion at an early age. With little patience for conventional music lessons, Benny is known to pick up just about any instrument and play it with ease. After he left high school...
49. Candice Crawford Candice Crawford Actress, Khushiyaan Candice Loren Crawford grew up in Dallas, Texas. Her father is a dermatologist and her mother is a teacher. She has one older brother, Chace Crawford, who is an actor. After graduation from high school in 2005, she moved to Columbia, Missouri to attend the University of Missouri and pursue a career...
50. Nicholas Courtney Nicholas Courtney Actor, Lust in Space Nicholas Courtney was born in Egypt, the son of a British diplomat. His early years were spent in Kenya and France and he was called up for National Service at the age of 18. After 18 months of duty in the British forces, Courtney joined the Webber Douglas drama school. He spent two years there and then did repertory theatre in Northampton. His next move was to London...
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