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1. Tina Fey Tina Fey Writer, Mean Girls Elizabeth Stamatina Fey was born in Upper Darby, Pennsylvania, just west of Philadelphia, in 1970 to Donald and Jeannec Fey. Going by the name of Tina, Ms. Fey considered herself a "supernerd" during her high school and college years. She studied drama at the University of Virginia, and after graduating in 1992...
2. Yun-Fat Chow Yun-Fat Chow Actor, Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon Chow Yun Fat is a charismatic, athletically built and energetic Asian-born film star who first came to the attention of western audiences via his roles in the high-octane/blazing guns action films of maverick HK director John Woo. Born in 1955 on the quiet island of Lamma, part of the then British colony of Hong Kong near its famous Victoria Harbour...
3. Frank Capra Frank Capra Director, It's a Wonderful Life One of seven children, Frank Capra was born on May 18, 1897, in Bisacquino, Sicily. On May 10, 1903, his family left for America aboard the ship Germania, arriving in New York on May 23rd. "There's no ventilation, and it stinks like hell. They're all miserable. It's the most degrading place you could ever be," Capra said about his Atlantic passage...
4. Eric West Eric West Actor, World War Z Eric West is considered one of film and televisions fastest rising stars. Considered a style icon by Conde Nast Publications, Eric was Named by Cosmopolitan magazine as one of 2013's "Hottest Actors of the Year" and MTV as one of the 5 Breakout Stars of 2013. With a wealth and variety of performances to his credit...
5. Mark Mothersbaugh Mark Mothersbaugh Composer, The Royal Tenenbaums Graduate of Woodridge High School in Peninsula, Ohio. Attended Kent State University (1970-73) in Kent, Ohio, to focus on attaining an art degree. While at Kent State Mothersbaugh met Jerry Casale and Bob Lewis, who ultimately joined him in forming the 1970-80s avant-garde band Devo. Awarded an honorary doctorate degree (2008) from Kent State in humane letters...
6. Terry Zwigoff Terry Zwigoff Director, Ghost World Born in Appleton, Wisconsin, Zwigoff held several jobs before making his breakthrough feature: the documentary Crumb (1994) in 1994. His previous jobs included musician, shipping clerk, printer and welfare office worker. In fact, Zwigoff traces his film career back to discovering a rare blues recording by an unknown Chicago blues musician he discovered in 1978...
7. Spencer Breslin Spencer Breslin Actor, The Happening
8. Luke Kleintank Luke Kleintank Actor, Haunted Luke Kleintank is an American actor. Luke's mother introduced him to acting when he was age 5. He started doing plays and community theater, and took part in a number of stage productions while in High School. He is best known for his role as Elliot on Gossip Girl and for his role as Noah Newman on The Young and the Restless. You can now see him in No Ordinary Family.
9. Allen Leech Allen Leech Actor, Man About Dog
10. Pernell Roberts Pernell Roberts Actor, Ride Lonesome Best recalled as the eldest son and first member of the "Bonanza" Cartwright clan to permanently leave the Ponderosa in the hopes of greener acting pastures, dark, deep-voiced and durably handsome Pernell Roberts' native roots lay in Georgia. Born Pernell Elvin Roberts, Jr. on May 18, 1928, in Waycross...
11. Matt Long Matt Long Actor, Ghost Rider Matt Long was born and raised in Winchester, Kentucky and started acting early on in school plays in elementary school. He continued to act throughout his college years and after graduating from Western Kentucky University, Matt moved to New York. While playing at the Williamstown Theater Fest in Massachusetts...
12. Miriam Margolyes Miriam Margolyes Actress, Babe A veteran of stage and screen, award-winning actress Miriam Margolyes has achieved success on both sides of the Atlantic. Winner of the BAFTA Best Supporting Actress award in 1993 for The Age of Innocence she also received Best Supporting Actress at the 1989 LA Critics Circle Awards for her role in Little Dorrit and a Sony Radio Award for Best Actress on "Radio" in 1993...
13. Robert Morse Robert Morse Actor, All My Children With that impish, gap-toothed grin, nervous bundle of energy Robert Morse could never be contained long enough to become a film star. The live stage would be his calling. He made his debut with the musical "On the Town" in 1949, and trained with Lee Strasberg before making his inauspicious film debut in The Proud and Profane but movie offers were few...
14. Nancy Juvonen Nancy Juvonen Producer, Donnie Darko
15. Nathaniel Parker Nathaniel Parker Actor, Stardust Nathaniel Parker was born in England in 1962. The son of Sir Peter Parker and Dr. Jill Parker, he decided at the age of nine that acting would be his career of choice. His first public performances were with the National Youth Theatre, a breeding ground for many British actors. After attending The London Academy of Music and Dramatic Arts (LAMDA)...
16. Andreas Katsulas Andreas Katsulas Actor, The Fugitive Born in St. Louis, Missouri, Andreas was a cross between apple pie and baklava, coming from a working-class Greek-American family. Attracted from early childhood to being on stage when at 4 his mother took him to see a community theater performance, he took theatre as an extra-curricular activity in high school...
17. Shelley Lubben Shelley Lubben Self, After Porn Ends
18. Alana Stewart Alana Stewart Self, Farrah's Story
19. Karel Roden Karel Roden Actor, Hellboy Karel Roden is an internationally known actor who was most recently seen in the United States in director Jaume Collet-Serra's "Orphan," starring Vera Farmiga and Peter Sarsgaard, and in Guy Ritchie's "RocknRolla," opposite Gerard Butler, Tom Wilkinson and Thandie Newton. His work can also be seen in such films as the hit comedy "Mr...
20. Bill Macy Bill Macy Actor, The Holiday
21. Holly Aird Holly Aird Actress, Scenes of a Sexual Nature Holly Aird was born in Aldershot, Hampshire on the 18th May, 1969. She showed a huge interest in ballet so she started to attend a local dance school. At the age of nine, young Holly was picked out by a casting director to star in The History of Mr. Polly. Her first acting appearance went well, and she began getting even more roles, such as The Tale of Beatrix Potter and The Flame Trees of Thika...
22. Felicia Pearson Felicia Pearson Actress, Diamond Ruff
23. Hugh Keays-Byrne Hugh Keays-Byrne Actor, Mad Max Hugh Keays-Byrne was born in Kashmir, India in 1947. In 1973, he moved to Australia, where he began acting career. He is well respected theater, film and TV actor in Australia. He became noticed after roles in Stone (1974), Mad Dog Morgan (1976) and The Trespassers (1976). He landed his first leading role in TV film The Death Train (1978)...
24. Cynthia Preston Cynthia Preston Actress, Whale Music
25. Dwayne Hickman Dwayne Hickman Actor, Cat Ballou Boyishly handsome Dwayne Hickman, the younger brother of Darryl Hickman, followed in his sibling's tiny footsteps as a moppet film actor himself, appearing in such features as Captain Eddie (with Darryl) and as "Nip Worden" in The Return of Rusty and the rest of that dog adventure series. On a temporary sabbatical from acting...
26. Luisana Lopilato Luisana Lopilato Actress, Free Birds
27. Priscilla Pointer Priscilla Pointer Actress, Blue Velvet Though character actress Priscilla Pointer may be better known as the mother of Amy Irving, she has enjoyed a major stage, film and TV career herself for over four decades. The New York-born performer was trained on the stage and appeared in several tours and Broadway shows, including "A Streetcar Named Desire"...
28. Robert J. Wilke Robert J. Wilke Actor, Days of Heaven Prolific American character actor of primarily villainous roles. The son of German parents, Cincinnati feed-store manager August Wilke and his wife Rose, Robert Joseph Wilke grew up in Cincinnati. He worked as a lifeguard at a Miami, Florida, hotel, where he made contacts in the film business. He was able to obtain work as a stuntman and continued as such until the mid-'40s...
29. Emmy Robbin Emmy Robbin Actress, Sin City
30. Diane McBain Diane McBain Actress, General Hospital Signed on as a Warner Brothers starlet, bouncy, blonde-coiffed Diane McBain would develop a burgeoning career as lively 60s "bad girl" and "spoiled rich girl" types on film and TV. Born in Cleveland, Ohio on May 18, 1941, the family moved to California while still young and she started things off as a "sweet 16" model in print and commercial ads...
31. Chad Donella Chad Donella Actor, Final Destination
32. Gail Strickland Gail Strickland Actress, The Man in the Moon
33. Candice Azzara Candice Azzara Actress, Catch Me If You Can
34. George Strait George Strait Self, George Strait: For the Last Time - Live from the Astrodome
35. Saskia Mulder Saskia Mulder Actress, The Descent
36. Ali Zafar Ali Zafar Soundtrack, Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps Ali Zafar is an accomplished singer besides being a recognized painter, actor, and a model in Pakistan. He is a Graduate of prestigious National College of Arts (NCA), Lahore. He is mostly known as a singer and a musician. His first album "Huqa Pani" released in 2003 in Pakistan and 2005 world wide received good ratings and included hit singles like "Channo"...
37. Jona Xiao Jona Xiao Actress, Alice Upside Down Although born in China, Jona Xiao grew up in St. Louis, where she began acting in middle school plays, and has, since then, been involved in over 15 films, 15 theater productions, commercials, and voice-over work. She is an alumni of the 2005 Missouri Fine Arts Academy. She won the first prize level of the National Warner Brothers Casting Call...
38. Toyah Willcox Toyah Willcox Actress, Quadrophenia Toyah has always balanced her acting/TV work with a career as a rock singer. The band called "Toyah" were very successful, particularly in the UK, in the early 1980s. Toyah's unique voice, musical style, and personality contributed to her being voted Best Female Singer at the 1983 British Rock and Pop awards.
39. Richard Brooks Richard Brooks Writer, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof Richard Brooks was an Academy Award-winning film writer who also earned six Oscar nominations and achieved success as a film director and producer. He was born Ruben Sax on May 18, 1912, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. His parents were Russian-Jewish immigrants. He graduated from West Philadephia HS...
40. Lil' Cinderella Lil' Cinderella Actress, Boogie Nights Lil' Cinderella made her debut in the porn world in 1994 at the age of 18. She hardly fits the image of the stereotypical porn princess - she's smaller (4' 10"), thinner and, compared to the glut of silicone queens in the industry, flat-chested. She has an innocent, schoolgirlish quality about her,...
41. Ryan Cooley Ryan Cooley Actor, The Tracey Fragments Ryan Hadison Cooley (born May 18, 1988) is a Canadian television actor from Ontario, best known for his role as J.T. Yorke on Degrassi: The Next Generation. He's from Orangeville, Ontario and graduated from Orangeville District Secondary School in 2006. He is currently a student at The University of Toronto...
42. James Donald James Donald Actor, The Great Escape Scottish-born actor James Donald was born in Aberdeen on May 18, 1917, and took his first professional stage bow some time in the late 30s. He finally attained a degree of stardom in 1943 for his sterling performance in Noel Coward's "Present Laughter", which starred Coward himself. Subsequent post-war theatre work included "The Eagle with Two Heads" (1947)...
43. Bob Stephenson Bob Stephenson Actor, Fight Club
44. George E. Stone George E. Stone Actor, Some Like It Hot A minor prototype of the "Runyon-esque" character for more than three decades, Polish-born actor George E. Stone (né George Stein) was in actuality a close friend of writer Damon Runyon and would play a host of colorful "dees, dem and dos" cronies throughout the 1920s, '30s, and '40s. With great names such as Johnnie the Shiek...
45. Eiko Matsuda Eiko Matsuda Actress, In the Realm of the Senses
46. Denny Dillon Denny Dillon Actress, Ice Age
47. Perry Como Perry Como Soundtrack, Ocean's Eleven In a singing (and sometimes acting) career that spanned over six decades, the name Perry Como has come to mean that warm, smooth, easy-listening, general-audience, slow-flame romance that characterized popular music in the 1940s, '50s and '60s. It has also come to represent an overall good feeling. Telling of the success of the appeal of that good feeling early on in his career...
48. Russell Sams Russell Sams Actor, The Rules of Attraction
49. Thomas Gottschalk Thomas Gottschalk Self, Wetten, dass..? aus Halle an der Saale
50. Chantal Kreviazuk Chantal Kreviazuk Soundtrack, How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days Chantal L. Kreviazuk was born on May 18, 1973 in Winnipeg, Manitoba. Her parents, Carol and John Kreviazuk are of Ukrainian and Pakistani origin. At age 3, Chantal began playing piano, from ear. Her talent was much encouraged by her mother, Carol. In 1994, while finding herself in Italy, Chantal was in a motorcycle accident...
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