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1. Daniel Day-Lewis Daniel Day-Lewis Actor, There Will Be Blood Daniel Michael Blake Day-Lewis is the only person in film history to win the Oscar award for Best Actor three times. Born in London, England, he is the second child of Cecil Day-Lewis (A.K.A. Nicholas Blake) (Poet Laureate of England) and his second wife, Jill Balcon. His maternal grandfather was Sir Michael Balcon...
2. Steve Buscemi Steve Buscemi Actor, Fargo Steve Buscemi was born in Brooklyn, New York, USA. He became interested in acting during his last year of high school. After graduating, he moved to Manhattan to study acting with John Strasberg. He began writing and performing original theatre pieces with fellow actor/writer Mark Boone Junior. This led to his being cast in his first lead role in Parting Glances...
3. Michael Clarke Duncan Michael Clarke Duncan Actor, The Green Mile Michael Clarke Duncan was born on December 10, 1957 in Chicago, Illinois. Raised by his single mother on Chicago's South Side, Duncan grew up resisting drugs and alcohol, instead concentrating on school. He wanted to play football in high school, but his mother wouldn't let him, afraid that he would get hurt. He then turned to acting, dreaming of becoming a famous actor...
4. Frances McDormand Frances McDormand Actress, Almost Famous Frances Louise McDormand was born on June 23, 1957 in Chicago, Illinois. She was adopted by Canadian minister Vernan McDormand and his wife Noreen, who raised her in the suburbs of Pittsburgh. She earned her B.A. in Theater from Bethany College in 1979 and her MFA from Yale in 1982. Her career after graduation began onstage...
5. Peter Ostrum Peter Ostrum Soundtrack, Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory
6. Christopher Lambert Christopher Lambert Actor, Mortal Kombat Though born in Great Neck, Long Island, Christopher Lambert's family left the US when he was only two years old. His father was a United Nations diplomat assigned to Switzerland and, as a result, Chris was educated at private boarding schools in Geneva. Inspired through his having appeared in a play at age 12...
7. John Turturro John Turturro Actor, O Brother, Where Art Thou? Highly talented, lightly built Italian American actor who always looks unsettled and jumpy has become a favourite of cult/arthouse film aficionados with his compelling performances in a broad range of cinematic vehicles. Has become a regular in the thought provoking films of Spike Lee and the off the wall comedies of Joel Coen & Ethan Coen...
8. Ray Winstone Ray Winstone Actor, The Departed Ray Winstone was born on February 19, 1957, in Hackney Hospital in London, England. He moved to Enfield, at age seven, where his father and mother had a fruit and vegetable business. He started boxing at the age of twelve at the famous Repton Amateur Boxing Club, was three times London Schoolboy Champion and fought twice for England, UK. In ten years of boxing, he won over 80 medals and trophies...
9. Dolph Lundgren Dolph Lundgren Actor, The Expendables Dolph Lundgren was born in Stockholm and lived there until the age of 13, when he moved to his grandparents in Nyland, Ångermanland, Sweden. Despite an early interest in music and the fine arts, Dolph decided to follow in his father's footsteps and pursue an Engineering degree. After having completed his military service, he enrolled at the Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm...
10. Michael Madsen Michael Madsen Actor, Reservoir Dogs When he was 6'2" and 190 pounds, Michael Madsen--the brother of actress Virginia Madsen--was equally adept at portraying heroic as well as villainous characters. There's something in the way he delivers his lines with an underlying aggression masked behind his gravelly tones that makes you feel very uneasy about his true intentions...
11. Julie Dawn Cole Julie Dawn Cole Actress, Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory
12. Spike Lee Spike Lee Director, Malcolm X Spike Lee was born Shelton Jackson Lee on March 20, 1957, in Atlanta, Georgia. At a very young age, he moved from pre-civil rights Georgia, to Brooklyn, New York. Lee came from artistic, education-grounded background; his father was a jazz musician, and his mother, a schoolteacher. He attended school in Morehouse College in Atlanta and developed his film making skills at Clark Atlanta University...
13. Kelly McGillis Kelly McGillis Actress, Top Gun Kelly McGillis was born in Newport Beach, California, to Joan, a homemaker, and Donald McGillis, a general practitioner of medicine. She decided to drop out of high school to pursue a career as an actress and eventually attended Juilliard in Manhattan and Pacific Conservatory of Performing Art in Santa Monica, CA...
14. Ethan Coen Ethan Coen Writer, No Country for Old Men
15. Ted Levine Ted Levine Actor, Shutter Island Born in Bellaire, Ohio, in May, 1957, he was among the last graduating class of the Windsor Mountain School in Lennox, Massachusetts. Attended Marlboro College in Vermont. Performed in summer stock and regional theatres in Vermont, Michigan and West Virginia before settling in Chicago and joining The Remains ensemble...
16. Stephen Fry Stephen Fry Actor, V for Vendetta Writer, actor, comedian, doer of good works, excellent good friend to the famous and not, Fry lives in his London SW1 flat and his Norfolk house when not traveling. Famous for his public declaration of celibacy in the "Tatler" back in the 1980s, Emma Thompson has characterised her friend as "90 percent gay...
17. Denis Leary Denis Leary Writer, Two If by Sea Denis Leary was born and raised in Worcester, Massachusetts, the son of Nora and John Leary, Irish immigrants who had grown up together. After a childhood in the 1960s, Leary went to Emerson College in Boston, where he tried his hand at acting and writing. He was a charter member of Emerson's Comedy Workshop...
18. Melanie Griffith Melanie Griffith Actress, Working Girl Melanie Griffith was born on August 9, 1957, in New York City to model Tippi Hedren and advertising executive Peter Griffith. Her parents' marriage ended in 1961 and Tippi came to Los Angeles to get a new start. Tippi caught the eye of the great director Alfred Hitchcock, who gave her starring roles in The Birds and Marnie...
19. Richard E. Grant Richard E. Grant Actor, Dracula
20. Kathleen Gati Kathleen Gati Actress, Meet the Fockers Multi award-winning actress, Kathleen Gati was born and raised in Canada by Hungarian immigrants and was brought up in an artistic environment. Her father was a symphony conductor and her mother was an opera singer, so performing was in her blood. She started acting at the age of three, wrote, directed and starred in her first play at the age of eight...
21. Ray McKinnon Ray McKinnon Actor, The Blind Side
22. Fran Drescher Fran Drescher Writer, The Nanny Francine Joy Drescher was born on September 30th, 1957 in Flushing, Queens, New York to Mort Drescher and Sylvia Drescher. Fran, as she is called, attended Hillcrest High school in New York with another now-famous name, Ray Romano. She was a studious girl and was quite popular. In fact, at age fifteen...
23. Amanda Plummer Amanda Plummer Actress, Pulp Fiction The daughter of Christopher Plummer and Tammy Grimes, Amanda Plummer was born in New York City on March 23, 1957. Her breakthrough role came when she starred opposite Robin Williams in The Fisher King. However, Plummer may be best remembered for her work in the Quentin Tarantino classic Pulp Fiction...
24. Hans Zimmer Hans Zimmer Music Department, Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl German-born composer Hans Zimmer is recognized as one of Hollywood's most innovative musical talents, having first enjoyed success in the world of pop music as a member of The Buggles. The group's single Video Killed the Radio Star became a worldwide hit and helped usher in a new era of global entertainment as the first music video to be aired on MTV...
25. LeVar Burton LeVar Burton Actor, Star Trek: First Contact
26. Brad Bird Brad Bird Writer, Ratatouille
27. Ray Romano Ray Romano Actor, Ice Age
28. Daniel Stern Daniel Stern Actor, Home Alone Originally from Bethesda, Maryland, Daniel Stern has been acting professionally since the age of seventeen. Following his high school graduation, he auditioned for the Washington Shakespeare Festival seeking a job as a lighting engineer but ended up as "a strolling player with a lute" in their production of "As You Like It." Shortly thereafter...
29. Timothy Spall Timothy Spall Actor, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire Timothy Spall is the son of a postal worker and a hairdresser. Raised in London, he auditioned and earned a spot with the National Youth Theatre and later showed great promise at RADA where he portrayed the title roles in "Macbeth" and "Othello." In 1979 he joined the Royal Shakespeare Company and stayed...
30. Kathy Najimy Kathy Najimy Actress, WALL·E Kathy grew up in California. She attended Crawford High School. Her film career began in the early 1990s with several minor roles. Kathy got her breakthrough screen role as "Sister Mary Patrick" in Sister Act. She reprised this role in 1993 in Sister Act 2: Back in the Habit. She is most notably known as the voice of "Peggy Hill" on King of the Hill...
31. Jon Gries Jon Gries Actor, Taken
32. Dan Castellaneta Dan Castellaneta Actor, The Simpsons Movie
33. Denise Nickerson Denise Nickerson Actress, Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory Denise Nickerson was best known for her role as Violet Beauregarde in Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory and as a member of the Short Circus on The Electric Company. She left the acting business at the end of 1978, and she worked as a nurse since then. Now, she spends time at home as a full-time mom. She will be remembered as Violet!
34. Bernie Mac Bernie Mac Actor, Ocean's Eleven Bernard Jeffrey McCollough was born in Chicago in 1957. He grew up in Chicago, in a rougher neighborhood than most others, with a large family living under one roof. This situation provided him with a great insight into his comedy, as his family, and the situations surrounding them would be what dominated his comedy...
35. Cameron Crowe Cameron Crowe Director, Almost Famous Certainly idiosyncratic as a writer, Cameron Crowe has created a series of scripts that, while liked by the critics, were considered offbeat and difficult to market. He began his writing career as a 15-year-old high-school student, with articles on music submitted to Rolling Stone magazine, and only a few years later had his first script...
36. Bill Fagerbakke Bill Fagerbakke Actor, The Artist
37. Kevin Pollak Kevin Pollak Actor, The Usual Suspects Born in San Francisco in 1957 and a stand-up comedy performer at age 10, actor Kevin Pollak turned professional comedian a decade later and was puttering around from city to city when film roles beckoned. Pollak refocused thereafter on acting in what would be a wise and profitable career move. Landing his first film role in George Lucas' Willow...
38. Zeljko Ivanek Zeljko Ivanek Actor, Donnie Brasco
39. Kate Burton Kate Burton Actress, 127 Hours
40. Theresa Russell Theresa Russell Actress, Spider-Man 3 Theresa Russell, named one of the "100 sexiest stars in film history," (Empire Magazine) was born in San Diego, California. She was discovered by a photographer at the age of 12, and made her film debut in Elia Kazan's Last Tycoon (1976) opposite Robert De Niro, Jack Nicholson and Robert Mitchum at the age of 19...
41. Judge Reinhold Judge Reinhold Actor, Beverly Hills Cop Educated at Mary Washington College & North Carolina School of the Arts; performed at various regional theatres, including Burt Reynolds' Dinner Theater in Jupiter, Florida before getting national exposure on TV in the 1970s.
42. Jon Lovitz Jon Lovitz Actor, Happiness
43. Maria Conchita Alonso Maria Conchita Alonso Actress, The Running Man Born in Cuba, but raised in Caracas, Venezuela, Maria Conchita Alonso was crowned Miss Teenager of the World in 1971 and later as Miss Distrito Federal became the first runner up in the Miss Venezuela 1975 competition placing later that year in the top seven of the Miss World 1975. She became a popular actress in Latin America...
44. Timothy Busfield Timothy Busfield Actor, Field of Dreams An Emmy Award-winning actor for his work on thirtysomething, Timothy Busfield has been a regular or recurring character on 11 television series including All My Children, Reggie, The Paper Chase, Family Ties, Trapper John, M.D., The Byrds of Paradise, Champs, The West Wing, Ed and Without a Trace...
45. Mykelti Williamson Mykelti Williamson Actor, Con Air Perhaps best remembered for his touching performance as "Bubba" opposite Tom Hanks in the Academy Award-winning Forrest Gump, Mykelti Williamson is one of the most sought-after actors in Hollywood, who has been steadily honing his craft since he first began acting professionally at the age of 18...
46. Nana Visitor Nana Visitor Actress, One Life to Live
47. Denise Crosby Denise Crosby Actress, Pet Sematary Denise Michelle Crosby was born on November 24, 1957 on Hollywood, California. Forming part of the extensive Crosby family dynasty, this striking leading actress, daughter of entertainer Dennis Crosby, has appeared in film and television since the early 1980s. A photo spread in a 1979 issue of Playboy...
48. Shannon Tweed Shannon Tweed Actress, Detroit Rock City Born in St. John's, Newfoundland, Canada, Shannon Tweed rose to stardom as Miss November 1981 for Playboy magazine. In 1982, she began her movie career and also appeared in the soap opera Falcon Crest. She became Playmate of the Year in 1982. She was briefly involved with Playboy magazine founder...
49. Nancy Cartwright Nancy Cartwright Actress, The Simpsons Movie
50. Mira Nair Mira Nair Director, Monsoon Wedding Accomplished Film Director/Writer/Producer Mira Nair was born in India and educated at Delhi University and at Harvard. She began her film career as an actor and then turned to directing award-winning documentaries, including So Far From India and India Cabaret. Her debut feature film, Salaam Bombay...
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