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Jeremy Renner
Actor, The Hurt Locker
Jeremy Lee Renner, son of Valerie and Lee, was born in Modesto, California. After a tumultuous yet happy childhood with four younger siblings, Renner graduated from Beyer High School and attended Modesto Junior College. He explored several areas of study, including computer science, criminology, and psychology, before the theater department, with its freedom of emotional expression, drew him in...
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Liam Hemsworth
Actor, The Hunger Games
Born in Melbourne, Australia, Hemsworth grew up on Phillip Island top the south of Melbourne. The youngest of the Hemsworth brothers, he engaged an agent while still at high school and followed his brothers into acting, first with small parts in 2007 in single episodes of the Australian soap Home and Away...
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Heather Paige Kent
Actress, Sex in the Suburbs
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Noomi Rapace
Actress, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
Swedish actress Noomi Rapace is the daughter of actress Nina Norén and Spanish Flamenco singer Rogelio Durán. Her parents did not stay together, and when Rapace was five she moved to Iceland with her mother and stepfather, where she lived for three years. When she was eight, she was cast in a small role in the Icelandic film...
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Denzel Washington
Actor, American Gangster
Tall, strikingly handsome leading man of films and television in the 1980s and 1990s, Denzel Washington was born in 1954 in Mount Vernon, New York. He was the middle child of the 3 children of a Pentecostal minister father and a beautician mother. After graduating from high school, Denzel enrolled at Fordham University intent on a career in journalism...
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Jemaine Clement
Soundtrack, Rio
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Zooey Deschanel
Actress, Pilot
Zooey Deschanel was born in 1980 into a showbiz family. Her father, Caleb Deschanel is an Academy Award-nominated cinematographer (perhaps most notably for The Passion of the Christ) and her mother, Mary Jo Deschanel (née Weir) is an actress who starred in Twin Peaks. Driven from an early age to become a successful actress...
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Nicolas Cage
Actor, Lord of War
The son of comparative literature professor August Coppola (a brother of director Francis Ford Coppola) and dancer/choreographer Joy Vogelsang, Cage changed his name early in his career to make his own reputation, succeeding brilliantly with a host of classic, quirky roles by the late 1980s. Initially studying theatre at Beverly Hills High (though he dropped out at 17)...
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Kit Harington
Actor, The Prince of Winterfell
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Nina Dobrev
Actress, Chloe
Nina moved to Canada at the age of two and has lived in Toronto, Ontario since. From a very young age she showed great enthusiasm and talent for the arts: Dance, Gymnastics, Theatre, Music, Visual arts, and Acting! Modeling jobs led to commercials, which then turned into film auditions. Shortly after...
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