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Jack Lemmon
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About: Born (in a Boston elevator) on Februrary 8, 1925, Jack Lemmon was a Harvard graduate and a Navy veteran. After brief work on New York radio, television and Broadway, he made his debut in two 1954 Judy Holliday comedies (It Should Happen to You and Phffft!). He won a Best Supporting Actor Oscar for his next film, Mister Roberts.Proving his range in both comedy and drama, Lemmon scored additional Oscar nods for Some Like It Hot, The Apartment, Days of Wine and Roses, The China Syndrome, Tribute, M... Link: Jack Lemmon |
Oprah Winfrey
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About: Oprah Winfrey -- dubbed "The Most Powerful Person in Show Business" by Entertainment Weekly magazine -- was born January 29, 1954, in Kosciusko, Miss., persevering through a harsh childhood to graduate from Tennessee State University.In the 1970s, Winfrey landed a job as a news anchor and talk show co-host in Baltimore, Md. She later became the first woman in history to own and star in her own phenomenally successful talk show.Winfrey's rising popularity caught the eye of Steven Spielberg, who c... Link: Oprah Winfrey |
Rajesh Khanna
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About: Born December 29, 1942, in Amritsar, India, Rajesh Khanna skyrocketed to Bollywood fame after a stint in theater. He made his film debut in Aakhri Khat (1966) and saw his stardom grow with the release of 1969's Aradhana (1969), in which Khanna cut a dynamic figure playing a dual role.Khanna continued to impress audiences -- and to cultivate his screen persona as a vulnerable romantic -- in Safar (1970) and Anand (also 1970). Khanna extended his string of box-office hits with Amar Prem (1971), wh... Link: Rajesh Khanna |
Sam Waterston
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About: The son of a Mayflower descendent, Sam Waterston was born in Cambridge, Mass., on Nov. 15, 1940, attending Yale University, the Sorbonne and the American Actors Workshop before taking on television and movie roles.His big break came with a 1973 television adaptation of Tennessee Williams's "The Glass Menagerie" and the film version of The Great Gatsby (1974) with Mia Farrow. That pairing led to a subsequent string of Woody Allen films -- Interiors (1978), Hannah and Her Sisters (1986) and Crimes... Link: Sam Waterston |
David E. Kelley
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About: Widely regarded as one of the most prolific television series creators, producers and writers of the 20th century, multiple Emmy winner David E. Kelley was born on April 4, 1956, in Waterville, Maine.After receiving his law degree from Boston University, he began his career as a real estate attorney and, out of boredom, started writing a screenplay as a hobby. The resulting script -- a legal thriller starring Judd Nelson called From the Hip (1987) -- didn't make Kelley a fortune, but it did catc... Link: David E. Kelley |
Candice Bergen
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About: The daughter of renowned ventriloquist Edgar Bergen, Candice Bergen has carved out a thriving Tinseltown career of her own. Born May 8, 1946, in Beverly Hills, Calif., she was educated in Switzerland and at the University of Pennsylvania.A successful model during her teens, Bergen debuted on the silver screen in 1966 with The Group, followed by The Sand Pebbles (opposite superstar Steve McQueen). Critics panned some of Bergen's early performances, but she came into her own with memorable turns i... Link: Candice Bergen |
Greta Scacchi
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About: Born Feb. 18, 1960, in Milan, Italy, but raised in England and Australia, Greta Scacchi studied acting at the venerated Bristol Old Vic Theatre and made her silver-screen debut in the 1982 German drama The Second Face.Scacchi's best-known roles include ingenues and femmes fatale in movies such as Heat and Dust (1983) and the thriller Presumed Innocent (1990). Her refined looks have also played well in period fare such as Country Life (1994), Emma (1996), The Red Violin (1998) and the telefilm Ra... Link: Greta Scacchi |
Jane Seymour
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About: Television's "Doctor Quinn: Medicine Woman" was born Joyce Penelope Wilhelmina Frankenberg in Hillingdon, England, on Feb. 15, 1951. Her looks -- part exotic and part English rose -- quickly caught the eye of directors, and she was appearing in British film and TV projects by the age of 18.After receiving international attention for her turn as Bond girl Solitaire in 1973's Live and Let Die, Seymour headed to Hollywood. She quickly began her reign as queen of TV movies, working constantly during... Link: Jane Seymour |
Warren Beatty
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About: Shirley MacLaine's kid brother was born March 30, 1937, in Richmond, Va. After briefly attending Northwestern University, Beatty studied with acting coach Stella Adler and found TV fame on "Dobie Gillis."Beatty's looks and sensitive acting plus Elia Kazan's directing led to a smashing debut opposite Natalie Wood in Splendor in the Grass (1961). Bonnie and Clyde (1967) brought Beatty Oscar nominations as both producer and actor, launching his career as a major Hollywood player (both artistic and ... Link: Warren Beatty |
John Belushi
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About: Born January 24, 1949, in Chicago, John Belushi spent his formative years in Wheaton, Ill., where he became interested in acting while in high school. Graduating in 1967, he eventually landed a gig with Chicago's famed Second City comedy troupe in 1971 and honed his improvisational comedic technique on stage six nights a week.Belushi relocated to New York City in 1972, but his big break came in 1975 when he signed on as an original cast member of the trailblazing television revue show "Saturday ... Link: John Belushi |