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Axl Rose biography Axl Rose (William Bruce Rose Jr.) was born on February 6, 1962. Raised under his stepfather's name, William Bruce Bailey is best known as the founder and lead singer of the American hard rock band Guns N' Roses. His career was founded when he started singing in the school choir and taught himself to play the piano. However, his countless run-ins with the police and "activities" resulted in him being kicked out by his family. After moving to Los Angeles in 1982, Rose played in various local bands, such as Hollywood Rose and Rapidfire, although without much success. After a variety of jobs, Axl Rose and Tracii Guns hit the road from L.A. Guns their bands together for Guns N' Roses. As the lead singer of Guns N' Roses, Rose enjoyed enormous success. The recognition he received as a singer was a strange thing for Rose. He was raised in a religious family where it was not accepted to have long hair and be "rebellious." Rose went undergr

Arsenio Hall biography Arsenio Hall was born February 12, 1956, in Cleveland, Ohio, USA. He is an American actor, comedian, and talk show host. He hosted the evening talk show, The Arsenio Hall Show, from 1989 to 1994 and 2013 to 2014. He has appeared on Martial Law, Coming to America, Coming 2 America, and Harlem Nights. last updated October 2022

Alicia Silverstone biography Alicia Silverstone was born October 4, 1976, in San Francisco, California, USA. She is an American actress, author, and former fashion model. She became world-famous after participating in several of Aerosmith's music videos and Hollywood film roles in films such as Clueless and Batman & Robin.  last updated October 2022

Amber Valletta biography Amber Valletta (Amber Evangeline Valletta) was born February 9, 1974, in Phoenix, Arizona, USA. She is an American model and actress. She began her career as a fashion model and landed her first of sixteen American Vogue covers at eighteen.  last updated October 2022

Andy Fletcher biography Andy Fletcher (Andrew John Leonard Fletcher), also known as "Fletch," was born on July 8, 1961, in Nottingham, UK, He was an English musician who co-founded and was a member of the electronica band Depeche Mode. Died: May 26, 2022, United Kingdom. last updated October 2022

Biography of Anya Taylor-Joy Anya Taylor-Joy was born on April 16, 1996, in Miami, Florida, USA. Anya Josephine Marie Taylor-Joy is an American-Argentine-British actress and model. She has received numerous awards, including a Critics' Choice Award, a Golden Globe Award, and a Screen Actors Guild Award. She received high praise for her performances as the protagonists Emma Woodhouse in the Jane Austen remake Emma and Beth Harmon in the Netflix miniseries The Queen's Gambit (both 2020). For the Queen's Gambit, she won the Golden Globe for Best Actress – Miniseries or TV Movie and the SAG Award for Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Miniseries or TV Movie. In 2021, she was included in the Time 100 list. last updated October 2022

Aileen Wuornos biography Aileen Wuornos was born February 29, 1956, in Rochester, Michigan, USA. She was an American serial killer sentenced to death in Florida in 1992. She received six death sentences. Wuornos confessed to killing seven men who she claimed had tried to rape her while working as a prostitute.  Died: October 9, 2002, Florida State Prison, Florida, USA. last updated October 2022

Albert Omstead biography Albert Omstead passed away on July 19, 2021, after an accident in his home. Albert's death was shocking and tragic. Albert returned home and started fixing a leak near his garage. His brother-in-law Scott Wachtel said that is when a retaining wall suddenly collapsed, trapping him beneath the debris. Albert wasn't working on that wall, which made the accident even more perplexing. Albert, then 38, died of his injuries, leaving behind his wife, four step-children, and one child. Albert worked in the camera and electrical department on the Cobra Kai show. last updated October 2022

Ava Gardner biography Ava Gardner was born on December 24, 1922-, an American actress. Ava Gardner had her breakthrough as the femme fatale in The Killers (1946) and, for the next decade, was the epitome of a beautiful and glamorous movie star in romantic stories. Later, she filmed scattered and had some good character roles, e.g., in John Huston's The Night of the Iguana (1964). Died January 25, 1990. last updated October 2022

Audrey Hepburn biography Audrey Hepburn (Edda Hepburn-Ruston) was born May 4, 1929. Audrey Hepburn's Oscar-winning breakthrough in Roman Holiday (1953) became a fashionable counterpart to the sex symbols of the time in cinema. Audrey Hepburn initially represented an almost ethereal sweetness in Sabrina (1954), War and Peace (1956), and The Nun's Story (1959), and then the sophisticated woman in Breakfast at Tiffany's (1961) and Charade (1963). Her star career was crowned with the role of Eliza in My Fair Lady (1964). However, Eliza's songs were sung by the seasoned Marni Nixon (b. 1930). In contrast, Audrey Hepburn's thin but endearing singing voice is heard in Henry Mancini's "Moon River" in Breakfast at Tiffany's. After My Fair Lady, she filmed only sporadically and in recent years, until her death, was an ambassador for UNICEF. Died on January 20, 1993. last updated October 2022

Arnold Schwarzenegger biography Arnold Schwarzenegger was born July 30, 1947, Austrian-American politician, film actor, and former bodybuilder; Governor of California 2003. With five titles, as Mr. Universe and seven as Mr. Olympia founded his fame as a bodybuilder. It brought him to the United States, where he landed an early film role in Hercules in New York (1970) under the name Arnold Strong and played himself in Pumping Iron (1977). The attention he thereby created for bodybuilding as a new training system he also used to promote his own health institute in California, World Gym, which became a role model. Arnold Schwarzenegger made his international film breakthrough in Conan the Barbarian (1982), establishing his role as a muscled hero. This image was further confirmed in The Terminator (1984), Predator (1987), Total Recall (1990), and Last Action Hero (1993). In the latter film, he also showed a self-deprecating talent, first seen in Kindergarten Cop (1990) and later in the com

Asia Argento biography Asia Argento was born in Rome, Italy, on September 20, 1975. She is an Italian actress and filmmaker. Daughter of filmmaker Dario Argento, she has had roles in several of her father's features and achieved mainstream success with appearances in XXX, Land of the Dead, and Marie Antoinette. How else to explain Asia Argento's deliberately reckless excesses? The daughter of the Dario Argento, actress Asia burst onto the American film scene in his film Trauma (1993)! Her father would encourage his daughter to leap into action again in his Phantom of the Opera (1998). Catch the beaver that the old guy missed in B. Monkey (1998) and Scarlet Diva (2000), the latter of which Asia wrote, directed, and fleshed out. Even in her Hollywood offering, xXx (2002) landed her on Rolling Stone's cover. Now a parent himself, Argento continues to act in flicks like Mother of Tears (2007) and The Last Mistress (2007). Asia again went nude in one of her father's films wh

Adriana Lima biography Adriana Lima was born on June 12, 1981, in Salvador da Bahia, Brazil. The blue/grey-eyed Brazilian beauty can attribute her exotic looks to her French, Portuguese, Native American, and Caribbean heritage. Adriana Lima's climb from obscurity to pretty girl took place after a runner-up finishes in the Ford Supermodel of the World Contest at 13. Three years later, she went to one of the world's fashion centers, New York, and signed a contract with Elite Model. Once there, her modeling portfolio began to expand exponentially after appearing in Vogue (Italy) in 1997, as well as Vogue (UK), I-D (UK), Marie Claire (Brazil), and Vogue (Italy) in 1998. She appeared in Vogue (US, Germany, UK) and Marie Claire (Italy) in 1999. As for fashion shows, the Vogue girl has walked down the catwalk for the following designers: Cynthia Rowley, Vera Wang, Christian Lacroix, Emanuel Ungaro, Betsey Johnson, Girls Rule, Richard Tyler, Giorgio Armani, Fendi, Randolph Duke, Ralph

Ashley Judd biography Ashley Judd is the daughter of Naomi Judd and half-sister to Wynonna - the mother and daughter group that make up the country duo the Judds - it's clear that Ashley has managed to make a successful name for herself with acting. With a blockbuster and major Hollywood roles under his belt, actor Judd is only at the beginning of what could be a great film career. Things weren't always so peachy for the youngest Judd, who lived in several run-down Kentucky homes with his dirt-poor family. Even without the conveniences that might be considered necessities, such as running water, electricity, or a telephone, the Judd girls still found ways to keep themselves entertained. While Wynonna and her mother sang on the front porch, Ashley immersed herself in books and played the different characters in the stories. Ashley attended 12 schools in 13 years until her sister and mother made it big in the country music industry. When Ashley Judd graduated from the University

Ana Beatriz Barros biography Ana Beatriz Barros was born in Itabira, a small town in Brazil, on May 29, 1982. Ana was raised in cosmopolitan Rio de Janeiro after her family moved there. This beauty was discovered by the director of Elite Model Management while on vacation in Brazil. He didn't take much to see that she was model material and encouraged her to enter this year's Elite Look competition. In 1996, Ana placed first in the Brazilian Elite Look of the Year and second at the international level in the same competition. With a national Elite Look of the Year championship and a modeling contract with the agency, Ana was ready for the big leagues: in this case, Guess?. When Paul Marciano (co-chairman and co-CEO of Guess?, responsible for the careers of Eva Herzigova, Kim Smith, and Josie Maran) received Ana's impressive portfolio on behalf of Elite, he knew he had a new Guess? Girl on hands. Ana's beauty can not only be seen in Guess? Hawaii campaign (with Brazilian

Amanda Peterson biography Amanda Peterson was born July 8, 1971, in Greeley, Colorado, USA. Amanda Peterson was an American actress best known for her role as Cindy Mancini in the 1987 comedy film Can't Buy Me Love. Amanda sadly passed away on July 3, 2015, in Greeley, Colorado, USA. last updated October 2022

Angela Harmon biography Angela Harmon was born in Dallas, Texas, on August 10, 1972. A model from an early age, beauty was in her genes as both her parents were former models. She won the national cover competition for Seventeen magazine at age 15, selected from a group of 63,000 other teenagers. A car was one of the competition's prizes. After a trip to New York to participate in a national photo shoot, Harmon returned to his studies at Highland Park High School. Upon graduating in 1990, Harmon settled in New York and began modeling, although her childhood dream was to become an actress. Her successful modeling career included appearances in magazines such as Vogue, Bazaar, Cosmopolitan, GQ, and Esquire, as well as European fashion magazines. She also strutted her stuff down runways in the world's fashion capitals, catching the eyes of designers such as Giorgio Armani, Ralph Lauren, and Isaac Mizrahi. After a few years of modeling, she began taking lessons from acting coaches

Anatoly Karpov biography Anatoly Karpov was born may 23, 1951, Zlatoust, Russia. Karpov is a former Soviet chess grandmaster, former World Chess Champion, and politician. A more extensive biography of Anatoly Karpov is here. last updated October 2022

Alireza Firouzja biography Alireza Firouzja was born June 18, 2003, Babol, Iran. Alireza Firouzja is an Iranian/French chess grandmaster. He is the youngest-ever 2800-rated player, beating the previous record set by Magnus Carlsen by more than five months. His peak ranking was No. 2, which he held from December 1, 2021, to May 1, 2022. He is also the youngest player to cross the 2900 rating in blitz chess, achieved on August 30, 2022. last updated October 2022

  Atif Rafay biography When the two 19-year-olds left to return to Canada after the murders, news broke that they had “fled.” All hell broke loose when Atif Rafay missed his family’s memorial at a Northgate mosque and was videotaped laughing. Atif Rafay claims he wasn’t informed of the memorial, and Klonsky, the wrongful convictions scholar, explains in the documentary that the two were “goofballs in shock.” last updated September 2022