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Mia Goth (Gypsy Mello da Silva Goth) was born in London, UK, on October 25, 1993. She is an English actress, fashion model, and screenwriter. She began her modeling career as a teenager and made her film debut in Lars von Trier's Nymphomaniac. She has subsequently cast in the thriller The Survivalist and the psychological horror film A Cure for Wellness. last updated November 2022

Brittany Murphy biography Brittany Murphy (Brittany Anne Murphy) was born November 10, 1977, in Atlanta, Georgia, USA; she was an American actress and musician. Brittany Murphy's Career When she was nine years old, she got a singing role in the musical Les Misérables, and by the time Brittany was thirteen, she had a contract with a manager. Murphy got her first job in Hollywood when she was fourteen years old, playing the role of "Brenda Drexell" in the TV series Drexell's Class. She later got the "Molly Morgan" part in the short-lived series Almost Home. She was also a vocalist in the band Blessed With Soul in the early 1990s. Since then, she has starred in several successful films, including Clueless (1995), 8 Mile (2002), and Uptown Girls (2003). She has also appeared in several series, including Sister, Sister, Boy Meets World, and as the voice of "Luanne Platter" in the popular animated television series King of the Hill. Her most recent roles...

Jenna Kanell biography Jenna Kanell was born on November 12, 1991 in Brookline, Massachusetts, USA. Jenna Kanell is an American actress, director, writer, and stunt performer. She gained recognition for her portrayals of Tara Heyes in Terrifier (2016) and Kim Hansen in The Bye Bye Man (2017) - both horror movies. Her film career has since expanded to a variety of genres such as the political drama The Front Runner (2018) and the horror-comedy Renfield (2023).

Samantha Scaffidi biography Samantha Scaffidi is an American actress. She began her career in short films before becoming known for her role as Victoria Heyes in Terrifier (2016) and Terrifier 2 (2022), and Luce in Demon Hole (2017) - all three horror movies. In addition to acting, Scaffidi is known for directing the RAINN public service announcement Wait.

Lauren Bacall biography Lauren Bacall, 1924-2014, American actress. Lauren Bacall made her debut in Howard Hawks' To Have and Have Not (1944). In the first film, she established her star image of sensual ambiguity and sharp rapping in her interaction with Humphrey Bogart . They married in 1945 and since then recorded several films together, including the film noir films The Big Sleep (1946), Dark Passage (1947), and Key Largo (1948). Lauren Bacall then played theater and television roles but also appeared in films such as Douglas Sirk's melodrama Written on the Wind (1956), Sidney Lumet's crime film Murder on the Orient Express (1974), and Stephen King's film adaptation Misery (1990 ). She published 1979 the autobiography Lauren Bacall, By Myself. In her older years, Lauren Bacall can be seen in several significant supporting roles, for example, in Lars von Trier's Dogville (2003) and Manderlay (2005). last updated October 2022

Katharine Hepburn biography Katharine Hepburn, on May 12, 1907, American actress with one of the longest leading role careers in film history. Katharine Hepburn's specialty was strong and eccentric personalities, especially in comedies opposite her partner Spencer Tracy, e.g., Woman of the Year (1942) and Adam's Rib (1949), and Cary Grant in Bringing Up Baby (1938) and The Philadelphia Story (1940). Among her more severe character roles, Sudden Last Summer (1959) and Long Day's Journey into Night (1962) must be highlighted. She was also very successful in The African Queen (1951), and the nostalgic chamber play Love Among the Ruins (1975), which was shaped as a tribute to Katharine Hepburn then and now. She is the only actress to have been awarded an Oscar four times, which she got for Morning Glory (1933), Guess Who's Coming to Dinner (1967), The Lion in Winter (1968), and On Golden Pond (1981). Katharine Hepburn also played regularly at the theater from 1928 and, in ...

Kim Novak biography Kim Novak (Marilyn Pauline Novak) was born in 1933 as an American actress. Novak was launched as a blonde, erotic star in Pushover (1954) and showed character talent, among other things. The Man With the Golden Arm (1955). She gave her most significant performance in Hitchcock's Vertigo (1958). Among her, later roles are the melodrama Liebestraum (1991). last updated October 2022

Judy Garland biography Judy Garland (Frances Ethel Gumm) was born June 10, 1922, in Grand Rapids, Minnesota, USA; she was an American actress, singer, and entertainer, mother of Liza Minnelli. Judy Garland was a child star in the 1930s, peaking in the musical The Wizard of Oz (1939), where she launched her signature song "Over the Rainbow." As an adult, Garland starred in the musical classics Meet Me in St. Louis (1944) and Easter Parade (1948). After some years of personal and health problems, she made a big comeback in A Star Is Born (1954) and showed character talent in a completely different role as a Nazi victim in Judgment at Nuremberg (1961). In the 1960s, Judy Garland split her career between concerts and television shows; she gave a concert in Copenhagen a few months before her death. Died on June 22, 1969, in Cadogan Lane, London, UK (drug overdose). last updated October 2022

Joanne Woodward biography Joanne Woodward was born in 1930; an American actress, married to Paul Newman. Joanne Woodward won an Oscar for her first leading role in The Three Faces of Eve (1957) and has since specialized in character studies of lonely and unglamorous women, primarily directed by Paul Newman, e.g., Rachel, Rachel (1968), The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds (1972) and The Glass Menagerie (1987). She is also remembered for The Stripper (1963). last updated October 2022

Jeanette MacDonald biography Jeanette MacDonald, 1901-1965, American actress and singer. Jeanette MacDonald was an operetta heroine in popular constellations, first with Maurice Chevalier in The Love Parade (1929), Love Me Tonight (1932), and The Merry Widow (1934), then eight times with Nelson Eddy in i.a. Naughty Marietta (1935) and Rose Marie (1936). After World War II, she resumed her original career as a singer on Broadway. last updated October 2022

Jean Seberg biography Jean Seberg was born November 13, 1938, in Marshalltown, Iowa, USA. She was an American film actor. Seberg was chosen for the title role in Otto Preminger's Saint Joan (1957) and cashed in as a failure. Things didn't go much better in Preminger's Sagan film adaptation Bonjour Tristesse (1958), which, however, with its French theme and filming on location, points to her role as an American in Paris in collaboration with Jean-Paul Belmondo in Jean Luc Godard's À bout de souffle (1960), which made her an icon of the French New Wave and has secured her a permanent place in film history. Despite several approaches, this role was not followed up; her other career, mainly in the USA, included musicals, disaster films, etc. Only the psychotic title role in Robert Rossen's Lilith (1964) asserts itself above her other films. Jean Seberg got involved politically, i.a., in the Black Panther Party, and was monitored and harassed by the CIA. Her personal lif...

Jean Harlow biography Jean Harlow (Harlean Carpenter) was born as an American actress on March 3, 1911. Jean Harlow was the first sex symbol of early tone films and, moreover, a witty comedy star who could live up to her image as a "dumb blonde" and at the same time be ironic about it. She got her breakthrough with the pilot film Hell's Angels (1930), and her first significant role was in Platinum Blonde (1931). Her other famous roles include The Public Enemy (1931, Public Enemy No. 1), Dinner at Eight (1933), and Libeled Lady (1936, Her Reputation is in Danger).  Died on June 7, 1937 - died of kidney failure at age 26. last updated October 2022

Jean Arthur biography Jean Arthur was born on October 17, 1905, and was an American actor. Jean Arthur debuted in 1923 but got his big break in John Ford's gangster comedy The Whole Town's Talking (1935). In the 1930s and 1940s, she appeared in a large number of films, often in the role of a dashing, independent, and down-to-earth woman with a romantic beating heart; the best-known films are Frank Capra's comedies Mr. Deeds Goes to Town (1936) and Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939). Jean Arthur played her last role in George Stevens' western Shane (1953). Died on June 19, 1991. last updated October 2022

Jayne Mansfield Biography Jayne Mansfield, 1933-1967, American actress. Jayne Mansfield, who has been called "the poor man's Marilyn Monroe ," caricatured the era's glamorous, platinum blonde sex symbol in the comedies The Girl Can't Help It (1956) and Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter? (1957). Jayne Mansfield got more severe roles in The Wayward Bus (1957) and The Challenge (1960).  Died on June 29, 1967, in New Orleans, Louisiana, USA. She was killed in a car accident. last updated October 2022

Janet Leigh biography Janet Leigh (Jeanette Helen Morrison) was born on July 6, 1927, in  Merced, California, USA. She was an American actress, married to Tony Curtis from 1951-1962, and the mother of Jamie Lee Curtis . Janet Leigh began her career as a blonde supporting actress in adventure films such as Scaramouche (1952) and The Black Shield of Falworth (1956). Still, she is best remembered as the victim in Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho (1960) and for supporting roles in Touch of Evil (1958), Harper (1966), and The Fog (1980). Died on October 3, 2004. last updated October 2022

Jane Russell biography Jane Russell was born June 21, 1921, in Bemidji, Minnesota, USA. She was an American actress. She was working as a model and attending drama school when Howard Hughes offered her a role in The Outlaw (1943). The film was a huge success, not least because of Jane Russell's busty appearance and overt sexual performance, and she became a popular pinup figure during the rest of World War II. This was followed by a series of films produced by Howard Hughes, who kept Jane Russell firmly in the role of one of the fantastic sex bombs of the period. Still, in, for example, Howard Hawks' Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (1953), she was finally allowed to demonstrate her not-inconsiderable comedic talent with Marilyn Monroe . In the late 1950s, Jane Russell began to appear in television series instead of films, which she continued with widely varying intervals until her last role in 1986. Died on February 28, 2011, in Santa Maria, California, USA. last updated October 2022

Jane Fonda biography Jane Fonda (Lady Jayne Seymour Fonda) was born on December  21, 1937, in New York City, New York, USA. American actress, daughter of Henry Fonda , and sister of Peter Fonda . Jane Fonda began as an ingénue in the 1960s American comedy, for example, in the western comedy Cat Ballou (1965), and had a detour to French films, e.g., as the butt girl in her then-husband Roger Vadim's Barbarella (1968), before her breakthrough as a character actor in Sydney Pollack's They Shoot Horses Don't They? (1969) based on Horace McCoy's novel. Up through the 1970s, Jane Fonda became one of Hollywood's big stars, who often got involved in political issues, and played important roles in, for example, Alan J. Pakula's Klute (1971), Julia (1977) and Hal Ashby's drama Coming Home (1978) about the human consequences of the Vietnam War. She became an active producer with the successful The China Syndrome (1979) and Nine to Five (1981). In 1981, she published th...

Isabella Rossellini biography Isabella Rossellini, born in 1952, was an American actress and fashion model, the daughter of Roberto Rossellini and Ingrid Bergman . Isabella Rossellini broke through as a nightclub singer in the film Blue Velvet (1986), directed by her then-husband, David Lynch; he also led her in Wild at Heart (1990). 1981-95 her face graced the cosmetics company Lancôme's advertisements. last updated October 2022

Holly Hunter biography Holly Hunter (Holly P. Hunter) was born on March 20, 1958, and is an American actress. Diminutive of physique, she specializes in types with delicate appearance and tremendous willpower. She had her film breakthrough in the Cohen brothers' Raising Arizona (1987) and Broadcast News (1987). She has also shown dramatic talent in Miss Firecracker (1989), Jane Campion's The Piano (1993), which earned her an Oscar, The Firm (1993), Copycat (1995), and Thirteen (2003). Since then, she has, among other things, helped provide a voice for the animated film The Incredibles (2004) and starred in the TV series Saving Grace 2007-10. last updated October 2022

Liv Ullmann biography Liv Ullmann is a Norwegian actor and director. After a theater career in Norway, Liv Ulmann had her international film breakthrough in Persona (1966) by Ingmar Bergman. In the following years, he used her in his analysis of the female mind, e.g., Vargtimmen (1968), Skammen (1968), Viskningar och rop (1972), and Höstsonaten (1978). Liv Ullmann was the down-to-earth heroine in Jan Troell's Moberg film adaptations Utvandrarna (1971) and Nybyggarna (1972). After a brief interlude in Hollywood, she returned to Bergman in the TV series Scener ur ett äktenskap (1973). At Det Norske Teatret, she played i.a. in 1974 Nora in Et dukkehjem, a role she repeated in a guest play in New York in 1975. In 1992 Liv Ullmann debuted as a film director with the Danish Sofie, based on a novel by Henri Nathansen. This was followed by the Norwegian Kristin Lavransdatter (1995) and the Swedish Enskilda Samtal (1996, Personal conversations, TV game), and Trolösa (2000), both with script...