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Christina Hart biography Christina Hart (born July 21, 1949) is an American film producer, film director, playwright, and retired actress. She teaches acting at the Hollywood Court Theater. She has appeared in such films as The Stewardesses (1969), The Mad Bomber (1973), and Charley Varrick (1973). last updated October 2022

Christopher Plummer biography Christopher Plummer (Arthur Christopher Orme Plummer) was born December 13, 1929, in Toronto, Canada. He was a Canadian actor with a varied international career. Christopher Plummer played i.a., Baron von Trapp in The Sound of Music (1965), an ironic double agent in Triple Cross (1966), Kipling in The Man Who Would Be King (1975), a bank robber in the Canadian version of Think of a Number, The Silent Partner (1978) and the polished villain in Eyewitness (1989). At 82, Plummer got his first Oscar for Beginners (2011). In 2017, he played billionaire J. Paul Getty in All the Money in the World. Christopher Plummer made a name for himself in the theater as a Shakespearean interpreter and, in 1964, played Hamlet in the BBC's and DR's television version, recorded at Kronborg. Died February 5, 2021, in Weston, Connecticut, USA. last updated October 2022

Biography of Clint Eastwood Clint Eastwood was born May 31, 1930, an American actor and director. Clint Eastwood, via minor supporting roles and i.a., television series Rawhide (1959-66), has become a significant star in gritty action films. At the same time, he has achieved a position as one of the most respected names in American cinema. He built his reputation and established his type as the taciturn loner, "The Man With No Name," in Sergio Leone's series of three Italian so-called spaghetti westerns, beginning with A Fistful of Dollars(1964) and culminating in The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (1966). He then brought the character into a contemporary American setting under director Don Siegel in the cop films Coogan's Bluff (1968) and especially Dirty Harry (1971). The last one was an excellent debate-generating success with its theme of independence and had four sequels. Clint Eastwood began directing in the 1970s, first the horror Play Misty For Me (1971) and then

Clark Gable biography Clark Gable was born on February 1, 1901. American actor. Clark Gable was Hollywood's most popular star in the 1930s, where his devilish demeanor and virile charm represented a romantic ideal of the Depression-era hero. Gable's character was established in Frank Capra's It Happened One Night (1934) and culminated in the role of Rhett Butler in Gone With the Wind (1939). After World War II, his type and acting style could seem outdated compared to new actors such as Marlon Brando , but Clark Gable retained his authority in films such as Mogambo (1953) and The Misfits (1960). Died November 16, 1960 last updated October 2022

Christopher Walken biography Christopher Walken (Ronald Walken) was born on March 31, 1943, an American actor. Christopher Walken broke through as a mentally broken soldier in Michael Cimino's great Vietnam War film, The Deer Hunter (1978), for which he won an Oscar for best supporting actor and then cultivated the role of a pure psychopath, among other things. Batman Returns (1992) and True Romance (1993). Throughout a career that includes over 100 films (2011), he has since shown great range within a wide field of roles, e.g., Pennies from Heaven (1981), David Cronenberg's Dead Zone (1983), At Close Range (1986), Quentin Tarantino's Pulp Fiction (1994), Touch (1997), The Stepford Wives (2004) and Hairspray (2007) last updated September 2022

Biography of Christopher Reeve Christopher Reeve was born on September 25, 1952. Christopher Reeve's breakthrough role as Superman (1978) starred in its three sequels (1980, 1983, 1985). Christopher Reeve also had serious parts, e.g., Deathtrap (1982) and The Remains of the Day (1993). He was a skilled pilot and twice crossed the Atlantic solo. On May 27, 1995, Reeve was paralyzed in the neck after a riding accident. Despite this disability, he played individual roles on TV, e.g., in the remake of Alfred Hitchcock's Rear Window (1998), in which a broken leg from the original version with James Stewart was converted to Reeve's authentic physical constitution to considerable effect. He also directed a few films. Christopher Reeve was married twice and left a couple of children from his first marriage. He has no burial place, his ashes being scattered instead. Died October 10, 2004 last updated October 2022

Chevy Chase biography Chevy Chase (Cornelius Crane Chase) was born in Lower Manhattan, New York City, New York, USA, on October 8, 1943. He is an American actor. His career began on TV, including in the series Saturday Night Live, in which he appeared intermittently from 1975-2007. He then had several farce roles and became particularly popular as the grumpy head of the Griswold family in National Lampoon's Vacation (1983) and several sequels. In addition, Chevy Chase has, among other things, played a detective in Fletch (1985) and parodied the western genre in Three Amigos! (1986) and resumed his TV career, i.a., Family Guy (2007-2009) and Community (2009-2011). last updated September 2022

Biography of Cher Cher (Cherilyn Sarkisian La Pier) was born in 1946, an American singer and actress. Cher began her career as a backing singer for, e.g., Phil Spector until, in 1965, she formed the duo Sonny & Cher with her husband Sonny Bono (1935-98). In the following years, they recorded several songs that became significant international sales successes, e.g., I Got You, Babe (1965) and The Beat Goes On (1967). As a soloist, Cher recorded in the same period, i.a., Bang Bang (My Baby Shot Me Down) (1966) and Sunny (1966). In the 1970s, Cher pursued a solo career, and after divorcing in 1974, she released the song Dark Lady, which became a million-seller. In 1975 she became the host of her own television show Cher. She then made the leap to the feature film, winning great recognition throughout the 1980s as an actress in films such as Mike Nichols' Silkwood (1983) and Norman Jewison's (b. 1926) Moonstruck (1987), which won her an Oscar. last updated September 2022

Charlton Heston biography Charlton Heston was born on October 4, 1924. American actor. Heston has primarily been synonymous with heroic figures in epics such as The Ten Commandments (1956) and the title role in Ben Hur (1959), as well as in disaster films such as Earthquake (1974). Among his more personal efforts are Major Dundee (1965), The War Lord (1965), and Will Penny (1967). From the mid-1980s, Heston mostly appeared in TV movies, also as a director. He has also been involved in administrative work in the film industry, i.a., as president of The American Film Institute. Heston was an ardent supporter of the right to bear arms, and from 1998-2003 he was president of the National Rifle Association's gun lobby. Died April 5, 2008 last updated October 2022

Charlie Sheen biography Charlie Sheen was born September 3, 1965, in New York, USA. He is the son of Martin Sheen . Charlie Sheen broke through in Oliver Stone's Platoon (1986) and since then played, among other things, with his father in the same director's Wall Street (1987). He is also remembered for Young Guns (1988) and the self-parody performance in the farce Hot Shots! (1991, followed by 1993). Charlie Sheen's later films include Being John Malkovich (1998), Five Aces (1999), Scary Movie 3 (2003), and The Big Bounce (2004). On TV, he has, among other things, had success as a replacement for Michael J. Fox in the comedy series Spin City (2000-02) as well as in one of the most popular comedy series of the first decade of the 2000s Two and a Half Men (2003-11), as Charlie Sheen. However, the site left amid much media attention. last updated October 2022

Charlie Chaplin biography Charles Chaplin (Sir Charles Spencer Chaplin) was born on April 16, 1889. Charles Chaplin broke through in the silent film era as one of Hollywood's biggest stars with his mime and comic talent and vagabond character with his refined manners, neat mustache, bowler hat, bamboo cane, and huge shoes. Film audiences immediately embraced Chaplin's vagabond. The figure became known worldwide as the small, somewhat vain clown who can find life's poetic and bright sides in even the most challenging situation. After the breakthrough of sound film, Chaplin was still able to create popular movies that, with a mixture of comedy and social commentary, have placed him as one of the greatest actors and filmmakers in film history. Charles Chaplin was the son of two music-hall artists, and early on, he appeared with his older brother Sidney (1885-1965) in minor roles in variety shows and pantomimes. In 1907, at his brother's instigation, Charles Chaplin joined

Cary Grant biography Cary Grant (Archibald Alexander Leach), 1904-1986, British-American actor. From the late 1930s and the following 25 years, Cary Grant was Hollywood's leading entertainment star. Cary Grant achieved an image of an elegant charmer and romantic, a carefree man of the world that was never challenged by the comic characters he also played. He had a past as a variety of singers, dancers, and acrobats, first in Great Britain and then in the United States in the 1920s. Among Grant's farce roles are classics such as Howard Hawks' so-called screwball comedies Bringing Up Baby (1938), His Girl Friday (1940), and Monkey Business (1952). The long-range of fun games include, among other things, The Awful Truth (1937) A darker and more ambiguous side of Cary Grant's personality was cultivated by Alfred Hitchcock in Suspicion (1941) and Notorious (1946). last updated October 2022

Calista Flockhart biography Calista Flockhart, born in 1964, is an American actress. Calista Flockhart became famous as a skinny, neurotic daydreaming lawyer in the TV series Ally (1997-2002). She has also had film roles, i.a., in A Midsummer Night's Dream (1999). last updated October 2022

Caprice Bourret biography Caprice Bourret was born on October 24, 1974, in Hacienda Heights, California, USA. She moved to England and started modeling. Since Caprice arrived in England from the US, she has taken the country by storm. After all those years spent in Europe, Caprice settled in Long Beach, California, where she bought a house. Her career took off in London when she fronted major advertising shoots for Pantene, The Simpsons, and Pizza Hut. She modeled for Littlewoods, H&M, and Marks & Spencer. Modeling is what Caprice does best. She has been featured in the world's finest magazines: Esquire, GQ, New Woman, Woman's Journal, You, Sunday Times Style, FHM, Attitude, and Sunday Telegraph. In 1998, she appeared in the Swimsuit Issue of Sports Illustrated. It's no surprise that Caprice is making headlines everywhere, considering that she is 5'11" and her measurements are 35-25-34. Her looks led her to pursue her modeling career and later move into the

Carmen Kass biography Carmen Kass won several beauty pageants, including Miss Paide and Miss Jarvamaa County, before being discovered by an Italian model scout in a supermarket in Paide, a village outside Tallinn, Estonia. Carmen Kass started modeling for a local agency called "Baltic Models" when she was 14. Her single mother, a waitress, refused to sign the papers allowing her to fly to Milan for 3 months, so "I faked her signature!" says Carmen. She has bought part of her former modeling agency in Tallinn and is reportedly addicted to email. "If you meet her, you can be sure she'll be glued to her cell phone and connected to her computer at home to check her email." She also loves chess. last updated October 2022

Cindy Margolis biography Cindy Margolis was born on October 1, 1968, in Los Angeles, California; she is not only known as the "Queen of the Internet" but also as a talk show host, model, and actress. It all started when Cindy was working on a project for a business course she was taking. She took her greeting card project idea further and launched her own greeting card line with her as the cover model. Agents started asking about this greeting card cover girl considering the company was a huge success. Cindy began modeling and appeared in advertisements for Reebok, Vidal Sassoon, Coors, Hanes, and Sunkist. She then moved on to television with appearances in shows such as Married...with Children, Murphy Brown, Baywatch, Baywatch Nights, In the Dark, and Head Over Heels. Her first foray into television was as a Barker Beauty, a hostess on the game show The Price Is Right. Her popularity on the Internet started when she appeared on Extra in 1995. Since then, she has been named Y

Claudia Schiffer biography Claudia Schiffer is one of the original supermodels of the early 1990s. She gained worldwide recognition by appearing in Guess ads in early 1989, and her appearance has increased her recognition. Claudia was born on August 25, 1970; she was raised in Düsseldorf, Germany, to a stay-at-home mother and lawyer father. As a child growing up, Claudia did not want to be a model; instead, she wanted to be a lawyer and work in her father's law firm. Her hopes of becoming a lawyer came to a screeching halt when she went to a nightclub with her friends in October 1987. A modeling agent, Michel Levaton, spotted Claudia and was taken with her. She inevitably flew to Paris for her first test shoot. Her first appearance came from the famous cover photo for Elle magazine. Claudia began receiving recognition from European magazines and was later selected as the new Guess girl in 1989. While fulfilling her Guess ad campaign duties, Claudia appeared on five magazine covers

Catherine Bell biography Catherine Bell was born on 14 August 1968 in London, England. Catherine Lisa Bell is an actress who co-starred in the popular TV series Internal Affairs. Bell is a member of Scientology. last updated September 2022

Charlotte Vega biography Charlotte Vega was born in Madrid, Spain, on February 10, 1994. She has a British mother and a Spanish/British father. After ten months, they moved to Barcelona, ​​where Charlotte grew up. Her multicultural background has enabled her to speak English and Spanish natively and work in both languages ​​from the early stages of her career. She is known for her lead role as 'Rachel' in 'The Lodgers,' 'Katrina' in 'American Assassin' and for her lead role as 'Valeria' in the Spanish film 'El Club de Los Incomprendidos.' last updated October 2022

Casey Crowder biography Casey Crowder was born in February 1989 in Pine Bluff, Arkansas, USA. Casey was a Watson Chapel High School senior dedicated to her family and guarded by her younger brothers. The 17-year-old had previously participated in athletics for her school. Casey drove down to her boyfriend’s residence in Pickens, Arkansas, on August 26, 2006. According to the show, Casey called home early the following day, reporting she had run out of petrol and was stranded alongside a highway in Dumas, Arkansas. The family was initially unconcerned, but that changed when the youngster did not return home later that day. Her automobile was discovered abandoned on the same highway, and a search for her began. Her decomposing body was found in Desha County, Arkansas, on September 2, 2006. Her neck was wrapped in a zip tie, implying strangling. last updated October 2022