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Elizabeth Taylor biography 2022

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Elizabeth Taylor biography Elizabeth Taylor, 27.2.1932-23.3.2011, British-American actress. Elizabeth Taylor had her breakthrough and stardom with Lassie Come Home (1943) and National Velvet (1944). Her particular flair for emotional drama was first seen in A Place In The Sun (1951) and in more mature characters in Cat On a Hot Tin Roof (1958) and Suddenly, Last Summer (1959). Elizabeth Taylor has also temperamentally played intriguing sarcastic types in, for example, Reflections in a Golden Eye (1967), Zee & Co. (1972), and the TV movie Sweet Bird of Youth (1989). Of her eight marriages, the two to Richard Burton in 1964-74 and 1975-76 have been significant for her career. The couple recorded ten films together, including Cleopatra (1963), Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1966), for which she won an Oscar, and The Taming of the Shrew (1967). She is also remembered for Father of the Bride (1950), Ivanhoe (1952), and Giant (1956), and for her first Oscar role in Butterfield 8 (1...

Eva Marie Saint biography 2022

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Eva Marie Saint biography Eva Marie Saint was born July 4, 1924, and was an American actor. Eva Marie Saint was born in New Jersey and graduated in acting from Bowling Green State University in Ohio in 1946. She began her career with various roles in television shows and on Broadway. In 1954, she debuted relatively late in Hollywood with an Oscar-winning role as a vulnerable woman opposite Marlon Brando 's tormented main character in Elia Kazan 's drama On the Waterfront. She became, among other things, seen in Fred Zinnemann's A Hatful of Rain (1957). In a later outstanding performance that allowed her to demonstrate double-tied blonde elegance and coolness, Eva Marie Saint was chosen by Alfred Hitchcock to star opposite Cary Grant in the thriller North by Northwest (1959). The following year, Eva Marie Saint starred in the historical drama Exodus, directed by Otto Preminger, based on Leon Uris's novel, and then got several leading roles, including in the relationship...

Esther Williams biography 2022

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Esther Williams biography Esther Williams was born on August 8, 1921. She was an American swimmer and film actress. As a former swimmer, she became a star in several "aqua musicals," e.g., This Time for Keeps (1947), Neptune's Daughter (1949), and Dangerous When Wet (1953). Died June 6, 2013 last updated October 2022

Errol Flynn biography 2022

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Errol Flynn biography Errol Flynn, 1909-1959, Australian-American actor. Errol Flynn was born in Tasmania, and after a youth characterized by adventure, he was trained in theater in England. In 1935, Flynn came to Hollywood, where in the same year, he had his breakthrough as the romantic, devil-may-care hero in Captain Blood. The hood and hood movies became Errol Flynn's almost undisputed domain for 20 years, and his popularity in and out of the film was legendary, including The Charge of the Light Brigade (1936), The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938), and Kim (1950). last updated October 2022

Ernest Borgnine biography 2022

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Ernest Borgnine biography Ernest Borgnine (Ermes Effron Borgnino) was born on January 24, 1917. Ernest Borgnine often played brutal villains, for example, in From Here to Eternity (1953), Bad Day at Black Rock (1955), Emperor of the North Pole (1973), and Convoy (1978), but won prestige for the low-key everyday portraits in Marty (1955), which won him an Oscar, and The Catered Affair (1956). Died on July 8, 2012. last updated October 2022

Edward G. Robinson biography 2022

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Edward G. Robinson biography Edward G. Robinson (Emmanuel Goldenberg) 1893-1973, American film actor. Robinson became known for several gangster roles, including in Little Caesar (1931) and The Last Gangster (1937), and later had nuanced character roles, e.g., in Double Indemnity (1944) and The Woman in the Window (1944). As an older man, he was seen in traditional supporting roles, e.g., Cheyenne Autumn (1964) and The Cincinnati Kid (1965). last updated October 2022

Edward Burns biography 2022

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Edward Burns biography Edward Burns (Edward Burns Jr.) was born January 29, 1968, in Woodside, New York City, New York, USA. He is an American film actor, producer, writer, and director. He has, among other things, featured in the movie Saving Private Ryan. Burns started in the film industry as an assistant on Oliver Stone's film The Doors in the early 1990s.  last updated October 2022

Eliza Dushku biography 2022

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Eliza Dushku biography Eliza Dushku (Eliza Patricia Dushku) was born December 30, 1980, in Watertown, Massachusetts, USA. She is an American television and film actress with Albanian, Danish and English roots who has appeared in several Hollywood films such as True Lies, The New Guy, Bring It On, and Wrong Turn. last updated October 2022

Elia Kazan Biography 2022

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Biography of Elia Kazan  Elia Kazan (Elia Kazantzoglou) was born on September 7, 1909. American film director and writer of Greek origin. Elia Kazan was an actor and theater director in the 1930s, made a name for himself on Broadway in the 1940s, and in 1947 was a co-founder of the Actors' Studio . He disseminated Konstantin Stanislavski's theories about the perfect psychological and physical identification with the role, the so-called Method of Acting, who had a breakthrough with his production of A Streetcar Named Desire on Broadway in 1947. Marlon Brando had the lead role and got it again in the film adaptation in 1951, which marked the method's breakthrough in film and broke radically with the star types of earlier times and the soberly muted playing style of the 1940s. Elia Kazan's direction then produced landmark acting performances in the film adaptation of American writer John Steinbeck's novel East of Eden (1955) with James Dean, Baby Doll (1956) with Carr...

Ethan Suplee biography 2022

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Biography of Ethan Suplee Ethan Suplee was born on May 25, 1976, in Manhattan, New York City, New York, USA. He is an American actor. He is probably best known for his role as Seth Ryan in American History X, Louie Lastik in Remember the Titans, Frankie in Boy Meets World, Randy Hickey in NBC's sitcom My Name Is Earl, and for his roles in Kevin Smith's films.  last updated October 2022

Eddie Murphy biography 2022

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Eddie Murphy biography Eddie Murphy began as a fast-talking and provocative stand-up comedian and found great success on Saturday Night Live's TV show (1981-84). His individual stand-up skills are also documented in the two TV shows Eddie Murphy Delirious (1983) and Eddie Murphy Raw (1987). He continued the type in the action comedies 48HRS. (1982, 48 hours) and the sequel Another 48 hrs. (1990) as well as Beverly Hills Cop (1984) with two sequels and had one of his best roles in Trading Places (1983). Eddie Murphy has also cultivated his masking talent in Coming to America (1988) and The Nutty Professor (1996, The Nutty Professor, sequel 2000). With i.a. the latter, he has cultivated a more family-friendly image. He successfully voiced the donkey in the animated film Shrek (2001, continued in 2004 and 2007) and was surprised with a character role in the musical Dreamgirls (2006). last updated October 2022

Emma Roberts biography 2022

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Emma Roberts Biography Emma Roberts was born on February 10, 1991, in Rhinebeck, New York, to Kelly Cunningham and actor Eric Roberts . Her parents divorced when she was seven months old. Through her father's marriage, she is the stepdaughter of Eliza Roberts and step-granddaughter of David Rayfiel and Lila Garrett. Through her mother's marriage, she is the stepdaughter of musician Kelly Nickels. She has a younger maternal half-sister, Grace. Her paternal grandmother was acting coach Betty Lou Bredemus, and her aunts are actresses Julia Roberts and Lisa Roberts Gillan. During her childhood, Roberts spent time on the sets of her aunt Julia Roberts films. These experiences sparked a desire to follow her father and aunts into the film industry. Her mother initially wanted her to have a normal childhood. She is of English, Scottish, Irish, Welsh, German, and Swedish descent through her father. last updated October 2022

Eric Roberts biography 2022

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Biography of Eric Roberts Eric Roberts was born on April 18, 1956, in Biloxi, Mississippi, USA. His sister is Julia Roberts . He is an American actor. His first film was King of the Gypsies, for which he received a Golden Globe nomination for Best Actor Debut. He was nominated for a Golden Globe and Academy Award for his supporting role in Runaway Train with Jon Voight . last updated October 2022

Emiliano Sala biography 2022

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Emiliano Sala biography The Argentinian footballer Emiliano Sala was born in Cululu las Colonias on October 31, 1990. He played for French Nantes and, on January 19, 2019, was sold from Nantes to Welsh club Cardiff for 15 million pounds. He had signed a three-year deal with Cardiff, but he never got to make his debut. After saying goodbye to his French colleagues, Emiliano Salo and pilot David Ibbotson boarded a flight bound for Wales on January 21. According to his father, Emiliano Sala sent worrying messages to his family from the plane: "I'm on a plane that looks like it's about to fall apart," and "I'm so scared," read parts of the messages. That same evening, the plane disappeared from the authorities' radar at approximately 20 km from the Channel Island of Guernsey. Emiliano Sala's body was recovered and identified on February 7. He was 28 years old. The body of 59-year-old pilot David Ibbotson has never been found. last updated October 202...

Elle MacPherson biography 2022

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Elle MacPherson biography Elle MacPherson was born in Sydney, Australia, on March 29, 1964. She planned to study pre-law at Sydney University, but when spotted in Aspen, Colorado, she was signed to the Click modeling agency. Elle became a fixture of Elle magazine and posed for the magazine for 6 years. While her talent as a model was undeniable, her marriage to the magazine's creative director, Gilles Bensimon, further secured her relationship with the magazine. MacPherson ventured into the world of exercise videos, motivating and teaching people how to stay in shape to hopefully end up with a body like hers. She showed off her body on the cover of the highly coveted Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Edition in 1994 with models Kathy Ireland and Rachel Hunter. After achieving supermodel status, Elle MacPherson knew that the glamorous modeling industry had a high turnover, so she set about other projects. Since the transition from modeling to acting was popular, Elle decided to appear in ...

Elias Theodorou biography 2022

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Biography of Elias Theodorou Elias Theodorou was born in Mississauga, Canada, on February 26, 1988. Theodorou was a Canadian mixed martial artist. He competed for the UFC in the middleweight division, where he was ranked 13th until his release, winning The Ultimate Fighter Nations: Canada vs. Australia. Died: September 11, 2022 (cancer). last updated September 2022

Estella Warren biography 2022

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Estella Warren biography Estella Warren was born on December 23, 1978, to a mother who was a primary school teacher and a father who sold used cars. A professional swimmer, Estella moved to Toronto at 12 to train with the national synchronized swimming team. In 1996, a career change took her from chlorinated water to designer catwalks. She participated in a high school fashion show, and photos of Estella were sent to a modeling agent in New York. The next thing she knew, she was doing photo shoots with professional fashion photographer Ellen von Unwerth and posing for Italian Vogue. After becoming the senior national champion at 17, Estella Warren could have gone on to the 1996 Atlanta Olympics, but she chose to make modeling her priority instead. Since Estella had already lived alone in Toronto for 4 years, it was not difficult to move to New York to pursue a modeling and acting career. Her father became her manager, and modeling gigs soon came Estella's way. When you pass a magaz...

Erick Almandinger biography 2022

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Erick Almandinger biography Erick Almandinger was sentenced to 99 years in prison for murdering David Grunwald , 16, with the help of 3 other teenage boys. last updated October 2022

Ed Harris biography 2022

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Ed Harris biography Ed Harris was born on 28 November 1950 in Tenafly, New Jersey, USA. Ed Harris is an American film actor. Ed debuted in Coma (1978) and has since alternated between reliable everyday people, e.g., in Places in My Heart (1984) and Sweet Dreams (1985), and more hard-boiled types, e.g., in Philip Kaufman's The Right Stuff (1983), Apollo 13 (1995), The Rock (1996), A Beautiful Mind (2001) and Gone Baby Gone (2007). He has also made a name for himself as a psychopath in, for example, Just Cause (1995) and David Cronenberg's A History of Violence (2005). Ed Harris made his directorial debut with the drama Pollock (2000), about the American painter Jackson Pollock, in which he had one of his rare lead roles. He also directed the western drama Appaloosa (2008), in which he shares the lead role with Viggo Mortensen . last updated October 2022

Elizabeth Hurley biography 2022

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Elizabeth Hurley biography Elizabeth Hurley was born June 10, 1965, in Hampshire, England. She grew up the daughter of an army officer and an elementary school teacher. She grew up in Basingstoke, England. When Elizabeth was young, she wanted to become a dancer, so Hurley went to school for ballet instruction when she was twelve. Her attendance at the boarding school was short-lived, and she then went through another phase: the English punk phase. Although it must be hard to imagine the now glamorous Hurley with pink hair and a nose ring, she was a victim of early '80s punk fashion, as that was the thing to do at that time and place. At age 21, she landed her first film role in the 1987 film Aria after attending the London Studio Center on scholarship. Hurley's role in the film Rowing In the Wind that same year also starred her future boyfriend, Hugh Grant. A year later, she received praise for her role as Christabel Bielenberg in the BBC miniseries Christabel. Elizabeth Hurley...