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James Stewart biography James Stewart (James Maitland Stewart) was born May 20, 1908, in Indiana, Pennsylvania, USA. He was an American film actor. With his stuttering, eager line delivery, and shy sincerity, Stewart personified the folksy American everyday hero in films such as You Can't Take It With You (1938) and Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939). It's a Wonderful Life (1946). In the 1950s, a darker, more complex side of his talent was seen in westerns such as The Naked Spur (1953) and The Man From Laramie (1955), in Hitchcock's Rear Window (1954) and Vertigo (1958) and humorous ambiguity in John Ford's Two Rode Together (1961) and Cheyenne Autumn (1964). Stewart won an Oscar for her role in The Philadelphia Story (1940). Among his other films is The Shop Around the Corner (1940), Harvey (1950), The Glenn Miller Story (1954), Anatomy of a Murder (1959), and The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (1962). Died July 2, 1997, in Beverly Hills, California, USA. last updated O

James Cagney biography James Cagney was born July 17, 1899, in Lower East Side, New York City, New York, USA. He was an American actor and one of Hollywood's central stars in the 1930s and 1940s. Dynamic, agile, and with dangerous smiles and machine-gun rapid lines, James Cagney played underworld types in all guises from his breakthrough in The Public Enemy (1931) to White Heat (1949). Outside the gangster genre, Cagney portrayed Broadway star George Michael Cohan (1878-1942) with gusto and vitality in Yankee Doodle Dandy (1942). Cagney retired in 1961, frustrated and worn out after his verbal equilibrist role in Billy Wilder's Berlin Cold War comedy One, Two, Three (1961), which has gained cult status in Germany over the years. In 1981, James Cagney made a comeback with all his old radiance intact in Miloš Forman's Ragtime. Died on March 30, 1986, in Stanfordville, New York, USA. last updated October 2022

Jake Gyllenhaal biography Jake Gyllenhaal was born on December 19, 1980, in Los Angeles, California, USA. He is an American actor who has sought quirky and challenging roles; he attracted attention in the cult film Donnie Darko (2001) and had a breakthrough with fine acting in Ang Lee's Brokeback Mountain (2005). Since then, he has, among other things, seen in the war drama Jarhead (2005), David Fincher's Zodiac (2007), and as an action hero in the adventure film Prince of Persia: Sands of Time (2010). last updated October 2022

Jackson Rathbone biography Jackson Rathbone (Monroe Jackson Rathbone) was born December 14, 1984, an American actor and musician. Jackson Rathbone is best known for the role of Jasper Halle in the films Twilight (2008), The Twilight Saga: New Moon (2009), The Twilight Saga: Eclipse (2010), The Last Airbender (2010), and The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn - Part 1 (2011). Jackson Rathbone plays together with Nikki Reed in the Twilight movies. last updated October 2022

Jack Benny biography Jack Benny (Benjamin Kubelsky), 1894-1974, was an American comedian who had a successful career in a vaudeville theater, radio, film, and television. Jack Benny achieved enormous popularity on radio and continued on television with The Jack Benny Program (1950-65), alternating between presenting famous guests and farcical sketches. On film, Benny played i.a. Charley's Aunt (1941) but is primarily remembered for Ernst Lubitsch's masterpiece To Be or Not to Be (1942), in which the role of the smug Polish Shakespearean actor under Nazism, he created one of the funniest moments in film history figures. last updated October 2022

John Grisham biography John Grisham was born in 1955, an American lawyer and author. After debuting in 1989 with the courtroom drama A Time to Kill (1995), he established his name on the suspense novel market with The Firm (1991), The Pelican Brief (1992), and The Client (1993). The action-packed bestsellers all focus on the struggle of ordinary people against a complicated and opaque American justice system, best in The Chamber (1994), which also debates the subject of the death penalty. All the novels have been made into films; the most successful was Sydney Pollack's The Firm (1993). The Last Juror (2004) is a story of social indignation over the state of the law in the 1970s in the southeastern part of the United States, which has never fully recovered from the defeat in the American Civil War back in the middle of the 1800s. Since then, several bestsellers from the hand of John Grisham have followed almost every year, most recently The Racketeer (2012), which again takes place

Jamie Lee Curtis biography Jamie Lee Curtis was born on November 22, 1958 Jamie Lee Curtis is an American actress, the daughter of Janet Leigh and Tony Curtis . She broke through in horror roles, i.a., Halloween (1978) with several sequels. Still, She later got leading roles in a witty comedy, e.g., in Trading Places (1983), A Fish Called Wanda (1988), and romantic heroine, e.g., in Forever Young (1992). Among her other films are Blue Steel (1989), My Girl (1991), James Cameron's action film True Lies (1994), where she played opposite Arnold Schwarzenegger , Virus (1999), Drowning Mona (2000), Freaky Friday (2003) and the romantic comedy You Again (2010). She again stars in the Halloween horror movie in Halloween Ends (2022). last updated October 2022

Joan Crawford biography Joan Crawford, 1904-1977, American actress. Joan Crawford managed to maintain a position as one of Hollywood's great stars in a career that included more than 80 films. She became especially famous for her roles as a strong, dominant, and passionate woman who could not conform to traditional femininity. Crawford broke through in the 1920s and had her most famous roles in the 1940s and early 1950s, including in Michael Curtiz's Mildred Pierce (1945), which won her an Oscar, as well as Possessed (1947) and Sudden Fear (1952). In 1962, she gave one of the most outstanding performances of her career in Robert Aldrich's What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?. In Mommie Dearest (1981), Crawford is portrayed as a self-absorbed career woman and an inadequate mother. last updated October 2022

Jerry Lewis biography Jerry Lewis (Joseph Levitch) was born on march 16, 1926, in Newark, New Jersey, USA. He was an American actor and film director. In the late 1940s, Jerry Lewis established his name as a crazy comedian in partnership with Dean Martin on stage, TV shows, and film, first with My Friend Irma (1949). From 1956 he acted alone and directed his own, often visually competent and original films, of which The Nutty Professor (1963) is the best known. After 1970, his career almost came to a standstill, and Jerry Lewis became involved in, among other things, charitable work. The tired cynicism traced in his characters from the late 1960s was skillfully exploited by Martin Scorsese in the film King of Comedy (1983). Died on August 20, 2017. last updated October 2022

Jessica Lange biography Jessica Lange (Jessica Phyllis Lange) was born as an American actress on April 20, 1949. Jessica Lange debuted in King Kong (1976) and then had her breakthrough in Bob Rafelson's The Postman Always Rings Twice (1981). She became one of the most versatile American character stars of the 1980s and 1990s. Jessica Lange's films include Frances (1982), in which she portrayed movie star Frances Farmer , who fell victim to McCarthyism; Tootsie (1982), Country (1984); sweet Dreams (1985), about country & western star Patsy Cline, Martin Scorsese's Cape Fear (1991) Blue Sky (1994, recorded 1990) and A 1000 Acres (1997). After the turn of the millennium, she has, among other things, starred in Tim Burton's Big Fish (2003), Jim Jarmusch's Broken Flowers (2005), and Wim Wenders' Don't Come Knocking (2005), playing opposite her longtime partner Sam Shepard. last updated October 2022

Jason Patric biography Jason Patric was born on 17 June 1966 in New York City, New York, USA. He is an American film, television, and stage actor. He is known for his roles in films such as The Lost Boys, Rush, Sleepers, Geronimo: An American Legend, Your Friends & Neighbors, Narc, The Losers, The Alamo, and Speed ​​2: Cruise Control.  last updated October 2022

Jennifer Lawrence biography Jennifer Lawrence was born on August 15, 1990, in Louisville, Kentucky, USA. At a young age, Jennifer Lawrence was one of her generation's most talented actresses when she was nominated for an Oscar for her lead performance in Winter's Bone . The independent film was not her first; however, at age 14, she was discovered by film agents in New York City. She then worked as a model in commercials (including for H&M), and in 2006 she made her film debut in the TV film 'Company Town.' From here, the journey went to Los Angeles and a role in the TV series 'The Bill Engvall Show, but it was in the role of the energetic Ree Dolly in Winter's Bone that Jennifer Lawrence broke through widely, but she is also prominent in films such as The Beaver and X-Men: First Class. She scored the lead role of Katniss Everdeen in The Hunger Games with sequels, and she received an Oscar for her performance as Tiffany in 'Silver Linings Playbook.'

Jana Havlickova biography Jana Havlickova was born January 1, 1979, Bernolákovo, Slovakia. She played the receptionist Vala in the horror movie Hostel (2005). last updated October 2022

Jet Li biography Jet Li was born in Beijing, China, on April 26, 1963. He is a Chinese martial artist, actor, Wushu champion, and international film star. last updated October 2022

Jim Carrey biography Jim Carrey is an American comedian and film actor. He was born in Canada but has been an American citizen since 2004. After a career as a stand-up comedian, Jim Carrey broke through in 1994 with three farces that presented his grotesque comic talent: The Mask, Ace Ventura: Pet Detective, and Dumb & Dumber, followed by a. Bruce Almighty (2003) and Fun with Dick and Jane (2005). He has also continued his characteristic comedy as a villain in Joel Schumacher's Batman Forever (1995), Ron Howard's How the Grinch Stole Christmas (2000), and Robert Zemeckis' A Christmas Carol (2009) after Charles Dickens. In parallel, Jim Carrey has also shown a more complex character talent in Peter Weir's television criticism of The Truman Show (1998), Miloš Forman's portrait of the comedian Andy Kaufman (1949-84), Man on the Moon (1999), and Michel Gondry's Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004). Carrey returned to more traditional comedic roles in Yes

Julie Andrews biography Julie Andrews, born in 1935, was an English actress and singer. She was Eliza in the original production of My Fair Lady in 1956 on Broadway. Became world famous with two musical roles in film, partly as the lovable governess in Mary Poppins (1964) and partly as the sweet and more down-to-earth governess in The Sound of Music (1965). After several unsuccessful attempts to change her beautiful image, in the 1980s, she won a particular reputation as a comedienne, among other things, in her husband Blake Edwards' film about gender confusion and entanglements, Victor/Victoria (1982). last updated October 2022

Jason Priestley biography Jason Priestley (Jason Bradford Priestly) was born on August 28, 1969, in Vancouver, Canada. He is a Canadian actor and film director who is best known for the role of the good and kind Brandon Walsh in Beverly Hills 90210. On May 6, 2014, he published his autobiography, Jason Priestley: A Memoir. last updated October 2022

Janeane Garofalo biography Janeane Garofalo (Jane Anne "Janeane" Garofalo) was born September 28, 1964, in Newton, New Jersey, USA. She is an American actress, stand-up comedian, and political activist. She joined Ben Stiller in 1990, and her first television appearance was on his short-lived program The Ben Stiller Show in 1992. last updated October 2022

Juliette Lewis biography Juliette Lewis, born June 21, 1973, is an American actress. After child roles on television, Juliette Lewis had her breakthrough in the TV movie Too Young to Die (1990) and then made a name for herself in Martin Scorsese's drama Cape Fear (1991) and Woody Allen 's Husbands and Wives (1992).  Among her other significant achievements, where she is often seen in the role profession as a challenging type on the edge of the law, are, for example, Romeo Is Bleeding (1993) and Kalifornia (1993), Lasse Hallström's What's Eating Gilbert Grape? (1993), Oliver Stone's Natural Born Killers (1994), Kathryn Bigelow's futuristic fable Strange Days (1995), The Other Sister (1999), and Blueberry (2004). Juliette Lewis has also pursued a music career, where she has released three albums with the rock band Juliette and the Licks. In 2009 she formed a new band, The New Romantics. last updated October 2022

Jude Law Biography Jude Law, David Jude Law, born in 1972, is a British actor known as a handsome and elegant man, both in kind-hearted roles, i.a., the sharpshooter in Enemy at the Gates (2001) and the deserter in Cold Mountain (2003), and with smooth charm, i.a. as decadent "rich boy" in The Talented Mr. Ripley (1999), the womanizer Alfie (2004) and as a cheater in Mike Nichols ' Closer (2004). In 2009, Jude Law played Dr. Watson in Sherlock Holmes, a role he reprised in the sequel Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows (2011). In 2009, Jude Law played William Shakespeare's Hamlet at Kronborg Castle in Helsingør. last updated October 2022