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Kirk Douglas biography Kirk Douglas (Issur Danielovich Demsky) was born on December 9, 1916. He was an American actor and the father of Michael Douglas. Kirk Douglas had a long career in Hollywood with his edgy and aggressive acting style, for example, in the boxer film Champion (1949), westerns such as Gunfight at the O.K. Corral (1956), and the war film Paths of Glory (1957). Among his more nuanced portraits can be mentioned the title role in Lust for Life (1956), The film about Vincent van Gogh. As a producer, Kirk Douglas was behind his own star role in Spartacus (1960). Died on February 5, 2020 (aged 103) 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

Karl Malden biography Karl Malden (Mladen Sekulovich) was born March 22, 1914, American actor. Malden had his film breakthrough in Elia Kazan 's A Streetcar Named Desire (1951); since then, he made his mark in significant supporting roles, for example, in On the Waterfront (1954), One-Eyed Jacks (1961), The Cincinnati Kid (1965) and Patton (1970). Malden directed Time Limit (1957) and starred in the television series The Streets of San Francisco (1972-77). Died on July 1, 2009. last updated October 2022

Kirsten Dunst biography Kirsten Dunst (Kirsten Caroline Dunst) was born on April 30, 1982, in Point Pleasant, New Jersey, USA. She is a German-American actress, singer, and model. She made her film debut in Oedipus Wrecks, a short film directed by Woody Allen in the anthology New York Stories. last updated October 2022

Kevin Bacon biography Kevin Bacon (Kevin Norwood Bacon) was born on July 8, 1958, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA. He is a Golden Globe and Screen Actors Guild Award-nominated American film and stage actor known for his roles in Footloose, Animal House, Stir of Echoes, Wild Things, JFK, Apollo 13, Mystic River, and The Woodsman.  last updated October 2022

Kevin Costner biography Kevin Costner (Kevin Michael Costner) was born on January 18, 1955, an American actor who, in a few years, became one of the most famous movie stars of the 1980s and 1990s. Kevin Costner's breakthrough came in 1987 in Roger Donaldson's thriller No Way Out and Brian De Palma's gangster epic The Untouchables. Then he hit cemented his position with the character role in Oliver Stone's JFK (1991), about the assassination of US President John F. Kennedy. Kevin Costner achieved great success when he stubbornly and independently of the established production system directed himself in the alternative western Dances With Wolves (1990), which received an Oscar for, among other things. Best movie. Kevin Costner subsequently had leading roles in, among others, Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves (1991), Lawrence Kasdan's romantic drama The Bodyguard (1992), and the same director's western Wyatt Earp (1994). However, the large-scale future drama Waterworld

Kyle MacLachlan biography Kyle Merritt MacLachlan was born February 22, 1959, in Yakima, Washington, USA. He is an American actor who, among other things, plays Orson Hodge in the television series Desperate Housewives. He has also appeared in, among others, Blue Velvet, The Good Wife, How I Met Your Mother, Twin Peaks, Sex and the City, and the Norwegian series Atlantic Crossing. last updated October 2022

Kara Sands biography Kara Sands (Republican Party) is the Nueces County Clerk in Texas. She assumed office in 2015. Her current term ends on December 31, 2022. Sands (Republican Party) is running for re-election for Nueces County Clerk in Texas. She is on the ballot in the general election on November 8, 2022. She advanced from the Republican primary on March 1, 2022. Her brother Trey Sands was murdered in 2014 by an individual named Keith McWilliams. last updated October 2022

Kimberly Russell biography Kimberly Russell was born December 29, 1964, in Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA. She is an American actress best known for her role as Sarah Nevins in the 1986-1991 sitcom Head of the Class and in the 1990 comedy film Ghost Dad opposite Bill Cosby .  last updated October 2022

Kelly Preston biography Kelly Preston was born October 13, 1962, in Honolulu, Hawaii, USA. She was an American model and actress. Kelly was married to  John Travolta (1991–2020). Died: July 12, 2020, Clearwater, Florida, USA last updated October 2022

Kevin Kline biography Kevin Kline (Kevin Delaney Kline) was an American actor born on November 24, 1947. Alongside his theater career on Broadway, also as a director, since his breakthrough in Alan J. Pakula's Sophie's Choice (1982), based on William Styron's novel, Kevin Kline has portrayed the average American in humorous everyday crises, for example, in Lawrence Kasdan's generation portrait The Big Chill (1983), the same director's Grand Canyon (1991) and Ang Lee's The Ice Storm (1997). Kevin Kline has also played in, e.g., Lawrence Kasdan's western pastiche Silverado (1985) and showed more pronounced comedy talent in very diverse roles, e.g. ), In & Out (1997) and Wild Wild West (1999). He portrayed Cole Porter in De-Lovely (2004) and has, among other things, transferred his theater experience to the film adaptation of William Shakespeare's A Midsummer's Night Dream (1999) and As You Like It (2006), the latter directed by Kenneth Branagh. las

Kate Winslet biography Kate Winslet, born in 1975, was a British actress. After minor TV series roles, Kate Winslet showed characterization talent in Heavenly Creatures (1994) and Sense and Sensibility (1995) and achieved worldwide success with her lead role in Titanic (1997); between the two films, she played i.a. Ophelia in Kenneth Branagh's Hamlet (1996). She has later participated in, among other things, Holy Smoke (1999), The Holiday (2006), and Revolutionary Road (2008) as well as portrayed the writer Iris Murdoch as a young person in Iris (2001) and played J.M. Barrie's muse in Finding Neverland (2004). Kate Winslet received her first Oscar for The Reader (2008). last updated October 2022

Kristen Zang biography Kristen Zang was born June 22, 1974, in Michigan, USA. last updated October 2022

Kathleen Turner biography Kathleen Turner (Mary Kathleen Turner) was born June 19, 1954, and is an American film actress. Kathleen Turner established herself in the 1980s in sensual-erotic or comedic roles in classic genre films, e.g., in Lawrence Kasdan's film noir Body Heat (1981), the adventure comedy Romancing the Stone (1984), the black comedy The War of the Roses (1989), and is primarily remembered in Francis Ford Coppola's Peggy Sue Got Married (1986). In V.I. Warshawski (1991), based on Sara Paretsky's crime novels, Kathleen Turner cultivated her image as an independent woman who takes matters into her own hands. After a series of weaker roles, she appeared again in Sofia Coppola's feature film debut, The Virgin Suicides (1999), and has since i.a. seen as a feature in various TV series, including Californication 2009. last updated October 2022

Keira Knightley biography Keira Knightley was born in 1985; she is a British actress best known as the sexy and powerful heroine in the Pirates of the Caribbean films (2003-2007). Keira Knightley had an early role in the teen film Bend it Like Beckham (2002), and she had a dramatic lead role in Pride and Prejudice (2005) and Atonement (2007). Keira Knightley screamed and protested in the role of Sabina Spielrein, later one of the pioneers of psychoanalysis, in David Cronenberg's A Dangerous Method (2011). Here she plays up to the explorers of the subconscious, Sigmund Freud ( Viggo Mortensen ) and his disciple, Carl Gustav Jung ( Michael Fassbender ). last updated October 2022

Biography of Klaus Kinski Klaus Kinski (Klaus Günther Nakszyński) was born October 18, 1926., German actor; father of Nastassja Kinski . After theater work in Berlin, Klaus Kinski starred in more than 100 films from 1948. With his manic eyes and his angry temperament, Klaus Kinski often got roles as a genius, fantasist, or madman, for example, in Dr. Zhivago (1965), Jack the Ripper (1976), Paganini (1989), and Werner Herzog's films, e.g., Aguirre der Zorn Gottes (1972), Nosferatu (1978) and Cobra Verde (1987). Died November 23, 1991. last updated September 2022

Biography of Kurt Russell Kurt Russell (Kurt Vogel Russell) was born on March 17, 1951. After child and youth roles for The Walt Disney, Kurt Russell had his breakthrough as Elvis Presley in John Carpenter's (January 16, 1948) television portrait film Elvis (1979). Since then, Kurt Russell has been used as a romantic hero with sharp edges or as a pure action hero in genre films such as John Carpenter's Escape from New York City (1981), Mike Nichols' Silkwood (1983), Tequila Sunrise (1988), Unlawful Entry (1992), the western Tombstone (1993) in the role of Wyatt Earp and Breakdown (1997). In 2007, he made a minor comeback in Quentin Tarantino's Death Proof (2007). last updated September 2022

Biography of Kiefer Sutherland Kiefer Sutherland (Kiefer William Frederick Dempsey George Rufus Sutherland) was born on December 21, 1966, the son of Donald Sutherland . Kiefer Sutherland is known for a wide range of varied roles, including in the western Young Guns (1988), Joel Schumacher's Flatliners (1990), Lost Without a Trace (1992), and the 1990s version of The Three Musketeers (1993) after Alexandre Dumas. With the theatrical TV series 24 hours (2001- ), he made a comeback that, among other things, has been followed by roles in Lars von Trier's Melancholia (2011) and the TV series The Confession (2011). last updated October 2022

Kristin Kreuk biography Kristin Kreuk was born on December 30, 1982, in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. Kristin led a regular life before stardom, the laid-back daughter of a Dutch father and Chinese mother, both of whom are landscape architects. Kristin enjoyed the acting classes but was not serious about the subject. That is until a casting director faxed her high school a casting call for the CBC series Edgemont. Kreuk came in and "lucked out," as she says; suddenly, she was a TV actress. Since Edgemont is set in Vancouver, she lived in her parent's house when her star rose. Her character, Laurel Yeung, is a beautiful girl from the outskirts of the city, and she is one of the favorites in the Canadian semi-melodrama, which can also be seen on the FOX Family Channel. Undeterred by the pressures of success and hard work, Kreuk auditioned for another Vancouver-based TV show: the WB series Smallville, which focuses on the young life of the comic book hero Superman and