Actresses

Olivia Mary de Havilland was born July 1, 1916, in Tokyo, Japan, to British parents Lilian Augusta (Ruse), a former actress, and Walter Augustus de Havilland, an English professor and patent attorney. Her sister, Joan, later to become famous as Joan Fontaine, was born the following year. Her surname comes from her paternal grandfather, whose family was from Guernsey in the Channel Islands. Her parents divorced when Olivia was just three years old, and she moved with her mother and sister to Saratoga, California. After graduating from high school, where she fell prey to the acting bug, Olivia enrolled in Mills College in Oakland. It was while she was at Mills that she part…

Bo She won a beauty contest at age fourteen. In 1920 her mother, Edith Shearer, took Norma and her sister Athole Shearer (Mrs. Howard Hawks) to New York. Ziegfeld rejected her for his "Follies," but she got work as an extra in several movies. She spent much money on eye doctor's services trying to correct her cross-eyed stare caused by a muscle weakness. Irving Thalberg had seen her early acting efforts and, when he joined Louis B. Mayer in 1923, gave her a five year contract. He thought she should retire after their marriage, but she wanted bigger parts. In 1927, she insisted on firing the director Viktor Tourjansky because he was unsure of her cross-eyed stare. Her firs…

Loretta Young was born Gretchen Young in Salt Lake City, Utah on January 6, 1913, to Gladys (Royal) and John Earle Young. Her parents separated when Loretta was three years old. Her mother moved Loretta and her two older sisters to Southern California, where Mrs. Young ran a boarding house. When Loretta was 10, her mother married one of her boarders, George Belzer. They had a daughter, Georgianna, two years later. Loretta was appearing on screen as a child extra by the time she was four, joining her elder sisters, Polly Ann Young and Elizabeth Jane Young (later better known as Sally Blane), as child players. Mrs. Young's brother-in-law was an assistant director and g…

Jeanette Anna MacDonald (June 18, 1903 – January 14, 1965) was an American singer and actress best remembered for her musical films of the 1930s with Maurice Chevalier (The Love Parade, Love Me Tonight, The Merry Widow and One Hour With You) and Nelson Eddy (Naughty Marietta, Rose-Marie, and Maytime). During the 1930s and 1940s she starred in 29 feature films, four nominated for Best Picture Oscars (The Love Parade, One Hour with You, Naughty Marietta and San Francisco), and recorded extensively, earning three gold records. She later appeared in opera, concerts, radio, and television. MacDonald was one of the most influential sopranos of the 20th century, introducing oper…

Phoebe Mary Waller-Bridge is an English actress and writer. She created, wrote, and starred in the BBC comedy-drama series Fleabag, and developed and writes the BBC America thriller series Killing Eve, on which she also served as the showrunner for the first season. Born: July 14, 1985, Ealing, London, UK The Hollywood Reporter Magazine, Aug 14 '19 Frank W. Ockenfels III photos

Kerstin Anita Marianne Ekberg was born on September 29, 1931 in Malmo, Sweden. Growing up with seven brothers and sisters was not an adventure, but Anita's adventure began when she was elected Miss Sweden in 1950. She did not win the Miss Universe contest but she got a modeling contract in the United States. She quickly got a film contract with Howard Hughes's RKO that did not lead anywhere (but Anita herself has said that Hughes wanted to marry her). Instead, she started making movies with Universal, small roles that more often than not only required her to look beautiful. After five years in Hollywood, she found herself in Rome, where Federico Fellini's La Dolce Vita (1…

Anna May Wong was born Wong Liu Tsong on January 3, 1905, in Los Angeles, California. Her parents ran a laundry in the city's Chinatown section. Anna became a photographer's model when she was still attending Hollywood High School. She was fascinated with the movie industry at a young age, having observed several films being shot in and around her neighborhood. At almost 14 years old, her actor cousin, James Wong Howe, showed a photograph of her to a director, which resulted in her getting a bit part in Dinty (1920) (unfortunately for film buffs, there are no prints of the movie in existence, because of deterioration). The next year she appeared in two more films, Shame (…

She was born Vina Fay Wray near Cardston, Alberta, Canada, on September 15, 1907. Fay was from a large family that included five siblings. She moved to Arizona when she was still small in order for her father to find better work than what was offered in Alberta. After moving again to California, her parents divorced, which put the rest of the family in hard times. Being in entertainment-rich Los Angeles, there was ample opportunity to take advantage of the chances that might come her way in the entertainment industry. At the age of 16, Fay played her first role in a motion picture, albeit a small one. The film was Gasoline Love (1923) in 1923. The film was not a hit, nor …

Gloria Swanson was born on March 27, 1899 in Chicago, Illinois, USA as Gloria May Josephine Svensson in Chicago, Illinois. She was destined to be perhaps one of the biggest stars of the silent movie era. Her personality and antics in private definitely made her a favorite with America's movie-going public. Gloria certainly didn't intend on going into show business. After her formal education in the Chicago school system and elsewhere, she began work in a department store as a salesclerk. In 1915, at the age of 18, she decided to go to a Chicago movie studio with an aunt to see how motion pictures were made. She was plucked out of the crowd, because of her beauty, to be…

Susan Hayward was born Edythe Marrener in Brooklyn, New York, on June 30, 1917. Her father was a transportation worker, and Susan lived a fairly comfortable life as a child, but the precocious little redhead had no idea of the life that awaited her. She attended public school in Brooklyn, where she graduated from a commercial high school that was intended to give students a marketable skill. She had planned on becoming a secretary, but her plans changed. She started doing some modeling work for photographers in the NYC area. By 1937, her beauty in full bloom, she went to Hollywood when the nationwide search was on for someone to play the role of Scarlett O'Hara in Margare…

Shirley MacLaine was born Shirley MacLean Beaty in Richmond, Virginia. Her mother, Kathlyn Corinne (MacLean), was a drama teacher from Nova Scotia, Canada, and her father, Ira Owens Beaty, a professor of psychology and real estate agent, was from Virginia. Her brother, Warren Beatty, was born on March 30, 1937. Her ancestry includes English and Scottish. Shirley was the tallest in her ballet classes at the Washington School of Ballet. Just after she graduated from Washington-Lee High School, she packed her bags and headed for New York. While auditioning for Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II's "Me and Juliet", the producer kept mispronouncing her name. She then…

Estelle Merle O'Brien Thompson was born in India on February 19, 1911. She was educated in that country until the age of 17, when she left for London. Merle began her career in British films with mostly forgettable roles or bit parts. She appeared in an uncredited role in Alf's Button (1930), a pattern that would unfortunately repeat itself regularly over the next three years. However, movie moguls eventually saw an an untapped talent in their midst and began grooming Merle for something bigger. Finally she landed a part with substance: the role of Ysobel d'Aunay in Men of Tomorrow (1932). That was quickly followed by The Private Life of Henry VIII. (1933). After her port…

Kim Novak was born in Chicago, Illinois on February 13, 1933 with the birth name of Marilyn Pauline Novak. She was the daughter of Joseph Novak, a former teacher turned transit clerk and his wife, Blanche Kral Novak, also a former teacher. Throughout elementary and high school, Kim did not get along well with teachers. She even admitted that she didn't like being told what to do and when to do it. Her first job, while in high school, was modeling teen fashions for a local department store. Kim, an avid painter, won a scholarship to the Art Institute of Chicago, but ended up going to Wright Junior College instead. While on a break from school, Kim and two of her classmates…

Adèle Haenel (born 1 January 1989) is a French actress. She has been nominated twice for the César Award for Most Promising Actress; in 2008 for her performance in Water Lilies (2007), and in 2012 for House of Tolerance (2011). In 2014, Haenel was awarded the César Award for Best Supporting Actress for her role in Suzanne. In 2015, she won the César Award for Best Actress for performance in the film Love at First Fight.[3]

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Madison Iseman (born February 14, 1997) is an American actress. She is known for her role on the CMT comedy television series Still the King,[2][3] where she played Charlotte, the daughter of Billy Ray Cyrus' character, Vernon Brownmule. She is also known for playing the role of Bethany Walker in Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle, Sarah Quinn in Goosebumps 2: Haunted Halloween, and Mary Ellen in Annabelle Comes Home.

Natasha Liu Bordizzo is an Australian actress and model. She made her debut portraying the character of Snow Vase in Netflix's Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon: Sword of Destiny. Recently she portrayed the character of Helena in Netflix's "The Society", a series that brought her a lot of recognition. Born: 25 August 1994, Sydney, Australia Elle Magazine (Australia), Sept 2019 Sylve Colless photos

Maude Apatow is an American actress. She is the elder daughter of director Judd Apatow and actress Leslie Mann and is known for her roles as the daughter to her real-life mother's characters in Knocked Up, Funny People, and This Is 40. Born: Dec. 15, 1997 ''The Late Show With Stephen Colbert'', NYC, Jul 29 '19

Zhao Liying (or Zanilia Zhao) Actress, Model Nationality: Chinese Birth year: 1987 Height: 1.65M Weight: 43 kg

Emma Fuhrmann is an American actress. She is known for her roles as Finnegan O'Neil in The Magic of Belle Isle starring alongside Morgan Freeman and Virginia Madsen, Espn Friedman in Blended with Adam Sandler and Drew Barrymore, and portrays Cassie Lang in Avengers: Endgame. Born: September 15, 2001, Dallas, Tex. HollyRod Foundation Presents its 21st Annual DesignCare Gala, Malibu, Jul 27 '19

Dilraba Dilmurat (or Dilireba) Actress, Model Nationality: Chinese (Uyghur) Birth year: 1992 Height: 1.68M Weight: 47 kg Measurements: 81-59-84

Yang Mi Actress, Singer, Model and owner of Jaywalk studio Nationality: Chinese Birth year: 1986 Height: 1.68M Weight: 48 kg Measurements: 85-61-88

jane Leeves is a British actress, born 18 April 1961 in Redbridge. She started a career as model but became famous as actress, best known a Daphne Moon in Frasier. She won several awards for her part in this very successful sitcom. Before Frasier, she started with appearances and smaller roles in movie and tv. First was being a topless angel in Monty Python’ s The Meaning of Life. later she had a few roles in the Benny Hill shows. her rise to stardom began with TV shows Throb! And in Murphy Brown. 1993 was the year she started in Frasier as the live-in caretaker for the father of Frasier Crane. Daphne Moon is characterized by her charmin…

Iris Lezcano was born in 1985 in Valencia, Spain. She is an actress, known for Sin tetas no hay paraíso (2008), Hospital Central (2000) and El somni de la seua vida (2017). http://irislezcano.net/ https://www.imdb.com/name/nm2046964/?ref_=nmbio_bio_nm

Bruna Reis Maia, known professionally as Bruna Marquezine, is a Brazilian actress. She began working on television as a child, becoming known for her role in the 2003 Brazilian telenovela Women In Love. Born: August 4, 1995, Duque de Caxias, State of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil Jacquemus S/S 2020 show, Valensole, France, Jun 24 '19