Actresses
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Born Ragnheiður Ragnarsdóttir, Ragga Ragnars is an Icelandic actress and former swimmer in the 2004 summer Olympics. She rose to international fame starring in Vikings as Grunnhild. Born in Iceland on 10/24/1984 https://www.instagram.com/raggaragnars/?hl=en https://www.imdb.com/name/nm7555253/
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Lena Maria Jonna Olin (born March 22, 1955) is a Swedish actress. It was Ingmar Bergman who had cast her for the first time (in a small part in Face to Face), after she had not passed her first audition for theatre school because of her shyness. Later she acted at the national stage in Stockholm in several productions directed by Bergman, and with Bergman's production of King Lear (in which Olin played Cordelia) she toured national theatres in Paris, Berlin, Copenhagen, Moscow and Oslo, among others. Critically acclaimed stage performances by Olin at Sweden's Royal Dramatic Theatre included the leading part as The Daughter in A Dream Play by Strindberg, Margarita in th…
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Sydney Sweeney is an American actress best known for her roles as Haley Caren on In The Vault, Emaline Addario on the Netflix series Everything Sucks! and as Eden in the Hulu series The Handmaid's Tale. Sweeney also appeared in the HBO miniseries Sharp Objects starring Amy Adams. Born: September 12, 1997 Women in Film Max Mara Face of The Future, Los Angeles, Jun 11 '19
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Giovanna Antonelli Giovanna Antonelli (born March 18, 1976, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil) is a Brazilian actress. Television * 1994: Tropicaliente * 1995: Tocaia Grande * 1996: Xica da Silva * 1998: Corpo Dourado * 1999: Força de Um Desejo * 1999: Malhação * 2000-2001: Laços de Família * 2001-2002: O Clone * 2004: A Casa das Sete Mulheres * 2004: Da Cor do Pecado * 2006: Minha Nada Mole Vida * 2007: Amazônia: De Galvez a Chico Mendes * 2007-2008: Sete Peacados * 2008-2009: Três Irmãs Film * 2000: Bossa Nova * 2002: Avassaladoras * 2003: Maria, Mãe do Filho de Deus * 2004: A Carto…
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Bio - find the whole one at wikipedia.org Elizabeth Taylor Birth name: Elizabeth Rosamund Taylor Date of birth: February 27, 1932 Place of birth: Hampstead, London, England Dame Elizabeth Rosamund Taylor, DBE (born February 27, 1932) is an iconic two-time Academy Award-winning American actress. She was long considered one of the most beautiful women in the world and, arguably, the most beautiful actress of all time. Her trademark is her dazzling violet-blue eyes framed by a double row of eyelashes. The American Film Institute named Taylor among the Greatest Female Stars of All Time, ranking at No. 7. Early life and career She was born in Hampstead, London, the seco…
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Ali Larter (born Alison Elizabeth Larter on February 28, 1976) is an American actress and former fashion model. She is perhaps best known for her roles in several films aimed at teenage audiences, including Varsity Blues and Final Destination, as well as for starring in the television series Heroes, which began airing in 2006. Larter was born in Cherry Hill, New Jersey. She began modeling with the world-renowned Ford modeling agency at the age of thirteen and traveled the world. At seventeen, Larter settled temporarily in Japan. A year later, in 1995, she accompanied her boyfriend in his move to Los Angeles. Soon after, she began taking acting classes, at a friend's sugg…
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Kirsten's career started out in television commercials at the age of three, with a baby doll commercial. This sexy, blue eyed blond has managed to survive the child to adult star transition, and is now part of the new generation of vixen actresses, like Sarah Michelle Gellar, Jessica Biel or Neve Campbell. Although Kirsten is a young actress, she is an accomplished professional, and is living proof that age is not a measure of one's talent or success. Kirsten made her feature film debut in a segment of Woody Allen's film "New York Stories". Kirsten made her breakthrough performance in "Interview with the Vampire: The Vampire Chronicles" along side stars Brad Pitt and Tom …
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Elke Sommer was born Elke Schletz in Berlin's Spandau district on Nov. 5, 1940, mere weeks after Great Britain's Royal Air Force began bombing the Nazi capital in an attempt to undermine the expansion of Adolf Hitler's Third Reich. In 1942, Peter Schletz, a Lutheran pastor, evacuated his wife and only child to a basement apartment in the Franconian village of Niederndorf in southern Germany. To supplement her husband's meager income, Renata Topp took in the laundry of her neighbors and clothed her daughter in cast-offs; until she was 13, Elke Sommer never wore a dress. Beset by chronic illness, Peter Schletz died in 1955, leaving the family in greater financial straits. O…
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deleted dead link ~PC PAMELA ANDERSON INFO (AllStarz.org): Occupation: Actress, Model Birth name: Pamela Denise Anderson Height: 5'7'' Weight: 105 lb Measurements: 36''-22''-34'' Date of Birth: July 1, 1967 Place of Birth: Ladysmith, British Columbia, Canada Ancestral Origin: Finnish Sign: Sun in Cancer, Moon in Aries Education: High School Family: father Barry (furnace repairman), mother Carol (waitress) Has two sons from Tommy Lee marriage: Brandon and Dylan BIOGRAPHY (PamWatch.com): Pamela Denise Anderson was born at 4:08am, July 1, 1967 in Ladysmith, British Columbia, Canada. 1967 was Canada's Centennial year and Pamela was the first baby born…
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So this goes out to famous Faye: Born: Dorothy Faye Dunaway on 14. Januar 1941 in Bascom, Florida She's an actress, produces and directs movies. Although she's a writer. She was very famous in the Seventies. She won the Oscar for her role in "network". In total she had 11 Nomin�es and 3 Golden Globes. She was married twice and has a son. I noticed her first in the four musketeers as Milady de Winter, she was so beautiful! She also was in the clip "Into the great wide open" from Tom Petty - must be around 1993. Johnny Depp was also in it. She acted twice with Johnny. She was his lover in "Arizona Dream" - crazy movie! - and she was also in "Don Juan" as the w…
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Lucille Fay LeSueur was born on March 23, 1905 in San Antonio, TX. She passed on May 10, 1977 In New York City of a heart attack. She also has pancreatic cancer. In November of 1978 her daughter Christina wrote "Mommie Dearest". A book that changed the way we look at child abuse today. Many of Joan's peers, companions, and her other daughters Cathy and Cindy refused to support the book and said it was all a lie. But Bette Davis supported Christina's story.
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Born May 23, 1933 in Paddington, London, England, UK Joan Collins is an English actress from Paddington, London. She is most famous for playing the role of vengeful schemer Alexis Carrington Colby in the soap opera "Dynasty" (1981-1989). In 1997, Collins was appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) for services to drama. In 2015, Collins was promoted to the rank of Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire (DBE) for services to charity. Collins was the daughter of talent agent Joseph William Collins (1902-1988) and his wife, dance teacher Elsa Bessant, (1906-1962). Joseph was born in South Africa, and had Jewish descen…
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Claudette Colbert (September 13, 1903 — July 30, 1996) was a French-born American stage and film actress. Born in Saint-Mandé, France and raised in New York City, Colbert began her career in Broadway productions during the 1920s, progressing to film with the advent of talking pictures. She established a successful film career with Paramount Pictures and later, as a freelance performer, became one of the highest paid entertainers in American cinema. Colbert was recognized as one of the leading female exponents of screwball comedy; she won the Academy Award for Best Actress for her comedic performance in It Happened One Night (1934), and also received Academy Award nominat…
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One of my faves. She was stunning in The Leopard. Bio>>> Claudia Cardinale was born Claude Jos
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Ruth Elizabeth "Bette" Davis (April 5, 1908 – October 6, 1989) was an American actress of film, television and theatre. Noted for her willingness to play unsympathetic characters, she was highly regarded for her performances in a range of film genres; from contemporary crime melodramas to historical and period films and occasional comedies, though her greatest successes were her roles in romantic dramas. After appearing in Broadway plays, Davis moved to Hollywood in 1930, but her early films for Universal Studios were unsuccessful. She joined Warner Bros. in 1932 and established her career with several critically acclaimed performances. In 1937, she attempted to free her…
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Brigitte Bardot (born September 28, 1934) is a French actress, model and singer, considered the embodiment of the 1950s "sex kitten." In the 1970s after her retirement from the entertainment industry - Bardot established herself as an animal rights activist, which she continues today. During the 1990s she was outspoken about her political views on such issues as immigration, Islam in France, race mixing, and homosexuality. Bardot was born in Paris to Anne-Marie Mucel and Charles "Pilou" Bardot, an industrialist. At an early age her mother encouraged her interest in music and dance, she had modelled for popular magazine Elle by the time she was 15 years old. [1] In 1952, s…
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Date of Birth 16 September 1924, New York, New York, USA Birth Name Betty Joan Perske Nickname The Look Betty Height 5' 8½" (1.74 m) Spouse Jason Robards (4 July 1961 - 10 September 1969) (divorced) 1 child Humphrey Bogart (21 May 1945 - 14 January 1957) (his death) 2 children Trade Mark Her deep, sexy voice Trivia Chosen by Empire magazine as one of the 100 Sexiest Stars in film history (#6). [1995] Ranked #20 in the AFI's top 25 Actress Legends. Ranked #11 in Empire (UK) magazine's "The Top 100 Movie Stars of All Time" list. [October 1997] Mother of actor Sam Robards. Chosen by "People" magazine as one of the 50 Most Beautiful People in the World. [1997] Bacall w…
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Audrey Hepburn was born on May 4, 1929 in Brussels, Belgium. She really was blue-blood from the beginning with her father, a wealthy English banker, and her mother, a Dutch baroness. After her parents divorced, Audrey went to London with her mother where she went to a private girls school. Later, when her mother moved back to the Netherlands, she attended private schools as well. While vacationing with her mother in Arnhem, Holland, Hitler's army took over the town. It was here that she fell on hard times during the Nazi occupation. Audrey suffered from depression and malnutrition. After the liberation, Audrey went to a ballet school in London on a scholarship and later b…
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Mary Astor (May 3, 1906 – September 25, 1987) was an American actress. Most remembered for her role as Brigid O'Shaughnessy in The Maltese Falcon (1941) with Humphrey Bogart, Astor began her long motion picture career as a teenager in the silent movies of the early 1920s. She eventually made a successful transition to talkies, but almost saw her career destroyed due to public scandal in the mid-1930s. She was sued for support by her parents and was later branded an adulterous wife by her ex-husband during a custody fight over her daughter. Overcoming these stumbling blocks in her private life, Astor went on to even greater success on the screen, eventually winning the Ac…
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Ann-Margret Olsson (born April 28, 1941), known professionally simply as Ann-Margret, is a Swedish-American actress, singer, and dancer. As an actress, Ann-Margret is best known for her roles in Bye Bye Birdie (1963), Viva Las Vegas (1964), The Cincinnati Kid (1965), Carnal Knowledge (1971), Tommy (1975), Grumpy Old Men (1993), and Grumpier Old Men (1995). She has won five Golden Globe Awards and been nominated for two Academy Awards, two Grammy Awards, a Screen Actors Guild Award, and six Emmy Awards. In 2010, Ann-Margret won her first Emmy Award for her guest appearance on Law & Order: Special Victims Unit. Her singing and acting careers span five decades,…
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Nicola Peltz made her feature film debut in “Deck the Halls”, with Danny Devito and Matthew Broderick. A New York native, Nicola starred onstage opposite Jeff Daniels and Alison Pill in the Oliver Award-winning production of “Blackbird” at the Manhattan Theatre Club – the play was directed by multi-Tony winner Joe Mantello (“Wicked”, “Assassins”). Nicola’s strong acting skills – as well as her natural talent for sports – landed her in M. Night Shyamalan’s ninth film, “The Last Airbender”. Peltz’s experience having played for a female regional hockey team, combined with her love for extreme sports, made her the perfect choice for the intensive martial arts role of the Wat…
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Lucy Kate Hale (born Karen Lucille Hale June 14, 1989 in Memphis, Tennessee), is an American actress and singer. She has been credited as either Lucy Hale or Lucy Kate Hale. She stars in The CW's new TV show Privileged and portrays one of the evil twins, Rose Baker.
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