singer and actressBorn: 1895Birthplace: Wichita, Kansas McDaniel began her career as a teen, performing for traveling black minstrel shows in the West, and later sang in theaters and clubs. She…
actressBorn: 1962Birthplace: York, England An acclaimed British stage actress, McTeer made her big-screen debut in 1986's Half Moon Street. Although she appeared in several other films, including…
Lights! Camera! Learning! Shakespeare on the Silver Screen by Beth Rowen Hamlet Kenneth Branagh as the mad prince It was no small feat putting Shakespeare's magnum opus on the big…
actressBorn: 5/24/1960Birthplace: Redruth, Cornwall, England After being discouraged by her English acting teachers, Scott Thomas moved to Paris at the age of 19, where she studied at L'Ecole…
(Edna Rae Gillooly)actressBorn: 12/7/1932Birthplace: Detroit, Michigan A successful Broadway actress, she later garnered Academy Award nominations for her roles in the films The Last Picture Show…
actorBorn: 11/28/1950Birthplace: Englewood, New Jersey Highly respected, Oscar-nominated character actor who has played both the hero—John Glenn in The Right Stuff (1983)—and the antihero—E.…
actressBorn: 9/2/1966Birthplace: Coatzacoalcos, Mexico Actress who left a blooming career in her native Mexico to conquer Hollywood, and has become perhaps the best-known Mexican-American performer…
documentary cameramanDied: February 4, 2008 (Glendale, California) Best Known as: explorer and documentary cameraman who first filmed footage of the Titanic wreckage…
congressmanDied: February 11, 2008 (Bethesda, Maryland) Best Known as: the only Holocaust survivor to serve in Congress Tom Lantos was a long time democratic…
actressBorn: 2/5/1964Birthplace: New York City Linney's acting career began on the stage. In fact, she was involved in theater almost since birth, working alongside her playwright father, Romulus.…
