actressBorn: 2/22/1975Birthplace: Los Angeles The latest in the line of Barrymore actors, Drew was initially cast in cute little-girl roles, most notably in E.T. The Extra Terrestrial (1982) at…
Name at birth: Clarence LeRoy Van Cleef, Jr.Lee Van Cleef's hawk nose and squinty, sinister leer made him a beloved villain in movie westerns of the 1950s and 1960s. Van Cleef played henchmen and…
Name at birth: Dante Daniel BonaduceDanny Bonaduce started acting at age four, but it was his role as red-haired, smart-aleck Danny Partridge in TV's The Partridge Family (1970-74, also starring…
Name at birth: Charles Hirsch BarrisProducer and game show impresario Chuck Barris co-created and hosted the 1976-80 game show hit The Gong Show. The program was a goofy contest of bad talent, with…
Name at birth: Ermes Effron BorgninoOnce one of Hollywood's busiest character actors and a frequent villain, Ernest Borgnine was best known for his good-guy roles in two television favorites, the…
Willem Dafoe played mostly bad guys and weirdos until an Oscar-nominated role in Oliver Stone's Platoon (1986) made him a star. Compelling and intense, Dafoe started in the movies in the 1980s after…
School Years around the World Bad Advice for New Graduates Percent of Population Enrolled Highest Level of Educational Attainment of U.S. Population International Comparison of Math, Reading,…
Tyler Perry is best known as the big, sassy grandma Madea from a long series of movies, starting with the 2005 film Diary of a Mad Black Woman (2005). From his home base in Atlanta, Georgia, Tyler…
After three decades of writing sketch comedy, Odenkirk became more famous as an actor, thanks to the role of Saul Goodman in the television series Breaking Bad and its spinoff, Better Call Saul.…
Name at birth: Billie Eilish Pirate Baird O'ConnellPop Singer Billie Eilish took the music charts by storm in 2019, breaking through after three steady years of building a fan base on social media…
