Amy Grant was born in Georgia but spent much of her childhood in Nashville. She released her first Christian music album, Amy Grant, in 1978 -- the year she turned 18. She quickly became a successful…
Name at birth: Ellen Naomi Cohen"Mama Cass" Elliot was a member of the hippie pop group The Mamas & the Papas, along with John Phillips, Michelle Phillips and Denny Doherty. Cass Elliot began…
Chris Hemsworth is an Australian actor who stormed Hollywood in 2011 as the star of Thor, the big-budget action movie based on the Marvel comic book character. He has appeared as the character in…
Edgar Allan Poe's classic poem "The Raven" cemented his reputation as a black-feathered literary master of the macabre. He wrote dozens of creepy short stories, many ending in death, with victims…
Name at birth: Hayley Catherine Rose Vivien MillsHayley Mills was one of the biggest child movie stars of the early 1960s: the Oscar-winning star of Pollyanna (1960) and a string of successful Disney…
Australian actress Isla Fisher is the petite redhead who starred opposite Vince Vaughn in the movie The Wedding Crashers (2005, also starring Owen Wilson). Isla Fisher, who is of Scottish descent,…
Eliot Ness became famous as the federal agent who led an incorruptible group of law enforcement officers dubbed "The Untouchables," the ones who brought down Chicago gangster Al Capone in the 1930s.…
Name at birth: Isabella Fiorella Elettra Giovanna RosselliniActress, model, cosmetics spokeswoman and filmmaker Isabella Rossellini is probably best known for her role as Dorothy Vallens in the 1986…
Name at birth: Ethel SkakelEthel Kennedy is the widow of Senator Robert F. Kennedy and a longtime matriarch of the far-flung Kennedy family. She was named Ethel Skakel when she married Robert…
Tim Russert was an American television journalist known best as a host of the political affairs talk show Meet the Press. A 1972 graduate of John Carroll University in Cleveland, Russert also held a…
