actorBorn: 6/30/1959Birthplace: Brooklyn, New York Talented, far-ranging actor whose cinematic roles have included the combustible new recruit in Stanley Kubrick's Full Metal Jacket (1987), a young…
Even as a teen model Rachel Hunter was the anti-waif -- a tall strawberry blonde from New Zealand with freckles and curves. A model since her teen years, Hunter went international as the cover model…
actor, directorBorn: 3/18/1905Birthplace: Withington, Manchester, England Prominent British leading man with mellifluous voice who began his career on the state at age 16 then switched to film. He…
Name at birth: Ramon EstevezSocial activist and the star of television's The West Wing (1999-2006), Martin Sheen has been a prolific performer on TV and in feature films since the late 1960s. He…
Name at birth: Scott DiggsTaye Diggs made his film debut as the pretty Jamaican stud who pursues Angela Bassett in How Stella Got Her Groove Back (1998, with Whoopi Goldberg). Taye Diggs was a…
Emma Raducanu is the tennis player who, at age 18, dashed out of semi-obscurity to win the 2021 U.S. Open. Emma Raducanu was born in Toronto as the only child of immigrant parents from China (her…
Colin Firth made female fans swoon as the darkly dashing Mr. Darcy in the 1995 BBC TV production of Pride and Prejudice. The film was a huge hit and launched Firth on a prosperous decade of movie…
A specialist at playing charming twits and warm-hearted rogues, Hugh Grant became an international star in the 1994 comedy Four Weddings and a Funeral. By that time, Grant was a ten-year veteran of…
(Encyclopedia) belief, in philosophy, commitment to something, involving intellectual assent. Philosophers have disagreed as to whether belief is active or passive; René Descartes held that it is a…
(Encyclopedia) Ferdinand I or FerranteFerdinand Ifār-ränˈtā [key], 1423–94, king of Naples (1458–94), illegitimate son and successor (in Naples) of Alfonso V of Aragón. His succession was challenged…
