actressBorn: 1/9/1941Birthplace: London, England Highly regarded actress best noted for her work playing struggling, psychologically damaged characters. She won the Best Actress award at the Cannes…
(Leslie Howard Steiner)actorBorn: 4/3/1893Birthplace: London, England Though he received two Oscar nominations for leading roles in Pygmalion (1938) and Berkeley Square (1933), he is best…
jazz musicianBorn: 4/12/1940Birthplace: Chicago An Academy and Grammy Award-winning composer and musician known for his improvisational instrumentals, he has won Grammys for his work in styles…
producerBorn: 4/26/1910Birthplace: Osaka, Japan Tanaka produced more than 200 films and is best known as the creator of Godzilla, the towering embodiment of post-World War II anxiety. The classic…
director, screenwriterBorn: 12/9/1948Birthplace: The Netherlands Known for her feminist sensibility and her depictions of relationships between women, Marleen Gorris began writing scripts at the…
actressBorn: 9/9/1979Birthplace: Kalispell, Montana Until her Golden Globe and Oscar nominated performance in Brokeback Mountain (2005), this pouty-lipped, wide-eyed, slow-burn, blonde was best…
(Elmore Rual Torn, Jr.)actorBorn: 2/6/1931Birthplace: Temple, Texas A versatile actor who portrays characters from the violent to the comic, Torn broke into the movies in the 1950s and made…
actressBorn: 11/22/1924Birthplace: Kirksville, Missouri Page turned in many notable performances on stage and screen, often playing fragile, eccentric characters. After 7 Oscar nominations, she…
(Beverly) singer, songwriter, activist, artistBirthplace: Piapot Reservation, Qu'Appelle Valley, Saskatchewan, CanadaBorn: February 20, 1941 Buffy Sainte-Marie caught the attention of a changing…
writerBorn: 9/17/1935Birthplace: La Junta, Colorado counterculture hero who was inspired to write his first novel, One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest, while working as a night attendant in the…
