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Gregory Hines

dancer, actorBorn: 2/14/1946Birthplace: New York City Appearing first on tour with his older brother Maurice and later joined by their Dad, Gregory Hines has been dancing, joking, singing, and…

Martin Sheen

(Ramon Estevez)actorBorn: 8/3/1940Birthplace: Dayton, Ohio One of ten children of a poor Spanish immigrant father and Irish mother, Sheen got his start on Broadway, where he won a Tony Award for…

Julie Andrews

(Julia Elizabeth Wells)actressBorn: 10/1/1935Birthplace: Walton-on-Thames, England Academy Award-winning film and stage actress known for her freshfaced, innocent appeal first on stage in My Fair…

Kevin Spacey

(Kevin Fowler)actor, directorBorn: 7/26/1959Birthplace: South Orange, New Jersey Known for playing offbeat characters in movies like The Usual Suspects (1995), for which he won a Best Supporting…

Larry Hagman

(Larry Hageman)actorBorn: 9/21/1931Birthplace: Weatherford, Texas The man who will forever be known as J. R. Ewing actually had a prolific stage and television long before the shifty oil man…

David Henry Hwang

playwrightBorn: 8/11/1957 Birthplace: Los Angeles, California The eldest of three children, Hwang was born to parents of Chinese heritage. He graduated from Stanford University in 1979 and taught…

Lauren Bacall

(Betty Joan Perske)actressBorn: 9/16/1924Birthplace: New York City She began her career as a model, gracing the cover of Harper's Bazaar at age 19, before moving on to acting. She landed a starring…

Hare, Sir David

(Encyclopedia) Hare, Sir David, 1947–, British playwright. Hare is a prominent member of the British theatrical left. A founder of the Portable Theatre and the Joint Stock, he became resident…

Nichols, Mike

(Encyclopedia) Nichols, Mike, 1931–2014, American actor and director, b. Berlin, Germany, as Mikhail Igor Peschkowsky. His family immigrated to the…