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She was considered one of the most imperious, inspiring, notable and incredible actress of our time. She received numerous accolades as she came into international attention. She’s an one of the most defining actresses of our era and the actress from “Down Under” – Cate Blanchett. Cate was born from Melbourne, Australia on May 14th 1969 as Catherine Élise "Cate" Blanchett. She attended Ivanhoe East Primary School and then went to Girl’s Grammar School. She was married to Andrew Upton with 4 children. She first joined in an Egyptian film named “Kaboria” in 1990 as an extra and this made her decide to pursue acting career. She travelled difficult times in pursuing her career not until 1996, she med a debut film in the movie “Parkland.” This was followed with 3 movies in 1997 naming “Paradise Road”, romantic and comedic film “Thank God He...

Her full name is Patricia Rooney Mara. She was born and brought up at Bedford in New York, which is a town in Westchester County. Her father's family was known to be the founders of the professional American football team named New York Giants while her mother's family were the founders of Pittsburgh Steelers, which is also an American football team. Timothy Christopher Mara, her father, was the vice president of New York Giants while Kathleen McNulty, her mother was a part-time real estate agent. Being the third child, Mara has an older brother, an older sister and a younger brother. Her father was of German, French-Canadian and Irish ancestry while her mother was a descent of Northern Irish and Italy. She was graduated in the year 2003 from Fox Lane High School in New York. She then attended the G...

Mary Steenburgen is one of the most well-known actresses in the history of the Hollywood film industry. She received the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her role in the film ‘Melvin and Howard’ as ‘Lynda Dummar’. She also received the Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress for the same. She was born on the 8th of February in the year 1953 to Maurice Steenburgen and Nellie Mae Steenburgen. She was born in the city of Newport in Arkansas in the United States where her father worked for the Missouri Pacific Railroad as a freight train conductor and her mother as a secretary for a school board.

After completing her high school education, Mary joined the Hendrix College in Conway in Arkansas where she underwent training in drama. ...

An Australian actress and musician, and a television and film eminent personality, Toni Collette is the main singer of the Toni Collette and The Finish. She has captured the prestigious Emmy and Golden Globe Awards which brings out her talent in whatever acting skills she possesses. Nonetheless, she has also received nominations for Academy Awards and Tony Awards. Her comedy era began in the 1990s with the show Spotswood and Muriel’s Wedding. Her beautiful work in these made her gain fame. She also got the international recognition due to the sixth sense and this made her popular in other nations as well. Her Tony Award was due to her musical role in the Wild party. Her great role in Little Miss Sunshine won her many accolades and she got the BAFTA nomination. She also played a major role in United St...

Guillermo Del Toro Gomez is a Mexican film director, producer, screenwriter and a novelist. He was born on 9th October 1964 in Mexico. From his teens, he developed an interest in filmmaking. He studied make-up and special effects for ten years and then formed his company, Necropia. He is also the co-founder of Guadalajara International Film Festival. He formed his production company in the name Tequila Gang.

He made his feature film debut in 1993 with the film ‘Cronos’. In 1997, he worked in ‘Mimic’. In 2001, he directed the Devil’s Backbone, which is claimed to be one of his acclaimed works. He was at the helm of Blade II (2002) that grossed more than $150 million worldwide. Next, he worked on another comic book adaptation ‘Hellboy’ (2004) along with its sequel ‘...

Born as Bradley Charles Cooper on 5th January 1975, in Philadelphia, he is a producer and an American Actor. His family includes mother Gloria and elder sister Holly. His father, Charles Cooper died in the year 2011. The household that he was raised in was essentially Catholic. He was raised for the most of his childhood in Jenkintown and Rydal. Soon after he was born, he was diagnosed with cholesteatoma which is an ear disease. 

He got his graduation degree of B.A. in English from Georgetown University. He did a job at Philadelphia News Daily while he was getting his education at Georgetown and it ...

Alexandre Desplat, whose full name is Alexandre Michel Gérard Desplat, is a music composer, Conductor, and an Orchestrator of French descent. He births date fell on August 23, 1961, in the capital city of France. His father and mother met in University of California, Berkeley, and fell in love.

He has two siblings Marie-Christine and Rosalinda Desplat. Marie is the lead vocalist of a jazz band too. From an early age, he began to inclination towards music and would love to play piano, flute, and trumpet. Alexandre trained under Jack Hayes, Claude Ballif, and Iannis Xenakis.

Growing up, he would listen to songs from a wide range and genres like jazz, contemporary classical, Romanticism, and much more. All this varieties inspired him. He would look up to Ray Lema, Ravel, Carlinhos Brown, and Debussy.

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Clifton Collins Jr is also known as Clifton Craig Collins is an American actor. He has given his contribution in many television series and movies. He is best known for his work in the movies Traffic, Capote, Little Chenier, Star Trek, and much more. His television series include The Blacklist, Masters of Science Fiction, and Madman of the People, Walker, Texas Ranger, Freddy's Nightmares and much more. He was born in Los Angeles. He belongs to a family who has worked in the film industry. His grandfather Pedro Gonzalez was also an actor who was best known for his work with John Wayne in many movies. Clifton Collins Jr is also sometimes recognized as Clifton Gonzalez-Gonzalez as an honor to his grandfather. He made his first appearance in the cinema though the movie One Eight Seven in 1997. He played th...

David Russell Strathairn, an American actor, born on 26 January 1949 in San Francisco, California, USA. He had portrayed a journalist named “Edward R. Murrow” in Good Night, and Good Luck for which he was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actor. In the 2007 film “The Bourne Ultimatum” he is best recognized for his role as CIA Deputy Director Noah Vosen.

After studying clowning at the “Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey Clown College,” he worked in a traveling circus for a short period. His outstanding performances achieved him the Best Actor Golden Globe and Screen Actors Guild(SAG) nominations. For his role in the HBO television film ‘Temple Grandin,’ he had received the Primetime Emmy Award as a supporting ac...

Originally from Laramie, Wyoming, the United States, born on August 12, 1950, James Norman "Jim" Beaver, Jr. has made his mark as not only an actor but as a screenwriter as well. He was born to Dorothy Adell and James Norman Beaver, Sr. Jim along with his sisters went to Irving High School but transferred and graduated from Fort Worth Christian Academy in 1968. During his school days, other than performing in a few school plays Beaver didn’t exhibit any interest at all in the field of acting. He rather had a great zeal in the art of writing and had published some stories for school anthologies. In his college days, in a tiny role in ‘The Miracle Worker’, he made his theatrical debut. Beaver also started writing, and when got over with his premier book, John Garfield, he was still studying. Beaver also pursue...

If acting can give him a reason for survival, why not take a risk for something you love. When your everlasting love for acting needs has to be fulfilled, why not drive your truck to reach your destination. Once drove trucks for his living but later became the most powerful Actor “Richard Jenkins”. Jenkins was born on 3rd May 1947 and raised in DeKalb Illinois, his mother Mary Elizabeth was a homemaker, and his father Dale Steven Jenkins was a dentist. He attached DeKalb high school. Before he was an actor, Jenkins drove linen truck. Jenkins earned a degree in drama from Illinois Wesleyan University before relocating to Rhoda Island. However his family crises where never a reason to stop his growth, or was a reason for stopping him from going ahead with his career. Jenkins was w...

Ronald N. Perlman, better known as Ron Perlman, was born April 13th, 1950 in New York City.  His father was a repairman and his mother was a municipal employee. Ron will later credit his skill at playing “deformed and ugly” characters to this.  After seeing his son act in a production of Guys and Dolls, Ron’s father gave his son his blessing to pursue a career in acting.  As a result Ron graduated in 1973 from the University of Minnesota with a Master’s degree in theater arts in 1973.  After starring in a couple minor roles in some Jean-Jacques Annaud films his big break came when he was cast as Vincent in Beauty and the Beast.  Ron played the beast in this modernized version of the classic movie and won a Golden Globe as a result.  Ron Perlman went on to star in a plethora of different movies from all sor...

Timothy Blake Nelson is an American screenwriter, film actor, and also a director. He was born on 11 May in 1964 in the city of Tulsa in Oklahoma. His parents are Ruth Nelson, who is a prominent social dissident and a famous philosopher in the city of Tulsa, and Don Nelson who is a successful geologist. He is of Jewish family line. His grandparents  were from Germany at the time of Hitler. They got away from the Nazis in a matter of days before the start of the World War II. They escaped to Britain in the year 1938 and emigrated to United States in the year 1941. His dad's family were Russian Jewish. He went to the Oklahoma Summer Arts Institute ain Oklahoma. He finished graduation from Holland Hall School in the year 1982 in the city of Tulsa. He is an alumni of Brown University. He was a Classics...

He was considered to be one of the chillers in Hollywood. One of the great actors in silver screen. His face is known and his familiar voice spreads out like a viral the will infect your mind. Born as William J. "Willem" Dafoe on July 22, 1955 in Wisconsin, United States. He made his way to stardom by landing simple roles in movie starting 1979. He played the role Vance for the movie “The Loveless”, followed by his appearance for the movie “The Hunger”, as Johnny Harte for the movie “Roadhouse 66”, starred also in “New York Nights” and as Erick Masters for the movie “To Live and Die in L.A.” He was nominated Best Supporting actor for the movie “Platoon” as Sergeant Elias, and made a great sacrificial in the movie “The Last Temptation of Christ.” He also starred in “Mississippi Burning” as Agent Ward that will investigate the disappeara...