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Lena Headey
Actress, 300
Lena Headey is a British actress who is best known for her appearances in The Brothers Grimm, Possession, and The Remains of the Day. Headey stars as Queen Gorgo, a heroic Spartan woman in the period film 300, by director Zack Snyder. She was born in Bermuda, where her father, a Yorkshire police cadet...
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Hugh Jackman
Actor, The Prestige
Born in Sydney of English parentage, and the youngest of five children, Jackman has a communications degree with a journalism major from the University of Technology Sydney. After graduating, he pursued drama at the Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts, immediately after which he was offered a starring role in the ABC-TV prison drama Correlli...
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Jurnee Smollett-Bell
Actress, Eve's Bayou
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Christoph Waltz
Actor, Inglourious Basterds
Christoph Waltz was born to Elisabeth Urbancic, a costume designer, and Johannes Waltz, a stage builder. He has 3 siblings. He was born into a theater family. His grandmother was the Viennese Burgtheater actress Maria Mayen, and his step-grandfather was fellow Burgtheater actor Emmerich Reimers. Christoph attended the Theresianium and Billrothstrasse in Vienna...
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Ryan Reynolds
Actor, Green Lantern
Ryan is the youngest of four children. His father, Jim, was a Vancouver food wholesaler. His mother, Tammy, was a retail-store saleswoman. Between 1991-93, Ryan appeared in Fifteen (aka "Fifteen"), a Nickleodeon series taped in Florida with many other Canadian actors. After the series ended...
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Will Smith
Actor, Men in Black
Will Smith was the second of four children of Caroline (school board employee) and Willard C Smith Sr. (owner of a refrigeration company). Smith is of both African American and Native American heritage. He grew up in middle class area in West Philadelphia called Wynnefield. Will attended the Overbrook High School located in the Overbrook section of Philadelphia...
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Max Irons
Actor, Red Riding Hood
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Manu Bennett
Actor, The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey
Father was a famous New Zealand singer. Mother was the original bikini model for designer Paula Stafford. Family moved to Australia in 1970. During high school, Manu played representative rugby, studied classical ballet & piano before attending university to study Drama. His acting career began in 1993 on Paradise Beach...
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Max Thieriot
Actor, Jumper
Max Thieriot was born in Los Altos Hills, California in 1988. He is the great-great grandson of Michael Henry de Young, who co-founded the San Francisco Chronicle in 1865. Thieriot was raised in Occidental, California and he graduated middle school from Sonoma Country Day School in 2002. In 2006 he graduated from El Molino High School...
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Josh Hutcherson
Actor, Bridge to Terabithia
Joshua Ryan Hutcherson was born on October 12th, 1992 in Union, Kentucky to Michelle and Chris Hutcherson. He has one younger brother, Connor. From the age of four, Josh knew that he wanted to be an actor. In order to pursue his goal, Josh and his family moved to Los Angeles when he was nine years old...
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