Angelina Jolie (born June 4, 1975) is an American film actress, a former fashion model, and a Goodwill Ambassador for the UN Refugee Agency. She is often cited by popular media as the world's sexiest person and her off-screen life is widely reported. She has received three Golden Globe Awards, two Screen Actors Guild Awards, and an Academy Award. After appearing as a child alongside her father Jon Voight in the 1982 film "Lookin' to Get Out", …

Eric Bana (born Eric Banadinovich on August 9, 1968) is an Australian film and television actor. He began his career as a comedian in the sketch comedy series "Full Frontal" before gaining critical recognition in the biopic "Chopper" (2000). After a decade of critically acclaimed roles in Australian television shows and films, …

Edward James Hughes OM (17 August 1930 - 28 October 1998) was an English poet and children's writer, known as Ted Hughes. Critics routinely rank him as one of the best poets of his generation. Hughes was British Poet Laureate from 1984 until his death. Ted Hughes was married from 1956-63 to the American poet Sylvia Plath, who committed suicide in 1963 at the age of 30. His part in the relationship became controversial, …

Constance Marie (b. Constance Marie Lopez on September 9, 1965 in East Los Angeles, California) is an American actress best known for her role as Angie Lopez on the sitcom, "The George Lopez Show". Marie, a third-generation Mexican American, started her career as a dancer on David Bowie's The Glass Spider Tour. She later began an acting career and won the role of Nikki Alvarez on the now defunct, 1989 NBC soap opera, "Santa Barbara".

Oscar Isaac (born c.1980) is an American actor. Isaac was born in Guatemala to a Cuban father and a Guatemalan mother. He is also of French, Israeli, and other European descent. He has described his evangelical upbringing as "very Christian" and was raised in Miami. In Miami, he played lead guitar and sang vocals for his band "The Blinking Underdogs." A 2005 graduate of the Juilliard School, …

Sylvia Constance Ashton-Warner, New Zealand writer, poet and educator, was born on December 17, 1908, in Stratford, New Zealand. She spent many years teaching Māori children, using stimulating and often pioneering techniques which she wrote about in her 1963 treatise "Teacher" and in the various volumes of her autobiography.

Norman James Kaye (January 17, 1927 - May 28, 2007) was an Australian actor and musician. He was best known for his roles in the films of director Paul Cox. Kaye was born in Melbourne and educated at Geelong Grammar School. He was an exemplary musician; he was noticed by Dr A E Floyd, the organist of St Paul's Cathedral, who gave him free tuition in recognition of his great potential as an organist.

Mitch Snyder (1946 - July 3 or 4, 1990) was an American advocate for the homeless. He was the subject of a 1986 biopic "Samaritan: The Mitch Snyder Story". Snyder worked in advertising on Madison Avenue in New York City in the early 1960s. At some point he left his wife and children and started hitchhiking west. Police found him in a stolen vehicle, and he was arrested and convicted of grand theft auto. Snyder served two years in federal prison, 1970-1972, …

Albert Patterson (d. June 18 1954) was a newly elected attorney general of the U.S. state of Alabama when he was gunned down outside of his office in Phenix City, Alabama shortly after he was elected.

Julie Bishop (August 30, 1914 - August 30, 2001) was an American film and television actress. She appeared in over 80 films between 1923 and 1957. Bishop was born Jacqueline Wells and used her birth name professionally through 1941. She also appeared on stage (and in one film) as Diane Duval. She settled on the name by which she is best remembered when offered a contract by Warner Bros. on the condition that she change her name, …

Rachel York (born Rachel Lemanski on August 7, 1971 in Orlando, Florida) is an American actress and singer. She is best known for her roles in "City of Angels", "The Scarlet Pimpernel", "Les Miserables", "Victor/Victoria", "Kiss Me, Kate", "Sly Fox", and "Dirty Rotten Scoundrels". Rachel also has many film and television credits, including her portrayal as Lucille Ball in the CBS biopic "Lucy".

Dr. Lucille Teasdale-Corti was a Canadian physician, surgeon and international aid worker, who helped the people of Uganda and contributed to the development of medical services in the country. Born in Montreal, Quebec, she attended medical school at the Université de Montréal and, in 1955, became the first Quebec woman to get her diploma as a surgeon. While she was interning at the Hôtel-Dieu de Montréal hospital she met Dr. Pietro Corti.

José de Villa was a Filipino film actor in the 1950s and a film director in the late 1950s and 1960s. He made his made his first movie for Sampaguita Pictures in 1947, "Maria Kapra", which starred Ángel Esmeralda. De Villa is married to Sampaguita's character actor and "contravida" (villain) of the 1960s, Tita de Villa. He made two movies under LVN Pictures in 1949, a biopic of Gregorio del Pilar starring Jose Padilla Jr, and "Capas", …

Zhao Dan (June 27, 1915 - October 10, 1980) was a Chinese actor popular in the golden age of Chinese Cinema. Born as Zhao Feng'ao in Yangzhou in Jiangsu province, Zhao first became famous working in the Mingxing Film Company in the 1930s including playing opposite Zhou Xuan in "Street Angel" (1937). After the war, Zhao began a creative relationship with director Zheng Junli, with films such as the 1948 anti-Kuomintang drama-comedy, "Crows and Sparrows".

Bhandit Rittakol (b. 1951 in Ayutthaya Province, Thailand) is an award-winning Thai film director, producer and screenwriter. His films include the controversial biographical film of Thai communist revolutionary Seksan Prasertkul, "The Moonhunter"; the jungle thriller "Tigress of King River" and "The Seed" ("Duay Klao" or), …

Zheng Junli (1911-1969) was born into a Cantonese family in Shanghai. Starting out as a spoken drama actor, Zheng studied at the Nanguo (South China) Art School and participated in the Leftist Dramatists Association. He joined the Lianhua Film Company in 1932, and performed in Sun Yu 's Dalu (Highway, 1936), Cai Chusheng's Xin nuxing (New Women, 1935), Mitu de gaoyang (Stray Lambs, 1935), and other films. He started directing film in the 1940s.