- William Shakespeare
William Shakespeare was an English poet and playwright now widely regarded as the greatest writer of the English language and the world's pre-eminent dramatist. His surviving works include at least 38 plays, two long narrative poems and 154 sonnets, as well as a variety of other poems. He is often called England's national poet and the "Bard of Avon" (or simply "The Bard"). Shakespeare was born and raised in Stratford-upon-Avon, and at 18 married Anne Hathaway, … - Don Macbeth
Donald MacBeth (August 29, 1949 - March 1, 1987) was a Canadian jockey in Thoroughbred horse racing. Born in Red Deer, Alberta, Macbeth rode horses at Alberta racetracks before going to race in the United States. Among horses of note, he rode Deputy Minister, winner of the 1981 Sovereign and Eclipse awards for Outstanding Two-Year-Old Male Horse in Canada and the United States. - George Macbeth
George Macbeth (November 4 1825-June 3 1870) was a businessman and political figure in Canada West. He was born in the Red River Settlement in what is now Manitoba in 1825, the son of Scottish immigrants. In 1838, his family settled in western Upper Canada. Macbeth was employed by Colonel Thomas Talbot as an assistant and helped to manage his properties. In 1849, after a dispute with his family, Talbot made Macbeth an heir to a large part of the estate. - Ann Macbeth
Ann Macbeth (1875-1948), born in Halliwell, Bolton, Lancashire, England, was a famous embroideress and author, a part of the Glasgow Movement, and an associate of Charles Rennie Mackintosh. Macbeth studied at the Glasgow School of Art, and became head of its embroidery department. She published five books on embroidery, including "Needleweaving", published in 1922. From 1921 to 1948 she lived in Patterdale, Cumbria. St. - Jesse Macbeth
Jesse Adam Macbeth (b. Jesse Adam Al-Zaid, in 1984) falsely claimed to be an Army Ranger and veteran of the Iraq War. He lied in alternative media interviews that he and his unit routinely committed war crimes in Iraq. Macbeth began to attract significant attention after the release of a video containing his allegations; transcripts of the video were made in English and Arabic. According to the U.S. Army, there is no record of Macbeth being a Ranger, … - George Macbeth
George Mann MacBeth (January 19 1932 - February 16 1992) was a Scottish poet and novelist. He was born in Shotts, Lanarkshire. He was educated in Sheffield at King Edward VII School where he was Head Prefect in 1951 (photo), before going up to New College, Oxford, with an Open Scholarship in Classics. He joined BBC Radio on graduating in 1955 from the University of Oxford. He worked there, as a producer of programmes on poetry, until 1976. He was a member of The Group. - Nancy Macbeth
Nancy MacBeth, née Betkowski is a Canadian politician, who was the leader of the Alberta Liberal Party from 1998 to 2001. MacBeth was educated at the University of Alberta, studying French and Russian, and at Université Laval, studying French Canadian literature. She subsequently worked as a legislative assistant for several Alberta politicians. - Giuseppe Verdi
Giuseppe Fortunino Francesco Verdi was an Italian Romantic composer, mainly of opera. He was one of the most influential composers of Italian opera in the 19th century and went well beyond the work of Bellini, Donizetti, and Rossini. His works are frequently performed in opera houses throughout the world and, transcending the boundaries of the genre, … - Orson Welles
George Orson Welles (May 6, 1915 - October 10, 1985) was an Academy Award-winning American screenwriter, a radio, film and theatre director, a radio and film producer and an actor in film and theatre, as well as a Grammy Award-winning radio personality. Welles first gained wide notoriety for his October 30, 1938 radio broadcast of H. G. Wells' "The War of the Worlds". Adapted to sound like a contemporary news broadcast, … - Laurence Olivier
Laurence Kerr Olivier, Baron Olivier, OM (22 May 1907 - 11 July 1989) was an Academy Award, Golden Globe, BAFTA and four-time Emmy winning English actor, director, and producer. Olivier's Academy acknowledgments are considerable—fourteen Oscar nominations, with two wins for Best Actor and Best Picture for the 1948 film "Hamlet", and two honorary awards including a statuette and certificate. He was also awarded five Emmy awards from the nine nominations he received. - Francesco Maria Piave
Francesco Maria Piave (18 May 1810 - 5 March 1876) was an Italian librettist who was Verdi's life-long friend and collaborator. Like Verdi, Piave was an ardent Italian patriot, and in 1848, during Milan's "Cinque Giornate," when Radetsky's Austrian troops retreated from the city, Verdi's letter to Piave in Venice was addressed to "Citizen Piave." Piave was born in Murano in the lagoon of Venice, during the brief Napoleonic Kingdom of Italy. - William Gibson
William Gibson (born 13 November 1914) is a Tony Award-winning American playwright. Gibson's most famous play is "The Miracle Worker" (1959), the story of Helen Keller's childhood education, which won him the Tony Award for Best Play. His other works include "Dinny and the Witches" (1948, revised 1961), … - Paul Rogers
Paul Rogers, born 22 March 1917 in Plympton, Devon is a distinguished, Tony Award-winning English actor. Rogers trained at the Michael Chekhov Theatre Studio at Dartington Hall and made his film debut in 1932. He has appeared in many West End and Broadway productions and won the Tony for Best Actor for "The Homecoming" in 1967. - Jon Finch
Jon Finch (born March 2, 1941) is an English actor noted for many Shakespearean roles. Perhaps his most notable role was Macbeth in Roman Polanski's 1971 film of "Macbeth". Finch was born in Caterham, Surrey. He has appeared in films such as the Alfred Hitchcock thriller "Frenzy" (1972), portraying a man wrongly accused of murder; "Death on the Nile" (1978), and most recently, … - Rupert Goold
Rupert Goold is an English theatre director. He studied at Trinity College, Cambridge. He is the artistic director of Headlong Theatre, previously known as the Oxford Stage Company. Between 2002 and 2005, he was artistic director of the Royal and Derngate Theatres in Northampton. Prior to that, he was an associate at the Salisbury Playhouse in 1996-97. - Christopher Walken
Christopher Walken (born March 31, 1943) is an Academy Award-winning American film and theatre actor who is best known for roles such as the Bond villain Max Zorin in the 1985 blockbuster "A View to a Kill". In 1979, Walken won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for "The Deer Hunter", where he played a disturbed Vietnam vet alongside Robert De Niro. Walken was nominated again in 2002 for "Catch Me if You Can". - Francesca Annis
Francesca Annis (born May 14, 1945) is a British actress, particularly well known for her film and television appearances, most recently the BBC series, "Wives and Daughters" and "Deceit". Annis was born in London and was convent educated. She began acting professionally in her teens, and made her film debut in the 1950s. In 1967 she played Estella in a television adaptation of "Great Expectations". She also presented children's television programmes. - Violeta Urmana
Violeta Urmana-Urmanavičiūtė is an opera singer who began her career as a mezzo-soprano but has transitioned successfully into soprano roles. Born in Lithuania, she enjoys an international career singing in opera houses around the world. Her roles and performances include: Sieglinde in Die Walküre at the Bayreuth Festival, Iphigénie en Aulide at La Scala, Maddalena in Andrea Chénier at the Vienna State Opera, Lady in Macbeth, Isolde in Tristan und Isolde, … - Adrian Noble
Adrian Keith Noble (born 19 July 1950) was the Artistic Director and Chief Exectutive of the Royal Shakespeare Company from 1990 to 2003. After he graduated from the Chichester High School he studied at the university of Bristol. He began his professional career as a director at the London Drama Centre. In 1976 he moved on to the Bristol Old Vic and working at the same time for the TV. From 1980 till 1981 he worked at the Royal Exchange Theatre in Manchester, … - Geoffrey Wright
Geoffrey Wright is an Australian film director born in Melbourne in 1959. He gained cult success with the 1992 film "Romper Stomper" which starred a young Russell Crowe and later directed the teen horror film "Cherry Falls", starring Brittany Murphy. He has recently adapted Shakespeare's "Macbeth", which stars Sam Worthington and Lachy Hulme. The film opened in September in Australia and received mixed reviews. - Macbeth Of Scotland
Mac Bethad mac Findláich from 1040 until his death. He is best known as the subject of William Shakespeare's tragedy "Macbeth" and the many works it has inspired, although the play is historically inaccurate. - Richard Armitage
Richard Armitage (born August 22, 1971) is an English actor. - Piero Cappuccilli
The Italian baritone Piero Cappuccilli (9 November 1929 - 12 July 2005) was a famous opera singer, best know for his Verdi roles, particularly "Macbeth" and "Simon Boccanegra". He was renowned for his extraordinary breath control and smooth legato. Opera fans considered Cappuccilli one of the finest Italian baritones of the second half of the 20th century. Born in Trieste, Cappuccilli originally intended to become an architect, … - Victoria Hill
Victoria Hill (born February 18 1978 in Adelaide, Australia) is an Australian actress, writer and producer. She is the daughter of former Australian Senator Robert Hill and the Australian president of UNICEF, Diana Hill. She is based in Sydney, where she lives with her boyfriend, fellow actor and Macbeth co-star Lachy Hulme. - Jeanette Nolan
Jeanette Nolan was an American actress, born in Los Angeles, California. She began her acting career at the Pasadena Community Playhouse and, while a student at Los Angeles City College, made her radio debut in 1932 in "Omar Khayyam", the first transcontinental broadcast from station KHJ, and continued acting until the 1990s. She made her film debut as Lady Macbeth in Orson Welles's 1948 film version of Shakespeare's "Macbeth". - Raphael Holinshed
Raphael Holinshed (died c. 1580) was an English chronicler, whose work, commonly known as "Holinshed's Chronicles", was one of the major sources used by William Shakespeare for a number of his plays. Raphael Holinshed, or Raphael Hollingshead, probably belonged to a Cheshire family. Relatively little is known about him. He is thought to have come from Cheshire, but lived in London, where he worked as a translator for the printer Reginald Wolfe. - Leonie Rysanek
Leopoldine "Leonie" Rysanek was an Austrian soprano. Rysanek was born in Vienna and made her operatic debut in 1949 in Innsbruck. Her Metropolitan Opera debut came in 1959 as Lady Macbeth, replacing Maria Callas who had been fired from the production. She made her farewell to the Met as the Countess in "The Queen of Spades" in January 1996. Her final performance was at the Salzburg Festival in August 1996, as Klytämnestra in "Elektra". - Stephen Dillane
Stephen Dillane (born 30 November 1956) is a Tony Award-winning British actor. - Julie Harris
Julie Harris (born Julia Ann Harris on December 2, 1925) is a distinguished American stage, screen, and television actress. She has won five Tony Awards and three Emmy Awards, and was nominated for an Academy Award. She is a member of the American Theatre Hall of Fame. - Maurice Evans
Maurice Evans (born June 3, 1901 in Dorset; died March 12, 1989 in East Sussex) was an English-born actor who became a US citizen in 1941. He first appeared on the stage in 1926 and joined the Old Vic Company in 1934, playing Hamlet, Richard II and Iago. His first appearance on Broadway was in "Romeo and Juliet" opposite Katharine Cornell in 1936, but he made his biggest impact in Shakespeare's "Richard II", … - Vishal Bhardwaj
Vishal Bhardwaj is an Indian film director, writer and music composer. He was born and raised in the Bijnor district of Uttar Pradesh. As a young man, he moved to Delhi and started playing harmonium for little known "ghazal" singers at the various food festivals in Delhi’s Pragati Maidan. He was later introduced to R.V. Pandit, who offered him a job in his CBS music company in Delhi. A friend recommended him to the filmmaker Gulzar, … - Dolora Zajick
Dolora Zajick has been acclaimed on the international scene as that rare voice type, a true dramatic Verdi mezzo-soprano typified by the composer''s most famous and difficult mezzo-soprano roles, Azucena, Amneris and Eboli (in "Travatore", "Aida", and "Don Carlo" respectively). - Dorothy Dunnett
Dorothy Dunnett was a Scottish historical novelist. She is best known for her six-part series about Francis Crawford of Lymond, The Lymond Chronicles, which she followed with the eight-part prequel The House of Niccolò. She also wrote a novel about the real Macbeth called "King Hereafter" (1982), and a series of mystery novels centred around Johnson Johnson, a portrait painter/spy. Dunnett was born Dorothy Halliday in Dunfermline in Fife. - Pankaj Kapur
Pankaj Kapoor is an Indian theatre, television and film actor. He has appeared in several television serials and films. He is perhaps best remembered in the title role in "Karamchand," a surpassingly popular television series in the detective genre. He is also known for his role as a struggling scientist in the film "Ek Doctor Ki Maut" (1991). He made a brief appearance in the British Richard Attenbrough directed film "Gandhi" in 1982. - John Philip Kemble
John Philip Kemble (February 1, 1757 - February 26, 1823), was an English actor. The second child of Roger Kemble, he was born at Prescot, Lancashire. His mother being a Roman Catholic, he was educated at Sedgeley Park Catholic seminary, near Wolverhampton, and the English college at Douai, with a view to becoming a priest. At the end of the four years' course, he still felt no vocation for the priesthood, … - Lachy Hulme
Lachy Hulme (born April 1, 1971 in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia) is an Australian born actor and screenwriter. Hulme attended high school at Melbourne's Wesley College, graduating with honors in drama. He wrote the feature film "Men With Guns", and co-wrote (with director Matthew George) "Let's Get Skase", a comedy-adventure in which Hulme also starred. He is best known as the character Sparks in the "Matrix trilogy". - Gwyneth Jones
Dame Gwyneth Jones is a Welsh soprano. Dame Gwyneth studied music at the Royal College of Music, London, the Accademia Musicale Chigiana in Siena as well as the International Opera Studio in Zürich. After making her professional debut in 1962 as a mezzo-soprano in Gluck's opera "Orfeo ed Euridice", she was engaged by the Zurich Opera House. - Steve Bastoni
Steve Bastoni (born March 4, 1966 in Rome, Italy) is an Italian Australian actor. Bastoni is best known for his role in "Police Rescue" as Constable Yannis 'Angel' Angelopoulos. He has also appeared in many other Australian series such as "Wildside", "Prisoner" and "Stingers". His film roles include "The Heartbreak Kid", "Suburban Mayhem", "Macbeth", "The Matrix Reloaded", … - Zoe Caldwell
Zoe Caldwell, OBE (September 14, 1933) is an Australian actress, born in Melbourne during the Great Depression. She has won four Tony Awards for her performances on Broadway in "Slapstick Tragedy", "The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie", "Medea" and "Master Class", in which she portrayed opera singer Maria Callas. Other Broadway credits include "The Creation of the World and Other Business" and "Macbeth". - Des McAnuff
Des McAnuff (born June 19, 1952 in Princeton, Illinois) is a Tony award-winning director of such hit Broadway musicals as "Big River" and "The Who's Tommy". He has also produced Tony award-winning revivals of Broadway classics like "Guys and Dolls", "The Music Man", "Into the Woods", "42nd Street", "The King and I", and many others.
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