Bruce Willis

DOB: 19 March 1955

PLACE: Idar-Oberstein, West Germany

Born Walter Willison -- an Army brat to parents stationed in Idar-Oberstein, West Germany -- on March 19, 1955, Bruce Willis grew up in New Jersey from the age of two. As a youngster, he developed a stutter that posed the threat of social alienation, but he discovered an odd quirk: while performing in front of large numbers of people, the handicap inexplicably vanished. This led Willis into a certified niche as a comedian and budding actor. After high-school graduation, 18-year-old Willis decided to land a blue-collar job in the vein of his father, and accepted a position at the DuPont Chambers Works factory in Deep Water, NJ, but withdrew, shaken, after a co-worker was killed on the job. He performed regularly on the harmonica in a blues ensemble called the Loose Goose and worked temporarily as a security guard before enrolling in the drama program at Montclair State University in New Jersey.

Michelle Monaghan

DOB: 23 March 1976

PLACE: Winthrop, lowa, USA

Michelle Monaghan was born on March 23, 1976,and raised in the 

small town of Winthrop, IA, population 700. Monaghan was active in theater in high school, where she was also class president, but when she moved to Chicago upon graduating high school, it was to pursue a degree in journalism. Monaghan did some modeling on the side to pay for tuition, but when she eventually found herself heavily in demand and interrupting her studies to travel to Europe and Asia for modeling gigs, she dropped out of college her junior year, deciding to commit to modeling full-time. Moving to New York City, Monaghan posed for a variety of catalogs, magazines and clothing designers but had hopes of parlaying her position in front of the camera into a return to acting. She landed a few minor parts in television - most notably on the short-lived WB series "Young Americans" in 2000 and NBC's "Law & Order: Special Victims Unit" in 2001. Her feature debut came with the indie "Perfume" (2001) and was followed by a slightly showier and higher-profile role in director Adrian Lyne's romantic thriller, "Unfaithful" in 2002.