Michelle Rodriguez

DOB:- 12-July-1978

Place:- San Antonio, Texas, United State

American actress Michelle Rodriguez was born on July 12, 1978

in Bexar County, Texas, but moved to the Dominican Republic with her mother when she was eight. Three years later, she lived in Puerto Rico and soon settled in Jersey City, New Jersey. Though she dropped out of high school, she earned her GED and briefly attended business school. She eventually quit in order to pursue a career in acting, hoping to become a writer and director as well.

Michelle Rodriguez’s first role was in the low-budget independent film Girlfight. She beat out 350 other applicants for the role of Diana Guzman, and was praised by critics and audiences for her performance. This led her to win several awards, with some accolades from the Independent Spirit Awards, Gotham Awards, and the Deauville Film Festival.

Akshay Kumar

DOB:- 9-Sept-1967

Place:- Amritsar, Punjab, India

Akshay Kumar was born as Rajiv Hari Om Bhatia on the 9th September 1967 in Amritsar to a middle class Punjabi household.His father was a government worker. He grew up in Delhi and later in Mumbai’s Koliwada area. He did his schooling at the Don Bosco School and his college years were spent in Khalsa College, where he took an interest in sports. As a teenager he wanted to master martial arts, but as his father was scared of risking his future with his crazy heroic cravings he promised him to gift all that he wished if, he would secure first class in his board exam. Akshay did achieve his father's demand and flew to Bangkok for Martial Arts training.

Once there he lived with his uncle. His uncle got him job at Metro Guest House where his first salary was, just Rs 1,500. He studied martial arts in Bangkok while working as a chef.

Aishwarya Rai Bachchan

DOB:- 1-Nov-1973

 Place:- Manglore, Karnataka, India

Aishwarya Rai Bachchan (born Aishwarya Rai,and sometimes

known simply as Ash or Gullu- November 1, 1973) is an Indian actress and former Miss World. Before starting her acting career, she worked as a model and gained fame after winning the Miss World title in 1994.

Carla Gugino

DOB:- 29-Aug-1971
Place:-  Sarasota, Florida, United States

 A native of Sarasota, Florida, Carla Gugino spent most

of her youth being shuttled by her mother to various locations in California. At age 15, she and her mom were living in San Diego when Gugino was convinced to try a modeling career in New York City. She succeeded, but soon found the fast pace of high fashion modeling too much for her and so moved to Los Angeles where she took advice from her aunt and enrolled in acting classes to study under drama coach Gene Bua. Gugino quickly found her calling as an actress and she threw herself into her studies. Because she was so young, her mother insisted that Gugino study only six months in Los Angeles and then return to San Diego.

Priyanka Chopra

DOB:- 18-July-1982
Place:- Jamshedpur, Jharkhand, India

Biography

Priyanka was conceived in Jamshedpur and is affectionately known as Mimi. She proceeded to bring home the Miss World crown in 2000, getting one of the five Indians to have won that title. Her dad is Capt. Dr. Ashok Chopra and her mom is Dr. Madhu Chopra. Her dad was in the military and along these lines her family moved as often as possible. As of now her occupation is entertainer, vocalist, model, film maker.

Katrina Kaif

DOB:- 16-July-1983

Place:- Hong Kong, China

Katrina Kaif is better known as a Barbie Doll in the B-town.

Katrina Kaif is the most popular actresses in Bollywood. Katrina was born in Hong Kong to a Kashmiri father and British mother. She spent her childhood in Hawaii and later moved to England. She has a mixed origin with a Kashmiri Indian dad and British mother. She has 7 siblings and spent 3 years of her life in London before coming to India, but who has since acquired British citizenship.

Rani Mukherjee

DOB:- 21-March-1978

Place:- Mumbai, Maharastra, India

Rani Mukherjee is one of the top actresses of Bollywood.

Infact, when it comes to Indian cinema, she is a personality who truly deserves a special mention. She was born on the 21st of March in the year 1978 in Bengal. Today, Rani Mukherjee is one of the highest paid actresses of the Indian film industry. She won the Filmfare award for three consecutive years from 2004 to 2006. In totality, she has achieved six Filmfare awards. Well, in this article, we will present you with the biography of Bollywood actress Rani Mukherjee.

Rachel Weisz

DOB: 7-March-1970

PLACE: Westminster, United Kingdom
 

Rachel Weisz is an English actress of stage and screen.She is talented, witty, attractive, charming, and consistently able to display convincing portrayals in every character her played.

Childhood

Rachel Weisz was born in Westminster, London, to Edith Ruth and George Weisz. Her mother is a teacher-turned-psychotherapist and her father is an inventor and engineer; both of them had fled to England in World War II. She grew up in the Hampstead Garden suburb of London.

Rachel Weisz was privately educated at North London Collegiate School, St. Paul's Girls' School and Benenden School before studying at Trinity Hall Cambridge. She graduated from Cambridge University with a 2:1 in English and whilst at university, she co-founded a drama group named Cambridge Talking Tongues. The student group went on to win a Guardian Student Drama Award for a piece entitled 'Slight Possession', performed at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival.

Salman Khan

DOB:- 27-Dec-1965
PLACE:- Indore, Madhya Pradesh, India

Salman Khan born on 27th Dec 1965, at Indore. He is an Indian actor,  producer, writer, TV host, and model. He is the son of writer Salimand Salma, and has two brothers actor Arbaaz Khan, Sohail Khan andtwo sisters Alvira and Arpita. Helen is his step mother. His sister Alvira is married to director Atul Agnihotri. Salman started his acting carrier in 1988 by doing a supporting role in the movie "Biwi Ho To Aisi". The following year he came up with his leading role in the box office romantic hit Maine Pyar Kiya (1989). From there he became the heart throb of Indian cinema.Following with other box office hits he showed his terrific performance in Saajan (1991), Andaz Apna Apna (1994), Hum Aapke Hain Koun...! (1994), Karan Arjun (1995), Khamoshi: The Musical (1996), Kuch Kuch Hota Hai (1998).

Kareena Kapoor

DOB:- 21-Sept-1980
PLACE:- Mumbai, Maharastra, India

Kareena was born to Sindhi-speaking Babita (nee Shivdasani) and Punjabi-

speaking Randhir Kapoor on September 21, 1980 in Bombay, India. She has an elder sister, Karisma. She is born in a family that have been actors for generations, including her paternal great-grandfather, Prithviraj Kapoor; her grandfather, Raj Kapoor; her paternal uncles, Shammi, Shashi, Rishi, and Rajiv; as well as aunt, Neetu Singh, & Jennifer Kendall, the wives of Rishi and Shashi respectively. On her maternal side, her grandfather, Hari Shivdasani, and aunt, Sadhana, have been actors in their own rights. As a child she studied in Jamnabai Narsee School in Juhu, Bombay, and thereafter was enrolled in Dehra Dun's prestigious Welham Girls' Boarding School. Then she re-located to Harvard for approximately 3 months to take a course in Information Technology and Microcomputers.

Shahrukh Khan

DOB:- 2-Nov-1965

PLACE:- New Delhi, India

Shahrukh Khan is the King Khan of Bollywood. Shahrukh Khan was born on November 2, 1965. Shah Rukh began his career appearing in television. Today, Shahrukh is one of the most sought after actors in Bollywood, has numerous best actor awards, and has branched out into film production and television presenting as well. Khan's, Red Chillies Entertainment is also the owner of IPL Cricket team Kolkata Knight Riders.

The year is 1991. First-time director Hema Malini looks anxious on the sets of her directorial debut, 'Dil Aashna Hai'. The cause of her anxiety triggers laughter as it is discovered that the lady, despite employing all haircut methods on her boyish-looking hero Shahrukh Khan, remains unsuccessful with his unruly mop. Hema finally lets go of the boy and his effervescent hair without a crop.

Madhuri Dixit

DOB:- 15-May-1967

PLACE:- Mumbai, Maharashtra, India

Biography

Madhuri Dixit was born in the Maharastrian Family in Mumbai itself. Her primary name was Madhuri Shankar Dixit and nickname is Bubbly and Dhak Dhak girl. She was given the knowledge of all kinds of Marathi culture and tradition. She belongs to the Brahmin caste. Most of all, her education was also happened in good schools and colleges. After completing her schooling, she took admission in Mumbai University to be a Microbiologist. She was also much trained dancer for Kathak and admired that dance as well.

Amitabh Bachchan

DOB:- 11-Oct-1942

PLACE:- Allahabad, Uttar Pradesh, India 

Amitabh Bachchan’s trademark deep baritone voice, tall, brooding

person and intense eyes, made him the ideal “Angry Young Man”, setting him apart from the cluster of Bollywood’s lover boys. However, his unconventional looks did work against him at the beginning of his Bollywood career, but he stayed around long enough to be become the icon of the Indian film industry.

Amitabh Bachchan was born in Allahabad in 1942, to Dr. Harivansh Rai Bachchan and Teji Bachchan. Bachchan was initially named Inquilaab. However, at the suggestion of fellow poet, Harivansh Rai changed the name to Amitabh which means, “the light that would never go off.” Though his surname was Shrivastava, he replaced it with ‘Bachchan’, which was his father’s pen name. Amitabh Bachchan studied in Allahabad at Jnana Pramodhini and Boys High School.

Michael Caine

DOB:- 14-March-1933

PLACE:- Rotherhithe, London,United State

Michael Caine was born Maurice Joseph Micklewhite in South London on March 14th 1933. Michael has a younger brother Stanley Micklewhite born 1935. His father worked as a Billingsgate Fish Market Porter and his mother was a Charwoman. At the age of sixteen he left Wilson's Grammar School with 3-4 passes in his exams and the nearest job to Hollywood he could manage was as an office boy for Peak Films.

In 1951 Michael was to join the Queens Royal Regiment and the Royal Fusiliers and serve in Germany and Korea. He completing National Service 2 year later and went to work at Westminster repertory in Horsham Sussex and then at Lowestoft Repertory where Michael met his first wife Patricia Haines. Once married Michael and Patricia decided to go to London to pursue their acting careers. Unfortunately this proved hard and Michael had to take a lot of soul destroying jobs.

Tom Cruise

DOB:- 3-July-1962

Place:- Syracuse, New York, United State

Born in Syracuse, New York, Cruise's father left home when

he was a kid. The family—he has three sisters: Marian, Lee Anne and Cass—moved around a lot, including a stint spent living in Ottawa. He also suffered from dyslexia which didn't make school work all that easy.

Cruise finally found the acting bug after his mother had remarried and settled in Glen Ridge, New Jersey. A knee injury that kept him off his high school wrestling team also made him think about joining the less injury prone ranks of the drama club.

After high school, he moved to New York and supported himself as a busboy and maintenance worker until he won an audition for Endless Love. Other films equally as bad as Endless Love followed until he won the lead in Risky Business (1983), which launched his career.

Nicolas Cage

DOB:- 7-Jan-1964
PLACE:- Long Beach, California, United State

Nicolas Cage: Childhood

Nicolas Cage was born in Long Beach, California.
His parents are literature professor August Floyd Coppola and dancer/choreographer Joy Vogelsang but they divorced when he was twelve.His family is made up of several movie actors, directors and producers which is why he changed his surname, to avoid favouritism.

He attended Beverly Hills High School as well as the UCLA School of Theatre, Film and Television.

Nicolas Cage: Acting Career

Nicolas Cage started out his acting career with minor roles including in 'Fast Times at Ridgemont High' as well as making appearances in two of his uncle Francis Ford Coppola's films 'Rumble Fish' and 'Peggy Sue Got Married'. Making his big screen debut at the tender age of 18, Nicolas Coppola saw most of his work land on the cutting room floor.

Jackie Chan

 DOB:- 7-April-1964

PLACE:- Victoria Peak

Jackie Chan was born on April 7th, 1954 in Victoria Peak,  From a young age he practiced kung fu with his father.  At the age of seven, his father left to take a job in Australia and he was left behind in Hong Kong to study at the China Drama Academy where he remained for ten years and studied singing, acting, martial arts and acrobatics.  This school was meant to prepare the children for work in the Chinese Opera, therefore academics were not focused on.  While in school, he became a member of, "The Seven Little Fortunes" performing troupe along with other martial artists, Sammo Hung Kam-Bo and Biao Yuen who later also pursued careers in the film industry. 

He was cast in his first film while still in school in the Cantonese movie, "Seven Little Valiant Fighters: Big and Little Wong Tin Bear".  When he was seventeen and finished school, the Chinese Opera was no longer popular and he was left to find work to support himself.  Due to his lack of education he found work as a stuntman in films in Hong Kong and later moved to be with his family in Australia.

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.