Sylvester Stallone

Michael Sylvester Gardenzio Stallone was born on July 6, 1946, in Hell's Kitchen, New York. He likes to go by Sly Stallone instead of his name Sylvester as he dislikes the name. He's an American actor, filmmaker, screenwriter, film director and occasional painter of Italian descent.
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Stallone's 2 best known roles are that of post-Vietnam vet John Rambo and 4th rate boxer Rocky Balboa. Stallone is best known for his hardcore action movies, his use of the stairs to the Philadelphia Museum of Art, where his character Rocky runs up in the 1st Rocky movie, have been renamed the Rocky Steps.

Early Life
He was the eldest son to Frank Stallone Sr, a hairdresser, and Jackie Stallone, an astrologer, former dancer and women's wrestling promoter. His younger brother is actor and musician Frank Stallone. Their father was born in Gioia Del Colle, in Apulia, Italy and emigrated to the US as a child. Their mother is half Russian Jewish and half French. Complications his mom had suffered in birth had resulted in doctors having to use 2 pairs of forceps during his birth; because of this, they had severed a nerve and caused paralysis in parts of his face. As a result of this, the lower left side of his face is paralyzed, including parts of his tongue, lip and chin, which give him a trademark he is now known for, slightly slurred speech, and a snarling look.

Early roles
Most of his early stuff was just cameos in other movies, like the 1971 Woody Allen movie Bananas where he played subway thug, Klute(1971) as an extra dancing in the club, a youth in The Prisoner of Second Avenue, 1974 a  starring role in The Lords of Flatbush

1976, Rocky
On March 24, 1975, Stallone saw the fight between Muhammad Ali and Chuck Wepner, which gave him the inspiration for the movie Rocky. He went home and after 3 days or 20 hours, he came up with the script for Rocky. This movie went on to win various awards, such as Best Directing, Film Editing, Best Picture, Best Actor, Best Screenplay. In the early 1980s, he starred alongside British actor Michael Caine in Escape to Victory(1981), a sports movie where he plays a prisoner of war involved in a Nazi propaganda soccer game. Also that year he starred in the movie Nighthawks, where he played a New York cop named Deak DeSilva, who plays cat and mouse with a foreign terrorist. In the year 1982, he starred in a movie that would be a trademark of his forever. In 1982, he starred as John Rambo, a battle scarred Vietnam vet in the movie First Blood(1982). There were 3 other sequels, Rambo:First Blood pt. II (1985), which had him going to southeast Asia looking for POWs from the Vietnam War, and Rambo III (1988), which had him going to the deserts of Afghanistan to rescue his commander, Col. Trautman(Richard Crenna) and Rambo(2008), in which the now retired soldier is asked by missionaries in Burma to help rescue fellow missionaries trapped by Burmese rebels. During the making of the Rocky movies, Stallone worked out like a madman

As Rocky Balboa

Escape to Victory

Nighthawks

First Blood

Rambo(2008)

During this, he started doing other kinds of movies, like Rhinestone, which was considered to be a commercial failure for him, because he sings country music in it. And in 1987, he starred as in Over the Top (1987) as a struggling trucker named Lincoln Hawk who is making his way to a nation wide arm wrestling tournament in Las Vegas, with his son, who does not think too highly of him until he sees his dad arm wrestling. In 1986, he made the movie Cobra, which was about a police officer named Marion Cobretti, nicknamed Cobra who works for the Los Angeles Police Dept, on a squad called the Zombie Squad. He is assigned to protect a model named Ingrid Knudsen (Bridgett Nielsen-Stallone) who was a living witness to a series of crimes committed by a serial killer called the Night Slasher. This movie is where he met his first wife Bridgett Nielsen. In 1989, he starred alongside Kurt Russell in Tango & Cash, where he played a straitlaced L.A. cop named Ray Tango who has to work with a rival cop named Gabe Cash (Kurt Russell) when they are framed for murder by a criminal mastermind named Yves Perret (Jack Palance) and found guilty by the courts, they are sentenced to prison where they encounter many of the guys they put away.

Over the Top

Cobra

Tango & Cash

1990-2002
In 1992, he tried comedy with Stop! Or My Mom Will Shoot, where he played a police officer named Joe Bomowski who receives a visit from his mother Tutti Bomowski (Estelle Getty). After she buys him an illegal MAC 10 and starts nosing in his police cases, she becomes witness to a murder of the gun dealer she bought the gun from. In 1993, he got back in to action with the movie Cliffhanger, where he played Gabe Walker, a professional mountain climber who plays cat and mouse with a group of thieves, led by professional thief Eric Qualen (John Lithgow), who was a former Military Intelligence member who looks to reclaim $100 million in uncirculated bills from the US Treasury. Later that year, he starred alongside Wesley Snipes in Demolition Man, where he played a cop named John Spartan who goes into cryogenic freezing and is later taken out to get a criminal who escaped. In 1994, he starred as Ray Quick in The Specialist. In this movie, he is a CIA explosives expert who takes a job from a woman named May Munro (Sharon Stone), who wants revenge on the Cuban mobster who killed her parents.

Cliffhanger

The Specialist

In 1995, he starred in the movie Judge Dredd, based on the British comic book 2000 AD of the same name. In the movie, he plays Judge Joseph Dredd, a very strict rule following judge until he is framed for murder of the Judge's Council by his own brother. In the 1995 movie Assassins, he played Robert Rath, a hit man who is ordered to kill a fellow hitman named Miguel Bain (Antonio Banderas), who has a psychopathic way of life. And Rath is contacted by someone named Electra (Julianne Moore), who is a computer hacker. In 1997, he starred as New Jersey cop Freddy Heflin in the movie Cop Land. This movie was about a town in New Jersey called Garrison, where most of the residents are NYPD officers. In the movie, Stallone's character is asked by Internal Affairs agent Moe Tilden (Robert De Niro) to tell anything he has about the cover up of a murder of 2 black teens by a fellow officer named Murray 'Super boy' Babbitch (Michael Rapaport). In 2000, he starred in the remake of the 1971 crime drama Get Carter, where Michael Caine originally played Jack Carter, a mob enforcer. In the 2000 remake, Michael Caine had a large role in the movie.

Get Carter

Judge Dredd

2003-2005
In 2003, he played the role of a villain in the 3rd Spy Kids movie, Spy Kids 3: Game Over named The Toymaker.

2010 and on
In 2010, he starred in The Expendables, alongside Mickey Rourke, Jet Li, Jason Statham, Randy Couture and Steve Austin. Basically the movie is about where he and the rest of the guys are a group of highly trained military mercenaries who have to kill a general in a fictional island town called Vilena.

B.D. Wong

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B.D._Wong

Bradley Darrell Wong was born on October 24, 1960, in San Francisco, California. He is best known for his role as police psychologist Dr. George Huang on Law and Order:SVU, Father Roy Mukada on HBO's Oz and as the character Song Liling in M. Butterfly

He was born to Chinese parents in San Francisco, his mother, Roberta Christine Leong was a telephone company supervisor. He attended Lincoln High School before going to San Francisco University. On the show Law and Order:SVU, he has recurring roles as FBI psychologist Dr. George Huang, and as the prison priest Father Roy Mukada on HBO's Oz. He has also starred in movies like All American Girl, which was made in 1994 and was about a Korean-American family, the Freshman(1990), Father of the Bride(1991) and it's 1995 sequel, where he played a wedding planner, Jurassic Park(1993), Executive Decision(1996),Slappy and the Stinkers(1997), Mystery Date(1991), and in the 1998 movie Mulan, he provided the voice of the Chinese Army captain Li Shang and also provided his voice for Shang in the movie Mulan II.  And as for TV, he has starred on such shows as The X-Files, and Sesame Street.

He is openly gay and has 2 children with his partner Richie Jackson, who is a talent agent. The 2 had kids born thru a surrogate mother,son Boaz Dov, who died 90 minutes after birth, and Jackson Foo Wong.

Filmography

• 1986


• The Karate Kid, pt. II- Boy on street


• 1989


• Family Business- Jimmy Chiu, Adam's MIT professor


• 1990


• The Freshman- Edward


• 1991


• Mystery Date- James Lew


• 1992


• The Lounge People- Billy


• 1993


• Jurassic Park- Henry Wu


• 1994


• The Ref- Dr. Wong, marriage counselor


• Men of War- Po


• 1995


• Kalamazoo- Justin


• Father of the Bride pt. II- Howard Weinstein


• 1996


• Executive Decision- Sergeant Louie


• Joe's Apartment- Cockroach


• 1997


• Seveb Years in Tibet- Ngawang Jigme


• 1998


• Slappy and the Stinkers- Morgan Brinway


• Mulan- Capt. Li Shang


• The Substitute 2: School's Out- Warren Drummond


• 2002


• The Salton Sea- Bubba


• 2004


• Mulan II- Capt. Li Shang


• 2005


• Stay- Dr. Ren


• 2006


• Ira & Abby- Party guest

Adrien Brody

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adrien_Brody

Adrien Brody was born on April 14, 1973 in Woodhaven, Queens, New York. He is an American-born actor and film producer. He recieved big attention in the 2002 movie The Pianist, about a Jewish piano player in Nazi-era Poland. At 29 years old, he is the youngest actor to win the Academy Award for Best Actor in 2003.

In 2011, he appeared in a commercial for Belgian-made beer Stella Artois. And he was seriously hurt in a motorcycle accident when his motorcycle crashed and he flew up over a car and crashed into a crosswalk. He spent months in recovery.

He is sooooooooo SEXY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Filmography

• 1988


• Home At Last- Billy


• 1989


• New York Stories- Mel


• 1991


• The Boy Who Cried Bitch- Eddie


• 1993


• The King of the Hill- Lester Silverstone


• Angels in the Outfield- Danny Hemmerling


• 1994


• Jailbreakers- Skinny


• Natural Born Killers- one of Gale's cameramen


• Nothing to Lose- Ray Diglovanni


• 1996


• Solo- Dr. Bill Stewart


• Bullet- Ruby


• 1997


• The Last Time I Committed Suicide- Ben


• Six Ways to Sunday- Arnie Finkelstein


• 1998


• The Thin Red Line- Cpl. Fife


• The Undertaker's Wedding- Mario Bellini


• Restaurant- Chris Calloway


• 1999


• Oxygen- Harry


• Liberty Heights- Van Kurtzman


• Summer of Sam- Richie Tringale


• 2000


• Bread and Roses- Sam Shapiro


• Harrison's Flowers- Kyle Morris


• 2001


• The Affair of the Necklace- Count Nicolas De La Motte


• Love the Hard Way- Jack Grace


• 2002


• Dummy- Steven


• The Pianist- Wladyslaw Szpilman


• 2003


• The Singing Detective- First Hood


• 2004


• The Village- Noah Percy


• 2005


• The Jacket- Jack Starks


• King Kong-  Jack Driscoll


• 2006


• Hollywoodland- Louis Simo


• 2007


• The Tehucan Project- Narrator


• Manolete- Manuel Rodriguez Sanchez


• The Darjeeling Limited- Peter Whitman


• 2008


• The Brothers Bloom- Bloom


• Cadillac Records- Leonard Chess


• 2009


• Splice- Clive Nicoli


• Giallo- Inspector Enzo Lavia


• Fantastic Mr. Fox- Rickity


• 2010


• High School- Psycho Ed


• The Experiment- Travis


• Predators- Royce


• 2011


• Wrecked- Man


• Midnight in Paris- Salvador Dali


• Detachment- Henry Barthes

Kate Winslet

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All of this info can be found via the link above! :)
Kate Elizabeth Winslet was born on Oct. 5, 1975, in Reading, Berkshire, England. She is an English-born actress and occasional singer. She won the Academy Award for Best Actress for her role in the 2008 movie The Reader. She has won awards from the Screen Actors Guild, British Academy of Film and Television Arts, Hollywood Foreign Press Association. She can do drama, comedy, period, contemporary. She recieved somewhat large recognition for her role as one of the Dashwood sisters in Sense and Sensibility.

She's also one of my biggest favorite actresses!!

Raised in Berkshire, she studied drama since she was young. Her 2 biggest movie successes have been Flushed Away in 2006, where she did the voice of a rat named Rita, and The Holiday in 2006, where her character switches places with Cameron Diaz's character.

She got her start on TV, on the BBC show Dark Season. Her first movie role was in the Peter Jackson movie Heavenly Creatures, where she won the role over 175 girls to play Juliet Hulme, who helps in the murder of hte mother of her best friend, Pauline Parker(Melanie Lynskey). Winslet noted: "With Heavenly Creatures, all I knew I had to do was completely become that person. In a way it was quite nice doing [the film] and not knowing a bloody thing." Never knew she talked like that, lol!

The following year, she auditioned for the role of Lucy Steele in the movie based on Jane Austen's book Sense and Sensibility. This movie also starred Hugh Grant, Emma Thompson, Alan Rickman. She instead got the role of Marianne Dashwood. In order to prepare for the role, she had to read Austen-era Gothic novels and poetry, and learn to play the piano to make herself graceful. Director Ang Lee was worried about her getting a little too into the role, so he suggested that she learn tai chi.

In 1997, she starred in the James Cameron movie Titanic, about the ill-fated cruise ship. In the movie, she was to play shy, sensitive 17 year Rose DeWitt-Bukater, a socialite who survives the sinking of the RMS Titanic. In 2004, she starred alongside Johnny Depp in Finding Neverland, based on the life of J.M. Barrie, the man behind the story of Peter Pan. Her role was as Sylvia Llewelyn Davies, whose sons inspired Barrie to write Peter Pan.

In 2006, she starred alongside Cameron Diaz, Jude Law and Jack Black in The Holiday. In this movie, she plays Iris Simpkins, a society column editor for London-based newspaper The Daily Telegraph, who switches households with Amanda Woods(Cameron Diaz), a workaholic whose company makes movie trailers in L.A. And that same year, she starred in the movie Flushed Away, where she provides the voice of Rita, a sewer scavenging rat who helps Roddy St. James(Hugh Jackman) escape Ratropolis and get back to 'Uptop' as they call it, or Kensington.

On Nov. 22, 1998, she met Jim Threapleton, who she met on the set of the movie Hideous Kinky. They both have a daughter, Mia Honey Threapleton. They divorced on Dec. 13, 2001. After that, she began seeing director Sam Mendes. And shortly after, they married, and had a son, named Joe Alfie Winslet.

She now runs a charity called The Golden Hat, which eliminates barriers for people with autism.

We Come from the Land Down Under.....

Hugh Jackman

Nicolle Kidman

Can I switch places with her? Her husband is HOT!

Geoffrey Rush

Cate Blanchett

Mia Wasikowska

Simon Baker

Russell Crowe

INXS

Keith Urban

Men at Work

Wolfmother

Kylie Minogue

AC/DC

Fame Runs in the Family

Did you ever happen to notice that when someone becomes famous and they get married and have kids that eventually those kids get into the entertainment world? Well, here are some people who would fall under the title of fame runs in the family.

The Barrymore family
Actress Drew is a member of the Barrymore family, and for some reason, in the world of Hollywood, that's big, especially considering her grandfather was actor John Barrymore.

The McCartney family
Daughter of former Beatle Paul McCartney. Stella now does a clothing line, she is a world famous fashion designer with her own line, called simply Stella McCartney, and son James is a British-born musician

Wow, she's pretty! 

The Prinze family
Son Freddie Jr is the son of comedian Freddie Prinze

To switch places with her would be nice..... 

The Fonda Family
Peter, Bridget, Jane, Henry. All actors or actresses.

Peter

Bridget

 

The Sinatra Family
Daughter Nancy is a singer, and daughter of Frank Sinatra
The Kravitz Family
Consists of Lisa Bonet, formerly of the Cosby Show, singer Lenny Kravitz, and daughter Zoe Kravitz

Her parents

Lisa Bonet

Lenny Kravitz

 

The Marley Family
Family of reggae singer Bob Marley, son David 'Ziggy' Marley, Cedella Marley, now a fashion designer with a clothing line called Catch a Fire after one of her father's albums
The Tyler Family
Liv Tyler, daughter of Aerosmith rocker Steven Tyler and Bebe Buell, is now an actress and also so is Mia Tyler, a plus sized model for the clothing line Lane Bryant

Mia Tyler

Steven Tyler

The Smith Family
Consists of father Will Smith, who is an actor, mother Jada Pinkett-Smith, an actress, daughter Willow Smith, a new musician, and son Jaden is an actor.

Will Smith

Jada Pinkett-Smith

Jaden

Willow

The Jagger family
Consists of Rolling Stone front man Mick Jagger, daughter Jade Sheena Jezebel Jagger, who is an English jewelry designer and former model, and who's mother is Nicaraguan-born model Bianca Macias-Jagger, Elizabeth Scarlet Jagger, who is currently a model, and mother is actress Jerry Hall

Dad Mick

Daughter Jade Sheena Jezebel Jagger

Daughter Elizabeth

The Simmons family
Dad Gene is a member of the 1970s glam metal band KISS, mother Shannon Tweed is a former Playboy Playmate, son Nick is in a band, and daughter Sophie is an up and coming fashion model

Dad Gene

Mother Shannon Tweed

Gene recently proposed to her because he loves her!

Son Nick

Daughter Sophie

The Bowie family
Duncan Jones, son of English rock singer David Bowie, is now a director.

Dad David Bowie

Son Duncan

The Harrison Family
Father George was a former Beatles member, mom Olivia was an actress, and son Dhani is following in his dad's footsteps as a musician.

Son Dhani

The Lennon family
Father John Lennon was a former Beatles member, son Sean Lennon is also a musician, mother Yoko was and still is an artist, and son Julian is a famous actor

Son Julian

Sean

The Starr Family
Consists of Richard 'Ringo Starr' Starkey, a former Beatles member, son Zak Starkey, who was a featured drummer on The Who

Zak

The Osbournes
Dad Ozzy was a former Black Sabbath member, mother Sharon is on the American show The Talk, son Jack is a musician, and daughter Kelly is a fashion designer,singer, actress.

Sharon

She's awesome!! I love the way she talks!

Kelly

Jack

The Redgraves
Siblings Vanessa, Lynn, Corin are all actors, and actress Natasha Richardson, who passed away not too long ago, was related to the Redgrave family, by way of Tony Richardson, who was married to Vanessa.

And sometimes it's not an entire family, it may be brothers or sisters

Frank and Sylvester Stallone-both actors

Ronnie, Donnie and Johnny Van Zandt- members of the southern rock band Lynyrd Skynyrd

Benji and Joel Madden- members of the band Good Charlotte

Michael and Brandon Wong- both brothers and actors

Brothers Shawn, Marlon, Damon, Dwayne, Keenan Ivory Wayans are all actors

Zoe Wanamaker- daughter of late actor/director Sam Wanamaker

Richard Pryor- late comic who's daughter Rain Pryor is now an actress

Mira Sorvino- daughter of actor Paul Sorvino

Nicole Richie- adoptive father is R&B singer Lionel Richie

Enrique Iglesias is the son of singer Julio Iglesias Jr

Mariska Hargitay, an actress, is the daughter of actress Jayne Mansfield and Mickey Hargitay

Victoria Asher, musician daughter of musician Peter Asher, and niece of Jane Asher, an actress

Lucille Arnaz and Desi Arnaz Jr, are the son and daughter of actor Desi Arnaz and actress Lucille Ball