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Denzel Washington biography
Actor. Born December 28, 1954, in Mount Vernon, New York. After graduating from Fordham University in 1977, Washington won a scholarship to …
Cher biography
Actress, singer, director. Born Cherilyn LaPiere Sarkisian on May 20, 1946, in El Centro, California. Cher met Sonny Bono, a recorder produc…
Louis Pasteur biography
“ I beseech you to take interest in these sacred domains so expressively called laboratories. Ask that there be more and that they be adorne…
Bono Vox biography
Rock singer, born Paul Hewson, on May 10, 1960, in Dublin, Ireland, to Iris and Bobby Hewson. Hewson was considered an outsider as a child, …
Will Smith biography
Actor, rap musician. Born Willard Smith, on September 25, 1968, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, the second of four children. He started rappi…
Gene Hackman biography
Actor. Born Eugene Alden Hackman, on January 30, 1930, in San Bernardino, California. Raised mostly by his maternal grandmother in Danville,…
Barbra Streisand biography
Singer, actress, producer, and director. Born Barbara Joan Streisand, on, New York. After graduating from high school in 1959, she moved to …
Nick Nolte biography
Actor, born February 8, 1941, in Omaha, Nebraska. He was raised in Iowa and Nebraska, the son of Frank Nolte, an irrigation pump salesman an…
Danny DeVito biography
Actor, producer, director. Born November 17, 1944, in Neptune, New Jersey. A one-time hairdresser—his sister owned a beauty salon—DeVito stu…
Arnold Schwarzenegger biography
Actor, former bodybuilder. Born July 30, 1947, in the sleepy town of Graz, Austria. As a teenager, Schwarzenegger was so determined to becom…
Sylvester Stallone biography
Actor, director, writer. Born July 6, 1946, in New York City. A one-time beauty school student, Stallone discovered a passion for acting whi…
Michael Douglas biography
Actor, producer, director. Born Michael Kirk Douglas, on September 25, 1944, to actor Kirk Douglas and mother Diana Dill. He is the brother …
Colin Powell biography
Secretary of State Colin Luther Powell served as national security adviser to President Ronald Reagan, and under President George Bush becam…
George W. Bush biography
Forty-third president of the United States; former governor of Texas (1994-2000). Born July 6, 1946, in New Haven, Connecticut. Bush—often r…
Gary Condit biography
U.S. Congressman. Born April 21, 1948, in Woodland Junction, Oklahoma. The son of a Baptist minister, Condit moved to Ceres, California, at …
Paul Newman biography
Actor, director. Born January 26, 1925, in Cleveland, Ohio. The youngest child of Theresa and Arthur Newman, who was the owner of a successf…
Halle Berry biography
Actress, model. Born August 14, 1968, in Cleveland, Ohio. The youngest daughter born to Jerome and Judith Berry, an interracial couple. Hall…
Meryl Streep biography
Actress. Born Mary Louise Streep, on June 22, 1949, in Summit, New Jersey, to a pharmaceutical-company executive and a commercial artist. Sh…
Karen Silkwood biography
Nuclear facility technician, union activist. Born February 19, 1946, in Longview, Texas. Silkwood, a nuclear plant laborer who died while in…
Demi Moore biography
Actress, producer. Born Demetria Gene Guynes, on November 11, 1962, in Roswell, New Mexico. Raised in a poor family that was constantly on t…