Betty Carter
(Lillie Mae Jones)
jazz and blues singer
Born: 5/16/1930
Birthplace: Flint, Michigan
Grammy Award-winning jazz and blues singer whose career started at the age of 16. Though she…
Fred GwynneactorBorn: 7/10/1926Birthplace: New York City Fred Gwynne is best known as the amiable Herman Munster in the television series The Munsters (1964–66). But the long-faced, deep-…
Sir Derek JacobiactorBorn: 10/22/1938Birthplace: Leytonstone, East London, England Sir Derek Jacobi's myriad stage roles have included Cyrano de Bergerac, Uncle Vanya, Adolf Hitler, Oedipus Rex, and…
Claudio AbbadoconductorBorn: 6/26/1933Birthplace: Milan, Italy Born into a family of musicians, Abbado began his musical training at an early age. In 1958, he won the Koussevitzky conducting…
Elle Macpherson
(Eleanor Gow)model, actressBorn: 3/29/1964Birthplace: Sydney, Australia
Elle Macpherson, like so many of her supermodel colleagues, has used a successful modeling career as the…
Rene Russo
actressBorn: 2/17/1954Birthplace: Burbank, California
A model turned actress who was first spotted by a talent scout at a Rolling Stones concert. She worked for several years as one…
Ellen Barkin
actressBorn: 4/16/1954Birthplace: New York City
After a few roles on television, she got her first leading role in Barry Levinson's Diner (1982), and kept busy in a variety of…
Jane FondaactressBorn: 12/21/1937Birthplace: New York City This Academy Award-winner began her career playing sexy roles and later opted for films that were more in line with her liberal, often…
Michelle PfeifferactressBorn: 4/29/1958Birthplace: Santa Ana, California, Having started out in television guest appearances and commercials, Pfeiffer proved she could hold her own opposite…
Holerock group The tumultuous off-stage life of lead singer and guitarist Courtney Love > her 1992 marriage to Nirvana's Kurt Cobain and the couple's well publicized drug problems—has sometimes…
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