Showing posts with label American Actor. Show all posts
Showing posts with label American Actor. Show all posts

Tuesday, May 17, 2011

Clint Eastwood - film actor, director, producer, composer and politician

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Clinton Eastwood is a great American film actor, director, producer, composer and politician. Following his breakthrough role on the TV series Rawhide (1959–65), he starred as the Man with No Name in Sergio Leone's Dollars Trilogy of spaghetti westerns in the 1960s and as San Francisco Police Department Inspector Harry Callahan in the Dirty Harry movies during the 1970s and 1980s. These roles, along with some others in which he plays tough-talking no-nonsense police officers, have ready him an enduring cultural icon of masculinity. He won Academy Awards for Best Director and Producer of the Best Picture, as well as getting nominations for Best Actor, for his work in the films Unforgiven (1992) and Million Dollar Baby (2004).

Eastwood has directed most of his own star vehicles, but he has also directed movies in which he did not show such as Mystic River (2003) and Letters from Iwo Jima (2006), for which he received Academy Award nominations and Changeling (2008), which getted Golden Globe Award nominations. He has received substantial critical praise in France in particular, including for several of his films which were pan in the United States, and was awarded two of France's highest honors: in 1994 he received the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres medal and in 2007 was award the Légion d'honneur award. In 2000 he was awarded the Italian Venice movie Festival Golden Lion for lifetime achievement.

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Name

Clinton Eastwood

Date Of Birth

May 31, 1930

Place Of Birth

San Francisco, California, U.S.

Occupation

Actor, director, producer, composer, politician

Religion

Protestant

Spouse

Maggie Johnson, Dina Ruiz

Wednesday, February 9, 2011

Academy Award -American Award

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The Academy Award is an accolade by the American Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS) to know excellence of professionals in the film industry, including directors, actors, and writers. The formal ceremony at which the awards are accessible is one of the most prominent award ceremonies in the world and is televised live in more than 200 countries annually. It is also the oldest award ceremony in the media; its equivalents, the Grammy Awards, Emmy Awards (for television), and Tony Awards are model following the Academy.

The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences itself was visualize by Metro Goldwyn Mayer studio boss Louis B. Mayer. The first Academy Awards ceremony was held on May 16, 1929, at the Hotel Roosevelt in Hollywood to honor exceptional film success of the 1927/1928 film season. It was hosted by performer Douglas Fairbanks and director William C. deMille. Opting for a younger face for the 83rd Academy Awards planned for February 27, 2011, younger actors Anne Hathaway and James Franco were name as hosts in November 2010 by producer Bruce Cohen and Don Mischer.

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Awarded for

Excellence in cinematic achievements

Presented by

Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences

Country

United States

First awarded

May 16, 1929

Thursday, February 3, 2011

Elvis Presley - singers, actor

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Elvis Aaron Presleya was one of the most famous American singers of the 20th century. A cultural icon, he is widely recognized by the single name Elvis. He is often referred to as the "King of Rock and Roll" or simply "the King". Presley's first RCA single, "Heartbreak Hotel", out in January 1956, was a number one hit. He became the foremost figure of the newly popular sound of rock and roll with a series of network television appearance and chart topping records. His energized interpretation of songs, many from African American sources, and his uninhibited presentation style made him enormously popular and controversial. In November 1956, he completed his film debut in Love Me Tender.

Conscripted into military service in 1958, Presley relaunched his soundtrack career two years later with some of his most commercially winning work. He staged few concerts, however, and, guided by Parker, proceed to devote much of the 1960s to creation Hollywood movies and soundtrack albums, most of them seriously derided. He had a versatile voice and uncommonly wide success encompassing many genres, including country, pop ballads, gospel, and blues. He is the best-selling solo performer in the history of popular music. Nominated for 14 competitive Grammys, he won three, and got the Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award at age 36. He has been induct into 4 music halls of fame.

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Birth name

Elvis Aaron Presley

Date Of Birth

January 8, 1935

Place Of Birth

Tupelo, Mississippi,United States

Genres

Rock and roll, pop, rockabilly, country, blues, gospel, R&B

Occupations

Musician, actor

Instruments

Vocals, guitar, piano

Date Of Death

August 16, 1977

Place Of Death

Memphis, Tennessee,United States

Sunday, January 2, 2011

Mark Wahlberg - Rapper, Actor, producer, television

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Mark Wahlberg is the former rapper, American actor, and producer of film and television. He was recognized as Marky Mark in his earlier years, and become well-known for his 1991 debut as a rap musician with the band Marky Mark and the Funky Bunch. He was ranked #1 on VH1's 40 Hottest Hotties of the 90's. He is well recognized for his role in films such as Boogie Nights (1997), Three Kings (1999), The Perfect Storm (2000), Planet of the Apes (2001), The Italian Job, I Heart Huckabees, etc.

He has also serve as the managerial producer of the TV series Entourage and Boardwalk Empire. Wahlberg is a dedicated Catholic who attend daily Mass, credits his faith and a priest from his childhood for helping him twist his life around, and know the seriousness of his faith. He dated actresses Jordana Brewster and China Chow, his co-star in the movie The Big Hit. Actively concerned in charity, Wahlberg recognized the Mark Wahlberg Youth Foundation in May 2001 for the reason of raising and distribute funds to youth service and enrichment programs.

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Birth Name

Mark Robert Michael Wahlberg

Date Of Birth

June 5, 1971

Place Of Birth

Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.

Other names

Marky Mark, Monk D

Occupation

Actor, Producer, Rapper

Spouse

Rhea Durham