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Biography of Sophia Loren
Sophia Loren (Sofia Villani Scicolone) was born on September 20, 1934, in Rome (Italy). She is an Italian movie actress who rose above her poverty to become universally recognized as one of Italy’s most famous movie stars and most beautiful women of all time. Loren won the Best Actress Academy Award for the film ‘Two Women’ which showed that her talent is so much more than her looks. She became a household name and a synonym of beauty.
Early life
Sophia grew up in extreme poverty in Naples, with her mother and many other relatives. They all lived at her grandparents’ home, where she shared her room with many family members. Because of her skinny legs, Sophia had a nickname “toothpick”. After Sophia’s birth, her mother moved back to Pozzuoli, her hometown. Her father, Riccardo was a construction engineer. When she was 14, she began to attend beauty contests and appeared in a number of small movie parts.
Career
When she appeared and won a beauty contest in Rome, Sophia met a producer Carlo Ponti and signed a film contract for him and later he cast her in smaller movie roles. Her debut film role was in ‘Quo Vadis'(1951) when she played a character of one of many slave girls. Her career was launched in a series of low-budget comedies before she attracted critical and popular attention. She did that with the character who lip-synched the singing in the movie ‘Aida’ (1953).
Carlo soon declared her ready for Hollywood and very soon, Sophia became a big international celebrity. Another leading role in ‘The Gold of Naple’s (1954) established her as one of the best young stars of Italia. A few years after she starred in ‘The Pride and the Passion’ (1957) which was her first Hollywood film, filmed in Paris and co-starring Frank Sinatra and Cary Grant. International recognition for Loren’s distinguished acting career includes a lifetime achievement Oscar in 1991.
Sophia’s most known movies are The Black Orchid, That Kind of Woman, Desire Under the Elms, Boy on a Dolphin, Legend of the Lost, The Key, The Pride, and the Passion, The Gold of Naples, Tempi Nostri, Two Nights With Cleopatra, Houseboat, Quo Vadis and Yesterday and Today and Tomorrow.
Personal life
Loren also became involved young with the film producer Carlo Ponti. Their relationship spanned five decades, produced two sons, marriage and grandchildren. Sophia even dedicated her book to him. Their marriage was a national scandal in the predominantly Catholic Italy because Ponti had already been married once before. The couple was together for 50 years until his death in 2007. Sophia now lives in Switzerland. In 2010, she received the Japan Art Association’s Praemium Imperiale prize for theatre/film. She is also known for her strong defense of animal rights.
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Biography of Bill Cosby
He is an American actor comedian, and producer, who has played a major role in the development of a more positive portrayal of African-Americans on television.
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William Henry Cosby, Jr. (Bill Cosby) was born on July 12, 1937, in Philadelphia, USA. He is an American actor comedian, and producer, who has played a major role in the development of a more positive portrayal of African-Americans on television. He is most known by the comedy series “The Cosby Show”, which had a very big success and helped to cement his name as one of the prominent comics Hollywood has ever had. Bill Cosby is one of the top names in comedy.
Early life
His childhood wasn’t very happy. His mother Anna worked cleaning houses. He and his family lived in the low-income housing project. Also, the family’s money began to slip when his father began drinking heavily. His father went to U.S. Navy, and Bill was like a parent in the family. With money very tight for his family, Bill started to shine shoes to help out when he was 9 years old. He left high school and joined the U.S. Navy, and later also left college and became a stand-up comedian.
Career
Bill got his start as a stand-up performer before landing a starring role in ‘I Spy’, the 1960s action show. The series lasted for 3 years and he got a Primetime Emmy Awards for the show. In 1967 he starred in his own series, ‘The Cosby show’, which was very successful. In that show, he played the role of Dr. Huxtable. The show lasted for eight seasons from 1984 to 1992, and it became the number one show in America for five years. A spin-off series was later on created, ‘A Different World’, and became a right below ‘The Cosby Show’ in ratings.
Bill has a very rich filmography because he has been acting in a lot of movies and series by now, and the most known movies are: Jack, Cosby, I Spy Returns, The Cosby Mysteries, The Meteor Man, A Different World, California Suite, The Fat Albert Halloween Special, Hickey & Boggs, Fat Albert, and the Cosby Kids, Man and Boy and Aesop’s Fables.
He has also has released numerous music and comedy albums.
Personal Life
He has a wife Camille Olivia Hanks, who he married on January 25, 1964. They have five children together, a son and four daughters. With so many years in the show business, the stories about him were coming all the time in the newspapers. He made news headlines when he became a victim of a celebrity death hoax that quickly escalated over the internet, but he denied it. In 2014, he also made headlines, not for his comedy, but numerous accusations of sexual assault. More women soon came forth to claim that the comedian attacked them as well. After this incident, Cosby remained silent about these claims.
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Biography of Jennifer Aniston
Jennifer (Joanna) Aniston was born on February 11, 1969, in Sherman Oaks, USA. She is an American actress, filmmaker, and businesswoman. She was definitely one of the most prominent Hollywood actresses of her generation. After she played the role of Rachel Green on the television sitcom ‘Friends’ (1994–2004), she gained worldwide recognition. In 2012, she received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. Also, She was many times pronounced as the ‘Sexiest woman of all the time’.
Early life
She was born as the only daughter of model/actress Nancy Dow and actor John Aniston whose name originally was Ioanni Anastassakis. After previously lived in Greece she spent most of her early life in New York. When she attended drama club she began flourishing interest in acting. When she was 15 she attended the High School of Music & Art and Performing Arts. Her desire to perform professionally became really hard to resist that she finally concluded not to continue her education at university.
Career
Her first movie debut was in the TV series ‘Ferris Bueller’ and ‘Molloy’. Almost at the same time was her first movie debut in “Camp Cucamonga” which all aired in 1990. Later she was acting in several projects that were not so good accepted by the critics and the audience. But in 1994, she entered the audition for a pilot show of a new NBC sitcom called “Friends”. She won the role and with the support of her co-acters from ‘Friends’ her comedic skills were magnificent. The series had huge success around the country, even the world. At the same time the series brought her larger access to the film industry as well, beginning with ‘She’s the One (1996). In 2002, she played in ‘The Good Girl’ for which she was nominated for Best Female Lead.
Jennifer gathered a huge number of the movies that she played in, and the most known are: Horrible Bosses 2 (2014), She’s Funny That Way (2014), We’re the Millers (2013), Wanderlust (2012), Just Go with It (2011), Horrible Bosses (2011), The Bounty Hunter (2010), The Switch (2010), Love Happens (2009), Management (2009), He’s Just Not That Into You (2009), Marley & Me (2008), Bruce Almighty (2003), The Good Girl (2002), The Thin Pink Line (1998), The Object of My Affection (1998), Picture Perfect (1997), She’s the One (1996), Camp Cucamonga (1990) and Ferris Bueller (1990).
For her acting performance in ‘Friends’, she won an Emmy Award, a Golden Globe Award, and a Screen Actors Guild Award.
Personal Life
She has also received much exposure just like her interesting journey in show business, especially in her romance life. She first dated Adam Duritz of Counting Crows and actor Tate Donovan. Later this attractive star met and dated Brad Pitt and finally married in 2000. But after 5 years of marriage, they split up. After Brad Jennifer dated her co-star from the movie ‘Break-Up’, but after a year they decided to break up.
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Biography of Nicola Peltz
Nicola Anne Peltz was born in 1995 in Westchester County in New York as a daughter of a model Claudia Heffner and a very successful businessman and philanthropist Nelson Peltz.
This young beauty is an actress who became famous playing Katara in The Last Airbender.
Nicola Anne Peltz was born in 1995 in Westchester County in New York as a daughter of a model Claudia Heffner and a very successful businessman and philanthropist Nelson Peltz. She grows up in a very big family having two younger brothers, four older ones, and an older sister. One of her brothers is an actor as well and his name is Will Peltz.
Since she comes from a very rich family she had an agent when she was 12 years old, and only a year later she was starring in a production of Blackbird in Manhattan Theatre Club with Jeff Daniels.
The first movie she ever appeared in was Deck the Halls, where she played Mackenzie, in 2006 being only 11 years old. In 2008 she was cast in two movies, Harold (2008) where she played Becki and Righteous Kill where she played the role of Lynn. In the same year, she starred in Miley Cyrus’ music video for the single “7 things”.
Her big breakthrough came in 2010 when she got the role of Katara in the fantasy adventure movie “The Last Airbender, directed by M. N. Shyamalan.
2013 – 2015 she played Bradley Martin, one of the main characters in Bates Motel an A&E drama-thriller series. Nicola appeared in 14 episodes all together working alongside Freddie Highmore and Vera Farmiga.
Her next big role was playing Tessa Yeager, one of the lead characters in Transformers: Age of Extinction, the fourth Transformers movie (2014). She signed for two more parts along with Mark Wahlberg and Jack Reynor, since this one is the first part of the new Transformers trilogy.
Other movies where she played important roles are teen drama Affluenza and dark comedy Youth in Oregon, and she will be part of a new movie adaptation of J.D. MacDonald’s book The Deep Blue Good-by, alongside Christian Bale, Peter Dinklage, and Rosamund Pike.
In 2015 she tried out as a model walking the runway for Alexander Wang at Paris Fashion Week.
Even though she is relatively new in the film and fashion industry she has a big army of followers on social networks. On her Instagram account, she has more than 400k fans, on the Twitter account more than 78k followers, and almost 60k likes on her official Facebook page.
Nicola was always into sports. So much that she used to believe that her career would involve professional athletics.
Being only 19 she is not linked to boys yet, but there were few rumors. One of them was that she is dating her co-star Jack Reynar but that stopped when he made public his relationship with model Madeline Mulqueen.
Peltz just started her career and we are sure we will be seeing her more and more in the times that come.
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