• Kenneth Branagh

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    Biography Branagh was born in Belfast, where he was educated at Grove Primary School, Belfast; but at the age of nine relocated with his family to Reading in England. He received an honorary doctorate in Literature (D.Litt.) from Queen's University...

  • Keanu Reeves

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    Biography Early life Reeves was born to Patricia Taylor (born 1944), an English showgirl and costume designer who was working in Beirut when she met Reeves' father (Samuel Nowlin Reeves, Jr., born 1942) at a local nightclub. His father was born...

  • Katie Holmes

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    Early life and career Holmes was born in Toledo, Ohio, the youngest in a family of five children (four daughters, one son) of Kathleen A. and Martin Joseph Holmes, Sr. (born 1945), an attorney specializing in divorces. She lived in the Corey Woods...

  • Kate Winslet

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    Biography Early life Winslet was born in Reading, Berkshire, England to Roger Winslet and Sally Bridges, both of whom were actors. Her maternal grandparents, Oliver and Linda Bridges, founded and operated the Reading Repertory, and her uncle,...

  • Juliette Lewis

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    Biography Early life Lewis was born in Los Angeles, California. Her father is actor Geoffrey Lewis and her mother, Glenis Duggan, is a graphic designer. She wanted to act since she was six years old, and got her start in TV at the age of twelve....

  • Juliette Binoche

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    Biography Early Life Juliette Binoche was born in Paris on March 9 1964 to a movie-director father and an actress mother. At age 4 her parents were divorced and Binoche was dispatched to a boarding school with her sister Marion. She began acting...

  • Julie Delpy

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    Biography Early life Delpy was born in Paris, the daughter of Albert Delpy and Marie Pillet, both of whom were actors in both feature films and in the avant-garde underground theatre; her father grew up in Vietnam, Cambodia and West Africa, where...

  • Julia Roberts

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    Biography Early life Young Roberts Julia Roberts was born in Smyrna, Georgia, with the name Julie Roberts. Her father, Walter Grady Roberts, was an actor and writer of Irish ancestry on his father's side and English-Scottish descent on his...

  • Judy Davis

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    Career Born in Perth, she was educated at Loreto Convent and graduated from the National Institute of Dramatic Art (NIDA) in 1977. Beginnings First coming to prominence for her role as Sybylla Melvyn in the much-admired coming-of-age saga My...

  • Joseph Fiennes

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    Career After leaving art school, Fiennes worked with the Young Vic Youth Theatre. He continued his training at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama. His first professional stage appearance was in the West End in The Woman in Black, followed by A...