• Steve Buscemi

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    Early life Buscemi was born in Brooklyn, New York to John Buscemi (an Italian American Korean War veteran) and an Irish American mother. Steve graduated from Valley Stream Central High School, where he wrestled in the varsity squad at 125 lbs, in...

  • Sharon Stone

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    Early life Stone was born in Meadville, Pennsylvania, located between Pittsburgh and Erie, Pennsylvania. The second of four children, she is the daughter of Joe and Dorothy Stone, blue-collar workers with, reportedly, ancestral roots in Galway,...

  • Sean Penn

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    Biography Early life Penn was born in Santa Monica, California, to Leo and Eileen Penn. Leo Penn was the son of Jewish immigrants from Lithuania and Russia of apparent Spanish extraction, while Ryan (born Eileen Annucci) is a Roman Catholic of...

  • Scott Glenn

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    Biography Early life Glenn was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania to Elizabeth Glenn. He grew up in Appalachia and has Irish and Native American ancestry. During his childhood he was regularly ill, and for a year was bed-ridden. Through intense...

  • Scarlett Johansson

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    Biography Early life Johansson was born in New York City. Her father, Karsten Johansson, is a Danish architect, and her paternal grandfather, Ejner Johansson, was a screenwriter and director. Her mother, Melanie Sloan, comes from a Bronx-bred...

  • Samuel L. Jackson

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    Biography Early life Jackson was born in Washington, D.C. He grew up as an only child in the factory town of Chattanooga, Tennessee with his mother, Elizabeth Jackson (a factory worker and later a supply buyer for a mental institution), and his...

  • Salma Hayek

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    Biography Early life and career in Mexico Hayek was born in Coatzacoalcos, Veracruz, Mexico to Sami Hayek, a Lebanese oil company executive, and Diana Jimenez, an opera singer. Hayek's paternal grandparents were Lebanese, while her mother is of...

  • Roger Moore

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    Biography Early life Moore was born in Stockwell, London, the son of Lillian Pope and George Moore, a policeman. He attended Battersea Grammar School. Upon turning 18, shortly after the end of World War II, Moore was called up for National...

  • Robin Williams

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    Biography Early life & Education Williams was born in Chicago. His father, Robert Fitzgerald Williams (1901-87), who was of English, Welsh and Irish descent, was a senior executive at Ford in charge of the Midwest area. His mother, Laurie, is...

  • Robert Downey Jr.

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    Biography Early life and career Downey Jr. was born in New York City, New York to Elsie, a dancer and singer, and Robert Downey Sr., a director of underground films. He has a sister, Alison. Downey Jr. is Jewish on his father's side, the original...