• Peter Stormare

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    Biography Early life Stormare was born in ArbriĄ, Sweden as "Peter Storm", but changed his name when he discovered he shared it with a senior student at the acting academy. His original choice of name, Retep Mrots (his own name spelled...

  • Patrick Swayze

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    Biography Early life Swayze was born in Houston, Texas, the son of Jesse Wayne Swayze and choreographer and ballet school owner Patricia Yvonne Helen "Patsy" Karnes Swayze. Patrick's brother, Don Swayze, is also an actor. Swayze attended Oak...

  • Patrick Stewart

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    Biography Stewart was born in Mirfield, Huddersfield, Yorkshire, England, although he spent much of his childhood in Jarrow. His first appearance on stage was at a local outdoor history pageant as Tom of Towngate when he was 9. At the age of 12, he...

  • Patrick Dempsey

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    Biography Early life Dempsey, an Irish American, was born in Lewiston, Maine and grew up in Turner, Maine, the youngest of three children born to Amanda and William Dempsey. Dempsey attended St. Dominic Regional High School, where his mother...

  • Patricia Arquette

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    Biography Early life Arquette was born in Chicago, Illinois. Her father was actor Lewis Arquette, and her grandfather was comedian Cliff Arquette, best remembered for his "Charley Weaver" character, a fixture on the original Hollywood Squares....

  • Parker Posey

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    Early life Posey was born in Baltimore, Maryland into a Catholic family. Her parents were Christopher and Lynda Posey; she has a twin brother, Christopher. Posey's first name was a tribute by her father to 1950s supermodel Suzy Parker. After...

  • Pam Grier

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    Biography Early life Pam Grier was born in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, to African-American parents Clarence Ransom Grier, who served in the United States Air Force, and Gwendolyn Samuels, a homemaker; she has two sisters and one brother....

  • Nicole Kidman

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    Biography Early life and education Kidman's parents are Janelle Ann MacNeille and Dr Anthony David Kidman. Dr Kidman is a physician and was also involved with the labour movement. MacNeille - who is of Scottish descent - edited her husband's...

  • Nicolas Cage

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    Biography Early life Nicolas Cage was born Nicolas Kim Coppola in Long Beach, California. He is of Italian descent on his father's side, and English and German descent on that of his mother. His parents are August Floyd Coppola, a comparative...

  • Nathan Lane

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    Biography Born Joseph Lane to Irish American Catholic parents in Jersey City, New Jersey, he was named after a paternal uncle, a Jesuit priest. His father Daniel was a truck driver and an aspiring tenor who died from alcoholism when Lane was 11;...