Mel Gibson

Date of Birth 3 January 1956, Peekskill, New York, USA

Birth Name Mel Columcille Gerard Gibson

Height 5' 9¾" (1.77 m)

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Mel Columcille Gerard Gibson was conceived January 3, 1956 in Peekskill, New York, USA, as the 6th of eleven offspring of Hutton Gibson, a railroad brakeman, and Anne Patricia (Reilly) Gibson (who passed on in December of 1990). His mom was Irish, from County Longford, while his American-conceived father is of generally Irish plummet. Mel and his family moved to Australia in the late 1960s, settling in New South Wales, where Mel's fatherly grandma, contralto musical show vocalist Eva Mylott, was conceived. After secondary school, Mel learned at the University of New South Wales in Sydney, performing at the National Institute of Dramatic Arts nearby future film artists Judy Davis and Geoffrey Rush. After school, Mel had a couple stretches in front of an audience and featured in a couple TV appears. In the long run, he was featured in Mad Max (1979) and in a motion picture called Tim (1979), co-featuring Piper Laurie. The little planned motion picture Mad Max (1979) made him known around the world, while Tim (1979) collected him a recompense for Best Actor from the Australian Film Institute (identical to the Oscar). Later, he went ahead to star in Gallipoli (1981), which earned him a second grant for Best Actor from the AFI. In 1980, he wedded Robyn Moore and had seven youngsters. In 1984, Mel made his American presentation in The Bounty (1984), which co-featured Anthony Hopkins. At that point in 1987, Mel featured in what might turn into his mark arrangement, Lethal Weapon (1987), in which he played "Martin Riggs". In 1990, he went up against the fascinating featuring part in Hamlet (1990), which gathered him some basic applause. He likewise made the all the more charming Forever Young (1992) and the to some degree irritating The Man Without a Face (1993). 1995 brought his most renowned part as "Sir William Wallace" in Braveheart (1995), for which he won two Oscars for Best Picture and Best Director. From that point, he made such film industry hits as The Patriot (2000), Ransom (1996), and Payback (1999). Today, Mel remains a global genius tycoon, persistently beating the Hollywood force records and also the Most Beautiful and Sexiest records.

Morgan Freeman

Date of Birth 1 June 1937, Memphis, Tennessee, USA

Height 6' 2" (1.88 m)

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With a definitive voice and quiet air, this ever well known American performing artist has developed into a standout amongst the most regarded figures in current US silver screen. Morgan was conceived on June 1, 1937 in Memphis, Tennessee, to Mayme Edna (Revere), an educator, and Morgan Porterfield Freeman, a stylist. The youthful Freeman went to Los Angeles City College before serving quite a long while in the US Air Force as a technician somewhere around 1955 and 1959. His first sensational expressions introduction was on the stage incorporating showing up in an all-African American creation of the rich musical Hello, Dolly!.

All through the 1970s, he proceeded with his work in front of an audience, winning Drama Desk and Clarence Derwent Awards and accepting a Tony Award assignment for his execution in The Mighty Gents in 1978. In 1980, he won two Obie Awards, for his depiction of Shakespearean screw-up Coriolanus at the New York Shakespeare Festival and for his work in Mother Courage and Her Children. Freeman won another Obie in 1984 for his execution as The Messenger in the acclaimed Brooklyn Academy of Music creation of Lee Breuer's The Gospel at Colonus and, in 1985, won the Drama-Logue Award for the same part. In 1987, Freeman made the part of Hoke Coleburn in Alfred Uhry's Pulitzer Prize-winning play Driving Miss Daisy, which presented to him his fourth Obie Award. In 1990, Freeman featured as Petruchio in the New York Shakespeare Festival's The Taming of the Shrew, inverse Tracey Ullman. Coming back to the Broadway stage in 2008, Freeman featured with Frances McDormand and Peter Gallagher in Clifford Odets' show The Country Girl, coordinated by Mike Nichols.

Freeman initially showed up on TV screens as a few characters including "Simple Reader", "Mel Mounds" and "Number Dracula" on the Children's Television Workshop (now Sesame Workshop) demonstrate The Electric Company (1971). He then moved into highlight film with another kids' experience, Who Says I Can't Ride a Rainbow! (1971). Next, there was a little part in the thriller Blade (1973); then he played Casca in Julius Caesar (1979) and the title part in Coriolanus (1979). Normal work was coming in for the skilled Freeman and he showed up in the jail dramatizations Attica (1980) and Brubaker (1980), Eyewitness (1981), and depicted the last 24 hours of killed Malcolm X in Death of a Prophet (1981). For the majority of the 1980s, Freeman kept on contributing not too sufficiently bad exhibitions in movies that changed in their quality. Be that as it may, he truly emerged, scoring an Oscar selection as a pitiless hooligan in Street Smart (1987) and, then, he amazed groups of onlookers and pulled a second Oscar assignment in the film rendition of Driving Miss Daisy (1989) inverse Jessica Tandy. That year, Freeman collaborated with energetic Matthew Broderick and red hot Denzel Washington in the epic Civil War dramatization Glory (1989) about liberated slaves being enrolled to frame the principal all-African American battling detachment.

His star kept on rising, and the 1990s commenced emphatically with parts in The Bonfire of the Vanities (1990), Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves (1991), and The Power of One (1992). Freeman's next part was as shooter Ned Logan, charmed out of retirement by companion William Munny to retaliate for a few whores in the wild west town of Big Whiskey in Clint Eastwood's de-mythologized western Unforgiven (1992). The film was a sh and scored an acting Oscar for Gene Hackman, a coordinating Oscar for Eastwood, and the Oscar for best picture. In 1993, Freeman made his directorial debut on Bopha! (1993) and not long after shaped his creation organization, Revelations Entertainment.

More solid scripts came in, and Freeman was back in a correctional facility delineating a proficient prisoner (and acquiring his third Oscar designation), become a close acquaintence with erroneously denounced financier Tim Robbins in The Shawshank Redemption (1994). He was then pull out chasing a religious serial executioner in Se7en (1995), featured close by Keanu Reeves in Chain Reaction (1996), and was seeking after another serial killer in Kiss the Girls (1997).

Further acclaim took after for his part in the slave story of Amistad (1997), he was a stressed US President confronting Armageddon from above in Deep Impact (1998), showed up in Neil LaBute's dark parody Nurse Betty (2000), and repeated his part as Alex Cross in Along Came a Spider (2001). Presently exceedingly prominent, he was much sought after with silver screen groups of onlookers, and he co-featured in the psychological oppressor dramatization The Sum of All Fears (2002), was a military officer in the Stephen King-propelled Dreamcatcher (2003), gave divine direction as God to Jim Carrey in Bruce Almighty (2003), and assumed a minor part in the parody The Big Bounce (2004).

2005 was a gigantic year for Freeman. In the first place, he collaborated with great companion Clint Eastwood to show up in the dramatization, Million Dollar Baby (2004). Freeman's on-screen execution is just world-class as ex-prize contender Eddie "Scrap Iron" Dupris, who works in a summary boxing exercise center nearby grizzled coach Frankie Dunn, as the two cooperate to sharpen the abilities of never amazing boxer Hilary Swank. Freeman got his fourth Oscar assignment and, at last, awed the Academy's judges enough to win the Best Supporting Actor Oscar for his execution. He additionally described Steven Spielberg's War of the Worlds (2005) and showed up in Batman Begins (2005) as Lucius Fox, a profitable partner of Christian Bale's Bruce Wayne/Batman for chief Christopher Nolan. Freeman would repeat his part in the two continuations of the record-breaking, kind reclassifying set of three.

Parts in tentpoles and indies took after; highlights incorporate his part as a wrongdoing supervisor in Lucky Number Slevin (2006), a second go-round as God in Evan Almighty (2007) with Steve Carell assuming control for Jim Carrey, and a supporting part in Ben Affleck's directorial debut, Gone Baby Gone (2007). He co-featured with Jack Nicholson in the breakout hit The Bucket List (2007) in 2007, and lined that up with another film industry achievement, Wanted (2008), then segued into the second Batman film, The Dark Knight (2008).

In 2009, he rejoined with Eastwood to star in the chief's actual life dramatization Invictus (2009), on which Freeman additionally served as an official maker. For his depiction of Nelson Mandela in the film, Freeman earned Oscar, Golden Globe and Critics' Choice Award designations, and won the National Board of Review Award for Best Actor.

As of late, Freeman showed up in RED (2010), an amazement film industry hit; he portrayed the Conan the Barbarian (2011) revamp, featured in Rob Reiner's The Magic of Belle Isle (2012); and topped the Batman set of three with The Dark Knight Rises (2012). Freeman has a few movies forthcoming, including the thriller Now You See Me (2013), under the course of Louis Leterrier, and the sci-fi actioner Oblivion (2013), in which he stars with Tom Cruise.

Matt Damon

Date of Birth 8 October 1970, Boston, Massachusetts, USA

Birth Name Matthew Paige Damon

Height 5' 10" (1.78 m)

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Matthew Paige Damon was conceived on October 8, 1970, in Boston, Massachusetts, to Kent Damon, a stockbroker, real estate broker and assessment preparer, and Nancy Carlsson-Paige, an early adolescence instruction teacher at Lesley University. Matt has a more seasoned sibling named Kyle who is currently a stone carver. His dad is of English and Scottish plunge, and his mom is of Finnish and Swedish family line. The family lived in Newton until his folks separated in 1973, when Damon and his sibling moved with his mom to Cambridge. He experienced childhood in a steady group, and was raised close performing artist Ben Affleck.

Damon went to Cambridge Rindge and Latin School and he performed in various theater creations amid his time there. He went to Harvard University as an English major. While in Harvard, he continued skipping classes to seek after acting tasks, which incorporated the TNT unique film, Rising Sun (1993), and private academy dramatization, School Ties (1992). It was until his film, Geronimo: An American Legend (1993), was relied upon to be a major achievement that he chose to drop out of college totally. Touching base in Hollywood, Matt figured out how to get his first break with a section in the lighthearted comedy, Mystic Pizza (1988). Be that as it may, the film did not do too well and his movie profession neglected to take off. Not giving disappointment a chance to debilitate him from acting, he went for another tryout, and figured out how to get a featuring part in School Ties (1992). Up next for Matt was a part as a warrior who had issues with medication dependence in the motion picture, Courage Under Fire (1996). Matt had, truth be told, lost forty pounds for his part which brought about wellbeing issues. The next year, he gathered honors for Good Will Hunting (1997), a screenplay he had initially composed for an English class at Harvard University. Positive attitude Hunting (1997) was designated for 9 Academy Awards, one of which, Matt won for Best Original Screenplay alongside Ben Affleck. In the year 1998, Matt assumed the title part in Steven Spielberg's film, Saving Private Ryan (1998), which was a standout amongst the most acclaimed movies in that year. Matt had the chance of working with Tom Hanks and Vin Diesel while shooting that film. That same year, he featured as a sincere law understudy and improved poker player in Rounders (1998), featuring inverse Edward Norton and John Malkovich. The following year, Matt rejoined his youth companion, Ben Affleck and kindred humorist, Chris Rock, in the comic drama Dogma (1999).

Towards the end of 1999, Matt played "Tom Ripley", a regular workers young fellow who tastes the great life and will do anything to live it. Both Jude Law and Gwyneth Paltrow likewise featured in the motion picture. The Talented Mr. Ripley (1999) earned blended audits from pundits, yet even along these lines, Matt earned recognition for his execution. Matt loaned his voice to the energized film, Titan A.E. (2000) in the year 2000, which additionally earned blended audits from people in general. He additionally featured in two different motion pictures, All the Pretty Horses (2000) and the golf comic drama show, The Legend of Bagger Vance (2000), featuring close by Will Smith. In the year 2003, he marked on to star in The Informant! (2009) by Steven Soderbergh and the Farrelly Brothers' Stuck on You (2003). He additionally featured in Gerry (2002), a film he co-composed with his companions, Gus Van Sant and Casey Affleck. One of Matt's most unmistakable work to date is his part in the "Bourne" motion picture establishment. He plays an amnesiac professional killer, "Jason Bourne", in The Bourne Identity (2002), The Bourne Supremacy (2004) and The Bourne Ultimatum (2007). Another lauded part is that as "Linus Caldwell" in the "Ocean's" motion picture establishment. He had the chance to star inverse George Clooney, Brad Pitt, Julia Roberts and Don Cheadle in Ocean's Eleven (2001). The fruitful wrongdoing satire show in the end had two different spin-offs, Ocean's Twelve (2004) and Ocean's Thirteen (2007). Among other exceedingly acclaimed motion pictures that Matt figured out how to be a part of was in Terry Gilliam's The Brothers Grimm (2005), George Clooney's Syriana (2005), Martin Scorsese's The Departed (2006) and Robert De Niro's The Good Shepherd (2006).

In his own life, Matt is presently joyfully wedded to Argentine-conceived Luciana Barroso, whom he met in Miami, where she was filling in as a barkeep. They wedded in a private common function on December 9, 2005, at the Manhattan Marriage Bureau. The couple have four little girls Alexia, Luciana's girl from a past relationship, and in addition Isabella, Gia and Stella. Matt is a major aficionado of the Boston Red Sox and he tries to go to their diversions at whatever point conceivable. He has likewise framed awesome kinships with his Ocean's co-stars, George Clooney and Brad Pitt, whom he takes a shot at philanthropy ventures with. He and on-screen character Ben Affleck, together with Ben's significant other, Jennifer Garner, are additionally great family companions and can be regularly seen going out together with Matt's better half.

Richard Gere

Date of Birth 31 August 1949, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA 

Birth Name Richard Tiffany Gere 

Height 5' 10" (1.78 m) 

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Helpful and performing artist Richard Gere was conceived on August 31, 1949, in Philadelphia, the second of five offspring of Doris Ann (Tiffany), a homemaker, and Homer George Gere, a protection sales representative, both Mayflower relatives. Richard began right on time as a performer, playing various instruments in secondary school and composing music for secondary school preparations. He moved on from North Syracuse Central High School in 1967, and won an acrobatic grant to the University of Massachusetts in Amherst, where he majored in reasoning. He cleared out school following two years to seek after acting, finding a lead part in the London generation of the stone musical "Oil" in 1973. The next year he would be in different plays, for example, "Restraining of the Shrew." Onscreen, he had a couple of parts, and picked up acknowledgment in Looking for Mr. Goodbar (1977). Offscreen, he burned through 1978 meeting Tibetans when he headed out to Nepal, where he addressed numerous friars and lamas. Coming back to the US, on Broadway he depicted an inhumane imprisonment detainee in "Bowed," for which he got the 1980 Theater World Award. Back in Hollywood, he assumed the title part in American Gigolo (1980), setting up himself as a noteworthy star; this status was reaffirmed by An Officer and a Gentleman (1982). In the mid 1980s, Richard went to Honduras, Nicaragua and El Salvador (in the midst of continuous wars and political brutality); he went with a specialist and went by displaced person camps. It is said that he was impractically connected with exquisite Brazilian painter Sylvia Martins. In 1990 Richard collaborated with Julia Roberts to star in the blockbuster Pretty Woman (1990); his cool store was the ideal supplement to Julia's percolating eagerness. The film caught the country's heart, and won the People's Choice grant for Best Movie. Fans clamored for quite a long time for a spin-off, or if nothing else another matching of Julia and Richard. They got that with Runaway Bride (1999), which was a runaway achievement (Richard got $12 million, Julia made $17 million, the movies was $152 million, which demonstrates what happens when you give the general population what it needs!). Offscreen, Richard and Cindy Crawford got hitched December 12, 1991 (they were separated in 1995). A while later, Richard began dating performing artist Carey Lowell. They had a child, Homer James Jigme Gere, on February 6, 2000. Richard was picked by People magazine as one of the 50 Most Beautiful People on the planet in 1991, and as their Sexiest Man Alive in 1999. He is a proficient piano player and music author. Most importantly, Richard is a philanthropic person. He's an establishing individual from "Tibet House," a philanthropic association devoted to the protection of Tibetan society. He has been a dynamic supporter of "Survival International" for quite a long while, an overall association supporting tribal people groups, avowing their entitlement to choose their own particular future and helping them ensure their lives, terrains and human rights (these tribes are worldwide, including the locals of the Amazon, the Maasai of East Africa, the Wichi of Argentina, and others). In 1994 Richard went to London to open Harrods' deal, giving his £50,000 appearance expense to Survival. He has been noticeable in their philanthropy promoting effort.

Vin Diesel

Date of Birth 18 July 1967, Alameda County, California, USA

Birth Name Mark Sinclair

Height 5' 11¾" (1.82 m)

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Vin Diesel was conceived Mark Sinclair in Alameda County, California, alongside his congenial twin sibling, Paul Vincent. He was raised by his celestial prophet/analyst mother, Delora Sherleen (Sinclair), and supportive father, Irving H. Vincent, an acting teacher and theater administrator, in a craftsman's lodging venture in New York City's Greenwich Village. He never knew his natural father. His mom is white (with English, German, Scottish, and Irish family), and his receptive father is African-American; alluding to his natural father's experience, Diesel has said that he himself is "unquestionably an ethnic minority".

His first break in acting happened by chance, when at seven years old he and his companions broke into a theater to vandalize it. A lady ceased them and offered them each a script and $20, on the condition that they would go to ordinary after school. From that point, Vin's youngster profession advanced from the New York repertory organization keep running by his dad, to the Off-Off-Broadway circuit. At age seventeen and right now donning an all around sharpened build, he turned into a bouncer at some of New York's hippest clubs to acquire himself some additional money. It was as of now that he changed his name to Vin Diesel.

Taking after secondary school, Vin enlisted as an English major at Hunter College, yet dropped out following three years to go to Hollywood to further his acting profession. Being an accomplished theater on-screen character did not make any impression in Hollywood and following a year of attempting to make his imprint, he came back to New York. His mom then gave him a book called "Highlight Films at utilized Car Prices" by Rick Schmidt. The book demonstrated to him that he could take control of his vocation and make his own films. He composed a short film in view of his own encounters as a performing artist, called Multi-Facial (1995), which was shot in under three days at an expense of $3,000. Multi-Facial (1995) was in the long run acknowledged for the 1995 Cannes Film Festival where it got a tumultuous gathering.

A short time later, Vin came back to Los Angeles and raised practically $50,000 through telemarketing to finance the making of his first component, Strays (1997). Six months in the wake of shooting, the film was acknowledged for the 1997 Sundance Film Festival, and despite the fact that it got a decent gathering, it didn't offer and also trusted. Once more Vin returned baffled to New York just to get a fantasy telephone call. Steven Spielberg was awed by Multi-Facial (1995) and needed to meet Vin, driving him to be thrown in Saving Private Ryan (1998). Multi-Facial (1995) earned Vin more work, when the chief of The Iron Giant (1999) saw it and chose to cast Vin in the title part. From that point, Vin's vocation has relentlessly developed, with him securing his first lead part as Richard B. Riddick in the science fiction film Pitch Black (2000). The part has earned him an army of gave fans and general society acknowledgment he merits.

From that point forward, he has featured a progression of blockbusters, regularly yet not just focused on quick driving engine vehicles: The Fast and the Furious (2001), xXx (2002), The Pacifier (2005), Fast and Furious (2009), Fast Five (2011), Fast and Furious 6 (2013), and Furious 7 (2015). He likewise voiced Groot in Guardians of the Galaxy (2014) and featured in the lower-planned court show Find Me Guilty (2006), the last coordinated by Sidney Lumet.

Sean Connery

Date of Birth 25 August 1930, Edinburgh, Scotland, UK

Birth Name Thomas Sean Connery

Nickname Big Tam

Height 6' 2" (1.88 m)

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Thomas Sean Connery was conceived on August 25, 1930 in Fountainbridge, Edinburgh. His mom, Euphamia McBain (Maclean), was a housekeeper, and his dad, Joseph Connery, was an assembly line laborer and truck driver. He likewise has a sibling named Neil Connery, who acts as a plasterer in Edinburgh. He is of Irish and Scottish plunge. Before going into acting, Sean had a wide range of employments, for example, a Milkman, lorry driver, a worker, craftsman's model for the Edinburgh College of Art, casket polisher and muscle head. He likewise joined the Royal Navy, however was later released in light of restorative issues. At 23 years old, he had a decision between turning into an expert footballer or a performing artist, and despite the fact that he demonstrated much guarantee in the game, he picked acting and said it was one of his more savvy moves.

No Road Back (1957) was Sean's first real motion picture part, and it took after by a few Tv-motion pictures, for example, Anna Christie (1957), Macbeth (1961) and Anna Karenina (1961) and visitor appearances on TV-arrangement, furthermore movies, for example, Hell Drivers (1957), Another Time, Another Place (1958), Darby O'Gill and the Little People (1959), The Frightened City (1961). In 1962 he showed up in The Longest Day (1962) with a large group of different stars,

His huge leap forward came in 1962 when he featured as mystery operator James Bond in Dr. No (1962). He played James Bond in six more movies: From Russia with Love (1963), Goldfinger (1964), Thunderball (1965), You Only Live Twice (1967), Diamonds Are Forever (1971), and Never Say Never Again (1983).

After and amid the accomplishment of the Bond-movies he has kept up a fruitful vocation as a performer and has showed up in movies, including Alfred Hitchcock's Marnie (1964), The Hill (1965), Murder on the Orient Express (1974), The Man Who Would Be King (1975), The Wind and the Lion (1975), Time Bandits (1981), Highlander (1986), The Name of the Rose (1986), The Untouchables (1987) (which earned him an Oscar for best on-screen character in a supporting part), Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989), The Hunt for Red October (1990), Rising Sun (1993), The Rock (1996), Finding Forrester (2000), and The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen (2003).

Sean wedded on-screen character Diane Cilento in 1962 and they had a child, Jason Connery, conceived on January 11, 1963, he emulated his dad's example furthermore turned into a performer. The marriage finished in separation in 1973. In 1975 he wedded Micheline Roquebrune and they have stayed hitched, they have no kids together. He is additionally a granddad. His child, Jason and his ex, performing artist Mia Sara had a child, Dashiell Quinn Connery, in 1997.

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Connery's achievement came in the part of mystery specialist James Bond. He was hesitant to focus on a film arrangement, however comprehended that if the movies succeeded his profession would enormously profit. He played the character in the initial five Bond movies: Dr. No (1962), From Russia with Love (1963), Goldfinger (1964), Thunderball (1965), and You Only Live Twice (1967) - then seemed again as Bond in Diamonds Are Forever (1971) and Never Say Never Again (1983). Each of the seven movies were monetarily fruitful. James Bond, as depicted by Connery, was chosen as the third-most noteworthy legend in silver screen history by the American Film Institute.

Connery's choice for the part of James Bond owed a great deal to Dana Broccoli, spouse of maker "Cubby" Broccoli, who is presumed to have been instrumental in inducing her significant other that Connery was the right man. James Bond's maker, Ian Fleming, initially questioned Connery's throwing, saying, "He's not what I imagined of James Bond looks", and "I'm searching for Commander Bond and not a congested double," including that Connery (solid, 6' 2", and a Scot) was grungy. Fleming's better half let him know that Connery had the imperative sexual charm, and Fleming altered his opinion after the fruitful Dr. No (1962) debut. He was so inspired, he made a half-Scottish, half-Swiss legacy for Bond in the later books.

Connery's depiction of Bond owes much to expressive tutelage from chief Terence Young, cleaning the performer while utilizing his physical effortlessness and nearness for the activity. Lois Maxwell, who played Miss Moneypenny, related that, "Terence encouraged Sean. He took him to supper, demonstrated to him generally accepted methods to walk, how to talk, even how to eat." The coaching was effective; Connery got a huge number of fan letters a week, and the performing artist got to be one of the considerable male sex images of film.

Amid the recording of Thunderball (1965), Connery's life was in risk in the succession with the sharks in Emilio Largo's pool. He had been worried about this danger when he read the script. Connery demanded that Ken Adam fabricate a unique Plexiglas parcel inside the pool, however, notwithstanding this, it was not a settled structure and one of the sharks figured out how to go through it. He needed to relinquish the pool instantly.

Connery was compelled to wear a toupee amid each of the Bond films since he had begun thinning up top at 21 years old. This didn't keep Connery from being thrown in parts, in spite of the fact that it turned out to be more recognizable in his later years.

In 2005, From Russia with Love was adjusted by Electronic Arts into a computer game, titled James Bond 007: From Russia with Love (2005), which included all-new voice work by Connery and his similarity, and those of a few of the film's supporting cast.

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Connery is best known for depicting the character James Bond, featuring in seven Bond movies somewhere around 1962 and 1983. In 1988, Connery won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his part in The Untouchables (1987). His movie profession additionally incorporates such movies as Marnie (1964), The Name of the Rose (1986), The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen (2003), Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989), The Hunt for Red October (1990), Highlander (1986), Murder on the Orient Express (1974), DragonHeart (1996) and The Rock (1996).

Connery has been surveyed as "The Greatest Living Scot" and "Scotland's Greatest Living National Treasure". In 1989, he was broadcasted "Sexiest Man Alive" by People magazine, and in 1999, at age 69, he was voted "Sexiest Man of the Century".

Tom Hanks

Date of Birth 9 July 1956, Concord, California, USA

Birth Name Thomas Jeffrey Hanks

Height 6' (1.83 m)

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Thomas Jeffrey Hanks was conceived in Concord, California, to Janet Marylyn (Frager), a healing facility specialist, and Amos Mefford Hanks, a nomad cook. His dad had English, and some German, parentage, while his mom's family, initially surnamed "Fraga", was totally Portuguese. Tom experienced childhood in what he has called a "cracked" family. He moved around a considerable measure after his folks' separation, living with a progression of step-families. No issues, no misuse, no liquor abuse - only a confounded adolescence. He had no acting background in school and, indeed, credits the way that he couldn't get cast in a school play with really beginning his profession. He went downtown, tried out for a group theater play, was welcomed by the executive of that play to go to Cleveland, and there his acting vocation began. He met his second spouse, on-screen character Rita Wilson on the arrangement of his network show Bosom Buddies (1980) - she showed up in one scene in the second season (1981), Bosom Buddies: All You Need Is Love (1981). They have two kids, and Tom has another child and little girl by his first spouse, Samantha Lewes. In 1996, he made his initial step behind the camera, coordinating and composing and in addition featuring in the film, That Thing You Do! (1996).

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Hanks moved back to the top again with his depiction of a cleaned up baseball legend turned director in A League of Their Own (1992). Hanks has expressed that his acting in prior parts was not extraordinary, but rather that he along these lines moved forward. In a meeting with Vanity Fair, Hanks noticed his "cutting edge period of film making ... since enough self-revelation has gone on ... My work has turned out to be less affectedly fake and over the top". This "present day time" started in 1993 for Hanks, first with Sleepless in Seattle and after that with Philadelphia. The previous was a blockbuster accomplishment around a widower who discovers genuine romance over the radio wireless transmissions. Richard Schickel of TIME called his execution "enchanting," and most faultfinders concurred that Hanks' depiction guaranteed him a spot among the chief rom-com stars of his era.

In Philadelphia, he played a gay legal advisor with AIDS who sues his firm for separation. Hanks lost 35 pounds and diminished his hair with a specific end goal to seem debilitated for the part. In an audit for People, Leah Rozen expressed, "Most importantly, credit for Philadelphia's prosperity has a place with Hanks, who ensures that he plays a character, not a holy person. He is level out breathtaking, giving a profoundly felt, precisely nuanced execution that merits an Oscar." Hanks won the 1993 Academy Award for Best Actor for his part in Philadelphia. Amid his acknowledgment discourse, he uncovered that his secondary school dramatization instructor Rawley Farnsworth and previous colleague John Gilkerson, two individuals with whom he was close, were gay.

Hanks took after Philadelphia with the 1994 hit Forrest Gump which netted an overall aggregate of over $600 million in the cinema world. Hanks commented: "When I read the script for Gump, I considered it to be one of those sort of fantastic, confident motion pictures that the crowd can go to and feel ... some desire for their part and their position in life ... I got that from the films a hundred million times when I was a child. Despite everything I do." Hanks won his second Best Actor Academy Award for his part in Forrest Gump, turning out to be just the second performing artist to have fulfilled the deed of winning successive Best Actor Oscars. (Spencer Tracy was the primary, winning in 1937-38. Hanks and Tracy were the same age at the time they got their Academy Awards: 37 for the first and 38 for the second.)

Hanks' next part space explorer and leader Jim Lovell, in the 1995 film Apollo 13-rejoined him with Ron Howard. Commentators by and large hailed the film and the exhibitions of the whole cast, which included performing artists Kevin Bacon, Bill Paxton, Gary Sinise, Ed Harris, and Kathleen Quinlan. The film additionally earned nine Academy Award designations, winning two. Soon thereafter, Hanks featured in Disney/Pixar's PC energized hit film Toy Story, as the voice of Sheriff Woody.