Denzel Washington – actor and film director

Denzel Washington is an American actor, film director and film producer. He is the second black-winner of the Oscar award for Best Actor and Best Supporting Actor.
Denzel Hayes Washington, Jr. was born on December 28, 1954 in Mount Vernon, New York. The boy was named after his father-priest. There were three children in the family. Their worked in a beauty salon and young Denzel helped her.
After school he entered Fordham University in New York, where he first studied medicine, then biology, then became interested in journalism, and finally became interested in theater. In 1977 he graduated with BA in Journalism. Then Washington entered the American Conservatory in San Francisco. A year later he moved to New York.
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Zsa Zsa Gabor – beautiful actress

Zsa Zsa Gabor, after her ninth marriage known as Sari Prinz von Anhalt, was an American actress of Hungarian origin.
Sari Gabor was born on February 6, 1917. She had two sisters, Eva and Magda, who later also became actresses. The girl was named Sari (the Hungarian equivalent of Sarah) in honor of the Hungarian actress Sari Fedak.
In 1936, Gabor won Miss Hungary beauty pageant but was disqualified as minor. A year later, she went to Vienna, where she met tenor Richard Tauber. He invited the girl to sing in his new operetta Der singende Traum (The Singing Dream) at the Vienna Theatre.
Gabor participated in many movies, TV shows and numerous entertainment shows. She was one of the most prominent stars of the secular life. Her sense of humor, eccentricity and penchant for scandal allowed maintaining her popularity, regardless of the ups and downs of her film career.
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Michael Sheen – British actor

Michael Sheen is a British actor from Wales. He became known for his roles of well-known politicians and public figures: Tony Blair in the movies The Deal, The Queen and The Special Relationship, David Frost in the film Frost / Nixon, Brian Clough in The Damned United. In 2004, he played the role of a rock musician in the film Laws of Attraction. In 2009 he played the role of vampire in the film Twilight. Saga. New Moon and the role of the terrorist in the dramatic thriller Unthinkable.
Michael Christopher Sheen was born on February 5, 1969 in Newport. From time to time his father worked as a professional Jack Nicholson double. Michael has a younger sister, Joanne. When Sheen was five years old his family moved to Liverpool. Three years later his family returned to Port Talbot, where Michael entered school and began to play football for the children’s youth team.
In 1990 Sheen became a theater actor and 1993 debuted in the movie.
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Felicity Jones – British actress

Felicity Jones is a British actress. She is a star of such films as Stephen Hawking’s Universe, Chalet Girl and Inferno. For the role of Jane Hawking in the biographical romantic drama film The Theory of Everything the actress was nominated for Oscar, BAFTA and Golden Globe awards.
Felicity Rose Hadley Jones was born on October 17, 1983. She grew up in Bournville, Birmingham, England. Her parents met while working in The Express and Star newspaper. Her father was a journalist, and her mother worked in advertising. They divorced when their daughter was 3 years old. Felicity and her brother were raised by their mother. Despite this, Felicity says that her family is “very close”. Her uncle, actor Michael Hadley starred in such famous films as The Alien Girl and Cast Away.
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James Franco – American actor

James Franco is an American actor, film director, screenwriter, producer, artist, writer, teacher at New York University. He began his acting career in the late 1990s, played a role in the TV series Freaks and Geeks, as well as starrd in several youth films. In 2001 he played the title role in Mark Rydell’s television biopic James Dean and became a winner of Golden Globe award. In the early 2000s, he became known for his role as Harry Osborn in the trilogy Spider-Man. In 2005 he starred in the movie The Great Raid. The following year he starred in three films: Tristan and Isolde, Duel and The Lafayette Escadrille. In 2008 he starred in the comedy Pineapple Express. He also played a cameo role in the movie Nights in Rodanthe and co-starred in the biopic Milk.
James Edward Franco was born on April 19, 1978 in Palo Alto, California. He is a son of Betsy (née Verne), poet, writer and editor, and Doug Franco. His father has Portuguese and Swedish roots, and his mother is a Jew with Russian roots. Franco grew up in California with his two younger brothers, Tom and David (also an actor). After school he entered the University of California in Los Angeles. However, he left the university after the first course and chose acting career.
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Mariah Carey – American singer

Mariah Carey is an American singer, songwriter, music producer, actress, and philanthropist. In 1990, she released her debut album Mariah Carey which was certificated four-time platinum and won the first place in the US charts Billboard Hot 100. After her marriage with Tommy Mottola in 1993 and successful albums Emotions (1991), Music Box (1993) and Merry Christmas (1994) Mariah Carey was named the most commercially successful musician in the history of Columbia.
In 2000 Carey left Columbia and signed a contract with Virgin Records. After a bad period, Mariah signed a multimillion contract with Island Records and returned to the top of the world charts with the album The Emancipation of Mimi (2005). The second single We Belong Together became the most successful single of the 2000s, and was later named the Song of the Decade by Billboard magazine. She played in the film Treasure (2009) and received Breakthrough of the Year award at the International Film Festival in Palm Springs.
Carey is one of the best-selling singers in the history of music. In 1998, she was named the best-selling performer of the decade, and in 2000 – the most commercially successful singer of millennium. In 2008, the song Touch My Body topped the Billboard Hot 100 chart, making Carey the only artist in the history of music, whose songs were number one for 18 times in this chart. She also is the owner of five Grammy awards. In August 2015 the singer was awarded a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
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Jane Birkin – Anglo-French actress

Jane Birkin is an Anglo-French actress and singer. She is known for long personal and creative union with French singer, actor and director Serge Gainsbourg. She is a mother of Anglo-French actresses and singers: Kate Barry (photographer and actress, born in 1967 – died on December 11, 2013), Charlotte Gainsbourg (actress and singer, born in 1971) and Lou Doillon (actress, model and singer, born in 1982).
Jane Mallory Birkin was born on December 14, 1946 in London. She was born to military man David Birkin and actress Judy Campbell. She has elder brother Andrew Birkin, who later became a famous film director (The Cement Garden) and screenwriter (Perfume: The Story of a Murderer).
At the age of 17 Jane debuted on the stage of London’s Haymarket Theater, where she played a young deaf-mute girl in the play Carving a Statue by Graham Greene.
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