Chris Pratt – American actor

Chris Pratt is an American film and television actor. He is known for his roles in the films Guardians of the Galaxy and Jurassic World. In 2014, he voiced the title role in the animated film “Lego. The film” and was nominated for the Teen Choice Award.
Michael Christopher Pratt was born on June 21, 1979 in Virginia, Minnesota. His mother, Cathy Pratt, worked in SafeWay supermarket, and his father, Dan Pratt, worked on a gold mine. Pratt spent his childhood and youth in Washington. Chris has elder brother and sister. At school he was fond of wrestling and even won prizes.
After school Pratt went to college but left it after the first semester. As a result, he worked as a salesman of tickets and a stripper, but became homeless. He often slept in the van and in a tent on the beach. 19-year-old Pratt was noticed by actress Rae Dawn Chong and in 2001 he got his first role in the series Everwood. Later he was invited to play in the series The OC. In 2005 Chris debuted in the movie Strangers with Candy.
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Kenneth Branagh – British actor

Kenneth Branagh is a British film and theater actor, film director, screenwriter and producer. He is known for numerous adaptations of Shakespeare’s plays – Henry V (1989, BAFTA Award for Best Director, Oscar nomination), Much Ado About Nothing (1993, Palme d’Or nomination at the Cannes Film Festival), Hamlet (1996) and others. Kenneth is a winner of BAFTA and Emmy awards, four-time Golden Globe and five-time Oscar nominee.
Kenneth Charles Branagh was born on December 10, 1960 in Belfast, the capital of Northern Ireland. In 1970, the Branaghs moved to the city of Reading in southern England, where nine-year old Kenneth had to get rid of the Irish accent.
He studied at Grove Primary School, Whiteknights Primary School, Meadway School where he took part in school plays. At the age of eighteen, he entered the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art. He graduated in 1981 and received the Bancroft Gold Medal – the award for brilliant achievements in studying.
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Margot Robbie – Hollywood Cinderella

Margot Robbie is an Australian actress. The roles of Donna Freedman and Laura Cameron in the TV series Neighbours and Pan Am brought her the greatest popularity, as well as Charlotte in About Time, Naomi LaPaglia in The Wolf of Wall Street and Harley Quinn in Suicide Squad.
Margot Elise Robbie was born on July 2, 1990 in Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia. She is the third of four children into the family of farmer Mike Robbie and physiotherapist Sari Kessler. Her father left his wife with four children. Robbie couldn’t forgive her father. Her mother had to work hard. The girl spent her childhood in the Gold Coast and on her grandparents’ farm. Margot went to drama school and danced. Her real passion was the surfing.
In 2007, Margot graduated from college in her hometown and then moved to Melbourne, where she began an acting career at the age of 17. The aspiring actress moonlighted as a waitress in a bar, cleaned rooms in the hotel, sold souvenirs and drinks.
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Kirk Douglas – Hollywood star

Kirk Douglas is an American actor, one of the last living stars of Hollywood “golden age”, writer, philanthropist and former goodwill Ambassador for the US State Department. In 1996 he was awarded Oscar. For his role as Vincent Van Gogh in the biographical film Lust for Life Kirk received Golden Globe award. Douglas has written ten novels and memoirs. At the moment, the actor takes the 17-th place in the list of the American Institute of cinematography among the greatest male screen legends of classical Hollywood cinema and the first place among the living ones.
His son Michael Douglas is a successful film star.
Issur Danielovich and later Izzy Demsky (his real name) was born on December 9, 1916, Amsterdam, New York. He was the fourth child into a poor Jewish family. Issur was the only boy and has six sisters. His parents emigrated to the United States in 1910, two years after their marriage. The parents changed the family name to Demsky.
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Bob Dylan – Folk Troubadour

Bob Dylan is an American singer-songwriter, artist, writer and film actor. He has been a cult figure in rock music for five decades. Many of his songs, such as Blowin ‘in the Wind and The Times They Are a-Changin’, became the anthem of the civil rights movement and the anti-war movement in the United States. In 2016 he was awarded Nobel Prize in literature. According to Rolling Stone survey he is the second (after The Beatles) leading performer in the history of music.
Robert Allen Zimmerman (his real name) was born on May 24, 1941 in Duluth, Minnesota into the family of a merchant. His ancestors are immigrants from the Russian Empire. In 1947, Robert’s father contracted polio, and the family moved to the nearby town Hibbing. As a child, Robert was fond of music and Woody Guthrie greatly influenced him. At the age of ten Robert wrote his first poems.
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Bradley Cooper – American actor

Bradley Cooper is an American actor, four-time Oscar nominee for his roles in the films Silver Linings Playbook (2012), American Hustle (2013) and American Sniper (2014).
Bradley Cooper was born on January 5, 1975 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. His mother, Gloria, is an Italian-American and his father, Charlie Cooper, is an Irish American. He worked as a stockbroker at Merrill Lynch Bank.
Cooper studied at Germantown Academy in Fort Washington, Pennsylvania, and graduated in 1993. Then he entered Villanova University, but a year later transferred to Georgetown University.
The film The Elephant Man by David Lynch determined his future profession. In New York he entered the local actor’s drama school, where he debuted as Elephant Man.
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Ashton Kutcher – American actor

Ashton Kutcher is an American actor, presenter and producer.
Christopher Ashton Kutcher was born on February 7, 1978 in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. His father Larry Kutcher worked for General Mills and his mother Diane (nee Finnegan) worked for Procter & Gamble. The boy was brought up in a conservative family. Kutcher has elder sister and the twin brother Michael, who survived heart transplant in the childhood.
Ashton attended Washington High School in his hometown, and then his family moved to Homestead, where Kutcher continued his studies at Clear Creek Amana High. At the same time the future actor took part in school plays. When he was 16 years old, his parents divorced.
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