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Kristen Stewart – American actress

Kristen Stewart - American actress

Kristen Stewart – American actress

Kristen Stewart is an American actress. She is the first actress in history of the country, awarded the French prize Cesar for supporting actress in drama Clouds of Sils Maria (2015). Kristen received wide acclaim for her role as Bella Swan in the film series Twilight.
Kristen Jaymes Stewart was born on April 9, 1990 in Los Angeles, California. Her family briefly moved to Colorado, and then again returned to Los Angeles, where her father, John Stewart, worked as an assistant director, producer and director of numerous shows on Fox. She has a whole elder brother – Cameron Stewart and two foster brothers – Dan and Taylor.
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Marc Anthony – musician and composer

Marc Anthony - musician and composer

Marc Anthony – musician and composer


Marc Anthony is a popular American singer, musician and composer, actor. He is popular not only in the countries of Latin America, but also abroad. Marc is the former husband of singer and actress Jennifer Lopez.
Marco Antonio Muñiz Ruiz (his real name) was born on September 16, 1968 in New York to Puerto Rican family. His mother was a housewife and his father was a musician and worked at the hospital cafeteria. Marc Anthony was named in honor of Marco Antonio Muniz, Mexican singer popular in Puerto Rico. He has a sister, whose name is Yolanda Muñiz.
Anthony worked as a composer and a backing singer for Menudo and Latin Rascals. His first album Rebel was recorded in 1988. Then in 1989, he sang backing vocals for Anne-Marie for her club hit With or Without You. A year later, in 1990, together with Little Louie Vega and Todd Terry, Marc wrote and sang the song You Should Know By Now.
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Vivien Leigh – English beauty

Vivien Leigh – English beauty

Vivien Leigh – English beauty

Vivien Leigh was an English actress, winner of two Oscar awards for the roles of American beauties: Scarlett O’Hara in Gone With The Wind (1939) and Blanche DuBois in A Streetcar Named Desire (1951). Talented actress often worked in collaboration with her husband, Laurence Olivier, who was a director of several films with her participation. During her thirty-year career, she had played a variety of roles from comedy heroines of Noel Coward and George Bernard Shaw to classic Shakespearean characters: such as Ophelia, Cleopatra, Juliet and Lady Macbeth. The actress had a poor health. Vivien and Olivier divorced in 1960, and later she only occasionally appeared in films and played in the theater until her death from tuberculosis.
She is one of the greatest actresses in the history.
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Zendaya – actress and singer

Zendaya – actress and singer

Zendaya – actress and singer

Zendaya is an American actress, singer, dancer and model. She is best known for her role as Rocky Blue in the television series Shake It Up.
Zendaya Maree Stoermer Coleman was born on September 1, 1996 in Auckland, California. She has three sisters and two brothers. The girl spent her youth at the California Shakespeare Theater in Orinda, where her mother worked as a theater manager. Zendaya took part in many productions and helped her mother to sell lottery tickets.
During her studies at the Oakland School for the Arts she played in the musical Once on This Island, as well as performed in Caroline, or Change. Later, the actress attended California Shakespeare Theater Conservatory and American Conservatory Theater.
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Sarah Paulson – bright American actress

Sarah Paulson – bright American actress

Sarah Paulson – bright American actress

Sarah Paulson is an American actress and producer. She was Golden Globe laureate in 2017 and was nominated for this award in 2007 and 2012. The actress is widely-known for her roles in the television series An American Crime and American Horror Story.
Sarah Catherine Paulson was born on December 17, 1974 in Tampa, Florida but grew up in Brooklyn and Maine. As a child, she realized that she wanted to become an actress and began performing in local theater productions.
In 1989, Paulson studied acting at the American Academy of Dramatic Arts and at the age of nineteen she made her debut on the stage in New York.
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Grace Kelly – famous actress and Princess

Grace Kelly - famous actress and Princess

Grace Kelly – famous actress and Princess

Grace Kelly was one of the most famous women of the XX century, the beloved symbol of the little principality, famous Hollywood actress. Once she was able to change the life of a state. Thanks to Grace a lot of businessmen and celebrities returned to Monaco. But her death is still a solid mystery, and even numerous investigations, publications, books and attempt to make a film could not shed light on this mystery.
Beauty Grace went down in history as the famous American actress, Oscar winner, as well as the wife of Rainier III, Prince of Monaco. These facts of her biography are known worldwide. But only a small circle of close friends and relatives knew she had the ability to foresee and even knew in advance about her fate. According to her relatives Grace often foresaw disasters and misfortunes happened to her family and friends.
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Winona Ryder – beautiful actress

Winona Ryder – beautiful actress

Winona Ryder – beautiful actress

Winona Ryder is an American actress and producer. She was nominated for Oscar twice for her roles in the films The Age of Innocence (1993) and Little Women (1994). In 1994 she was awarded Golden Globe for her role in Little Women. Winona is the owner of a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
Winona Laura Horowitz (her real name) was born on October 29, 1971 in Olmsted County, Minnesota. Winona’s father is a descendant of the Jewish immigrants from the Russian Empire and Romania. Michael Horowitz was a writer. Her mother was also engaged in literary activities and she had two children from a previous marriage: daughter and son. Winona’s parents officially married when she was 12 years old. Later, her younger brother, Uri Horowitz, named in honor of Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin, was born.
Since 1978, when the girl was seven years old, she lived with her family in an agricultural commune Rainbow in northern California. There was no electricity and TV and Winona was fond of reading. Her favorite book was The Catcher in the Rye by Jerome Salinger.
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