Emma Thompson. Emma Thompson (born 15 April 1959) is a British actress, screenwriter and author.
Cited as one of the greatest British actresses of her generation,[2][3] she is known for her portrayal of reticent women in period dramas and literary adaptations, often playing haughty or matronly characters with a sense of irony. Thompson met Kenneth Branagh in 1987 while filming Fortunes of War and married him two years later. Dubbed a "golden couple" by the British media, the relationship received considerable press interest until they announced their separation in September 1995. She remarried Greg Wise in 2003, giving birth to a daughter, Gaia, in 1999. Tilda Swinton. Rachel Weisz. Rachel Hannah Weisz (/ˈvaɪs/ VYS;[1] born 7 March 1970)[2] is an English film and theatre actress and former fashion model.
Early life[edit] Weisz's parents valued the arts and encouraged her and her sister to form opinions of their own by introducing them to family debates. Her parents later divorced.[17] Weisz left North London Collegiate School and attended Benenden School for one year completing A-levels at St Paul's Girls School.[18] Weisz claimed that she was a bad student until an English Literature teacher inspired her at the age of 16.[19] Career[edit] Films[edit] 1992–1998[edit] "Dirty Something", a BBC Screen Two, hour long film made in 1992, was Rachel Weisz first film, playing Becca who met and fell in love with a traveler Dog (Paul Reynolds) at the end of Glastonbury Festival . Rachel Weisz signing an autograph during the press conference for The Brothers Bloom in September 2008. Charlize Theron. Early life[edit] Theron was born in Benoni, in the then-Transvaal Province of South Africa, the only child of Gerda (née Maritz)[4][5] and Charles Theron (born 27 November 1947).[5] Second Boer War figure Danie Theron was her great-great-uncle.[6] Her ancestry includes French, German, and Dutch; her French forebears were early Huguenot settlers in South Africa.[6] "Theron" is an Occitan surname (originally spelled Théron) pronounced in Afrikaans as [tɜːron], although she has said that the way she pronounces it in South Africa is [θron].[7] She changed the pronunciation when she moved to the U.S. to give it a more "American" sound.
She grew up on her parents' farm in Benoni, near Johannesburg.[8][9][10] On 21 June 1991, Theron's father, an alcoholic,[10] physically attacked her mother and threatened both her mother and her while drunk; Theron's mother then shot and killed him. The shooting was legally adjudged to have been self-defense and her mother faced no charges.[11] Annette Bening. Early life[edit] She then spent a year working as a cook on a charter boat taking fishing parties out on the Pacific Ocean, and scuba diving for recreation.
She attended San Diego Mesa College, then completed an academic degree in theatre arts at San Francisco State University. Inside The Actors Studio - Angelina Jolie. Katharine Hepburn. Katharine Houghton Hepburn (May 12, 1907 – June 29, 2003) was an American actress of film, stage, and television.
Known for her headstrong independence and spirited personality, Hepburn was a leading lady in Hollywood for more than 60 years. She appeared in a range of genres, from screwball comedy to literary drama, and received four Academy Awards for Best Actress—a record for any performer. In 1999, Hepburn was named by the American Film Institute as the greatest female star in Hollywood history. Hepburn famously shunned the Hollywood publicity machine, and refused to conform to society's expectations of women. She was outspoken, assertive, athletic, and wore trousers before it was fashionable for women to do so.
Early life[edit] Hepburn was born in Hartford, Connecticut, on May 12, 1907, the second of six children. Hepburn's college yearbook photo, 1928. Vera Farmiga In Indie Western A Thousand Guns. 8 Google +0 2 4 2317 Vera Farmiga has signed on to Daniel Calparsoro’s revenge indie Western A Thousand Guns, the movie that’s going to be directed by Spanish director Calparsoro and is written by Russell Friedenberg.
Farmiga seems to be very busy nowadays, since we all had a chance to hear she’s preparing her directorial debut with the adaptation of This Dark World, based on the memoir by Carolyn Briggs. Good for her! But let’s get back to A Thousand Guns! Not much is known of the plot except that “centers on a preacher’s wife and her journey of revenge” and that the story is actually about a young mother who begins to question the “religious dogma” that she has embraced all of her life. So, as you see, our lovely Farmiga will play a missionary turned powerful gunslinger in this rogue western that’s set “in a world where the dead command the living” and features a demon gun called El Rojo.
Westerns, not to speak of female fronted westerns are a rarity, right?