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Liam Neeson. John Malkovich. Early life[edit] Malkovich was born in Christopher, Illinois.

John Malkovich

His paternal grandparents were Croatian, natives of Ozalj.[1][2][3][4] His mother had French, German, Scottish, and English ancestry.[5][6] He grew up in Benton, Illinois, in a large house on South Main Street. His father, Daniel Leon Malkovich, was a state conservation director and publisher of Outdoor Illinois, a conservation magazine. His mother, Joe Anne (née Choisser), owned the Benton Evening News, as well as Outdoor Illinois.[7][8][9] Malkovich has three younger sisters and an older brother.[10] Leonardo DiCaprio. Early life and family DiCaprio, an only child, was born in Los Angeles, California.

Leonardo DiCaprio

His mother, Irmelin (née Indenbirken), is a former legal secretary; born in Germany, she moved with her family from Oer-Erkenschwick in the Ruhr to the U.S. during the 1950s. His father, George DiCaprio, is an underground comic artist and producer and distributor of comic books.[4] DiCaprio's father is of half Italian (from the Naples area) and half German (from Bavaria) descent.[1][5][6] DiCaprio's maternal grandfather, Wilhelm Indenbirken, was German.[7] His maternal grandmother, Helene Indenbirken (1915–2008),[8] a German citizen, was born as Yelena Smirnova in Russia.[9][10] Career Early career. Daniel Day-Lewis.

Actresses

Cuba Gooding Jr. Da Wikipedia, l'enciclopedia libera.

Cuba Gooding Jr.

Cuba Gooding Jr. (New York, 2 gennaio 1968) è un attore statunitense. Biografia[modifica | modifica sorgente] Suo padre Cuba Gooding era il cantante di un gruppo R&B chiamato The Main Ingredient. Denzel Washington. Jamie Foxx. Early life Foxx was born in Terrell, Texas.[2] He is the son of Louise Annette Talley Dixon and Darrell Bishop; his father sometimes worked as a stockbroker, and changed his name to Shahid Abdula after converting to Islam.[3][4] Shortly after his birth, Foxx was adopted and raised by his mother's adoptive parents, Esther Marie (Nelson), a domestic worker and nursery operator, and Mark Talley, a yard worker.[5][6][7] He has had little contact with his birth parents, who were not part of his upbringing.[3] Foxx was raised in the black quarter of Terrell, at the time a racially segregated community.[8] As a teenager, he was a part-time pianist and choir leader in Terrell's New Hope Baptist Church,[3] and had a strict Baptist upbringing.[6][9] Foxx began playing the piano when he was five years old.[10] As a second grader, he was so talented in telling jokes that his teacher used him as a reward.

Jamie Foxx

If the class behaved, Foxx would tell them jokes. Career 1989–2004: Beginnings and acting debut. Morgan Freeman. Danny Glover. Da Wikipedia, l'enciclopedia libera.

Danny Glover

Danny Glover nel 2008 Daniel Lebern Glover (San Francisco, 22 luglio 1946) è un attore e regista statunitense. Forest Whitaker. Da Wikipedia, l'enciclopedia libera.

Forest Whitaker

Biografia[modifica | modifica sorgente] Figlio di un assicuratore e di un'insegnante, i genitori lo spinsero verso le discipline sportive, durante il college praticò football americano a ottimi livelli, riuscendo ad ottenere una borsa di studio. Ma la passione per la recitazione e il canto, con un timbro da tenore, lo spinsero a frequentare l'università di San Francisco. Nel 2000 ricevette una nomination per il Razzie Awards nella categoria peggiore attore non protagonista dell'anno per Battaglia per la Terra - Una saga dell'anno 3000, film che ha collezionato ben nove Razzie.

Tra il 2006 e il 2007 è apparso in alcune puntate delle serie televisive E.R. - Medici in prima linea e The Shield.

Old actors

Stevan Seagal. Jason statham.