World Biographical Encyclopedia

Zoe Saldana is an American actress and dancer who jumped to fame with her high-profile roles in blockbuster films such as Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl, Star Trek, Star Trek Into Darkness and Avatar. A trained ballet dancer, Saldana had a modest beginning as a theatre artist.

Joaquin Phoenix

Joaquin Phoenix is an awarding-winning American actor who found success at a young age with the film Parenthood. On the heels of his early successes, he starred in Gladiator and Walk the Line, for which he won a Golden Globe and an Oscar nomination. Following a hiatus, Phoenix returned to the big screen with The Master and went on to acclaimed roles in Her and Inherent Vice.

Iwan Rheon

Iwan Rheon is a Welsh actor, singer, and musician. He is best known for portraying Simon Bellamy in the E4 series Misfits (2009–11), Ramsay Bolton in the HBO series Game of Thrones (2013–2016) and Ash Weston in the ITV sitcom Vicious (2013–2016).

Claude Debussy

Achille-Claude Debussy was a French composer.

Chadwick Boseman

Chadwick Boseman was an American actor. He is known for his portrayal of T'Challa/Black Panther in the Marvel Cinematic Universe (since 2016), particularly in Black Panther (2018), and for his starring roles in as Jackie Robinson in 42 (2013), James Brown in Get on Up (2014), and Thurgood Marshall in Marshall (2017).

Maria Goeppert Mayer

The German physicist and mathematician, Maria Goeppert Mayer is prominent for her numerous contributions to the field of physics which earned her a Nobel Prize in Physics in 1963. She was the first woman to win the Nobel Prize for theoretical physics and the second woman in history to win a Nobel Prize - the first being Marie Curie. She is most famous for proposing the nuclear shell model of the ...

Alan Rickman

Alan Sidney Patrick Rickman was an English actor and director. He was best known for portraying memorable villains in films like Die Hard and the Harry Potter film series. He was also a former member of the Royal Shakespeare Company, performing in modern and classical theatre productions.

Jesse Eisenberg

Jesse Eisenberg is an American actor, author, playwright, and humorist. He is known for playing Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg in the film The Social Network (2010).

Ann Miller

Ann Miller was an American dancer, actress, and singer. She starred in more than 40 Hollywood films during her career including "Easter Parade" in 1948, with Fred Astaire and Judy Garland and "On The Town" in 1949 with Frank Sinatra and Gene Kelly. She also appeared on a number of TV series including "Love Boat" and she made a cult TV commercial for Great American Soup.

David Griffith

David Lewelyn Wark Griffith was an American film director, actor, producer and screenwriter.

Eminem (Marshall Mathers III)

Marshall Bruce Mathers III, who is better known by his stage name Eminem, is an American rapper, record producer and actor, known as one of the most controversial and best-selling artists of the early 21st century. Rolling Stone ranked him 83rd on its list of 100 Greatest Artists of All Time, calling him the King of Hip Hop.

Martin Luther

Martin Luther was a German priest who was a major figure in the Protestant Reformation. A professor of theology and a former monk, he is credited to have started the Protestant Reformation in 16th-century Europe which changed the course of Western civilization.

Jay-Z (Shawn Carter)

Shawn Corey Carter is an American rapper, songwriter, record producer, entrepreneur, and occasional actor. Since 1996, 19-time Grammy award winner, Shawn "Jay Z" Carter has dominated an evolution in popular culture. Between multiple businesses and accolades spanning the recording industry to global investment leaders such as Warren Buffett, Jay Z personifies the "American Dream."

Amy Schumer

American comedian and actress whose pointed, self-deprecating humor brought her success on stage and screen. Perhaps the most frequent topics of her often raunchy comedy were relationship issues, body image, and the challenges faced by professional women in the 21st century.

Casey Affleck

Casey Affleck is an American Academy Award-winning actor. Affleck is an accomplished and striking performer who has established himself as a respected actor, writer, director, and principal of Sea Change Media. He started his career in the late 80s with the TV movie Lemon Sky and gained mainstream Hollywood popularity with his 1995 film To Die For.

Amanda Seyfried

Amanda Michelle Seyfried is an American actress known for her roles in movies like Mean Girls and Jennifer's Body which fetched her several awards and nominations. Beginning her career as a model when she was just 11, she eventually branched out into acting as well when she was a teenager.