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2 days ago · 1943–1944. Battles/wars. World War II. Sidney Poitier KBE ( / ˈpwɑːtjeɪ / PWAH-tyay; [1] February 20, 1927 – January 6, 2022) was a Bahamian and American actor, film director, and diplomat. In 1964, he was the first Black actor and first Bahamian to win the Academy Award for Best Actor. [2] He received two competitive Golden Globe ...
May 9, 2024 · J.K. Simmons (born January 9, 1955, Detroit, Michigan, U.S.) is an American character actor who had a wide-ranging and prolific career both before and after winning an Academy Award for his unnerving portrayal of the sadistic and perfectionist music instructor in Damien Chazelle ’s drama Whiplash (2014). Simmons was the son of a music teacher ...
May 8, 2024 · Paul Sorvino was an opera singer who acted. He used to tell people that, in so many words, and you knew from his work that he carried an opera inside of him. Like a lot of East Coast Italian American actors of the Silent Generation, he often got typecast as cops and criminals, but he made the most of his assignments.
May 15, 2024 · Jennifer Connelly (born December 12, 1970, Catskill Mountains, New York, U.S.) is an American actress who won an Academy Award for her moving and complex portrayal of Alicia Nash, the wife of John Nash (played by Russell Crowe ), a brilliant mathematician who won the 1994 Nobel Prize for Economics, in A Beautiful Mind (2001), a film that ...
May 9, 2024 · Dianne Wiest (born March 28, 1948, Kansas City, Missouri, U.S.) is an American actress who gained respect for her ability to convey vulnerability, her versatility, and her understated comic talents. Wiest studied ballet as a child in Germany and at the School of American Ballet, but, after appearing in high-school plays, she decided on an ...
