Jane Badler
Jane Badler, the American and Australian actress, best known for her role as the evil reptilian Visitor leader “Diana” in the NBC mini-series V (1983),...
Category: Encyclopedia Cinemania
Alison Doody
Alison Doody was born in Dublin in 1966 in a well-off family. She is the youngest of three children. She was educated in a convent,...
Rutger Hauer
Rutger Oelsen Hauer; 23 January 1944 – 19 July 2019) was a Dutch actor. In 1999, he was named by the Dutch public as the...
Paul Verhoeven
Paul Verhoeven graduated from the University of Leiden with a degree in math and physics. He entered the Royal Netherlands Navy, where he began his...
Alexander Skarsgård
Alexander Johan Hjalmar Skarsgård was born in Stockholm, Sweden, and is the eldest son of famed actor Stellan Skarsgård. Among his siblings are actors Gustaf...
Margot Robbie
Margot Elise Robbie was born on July 2, 1990, in Dalby, Queensland, Australia, to Scottish parents. Her mother, Sarie Kessler, is a physiotherapist, and her...
Francis Ford Coppola
Francis Ford Coppola was born in 1939 in Detroit, Michigan, but grew up in a New York suburb in a creative, supportive Italian-American family. His...
Robert Downey Jr.
Robert Downey Jr. has evolved into one of the most respected actors in Hollywood. With an amazing list of credits to his name, he has...
Robert Zemeckis
A whiz-kid with special effects, Robert is from the Spielberg camp of film-making (Steven Spielberg produced many of his films). Usually working with writing partner...
Peter Jackson
Peter Jackson was born as an only child in a small coast-side town in New Zealand in 1961. When a friend of his parents bought...
Marion Ramsey
Marion Ramsey, an actress and singer who appeared in the 1978 hit Broadway show Eubie! but is best known for her portrayal of the sweet,...
George Lucas
George Walton Lucas, Jr. was raised on a walnut ranch in Modesto, California. His father was a stationery store owner, and he had three siblings....
Rosamund Pike
Born on January 27, 1979, in London, England, actress Rosamund Mary Elizabeth Pike is the only child of a classical violinist mother, Caroline (Friend), and...
Tom Cruise
In 1976, if you had told fourteen-year-old Franciscan seminary student Thomas Cruise Mapother IV that one day in the not too distant future he would...
Alfred Hitchcock
Alfred Joseph Hitchcock was born in Leytonstone, Essex, England. He was the son of Emma Jane (Whelan; 1863 – 1942) and East End greengrocer William...