Barbra Streisand

Barbra Streisand

Barbara Joan "Barbra" Streisand (/ˈstraɪsænd/; born April 24, 1942) is an American singer, actress, and filmmaker. In a career spanning six decades, she has achieved success in multiple fields of entertainment and has been recognized with two Academy Awards,  ten Grammy Awards including the Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award and the Grammy Legend Award,  five Emmy Awards including one Daytime Emmy, a Special Tony Award, an American Film Institute award, a Kennedy Center Honors prize,  four Peabody Awards,  the Presidential Medal of Freedom  and nine Golden Globes.  She is among a small group of entertainers who have been honored with an Emmy, Grammy, Oscar, and Tony Award – though only three were competitive awards – and is one of only three artists in that group who have also won a Peabody.
After beginning a successful recording career in the 1960s, Streisand ventured into film by the end of that decade.  She starred in the critically acclaimed Funny Girl, for which she won the Academy Award and Golden Globe Award for Best Actress.  Her other films include The Owl and the Pussycat, The Way We Were, and A Star Is Born, for which she received her second Academy Award, composing music for the love theme "Evergreen", the first woman to be honored as a composer.  With the release of Yentl in 1983, Streisand became the first woman to write, produce, direct, and star in a major studio film.  The film won an Oscar for Best Score and a Golden Globe for Best Motion Picture Musical. Streisand also received the Golden Globe Award for Best Director, becoming the first (and to date only) woman to win that award.

Streisand is one of the best-selling recording artists of all time, with more than 68.5 million albums in the U.S. and with a total of 150 million records sold worldwide  making her the best-selling female artist among top-selling artists recognized by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA).  The RIAA and Billboard recognize Streisand as holding the record for the most top 10 albums of any female recording artist: a total of 34 since 1963. According to Billboard, she holds the record for the female with the most number one albums (11).  Billboard also recognizes her as the greatest female of all time on its 200 chart and one of the greatest artists of all time on its Hot 100 chart.  Streisand is the only recording artist to have a number-one album in each of the last six decades, having released 53 gold albums, 31 platinum albums, and 14 multi-platinum albums in the United States
Streisand was born on April 24, 1942, in Brooklyn, New York, the daughter of Diana (born Ida Rosen) and Emanuel Streisand. Her mother had been a soprano in her youth and considered a career in music, but later became a school secretary.  Her father was a high school teacher at the same school, where they first met.[20] Streisand's family was Jewish.  Her paternal grandparents emigrated from Galicia (Poland–Ukraine) and her maternal grandparents from the Russian Empire, where her grandfather had been a cantor.

In August 1943, a few months after Streisand's first birthday, her father died at age 34 from complications from an epileptic seizure, possibly the result of a head injury years earlier :3 The family fell into near-poverty, with her mother working as a low-paid bookkeeper.  As an adult, Streisand remembered those early years as always feeling like an "outcast", explaining, "Everybody else's father came home from work at the end of the day. Mine didn't." :3 Her mother tried to pay their bills but could not give her daughter the attention she craved: "When I wanted love from my mother, she gave me food," Streisand says. :3

Streisand recalls that her mother had a "great voice" and sang semi-professionally on occasion. During a visit to the Catskills when Streisand was 13, she told Rosie O'Donnell, she and her mother recorded some songs on tape. That session was the first time Streisand ever asserted herself as an artist, which also became her "first moment of inspiration".
She has an older brother, Sheldon, and a half-sister, singer Roslyn Kind,  from her mother's remarriage to Louis Kind in 1949
Reference
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كيفين كوستنر

كيفين كوستنر

كيفين كوستنر مخرج وممثل أمريكي من مواليد 18 يناير 1955, فائز بجائزة الأوسكار مرتين لأفضل فيلم وأفضل مخرج عام 1990 عن فيلم الرقص مع الذئاب، كما فاز بنفس الفيلم على جائزة الغولدن غلوب 1991 لأفضل مخرج، قام ببطولة العديد من الأفلام منها جي اف كي وساعي البريد.

ولد كوستنر في لينوود، كاليفورنيا، وكان أصغر من ثلاثة أبناء (منتصفهم مات عند الولادة). وكانت والدته شارون راي، إحدى موظفي الشؤون الاجتماعية، وكان والده، وليام كوستنر، كهربائي ومرافق تنفيذي في وقت لاحق في شركة اديسون كاليفورنيا الجنوبية.   أصل كوستنرالأبوي ينشأ مع المهاجرين الألمان إلى ولاية كارولينا الجنوبية   لديه أيضا أصل اللغة الإنجليزية والأيرلندية، وقالت أن أحد أجداده قد "تزوج امرأة شيروكي"   وأثيرت كوستنر المعمدان  وقال انه حضر Cabrillo الاعدادية والثانوية فيلا بارك. لم يكن يميل كوستنر أكاديميا. بدلا من ذلك، يتمتع هو الرياضة، وأخذ دروس العزف على البيانو، وكتب الشعر وغنى في جوقة المعمدانية الأولى.  وكان قد ذكر أن مشاهدة هذا الفيلم كيف وفاز في الغرب في سن السابعة قد "شكلت" له في مرحلة الطفولة.   

قضى سنوات مراهقته في مناطق مختلفة من ولاية كاليفورنيا ومهنة والده تقدما،   وقد وصف كوستنر هذا النحو لفترة عندما "فقد الكثير من الثقة"، وكان لتكوين صداقات جديدة في كثير من الأحيان.   كوستنر عاش في مقاطعة أورانج، ثم في فيساليا (تثلر مقاطعة)، وحضور جبل. ويتني مدرسة ثانوية، ومن ثم العودة إلى فنتورا، وتخرج من المدرسة العليا بوينا في عام 1973. ذهب ليحصل على شهادة البكالوريوس في التسويق والتمويل من جامعة ولاية كاليفورنيا، فوليرتون، في عام 1978.  

أصبح كوستنر مهتما بالعمل في سنته الأخيرة من الكلية،  ، وبعد التخرج تزوجت سيندي سيلفا. وقضى الزوجان شهر العسل في بويرتو فالارتا، وفي رحلة العودة بالطائرة سنحت له فرصة اللقاء مع الممثل وزميله الراكب ريتشارد بيرتون، الذي كان قد اشترى جميع المقاعد من حوله. وافق برتون التحدث إلى كوستنر بعد أن أنهى كتابه. كوستنر، الذي كان قد أخذ دروس التمثيل، لكن لم يخبر زوجته عن رغبته في أن يكون ممثلا. وقال كوستنر لبيرتون انه كان يفضل ان لا يملأ حياته مع نوع من الدراما، التي أعقبت بيرتون وسئل عما إذا كان سيتعين عليه تحمل ذلك إذا أصبح طرفا فاعلا. أجاب بيرتون، "لديك عيون خضراء. لدي عيون خضراء. اعتقد انك سوف تكون على ما يرام." بعد الهبوط، وتوجهت ليموزين بيرتون لتصل إلى الرصيف حيث كوستنر وسيندي كانوا في انتظار سيارة أجرة، حيث تمنى بيرتون لكوستنر الحظ. كوستنر لن يرى بيرتون مرة أخرى، ولكن ساهم بيرتون جزئيا على حياته المهنية.  

بدأ كوستنر بعد أن وافق على عمل كمدير تنفيذي لإحدى المحال التسويقية في المقابل، أخذ دروس في التمثيل خمس ليال في الأسبوع، وذلك بدعم من زوجته.  وظيفته تسويق استمرت 30 يوما. تولى العمل الذي مكنه من تطوير مهاراته الدراسية من خلال العمل، بما في ذلك العمل على قوارب الصيد، كسائق شاحنة، وإعطاء جولات من منازل نجوم هوليوود "لدعم الزوجين في حين انه قدم أيضا جولات الاختبار.  

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Kevin Costner

Kevin Costner

Kevin Michael Costner (born January 18, 1955) is an American actor, filmmaker and musician. A major movie star from the late 1980s to the mid 1990s, Costner is the recipient of two Academy Awards, two Golden Globe Awards and a Primetime Emmy Award.

Costner began his acting career with Sizzle Beach, U.S.A. (1981). Following a few minor supporting parts, he rose to prominence with his portrayal of Eliot Ness in The Untouchables (1987). This was followed by a widely successful period in his career with starring roles in No Way Out (1987), Bull Durham (1988), Field of Dreams (1989), Dances with Wolves (1990), for which he won two Academy Awards, JFK (1991), Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves (1991), The Bodyguard (1992), and A Perfect World (1993). In 1995, Costner starred in and co-produced Waterworld. The most expensive film ever made at the time, it was a box office disappointment (which nonetheless made a small profit) that marked a downturn in his career.[1][2] His second directorial feature, The Postman (1997), was another failure.[3] He has since starred in a string of unsuccessful films which failed to propel his career forward as a leading man; Message in a Bottle (1999), For Love of the Game (1999), Thirteen Days (2000), 3000 Miles to Graceland (2001), Dragonfly (2002), Rumor Has It (2005), The Guardian (2006), Mr. Brooks (2007), 3 Days to Kill (2014), McFarland, USA (2015), Draft Day (2014), and Criminal (2016).[4] However, he has had supporting parts in critically favored films including The Upside of Anger (2005), Man of Steel (2013), Hidden Figures (2016), Molly's Game (2017), and The Art of Racing in the Rain (2019).

On television, Costner portrayed Devil Anse Hatfield in the miniseries Hatfields & McCoys (2012), winning the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Limited Series or Movie. Since 2018, he has starred as John Dutton on the drama series Yellowstone.

Costner was born on January 18, 1955 in Lynwood, California, and grew up in Compton, California. He is the youngest of three boys, the middle of whom died at birth. His mother, Sharon Rae (Tedrick), was a welfare worker, and his father, William Costner, was an electrician and, later, a utilities executive at Southern California Edison.  His father's heritage originates with German immigrants to North Carolina in the 1700s,  and Costner also has English, Irish, Scottish, and Welsh ancestry.  Costner was raised Baptist.  He was not academically inclined in school. He enjoyed sports (especially football), took piano lessons, wrote poetry, and sang in the First Baptist Choir.  He has stated that a viewing of the 1962 film How the West Was Won at the age of seven had "formed" his childhood. 

He has described spending his teenage years in various parts of California as his father's career progressed, as a period when he "lost a lot of confidence", having to make new friends often.  Costner lived in Ventura, then in Visalia; he attended Mt. Whitney High School and moved to Orange County, where he graduated from Villa Park High School in 1973. He earned a BA in marketing and finance from California State University, Fullerton (CSUF) in 1978.  While at CSUF, he became a brother in the Delta Chi fraternity. 

Costner became interested in acting and dancing while in his last year of college,  and upon graduation, he married Cindy Silva, who worked at Disneyland as Cinderella. The couple honeymooned in Puerto Vallarta; on the return plane journey, they had a chance encounter with actor Richard Burton, who had purchased all the seats around him for solitude. Burton agreed to speak to Costner after he finished reading his book. Costner, who had been taking acting classes but had not told his wife about his desire to be an actor, watched Burton closely and approached when Burton gestured. Costner told Burton that he would prefer to avoid the drama that followed Burton and asked if he would have to tolerate that if he became an actor. Burton replied, "You have blue eyes, I have blue eyes. I think you'll be fine." After the plane landed, Burton's limousine pulled up to the curb where Costner and his wife were waiting for a taxi. Burton wished Costner good luck, and the two never met again. Costner credits Burton with partially contributing to his career. Having agreed to undertake a job as a marketing executive, Costner began taking acting lessons five nights a week, with the support of his wife. His marketing job lasted 30 days. He took work which allowed him to develop his acting skills via tuition, including working on fishing boats, as a truck driver, and giving tours of stars' Hollywood homes to support the couple while he also attended auditions.

Reference

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kevin_Costner

رون بيرلمان

رون بيرلمان

رون بيرلمان (بالإنجليزية: Ron Perlman)‏ ممثل أمريكي من مواليد 13 أبريل 1950، حاصل على جائزة الغولدن غلوب 1989 لأفضل ممثل في مسلسل درامي عن دوره في الجميلة والوحش.

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Ron Perlman

Ron Perlman

Ronald Perlman (born April 13, 1950) is an American television, film, stage and voice actor. He played the roles of Amoukar in Quest for Fire (1981), Salvatore in The Name of the Rose (1986), Vincent on the television series Beauty and the Beast (1987–1990), for which he won a Golden Globe Award, One in The City of Lost Children (1995), Johner in Alien: Resurrection (1997), Hellboy in both Hellboy (2004) and its sequel Hellboy II: The Golden Army (2008), Clay Morrow on the television series Sons of Anarchy (2008–2013) and Nino in Drive (2011).

Perlman is also known as a collaborator of Hellboy director Guillermo del Toro, having roles in the del Toro films Cronos (1993), Blade II (2002), and Pacific Rim (2013). He is also known for his voice-over work as the narrator of the post-apocalyptic game series Fallout (1997–present), Clayface in the DC Animated Universe, Slade in the animated series Teen Titans (2003–2006), the Stabbington brothers in Tangled (2010), The Lich in Adventure Time (2011–2017) and Xibalba in The Book of Life (2014).

Ronald Perlman[1] was born in Washington Heights, New York. His mother, Dorothy (née Rosen; 1921–2018), was a municipal employee, and his father, Bertram "Bert" Perlman, (1919–1969) was a jazz drummer and television repairman.  His family was Jewish, originally from Hungary and Poland, and Perlman had a Bar Mitzvah ceremony. 

Perlman said in 1988, "It was not a bad childhood but I had a perception of myself that was ... I was terribly overweight as a young kid, and it was sort of a low self image."[6] He cited this experience as one thing that attracts him to roles where he portrays "these sorts of deformed people who are very endearing."[7][8] He has said that he and his father were "very close" and that it was his father, after seeing Perlman in a college production of Guys and Dolls, who told him he "had to" pursue a career as an actor. Perlman later said that his father essentially "gave [him] permission to be an actor".  He graduated from George Washington High School in 1967 and Lehman College in 1971. He later attended the University of Minnesota where he graduated with a master's degree in theater arts in 1973

Reference

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ron_Perlman

ماري آن ماكلويد ترامب

ماري آن ماكلويد ترامب

ماري آن ترامب ( ني ماكلويد ، (بالغيلية الاسكتلندية: Màiri Anna NicLeòid)‏ . 10 مايو 1912 - 7 أغسطس 2000)، كانت والدة دونالد ترامب، الرئيس ال 45 للولايات المتحدة، وزوجة المطور العقاري فريد ترامب. ولدت في هيبريدس الخارجي في اسكتلندا، هاجرت إلى الولايات المتحدة في عام 1930 وأصبحت مواطنة متجنسة في عام 1942.  قامت بتربية خمسة أطفال مع زوجها وشاركت في أنشطة خيرية في منطقة نيويورك.

وُلدت ماري آن ماكلويد في منزل ريفي ضمن ملكية والدها منذ عام 1895 في تونغ في جزيرة لويس.  وصف المؤرخون وعلماء الأنساب المحليون المُلكيات والعقارات في تلك المجتمعات في ذلك الوقت بأنها "قذرة بشكل لا يوصف" وتتميز بـ "بؤس الإنسان".   اندلاع الحرب العالمية الأولى أضعف كل من اقتصادها وعدد سكانها من الذكور.  نشأت ماكلويد في أسرة من الناطقين باللغة الغيلية الأسكتلندية، وكانت الأصغر ضمن عشرة أطفال ولدوا لكل من مالكوم ماكلويد (1866-1954) وماري ماكلويد ( ني سميث ؛ 1867-1963).  كان والدها مزارع، صياد و ضابط دوام في مدرستها.     كانت اللغة الإنجليزية هي لغتها الثانية، التي تعلمتها في المدرسة التي التحقت بها حتى الصف الثامن.  أجدادها من طرف والدها ألكساندر ماكلويد وآن ماكلويد.

جديها من طرف والدها هما ألكساندر ماكلويد وآن ماكلويد. وجديها من طرف أمها كانا دونالد سميث وماري ماكولاي. كانوا ينحدروا من مواقع فاتسكير ولوتش الجنوبية،  حيث عانت بعض أجيال العائلة من عمليات إخلاء المرتفعات . 

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Mary Trump

Mary Trump

Mary Anne Trump (née MacLeod, Scottish Gaelic: Màiri Anna NicLeòid; May 10, 1912 – August 7, 2000) was the mother of Donald Trump, and the wife of real estate developer Fred Trump. Born in the Outer Hebrides of Scotland, she emigrated to the United States in 1930 and became a naturalized citizen in 1942.  She raised five children with her husband and engaged in philanthropic activities in the New York area.

Mary Anne MacLeod was born in a pebbledash croft house owned by her father since 1895 in Tong on the Isle of Lewis, Scotland.  Local historians and genealogists have described properties in this community at the time as "indescribably filthy" and characterized by "human wretchedness".  The outbreak of World War I weakened its economy and male population. 

Raised in a Scottish Gaelic-speaking household, Mary was the youngest of ten children born to Malcolm (1866–1954) and Mary MacLeod (née Smith; 1867–1963). Her father was a crofter, fisherman and compulsory officer at Mary's school. English was her second language, which she learned at the school she attended until secondary school. 

Her paternal grandparents were Alexander MacLeod and Ann MacLeod; her maternal grandparents were Donald Smith and Mary MacAulay. They were from the locations of Vatisker and South Lochs, and some of the family's generations had suffered in the Highland Clearances

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