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Gary Coleman

Gary Coleman was only 10 when he became a child star on the TV sitcom Diff'rent Strokes. He played Arnold Jackson, a cute and mischievous black child adopted by a wealthy white Manhattan family. The…

Bridgette Wilson-Sampras Biography

actorBorn: September 25, 1973Birthplace: Gold Beach OregonBest Known as: Veronica, Adam Sandler's teacher in Billy Madison, also the wife of tennis champion Pete Sampras…

Rod Steiger

Name at birth: Rodney SteigerRod Steiger won the 1967 Academy Award for playing a bigoted Mississippi cop opposite Sidney Poitier's black Philadelphia cop in the film In the Heat of the Night.…

Maria Shriver

Maria Shriver is a veteran TV news reporter, former First Lady of California, and a member of the prominent Kennedy family. She's the daughter of Eunice Kennedy Shriver and Sargent Shriver, the niece…

Jesse Ventura Biography

Jesse Ventura(James George Janos)politician, actor, professional wrestlerBorn: 7/15/1951Birthplace: Minneapolis, Minnesota Jesse “the Body” Ventura became governor of Minnesota in 1998 after…

Rob Zombie

Name at birth: Robert CummingsA comics writer, filmmaker and rock star, Rob Zombie is best known as the front man for 1990s rock band White Zombie and for his song, "Dragula," heard in the movie The…

Linda Hamilton

Linda Hamilton is best known to moviegoers as Sarah Connor, the central protagonist in 1984's The Terminator. Hamilton grew up in Maryland and briefly attended Washington College before heading to…

Oliver Stone

Oliver Stone is a successful screenwriter, producer and film director whose work during the 1980s and '90s was consistently controversial. Stone, a veteran of the Vietnam War, began as a…

Edward Furlong

Edward Furlong made his film debut as young John Connor in the 1991 blockbuster Terminator 2: Judgment Day (directed by James Cameron and starring Arnold Schwarzenegger). Furlong fell into acting…

Stanley Tookie Williams

Stanley Tookie Williams, who helped to found the notorious Crips street gang, was executed by the state of California in 2005. His plea for clemency made him a national celebrity and turned his case…