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Winston Ross Biography

Winston Ross stage actor appeared in 25 Broadway productions, including Idiot's Delight, Billy Budd and Twelfth NightBorn: 1913Died: 1997Edwin (Chapo) Rosario1997 DeathsLeo Rosten

Wesley Naylor 2002 Deaths

Wesley NaylorAge: 44 composer who created the long-running off-Broadway hit, Mama, I Want to Sing. Died: Brooklyn, N.Y., Aug. 25, 2002Shelley MydansM - QLore Noto

Lionel Abel 2001 Deaths

Lionel AbelAge: 90 playwright, essayist, and novelist who won an Obie Award for his 1956 off-Broadway play Absalom. Died: Manhattan, April 19, 2001AaliyahA - FLarry Adler

Lena Horne

A pioneer among African-American performers, Lena Horne had the talent, beauty and ambition to crack the race barrier in Hollywood in the 1940s. A smooth singer of bluesy ballads, Lena Horne…

Ruby Dee

Name at birth: Ruby Ann WallaceRuby Dee was a star of stage and screen for decades, beginning with her 1946 Broadway debut in Anna Lucasta. Ruby Dee appeared hundreds of times in plays, movies and…

Ansel Elgort

Actor Ansel Elgort played Augustus "Gus" Waters in the 2014 tear-jerker The Fault in Our Stars, based on the novel by John Green. Born and raised in Manhattan by a Vogue photographer and an opera…

David Copperfield

Name at birth: David Seth KotkinA member of the exclusive club of world-famous magicians, David Copperfield is known for staging whopper illusions, including making the Statue of Liberty disappear…

Bill Maher

Bill Maher is a stand-up comedian and a self-made political savant on the TV shows Politically Incorrect and Real Time with Bill Maher. He grew up in New Jersey, graduated from Cornell University in…

Hal Holbrook

Name at birth: Harold Rowe Holbrook, Jr.Veteran stage and TV actor Hal Holbrook is best known as the lanky powerhouse who's been playing Mark Twain in theaters since the 1950s. His one-man show,…

Troy Kotsur

Troy Kotsur is the first deaf actor to win an Oscar since Marlee Matlin won for best actress in 1987. Kotsur won the award for his supporting role in 2021’s CODA (Matlin plays his wife in the film…