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Mary Wollstonecraft

English author Mary Wollstonecraft is the author of 1792's A Vindication for the Rights of Woman, one of the earliest treatises to advocate equal rights for women. She began publishing in the late…

Dr. Joyce Brothers

Name at birth: Joyce Diane BauerDr. Joyce Brothers was a psychologist from New York who used mass media to become a celebrity in the 1960s, from TV shows and radio call-in programs to newspaper…

Gordon Willis

Gordon Willis is a cinematographer best known for his work on Francis Ford Coppola's The Godfather and its sequels. Born to a couple of New York entertainers, WIllis got into filmmaking while in…

Ben Bradlee

Name at birth: Benjamin Crowninshield BradleeBen Bradlee of The Washington Post was one of the few celebrity newspaper editors in America, thanks mostly to his role in guiding reporters Carl…

Linda Cardellini

Linda Cardellini is known for her roles in a number of television series, including Freaks and Geeks, ER, Mad Men and Dead to Me. Cardelinni has also been in a number of feature films, including the…

Kevin Costner

Kevin Costner is an actor and director known for playing upright heroes in big-budget epics. He was a hit as heroic G-man Eliot Ness in The Untouchables (1987, with Sean Connery) and followed that…

James Agee

Name at birth: Rufus James AgeeWriter James Agee made his name in the 1940s as a journalist and film critic, and he was posthumously awarded the Pulitzer Prize for his autobiographical novel, A Death…

Scott Rudin

Scott Rudin is a successful Broadway and Hollywood producer who has the distinction of being an Emmy, Grammy, Tony and Oscar winner. He is also known for being a hard-driving, super-competitive…

Alfonso Cuarón

Mexican filmmaker Alfonso Cuarón is the director who has twice won Oscars: for the 2013 outer space thriller Gravity (starring Sandra Bullock) and the 2018 homage to his childhood, Roma. Raised in…

Patton Oswalt

Patton Oswalt is a stand-up comedian and character actor, known to TV viewers as Spence from The King of Queens and to moviegoers as Remy, the chef rat from the 2007 animated feature Ratatouille. He…