Celebrity Name : Daddy Yankee

Celebrity Real Name :Raymond Ayala

Date of Birth : February 3, 1977

Birth Location : Rio Piedras, San Juan, Puerto Rico

Biography :
Ayala (born on February 3, 1977 in Rio Piedras, San Juan, Puerto Rico), known publicly as Daddy Yankee, is a highly successful Puerto Rican reggaeton recording artist. He is sometimes referred to as El Cangri (shortened form of Cangrimán, which in turn is a corruption of the English word congressman, and used in Puerto Rico to describe a brazenly powerful or influential person in the neighborhood). Ayala is famous for recording songs in both English and Spanish, although the latter is more prominently used.
Ayala first became involved in recording music in the early 1990s alongside DJ Playero, a pioneer of reggaeton music. He rapped as a hobby, in private parties organized by friends in his neighborhood, the Villa Kennedy housing project in San Juan. At the time he was also involved in some minor illegal activities. By the time he reached the age of seventeen he was shot in his legs at a skirmish with rivals. This experience was an eye opener to him, and he swore off illegal activities for good (his brother Melvin became a born-again Christian -and eventually a Christian minister- at the insistence of Raymond, who persuaded him strongly enough to not follow a lifestyle similar to what he had experienced until then). He then pursued music as a full-time profession, and explored reggaeton as his main musical style at a time when straight rap and hip hop were the norm in Puerto Rico.[wikipedia]

Celebrity Name : Cyd Charisse

Celebrity Real Name : Tula Finklea

Date of Birth : March 8, 1921

Birth Location : Amarillo, Texas

Biography :
Cyd Charisse (born Tula Ellice Finklea on March 8, 1921) is an American dancer and actress. She was born in Amarillo, Texas, and reputedly, the name “Cyd” was a nickname taken from a sibling trying to say “Sis.”
Charisse celebrated on-screen pairings with Fred Astaire and Gene Kelly. Her work includes two of the most acclaimed dance sequences in musical cinema, the “Broadway Melody Ballet” sequence from the movie Singin’ in the Rain and the “Girl Hunt Ballet” from The Band Wagon. She appeared more recently in Janet Jackson’s “Alright” music video. Charisse’s singing voice was usually dubbed in her musical film appearances, most often by India Adams.
Charisse has been married to singer Tony Martin since 1948, more than 50 years, perhaps something of an achievement for a Hollywood marriage. Charisse was previously married to Nico Charisse from 1939 to 1947. She has two sons, Nico “Nicky” Charisse from her first marriage and Tony Martin Jr. from her second. Her niece is actress Nana Visitor. Her daughter-in-law is Liv Lindeland, who was Playboy Magazine’s Playmate of the Month in January 1971 and featured as Playmate of the Year for 1971 in the January 1972 issue.
She wrote a joint biography with Martin (and Dick Kleiner) called The Two of Us (1976). She is featured in the 2001 Guinness Book of World Records under “Most Valuable Legs,” since a $5 million insurance policy was accepted on her legs in 1952. She beat the previous record holder Betty Grable.
When in her 60s, she produced a workout video. Now in her 80s, Charisse still makes occasional appearances in documentaries on Hollywood musicals.[wikipedia]

Celebrity Name : Claudette Colbert

Celebrity Real Name : Lily Chauchoin

Date of Birth : September 13, 1903

Birth Location : Paris, France

Biography:
Born Lily Claudette Chauchoin in Paris, France, around 1905 her family emigrated to the United States and settled in New York City. She began acting in high school and a few years later in 1923 appeared on the Broadway stage in a bit part. Hooked, she gave up on her plans to be a fashion designer to instead pursue a career in acting. She made her first motion picture appearance in 1927, in For the Love of Mike, a silent film shot on location in Paramount Studios in New York, New York facilities. However, talking films were taking over and two years later, Colbert appeared in her first talking film, The Hole in the Wall, co-starring another newcomer, Edward G. Robinson .
Colbert married twice, first to Norman Foster (from 1928-1935 divorced) and then to Dr. Joel Pressman (1935 - his death 1968). She did not have children.
Career:
With her heart-shaped face, lively wide eyes, and aristocratic manner, Colbert transcended type, making her equally convincing in diverse roles. Her versatility led to major parts in top motion pictures and made her one of the biggest box-office stars of her time.
Colbert was a stickler for perfection regarding the way she appeared on screen. She believed that her face was difficult to light and photograph, and was obsessed with not showing her “bad” side, the right, to the camera. Scenes showing Colbert’s face from the right show she was equally lovely from that side, but such shots are hard to find.
In 1934 she won an Academy Award for Best Actress for her role opposite Clark Gable in the Frank Capra film, It Happened One Night. Colbert epitomized witty sophistication when she starred in Preston Sturges’ classic screwball comedy, The Palm Beach Story, opposite Joel McCrea.From 1936 to 1944, she starred in numerous programs of Cecil B. DeMille’s Lux Radio Theater, which was one of the most popular dramatic radio shows at the time. In 1952, she returned to work in her native France where she stayed until 1955. [wikipedia]

Celebrity Name : Chubby Checker

Celebrity Real Name : Ernest Evans

Date of Birth : October 3, 1941

Biography :Chubby Checker is the stage name of Ernest Evans (October 3, 1941—), an American singer best known for popularizing the dance The Twist with his 1960 song “The Twist”.
He was born in Spring Gulley, South Carolina[1], and raised in South Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and attended South Philadelphia High School with Frankie Avalon and Fabian. The wife of American Bandstand’s host Dick Clark suggested the name “Chubby Checker” to Evans as a take-off on then-popular singer Fats Domino. In 1964, he married Catharina Lodders, who had been Miss World in 1962.
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Trivia :
* His daughter, Mistie Williams (née Bass), is a professional basketball player for the Houston Comets in the Women’s National Basketball Association.
* Chubby Checker is mentioned in the School House Rock cartoon “A Noun Is A Person, Place, Or Thing.” However, in what is perhaps the series’ most famous error, they depicted him as a white man.
* Chubby Checker headlined the halftime show at Super Bowl XXII.
* Voiced a parody character of himself in the now closed Food Rocks attraction that ran at Epcot, appearing as Chubby Cheddar, a cheese hunk seen only in projected shadow puppetry.[wikipedia]

Celebrity Name : Chipper Jones

Celebrity Real Name : Larry Wayne Jones

Date of Birth : April 24, 1972

Birth Location : DeLand, Florida

Biography :
Larry Wayne Jones, Jr. (born April 24, 1972 in DeLand, Florida), better known as Chipper Jones, is a Major League Baseball third baseman for the Atlanta Braves. He is considered one of the best pure hitters in baseball today, as well as one of the finest switch-hitters in baseball history. Jones debuted in 1993 and has played his entire career with the Braves.

Early career:
Jones was selected by the Atlanta Braves in the 1st round (1st overall pick) of the 1990 amateur draft. He made a quick jump through the minors to make his major league debut on September 11, 1993.
After sitting out the entire 1994 season with an ACL tear in his left knee, Jones came back strong in 1995, leading all major league rookies in RBI (86), games played (145), games started (123), plate appearances (602), at-bats (524), and runs scored (87). He went on to win The Sporting News Rookie of the Year Award, and finished second in the BBWAA Rookie of the Year balloting behind Los Angeles Dodgers pitcher Hideo Nomo.

Trivia :
* Jones played baseball at the elite North Florida prep school The Bolles School.
* Jones is an avid hunter and owns the Double Dime Ranch near Carrizo Springs, Texas.
* In 1998, Jones was a subject of scandal due to his fathering of a child — with a Hooters waitress, not his wife at the time, Karin.
* Jones and his second wife (Sharon) have three children, Larry Wayne III (Trey), Tristen, and Shea, named after Shea Stadium, where Jones hit his first major league home run on May 9, 1995. [wikipedia]

Celebrity Name : Charlie Sheen

Celebrity Real Name : Carlos Irwin Estevez

Date of Birth : September 3, 1965

Birth Location : New York City

Biography :
Sheen was born in New York City to parents Janet Templeton and Martin Sheen, whose birth name is Ramón Gerardo Antonio Estévez. He has two brothers and one sister, all of whom are now actors: Emilio Estévez, Ramón Estévez Jr. and Renée Estévez.Sheen attended Santa Monica High School, where his two major interests were acting and baseball. His friends in school included Rob Lowe and Sean Penn, and with them, he filmed over 200 amateur Super-8 films. He was a pitcher for the baseball team, and his fastest pitch was 84 mph. A few weeks before graduation, Sheen was expelled from the school for poor grades and bad attendance.

Career:
Sheen began acting in 1974 at the age of nine, appearing in a small role alongside his father in the TV movie The Execution of Private Slovik. Sheen’s film career began in 1984 with Red Dawn, and his first major role was in Platoon (1986). In 1987, he starred with his father, Martin, in Wall Street.
Sheen is perhaps best known for his comedy roles, including the Major League films and the Hot Shots! films. In 2000, Sheen played himself in the comedy Being John Malkovich.In 2001 and 2002 Sheen played the lead role in the political television sitcom, Spin City (as Michael J. Fox’s replacement on that show). In 2002 he won the Golden Globe Award for “Best Performance by an Actor in a Television Series - Musical or Comedy” for this role (Awards detailed below). [1] Currently Sheen plays the role of Charlie Harper on the sitcom Two and a Half Men, which debuted in 2003. [wikipedia]

Celebrity Name : Charles Bronson

Celebrity Real Name : Charles Buchinski

Date of Birth : 3 November 1921

Birth Location : Ehrenfeld, Pennsylvania, USA

Biography :
Charles Bronson (November 3, 1921 – August 30, 2003) was an American actor of “tough guy” roles.Bronson was born as Charles Dennis Buchinsky in the notorious Ehrenfeld, Pennsylvania coal mining neighborhood of Scooptown part of the Pittsburgh Tri-State area. He was one of 15 children born to a Lithuanian immigrant father of Tatar ancestry, and a Lithuanian-American mother. In most of his roles he starred as a brutal police detective, a western gunfighter, vigilante, boxer or a Mafia hitman.

Career:
After the war, he decided to pursue acting, not from any love of the subject, but rather, because he was impressed with the amount of money that he could potentially make in the business. Bronson was roommates with Jack Klugman, another starving actor at the time. Klugman later said of Bronson that he was good at ironing clothes.
During the McCarthy hearings he changed his surname to Bronson as Slavic-sounding names were suspect, taking his inspiration from the Bronson Gate at Paramount Studios, situated on the corner of Melrose Ave. and Bronson St. One of his earliest screen appearances under his new name was as Vincent Price’s henchman in the 1953 horror classic House of Wax.
Bronson made several appearances on television in the 1950s and 1960s, including three leading roles on Alfred Hitchcock Presents in the episodes “And So Died Riabouchinska” (1956), “There Was an Old Woman” (1956), and “The Woman Who Wanted to Live” (1962); he also starred alongside Elizabeth Montgomery in The Twilight Zone episode “Two” (1961)[wikipedia]

Celebrity Name : Chad Everett

Celebrity Real Name : Raymond Crampton

Date of Birth : June 11, 1936

Birth Location :  South Bend, Indiana, United States

Biography :
Chad Everett (born Raymond Lee Cramton June 11, 1936 in South Bend, Indiana, United States) is an American actor who has appeared in over 40 films and television series but is probably best known for his role as Dr. Joe Gannon in the 1970s television drama Medical Center.
Everett was raised in Dearborn, Michigan where he became interested in the theatre as a Fordson High School student. [1] After attending Wayne State University, he headed to Hollywood and signed a contract with Warner Brothers studio. According to Robert Hofler’s 2005 biography, “The Man Who Invented Rock Hudson: The Pretty Boys and Dirty Deals of Henry Willson,” agent Willson renamed and represented Everett.
His first notable role came in an episode of the 1960s detective series Surfside 6. His first major role came a year later in the film Claudelle Inglish. After appearing in a number of movies and televisions series in the later 1960s, he landed the role of Dr. Joe Gannon on the innovative medical drama Medical Center in 1969.
Everett battled alcohol addiction for many years before seeking treatment from Alcoholics Anonymous. A Republican, he had a much publicized argument with noted feminist Lily Tomlin during the filming of the March 31, 1972 episode of the Dick Cavett Show. Tomlin became so enraged at Everett she stormed off the set and refused to return.

He hosts Trinity Broadcasting Network’s “Master’s Theater.” [wikipedia]

Celebrity Name : Cary Grant Real

Celebrity Real Name : Archibald Alexander Leach

Date of Birth : January 18, 1904

Birth Location : England Bristol, England

Biography :
Archibald Alexander Leach (January 18, 1904 – November 29, 1986), better known by his screen name, Cary Grant, was an English film actor.rchie Leach was born in Horfield, Bristol, England. An only child (before he was born his parents had had another son who died in infancy), Leach had a confused and unhappy childhood. His mother, Elsie, was placed in a mental institution when he was nine. His father told him that she was dead, and he only learned in 1935 that she was still alive, in an institution. With his distinctive Mid-Atlantic accent, he was perhaps the foremost exemplar of the debonair leading man, not only handsome, but also witty and charming. He was named the second Greatest Male Star of All Time by the American Film Institute.

Trivia :
* While still under the name Archie Leach he performed on the stage at The Muny in St. Louis, Mo. (America’s oldest and largest outdoor theater), in such shows as Donald Marshall in Irene (1931); Baron Metternich in Music in May (1931); Don Fernando in Nina Rosa (1931); Roberto Ferguson in Rio Rita (1931); George in Street Singer (1931); Athos in Three Musketeers (1931); Max Grunewald in Wonderful Night (1931);
* In the film A Fish Called Wanda, the character played by John Cleese is named Archibald Leach, Cary Grant’s real name [2]. Cleese was born in Weston-super-Mare, just a few kilometres from Grant’s birthplace, Bristol.
* Although many Cary Grant impressions include the quotation, “Judy, Judy, Judy”, Grant never actually said that phrase in any of his movies. In Only Angels Have Wings, his character says “Oh, Judy,” and “Come on, Judy,” but that’s as close as it gets. [wikipedia]

Celebrity Name : Busta Rhymes

Celebrity Real Name : Trevor Smith

Date of Birth : May 20, 1972

Birth Location : Brooklyn, New York

Biography :
Trevor Tahiem Smith, Jr. (born on May 20, 1972), better known as Busta Rhymes, is an American hip hop musician and actor. Chuck D of Public Enemy gave him the name Busta Rhymes (from former NFL football player George “Buster” Rhymes) after watching him perform.Trevor was born in Brooklyn, New York, and is of Jamaican heritage. At the age of 12, his family moved to Uniondale, a suburb of New York City on Long Island, where he was raised and eventually met up with other rappers from the growing New York area hip hop community. He graduated from Uniondale High School in Long Island, where he was a star basketball player.

Style:
Rhymes has an atypical and distinguishable style. He is known by fans for versatility in flow, delivery and subject matter. [citation needed] Probably his best-known trademark is the roars and grunts such as “Woo-Hah”, “Ha!”, “Bwah!” that serve as his adlibs, along with his distinguishable voice. Rapping quickly is also a distinctive feature of Busta. In the 1990s, each of Busta’s solo albums contained a lengthy and dramatic intro skit as the first track, each announcing the progressively shorter time until the turn of the millennium, and predicting at that time that there would be a cataclysmic event.

Trivia
* The video for “Put Your Hands Where My Eyes Can See” features a recreation of a well-known scene from the 1988 Eddie Murphy film Coming to America .The video for “Dangerous” features a recreation of a scene with baddie Sho’nuff (”Am I the toughest…?, Am I the meanest…?”) from the 1985 Berry Gordy produced film The Last Dragon.On December 31, 1999, BET named “Woo-Hah!! Got You All In Check” the # 3 video on its list of the top 100 videos of the 20th century. “Put Your Hands Where My Eyes Can See” was # 39.