Celebrity Name : Diahann Carroll

Celebrity Real Name : Carol Diahann Johnson

Date of Birth : July 17, 1935

Birth Location : New York

Biography of Carol Diahann Johnson :
Diahann Carroll (born July 17, 1935) is an Academy Award-nominated and Tony Award winning American actor and singer.
Born Carol Diahann Johnson in The Bronx, New York, she attended the New York City High School of the Performing Arts, along with schoolmate Billy Dee Williams.
Her family moved to the Harlem neighborhood of New York City when she was one and a half years old.
Her first film assignment was a supporting role in Carmen Jones in 1954, playing a friend of the sultry Carmen (Dorothy Dandridge).
Much later, her big break came when she became the first African American actress to star in her own television series in which she did not play a domestic worker, when Julia debuted in 1968. She was nominated for an Emmy Award for the role, and won the 1968 Golden Globe Award for Best Actress In A Television Series.
Carroll’s other television work includes appearances on shows hosted by Jack Paar, Merv Griffin, Johnny Carson and Ed Sullivan, and on The Hollywood Palace.
In 1959, she played Clara in the film version of Gershwin’s Porgy and Bess along with such distinguished actors as Sidney Poitier, Dorothy Dandridge, Sammy Davis Jr. and Pearl Bailey. Opera singer Loulie Jean Norman dubbed Carroll’s singing voice. All of the actors’ singing voices were dubbed except for Pearl Bailey.
In 1974 she was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actress for Claudine. She has also starred in the series Dynasty and The Colbys. Carroll commented at the time that the Aaron Spelling soaper splurged to dress her, whereas the wardrobe budget for Julia had been $50 (USD) for her nurse’s uniform. She also had a recurring role on the NBC sitcom A Different World as Whitley Gilbert (Jasmine Guy)’s mother. She currently appears as Dr. Preston Burke (Isaiah Washington)’s demanding mother on the hit ABC television series Grey’s Anatomy.
Carroll starred in the Canadian production of Andrew Lloyd Webber’s musical version of the classic film Sunset Boulevard , playing the lead role, crazed silent movie star Norma Desmond, along with Rex Smith as Joe Gillis.
Carroll has been married four times, her last marriage a stormy one with singer Vic Damone from 1987 to 1996.
Carroll is a breast cancer survivor. She became a breast cancer activist and had a camera crew follow her into the treatment room for broadcast as a special[wikipedia]

Celebrity Name : Demi Moore

Celebrity Real Name : Demetria Guynes

Date of Birth : November 11, 1962

Birth Location : Roswell, New Mexico

Biography of Demetria Guynes :
Demi Moore (born Demetria Gene Guynes on November 11, 1962 in Roswell, New Mexico) is an American actress. She became well-known after a string of 1980s teen-oriented movies, and became one of the best-known actresses in 1990s Hollywood.
Moore was born in Roswell, New Mexico, but spent much of her childhood and teenage years in the suburbs of Pittsburgh. As a child, she had a difficult and unstable home life. Her biological father, Charles Harmon, left her mother, Virginia, after a two-month marriage, before Moore was born. As a result, Moore had the surname of her stepfather, Danny Guynes, on her birth certificate. Danny Guynes, who committed suicide in 1980, frequently changed jobs and made the family move a total of forty times. Moore’s parents were also alcoholics and often fought and beat each other. To make matters worse, operations on Moore’s left eye during childhood required her to wear an eyepatch.
Moore’s family settled in Los Angeles in 1976. When Moore was sixteen, her then-friend, actress Nastassja Kinski, persuaded her to drop out of Hollywood’s Fairfax High School to become an actress.

Personal Life :
In August 1979, Moore began dating rock musician/songwriter Freddy Moore, whose last name she adopted; the two married in February 1980. The relationship lasted only 6 years (August 1979-August 1985). Moore began dating actor Emilio Estevez and began divorce proceedings in 1985, and the two were engaged until 1987. She also dated actor John Stamos during the time when the two worked together on General Hospital.
On November 21, 1987, Moore married actor Bruce Willis, after a highly publicized whirlwind romance (the two met in August of that year). The couple has three daughters, Rumer Glenn (born August 16, 1988), Scout LaRue (born July 20, 1991), and Tallulah Belle (born February 3, 1994). Willis and Moore announced their separation in June of 1998, and divorced in 2000.
Moore also became a staple of tabloids due to her romantic relationship with actor Ashton Kutcher, who is sixteen years her junior. Both would eventually spoof the public’s fascination with their age difference during a sketch on the March 19, 2005 episode of Saturday Night Live. Kutcher, who served as guest host, brought Moore on stage while Moore was made up to appear like an old woman who constantly babied Kutcher. Moore and Kutcher were married on Saturday, September 24, 2005 in a lavish, private ceremony conducted by a Kabbalah Centre rabbi and attended by about 100 close friends and family (Bruce Willis included).
Moore’s primary residence is in Hailey, Idaho, near the famous Sun Valley resort, although she spends much time in the Los Angeles area with Kutcher. She is a practicing follower of the Rabbi Philip Berg’s Kabbalah Centre religion, and initiated Kutcher into the faith.[wikipedia]

Celebrity Name : David Copperfield

Celebrity Real Name : Name is David Kotkin

Date of Birth : September 16, 1956

Birth Location :Metuchen, New Jersey, from Russia.

Biography of  David Kotkin :
David Copperfield (born David Seth Kotkin on September 16, 1956) is a world-renowned American magician and illusionist best known for his combination of spectacular illusions and storytelling. His most famous illusions include making the Statue of Liberty disappear, flying, levitating over the Grand Canyon, and walking through the Great Wall of China.
Copperfield was born in Metuchen, New Jersey, to Jewish immigrants from Russia. He began practicing magic at the age of 12, and became the youngest person ever admitted to the Society of American Magicians.[citation needed] By age 16, he was teaching a course in magic at New York University.[citation needed] At age 18, he enrolled at Fordham University, and was cast in the lead role of the Chicago-based musical The Magic Man three weeks into his freshman year.[citation needed] At age 19, he was headlining at the Pagoda Hotel in Honolulu, Hawaii.[citation needed]
David Copperfield played the character of Ken the magician in the 1980 horror film Terror Train. He also made an uncredited appearance in the 1994 film Prêt-à-Porter. Most of his media appearances have been through television specials and guest spots on television programs.His name is taken from the 1850 Charles Dickens novel.
In February 2006, David’s father, Hy (who often accompanied David on his many tours around the world), died in San Diego, CA. David set up a website, rememberhy.com, so fans and friends could pay tribute.
In April 2006, Copperfield and two of his female assistants were robbed at gunpoint after a performance in West Palm Beach, Florida. His assistants gave the robbers their money, passports, and a cell phone. However, according to his police statement, Copperfield did not hand over anything. (He later claimed to have used sleight-of-hand to hide his possessions.) One of Copperfield’s assistants wrote down most of the license plate number, and the suspects were later arrested.
David Copperfield said in August 2006 that he has found the “Fountain of Youth” in the southern Bahamas, amid a cluster of four tiny islands he had purchased on July 14th of that year. He claims that the water brings dead leaves back to life, and brings near dead insects back to life. He said he has hired biologists and geologists to examine its potential effect on humans. This claim echoes the precursor to many of his previous illusions and seems to predict what his next illusion will be. [wikipedia]

Celebrity Name : David Bowie

Celebrity Real Name : David Robert Jones

Date of Birth : January 8, 1947

Birth Location :England
Biography of David Robert Jones:
David Bowie (born David Robert Jones on January 8, 1947) is an English singer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, producer, arranger and mixer, whose work spans more than four decades. A knowing and occasionally camp figure, he is universally recognised as one of the more accomplished and inspired artists in popular music. Throughout the 1970s he took cues from art, philosophy and literature and appeared to elevate pop and rock to a more sophisticated level. He is also a film and stage actor, music video director and visual artist.

Career overview :
Bowie first caught the eye and ear of the public in the autumn of 1969, when his space-age mini-melodrama “Space Oddity” reached the top five of the UK singles chart. After a three-year period of experimentation he re-emerged in 1972 during the glam-rock era as a flamboyant, androgynous alter ego Ziggy Stardust , spearheaded by the hit single “Starman” and the album The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars. The relatively short-lived Ziggy persona epitomised a career often marked by musical innovation, reinvention and striking visual presentation.
In 1975 Bowie achieved his first major American crossover success with the number-one single “Fame” and the hit album Young Americans, which the singer identified as “plastic soul”. The sound constituted a radical shift in style that initially alienated many of his UK devotees.
He then confounded the expectations of both his record label and his American audiences by recording the minimalist and challenging 1977 album Low – the first of three collaborations with Brian Eno. His most experimental works to date, the so-called “Berlin Trilogy” nevertheless produced three UK top-five albums. The anthem-like, towering title track of the second work “Heroes” (1977) is widely regarded as a milestone in rock and pop.

References in popular culture :
Bowie is referenced numerous times in the cartoon The Venture Bros.:
* In the episode “Ghosts of the Sargasso”, the opening tells of a test pilot named Major Tom. When he communicates to mission control during a flight, the dialogue is taken verbatim from Space Oddity and Ashes to Ashes. The plane Major Tom is flying is TVC 15, a title of another Bowie song.
* In “The Incredible Mr. Brisby”, the episode’s villain has a panda that he won from David Bowie in a trivia contest.
* The two-part second season finale “Showdown at Cremation Creek”, however, has the largest reference and he plays a vital role in the plot. He appears (voiced by James Urbaniak) at the wedding between The Monarch and Dr. Girlfriend, giving Dr. Girlfriend away. It is revealed later that he is the Sovereign, leader of the Guild of Calamitous Intent and an enigmatic figure that has appeared in the shadows since the beginning of the show. Bowie apparently has shapeshifting powers in the show, which he uses to defeat Iggy Pop, Klaus Nomi and Phantom Limb to rescue Dr. Girlfriend.
Bowie is also the subject of a Phish song bearing his name, found on the Junta album.[wikipedia]

Celebrity Name : Danny DiVito

Celebrity Real Name : Daniel Michaeli

Date of Birth : November 17, 1944

Birth Location : Neptune, New Jersey to Italian-American

Biography of Daniel Michaeli :
Daniel Michael DeVito (born November 17, 1944) is an Emmy Award-winning American actor, a director, and an Oscar-nominated producer, who first gained prominence for his portrayal of “Louie De Palma” on the popular ABC and NBC TV series, Taxi (1978–1983). Because this sitcom was not widely distributed abroad, he is known primarily for his film work in most other countries. He currently plays Frank Reynolds on the FX show It’s Always Sunny In Philadelphia.
DeVito was born in Neptune, New Jersey to Italian-American Catholic parents. He boarded at Oratory Preparatory School, in Summit, New Jersey, graduating in 1961. He married actress Rhea Perlman on January 28, 1982. They have three children, Lucie Chet DeVito (born March 1983), Grace Fan DeVito (born March 1985) and Jacob Daniel DeVito (born October 1987), who currently attends Oberlin College in Ohio.

Director :
Devito has directed five motion pictures, Throw Momma From the Train (1987), The War of the Roses (1989), Hoffa (1992), Matilda (1996), Death to Smoochy (2002), and Duplex (2003). He is set to direct his sixth feature, 2007’s I Married a Witch, which will star Tom Cruise & Famke Janssen.
His films tend to have a bizarre, neo-surrealistic sensibility and gallows humor, though this was absent in the straightforward Hoffa biopic. This approach served him well at times, especially in The War of the Roses which was a commercial and critical success, however his last two films have not been anywhere as successful.
Producer :
In addition to acting, DeVito has become a major film and television producer. Through his production company, Jersey Films, he has produced many movies, including Pulp Fiction, Get Shorty, Erin Brockovich, and Garden State. Devito has also produced the Comedy Central series Reno 911!.
In 1999, Devito produced and co-starred in Man On The Moon, a movie about the unusual life of his former Taxi co-star, Andy Kaufman.

Television :
In addition to his Taxi work, DeVito has voiced the animated character Herb Powell on two episodes of The Simpsons. He earned a 2004 Emmy nomination for Outstanding Guest Actor in a Comedy Series, an episode of Friends, following four Emmy nominations (including a 1981 win) for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Comedy, for Taxi. In 2006, DeVito joined the cast of the FX Networks television series It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia.

Personal :
DeVito and his family live in Manalapan, New Jersey. He is a vegetarian.
During the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks, there was a rumor that DeVito had died aboard one of the hijacked planes. Producer friend Sam Simon heard this report and privately mentioned the sad news to disc jockey Howard Stern. However, before Stern had a chance to announce the information on the air, Simon revealed he had been given “misinformation” and that DeVito was still alive. (Stern recounted this story during his September 12, 2006 broadcast.)[wikipedia]

Celebrity Name : Dale Evans

Celebrity Real Name : Frances Smith

Date of Birth : 31 October 1912

Birth Location : Lucille Wood Smith in Uvalde, Texas,

Biography :
Dale Evans was the stage name of Frances Octavia Smith (October 31, 1912–February 7, 2001), a writer, movie star, and singer-songwriter. She was the wife of singing cowboy Roy Rogers.

Born Lucille Wood Smith in Uvalde, Texas, her name was changed in infancy to Frances Octavia Smith. She had a tumultuous early life, eloping at age 14 with her first husband Thomas F. Fox. She bore one son, Thomas F. Fox, Jr. when she was 15 years old. Divorced in 1929 at 17, she married August Wayne Johns that same year, a union that lasted until their divorce in 1933. She took the name Dale Evans in the early 1930s to promote her singing career. She then married her accompanist and arranger Robert Dale Butts in 1935.

After beginning her career singing at the radio station where she was employed as a secretary, Evans had a productive career as a jazz, swing, and big band singer that led to a screen test and contract with 20th Century Fox studios. During her time at 20th Century Fox, the studio promoted her as the unmarried supporter of her teenage “brother” Tommy (actually her son Tom Fox, Jr.). This deception continued through her divorce from Butts in 1945, and her development as a cowgirl co-star to Roy Rogers at Republic studios.

Evans married Roy Rogers on New Year’s Eve, 1946. Rogers ended the deception regarding Tommy. Rogers and Evans were a team on- and off-screen from 1946 until Rogers’ death in 1998. Together they had one child, Robin Elizabeth, who died of complications of Down’s Syndrome shortly before her second birthday. Her life inspired Evans to write her bestseller Angel Unaware. Evans went on to write a number of religious and inspirational books.

From 1951 to 1957, Dale Evans and her husband starred in the highly successful television series The Roy Rogers Show, in which they continued their cowboy/cowgirl roles, with her riding her trusty buckskin horse, Buttermilk. In addition to her successful TV shows, over 30 movies, and 200 songs, Evans wrote the well known songs “Happy Trails” and “The Bible Tells Me So”.

In the 1970s, Evans recorded several solo albums of religious music. The 1980s saw Roy and Dale introducing their films weekly on The Nashville Network. In the 1990s, Dale hosted her own religious television program.

For her contribution to radio, Dale Evans has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 6638 Hollywood Blvd. She received a second star at 1737 Vine St. for her contribution to the television industry. In 1976, she was inducted into the Western Performers Hall of Fame at the National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. [wikipedia]

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]