Will Smith

Will Smith
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Willard Carroll Smith II (born September 25, 1968) is an American actor, rapper and media personality. [3] In April
2007, Newsweek called him "the most powerful actor in Hollywood". [4] Smith has been nominated for five Golden
Globe Awards and two Academy Awards, and has won four Grammy Awards.
In the late 1980s, Smith achieved modest fame as a rapper under the name The Fresh Prince. In 1990, his
popularity increased dramatically when he starred in the NBC television series The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air, which
ran for six seasons until 1996. After the series ended, Smith transitioned from television to film and went on to star in
numerous blockbuster films. He is the only actor to have eight consecutive films gross over $100 million in the
domestic box office, eleven consecutive films gross over $150 million internationally, and eight consecutive films in
which he starred open at the number one spot in the domestic box office tally. [5]
Smith has been ranked as the most bankable star worldwide by Forbes.[6] As of 2014, 17 of the 21 films in which he
has had leading roles have accumulated worldwide gross earnings of over $100 million each, with five taking in over
$500 million each in global box office receipts. As of 2016, his films have grossed $7.5 billion at the global box
office.[7]For his performances as boxer Muhammad Ali in Ali (2001) and stockbroker Chris Gardner in The Pursuit of
Happyness (2006), Smith received nominations for the Academy Award for Best Actor.[8][9]
 Who Is Adam Sandler?
Born on September 9, 1966, in New York City, Adam Sandler was always the class clown but didn't consider
becoming a comedian until his brother encouraged him to perform at a Boston Comedy Club. He was a regular
on MTV's Remote Control and on NBC's Saturday Night Live before devoting himself to making movies.
Sandler is best known for comedy but has also received critical praise for his dramatic work.

'Punch-Drunk Love,' '50 First Dates'

In 2002 Sandler co-starred with Winona Ryder in  Mr. Deeds and the critically acclaimed Punch-Drunk
Love opposite Emily Watson. The following year he starred opposite Jack Nicholson in the hit comedy Anger
Management. Sandler re-teamed with Barrymore for another romantic comedy 50 First Dates (2004), which fared well
at the box office. Taking a more dramatic turn, he starred in the dramedy Spanglish (2004) as a husband experiencing
trouble with his wife (played by Tea Leoni) and developing a relationship with his housekeeper (played by Paz Vega).

'The Longest Yard,' 'Reign Over Me'

Sandler has continued to vary his work from broad comedies to more weighty material. Remaking the 1974 comedy The
Longest Yard (2005), he played a convict who organizes a football game between the inmates and the guards — a role
originated by Burt Reynolds. Reynolds also appeared in the remake along with comedian Chris Rock and singer Nelly.
The next year, Sandler played an architect who discovers a remote control that gives the power to fast-forward or
rewind his own life in Click (2006). He took on the role of a man who lost his family in the September 11th terrorist
attacks in Reign Over Me (2007). Through an accidental meeting with an old friend (played by Don Cheadle), Sandler's
character began to rebuild his shattered life. Sandler earned some positive reviews for his performance
with Variety calling him "compelling" and "excellent."

'I Now Pronounce You Chuck & Larry'

Returning to the over-the-top comedy he is most famous for, Sandler produced and starred in I Now Pronounce You
Chuck & Larry (2007). He played a straight firefighter who pretends to be in a gay relationship with a widowed firefighter
(played by Kevin James) so that his friend can receive domestic partner benefits for himself and his children.
Mark Sinclair[1] (born July 18, 1967), better known by his stage name Vin Diesel, is an American actor, producer,
director and screenwriter. He is well known for his portrayals of Dominic Toretto in The Fast and the Furious film
series, Richard B. Riddick in The Chronicles of Riddick series, Xander Cage in the XXX series and Groot in Marvel
Cinematic Universe. He is also a producer on sequels in these franchises, with his company One Race Films.
Diesel has also starred in the comedy The Pacifier (2005) and the crime drama Find Me Guilty (2006). His voice-
acting work includes The Iron Giant (1999) and the video game spin-offs from the Chronicles of Riddick franchise,
as well as Groot in the Marvel Studios films Guardians of the Galaxy (2014), Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 (2017),
and Avengers: Infinity War (2018). He wrote, directed, produced and starred in a short film titled Multi-Facial and the
feature-length drama film Strays. He is the founder of the production companies One Race Films, Racetrack
Records and Tigon Studios.

Synopsis

Jackie Chan was born Chan Kong-sang on April 7, 1954, in Hong Kong,
China. He began studying martial arts, drama, acrobatics and singing at age
7. Once considered a likely successor to Bruce Lee in Hong Kong cinema,
Chan instead developed his own style of martial arts blended with screwball
physical comedy. He became a huge star throughout Asia and went on to
have hits in the U.S. as well.

Early Life

Actor, director, producer. Born April 7, 1954, in Hong Kong, China. When
his parents moved to Australia to find new jobs, the 7-year-old Chan was left
behind to study at the Chinese Opera Research Institute, a Hong Kong
boarding school. For the next 10 years, Chan studied martial arts, drama,
acrobatics and singing, and was subjected to stringent discipline, including corporal punishment for poor
performance. He appeared in his first film, the Cantonese feature Big and Little Wong Tin Bar (1962), when he
was only 8, and went on to appear in a number of musical films.
Upon his graduation in 1971, Chan found work as an acrobat and a movie stuntman, most notably in Fist of
Fury (1972), starring Hong Kong's resident big-screen superstar, Bruce Lee. For that film, he reportedly
completed the highest fall in the history of the Chinese film industry, earning the respectful notice of the
formidable Lee, among others.

Big Break

After Lee's tragic, unexpected death in 1973, Chan was singled out as a likely successor
of his mantle as the king of Hong Kong cinema. To that end, he starred in a string of kung
fu movies with Lo Wei, a producer and director who had worked with Lee. Most were
unsuccessful, and the collaboration ended in the late 1970s. By that time, Chan had
decided that he wanted to break out of the Lee mold and create his own image. Blending
his martial arts abilities with impressive nerve—he insisted on performing all of his own
stunts—and a sense of screwball physical comedy reminiscent of one of his idols, Buster
Keaton, Chan found his own formula for cinematic gold.

A year after the release of his first bona fide hit, Snake in the Eagle’s Shadow (1978),
Chan took the Hong Kong film world by storm with his first so-called "kung fu comedy," the
now-classic Drunken Master (1978). Subsequent hits such as The Fearless
Hyena (1979), Half a Loaf of Kung Fu (1980) and The Young Master (1980) confirmed
Chan's star status; the latter film marked his first with Golden Harvest, Lee's old
production company and the leading film studio in Hong Kong. Before long, Chan had
become the highest-paid actor in Hong Kong and a huge international star throughout
Asia. He exerted total control over most of his films, often taking charge of duties ranging
from producing to directing to performing the theme songs.
Who Is Brad Pitt?
Actor and producer Brad Pitt was born on December 18, 1963, in Shawnee, Oklahoma. He made his big-screen
debut in the 1989 horror film Cutting Class and his role in 1994's Legends of the Fall helped secured his place
as a Hollywood staple. A two-time winner of People magazine's "Sexiest Man Alive" title, Pitt also proved
willing to take on grittier roles for features like Seven (1995) and Fight Club (1999). He began earning more
serious award consideration for performances in Babel (2006), The Curious Case of Benjamin
Button (2008), Inglourious Basterds  (2009) and Moneyball (2011), winning his first Oscar in the best picture
category as a producer for 12 Years a Slave (2013). Along with later works like The Big Short(2015)
and Allied (2016), Pitt is known for his high-profile relationships with actresses Jennifer Aniston and Angelina
Jolie.

Early Life
Actor Brad Pitt was born William Bradley Pitt on December 18, 1963, in Shawnee, Oklahoma, the eldest of
three children in a devoutly Southern Baptist family, and grew up in Springfield, Missouri. His father, Bill Pitt,
owned a trucking company, and his mother, Jane Pitt, was a family counselor. Pitt originally aspired to be an
advertising art director, studying journalism at the University of Missouri.

However, the young college student had other, quiet aspirations that were the product of a childhood love of
movies. His dreams finally seemed tangible his last semester at university when he realized, "I can leave." On a
whim, Pitt dropped out of college, packed up his Datsun and headed west to pursue an acting career in Los
Angeles, just two credits shy of a college degree.

Pitt told his parents he intended to enroll in the Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, but instead spent the
next several months driving a limousine—chauffeuring strippers from one bachelor party to the next, delivering
refrigerators and trying to break into the L.A. acting scene. He joined an acting class and, shortly after,
accompanied a classmate as her scene partner on an audition with an agent. In a twist of fate, the agent signed
Pitt instead of his classmate. After weathering only seven months in Los Angeles, Pitt had secured an agent and
regular acting work.

Pretty Boy Roles

Pitt's first jobs came in television, appearing in episodes of Dallas, the daytime soap Another World, the
sitcom Growing Pains  and in 1990's short-lived Fox Television series Glory Days. In 1989, Pitt played Billy
Canton, the drug-addicted pimp of a teenage runaway (played by Juliette Lewis) in the NBC made-for-
television movie Too Young to Die. Pitt and Lewis (nine years his junior, at age 16) started dating and
eventually moved in together.
Angelina Jolie is an Academy Award-winning actress who became popular after playing the title role in the
"Lara Croft" blockbuster movies, as well as Sr. y Sra. Smith (2005), Wanted (Se
busca) (2008), Salt (2010) and Maléfica (2014). Off-screen, Jolie has become prominently involved in
international charity projects, especially those involving refugees. She often appears on many "most
beautiful women" lists, and she has a personal life that is avidly covered by the tabloid press.

Jolie was born Angelina Jolie Voight in Los Angeles, California. In her earliest years, Angelina began
absorbing the acting craft from her actor parents, Jon Voight, an Oscar-winner, and Marcheline Bertrand,
who had studied with Lee Strasberg. Her good looks may derive from her ancestry, which is German and
Slovak on her father's side, and French-Canadian, Dutch, Polish, and remote Huron, on her mother's side.
At age eleven, Angelina began studying at the Lee Strasberg Theatre Institute, where she was seen in
several stage productions. She undertook some film studies at New York University and later joined the
renowned Met Theatre Group in Los Angeles. At age 16, she took up a career in modeling and appeared in
some music videos.

In the mid-1990s, Jolie appeared in various small films where she got good notices, including Hackers
(Piratas informáticos) (1995) and Jóvenes incomprendidas (1996). Her critical acclaim increased when she
played strong roles in the made-for-TV movies Coraje de mujer (1997), and in George Wallace (1997)
which won her a Golden Globe Award and an Emmy nomination. Jolie's acclaim increased even further
when she played the lead role in the HBO production Gia (1998). This was the true life story of
supermodel Gia Carangi, a sensitive wild child who was both brazen and needy and who had a difficult
time handling professional success and the deaths of people who were close to her. Carangi became
involved with drugs and because of her needle-using habits she became, at the tender age of 26, one of
the first celebrities to die of AIDS. Jolie's performance in Gia (1998) again garnered a Golden Globe Award
and another Emmy nomination, and she additionally earned a SAG Award.

Angelina got a major break in 1999 when she won a leading role in the successful feature El coleccionista
de huesos (1999), starring alongside Denzel Washington. In that same year, Jolie gave a tour de force
performance in Inocencia interrumpida (1999) playing opposite Winona Ryder. The movie was a true story
of women who spent time in a psychiatric hospital. Jolie's role was reminiscent of Jack Nicholson's
character in Alguien voló sobre el nido del cuco (1975), the role which won Nicholson his first Oscar.
Unlike "Cuckoo", "Girl" was a small film that received mixed reviews and barely made money at the box
office. But when it came time to give out awards, Jolie won the triple crown -- "Girl" propelled her to win
the Golden Globe Award, the SAG Award and the Academy Award for best leading actress in a supporting
role.
Jennifer Joanna Aniston (born February 11, 1969) is an American actress, film producer, and businesswoman.
The daughter of actors John Aniston and Nancy Dow, she began working as an actress at an early age with an
uncredited role in the 1987 film Mac and Me. After her career grew successfully in the 1990s, Aniston has remained
a well-known public figure and established herself as one of the leading and highest-paid actresses in Hollywood as
of 2018.
Aniston rose to fame portraying Rachel Green on the television sitcom Friends (1994–2004), for which she
earned Primetime Emmy, Golden Globe, and Screen Actors Guild awards. The character was widely popular while
the series aired and was later recognized as one of the greatest female characters in American television. Aniston
has since played lead roles in numerous comedies and romantic comedies. Her box office successes include Bruce
Almighty (2003), The Break-Up (2006), Marley & Me (2008), Just Go with It (2011), Horrible Bosses (2011),
and We're the Millers (2013), each of which grossed over $200 million in worldwide box office receipts. Her most
critically acclaimed roles include the dramedy The Good Girl (2002) and the drama Cake (2014).
Aniston co-founded production company Echo Films in 2008. Divorced from actor Brad Pitt, to whom she was
married for five years, she is separated from actor Justin Theroux, whom she married in 2015.

Early life
Aniston was born on February 11, 1969, in the Los Angeles suburb of Sherman Oaks,[2][3] the daughter of Greek-born
actor John Aniston and actress Nancy Dow.[2]One of her maternal great-grandfathers, Louise Grieco, was from Italy.
[4]
 Her mother's other ancestry includes English, Irish, Scottish, and a small amount of Greek.[5]Aniston has two half-
brothers, John Melick, her older maternal half-brother, and Alex Aniston, her younger paternal half-brother.
[2]
 Aniston's godfather was actor Telly Savalas, one of her father's best friends.[2][6]
As a child she moved to New York City.[2] Despite her father's television career she was discouraged from watching
television, though she found ways around the prohibition. When she was six, she began attending a Waldorf school.
[7]
 Her parents split up when she was nine years old. [8]
Having discovered acting at age 11 at the Waldorf school, [8] Aniston enrolled in Manhattan's Fiorello H. LaGuardia
High School of Music & Art and Performing Arts, where she joined the school's drama society.[9] Anthony Abeson
was her drama teacher.[10] She was in The Sign in Sidney Brustein's Window by Lorraine Hansberryand Three
Sisters by Anton Chekhov.[11]
Nicolas Cage, original name Nicholas Kim Coppola, (born January 7, 1964, Long
Beach, California, U.S.), American actor, perhaps best known for his performances in
action films and big-budget summer blockbusters. He received an Academy Award for his
work in Leaving Las Vegas (1995).
The nephew of motion-picture director Francis Ford Coppola, he made his acting debut in
1981 in a television pilot. He then landed a role in the teenage comedy Fast Times at
Ridgemont High(1982) and in 1983 appeared in Coppola’s Rumble Fish. Wanting
to differentiate himself from his uncle, he subsequently began using the last name Cage.
His first starring role came in Valley Girl(1983), a lighthearted romance about suburban
punk rockers. In 1984 Cage, by then a strong proponent of the Stanislavsky method of
acting, appeared in Coppola’s The Cotton Club as well as in Racing with the
Moon and Birdy. Throughout the late 1980s he starred in numerous comedies,
including Peggy Sue Got Married (1986) and the Coen brothers’ Raising Arizona(1987), in
which he played a small-time criminal who, along with his wife, a former police officer,
kidnaps one of a set of quintuplets.
After several lacklustre films in the early 1990s, Cage earned critical acclaim with
his Oscar-winning performance as a self-destructive alcoholic writer in Leaving Las
Vegas. He went on to star in a series of large-budget explosive-laden films that were hits
at the box office. In The Rock(1996), Con Air (1997), and Face/Off (1997), he appeared
opposite such actors as Sean Connery, John Cusack, and John Travolta, respectively.
Other notable action films and thrillers include Gone in 60 Seconds (2000), about a group
of car thieves attempting a single-night heist of 50 cars; Windtalkers (2002), a portrayal of
Navajo code talkers during World War II; and National Treasure (2004) and its
sequel National Treasure: Book of Secrets (2007), which featured Cage as a treasure
hunter searching for historical artifacts.
In 2002 Cage appeared in Spike Jonze’s Adaptation, playing twin brothers Charlie and
Donald Kaufman, and was again nominated for an Academy Award. That same year he
made his directorial debut with Sonny, a film he also produced. After portraying a
firefighter in World Trade Center (2006), Oliver Stone’s film about the September 11
attacks, Cage took on roles as an astrophysicist in the science-fiction
thriller Knowing (2009) and a police detective struggling with drug and gambling addictions
in Werner Herzog’s Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans (2009).
Cage was a prolific actor, occasionally making more than five movies in a single year. A
number of his films went straight to video. His notable film work included Kick-Ass (2010),
an action comedy about an ordinary teenager who dreams of becoming a superhero, and
the action thriller Ghost Rider (2007) and its sequel, Ghost Rider: Spirit of
Vengeance (2011), in which he appeared as a demonically possessed motorcyclist. His
atypically subdued work in Joe (2013), in which he played a former criminal who takes a
protective interest in one of his young employees, was widely acclaimed. Cage then
assumed the role of an airline pilot in Left Behind(2014), an adaptation of Tim LaHaye and
Jerry B. Jenkins’s highly successful novel (1995) about the Rapture, and in Oliver
Stone’s Snowden (2016) he was cast as a former intelligence officer. Cage also lent his
voice to such animated films as The Croods (2013) and Spider-Man: Into the Spider-
Verse (2018).