Damien Sandow born in Worcester, Mass.
Sandow is born in Worcester, Massachusetts. He decides to pursue wrestling at age 16 training under Killer Kowalski in order to achieve his dream.
There were people who told me I wouldn’t achieve my dreams and I have and I just want to tell them anything is possible if they just believe in themselves and that’s not to sound generic. I’m living proof that it can actually happen.
Prince William born in London
Prince William Arthur Philip Louis Windsor is born weighing 7lb 1½oz. The Prince is the first child of Prince Charles and Princess Diana and his official title is “Prince William, Duke of Cambridge”. His paternal grandparents are Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh. He is second in line to succeed his grandmother, after his father.
Prince Charles is present at the birth and calls the Palace from St Mary’s Hospital Paddington, to tell his mother, who was said to be “absolutely delighted.” The Queen Mother, driving back to her home at Clarence House was “overjoyed.” The news was also flashed to Prince Andrew in the South Atlantic task force and to the rest of the Royal Family.
The crowd outside the hospital were chanting “Nice one Charlie, let’s have another one,” the Prince laughed and said:
Bloody hell, give us a chance.
Natalya born in Calgary, Alberta, Canada
Neidhart is born in Calgary, Alberta, Canada. He father is WWE legend Jim “The Anvil” Neidhart. Due to her family’s heavy involvement in the world of professional wrestling, she decides to pursue the sport as a career. She becomes the first woman to graduate wrestling school from the Hart Family Dungeon to begin her career.
Kelly Clarkson born in Fort Worth, Texas
Kelly Brianne Clarkson is born in Fort Worth, Texas to English teacher Jeanne Ann and engineer Stephen Michael Clarkson. She has an elder brother and an elder sister. She attends Pauline Hughes Middle School in Burleson, Texas.
I grew up pretty much the hard way and went through a couple of divorces within my family.
Jack Swagger born in Perry, OK
Swagger is born in Perry, Oklahoma. He begins wrestling at age five and continues to pursue the amateur sport through high school. He attends the University of Oklahoma as a football player and wrestler. He graduates from the University with a degree in finance.
Britney Spears born in McComb, Mississippi
Britney Spears is born in McComb, Mississippi to school teacher Lynne Irene Bridges and building contractor James Parnell Spears. She has an elder brother and a younger sister. She attends Parklane Academy in McComb. Her uncle:
At first, Britney was a scared child and you’d catch her crying but she reached the stage when she just walked off, as if it wasn’t happening. And as she got older, she would scream and curse at her parents, trying to get them to stop fighting.
Ryback born in Las Vegas, NV
Ryback is born in Las Vegas, Nevada. He begins watching professional wrestling at the age of eight. With hopes of one day becoming a professional wrestler, he begins weight lifting at twelve years old. In 2004 he decides to enter WWE’s Tough Enough competition to become a professional wrestler. Despite losing the competition he is offered a developmental contract.
Ivanka Trump born in New York
Ivanka Trump is born in Manhattan, New York.
Angelina Love born in Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Love (Lauren Williams) is born in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. She discovers wrestling as a young girl and becomes a fan of Shawn Michaels.
I’d say Shawn (Michaels) is my all-time favorite wrestler. I don’t think I’d have gotten into wrestling if not for watching him when I was young.
Jonathan Taylor Thomas born in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania
Jonathan Taylor Thomas is born in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania. He lives with his mother, Claudine Gonsalves, his father, Stephen Weiss, and his older brother Joel. At the age of seven, he works as a model for print advertisements in Sacramento, CA. His mother works as a social worker until she manages his career.
An education is a more surefire guarantee that you have possibilities opened to you.
Kofi Kingston born in Ghana, West Africa
Kingston is born in Ghana, West Africa despite being billed from Kingston, Jamaica in the early part of his WWE career. His family immigrates to the United States when he is still a baby. Kingston graduated from Boston College before deciding to pursue professional wrestling as career.
Fandango born in Standish, Maine
Fandango is born in Standish, Maine. He develops an early interest in the world of professional wrestling. As a teenager he begins training for a wrestling debut under the tutelage of Killer Kowalski.
Natalie Portman born in Jerusalem
Natalie Portman, originally Natalie Hershlag, is born in Jerusalem to American Shelley Stevens and Israeli doctor Avner Hershlag. She and her family moved to the United States in 1984. She spends most of her childhood in New York, where she enrolled in theatrical camps and ballet classes.
As a child, I idealized ballet because, as a little girl, you just think of it as this pretty, light, delicate and feminine thing.
Born in Aberdeen, Wa.
Bryan is born in Aberdeen, Washington and develops an early interest in the world of professional wrestling and other sports. Bryan decides to pursue wrestling as a career in 1999.
Justin Gabriel born in Cape Town, South Africa
Gabriel is born in Cape Town, South Africa. He is the son of professional wrestler, Pink Panther (Paul Lloyd). He develops an early interest in wrestling, often practicing in his father’s training rings in their backyard. He makes his professional wrestling debut at age 16.
Joseph Gordon-Levitt born in Los Angeles
Joseph Leonard Gordon-Levitt is born in Los Angeles to a Jewish family. His parents are radio news director Dennis Levitt and US Congressional candidate Jane Gordon. He has a brother named Dan, who is seven years older than him. His maternal grandfather is director Michael Gordon. At the age of four, he plays the Scarecrow in a local children’s theater production of The Wizard of Oz. About getting into acting:
I was never pressured into acting. I just genuinely liked it, like I liked gymnastics and football and Little League.
The Miz born in Parma, Oh.
Miz is born in Parma, Ohio despite being billed from Hollywood, California for most of his wrestling career. Miz would pursue cross country running and basketball while attending high school.
Macaulay Culkin born in New York City
Macaulay Carson Culkin is born in New York, New York. His father, Christopher Culkin, is a former child actor, and his mother is Patricia Brentrup. He has six siblings, Shane, Dakota, Kieran, Quinn, Christian, and Rory. He starts showbiz at the age of four, acting in off-Broadway shows such as the New York City Ballet’s The Nutcracker.
And so the thing is with child actors overall, the most important thing is that you have to know your lines. They’re always worried about the kid’s going to forget his lines. So, what my father, you know, who was clever — one of the things he did was, you know, they’d give me these scenes, like scene 12 and scene 20 or whatever, and they were very, very short scenes. So what he would do is he’d go through the script, find the longest like monologues and longest, hardest scenes for a 9-year-old to do, and had me memorize them. So when I’d go into the room, they’d go, oh, do scene 12, I’m like, you know, I’m a little nine-year-old, I go, but no, I practiced scene 4. Do what you know. You know? And the next thing you know I’m rattling off this whole thing.
Wade Barrett born in Preston, Lancashire, England
Barrett is born in Preston, Lancashire, England. At age six he moves to Wales with his family. He develops an early interest in wrestling through watching British WWE superstar Davey Boy Smith.
Dolph Ziggler born in Cleveland, OH
Ziggler is born in Cleveland, Ohio despite being billed from Hollywood, Florida in WWE. Ziggler pursues amateur wrestling in high school. He holds the school record for most pins in a high school career, 82.