Kate Beckinsale born in London
Kathrin Romary Beckinsale is born in London to British comedian and actor Richard Beckinsale and actress Judy Loe. At the age of five, she loses her father to a heart attack which causes her to develop anorexia. Her widowed mother later remarries director Roy Battersby, with whom she maintains a close relationship. She also has a paternal half-sister, actress Samantha Beckinsale. About her step-father:
I couldn’t have knitted a better one … He wasn’t pushy, he let me come to him.
Anson Mount born in Mount Prospect, IL
Mount is born in Mount Prospect, Illinois to Nancy Smith, a professional golf player and Anson Adams Mount II, a sports and religion editor to Playboy magazine. He has an older brother and a half sister. He grows up in White Bluff, Tennessee.
I have a great-great-great-grandfather who was a Confederate cavalry colonel, and I still have his military composite photo on my wall. The chemicals in the photo tint have changed over the years to the point that he looks green. One of my family members apparently still has the piece of paper that listed every thing in his pocket when he got shot. I grew up hunting with shotguns and rifles, and we had a gun in every corner of the living room.
Brodus Clay born in Pasadena, Calif.
Clay (George Murdoch) is born in Pasadena, Calif. He has a troubled childhood with an abusive father.
My childhood was not anything close to normal. And as far as bullying goes, I learned about bullying first hand in my house. My biological father would physically abuse my mother and myself and my brother constantly, so at a very young age I learned very quickly what a bully is at the highest level.
Troy Carter born in Philadelphia
Troy Carter is born in West Philadelphia to Gilda Carter, who cleans surgical instruments at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia. His parents divorce when he is two years old. Carter grows up on 52d Street and Larchwood Avenue, in a two-bedroom apartment with kerosene heat and sometimes no running water. His mother says her three boys always had hot meals, love, and high expectations, however she often has to scrape change for bus fare.
You know, we were broke. You can, as a kid, kind of recognize the pain in your mother’s face.
He spends much of his time around the corner with his grandmother, who recalls him writing that he wanted to be a millionaire by age 25, and his granduncle, the owner of a popular shoeshine store who gives him encouragement. Grandmother:
Troy always had a composition book and pen, jotting down what he had in mind to do.
He attends Huey Elementary and Sayre Middle School.
I was always the kid in the front of the line because I was the smallest. and [my fifth grade teacher] used to call me ‘The Big Guy.’ Just by the way she would talk to me, she gave me the sense that I could do anything.
He tests well but prefers the nearby public library.
I read every single thing about the music business.
Thomas Eric Duncan born in Liberia
Thomas Eric Duncan is born in Monrovia, Liberia to Nowai Korkoya. He has one sister, Mai.
Ben Affleck born in Berkeley
Benjamin Geza Affleck-Boldt is born in Berkeley, the first son of Christine Anne, nee Boldt, and Timothy Affleck. His middle name is the name of a Holocaust survivor that his parents admire. The family moves to Cambridge where he grows up with his brother Casey, who is three years younger. His mother is a Freedom Rider who traveled into America’s Deep South in the 1960s. His father works as a theater actor and stage manager as well as doing manual jobs.
My mother taught public school, went to Harvard and then got her master’s there and taught fifth and sixth grade in a public school. My dad had a more working-class lifestyle. He didn’t go to college. He was an auto mechanic and a bartender and a janitor at Harvard.
He attends Cambridge Rindge and Latin School. His father has alcoholism, and his parents divorce. The domestic problems affect his schooling:
I was a bit of a f–up. I got really good grades until the last two years, and then I didn’t. I was having issues around my dad and my mom, and things just weren’t that stable — though that puts the responsibility on them, when really I just lost focus and stopped caring.
To escape problems at home he begins acting at Cambridge Rindge, appearing in Friedrich Durrenmatt’s play The Visit. He also appears in the PBS production The Life of Mimi, a Burger King commercial, and as an extra in Field of Dreams.
Devon born in Brooklyn, NY
Devon (Hughes) is born in Brooklyn, New York. He develops an early interest in professional wrestling and befriends his future tag team partner, Bubba (Bully) Ray.
Can Bubba be a prick? Absolutely. He’ll be the first to tell you himself. He’ll be the first to tell you he’s a jerk. He’ll be the first to tell you that he don’t like people.
Big Show born in Aiken, SC
Show is born in Aiken, SC despite being billed from Miami Fl during his wrestling career. During his early life he works many odd jobs such as bouncing and bounty hunting. He pursues basketball at Wichita State University.
I look back at my college basketball career and I just want to go back in time, pull myself off to the side and … punch myself in the face. Hahahahaha. It’s a team sport, idiot. Start playing with your teammates.
Ron Killings born in Charlotte, NC
Killings is born in Charlotte, North Carolina. Killings develops an early interest in wrestling and music. After failing to make a successful career out of his music, he turns to promoter Jackie Crockett to pursue professional wrestling in 1997.
Martin Freeman born in Aldershot, Hampshire
Born Martin John Christopher Freeman to parents Geoffrey Freeman and Philomena Norris. Martin has 3 older brothers and 1 older sister. As a child he had asthma and had to have a hip operation for a leg problem.
Most people have a passive relationship with music and clothes, with culture. But music was my first contact with anything creative. Music is it, as far as I’m concerned.
Bully Ray born in Queens, NY
Ray (Mark LoMonaco) is born in Queens, NY. He becomes a fan of tag team wrestling through watching the Road Warriors.
The Road Warriors, in my opinion, the greatest team of all time. But I wouldn’t pay money to see Hawk wrestle in singles competition.
Marc Andreessen born in Cedar Falls, Iowa
Marc Lowell Andreessen is born in Cedar Falls, Iowa. He grows up 10 miles outside New Lisbon, Wisconsin, a village of 1,500, on Castle Rock Lake. His mother, Pat, works in customer service at Lands’ End. His father, Lowell, is a sales manager for Pioneer Hi-Bred International Inc. On his father’s job:
It was an Amway kind of thing–farmers slowly going out of business on their family farms sell seed corn to other farmers slowly going out of business.
He has one brother, Jeff, a history major at the University of Wisconsin. Andreessen discovers programming at age 12. While recuperating from an operation he persuades his parents to buy him a Radio Shack computer.
Elon Musk born in Pretoria, South Africa
Elon Musk is born in Pretoria, the eldest child of South African engineer Errol and Maye, nee Haldeman, a Canadian fashion model. He spends part of his childhood in the suburb of Waterkloof and graduates from Pretoria Boys High School.
He reads for many hours a day during childhood and enjoys comic books and J.R.R. Tolkien’s writing. He discusses science and computers with his brother Kimbal, and sister, Tosca, and debates computers with his father, who divorces from his mother. Instead of hiring domestic help, the children do chores, unlike many other wealthy South African families at the time.
I guess I was a bit of an autocratic father – do this, do that…I was a single parent, and they simply had to help out.
He develops the ambition to migrate to the U.S. during childhood, to escape a South African society that he views as oppressive under apartheid.
Mark Henry born in Silsbee, TX
Henry is born in Silsbee, Texas. He develops an early interest in professional wrestling while watching Andre the Giant on television as a child. Despite struggling with dyslexia in school, he plays football and powerlifting until his senior year.
Born in Baton Rouge, Louisiana
Piyush ‘Bobby’ Jindal is born in Baton Rouge, Louisiana to Amar and Raj Jindal. His parents are Hindu immigrants from Punjab, India and work as engineers. He is elder of two children.
My parents, and my mom especially, were adamant that, Look, we made the decision to come to America, our kids are Americans, they should grow up fully American. If you look at our childhood, it was pretty typical of a whole lot of other children’s childhoods.
Jessica Livingston born
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Ted Cruz born in Calgary, Alberta
Cruz is born in Calgary, Alberta, Canada to Eleanor Elizabeth Darragh Wilson and Rafael Bienvenido Cruz. His father is a Cuban immigrant and works in the oil sector.
Jason Calacanis born in Brooklyn
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Jericho is born in Manhasset, New York as the son of hockey legend, Ted Irvine of New York Rangers fame. Jericho would be raised in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. His interest in wrestling an music begin at a young age.
When I was a kid, I started playing in bands when I was 12. I had two dreams and I was able to pursue both of them. That is a pretty rare thing. I don’t take it for granted. Some people go, ‘You can’t do both.’ I say, ‘Yes, I can. Watch me.’ I’ve been nothing but a wrestling fan and a music fan since I was a young kid. I just couldn’t decide which one of them I wanted to do. So I said, ‘I’ll do them both.’