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.
Tyson Kidd born in Calgary, Alberta, Canada
Kidd (Theodore James Wilson) is born in Calgary, Alberta, Canada. After developing an interest in professional wrestling as a young man, he decides to pursue it and enters the Hart Family Dungeon training school. He makes his professional wrestling debut for Stampede Wrestling at age fifteen,
Works for Mellon Bank
Cuban gets a job at Mellon Bank in a department that converts paper to computerized systems. While there, Cuban starts a group called “the Rookie club”. He invites executives to speak with the younger employees in a happy hour atmosphere and starts a newsletter for updates on current projects. He thought his boss would like his new ideas.
Instead, my boss called me into his office one day and ripped me a new one. “Who the f— do you think you are?” he yelled. I told him I was trying to help Mellon make more money. He told me I was never to go over him or around him, or he’d crush me.
David Otunga born in Elgin, Illinois
Otunga is born in Elgin, Illinois despite being billed from Hollywood, California in the WWE. He is the youngest child in his family. Otunga graduates high school with a perect 4.0 GPA and pursues higher education. He obtains a degree in Psychology from the University of Illinois and a law degree from the Harvard School of Law.
Channing Tatum born in Cullman, Alabama
Channing Tatum is born to Glenn and Kay Tatum in Cullman, Alabama. He has one sister. He attended Tampa Catholic High School and was involved in many sports.
I learned to dance at quinceañeras – big [15th] birthday parties for Spanish girls. It was always funny to bring the white guy out [on the floor] and let him look like a fool.
Randy Orton born in Knoxville, TN
Orton is born in Knoxville, TN despite being billed from St. Louis, Mo during his wrestling career. He is the oldest of three siblings. Orton’s interest in wrestling develops while watching his father, Bob Orton throughout his childhood.
I have to put my father over because he really taught me a lot, especially when it comes to out-of-the-ring psychology and how to react when you’re approached by fans after a show or in the airport. It might sound silly, but a lot of those things come into play when you’re playing a character.
Christina Ricci born in Santa Monica, California
Christina Ricci is born in Santa Monica, California to real estate agent Sarah and lawyer Ralph Ricci. She is youngest of her parent’s four children. She attends Edgemont Elementary School.
I managed to be the black sheep of the family. I have an unconventional background but what’s average these days? We’re all interesting in our own ways.
Zooey Deschanel born in Los Angeles
Zooey Claire Deschanel is born in Los Angeles, California to Oscar-nominated cinematographer and director Caleb Deschanel, and Twin Peaks actress Mary Jo Deschanel. Her name is inspired by one of the main characters in the J.D. Salinger novella, Franny and Zooey. She has an older sister, Emily, who stars in the hit television crime drama series, Bones. She attends Santa Monica’s Crossroads, a private preparatory school along with Jake Gyllenhaal and Kate Hudson. On her childhood struggles:
Nothing could be as hard as middle school. There were insecurities that I think I would have worked through a lot faster if I’d had certain tools and could have connected with certain people earlier.
Born in Guayanilla, Puerto Rico
Lopez was from the town of Guayanilla. His mother was a nurse. The mayor of the town, Edgardo Arlequin Velez taught Lopez for six years while he directed the school band.
He he was a peaceful young man and especially talented.
The mayor said Lopez’s parents were always taking care of him, and that he had a tight-knit family and friendships.
He had an excellent life, which I witnessed
Lopez’s mother dies in November 2013. His grandfather dies in October 2013.
Brianna Wu born in Hattiesburg, Mississippi
Wu is born John Flynt in Hattiesburg, Mississippi. She is adopted. Her father is a Navy-trained obstetrician who founded a chain of women’s health centers. Her mother has a degree in microbiology and a passion for computers; she stayed home to take care of Wu. She has two younger siblings.
Her father supports her interest in technology by sending her to classes and buying hardware. She says she followed her father’s extreme conservative views in an effort to bond with him, including attending church as often as three times a week. Of her hometown:
Every part of my body is screaming that this is not right, this is not normal, this is not a good place to live. I don’t fit in with anyone there. So I end up just tuning completely out, which is why I have such good computer skills. Video games were the world that I cared about.
Eric Young born in Ontario, Canada
Young (Jeremy Fritz) is born in Ontario, Canada. He develops an interest in professional wrestling as a young man.
I don’t remember whole matches from 20 years ago, but I remember moments from matches. I remember where I was and who I was with and how it made me feel.
1941
Spielberg directs this comedy about the hysteria that breaks out in California shortly after the Pearl Harbor attack as residents fear an imminent Japanese invasion of the US mainland. Saturday Night Live vets Jhon Belushi and Dan Aykroyd star.
[The Film] wanted to be bigger than the war, bigger than history.
Curtis Axel born in Champlin, MN
Axel is born in Champlin, Minnesota. He is the son of WWE legend, “Mr. Perfect” Curt Hennig and grandson of Larry “The Ax” Hennig. Due to his family’s involvement in wrestling he develops an early interest in the sport.
When I finally won at Payback, man – I just couldn’t stop thinking about my dad. Holding that same Intercontinental Championship that he held. He would bring (it) home and I would hold it and wear it as a kid. I now possess this thing.
Low Ki born in Brooklyn, NY
Low Ki (Brandon Silvestry) is born in Brooklyn, New York. He decides to become a professional wrestler at a young age.
I wanted to become a professional wrestler. I wanted to earn the respect of the audience, people who paid their hard-earned money to see professional wrestling and not insult their intelligence.
Chris Pratt born in Virginia, Minnesota
Christopher Michael Pratt is born in Virginia, Minnesota but raised in Lake Stevens, Washington. His father is Dan Pratt, a home remodeler and his mother is Kathy Pratt (née Indahl), a Safeway supermarket employee. He has an older brother named Cully and an older sister named Angie. An accomplished athlete in high school, he lands fifth place in a state wrestling tournament. At 18 years old, he moves to Hawaii with some friends and works as a waiter at the Bubba Gump Shrimp Company in Maui. On his father:
My dad, Dan, was the strong, silent type. He worked in a gold mine. He was a Golden Gloves boxer, tough as nails, and didn’t put up with any crap. I was a sensitive kid, and I don’t know if we always got along or were always on the same page, but he was there. His dad never went to any of his football games. He was an all-state player, and his parents never even saw a single game that he was in. But he made it to… every game I ever played. And when he wasn’t a coach, he was there leaning on a fence at practice.
Father dies at 31
At the age of five, the actress losses her father, British actor Richard Beckinsale, to a sudden heart attack. He was at the height of his career at the time and was a British household name starring in two English sitcoms: Rising Damp and Porridge. Richard was 31 years of age.
I started expecting bad things to happen, that friends will leave, that loved ones will die. It kept building until I had a nervous breakdown when I was a teenager.
