Famous People Biographies

Produced in 1975, Zach Braff grew up in New Jersey and started playing at a very young age. He got his first acting job on a TV pilot at age 14, with his first movie part arriving several years after. His big break came in 2001 when he got among ...

He and his brothers Isaac and Taylor formed the pop band Hanson and became known for his or her mega hit single “MMMBop,” along with added hits “I’ll Come to You” and “Where Is the Love.” Zac is a Grammy-nominated musician and continues to create new music. Zac was homeschooled ...

In 2005, Efron got the lead part in a Disney Channel movie called High School Musical. Even though it had been supposed to function as usual Disney fare, it struck a chord with adoring crowds and became the most successful Disney Channel Original Film ever made, propelling Efron to additional ...

William Daniels is an American performer that has mastered both screen and stage. Taking the stage in an extremely young age, Daniels has reach many career landmarks; starring on multiple television series, winning two Emmy Awards and holding office as president of the Screen Actors Guild. A well-respected performer, Daniels ...

His parents started taking him to auditions as a kid and he reserved his first job when he was just 7. His dad, Richard William Jr., a medical tech, and his mom, Debra O’Connor, an actress, later supplied their oldest son, whom they called Wil, with a smaller brother and ...

Wanya Morris was born on July 29, 1973, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He set his gifted tenor voice to great use as an associate of the Grammy Award-winning group Boyz II Men. This boy band ruled the music charts in the late 1980s and early ’90s with slow tunes, R&B grooves ...

Vince McMahon’s dad founded the Capitol Wrestling Corporation, which controlled wrestling in the Northeastern U.S. during the mid-20th century. In 1982, Vince Jr. purchased Capitol from his dad and started an expansion that would fundamentally change the nature of professional wrestling in America. The World Wrestling Federation appeared and became ...

Gilligan studied film at New York University as well as in 1994 started to act as a writer on The X-Files. In 2008, he found the television series Breaking Bad, about a chemistry teacher turned drug kingpin. Gilligan’s dad, George Sr., worked as an insurance adjuster and his mom, Gail, ...

Gill has since won over a dozen Grammys and other awards. Country singer songwriter Vince Gill was born Vincent Grant Gill on April 12, 1957, in Norman, Oklahoma. Gill’s dad, an appellate judge, instructed him to play the guitar for a very young age. Throughout his teens, he performed with ...

He first worked about the 1994 movie Baby’s Day Out, after appearing in Dunston Checks In (1996) and Mighty Joe Young (1998). In 1999, Troyer became famed for playing Mini Me in the comedy Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me, starring Mike Myers. He reprised the character for the ...