Famous People Biographies

Produced in 1982 in Swindon, Wiltshire, England, Billie Piper first came to prominence as a pop vocalist. After her music career fizzled, she transitioned to performing, her first love. Although she worked on the stage as well as in movies, Piper is famous for her television work, for example, character ...

Produced in Hornell, Ny, on December 17, 1953, Bill Pullman pursued stage work before making his big screen debut in Ruthless People. Other comedies followed like Spaceballs and Clerks prior to the celebrity hit it big with characters in Sleepless in Seattle and While You Were Sleeping, subsequently playing the ...

Produced January 17, 1922, in Oak Park, Illinois, Betty White continues to be in show business since the 1950s. 15 Gallery 15 Pictures She grew up as the only child of Horace and Tess White, an electrical engineer as well as a homemaker. White got her start employed as an ...

Bethenny Frankel was born in Nyc on November 4, 1970. Other reality shows followed, as did her Skinnygirl brand of cocktails as well as other merchandises. This millionaire mother also made headlines for breaking up with husband Jason Hoppy in 2012. Bethenny Frankel was born on November 4, 1970, in ...

Bernie Mac was born on October 5, 1957, in Chicago, Illinois. On August 9, 2008, Mac died of pneumonia. Actor and comic Bernie Mac was born Bernard Jeffrey McCullough on October 5, 1957, in Chicago, Illinois. Growing up in a big family on Chicago’s South Side, his grandpa was the ...

He’s released records understood for his or her social consciousness and music genre fusions, including his introduction Welcome to the Cruel World and Diamonds on the Inside, and has won Grammys for his work together with the Blind Boys of Alabama. He was married to actress Laura Dern. He was ...

He moved to La in his teens to pursue an acting career and soon landed parts in film and television. When Foster was 4 years old, the family (including Foster’s smaller brother, Jon) relocated to Fairfield, Iowa, where he attended school and started to play in community-theatre productions. Foster left ...

Produced in Michigan in 1921, Betty Hutton started singing as a kid. She later sang on the road to help bring in funds for her family. In her teens, Hutton started performing in clubs. She soon went to movie, bringing in parts in 1942’s The Fleet’s In and 1944’s The ...

Celebrity Barry Williams was born Barry William Blenkhorn on September 30, 1954, in Santa Monica, California. As a young kid, he appeared on television shows including Dragnet, Mission: Impossible and The Mod Squad. In 1969, at age 14, he was cast as Greg Brady, the eldest of six children, to ...

Barbara Walters – Million Dollar Anchorman (TV-PG; 2:10) Barbara Walters is hired by ABC News as Harry Reasoner’s co-anchor and becomes the greatest paid anchorman at the time. Throughout the 1960s and ’70s, she developed her hallmark interviewing design though longstanding occupations on NBC’s Today show and ABC’s 20/20. Walters ...