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Born
December 15, 1981 · Barking, Essex, England, UK

Birth name
Michelle Suzanne Dockery

Spouse
Jasper Waller-Bridge(September 23, 2023 – present)

Quotes:

Downton Abbey (2010) has become this huge thing, and I really enjoy the success of it, but I sometimes find myself on the outside looking in.
In the first season of Downton Abbey (2010) we see the three sisters, and pretty much all they do is change clothes three times a day.

Shakespeare is renewed each time you see it or read it. I’ve seen ‘Midsummer Night’s Dream’ so many times, and each time it’s a little different, or a different line leaps out at me. It’s like re-reading a good book over and over, always noticing something you hadn’t seen the time before – and that’s rare.

I don’t mind wearing a corset, it informs your posture, changes the way you move, you can’t slouch.

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Born
December 15 · Ascot, Berkshire, England, UK

Birth name
Camilla Anne Luddington

Quotes:

I definitely have curves. I don’t intend on losing them.
There have been periods of my life when I was heavier, like right after high school I definitely gained that freshman 15. It was tough to lose. Ever since then, I know that I can gain weight, so I try to be careful.
My
I’ll make a horrible housewife. It’s not like I’m disgusting, but I’m pretty bad about having a drink or eating something and then leaving the plate and rushing to go.

I think about what I’m eating every day. I still have burgers and stuff that’s not good for me sometimes, but I’m always trying to be careful. I don’t just eat whatever I want.

As a female there aren’t too many characters that are very empowering, and there’s something very empowering about Lara Croft. She kicks butt and she does it in style. She’s confident and she’s educated.

[Dream acting role] I would love to do a period piece. Or a fantasy piece like Game of Thrones. The closest I’ve come to it is playing a fairy on True Blood. But I’m crossing my fingers for more opportunities.

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Born
December 14, 1984 · Singapore City, Singapore

Birth name
Monroe Jackson Rathbone V

Lust tastes like tequila and love tastes like whiskey…Love burns for longer and warms you up on the inside and sometimes it makes you do stupid things. Tequila just makes you wasted.

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Born
December 14, 1969 · Surrey, England, UK

Birth name
Natasha Abigail Taylor

Spouse
Dr. Martin Hirigoyen Kelly (May 19, 1998 – May 20, 2008) (his death, 3 children)

QUOTES:

I wanted to know whether the character was going to be ‘the wife’ or ‘the girlfriend’, which bores me to tears and is endemic. I think it’s incumbent on actresses to bring something else to the part which isn’t in the script.

I think I was ambitious. I still am. A lot of the stuff that was coming my way was stuff I just didn’t want to do, so it might have seemed like lack of ambition to shy away from that, but if it sticks in your throat… I just wanted to do what I wanted to do and which I thought said something.

Now I’m the sole breadwinner… I have to work. I have to try and work non-stop, actually, to make things work.

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Born
December 13, 1929 · Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Died
February 5, 2021 · Weston, Connecticut, USA (complications from a fall)

Birth name
Arthur Christopher Orme Plummer

QUOTES:

Unless you can surround yourself with as many beautiful things as you can afford, I don’t think life has very much meaning.

I’m bored with questions about acting.

[on working with Dame Julie Andrews] Working with her is like being hit over the head with a Valentine’s card.

[2011, a revised opinion on The Sound of Music (1965)] People were unnaturally sentimental about the film. So I always gave it a tough time. But a few years ago, I went to an Easter party and had to watch the damn thing with these kids. I was a prisoner! And then I thought, it’s got everything – the lovely songs, the Nazis and the nuns and the kids. It’s timeless and I’m grateful for it.

[on receiving a Screen Actors Guild award for Beginners (2010)] I just can’t tell you what fun I’ve had being a member of the world’s second oldest profession. When they honor you, it’s like being lit by the holy grail.

[on the ability to convey a sense of pathos] Very few people have it naturally – Chaplin, Brando. It’s a gift. But you can learn how to fake it.

Ewan (McGregor) doesn’t act, he inhabits a role. And, of course, he makes you not act and inhabit the role, like it’s a competition. I owe that to him.

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Born
December 11 · Los Angeles, California, USA

Was considered for the role of Tashi Duncan in Challengers (2024). The role went to Zendaya instead.

Her mother, Rose Mendez, is a celebrity make-up artist and writer, from Michoacán, Mexico. Her father is an American of Ashkenazi Jewish, German, and French-Canadian descent.

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Born
December 10, 1960 · Belfast, Northern Ireland, UK

Birth name
Kenneth Charles Branagh

Spouses
Lindsay Brunnock(May 24, 2003 – present)
Emma Thompson(August 20, 1989 – October 1, 1995) (divorced)

QUOTES:

I think the best actors are the most generous, the kindest, the greatest people and at their worst they are vain, greedy and insecure.

I’m just a foul-mouthed Brit.

My definition of success is control.

Friendship is one of the most tangible things in a world which offers fewer and fewer supports.

It’s very strange that the people you love are often the people you’re most cruel with.

There is some mysterious thing that goes on whereby, in the process of playing Shakespeare continuously, actors are surprised by the way the language actually acts on them.

Variety is very, very good. Going from medium to medium – if you get the chance to do it – from theater to television to film, which are all distinctly different, keeps me sharp. What works in one doesn’t work in the other, and you have to be looking for the truth of the performance, whatever way that medium might demand.

[on being told he is to be knighted by Queen Elizabeth II] I was very, very, very surprised and I was very touched. Michael Caine and Roger Moore, both of whom I’ve worked with, offered only the insight that it’s handy to have the ‘kneeling stool with the handle’. Roger Moore, who has a dodgy knee, was terrified on the way to the ceremony that, having knelt down, he wouldn’t be kneeling back up again. You don’t want to move suddenly while that sword’s being wielded, I’m sure. I haven’t read of [Her Majesty] having knicked someone on the ear just yet, but perhaps I’ll be the first.

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Born
December 10 · Little Compton, Rhode Island, USA

Birth name
Arden VanAmringe Myrin

Spouse
Dan Martin(December 30, 2007 – August 30, 2021)

INTERVIEW:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mc3YahWA9-Q