Date of Birth 11 July 1953, Paterson, New Jersey, USA
Birth Name Mindy Lee Sterling
Height 5′ 2½” (1.59 m)
It is so important to talk about your cancer and the feelings you have about it.
I know it was harder for me taking care of my dad during his cancer than it was going through my own. You feel more helpless as a caregiver.
Breast cancer is scary and no one understands that like another woman who has gone through it too.
Date of Birth 11 July 1959, Perth Amboy, New Jersey, USA
Birth Name Richard Stephen Sambora
Nicknames King of Swing
Dean
Sambo
Height 6′ 0½” (1.84 m)
Pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor charge of driving under the influence in Laguna Beach, California. Sentenced to three years of informal probation, three months of first offender alcohol awareness classes and standard fees. Also ordered to not partake of any drugs or alcohol for the duration of his probation [April 22, 2008].
Graduated From Woodbridge High School in Woodbridge, New Jersey.
Lives in Laguna Beach, Westlake Village, Calabasas, California and Point Pleasant Boro, New Jersey.
His parents, Joan (Sienila) and Adam Sambora, were both of Polish descent. His surname, “Sambora”, is Polish.
Date of Birth 11 July 1964, Dix Hills, Long Island, New York, USA
Birth Name Gregory James Mottola
Height 6′ (1.83 m)
Greg Mottola was born on July 11, 1964 in Dix Hills, Long Island, New York, USA as Gregory James Mottola. He is a director and producer, known for Superbad (2007), Paul (2011) and Adventureland (2009).
Date of Birth 11 July 1984, Launceston, Tasmania, Australia
Height 5′ 7¾” (1.72 m)
Transformers (2007) was important and defining for me because it taught me about what kinds of movies I want to make and the kind of actor I want to be, and I have a long way to go before I become that actor.
The earth is such a voluminous, sparse, wild place that has its own rhythm that human beings try to control and strategize our way around, but the truth is, if you’re out someplace like the ocean on a capsized boat, it doesn’t matter if you have academic degrees, or if you’re a martial-arts ninja. Nature is a bigger force than you.
Sometimes when Australians go overseas, it’s as though the “Aussie” is refined out of them. I don’t know why. It’s never happened to me, because I’m really proud of it. I’m not embarrassed about where I’m from or who I am any more. I know who I am. I don’t fit in everywhere, but I know where I do fit in.
When you are in control of what the final product is, there is kind of no limitation to what you feel like you can do because you know that if you don’t like it, you can just cut it out.
Date of Birth 22 May 1907, Dorking, Surrey, England, UK
Date of Death 11 July 1989, Steyning, West Sussex, England, UK (renal failure)
Birth Name Laurence Kerr Olivier
Nicknames Larry
Kim
Height 5′ 10″ (1.78 m)
[on needing to reshoot their torture scene in Marathon Man (1976) because Method actor Dustin Hoffman had gotten excessively drunk the first time so he’d look really out of it] Oh, why doesn’t he just *act*?
[on Marlon Brando] Brando acted with an empathy and an instinctual understanding that not even the greatest technical performers could possibly match.
[on Marilyn Monroe] Look at that face – she could be five years old.
People ask me why I’m playing in this picture. The answer is simple. Money, dear boy. I’m like a vintage wine. You have to drink me quickly before I turn sour. I’m almost used up now and I can feel the end coming. That’s why I’m taking money now. I’ve got nothing to leave my family but the money I can make from films. Nothing is beneath me if it pays well. I’ve earned the right to damn well grab whatever I can in the time I’ve got left.
[In 1983] If you’re 75, which I am, it’s damned hard to find parts. Lear is the only star part for an old man that I know of – I’ve never heard of a good play about Methusaleh. I played the title role only once before the Old Vic. I was 39. When you’re younger, Lear doesn’t feel real. When you get to my age, you ‘are’ Lear in every nerve of your body.
Roger Rees (1944–2015)
Date of Birth 5 May 1944, Aberystwyth, Wales, UK
Date of Death 10 July 2015, Manhattan, New York City, New York, USA (cancer)
Height 5′ 11½” (1.81 m)
In Julius Caesar, I died early in the scene and used to fall asleep under the shield until I was waken up by applause. I didn’t have any lines, other than “The Queen!” or “Ah, my Lord!” for four years. — RR, commenting on his first few years as a bit actor with the Royal Shakespeare Company
Omar Sharif (1932–2015)
Date of Birth 10 April 1932, Alexandria, Egypt
Date of Death 10 July 2015, Cairo, Egypt (heart attack)
Birth Name Michel Demetri Shalhoub
Height 5′ 11″ (1.8 m)
[on Barbra Streisand] I thought she was not very attractive at first. But gradually she cast her spell over me. I fell madly in love with her talent. The feeling was mutual for four months – the time it took to shoot the movie.
[on his prowess as a lover] See these hands? They are old. But they are soft. Only good for caressing.
[on Che! (1969)] I wasn’t satisfied with it. It was very awful because it was a movie about a very important figure in socialism and communism, and it was produced by the CIA. I didn’t know and I wasn’t aware of that. I had put a condition with them that this movie wouldn’t offend the reputation of Ernesto ‘Che’ Guevara.
[on being cast by David Lean in Lawrence of Arabia (1962)] They chose me for Lawrence of Arabia (1962) because I spoke English, had black hair, black eyes and a mustache. It was all luck. I was taken in a plane to the desert to meet David, and as we came in to land we could see him sitting all by himself. We landed right next to him, but he didn’t move one step. When I got off the plane, he didn’t say ‘hello’. He simply walked round me to see my profile. Finally, he said “That’s very good, Omar. Let’s go to the make-up tent.” I tried on a mustache, and it was decided I would grow one. I’ve shaved it off for a couple of films, but otherwise I’ve had it ever since.
Peter Serafinowicz
Date of Birth 10 July 1972, Liverpool, England, UK
Birth Name Peter Szymon Serafinowicz
Height 6′ 3″ (1.91 m)
Married to Sarah Alexander
I don’t really say much in the film. Mostly I watched light saber battle scenes and did grunts and growls while George Lucas watched from the couch, I got a bit carried away and pretended I had a light saber — I was waving my arms about. On recording the voice of Darth Maul
I had to come up with a scary voice which could be attributed to a younger villain. Basically I used my own voice with a kind of Marlboro huskiness thrown in. On recording the voice of Darth Maul
I was trying to exude this coolness, but I kept tripping over things – inside I was nearly having a heart attack…I did my impression of Darth Vader for [George Lucas] and he laughed. On recording the voice of Darth Maul
Wyatt Russell
Date of Birth 10 July 1986, Los Angeles, California, USA
Birth Name Wyatt Hawn Russell
Height 6′ 1″ (1.85 m)
Younger half-brother of actor Oliver Hudson, actress Kate Hudson and Boston Russell.
Reported for the WHL’s Prince George (British Columbia, Canada) Cougars training camp. Russell – who is described as an aggressive, standup goaltender with a strong skating stride – arrived in a private jet his parents bought; the family moved into a $4-million Vancouver mansion 1 July. Oddly, the team’s press releases have not mentioned Russell at all. [August 2002]
Stefán Karl Stefánsson
Date of Birth 10 July 1975, Hafnarfjörður, Iceland
Birth Name Stefan Karl
Nickname Stebbi
Height 6′ 2½” (1.89 m)
Has been trained in a number of things, such as: Baritone voice, Russian and English fencing (guarded and unguarded) Tap dancing, Modern dance, Comedia dell’arte, Stand-up comedy, Piano, accordian and drums
Played Robbie Rotten in theatres, 5 years before the LazyTown (2004) show started.
Is known as the “Icelandic Jim Carrey”.
