Mikey Madison - ©Theda Bara

The name I bring to you in this post is that of the American actress Mikey Madison, winner of the Oscar for Best Actress in 2025 for her performance in the film “Anora” (2024), playing the character “Ani”. To play the character, the actress learned Russian.

Mikey Madison began her career acting in short films and received recognition for her role as a temperamental teenager in the comedy series “Better Things”, on the FX channel, playing the character “Max Fox”.

The film “Anora” is by the American filmmaker, director, screenwriter, editor and producer of independent feature films, Sean Baker (1971-). The story is set in New York, focusing on a prostitute from Brooklyn who marries the son of a Russian oligarch.

In addition to the Oscar for Best Actress for “Anora”, Mikey also won a BAFTA in the same category (for the same film) in 2025.

The young actress does not yet have a star on the Los Angeles Walk of Fame.

Mikey Madison, born Mikaela Madison Rosberg on March 25, 1999, in Los Angeles, California, United States, is now 26 years old.

Mikey Madison is the daughter of psychologist parents. She has four siblings, two boys and two girls. She is the twin of one of her brothers (the names and ages were not disclosed in the interview). What is known is that the family is Jewish. The young actress is currently single and has not had any public relationships. However, in the interview with the Los Angeles Times, she revealed that she intends to get married and have children before she is 30.

J. K. Simmons - ©Theda Bara

The name I present to you in this post is that of the veteran and talented American actor and voice actor J. K. Simmons, who has found success in theater, TV series and cinema.

J. K. Simmons became known for his role in the HBO series “Oz” (1997-2003), as the neo-Nazi “Vernon Schillinger”; as “J. Jonah Jameson” in the “Spider-Man” films (2002 and 2004); assistant police chief “Will Pope” in “The Closer” (2005-2012), on TNT; as “Commissioner Gordon” in the film “Justice League” (2024); in addition to several other roles in television and cinema.

Simmons has already been awarded the title of Knight, Padma Shri (Indian Civil Honor), but he does not yet have a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.

J. K. Simmons won an Oscar, a Golden Globe and a BAFTA for Best Supporting Actor in 2015 for: “Whiplash” (2014), when he played the conductor “Terence Fletcher”.

Born Jonathan Kimble Simmons, on January 9, 1955, in Grosse Pointe, Michigan, United States. Today he is 70 years old.

J. K. Simmons is an old-fashioned man, one of those rare cases of an actor who is still married to the same woman and who loves to spend his free time at home with his family, cooking, watching movies and playing board games. His wife is director and writer Michelle Schumacher (1966-). The couple has twin children, actress Olivia Simmons (1996-) and actor Joe Simmons (1996-).

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The name I present to you in this post is Hugh Grant, a British actor who became famous for playing charming and vulnerable characters in romantic comedies and later began playing more dramatic characters. Hugh even auditioned to be the iconic character “James Bond - 007”, but was not chosen.

Throughout his career, Hugh received only one BAFTA award and a Golden Globe for Best Actor, in 1995, for the film “Four Weddings and a Funeral” (1994), character “Charles”.

Hugh John Mungo Grant was born on September 9, 1960, in the city of Hammersmith, London, United Kingdom. Today he is 64 years old.

Hugh Grant was married to British actress and model Elizabeth Jane Hurley from 1987 to 2000. The couple had no children, but Hurley and Grant remained good friends after their separation, so much so that Grant is the godfather of Hurley’s son, British actor and model Damian Charles Hurley (2002-), son of the American actor (now deceased) Stephen Leo Bing (1965-2020). But this happy-ending story, typical of the romantic comedies in which Hugh acts, could have had another ending, because, during Hurley and Grant’s long relationship, in the early hours of June 27, 1995, Hugh Grant was arrested with prostitute Estella Marie Thompson, also known as Divine Brown (1969-), who was performing oral sex on him inside the actor’s car, on Sunset Boulevard in Hollywood in Beverly Hills, Los Angeles, California. The actor was eventually charged with indecent exposure in a public place and received a $1,000 fine, two years of probation, and mandatory participation in a traffic education program. For these and other reasons, Hugh Grant was considered a controversial Hollywood heartthrob and was never even nominated for an Oscar, despite having made good films with famous actors. Grant also does not have a star on the Los Angeles Walk of Fame.

After Elizabeth Hurley, Hugh Grant had a brief relationship with Chinese actress Tinglan Hong (1979-), with whom he had two children: Tabitha Xiao Xi Grant (2011-) and John Mungo Grant (2012-). With his current wife, Swedish television producer Anna Elisabet Eberstein (1979-), to whom he has been married since 2018, the couple has three children: Felix Chang Hong Grant (2012-), born three months after his paternal brother John Mungo, Lulu Danger Grant (2015-) and Blue Grant (2018-).

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In this post I bring the name of the excellent British actor, comedian, screenwriter, writer, voice actor and radio announcer Rowan Atkinson, an enthusiast and participant in car racing, to the point of even having a truck driver’s license. Atkinson is best known for being the creator and interpreter of the mime character (since he hardly speaks in the scenes): “Mr. Bean”, who became world famous for the television series of the same name, winner of the British Academy Television Award, having made two adaptations for the cinema in 1997 and 2007 and a special appearance in 2017.

Prior to his success in television and film, Atkinson starred in a series of comedy programmes for BBC Radio 3 in 1979 called: “The Atkinson People”, a programme based on a series of satirical interviews with famous fictional characters, who were played by the actor himself.

Rowan Atkinson has a long filmography, his first work on the BBC was the series: “The Blackadder”, character: “Edmund Blackadder”, which aired for six years (from 1983 to 1989); acted in a “James Bond” plot: “Never Say Never Again” (1983), character: “Nigel Small-Fawc”; acted in the 29-minute short film: “The Appointments of Dennis Jennings” (1988), character: “Dr. Schooner"; in “The Tall Guy” played the character: “Ron Anderson” (1989); in the nineties he would have his great success, the television series: “Mr. Bean” (from 1990 to 1995), where he played the character that gives title to the series; in another TV series: “The Thin Blue Line” (1995 and 1996) he played “Inspector Raymond Fowler”. The actor had three great successes in a row in Hollywood: “The Witches” (1990) where he played: “Mr. RJ Stringer III"; “Part Two” (1993) character: “Dexter Hayman”; and “Four Weddings and a Funeral” (1994) character: “Father Gerald”; in “The Lion King” (1994) he lent his voice to: “Zazu”; with “Bean’s” (1997) he took his main character to the cinema for the first time; in “Maybe Baby” (2000) he played: “Mr. James”; in the film: “Scooby-Doo” (2002) he played: “Emile Mondavario”; plays in (2003) the secret agent “Johnny English”, parodying “007”, in the film of the same name; in “Love Actually” (2003) he played: “Rufus”; he took his main character to the cinema once again, in: “Mr. Bean’s Vacation” (2007); he played the secret agent once again in: “Johnny English Returns” (2011); “Mr. Bean” would return in: “Top Funny Comedian: The Movie” [original title: “Huan Le Xi Ju Ren”] (2017); would play the secret agent for the last time in: “Johnny English Strikes Again” (2018); The film that earned him his only major award in his career, a BAFTA, was: “Man vs. the Bee” (2022) when he played “Trevor Bingley” and his last film appearance was in the remake of: “Wonka” (2023) when he once again played a religious character: “Father Julius”.

In October 2018, Atkinson, as “Mr. Bean” received the Diamond Play Button from YouTube for his channel surpassing 10 million subscribers on the video platform. Among the most watched channels in the world, in 2018 it had more than 6.5 billion views. “Mr. Bean” is also among the most followed pages on Facebook, with almost 100 million followers, more than the English football club Manchester United or the character “Harry Potter”.

In March 2001, while Atkinson was on vacation in Kenya, the pilot of his private plane collapsed; Atkinson managed to keep the plane in the air until the pilot recovered and managed to land the plane at Wilson Airport in Nairobi.

Rowan Atkinson does not have a star on the Los Angeles Walk of Fame and has never been nominated for an Oscar.

Rowan Sebastian Atkinson, born on January 6, 1955, in Consett, United Kingdom, is now 69 years old.

Rowan Atkinson had two marital relationships, first with British makeup artist Sunetra Sastry (1967-) from 1990 to 2015, with whom he has two children, British actress Lily Sastry (1995-) and Benjamin Atkinson (1993-) who is pursuing a military career. Before separating in 2015, the actor had an extramarital relationship with British comedian Louise Ford (1981-) since 2014, with whom he lives to this day. The couple has a daughter, Isla May, born in (December 2017).

Marty Feldman - ©Theda Bara

The name I bring to you in this post is that of the talented British actor and comedic screenwriter Marty Feldman, who acted in several films and comedy series on television and in the cinema, such as: “Young Frankenstein” (1974), where he played “Igor”, the hunchbacked assistant of “Dr. Frederick Frankenstein”, played by: Gene Wilder (1933-2016).

His face was distinguished by bulging eyes, a medical condition known as exophthalmos, caused by the thyroid, known as Graves’ disease.

Feldman was born in the East End of London, the son of Jewish immigrants from Kiev. He left school at 15 and worked at the Dreamland amusement park in Margate. He was initially drawn to jazz, playing the trumpet and spending time performing in jazz clubs in Soho. He found a parallel between comedy and jazz improvisation, until he realized he had no talent for it. At 20, he decided to pursue a career as a comedian.

His great idol and artistic reference was the American comedian, director, producer, screenwriter and stuntman, Buster Keaton (1895-1966).

Before leaving music behind, Marty Feldman recorded an LP: “Going Off” (1969), re-released as: “The Crazy World of Marty Feldman”. In 1976, Feldman ventured into Italian cinema, starring alongside Barbara Gutscher, known as Barbara Bouchet (1943-) in the film: “Sex with a Smile” (1976). Feldman appeared in several films by Mel Brooks (1926-). In 1966 he directed and starred in the remake of “Beau Geste” (1939). The artist was invited to appear in an episode set in “Arabian Nights” of “The Muppet Show”, with several characters from “Sesame Street”, where he appeared as: “Scheherazade” and compared his eyes to those of Elmo.

Awards were not Marty Feldman’s strong point, especially since he died so young. Marty received 2 BAFTAE Craft Awards: Best Screenwriter in 1968 and 1969. Being British, he does not have a star on the Los Angeles Walk of Fame.

Martin Alan “Marty” Feldman was born on July 8, 1934, in London, England, and died on December 2, 1982, in Mexico City, Mexico, at the age of 48, from a heart attack while filming the comedy: “The Rampant Yellowbeard Pirates”.

Marty Feldman was married to British TV producer Lauretta Sullivan Feldman (1935-2010) from 1959 to 1982. The couple had no children.