By choice or coincidence, many actors, directors, and other celebrities have the same name as another celebrity. How many conversations happily progressed before participants realized they were talking about two different people with similar-sounding names?
Anne Hathaway (1555 or 1556 – 1623) was 25 or 26 and pregnant with her first child when she married 18-year-old William Shakespeare. Her Anne was confined to Stratford with her children, and Will spent most of his time in London pursuing his theatrical career. In Will's will, he left his wife only the “second best furnished bed.”
Anne Hathaway is also the birth name of the award-winning American actress (born 1982), known for her performances in films such as: Brokeback Mountain, The Devil Wears Prada, and Les Miserables.
Jane Seymour (born 1951) is a British actress (real name Joyce Penelope Wilhelmina Frankenberg) who played James Bond's lover in the movies. Please let me live and die (1973) and the title role in the American television series Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman Her stage name was taken from Henry VIII's third wife. Two weeks after Jane Seymour gave birth to her son Edward, who was King of England and Ireland (under her regent council) from the age of 9 to 15 until her death in 1537. she passed away.
Don't be surprised if Netflix says: [your name] include The Thomas Crown Affair, Britt; and towering inferno …Because I liked you 12 years of slavery” Netflix works in mysterious ways, but it's easy to understand what's going on here. American actor and “King of Cool” Terrence Stephen “Steve” McQueen (1930 – 1980) is confused with British director, screenwriter, and video artist Stephen Rodney. “Steve” McQueen (1969-).
Another actor-director pair with a similar name is British comedy actor and film star Peter Sellers (1925-1980). pink panther Movies in which he played multiple roles, including the title role Dr. Strangelove Or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomband the equally eccentric Peter Sellers (1957-), an American theater and opera director known for casting and directing Mozart's works. Don Giovanni It's like a blaxploitation movie.
Two artist types shouting out the unique sound of Nick Cave may find their voices echoing in two different caves. Australian rocker Nicholas Edward “Nick” Cave (born 1957), best known as frontman for Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, performs the Higgs Boson Blues.
Nick Cave (1959-) is an American textile sculptor, dancer, and performance artist known for his fusion of sculpture and costume called soundsuits.
Although both are listed on the Internet Movie Database, you should never confuse British author (Henry) Graham Greene (1904 – 1991). The third man, the end of the incident, and quiet american He co-starred with Canadian actor Graham Greene (1952-), who appeared in “''. The Green Mile, Dances with Wolves, and Die Hard: With a Vengeance. If you're wondering why this author is on his IMDb, it's because 66 of his movies are based on his work.
What about directors and playwrights? American film director John Ford (real name John Martin Feeney) (1894-1973) starred the unknown John Wayne. stagecoach, the first of several classic Westerns the two made together. Ford won the Academy Award for Best Director four times, the most ever.
John Ford is also the name of an English playwright (c. 1586 – 1639), whose plays have been silent for centuries but have regained popularity in the last 20 years. Hoping for the return of “two best plays”, Broken heart and “Unfortunately, she's a prostitute.”in 2012, Alexis Solosky wrote: new york times“John Ford never met anyone he didn't want to kill. Chillingly, subtly, and poignantly.”
Sam Shepard (1943-2017) was an American playwright, actor, and director. He also published books of short stories, essays, and memoirs. His plays have won many awards, including the 1979 Pulitzer Prize for Drama. buried child. He played legendary test pilot Chuck Yeager. the right thingShepard had an aversion to flying.
Life wasn't so easy for Cleveland, Ohio, physician Sam Shepard (1923-1970). He was convicted of murdering his pregnant wife in 1954 after a sensational trial that attracted national media attention. The media frenzy that attended his trial was comparable to that surrounding the OJ Simpson trial some 40 years later. After nearly a decade in prison, he was retried and acquitted. A few years later, he debuted as a professional wrestler known as “The Killer.”
Lindley Armstrong “Spike” Jones (1911 – 1965) was an American bandleader who specialized in playing novel arrangements of popular music featuring bells, whistles, gunshots, and zany vocals. One of his most famous parodies is “Cocktail for Two”.
Spike Jonze (born Adam Spiegel in 1969) is an American director, producer, screenwriter, and actor. she As well as the 1999 cult classic Being John Malkovich (This earned him an Academy Award nomination for Best Director). He was also a co-creator of MTV. jackass. Apparently his eccentric behavior started early. When he was growing up in Bethesda, Maryland, a local store owner called him “Spike Jonze” after the bandleader.
Sir Francis Bacon (1561 – 1626) was an English philosopher, politician, and scientist who established and promoted the inductive method of scientific inquiry that became known as Bacon's method, or simply the scientific method. Best known for what he did. While driving in March 1626, he came up with the idea for an experiment on the effects of freezing on the preservation of meat. He stopped the wagon, bought some poultry, and packed it with snow. He developed chills and died the following month from a lung infection, but no one has attributed his death to birding.
Francis Bacon (1909-1992) also experimented with meat as a subject for his paintings. One of the Irish-born British Expressionist painter's most famous works, his “Figures with Flesh” depicts the brutal Pope Innocent X surrounded on his two sides by dangling beef. It is drawn. Although some viewers find Bacon's raw and aggressive style disturbing, many critics consider him one of the leading painters of the 20th century. Last November, his triptych “Three Studies of Lucian Freud'' sold for $142,405,000, making it the most expensive piece of art ever sold at auction.
Erik Erickson (1975-) is an ultra-conservative American television critic and blogger known for his inflammatory tweets about the Supreme Court, President Obama, and “feminazis.”
Erik Erikson (1902 – 1994) was a German-born American developmental psychologist and psychoanalyst known for his theories on psychosocial development. As a result of his extramarital affair, he never knew his father. Apparently rejecting both his biological father and the stepfather who raised him, he named himself Erik Erikson, symbolically becoming his own father. Not surprisingly, he is credited with coining the term “identity crisis.”
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