actors

Granach, Alexander, 1890-1945

Battlescarred — Fri, 13 Jun 2008 10:18:44 +0000

Born April 18, 1890, Werbiwici, East Galicia (now Ukraine). Died March 14, 1945, New York, USA.

Jean Seberg - screen icon and Black Panther supporter

Ed — Thu, 12 Jul 2007 04:30:05 +0000

Though she had starred in respected films beforehand (for instance playing Joan of Arc in Otto Preminger's Saint Joan), it was not until her role as Patricia, aspiring journalist and American girlfriend of a Parisian thug, in Jean-Luc Godard's new wave cinema classic, Breathless, that Seberg earned her place as a cinematic icon.

Danny Glover - lifelong activist

Ed — Tue, 10 Jul 2007 18:37:25 +0000

Born in San Francisco to two postal workers and NAACP activists, Danny Glover went on to study at San Francisco State University where he participated in the longest student strike in US history.

Ricky Tomlinson - imprisoned building union organiser

Ed — Fri, 27 Apr 2007 19:45:02 +0000

The son of a baker born one month after the start of WW2, life was hard, his family sleeping six people in two rooms.

Audrey Hepburn - Dutch Resistance courier

Steven. — Tue, 17 Apr 2007 12:21:01 +0000

Her father was Joseph Anthony Hepburn-Ruston, a wealthy British banker and Mosleyite. Her mother was Ella van Heemstra, a Dutch baroness who descended from French and English kings.

Her father abandoned her, and her mother abandoned her fascist views following the Nazi occupation.

Sharon Stone: I support the anti-CPE demonstrations(!)

alibi — Mon, 20 Mar 2006 13:14:42 +0000

This unexpected support came during a press conference for her new film Basic Instinct II.

She said she “understand the reasons behind the anti-CPE demonstrations completely”, going on to say that “the law is clearly unsuitedable... people have the right to know why they are sacked”.

Sirakova, Mariola, 1904-1925

Steven. — Thu, 15 Sep 2005 14:05:15 +0000

Born 1904 - Kilifarevo, Bulgaria, died 2 June 1925 - Belovo, Bulgaria.

Born in Kilifarevo, Bulgaria in 1904, the student-actress Mariola Sirakova belonged to a well-off family. She revolted from an early age against her social background and joined the anarchist movement at a young age.

Liz Hurley - filmed advert during actors strike

Steven. — Sun, 13 Apr 2003 09:02:18 +0000

In 2000 the "star" had the fine imposed by the trial board of the SAG for breaking a five-month strike by appearing in a perfume advertisement for Estée Lauder.

SAG members held demonstrations and film events Hurley attended, holding placards stating "Elizabeth Scabley, you make me Hurl."

She claimed not to know about it.