Curated playlist
1983 births
- Amy WinehouseAmy Winehouse won five Grammys singing by satellite from London at 3 a.m. Her visa was not processed in time.
- Mila KunisMila Kunis was seven years old when she started school in Los Angeles without knowing a word of English. She has described how fast it all happened. "We arrived in New York on a Wednesday and by Friday morning my brother and I were at…
- Chris HemsworthChris Hemsworth learned in 2022 he is eight to ten times likelier to develop Alzheimer's disease.
- Andrew GarfieldAndrew Garfield, the English and American actor born on the 20th of August 1983, very nearly never acted at all. He had planned to study business. At 16, a friend talked him into taking theatre studies at A-level, because the class was…
- Alison BartosikAlison Bartosik swam an Olympic duet dressed as Medusa. She and Anna Kozlova won bronze in Athens in 2004.
- Philipp LahmPhilipp Lahm scored in the sixth minute of the 2006 World Cup's opening match. He was 22.
- Kristen KishKristen Louise Kish, born the 1st of December 1983, never set out to be on television. When the idea first reached her, she had no interest in it at all. Today she hosts one of the best-known cooking competitions in America, the same show…
- Lupita Nyong'oAfter her Oscar, Lupita Nyong'o says she was offered another slave role, this time on a slave ship.
- Lee SedolLee Sedol won one game against AlphaGo, then quit professional Go. He retired in November 2019.
- Donald GloverDonald Glover was voted most likely to write for The Simpsons. At 23 he landed a writing job on 30 Rock instead.
- Adam DriverAdam Driver got into Juilliard after a mountain biking accident ended his Marine service. He had fractured his sternum.
- Emily BluntEmily Blunt is a British actress who earned an extraordinary compliment from Meryl Streep after the two worked together. Streep called her "the best young actress I've worked with in some time, perhaps ever". Praise like that can weigh…
- Dario AmodeiOpenAI's board once asked Dario Amodei to replace Sam Altman as its chief executive. He turned it down.
- Karol NawrockiIn 2018, Karol Nawrocki went on Polish television in a hat, with his face blurred by the broadcast, as a man called Tadeusz Batyr. Batyr was a pen name Nawrocki had used for a book about a gangster in 1980s Communist Poland. On screen, the…
- Virgil GriffithThe U.S. State Department denied Virgil Griffith the validation he needed to visit North Korea.
- Justin SimienDirector Justin Simien paid for a film trailer with his own tax refund. Fans then gave $40,000 toward a $25,000 goal.
- Rebecca FergusonRebecca Ferguson, the Swedish actress born Rebecca Louisa Ferguson Sundström, once sat in a modeling portfolio labeled "normal people". Her agency chose that heading because she was neither tall nor slim enough for its usual modeling work.…