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Actresses from Brooklyn

  • Anne HathawayAnne Hathaway is an American actress whose films have grossed over $6.8 billion worldwide. In 2015 she ranked among the highest-paid actresses in the world. Yet that same year she said, "I always assume that every film is my last, and I…
  • Maggie GyllenhaalMaggie Gyllenhaal did not learn her own legal first name until 2013. The name on her birth certificate is Margalit, a Hebrew word that means pearl. She found this out when she took on her husband's surname, which turned the full name into…
  • AaliyahAaliyah signed her first record deal at twelve. By 22 she had three albums and two films behind her.
  • Marisa TomeiMarisa Tomei's first film role was a waitress with exactly one line. She later earned three Oscar nominations.
  • Cyndi LauperCyndi Lauper wore almost a pound of necklaces to the Grammy Awards ceremony in 1985. The excess suited the woman wearing it. Lauper is an American singer, songwriter and actress, born on the 22nd of June 1953. She is known for eccentric…
  • Jennifer ConnellyJennifer Connelly was eleven years old when she walked into an audition for the director Sergio Leone and tried to pass as a ballerina. She had never taken a ballet lesson. She simply imitated what she imagined a dancer would do. Leone was…
  • Michelle Williams (actress)Michelle Williams, the American actress, was paid $1,000 for reshooting an entire film role. In late 2017, a month before All the Money in the World reached cinemas, Kevin Spacey was accused of sexual misconduct. He had been playing the…
  • Barbra StreisandBarbra Streisand once filed a lawsuit that sent a crowd of strangers to look at a single photograph. In 2003 she claimed that a website documenting coastal erosion had invaded her privacy. Among its more than 12,000 images, one happened to…
  • Lupita Nyong'oAfter her Oscar, Lupita Nyong'o says she was offered another slave role, this time on a slave ship.
  • Zoë KravitzZoë Kravitz was only two years old when her father put her name on a record. The song is called "Flowers for Zoë," and it appears on Mama Said, the second album by the musician Lenny Kravitz. He wrote it as a tribute to his young daughter.…
  • Lena DunhamLena Dunham once filmed herself in a bikini, brushing her teeth in a public fountain at Oberlin College. She posted the video online, and it went viral. The reaction startled her. Pages of comments argued about how fat she was or was not,…
  • Deborah Ann WollActor Deborah Ann Woll was long reluctant to do anything public with Dungeons and Dragons.

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