Curated playlist
Actresses from New York City
- Dominique ThorneDominique Thorne got Marvel's Ironheart role without auditioning. Her 2016 screen test for another part counted.
- Gwyneth PaltrowGwyneth Paltrow won the lead in Emma with a perfect Texas accent. The director said it sold him.
- Sienna MillerSienna Miller very nearly arrived in the world during a ballet. Her mother went into labour in New York while watching a performance of The Nutcracker, and the baby was almost born in the theatre. Miller, born on the 28th of December 1981,…
- Natalie PortmanNatalie Portman turned down a $2,000,000 prize in 2018. She skipped the Genesis Prize ceremony, and it was canceled.
- Jennifer AnistonJennifer Aniston, the American actress, once approached a television executive at a Los Angeles gas station and asked him for reassurance. She was depressed. Four of her television shows had failed, and she wanted someone in the business…
- Liza MinnelliLiza Minnelli told reporters in 2001, "I am stable as a table." It was a bold thing to say for a performer whose body and career had both been tested in public. Minnelli is an American actress, singer, and dancer, born in 1946. She is…
- Maya HawkeMaya Ray Thurman Hawke was born on the 8th of July 1998 in New York City, and her story starts on a film set before she existed. Her parents, the actors Ethan Hawke and Uma Thurman, met while making Gattaca in 1997. They married in May…
- Debbie HarryDebbie Harry spent 1979 handing out a reminder that she was not her own band. That year Blondie ran a button campaign with a blunt slogan: "Blondie is a group." The pins existed because the public kept confusing the woman at the microphone…
- Vanessa WilliamsVanessa Williams arrived in the world with a birth announcement that read: "Here she is: Miss America." She was born on the 18th of March 1963 in Tarrytown, New York, a suburb of New York City. The line was a family joke at the time. It…
- Emmy RossumEmmanuelle Grey Rossum was seven years old when she sang "Happy Birthday" in all 12 keys for a stranger. The stranger was Elena Doria, director of the Metropolitan Opera Children's Chorus, and the performance earned the girl a place in the…