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Tony Award winners

  • Al PacinoAlfredo James Pacino was born on the 25th of April, 1940, in the East Harlem neighborhood of Manhattan. His parents divorced when he was two years old.
  • Andrew Lloyd WebberAndrew Lloyd Webber was born on the 22nd of March 1948 at Westminster Hospital in London. His father William worked as a composer and organist while his…
  • T. S. EliotThomas Stearns Eliot was born on the 26th of September 1888 in St. Louis, Missouri. He lived at a house on Locust Street for his first sixteen years before…
  • Elton JohnOn the 25th of March 1947, Reginald Kenneth Dwight entered the world in Pinner, Middlesex. His father served in the Royal Air Force and his mother worked as…
  • Vivien LeighVivian Mary Hartley arrived in the world on the 5th of November 1913 within the British Indian hill station of Darjeeling.
  • Ian McKellenIan Murray McKellen was born on the 25th of May 1939 in Burnley, Lancashire. His family moved to Wigan when he was four months old, just before the Second…
  • Kurt WeillKurt Julian Weill entered the world on the 2nd of March 1900 in Dessau. He grew up in a religious Jewish family within the Sandvorstadt district of Saxony.
  • John GielgudOn the 14th of April 1904, Sir Arthur John Gielgud was born in a house on Cromwell Road in South Kensington. He entered the world as the third child of Frank…
  • Elia KazanElias Kazantzoglou entered the world on the 7th of September 1909 in the Kadıköy district of Constantinople. His parents were Cappadocian Greeks originally…
  • Audrey HepburnAudrey Kathleen Hepburn was born on the 4th of May 1929 at number 48 Rue Keyenveld in Ixelles, a municipality of Brussels, Belgium.
  • Eugene O'NeillEugene Gladstone O'Neill was born on the 16th of October 1888, inside the Barrett House hotel located at Longacre Square in New York City.
  • Scarlett JohanssonScarlett Ingrid Johansson was born on the 22nd of November 1984, in the Manhattan borough of New York City. Her father Karsten Olaf Johansson is an architect…
  • Arthur MillerArthur Asher Miller was born on the 17th of October 1915 in Harlem, Manhattan. He grew up as the second child of Augusta and Isidore Miller.
  • Judi DenchJudi Dench was born in the Heworth area of York on the 9th of December 1934. Her father, Reginald Arthur Dench, practiced medicine there while her mother…
  • Jonathan PryceJohn Price was born on the 1st of June 1947 in Carmel, Flintshire. His father Isaac worked as a coal miner before running a small grocery shop with his wife…
  • Alec GuinnessAlec Guinness de Cuffe entered the world at 155 Lauderdale Mansions South in Maida Vale, London, on the 2nd of April 1914.
  • Tom StoppardOn the 15th of March 1939, the day Nazi forces invaded Czechoslovakia, a five-year-old boy named Tomáš Sträussler fled his hometown of Zlín with his mother…
  • Lorne MichaelsLorne David Lipowitz entered the world on the 17th of November 1944 in Toronto, Ontario. His parents were Florence and Abraham Lipowitz, a man who worked as…
  • Kelsey GrammerAllen Kelsey Grammer was born on the 21st of February 1955 in Saint Thomas, U.S. Virgin Islands. His mother Sally Cranmer worked as a dancer under the name…
  • Michael Lindsay-HoggMichael Lindsay-Hogg was born on the 5th of May 1940 in New York City. His mother Geraldine Fitzgerald married Sir Edward William Lindsay-Hogg before his…