Childhood and youth
Gillian Anderson was born on August 9, 1968 in a suburb of Chicago into a wealthy family. Her mother, Rosemary Anderson, was a computer analyst, and her father, Edward Anderson, was the owner of a film distribution company.
The future Hollywood star spent her entire childhood traveling around the world, which was connected with her father’s work and studies. First, the girl and her parents moved to Puerto Rico, then to London, and then to Grand Rapids (Michigan).
Gillian always remembers the years spent in England with nostalgia, but at the age of 11 she and her parents returned to the USA. Here the future star began attending a school for gifted children, where she managed to stand out with her extraordinary behavior.
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Gillian Anderson in her youth
The actress does not hide her turbulent past. In high school, the girl got her nostrils pierced, experimented with hair color, and was interested in punk music. After graduation, she ended up in the police station because she had damaged the lock of the school front door. Later, the X-Files star would periodically show his photographs taken in the rebellious 80s to Instagram subscribers.
The future movie star became interested in classical theatrical art during her school years and already at the age of 13 she took her first successful steps in the acting field. Finding herself in a theater group and playing the role of Juliet, Gillian impressed her teacher, thanks to which she received an invitation to the Grand Rapids Civic Theater, which was followed by the Goodman Theater School, where Anderson became a full-fledged actress.
Everyone enjoyed the performance of the talented actress - both teachers and spectators, but the parents did not want to notice this and were categorically against their daughter’s chosen professional direction. Against this backdrop, the situation in the family escalated to the limit, and Gillian packed her things and ran away from home, taking with her part of her parents’ savings.
Jillian Michaels: how to become a fitness star
However, after the divorce, the relationship between the famous coach and his parents remained very tense. She stopped communicating with her father after he left the family, and relations between them are still quite cool. At the age of 17, Jillian Michaels left home and set out on her own. She attended California State University and worked as a bartender at night to support herself.
After receiving her diploma, she first worked as an agent in one of the largest companies in Los Angeles. But she didn’t like this job, and soon quitting it, she became a personal fitness trainer. And at the age of 28, Michaels opened her own gym.
However, her biggest breakthrough came in 2005, when she was invited as a coach on the TV show The Biggest Loser, which instantly became mega-popular in the United States. In it, overweight participants competed with each other to lose the maximum amount of kilograms through sports and proper nutrition. Gillian became famous as a tough coach who did not give her players the slightest bit of slack. Although she later admitted that this method was incredibly difficult for her. But she clearly understood that only in this way would her students be able to achieve excellent results in losing weight.
In the USA, the TV show The Biggest Loser has gained incredible popularity among viewers; 15 seasons have now been filmed, and analogues of the program have appeared in almost 25 countries! Participation in the project became Jillian Michaels's finest hour, making her one of the main American experts in fitness.
But Gillian did not stop there. She continues to promote a healthy lifestyle and sports , releasing video training and books on proper nutrition. Thanks to her advice and fitness programs, a million people around the world manage to cope with excess weight. Her first video course, “Slim Figure in 30 Days,” became a real guide to the world of home sports.
Personal life
Gillian Anderson's personal life was quite thorny. The actress’s relationships with men cannot be called durable. The celebrity's first husband was the art director of the series "The X-Files" Clyde Klotz. The wedding took place in 1994 in Hawaii. On September 25 of the same year, Gillian's first child, daughter Piper Maaru, was born, but this could not save the family from disintegration, and in 1997 the couple officially divorced.
The actress's second husband in 2004 was director Julian Ozain. But this marriage did not become strong either: in 2006, Anderson and Ozain officially announced their divorce. Apparently, the reason for the breakup was Gillian's new boyfriend, a certain Mark Griffiths. The relationship with Mark was not legalized, but nevertheless the couple has two children together, Oscar and Felix.
In 2000, according to People magazine, Gillian Anderson was included in the top 50 most beautiful people on the planet, and in 2008, according to FHM, the movie star took 21st place in the top 100 “Sexiest Celebrities in the World.”
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In 2020, information appeared in the media about the novel between Gillian Anderson and the British writer, winner of an Oscar nomination for the scripts for the films “The Queen” and “Frost vs. Nixon,” Peter Morgan.
There were no comments from Gillian and Peter for a long time, but in 2017, reporters filmed the couple vacationing in the Italian resort of Portofino. In the photo, the actress appeared in a swimsuit and a wide-brimmed hat. According to the Western press, for the sake of a new passion, Morgan broke up with his wife, with whom he raised five children.
Only in 2020 the couple stopped hiding their relationship. Together, the lovers appeared at the American Film Institute AFI Awards ceremony. The performer appeared in perfect shape before reporters. From Anderson’s figure and her face with virtually no makeup, it was impossible to guess that the performer was in her sixth decade. As before, with a height of 160 cm, the star’s weight does not exceed 55 kg.
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It is known that, in addition to his acting career, the Hollywood star is actively involved in charity work. The actress supports charities and is a member of the animal rights organization PETA.
The star devotes a lot of time to charity events. Following the example of Pamela Anderson, Pink, Helena Bonham Carter, Anderson took part in animal protection campaigns and posed naked for a poster under the slogan “I’d rather walk naked than wear fur.” The photo appeared on the actress’s Instagram account.
In 2020, the actress voted for the initiative of the Greenpeace organization to create a nature reserve in Antarctica. The event was attended by 40 show business stars, including Judi Dench, Stephen Fry, Alexander Skarsgard, Helen Mirren, Vanessa Redgrave.
Biography of Jillian Michaels
Gillian was born on February 18, 1974 in Los Angeles. Her childhood was marred by a number of psychological problems. Despite the fact that her mother was a psychotherapist, Gillian grew up as a very anxious and restless child . She recalls that she was constantly tormented by nightmares at night, so at the age of 5, her mother enrolled her in psychotherapy. According to the coach herself, she still attends sessions with a psychologist, this helps her maintain confidence and faith in what she does.
When Jill was 12 years old, her parents separated. This was the hardest blow for the girl, and one of its manifestations was serious weight gain. By that time she was in high school, and her weight was almost 80 kg with a height of 158 cm . Classmates angrily mocked Gillian's appearance, which made her even more worried. The girl's life changed when her mother enrolled her in martial arts sports courses. She not only learned to control her weight, but also understood a simple truth: no one will respect you if you don’t respect yourself.
Movies
Great success on the theater stage came to Gillian in her youth, when she was awarded the World Theater Award for her performance in “Absent Friends.” Later, the actress appeared on stage in the plays A Doll's House, The Philanthropist and A Streetcar Named Desire. The latest production brought the artist a nomination for another theater award - the Laurence Olivier Award.
The film debut, on the contrary, was not a success. The film “Reincarnation” did not become popular, but it gave rise to rumors that the artist began her career with films for adults, which were prohibited from showing on the big screen. This happened because of an explicit scene with Gillian, which was present in the film.
In 1993, Anderson gained worldwide fame in the cult mystical television series The X-Files, where she played the main role along with David Duchovny.
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The author of the project, Chris Carter, examined the young performer during her work on the drama series “Class of '96”, filmed on the basis of the Fox Network. The creator of the film was so convinced that Gillian was 100% in the role of an FBI agent that he confronted the producers with the fact of her participation in the mystical detective story.
FBI agents Dana Scully and Fox Mulder became idols of television viewers who tirelessly followed the plot of the film for nine seasons. Millions of fans of the film often compared Gillian with other Hollywood stars Kate Winslet and Julianne Moore.
In 2020, it became known that filming of the new season of the series “The X-Files” had begun. Its premiere in Russia took place on January 24, 2016.
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In parallel with filming in The X-Files, Gillian Anderson participated in various film projects. In 1997, the actress starred in the comedy “Hell Taxi”, and a year later appeared in the drama “Giant”.
In the same year, the film project “The X-Files: The Fight for the Future” was launched, for which Gillian received a fee of $4 million. Also with the participation of the actress, the family comedy “Viciousness of Fate” was released, in which Angelina Jolie, Dennis Quaid, Sean Connery played .
In 2000, the actress played the main role in the drama “House of Joy,” which took place at the beginning of the 20th century in New York in high society circles. Lily Bart was so influenced by other people's opinions that she missed her true feeling and married an unloved person.
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Gillian Anderson and Shuti Gatva
2005 brought the actress a new project - the drama Bleak House based on the novel by Charles Dickens. While playing in the film, Gillian plunged into the Victorian era. For these films she received prestigious awards in the category “Best Actress”.
In the same 2005, viewers saw Gillian’s performance in the film “The Mighty Celt,” for which she received an IFTA award in the “Best Foreign Actress” category. A year later, an exciting project appeared in the artist’s filmography - the thriller “The Last King of Scotland.” The plot takes place in Uganda, where the regime of dictator Idi Amin operates. Gillian played the role of the heroine Sarah Merritt.
After a short break in her creative biography, Anderson’s repertoire includes the parody comedy “Agent Johnny English: Reboot,” where the actress appears in the role of agent Pamela Head. The acting ensemble is led by comedian Rowan Atkinson. In the same year, filming of the drama series Great Expectations began on the BBC channel. Gillian Anderson was cast as Miss Havisham. She was accompanied by Douglas Booth and Ray Winstone.
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Gillian Anderson and David Duchovny
In 2013, the Hollywood star began filming in the series “The Fall,” where she played opposite actor Jamie Dornan, and since 2014 she has participated in the filming of the British series based on Leo Tolstoy’s novel “War and Peace,” in which she performed the role of the hostess of a high society salon, Anna Pavlovna Scherer. Another significant premiere of this time is the series “Hannibal”. The actress got the role of Doctor Bedelia Du Maurier in it.
In 2020, Gillian Anderson starred in the urban fantasy American Gods, where she played the goddess Media. The film showed high ratings, so it was decided to start filming the 2nd season. However, the actress did not continue to work and left the series after the 1st part, the reason was a change in the writing staff.
Anderson was expected to continue starring in The X-Files, but at the beginning of 2020, the actress abandoned further work. According to Gillian, Dana Scully should retire. Fans of the film were consoled by the message of her co-star, who said that he could not part with the role of Fox Mulder, although he tried to do this more than once.
Biography and early years
Jane Russell was born June 21, 1921 in Bemidji, Minnesota.
The girl's father was a lieutenant in the US Army, and her mother was an actress in a traveling theater troupe. Jane was the only girl in the family (she had 4 brothers). At birth she was given the name Ernestine Jane Geraldine Russell, but everyone in her family simply called her Jane. The girl’s mother, dreaming of a star career for her daughter, believed that the combination “Jane Russell” would be ideal for the big screen. When Jane's father retired, the family settled in Canada, but then moved to California. When Jane was still a child, the family moved to the San Fernando Valley and settled on a ranch in Van Nuys, leading a normal middle-class life. Jane was educated at a local school and also took piano lessons. At an early age, she developed an interest in dramatic art, and the girl began to take part in school theater productions. However, Jane did not think about the profession of an actress at that time, intending to become a designer in the future. However, her plans were not destined to come true: when her father died, the girl was forced to take part-time jobs in order to be able to help her mother financially. The girl got a job as a secretary, while working part-time as a model. As a result, she managed to save enough money to attend acting classes. However, her attempts to break into the Twentieth Century Fox and Paramount film studios failed.
Gillian Anderson now
Now Gillian Anderson is again experiencing the peak of popularity. The celebrity seems to have found a striking image that will make her an idol of the younger generation. Although initially she almost threw the script of the film in which she was offered to play in the trash, considering it primitive. Her chosen one, Peter Morgan, dissuaded the actress from such a rash act.
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Gillian Anderson in the series “Sex Education”
In 2020, the premiere of the youth comedy “Sex Education” took place, in which the artist appeared in the role of sexologist Jean Milburn, the mother of the main character. Her character's son, despite his mother's efforts, grew up to be an extremely shy teenager who is afraid to even think about intimacy.
The series turned out to be rated, so its creators extended the project for a 2nd season. New series appeared on Netflix at the beginning of 2020. This news delighted fans of the project, and its ratings soared again.
In 2020, Anderson will play Margaret Thatcher in the biopic The Crown, written by Peter Morgan.
“Outside the Law” and the beginning of a film career
Jane Russell was 19 years old, working as a secretary in a beauty salon, when the famous American entrepreneur Howard Hughes noticed her. At that time, he was looking for a new face to star in the western Outlaw. As a result, Jane was approved for the role of the lover of the main character, half-Irish, half-Mexican Rio McDonald.
Although Jane took acting lessons and knew how to behave in front of the camera, it was not so much this that attracted Hughes’ attention as the girl’s bright appearance and her size 5 breasts, on which he concentrated the camera’s special attention, subsequently even designing a special “invisible” bra for Russell, giving her This gives the curvaceous Russell extra volume. And in the scene in the hayloft, special cross-lit spotlights were used, which again drew attention to the actress’s forms.
As a result, the censors from The Motion Picture Production Code, who in those years reviewed films before their release for “morality,” decided that the Western could not be allowed on the screen. However, rather than re-edit the film, Howard Hughes decided to take advantage of the scandal to gain public attention. He released the film in San Francisco theaters in 1943 without the approval of the US censor board. However, he then withdrew the film and edited it to release it in 1946 - again without censor approval.
Despite the strange fate of the film and the fact that it was practically never released, Russell became widely known. In a 1943 survey, American sailors called her "the girl we would like to see waiting for us at every port."
While awaiting the release of Outlaw, Russell worked on Young Widow (1946). She then co-starred with Bob Hope in The Paleface (1948) as Calamity Jane. In this film, she herself sang the song "Buttons and Bows", which later won an Oscar.
Russell co-starred with Robert Mitchum in the 1951 film His Kind of Woman, and also shared the screen with Frank Sinatra and Groucho Marx in Double Dynamite the same year. , despite the star cast, failed at the box office. The following year, she starred in the second part of Paleface and the film Montana Belle, where she played a dancer.
Childhood
At the beginning of his sports biography, John Cena was like most American boys from the provinces. He was born on April 23, 1977 in the small provincial town of West Newbry in Massachusetts into a large middle-class family. In addition to him, his father and mother raised four more sons.
The boy grew up physically strong, did well in school subjects, and was interested in American football and wrestling, like all American teenagers.
Interesting!
Little John's idols were the famous wrestlers Hulk Hogan and Shawn Miles, but the boy himself at that time did not even dream that he could make a successful career in the spectacular sports show WWE.
After graduating from school, John Cena, like many young men in the United States, decided to get a higher education by entering Springfield University, where his sports biography began.
Sina was a good student at school, so when he applied to 60 universities at once, 58 immediately accepted his documents. The young man chose the not-so-prestigious University of Springfield, which had a fairly strong American football team.
At the university, a physically strong 17-year-old student immediately joined the university’s American football team, in which he became captain the very next year.
After graduating from the university in the late 90s with a degree in sports physiology, John Cena decided to connect his biography with bodybuilding, for which he moved from his native Massachusetts to California.
For reference!
John's relatives did not support this decision, so the young man did not have to hope for financial support from his family.
The future champion began his independent life with 500 dollars in his pocket. In order to pay for training with an instructor, he was engaged in various low-prestige jobs:
- taxed;
- cleaned toilets;
- served towels in the gym to clients.
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The young man did not have enough money to rent even the most modest housing for himself, so he often had to spend the night in an old Lincoln car.
Jane Russell and Marilyn Monroe
However, real success came to the actress in 1953, when she shared the screen with Marilyn Monroe in the comedy Gentlemen Prefer Blondes. The film, directed by Howard Hawk, became a favorite of Russell's film career. She and Monroe played two dancers who shared completely opposite views on love and relationships.
To the surprise of the set, there was no competitive spirit at all between the two actresses. On the contrary, Jane Russell took care of Monroe, who was famous for her nervous breakdowns, helping her prepare for filming. When Monroe locked herself in her booth after unsuccessful takes, Russell calmed her down and led her to the set by the hand. Monroe later said that next to Russell it was easy for her to do her job. They became real friends, and Russell even once brought Monroe to a Bible reading meeting. After this, Monroe said: “Jane tried to convert me, and I wanted to teach her Freudian philosophy.”
Dwayne Johnson now
Close attention has been paid to the figure of The Rock Johnson lately. Dwayne decided to run for president of the United States, nominating himself for the 2020 elections. The actor and wrestler admits in an interview that he is worried about the fate of America. His intention is to influence the situation in the world, to improve the economic situation of the state in which he lives with his family. Jokingly, the future candidate assures that he would like to slow down the tax system and give people more days off. Although Dwayne Johnson immediately stopped short, saying that he takes these intentions quite seriously.
Dwayne Johnson has more than enough hormones of happiness; his “flower boy” of beautiful daughters literally bathes him in waves of love. That is why Dwayne finds strength in himself, drawing inspiration from his children, for self-development and wants to fight for the future of the country.
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