Celebrities born on mai 21

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Danny Lee "Nitro" Clark (born May 21, 1964) is an American athlete, television personality, actor, and producer. He is best known for his role as gladiator Nitro on the TV show American Gladiators. Description above from the Wikipedia article Danny Lee Clark, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.​

Ilmar Raag (born May 21, 1968 in Kuressaare) is an Estonian media executive, actor, screenwriter and film director, best known for his socio-critical film The Class. He has served as CEO of Estonian Television from 2002 to 2005. He is a well known columnist in many prestigious Estonian newspapers (Postimees, Eesti Päevaleht). He has written many scripts and directed critically acclaimed films, notably August 1991 and The Class. He received his high school education from Aleksander Mui (:et) secondary school No 2 of Kingissepa. He graduated from University of Tartu in 1997 and received his M.A. degree in screenwriting from Ohio University, the School of Telecommunications (1999). He made internships in Hollywood development departments (New Regency, Phoenix Pictures). His further career took him to the TV management. After being the Head of Acquisitions for Estonian National Television, he was promoted to the Chairman of the Board of the same TV company. In 2002, he staged a play in one of the Estonian theaters (Ugala). At the same time, he started to consult and doctor Estonian feature scripts. In 2004, he wrote two TV feature scripts. He directed one of them - August 1991 as made-for-TV movie for Estonian Television and the other, One More Croissant got the third prize at Hartley Merill International Screenwriting Competition and the support from MEDIA New Talent program. Eager to continue his filmmaking career, he quit as CEO of Estonian Television and made his first feature film The Class in 2007. Since then he shot a feature in France Une Estonienne à Paris with Jeanne Moreau and Laine Mägi in leading roles, back in Estonia Kertu that was released in 2013 and in Russia I Won't Come Back.

From Wikipedia Richard Bennett (May 21, 1870 – October 22, 1944) was an American actor who became a stage and silent screen matinee idol over the early decades of the twentieth century. He was born in Deacon's Mills, Indiana in 1870 (some sources state 1872), the son of George Washington Bennett and Eliza Huffman. His younger sister was Ina Blanche Bennett. For a time, he was a sailor on Great Lakes steamer, a professional boxer, medicine showman, troubadour and night clerk in a hotel in Chicago. His silent movie debut was a reprisal of his stage role in Damaged Goods (1914), which co-starred his wife, Adrienne Morrison. He helped adapt the screenplay and direct the drama. In the drama The Valley of Decision (1916), which he wrote, Bennett appeared on the screen with his wife, Morrison, and his three daughters. In 1922, Bennett starred in Broadway's English-language version of Leonid Andreyev's melodrama He Who Gets Slapped, playing the title role as He. The success of the play led to its being filmed by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, with the production starring Lon Chaney in Bennett's role. With the advent of the talkies the middleaged actor found a niche as a character actor. In 1931 he appeared with Constance Bennett in Bought! On November 8, 1903, Bennett and actress Adrienne Morrison were married in Jersey City. They had three daughters, Constance Bennett (1904–1965); Barbara Bennett (1906–1958); and Joan Bennett (1910–1990). He and Morrison were divorced in April 1925. Their first and third daughters, Constance and Joan, became successful movie stars. Their second daughter, Barbara, was also briefly an actress, but with less success. The two appeared together on stage in the 1923 play The Dancers Barbara married the popular singer Morton Downey. The controversial television talk-show host Morton Downey, Jr., was Richard Bennett's grandson. In 1925, he became acquainted with Aimee Raisch in San Francisco, during the production of Creoles, in which she played a minor role. She was a young socialite and aspiring actress who was divorcing her millionaire clubman and polo player husband, Harry G. Hastings. Bennett and Raisch were married July 11, 1927, in Chicago. He and Aimee, who later went by Angela, separated April 3, 1934, and were divorced in 1937. His daughter Joan made her stage debut acting with him in Jarnegan (1928). This play, in which he played Jack Jarnegan, provided one of his favourite roles—that of a belligerent, drunken movie director given to acidulous and profane comments on Hollywood. Richard Bennett died at age 74 from a heart attack at Good Samaritan Hospital in Los Angeles. Episcopal funeral services were conducted on October 24, 1944, in Beverly Hills. He is interred in Pleasant View Cemetery, Lyme, Connecticut, beside his second wife and mother of his daughters. Bennett was fond of saying that the movie industry was not a business, but a madhouse.

Romain Gary, né le 21 mai 1914 à Vilna dans l'Empire russe (actuelle Vilnius en Lituanie) et mort le 2 décembre 1980 à Paris, est un écrivain français, de langues française et anglaise. Homme aux multiples activités, il a été successivement aviateur et résistant (fait compagnon de la Libération), romancier, diplomate, scénariste et réalisateur. Important écrivain français de la seconde moitié du XXe siècle, il est notamment connu dans les années 1970 pour la mystification littéraire qui le conduisit à signer plusieurs romans sous le nom d'emprunt d'Émile Ajar, tout en masquant son identité réelle: il est ainsi le seul romancier à avoir reçu le prix Goncourt à deux reprises, grâce à un roman écrit sous ce pseudonyme. Durant toute sa vie d'adulte, dans ses œuvres, dont la relecture montre le «jeu picaresque de ses multiples identités», mais aussi dans des déclarations aux médias, ainsi que dans des déclarations officielles, Romain Gary donne des versions diverses de ses origines, faisant varier : son nom (Kacew, de Kacew); son lieu de naissance (Nice, dans la région de Koursk en Russie, Wilno); la nationalité de son père (russe, géorgien, tatare, mongol); celle de sa mère (juive, russe, française); informations elles-mêmes souvent déformées par les médias («Kiev», «en Russie près de la frontière polonaise»). Il va jusqu'à renier son père — se présentant comme un «bâtard juif russe, mâtiné de Tartare» — ou encore laisse entendre, et courir la légende, dans divers écrits et entretiens, qu'il est le fils du comédien russe Ivan Mosjoukine. En réalité, Roman Kacew («boucher» en yiddish, de l'hébreu katsav, prononcé en polonais [kat͡sɛf]), issu de deux lignées juives ashkénazes, est né, suivant le calendrier julien, le 8 mai 1914 (21 mai 1914 dans le calendrier grégorien) à Vilna (Bильнa), chef-lieu du gouvernement de Vilna dans l'Empire russe — ville devenue pendant l'entre-deux-guerres Wilno en Polognenote, puis l'actuelle Vilnius en Lituanie. Ceci est attesté par un certificat du «rabbinat du gouvernement de Vilnius» rédigé en hébreu et en russe en date du 8 mai 1914 (calendrier julien), établissant qu'il est le fils d'Arieh-Leïb Kacew et de Mina Owczyńska (1879-1941), mariés à Wilno le 28 août 1912. Son père, Arieh-Leïb («lion» en hébreu et en yiddish, d'où la francisation en «Léon») Kacew, est né en 1883 à Vilnius; en 1912, il est associé dans l'atelier et magasin de fourrures familial (rue Niemecka / Daïtsche Gas = ruelle allemande) et fait partie de la Deuxième Guilde des marchands. Il est aussi administrateur de la synagogue de la rue Zawalna. Il fait donc partie de la moyenne bourgeoisie de Vilnius. ... Source: Article "Romain Gary" de Wikipédia en français, soumis à la licence CC-BY-SA 3.0.

Ben Konigsberg is a film and television actor.

Leo Sayer, de son vrai nom Gerard Hugh Sayer est un chanteur né le 21 mai 1948 à Shoreham-by-Sea (Grande-Bretagne). En 2007, il participe au Celebrity Big Brother aux côtés de Jade Goody, Jermaine Jackson, Shilpa Shetty ou encore Ken Russell. Source: Article "Leo Sayer" de Wikipédia en français, soumis à la licence CC-BY-SA 3.0.

Gleb Anatolyevich Panfilov (Russian: Глеб Анатольевич Панфилов; 21 May 1934 – 26 August 2023; Magnitogorsk) was a Soviet and Russian film director noted for a string of mostly historical films starring his wife, Inna Churikova. His first film "No Path Through Fire" won the Golden Leopard at the 22nd Locarno International Film Festival (1969). He also won the Golden Bear at the 37th Berlin International Film Festival (1987) for the film "The Theme". In the 1980s Panfilov, a chemist by profession, moved to theatre directing, but also found time to adapt for the screen Alexander Vampilov's play Valentina (1981), as well as Maxim Gorky's Vassa Zheleznova (1983) and Mother (1989). Vassa won the Golden Prize at the 13th Moscow International Film Festival and Russia's State Prize. He won the Golden Bear at the 37th Berlin International Film Festival for the film The Theme. Despite the hardships of the 1990s Panfilov was committed to directing The Romanovs: An Imperial Family, an epic story of the Romanov sainthood. The film, finally released in 2000, was a sort of family project involving his wife as well as children. It was also his first movie that did not feature his wife in a leading role. In 2000 at the 22nd Moscow International Film Festival Panfilov was awarded an Honorable Prize for his contribution to cinema. In January 2006 RTR TV aired Panfilov's miniseries based on Alexander Solzhenitsyn's novel The First Circle. The Nobel Prize-winning author helped adapt the novel for the screen and narrated the film. Gleb Panfilov died on 26 August 2023, at the age of 89.

Christian Joseph Raab, better known by his stage name Raab Himself is an American television personality, known as a former member of the CKY Crew and featured in the MTV series Viva La Bam and Jackass.

Jacques Préboist est un acteur français, frère de l'acteur Paul Préboist.

Joe Alves (born 21 May 1936, San Leandro, California) is an American film production designer, perhaps best known for his work on three of the Jaws films. He directed Jaws 3-D. Alves has designed three features for Steven Spielberg, firstly for The Sugarland Express. He designed the three mechanical sharks for the movie Jaws (1975) with mechanical effects man Bob Mattey supervising their physical construction in Sun Valley CA. After the sharks were completed, they were trucked to the shooting location, but unfortunately they had not been tested in water causing a series of delays that have become quite legendary over time. He was nominated for the Academy Award and won the BAFTA for Best Art Direction for his work on Close Encounters of the Third Kind. Alves worked on Jaws 2 (1978) in the capacity of both production designer and as second unit director. After John D. Hancock, the initial director of Jaws 2, was sacked, it was suggested that Alves co-direct it with Verna Fields (who edited the original Jaws). Jeannot Szwarc was hired, however, to complete the film. The model of New York he created for John Carpenter's Escape from New York (1981) has been described as "memorably derelict", and he was visual consultant on Carpenter's Starman (1984).

Irving Peña is an actor, known for having been cast as Vicente Colmenares in the 2018 film Rencor tatuado (2018), Señora Acero (2014) and on the TV series Like, la leyenda (2018). In 2019, he was cast in the short film La Casa De Las Flores: El Funeral. He was born in Mexico.

Stomy Bugsy, de son vrai nom Gilles Duarte, né le 21 mai 1972 à Paris, est un rappeur et acteur français. Il est l'un des membres fondateurs du groupe Ministère A.M.E.R. qui se popularise grâce à l'album 95200. En 1996, Stomy Bugsy se lance dans une carrière solo et publie son album à succès Le Calibre qu'il te faut. Depuis, il fonde et dirige le collectif La MC Malcriado, groupe de chanteurs cap-verdiens, parmi lesquels on retrouve notamment Jacky Brown des Nèg' Marrons, JP et Izé. Gilles Duarte est né le 21 mai 1972 à Paris de parents capverdiens. Il grandit à Sarcelles, dans le Val-d'Oise, en banlieue parisienne, dans le même quartier que Passi avec qui il est ami depuis l'enfance et avec ses cinq frères et sœurs. Il déménage ensuite à Porte de la Chapelle dans le 18e arrondissement de Paris, c'est là qu'il fait la rencontre de Doc Gynéco avec qui il se lie d'amitié. C'est également un ami d'enfance de l'animateur Cyril Hanouna et du producteur de cinéma et de musique Rachid Kallouche dit Jean-Rachid. Gilles Duarte débute dans le rap au début des années 1990. Il fait partie des membres fondateurs du Ministère A.M.E.R. avec son ami d'enfance Passi, Hamed Daye et Doc Gynéco qui participera au deuxième album du groupe. Le groupe se popularise grâce à son album 95200. Les titres Sacrifices de poulets et Brigitte, femme de flic, leur vaudront une condamnation pour provocation et incitation à la violence. L'homme politique Charles Pasqua voulait à l'époque interdire la publication de leur album Pourquoi Tant de Haine. En 1996, Stomy Bugsy se lance dans une carrière en solo, inspiré par le rap West Coast de Californie, et publie son premier album, Le Calibre qu'il te faut, qui atteint la 9e place des classements musicaux français, et est certifié double disque d'or. Il connaît un succès important avec le single Mon papa à moi est un gangster. En 1998, sa collaboration avec le Secteur Ä, collectif de rappeurs et de chanteurs de ragga pour la plupart amis d'enfance et originaires du Val-d'Oise, réunissant aussi Passi, Doc Gynéco, Hamed Daye, MC Janik et les groupes Neg' Marrons et Ärsenik, atteint ses sommets lorsqu'ils se produisent en concert les 22 et 23 mai à l'Olympia pour célébrer l'abolition de l'esclavage. En 2015, le rappeur annonce un nouvel album intitulé Royalties, publié sur Internet en téléchargement payant le 27 avril 2015. Sur sa page Facebook, il justifie ce titre: «Mes supporters... J'ai appelé mon album Royalties car j'encourage tous les artistes et je souhaite qu'un jour ils puissent vivre de leurs arts.» Après la sortie de l'album, il publie le clip de sa chanson Les mains en l'air. ... Source: Article "Stomy Bugsy" de Wikipédia en français, soumis à la licence CC-BY-SA 3.0.