Celebrities born on août 08

John Yudkin FRSC (8 August 1910 – 12 July 1995) was a British physiologist and nutritionist, and the founding Professor of the Department of Nutrition at Queen Elizabeth College, London. Yudkin wrote several books recommending low-carbohydrate diets for weight loss, including This Slimming Business (1958). He gained an international reputation for his book Pure, White and Deadly (1972), which warned that the consumption of sugar (sucrose, which consists of fructose and glucose) is dangerous to health, an argument he had made since at least 1957. Specifically, he wrote that sugar consumption was a factor in the development of conditions such as dental caries, obesity, diabetes, and heart attack.

Margarita Rosa de Francisco was born on August 8, 1965 in Cali, Colombia. She is an actress, known for Ilona llega con la lluvia (1996), Café con aroma de mujer (1993) and Correo de Inocentes (2011).

Pascal Duquenne, né le 8 août 1970 à Vilvorde, est un acteur belge. Atteint de la trisomie 21 (syndrome de Down), il est connu pour avoir joué le rôle de Georges, un jeune homme ayant le même handicap dans Le Huitième Jour de Jaco Van Dormael, pour lequel il obtient en 1996 le Prix d'interprétation masculine du Festival de Cannes conjointement avec Daniel Auteuil, et le Prix Joseph Plateau au Festival international du film de Flandre-Gand. En 2004, Albert II de Belgique le nomme Commandeur de l'Ordre de la Couronne. Depuis l’adolescence, Pascal Duquenne s'initie aux arts du spectacle, notamment au sein de la troupe du Créahm (création et handicap mental) à Bruxelles avec laquelle il participe à de nombreuses créations en danse et théâtre. C’est au cours d’un de ces spectacles qu'il est remarqué par le réalisateur Jaco Van Dormael qui quelques années plus tard, lui offrira ses premiers rôles au cinéma. En 1991, il fait sa première apparition au cinéma dans le film Toto le héros de Jaco Van Dormael, dans lequel il a un second rôle. En 1996, il obtient conjointement avec Daniel Auteuil le prix d'interprétation masculine du Festival de Cannes pour le film Le Huitième Jour dans lequel il joue le rôle d’un jeune homme qui a le syndrome de Down. Cette distinction et le succès du film contribuent à la modification du regard porté par la société sur le monde du handicap et à une meilleure acceptation de la différence. En 2002 est créée en Belgique une association, dont fait partie Pascal Duquenne, nommée Le 8e jour dont l’objectif est l’intégration des personnes handicapées par la création de maisons communautaires autonomes. Après une tournée dans plusieurs pays d'Europe avec Le Père Noël voit rouge, pièce écrite et interprétée par quatre comédiens trisomiques, il participe à un spectacle de danse, Champ d'émotion présenté jusqu'aux Antilles. Depuis 2000, Pascal Duquenne participe à l'atelier gravure du Créahm de Bruxelles. Il utilise le monotype et crée des portraits ainsi que des bustes de femmes en noir et blanc. Ses œuvres témoignent de moyens formels simples: fond sobre, traits du visage et du corps évoqués en quelques traits ou en quelques taches noires, pas de modelé. Cette épuration des formes donne une puissance d'expression à ces femmes qui envahissent l'espace de l’œuvre. En 2004, il devient commandeur de l'ordre de la Couronne par le roi Albert II de Belgique. En 2009, il participe à une publicité pour l'opérateur virtuel Simyo. Le directeur marketing de l'opérateur explique: «En y réfléchissant, j'ai réalisé que cela rejoignait totalement nos valeurs. Nous revendiquons d'être un opérateur différent et nous avons choisi un comédien différent.». Cette participation a un écho médiatique et suscite des réactions diverses. En 2010 et 2015, il fait une brève apparition dans une scène des films Mr. Nobody et Le Tout Nouveau Testament du réalisateur Jaco Van Dormael. En 2016, il participe à un projet musical, The Choolers. Source: Article "Pascal Duquenne" de Wikipédia en français, soumis à la licence CC-BY-SA 3.0.

Vincent P. Deadrick, Sr., an American film actor and stuntman, was born on August 8, 1932 in St. Louis, Missouri. He is best known for his work on films such as Pirates of the Caribbean – The Curse of the Black Pearl (2003), Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989) and Glory (1989).

Jess Cagle (born August 8, 1965) is one of the most prominent and respected entertainment journalists in America. As Editor-in-Chief of People magazine (2014-2019), he grew its audience to 100 million across print, digital and video, and led People's successful expansion into television. Known as one of the highest-ranking, longest-serving and most well-liked magazine editors in the media business, he left his job as Editorial Director on March 31, 2019, the day his contract ran out, after 32 years with the entertainment group. He joined Time Inc in 1987 as a reporter for People. In 1990, he helped launch Entertainment Weekly. He covered the entertainment industry as a senior editor at Time from 2000 to 2002, and returned to People as entertainment editor. He served for five years as Editor of Entertainment Weekly (2009-2014), where he increased EW's audience and presence in Hollywood, transformed EW.com into a 24/7 breaking news site, and launched the Entertainment Weekly Radiochannel on SiriusXM, where he continues to make regular appearances. He was named Editorial Director of PEOPLE and Entertainment Weekly in January 2014. He is known for People Magazine Investigates (2016) and Oscars Opening Ceremony: Live from the Red Carpet (2015). Jess frequently appears on Good Morning America, Today, and CBS This Morning shows. In addition, he has co-hosted the official ABC Academy Awards red carpet preshow six times. Over the span of his career, Cagle has interviewed Hollywood’s biggest celebrities. He has appeared on TV shows. He hosted The Jess Cagle Show on SiriusXM and The Jess Cagle Podcast with Julia Cunningham, a weekly podcast featuring interviews with the biggest names from TV, movies, and music.

Nathaniel Sanders (born August 9, 1980) is an American film editor. He is best known for his collaborations with Destin Daniel Cretton and Barry Jenkins. He won Independent Spirit Awards for both Short Term 12 (2013) and Moonlight (2016), as well as being nominated for an Academy Award for the latter. Sanders was born in New London, Connecticut. He studied film at the Florida State University College of Motion Picture Arts, graduating in 2002. After moving to Hollywood, his first job as an editor was on the reality television show The Biggest Loser—a job that he quit when another FSU alumnus, writer-director Barry Jenkins, made his 2008 film Medicine for Melancholy, which Sanders moved to San Francisco to edit. (In 2014, Sanders thanked Jenkins for "saving me from a career in reality television.") When Medicine for Melancholy premiered at the 2008 South by Southwest film festival, Sanders met director Lynn Shelton and soon after headed to Seattle to edit her film Humpday, which was released in 2009. Following the release of Medicine for Melancholy and Humpday, Sanders was named one of Filmmaker Magazine's "25 New Faces in Independent Film" in 2009. He worked at the Sundance Institute's Directors' Lab while editing his next project, the 2010 film The Freebie. In 2010, he had a minor acting role in Tiny Furniture; he was friends with Lena Dunham, the film's writer, director, and lead actress. Sanders also edited Mark and Jay Duplass's film The Do-Deca-Pentathlon, which was released in 2012, four years after it had originally been filmed. Sanders met Destin Daniel Cretton at the 2011 Sundance Film Festival, and in 2012 Cretton hired Sanders to edit Short Term 12, a feature-length adaptation of Cretton's 2009 short film of the same name. In March 2014, Sanders won the Independent Spirit Awards' inaugural Best Editing award for his work on Short Term 12. After Short Term 12, he edited Laggies, his fourth collaboration with Lynn Shelton, and the first season of Togetherness, an HBO series created by Mark and Jay Duplass. In 2016, Sanders, alongside Joi McMillon, edited the Barry Jenkins drama Moonlight. Sanders was responsible for editing the first and second chapters, while McMillon was responsible for the third. The pair received much acclaim for their work and were both nominated for the Academy Award for Best Film Editing at the 89th Academy Awards. He lives in Los Angeles with his wife. Description above from the Wikipedia article Nat Sanders, licensed under CC-BY-SA; full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Mark Lee Ping-bing (Chinese: 李屏賓; born August 8, 1954) is a Taiwanese cinematographer, photographer and author with over 70 films and 21 international awards to his credit including 2 Glory Of The Country Awards from the Government Information Office of Taiwan and the president of Taiwan's Light Of The Cinema Award. Lee began his film career in 1977 and in 1985 he started his prolific collaboration with Taiwanese filmmaker Hou Hsiao-hsien. Known best for his use of natural lighting utilizing real film and graceful camera movement, Lee received the Grand Technical Prize at the Cannes Film Festival in 2000 for In the Mood for Love. Description above from the Wikipedia article Mark Lee Ping-bing, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Julie Anne Robinson is a British theatre, television, and film director perhaps best known for her work on British television. She earned BAFTA and Golden Globe nominations for directing the first half of the BBC miniseries Blackpool. In 2009, Robinson completed work on her first feature film, the American Touchstone Pictures film The Last Song. Description above from the Wikipedia article Julie Anne Robinson, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Arnold Lucy was a British actor claimed to have performed on the fabled west-end stage over 1,200 times before making his early film debut in the early 1910s during the Golden Era of the Hollywood system. Though probably best known for his role as the professor in All Quiet on the Western Front. Description above from the Wikipedia article Arnold Lucy, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia