Early Life Mark Freuder Knopfler was born on August 12, 1949, in Glasgow, Scotland, United Kingdom. He is the son of an English mother, Louisa Mary, and a Hungarian-Jewish father, Erwin Knopfler. His mother was a teacher, and his father was an architect who left Hungary in 1939 to flee the Nazis. The Knopfler family lived in the Glasgow area until they moved to his mother’s hometown of Blyth in North East England when Mark was seven years old, where he began attending Gosforth Grammar School.
During his time as a professional, Mark established an incredible reputation as a home run hitter. He holds the record for at-bats per home run ratio, with a ratio of 10.6. He also held the record for home runs in a single season and home runs hit by a rookie, although both of these records have since been broken. Experts state that if McGwire hadn’t struggled with such considerable injuries, his achievements would have been even greater.
Early Life Mark-Paul Harry Gosselaar was born on March 1, 1974, in Panorama City, Los Angeles. His father was born in the Netherlands and has worked as a plant supervisor for Anheuser-Busch. His mother has worked as a hostess for the airline KLM. Gosselaar was raised speaking Dutch, and his mother became his manager as he embarked on a child acting career. Mark-Paul first started landing modeling jobs at the age of five, and during this period, he also appeared in commercials for brands like Oreo and Smurf merchandise.
Early Life Mary Carey was born Mary Ellen Cook on June 15, 1980, in Cleveland, Ohio. Mary is the daughter of a schizophrenic mother and a father with cerebral palsy. Carey’s grandparents began raising her when she was 3 months old, and she moved to Fort Lauderdale, Florida, with them at age 7. Mary’s grandfather died of lung cancer when she was 16 years old. Carey attended the private preparatory school the Pine Crest School on a scholarship, then she enrolled at Florida Atlantic University in 1999.
Nikki Benz was born December 11, 1981. She was born in the Ukraine but moved to Toronto, Canada at a very young age. Just before turning 21, Nikki reached out to an adult film director and inquired about auditioning. Prior to entering the adult industry, Nikki was a swimsuit model and stripper. She got her break into the adult world after sending an unsolicited email to a director. She appeared in her first adult movie in January 2003 and has since gone on to appear in more than 180 films.
In 2010, Trice launched his own record label, Black Market Entertainment, aimed at creating quality employment opportunities in the entertainment industry for Metro-Detroiters. On New Year’s Eve of 2005, Trice was shot twice while driving with his girlfriend on the Lodge Expressway near Wyoming Avenue in Detroit, Michigan. One of the bullets entered his head, but he was able to get off of the expressway, at which point his girlfriend managed to wave down the police.
Early Life Pattie Mallette was born on April 2, 1975, in Stratford, Ontario, Canada. She is the daughter of Diane and Michael Mallette. Pattie had a very troubled childhood rife with abuse and violence. Her father abandoned their family when she was two, and her older sister was struck by a car and tragically killed while crossing the street to the babysitter’s house when she was just five years old. Mallette was sexually abused beginning at age three, with the accused including a male babysitter, one of her grandfather’s friends, and neighborhood kids.
Game of Thrones Salary For the final two seasons of Game of Thrones, 14 episodes that aired between July 2017 and May 2019, Peter Dinklage’s salary per episode was $1.1 million. That works out to $14.3 million for those two seasons. That per-episode salary is currently the sixth-highest amount any actor has ever earned on a TV show. For the 20 episodes he shot for seasons 5 and 6, he earned $500,000 per episode, $10 million total.
Phil Lesh was best known as the bassist and founding member of the Grateful Dead. He played with the band from 1965 to 1995. His innovative approach to bass playing, influenced by classical and jazz training, helped define the band’s distinctive sound. Rather than simply providing rhythm, Lesh developed a melodic, counterpoint style that functioned more like a third lead instrument alongside Jerry Garcia’s guitar and Bob Weir’s rhythm guitar.
In addition to her acting work, Witherspoon is also a successful producer and entrepreneur. In 2016, she founded the production company Hello Sunshine. Through Hello Sunshine, she has produced a number of successful television shows and films, including “Big Little Lies,” “The Morning Show,” and “Little Fires Everywhere.” As we detail in the next section, Reese sold Hello Sunshine in August 2021 at a $900 million valuation. Witherspoon’s biggest box office successes include films such as “Sweet Home Alabama,” which grossed over $180 million worldwide, and “Legally Blonde,” which brought in over $141 million.
Early Life Ryan Higa, also known by his YouTube name Nigahiga, was born on June 6, 1990, in Hilo, Hawaii. He attended Waiakea High School, where he was a wrestler. He graduated in 2008. Higa is an alumnus of the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, where he studied nuclear medicine. He competed in Judo and holds the rank of black belt. He later dropped out of university in order to start his career making online videos.
Early Life Samantha Giancola was born on March 14, 1987, in Hazlet, New Jersey. Despite the name of the show, Sammi is one of the few cast members who was actually born and raised in New Jersey. Giancola has Greek and Italian family heritage. During her high school years, Sammi was involved in a number of sports teams, including soccer, softball, and track & field. She also became passionate about art.
In 2010, Sara created the CBS daytime talk show “The Talk,” and she served as a co-host until 2019. Gilbert began acting when she was in elementary school and has dozens of film and television credits to her name, including “Poison Ivy” (1992), “Riding in Cars with Boys” (2001), “ER” (2004–2007), and “The Big Bang Theory” (2007–2010; 2016). Sara wrote and directed the 1998 television film “Even the Losers,” and she also directed the short film “Persona Non Grata” (1996) and is credited as a writer (story by) on the “Roseanne” episode “Don’t Make Me Over” (1992).
Satya is undoubtedly the most successful CEO in Microsoft history. During Bill Gates’ reign, Microsoft’s peak market cap was $614 billion. That market cap was achieved on December 27, 1999, at the absolute peak of the dot-com bubble. When Steve Ballmer took over, the company’s market cap was around $260 billion. During Ballmer’s reign, Microsoft dropped as low as $160 billion in the washout from the 2008 great recession, then peaked at $315 billion right before he handed over to Satya Nadella.
He played for the Miami Heat from 2008 to 2009 and for the Tulsa 66ers for the D-League and the Oklahoma City Thunder of the NBA in 2009. Livingston played for the Washington Wizards in 2010 and then signed a two year deal for $7 million with the Charlotte Bobcats in 2010. He played for the Bobcats until 2011 when he was traded to the Milwaukee Bucks where he played from 2011 to 2012.
Financial Problems Unfortunately, Sinbad has battled with the IRS over various tax issues for nearly a decade. In May 2013, he was forced to file for Chapter 13 bankruptcy. In the filing, Sinbad claimed that he had just $131,000 in assets and $10.99 million in debt. In total, he owed $375,000 to American Express, $30,000 to Bank of America, $2.3 million to the state of California, and $8.3 million to the IRS.
Early Life Sofia Black-D’Elia was born on December 24, 1991, in Clifton, New Jersey. Her mother, Elinor, works in printing, and her father, Anthony, is a judge on the Superior Court of New Jersey. Her mother is of Russian-Jewish descent, while her father is of Italian descent. Sofia was raised in a Jewish household and had a bat mitzvah ceremony as a teenager. She attended Clifton High School and graduated in 2010.
Steven Spielberg’s rise to filmmaking fame has been well chronicled. He began making short films when he was eleven, using his father’s video camera to earn his Boy Scout photography merit badge. He shot his first independent feature when he was sixteen and then decided to focus on attending film school. He was rejected from the University of Southern California Department of Film twice and went on to attend the University of California – Long Beach instead.
In June 2022, Avenatti was convicted of multiple counts of fraud and embezzlement. He received a 14 year prison sentence, of which four years are related to the $300,000 he stole from Stormy. After losing a 2018 libel case to Donald Trump, Stormy was ordered to pay $293,000 of his legal fees. After losing an appeal, collectively she was ordered to pay Trump $600,000. She has vowed not to pay him anything.
Sarandon’s early career in the 1970s saw her in diverse roles, but it was her performance in the cult classic “The Rocky Horror Picture Show” (1975) that brought her widespread recognition. This role highlighted her versatility and willingness to take on unconventional characters. In the 1980s, she continued to build her portfolio with significant roles in films like “Atlantic City” (1980), for which she received her first Academy Award nomination, demonstrating her ability to capture complex emotions and characters.