Awesome Biographies

Sunday, March 24, 2013

Phil McGraw's Life

Phillip Calvin McGraw was born in Vinita, Oklahoma on September 1, 1950. Phil earned his doctorate degree in psychology from the University of North Texas (1979). In 1980 he found Courtroom Sciences, Inc., a full-service trial sciences firm. As president of Courtroom Sciences, Inc., he has traveled extensively throughout the USA, Europe, and the Far East consulting with clients including Fortune 500 companies, major networks, and airlines. He has also conducted seminars on life strategies and goal acquisition for tens of thousands of participants from the general public and corporate America. His relationship columns appear in each monthly issue of O, the Oprah Magazine. He has written three books: "Life Strategies: Doing What Works, Doing What Matters", "Relationship Rescue", and "Family First". He is the host of "Dr. Phil", which started in 2002. He is alive and currently 62 years old.

Saturday, March 23, 2013

Ross Lynch's Life

Ross Shor Lynch was born in Littleton, Colorado on December 29, 1995. He is an untrained actor and musician. He was homeschooled from the fourth grade on. He has a gift for playing the guitar and replicating a chord progression after hearing a song. He grew up mimicking the songs from the film "Grease" (1976) and the songs by 'N Sync with his siblings. He is one of five children. He has three brothers and one sister, Riker, Ryland, Rocky, and Rydel. They al play together in a band called R5. His breakthrough role came when he became the lead role in "Austin and Ally" playing "Austin Monica Moon". He is alive and 17 years old.

Carlon Jeffery's Life

Carlon Jeffery was born in Houston, Texas on July 10, 1993. He grew up in Cincinnati, performing in numerous community venues. He's been performing since he was 8 years old. He and his family moved to Los Angeles in 2005 so he could pursue a career in acting and music. He is a rapper under the stage name, "Lil-c Note". He co-stars in the Disney Channel original series, "A.N.T. Farm" playing "Cameron O. Parks".

Davis Cleveland's Life

Davis Cleveland was born in Houston, Texas on February 5, 2002. He began his career by doing commercial work in Texas. After moving to Los Angeles, he began appearing in national commercials for big name companies. Davis Cleveland has guest-starred in many shows, and co-stars as "Flynn Jones" in "Shake it Up". He is alive and currently 11 years old.

Quentin Tarantino's Life

Quentin Jerome Tarantino was born in Knoxville, Tennessee on March 27, 1963. In January of 1992, "Reservoir Dogs" appeared at the Sundance Film Festival, by first-time writer-director Quentin Tarantino. The film garnered critical acclaim and Tarantino became a legend immediately. 2 years later he followed up Dogs success with "Pulp Fiction" which premiered at the Cannes film festival, winning the coveted Palme D'Or Award. At the 1995 Academy Awards, it was nominated for the best picture, best director, and best original screenplay. Quentin and writing partner Roger Avary came away with the award only for best original screenplay. In 1995, Tarantino directed 1/4 of the anthology "Four Rooms" with friends and fellow auteurs, Alexandre Rockwell, Robert Rodgriguez, and Allison Anders. The film opened on December 25th in the United States to very weak reviews. Quentin's next film was "From Dusk Till Dawn", a vampire/crime story which he wrote and co-starred with George Clooney. The film did fairly well theatrically. He is living and currently 49 years and 361 days old.

Jerry Trainor's Life

Gerald William Trainor was born in San Diego, California on January 21, 1977. He is an American TV and movie actor. Jerry graduated from the University of San Diego High School, which is now known as Cathedral Catholic High School, and Jerry's mother teaches both pre-calculus and calculus there. It has been said that Jerry used to be Drake Bell's assistant. Trainor is best known as "Spencer Shay" in "iCarly", "Crazy Steve" in "Drake and Josh", and on February 16, 2013, Jerry Trainor and Buddy Handleson starred together in the first episode of "Wendell and Vinnie", Trainor playing "Vinnie Bassett". He is alive and currently 36 years old.

Vincent Martella's Life

Vincent Michael Martella was born in Rochester, New York on October 15, 1992. He was raised in Florida and started dancing at the age of three years old, and delivered his first live performance in The Nutcracker. Not long after, Vincent was performing in school plays, appearing in local commercial spots as well as attending acting, piano, and vocal training. By the tender age of seven, Martella was one of the hottest kids in the Central Florida market, working both print and national commercials. It soon became clear that Vincent was ready for a bigger market: Los Angeles. During his first trip in Los Angeles, he landed a guest spot on Fox's Cracking Up and a recurring role on Nickelodeon's Ned's Declassified, where he developed his own character for the role of "Scoop". The following summer Vincent nabbed his first film role working opposite Rob Schneider in "Deuce Bigelow: European Gigolo". Since then, Vincent has guest starred on the Fox comedy "Stacked", starring Pamela Anderson, and lent his voice to the feature film "Bad News Bears". Vincent stayed busy while on hiatus from "Everybody Hates Chris" and in fact, he shot the Universal film "Role Models" (November 14th) opposite Sean William Scott and Paul Rudd and also the film "Baitshop" where he co-stars opposite of Billy Ray Cyrus and Bill Engvall as one of the lead characters "Scott". He plays the lead role in "Phineas and Ferb" as "Phineas Flynn". He is alive and currently 20 years old.

Friday, March 22, 2013

Jason Segel's Life

Jason Jordan Segel was born in Los Angeles, California on January 18, 1980. He was raised in California by his mother, Jillian Segel, and his father, Alvin Segel, a lawyer. Jason was educated at St. Matthew's Parish School in Pacific Palisades, before moving on to Harvard-Westlake School in Los Angeles. During his education, he showed an interest in acting and often performed in plays at the Palisades Playhouse. His major break came in 1999, when he was cast as Nick Andopolis in Judd Apatow's well regarded series, "Freaks and Geeks". Further TV and film roles followed, notably in the series, "How I Met Your Mother", and the series, "Knocked Up". His film breakthrough, however, came in 2008's hit, "Forgetting Sarah Marshall" which he wrote and starred in. Segel also went on to co-write and star in "The Muppets". Jason is also a musician and songwriter, with his songs appearing in many projects including "Freaks and Geeks", "Forgetting Sarah Marshall", "I Love You, Man", "How I Met Your Mother", and "Get Him to the Greek". He is alive and currently 33 years old.

Jason Dolley's Life

Jason Scott Dolley was born in Los Angeles, California on July 5, 1991. When he turned eleven years old, he landed the lead role in the short film "Chasing Daylight" playing a boy who is having to cope with the loss of his best friend. That exact same year, he was picked up by Mel Gibson who was going to direct a show called "Complete Savages" where he starred as the youngest of the 5 Savage brother, T.J. In 2006, Jason starred in the direct to video release movie, "Saving Shiloh," Disney Channel's original movie, "Read It and Weep," and not that big of a role in "The Air I Breathe" as Young Pleasure. In 2007 you could catch up with Jason as he stars in Disney Channel's original series, "Cory in the House", a spin-off series from Disney Channel's original series, "That's So Raven" as Newton "Newt" Livingston. He currents co-stars in the Disney Channel's original series, "Good Luck Charlie", as "P.J. Duncan." He is alive and well and currently 21 years old.

Kevin Chamberlin's Life

Kevin Chamberlin was born in Baltimore, Maryland on November 25, 1963. Chamberlin grew up in Moorestown, New Jersey. He is one of the few Broadway actors who has been selected for a Tony in 3/4 acting categories. He was selected for best actor in a play (Dirty Blonde), best actor in a musical (Seussical) and best featured actor in a musical (The Addams Family). He also received Drama Desk nominations for these roles. His film debut was in the mid '90s, in 1995, playing Charlie the bomb diffuser in "Die Hard With a Vengeance". Kevin plays "Bertram Winkle" in the Disney Channel TV series, "Jessie," which aired on September 30, 2011. He holds a BFA in Acting from Rutgers University's Mason Gross School of the Arts. He is still living and is currently 49 years old.

Dan Marino's Life

Daniel Constantine Marino, Jr. was born on September 15, 1961 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Dan always loved sports, and his family helped him play as much as possible. His dad worked nights, but he coached Daniel's Little League baseball team. He also spent some afternoons playing catch with his son Dan. Dan's grandpa lived only a few blocks away, right next to Pittsburgh Pirates star Willie Stargell. Willie sometimes would play wiffle ball with his grandson. In high school Marino starred as shortstop and pitcher. The Major League Baseball team the Kansas City Royals tried to sign Dan, but he wanted to play a different sport rather than baseball. Dan began playing in tackle football leagues in the fourth grade. He always played QB. By his senior year in high school, Dan also started as punter and place kicker. But his best work in football was being a quarterback. That season, he threw 16 touchdown passes. One of the reasons why Dan decided not to play baseball was because he wanted to go to college. He had received a scholarship to play football for his hometown school, which was the University of Pittsburgh. The school was called "Pitt" and he football team was called the Panthers. As a star football player, Marino was a local hero. Even before his first game Dan was big news at college. He grew up in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and was playing for the hometown school. In the middle of his 1st year, Marino earned the position of starting quarterback. That season, the team finished with 11 wins and 1 loss. Dan led the Panthers to 4 bowl championship games, or post season games, in four seasons. Each bowl game was on TV so people watched Dan play across the United States. When he finished college, Pitt retired his jersey number. No player at Pitt was allowed to wear #13 on their jersey ever again. The NFL team, the Miami Dolphins, used its first college pick to choose Marino. As a first round choice and as quarterback, fans and reporters thought Dan should be a star right away. He started only 9 games that year, but threw 20 touchdown passes. Dan helped Miami get to the playoffs. In his second season, Dan played like a veteran. he tossed forty-eight touchdown passes, the highest ever in his football career. Marino added another 1,001 yards to his total in the 3 playoff games that the Dolphins played in 1984. This passer from Pennsylvania gave the Dolphins its first conference title in more than ten years. The Dolphins won the American Football Conference (AFC) in 1984. They went on to play the winners of the National Football Conference (NFC), the San Francisco Forty-Niners, in Super Bowl XIX (19) on January 20, 1985. But the 49ers won with a score of 38 to 16. More than 10 years later, Marino would still be waiting for a chance to earn a Super Bowl winner's ring. For the first four years after the Super Bowl, the Miami Dolphins could not even win enough games to get to the playoffs again, let alone to the Super Bowl. Dan's outstanding passes alone couldn't make the Dolphins champions. Fans remember when the Miami Dolphins won the Super Bowl two years in a row, 1972 and 1973, ten years before Dan went to the Dolphins. They wanted him to help them win even more Super Bowls. At Dolphins games, some fans would boo Marino for making mistakes. Since quarterbacks are in charge of calling plays, Dan would be blamed for bad plays or mistakes more than his other teammates. When fans think of his career, they think of it as the best career ever. He is a wonderful football player. He is still living and is currently fifty-one.