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During her film and television career, Mirren had already received lots of awards including four Screen Actors Guild Award,
, and an Oscar for her role as Queen Elizabeth II in
2006. However, her achievement was not only in film and theater. In 2003, the Royal
Family of England gave her an honour and declined her as Commander of the Order for his dedication in film and theater.
3. Biography of Alan Arkin
Alan Wolf Arkin was born on March 26, 1934 in Brooklyn, New York. He is Russian and German origin. His mother, Beatrice
was a teacher and his father, David Arkin, was an artist and writer, who worked as a teacher. In 1946, Alan moved to Los Angeles where
his father had a job as a set designer. In 1950, his father lost his job and was accused of being communist. Alan was raised in a Jewish
family but no emphasis on religion. Alan has shown his fond of art since he was at the young age.
At 10 he took various courses on music and acting. He attended Franklin High School in Los Angeles, then Los Angeles City College
1951-1953 and Bennington College 1953-1954. He sang in a college folk-band and joined in a drama class. He ever recorded an
album and reached number four at the Billboard chart. However, his music career did not run well as his acting career.
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The 79
th
Academy Award was not the first time Arkin got involved in this celebration. He often gets Oscar nomination in his
films. He is one of the only eight actors who is nominated for Best Actor in his first screen appearance for
in 1966. Two years later, he was again nominated for Best Actor in Academy Award in
1968. During his career, he was nominated for many times in many awards including BAFTA and Golden Globe. However,
his great achievement came in 2007 where he received Oscar award for Best Supporting Actor in
.
4. Biography of Jennifer Hudson
Jennifer Kate Hudson is an African-American actress. She was born on September 12, 1981. She is the third and youngest child
of Darnell Donnerson died in 2008 and Samuel Simpson died in 1999. She graduated from Dunbar Vocational Career Academy in
1999. On the age of seven, she started to perform singing with the curch choir and joining the community theater. Hudson worked at the
Burger King in Chicago until she joined the 3
rd
season of Ameican Idol.
Hudson first appereance on screen was when she first joined the American Idol in 2004. She did not win the contest but just ended
up in 7
th
position. However, her career not ended up in 7
th
position of the American Idol. In 2005, she was cast for the musical film
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. She won the role over hundreds of professional singers and actreess, including the 3
rd
season American Idol winner, Fantasia Barrino. This movie was released on January 2007 and gained very
good respond from the Critics. Hudson then received lots of awards for her role in this movie, among others are the Academy Award for Best
Supporting Actress, a Golden Globe Award, a BAFTA Award, a Screen Actors Guild Award, etc.
In October 2008, Hudson mother and brother were killed at their house in Chicago. After this incident Hudson decided not to make
any public appearance and resumed for 3 months. Hudson made her comeback by singing the national anthem of USA at Super Bowl. Up
till now in 2010, Hudson had made four more movies, 2008,
2008, 2009, and the latest is
2010 which is still in the making proccess, and still more to come.
5. Biography of Martin Scorsese
