All Entries in the "W" Category
Amr Waked
Mini Biography: Amr’s big break came in 2001 in the movie “Ashab walla business”. Unknown to audiences up to that point, Amr portrayed the role so well that many viewers left the theater believing he was a Palestinian actor. Since then, his reputation as one of Egypt’s most serious and dedicated character actors went from [...]
Nancy Wake
Date of Birth: 1912 Birth Name: Nancy Grace Augusta Wake Nickname: The White Mouse Mini Biography: Nancy Wake was born in New Zealand but her family moved to Australia when she was 2. She spent her childhood in Sydney and after her studies she travelled to Europe where she worked as a journalist. In 1939 [...]
Akiko Wakabayashi
Date of Birth: 26 August 1941 Height: 5′ 4″ (1.63 m) Mini Biography: Akiko Wakabayashi was born on August 26, 1941 in Tokyo, Japan. During her work in movies, she became one of Japan’s most popular actresses of their cinema’s “Golden Age,” ranking with actresses Kumi Mizuno and Mie Hama. One of her first films [...]
Andrzej Wajda
Date of Birth: 6 March 1926 Mini Biography: Andrzej Wajda was born on March 6, 1926, in Suwalki, Poland. He described his childhood as a happy pastoral country life before the Second World War. His father, named Jakub Wajda, was captain in the Polish infantry and died at Katyn massacre in 1939. His mother, named [...]
Tom Waits
Date of Birth: 7 December 1949 Birth Name: Thomas Alan Waits Height: 6′ (1.83 m) Mini Biography: Described as one of the last beatniks of the contemporary music, Tom Waits – in fact – had two separate careers. From 1973 (LP “Closing Time”) to 1983 (“One From The Heart” soundtrack), he recorded nine LPs for [...]
The Waitresses
Mini Biography: The Waitresses were a marvelously quirky, irreverent and innovative early 80′s New Wave experimental rock band from Akron, Ohio. The group first got together in the early 80′s and made their professional stage debut playing at Little Club 57 in New York City on New Year’s Eve in 1980. The principal band members [...]
Ed Waitkus
Date of Birth: 4 September 1919 Birth Name: Edward Stephen Waitkus Height: 6′ 1″ (1.85 m) Mini Biography: Eddie Waitkus is the baseball player who inspired the movie, The Natural, starring Robert Redford as Roy Hobbs. Waitkus was a top defensive first baseman and left-handed line-drive hitter. He was one of the toughest men in [...]
Ralph Waite
Date of Birth: 22 June 1928 Mini Biography: Ralph Waite’s stalwart TV homesteader John Walton will endure in the hearts of family-oriented viewers for decades to come. The actor was born in White Plains, New York on June 22, 1928. Educated at Bushnell University where he graduated with a BA degree, Waite existed rather aimlessly [...]