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Leonardo DiCaprio

An actor made famous at twenty-three by Titanic who became Martin Scorsese's recurring lead: Gangs of New York, The Aviator, The Departed, Shutter Island, The Wolf of Wall Street. He won the Oscar for best actor on his fifth acting nomination, for The Revenant (2016). Since 1998 he has run his own...

Jack Nicholson

An actor nominated twelve times for the Oscar who won it three times, for One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Terms of Endearment and As Good as It Gets. He worked his way up through Roger Corman's low-budget films to Easy Rider, Chinatown and The Shining. Only in 1974 did he learn that the woman he...

Robert De Niro

An actor whose name became a byword for complete transformation, and Martin Scorsese's leading man: Mean Streets, Taxi Driver, Raging Bull, Goodfellas, The Irishman. Two Oscars — for the young Vito Corleone in The Godfather Part II (1975) and for the boxer Jake LaMotta in Raging Bull (1981). After...

Robin Williams

A comedian and actor whose improvisation seemed faster than thought, from the alien of Mork & Mindy to the Genie in Aladdin. Good Morning, Vietnam, Dead Poets Society, Mrs. Doubtfire; he won the Oscar for best supporting actor for Good Will Hunting (1998). He died in California on 11 August 2014. Bo

Brad Pitt

An actor and producer who grew up in Springfield, Missouri, and left his journalism course two weeks before graduating to go to Hollywood. Thelma & Louise, Se7en, Fight Club, Inglourious Basterds; he won the Oscar for best supporting actor for Once Upon a Time in Hollywood (2020). His production...

Angelina Jolie

An actress and director, the daughter of the actor Jon Voight. She won the Oscar for best supporting actress for Girl, Interrupted (2000), and Lara Croft and Mr. & Mrs. Smith made her famous worldwide. For twenty years she worked with the UN Refugee Agency, first as a goodwill ambassador and then...

Tom Hanks

An actor who won the Oscar for best actor two years running, for Philadelphia and Forrest Gump (1994 and 1995). He began in comedies, became a star with Big, then made Saving Private Ryan, Cast Away and Catch Me If You Can, and voiced the cowboy Woody in Toy Story. As a producer he made, with...

Margaret Thatcher

Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1979 to 1990, the first woman in the office and the longest-serving premier of the twentieth century. A grocer's daughter from Grantham and an Oxford-trained chemist, she privatised the state industries, outlasted the year-long miners' strike and won the...

Charles III

King of the United Kingdom since 8 September 2022, crowned on 6 May 2023; before that the longest-waiting heir in British history and Prince of Wales from 1958. In 1976 he founded the Prince's Trust to help young people into work and enterprise, spoke of ecology and organic farming long before it...

Barack Obama

The forty-fourth president of the United States (2009–2017) and the first African American to hold the office. A lawyer and the first Black president of the Harvard Law Review, he taught constitutional law at the University of Chicago and served as a senator from Illinois. In his first year in...