Marilyn dropped out of high school at age 16 to play housewife with her first husband, James Dougherty. She bounced between foster homes in her early childhood after her mother was diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia. She was born Norma Jeane Mortenson in 1926 and came from humble roots. Ranked by the American Film Institute as the sixth-greatest film star of all time, Marilyn Monroe is one of Hollywood’s biggest sex symbols of all time. The coroner’s report indicated that he had deadly levels of cocaine and morphine in his system. Phoenix was rushed to Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, where he was pronounced dead. Phoenix collapsed outside of the Viper Room in Hollywood, California, in front of his brother Joaquin and sister Rain. Phoenix was one of the most talented young actors to grace the big screen, and he seemed destined for a long, promising career.īut just as his star was on the rise, he tragically died of an overdose in 1993. That same year he portrayed a young Indiana Jones in Spielberg’s Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade. The following year, he received an Academy Award nomination for his work in Sidney Lumet’s Running on Empty. In 1988, Phoenix starred alongside Sidney Poitier in Little Nikita. Phoenix once referred to his family as “hippie-ish.” Later, his family became disillusioned with the Children of God and moved back to the U.S, whereupon they changed their last name to “Phoenix.” Along with his brother, fellow actor Joaquin Phoenix (then known as Leaf Rafael Bottom), and his sister Rain, River Phoenix spent the early part of his childhood in Venezuela where the Children of God, an active cult, stationed his parents to work as missionaries. Phoenix was born River Jude Bottom in Madras, Oregon in 1970. River Phoenix was a teen sensation in the mid-80s and early 90s who struck gold with his breakout role in the 1986 coming-of-age film Stand By Me. The Porsche his friend was driving lost control, struck a tree and burst into flames. In a tragic case of irony, Walker was involved in a car wreck on his way to a Reach Out Worldwide charity event, to help those affected by Typhoon Haiyan. After Walker's death, Fast and Furious costar Vin Diesel stated that the world lost an angel. The organization has aided in various natural disasters, such as the Nepal earthquake, Chile earthquake, Oklahoma City tornado and more. He started Reach Out Worldwide, an organization comprised of professionals with a first-responder skill set who provide their expertise when disaster strikes with the goal of accelerating relief efforts. He also starred in the critically acclaimed films Flags of Our Fathers and Disney’s Eight Below, both made in 2006.īesides being an actor, Walker was also a devoted humanitarian. He gained international fame when he starred in The Fast and the Furious, in which he reprised his role as Brian O’Conner in five of the six subsequent installments.
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Paul Walker broke onto the Hollywood scene during the teen movie craze of the late 90s and early 2000s, starring in films like Varsity Blues, The Skulls and She’s All That. It was rumoured that Ledger became emotionally and physically exhausted after his psychotic portrayal of The Joker the year before, which may have been a contributing factor to his accidental overdose. For the role, Ledger was nominated for a slew of awards posthumously, and his family accepted the Best Supporting Actor Award for him on Oscar night.
The cause was listed as an accidental combination of sleeping aids and other prescription drugs.
Ledger was in the middle of filming The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus when he died.
But it was in 2005 that Ledger rose to super-stardom for his role in Brokeback Mountain, playing a ranch worker who has a love affair with a rodeo rider (Jake Gyllenhaal). Critics and audiences alike praised Ledger for his performance, for which he received an Oscar nomination that many felt he deserved to win. In the early 2000s, Ledger appeared in various successful films like The Patriot, Monster’s Ball, and A Knight’s Tale. Ledger caught the attention of many teenage girls with his role in the 1999 film 10 Things I Hate About You. He was becoming known as one of the best actors of his generation, with a career-defining portrayal of The Joker in Christopher Nolan’s The Dark Knight. Heath Ledger was at the height of his career when his life came to a tragic end on January 28, 2008.
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