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    Until 2011, Catherine Zeta Jones was known as the Academy Award-Winning for best supporting actress for her role in Chicago. Then, she stunned her fans by saying that she has been diagnosed with Bipolar II disorder and is seeking treatment for it. To be diagnosed of bipolar II disorder, it’s necessary to meet the following criteria for current or past hypomanic episode and criteria for current or past major depressive disorder. Also the occurrence of hypomanic episode and major depressive disorder

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    Glenn Close Essay

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    talented actors/actresses have yet to win an Academy Award (also referred to as an Oscar). I honestly hope Glenn Close wins an Oscar before it's too late, otherwise the legendary actress will have to settle for the Academy Honorary Award. The award recognizes exceptional people in film who never received an Oscar. Number One: Tom Cruise. The actor has been nominated for three Academy Awards, but he has yet to win the award. Cruise has been nominated twice for Best Actor for Born on the Fourth of July (1990)

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    Can you imagine being a star in an abundance of movies, receiving several awards, learning additional languages and being named best dressed all in one lifetime? Audrey Hepburn was very well-known in the acting world. She was a young philanthropist who loved helping and giving to people. She also set the bar quite high with her sense of style. Audrey Hepburn was very successful in life because she had an acting career, many accomplishments, and an amazing family. Surprisingly, Audrey had a difficult

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    August 14, 1966)[1] is an American actress. Berry won the 2002 Academy Award for Best Actress for her performance in the romantic drama Monster's Ball (2001). As of 2017, she is the only black woman to have won a Best Actress Academy Award.[2][3] Berry was one of the highest paid actresses in Hollywood during the 2000s and has been involved in the production of several of the films in which she performed. Berry is also a Revlon spokesmodel.[4] Before becoming an actress, she started modeling[5] and entered

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    Jane Fonda (born Jayne Seymour Fonda;[1] December 21, 1937) is an American actress, writer, political activist, former fashion model and fitness guru. She is a two-time Academy Award winner. In 2014, she was the recipient of the American Film Institute AFI Life Achievement Award. Fonda made her Broadway debut in the 1960 play There Was a Little Girl, for which she received the first of two Tony Award nominations, and made her screen debut later the same year in Tall Story. She rose to fame in 1960s

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    This earned Audrey a Theatre World Award for her debut on Broadway. In 1953 she played her first starring role as Princess Anne in the movie Roman holiday. This got her an Academy Award for Best Actress, her first BAFTA Award for Best British Actress in a Leading Role, and a Golden Globe Award for Best Actress. After that she starred in many other movies like Sabrina, War and peace, love in the afternoon, the nuns’ story

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    American actress, producer, and entrepreneur. She started in the acting world young. Her first movie was in “The Man on the Moon” (1991) when she was just 14 years old. From her out standing role in man in the moon she was nominated for a Young Artist Award. She very quickly became a well known actress. Following her roles in Desperate Choices: To Save My Child (1992) and Jack the Bear (1993), she starred in the comedy-drama Pleasantville (1998), for which she won the Young Hollywood Award for her

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    Marlee matlin biography Marlee Matlin is an Academy Award winning American Actress and author. She has been deaf since she was 18 months old, she is also a prominent member of the Deaf community and supports the use of sign language, closed captioning, and is an active member of the National Association of the Deaf. Marlee Beth Matlin was born on August 24, 1965, in Morton Grove, Illinois. Her mother, Libby, was a jewelry sales woman and her father, Donald, operated a used car dealership

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    had several award nominations including a Golden Globe. In 2010 she received her first Academy Award for Best Actress. Jennifer Shrader Lawrence was born on August 12, 1990. She has two older brothers, Blaine and Ben. Growing up Jennifer lived on a farm outside Louisville, Kentucky. She lived with her mom Karen, her dad, Gary, and her two older brothers. Jennifer was an athletic child. She was involved in cheerleading, field hockey, softball. She also acted in

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    older son Sean started the Audrey Hepburn Children’s Fund, to help children in times of need. In this way, Audrey Hepburn continues to help children all around the world. F Audrey Hepburn lived a full, and happy life. She was “an icon Academy Award-winning actress, fashion model, and humanitarian.” A Audrey accomplished many things, she even had two children, Sean Hepburn-Ferrer, and Luca Hepburn-Dotti. Audrey Hepburn died on January twentieth, 1993, at her home in Tolochenaz, Switzerland. She was

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