At the Simmons Leadership Conference in Boston in 2015, Field, speaking to Variety in 2022, recalled how she longed to transition into film and how her agent at the time discouraged her, claiming she wasn’t “pretty enough.”
Now 73, Sally Field has starred in over 30 films and earned two Academy Awards, three Primetime Emmys, and an enduring admiration few in Hollywood enjoy.
But acting was not Ford’s first port of call career-wise. He dropped out of college in Wisconsin at the age of 20, where he was studying English and philosophy, in favor of becoming a self-taught carpenter, according to a web archive.
It was while he was installing a door at the Francis Ford Coppola’s (regarded in some circles as one of the best filmmakers of all time) house that his acting career ignited. Photographs of the man, now 82, show a face that is not so far off that it is unrecognizable.
She was born in England and filled the shoes of an actress, singer, and author. As a child, she first pursued music theater where she became known, whereafter she moved over to acting and raked in an Academy Award, a BAFTA (British Academy of Film and Television Arts), and more than one Golden Globe.
She debuted as a stage actress in Broadway in 1954, with a role in The Boy Friend, and in 1956, she made a splash with her performance as Eliza Doolittle in the theater with My Fair Lady. She married for the first time at the age of 23 and as throwback by PEOPLE remembers, “she looked every bit the fairytale princess she always seems to portray.”
He mastered the fighting arts Jeet Kune Do, Taekwondo, Judo, and Hapkido, then brought his skill and comedic timing to the screen. Unlike many of his Hollywood peers, Chan performed his own stunts and even invented some of his moves.
In his 20s, Chan was wiry and agile, with a mop of pitch-black hair. At this time of his life, international audiences started noticing him, thanks to films like Snake in the Eagle’s Shadow and Drunken Master.
According to the genealogy website RootsWeb, he hails from a famed lineage that includes passengers of the Mayflower, which brought some of the first European settlers to America. He is related to Princess Diana and more than one U.S. president.
Photos from his 20s show the actor with the same thick mane and a clean-shaven appearance.
Perhaps best known is her contribution to the 007 Universe, where she appeared in 1995, 2006, and 2012 as the character M. If the pictures are anything to go by, the actress, now 90 years of age, has kept one feature of herself constant: short hair.
Pictures of her before the advent of color screens depict her with dark hair. One particular photo, snapped in 1957, shows the actress in Michael Benthall’s production of Shakespeare’s Hamlet at the Old Vic Theatre. The only other tell-tale sign that it is in fact the dame, is her round, yet defined, features.
He acted with Meryl Streep in the 1978 film Deer Hunter, and won an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor. He also appeared in Annie Hall (1977), Quentin Tarantino’s Pulp Fiction, alongside heavyweights like Samuel L. Jackson, Bruce Willis, Uma Thurman, and John Travolta in 1994, and Batman Returns in 1992.
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