Birthday Beauty Break ~ March 9th
Tuesday, March 9, 2021 at 11:00AM No time for our usual Showbiz History post today. In its absence please enjoy this gallery of 10 beautiful Pisceans who were born on this day, March 9th...
Happy 35th to beautiful Brittany Snow who once had the honor of playing Michelle Pfeiffer's onscreen daughter (Hairspray) but is best known for another musical (Pitch Perfect). Next up: a horror film called X (2021)
Happy 38th to Mexico's Maite Perroni currently starring in the popular streaming series Dark Desires (2021)
Happy 41st to Germany's Volker Bruch (Der Baader Meinhof Komplex) who is currently starring in the series Babylon Berlin. Next up: A German film called The Path.
Happy 42nd to Oscar Isaac currently starring in the Oscar finalist short The Letter Room. Next up: a busy slate including supporting roles in Dune, Big Gold Break, Armageddon Time, and leading roles in animated Addams Family Sequel, the thriller The Card Counter, and video game adaptation Metal Gear Solid.
Happy 43rd to British actor Rupert Evans of The Man in the High Castle fame. Next up: More Charmed S3
Happy 48th to stuntman and regular Conan O'Brien guest Steven Ho (Mortal Kombat, Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End, The Last Samurai)
Happy 57th to the Oscar (English Patient) & César winning (Three Colors: Blue) goddess Juliette Binoche. Next up: A French Claire Denis drama Feu, and an ombinus international women's picture Together Now.
Happy 58th to Canadian auteur Jean-Marc Vallée of Wild, C.R.A.Z.Y., Dallas Buyers Club, and Big Little Lies fame. Next up: Unknown. He hasn't made a movie since 2015's Demolition and no TV since 2018's Sharp Objects. Curious.
Happy 61st to 1990s star Linda Fiorento of Last Seduction fame. She appears to have retired. Her last movie was 12 years ago.
And finally gone but not remotely forgotten...
Puerto Rican acting legend Raul Julia (1940-1994) who left us far too soon at just 54 years of age after a very successful cross-medium career which included stage (4 Tony Award nominations including thee original production of Nine, plus an Drama Desk win for Two Gentlemen of Verona), television (posthumous Globe, SAG, & Emmy wins for The Burning Season), and film (3 Globe nominations for Moon Over Parador, Kiss of the Spider-Woman, and The Tempest and an NBR Best Actor prize for Kiss of the Spider-Woman).
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Raul Julia's performances in the New York Shakespeare Festival productions of King Lear (1973, with James Earl Jones), The Threepenny Opera (1976, with Ellen Greene), The Cherry Orchard (1977, with Irene Worth, Michael Cristofer, Mary Beth Hurt and Streep) and The Taming of the Shrew (1978, with Streep) were thrilling and unforgettable, clearly. (And yes, I was going to the theater and being thrilled at age 1.)
Linda Fiorentino is 61? God, we are all old!
Maite Perroni is also a singer and a telenovela actress.
Jean-Marc Vallée is a missing talent whatever the medium.
Raul Julia's early death deprived us, among other things, of an obviously awaited and planned third part of The Addams Family.
This is also Italian Beauty Ornella Muti (of Flash Gordon and Swann in love international fame)’s birthday
Raul Julia and Oscar Isaac have the same birthday? And they both play Gomez Addams? That’s a fun little bit of trivia.
Raul Julia... one of the greats. I would totally be on board to have Oscar Isaac be Gomez Addams in a live-action version of the film.