Prompt: Question: Tell me a bio of Ezekiel Elliott.

Ezekiel Elliott

<s>Ezekiel Elliott Ezekiel Elijah Elliott (born July 22, 1995), nicknamed "Zeke ", is an American football running back who is a free agent. He played college football at Ohio State, where he earned second-team All-America honors in 2015. Elliott was drafted by the Dallas Cowboys fourth overall in the 2016 NFL Draft. In seven seasons with the Cowboys, he was a three-time Pro Bowl and two-time All-Pro selection, and led the league in rushing yards in 2016 and 2018.</s><s>Early life. Elliott was born in Alton, Illinois, to a mother and father who were both athletes in college. His mother, the former Dawn Huff, was a high school state champion in three sports before attending the University of Missouri and running track there. His father, Stacy, was a linebacker for the Missouri football team and CEO of Fifth Down Enterprises. Elliott's maternal grandfather played basketball for Drake University. His uncle is Finnish professional basketball player Shawn Huff.</s><s>High school career. Despite his athletic pedigree, Elliott attended more academically driven John Burroughs School in Ladue, Missouri, where he was a three-sport star in football, basketball, and track and field. He also played baseball. He played as a running back

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for the John Burroughs Bombers football team. As a junior in 2012, he was named the "St. Louis Post-Dispatch" offensive player of the year after rushing for 1,802 yards and 34 touchdowns and receiving 23 passes for 401 yards and six scores. In his senior year, he had 3,061 all-purpose yards and 50 total touchdowns, including 2,155 rushing yards and 40 rushing touchdowns. He led the football team to three straight championship games, but lost all three. Also a standout track and field athlete, Elliott was a state qualifier in sprinting and hurdling events. He capped his high school career by winning four state championships at the Missouri Class 3 state championships in hours (100-meter dash, 200-meter dash, 110-meter high hurdles and 300-meter hurdles). He recorded career-best times of 10.95 seconds in the 100-meter dash, 22.05 seconds in the 200-meter dash, 13.77 seconds in the 110m hurdles and 37.52 seconds in the 300m hurdles. He was named the Gatorade Track Athlete of the Year in the state of Missouri. Considered a four-star recruit by Scout.com, Elliott was listed as the No. 9 running back in

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the nation in 2013. He played in the 2013 U.S. Army All-American Bowl. Despite overwhelming support and pressure for Elliott to sign with his parents' alma mater, the University of Missouri, he decided to sign with Ohio State University.</s><s>College career. As a true freshman at Ohio State University in 2013, Elliott rushed for 262 yards on 30 carries with two touchdowns as a backup to starter Carlos Hyde, mostly playing as a gunner on special teams. In 2014, with the departure of Hyde to the NFL, Elliott took over as the starter for the Buckeyes. During the season, Elliott was named to the Academic All-Big Ten Conference team. Elliott rushed over 100 yards six times during the scheduled season. In the 2014 Big Ten Championship Game against the Wisconsin Badgers, Elliott ran for 220 yards on 20 carries for two touchdowns. This win qualified Ohio State for the first-ever College Football Playoff. In the 2015 Sugar Bowl against #1 Alabama, Elliott ran for 230 yards on 20 carries in a hard-fought 42–35 win where he was named the Offensive Player of the Game. He then capped the Buckeyes' championship season by rushing for 246 yards on 36 carries and scoring four touchdowns against the Oregon Ducks. He was named the

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Offensive MVP of that game as well; it was the third most rushing yards ever by an Ohio State player. In 2015, Elliott began the season by rushing for over 100 yards in 10 straight wins, including 274 against Indiana on October 3 (the second most all-time by an Ohio State player). However, the team suffered a 14–17 loss to Michigan State on November 21, 2015, and Elliott announced that he would enter the 2016 NFL Draft. The following week, Elliott ran for 214 yards on 30 carries in a 42–13 Ohio State victory over rival Michigan in Ann Arbor, his fifth 200+ yard game. He ended his collegiate career with 149 yards and four touchdowns in a Fiesta Bowl win over Notre Dame. Elliott finished his career at Ohio State on several leaderboards. He was second in career rushing yards with 3,961 and yards per game with 101.6 (both behind only Archie Griffin), had the second and third most rushing yards in a season, and five of the top 20 rushing yards in a game. His 43 rushing touchdowns was fourth most all time, and his 23 in 2015 was third most in a season. His twelve 100-yard rushing games in the 2015 season tied Eddie George for a school record, and the 22 he amassed over his

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career was again second only to Griffin (as was his streak of 15 consecutive 100-yard games from 2014 to 2015). He and George are the only Ohio State players with five 200-yard rushing games.</s><s>College career.:Individual awards. Elliott received numerous honors during his tenure at Ohio State. In the 2014 season, Elliott was named the Offensive MVP of both the 2015 Sugar Bowl and the 2015 College Football Playoff National Championship Game. Elliott's success at the end of the 2014 season made him a front-runner for the 2015 Heisman Trophy, though he in fact finished 8th in the voting. After a successful regular season in which he gained 1,672 yards and 19 touchdowns, Elliott was named the 2015 Graham-George Offensive Player of the Year, 2015 Ameche-Dayne Running Back of the Year and was selected as Unanimous First Team All-Big Ten. In addition to the yearly awards, he was also named Big Ten Player of the Week twice during the 2015 season for his performances in Week 5 against Indiana, and in Week 13 against Michigan.</s><s>Professional career. Before the draft, Elliott was labeled the most complete back to enter the NFL since Adrian Peterson in 2007, and was predicted to be a top 10 selection. On a draft breakdown by NFL

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.com, he drew comparisons to Edgerrin James and was listed as a three-down back that had "rare combination of size, athleticism, pass-catching and blocking skills", and that he "should still come out of the gates as one of the most productive young running backs in the league". Elliott was selected in the first round with the fourth overall pick by the Dallas Cowboys in the 2016 NFL Draft on April 28, 2016. He was the first running back selected in the draft that year. Elliott was widely regarded as an early favorite for the 2016 Offensive Rookie of the Year while playing behind what many agreed upon as the NFL's most dominant offensive line leading up to the 2016 NFL season.</s><s>Professional career.:2016 season: Rookie year. On May 18, 2016, Elliott signed his four-year rookie contract reportedly worth $24.9 million with a $16.3 million signing bonus. Elliott was named the Cowboys' starting running back going into the regular season, ahead of veterans Alfred Morris and Darren McFadden. In the season-opener against the New York Giants, he rushed for 51 yards on 20 attempts and scored his first NFL touchdown on an eight-yard run in the narrow 20–19 loss. In the next game against the Washington Redskins

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, Elliott had 21 carries for 83 yards and a touchdown but also fumbled twice, losing one of them. The Cowboys prevailed on the road 27–23. During Week 3 against the Chicago Bears, he posted his first game with over a hundred yards and finished the 31–17 victory with 140 rushing yards on 30 carries. In the next game, against the San Francisco 49ers, he had 138 rushing yards and a rushing touchdown in the 24–17 road victory. During Week 5 against the Cincinnati Bengals, Elliott rushed for 134 yards on 15 carries and scored two rushing touchdowns, including a 60-yard touchdown as the Cowboys won 28–14. In the next game against the Green Bay Packers, Elliott continued his four-game streak with over 100 yards after carrying the ball 28 times for 157 rushing yards in the 30–16 road victory. After the ninth game of the 2016 season, he became the second Cowboys rookie to rush for more than 1,000 yards in a season, after Tony Dorsett achieved the mark in 1977. He also became the third running back to rush for 1,000 yards after just the ninth game of his career, joining Adrian Peterson and Eric Dickerson. During a Week 10 35–30 road victory over the Pittsburgh Steelers, Elliott recorded 209

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scrimmage yards and three touchdowns, including his first NFL receiving touchdown on an 83-yard pass from fellow rookie Dak Prescott, and a 32-yard run for the game-winning touchdown with nine seconds left. During a Week 11 27–17 victory over the Baltimore Ravens, Elliott rushed for 97 yards and passed Tony Dorsett's Cowboys rookie rushing record on his second carry. In Week 15, after scoring a touchdown against Tampa Bay, Elliott jumped into an oversized Salvation Army Red Kettle, an unusual touchdown celebration. Since 1997 the Dallas Cowboys Thanksgiving Day football game halftime show has traditionally kicked off the Red Kettle campaign. With that rushing touchdown, he surpassed Tony Dorsett and Herschel Walker for the Cowboys rookie record. He ran for 159 yards in the 26–20 victory. Because the Cowboys clinched the number one seed and home field advantage throughout the playoffs, Elliott rushed for 80 yards in a Week 16 42–21 victory over the Detroit Lions and did not play in the regular-season finale against the Philadelphia Eagles. Elliott finished his rookie year as the NFL's top rusher with 1,631 yards, which was the 47th best season all-time, the third most by a rookie (behind Eric Dickerson's 1,808 in 1983 and George Rogers'

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1,674 in 1981), and the youngest player to reach 1,600 yards. He finished third with 15 touchdowns behind LeGarrette Blount and David Johnson. He tied Mike Anderson, Clinton Portis, and Ickey Woods for the second most all-time by a rookie behind Eric Dickerson's 18. Elliott's 464 yards after contact ranked fourth among NFL running backs. As a result of his successful season, Elliott was selected as a First-team All-Pro, and earned his first Pro Bowl, joining Dak Prescott as the first rookie running back and quarterback duo in NFL history to be selected. He was also ranked seventh by his peers on the NFL Top 100 Players of 2017 as the highest ranked running back. In his first NFL playoff game, Elliott ran 22 times for 125 yards in a 34–31 loss to the Green Bay Packers in the, joining Duane Thomas as the only Cowboy rookie to rush for over 100 yards in a playoff game.</s><s>Professional career.:2017 season. On August 11, 2017, the NFL suspended Elliott for the first six games of the 2017 season for violating the personal conduct policy. His suspension stemmed from accusations of domestic violence against his ex-girlfriend on five occasions in 2016. NFL officials conducted a year-long investigation into

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the allegations, and though Elliott was never criminally charged, decided to suspend him. On August 16, Elliott announced that he would appeal the suspension. Although the suspension was upheld on September 6 by a league-appointed arbitrator, on September 8, a federal judge granted a request for injunction by the NFL Players Association (NFLPA), putting the suspension on hold indefinitely. In the season-opener against the New York Giants on "NBC Sunday Night Football", Elliott rushed for 104 yards on 24 attempts as the Cowboys won by a score of 19–3. During Week 2, Elliott had the worst game of his career statistically in an away game against the Denver Broncos. He was held to eight rushing yards on nine carries in the 42–17 road loss. On October 12, the Fifth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals announced that Elliot's suspension had been reinstated, meaning that he would have to serve the six-game suspension up from that point. On October 18, Elliott was granted a temporary restraining order, meaning that he would not have to serve his suspension from that point, allowing him to play in Week 7. During Week 7 against the San Francisco 49ers, Elliott rushed for 147 yards and two touchdowns and had a 72-yard touchdown reception from Dak Prescott in the

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40–10 road victory. On October 30, Judge Katherine Polk Failla of the New York Southern District Court, denied Elliott's request for a preliminary injunction, which reinstated the 6-game suspension. The following day, the NFLPA filed an emergency motion for the injunction. On November 3, Elliott was once again granted a stay by the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, which delayed the suspension. On November 9, the suspension was once again reinstated by the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit. Three days afterward, Elliott decided to accept the suspension and leave the country to train for a little while. On November 15, he officially announced that he withdrew from another appeal attempt. During his suspension, Elliott had been training and rehabbing his hamstrings in Mexico before his reinstatement. Elliott returned in Week 16 during a must-win situation against the Seattle Seahawks, where he rushed for 97 yards on 24 carries. The Cowboys lost, 21–12, and were eliminated from playoff contention. In the regular season finale against the Philadelphia Eagles, Elliott recorded 27 carries for 103 rushing yards in the 6–0 victory. Elliott finished the 2017 season with 242 carries for 983 yards and seven touchdowns to go along with 26 receptions for 269 yards and two touchdowns in

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10 games and starts. He was ranked 54th by his peers on the NFL Top 100 Players of 2018.</s><s>Professional career.:2018 season. In the first two games of the season, Elliott recorded a rushing touchdown in both games against the Carolina Panthers and New York Giants. During a Week 3 24–13 road loss to the Seattle Seahawks, he rushed for 127 yards. In the next game against the Detroit Lions, he had 152 rushing yards along with four receptions for 88 yards and a touchdown in a 26–24 victory. During Week 6, he ran for 106 yards and a touchdown against the Jacksonville Jaguars. With his only score, Elliott became the 12th Cowboy to reach 25 touchdowns on the ground as well as the fastest to do so, three games faster than Emmitt Smith. During a Week 10 27–20 road victory, Elliott scored twice, racking up 151 rushing yards and 36 receiving yards against the reigning Super Bowl champions, the Philadelphia Eagles. He broke 150 yards rushing for the fifth time in his career, surpassing DeMarco Murray for third-most in franchise history. In the next game, he recorded 201 scrimmage yards and a touchdown against the Atlanta Falcons, his fourth game over 200, tying with DeMarco Murray and Emmitt Smith for most in

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franchise history. Elliott continued his success, with 121 yards and a score on the run against the Washington Redskins on Thanksgiving, eclipsing 1,000 yards on the year, the second time of his career, tied for third (along with DeMarco Murray & Calvin Hill) most in Cowboys' history. In a narrow Week 13 13–10 road victory over the New Orleans Saints on "Thursday Night Football", Elliott recorded 136 scrimmage yards and a receiving touchdown. Elliott finished the 2018 season with 1,434 rushing yards and six touchdowns to go along with 77 receptions for 567 yards and three touchdowns in 15 games and starts. He won the rushing title for the second time in three seasons. Elliott earned a second Pro Bowl nomination for his 2018 season. The Cowboys finished atop the NFC East and made the playoffs as the #4-seed for the NFC Playoffs. In the 2019 NFC against the Seattle Seahawks, Elliott rushed 26 times for 137 yards and a touchdown in the 24–22 victory. In the against the Los Angeles Rams, he had 20 carries for 47 yards and a touchdown in the 30–22 loss. He was ranked 18th by his fellow players on the NFL Top 100 Players of 2019.</s><s>Professional career.:2019 season. On April 17, 2019, the Cowboys

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picked up the fifth-year option on Elliott's contract. However, Elliott began holding out during training camp, demanding a contract extension. On September 4, Elliott signed a six-year extension with the Cowboys worth $90 million, with $50 million guaranteed, keeping him under contract through the 2026 season. In Elliott's first game back, he rushed 13 times for 53 yards and a touchdown in the 35–17 opening game victory over the New York Giants. In the next game against the Washington Redskins, Elliott rushed 23 times for 111 yards and a touchdown in a 31–21 road victory. The following week against the Miami Dolphins, Elliott rushed 19 times for 125 yards as the Cowboys won 31–6. In Week 6 against the New York Jets, Elliott rushed 28 times for 105 yards and a touchdown and caught five passes for 48 yards in the 24–22 road loss. In the next game against the Philadelphia Eagles, he rushed 22 times for 111 yards and a touchdown and caught six passes for 36 yards in the 37–10 victory. After a Week 8 bye, the Cowboys faced the New York Giants on "Monday Night Football". In that game, Elliott rushed 23 times for 139 yards in the 37–18 road victory. During Week 14 against the Chicago Bears on

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"Thursday Night Football", he rushed 19 times for 84 yards and two touchdowns in the 31–24 loss. During the game, Elliott reached 1,000 rushing yards on the season. In Week 15 against the Los Angeles Rams, Elliott rushed 24 times for 117 yards and two touchdowns and caught three passes for 43 yards during the 44–21 win. In the regular-season finale against the Redskins, Elliott rushed 18 times for 122 yards and a touchdown and caught three passes for two yards and a touchdown during the 47–16 win. Elliott earned his third Pro Bowl nomination for 2019. Elliott finished the 2019 season with 1,357 rushing yards and 12 touchdowns to go along with 54 receptions for 420 yards and two touchdowns in 15 games and starts. He was ranked 24th by his fellow players on the NFL Top 100 Players of 2020.</s><s>Professional career.:2020 season. During the season-opening 20–17 loss to the Los Angeles Rams on "NBC Sunday Night Football", Elliott rushed 22 times for 96 yards and a touchdown and caught three passes for 31 yards and a touchdown. In the next game against the Atlanta Falcons, he rushed 22 times for 89 yards and a rushing touchdown to go along with six receptions for 33 receiving yards during the 40–39 comeback victory. During

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Week 5 against the New York Giants, Elliott recorded 105 yards from scrimmage and two rushing touchdowns during the 37–34 win. In Week 11 against the Minnesota Vikings, Elliott rushed for 103 yards and recorded two receptions for 11 yards and a touchdown during the 31–28 win. This was his first 100-yard rushing game of the season. Elliott missed his first career game due to injury on December 20, 2020, in Week 15 against the San Francisco 49ers, whom the Cowboys went on to beat 41-33. In Week 16 against the Philadelphia Eagles, he had 19 carries for 105 yards in the 37–17 victory. Elliott finished the 2020 season with 979 rushing yards and six touchdowns to go along with 52 receptions for 338 yards and two touchdowns.</s><s>Professional career.:2021 season. On August 27, 2021, the Cowboys restructured Elliott's contract, converting $8.6 million of his base salary for the upcoming season into a signing bonus to save some salary cap space. Despite dealing with lingering knee and ankle injuries during the majority of the season, Elliott was still able to start all 17 games and rush for 1,002 yards and ten touchdowns on 237 carries along with 47 receptions for 287 yards and two touchdowns. He had two games going over the 100

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-yard mark and four games with multiple touchdowns. In the against the San Francisco 49ers, Elliott rushed for 31 yards in the 23–17 loss. After the game, it was revealed that Elliott was playing with a partially torn PCL, which he suffered in Week 4 against the Carolina Panthers.</s><s>Professional career.:2022 season. In the against the San Francisco 49ers, Elliott rushed for 26 yards and played center for one play in the 19–12 loss. Due to salary cap reasons and declining production, the Cowboys released Elliott on March 15, 2023.</s><s>NFL career statistics.</s><s>NFL career statistics.:NFL highlights and awards. - FedEx Ground Player of the Year (2016) - Offensive Rookie of the Month – October 2016 - 4× Pepsi NFL Rookie of the Week - NFC Offensive Player of the Week – Week 10, 2016 - NFL Castrol Edge Clutch Performer of the Week – Week 10, 2016 - 2× NFL FedEx Ground Running Back of the Week – Weeks 4 and 5, 2016</s><s>Personal life. Elliott bought his parents Dawn and Stacy Elliott a new house after signing his rookie contracts. He studied marketing at Ohio State University. He was good friends with fellow Buckeye teammate Kosta Karageorge, who was a

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walk-on defensive end. Karageorge received national attention when he died from a self-inflicted gunshot wound to the head. Elliott was surprised by the death of his friend. "Our hearts dropped," he told ESPN. "It was just a hard moment for all of us. For me, personally, that was my first time losing someone that I was very close with." In August 2020, Elliott became a shareholder of OnCore Golf Technology, Inc., a manufacturer of golf balls based in Buffalo, New York. In May 2021, Elliott was cited by police after one of his dogs bit and injured two people in his Frisco neighborhood.</s>


Prompt: Question: Tell me a bio of Rachel Bilson.

Rachel Bilson

<s>Rachel Bilson Rachel Sarah Bilson (born August 25, 1981) is an American actress. Born to a Californian show-business family, Bilson made her television debut in 2003, and then landed the role of Summer Roberts on the prime-time drama series "The O.C." Bilson made her movie debut in "The Last Kiss" (2006) and starred in the science-fiction-action film "Jumper" (2008) with her then-boyfriend Hayden Christensen. From 2011 to 2015, she starred as Zoe Hart on The CW series "Hart of Dixie".</s><s>Early life. Bilson was born in Los Angeles, the daughter of Janice Stango, a therapist, and Danny Bilson, a writer, director, and producer. She has an older brother and two younger half-sisters, Rosemary and Hattie. Her mother is an Italian-American who was raised Catholic, and her father is Jewish; she has said that she grew up in a "Chrismukkah household". Bilson's father comes from a show business family; he is the son of Mona (Weichman) and producer-director Bruce Bilson (b. 1928). Her British great-grandfather, George

Rachel Bilson

Bilson (1902–1981), who was born into an Ashkenazi Jewish immigrant family in Leeds, England, worked for RKO Pictures after immigrating to the United States, heading the movie trailer department, and her great-grandmother, Hattie Bilson (1907–2004), was a screenwriter whose credits included "Pal, Canine Detective" (1950). Bilson's classmates at Notre Dame High School in Sherman Oaks, California, included actress Kirsten Dunst, actor Rami Malek, and "American Idol" runner-up singer Katharine McPhee.</s><s>Career. Bilson attended Grossmont College, a community college in a suburb of San Diego, taking her father's advice to pursue a professional acting career. She then made several appearances in commercials, including advertisements for Subway restaurants, Raisin Bran, and Pepto-Bismol. She made her screen acting debut in early 2003, appearing in one episode of "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" and "8 Simple Rules for Dating My Teenage Daughter". Bilson was subsequently cast in "The O.C.", which debuted in August 2003. Her character, Summer Roberts, was initially intended to appear in only a few episodes but became a series regular after

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a successful run, as Bilson's on-screen romance with Seth Cohen (Adam Brody) became a noted aspect of the series. At the 2005 Teen Choice Awards, she collected three awards: "Choice Hottie Female", "Choice TV Actress (Drama)", and "Best Onscreen TV Chemistry" (jointly won with Adam Brody). In 2005, "Maxim" magazine named her sixth in their annual "Hot 100 List"; in 2006, the publication awarded her #14. The UK edition of "FHM" Magazine named her 28th in the 2006 100 Sexiest Women in the World list, while the US Edition Ranked her 77th in 2005. Bilson was also named one of "People" magazine's "World's Most Beautiful People" in 2006. Before appearing in "Maxim", Bilson had turned down requests to appear seminude in men's magazines, specifying that she feels that her body "is sacred" and "not there for the whole world to see". Bilson's first film role was in "The Last Kiss", a romantic comedy-drama also starring Zach Braff in 2006. She played a college student who seduces Braff's character. One review of the film noted that Bilson played the role

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with "surprising depth", although another critic described her role as "Glenn Close in "Fatal Attraction" as an airhead valley girl with a hot bod". In late 2006, Bilson was cast in the film Doug Liman's thriller "Jumper", as the replacement for actress Teresa Palmer; the film was released on February 14, 2008. She appeared in a two-episode arc on "The O.C." creator Josh Schwartz's NBC comedy, "Chuck", and in the film "New York, I Love You". She appeared in the 100th episode of "How I Met Your Mother" ("Girls Versus Suits") as Ted Mosby's latest love interest and the Mother's roommate. In September 2008, she started shooting the indie romantic film "Waiting for Forever", directed by James Keach. In September 2009, Bilson appeared as a celebrity guest judge in the third episode of "Project Runway" (season 6). Bilson starred in the 2011 indie film "L!fe Happens". In 2011, Bilson began starring in The CW series "Hart of Dixie", executive produced by "The O.C." creator Josh Schwartz. On May 7, 2015, the CW officially canceled the show after four seasons. In

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2017, Bilson joined the cast of CMT's "Nashville" which reunites her with her former "The O.C." co-star Chris Carmack. Bilson starred in the ABC drama series "Take Two" which premiered in June 2018; however, on November 21, 2018, ABC cancelled the series after one season. In April 2021, Bilson and her former "The O.C." co-star Melinda Clarke launched a podcast titled "Welcome to the OC, Bitches!". The podcast focuses on the hosts and guests re-watching and discussing episodes of "The O.C.". Several notable guests have appeared on the podcast such as Mischa Barton, Adam Brody, Peter Gallagher, Josh Schwartz, Jem, Bonnie Somerville and Elizabeth Gillies.</s><s>Career.:Fashion design. Bilson has been recognized by several media sources as being a "fashion junkie". She has described herself as having a "vintage" sense of style and has noted Kate Moss and Diane Keaton as inspirations. Bilson approached DKNY Jeans in late 2007 with a view to design a clothing line with the fashion brand. Together they created Edie Rose. The collection was launched in September 2008. Her idea was to keep

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fashionable items accessible to young women by keeping the prices of each piece under $100. An advertising image was released in July 2008 which featured Bilson modelling her Edie Rose collection. Bilson stated that she wanted to keep her fashion line "as separate as possible from Rachel Bilson, the actress. I'm hoping people will appreciate it for the clothes, not the person behind them." Much of her fashion collection was lost when her home was burglarized in May 2009. Bilson's fashions and sense of style made her the unwitting target of the Bling Ring, who burglarized her home on several occasions. In 2011, Bilson collaborated with her personal stylist, Nicole Chavez, and shoe industry leader Steve Madden, to launch the footwear destination ShoeMint, an "online customized shoe shopping experience". In 2013, Bilson designed a shirt for Invisible Children.</s><s>Personal life. Bilson and Adam Brody, her co-star on "The O.C.", dated from 2003 to 2006. After she and Brody broke up, Bilson began a relationship with actor Hayden Christensen, with whom she had co-starred in the film "Jumper". By January 2008, the pair had been seen and photographed together around Los Angeles for

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almost a year, without confirming a relationship. In February 2009, Bilson appeared publicly with what seemed to be an engagement ring, though no official announcement was made. In August 2010, Bilson's representative confirmed there had been an engagement that had since been called off, giving no other details. The two reconciled three months later, and had a daughter in October 2014. Bilson and Christensen separated in September 2017. Bilson and Christensen are both supporters of the No Kids Policy, a celebrity coalition which seeks to prevent children of celebrities from being photographed without parental consent. Bilson started dating actor Bill Hader in 2019, ending the relationship less than a year later.</s>


Prompt: Question: Tell me a bio of Susan Sarandon.

Susan Sarandon

<s>Susan Sarandon Susan Abigail Sarandon (; née Tomalin; born October 4, 1946) is an American actress and activist. She is the recipient of various accolades, including an Academy Award, a British Academy Film Award, and a Screen Actors Guild Award, in addition to nominations for a Daytime Emmy Award, six Primetime Emmy Awards, and nine Golden Globe Awards. In 2002, she was honored with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame for her contributions to the film industry. Sarandon began her acting career in the drama film "Joe" (1970), before appearing in the soap opera "A World Apart" (1970–1971). In 1974, she co-starred as a Zelda Fitzgerald surrogate in the television film "F. Scott Fitzgerald and 'The Last of the Belles'," and the following year, she starred as Janet Weiss in the musical comedy horror film "The Rocky Horror Picture Show". Sarandon was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress for "Atlantic City" (1980), "Thelma & Louise" (1991), "Lorenzo's Oil" (1992), and "The Client" (1994), before winning for "Dead Man Walking" (1995). She has also won the BAFTA Award

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for Best Actress in a Leading Role for "The Client", and the Screen Actors Guild Award for Best Actress for "Dead Man Walking". Her other films include "Pretty Baby" (1978), "The Hunger" (1983), "The Witches of Eastwick" (1987), "Bull Durham" (1988), "White Palace" (1990), "Little Women" (1994), "James and the Giant Peach" (1996), "Stepmom" (1998), "Enchanted" (2007), "Speed Racer" (2008), "The Lovely Bones" (2009), "Cloud Atlas" (2012), "Tammy" (2014), "The Meddler" (2015), and "A Bad Moms Christmas" (2017). Sarandon made her Broadway debut in the play "An Evening with Richard Nixon" (1972) and went on to receive Drama Desk Award nominations for the off-Broadway plays "A Coupla White Chicks Sitting Around Talking" (1979) and "Extremities" (1982). She returned to Broadway in the 2009 revival of "Exit the King". On television, she is a six-time Primetime Emmy Award nominee, including for her guest roles on the sitcoms "Friends" (2001) and "Mal

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colm in the Middle" (2002), supporting role in the film "You Don't Know Jack" (2010), as well as a leading role as Doris Duke in the film "Bernard and Doris" (2008) and another leading role as Bette Davis in the miniseries "Feud" (2017). Also known for her social and political activism, Sarandon was appointed a UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador in 1999 and received the Action Against Hunger Humanitarian Award in 2006. In November 2022, Sarandon joined the HALO Trust, the largest humanitarian mine clearance organization, as an ambassador.</s><s>Early life. Sarandon was born in Jackson Heights, Queens in New York City. She is the eldest of nine children of Lenora Marie (née Criscione 1923–2020) and Phillip Leslie Tomalin, an advertising executive, television producer, and one-time nightclub singer. She has four brothers: Phillip Leslie Jr., Terry (an outdoorsman, journalist, and community leader), Timothy, and O'Brian; and four sisters: Meredith (or "Merry"), Bonnie Priscilla, Amanda, and Melissa (or "Missy"). Her father was of English, Irish, and Welsh ancestry. His English ancestors came from Hackney

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in London and his Welsh ancestors from Bridgend. On her mother's side, she is of Italian descent, with ancestors from the regions of Tuscany and Sicily. Her father worked for WOR-TV in New York City. When she was four years old, the Tomalin family moved from New York City to the newly developed Stephenville community, located in the northern area of Raritan (now Edison) Township, New Jersey. The family was raised Roman Catholic and she and her sisters attended the all-girls Saint Francis Grammar School in nearby Metuchen, while her brothers attended the all-boys Saint Matthews Grammar School in Edison Township. Her mother was a member and board director of the Stephenville Women's Club and the Terra Tova Garden Club. The family was also member to the Woodside Swim Club, a private swimming club and park in the Stephenville community, where Sarandon and her sisters won many swimming competitions. Sarandon graduated from Saint Francis Grammar School in 1960. Sarandon attended Edison High School, a public school located in Edison Township. In 1962, while still in high school, she joined a band and dance group to entertain sick children at a nearby rehabilitation hospital. As a high school junior, she performed the lead in the

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play "Lady Precious Dream". As a senior, she played the title character in the comedy "My Sister Eileen", earning mentions in the local newspapers. In 1964, Sarandon was inducted into the National Honor Society. In May 1964, the Tomalin family moved to the newly developed Chandler Hill community, east of Stephenville in Edison. Sarandon graduated from Edison High School in 1964. She attended the Catholic University of America in Washington D.C. from 1964 to 1968, earning a Bachelor of Arts in drama, and studying under the drama coach Gilbert V. Hartke. During and shortly after college, she supported herself by cutting hair, cleaning houses and working as a switchboard operator.</s><s>Career. In 1969, Sarandon went to a casting call for the motion-picture "Joe" (1970) with her then-husband Chris Sarandon. Although he did not get a part, she was cast in a major role of a disaffected teen who disappears into the seedy underworld. Between 1970 and 1972, she appeared in the soap operas "A World Apart" and "Search for Tomorrow", playing Patrice Kahlman and Sarah Fairbanks, respectively. She appeared in "The Rocky Horror Picture Show" (1975) and also played

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the female lead in "The Great Waldo Pepper" (also 1975), opposite Robert Redford. She was twice directed by Louis Malle, in "Pretty Baby" (1978) and "Atlantic City" (1981). The latter earned Sarandon her first Academy Award nomination. Her most controversial film appearance was in Tony Scott's "The Hunger" (1983), a modern vampire story in which she had a lesbian sex scene with Catherine Deneuve. She appeared in the comedy-fantasy "The Witches of Eastwick" (1987) alongside Jack Nicholson, Cher, and Michelle Pfeiffer. However, Sarandon did not become a "household name" until she appeared with Kevin Costner and Tim Robbins in the film "Bull Durham" (1988), a commercial and critical success. Roger Ebert praised Sarandon's performance in his review for the "Chicago Sun-Times": "I don't know who else they could have hired to play Annie Savoy, the Sarandon character who pledges her heart and her body to one player a season, but I doubt if the character would have worked without Sarandon's wonderful performance".{{cite news Sarandon was nominated for an Academy Award four more times in the 1990s, as Best Actress as Louise Sawyer

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in "Thelma & Louise" (1991), Michaela Odone in "Lorenzo's Oil" (1992), and Reggie Love in "The Client" (1994), finally winning in 1995 for "Dead Man Walking" in which she played Sister Helen Prejean who regularly visits a convicted murderer on death row. Janet Maslin, in "The New York Times", wrote of her performance in the last film: "Ms. Sarandon takes the kind of risk she took playing a stubbornly obsessed mother in "Lorenzo's Oil." She's commandingly blunt, and she avoids cheapening her performance with the wrong kind of compassion. Her Sister Helen is repelled and alarmed by this man, but she's determined to help him anyway. That's what makes the film so unrelenting." Sarandon was awarded the Women in Film Crystal Award in 1994. Additionally, she has received eight Golden Globe nominations, including for "White Palace" (1990), "Stepmom" (1998), "Igby Goes Down" (2002), and "Bernard and Doris" (2007). Her other movies include "Little Women" (1994), "Anywhere but Here" (1999), "Cradle Will Rock" (1999), "The B

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anger Sisters" (2002), "Shall We Dance" (2004), "Alfie" (2004), "Romance & Cigarettes" (2005), "Elizabethtown" (2005), and "Enchanted" (2007). Sarandon has appeared in two episodes of "The Simpsons", once as herself ("Bart Has Two Mommies") and as a ballet teacher, "Homer vs. Patty and Selma". She appeared on "Friends", "Malcolm in the Middle", "Mad TV", "Saturday Night Live", "Chappelle's Show", "30 Rock", "Rescue Me," and "Mike & Molly". Sarandon has contributed the narration to two dozen documentary films, many of which dealt with social and political issues. In addition, she has served as the presenter on many installments of the PBS documentary series, "Independent Lens". In 1999 and 2000, she hosted and presented "Mythos", a series of lectures by the late American mythology professor Joseph Campbell. Sarandon also participates as a member of the Jury for the NYICFF, a local New York City Film Festival dedicated to screening films made for children between the ages of 3 and 18. Sarandon joined the cast of the adaptation of "The Lovely Bones", opposite

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Rachel Weisz, and appeared with her daughter, Eva Amurri, in "Middle of Nowhere"; both films were made in 2007. In June 2010, Sarandon joined the cast of the HBO pilot "The Miraculous Year", as Patty Atwood, a Broadway director/choreographer. However, the series was not picked up. In 2012, Sarandon's audiobook performance of Carson McCullers' "The Member of the Wedding" was released at Audible.com. Sarandon was the voice actor for the character of Granny Rags, an eccentric and sinister old lady, in the stealth/action video game "Dishonored", released in 2012. She appeared in the films "Arbitrage" (2012), "Tammy" (2014), and "The Meddler" (2015). In 2017, Sarandon portrayed Bette Davis in the first season of FX's anthology series "Feud". She also appeared in "A Bad Moms Christmas" (2017)—the sequel to the 2016 film "Bad Moms"—as the mother of Carla Dunkler. In 2018, she joined the "Social Impact Advisory Board " of the San Diego International Film Festival. In 2019, she connected with Justin Willman on

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"Magic for Humans" as a special guest on the Christmas episode. In Fall 2022, Sarandon starred in the FOX TV drama "Monarch". It aired on Tuesday nights at 9:00 P.M after "The Resident", which is created by Sarandon's nemesis Amy Holden Jones.</s><s>Political views and activism. Sarandon is known for her active support of progressive and left-wing political causes, ranging from donations to organizations such as EMILY's List to participating in a 1983 delegation to Nicaragua sponsored by MADRE, an organization that promotes "social, environmental, and economic justice". In 1999, she was appointed UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador. In that capacity, she has actively supported the organization's global advocacy, as well as the work of the Canadian UNICEF Committee. In 2006, she was one of eight women selected to carry in the Olympic flag at the Opening Ceremony of the 2006 Olympic Winter Games, in Turin, Italy. The same year, Sarandon received the Action Against Hunger Humanitarian Award. Sarandon was appointed an FAO Goodwill Ambassador in 2010. She donated fruit trees to the New York City Housing Authority's Jamaica Houses in 2018 in the borough of Queens. Sarandon visited the housing complex in person to help plant

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the trees.</s><s>Political views and activism.:Anti-war activism. Sarandon and Robbins both took an early stance against the 2003 invasion of Iraq, with Sarandon stating that she was firmly against war as a pre-emptive strike. Prior to a 2003 protest sponsored by the United for Peace and Justice coalition, she said that many Americans "do not want to risk their children or the children of Iraq". Sarandon was one of the first to appear in a series of political ads sponsored by TrueMajority, an organization established by Ben & Jerry's Ice Cream founder Ben Cohen. Along with anti-war activist Cindy Sheehan, Sarandon took part in a 2006 Mother's Day protest, which was sponsored by Code Pink. In January 2007, she appeared with Robbins and Jane Fonda at an anti-war rally in Washington, D.C. in support of a Congressional measure to withdraw U.S. forces from Iraq.</s><s>Political views and activism.:Presidential politics. During the 2000 election, Sarandon supported Ralph Nader's run for president, serving as a co-chair of the National Steering Committee of Nader 2000. During the 2004 election campaign, she withheld support for Nader's bid, being among several "Nader Raiders"

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who urged Nader to drop out and his voters offer their support for Democratic Party candidate John Kerry. After the 2004 election, Sarandon called for US elections to be monitored by international entities. In the 2008 U.S. presidential election, Sarandon and Tim Robbins campaigned for John Edwards in the New Hampshire communities of Hampton, Bedford, and Dover. When asked at We Vote '08 Kickoff Party "What would Jesus do this primary season", Sarandon said, "I think Jesus would be very supportive of John Edwards." She later endorsed Barack Obama. In the 2012 U.S. presidential election Sarandon, along with film director Michael Moore, said that they were not thrilled with Obama's performance but hoped he would be re-elected. She said she and the administration haven't been allies. "I wouldn't say the White House has taken me under its wing and made me one of its best buddies," Sarandon said. In the 2016 United States presidential election, she made public her support for Senator Bernie Sanders. On March 28, 2016, in an interview on "All In with Chris Hayes", Sarandon indicated that she and other Sanders supporters might not support Hillary Clinton if Clinton is the Democratic nominee for president. She stated: "You know, some people feel that

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Donald Trump will bring the revolution immediately. If he gets in, then things will really explode." Hayes inquired as to whether it would be dangerous to allow Trump to become president, to which she replied: "If you think that it's pragmatic to shore up the status quo right now, then you're not in touch with the status quo". On October 30, 2016, she endorsed Green Party of the United States presidential candidate Jill Stein. In an interview with "The Guardian" published on November 26, 2017, Sarandon said about Hillary Clinton: "I did think she was very, very dangerous. We would still be fracking, we would be at war [if she were president]".</s><s>Political views and activism.:Civil rights. In 1995, Sarandon was one of many Hollywood actors, directors and writers interviewed for the documentary "The Celluloid Closet," which looked at how Hollywood films have depicted homosexuality. Sarandon and Robbins appeared at the 2000 Shadow Convention in Los Angeles to speak about drug offenders being unduly punished. In 2004, she served on the advisory committee for 2004 Racism Watch, an activist group. Sarandon has become an advocate to end the death penalty and mass incarceration. She has joined the team of people fighting to save the life of

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Richard Glossip, a man on death row in Oklahoma. In May 2015, Sarandon launched a campaign with fundraising platform Represent.com to sell T-shirts to help finance the documentary "Deep Run", the story of a poor North Carolina teen undergoing a gender transition.</s><s>Political views and activism.:Since 2011. On March 12, 2011, Sarandon spoke before a crowd in Madison, Wisconsin protesting Governor Scott Walker and his Budget Repair Bill. On September 27, 2011, Sarandon spoke to reporters and interested parties at the Occupy Wall Street protest in New York City. Her use of the word "Nazi" to describe Pope Benedict XVI on October 15, 2011, generated complaints from Roman Catholic authorities, and the Anti-Defamation League, which called on Sarandon to apologize. Sarandon brought activist Rosa Clemente to the 75th Golden Globe Awards and participated in a rally against gun violence in June 2018. On June 28, 2018, Sarandon was arrested during the Women Disobey protests, along with 575 other people, for protesting at the Hart Senate Office Building where a sit-in was being held against Donald Trump's migrant separation policy. On May 27, 2021, Sarandon tweeted in support of the Palestinian people, in her words, "fighting against the

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apartheid government of Netanyahu", and of the Israeli people "that they too, will enjoy peace". She expressed support for Palestinian-American model Bella Hadid "for having the bravery to stand in solidarity with her people". She also co-signed an open letter criticizing Israel for labeling six Palestinian human rights groups as terror organizations, and quoted Desmond Tutu on the conflict saying that "true peace can ultimately be built only on justice". Sarandon was the executive producer for "Soufra", a documentary that covered the development of a food truck in the Bourj el Barajneh Palestinian refugee camp in Beirut, Lebanon. In February 2022, some law enforcement organizations criticized Sarandon for sharing a tweet that described a photo of police officers honoring a killed officer as fascism. She would later delete the tweet and post a message on Twitter to apologize.</s><s>Personal life. While in college, Susan Tomalin met fellow student Chris Sarandon, a Greek-American, and the couple married on September 16, 1967. They divorced in 1979 but she retained the surname Sarandon as her stage name. She was then involved romantically with director Louis Malle, musician David Bowie and briefly, actor Sean Penn. In the mid-1980s, Sarandon dated Italian filmmaker Franco Amurri

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, with whom she had a daughter, Eva Amurri (born March 15, 1985), who is also an actress. In 2017, Sarandon revealed that she had had an affair with British actor Philip Sayer, who she further revealed had been gay. Beginning in 1988, Sarandon lived with actor Tim Robbins, whom she met while they were filming "Bull Durham". They have two sons: John "Jack" Henry (born May 15, 1989) and Miles Robbins (born May 4, 1992). Sarandon, like Robbins, is a lapsed Catholic, and they both share liberal political views. Sarandon split with Robbins in 2009. Following the end of her relationship with Robbins, she soon began a new one with Jonathan Bricklin, son of Malcolm Bricklin. Sarandon and Bricklin helped establish a chain of ping-pong lounges named SPiN. Sarandon is the co-owner of this New York ping-pong club and its Toronto branch SPiN Toronto. Sarandon and Bricklin broke up in 2015. In 2006, Sarandon and ten relatives, including her son Miles, traveled to the United Kingdom to trace her family's Welsh genealogy. Their journey was documented by the BBC Wales programme, "Coming Home: Susan

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Sarandon". Much of the same research and content was featured in the American version of "Who Do You Think You Are?" She also received the "Ragusani Nel Mondo" prize in 2006; her Sicilian roots are in Ragusa, Italy. Sarandon has identified herself as bisexual, seemingly coming out during a September 2022 appearance on "The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon". She had also previously told "Pride Source" in 2017 that her sexuality was "open" and "up for grabs", and on a 2021 episode of the "Divorced Not Dead" podcast she said of her dating interests "I don't care if it's a man or a woman. I mean, I'm open to all age, all color. And those for me, those things are just details." She is a member of the Democratic Socialists of America.</s><s>Awards and nominations. Sarandon received the Lifetime Achievement Award at the 2009 Stockholm International Film Festival, was inducted into the New Jersey Hall of Fame in 2010, and received the Outstanding Artistic Life Award for her Outstanding Contribution to World Cinema at the 2011 Shanghai International Film Festival. In 2013, she was invited to inaugurate the 44th International Film Festival of India (IFFI

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) in Goa. In 2015, Sarandon received the Goldene Kamera international lifetime achievement award.</s>


Prompt: Question: Tell me a bio of Liam Neeson.

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<s>Liam Neeson William John Neeson (born 7 June 1952) is an actor from Northern Ireland. He has received several accolades, including nominations for an Academy Award, a British Academy Film Award, and two Tony Awards. In 2020, he was placed seventh on "The Irish Times" list of Ireland's 50 Greatest Film Actors. Neeson was appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in 2000. In 1976, Neeson joined the Lyric Players' Theatre in Belfast for two years. His early film roles include "Excalibur" (1981), "The Bounty" (1984), "The Mission" (1986), and "Husbands and Wives" (1992). He rose to prominence portraying Oskar Schindler in Steven Spielberg's holocaust drama "Schindler's List" (1993) for which he earned an Academy Award for Best Actor nomination. He followed by starring in "Nell" (1994), "Rob Roy" (1995), "Michael Collins" (1996), and "Les Misérables" (1998). He took blockbuster roles portraying Qui-Gon Jinn in George Lucas' space opera "" (1999), Ra's al Ghul in "Batman Begins

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" (2005) and Aslan in "The Chronicles of Narnia" trilogy (2005–2010). He also starred in Martin Scorsese's "Gangs of New York" (2002), the romantic comedy "Love Actually" (2003), and the drama "Kinsey" (2004). Beginning in 2009, Neeson cemented himself as an action star with the action thriller series "Taken" (2008–2014), "The A-Team" (2010), "The Grey" (2011), "Wrath of the Titans" (2012), and "A Walk Among the Tombstones" (2014). He is known for his collaborations in the genre with director Jaume Collet-Serra, and starred in four of his films: "Unknown" (2011), "Non-Stop" (2013), "Run All Night" (2015), and "The Commuter" (2018). He also starred in Martin Scorsese's religious epic "Silence" (2016), the fantasy drama "A Monster Calls" (2016), Steve McQueen's heist drama "Widows" (2018), the Coen brothers' western "The Ballad of Buster Scruggs" (2018), and the romantic drama "Ordinary

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Love" (2019). Neeson is also known for his work on stage. He made his Broadway debut in 1993 with his performance as Matt Burke in the revival of Eugene O'Neill's "Anna Christie" earning a Tony Award for Best Actor in a Play nomination. He then starred as Oscar Wilde in David Hare's "The Judas Kiss" in 1998. He received his second Tony Award nomination for his performance in the 2002 Broadway revival of "Arthur Miller's "The Crucible".</s><s>Early life. Neeson was born in Ballymena, County Antrim, the son of cook Katherine "Kitty" Neeson (née Brown) and primary school caretaker Bernard "Barney" Neeson. Raised Catholic, he was named Liam after a local priest. The third of four siblings, he has three sisters, Elizabeth, Bernadette, and Rosaleen. He attended St Patrick's College, Ballymena from 1963 to 1967, and later recalled that his love of drama began there. He said that growing up as a Catholic in a predominantly Protestant town made him cautious, and once said he felt like a "second-class citizen" there, but has also said he was never made to feel "in

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ferior or even different" at the town's predominantly Protestant technical college. "It would be colourful to imagine I had a rebellious, uproarious Irish background," he has said, "but the facts were much greyer. Irish, yes. But all that nationalistic stuff, crying into your Guinness and singing rebel songs—that was never my scene." He has described himself as "out of touch" with the politics and history of Northern Ireland until becoming aware of protests by fellow students after Bloody Sunday, a massacre in Derry in 1972 during the Troubles, which encouraged him to learn more local history. In a 2009 interview, he said, "I never stop thinking about [the Troubles]. I've known guys and girls who have been perpetrators of violence and victims. Protestants and Catholics. It's part of my DNA." At age nine, Neeson began boxing lessons at the All Saints Youth Club, and went on to win a number of regional titles before quitting at 17. He acted in school productions during his teens. His interest in acting and decision to become an actor were also influenced by Ian Paisley, founder of the Democratic Unionist Party (DUP), into whose Free Presbyterian Church of Ulster he sneaked. He said, "[Paisley

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] had a magnificent presence and it was incredible to watch him just Bible-thumping away... it was acting, but it was also great acting and stirring too." In 1971, he joined a physics and computer science course at Queen's University Belfast before leaving to work for the Guinness Brewery. At Queen's, he discovered a talent for football and was spotted by Seán Thomas at Bohemian FC. There was a club trial in Dublin and Neeson played one game as a substitute against Shamrock Rovers FC, but was not offered a contract.</s><s>Career.</s><s>Career.:1976–1993: Early career. After leaving university, Neeson returned to Ballymena, where he worked in a variety of casual jobs, such as a forklift operator at Guinness and a lorry driver. He also attended teacher training college for two years in Newcastle upon Tyne before again returning to his hometown. In 1976, he joined the Lyric Players' Theatre in Belfast, where he performed for two years. He got his first film experience in 1977, playing Jesus Christ and The Evangelist in the religious film "Pilgrim's Progress" (1978). He moved to Dublin in 1978 when he was offered a part in Ron Hutchinson's "S

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ays I, Says He", a drama about The Troubles, at the Project Arts Centre. He acted in several other Project productions and joined the Abbey Theatre (the National Theatre of Ireland). In 1980, he performed with Stephen Rea, Ray McAnally and Mick Lally, playing Doalty in Brian Friel's play "Translations", the first production of Friel's and Rea's Field Day Theatre Company, first presented in the Guildhall in Derry on 23 September 1980. In 1980, filmmaker John Boorman saw him on stage as Lennie Small in "Of Mice and Men" and offered him the role of Sir Gawain in the Arthurian film "Excalibur". After the role, Neeson moved to London, where he continued working on stage, and in small-budget films and television. He lived with actress Helen Mirren, whom he met working on "Excalibur". Between 1982 and 1987, he starred in five films, most notably with Mel Gibson and Anthony Hopkins in 1984's "The Bounty" and Robert De Niro and Jeremy Irons in 1986's "The Mission". Neeson guest-starred in the third season of the television series "Miami Vice" in 1986, and moved to Hollywood the

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next year to take higher-profile roles. He starred with Cher and Dennis Quaid in "Suspect", which brought him critical acclaim. In 1988, he starred with Clint Eastwood in the fifth Dirty Harry film, "The Dead Pool", as Peter Swan, a horror film director. In 1990, he had a starring role in Sam Raimi's "Darkman". Although the film was successful, Neeson's subsequent years did not bring him the same recognition. In 1993, he joined "Ellis Island" co-star and future wife Natasha Richardson in the Broadway play "Anna Christie". They also worked together in "Nell", released the following year.</s><s>Career.:1993–2000: Rise to prominence. Steven Spielberg offered Neeson the role of Oskar Schindler in his holocaust film "Schindler's List" after seeing him in "Anna Christie" on Broadway. Kevin Costner, Mel Gibson and Warren Beatty all expressed interest in the part (Beatty even auditioned), but Neeson was cast in December 1992 after auditioning for the role. He read the Keneally book and concluded that his character "enjoyed fookin' with the Nazis. In Keneally's book

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, it says he was regarded as a kind of a buffoon by them... if the Nazis were New Yorkers, he was from Arkansas. They don't quite take him seriously, and he used that to full effect." His critically acclaimed performance earned him a nomination for a Best Actor Oscar, and helped the film earn Best Picture of 1993. He also received BAFTA and Golden Globes nominations for the performance. He soon became an in-demand leading actor. He starred in the subsequent period pieces "Rob Roy" (1995) and "Michael Collins" (1996), the latter earning him Best Starring Role at the Venice Film Festival and another Golden Globe nomination. He starred as Jean Valjean in the 1998 adaptation of Victor Hugo's "Les Misérables", and in "The Haunting" (1999) as Dr. David Marrow. In 1999, Neeson starred as Jedi Master Qui-Gon Jinn in "". Director George Lucas cast Neeson because he considered him a "master actor, who the other actors will look up to, who has got the qualities of strength that the character demands." As the first "Star Wars" film to be released in 16 years, it was surrounded by media anticipation. Neeson's connection to "

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Star Wars" started in the Crown Bar, Belfast. He told Ricki Lake, "I probably wouldn't have taken the role if it wasn't for the advice of Peter King in the Crown during a Lyric reunion." Despite mixed reviews from critics and fans, "The Phantom Menace" was an enormous box-office success and remained the most financially successful "Star Wars" film (unadjusted for inflation) until "" (2015). Neeson's performance as Qui-Gon received positive reviews and a Saturn Award nomination. A stock recording of his voice from "The Phantom Menace" can be heard during a scene in "" (2002). Neeson was later reported to be appearing in "" (2005), but ultimately did not. In the animated television series "" (2008–20), he voiced Qui-Gon in two episodes of the third season and one episode of the sixth season, and he also made a voice cameo as Qui-Gon in "" (2019). Neeson appeared as Qui-Gon in the final episode of "Obi-Wan Kenobi" (2022), appearing as a force ghost to Obi-Wan, in an uncredited cameo, marking his first live-action portrayal of Qui-G

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on since "The Phantom Menace." He later voiced Qui-Gon again for an episode of the animated "Star Wars: Tales of the Jedi" (2022).</s><s>Career.:2001–2007: Mainstream roles. Neeson narrated the 2001 documentaries "Journey into Amazing Caves", a short film about two scientists who travel around the world to search for material for potential cures; and "The Endurance: Shackleton's Legendary Antarctic Adventure". The latter won awards at a number of film festivals including Best Documentary from both the Chicago Film Critics Association and the National Board of Review. After being nominated for a Tony Award for his role opposite Laura Linney in "The Crucible", Neeson appeared with Harrison Ford in Kathryn Bigelow's 2002 submarine thriller "" as Captain Mikhail Polenin. He was also on the cast of Martin Scorsese's "Gangs of New York" with Leonardo DiCaprio, Brendan Gleeson, Cameron Diaz and Daniel Day-Lewis, and played a recently widowed writer in Richard Curtis's ensemble comedy "Love Actually" (2003). His role as Alfred Kinsey in "Kinsey" again put Neeson up for nomination for a Golden Globe Award, but he lost to Leonardo DiCap

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rio for "The Aviator". In 2004, Neeson hosted an episode of the NBC sketch show "Saturday Night Live". He starred as a redneck trucker, Marlon Weaver, in an "Appalachian Emergency Room" sketch and as a hippie in a one-off sketch about two stoners (the other played by Amy Poehler) who attempt to borrow a police dog to find their lost stash of marijuana. Despite vowing not to play any Irish stereotypes, Neeson did play a stereotypically Irish man named Lorcan McArdle in the home makeover show parody "You Call This A House, Do Ya?" In 2005, Neeson played Godfrey of Ibelin in Ridley Scott's epic adventure "Kingdom of Heaven"; Ra's al Ghul, one of the main villains in "Batman Begins"; and Father Bernard in Neil Jordan's adaptation of Patrick McCabe's novel "Breakfast on Pluto". In "The Simpsons" episode "The Father, the Son, and the Holy Guest Star" (2005), he voiced the kindly priest who (briefly) converts Bart and Homer to Catholicism. That same year, he gave his voice to the lion Aslan in the blockbuster fantasy film "". In 2007,

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he starred in the American Civil War epic "Seraphim Falls". Neeson voiced the main character's father, James, in the video game "Fallout 3". Executive producer Todd Howard said, "This role was written with Liam in mind, and provides the dramatic tone for the entire game". "Fallout 3", the third game in the Fallout series, was extremely well received by critics and shipped 4.7 million copies by the end of 2008, the year it was released. In the director's commentary of the 2007 "Transformers" DVD, Michael Bay said he had told the animators to seek inspiration from Neeson in creating Optimus Prime's body language. Neeson appeared as Alistair Little in the BBC Northern Ireland/Big Fish Films television drama "Five Minutes of Heaven", which tells the true story of a young Protestant man convicted of murdering a Catholic boy during The Troubles.</s><s>Career.:2008–present: Later success. In 2008, Neeson starred in the action film "Taken", a French-produced film also starring Famke Janssen and Maggie Grace, based on a script by Luc Besson and Robert Mark Kamen and directed by Pierre Morel. Neeson plays a retired CIA operative

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from the elite Special Activities Division who sets about tracking down his teenage daughter after she is kidnapped. "Taken" was a worldwide box-office hit, grossing $223.9 million worldwide, making almost $200 million more than its production budget. Neeson has said in interviews that he believed that "Taken" had put some people off the idea of actually travelling to Europe. "Taken" brought Neeson back into the centre of the public eye and resulted in his being cast in many more big-budget Hollywood movies. That year he also narrated the documentary "Black Holes: The Other Side of Infinity" and again lent his voice to Aslan in "" (2008). He also provided a voice for Hayao Miyazaki's anime film "Ponyo on the Cliff by the Sea", which received an August 2009 release. In 2010, Neeson played Zeus in the remake of the 1981 film, "Clash of the Titans". The film was a huge box-office hit, grossing $475 million worldwide. Neeson also starred in Atom Egoyan's erotic thriller "Chloe", theatrically released by Sony Pictures Classics on 26 March 2010. "Chloe" had enjoyed commercial success and became the

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Canadian director's biggest money maker ever. Later the same year, he played John "Hannibal" Smith in the spin-off movie from the television series "The A-Team". Neeson voiced Aslan once more in the sequel " (2010)". In 2011, Neeson starred in the action-thriller "Unknown", a German-British-American co-production of a French book filmed in Berlin in early 2010, and directed by Jaume Collet-Serra. This film led to a collaboration between Neeson and Collet-Serra on a series of similar action films including "Non-Stop" (2014), "Run All Night" (2015) and "The Commuter" (2018). Neeson reunited with Steven Spielberg with plans to star as Abraham Lincoln in the 2012 film "Lincoln", based on the book "" by Doris Kearns Goodwin. In preparation for the role, Neeson visited the District of Columbia and Springfield, Illinois, where Lincoln lived before being elected, and read Lincoln's personal letters. Neeson eventually declined the role, claiming he was "past his sell date" and had grown too old to play Lincoln. He was replaced by Daniel Day-Lewis (who in turn

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would win his third Academy Award for Best Actor). In 2010, Neeson made a guest-star appearance on the Showtime series "The Big C". In 2011, he played himself in BBC2's series "Life's Too Short". In late 2011, Neeson was cast to play the lead character, a journalist, in a new album recording and arena production of "Jeff Wayne's War of the Worlds". He replaced Richard Burton, who had posthumously appeared in the arena production through CGI animation. Neeson did not physically appear on the stage, instead playing the role through the use of 3D holography. In 2012, Neeson starred in Joe Carnahan's "The Grey". The film received mostly positive reviews and Neeson's performance received critical acclaim. He also starred in "Taken 2", a successful sequel to his 2008 blockbuster. That year, he once again appeared as Ra's al Ghul in a cameo appearance in "The Dark Knight Rises", the third and final film in Christopher Nolan's "The Dark Knight Trilogy". Dialogue from his role as Ra's al Ghul in "Batman Begins" was featured in the first trailer for the film. On 31 January 2014, it was reported that Neeson would work

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with director Martin Scorsese again in an adaptation of the novel "Silence". Neeson had a supporting role as the henchman Bad Cop/Good Cop in the animated film "The Lego Movie", which was a critical and commercial success. Neeson later played Bill Marks in the 2014 action film Non-Stop. The film was released on 28 February 2014. He also appeared, uncredited, as God in the BBC2 series "Rev.". Neeson stars in the 2014 film "A Walk Among the Tombstones", an adaption of the best-selling novel of the same name, in which he plays former cop Matthew Scudder, a detective hired to hunt the killers of a drug dealer's wife. During Super Bowl XLIX, Supercell did a "Clash of Clans" commercial with Neeson playing the game as "AngryNeeson52" and vowing revenge on his opponent "BigBuffetBoy85" while waiting for his scone at a bakery. The appearance was a parody of his role in "Taken". In 2016, Neeson narrated the RTÉ One three-part documentary on the Easter Rising, "1916". In 2016, he did the voice and motion capture for the

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Monster in the Spanish film "A Monster Calls". Following the success of the "Taken" films, Neeson has become increasingly known as a star of action thriller films. Besides his aforementioned action-thrillers made in collaboration with Collet-Serra, other recent action films starring Neeson have included "The Grey", "A Walk Among the Tombstones", "Cold Pursuit", "Honest Thief", "The Marksman", "The Ice Road", "Blacklight" and "Memory". Neeson has indicated a desire to retire from the action genre though the films have taken his acting career in a new direction.</s><s>Activism. Neeson opposes what he sees as the unrestricted right to own firearms in the U.S. and has made calls for gun control. In January 2015, he repeated his views, calling U.S. gun laws a "disgrace" in an interview with Emirati newspaper "Gulf News" when replying to a question about the "Charlie Hebdo" shootings earlier that month. In response, U.S gun manufacturer Para USA, which provided the prop weapons used by Neeson in the "Taken" film series, stated: "We will no longer provide firearms for use in

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films starring Liam Neeson and ask that our friends and partners in Hollywood refrain from associating our brand and products with his projects." In 2014, Neeson protested against the anti-carriage horse campaign of New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio, who said he would outlaw horse-drawn carriages in Central Park once he took office. He wrote an opinion page published in "The New York Times" citing the carriage trade as a safe one for employees, horses, and tourists, and noted it was a livelihood for many immigrants. Neeson narrated a video for Amnesty International in favour of the legalisation of abortion in Ireland, which some conservative and pro-life commentators claimed was "anti-Catholic". Neeson was opposed to Brexit, stating in 2016 that it would be truly "a shame to sacrifice all the progress that has been made by the peace process regarding border controls". In September 2017, Neeson compared the U.S. presidency of Donald Trump to the Watergate scandal of Richard Nixon: "Democracy works and no man—and certainly not the president—is above the law. He has to be accountable."</s><s>Personal life. Neeson lived with actress Helen Mirren during the early 1980s. They met while working on "Ex

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calibur" (1981). Interviewed by James Lipton for "Inside the Actors Studio", Neeson said Mirren was instrumental in him getting an agent. Neeson then met actress Natasha Richardson while performing in a revival of the play "Anna Christie" on Broadway in 1993. They were married on 3 July 1994 and had two sons together, Micheál (born in 1995) and Daniel (born in 1996). In October 1998, they won £50,000 ($85,370) in libel damages after the "Daily Mirror" wrongly claimed that their marriage was suffering. They donated the money to victims of the August 1998 Omagh bombing. In August 2004, they purchased an estate in Millbrook, New York. On 18 March 2009, Richardson died when she suffered a severe head injury in a skiing accident at the Mont Tremblant Resort, northwest of Montreal. Neeson donated her organs following her death. Neeson holds Irish, British, and American citizenship, having been naturalised as an American citizen in 2009. He primarily identifies as Irish. After taking up American citizenship, he was adamant he was not turning his back on his Irish roots. In 2009, nearly four decades after he was an undergraduate in physics and computer science at Queen

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's University, Belfast, it awarded him an honorary doctorate, presented to him in New York by Vice-Chancellor Professor Peter Gregson. In March 2011, he was appointed a Goodwill Ambassador for UNICEF. He is a patron of Belfast-based charity and film festival CineMagic, which helps young people get involved in the movie industry. A heavy smoker earlier in his career, Neeson quit smoking in 2003 while working on "Love Actually". When he took the role of Hannibal for the 2010 film adaptation of "The A-Team", he had reservations about smoking cigars (a signature trait of the character), but agreed to do it for the film. In June 2012, Neeson's publicist denied reports that Neeson was converting to Islam. Neeson has expressed an affection for the "adhan", the Islamic call to prayer, that he grew accustomed to while filming "Taken 2" in Istanbul: "By the third week, it was like I couldn't live without it. It really became hypnotic and very moving for me in a very special way. Very beautiful." He also expressed admiration for the "Spiritual Exercises" of Saint Ignatius of Loyola. Neeson's mother, Kitty

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, died in June 2020. He was unable to return to his hometown for her funeral due to travel restrictions caused by the COVID-19 pandemic.</s><s>Personal life.:Social views. Neeson was criticised for his comments on Ireland's "Late Late Show" in January 2018, during which he described the Me Too movement as a "witch hunt" and cited Garrison Keillor's dismissal from Minnesota Public Radio as an example. In February 2019, Neeson gained public and media controversy after a press junket interview he conducted with "The Independent" while promoting "Cold Pursuit", a film about a father seeking revenge for his son's murder. He said that he generated his character's "primal" anger by recounting an experience he had 40 years ago, in which a female friend of his had been raped by a stranger. After learning the attacker was a black man, Neeson said that he spent a week going "up and down areas with a cosh, hoping some 'black bastard' would come out of a pub and have a go" so that he "could kill him". In the interview, he also said he was ashamed of the experience and that the things he did and said were "horrible". He said, "

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It's awful [...] but I did learn a lesson from it, when I eventually thought, 'What the fuck are you doing?'" In an appearance on "Good Morning America", Neeson elaborated on his comments while denying being a racist, stating that he asked for physical attributes of the rapist other than his race and that he would have done the same if the rapist was "a Scot or a Brit or a Lithuanian". He also said that he had purposely gone into "black areas of the city" but that he "did seek help" and counselling from his friends and a priest after coming to his senses. He said that the lesson of his experience was "to open up [and] to talk about these things", including toxic masculinity and the underlying "racism and bigotry" in both the U.S. and Northern Ireland. The controversy following his comments led to cancellation of the red carpet event for the premiere of "Cold Pursuit". Neeson was publicly defended by Michelle Rodriguez, Whoopi Goldberg, John Barnes and Ralph Fiennes. He later appeared in the "Atlanta" episode "New Jazz" as a fictionalised version of himself, to examine the controversy.</s><s>Awards and honours. In 2000, Neeson was offered the "

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Freedom of the Town of Ballymena" by the Ballymena Borough Council, but because of objections made by members of the Democratic Unionist Party regarding his comments that he had felt like a "second-class citizen" growing up as a Catholic in the town, he declined the award, citing tensions. Following the controversy, Neeson wrote a letter to the council, stating; "I will always remain very proud of my upbringing in, and association with, the town and my country of birth, which I will continue to promote at every opportunity. Indeed, I regard the enduring support over the years from all sections of the community in Ballymena as being more than sufficient recognition for any success which I may have achieved as an actor." Subsequently, on 28 January 2013, Neeson received the Freedom of the Borough from Ballymena Borough Council at a ceremony in the town. Neeson was appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) by Queen Elizabeth II in her 2000 New Year Honours. The American Ireland Fund honoured Neeson with their Performing Arts Award for the great distinction he has brought to Ireland at their 2008 Dinner Gala in New York City. In 2009, at a ceremony in New York

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, Neeson was awarded an honorary doctorate by Queen's University, Belfast. On 9 April 2016, he was honoured with the Outstanding Contribution to Cinema Award by the Irish Film and Television Academy (IFTA) at the Mansion House, Dublin, with Irish President Michael D. Higgins presenting the award. In 2017, Neeson was listed by UK-based company Richtopia at number 74 in the list of 200 Most Influential Philanthropists and Social Entrepreneurs Worldwide. In January 2018, he was awarded the Distinguished Service for the Irish Abroad Award by Irish President Michael D. Higgins, who described it as an award "for Irish people abroad who are making a contribution to humanity".</s><s>See also. - List of British Academy Award nominees and winners - List of Irish Academy Award winners and nominees - List of actors with Academy Award nominations</s>


Prompt: Question: Tell me a bio of Rachel Weisz.

Rachel Weisz

<s>Rachel Weisz Rachel Hannah Weisz (; born 7 March 1970) is a British-American actress, and the recipient of various accolades, including an Academy Award, a Laurence Olivier Award, and a BAFTA Award. Weisz began acting in British stage and television productions in the early 1990s, and made her film debut in "Death Machine" (1994). She won a Critics' Circle Theatre Award for her role in the 1994 revival of Noël Coward's play "Design for Living," and went on to appear in the 1999 Donmar Warehouse production of Tennessee Williams' drama "Suddenly, Last Summer". Her film breakthrough came with her starring role as Evelyn Carnahan in the Hollywood action films "The Mummy" (1999) and "The Mummy Returns" (2001). Weisz went on to star in several films of the 2000s, including "Enemy at the Gates" (2001), "About a Boy" (2002), "Runaway Jury" (2003), "Constantine" (2005), "The Fountain" (2006), "Fred Claus" (2007) and "The Lovely Bones" (2009). For her performance as an activist in the 2005 thriller "The Constant Gardener", she

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won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress, and for playing Blanche DuBois in a 2009 revival of "A Streetcar Named Desire", she won the Laurence Olivier Award for Best Actress. In the 2010s, Weisz continued to star in big-budget films such as the action film "The Bourne Legacy" (2012) and the fantasy film "Oz the Great and Powerful" (2013), and garnered critical acclaim for her performances in the independent films "The Deep Blue Sea" (2011), "Denial" (2016), and "The Favourite" (2018). For her portrayal of Sarah Churchill in the latter, she won the BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role and received a second Academy Award nomination. In 2021, Weisz played Melina Vostokoff in the Marvel Cinematic Universe film "Black Widow". Weisz was engaged to filmmaker Darren Aronofsky, with whom she has a son, from 2005 to 2010. She married actor Daniel Craig in 2011, with whom she has a daughter, and became a naturalised US citizen the same year.</s><s>Early life and family. Weisz was born on 7 March 1970 in Westminster, London, and grew up in Hampstead Garden

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Suburb. Her father, George Weisz (1929–2020), was a Hungarian Jewish mechanical engineer. Her mother, Edith Ruth (born Teich; 1932–2016), was a teacher-turned-psychotherapist originally from Vienna, Austria. Her parents both emigrated to the United Kingdom as children around 1938, prior to the outbreak of World War II, in order to escape the Nazis. Her maternal grandfather's ancestry was Austrian Jewish; her maternal grandmother's ancestry was Italian Roman Catholic. The scholar and social activist James Parkes helped her mother's family to leave Austria for England. Weisz's mother was raised in the Catholic church and formally converted to Judaism upon marrying Weisz's father. Weisz's maternal grandfather was Alexander Teich, a Jewish activist who had been a secretary of the World Union of Jewish Students. Her younger sister Minnie Weisz is a visual artist. Weisz's parents valued the arts; they also encouraged their children to form opinions of their own by engaging their participation in family debates. Weisz left North London Collegiate School and attended Benenden School for one year, completing A-levels at St Paul's Girls School. Known for being an "English rose", Weisz began modelling

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at the age of 14. In 1984, she gained public attention when she turned down an offer to star in "King David" with Richard Gere. Weisz went to Trinity Hall, Cambridge, where she read English. She graduated with upper second-class honours. During her university years she was a contemporary of Sacha Baron Cohen, Alexander Armstrong, Emily Maitlis, Sue Perkins, Mel Giedroyc, Richard Osman and Ben Miller (whom she briefly dated), and appeared in various student dramatic productions, co-founding a student drama group called Cambridge Talking Tongues. The group won a "Guardian" Student Drama Award at the 1991 Edinburgh Festival Fringe for an improvised piece called "Slight Possession", directed by David Farr.</s><s>Career.</s><s>Career.:Early work and breakthrough (1992–1998). In 1992, Weisz appeared in the television film "Advocates II", followed by roles in the "Inspector Morse" episode "Twilight of the Gods", and the BBC's steamy period drama "Scarlet and Black", alongside Ewan McGregor. "Dirty Something", a BBC Screen Two, hour-long television film made in 1992, was Weisz's first

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film, in which she played Becca, who met and fell in love with a traveller, Dog (Paul Reynolds), at the end of Glastonbury Festival. The opening scenes were filmed at the festival. Also starring as an older fellow traveller and sage was Larry (Bernard Hill). Weisz's breakthrough role on the stage was that of Gilda in Sean Mathias's 1994 revival of Noël Coward's "Design for Living" at the Gielgud Theatre, for which she received the London Critics' Circle Award for the most promising newcomer. Her portrayal was described as "wonderful" by a contemporary review. Weisz started her film career with a minor role in the 1994 film "Death Machine", but her first major role came in the 1996 film "Chain Reaction", which also starred Keanu Reeves and Morgan Freeman. While the film received mostly negative reviews–it holds a 16% rating on Rotten Tomatoes–it was a minor financial success. She next appeared as Miranda Fox in "Stealing Beauty", directed by Bernardo Bertolucci, where she was first labelled an "English rose". Following this, Weisz found roles in the 1997 American drama "Swept from the Sea", the 1998 British television comedy-

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drama "My Summer with Des", Michael Winterbottom's crime film "I Want You", and David Leland's "The Land Girls", based on Angela Huth's book of the same name.</s><s>Career.:International recognition and critical success (1999–2009). In 1999, Weisz played Greta in the historical film "Sunshine". The same year, her international breakthrough came with the 1999 adventure film "The Mummy", in which she played the female lead opposite Brendan Fraser. Her character, Evelyn Carnahan, is an English Egyptologist, who undertakes an expedition to the fictional ancient Egyptian city of Hamunaptra to discover an ancient book. "Variety" criticised the direction of the film, writing: "(the actors) have been directed to broad, undisciplined performances [...] Buffoonery hardly seems like Weisz's natural domain, as the actress strains for comic effects that she can't achieve". She followed this up with the sequel "The Mummy Returns" in 2001, which grossed an estimated $433 million worldwide, (equivalent to $ million in dollars) higher than the original's $260 million (equal to $ million in dollars). Also in 1999, she played the role of Catherine in the Don

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mar Warehouse production of Tennessee Williams' "Suddenly Last Summer", "What's on Stage" called her "captivating", stating that she brought "a degree of credibility to a difficult part". The same year, Weisz appeared in Neil LaBute's "The Shape of Things" at the Almeida Theatre, then temporarily located in London's King's Cross, for which she received a Theatre World Award. CurtainUp called her "a sophisticated, independent artist" with "great stage presence". In 2000, she portrayed Petula in the film "Beautiful Creatures", following this up with 2001's "Enemy at the Gates", and the 2002 comedy-drama "About a Boy", with Hugh Grant, based on Nick Hornby's 1998 novel. In 2003, she played Marlee in the adaptation of John Grisham's legal thriller novel "The Runaway Jury", along with Dustin Hoffman, John Cusack, and Gene Hackman; and starred in the film adaptation of the romantic comedy-drama play "The Shape of Things". In 2004, Weisz appeared in the comedy "Envy", opposite Ben Stiller, Jack Black, and Christopher Walken. The film failed at the box office. "Variety" opined

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that Weisz and co-star Amy Poehler "get fewer choice moments than they deserve." Her next role was alongside Keanu Reeves in "Constantine", based on the comic book "Hellblazer". "Film Threat" called her portrayal "effective at projecting scepticism and, eventually, dawning horror". Her next appearance, in 2005, was in Fernando Meirelles's "The Constant Gardener", a film adaptation of a John le Carré thriller set in the slums of Kibera and Loiyangalani, Kenya. Weisz played an activist, Tessa Quayle, married to a British embassy official. The film was critically acclaimed, earning Weisz the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress, the Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress, and the Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Supporting Role. UK newspaper "The Guardian" noted that the film "established her in the front rank of British actors", while the BBC wrote: "Weisz is exceptional: film star charisma coupled with raw emotion in a performance to fall in love with". In 2006, she received the BAFTA Britannia Award for British Artist of the Year. In 2006, Weisz starred in

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Darren Aronofsky's romantic drama "The Fountain". The "San Francisco Chronicle" found her portrayal of Queen Isabel "less convincing" than other roles. That same year, she provided the voice for Saphira the dragon in the fantasy film "Eragon"; and rejected an offer to star in "" due to script issues. The part eventually went to Maria Bello. Her subsequent films include the 2007 Wong Kar-wai drama "My Blueberry Nights", and Rian Johnson's 2008 caper film "The Brothers Bloom", alongside Adrien Brody and Mark Ruffalo. In 2009, she played the lead role of Hypatia of Alexandria in the historical drama film "Agora", a Spanish production directed by Alejandro Amenábar. "The New York Times" called her portrayal "adept", noting that she imparted "a sympathetic presence". That same year, she appeared as Blanche DuBois, in Rob Ashford's revival of the play "A Streetcar Named Desire". Her performance in the play was praised by the critics, the "Daily Telegraph" noted that she "rises to the challenge magnificently".</s><s>Career.:Established actress and further acclaim (2010–present). Weisz starred in the film "

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The Whistleblower", which debuted at the Toronto International Film Festival in 2010. The film was based on the true story of human trafficking by employees of contractor DynCorp. During its première, the intense depiction of the treatment meted out to victims by the kidnappers made a woman in the audience faint. "Variety magazine" wrote "Weisz's performance holds the viewer every step of the way." That same year, she guest-starred in the animated series "The Simpsons", in the 22nd season episode "How Munched is That Birdie in the Window?". Weisz's 2011 roles included an adaptation of Terence Rattigan's play "The Deep Blue Sea", Fernando Meirelles' psychosexual drama "360" opposite Jude Law again and Anthony Hopkins, the BBC espionage thriller "Page Eight", and the thriller film "Dream House", alongside Daniel Craig. She filmed scenes for "To the Wonder", a 2012 romantic drama film written and directed by Terrence Malick, alongside Ben Affleck, Olga Kurylenko, Javier Bardem, and Rachel McAdams; her scenes were cut. She has also starred in the 2012 action thriller film "The Bourne Legacy" based on the series of books by Robert Lud

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lum. In 2013, Weisz starred on Broadway alongside her husband, Daniel Craig, in a revival of Harold Pinter's "Betrayal". It opened 27 October 2013, and closed 5 January 2014. Despite mixed reviews, box office receipts of $17.5 million made it the second highest grossing Broadway play of 2013. That same year, Weisz played Evanora in the fantasy film "Oz the Great and Powerful". In 2015, she appeared in drama film "Youth" and in science fiction film "The Lobster". The film won Cannes Jury Prize. In 2016, she appeared in the drama film "The Light Between Oceans", with Michael Fassbender and Alicia Vikander, and portrayed Holocaust historian Deborah Lipstadt in "Denial", a film based on Lipstadt's book, and directed by Mick Jackson. In 2017 Weisz starred in "My Cousin Rachel", a drama based on Daphne du Maurier's novel, and in 2018 co-starred in a British biographical film about sailor Donald Crowhurst, "The Mercy", directed by James Marsh. Weisz's production company, LC6 Productions, released its first feature film, "Disobedience", in 2017, starring Weisz

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and Rachel McAdams. Weisz grew up three underground stops away from where the film is set in London. Raised Jewish, she never fully connected to the faith. She claims she was "really disobedient" herself, and has never felt she fits in anywhere. In 2018, Weisz played Sarah Churchill in "The Favourite", winning the BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role and receiving her second nomination for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress. In April 2019, she entered talks to join Scarlett Johansson in the Marvel Cinematic Universe film "Black Widow". In July of that year, Weisz was announced to play Melina Vostokoff in the film, which was released on 9 July 2021.</s><s>Career.:Established actress and further acclaim (2010–present).:Upcoming projects. Weisz will next star and executive produce "Dead Ringers" a remake of the 1988 film of the same name for Amazon Prime Video. She is also set to portray actress Elizabeth Taylor in the biographical drama "A Special Relationship", though the film remains in development. The film will chronicle Taylor's life and career from actress to activist. It is set to be directed by Bert and Bertie, and produced

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by See-Saw Films, with a script written by Simon Beaufoy. She is attached to star alongside Colin Farrell in "Love Child", directed by Todd Solondz. She is also set to star in a new film adaptation of "Seance on a Wet Afternoon", based on the 1961 suspense novel of the same name by Mark McShane and directed by Tomas Alfredson.</s><s>Personal life. In the summer of 2001, Weisz began dating American filmmaker and producer Darren Aronofsky. They met backstage at London's Almeida Theatre, where she was starring in "The Shape of Things". Weisz moved to New York with Aronofsky the following year; in 2005, they were engaged. Their son was born in May 2006 in New York City. The couple resided in the East Village in Manhattan. In November 2010, Weisz and Aronofsky announced that they had been apart for months, but remained close friends and were committed to bringing up their son together in New York. Weisz and actor Daniel Craig had been friends for many years, and worked together on the film "Dream House". They began dating in December 2010 and they married on 22 June 2011 in a private New York ceremony, with

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four guests in attendance, including Weisz's son and Craig's daughter. On 1 September 2018, it was reported that they had their first child together, a daughter. Throughout her career, Weisz has been featured on the covers of magazines, such as "Vogue". She served as a muse to fashion designer Narciso Rodriguez, and was named L'Oréal's global ambassador in 2010. Weisz learned karate for her role in "Brothers Bloom". A British citizen by birth, Weisz became a naturalized US citizen in 2011.</s><s>See also. - List of British Academy Award nominees and winners - List of Jewish Academy Award winners and nominees - List of actors with Academy Award nominations - List of actors with two or more Academy Award nominations in acting categories</s>


Prompt: Question: Tell me a bio of Sage Stallone.

Sage Stallone

<s>Sage Stallone Sage Moonblood Stallone (May 5, 1976 – July 13, 2012) was an American actor. He was the eldest child of actor Sylvester Stallone.</s><s>Early life. Sage Stallone was born in Los Angeles, California, the elder son and first child of Sasha Czack and actor Sylvester Stallone. He was the brother of Seargeoh "Seth" Stallone, and half-brother of Sophia, Sistine, and Scarlet Stallone. He was the nephew of actor and singer Frank Stallone, and grandson of Jackie Stallone. His stepmother was model and entrepreneur Jennifer Flavin. Stallone graduated from Montclair College Preparatory School in Van Nuys, California, in 1993, and then studied filmmaking for a year at the University of North Carolina School of the Arts.</s><s>Career. As a child, Stallone made a guest appearance on "Gorgeous Ladies of Wrestling", a series that was promoted by his grandmother, Jackie Stallone. Stallone made his acting debut alongside his father Sylvester Stallone in "Rocky V" (1990), the fifth installment of the "Rocky" franchise, playing Robert Balboa Jr., the onscreen son of his father

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's title character. He also appeared with his father in "Daylight" (1996). In 1996, Stallone and film editor Bob Murawski co-founded Grindhouse Releasing, a Los Angeles-based company dedicated to the restoration and preservation of exploitation films such as "Cannibal Holocaust" and "Gone with the Pope". In 2006, he did not reprise his "Rocky" role in "Rocky Balboa" because he was working on his own film, "Vic", his directorial debut. He also wrote and produced the film, which won the "Best New Filmmaker" award at the 2006 Boston Film Festival. His last projects were appearances in Vincent Gallo's last two films, "Promises Written in Water" and "The Agent". Both films were shown in main competition at the 2010 Venice Film Festival and in the Toronto International Film Festival. A photograph of Stallone as a young child beside his father appears in the 2015 "Creed", where it is stated that his character, Robert Balboa Jr., has since moved away to Vancouver.</s><s>Death. Stallone was found dead on July 13, 2012, at his home in Studio City, Los Angeles. According to reports, he had not been heard from

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for four days prior to his death. An autopsy by the Los Angeles coroner and toxicology tests determined that Stallone died of coronary artery disease caused by atherosclerosis, with no drugs detected other than an over-the-counter pain remedy. At the time of his death, Stallone was reportedly engaged. Stallone's funeral was held on July 21 at St. Martin of Tours Catholic Church in Los Angeles. He is interred at Westwood Village Memorial Park Cemetery.</s>