Matthew McConaughey
McConaughey (pronounced “ma-KON-a-hay”), the youngest of three boys, was born in Uvalde, Texas, son of Mary Kathlene “Kay” (McCabe), a substitute school teacher, and James Donald McConaughey, a gas station owner who ran an oil pipe supply business and once played football for the Green Bay Packers. McConaughey has Irish ancestry and had what he describes as a conservative Christian upbringing. McConaughey’s mother and late father divorced and re-married each other several times, in what McConaughey describes as a “loving, but unstable relationship”.
McConaughey moved to Longview, Texas in 1980 and graduated from Longview High School in 1988, where he was voted the “Most Handsome”. Matthew lived for a year in Warnervale, NSW, Australia as a Rotary exchange student. He studied film direction at the University of Texas at Austin and was a member of Delta Tau Delta Fraternity, graduating in 1993.
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Goldblum was born in the Pittsburgh suburb of Whitaker, Pennsylvania, to Shirley, a radio moderator, and Harold Goldblum, a doctor. He has a sister, Pamela and an older brother, Lee. Another older brother, Rick, only lived to age 23. Both of Goldblum’s parents were interested in show business. His family is Jewish, belonged to an Orthodox synagogue, and were of Eastern European origin, with Goldblum’s paternal grandfather having immigrated from Russia. Goldblum moved to New York City at 17 to become an actor. Goldblum worked on the stage and studied acting at the renowned Neighborhood Playhouse under the guidance of acting coach Sanford Meisner. He made his Broadway debut in a production of The Two Gentlemen of Verona. He is an excellent jazz piano singer and declared that if he did not act, he would be performing musically as a career. His film debut was playing a thug in the 1974 Charles Bronson classic Death Wish. He briefly appeared as a protester in the TV movie Columbo: A Case of Immunity (1975).
Rimes was born Margaret LeAnn Rimes in Jackson, Mississippi. LeAnn started singing before the age of two. A few years later, Rimes and her family moved out to Texas, and before age 11, she released her first album titled Everybody’s Sweetheart in 1991 on a small independent label. The album’s release garnered the attention of label executives and disc jockeys, including disc jockey, Bill Mack, who was fascinated by Rimes’ Patsy Cline-styled voice. Mack then began to cultivate a plan to make Rimes a mainstream Country music artist. Between the years 1992 and 1994, Rimes continued to release albums under independent labels that failed gaining any type of success in the Country music world. By then her family had relocated to Garland, Texas. She began honing her skills as a country artist performing on Johnnie High’s Country Music Revue in Ft. Worth, a popular show that featured local artists and national acts. Throughout 1995, Rimes’ career continued to gain momentum, as she performed more than 100 concerts and appeared on television shows across Texas.
Johnny Allen Hendrix (later re-named James Marshall Hendrix) was born on November 27, 1942, in Seattle, Washington, U.S.. Hendrix’s parents divorced when he was nine years old, and in 1958 his mother died. He went to live with his Cherokee grandmother because of his unstable household. At age 15, he received his first guitar, an electric to replace the broom stick he would strum like one. Learning quickly, he played in many local bands, playing as far away as Vancouver. Hendrix did not graduate from high school. Hendrix later claimed that he was expelled for holding hands with his white girlfriend, but when questioned later, his principal insisted that it was due to poor grades and frequent absences.
