Biography of Denzel Washington Childhood and Schooling Denzel Hayes Washington Sr., a Pentecostal minister with ordination, and Lorraine Washington, the owner of a beauty business, gave birth to Washington. The separation of his parents when he was fourteen years old had a profound effect on him. After attending Pennington-Grimes Elementary School, Washington subsequently moved to […]
Biography of Meryl Streep Childhood and Schooling Growing up, Streep was the oldest of three children in a middle-class family. Her mother, Mary Wolf Wilkinson, was an artist and art editor, while her father, Harry William Streep Jr., worked as a pharmaceutical executive. Streep showed her gift for acting at an early age by taking […]
Biography of Tom Hanks Childhood and Schooling On July 9, 1956, Thomas Jeffrey Hanks was born in Concord, California. His boyhood was shattered by the 1960 divorce of his parents, hospital employee Janet Marylyn and travelling chef Amos Mefford Hanks. Their mother raised their youngest brother, Jim, while their father raised Tom and his siblings […]
