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John Felix Anthony Cena was born on April 23, 1977 in West Newbury, Massachusetts to Carol Cena and John Joseph Cena. He is of Italian (father) and French-Canadian and English (mother) descent, and is the grandson of baseball player Tony Lupien. When he was in college, he played football. He then continued on to be a bodybuilder and a limousine driver. The 6-foot-1 tall star weighs exactly at 240 pounds and is a very successful superstar in the WWE.
The Dr. of Thuganomics started training to be a wrestler at Ultimate Pro Wrestling where he also created the character, The Prototype. Cena first appeared on WWE in a match against Kurt Angle on the 27th of June, 2002 which ended up with him losing.
In 2004, John Cena's status as a celebrity began to develop. Cena won the United States Championship from Big Show. Not too long later, Cena lost the title but he gained it back soon. Cena then lost the title again to fellow WWE superstar, Carlito. During that time, Cena apparently got stabbed in the kidney by one of Carlito's bodyguards. This resulted in staying out of action for a month.
In 2005 and 2006 respectively, Cena was involved in controversies. He had a feud with champion John Bradshaw Layfield, manager Eric Bischoff and fellow wrestler Chris Jericho. Cena also had feuds with Edge and Umaga at that time. But even so, some friendships were formed. Cena is said to be friends with Carlito after they won a match with Jeff Hardy against Edge, Randy Orton and Johnny Nitro.
The year 2007 was a big year for Cena as he was involved in a wrestling match with Britney Spears' ex and rap star, Kevin Federline. John ended up losing that match thanks to some assistance from Umaga to Kevin Federline. Later that night, Cena took revenge by body slamming Kevin Federline backstage. The year 2007 also started pretty well for John Cena as he became the first person to defeat the Samoan Bulldozer, Umaga that year. The Chain Gang Soldier also teamed up with Shaun Michaels defeating the RKO tag team, Randy Orton and Edge. The match ended up with Cena and Michaels winning.
As of October 2007, Cena lost his WWE Championship title because of an injury. While wrestling against Mr. Kennedy, Cena tore his pectoral muscle while executing a hip toss. Although he finished the match and completed the rest of the scripted event, a check-up the next day showed that John's pectoral major muscle was torn completely from the bone, requiring seven months to a year rehabilitation. Not able to perform, WWE's CEO, Vince McMahon stripped him off the title and ended his reign.
In 2008, Cena made an unannounced return to action on January 27 as the final participant of the Royal Rumble match. He won the match, and the traditional WrestleMania title shot. Cena also had a match against JBL, which he defeated at Judgment Day and then at One Night Stand in a First Blood match. However, JBL defeated him at the New York City Parking Lot Brawl. In the month of August, Cena was replaced by Rey Mysterio after it was announced Cena had suffered a herniated disk in his neck which required surgery and he would be out of action indefinitely. According to reports, Cena underwent successive surgery to repair the herniated disk in his neck with Doctor Joseph Maroon on August 25.
Aside from wrestling, John has also made a name in the movie business. In 2006, a WWE franchise movie titled The Marine was released with John playing the lead character, John Triton. The movie received mixed reviews due to the poor story-line and discrimination to the US Marines. Even so, fans queued up to watch the movie as this was John's first big screen appearance.
The WWE wrestler also added recording artist to his resume as he released his debut rap album "You Can't See Me" which debuted at #15 on the US Billboard 200 chart. The album was recorded with his cousin Tha Trademarc. The album featured his entrance theme song, 'The Time Is Now' & a host of other singles performed by Cena. One of the songs he performed with popular rap band Estoric and a number of other songs Cena performed with famous rapper Bumpy Knuckles. Cena is the only professional wrestler to ever perform on BBC Two's long running TV show Top of the Pops.
While still active with WWE, Cena made a couple of guest appearances: Jimmy Kimmel Live! twice to promote his album. He has also appeared on popular shows like Late Night with Conan O'Brien, Fuse's Celebrity Playlist, Fox Sports Net's The Best Damn Sports Show Period, MADtv, G4's Training Camp and two appearances on MTV's Punk'd. He also served as a co-presenter, with Hulk Hogan, at the 2005 Teen Choice Awards, as a guest judge during the third week of the 2006 season of Nashville Star, and appeared at the 2007 Nickelodeon UK Kids Choice Awards 2007.
In fashion, The Champ has also made a few trademarks. Cena is often seen with knee-high denim jeans and throwback jerseys when he first started on WWE. Lately, Cena has been wearing a lot of Chain Gang merchandise. When his movie, The Marine was released, John was seen to be adding more military-inspired clothing to his outfit to promote his movie.
Cena graduated from Springfield College, Massachusetts with degrees in exercise physiology and human anatomy. He applied to 60 colleges and he got accepted by 58 of them but in the end, he chose Springfield College. He is the second eldest of five brothers and is said to be a family guy when he is not wrestling. His good friends are fellow wrestlers, John Hennigan, Batista, Randy Orton, Carlito, Jeff and Matt Hardy, whom he will have to fight.
John Cena is definitely going to be a big inspiration to all, whether in wrestling, fashion, music or even movies as his participation in the industry is already more than regular celebrity. With all he has achieved, fans can definitely expect to see more of this WWE superstar in the coming future.
Also, recently he has completed his new movie 12 Rounds produced by WWE Films. This movie was said to have finished filming when John suffered from his injury in 2007.- Actress
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Amy Spanger was born on 21 May 1971 in Newbury, Massachusetts, USA. She is an actress, known for Reefer Madness: The Movie Musical (2005), Synecdoche, New York (2008) and Royal Pains (2009). She has been married to Brian Shepard since 4 September 2011. She was previously married to Michael C. Hall.- Writer
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Michael Bond was born on 13 January 1926 in Newbury, Berkshire, England, UK. He was a writer, known for Paddington 2 (2017), Paddington (2014) and The Herbs (1968). He was married to Sue Bond and Brenda Bond. He died on 27 June 2017 in Paddington, London, England, UK.- Music Artist
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- Composer
Colbie Caillat was born on 28 May 1985 in Newbury Park, California, USA. She is a music artist and actress, known for Safe Haven (2013), The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones (2013) and One for the Money (2012).- Actor
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Mark Arden was born on 31 July 1956 in Newbury, Berkshire, England, UK. He is an actor and writer, known for Carry on Columbus (1992), Lazarus & Dingwall (1991) and The Young Ones (1982).- Isabella Rye was born on 24 April 1935 in Newbury, Berkshire, England, UK. She is an actress, known for S.H.E: Security Hazards Expert (1980), Come Play with Me (1977) and The Howerd Confessions (1976).
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Chloe Sims was born on 2 November 1981 in Newbury Park, Ilford, London, England, UK. She is an actress and producer, known for House of Sims (2023), The Only Way Is Essex: All Back to Essex (2014) and Celebrity Showmance (2017).- Producer
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Coyote Peterson was born on 1 September 1981 in Newbury, Ohio, USA. He is a producer and writer, known for Brave Wilderness (2021), Ranger Exchange (2021) and Coyote Peterson: Brave the Wild (2020).- Richard Adams spent his first 52 years in relative anonymity. And when he did complete a book that he wrote, he struggled to find anyone to publish it.
Richard George Adams was born on 9 May 1920, in Newbury, Berkshire. He was the son of a country doctor and was brought up in the rolling countryside with views towards the real Watership Down, on the Hampshire border. One of his earliest memories was seeing a local man pushing a handcart full of dead rabbits down the street. "It made me realise, in an instant, that rabbits were things and that it was only in a baby's world that they were not."
He suffered the fate of many middle-class boys of the period when he was sent to boarding school at the age of nine, where, by all accounts, he had a miserable time. He won a scholarship to Worcester College, Oxford, but his education was interrupted by World War Two and he served for five years in the Army before returning to his studies. He joined the civil service and spent part of his career managing the clean air programme designed to reduce pollution, especially that caused by the many coal fires still burning in British households. The event that changed his life occurred on a car journey with his family to see Twelfth Night at Stratford-upon-Avon. His bored children asked for a story and he began telling them a tale about a group of rabbits attempting to escape from their threatened warren.
Adams was persuaded to write it all down, a process that took him more than two years, but he was, at first, unable to find a publisher. Many of his rejection letters complained that the book was too long and his characters did not fit the common perception of cuddly bunnies. His rabbits were described with biological realism; they defecated, had sex and engaged in violent battles for dominance. Eventually, in 1972, after 14 rejections, the publisher Rex Collings saw the potential and agreed to take it on with an initial print run of 2,500 copies.
It was hailed as a children's classic, going on to sell more than 50 million copies, helped along by readings on BBC radio, and a dramatic performance in London's Regent's Park. Watership Down sold particularly well in the US where canny distributors placed it on the adult publishing list. On his promotional tours across the Atlantic, Adams played the American idea of the archetypical Englishman, wearing a bowler hat and insisting on English marmalade and mustard wherever he went. The book, and a subsequent animated film in 1978, became synonymous with rabbits and at least one enterprising butcher advertised: "You've read the book, you've seen the film, now eat the cast."
Inevitably it attracted criticism from some highbrow reviewers. "There is something to be said for myxomatosis," was one caustic comment. The sudden flow of wealth enabled Adams to retire from the civil service and become a full-time writer. It also drove him into tax exile on the Isle of Man, although he later returned to his roots in southern England. By the time Watership Down was published, he was already writing his second book Shardik, the novel he considered his best work.
It is an epic tale of a bear who is a god in an imaginary world and who is abused by the humans in the story. Shardik did not find favour among critics with some describing it as "preachy", a judgement with which Adams did not disagree. His commitment to animal welfare was expressed in his third novel, The Plague Dogs, an outspoken attack on animal experimentation. He admitted that his indignation about vivisection might have got the better of him but the book became another best-seller.
He became president of the RSPCA but his attempts to persuade the charity to adopt a more campaigning stance did not find favour with some of the more conservative members of the ruling council. He resigned just ahead of a vote which would have severely curtailed his presidential powers. Despite his campaigning for animals he insisted he was not a sentimentalist. He refused to condemn a decision to gas rabbits on the real Watership Down in 1998 after their burrows began undermining the hill. "If I saw a rabbit in my garden I'd shoot it," he once said.
In all, he wrote more than 20 books, including The Girl in a Swing, a ghostly love story with an undercurrent of eroticism, and a prequel to Shardik - entitled Maia - which was criticised for its sexual and sado-masochistic content. None of these books achieved the success of Watership Down and even a 1997 sequel, Tales from Watership Down, failed to capture the magic of the original. Richard Adams was essentially a traditional Englishman with a love of the countryside and a belief that, somehow, things were better in the past. It is perhaps surprising that this natural conservative, from a conventional middle-class background, should have written a book which had such a revolutionary impact on children's literature.
Richard Adams died on Christmas Eve 2016, aged 96. - Actor
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Major English silent movie star Stewart Rome born Wernham Ryott Gifford in Berkshire in 1886. He studied civil engineering, but instead went on the stage in 1907. After appearing on stage in Australia, Stewart returned to England in 1912 and joined Hepworth Film Company. Handsome, slightly aloof aristocratic star of more than 150 drama films, making his debut with 'Thou Shalt Not Steal' directed by Warwick Buckland in 1913, after WW1 service he joined the Broadwest Film Company and through the 1920's at the height of his career he acted in both British and German films such as 'Im schatten der Moschee' (1923) 'Vater Voss' (1925) est. His most memorable films was George Pearson's 'Reville' (1924) and 'The Desert Sheik' (1924). Following the advent of talkies, he was relegated to fine kindly gentlemanly characters, later he starred as Dr. Goodfellow in a series of shorts for the Rank studios in 1942, retired from the screen after 1950's 'Lets Have a Murder'. Died in 1965 age 79.- Actor
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M. Ward was born on 4 October 1973 in Newbury Park, California, USA. He is an actor and composer, known for Winnie the Pooh (2011), Carriers (2009) and Dead Man's Shoes (2004).- Hannah Richings was born on 30 November 1990 in Newbury, Berkshire, England, UK. She is an actress, known for I Dream (2004), idream: Dreaming feat. Frankie & Calvin (2004) and S Club Juniors: Automatic High (2002). She has been married to Phil Blackford since 20 April 2019. They have four children.
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Reginald Hendrix was born on 7 March 1952 in Newbury, Florida, USA. He was an actor, known for Cellular (2004), Bandits (2001) and Baby Geniuses (1999). He died on 30 January 2004 in Los Angeles, California, USA.- Margaret Damer was born on 13 December 1879 in Newbury, Berkshire, England, UK. She was an actress, known for City of Beautiful Nonsense (1935), Tin Gods (1932) and Out of the Past (1933). She was married to Jackson Wilcox. She died on 13 April 1970 in Brighton, Sussex, England, UK.
- John Huson was born on 11 November 1906 in Newbury, Berkshire, England, UK. He was an actor, known for Color Me Dead (1969), A Coming-Out Party (1961) and Autumn Affair (1958). He died on 2 April 1975 in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.
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Richard Thomas was born on 26 April 1968 in Newbury, Berkshire, England, UK. He is known for Planet of the Apes (2001), Alien vs. Predator (2004) and Edge of Tomorrow (2014).- Writer
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- Producer
Ant Blades was born on 25 December 1981 in Newbury, Berkshire, England, UK. He is a writer and director, known for Wildebeest (2012), It's Pony (2020) and Carpark (2013).- John Lantree was born on 20 August 1941 in Newbury, England, UK.
- Luke Humphries was born on 11 February 1995 in Newbury, Berkshire, England, UK. He is an actor, known for Darts: World Championships (2011), PDC World Darts Championship (1993) and Sky World News (1989).
- George Sanger was born in Newbury, Berkshire, England, UK. He was married to Ellen Chapman. He died on 28 November 1911 in London, England, UK.
- Dorothy Urban was born on 18 December 1869 in Newbury, Massachusetts, USA. She was an actress, known for The Fight for Life (1940). She died on 29 October 1961 in Los Angeles, California, USA.
- William H. Moody was born on 23 December 1853 in Newbury, Massachusetts, USA. He died on 2 July 1917 in Haverhill, Massachusetts, USA.
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Norman Longmate was born on 15 December 1925 in Newbury, Berkshire, England, UK. He was a writer, known for Television Club (1962), The Corner Shop (1960) and Nanny (1981). He was married to Elizabeth J. "Betty" Taylor. He died on 4 June 2016 in England, UK.- Camera and Electrical Department
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Michael Foster began his career at 19 years old working at a local movie theater in Calabasas, California. Slated to go into corporate management, he took a different direction when joking around with a fellow projectionist about comedy in the workplace.
Since the early days of threading films for moviegoers, Michael has shot, edited, produced, and directed countless documentaries, short films, tributes, promos, webisodes (featured on Funny or Die & Travel Channel), and multiple narrative features in the independent film space. His work has been seen at numerous film festivals including Seattle, Newport Beach, San Diego, Burbank, Pennsylvania's Oil City, and Mockfest, winning Best Comedy and Best Mockumentary for Runyon: Just Above Sunset, a Funny or Die six-episode web series. Soon after he began editing the documentary feature film Trace Amounts about mercury and autism - taking 4 years to complete and comprising 300 hours of raw and archival footage. Premiering at Grauman's Chinese Theater in Hollywood, the film received enormous celebrity praise by Jim Carrey, Robert De Niro, and Bill Maher advocating for clean vaccine policy for children. As a director's re-cut in 2022, Michael's documentary short Artists of the Roundtable about the most meaningful people within television, film, and music was showcased at the annual Oil Valley Film Festival.
The film editor and filmmaker are always searching for fresh opportunities to wow viewers. Material that educates, evokes, & reminds. Collaborating with like-minded professionals, testing the weight of his experience, and telling stories that rattle the making of process.- Actor
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Jeremy Taylor was born on 24 November 1937 in Newbury, Berkshire, England, UK. He is an actor, known for The Wilby Conspiracy (1975), Arthur of the Britons (1972) and The Good Fascist (1992).- Cinematographer
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Jacob Benjamin Taylor was born on 2 August 1990 in West Newbury, Massachusetts, USA. Jacob Benjamin is a cinematographer, known for The Bond (2012) and Fraternitas (2017).- Additional Crew
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- Editor
Ian Maio was born on 29 October 1984 in West Newbury, Massachusetts, USA. Ian is an editor, known for Superhero Movie (2008), The Woods. (2007) and CSI: Crime Scene Investigation (2000).- Music Department
Phyllis Sellick was born on 16 June 1911 in Newbury Park, Essex, England, UK. She is known for Chelsea at Nine (1957), Melodies for You (1967) and BBC Young Musician (1978). She was married to Cyril Smith. She died on 26 May 2007 in Kingston upon Thames, Surrey, England, UK.- Producer
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Richard Taylor was born on 10 August 1933 in Newbury, Berkshire, England, UK. Richard was a producer and director, known for Australia (1987), Cause for Concern (1967) and Under African Skies (1989). Richard was married to Sarah Imago Sheila Allegra Honig. Richard died on 24 February 2015 in London, England, UK.- Raine Spencer was born on 9 September 1929 in Newbury, Berkshire, England, UK.
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Alexis Demangelaere was born on 29 April 1969 in Newbury Park, California, USA. She is an actress, known for The Heartbreak Kid (2007), The Pacifier (2005) and Super Troopers 2 (2018).- Production Manager
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Ray Frift was born on 22 August 1933 in Newbury, Berkshire, England, UK. Ray was a production manager and producer, known for Superman IV: The Quest for Peace (1987), Department S (1969) and The Eagle Has Landed (1976). Ray was married to Cynthia Smith. Ray died on 13 November 2015 in Almeria, Spain.