BEN AFFLECK
Date of Birth: August 15, 1972
Ben Affleck is one-half of 1997's "out of nowhere" story of the year. He and boyhood buddy Matt Damon won unanimous r
SAMUEL L. JACKSON
Date of Birth: December 21, 1948
Raised in Chattanooga, Tennessee, Samuel L. Jackson was accepted at Atlanta's Morehouse College as an architecture st
TONI COLLETTE
Date of Birth: November 1, 1972
The eldest of three children, this Sydney, Australian native dropped out of school at age 16 to study drama at Sydney's Nat
Date of Birth: July 1, 1934
Originally from Lafayette, Indiana, Sydney Pollack began his career as an actor after studying with Sanford Meisner at New York City's fam
WILLIAM HURT
Date of Birth: March 20, 1950
The consummate "actor's actor;" the lanky, chameleon-like performer practically defined the profession throu
AMANDA PEET
Date of Birth: January 11, 1972
This New York native began taking acting classes when she was eight and attending an all-girls private school in Lon