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Talia Rose Shire (née Coppola; born April 25, 1946) is an American actress, best known for her roles as Connie Corleone in The Godfather trilogy and Adrian Pennino Balboa in the Rocky series. For her work in The Godfather Part II and Rocky , Shire was nominated for Academy Awards for Best Supporting Actress and Best Actress , respectively, and ...
Joan and Jackie Collins; actress and novelist, respectively; Sean and Neil Connery; actors; Daisy May and Charlie Cooper; actors; Roman and Sofia Coppola; filmmakers, children of Francis Ford and Eleanor Coppola; Francis Ford Coppola and Talia Shire; film director and actress, respectively; Tim and Tom Coronel; rally drivers, identical twins
Talia Balsam was born in New York City in 1959, to actors Martin Balsam and Joyce Van Patten. [1] Her ancestry is Russian Jewish (father) and Italian, Dutch, and English (mother). She is the niece of actor Dick Van Patten, actress Pat Van Patten, and actor/director Tim Van Patten. Her cousin is actress Grace Van Patten. [citation needed]
Joyce Van Patten (born March 9, 1934) [1] is an American film and stage actress. She is best known for her roles in films like The Bad News Bears (1976), St. Elmo's Fire (1985) (as Mrs. Beamish), and as Gloria Noonan in Grown Ups (2010).
Only two couples have won awards for Best Actor/Actress: [126] Laurence Olivier / Vivien Leigh and Joanne Woodward / Paul Newman. Michael Douglas / Catherine Zeta-Jones [ 127 ] and Nicolas Cage / Patricia Arquette have Best Actor and Best Supporting Actress wins.
Actor Don Adams was the father of actress Cecily Adams. [1] [2] Cecily Adams was married to actor Jim Beaver. Adams' Get Smart series co-star Robert Karvelas was his cousin. Aday. Musician and part-time actor Michael Lee Aday (born Marvin Lee Aday), better known by his stage name of Meat Loaf, is the father of singer Pearl Aday and actress ...
Shire was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress for her portrayal of Adrian in Rocky. The final scene in Rocky II , in which Rocky yells "Yo Adrian, I did it!", has been named by film enthusiasts as one of the most iconic quotes in sports film history.
The Handmaid's Tale is an American dystopian drama web television series created for Hulu by Bruce Miller, based on the 1985 novel of the same name by Margaret Atwood.The plot follows a dystopian future following a Second American Civil War wherein a totalitarian society subjects fertile women, called "Handmaids", to child-bearing slavery. [1]