Actress One of the world's most famous and distinguished actresses, Dame Maggie Smith was born Margaret Natalie Smith in Essex.
Vernon Weir McDormand, a Disciples of Christ minister from Nova Scotia, who raised her in the suburbs of Pittsburgh.
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She was adopted by Canadian-born parents Noreen Eloise Nickleson , a nurse from Ontario, and Rev.
Actress Natalie Portman is the first person born in the 1980s to have won the Academy Award for Best Actress for 2010.
Her mother, Kathleen Alexandrina Eva Matilda Rogers , was from a working-class English family, and her father, Vasiliy Petrovich Mironov, was a Russian-born civil servant, from Kuryanovo, whose own father was a diplomat.