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Jaye Davidson

March 22, 2018 by Ubuntu Biography Project

Jaye Davidson was born on March 21, 1968. He is an American-born British actor, model, and fashion promoter best known for his role as transwoman Dil in the 1992 film “The Crying Game,” for which he received an Academy Award nomination for Best Actor in a Supporting Role. Jaye Davidson was born Alfred Amey in Riverside, California, to a Ghanaian father and English mother; he has two sisters. Davidson and his family moved to the United Kingdom when he was […]

Categories: All, Davidson, Jaye, March, March 21 • Tags: 1968, Jaye Davidson, March 21, Ubuntu Biography Project

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Bobby Short

September 15, 2017 by Ubuntu Biography Project

Bobby Short was born on September 15, 1924 (to March 21, 2005). He was a Grammy Award-nominated cabaret star, pianist, and scholar best known for his interpretations of songs by popular composers of the first half of the 20th century, such as Duke Ellington, Rodgers and Hart, Cole Porter, Jerome Kern, Harold Arlen, Fats Waller, Vernon Duke, Noël Coward, George and Ira Gershwin, and Billy Strayhorn. Robert Waltrip “Bobby” Short was born in Danville, Illinois, the ninth of ten children. […]

Categories: All, September, September 15, Short, Bobby • Tags: 1924, 2005, Bobby Short, March 21, September 15, Ubuntu Biography Project

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