Ashley Judd

Ashley Judd (born April 19, 1968 in Granada Hills, California) is an American actress. Her mother and sister are country singers, Naomi Judd and Wynonna Judd, respectively.

She graduated from the University of Kentucky in 1990, majoring in French.

Her film debut was a small part in Kuffs (1992) and the first major role was in Ruby in Paradise (1993), a hit independent drama. She had a role in Oliver Stone's Natural Born Killers, but all the scenes she played in were cut from the final version of the film. She found further critical acclaim in Smoke (1995) and publicity in Heat (1995).

By the end of the 1990s she managed to achieve significant fame and success as an actress. As a result she could play leading roles in films that were bound to be successful at the box office, but still required acting skills, like Double Jeopardy (1999) and Someone Like You (2001).

Whenever her schedule allows, she is regularly at UK basketball games, and is frequently sought out for celebrity camera shots during televised games (much like Jack Nicholson with the Los Angeles Lakers or Spike Lee with the New York Knicks).

She is married to Scottish Indy Racing League driver Dario Franchitti.

Partial filmography

  • De-Lovely (2004)
  • Frida (2002)
  • The Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood (2002)
  • High Crimes (2002)
  • Someone Like You (aka Animal Attraction) (2001)
  • Where the Heart Is (2000)
  • Double Jeopardy (1999)
  • Eye of the Beholder (1999)
  • Simon Birch (aka Angels and Armadillos) (1998)
  • Kiss the Girls (1997)
  • The Locusts (aka A Secret Sin) (1997)
  • Normal Life (1996)
  • A Time to Kill (1996)
  • The Passion of Darkly Noon (aka Darkly Noon) (1995)
  • Heat (1995)
  • Smoke (1995)
  • Ruby in Paradise (1993)
  • Kuffs (1992)

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She is married to Scottish Indy Racing League driver Dario Franchitti. DeMille is said to have gathered the 1900 peacock feathers that Lamarr wore on her 18-foot-train dress in the 1949 movie Samson and Delilah himself, having chased molting peacocks on his ranch for the previous 10 years until he had collected enough feathers to have the garment made. Whenever her schedule allows, she is regularly at UK basketball games, and is frequently sought out for celebrity camera shots during televised games (much like Jack Nicholson with the Los Angeles Lakers or Spike Lee with the New York Knicks). According to accounts in film histories, Cecil B. As a result she could play leading roles in films that were bound to be successful at the box office, but still required acting skills, like Double Jeopardy (1999) and Someone Like You (2001). Lamarr later sued the publisher claiming that many of the anecdotes were fabricated by the ghost writer. By the end of the 1990s she managed to achieve significant fame and success as an actress. While her husband searched the brothel, a customer entered the room and she had sex with the man so she could remain hidden. She was finally successful in escaping when she hired a new maid that looked like herself, drugged her and used the maid's uniform as a disguise to escape.

She found further critical acclaim in Smoke (1995) and publicity in Heat (1995). In one story presented in her autobiography, Ecstacy and Me, once while running from Mandl she slipped into a brothel and hid in an empty room. She had a role in Oliver Stone's Natural Born Killers, but all the scenes she played in were cut from the final version of the film. They were divorced after Lamarr claimed he had threatened her with a baseball bat. Her film debut was a small part in Kuffs (1992) and the first major role was in Ruby in Paradise (1993), a hit independent drama. Boies (1920-), a lawyer, married 1963-65. She graduated from the University of Kentucky in 1990, majoring in French. (6) Lewis J.

Her mother and sister are country singers, Naomi Judd and Wynonna Judd, respectively. In 1960, he married film star Gene Tierney. Ashley Judd (born April 19, 1968 in Granada Hills, California) is an American actress. Howard Lee (1909-1981), a Texas oilman, married 1953-60. Kuffs (1992). (5) W. Ruby in Paradise (1993). He was married in 1955 to Anne Nekel Brown.

Smoke (1995). (4) Ernest "Ted" Stauffer, nightclub owner, restaurateur, and former bandleader, married 1951-52. Heat (1995). NOTE 3: Anthony Loder is the owner of Phone USA, a cellular-phone store in Los Angeles. The Passion of Darkly Noon (aka Darkly Noon) (1995). NOTE 2: A former Nordstrom employee, Denise Loder, now known as Denise Loder DeLuca, lives in Seattle. A Time to Kill (1996). Loder is married to the former Ona Minor and has four children, all of whom carry Lamarr as their middle name: Timothy, Ronald, Nadine, and Susan.

Normal Life (1996). He later dropped his suit against the estate in exchange for a lump-sum payment of $50,000. The Locusts (aka A Secret Sin) (1997). Now a riverboat casino guard, James Lamarr Loder later challenged Hedy Lamarr's will in 2000, which did not mention him. Kiss the Girls (1997). NOTE 1: Loder adopted James Lamarr Markey and gave him his surname. Simon Birch (aka Angels and Armadillos) (1998). He also had a son and a daughter by his first two marriages to Sophie Kabel and Micheline Cheirel.

Eye of the Beholder (1999). In 1949, Loder married Evelyn Auffmordt (née Carolan), and in 1958, he married Alba Julia Lagomarsino. Double Jeopardy (1999). (3) John Loder (né John Muir Lowe, 1899-1989), actor, married 1943-47; two children: Anthony Loder (1947-) and Denise Loder (1945-). Where the Heart Is (2000). Previously married to the actress Joan Bennett (whose daughter, Diane Bennett Fox, he adopted and gave his surname) and father of their daughter Melinda, Markey later married Lucille Wright (née Parker), the owner of Calumet Farms, the thoroughbred horse farm in Kentucky. Someone Like You (aka Animal Attraction) (2001). When Lamarr and Markey divorced -- she claimed they had only spent four evenings alone together in their marriage -- the judge advised her to get to know any future husband more than the four weeks she had known Markey.

High Crimes (2002). (2) Gene Markey (died 1980), screenwriter and producer, married 1939-41; son (adopted), James Lamarr Markey (1939-). The Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood (2002). He also founded a new company, an airplane factory called Industria Metalurgica y Plastica Argentina and served a prison sentence. Frida (2002). He also become an advisor to Juan Peron and a film producer whose leading ladies included the future Eva Peron. De-Lovely (2004). In 1938, when his property was seized by the Austrian government, Mandl, a Nazi sympathizer who had become close to Prince Ernst Ruediger von Stahremberg, the deposed Fascist Austrian Vice-Chancellor, fled to Brazil and later Argentina, where he became a citizen and remarried.

(1) Friedrich (Fritz) Mandl (1900-), married 1933-37; chairman of Hirtenberger Patronen-Fabrik, a leading armaments firm founded by his father, Alexander Mandl. The actress was married to:. She once raised $7,000,000 at one event. Lamarr wanted to join the National Inventors Council but was told she could better help the war effort by using her celebrity status to sell war bonds.

Neither Lamarr nor Antheil made any money from the patent. The patent was little-known until recently because Lamarr applied for it under her then-married name of Hedy Kiesler Markey. Hedy Lamarr and composer George Antheil received patent number 2,292,387 for their "Secret Communications System." This early version of frequency hopping used a piano roll to change between 88 frequencies and was intended to make radio-guided torpedoes harder for enemies to detect or to jam. DeMille's Samson and Delilah (1949) with Victor Mature as the Biblical strongman.

Her biggest success came in Cecil B. In Hollywood, she appeared in many films, usually cast as glamorous and seductive, including White Cargo and Tortilla Flat (both 1942), based on the novel by John Steinbeck. Closeups of her face in passion, and long shots of her running naked through the woods, gave the film notoriety. She had already appeared in several European films, including Ecstasy, in which she played a love-hungry young wife of an indifferent old husband.

He hired her and changed her name to Hedy Lamarr, the surname in homage to a famously beautiful film star of the silent era, Barbara LaMarr. Mayer of MGM in London. She met Louis B. She hated him and his Nazi friends and finally escaped to London by drugging him.

She also became educated technically in his trade. Mandl was obsessed with his wife and never let her out of his sight. While married to her first husband, Fritz Mandl, an arms manufacturer, she socialized with Adolf Hitler and Mussolini. Lamarr was born Hedwig Eva Maria Kiesler in Vienna, Austria and died in Altamonte Springs, Florida. She was known as The Most Beautiful Woman In Films and also as the inventor of the first form of spread spectrum.

Hedy Lamarr (November 9, 1913–January 19, 2000) was an actress and communications innovator. All you have to do is stand still and look stupid." — Hedy Lamarr. "Any girl can be glamorous.