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Sunday, 18 September 2016

Andie MacDowell (American actress and fashion model)

* Andie MacDowell made her film debut in 1984's Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes, before receiving critical acclaim for her role in Sex, Lies, and Videotape (1989). Since then she has appeared in several notable films, including Groundhog Day (1993) and Four Weddings and a Funeral (1994). She has also starred in Green Card (1990), Short Cuts (1993), Michael (1996) and Multiplicity (1996). From 2013 to 2015, she starred in the drama series Cedar Cove. She has modelled for Calvin Klein Inc. and has been a spokeswoman for L'Oréal since 1986 celebrating 25 years with the company in 2011.

NATAL DATA and ASTROLOGY CHART

BIRTH DATA: Rosalie Anderson MacDowell, 21 April 1958, 06:00 (6 AM) EST (+5), Gaffney, South Carolina, USA (35n04, 81w39). ASC: circa 3 Taurus. RR: A (from memory). SOURCE: Sy Scholfield quotes her on Twitter: "born April 21 under the sign of Taurus ....somewhere close to 6 am as a mater of fact :-)", "I was born in big peach country ,I love the peaches from the Gaffney SC area", "Prince & I were the same age". NB: Prince was born in 1958.

Friday, 15 April 2016

Ariana Grande (American singer and actress)

* Ariana Grande is the first person in the history of the Billboard Hot 100 chart to have the lead single from each of her first three albums debut in the top 10. She released her debut studio album Yours Truly in 2013, which debuted at number one on the US Billboard 200. The album's lead single, "The Way", reached the top-ten of the Billboard Hot 100, with critics comparing her wide vocal range to Mariah Carey's. Grande's second studio album, My Everything (2014), also reached number one in the United States and charted well in various other countries. With the singles "Problem", "Break Free", "Bang Bang" and "Love Me Harder" from that album, she spent 34 continuous weeks in the top 10 of the Billboard Hot 100 and had the most top 10 singles of any artist in 2014. In March 2016, she released "Dangerous Woman", the lead single from her upcoming third studio album of the same name. The album is set to be released in May 2016.

Grande's accolades include two American Music Awards, Music Business Association's Breakthrough Artist of the Year, an MTV Video Music Award, two MTV Europe Music Awards and two Grammy Award nominations. Grande has a large following on social media.

NATAL DATA and ASTROLOGY CHART

BIRTH DATA: Ariana Grande-Butera, 26 June 1993, 21:16 (9:16pm) EDT (+4), Boca Raton, Florida, USA (26n21, 80w05). ASC: 20 Capricorn. RR: A. SOURCE: Sy Scholfield quotes her father Edward 'Eddie' Butera on Twitter for "9:16pm" after being asked "exactly what time was she born?" Butera also tweeted "Her mother went into labor and we waited long hours for her to arrive, we watched Godfather 1 & 2" and "it went smooth... I cut the chord." Five minutes after he tweeted "9:16pm" a follower posted an image of a baby photo inscribed "Welcome Ariana Grande Butera 6/26/93 9:10PM," prompting another follower to remark, "is this [image] fake then?," to which Butera did not reply. Place given by her father in a tweet, "miss you too. Boca Raton!!!" in reply to Grande's tweet, "homesick again."

Saturday, 16 January 2016

Phyllis Coates (American film and television actress)

* Phyllis Coates is perhaps best known for her portrayal of reporter Lois Lane in the 1951 film Superman and the Mole Men and in the first season of the television series Adventures of Superman (1952) in which she was given equal billing with George Reeves (insisted upon by Reeves), even for episodes in which she did not appear. Her powerful "damsel in distress" scream was used to good effect in several episodes.

Coates's Superman fame has obscured the fact that she was one of Hollywood's most consistently employed actresses of the 1950s and '60s. She freelanced steadily, appearing in numerous low-budget features, many of them Westerns, as well as serials and a steady stream of TV appearances, both as a regular in several series and as a guest cast member in others.

NATAL DATA and ASTROLOGY CHART

BIRTH DATA: Martha Rose Stell, 15 January 1927, 03:30 (3:30am) CST (+6), Harrisburg, Harris, Texas, USA (29n43, 95w16). ASC: 00 Sagittarius. RR: AA (from birth record). SOURCE: Sy Scholfield quotes birth certificate.

Wednesday, 9 December 2015

Kate Mulgrew (American actress)

* Kate Mulgrew is most noted for her roles on Star Trek: Voyager as Captain Kathryn Janeway (pictured left), on Orange Is the New Black as Galina "Red" Reznikov, and Ryan's Hope as Mary Ryan. She has performed in many television shows, theatre productions and movies, earning a variety of awards for her acting, including an Obie Award, a Golden Satellite Award and a Saturn Award, as well as nominations for a Golden Globe Award and a Primetime Emmy Award.

Mulgrew is noted for looking and sounding like actress Katharine Hepburn (whom she played in Tea at Five). Mulgrew's Sun is exactly conjunct Katharine Hepburn's Mercury.

NATAL DATA and ASTROLOGY CHART

BIRTH DATA: Katherine Kiernan Maria Mulgrew, 29 April 1955, 07:00 (7 am) CST (+6), Dubuque, Iowa, USA (42n30, 90w39). ASC: 14 Gemini. RR: A (from memory). SOURCE: Sy Scholfield quotes her in an interview by Michelle Erica Green on KMAS on 21 August 1995: "I was born at seven o'clock in the morning on a Wednesday. I think. But you should ask my mother--my mother knows all of these things." [http://www.littlereview.com/getcritical/trektalk/kateintv.htm]. NB: It was actually a Friday.

Tuesday, 24 November 2015

"Binnie" Barnes, 1903–1998 (English-American actress)

* Binnie Barnes's career in films spanned fifty years, from 1923 to 1973. She appeared most notably in The Private Life of Henry VIII (1933) as Katherine Howard, Henry's fifth wife. Later her career continued in Hollywood. She married American film producer Mike Frankovich, a Roman Catholic, for whom she converted to Catholicism, and later became a naturalized United States citizen. The couple adopted three children. Barnes died on 27 July 1998, aged 95, in Beverly Hills, California.

NATAL DATA and ASTROLOGY CHART

BIRTH DATA: Gertrude Maud Barnes, 25 March 1903, 23:59 (11:59pm) GMT (+0), London, England (51n30, 0w10). ASC: 4 Sagittarius. RR: A (from memory or news report).

SOURCE: Sy Scholfield quotes from "The Literary Digest," Volume 123, Issues 1-13 (April 1937), p. 19: "Binnie Barnes was born at midnight between March 25-26, so she compromises by celebrating with a party at midnight between the two days."

Full birth name from England and Wales Birth Registration Index. Her birth was registered in the June quarter of 1903 at Islington, London.

Wikipedia has 25 May 1903 (no source), but her obituary in The Times (London, 1 August 1998, p. 21), states "Gertrude Maud Barnes" was born on "March 25, 1903."

U.S. Social Security Death Index gives "Binnie Frankovich" born "March 25, 1903" who died "July 27, 1998."

Saturday, 7 November 2015

Mary Ellis, 1897–2003 (British stage actress, opera singer, centenarian)

* Mary Ellis was a long-lived star of the British stage best known for her roles in the genre of musical theatre. After appearing with the Metropolitan Opera beginning in 1918, later appearing opposite Enrico Caruso, she acted on Broadway, creating the title role in Rose Marie. In 1930, she emigrated to England, where she gained additional fame and continued to perform into the 1990s. Ellis published her memoirs in 1982 under the title Those Dancing Years. A further autobiography Moments of Truth followed in 1986. She died in London on 30 January 2003, aged 105.

NATAL DATA and ASTROLOGY CHART

BIRTH DATA: May Belle Elsas, 15 June 1897, 07:00 (7 am) EST (+5), New York, New York, USA (40n46, 73w59). ASC: 27 Cancer. RR: B (from biography). SOURCE: Sy Scholfield quotes from "Hollywood" by Sidney Skolsky, Washington Post, 28 March 1935, p. 16: "Mary Ellis ... New York born ... on June 15, 1901, at 7 o'clock in the morning." Actual birth name, date and year from 'New York, New York, Birth Index, 1878-1909' (Ancestry.com).

Tuesday, 3 November 2015

Elvira Pagã, 1920-2003 (Brazilian vedette, actress, singer, writer and painter)

* Elvira Pagã was the first Rio Carnival Queen, the first woman to wear a bikini in public, and one of the first women to have cosmetic surgery in Brazil. Talented and controversial, she broke the status-quo and faced the reigning "machismo" with fearless audacity during the Brazilian military dictatorship and the revolutionary 1960s, where she lived with determination and courage. Pagã retired from public life, wrote and painted in her later years, dying a recluse on 8 May 2003, aged 82, in Rio de Janeiro.

NATAL DATA and ASTROLOGY CHART

BIRTH DATA: Elvira Olivieri Cozzolino, 6 September 1920, 06:00 (6am) BZT2 (+3), Itararé, São Paulo, Brazil (24s07, 49w20). ASC: 4 Virgo. RR: B (from biography). SOURCE: Sy Scholfield quotes from "Uma Mulher Chamada Elvira PagÃ" by Thiago De Menezes (Clube de Autores, 2010), p. 18: "Elvira nasceu no dia 06 de setembro de 1920 às 6:00 horas. Foi a terceira filha do casal José Cozzolino, um descendente de italianos nascido nos estados Unidos, mais precisamente no Brooklin e de Regina Maria Olivieri, natural de Castro, Paraná... nasceram em Itararé."

Translation: Elvira was born on 6 September 1920 at 6:00 am. She was the third daughter of the couple José Cozzolino, a descendant of Italians born in the United States, more precisely in Brooklyn, and Regina Maria Olivieri, born in Castro, Paraná ... born in Itararé.

Wednesday, 12 August 2015

Marie-Luise Marjan (German actress)

* Marie-Luise Marjan is best known for her role as Helga Beimer in the German Television Series Lindenstraße (created by Hans W. Geißendörfer in 1985). She was the heroine in Wolfgang Petersen's drama Smog and has also played in films by Werner Schroeter (Palermo oder Wolfsburg, Tag der Idioten) and Rainer Werner Fassbinder (Berlin Alexanderplatz). In the German Version of Murder, She Wrote, Immer wenn sie Krimis liest (1994), she has portrayed a detective, Anita De Winter, like Angela Lansbury. In Shrek 2 and Shrek 3 Marie-Luise Marjan is the German voice of Queen Lilian (Julie Andrews). In 2010, she was presented with the Cross of Merit, First class of the Federal Cross of Merit.

NATAL DATA and ASTROLOGY CHART

BIRTH DATA: Marlies Lause Marjan, 9 August 1940, 13:00 (1pm) CEDT (-2), Essen, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany (51n28, 7e01). ASC: 27 Libra. RR: A (from memory). SOURCE: Sy Scholfield quotes her discussing her 75th birthday in an interview: "Ich bin ein Sommerkind, ich bin auch an einem 9. August an einem Sonntag geboren um 13 Uhr, und genau zwei Stunden später werde ich meine Geburtstagsfeier beginnen." ("Marie-Luise Marjan zum 75. Geburtstag" by Birgitt Schippers, domradio.de, 9 August 2015).

Translation: 'I am a summer child. I was born on 9 August, a Sunday, at 13:00, and exactly two hours later I'm going to start my birthday party.' NB: 9 August 1940 was actually a Friday.

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Thursday, 16 July 2015

Jaime Murray (English actress)

* Jaime Murray plays Stacie Monroe in the BBC series "Hustle" and Lila West in the Showtime series "Dexter."

She is also known for her recurring roles as Gaia in Starz' "Spartacus: Gods of the Arena," as Olivia Charles in The CW's "Ringer" and as Helena G. Wells in "Warehouse 13."

Murray also stars as Stahma Tarr in the Syfy series "Defiance."

NATAL DATA and ASTROLOGY CHART

BIRTH DATA: Jaime Erica Murray, 21 July 1976, about 15:30 (3:30pm) BST (-1), London, England (51n30, 0w10). ASC: Scorpio. RR: C. SOURCE: Sy Scholfield quotes Murray on Twitter: "Im a Cancer with Scorpio rising." A speculative time of 3:30pm gives mid Scorpio (16 degrees) rising. Birth name from index of England & Wales Births 1837-2006.

Friday, 26 June 2015

Megan Gale (Australian model, brand ambassador, fashion designer, actress)

* Aussie beauty, Megan Gale, has an English father and a mother of Maori descent. She won a modelling competition in Perth at 18, and later modelled for various Italian fashion houses and appeared in several Italian films. She was lauded in the Italian media as "The new Sophia Loren" (Gale and Loren each have Venus at 11° Virgo; i.e. exactly conjunct in their synastry!).

NATAL DATA and ASTROLOGY CHART

BIRTH DATA: Megan Kate Gale, 7 August 1975, circa 01:00 (1 AM) AWST (-8), Perth, Western Australia, Australia (31s57, 115e51). ASC: Taurus. RR: C. SOURCE: Sy Scholfield quotes Gale for her rising sign in "Princess Diary," Sunday Telegraph [Sydney], 12 Nov. 2006: "I'm a Leo but I think my true self is more like my rising sign, Taurus. I find my Leo qualities emerge when I'm working: I'm more flamboyant, more ambitious, confident and driven. At home I'm more Taurean: a bit earthier, but always stubborn."

NOTE: Taurus was rising from 12am to 2:02am and from 11:36pm to 12 midnight. The time of 1am is speculative. The Moon was in Leo throughout these periods.

Tuesday, 9 June 2015

Tippi Hedren (American actress, fashion model, animal rights activist)

* Tippi Hedren was one of Alfred Hitchcock's ice-cool blondes, making her film debut in his suspense thriller The Birds followed by the title role in his psychological thriller Marnie. Hedren claims that Hitchcock was a sexual predator and control freak, who subjected her (and the birds?) to cruelty on the set. He also tried to destroy her career. Hitchcock's Mars is conjunct Hedren's Moon and his Scorpio Jupiter is conjunct her MC.

Hedren rejected Hitchcock's advances and went on to enjoy a successful career, appearing in over eighty films and TV shows. She has the feisty comination of Mars and Saturn straddling her Ascendant; with her Saturn square Hitchcock's Mars and her Mars quincunx his Pluto. This synastry made for quite a standoff.

Hedren also founded the non-profit Roar Foundation and Shambala Preserve, a sanctuary that houses some 70 animals. She is the mother of actress Melanie Griffith and grandmother of actress and model Dakota Johnson.

NATAL DATA and ASTROLOGY CHART

BIRTH DATA: Nathalie Kay Hedren, 19 January 1930, 06:35 (6:35AM) CST (+6), New Ulm, Minnesota, USA (44n18, 94w27). ASC: 7 Capricorn. RR: AA (birth record on file). SOURCE: Sy Scholfield quotes from birth certificate, obtained on 6/6/2015.

Friday, 8 May 2015

Naomi Watts (British actress)

* Naomi Watts was raised in England and Wales before moving to Sydney, Australia in 1982, aged 14. Whle enrolled in acting lessons in Sydney she befriended actress Nicole Kidman. (Watts and Kidman both have Scorpio rising; Watts' Venus -- ruler of her 7th House of influential relationships -- is conjunct Kidman's Ascendant). Around 1992, Watts spent a year travelling, visiting Los Angeles and being introduced to agents through Kidman.

After years as a struggling actress, Watts came to international attention in David Lynch's psychological thriller Mulholland Drive (2001). (Her success through persistence and hard work is indicated by her chart's Saturn-handled Slingshot, Bucket Shape and Yod in the 6th House of work).

Watts received nominations at the Academy Awards and the Screen Actors Guild Awards in the Best Actress categories for her portrayal of Cristina Peck in Alejandro González Iñárritu's neo-noir 21 Grams (2003) and for her leading role as Maria Bennett in the disaster film The Impossible (2012).

NATAL DATA and ASTROLOGY CHART

BIRTH DATA: Naomi Ellen Watts, 28 September 1968, 11:00 (11 AM) BST (-1), Shoreham, Kent, England (51n20, 0e11). ASC: 17 Scorpio. RR: A (from memory). SOURCE: Sy Scholfield quotes Watts' mother ("She was born at 11 o'clock in the morning") in an interview ("Blondes on Parade" by Danielle Gusmaroli, Daily Mail Australia, 6 May 2015).

Friday, 1 May 2015

Rue McClanahan, 1934–2010 (American actress, comedian, author, fashion designer)

* Rue McClanahan's birth certificate has been published on the official website of her estate, showing the time of birth recorded as 7pm and her name as "Eddi-Rue McClanahan." Previously, Frank Clifford quoted a written form filled in by her, with a time of 7:30pm from her mother's memory.

The time of 7pm puts Neptune and the Moon very close to the Ascendant and MC respectively. McClanahan won an Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Comedy Series in 1987 for her role as Blanche Devereaux on The Golden Girls (1985–1992).

Thanks to Susan Carmichael for finding the BC.

NATAL DATA and ASTROLOGY CHART

BIRTH DATA: Eddi-Rue McClanahan, 21 February 1934, 19:00 (7pm) CST (+6), Healdton, Oklahoma, USA (34n13, 97w29). ASC: 12 Virgo. RR: AA (from birth certificate on file). SOURCE: In April 2015, Susan Carmichael found her birth certificate published on the official website of her estate: http://estateofrue.com/catalog/rues-certified-birth-certificate-sold/

Previously, Frank C. Clifford quoted a written form filled in by her, on 20 June 1995, with a time of 7:30pm from her mother's memory.

Monday, 27 April 2015

Geri Jewell (American actress, motivational speaker, and disability & diversity consultant)

* Geri Jewell was the first person with a disability to have a regular role on a prime time American TV series, when she played Cousin Geri, on the sitcom The Facts of Life from 1980 to 1984. The title of her autobiography, I’m Walking As Straight As I Can refers to both Jewell’s lesbianism and cerebral palsy.

Uranus in a chart can indicate how a person handles their difference (and other people's reactions to it). Jewell has Uranus personalised in dramatic Leo through a conjunction with Venus, the ruler of her Libran Ascendant. She has seen two sides of Uranus: "the relentless discrimination and abuse she suffered at the hands of people she trusted" in show business, and the joy of becoming an outspoken advocate for people with disabilities.

NATAL DATA and ASTROLOGY CHART

BIRTH DATA: 13 September 1956, 08:34 (8:34 am) EDT (+4), Buffalo, New York, USA (42n53, 78w52). ASC: 9 Libra. RR: B (from autobiography). SOURCE: Sy Scholfield quotes her in "I'm Walking as Straight as I Can: Transcending Disability in Hollywood and Beyond" by Geri Jewell, Ted Nichelson, and Patty Duke (ECW Press, 2011): "In 1956 . . . My mother was rushed to the Sisters Hospital in Buffalo . . . On the morning of September 13 at 8:34 a.m., I came into the world with a faint heartbeat..."

Friday, 3 April 2015

Anna Massey, 1937–2011 (English actress)

* In her obituary in The Guardian, Anna Massey is headlined as an "Award-winning actor with a fastidious intelligence and a hint of inner steel." The obit adds that "her Bafta-winning performance as the lonely writer of romantic fiction on holiday in Switzerland in Hotel du Lac (1986), . . . was the sort of role in which Massey was supreme: placid on the surface, with passion deep within her." These descriptions befit her Scorpio Ascendant. Indeed, she even played "The Iron Lady" Margaret Thatcher in Pinochet in Suburbia (2006). Massey and Thatcher both have Scorpio rising.

In Peeping Tom (1960), Massey appeared as "the naive downstairs neighbour of a psychotic landlord" conveying "a cold and repressed character on screen." Her other Scorpionic roles include a vampire who serves her murderer his blood disguised as tomato juice in Vault of Horror (1973) and a creepy Mrs Danvers in Rebecca (1979).

Massey had the Sun in Leo high in the sky and she came from a noted acting family: she was the daughter of British actress Adrianne Allen and Canadian-born Hollywood actor Raymond Massey. Her godfather was film director John Ford.

NATAL DATA and ASTROLOGY CHART

BIRTH DATA: Anna Raymond Massey, 11 August 1937, 15:00 (3pm) BST (-1), Coolham, near Billingshurst, England (51n01, 0w28). ASC: 25 Scorpio. RR: A (from memory). SOURCE: Sy Scholfield cites a telegram from her father Raymond Massey to Samuel Goldwyn quoted in "Proud Father Extols Arrival," Los Angeles Times, 16 August 1937, p. 10: "Anna Massey born Coolham, Eng., 6 o'clock this morning. At 6:20 I heard her voice on trans-Atlantic telephone..." Note: The report mentions that Raymond Massey was in hospital in Hollywood with phlebitis at the time; BST (-1) is 9 hours ahead of PST (+8) so Anna was born at 3 p.m. BST in England equal to 6 a.m. PST in California.

Monday, 23 March 2015

Jaime King (American actress and model)

* A successful model, Jaime King was discovered at age 14 in 1993 and appeared in Vogue, Mademoiselle and Harper's Bazaar, among other fashion magazines. From 1998, she moved into acting, taking small film roles. Her first major role was in Pearl Harbor (2001) and her first starring movie role was in Bulletproof Monk (2003). She has since appeared as a lead in other films, such as Sin City (2005) and My Bloody Valentine 3D (2009) and is currently starring in the television series Hart of Dixie. She also voiced the role of Aurra Sing on Star Wars: The Clone Wars.

King has said in an interview that she has Virgo rising. A speculative time of 3:05pm puts mid Virgo (15 degrees) on the Ascendant of her chart.

NATAL DATA and ASTROLOGY CHART

BIRTH DATA: 23 April 1979, approx. 15:05 (3:05pm) CST (+6), Omaha, Nebraska, USA (41n15, 95w56). ASC: Virgo. RR: C (rectified from approximate time). SOURCE: Kevin Cee quotes from "'Hart of Dixie's' Jaime King - a Taurus with Virgo rising - can't relax" by Kate O'Hare, 19 March 2012: "I'm a Taurus with Virgo rising. That's part of the problem with me trying to relax. If I come home, and my room is not entirely clean, I cannot sit down in bed. It's crazy." http://www.zap2it.com/blogs/hart_of_dixies_jaime_king_-_a_taurus_with_virgo_rising_-_cant_relax-2012-03

Wednesday, 4 March 2015

Rose McGowan (American actress, model and singer)

* "Appearing as a cross between Betty Boop's evil sister and a very curvaceous Hell's Angel, actress Rose McGowan made an undeniably distinct impression on Hollywood in the late '90s. With her sharp tongue and brash sensuality, McGowan has been a source of both titillation and discomfort to an industry that still hasn't quite figured out what to do with women who are both unapologetically smart and sexual." This excerpt from McGowan's biography on AllMovie neatly encapsulates her unaspected conjunction of Uranus and Venus in Libra. This conjunction makes a Grand Air Trine with her Ascendant and MC.

McGowan was in a very public three and a half year relationship (1998-2001) with rock musician Marilyn Manson (see his chart). Her MC conjuncts his 7th cusp and her Uranus-Venus conjunction trines his 7th cusp.

NATAL DATA and ASTROLOGY CHART

BIRTH DATA: Rose Arianna McGowan, 5 September 1973, 23:38 (11:38pm) CEDT (-2), Certaldo, Tuscany, Italy (43n33, 11e02). ASC: 14 Gemini. RR: AA (quoted birth record). SOURCE: Sy Scholfield quotes an email from GraZia Bordoni containing data from the official archives of Certaldo.

Kevin Cee points out that McGowan stated in a 1997 interview, "I’m a Virgo with Virgo ascendant" (read the interview here).

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