@golding76 wrote:
Sushismom,
That makes sense. Have they changed her birth year, I wonder, to make her seem younger and more desirable as an actress?
I ask this because of an incident I experienced. My first husband's sister was an opera singer in Greece. When we were together in public, something came up and I said, "But you were born in 1946, right?" She immediately turned to me and said not to mention that out loud again because she had given herself a later birthdate on her Wiki page so that she would be a more desirable hire. She did not want anyone to hear that she was actually born in 1946. I laughed quietly to myself. But those in show business know how it works.
Here is what I read, though:
She was shown topless, although only 16 when the production began and 17 when the film came out. Her character was featured in the 1977 miniseries The Godfather: A Novel for Television.
Occupation: Actress; entrepreneur; designer
Children: 3, including Violante Placido (daught...
Spouse(s): Michele Placido (m. 1989; div. ...
Born: 30 November 1954 (age 66); Rome, Italy
The two birthday thing was actually pretty common when I was younger.
I attended the same college as an entertainer who had left school a few credits short of a degree, to appear as the star of a major Broadway show.
She and I had studied voice with the same teacher, and she was a VERY FINE singer, at home in every style from Classical to very innovative pop/jazz/theater.
My voice teacher would occasionally say, when I did something he thought was especially right, "When you sing that way you remind me of ---------", and that was BIG PRAISE.
A year after graduation I left singing to take a Master's in a therapy field, and often read of ---------'s growing fame in multiple music activities.
I always feel, and felt, an enormous sense of satisfaction that I studied with a teacher who did so much for her.
Here's the flip side- when she went back to school, 5 or so years after she left, she took the couple of classes she needed to finish her degree, then very publicly began to use the date she GRADUATED, to imply THAT SHE WAS 5 or 6 years younger than she actually was. THEN I read in some of her reviews that she was using a birthdate that I knew was not actually hers (she would have been a college freshman at 11).
She's STILL very attractive. But she's NOT 5 years YOUNGER than I am, and instead, at least a couple years older. "No business like show business........".
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