Ray Allen was born on 20 Jul 1975 in Castle Air Force Base near Merced, California. He is an Amerucan professional basketball player. Though he was born in Castle Air force but he was grown up in Saxmundhan in England, Atlus in Oklahama. He was born to parents, Flora and Walten Allen Sr, who was a military man. He is currently a player of Miami heat of the National Basketball Association (NBA). Moreover, he played for the Milwaukee Bucks, Seattle Supersonics and Boston Celtics of the NBA. During his college time, he is a member of University of Connecticut Huskies. He is a renowned paler. He is famous for his team skills all over the world. He has a huge fan following. He has received a lot of appreciation and awards all over the world. He is a ten-time NBA All-Star and won two NBA championships and an Olympic gold medal as a member of the 2000 United States men’s basketball team. Apart from the basketball, he has also worked in many films like Spike Lee film He Got Game in the year 1998. Ray Allen is said to be one of the most accurate three-point and free throw shooters in NBA’s history. In the year 1995, he was named as USA Basketballs’ Male Athlete of the year. Many young talent consider him as their inspiration. His breakthrough performance is famous all over the world. Talking about his education, he attended Dalzell, South Carolina where he led Hillcrest High School to a basketball state championship. Also, he attended The University of Connecticut for the period 1993-1996 assisted by coach Karl Hobbs. In the last year of his college, he earned Big East Player of the year award.

About his personal life, he has a borderline case of obsessive compulsive disorder, to which he attributes his consummate shooting style. Not only is this, he is a member of Air Jordan brand which is a subsidiary of Nike. Moreover, Rau was the spokesperson for the Jr. NBA/ Jr. WNBA program. Also, he was selected for the Thurgood Marshall College Fund.

Career:

Apart from the basketball career. He also worked in the acting side. In the year 1998, he co-starred alongside Denzel Washington in the film, He Hot Game. In the year 2001, he was appeared in the film, Harvard Man as Marcus Blake. He proved himself in both the areas, whether it is acting or basketball game. He is a man of talent. He knows how to achieve success. In the year 2008, he married to Shannon Walker Williams and has cute children, Tierra Allen, Walter Ray Allen III, Walker Allen, Wynn Allen, Wynstan Ryan Allen. He has maintained a work-life balance. He loves his family very much and give them enough time along with bhis career. His wifeShannon is a former actress and singer. She is a lso a famous actress and did some renowned films in her life career. He is also involved in Philanthropy, he is attached to the “Ray of Hope” Foundation to assist charities in several communities.

Awards and Achievements

Ray Allen has won many prizes and awards in his career. Some of his achievements are All NBA second team award in the year 2005, All NBA third team award in the year 2001, NBA All Rookie Second team award in the year 1997, NBA Sportsmanship award in the year 2003, NBA Three Point Shootout champion in the year 2001, NBA all time leader in three pointers made award in the year 1996, UPI Player of the year award in the year 1996, Big East player of the year award in the same year again. In the year 1995 he won USA basketball male athlete of the year award. Apart from these, he was 2 times NBA Champion in the year 2008 and 2013. Also he was 10 times the NBA all star for the period 200-2002, 2004-2009 and for the year 2011. Not only is this, he also won gold medals in the Olympic games in Sydney 2000 , he won gold medal in FIBA Americas Championship for 2003 San Juan. Moreover, he won gold medal for Summer Universiade in 1995 Fukuoka. Additionally, he has made records on Milwaukee Bucks franchise, Seattle Supersonics franchise and Boston Celtics franchise records.

Richness:

Ray Allen is a very rich personality on the planet. His net worth is $100 million. He earns $10 million every year. His main source of wealth is basketball game. Not only basketball he has also earned from acting too. He is an owner of a huge property. He owns a not just one but two homes, Massachusetts home which is very expensive and elegant interiors. The exteriors are superb and at a very fantastic place. He owns another one Miami mansion which is also very expensive one. I is reported that this home is very luxurious and provides all the luxuriousness one needed to live. He is a very much and can afford all the comfort that are available. It has a separate swimming pool and the outer view is very charming due to beaches. Apart from the homes, there are few brands that Ray Allen would to like to wear are Boston Celtics Jersey, Miami Heat Jersey, Air Jordan 1 Black Green PE and many more.

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Career/Profession: Actor

Mark Harmon, an American actor whose aim was to become a doctor when he was young. But fortunately he adopted acting as his profession which led his life to the peak of success. But as it is said where there’s a will there’s a way. Mark is well known for playing a role of doctors in a running series ‘St. Elsewhere’ and also the character he played in CBS’s series i.e. The Naval Criminal Investigative Service is unforgettable.

Independent Personality:

Mark Harmon’s childhood was full of challenges. He took birth in Burbank, California on September 2, 1951. His father, Tom Harmon was a sports broadcaster means he used to travel across the world leaving behind his family. Mark used to feel deserted because of his father’s absence and even in his presence as his father was always hard on him. But their love for football kept them tied together. His father’s achievement as a football player encouraged him as well and he served his University of California for two seasons, but he did not want to pursue his career as a footballer.

Path to Hollywood:

His career in acting took a start when his sister Kristen started dating the son of Ozzie Nelson, Television legend. This relationship benefitted Harmon and he got the opportunity to act in Ozzie’s Girls in 1972. This experience gave him the taste of Hollywood. After completing his graduation, he joined the law school, but dissatisfaction from this led him to work for an advertising agency. Again, changing his profession, he started a business venture which degraded his value. So finally he planned to pursue acting as his profession.

Difficulties faced:

He embarked his career by taking advice from an actor Jack Webb, who helped him to get a role in crime series Adam-12 as a guest appearance. This phase continued for some time and finally in 1977 he got a lead role in Eleanor and Franklin: The White House Years. This got him nominated for Emmy Awards. To get a bang in his career, he started working as a roofer and side by side polishing his acting skills by working at the night club in Los Angeles. In 1981, he got a lead role in ‘Flamingo Opera, where he starred as a politician who was married to a wealthy girl.

Rise to Fame:

St. Elsewhere, a television and medical drama gave him another bang in his career. He joined the series in its second season. He played a role of a plastic surgeon named Dr. Bobby Caldwell along with some other actors such as David Morse, Denzel Washington, Howie Mandel etc. In this series his role main aim was to promote awareness regarding AIDS. He showed that heterosexual male was as likely to get affected by AIDS as other people. In 1986, he joined the movie ‘Deliberate Stranger’ where he performed as serial killer Ted Bundy. In this role he used to charm and pleases his victims with his personality and then make an attempt. This appealing role did not affect his image at all and he was awarded with the Sexiest Man Alive by People’s Magazine in 1986.

Different Roles:

Throughout his life he presented himself on screen with diversifying roles. In ‘Summer School’ he starred as Mr. Freddy Shoop. He then moved on with the military drama ‘The Presidio’ along with Sean Connery and ‘Stealing Home’ along with Blair Brown. After this he followed with the ‘Reasonable Doubts’, a police drama. The show was not appreciated much so it got cancelled after two seasons. Then he proceeded on with the detective show ‘Charlie Grace’ which had a very short term of five episodes. In 1996, he bustled with David E. Kelly’s drama ‘Chicago Hope’ as an Orthopaedic Surgeon. He compared this role with a carpenter and found working with wood is same as working with medical tools. He was accompanied by his two sons in this series. His guest appearance in ‘West Wing’ as a secret agent was applauded all over the country in 2002. Because of this series, he was again nominated for an Emmy Award.

NCIS:

Mark Harmon caught the attention of Don Bellisario, Producer of NCIS. He wanted to cast Leroy Jethro Gibbs in NCIS. He found Mark an appropriate option as he has the same jock mentality as Leroy. The show started in 2003 and quickly built up its fan following. The NCIS involved many other agents along with Mark like Tony Dinozzo, Timothy McGee etc. He had to present himself as a comedy star as well as serious personality. In 2007, some clashes occurred between Mark and Bellisario. There were some complaints regarding late scripts and Harmon take this issue to the network so in result Bellisario was suspended from his position.  NCIS earned 20 million audiences per week, which led the show to become popular over the country.

Marital Status:

Harmon first dated Raines and their relationship last for two years. This split, shattered his heart into several pieces. But after meeting actress Pam Dawber, he felt rejuvenated and they both got married in 1987 and throw a small wedding party for family and friends.

Awards:

In 1977and 2002, he was awarded with Emmy Awards for outstanding actor. In 1992 he captured Golden Globe Award for Best performance in the TV series.  In 1997, he got a Screen Actor Guild Award for his performance in Drama.

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Profession: American actor, film director, and film producer

LIFE

Denzel Hayes Washington, Jr. is one of the most acclaimed and prestigious actor, film director, film producer of Hollywood.  He was born in Mount Vernon, near New York City, his mother Lennis owned a parlour while his father Reverend Denzel Hayes Washington worked as a Pentecostal minister. Denzel is known for resonating with his characters in his movies and is widely appreciated for his stage skills. Denzel is named after his father who was in turn named after the doctor, Doctor Denzel, who had delivered him.

Denzel was Chosen by People magazine as one of the 50 Most Beautiful People in the world, his attitude and consistency towards work is an impeccable quality. Denzel’s down to earth attitude has won him many votes and appreciation both from media, public and other celebrities. He was also chosen by Empire magazine as one of the 100 Sexiest Stars in film history.

 CAREER

Denzel enrolled IN Fordham University with the intent to make a career in journalism. But, he caught the acting bug while appearing in student drama productions, he moved to San Francisco and started working at the American Conservatory Theatre. Washington in the summers of 1976 got busy in summer stock theatre performing Wings of the Morning, the Maryland State play, which was incorporating an African-American character.

Washington attended Texas College, and earned a B.A. in Drama and Journalism from Fordham University in 1977. Washington worked as creative arts director at an overnight summer camp, Camp Sloane YMCA in Lakeville, Connecticut. He also filmed many commercials in Fruit of the Loom as grapes. He made impact into the Hollywood when he appeared in the 1981 film Carbon Copy.  St. Elsewhere a tv show that aired on NBC is till counted as one of the best dimension of Washington as he was one of the few Afro-American to be on the show.

Through the 1980s, he worked in both movies and television and was chosen for the plum role of “Dr. Chandler” in NBC’s hit medical series St. Elsewhere (1982), a role that he would play for 6 years.

Famous Flicks-

Washington was highly acclaimed and also won the Academy Award in the best actor category for his role of a corrupt cop in the 2001 movie “Training Day”.

Estate& car

A View Of The Main Entrance To Denzel Washingtons House In Beverly Hills. Denzel’s home sits on the edge of many other celbrity and Billionaires Mansions.

 Car

It has a top speed of 200 mph , which strangely enough was not reached by its’ follow-up, the DBS or even the new Vanquish, If anyone knows more about it is  Denzel Washington as he is one of the proud owner.

FAMILY

He Married Pauletta Pearson, whom he met on the set of his first screen work, the television film Wilma. The couple have four children. John David who signed a football contract with the St. Louis Rams. Katia  graduated from Yale University with a Bachelors of Arts in 2010 Twins Olivia and Malcolm (Malcolm graduated from the University of Pennsylvania with a degree in film studies and Olivia played a role in Lee Daniel’s The Butler).

 Awards& Nominations

• Washington shared a 1982 Distinguished Ensemble Performance Obie Award for playing Private First Class Melvin Peterson.
• Was nomination for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor.
• In 1989 Washington won an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for film Glory.
• Washington received a Golden Globe Award in 2000 and a Silver Bear Award at the Berlin International Film Festival for his role in The Hurricane.
• Won an Academy Award for Best Actor for , the 2001 cop thriller Training Day. Washington was the second African-American performer to win an Academy Award for Best Actor.
• On June 13, 2010, Washington won the Tony Award for Best Performance by a Leading Actor in a Play for his role in the play Fences.
• Washington starred in Flight, for which he was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actor
• 1996 Harvard Foundation Award.

 PHILANTHROPY

Man of Love  and value he is a devout Christian and believes in opening hands always downwards.

• In 1995, he donated $2.5 million to help build the new West Angeles Church of God.
• His charity work includes donating $1 million to the Children’s Fund of South Africa.
• Donated $1 million to Wiley College to resuscitate the college’s debate team(You can easily relate this to his movie The Great Debater).
• In 2011 he donated $2 million to Fordham for an endowed chair of the theatre department.
•  Donated $250,000 for a theatre-specific scholarship for Fordham.

FACTS

• Washington holds the record (six so far) for most Oscar nominations and most wins (two so far) by an actor or actress of African descent.
• Washington is an Independent. He supported Barack Obama in 2008.
• Washington as one of three people (the others being directors Oliver Stone and Michael Moore) with whom The Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia named were  willing to negotiate for the release of three defence contractors they had kidnapped.
• He was at his mother’s beauty parlor, when a woman getting her hair done saw him and told someone to get her a piece of paper and she wrote at the top “Prophecy” and then wrote that Denzel would grow up and one day speak to millions.
• The actor broke his right pinky finger during a childhood basketball accident and never had it set correctly. His finger is still crooked to this day.
• Washington was the original choice for the title character in “Blade” (1998).

Famous lines:

• Creasy: (Man on Fire) ”Okay, my friend. It’s off to the next life for you. I guarantee you, you won’t be lonely.”
• John Q. Archibald: (John Q) ”I am not going to bury my son! My son is going to bury me!”
• Rubin “Hurricane” Carter (The Hurricane) ”Hate put me in prison. Love’s gonna bust me out.”
• John Hobbes (Fallen) ”Why are we here? Us, humans? I mean there’s six billion of us, we’re like ants, I mean do we care what ants do, from a moral standpoint?”
• Nathaniel Serling (Courage Under Fire) ”Son, I work for the Pentagon, so I admit I’m a little slow on the uptake, but did you just threaten me?”
• Malcolm X (Malcolm X): ”We didn’t land on Plymouth Rock. Plymouth Rock landed on us!”

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