Morrison also directed the 2016 short film “The Lost Pearl,” served as an associate producer on the 2013 documentary miniseries “The Life and Times of Temuera Morrison,” and released the 2014 album “Tem.” In 1996, he was appointed a Member of the New Zealand Order of Merit in the Queen’s Birthday Honours “for services to drama.”
Early Life Temuera Morrison was born Temuera Derek Morrison on December 26, 1960, in Rotorua, New Zealand.
Then there’s the three women below. Not only did all three inherit billion dollar fortunes from their parents, they inherited billion dollar fortunes when they were young children.
Doris Duke – $1.6 Billion Inherited her fortune at the age of 12. Doris Duke was the daughter of tobacco tycoon, James “Buck” Buchanan. Buck died in 1925, about one month before Doris’ 13th birthday. Buck left his fortune to Doris and his widow.
He rejoined the band in 2003 until 2009 when he was replaced by Lane. After leaving Primus he formed the group Laundry. He was the first drummer for the band A Perfect Circle and joined the Blue Man Group. In 2013 it was announced that he would rejoin Primus. Alexander suffered a heart attack in 2014 and underwent open heart surgery but was back touring with Primus later that year.
He has also worked on the television series Amazing Stories, The Equalizer, Freddy’s Nightmares, Haunted Lives: True Ghost Stories, Tales from the Crypt, Nowhere Man, Dark Skies, Perversions of Science, The Others, Night Visions, Taken, and Masters of Horror. Hooper authored the book Midnight Movie in 2011. In 2004 he received a Lifetime Achievement Award from the New York City Horror Film Festival. Tobe Hooper died on August 26, 2017.
In a recent interview with the New York Times Tom Hanks was surprisingly candid about the reason he agreed to star in the “Da Vinci Code” film franchise: An enormous payday. As you know, Tom Hanks is one of the most commercially successful movie stars of all time, with an almost countless string of hits to his name. He’s been able to use that success to make lots of movies about subjects that interest him – World War II and the space program being two of his most well known passions.
That he was offered $29 million to reprise his role as Buddy for the movie. As we all know, “Elf 2” was never made, and it seems that the reason it didn’t happen was because Ferrell wasn’t interested in doing a follow-up, even for an enormous paycheck. Why? Because, Ferrell says, he just wasn’t able to muster up any creative enthusiasm for a sequel to one of his breakthrough hits: “I would have had to promote the movie from an honest place, which would’ve been, like, ‘Oh no, it’s not good.
The inside of the Phantom Serenity features hand woven silk fabric that incorporates real silk. There are about 33 feet of fabric inside this car and it has been described as having the “most opulent interior of any luxury car.” In fact, some of the silk-clad panels were reported to take up to 600 hours to complete. Aspects of the car’s interior were inspired by Japanese royal kimono designs. The interior also features wooden accents from smoked cheery wood that are inlaid with bamboo.
Petersburg at the time. After Putin became President of Russia, Kovalchuk saw a drastic rise in his career. Today, Yuri is the largest shareholder of Rossiya Bank, which holds the reins of two big insurance companies, Sogas and SK Transneft. Furthermore, he has interests in six federal TV channels. Most recently (in late 2013), he acquired 50% of Tele2 Russia, the fourth-largest cellular operator in Russia.
He’s had several movie roles, including playing Matthew in 2013’s “Crazy Kind of Love”, Jerry Bailey in “The Last Stand”, and Shane in “The Purge: Anarchy”. Gilford starred in Taylor Swift’s 2011 music video for “Ours” as the country star’s romantic interest. He is an active outdoor enthusiast who leads wilderness excursions for teenagers. He has visited British Columbia, the South Pacific, Hawaii, and Alaska, among other places. Gilford married his girlfriend and co-star Kiele Sanchez in 2012.
In 2012 Niami, a stuntman who transformed himself into one of LA’s most-successful high-end mansion builders, paid $28 million for a 4-acre property at the top of a mountain in Bel-Air. Over the last decade Niami borrowed a reported $165 million to construct a mansion he named “The One.” As of this writing, The One is around 90% complete. Unfortunately Niami ran out of funds before he could get to 100% which would have enabled the the property to receive its “certificate of occupancy” – a crucial piece of paper that allows people to actually live in the mansion.
Perhaps more impressively to CelebrityNetWorth readers, in addition to making batteries Contemporary Amperex Technology is also pretty great at creating BILLIONAIRES. In fact, the company has minted more billionaires than Google and Facebook… COMBINED! As of this writing, this random Chinese battery company has minted an impressive NINE billionaires. Google has has minted three billionaires:
Sergey Brin Larry Page Eric Schmidt.
Facebook has minted four:
Mark Zuckerberg Sean Parker Eduardo Saverin Dustin Moskowitz Sheryl Sandberg
With the decimation of his company’s stock price, it’s unclear if Oleg Tinkov was even a billionaire anymore. And that’s before what just happened. After Tinkov publicly criticized the war in Ukraine, he was reportedly forced to sell his shares in Tinkoff Bank to a rival Russian billionaire at a “fire sale price.” According to Tinkov, the Russian government did not appreciate his statements on social media calling the war “crazy,” and claiming that others in the Russian business world privately agreed with him.
At her peak, when Theranos was privately valued at $9 billion, Elizabeth’s 50% stake gave her a paper net worth of $4.5 billion. She graced countless magazine covers and was hailed as the richest self-made woman of all time. Unfortunately, as you may have heard, Theranos started to implode in 2015 amid allegations the startup was a giant fraud. Elizabeth allegedly raised hundreds of millions of dollars of private capital based on lies about the capabilities of the company’s magical testing machines.
Lynn starred in the films Apartment for Peggy, June Bride, Father Was a Fullback, Cheaper by the Dozen, Meet Me in Las Vegas, and Louisiana Hussy. She also appeared in episodes of the TV series M Squad, Lawman, Wagon Train, Bronco, Tales of Wells Fargo, Mickey Spillane’s Mike Hammer, Sugarfoot, National Velvet, The Farmer’s Daughter, The Smothers Brothers Show, The Mod Squad, Little House on the Prairie, and Barnaby Jones.
Billy Vaughn was born in Glasgow, Kentucky in April 1919 and passed away in September 1991. He released his debut studio album Melodies in Gold in 1952 and went on to release several over the years including Sail Along, Silv’ry Moon in 1960 which reached #5 in the United States and Theme from a Summer Place which reached #1. His single “Melody of Love” reached #2 in the US and his single “The Shifting, Whispering Sands” (Part 1) reached #5.
Brendon Villegas was born in Riverside, California in July 1980. He is best known for appearing on the CBS reality television series Big Brother 12 where he finished in 6th place. Villegas also competed on the reality TV series Big Brother 13 where he finished in 9th place. He met his wife Rachel Reilly on Big Brother and the couple competed on the reality series The Amazing Race 20 where they finished in 3rd place and The Amazing Race 24 where they finished in 3rd place again.
The statement conveys righteous indignation at the treatment of Bojkov’s collection at the hands of authorities in his native Bulgaria: “We are reaching [out] to you with troubling news about an unprecedented violation against world cultural and historical heritage, taking place in Bulgaria right now…We are facing a blatant violation of the law regarding the priceless objects from the Vasil Bojkov Collection without any legal justification.” “The authorities are attempting to seize fragile and unique works of art in plastic bags…Such barbaric behaviour and deliberately demonstrative acts toward the priceless cultural and historical heritage of Bulgaria are not only unprecedented but also deprived of the simplest understanding of the significance of these objects.
Things get even weirder from there. No one seems to know exactly who this Chinese billionaire is, and he’s taken some interesting lengths to keep it that way, having been photographed with Misake wearing a mask. He’s rumored to be an entertainment industry figure, known for his big spending, so perhaps those with a working knowledge of Chinese show-business billionaires have a good guess of what his actual identity might be.
Darren Le Gallo started dating actress Amy Adams in 2001. The couple became engaged in 2008 and Adams gave birth to their daughter in 2010. Le Gallo starred in the TV series Then We Got Help! as Michael in 2011. He has starred in the movies Date Night, Broken Kingdom, The Master, Trouble with the Curve, Lullaby, and #Stuck. He has also appeared in episodes of the TV series Six Feet Under and First Monday and in the shorts The Big Bang Theory and It Goes.
Carradine wrote, directed, and co-produced the short musical “A Country Mile” (1973), and he directed the films “You and Me” (1975) and “Americana” (1981) as well as three episodes of “Kung Fu” and a 2001 episode of “Lizzie McGuire.” David served as a producer on “Americana,” “Kung Fu: The Legend Continues,” and several other projects, such as “Kung Fu: The Movie” (1986), “Crime Zone” (1988), “Future Force” (1989), “Crime of Crimes” (1989), and “Richard III” (2007).