Lady Gaga
Birthdate: Mar 28, 1986
Birthplace: Manhattan, New York City, New York, USA
Lady Gaga (birthname: Stefani Joanne Angelina Germanotta) is both a striking and original pop singer-songwriter of immense vocal strength and stylistic boldness as well as a big-screen actor exhibiting a similar taste for bold performing strokes, immediately apparent in her debut film turn in director/co-writer/producer/cinematographer/editor/composer Robert Rodriguez’s sequel Machete Kills (2013), starring Danny Trejo, Michelle Rodriguez, Sofia Vergara, Amber Heard, Antonio Banderas, Cuba Gooding Jr., Walton Goggins, Demian Bichir and Mel Gibson, grossing a poor $17.5 million for Open Roads Films.
Gaga followed the next year in another pulpy supporting turn for filmmaker Rodriguez in the Frank Miller-written sequel Sin City: A Dame to Kill For (2014), with Mickey Rourke, Jessica Alba, Josh Brolin, Juno Temple, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Rosario Dawson, Bruce Willis, Eva Green, Powers Boothe, Dennis Haysbert, Ray Liotta, Jeremy Piven and Christopher Meloni, but which failed at the box office with The Weinstein Company as distributor.
Gaga became a bona fide movie star with her remarkable lead role in the acclaimed third big-screen version of A Star Is Born (2018), directed by her co-star Bradley Cooper, with Andrew Dice Clay, Dave Chappelle, and Sam Elliott, and which premiered at the Venice Film Festival, landing eight Oscar nominations and a win for Gaga for her song “Shallow” (contributing to Gaga becoming the first woman to win an Oscar, Grammy, BAFTA and Golden Globe in the same year), and finally returning a terrific $436 million gross to Warner Bros.
Gaga’s next film performance was as a co-star in a broader and more flamboyant vein in the Ridley Scott-directed House of Gucci (2021), co-starring Adam Driver, Jared Leto, Jeremy Irons, and Al Pacino, earning Gaga more awards love from the Globes, BAFTA as well as the Screen Actors Guild and grossing a good $147.4 million on a $75 million budget. Lady Gaga joined star Joaquin Phoenix’s Joker as Harley Quinn in director/writer/producer Todd Phillips’ sequel, Joker: Folie à Deux (2024), co-starring Brendan Gleeson, Catherine Keener, and Zazie Beetz, premiering at the Venice Film Festival and released by Warner Bros. as part of a planned “DC Black” film series.
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Personal Details
Lady Gaga was born and raised in Manhattan’s Upper West Side in New York City by parents Cynthia (philanthropist, business executive) and Joseph Germanotta (internet entrepreneur). Gaga has a sister, Natali. Gaga attended Convent of the Sacred Heart all-girls Catholic school, where she performed in school musical productions. Gaga studied music in the Tisch School of the Arts’ Collaborative Arts Project 21 music school at New York University, while writing critical arts theses on artists Spencer Tunick and Damien Hirst, but left the university in her sophomore year to pursue her music career. At the same time, Gaga attended the Lee Strasberg Theatre and Film Institute for ten years, studying Strasberg’s theory of method acting. Gaga’s height is 5’ 1”. Gaga’s estimated net worth is $300 million.
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- 2024 | Joker: Folie à DeuxasHarley Quinn
Joker: Folie à Deux
Failed comedian Arthur Fleck meets the love of his life, Harley Quinn, while in Arkham State Hospital. Upon release, the pair embark on a doomed romantic misadventure.
- 2021 | House of GucciasPatrizia Reggiani
House of Gucci
When Patrizia Reggiani, an outsider from humble beginnings, marries into the Gucci family, her unbridled ambition begins to unravel their legacy and triggers a reckless spiral of betrayal, decadence, revenge, and ultimately...murder.
- 2018 | A Star Is BornasAlly
A Star Is Born
A musician helps a young singer find fame as age and alcoholism send his own career into a downward spiral.
Some Facts About Lady Gaga
Rape Victim: Lady Gaga has said that she was raped by her music producer when she was age 19, and has suffered from PTSD since, for which she has received therapy treatment.
Swing Artist: Gaga is famed for her pop concert spectacles, from the 2009 “Fame Ball Tour” to the 2022 “Chromatica Ball,” but her longest sustained music stint has been her annual Las Vegas residency “Lady Gaga Jazz & Piano” at Dolby Live starting in 2018.
High Rank: Lady Gaga was the most followed person on Twitter from 2011 to 2013, the most celebrity in 2013, the most powerful pop star in 2014, the chart-topper on Forbes’ Celebrity 100 list in 2011, and ranked second in Time magazine’s readers’ poll of most influential people over a decade.
