Jessica Chastain is an American actress and film producer known for character strong-willed women in movies with feminist themes. She has been nominated for two Oscars and is the winner of one Golden Globe Award. Born in California, in the US, she raised an interest in acting after she saw the play ‘Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat’. She made her professional stage debut in a production of ‘Romeo and Juliet’ and her film debut with a role in the drama film ‘Jolene’. Her popularity grew with her roles in movies, such as ‘Take Shelter’, ‘The Help’, ‘Mama’ and ‘Interstellar’.

She won the Golden Globe Award for her portray in ‘Zero Dark Thirty’ in the category of ‘Best Actress’. She is best known for her character of strong but flawed women and many of her roles are popular for championing feminist ideals. An outspoken feminist, she is known for her vocal support for equal pay and has rejected works that she felt were offering her unfair pay. TIME magazine listed her as one of the most influential people of the World in 2012.

Jessica Chastain Wiki/Bio

Birth Name	Jessica Michelle Chastain
Nick Name	Jess
Age	(as in 2023) 46 years
Religion	None
Sun Sign/Zodiac Sign	Aries
Birth Place	Sacramento, California, USA
Date of Birth	24 March 1977
Nationality	American
Residence	New York
Home Town	Sacramento, California
Hobbies	Not Known
Family
Mother’s Name	Jerri Chastain (Vegan chef)
Father’s Name	Michael Monasterio (Aspiring Rocker) (Died of complications from bronchitis on February 5, 2013. He was aged 55 at the time of death)
Brother	None
Sister	Juliet Chastain (Younger Sister) (Died by committing suicide)
Others	Michael Hastey (Step-father) (a fireman) Marilyn (Grandmother) Nicole Monasterio (Half-Sister) Laci Smoot (Half-Sister)
Boyfriends/Affairs
Affairs/Boyfriends	Édgar Ramírez (2012) – In 2012, during the filming of Zero Dark Thirty (2012), the duo was RUMORed to be dating each other. Tom Hiddleston (2012-2013) – English actor, Tom Hiddleston was RUMORed to be dating Jess in 2012. They separated in January 2013.
Marital Status, Husband and Children
Husband/Spouse	Gian Luca Passi De Preposulo (2017-Present)
Marriage Date	10 June 2017
Children	Daughter- Giulietta, via surrogacy
Education
School	El Camino High School, Sacramento
College/University	Sacramento City College Juilliard School, New York City
Educational Qualification	Bachelor of Fine Arts (B.F.A.) degree
Profession	Actress (Theatre, Film, Television)
Brands Endorsed	She became the face of Yves Saint Laurent’s new women’s fragrance, Manifesto in 2012. She used this spicy Opium perfume at 12 when an aunt gave her a half-used bottle of the scent.
Career Manager	Mosaic
Height, Weight, and Figure Measurements
Height (Approx.)	in centimeters- 163 cm in meters- 1.63 m in feet inches- 5’ 4”
Weight (Approx.)	in kilograms- 56 kg in pounds- 124 lbs
Figure Measurements
Breast Size	36 Inches
Hips Size	35 Inches
Waist Size	25 Inches
Extra Ordinary Features
Race / Ethnicity	White
Hair Color	Red
Eye Color	Green
S*xual Orientation	Straight
Dress Size	8 (US) or 40 (EU) or 12 (UK)
Shoe Size	7 (US) or 37.5 (EU) or 4.5 (UK)
Favourite Things
Favourite Movie	The English Patient (1996)
Favourite Actors	Ralph Fiennes
Favourite TV Show	The Sopranos (1999-2007)
Controversies	None

Jessica Michelle Chastain was born on March 24, 1977, in California, the US. Her father Michael Monasterio is a rock musician. Her mother’s name is Jerri Renee Hastey. Her parents were teenagers when she was born.

Chastain was raised by her mother and stepfather. She is estranged from her biological father and his name is not on her birth certificate. She had two sisters and two brothers. One of her siblings Juliet committed suicide in 2003 after struggling with drug abuse.

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She studied at the El Camino Fundamental High School in Sacramento. She developed an interest in acting after seeing the play ‘Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat.’

She made her professional stage debut in a production of ‘Romeo and Juliet’ (1998) where she portrayed Juliet. She was eventually accepted into the Julliard School and graduated with a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in 2003. Her scholarship was funded by a well-known actor and comedian Robin Williams.

Chastain married Italian fashion executive Gian Luca Passi de Preposulo in June 2017. The following year they welcomed a daughter, Giulietta, via surrogacy. The family lives in New York City.

Jessica Chastain Net Worth

Jessica Chastain has a net worth of $50 million dollars.

A lifelong animal lover, Jessica was pescatarian for many years before becoming a fully-practicing vegan. Her veganism led Jessica to make an early investment in plant-based food company Beyond Meat. Beyond Meat would famously have one of the most successful IPOs of 2019. Jessica has also appeared in advertisements for the company.

In May 2019 Jessica spent $8.875 million to acquire a townhouse in New York City. The 6,600 square foot, seven-bedroom had been on the market for over two years and was originally seeking $11.5 million. She owns a different New York City apartment that was purchased in 2015 for $5.1 million. She also owns a house in the Pacific Palisades area of Los Angeles.

Advocacy and Personal Life

In 2003 Chastain’s 24-year-old sister Juliet committed suicide, a personal tragedy that inspired the actress to devote herself to promoting awareness about depression and mental health. She supports various charitable causes including To Write Love on Her Arms, a non-profit organization dedicated to helping people who are struggling with depression, addiction, self-injury, and suicide.

Chastain, who launched the female-led Freckle Films in 2016, is among the most outspoken advocates for equal rights in Hollywood. When news surfaced that Michelle Williams had made a fraction of the pay given to co-star Mark Wahlberg for the reshoot of All the Money in the World (2017), Chastain helped call attention to the disparity (Wahlberg later donated his salary to the Time’s Up legal defense fund).

Later, her former The Help co-star Octavia Spencer revealed that Chastain insisted they receive equal pay when pitching a project together, resulting in Spencer receiving five times her usual salary.

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Jessica Chastain Movies And TV Shows

• Beginning in 2008, Chastain started to focus her efforts on big-screen roles. Parts in small films — such as Jolene (her first starring film role) and Stolen were followed by a supporting role in The Debt (with Helen Mirren and Tom Wilkinson) in 2010.
• The year 2011 started well for the actress with the cult hit Take Shelter (for which she received a variety of accolades). While that film was quietly successful, Jessica Chastain didn’t stay under the radar for long, as 2011 turned out to be the year that she broke through into the mainstream.
• After Chastain starred with Al Pacino in Wilde Salomé, he recommended her to director Terrence Malick for a role in the upcoming Tree of Life.
• Chastain got the part, playing a grief-stricken wife opposite Brad Pitt, and that same year (2011) she appeared in the smash hit The Help, as well as in Coriolanus and Texas Killing Fields.
• Chastain followed up 2011 with several new films, including Madagascar 3: Europe’s Most Wanted (2012) and Zero Dark Thirty (2012), a film directed by Kathryn Bigelow about the hunt for Osama bin Laden.
• For her performance in Zero Dark Thirty as a real-life CIA operative, Chastain received the 2013 Golden Globe Award for Best Actress in a Movie Drama as well as an Academy Award nomination.
• In 2014 Chastain starred in the relationship drama The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby with James McAvoy and portrayed a scientist in the Christopher Nolan sci-fi epic Interstellar.
• Other film projects for the year included Miss Julie and A Most Violent Year, for which Chastain earned another Golden Globe nomination. Chastain was then seen in 2015 as an astronaut commander opposite Matt Damon in The Martian while also co-starring in the visually arresting horror flick Crimson Peak.
• In 2016 Chastain appeared in the fantasy adventure film The Huntsman: Winter’s War, a sequel to Snow White and the Huntsman (2012), co-starring with Chris Hemsworth and Charlize Theron.
• She also starred in the 2016 political thriller Miss Sloane, portraying a conservative lobbyist who takes on the gun lobby in Washington, D.C. Chastain earned a Golden Globe nomination for her portrayal of the title role.
• In 2017 Chastain portrayed Antonina Zabinskini in The Zookeeper’s Wife, a movie based on the true story of a husband-and-wife team that sheltered 300 Jews in the Warsaw Zoo during the Holocaust.
• That year, the actress earned a Golden Globe nomination for her part in another unusual true story, Molly’s Game, about an elite skier who began running the world’s most exclusive high-stakes poker game.
• In 2018 Chastain starred in the biographical period drama Woman Walks Ahead, portraying portrait painter Caroline Weldon who seeks to meet and paint Lakota hero Sitting Bull. The following year she reunited with McAvoy for the X-Men feature Dark Phoenix and the horror flick It Chapter Two.

Facts

1. She was raised by her mother and stepfather.
2. In 2012 and 2013, she attended the Oscar ceremony with her grandmother, Marilyn.
3. Jessica was born when her mother, Jerri was 16 and father, Michael was 17. Jessica’s sister, Juliet was born one and a half years later.
4. She refused to attend the memorial of her biological father, Michael after his death at the age of 55 due to complications of bronchitis.
5. Jessica has a dog, named Chaplin, which is a three-legged rescue dog.
6. She is a vegan now. But, most of her life, she has been a pescatarian.
7. Earlier, she was cast for the film Iron Man 3 for the role of Maya Hansen, which was later given to Rebecca Hall.
8. She was among the 176 people, who were invited to come to The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS) in the year 2012.
9. In 2013, she was ranked at #76 in AskMen’s “Top 99 Most Desirable Women”.
10. She can play ukulele (a member of the guitar family of instruments).

FAQs

Keira Knightley is a British actress and model. She is renowned for her films like ‘Bend It Like Beckham’ and ‘Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of The Black Pearl’. She appeared in the entertainment industry at a very young age. Grew up in Richmond, London, she used to represent in several local amateur productions like ‘After Juliet’. She appeared on television for the first time in the ‘Royal Celebration’. After that, she showed in a number of television films like ‘A Village Affair’ and ‘Coming Home’, to name a few.

Her physical resemblance with celebrated actress Natalie Portman received her a presence in the film ‘Star Wars: Episode One The Phantom Menace’. It was a turning point in her acting career. As a full-time actress, she performed in films like ‘Pure’, a British film unfolding the story of drug addicts. She has also acted in the sequels of the film ‘The Pirates of the Caribbean’. Apart from acting, she has done modeling assignments for a number of famous brands. A beneficiary of the Golden Globe award, she was also nominated for an Academy Award for her outstanding performance in the film ‘Pride and Prejudice’.

Keira Knightley Wiki/Bio

Birth Name	Keira Christina Knightley
Nick Name	KeiK
Age	(as in 2023) 38 years
Religion	Atheist
Sun Sign/Zodiac Sign	Aries
Birth Place	Teddington, London, UK
Date of Birth	26 March 1985
Nationality	English
Residence	London
Home Town	Teddington
Hobbies	Not Known
Family
Mother’s Name	Sharman Macdonald (Playwright)
Father’s Name	Will Knightley (Theatre and TV actor)
Brother	Caleb Knightley (Older Brother)
Sister	None
Boyfriends/Affairs
Affairs/Boyfriends	• Del Synnott (2001-2003) – Keira started dating British actor Del when she met him on the set of 2001 TV movie Princess of Thieves. The relationship went for two years when the duo finally broke out in 2003. • Jamie Dornan (2003-2005) – Irish actor, Jamie Dornan (he is 6 inches taller than her) first met Keira in New York during a photo shoot. She again dated him for 2 years from August 2003 to August 2005. It was reported that the Irish actor had a hard time handling Knightley’s success. • Adrien Brody (2005) – After the actors Keira and Adrien Brody met on the set of The Jacket (2005), they started dating each other. At that time, they were filming the movie in Scotland. The relationship was live only for the duration of the movie shooting. • Rupert Friend (2005-2010) – Now, this time the relationship went longer than before. Another English actor, Rupert Friend did friendship with her and dated her after they both met on the set of 2005 movie Pride & Prejudice. They didn’t start dating until the film shooting had wrapped up. They finally separated in November 2010.
Marital Status, Husband and Children
Husband/Spouse	James Righton– British musician, who plays keyboard for the rock band Klaxons got introduced to Knightley via Alexa Chung, their mutual friend. They started dating in 2011 and the dating relationship converted into engagement on May 25, 2012.
Marriage Date	4 May 2013 in Mazan, Vaucluse, South of France.
Children	Daughter- Edie (b. May 2015)
Education
School	Stanley Junior School Teddington School
College/University	Esher College in Elmbridge, England
Educational Qualification	Graduated
Profession	Actress, model
Brands Endorsed	• Asprey Diamonds in 2003 • Lux (Japanese brand) • American Library Association’s “Read” program • She has appeared in numerous commercials and print ads for Chanel Coco’s perfumes. • Knightley has served as the spokesperson for the Amnesty International charity.
Career Manager	United Agents Ltd. MGMT Entertainment
Height, Weight, and Figure Measurements
Height (Approx.)	in centimeters- 170 cm in meters- 1.70 m in feet inches- 5’7”
Weight (Approx.)	in kilograms- 54 kg in pounds- 119 lbs
Figure Measurements
Breast Size	32 Inches
Hips Size	33 Inches
Waist Size	23 Inches
Extra Ordinary Features
Race / Ethnicity	White, She is of English descent on her father’s side and has Welsh and Scottish ancestry on her mother’s side.
Hair Color	Dark Brown
Eye Color	Dark Brown
S*xual Orientation	Straight
Dress Size	4 (US) or 36 (EU) or 8 (UK)
Shoe Size	9 (US)
Favourite Things
Favorite Music	The English Riviera (By Metronomy) Songs of Love and Hate (By Leonard Cohen)
Favorite Book	The Passion (By Jeanette Winterson and Donna Ball) The Sun Also Rises (By Ernest Hemingway) The Old Man and the Sea (By Ernest Hemingway)
Favorite Films	Little Miss Sunshine (2006) True Grit (2010) Black Swan (2010) Blue Valentine (2010)
Favorite Designers	A.P.C
Favorite Actor	Johnny Depp
Controversies	In April 2009, Knightley appeared in a video to raise awareness of domestic abuse entitled Cut shot for Women’s Aid. The video created controversy, with some sources calling it too graphic, while other groups support the video for showing a realistic depiction of domestic violence.

Born in Teddington, London, Keira Knightley is the daughter of Will Knightly, a TV actor, and Sharman Macdonald, a renowned playwright. She also has an elder brother. She received her early education from Stanley Junior School. She received medical treatment for dyslexia when she was very young. Due to this, she faced difficulty in school.
She made her television debut in the ‘Royal Celebration’, which was aired in 1993.

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After acting in the television film ‘A Village Affair’ in 1995, she portrayed the role of a German Princess in ‘The Treasure Seekers’. In 1998, she appeared in another television film ‘Coming Home’. In the same year, she played the role of Sabe, a handmaiden in the film ‘Star Wars: Episode One The Phantom Menace’.

She continued her studies along with acting in the television film ‘Princess of Thieves’ in 2001. After completing her school examination in 2001, she acted in the film ‘Bend It Like Beckham’. At that time, she was attending Esher College where she studied art, history, and literature. She left her studies after one year to concentrate on her acting career.

In May 2012, Knightley announced her engagement to British musician James Righton of the Klaxons. She and Righton wed in early May 2013, and Knightley gave birth to their first child in May 2015, a daughter named Edie.

In addition to acting, Knightley has worked as a model, appearing in ads for companies like Chanel. Unlike other actresses of her generation, Knightley doesn’t crave the nightlife and instead prefers to cook for friends when she has free time.

Keira Knightley Net Worth

Keira Knightley has a net worth of $80 million dollars.

So far, Knightley’s highest-grossing film is Star Wars: Episode I–The Phantom Menace (1999), with a lifetime gross of $474,544,677. Her other high-grossing films include Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest (2006), with a lifetime gross of $423,315,812; Pirates of the Caribbean: At World’s End (2007), with a lifetime gross of $309,420,425; and Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl (2003); with a lifetime gross of $305,413,918, according to Box Office Mojo.

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Keira Knightley Movies And TV Shows

• Knightley had her first professional acting job at the age of seven and went on to make a string of appearances on British television. In her mid-teens, she landed her first major role in the film Star Wars: Episode 1 – The Phantom Menace (1999).
• That same year, Knightley had a supporting role in the television miniseries Oliver Twist with Sam Smith, Julie Walters, and Robert Lindsay.
• In 2002 Knightley had a career breakthrough with Bend It Like Beckham. She played tomboy soccer player Juliette “Jules” Paxton in this surprise hit.
• She also showed herself to be a risk-taker that same year, playing the female lead in the TV film Doctor Zhivago. Knightley tackled a role that Julie Christie made famous in the 1962 feature film.
• Knightley landed her first blockbuster hit in 2003 with Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl. Based on a ride at Disneyland, this adventure tale starred Johnny Depp as the notorious pirate, Captain Jack Sparrow.
• Knightley’s character, Elizabeth Swann, got caught up in the action along with Will Turner (Orlando Bloom), and she reprised her role in the film’s 2006 and 2007 sequels.
• With her classic good looks, Knightley became the go-to girl for period dramas. She played Guinevere in 2004’s King Arthur with Clive Owen and Ioan Gruffudd. The following year, Knightley starred in a screen adaptation of Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice, directed by Joe Wright.
• She earned an Academy Award nomination for her work in the film. Then in 2008, Knightley played the title character in The Duchess, a biopic of an 18th-century royal.
• “I do a lot of period pieces because that’s my taste because I want to work in Europe because that’s my home and generally speaking that’s what’s made in England,” Knightley later said in a 2015 New York Times interview. “I love history, you know, but actually because they’ve been the most interesting characters for me that I’ve been offered.”
• Knightley has nonetheless handled historical, contemporary, and futuristic roles with equal ease. She appeared in the popular ensemble dramatic comedy Love Actually (2003).
• Knight later co-starred in the quiet science-fiction tale Never Let Me Go (2010) with Andrew Garfield and Carey Mulligan, and then portrayed real-world pioneering psychoanalyst Sabina Spielren in A Dangerous Method (2011).
• Knightley continued to tackle a variety of roles. In 2012 she appeared opposite Steve Carell in the apocalyptic tale Seeking a Friend for the End of the World and also returned to sumptuous period garb to star in Anna Karenina. Jude Law plays Anna’s repressed husband in the film and Aaron Taylor-Johnson co-stars as Anna’s lover.
• The actress went on to work in Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit (2014), a spy thriller following the life of the popular CIA analyst character of the same name. Chris Pine was cast as Ryan while Knightley portrayed fiancée Cathy.
• In 2014 Knightley also co-starred in the music comedy/drama Begin Again with Mark Ruffalo and the romantic comedy Laggies. During the fall, she was featured as a code-breaking whiz in the WWII drama The Imitation Game, earning both Golden Globe and Oscar nominations for Supporting Actress.
• The following year, Knightley made her Broadway debut in the play Thérèse Raquin, based on the 1867 Émile Zola novel about a beleaguered married woman who goes down an illicit path.

Facts

1. She had dyslexia when in school and so found difficulty in reading the words fluently. She was helped to overcome the difficulties with dyslexia at 6.
2. Due to her dyslexia problem, she focused more on an acting career.
3. Keira supports West Ham United Supporter Football club.
4. She could also be heard in the video game version of the Pirates of the Caribbean in 2003 as she narrated the scenes in that game.
5. She has been featured in the music video Don’t Wanna Let You Go by 5ive in 2000.
6. In 1999, Keira portrayed the role of Polly in the radio adaptation of the 1853 novel Villette. This novel was broadcasted as a three-hour radio serial on BBC Radio 4.
7. She loves to collect shoes.
8. As per Daily Mail, she earned £1.5 million in 2012 but spent only £30,000 on herself like clothes, shoes, and all the other expenses. The questions started arising if she was living a cheap life.
9. She is not on social media.

FAQs

Bob Barker is a retired TV game show host and he was a marine fighter pilot during ‘World War II.’ He started out in entertainment in 1950 with his own radio show, The Bob Barker Show. After graduation, he decided to make a career in broadcasting. He moved to California in search of more chances. Soon, he had his own radio show titled ‘The Bob Barker Show’ that aired for six years. Ralph Edwards, a radio show producer, made him the host of ‘End of the Rainbow’ which supported him in his career. Afterward, he became the host of NBC’s ‘Truth or Consequences’ and hosted it for 18 years.

Although Barker is renowned for hosting ‘Truth or Consequences,’ he is more famous as the host of another game show, ‘The Price Is Right.’ The show became a hit as viewers loved the friendly and sweet-talking host. He conducted the game show for 35 years. He won 16 ‘Emmy Awards,’ including the ‘Lifetime Achievement Award for Daytime Television.’ Throughout his illustrious career as a television host, he was associated with many shows, such as ‘End of the Rainbow,’ ‘Simon Says,’ ‘The Family Game,’ and ‘That’s my line.’ The popular television personality continues to be an active supporter of animal rights and has donated millions of dollars towards animal welfare.

Bob Barker Bio/ Wiki

Family

He was born in Darrington, WA. He spent most of his young age on the Rosebud Indian Reservation in South Dakota, where his mother was a school teacher. His family moved to Springfield, Missouri. He attended high school and Drury College on a basketball scholarship. World War II disturbed his studies, so he joined the US Navy, as a fighter pilot. Later he was assigned to a seagoing squadron before the war ended.

Barker returned to Drury and took a job at a local radio station to help finance his studies. In this radio station, he discovered that what he did best was to host audience participation shows. He graduates summa cum laude with a degree in economics, then he went to work for a radio station in Palm Beach, Florida. A year later he moved to Los Angeles, and within a week he was the host of his own radio program, “The Bob Barker Show”.

Bob Barker Net Worth

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Wife/ Spouse and Children/ Kids

On January 12, 1945, Barker married to Dorothy Jo Gideon. The couple firstly met in high school. The couple stayed together, but his wife Dorothy Jo Gideon dead in 1981 from cancer. The couple does not have any children.

‘The Price Is Right’

Barker had taken on the hosting duties of another game show, Before his run on Truth or Consequences ended, The Price Is Right. The Price Is Right had aired on NBC and ABC before finding a home since 1950, at the time of Barker’s arrival in 1972, on CBS.

• This show featured approx 60 different games. Each of these required the contestants to guess the price of various products and ranging from cutlery to luxury cars.
• The show was a hit, due in no small part to the catchphrase, “Come on down!” bellowed by the show’s original announcer, the late Johnny Olson. To the incredible number of prizes awarded by the jovial, smooth-talking Barker (estimated at a total value of approx $200 million from 1972 to 1999).
• In November 1975, The Price Is Right became the first hour-long game show in TV history.
• In 1990, it beats Truth or Consequences as the longest-running daytime game show in history.
• His reign on The Price Is Right forced to his arrival at the center of numerous other prominent programs, including the Pillsbury Bake-Off, which he worked from 1969 to 1985, and the annual New Year’s Day Tournament of Roses Parade, which he hosted from 1969 to 1988.

• In 1980 he appeared as the host of a short-lived variety show, That’s My Line, developed by the creators of What’s My Line, TV’s longest-running primetime game show.
• In 1996 Barker appeared on the big screen when he played himself in Happy Gilmore, a comedy starring Adam Sandler. In a memorable sequence, he and Sandler get into a brawl at a celebrity golf tournament; the scene won an award for “Best Fight Sequence” at the MTV Movie Awards that year.
• In 1996, Barker won an Emmy Award for Lifetime Achievement.
• In 2006, he announced his retirement from hosting The Price Is Right. He was holding the job for nearly 35 years. His last episode aired in June 2007.
• Barker ended every show reminding the public of animal welfare, stating: “Help control the pet population. Have your pets spayed or neutered.”

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‘Animal Rights Activist’

The unwavering Barker also hosted the Miss Universe and Miss U.S.A. pageants every year from 1966 to 1988, when he became involved in an argument with the organizers of Miss U.S.A. over an issue that had become dear to his heart: animal rights.

Barker refused to host the pageants after promoters refused to remove fur coats from the prize packages received by the winners, as he had requested. His support of animal rights concluded in his founding of the DJ&T Foundation in 1995, an organization based in Beverly Hills that works to reduce the overpopulation of pet animals by providing free or inexpensive castration for cats and dogs.

Barker named the DJ&T Foundation for his wife, Dorothy Jo Gideon, and her mother, Tilly. Gideon contributed her husband’s game shows until her death, in 1981, from cancer. In October 2013, Barker spent almost $1 million to get three African elephants from the Toronto Zoo to PAWS, an animal holy place in California.

The Toronto City Council allowed for their removal in 2011 after activists such as Barker voiced their interests about having large animals held within zoos. With the addition of Toka, Thika, and Iringa, the Performing Animal Welfare Society’s ARK 2000 compound has a total of 9 elephants.

Special Visit to ‘The Price Is Right’

Barker made a surprise return visit to The Price Is Right as an April Fool’s joke on April 1, 2015. It was his first presence since he had turned 90 in 2013.

“I know the world is full of fools, but I am a carefully selected fool,” Barker joked about being back on the game show, of which he had hosted for over 3 decades.

‘Priceless Memories’

Bob Barker has written his autobiography, titled Priceless Memories. It was published on April 6, 2009, and features stories from his early life as well as stories and experiences in the 50 years of his television career.

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Facts About Bob Barker

• Does Bob Barker smoke?: No
• Does Bob Barker drink alcohol?: Not Known
• He was born in Washington on December 12, 1923, but he moved to Rosebud Indian Reservation in South Dakota when he was eight years old and then again, finally relocated to Springfield, Missouri with his family.
• In 1929, Bob’s father Byron Barker fell from the top of a tower and suffered an injury and later succumbed to his injuries the same year.
• Bob went to serve in World War II as a fighter pilot in the Navy in the midst of his education in Drury College, but after the war ended, he returned back to his studies.
• He appeared in the episode called “Denver McKee” and played a character named Mort.
• He got married to Dorothy Jo in 1945 with whom he met in high school, but unfortunately, their marriage ended in 1981 when Dorothy Jo died of lung cancer and he never remarried again.
• Barker has a rabbit named “Mr. Rabbit,” who is 10 and a half years old; such an old rabbit is rarely found. Bob Barker WIth His Rabbit
• He is a crazy pet lover and had a dog named “Jesse” also, but he suffered from cancer and is no more.
• In 1972, he started hosting the game show “The Price Is Right,” which became the TV’s longest-running game show in the air.

• The enthusiastic Barker also hosted the Miss Universe and Miss U.S.A. show every year from 1966 to 1988 but left the time he got involved in a dispute with the organizers of the show. He fought for animal rights but they refused to remove fur coats from the prize packages, which was honored to the winners.
• He is a fitness freak and exercises every day and is also very much conscious regarding his diet-routine.
• In 1995, he founded the “DJ&T Foundation” and named it in the memory of his late wife, Dorothy Jo, and his mother, Matilda ‘Tilly’ Valandra. This foundation focuses on giving funds to low-cost animal clinics.
• Bob became a vegetarian around 30 years ago and advises others to become vegetarian too. In his interview with PETA, he explains how giving up meat can keep your mind sharp and help reduce the chances of Alzheimer’s disease.
• At the age of 83, Barker has the record for being the oldest man to host a game show, and the oldest man to have hosted a weekday television program.
• Surprisingly, he’s been on television now for 50 years.
• He is an animal rights activist and has stopped giving out fur coats as prizes in The Price is Right Show.
• He underwent surgery to clear the blockage in his left carotid artery that carries blood to the brain on September 20, 1999, at George Washington University Hospital in Washington D. C.
• On July 8, 2004, Bob Barker Statue was established at the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences Hall of Fame Plaza.
• Bob is so much in love with animals that at the end of every episode of “The Price is Right,” he inculcates these words into viewers’ minds “Help control the pet population. Have your pets spayed or neutered.”
• He won the Lifetime Achievement Award for Daytime Television in 1999 at the 26th Annual Daytime Emmy Awards.

• He received the WWE Slammy Award for Best Raw Guest Host on December 14, 2009.
• A tribute was given to Bob Barker on The Game Show Awards 2009.
• He got trained by Chuck Norris and earned a black belt, and practice martial arts almost daily.

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