By Annabella Ramirez
FROM WIKIPEDIA COMMONS
Sienna Rose Diana Miller (born 28 December 1981) is an American-British actress. Born in New York City and raised in London, she began her career as a photography model, appearing in the pages of Italian Vogue and for the 2003 Pirelli Calendar. Her acting breakthrough came in the 2004 films Layer Cake and Alfie. She subsequently portrayed socialite Edie Sedgwick in Factory Girl (2006) and author Caitlin Macnamara in The Edge of Love (2008), and was nominated for the BAFTA Rising Star Award in 2008. Her role as The Baroness in G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra (2009) was followed by a brief sabbatical from the screen amid increased tabloid scrutiny.
Miller returned to prominence with her role as actress Tippi Hedren in the 2012 television film The Girl, for which she was nominated for the BAFTA Television Award for Best Actress and the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Miniseries or Television Film. She has since starred in several notable films, including Foxcatcher (2014), American Sniper (2014), The Lost City of Z (2016), Live by Night (2016), and American Woman (2018), as well as the miniseries The Loudest Voice (2019) and Anatomy of a Scandal (2022).
Miller was born in New York City, in The Nutcracker Suite theatre, and moved to London with her family when she was 18 months old. She later boarded at the Heathfield School in Ascot, Berkshire. Her father, Edwin Miller, is an American dealer in Chinese art, previously a banker. Her mother, Josephine, is a British former model who was born in South Africa to British parents and was a personal assistant to David Bowie and onetime manager of the Lee Strasberg Theatre and Film Institute in New York.
TODAY’S ALMANAC
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Born
- Woodrow Wilson (28th U.S. president) –
- Stan Lee (comic book writer) –
- Nichelle Nichols (American actress ) –
- Maggie Smith (actress) –
- Denzel Washington (actor) –
- Sienna Miller (actress) –
- Mackenzie Rosman (actress) –
- Maitreyi Ramakrishnan (actress ) –
Died
- Theodore Dreiser (American writer) –
- Sam Peckinpah (filmmaker) –
- John D. MacDonald (writer) –
- William L. Shirer (journalist) –
- William X. Kienzle (author) –
- Jerry Orbach (actor) –
- Debbie Reynolds (actress) –
Events
- Westminster Abbey in London was consecrated –
- Benjamin Franklin’s paper, The Pennsylvania Gazette, ran an ad for the first issue of Franklin’s own Poor Richard’s Almanack –
- Vice President John Calhoun, having serious disagreements with President Andrew Jackson, resigned from office. He was the first U.S. vice president to do so. –
- Iowa admitted to the Union as the 29th state –
- Second chewing gum patent went to William Semple, a dentist in Mt. Vernon, Ohio –
- H. L. Mencken published A Neglected History bathtub hoax –
- First sudden-death overtime game in NFL, Baltimore Colts vs. N.Y. Giants –
- President Nixon signed the Endangered Species Act of 1973 into law. It provided broad protection for threatened species of fish, wildlife, and plants. –
- The Endangered Species Act was signed into law by President Nixon –
- Endangered Species Act approved –
- U.S. patent #4,000,000 was issued –
Weather
- Temperatures throughout Iowa hovered near 24 degrees below zero F –
- 83 inches of snow on the ground in Bathurst, New Brunswick –
- A severe snowstorm with periods of near-zero visibility resulted in an incredible 1,000 traffic accidents in Michigan –
- 31.5 inches of snow fell in 24 hours in Victoria, British Columbia –
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