By Eunice Charles
FROM WIKIPEDIA COMMONS
Jacinda Barrett Macht (born 2 August 1972) is an Australian-American actress and former model. She first became known to audiences as a cast member on The Real World: London (1995) before appearing in films such as The Human Stain (2003), Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason (2004), Ladder 49 (2004), The Namesake (2006), Poseidon (2006), and The Last Kiss (2006). She appeared in the series The Following in 2013 and joined the main cast of the Netflix series Bloodline, which launched in 2015.
As a high school student, she won the annual Dolly Covergirl contest in Australia in 1988 and started modeling at the age of 17 throughout Europe.[2]
In 1995, she made her first television appearance as a cast member on MTV’s The Real World: London. Her film debut was in Campfire Tales (1997).
Barrett appeared in the September 1998 issue of Maxim, in an article promoting the new fall television series. Her appearance served to promote her appearance in the NBC primetime soap opera Wind on Water.
Barrett and her husband have performed together at least twice. They appeared in the film Middle Men (2009), and she had a recurring role in the second season of the TV series Suits (2012–2013), playing a love interest of her husband’s character.
On 28 August 2009, Barrett was naturalized as a US citizen at the Los Angeles Convention Center.[10] Barrett enjoys skydiving.
TODAY’S ALMANAC
Question of the Day
Advice of the Day
Home Hint of the Day
Word of the Day
Puzzle of the Day
Died
- King William II of England –
- Wild Bill Hickok (frontiersman) –
- Alexander Graham Bell (inventor) –
- Warren G. Harding (29th U.S. president) –
- Shari Lewis (actress and puppeteer, best known for Lamb Chop) –
- Francis “Frank” Gouin (plant physiologist) –
Born
- Pierre-Charles L’Enfant (architect) –
- Leopold Gmelin (chemist) –
- Jack Warner (the man behind the development of Warner Brothers Studios) –
- James Baldwin (author) –
- Caroll O’Connor (actor) –
- Peter O’Toole (actor) –
- Mary Louise Parker (actress) –
- Tim Wakefield (baseball player) –
- Jacinda Barrett (model & actress) –
- Hallie Kate Eisenberg (actress) –
Events
- Official signing of enlarged copy of the U.S. Declaration of Independence –
- Street letter boxes installed in Boston and N.Y.C., first in U.S. –
- In San Francisco, California, at four o’clock in the morning, Andrew Smith Hallidie successfully tested the world’s first cable car –
- The Oleomargarine Act established the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms (ATF) laboratory system –
- The Lincoln Cent was issued to replace the Indian Head Cent –
- Adolf Hitler appointed himself dictator of Germany –
- Albert Einstein wrote a letter to President FDR explaining the possibility of an atomic bomb, thus marking the beginning of atomic weaponry –
- Olivia Newton-John’s “Magic” topped charts –
- Iraq invaded Kuwait –
- Viking ship replica Gaia arrived at L’Anse aux Meadows, Newfoundland –
- Library of Congress announced Charles Simic to be the 15th Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry –
- Yasmin Fudakowska-Gow began 32-hour yoga marathon in Quebec –
Weather
- Offshore hurricane battered fishing fleet and lightship near Nantucket, Massachusetts –
- It was 107 degrees F in Massachusetts, 105 degrees in Maine and New Hampshire, and 104 degrees in Rhode Island –
- Both New Bedford and Chester, Massachusetts, reported a high temperature of 107F (42C), setting a new state record. –
- During a heat wave, Sandi Fontaine successfully baked cookies on her vehicle’s dashboard in Bedford, New Hampshire –
COURTESY www.almanac.com
