Bradley Cooper (born January 5, 1975) is an American actor and producer. He has been nominated for a Tony Award, four Academy Awards, and two Grammy Awards. In 2000 Cooper enrolled at the Actors Studio in New York City. His career began with a guest role in the television series Sex and the City in 1999, and he played Will Tippin in the spy-action television show Alias (2001–2006). His breakthrough role came in the film The Hangover (2009) and its two sequels. He portrayed a struggling writer in Limitless and a rookie police officer in The Place Beyond the Pines. He also had roles in the romantic comedy-drama Silver Linings Playbook, the black comedy crime film American Hustle, and the biopic American Sniper. In 2014 he portrayed Joseph Merrick in a Broadway revival of The Elephant Man, garnering a nomination for the Tony Award for Best Actor in a Play.
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_______________________________ Today's selected anniversaries:
1875:
The Palais Garnier opera house in Paris was formally inaugurated. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palais_Garnier
1919:
The German Workers' Party, the forerunner to the Nazi Party, was founded by Anton Drexler. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_Workers%27_Party
1975:
The bulk carrier Lake Illawarra struck a bridge over the River Derwent in Hobart, Tasmania, Australia, causing the deaths of seven of the ship's crewmen and five motorists on the bridge. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tasman_Bridge_disaster
2000:
Sri Lankan politician Kumar Ponnambalam was killed in an assassination blamed on President Chandrika Kumaratunga. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kumar_Ponnambalam
_____________________________ Wiktionary's word of the day:
puffling: A young puffin. https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/puffling
___________________________ Wikiquote quote of the day:
Children understand intuitively that the world they have been born into is not a blessed world. --Hayao Miyazaki https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Hayao_Miyazaki