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.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bradley_Cooper>
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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>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
puffling:
A young puffin.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/puffling>
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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>
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