DAME JUDI DENCH is one of the foremost stage, screen, and television actors of our time.  Honored with every award given for performances on stage and screen, she was awarded the Order of the British Empire in 1970, created a Dame of the British Empire in 1988 and a... more

NELSON MANDELA was born in Transkei, South Africa, on July 18, 1918. He joined the African National Congress in 1944 and was engaged in resistance against the ruling National Party’s apartheid policies after 1948. From 1964 to 1982, he was incarcerated at Robben Island... more

JIMMY CARTER, our thirty-ninth president, received the Nobel Peace Prize in 2002. The author of numerous bestsellers-including An Hour Before Daylight and Palestine Peace Not Apartheid-he and his wife, Rosalynn, live in Plains, Georgia, but continue to travel around the... more

Dick Cavett was the host of The Dick Cavett Show, which aired on ABC from 1968 to 1975 and on PBS from 1977 to 1982. He also hosted talk shows on the USA, HBO, and CNBC cable networks. He is the coauthor of Cavett and Eye on Cavett, and since 2007 he has written an online... more

Sir Michael Caine has won two Academy Awards during his distinguished five-decade career on screen. Knighted in 2000, Caine was born in working-class Sussex, England, and served in the British Army before landing his first film role in Zulu (1964). His films include The... more