Famous People with Name Anne

Anne Wiggins Brown            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Anne Wiggins Brown: created the role of Bess in George Gershwin's folk opera Porgy and Bess in 1935. She was also a radio and concert star.In 2000 she was awarded Norway's Council of Cultures Honorary Award.

Anne Sexton            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Anne Sexton: was an American poet and writer.sexton was born in Newton, Massachusetts, and spent most of her life near Boston, Massachusetts. In 1945, Sexton began attending a boarding school, Rogers Hall, in Lowell, Massachusetts. For a time as a young woman, she modeled at Boston's Hart Agency. Although she was already engaged to someone else, in August 1948 she eloped with Alfred Muller Sexton, known as "Kayo." The couple drove from Massachusetts to North Carolina, where the legal marrying age was 18. Before their divorce in the early 1970s, she had two children with Kayo: Linda Gray Sexton, later a novelist and memoirist, and Joyce Sexton. Controversy was stirred with the posthumous public release of tapes recorded during Sexton's psychotherapy (and thus subject to doctor-patient confidentiality), in which Sexton revealed the attempted incestuous rape of her daughter her daughter.[1] In this case the crime is confirmed by her duaghter, although no legal action was ever taken.

Anne Ramsey            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Anne Ramsey: was an American actress who is probably most famous for her roles as Mama Fratelli in Richard Donner's The Goonies, and as Mrs. Lift, the mother of Danny DeVito's character in her Academy Award nominated performance in Throw Momma from the Train.

Anne Meara            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Anne Meara: is an American comedian and actress. She and Jerry Stiller are the parents of actor/comedian Ben and actress Amy Stiller, and were a prominent 1960s comedy team, appearing as Stiller and Meara.

Anne Francis            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Anne Francis: is an American actress, famous for her role in the science fiction film classic Forbidden Planet (1956) and as private detective Honey West in the television series Honey West (1965-1966).Francis entered show business at a young age, working as a model at age 5, to help her family make ends meet during the Great Depression, and making her Broadway debut at age 11. Over her career, Ms. Francis appeared in scores of TV shows and several movies, including several appearances on The Twilight Zone, including the title character in "Jess-Belle", and most notably as Marsha White in the episode titled "The After Hours". In it, Francis is gradually revealed as a department store mannequin who has enjoyed a brief vacation among the living. Francis was a mainstay of 1970s television movies, and she returned to TV to portray "Mama Jo" for the 1984-86 TV-detective series Riptide.

Vanessa Anne Hudgens            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Vanessa Anne Hudgens: is an American actress and singer. She made her screen debut in 2003 and appeared in the Hollywood films Thirteen and Thunderbirds, before reaching fame in the 2006 hit Disney Channel film High School Musical series. Hudgens also began a music career and released her debut album, entitled V, in 2006. In 2007, Hudgens became the spokesperson for Neutrogena. She will also be in the upcoming movie Rock On. Her sophomore album, Identified, will be released July 1, 2008.