Famous People with Name Stella

Stella Chiweshe            Origin/Culture/Country: Zimbabwe

Stella Chiweshe: is a Zimbabwean musician. She is internationally known for her singing and playing of the mbira dzavadzimu, a traditional instrument of the Shona people of Zimbabwe. She is one of the few female players of the instrument, which she learned to play from 1966 to 1969 when even fewer females played the instrument.

Stella Adler            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Stella Adler: was an American actress.Adler was a member of the Jewish-American Adler acting dynasty, the daughter of Sara and Jacob P. Adler, the sister of Luther and Jay Adler, and half-sister of Charles Adler. Jacob and Sara Adler were two of the finest actors of the American Yiddish theatre. They were a significant part of a vital ethnic theatrical scene that thrived in New York from the late nineteenth century well into the 1950's. Stella was destined to become the most famous and influential member of the family. She began her acting career at the age of four and concluded it fifty-five years later, in 1961. During that time, and for years after, Stella Adler taught. With the full force of her formidable energy, she dedicated herself to transmitting to others, the craft that served her so well.

Stella Stevens            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Stella Stevens: is an American actress, film producer, film director and pinup model who began her acting career in 1959.Stevens was first under contract to 20th Century Fox, then dropped after six months. After winning the role of "Appassionata Von Climax" for the musical Li'l Abner (1959), she gained a contract with Paramount Pictures (1959-1963) and later Columbia Pictures (1964-1968). She shared the 1960 Golden Globe Award for "Most Promising Newcomer - Female" with Tuesday Weld, Angie Dickinson, and Janet Munro for Say One For Me.[2]

Stella Steyn            Origin/Culture/Country: Russian

Stella Steyn: was a dublin born artist of russian and german extraction. She was born in 1907 to Willaim Steyn, in Dentistry and Bertha Jaffe, who had moved to Ireland from eastern europe, initially to Limerick. Stella studied at [Alexandra College] and the Dublin Metropolitan School of Art, In 1926, in the company of her mother and fellow artist Hilda Roberts, she went to Paris to study at the Académie Scandinave and at La Grande Chaumière.

Stella Zázvorková            Origin/Culture/Country: Czech

Stella Zázvorková: was a Czech actress from Prague.Zázvorková, an alumnus of Prague's theatre school of E.F. Burian, appeared in several hundred films and series. She was married to the actor Miloš Kopecký. She became known abroad through series like Arabela, The Territory of White Deer, and The Hospital at the Outskirts of Town, but also through her role in the Oscar-winning movie Kolya by Jan Sverák.

Frank Stella            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Frank Stella: is an American painter and printmaker. He is a significant figure in minimalism and post-painterly abstraction.

Joseph Stella            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Joseph Stella: was an Italian-born, American Futurist painter best known for his depictions of industrial America. He is associated with the American Precisionism movement of the 1910s-1940s. He was born in Muro Lucano, Italy but came to New York City in 1896. He studied at the Art Students League of New York under William Merritt Chase. His first paintings are Rembrandtesque depictions of city slum life. In 1908, he was commissioned for a series on industrial Pittsburgh later published in The Pittsburgh Survey.It was his return to Europe in 1909, and his first contact with modernism, that would truly mold his distinctive personal style.

Antonietta Stella            Origin/Culture/Country: Italian

Antonietta Stella: is an Italian operatic soprano, one of the finest Italian spinto sopranos of the 1950s and 1960s, possessing a beautiful and ample voice, and particularly associated with Verdi and Puccini roles.Stella studied at the Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia i

Gianfranco Stella            Origin/Culture/Country: Italian

Gianfranco Stella: was a former Italian cross country skier who competed in the 1960s. He earned a bronze medal in the 4 x 10 km at the 1966 FIS Nordic World Ski Championships in Oslo.