Oliver stated that she grew up in a “very dysfunctional family” and had a “difficult childhood.” She later attended the Ohio State University and Vassar College but did not earn a degree. She worked for a time as a secretary for the sister of Edna St. Vincent Millay. Millay’s inf...
s childhood nothing is known other than that he received his elementary schooling in Kirkcaldy and that at the age of four years he was said to have been carried off by gypsies. Pursuit wasmounted, and young Adam was abandoned by his captors. “He would have made, I fear, a poor ...
He also appeared in the crime dramas Drive (2011) and A Most Violent Year (2014) and portrayed a doctor in Concussion (2015), about the discovery of chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE) among professional football players. Brooks’s other films included Private Benjamin (1980), Out of Sight...
Van Burenwas the third of five children born to Abraham Van Buren, a farmer and tavern keeper, and Maria Hoes Van Alen, both of Dutch descent; he also had one half sister and two half brothers on his mother’s side from her previous marriage. Martin, whose childhood nickname was “Littl...