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Paul Newman was born in Cleveland, Ohio in 1925 and after being discharged from the navy at the end of the war studied at Yale Drama School and the New York Actors Studio. He made his movie debut in 1954's The Silver Chalice and thought his performance so bad, he took out an advert to apologise. He won his first Oscar nomination opposite Elizabeth Taylor in Cat on a Hot Tin Roof in 1958 and was nominated four times in the 60s, the last for his directing debut Rachel, Rachel (1968). Turkeys such as When Time Ran Out were rare and he improved on his Oscar nomination for The Hustler by winning the award for the sequel, The Color Of Money, in 1986.
