The British Prime Minister who purchases the Suez Canal while avoiding the Russian plan to stop him from doing so
Henry VIII
The English King who marries and remarries many women in order to bear a male heir to the throne
Louis Pasteur
The French chemist who discovers the vaccines for rabies and anthrax as well as stopping sickness caused from milk and wine
Anna Held
The Polish stage performer who becomes the common-law wife of a famous American Broadway impresario
Alfred Dreyfus
The French-Jewish artillery officer wrongly convicted of high treason who is exonerated eleven years later
Father Flanagan
The Irish, Roman-Catholic priest who founds, arguably, the most notable orphanage in history
Judge Roy Bean
The American Old West saloonkeeper and Justice of the Peace with a penchant for hanging criminals
Alvin C. York
The American hillbilly who tries to avoid the draft but becomes the most decorated soldier of World War I
George M. Cohan
The American singer, songwriter, stage performer, and producer who becomes 'The Man Who Owned Broadway' after penning such songs as 'Give My Regards to Broadway
Bernadette Soubirous
The French nun who sees eighteen visions of the Virgin Mary in six months
Eufemio Zapata
The Mexican brother of a revolutionary who topples the Mexican government
Mongkut
The Siamese ruler who hires an English tutor to teach his wives and children
Anna Koreff/Anastasia (Based on Anna Anderson)
The Russian princess who was supposedly killed years before in a massacre of the royal family
Paul Gauguin
The French artist who becomes a close friend with his rival: a one-eared Dutch painter
Eve White/Eve Black/Jane (Based on Chris Costner Sizemore)
The American woman who becomes the first documented female to suffer from Multiple Personality Disorder
Barbara Graham
The American prostitute and drug addict who becomes the third woman in the state of California to die by gas
Lentulus Batiatus
The Roman impresario of gladiatorial games and slave trader whose slaves escape him and start the Third Servile War
Annie Sullivan
The American teacher best known for teaching a deaf, dumb, and blind American icon
Helen Keller
The American woman born deaf, dumb, and blind who forms a special relationship with her teacher
Sir Thomas More
The British lawyer who refuses to grant the King the right to a divorce with no grounds and is promptly executed
Blanche Barrow
The American daughter of a preacher who joins an infamous gang with her husband and becomes prone to hysterics
Eleanor of Aquitaine
The French Queen who argues with her British King husband over which of their three sons will take the throne
Fanny Brice
The American stage performer and comedienne who has a turbulent relationship with her husband whose business ventures always fail
George S. Patton
The American army general whose eccentricity and controversial outspokenness cause him to frequently lose his command
Ben Bradlee
The American executive editor who oversees two of his writers' stories on the Watergate scandal
Dashiell Hammett
The American mystery writer who spends time with his friend and lover: a left-wing playwright
Jake LaMotta
The American boxer whose sadomasochistic rage, sexual jealousy, and sheer animalism destroy not only his opponents but those outside of the ring
Loretta Lynn
The American country singer who marries young and rises to the top of her profession
Emma Goldman
The Russian anarchist who influences a young American communist journalist with her revolutionary ideas
Mohandas Gandhi
The Indian lawyer and political leader who leads several nonviolent protests to convey his anger with the British who occupy his country
Antonio Salieri
The Italian composer who is driven to madness by living in the shadow of one of classical music's greatest composers
Dith Pran
The Cambodian photojournalist who covers the fall of Phnom Penh by the Khmer Rouge
Christy Brown
The Irishman born with cerebral palsy who becomes a writer and artist even though he can only control one of his feet
Bridget Brown
The Irishwoman who supports her son who lacks control of the majority of his body
Claus von Bülow
The British socialite who is imprisoned for murdering his wife and is exonerated five years later
Béla Lugosi
The Hungarian film actor who befriends and stars in the pictures of a terrible director and, simultaneously, struggles with his heroin addiction and old age
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Helen Prejean
The American nun who advocates against the death penalty and spends time with a soon-to-be-executed inmate
David Helfgott
The Australian concert pianist who struggles throughout life with his father and his own schizoaffective disorder
Elizabeth I
The English Queen who witnesses the first showing of a British playwright's most romantic production
Teena Brandon/Brandon Teena
The American trans man who finds himself in love and survives a brutal hate crime in Nebraska
Erin Brockovich
The American single mother who exposes a large water company for poisoning its clients
Lee Krasner
The American Expressionist painter who marries a hard-drinking contemporary in the field
John Bayley
The Irish husband, known to be timid and scholarly, of an outgoing Irish writer who's relationship is challenged by her Alzheimer's later in life
Alicia Nash
The American wife of a brilliant mathematician who struggles with schizophrenia
Wladyslaw Szpilman
The Jewish-Polish pianist and composer who manages to survive World War II after several near-death experiences
Virginia Woolf
The British author who suffers from severe depression while being forced to live in the English countryside and whose book affects three different generations of women
John Laroche
The American man who is arrested for trying to expose a loophole that allows Native Americans to legally poach endangered wildlife
Aileen Wuornos
The American prostitute who kills seven men in the early nineties and claims all her murders were in self-defense
Ray Charles
The American pianist who, despite his blindness, becomes one of the most influential blues and pop musicians in music history
Katharine Hepburn
The American actress who has an affair with a movie director who is becoming more and more obsessed with flying
Truman Capote
The American author who writes one of the most prolific non-fiction crime books in history and befriends the author of another classic American novel
June Carter Cash
The American country music singer who is romanced by and then married to a self-destructive country music star
Idi Amin
The Ugandan dictator who overthrows the government and ensues with a reign of blood and terror
Elizabeth II
The English Queen who gets differing views on how to publicize the late former Princess of Wales
Édith Piaf
The French singer whose life of constant drinking and smoking leads to a slow and tragic death
Harvey Milk
The American city supervisor of San Francisco who becomes the first openly gay man to hold office and is promptly assassinated
Leigh Anne Tuohy
The American mother who adopts an African-American high school student with a massive physique and a penchant for football
George VI
The English King who uses a private tutor to help overcome a stutter when he is supposed to address the nation on World War II
Dicky Eklund
The American ex-boxer and brother of an up-and-coming boxer who, although he thinks it's about his comeback, is having a documentary on crack addiction being made about him
Alice Ward
The American mother of an up-and-coming boxer who is willing to fight to the death her position as his manager
Margaret Thatcher
The elderly former Prime Minister of the UK who is struggling with coming to terms with her husband's death
Abraham Lincoln
The American President who struggles to lead a nation through a Civil War, to maintain his relationships with family and pass a Constitutional Amendment
Ron Woodroof
The American electrician who works around the medical system to get necessary HIV medication
Patsey
The African-American slave who works on the same plantation as Solomon Northup and is praised for her joyous spirit in the midst of suffering
Stephen Hawking
The English theoretical physicist who sets forth a theory of cosmology explained by a union of the general theory of relativity and quantum mechanics
Rudolf Abel
The Russian intelligence officer who is arrested in the U.S. and exchanged for the release of American U-2 pilot Francis Gary Powers
Winston Churchill
The newly appointed UK Prime Minister who must deal with the rising threat of Nazi Germany.
LaVona Golden
The mother of the figure skater who orchestrated an attack on fellow US Olympian Nancy Kerrigan.
Freddie Mercury
The Zanzibar-born rock star who revolutionized rock music as the frontman for Queen
Anne of Great Britain
The Queen of Great Britain who engages in frivolous activities while others vie to be her ladies in waiting
Don Shirley
The African American classical and jazz pianist who goes on a tour of the south during the time of segregation
Judy Garland
The former child actress who is now struggling with substance abuse in her forties
Gerda Wegener
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