Cary Grant was born Archibald Alexander Leach on April 3, 1904 in Steubenville, Ohio. His family moved to California when he was two and he soon began performing in theater and films. He spent his teenage years at the Hollywood Athletic Club and made his film debut at the age of sixteen. After making five films with director Frank Capra, he gained fame as one of the most handsome men in movies
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He won the Academy Award for Best Actor three times (1938, 1941 and 1948) and starred in such films as Bringing Up Baby (1938), Arsenic and Old Lace (1944), The Philadelphia Story (1940), The Awful Truth (1937), His Girl Friday (1940), Topper (1937), Charade (1963) and How To Steal a Million (1966). He also directed two films: The Fortune Hunter (1945) and The Grass Harp (1950). In 1997 he received the Screen Actors Guild Life Achievement Award.