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1. Laurence Olivier -- Wuthering Heights
   Laurence Olivier was born in Dorking. He attended the Central School of Speech Training and Dramatic Art. His stage breakthrough was in Noel Coward's Private Lives ( in 1930), and in Romeo and Juliet ( in 1935) alternating the roles of Romeo and Mercutio with John Gielgud. His film breakthrough was portrayal of Heathcliff in Wuthering Heights in 1939.
2. Laurence Olivier -- Acting
   The film opened to rave reviews, despite Olivier's initial reluctance. It was the first widely successful Shakespeare film, and was considered a work of art by many. The film received Oscar nominations for Best Picture and Best Actor, but the Academy, in Olivier's opinion, did not feel comfortable in giving out all of their major awards to a foreigner, so they gave him a special Honorary Award. Olivier disregarded the award as a "fob-off".[25]
3. Laurence Olivier -- Dorking
   In his day, Laurence Olivier was widely considered to be the greatest actor of his generation, if not of all time. These days there are plenty of dissenters willing to point out his penchant for theatrical acting, funny accents and funnier false noses. He certainly spent the last few years of his career more concerned with the size of his cheque than the quality of the project. However, no other actor has made a greater contribution to his profession.
4. Laurence Olivier -- Plays
   In the opening scene of Hamlet (1948), Laurence Olivier's voice-over describes the play as "the tragedy of a man who couldn't make up his mind." But Olivier's screen adaptation is considerably more thoughtful and complex than this thesis would suggest. Drawing on his experience playing the prince on stage at Elsinore in 1937, the legendary thespian provides the film with the patina of greatness and shows how the constitution of the formerly cheerful prince weakens increasingly under the burden of his own thoughts and inability to accept his mother's hasty marriage to uncle Claudius (Basil Sydney). As Ophelia, Jean Simmons captures the character's early spirit better than her gradual disintegration. Purists may bemoan the loss of Fortinbras, Rosencrantz, and Guildenstern, but these choices allow Olivier to focus more squarely on Hamlet's plight. The winner of four Oscars® (Best Picture, Actor, Art Direction, and Costumes), this is a Hamlet for the ages.
5. Laurence Olivier -- Old Vic
   For almost a decade, Olivier was among the cinema's most sought-after leading men. A master craftsman, he gloried in disguising himself with accents, putty noses and wigs. But in the 1950s, the ground shifted under him. Marlon Brando's new, more natural style made Olivier and his "craft" seem old-fashioned. He'd been all but written off as a dinosaur when he answered his critics by playing a seedy, vaudeville has-been in The Entertainer—starting with a plummy accent, then letting it disappear as he virtually deconstructed his own art.
6. Laurence Olivier -- National Theatre
   In 1951 Olivier appeared in Antony and Cleopatra and Caesar and Cleopatra in both London and New York City. He ... performed in The Sleeping Prince (1955), Macbeth, and Titus Andronicus during the 1954 and 1955 seasons at the Shakespeare Memorial Theatre, and in Coriolanus (1959), again at Stratford. He scored his first success in a modern role as the music hall comedian Archie Rice in The Entertainer (1957), repeating the part in the 1959 film version. He also directed and starred in The Prince and the Showgirl (1957) opposite Marilyn Monroe (1926–1962). In 1961 he was appointed the first director of the Chichester Festival Theatre. Uncle Vanya, starring Olivier and his third wife Joan Plowright (1929–), proved to be a huge success for the company's opening 1962 season.
7. Laurence Olivier -- Richard Iii
   Laurence Olivier was one of the most famous and revered actors of the 20th century. Along with his contemporaries Gielgud, Ashcroft and Richardson, he played a wide variety of roles on stage and screen from Greek tragedy, Shakespeare and  Restoration comedy to modern American and British drama.  He was the first artistic director of the National Theatre of Great Britain and its main stage is named in his honour.
8. Hugh Jackman -- Performing Arts
   Born Oct. 12, 1968, in Sydney, Australia, Hugh Jackman is the youngest among five children. He attended the University of Technology in Sydney, graduating with a communications degree and then studying drama at the Western Australia Academy of Performing Arts.
9. Alan Rickman -- Dramatic Art
   Although he made his name playing ruthless, genteel villains like Die Hard's Hans Gruber and Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves' Sheriff of Nottingham, Alan Rickman has proven himself equally remarkable in romantic, comic, and good-guy dramatic roles. An actor of brooding charisma who intones his lines in a deep, milky baritone, Rickman began his career on-stage, building up a sizable resumé before embarking on a film career. Of Irish and Welsh parentage, Rickman was born in London's Hammersmith district on February 21, 1946.
10. Pablo Picasso -- Modern Art
    Technical Analysis – is the media even one that Picasso used (he seldom did conte drawings)? Is the watermark of the paper from the period? Is the paper old or modern with “brighteners” in it? Does the work show oxidation from being exposed to air and sun over time or is it “fresh” and new looking? Is there dust imbedded in the surface?

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