Actors Facts

Before he played Dracula, Saruman, and Count Dooku, Christopher Lee served as an RAF intelligence officer attached to Britain's Special Operations Executive - and spent the final months of the war hunting Nazi war criminals. He was fluent in five languages, sworn to secrecy for life, and once corrected Peter Jackson on how a stabbing actually sounds. The man who played 200 villains had hunted real ones.

For over two decades, Bill Murray has operated with no agent, no manager, and no publicist. The only way to offer him a role is to call a 1-800 number and leave a voicemail - which he checks when he feels like it. Sofia Coppola spent five months doing exactly that before landing him for Lost in Translation. He missed Monsters Inc. because nobody got through in time.

Audrey Hepburn was a teenager in Nazi-occupied Netherlands. She secretly danced in ballet recitals to fund the Dutch resistance. The rooms stayed blacked out, but nobody clapped. Applause could bring German soldiers running, so audiences stayed silent. Hepburn also hid resistance notes inside her wooden shoes. That starving teenage courier grew up to become a beloved icon and a lifelong UNICEF ambassador.