Roughly 11% of the world’s population is left-handed, and nowadays, parents have stopped forcing left handed children to use their right so expect that number to rise.
It’s a topic once hotly debated and discussed but it doesn’t seem to affect the talents and creativity of the world’s most famous people.
Time to meet celebrities who most people don’t know are actually left-handed.
Scarlett Johansson
Johansson is the world’s highest-paid actress, with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, and lots of adoring fans.
She has made multiple appearances in the Forbes Celebrity 100, and has received several awards, including a Tony Award and a British Academy Film Award.
Born and raised in Manhattan, New York City, Johansson had always wanted to be an actress from a young age.
Her perseverance and hard work has paid off.
William, Prince of Wales
The elder son of King Charles III and Diana, Princess of Wales was born in St Mary’s Hospital, London.
William studied at Wetherby School, Ludgrove School and Eton College, and he earned a Scottish Master of Arts degree in geography at the University of St Andrews.
He trained at Royal Military Academy Sandhurst, serving with the Blues and Royals.
In April 2008, William graduated from Royal Air Force College Cranwell. He joined the RAF Search and Rescue Force in early 2009 as a full-time pilot with the East Anglian Air Ambulance.
Cardi B
Born Belcalis Almanzar and known professionally as Cardi B, the American rapper, singer, and songwriter was born and raised in The Bronx, New York.
She attracted attention for talking about her career as a stripper on social media.
Her “no filter attitude” made her an Internet celebrity through Instagram and the rest is history.
LeBron James
James’ accomplishments include three NBA championships, four NBA Most Valuable Player Awards, three NBA Finals MVP Awards, and two Olympic gold medals.
He has appeared in fifteen NBA All-Star Games and been named NBA All-Star MVP three times.
The subject of much scrutiny, James is ranked as one of America’s most influential and popular athletes, and is often part of the debate on who is the “greatest” basketball player ever.
Nicole Kidman
The Australian beauty is an actress and producer and has received an Academy Award, two Primetime Emmy Awards, and five Golden Globe Awards.
Kidman was listed among the world’s highest-paid actresses in 2006, 2018 and 2019.
Time magazine named the actress one of the 100 most influential people in the world, both in 2004 and 2018.
Jennifer Lawrence
Lawrence’s films have grossed over $6 billion worldwide, making her the highest-paid actress in the world in 2015 and 2016.
She’s appeared in Time’s 100 most influential people in the world in 2013, as well as the Forbes Celebrity 100 list in 2014 and 2016.
During her childhood, she performed in church plays and school musicals.
She was just 14 when she was spotted by a talent scout while on vacation in New York City with her family.
Lawrence moved to Los Angeles, pursuing an acting career by playing guest roles in television shows.
Adam Levine
Levine has received three Grammy Awards, three American Music Awards, an MTV Video Music Award, and a World Music Award.
From 2011 to 2019, he served as a coach on NBC’s reality talent show The Voice, winning three times with a member of his team on seasons 1, 5, and 9.
Levine launched his own eponymous fragrance line in 2013 and collaborated with K-Mart and ShopYourWay.com to develop his menswear collection.
He owns a record label, 222 Records, and a production company, 222 Productions.
Lady Gaga
Stefani Joanne Angelina Germanotta is known for her unconventionality, provocative work and visual experimentation.
She began performing as a teenager, singing at open mic nights and acting in school plays.
Lady Gaga has several Guinness world records, nine Grammy Awards, and awards from the Songwriters Hall of Fame and the Council of Fashion Designers of America.
She was declared Billboard’s Artist of the Year and Woman of the Year, while being included among Forbes’s power and earnings rankings.
Gaga was ranked number four on VH1’s Greatest Women in Music in 2012 and second on Time’s 2011 readers’ poll of the most influential people of the past ten years.
She is known for her philanthropic work and social activism, including the Born This Way Foundation, which focuses on empowering youth and preventing bullying.
Gordon Ramsay
The British chef is known for his temper, strict demeanour, and use of expletives often combined with blunt and controversial comments, including insults and wisecracks on cooking and restaurant facilities.
Ramsay works in the television, film, hospitality, and food industries and has promoted and hired many chefs who have worked with and for him.
In 2018, Forbes listed the chef’s earnings at $62 million for the previous 12 months, ranking Ramsay the 33rd-highest-earning celebrity in the world.
Caitlyn Jenner
Jenner is a retired Olympic gold medal–winning decathlete who played college football for the Graceland Yellowjackets before suffering from a knee injury that required surgery.
Jenner went on to establish a career in television, film, writing, auto racing, and business.
Assigned male at birth, Jenner has six children with three successive wives; Chrystie Crownover, Linda Thompson, and Kris Jenner, and has appeared on the reality television series Keeping Up with the Kardashians with Kris, daughters Kendall and Kylie Jenner, and Kris’s other children Kourtney, Kim, Khloé, and Rob Kardashian.
Barack Obama
Obama served as the 44th president of the United States from 2009 to 2017 as a member of the Democratic Party. He was the first African American to be elected.
He served as a senator from Illinois from 2005 to 2008 and an Illinois state senator from 1997 to 2004.
Obama was born in Honolulu, Hawaii, graduating from Columbia University in 1983.
In 1988, he enrolled in Harvard Law School, becoming the first black president of the Harvard Law Review.
He went on to become a civil rights attorney and an academic, teaching constitutional law at the University of Chicago Law School from 1992 to 2004.
Oprah Winfrey
The American media executive, actress, talk show host, television producer and philanthropist is best known for her talk show The Oprah Winfrey Show, which was broadcast from Chicago, and was the highest-rated television program of its kind in history.
It ran in national syndication for 25 years from 1986 to 2011.
She is dubbed the “Queen of All Media”, and was the richest African American of the 20th century and North America’s first black multi-billionaire.
Oprah has been ranked the greatest black philanthropist in American history and was even ranked as the most influential woman in the world.
Kate Hudson
Kate Hudson rose to fame for her performance in the film Almost Famous (2000), winning a Golden Globe and earning a nominatation for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress.
She co-founded the fitness brand and membership program, Fabletics, operated by JustFab.
In 2016, the actress released her first book, Pretty Happy: Healthy Ways to Love Your Body, and in 2017, her second book, Pretty Fun: Creating and Celebrating a Lifetime of Tradition was released.
Will Ferrell
Ferrell is a member of the “Frat Pack”, a generation of leading Hollywood comic actors emerging in the late 1990s and the 2000s.
Members include Jack Black, Ben Stiller, Steve Carell, Vince Vaughn, and brothers Owen and Luke Wilson.
He was also named the best comedian of 2015 in the British GQ Men of the Year awards, receiving a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame on March 24, 2015.
Seth Rogen
Rogen began his career doing stand-up comedy in his teenage years.
He was still in Vancouver when he landed a supporting role in Judd Apatow’s series Freaks and Geeks which was eventually cancelled after a season.
Rogen then landed a job as a staff writer on the final season of Da Ali G Show.
He was nominated for a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Writing for a Variety Series.
Rogen’s first movie appearance was in Donnie Darko with a minor role. He was then cast in a supporting role and credited as a co-producer in Apatow’s directorial debut, The 40-Year-Old Virgin.
Angelina Jolie
Jolie is the recipient of such accolades like the Academy Award and three Golden Globe Awards, and has been named Hollywood’s highest-paid actress multiple times.
She is noted for her humanitarian efforts, receiving a Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award and made an honorary Dame Commander of the Order of St Michael and St George (DCMG), among others.
Jolie promotes various causes, including conservation, education, and women’s rights.
Her advocacy on behalf of refugees as a Special Envoy for the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) is well noted.
As a public figure, she is one of the most influential and powerful people in the American entertainment industry, and was even cited as the world’s most beautiful woman by many media outlets.
Marilyn Monroe
Monroe was famous for playing comic “blonde bombshell” characters, becoming one of the most well known sex symbols of the 1950s and early 1960s.
She was emblematic of the era’s changing attitudes towards sexuality, though she was a top-billed actress for only a decade.
Her films grossed $200 million at the time.
More than half a century later, Monroe remains a major popular culture icon.
She was born and raised in Los Angeles, spending most of her childhood in foster homes and an orphanage.
Tom Cruise
Cruise has received several accolades for his work, with three Golden Globe Awards and nominations for three Academy Awards to his name.
He is one of the best-paid actors in the world, with films grossing over $4 billion in North America and over $10.1 billion worldwide.
That makes him one of the highest-grossing box-office stars of all time.
Cruise was married to actresses Mimi Rogers, Nicole Kidman, and Katie Holmes.
He has three kids, two were adopted during his marriage to Kidman. He is the father to a daughter with Holmes.
Paul McCartney
McCartney gained worldwide fame as the bass player for the Beatles.
His songwriting with John Lennon remains the most successful in history.
The band disbanded in 1970, so he pursued a solo career and formed the band Wings with his first wife, Linda, and Denny Laine.
He is a self-taught musician and is proficient on bass, guitar, and keyboards.
Known for his melodic approach to bass-playing, his versatile and wide tenor vocal range spanning over four octaves, his eclecticism has endeared him to fans over the decades.
Julia Roberts
Roberts established her position as a leading lady in Hollywood after the romantic comedy film Pretty Woman (1990), which grossed $464 million worldwide.
She has won three Golden Globe Awards from eight nominations, and has been nominated for four Academy Awards, winning the Academy Award for Best Actress for Erin Brockovich (2000).
Her films have brought box office receipts of over US$2.8 billion.
Roberts is one of the most bankable actresses in Hollywood. As of 2017, her net worth was estimated to be $170 million.
People magazine named Roberts the most beautiful woman in the world a record five times.
Robert De Niro
De Niro is a recipient of two Academy Awards, a Golden Globe Award, the Cecil B DeMille Award, AFI Life Achievement Award, and the Presidential Medal of Freedom, and has been nominated for six BAFTA Awards, four Primetime Emmy Awards and four Screen Actors Guild Awards.
He was cast as the young Vito Corleone in the 1974 film The Godfather Part II, winning the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor.
Bruce Willis
Willis was born to a German mother and American father in Idar-Oberstein, Germany.
He moved to the United States in 1957 and began his career on the Off-Broadway stage in the 1970s.
Willis achieved fame with his leading role on the hit television series Moonlighting (1985–89), going on to star in several hits.
He is the recipient of several accolades, including a Golden Globe, two Primetime Emmy Awards, and two People’s Choice Awards.
Bruce Willis received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 2006.
Sylvester Stallone
Sly was a struggling actor for a number of years when he came to New York City in 1969 and then Hollywood in 1974.
He only found gradual work as an extra or side character in most films until he achieved his greatest critical and commercial success as an actor, starting in 1976 with the self-created role of the boxer Rocky Balboa, in the first film of the successful Rocky series.
Stallone wrote or co-wrote most of the films in his three biggest franchises, even directing many of them.
Rocky was inducted into the National Film Registry, with its props placed in the Smithsonian Museum. The front entrance to the Philadelphia Museum of Art in the Rocky series led to the area being called the Rocky Steps, and Philadelphia has a statue of Rocky placed permanently near the museum.
On December 7, 2010, he was voted into the International Boxing Hall of Fame in the non-participant category.
Stallone was nominated for two Academy Awards for Rocky, for Best Original Screenplay and Best Actor in 1977, becoming the third man in history to receive these two nominations for the same film, just after Charlie Chaplin and Orson Welles.
Sarah Jessica Parker
Known for playing Carrie Bradshaw on the HBO television series Sex and the City (1998–2004), Parker won two Emmy Awards, four Golden Globe Awards for Best Actress in a Comedy Series and three Screen Actors Guild Awards.
The character proved popular during the airing of the series, and was eventually recognized as one of the greatest female characters in American television.
Parker has run her own production company, Pretty Matches since 2005, creating content for HBO and other channels.
Keanu Reeves
Reeves has earned critical acclaim for his acting with a New York Times critic praising Reeves’ versatility, saying he “displays considerable discipline and range… he moves easily between the buttoned-down demeanor that suits a police procedural story and the loose-jointed manner of his comic roles.”
Reeves has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. Outside of films, he has pursued stage acting, music, and directing.
Onstage, he performed as Prince Hamlet for the Manitoba Theatre Centre’s production of Hamlet.
Reeves is also a musician and played bass guitar for the bands Dogstar and Becky.
He also wrote the text for a picture book, Ode to Happiness, which was illustrated by Alexandra Grant.
Charlie Chaplin
Chaplin rose to fame in the era of silent film, becoming a worldwide icon through his screen persona, “The Tramp”.
Considered one of the most important figures in the history of the industry, his career spanned more than 75 years, from his childhood in the Victorian era until a year before his death in 1977.
Chaplin began performing at a young age, touring music halls and before working as a stage actor and comedian.
He was scouted for the film industry, and from there, he developed the Tramp persona, resulting in a large fan base. In 1918, he was one of the best-known figures in the world.
Emma Thompson
Thompson is one of the UK’s most acclaimed actresses, often taking on the roles of enigmatic and matronly characters with a sense of wit, often in period dramas and literary adaptations.
She is the recipient of two Academy Awards, a Primetime Emmy Award, three BAFTA Awards, and two Golden Globe Awards.
Thompson is an activist of human rights and environmentalism, receiving criticism for her outspokenness.
She wrote two books adapted from The Tale of Peter Rabbit and was appointed a Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire (DBE) in the 2018 Birthday Honours by Elizabeth II for her services to drama.
Steve McQueen
McQueen was nicknamed “The King of Cool”, with an antihero persona developed during the counterculture of the 1960s.
That made him a top box-office draw for the time.
McQueen became the highest-paid movie star in 1974, though he did not act for four years.
He was combative with directors and producers, his popularity allowing him to command large salaries since he was in high demand.
Shirley MacLaine
Maclaine was an Academy Award winner, receiving the 40th AFI Life Achievement Award from the American Film Institute in 2012, and the Kennedy Center Honors for her lifetime contributions to American culture in 2013.
She is known for her New Age beliefs, with an interest in spirituality and reincarnation.
MacLaine has written autobiographical works that describe her beliefs, documenting her world travels, and describing her Hollywood career.
She has won five competitive Golden Globe Awards, receiving the Golden Globe Cecil B. DeMille Award during the 1998 ceremony.
Diane Keaton
Keaton is an actress, director, producer, photographer, real estate developer, author, and singer who has received an Academy Award, a BAFTA Award, two Golden Globe Awards, and the AFI Life Achievement Award.
She began her career on stage but her first major film role was as Kay Adams-Corleone in The Godfather (1972), which she reprised in The Godfather Part II (1974) and The Godfather Part III (1990).
Keaton has taken on many roles in different genres as well, further cementing her acting prowess, going on to become one of Hollywood’s finest.
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