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3 unusual facts about Million Dollar Baby


Billie Awards

Nominations for the first annual Billie Awards included Bend It Like Beckham and Million Dollar Baby in the Entertainment category.

Imaginary Heroes

Sigourney Weaver was nominated for the Satellite Award for Best Actress - Motion Picture Drama but lost to Hilary Swank of Million Dollar Baby.

Tom McCleister

In 2004 he portrayed a lawyer in Clint Eastwood's Academy Award winning drama Million Dollar Baby, in which fellow Star Trek performers Lucia Rijker, Benito Martinez, Jamison Yang, Miguel Perez, Marco Rodriguez, Spice Williams-Crosby, Jude Ciccolella, Rosine "Ace" Hatem, Bridgett Riley, and Boni Yanagisawa also appeared.


Eric Rigler

He has been featured playing Great Highland bagpipes, Uilleann pipes and tin whistle on numerous movie soundtracks, including Titanic, Million Dollar Baby, Road to Perdition, Braveheart, Cinderella Man, Robots, Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me, DreamWorks's The Prince of Egypt, Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World and critically acclaimed South Korean TV series Jewel in the Palace.

F.X. Toole

Immediately before his death, Boyd was acting as a cutman and assistant trainer to Huntley with female professional boxer Juli Crockett, who Huntley told Sports Illustrated in an interview was the basis for the characterization of the character, Maggie Fitzgerald, in Million Dollar Baby.

Henry Bumstead

Bumstead worked on many films during his career, including: Slap Shot, A Little Romance, The World According to Garp, Cape Fear, Unforgiven, Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil, Space Cowboys, Mystic River, and Million Dollar Baby.

Lakeshore Entertainment

The company has produced over 40 films, including the Academy Award-winning Million Dollar Baby as well as Runaway Bride, The Hunted, Bulletproof Monk, Mothman Prophecies, The Gift, Arlington Road,The Exorcism of Emily Rose and Autumn in New York.

Ned Eisenberg

He has also continued his film career; he appeared in Clint Eastwood's Academy Award-winning drama Million Dollar Baby and played the small but important role of photographer Joe Rosenthal in the 2006 film Flags of Our Fathers, also directed by Eastwood.

Parinya Charoenphol

Nong Toom was planning another exhibition bout for sometime in 2006 with a female boxer Lucia Rijker, who portrayed the lethal "Blue Bear" in the film Million Dollar Baby.

Sean O'Kane

He went on to star and co-star in films such as Magic Island (1995), Stone Soup (1993), and TV's Dream Team (1997), Sharpe's Justice (1997) and Taggart, as well as numerous voice-overs on such films as Million Dollar Baby, Patriot Games and Blown Away.


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Jeanette Loff

Her final motion picture performances came in Hide-Out, Flirtation, and Million Dollar Baby, all from 1934.