She gained recognition with an Oscar win early in her career, then followed it with a decade of mostly mediocre movies that didn't display her full potential.
More like a daredevil, she gained recognition in the mid-1980's for her gravity-baiting feats of physicality using trampolines, gyroscopic belts and bungee cords.
–Dalyght Last Night in Montreal by Emily St John Mandel: "Written before she gained recognition this year for Station Eleven, it is quite strange but evokes winter in the streets of Montreal perfectly".
After years of struggling as a freelance writer for women's magazines -- her career began improbably at Ladies Homee Journal and Good Housekeeping -- she gained recognition five years ago as the sex columnist for The New York Observer; lucrative book, television and film contracts followed.
In 1934 she gained recognition in her first feature film, the musical Stand Up and Cheer, and later that year appeared in a succession of movies, including Little Miss Marker, Change of Heart, Now I'll Tell, Now and Forever, and Bright Eyes (in which she sang one of her most popular songs,"On the Good Ship Lollipop").
She gained recognition with her Indiana Chronicle trilogy, which consists of Blues (2004), Lipstick (2005) and Bridesmaid (2005).
She gained recognition in Mexico first, then in the U.S. and in Europe, for photos of indigenous people, portraits and nudes, and for her street photography and still lifes.
She first gained recognition when she appeared on the second season of American Idol in 2003.
A celebrity also gains recognition from the public while he or she is alive.
Born in Brooklyn, New York, and raised in Detroit, Michigan, she first gained recognition at the age of 10, when she appeared on the television show Star Search and performed in concert alongside Gladys Knight.
Her life as a poet began when she won the New Writers' Award of the Gyeonghyang newspaper in 1973; in 1994 she also gained recognition as a novelist, with the short story On the Way to Santa Fe.
