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Billie Eilish

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Billie Eilish Pirate Baird O'Connell is an American musician, singer and actress from Los Angeles. She performed hit songs such as "Bad Guy" and "No Time to Die," which was used in the James Bond film of the same name. She provided ADR for Ramona and Beezus, Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Rodrick Rules and X-Men: Apocalypse.
- IMDb mini biography by: Christian Frates

Billie was named after her maternal grandfather, William Norton "Bill" Baird, who died before she was born. Her middle name, Eilish is the Irish form of Elizabeth. Pirate came from her brother Finneas because he really wanted her to be named that, Baird is her mother's maiden name and O'Connell is her paternal family surname. Originally, she was going to be named Eilish Pirate O'Connell.
She began singing at a young age and began writing songs at age 11, taking after her elder brother Finneas O'Connell, who was already writing, performing, and producing his own songs with his band.
She won five Grammy Awards in 2020 becoming the second person (after Christopher Cross in 1981), first woman and the youngest person ever to win the four main Grammy categories, Best New Artist, Record of the Year, Song of the Year, and Album of the Year in the same year.
On February 9, 2020, she performed at the Academy Awards during the In Memoriam sequence with a song "Yesterday" along with her elder brother Finneas O'Connell.
Became the youngest artist in history to write and perform a James Bond theme, which she did for No Time to Die (2021).

I've always done whatever I want and always been exactly who I am.
In the public eye, girls and women with strong perspectives are hated. If you're a girl with an opinion, people just hate you. There are still people who are afraid of successful women, and that's so lame.
I hate smiling. It makes me feel weak and powerless and small. I've always been like that; I don't smile in any pictures.
Me and my brother get along super well. We're, like, best friends. So we'll stay up until, like, five just talking because we get along and, you know, it's cool. And he respects my opinions, and I respect his, even if we don't have the same opinions, but a lot of the time we do.
In real life, I'm a really smiley person. I smile when I talk and I laugh.