• Though she did, Ruby didn’t need to forge her own path to being a namesake: she’s the goddaughter of a famous boxer Lionel Rose, and the great-granddaughter of Alec Campbell, the last surviving soldier of the Australian Battle of Gallipoli during World War I.

Lenny Kravitz, The Hunger Games: Catching Fire star, 49, spills 10 things you don’t know about him.

• I wrote my first song, “I Love You, Baby,” at age 7.
• I have photographed people like Grace Jones, Alicia Keys, and Beyonce.
• I used to live across the street from Joe Namath and would play catch with him.
• My mother, Roxie Roker, played Helen Willis on The Jeffersons.
• I used to live across the street from Joe Namath and would play catch with him.
• My mother, Roxie Roker, played Helen Willis on The Jeffersons.
• Angelina Jolie auditioned for the lead in my “Stand by My Woman” video. The director passed!
• I am named after my uncle, who was killed in the Korean War.
• I own the Beatles’ Redd 37 recording console from Abbey Road Studios.
• I went to high school with Slash.

   

• I have an organic farm in Brazil.

   

• As a child, I sang with the Metropolitan Opera.
• I wrote songs for my forthcoming album at night during the filming of Catching Fire.

   

• I have a knack for reciting theme songs from the TV shows of my youth.

   

• When I was 5, Duke Ellington showed me how to play piano.

   

• Mariah Carey and I met in New York City as struggling musicians. We remain good friends to this day.

   

• I was a child actor and appeared in commercials, TV shows and also plays.

Like father, like daughter. Both Will and Willow had movies open on the same night of July 2, 2008 when Hancock and Kit Kittredge: An American Girl came out.