Trivia: The daughter of the late documentarist-cum-naturalist (and "Crocodile Hunter") Steve Irwin, Australian Bindi Irwin was only eight years old when her father died from a stingray attack in September 2006. She subsequently joined her mother, Terri, by co-hosting a series of all-star musical performances around the world that touted her dad's cause of wildlife appreciation. One of Bindi's first tastes of show business had actually come prior to Steve's death, when she headlined her own exercise video for children, Bindi KidFitness with Steve Irwin and the Crocmen (2006), but she attained broader exposure the following year, by participating with her mother in the documentary tribute My Daddy the Croc Hunter and tackling her own educational series Bindi, the Jungle Girl on the Discovery Kids Network. The latter program found Bindi teaching young viewers to fearlessly love and appreciate exotic animals. It also posthumously featured footage of Steve Irwin and worked in animated sequences of father and daughter together. She made her acting debut in 2010's Free Willy: Escape from Pirate's Cove.

Trivia: With a rugged fearlessness coupled with childlike boisterousness, Aussie naturalist Steve Irwin burst into the wildlife documentary scene with an exuberant "Crikey!" when his first one-hour documentary entitled Crocodile Hunter first broadcast in 1992. Born on February 22, 1962 to naturalists Bob and Lyn Irwin, Steve Irwin's involvement in all things ecological seemed predestined. His parents founded the Australia Zoo, which has since come under the younger Irwin's leadership -- with the assistance of his wife Terri Irwin, who has been a co-conspirator/co-star on most of Irwin's documentaries since the couple married in 1992. As for his Crocodile Hunter series, over 50 episodes were made and led to the equally successful Croc Files series of documentaries. As Irwin's star power rose with the popularity of his documentaries, it seemed natural to try to transfer his enthusiastic, gung-ho personality into box-office gold -- and hence the 2002 pseudo-documentary/adventure comedy Crocodile Hunter: Collision Course was born. While the film did a little better than break-even, it didn't enjoy the kind of success that the TV series had, leading Irwin to continue his investigation for other avenues to spread his ecological and preservation messages across the globe. Tragically, Irwin's life was cut short in the summer of 2006, when he was struck through the heart by a stingray during the filming of a television special.