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Shania Twain-IV

2008-01-07T05:48:00.001-08:00

Shania Twain Profile

Name: Shania Twain

Birth Name: Eilleen Regina Edwards

Height: 5' 4''

Sex: F

Nationality: Canadian

Birth Date: August 28, 1965

Birth Place: Windsor, Ontario, Canada

Profession: singer

Education: High School

Husband/Wife: Robert John Mutt Lange (music producer; married on December 28, 1993)

Father: Clarence Edwards

Mother: Sharon Twain (killed in a 1987 car accident)

Sister: Jill (older), Carrie Ann (younger)

Brother: Mark, Darryl

Step Father: Jerry Twain (killed in a 1987 car accident)

Shania Twain Biography

Shania Twain, OC (born Eilleen Regina Edwards, August 28, 1965, Windsor, Ontario) is a Canadian singer and songwriter in the country and pop music genres. Her third album Come on Over is the biggest-selling album of all time by a female musician, and the best-selling album in the history of country music. She is the only female musician to have three albums certified Diamond by the Recording Industry Association of America, and is also the best selling artist in Canada, with all three of her studio albums being certified double diamond by the Canadian Recording Industry Association. Twain has achieved both critical and financial success, having received five Grammy awards, 27 BMI Songwriter awards, and sold over 70 million albums worldwide to date.

Twain is the daughter of Sharon and Clarence Edwards, who divorced when she was two. Her mother then moved Eilleen and her sister Jill to Timmins, Ontario where her mother met and married Jerry Twain, a native Ojibwa Indian. He then adopted Eilleen, and her name was changed to Eilleen Twain. She has in the past referred to herself ancestrally as an Ojibwa Indian, but her background is Irish and French.

One of five children, Eilleen Twain had a hard childhood in Timmins, Ontario. Her parents earned little, and there was often a shortage of food and money in the household. In the remote, rugged community she learned to hunt and to chop wood. Twain began to earn money by singing in local clubs and bars from a very young age to support her family. She was singing in bars at the age of just eight to try to make ends meet often earning twenty dollars, between midnight and two in the morning when the bar had closed but the people remained. Although she has expressed a dislike for singing in such a smoky atmosphere at such a young age, Shania believes that this was her performing arts school on the road to becoming a successful singer. At one point, while Jerry was at work, her mother drove the family 425 miles to a Toronto homeless shelter for assistance (source: Shania's interview in Readers Digest).

At the age of thirteen, Eilleen Twain was invited to perform on CBC television's Tommy Hunter Show. While attending Timmins High and Vocational School in Timmins, Ontario, she was the singer for a local band called "Longshot" which covered Top 40 music.

In 1984, she sang a duet performance on an album by Canadian musician (and present-day CKTB radio personality) Tim Denis.

When her mother and adoptive father died in a car accident on November 1, 1987, the 22-year-old Twain put her musical career on hold and took care of her family. She and her half-brothers Mark and Darryl, and sister Carrie-Ann moved to Huntsville, Ontario, where she supported them by performing at the nearby Deerhurst Resort.

Shania Twain-III

2008-01-07T05:47:00.001-08:00

Shania Twain-II

2008-01-07T05:45:00.000-08:00

Shania Twain-I

2008-01-07T05:42:00.001-08:00

Sarah Michelle Gellar-VI

2007-12-31T01:09:00.000-08:00

Sarah Michelle Gellar Profile

Name: Sarah Michelle Gellar

Birth Name: Sarah Michelle Gellar

Height: 5' 3"

Sex: F

Nationality: American

Birth Date: April 14, 1977

Birth Place: New York, New York, USA

Profession: actress

Education: Professional Children's School in New York (graduated two years early with a 4.0 GPA)
Fiorello LaGuardia High School of Music, Art and the Performing Arts in New York
Columbia Grammar and Preparatory School in New York

Husband/Wife: Freddie Prinze Jr. (actor; together since 1997; engaged on April 13; 2001; married on September 1, 2002 in Mexico)

Relationship: Jerry O'Connell (actor; 1998-1999)

Father: Arthur Gellar (salesman; married in 1972; divorced in 1984; died in October 2001)

Mother: Rosellen (nursery school teacher)

Claim to fame: as Buffy Anne Summers on TV Series Buffy The Vampire Slayer (1997)

Sarah Michelle Gellar Biography

Sarah Michelle Prinze, better known by her birth name of Sarah Michelle Gellar, (born April 14, 1977) is an American actress. She is perhaps best known for her role as the fictional character Buffy Summers in the acclaimed television series Buffy the Vampire Slayer, for which she received a Golden Globe Award nomination. She won a Daytime Emmy Award for her role in All My Children .

She has since become known as a film actress, having starred as Daphne Blake in the family film Scooby-Doo (2002) and the sequel Scooby-Doo 2: Monsters Unleashed (2004), the romantic comedy Simply Irresistible (1999), the independent film Harvard Man (2001), the teen drama Cruel Intentions (1999) and the horror films The Return (2006), The Grudge 2 (2006), The Grudge (2004), I Know What You Did Last Summer (1997) and Scream 2 (1997). She was in the TV movie Beverly Hills Family Robinson (1998) and provided the voice of April O'Neil in the film TMNT and Ella (better known as Cinderella) in the film Happily N'Ever After. She also played a ex-porn star in Richard Kelly's "Southland Tales" (2007)

She has starred in several films that have yet to be released, including The Air I Breathe (January 25, 2008), Suburban Girl (DVD & Blu-ray Disc on January 15, 2008) and Addicted (which according to some reports has been renamed to Possession) (February 29, 2008) . She is currently attached to the film version of the video game American McGee's Alice.

Gellar was born in New York City, the only child of Rosellen (née Greenfield), a nursery school teacher, and Arthur Gellar, a garment worker. Both of her parents were Jewish, though Gellar's family had a Christmas tree during the holidays while she was growing up. In 1984, her parents divorced and she was brought up by her mother on the Upper East Side.

Gellar was estranged from her father from this time until his death from liver cancer on October 9, 2001. She attended New York's Columbia Grammar & Preparatory School and the Professional Children's School. Gellar held a straight-A average and became a competent figure skater. Her best friend was Melissa Joan Hart, who later was the star of the series Sabrina, the Teenage Witch.

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2007-12-31T01:05:00.000-08:00

Sarah Michelle Gellar-IV

2007-12-31T01:01:00.000-08:00

Sarah Michelle Gellar-III

2007-12-31T00:59:00.000-08:00

Sarah Michelle Gellar-II

2007-12-31T00:56:00.000-08:00

Sarah Michelle Gellar-I

2007-12-31T00:53:00.000-08:00

Reese Witherspoon-III

2007-12-29T22:20:00.001-08:00

Reese Witherspoon Profile

Name: Reese Witherspoon

Birth Name: Laura Jeanne Reese Witherspoon

Height: 5' 2"

Sex: F

Nationality: American

Birth Date: March 22, 1976

Birth Place: Baton Rouge, Louisiana, USA

Profession: actress

Education: Harpeth Hall in Nashville, Tennessee
Stanford University in Stanford, California (majored in English Literature)

Husband/Wife: Ryan Phillippe (actor; born on September 10, 1974; married on June 5, 1999; divorced on October 5, 2007)

Father: John Witherspoon (doctor)

Mother: Betty Witherspoon (doctor; professor)

Brother: John Draper Witherspoon (born in 1973)

Son: Deacon Phillippe (born on October 23, 2003; father: Ryan Phillippe)

Daughter: Ava Elizabeth Phillippe (born on September 9, 1999 in Los Angeles, California; mother: Reese Wotherspoon)

Claim to fame: as Annette Hargrove in Cruel Intentions (1999)

Reese Witherspoon Biography

Laura Jeanne Reese Witherspoon (born March 22, 1976) is an Academy Award winning American actress, who has established as the highest-paid actress of Hollywood in recent years.

Witherspoon landed her first feature role as the leading actress in the movie The Man in the Moon in 1991. Her performance received positive reviews, which became a motivation for her to continue an acting career. Witherspoon's performance in Freeway in 1996 established her as a rising star, and led to roles in three major movies Overnight Delivery, Pleasantville and Twilight in 1998. In 1999, Witherspoon appeared in the critically acclaimed Election, which garnered her first Golden Globe nomination. 2001 saw her breakout role as Elle Woods in the box office hit Legally Blonde, and in the following year, she starred in Sweet Home Alabama, which became her biggest commercial success to date. In 2005, Witherspoon received worldwide attention and praise for her portrayal of June Carter Cash in Walk the Line, a role that earned her an Academy Award, a Golden Globe Award and a Screen Actors Guild Award for Best Actress.

Witherspoon married actor Ryan Phillippe in 1999 and has two children, Ava and Deacon. She and Phillippe separated at the end of 2006 and divorced in October 2007. Witherspoon is known for her work in child and woman advocacy organizations; she serves on the board of Children's Defense Fund and is the first Global Ambassador of Avon Products's charity.

Witherspoon was born in New Orleans, Louisiana, into a middle-class family. Her father, John Witherspoon, is a Georgia-born otolaryngologist who previously served as a lieutenant colonel in the US Army reserves. Her mother, Betty, is a Ph.D pediatric nurse from Harriman, Tennessee, who works as a professor of nursing at Vanderbilt University. Witherspoon is a direct descendant of Scotland-born John Witherspoon, the sixth president of Princeton University and a signatory of the United States Declaration of Independence. Because Witherspoon's father worked for the US military in Wiesbaden, Germany, she lived there for four years as a small child. After returning to the United States, she settled and spent her childhood in Nashville, Tennessee, where she was raised in the Episcopalian religion.

Reese Witherspoon-II

2007-12-29T22:17:00.001-08:00

Reese Witherspoon Profile

Name: Reese Witherspoon

Birth Name: Laura Jeanne Reese Witherspoon

Height: 5' 2"

Sex: F

Reese Witherspoon-I

2007-12-29T22:09:00.000-08:00

Reese Witherspoon Profile

Name: Reese Witherspoon

Birth Name: Laura Jeanne Reese Witherspoon

Height: 5' 2"

Sex: F

Rachel Bilson-III

2007-12-29T05:53:00.000-08:00

Rachel Bilson Profile

Name: Rachel Bilson

Birth Name: Rachel Jade Bilson

Height: 5' 2''

Sex: F

Nationality: American

Birth Date: August 25, 1981

Birth Place: Los Angeles, California, USA

Profession: Actress, Model

Education: Notre Dame High School in California (graduated in 1999)

Relationship: Adam Brody (actor; born on December 15, 1979; dating since 2003; split in December 2006)

Father: Danny Bilson (writer; married in August 1997)

Grand Father: Bruce Bilson (director; born on May 19, 1928)

Step Mother: Heather Medway (actress)

Aunt: Julie Bilson Ahlberg (producer)

Claim to fame: As Summer Roberts on Fox's TV series The O.C. (2003)

Rachel Bilson Biography

Rachel Sarah Bilson (born August 25, 1981) is an American actress. After growing up in a California show business family, she made her television debut in 2003 and subsequently became well-known for playing Summer Roberts on the prime time dramedy series The O.C. Bilson made her film debut in the 2006 film The Last Kiss, appeared as "Lou" on the NBC show Chuck, and will star in the 2008 thriller Jumper.

Bilson was born in LA, California to a Jewish American father, writer/director/producer Danny Bilson, and a Philadelphia-born Italian American mother, sex therapist Janice Stango. Her father comes from a show business family; her great-grandfather, George Bilson, was the head of the trailer department at RKO Pictures, while her Brooklyn-born great-grandmother, Hattie Bilson, was a screenwriter and her grandfather, Bruce Bilson, is a film director. Bilson's parents divorced during her childhood, and in 1997, her father remarried Heather Medway, an actress and the mother of Bilson's half-sister Hattie (born December 19, 2001).

Bilson has been noted as having a "self-destructive, rebellious period" during her teen years. When she was thirteen, she and a group of her brother's friends were involved in a car accident, a head-on collision with another car. As a result, Bilson was unconscious for a few days, had a scar above her right eye, and sometimes suffers from migraines and memory loss; she has stated that the experience "changed" her, encouraging her to "stop... getting into trouble" and stopping her from "going down that road".

Bilson graduated from Walter Reed Middle School in 1996 and from Notre Dame High School in 1999. During her time at Notre Dame, she appeared in productions of Bye Bye Birdie, Once Upon a Mattress and The Crucible, and appeared on stage together with Katharine McPhee, who attended the same school and would later be a finalist on American Idol.

Bilson attended Grossmont College in San Diego, but dropped out after one year, taking her father's advice to pursue a professional acting career and making several appearances in commercials, including advertisements for Raisin Bran and Pepto-Bismol. She made her screen acting debut in early 2003, appearing in episodes of Buffy the Vampire Slayer, 8 Simple Rules for Dating My Teenage Daughter, and in the short film, Unbroken. Bilson was subsequently cast in The O.C., which debuted in August of 2003. Her character, Summer Roberts, was initially intended to appear in only a few episodes, but became a series regular after a successful run, as Bilson's on-screen romance with Seth Cohen (Adam Brody) became a noted aspect of the series.

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Rachel Bilson-I

2007-12-29T05:47:00.000-08:00

James King

2007-12-27T07:12:00.000-08:00

James King Profile

Name: James King

Birth Name: Jamie King

Height: 5' 9"

Sex: F

Nationality: American

Birth Date: April 23, 1979

Birth Place: Omaha, Nebraska, USA

Profession: actress, model

Education: Westside High School, Omaha, Nebraska (dropped in 1995 to pursue
modelling)

Husband/Wife: Kyle Newman (director; born on March 16, 1976; married on November 23, 2007)

Relationship: Kid Rock (musician; born on January 17, 1971), Davide Sorrenti (fashion photographer; died in 1997 - overdosed)

Father: Robert R. King (divorced in 1995)

Mother: Nancy H. King

Sister: Sandi King (older)

Brother: Barry King (younger)

Claim to fame: as Nurse Betty Bayer in Michael Bay' Pearl Harbor (2001)

James King Biography

Jaime King (born April 23, 1979) is an American film actress and model. In her modeling career and early film roles, she went by the names Jamie King and most especially James King, which was a childhood nickname given to King by her parents, because her agency already represented another Jaime — the older, then-more famous model Jaime Rishar. King, because of the latter name, is sometimes referred to as the "Model with a man's name".

Called by Complex magazine "One of the original model- turned- actresses", King appeared in Vogue, Mademoiselle, and Harper's Bazaar among other fashion magazines. Afterwards, she began taking small film roles, her first large endeavor being the big-budget Pearl Harbor (2001), and later first starring role in Bulletproof Monk (2003). She has gone on to appear as a lead in various other films, and gained more notoriety after Sin City (2005), in which she will reprise her role for the sequel Sin City 2 (2009).

King was born in the suburbs of Omaha, Nebraska to mother Nancy H. King, a beauty queen, and father Robert R. King. She has an older sister, Sandi, and a younger brother, Barry. King was named after Lindsay Wagner's character, Jaime Sommers, of the 1970s television series The Bionic Woman. King's parents separated in 1994, eventually spliting amicably in 1995. The two continue to work together in Omaha where they rent out low-income apartments. King had attended the modeling school Nancy Bounds's Studios and later dropped out of Westside High School in 1995 to pursue a modeling career in New York, afterwards enrolling in a home-study program run by the University of Nebraska.

Jennifer Love Hewitt

2007-12-26T05:55:00.000-08:00

Name: Jennifer Love Hewitt

Height: 5' 2½

Sex: F

Nationality: American

Birth Date: February 21, 1979

Birth Place: Waco, Texas, USA

Profession: actress, musician

Education: Laurel Springs High School in Ojai, Califronia (graduated in 1997)

Relationship: Ross McCall (actor; engaged November 2007), Rich Cronin (LFO; b.
August 30, 1975; 1999-2001), Wilmer Valderrama (actor; b. January 30, 1980; 1999), Carson Daly (MTV VJ; b. June 22, 1973; 1997-1999), Will Friedle (actor; b. August 11, 1976; 1996-1998)

Father: Herbert Daniel Hewitt (medical technician; divorced in September
1979)

Mother: Patricia Mae (née Shipp; speech pathologist)

Brother: Todd Hewitt (chiropractor; born in 1971)

Claim to fame: as Sarah Reeves in the Fox TV Series Party of Five (1994)

Jennifer Love Hewitt Biography

Jennifer Love Hewitt (born February 21, 1979) is an American actress and singer-songwriter. She is well-known for her television and film roles in the Fox television series Party of Five, as Sarah Reeves, and also starred in I Know What You Did Last Summer and its sequel, as Julie James. Hewitt can currently be seen on the CBS television series Ghost Whisperer, as Melinda Gordon, a young newlywed who communicates with the dead.

Hewitt was born in Waco, Texas, the daughter of Patricia Mae (née Shipp), a speech-language pathologist, and Herbert Daniel Hewitt, a medical technician. Hewitt grew up in Nolanville, Texas; after the divorce of her parents, Hewitt and her only sibling, Todd Hewitt, were brought up by her mother. Her first name was given to her by her brother, after a girl he was fond of as a youngster, while her middle name, "Love", was given to her by her mother after her best friend in college.

As a young girl, Hewitt was attracted to music which led to her first encounters with the entertainment industry. At the age of three, she sang "The Greatest Love of All" at a livestock show. Just a year after that, at a restaurant-dance hall, she entertained an audience with her version of "Help Me Make It Through the Night". By the time she was five, Hewitt already had tap dancing and ballet in her portfolio. At nine, she became a member of the Texas Show Team (which also toured in the Soviet Union). At the age of ten, at the suggestion of talent scouts, she moved to Los Angeles, California, with her mother to pursue a career in both acting and singing.

Kate Bosworth

2007-12-17T05:37:00.000-08:00

Kate Bosworth Biography

Name :	Kate Bosworth

Birth Date :	January 2, 1983

Birth Place :	Los Angeles, California, USA

Birth Name :	Catherine Anne Bosworth

Nationality :	American

Profession :	Actress

Fan Mail :	United Talent Agency 9560 Wilshire Blvd., 5th Floor Beverly Hills, CA 90212 USA

Kate Bosworth Detailed Biography

Bosworth was born in Los Angeles and moved with her parents to San Francisco at age 6, to Connecticut at 9, and to Cohasset, Mass at 14. At this age she began her acting career going on make her mark as an actual teen in a teen drama, starring on The WB's "Young Americans" (2000). Bosworth presented the casting directors for "The Horse Whisperer" with a Christmas card photo in lieu of a professional headshot and landed her first acting role in the 1998 romantic drama (credited as Catherine Bosworth), playing Judith, the ill-fated best friend of the scarred young girl (Scarlet Johansson) who brings together her mother (Kristin Scott Thomas) and the titular hero (Robert Redford).

Following "The Horse Whisperer", she returned to her non-acting life, attending high school and pursuing various athletic endeavors for eighteen months in an effort to assure that work would not be the main focus of the remaining years of her childhood. In 2000 She landed the role of the bratty sister in the upcoming feature film "The Newcomers" and the part of a football co-captain's girlfriend in the upcoming Denzel Washington movie "Remember the Titans." Bosworth more recently starred in the true-life crime drama "Wonderland." Her other film credits include Roger Avary’s "The Rules of Attraction," the independent feature "The Newcomers" and the acclaimed football drama "Remember the Titans," for producer Jerry Bruckheimer. Bosworth also received praise for her work in the television series "Young Americans" for the WB. In 2002, she had a star-making turn in John Stockwell’s "Blue Crush," in which she played the central role of a competitive surfer trying to conquer Hawaii’s daunting Pipeline.

That same year, she also appeared in the ensemble cast of writer-director Roger Avary's edgy film adaptation of Brett Easton Ellis' potboiler "The Rules of Attraction," which center on the sexcapades of 1980s-era collegians. After both roles, Bosworth was poised to lay claim to the title of the latest Hollywood "It" girl and her face graced dozens of magazine covers seemingly overnight.

She is a champion equestrian and plays Varsity soccer and lacrosse. She has been accepted to Princeton University, but she has repeatedly deferred her acceptance probably for the sake of movie production. Her eyes are two different colors: Hazel and Blue.

Salma Hayek

2007-12-16T06:50:00.001-08:00

Salma Hayek Biography

Name :	Salma Hayek

Real Name :	Salma Hayek Jimenez

Date Of Birth :	September 2, 1966

Place of Birth :	Coatzacoalcos, Veracruz, Mexico

Height :	5'2''

Weight :	115 lbs

Eyes :	Dark brown

Hair :	Black

Occupation :	Actress

Education :	College dropout

Companion :	Edward Norton

Fan Mail :	C/O William Morris Agency 151 El Camino Drive Beverly Hills, CA 90212 USA

Salma Hayek Detailed Biography

A bona fide celebrity goddess in her native Mexico, Hayek emigrated in 1991 to Los Angeles, where she willingly plunged to the bottom of the heap in order to take a shot at conquering Hollywood. Intensive lessons, both in English and acting, paid handsome dividends in 1995, when the diminutive dynamo lit a fire under Antonio Banderas in wunderkind director Robert Rodriguez's balletic bullet ballad Desperado. Continuing to collect hunky co-stars, Hayek struck sparks with a Baldwin brother in both Fair Game and Fled, and made an undead love slave out of George Clooney in From Dusk 'Til Dawn. Salma Hayek Internet shrines cropped up like weeds, and in 1997 the sultry spitfire landed her first lead role in the States, playing opposite Friends fave Matthew Perry in the cross-cultural romantic comedy Fools Rush In.

The daughter of a Lebanese-descended father and a Spanish-descended mother, Hayek was born and raised in Coatzacoalcos, Mexico. Determined to see that her grandchild develop into a ravishing beauty, her grandmother frequently shaved young Salma's head and clipped her eyebrows, in the belief that such treatments would add body and sheen to her granddaughter's thick dark locks. Equally determined to see that she became well-educated, Hayek's staunchly Catholic parents shipped her off to a boarding school in Louisiana when she was 12. While the beguiling youngster proved both attentively studious and properly religious, she also displayed a bent for mischief that she chiefly directed against the long-suffering nuns who ran the school: among other infamies, she once slipped into the faculty dormitory and set all of the alarm clocks back three hours. The end result of such she-nun-igans was that Hayek ended up suspended and carted back home after just two years. It only took her two more years to finish high school, and her mother, fearful of the effects ''college boys'' might have on her impressionable young daughter, sent Hayek to Houston, where she lived with an aunt until her 17th birthday.

Returning to Mexico once more, Hayek relocated to Mexico City to attend college, where she commenced international relations studies. Though she had harbored acting ambitions since childhood, Hayek had for years been reluctant to seriously pursue such a chancy vocation for fear of alienating her parents. Ultimately, she decided the path of the dutiful daughter and stable career girl was one she could not bear to walk and frankly confronted her parents about her aspiration. As she later told one interviewer, ''One day I took my dad to lunch. I asked him if he believed in destiny and he said, 'Yes.' And I said, 'Well, I believe it's my destiny to become an actress.''' In spite of voluble objections from her family and the derision and disbelief of her friends, Hayek quit college and determinedly embarked on an acting career. She first found work in plays at neighborhood theaters, including one assignment as the heroine of Aladdin and His Marvelous Lamp. Several months of tireless stage work led to jobs making television commercials, which in turn yielded a casting in Nuevo Amanecer, a popular daytime TV serial. With no more experience than that to her credit, Hayek got herself cast as the title character of a second serial, Teresa, the phenomenal popularity of which almost immediately made its fetching young star the most fanatically revered actress in Mexico.

Not content to settle for the comparatively meager rewards of superstardom, Mexican-style, Hayek set her confident sights on Hollywood, and moved north in 1991. What followed thereafter was a taxing period of adjustment, beginning with an 18-month hiatus from acting that was primarily occupied with English lessons. Also during that period, Hayek studied acting under famed dramatician Stella Adler, and taught herself to drive a car: two days of stick-shift driving convinced her to switch to automatic, and she slowly acquainted herself with the tangled maze of L.A.'s freeways by continually requesting directions from her more streetwise friends via her trusty cellular phone. Hayek's first big break came in 1993, when she spent four months auditioning for a headlining role in Allison Anders's girlz-'n'-the-hood drama Mi Vida Loca. Anders eventually cast another actress in the desired-for lead assignment, but Hayek's tenacity so impressed the director that she gave her a smaller part in the film for the express purpose of enabling the promising young actress to qualify for membership in the Screen Actors Guild.

Other small roles followed, mostly on television, but it was an appearance on a Spanish-language cable-access talk show that led to Hayek's big breakthrough. While in the process of planning a sequel to his wildly successful debut film, El Mariachi, Mexican-American director Robert Rodriguez happened to tune in to Hayek's talk show appearance during a fit of late-night channel surfing. Mesmerized by the lovely and engaging actress, Rodriguez wasted no time tracking her down, and soon secured her interest in tackling the female lead in his soon-to-be-produced big-studio debut, Desperado. Rodriguez's financial backers initially resisted his choice of Hayek, but the director won them over by showcasing her in his made-for-cable installment of Showtime's Rebel Highway series, Roadracers. A solid commercial success, Desperado also garnered Hayek rave reviews for her show-stopping, saliva-inducing performance. Despite the fact she was disappointingly underrepresented in her next two outings, in the limp thrillers Fair Game and Fled, Hayek's performances nevertheless provided much-needed zip for both projects, and 1997 found her nicely romantically matched in both Fools Rush In and TNT's adaptation of The Hunchback of Notre Dame, in which she portrayed Esmerelda to Mandy Patinkin's Quasimodo.

Hayek's film agenda continues to offer a steady diet of roles: She followed her turn in the disco redux 54 with an appearance alongside Will Smith and Kevin Kline in Wild Wild West, and co-starred with Ben Affleck, Matt Damon, Chris Rock, Linda Fiorentino, and Alan Rickman in Kevin Smith's Dogma. Through her Ventanarosa production company, she co-produced The Velocity of Gary, an offbeat romantic comedy which teamed her with Ethan Hawke and Vincent D'Onofrio, and another of her co-productions, the Mexican feature No One Writes to the Colonel, was recently in competition at Cannes. Hayek is currently filming the biopic Frida, in which she tackles a much-coveted portrayal of painter Frida Kahlo.

On a more personal note, Hayek is romantically attached to actor Ed Norton.

Adriana Karembeu-II

2007-12-13T06:01:00.001-08:00

Adriana Karembeu Profile

Name : Adriana Karembeu

Birth Name : Adriana Sklenarikova

Date of Birth : 17 September 1971

Place of Birth : Brezno, Slovak Republic

Age: 36

Measurements: 87–59–90 cm (34¼–23¼–35½ in.)

Height : : 5' 10"

Weight: 58 kg (128 lb.)

Profession : Model

Eye colour: Blue

Hair colour: Blonde

Nationality: Slovakian

Spouse : Christian Karembeu (22 December 1998 - present)

Adriana Karembeu Biography

Adriana Sklenarikova was born in Slovakia in 1971. She was born in a financially strapped country, and coming to a new world of fashion was a big change for her. With her incredible beauty and 6'1" frame, she was instantly snatched up by Next modeling agency in New York, and Elite Modeling in Milan. Though her big break came after being chosen as the new Wonder Bra girl (a highly visible contract that will add incredible exposure for her, in more ways than one), Adriana has been in plenty of advertisement campaigns. The companies she has represented include Argentovivo, Byron Lars, Laura Biagiotti, Levante Hosiery, List, Love Sex Money, Onyx Jeans, Peroni Beer, Red Point, and Roberto Cavalli. It was her campaign for Peroni Beer that really launched her career, and helped pave the road for her current success, by highlighting her as the ultimate beer woman. Adriana has just signed a two-year contract with Wonder Bra, and is now part of the exclusive Victoria's Secret modeling team, a move that has spelled considerable success for other major super models such as Tyra Banks, and Daniela Pestova. Adriana is now happily living in Madrid, with her soccer player husband Christian Karembeu. The marriage was a major event in Spain in December of 1998, since Adriana is one of the best known models in Europe, and her husband is the star of one of the country's leading soccer teams.

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Roselyn Sanchez

2007-12-12T06:33:00.000-08:00

Roselyn Sanchez Profile

Name: Roselyn Sanchez

Birth Name: Roselyn Sanchez Rodriguez

Height: 5' 7"

Sex: F

Nationality: Puerto Rican

Birth Date: March 14, 1970

Birth Place: San Juan, Puerto Rico

Profession: actress

Education: University of Puerto Rico (studied Marketing)

Roselyn Sanchez Biography

Roselyn Sanchez (born April 2, 1973) is a Latin Grammy Award-nominated singer, model, film and television actress.

Sánchez was born in San Juan, Puerto Rico, the youngest of four siblings, having three older brothers. Her father works in business. Sanchez received her primary education in San Juan. At a young age, she showed an interest in both dancing and acting and would put on shows for her family. In 1991, at the age of 18, Roselyn moved to New York City, where she took classes in dancing, acting and singing. She returned to Puerto Rico and in 1992, she made her movie debut, having landed a small part as an island girl in the movie Captain Ron, which was partly filmed on the island, starring Martin Short and Kurt Russell. Roselyn enrolled in the University of Puerto Rico, where, like her father and brothers, she was to study marketing. However, this was not her calling, and after three years, she left the course.

In Puerto Rico, she gained public attention as a dancer and co-host of an island's variety show called Que Vacilon. At that time, in 1993, Roselyn won the Miss Puerto Rico Petite contest and in 1994 she won the international title of Miss America Petite. The contest rose Sanchez to international fame. Sanchez has been named to numerous annual lists of beautiful women including Maxim Magazine Hot 100 in 2001, 2002 and 2006; AskMen.com's Top 99 Most Desirable Women in 2005 and 2006; FHM Magazine 100 Sexiest Women in 2005 and 2006.

Roselyn returned to New York and landed her first English speaking role in the CBS soap opera, As The World Turns. She played the role of "Pilar Domingo" from 1996 until 1997.

Mandy Moore

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Mandy Moore Profile

Name: Mandy Moore

Birth Name: Amanda Leigh Moore

Height: 5' 8"

Sex: F

Nationality: American

Birth Date: April 10, 1984

Birth Place: Nashua, New Hampshire, USA

Profession: actress, musician

Education: Bishop Moore Catholic High School in Orlando, Florida

Relationship: Zach Braff (actor; reportedly dating since September 2004; separated June 15, 2006), Andy Roddick (American tennis player; dated on July 2002-March 2004), Wilmer Valderamma (actor; dated in 2001-February 2002)

Father: Don Moore (airline pilot)

Mother: Stacy Moore

Brother: Kylie Moore and Scott Moore

Claim to fame: Her route to fame started when she was named the National Anthem Girl because she sang The Star-Spangled Banner for all major sports teams and for ChrisEvert's Pro-Celebrity Tennis Tournament.

Website: http://www.mandymoore.com

Mandy Moore Biography

Amanda "Mandy" Leigh Moore (born April 10, 1984) is an American pop singer, songwriter and actress. She grew up in Florida and came to fame as a teenager in the early 2000s, after the release of her teen-oriented pop albums So Real, I Wanna Be with You, and Mandy Moore. Moore has branched out into a film career, starring in 2002's A Walk to Remember and later appearing in the lead roles of other movies also aimed at teenage audiences. Two of her later films, American Dreamz and Saved!, were satires in which Moore portrayed darker characters than in her previous roles. Moore's private life, including her relationships with tennis player Andy Roddick and actors Wilmer Valderrama and Zach Braff, has been much discussed in the media. Moore's fifth album, Wild Hope, was released in 2007.

Moore was born in Nashua, New Hampshire, to Stacy (a former newspaper reporter) and Don Moore (a pilot for American Airlines). She has Irish and Cherokee heritage on her father's side, and Jewish and English heritage on her mother's side. Moore has two brothers, Scott and Kyle; she grew up in Altamonte Springs, Florida, outside of Orlando, moving there shortly after her birth because of her father's job. She was raised in the Catholic religion (although she is no longer a practicing Catholic) and attended Bishop Moore High School, a Catholic school in Orlando, as well as Lake Brantley High School in Altamonte Springs.

Moore's interest in singing grew after seeing the musical Oklahoma!; she was also encouraged to perform by her maternal grandmother, who was her inspiration. Some of Moore's first public exposure occurred when she sang the national anthem at several Florida sporting events. She subsequently came to the attention of the head of A&R at Epic Records after his friend, a FedEx employee, overheard her as she sang at a recording studio. She was then signed to a record deal with the label.

Elena Anaya

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Elena Anaya Profile

Born: July 17, 1975

Birth Place: Palencia, Castilla y Leon, Spain

Sign: Cancer

Age: 32

Occupation: Actress

Claim to fame : As Belén in "Lucía y el sexo" (2001)

Elena Anaya Biography

Elena Anaya (born July 17, 1975) is a Spanish actress whose career dates back to 1995.

Anaya was born in Palencia, Spain. She first received international attention in 2001 for her role in the sexually explicit drama Lucía y el sexo (Sex and Lucía) and also appeared in Pedro Almodóvar's Hable con ella (Talk to Her). Her best-known mainstream film role was as a vampire in 2004's Van Helsing, playing Dracula's bride, Aleera. She is also featured in Justin Timberlake's music video for his 2006 single, SexyBack.

Rachel Bilson

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Drew Barrymore

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Drew Barrymore Profile

Name : Drew Barrymore
Birth Date : February 22, 1975
Birth Place : Culver City, CA
Birth Name : Drew Blythe Barrymore

Nationality : American
Height : 5' 6 1/2''
Hair : Brunette
Eye Color : Blue

Drew Blythe Barrymore (born February 22, 1975 in Culver City, California) is an American film and television actress and producer.

She is the granddaughter of stage actor John Barrymore, and the great-niece of Lionel Barrymore and Ethel Barrymore. Her father, John Drew Barrymore, and half-brother, John Blyth, are also actors (although they haven't experienced the critical or commercial success the other Barrymores have enjoyed). "Drew" was the maiden name of her great-grandmother, Georgiana; "Blythe" was the original surname of the dynasty founded by her great-grandfather, Maurice. Drew's mother is Hungarian actress and model Jaid Mako.

Barrymore's career began at the age of 11 months, when she appeared in a dog food commercial. When she was bitten by her canine co-star, the producers feared litigation, though Barrymore merely laughed the incident off. She shot to fame as a child actor when she co-starred in the 1982 Steven Spielberg film E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial. At the age of 7, on November 20, 1982, Barrymore became the youngest ever guest host of the weekly TV program Saturday Night Live. She performed in a skit where she revealed that she had killed E.T.

In the wake of this sudden stardom, she endured a notoriously troubled childhood, drinking alcoholic beverages by the time she was 9, smoking marijuana at 10, and snorting cocaine at 12. Barrymore later described this early period of her life in her 1990 autobiography, Little Girl Lost. Though overcoming her substance abuse problems by the time she entered adulthood, Barrymore maintained her "bad girl" image, and in fact leveraged her new found role as a sex symbol to stage a career comeback in the 1990s, playing a teenage seductress in Poison Ivy, and posing nude for the January 1995 issue of Playboy. Steven Spielberg, Barrymore's godfather, gave her a quilt for her 20th birthday with a note that read "Cover yourself up". Enclosed was a copy of her Playboy appearance, with the pictures altered by his art department so that she appeared fully clothed. At that time she had also appeared nude in her last five movies. During a 1995 appearance on The Late Show with David Letterman, Barrymore shocked the normally unflappable host by climbing onto his desk and flashing her breasts at him, as part of a dance for his birthday. She also modelled in a series of Guess? jeans advertisements during this time.

Barrymore has continued to be a highly bankable movie actress. Though her playful sex appeal has undoubtedly helped her remain in the media spotlight, she has also established a substantial career behind the scenes, despite never finishing high school. She has produced several films, including the highly successful Charlie's Angels movie adaptation and its sequel. In addition to the light-hearted romantic comedies that she has typically starred in, she has also recently explored more dramatic roles in movies such as Confessions of a Dangerous Mind, and the cult favorite Donnie Darko, of which she was also the executive producer. Barrymore has started to receive more notice both as a serious actress and a savvy Hollywood "player", though without losing her reputation as a sex symbol and (occasional) hellraiser.

Barrymore's career makes for colorful copy. In the words of Yahoo! Movies:
Heir to a Hollywood dynasty, child star, prepubescent drug and alcohol abuser, teenage sexpot, and resurrected vessel of celluloid purity, Drew Barrymore is nothing if not the embodiment of the rise and fall of Hollywood fortunes, self-reinvention, and the healing powers of good PR.

On February 3, 2004, she received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.

Barrymore was married to bartender Jeremy Thomas from March 20 to April 28, 1994, and to comedian Tom Green from July 7, 2001 to October 15, 2002 (Green filed for divorce in December 2001). She is currently dating drummer Fabrizio Moretti of The Strokes. Barrymore has also publicly declared herself to be bisexual, revealing that she had slept with many women as a teenager and is still very interested in women sexually.

Eliza Dushku-II

2007-11-30T06:38:00.000-08:00

Eliza Dushku Biography

Name : Eliza Dushku
Birth Date : December 30, 1980
Birth Place : Boston, Massachusetts
Eye Color : Hazel Brown

Full Name : Eliza Patricia Dushku
Height : 5' 6"
Nationality : American
Hair Color : Brown

Eliza Patricia Dushku (born December 30, 1980 in Boston, Massachusetts) is an American actress who has appeared in several Hollywood movies such as Bring It On and Wrong Turn. She is also well known for her acting on television, such as her recurring appearances on Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Angel as Faith, as well as the main character in the series Tru Calling.

Personal life

Eliza was born in Watertown, Massachusetts, to an Albanian father and Danish mother, and raised in the LDS Church (though she is not actively practicing). She has three brothers, Aaron, Ben, and Nate, the latter of whom is also an actor. Dushku lives in the Los Angeles area with Nate, the oldest of her three brothers, whom she calls her "partner in crime."

Early career

Eliza came to the attention of casting agents when she was 10. Along with her brother, she went to a commercial audition where she tripped on the stairs, bloodied her nose, and became an instant drama queen. At 12, she was chosen at the end of a five month search throughout the United States for the lead role of Alice, opposite Juliette Lewis in the film That Night. In 1993, Dushku landed a role as Pearl alongside Robert De Niro and Leonardo DiCaprio in This Boy's Life, a role that she said opened a lot of doors. Dushku says that Dicaprio taught her how to deal with bullies and other high school dangers, for which she is grateful.

The following year, she played the teenage daughter of Arnold Schwarzenegger and Jamie Lee Curtis in True Lies. She would also have parts as Paul Reiser's daughter in Bye Bye, Love, as Cindy Johnson with Halle Berry and Jim Belushi in Race the Sun, as well as roles in a television movie and a short film.

Dushku took some time off from acting to finish her junior and senior years of high school. She was accepted to the George Washington and Suffolk Universities in Boston. Eliza Dushku in a promotional poster for the 2003 horror movie, Wrong Turn.

Later roles

After completing high school, Eliza returned to acting with the role of Faith, a Slayer much more troubled than the main character Buffy. Though initially planned as a five episode role, the character became so popular that she stayed on for the entirety of the third season. She has also made guest appearances in Buffy's spin-off, Angel.

Because of her convincing role as a sociopath, she became an icon to many criminals. She was inundated with piles of fan mail from legions of prisoners. She said that:

I've been getting fan mail from maximum security penitentiaries and death row. What are the authorities thinking of in playing a show with young teenage girls to Death Row inmates? They write everything ? disgusting things that you don't even want to know about. And they send me pictures ? 'Oh, here's a picture of me before I was incarcerated!' ? and there's some guy sat on the sofa with a bottle of beer and a moustache, and a big gut. It's so creepy. Way more creepy than Buffy.

In 2000, she starred with Kirsten Dunst in the cheerleader comedy Bring It On, which was a surprising success at the box office that spawned a sequel. Kevin Smith invited Dushku to be a part of his final adventure for his two characters, Jay and Silent Bob, in Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back, where Eliza co-starred with Shannon Elizabeth, Ali Larter, Ben Affleck, and others. After this, Dushku starred in Soul Survivors, opposite Ben Affleck's brother Casey, followed by a role in The New Guy.

Eliza then returned to work with Robert DeNiro and director Michael Caton-Jones in City by the Sea, playing James Franco's junkie girlfriend and mother of his child. The film garnered attention from a wider adult audience and several good reviews.

2003 saw the release of Wrong Turn, a horror film in which Eliza had the starring role, and The Kiss, an independent comedy-drama. Starting that same year, she also starred in a new Fox TV series, Tru Calling, where she played the main character, Tru Davies, a medical student whose grant is pulled out from under her, forcing her to take a job at a local morgue. There, she discovers that she has the power to "re-live" the previous day over again, an ability she used to right wrongful deaths. She also attempts to help her troubled family - a drug-addicted sister and a gambling-addicted brother.

Eliza Dushku-I

2007-11-30T06:30:00.000-08:00

Eliza Dushku Biography

Name : Eliza Dushku
Birth Date : December 30, 1980
Birth Place : Boston, Massachusetts
Eye Color : Hazel Brown

Full Name : Eliza Patricia Dushku
Height : 5' 6"
Nationality : American
Hair Color : Brown

Personal life

Early career

Later roles

Because of her convincing role as a sociopath, she became an icon to many criminals. She was inundated with piles of fan mail from legions of prisoners. She said that:

Gwyneth Paltrow - II

2007-11-29T05:52:00.000-08:00

Gwyneth Paltrow Biography

Name :	Gwyneth Paltrow

Real Name :	Gwyneth Kate Paltrow

Date of birth :	September 28, 1973

Place of birth :	Los Angeles, CA, USA

Sign :	Sun in Libra, Moon in Gemini

Height :	5' 9''

Education :	Attended University of California at Santa Barbara

Occupation :	Actress

Ex-Fiancé :	Brad Pitt

Ex-Boyfriend :	Ben Affleck

Father :	Bruce Paltrow

Mother :	Blythe Danner

Fan Mail :	C/O Creative Artists Agency Cruel Doubt (1992) (TV) 9830 Wilshire Blvd Beverly Hills, CA 90212, USA

Gwyneth Paltrow Detailed Biography

Born on September 28th, 1973 in Los Angeles California, Gwyneth was immersed right from the beginning in Hollywood life. Her mother was Tony Award winning actress Blythe Danner and her father was influential television producer Bruce Paltrow. Right from birth, Gwyneth was surrounded with the trappings of celebrity. Starting off early, in small walk-on roles in her father's productions, she got a taste of what was to come. When she was eleven, her family moved to New York, where she attended Spence School. While a teenager, her summers were often taken up by watching her mother perform in summer-stock theater. Gwyneth's own stage debut was at the Williamstown Theater Festival in The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. She followed that with other plays, and it was her performance in Picnic with her mother that convinced her to end her studies of Art History at the University of California in Santa Barbara and pursue a career in acting.

Her feature film debut was in the musical Shout, starring John Travolta. From there she moved on to supporting roles in Flesh and Bone, Malice, Se7en and Moonlight and Valentino. These roles all had one thing in common (despite the fact that they were small): when you saw them, you noticed Gwyneth Paltrow. Her first starring role was in the charming screen adaptation of the Jane Austin novel, Emma. Ironically, her biggest claim to fame is not a movie role, but a real life love story. After meeting Brad Pitt while working on Se7en, the couple had a well publicized, picture-book romance. While it's over now, the pair have always maintained that it was an amicable break-up. The great love affair, which was chronicled for the world to see, catapulted Gwyneth to fame

Since her break up with Pitt, she has been keeping busy. In 1998 and 1999 alone, she will star in eight movies! What is even more surprising is that despite her young age, she has somehow managed to avoid the ''college student'' roles and plays adults. Although Sliding Doors was a typical romantic comedy that was hardly challenging to her abilities, her roles in Great Expectations, Hush and A Perfect Murder all show the actress' range and capacity to play more demanding characters. Her role in Shakespeare in Love earned the young actress her first Oscar for Best Actress. Her career is definitely taking off, and she is fast becoming one of the most influential women in Hollywood, even eclipsing her former beau, Brad Pitt’s celebrity

Gwyneth Paltrow - I

2007-11-29T05:50:00.001-08:00

Gwyneth Paltrow Biography

Name :	Gwyneth Paltrow

Real Name :	Gwyneth Kate Paltrow

Date of birth :	September 28, 1973

Place of birth :	Los Angeles, CA, USA

Sign :	Sun in Libra, Moon in Gemini

Height :	5' 9''

Education :	Attended University of California at Santa Barbara

Occupation :	Actress

Ex-Fiancé :	Brad Pitt

Ex-Boyfriend :	Ben Affleck

Father :	Bruce Paltrow

Mother :	Blythe Danner

Fan Mail :	C/O Creative Artists Agency Cruel Doubt (1992) (TV) 9830 Wilshire Blvd Beverly Hills, CA 90212, USA

Angel Faith

2007-11-28T06:38:00.001-08:00

Angel Faith Profile

Name : Angel Faith

Birth name: Angel Marie Faith Carter

Born: January 8, 1988

Age: 19

Birth Place: Burbank, California, United States

Height : 5' 2" (1.57 m)

Nationality: American

Genre(s): Pop, Rock

Occupation(s): Singer

Years active: 2000–present

Angel Faith Biography

Angel Marie Faith (born January 8, 1988) is a singer from Burbank, California. At age thirteen, she joined the girl group No Secrets, in which she was the group's primary vocalist. Shortly after No Secrets released their self-titled debut CD in 2002, the other four members of No Secrets took measures to exclude Angel from group events and recording sessions, and Angel subsequently left the group to pursue a solo career.Angel signed with Midas Records and released her debut album, Believe in Angels, Believe in Me in 2004, which featured the lead single "That's Just the Way I Am." Noted production team the Matrix collaborated in this effort. Later that year, she released a short holiday-themed collection entitled Gift from an Angel. Angel is currently working on her sophomore album.

Angel signed with Midas Records and released her debut album, Believe in Angels... Believe in Me in 2004, which featured the lead single "That's Just the Way I Am". Noted production team the Matrix collaborated in this effort. Later that year, she released a short holiday-themed collection entitled Gift from an Angel.

Angel's has also launched a clothing line, Curfew.

Alyson Hannigan

2007-11-27T06:22:00.001-08:00

Alyson Hannigan Profile

Name :	Alyson Hannigan

Birth Date :	March 24, 1974

Birth Place :	Washington D.C. USA

Birth Name :	Alyson Lee Hannigan

Nick name :	Allycat

Height :	5' 6

Profession :	Actress

Spouse :	Alexis Denisof (11 October 2003 - present)

Alyson Hannigan Biography

With the unconventional good looks and quirky persona that shout Leading Character Actress, Alyson Hannigan made a name for herself on the WB series Buffy the Vampire Slayer. As Buffy's confidant Willow Rosenberg, the actress endeared herself to a legion of fans and then won over film audiences everywhere with her scene-stealing turn as geeky flutist Michelle in the 1999 summer smash American Pie. Born March 24, 1974, in Washington, D.C., Hannigan became a TV commercial veteran following her family's move to Atlanta. From the age of four, Hannigan appeared in a steady stream of commercials, including ones for Oreo and McDonald's. At the age of 11, she moved to Los Angeles to pursue a career in film and television. She made her big-screen debut in the 1988 film My Stepmother Is an Alien, as Dan Aykroyd's daughter. The following year, she won a regular spot on the short-lived sitcom Free Spirit and acted in a variety of television miniseries and sitcoms (including Roseanne and Picket Fences) until 1997, when she won the part of Willow on Buffy.

The show proved to be an unexpected success among critics and viewers alike, and paved the way for Hannigan to appear opposite Tom Everett Scott in the 1998 comedy Dead Man on Campus. American Pie followed the next year, giving Hannigan wider recognition and making her an unintentional poster child for band camps everywhere. A small stint in the Jason Biggs/Freddie Prinze Jr. flop Boys and Girls (2000) did little to further her career, but thanks to a beefed-up part from writer Adam Herz, Hannigan found herself revisiting the sexually advanced but socially backward Michelle in 2001's high-profile sequel American Pie 2. Though critics were mixed on the franchise's sophomore offering, they praised Hannigan's ability to fully flesh out a character who essentially served as an elaborate punch line in the first film.

Alexis Bledel

2007-11-26T06:21:00.000-08:00

Alexis Bledel Profile

Name :	Alexis Bledel

Birth Date :	September 16, 1982

Birth Place :	Houston, Texas, USA

Birth Name :	Kimberly Alexis Bledel

Height :	5' 7

Education :	New York University, New York, New York (studied film)

Nationality :	American

Profession :	Actress

Claim to fame :	as Lorelai 'Rory' Leigh Gilmore on TV Series Gilmore Girls

Alexis Bledel Biography

Born on september 16, 1982, Texas native Alexis Bledel's parents encouraged her to try community theater in Houston when she was 8 years old, hoping it would help their daughter overcome her shyness. She went on to perform in productions of Our Town, The Wizard of Oz and Aladdin, and later was scouted in a local mall to model. She began her modeling career while still in high school, traveling all over to locations like Tokyo, Milan, New York and Los Angeles. After graduating, she enrolled at NYU as a film major. In the Spring of 2000, Bledel landed a manager through her modeling agency and headed to Los Angeles for her first pilot season, where she quickly landed the coveted role of Rory. For her work on Girlmore Girls, Bledel was honored with the 2002 Family Friendly Forum Award for Best Actress in a Drama, She was also nominated as Best Actress in a Drama by the Teen Choice Awards in 2002. She made her feature film debut as Winnie Foster in "Tuck Everlasting," co-starring William Hurt and Sissy Spacek. When she's not working, Bledel enjoys writing, reading, shooting photography, going to the movies and spending time with her family.

Alexis Bledel Trivia

Gilmore Girls is Alexis' first professional acting job, and she doesn't have any prior experience.

Was spotted in a mall by a modeling agency. She worked as a catalog model and traveled all over the world including Milan, New York, Los Angeles and Tokyo.

Her first language is Spanish. Her mom's from Mexico and her dad was born in Argentina.

That '70s Show is one of her fave shows.

Loves to play the piano. In between scenes on the Gilmore Girls, she heads to her trailer and practices on a keyboard.

Also enjoys photography, writing, reading, watching movies and hanging with her family.

Didn't grow up speaking English, she learned it in school.

One of Teen People Magazine's 25 Hottest Stars under 25 (2002)

Her parents encouraged her to enroll in community theater when she was eight years old to combat her shyness.

Rose McGowan [Wallpapers]

2007-11-24T21:12:00.000-08:00

Rose McGowan Profile

Name :	Rose McGowan

Birth date :	September 5, 1973

Birth place :	Florence, Italy

Height :	5' 3''

Nationality :	Italian

Profession :	Actress, model

Rose McGowan Biography

Rose McGowan was born in Florence, Italy in 1975 and was raised in Italy on a commune of the Children of God cult. Her parents moved back to the United States when Rose was ten. They didn't want anything to do with American culture, however, and Rose had never spoken English until then. She had never seen a movie before either, and she wasn't even aware that movies and television existed. Her education was limited to "little schools where the kids laid around listening to Kurt Vonnegut." All the traditional education she recieved was from her mother. In spite of the atmosphere she grew up in, even from early on Rose was very un-hippie and never bought into that lifestyle. Rose left the commune when she was fifteen. She then worked in a variety of jobs, and often had to lie about her age to get them. She worked as a waitress, sales clerk, ticket taker and other minimum wage jobs. She was even forced to live on the streets for a while.

Her first acting opportunity was in 1992's Encino Man. After that, she waited another three years before being in another movie. Her next film was Gregg Araki's Doom Generation. Araki had met her outside a gym while she was in LA to attend arts school, and he decided to cast her in his Sundance entry. Although much of Rose's fame has come from her more commercial films like Biodome and Scream, most of her roles have been in independant films. While McGowan enjoys making movies, her first love is traditional art. Rather than creatin art (like her father), she would rather be a curator and revive museums. She feels that museums have become unfriendly to younger people, and dreams of opening them up so that the average person can connect with them.

Rose McGowan Trivia

She was nominated for a 1996 Independent Spirit Award for Best Debut Performance for her role as Amy Blue in THE DOOM GENERATION.

Blood red lipstick is her trademark.

Most of her boyfriends have been Jewish.

She was auditioned for the role of Lisa in GIRL, INTERRUPTED (1999).

She got the role of Amy Blue, in THE DOOM GENERATION, after Jordan Ladd pulled out.

She was a child model in Italy.

Mother is French and father is Irish.

WB announced that McGowan will be playing the new sister Paige Halliwell, on the TV series CHARMED. McGowen fills a space vacated by the departing Shannon Doherty, whose character, Prue Halliwell, has been killed off. (June 2001)

Told Howard Stern that she broke up with Marilyn Manson because she tired of the rock and roll lifestyle he engaged in. When pressed further, she admitted that drug use was a big part of that lifestyle. (October 2001)

She has a tattoo of a pin-up girl on her right shoulder.

She knits, gardens, and collects Marlene Dietrich memorabilia.

Is set to make a return to movie screens - as a high-priced hooker.

In June 2001, Executive Producer of CHARMED (1998), Aaron Spelling announced Rose McGowan to play the part of Paige Halliwell, the long lost younger sister of Prue, Piper and Phoebe.

Her fiancé, shock-rocker Marilyn Manson, has a cameo appearance in JAWBREAKER (1999).

Dyed her hair blonde in order to contrast her black hair from Neve Campbell's in SCREAM (1996)

Was raised in a cult her father ran in Italy called the Children of God Cult.

Jennie Garth

2007-11-23T06:30:00.001-08:00

Jennie Garth Profile

Name :	Jennie Garth

Birth Date :	April 3, 1972

Birth Place :	Urbana, Illinois

Birth Name :	Jennifer Eve Garth

Height :	5' 5''

Nationality :	American

Occupation :	Actress

Spouse :	Dan Clark (musician; separated), Peter Facinelli (actor; married on January 20, 2001)

Claim to fame :	as Kelly Taylor on Beverly Hills 90210

Jennie Garth Biography

Having skyrocketed to stardom with her role as Kelly Taylor in Beverly Hills, 90210, Jennie Garth returns to the small screen, making her comedy debut as the strait-laced sister in What I Like About You. Garth was born in the farming community of Urbana, Ill., and spent her early childhood on the family's 25-acre horse farm in Arcola, Ill. With her parents and six siblings, Garth moved to Phoenix, Ariz., when she was just 13, and it was there that she met her manager at a local beauty pageant. She then convinced her parents she needed to move to Los Angeles to pursue an acting career. Once in Los Angeles, Garth quickly landed a role in her first television series, A Brand New Life starring Barbara Eden. At 17, Garth dazzled legendary producer Aaron Spelling who hired her to play spoiled rich girl Kelly Taylor even before she got back to her car.

In 1996, Garth executive produced and starred in the television movie An Unfinished Affair, where she met her future husband, actor Peter Facinelli. Garth's other credits include the television movies Without Consent, Loss of Innocence and Danielle Steel's Star, as well as Darren Star's television series The Street. Garth currently divides her time between her home in Los Angeles and ranch in Northern California, with her three loves: her husband, her daughter and her horses.

Hilary Duff

2007-11-22T06:15:00.000-08:00

Hilary Duff Profile

Birth name - Hilary Erhard Duff

Born - September 28, 1987 (1987-09-28) (age 20)

Origin - Houston, Texas

Genre(s) - Pop, pop rock, electronic, dance, electro-pop

Occupation(s) - Actress, singer, songwriter, spokesperson, fashion designer

Instrument(s) - Vocals

Years active - 1998–present

Hilary Duff Biography

Hilary Erhard Duff (born September 28, 1987) is an American actress, pop singer/songwriter and entrepreneur. She has an elder sister, Haylie Duff, who is also an actress/singer.

After gaining fame for her starring role on the television show Lizzie McGuire, Duff went on to have a film career, and her most commercially successful pictures include Cheaper by the Dozen (2003), The Lizzie McGuire Movie (2003), and A Cinderella Story (2004). She reportedly earned $15 million in 2005. Duff has expanded her repertoire into pop music, with three RIAA certified-platinum albums and over thirteen million albums sold worldwide, and she has launched a clothing line, Stuff by Hilary Duff, and an exclusive perfume with Elizabeth Arden. Duff and her mother were listed as producers for the movie Material Girls, and she will soon produce her sister's debut album.

Her upcoming films include the 2007 action thriller War, Inc., animated comedy Foodfight! and independent films "Greta" and "Safety Glass". Duff's latest studio album, Dignity, was released in April 2007 and has sold 840,000+ since then.

Car Wallpapers

2007-11-21T05:35:00.001-08:00

Angelina Jolie

2007-11-20T05:54:00.000-08:00

Full Name : Angelina Jolie Voight
Date Of Birth : 4 June 1975
Place Of Birth : Los Angeles, California
Sign : Gemini
Height : 5'7
Hair : Brown
Eyes : Blue
Children : Maddox Chivan (adopted from Cambodia, 2002), Zahara Marley (adopted from Ethiopia, 2005) , Shiloh Nouvel Jolie-Pitt (fathered by Brad Pitt), Pax Thien Jolie-Pitt (adopted from Vietnam, 2007)
Father : Jon Voight
Mother : Marcheline Bertrand
Brother : James Haven Voight
Significant Other : Brad Pitt

"Acting is not pretending or lying. It’s finding a side of yourself that’s the character and ignoring your other sides. And there’s a side of me that wonders what’s wrong with being completely honest."
-Angelina Jolie

Raised mostly by her mother after her parents divorced while she was still a baby, Jolie moved around a lot with her mother and brother. She also did a fair amount of traveling as a professional model, living in such places as London, New York, and Los Angeles before settling for a time in New York as a student at the Lee Strasberg Theatre Institute and New York University, where she first started acting in theater productions. The fledgling actress soon moved on to film with a small role in 1993's Cyborg 2, followed in 1995 by her turn as a computer hacker in the more widely seen Hackers. The film gave her her first taste of recognition, as well as an introduction to Trainspotting's Jonny Lee Miller, to whom she was married for a short time.

After appearing in a number of mediocre films, Jolie finally hit it big in 1997 with her Golden Globe-winning performance as George Wallace's wife in the highly acclaimed TV movie George Wallace. The role, coupled with her Emmy-nominated performance in the title role of HBO's Gia, provided Jolie with a new level of professional respect and recognition. She was soon appearing on talk shows and in magazines, answering questions about everything from her multiple tattoos to her famous father to her brief marriage.

She was also netting roles in high-profile projects: In 1998 Jolie headlined an ensemble cast that included Sean Connery, Gena Rowlands, Anthony Edwards, Gillian Anderson, Ryan Phillippe, and Madeline Stowe in Playing By Heart. The following year, she was part of another high-voltage cast in Mike Newell's Pushing Tin, co-starring alongside John Cusack, Billy Bob Thornton, and Cate Blanchett. Although the film was neither a critical nor a financial success, it did little to diminish the rapid ascent of the career of the actress, who was in hot demand for projects that would further elevate her already rising star. In 2000, Jolie's star received one of its greatest boosts to date when the actress won an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her portrayal of a volatile mental patient in Girl, Interrupted. Later that year, her personal life also got a boost in the form of her April marriage to Billy Bob Thornton.

Onscreen, Jolie was hard to miss in 2000. She starred in a number of films, including the crime thriller Gone in Sixty Seconds, in which she co-starred as a car thief alongside Nicolas Cage, and Original Sin, a thriller that featured her as the bad-seed bride of a Cuban tycoon (Antonio Banderas). If she was hard to miss in 2000, Jolie was impossible to escape in 2001 with her turn as shapely video-game adventuress Lara Croft in the long anticipated film adaptation of the popular Tomb Raider video-game franchise. Carrying on the tradition of video-game movies that are light on plot but heavy on the action, Tomb Raider (2001) and Lara Croft Tomb Raider: Cradle of Life (2003) scored with summer audiences and quickly shot to number one at the box office despite disparaging reviews citing an incoherent story line, unlike Life or Something Like It, the 2002 romantic comedy-drama that critics and audiences alike would rather not have seen.

On July 18th, 2002, Jolie filed for divorce from Billy Bob Thornton, claiming that their priorities no longer meshed after having adopted a child. Though the famously quirky couple were no longer, Angelina's film schedule remained hectic. In 2003 she would play a rich-girl-turned-humanitarian in Beyond Borders, while 2004 promised a host of parts for Jolie, including a role in Oliver Stone's Alexander; an epic biography of Alexander the Great starring Colin Farrell, as well as a role alongside fellow Oscar-winner Gwyneth Paltrow in The World of Tomorrow, and a turn as a tough FBI agent in Taking Lives. She has since adopted several more children and became involved with leading man Brad Pitt, who fathered her daughter Shiloh.

Filmography

Below are all movies and TV Shows Angelina has been acted in.

Wanted (2008) - Fox
Kung Fu Panda (voice) (2008) -Master Tigress
The Changeling (2008)
Atlas Shrugged (2008) -Dagny Taggart
Beowulf (2007) - Grendels Mother
A Mighty Heart ( 2007) - Marianne Pearl
The Good Shepherd (2006) - Catherine the Great
Mr. and Mrs. Smith (2005) - Jane Smith
Alexander (2004) - Olympias
Shark Tale (2004) (voice) - Lola
Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow (2004) - Capt. Franky Cook
Taking Lives (2004) - Illeana Scott
Beyond Borders (2003) - Sarah Jordan
Lara Croft and the Cradle of Life: Tomb Raider 2 (2003) - Lara Croft
Life or Something Like It (2002) - Lanie
Original Sin (2001) - Julia Russell
Lara Croft: Tomb Raider (2001) - Lara Croft
Gone in Sixty Seconds (2000) - Sara 'Sway' Wayland
Girl, Interrupted (1999) - Lisa Rowe
Bone Collector, The (1999) - Amelia Donaghy
Pushing Tin (1999) - Mary Bell
Playing by Heart (1998) - Joan
Hell's Kitchen (1998) - Gloria McNeary
Gia (1998) (TV) - Gia Marie Carangi
Playing God (1997) - Claire
George Wallace (1997) (TV) - Cornelia Wallace
True Women (1997) (TV) - Georgia Virginia Lawshe Woods
Mojave Moon (1996) - Eleanor 'Elie' Rigby
Foxfire (1996) - Margret 'Legs' Sadovsky
Love Is All There Is (1996) - Gina Malacici
Without Evidence (1995) - Jodie Swearingen
Hackers (1995) - Kate Libby ('Acid Burn')
Cyborg 2 (1993) - Casella 'Cash' Reese
Lookin' to Get Out (1982) - Tosh

Jodha akbar

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Jodha Akbar is probably the most promising movie Aishwarya Rai has at this moment. She is playing the role of Jodha against Hrithik Roshan as the Mughal emperor Akbar. The movie is based on the lives of Mughal Emperor Akbar the great and his Hindu wife Jodha. Historically it was a marriage of alliance, the main reason Akbar married Jodha was to improve the Mughal relationship with Rajput states. The movie tells us an untold story of love between Akbar and Jodha.

When Jodha entered Akbar’s life, she refused to be treated just like a mere gift from Rajputs. This is the story how Akbar won her heart, assured her that she is not just the queen of India but also the queen of Akbar’s Heart.

Directed by Ashutosh Gowariker, who has movies like Lagaan and Swades on his credit. Ashutush doesn’t usually allow people to roam around his sets and locations. But it is rumored that they have created grand sets for the movie at Nitin Desai’s ND studios. An entire set of Agra fort has been made with Darbars and Sheesh Mahal a hall with thousands of mirrors on the walls. Costumes are designed by the top designers in India. Jodha’s costumes are made by Neeta Lallu who is also doing wedding dress for Aishwarya Rai’s wedding. The movie has a bigger than life canvas, It is story of an Emperor who united India under one rule, fought several wars and is reputed to promote a culture of religious tolerance in the country. Bollywood fans has already seen Akbar in the movie Mughal-e-Azam. I don’t know how Ashutush portray’s Akbar but one thing I am sure is that Ashutush’s Akbar the great is a lot more sexy and so is the Jodha, the queen. We know Akbar and Jodha, parents of prince Saleem in the movie Mughl-e-Azam. But it was story of love between Saleem and Anarkali. But even that classic movie has shown that Akbar loved Jodha more than any thing in the world. Ashutush picked this hint and decided to shed some more light on the affair.

Beautiful Fall Colours - II

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Beautiful Fall Colours - I

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Christina Aguilera

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Christina Aguilera Profile

Name: Christina Aguilera

Birth Name: Christina Maria Aguilera

Height: 5' 2 1/2"

Sex: F

Nationality: American

Birth Date: December 18, 1980

Birth Place: Staten Island, New York, USA

Profession: actress, musician

Education: Marshall Middle School in Wexford, Pennslyvania.
North Allegheny High School in Wexford, Pennsylvania (graduated in 1999)
Mickey Mouse Club
Rochester Area Elementary School in Rochester, Pennsylvania.

Husband/Wife: Jordan Bratman (music executive; dated since 2002; engaged on
February 11, 2005; married on November 19, 2005 at the Staglin Family Vineyard in Northern California's Napa Valley)

Father: Fausto Aguilera (military officer; separated)

Mother: Shelly Kearns (Irish-American; violinist, pianist; president of Christina's fan club)

Sister: Rachel Aguilera (younger; born 1986)

Half Sister: Stephanie Aguilera (younger)

Half Brother: Michael (younger; born 1996), Casey (younger)

Step Father: Jim Kearns

Claim to fame: Hit single Genie in a Bottle (1999)

Christina Aguilera Biography

Christina María Aguilera (born December 18, 1980) is an American pop singer and songwriter. She was signed to RCA Records after recording "Reflection" for the film Mulan. She came to prominence following her debut album Christina Aguilera (1999), which was a critical and commercial success. A Latin pop album Mi Reflejo, and a Christmas album, My Kind of Christmas, followed during this period and also sold very well.

Aguilera took creative control over her second studio album Stripped (2002), which received mixed reviews and produced substantial sales. The overtly sexual image Aguilera displayed during the promotion of the album became the subject of intense criticism and ridicule.

Aguilera's third studio album Back to Basics (2006) included elements of soul, jazz, and blues music. It was released to good sales and positive critical reception. Aguilera's works have earned her numerous awards including five Grammy Awards amongst sixteen nominations. She has sold 30 million albums worldwide.

In early 2002, Aguilera began dating music marketing executive Jordan Bratman. Their engagement was announced in February 2005, and they married on November 19, 2005, in the Napa Valley. The couple celebrated their one year anniversary in Dublin, Ireland where she was on tour at the time. In November of 2007 Aguilera confirmed that she and her husband are expecting their first child together around January 2008.

Aguilera was born in Staten Island, New York, to Fausto Wagner Xavier Aguilera, a Sergeant in the U.S. Army at the time and Shelly Loraine Fidler, a Spanish teacher. Aguilera's father was born in Guayaquil, Ecuador, while her mother is of Irish descent (her maternal grandmother emigrated from County Clare). Her father, Fausto, was stationed at Earnest Harmon Air Force Base in Stephenville, Newfoundland, Canada and Japan. Aguilera lived with her father and mother until she was seven years old. When Aguilera's parents divorced, her mother took her, and her younger sister Rachel, to her grandmother's home in Wexford, Pennsylvania, a blue-collar suburb outside of Pittsburgh. According to both Aguilera and Fidler, her father was very controlling, as well as physically and emotionally abusive. She later wrote about her difficult childhood in the songs "I'm OK" in Stripped, and "Oh Mother" in Back to Basics. Although her father has written to Aguilera, she has ruled out any chance to reunite with him. Since then, Fidler has married a paramedic named Jim Kearns, and has changed her name to Shelly Kearns.

Anita Ekberg

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Anita Ekberg Biography

Kerstin Anita Marianne Ekberg was born on 29th of September 1931 in Malmo, Skane in Sweden. Nickname: ‘The Iceberg’. She was a model and actress and is best-known for her role as Sylvia in ‘La Dolce Vita’, directed by the late Federico Fellini. When she was a teenager she used to work as a fashion model, but her real career began, when she was elected Miss Sweden in 1950.

Unfortunately, she didn’t win the Miss Universe contest then, but she quickly got a film contract with Howard Hughes’s Radio Keith Orpheum (a movie studio). After five years spent in Hollywood, she had moved to Rome where she starred in ‘La Dolce Vita’ (produced in 1960) - and it was her breakthrough. She stayed in Italy and played in some 20 movies during the next ten years - some of her roles were memorable, some are to be forgotten. During the 1970s her roles became less frequent, but in 1987 Anita Ekberg made a marvellous comeback with Fellini’s film titled: ‘Intervista’.

The fact she was married twice, gave her a lot of attention from the press too. At first, from 1956 to 1959, Anita Ekberg was married to the British actor Anthony Steel. From 1963 to 1975, she was married to the actor Rik Van Nutter - during this marriage, she had several miscarriages, but no successful pregnancies. Some people say, Anita Ekberg was also romantically involved with: Marcello Mastroianni, Frank Sinatra, and Gary Cooper - to mention just few of them.

She has lived alone in Italy - in her beloved Rome for many years.

Kate Hudson

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Kate Hudson Profile

Birth name - Kate Garry Hudson

Born - April 19, 1979, Los Angeles, California, USA

Height - 5' 6"

Spouse(s) - Chris Robinson (2000-2006)

Children - Ryder Russell Robinson (b.2004)

Parents - Bill Hudson (b.1949), Goldie Hawn (b.1945)

Occupation - Actress, Model

Best Known As - Penny Lane in the movie Almost Famous

Kate Hudson Biography

Kate Garry Hudson (born April 19, 1979) is an American film actress. She came to fame in 2000, after an Oscar-nominated role in the drama Almost Famous, and has since established herself as a Hollywood lead actress, starring in several films, including How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days, The Skeleton Key, and You, Me, and Dupree.

Hudson was born in Los Angeles to Bill Hudson (a singer, comedian and member of the Hudson Brothers) and the Academy Award-winning actress Goldie Hawn. Her maternal grandmother is of Hungarian Ashkenazi Jewish descent while her paternal grandmother was of Italian descent and her paternal grandfather's ancestry traces to 15th century England. Hudson was raised in the Jewish religion, though her family also practiced Buddhism.

Hudson's parents divorced eighteen months after her birth; she and her brother, actor Oliver Hudson, were raised in Colorado by her mother and her mother's long-time boyfriend, actor Kurt Russell. Hudson has stated that her biological father "doesn't know me from a hole in the wall", and that she considers her mother's partner, Kurt Russell, to be her father. Hudson has described her mother as "the woman that I've learned the most from, and who I look up to, who has conducted her life in a way that I can look up to". She has three half-siblings, Emily and Zachary Hudson, from her biological father's subsequent marriage to actress Cindy Williams, and Wyatt, from her mother's relationship with Kurt Russell. Her cousins are singers Sarah Hudson and David Esteves.

Hudson graduated from Crossroads, a performing school in Santa Monica, in 1997. She was accepted to New York University, but chose to pursue an acting career instead of attending.

Collection of Bike Wallpapers

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Sunsets and Sunrises Wallpaper Gallery

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3D Wallpapers

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Love Wallpapers

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Tropical Islands

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Avril Lavigne

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Avril Lavigne Profile

Name: Avril Lavigne

Birth Name: Avril Ramona Lavigne

Height: 5' 2"

Sex: F

Nationality: Canadian

Birth Date: September 27, 1984

Birth Place: Napanee, Ontario, Canada

Profession: musician, singer

Husband/Wife: Deryck Whibley (lead vocalist of Sum 41; born on March 21, 1980;
engaged on June 25, 2005; married July 15, 2006)

Father: John Lavigne

Mother: Judy Lavigne

Sister: Michelle Lavigne

Brother: Matt Lavigne

Avril Lavigne Biography

Avril Lavigne Whibley, better known by her birth name of Avril Lavigne (IPA: /ˈævrəl.ləˈviːn/), (born September 27, 1984) is a Canadian rock/punk-pop singer, musician and actress. In 2006, Canadian Business Magazine ranked her the seventh most powerful Canadian in Hollywood, and in 2007 she won ninth place in the Jabra Music Contest for the Best Band in the World, based on fan votes from around the world.

Lavigne's birth name is usually pronounced in an anglicized way as /ˈævrəl ləˈviːn/ ("La-Veen") (in French it is commonly pronounced /aˈvʁil laˈviːɲ/ (help·info)). Avril is French for "April", while la vigne means "the vine" or "the vineyard".

Lavigne's debut album, Let Go, was released in 2002, and went on to sell over 18 million copies worldwide. and was certified six times platinum in the United States[12] Her second and third albums, Under My Skin (2004) and The Best Damn Thing (2007), respectively, reached number one on the U.S. Billboard 200. Lavigne has scored five number one songs worldwide to date and a total of eleven top ten hits, including "Complicated", "Sk8er Boi", "I'm with You", "My Happy Ending", and "Girlfriend". She's ranked # 50 on VH1's "50 Greatest Women Of The Video Era" show list.

Avril Lavigne was born in Napanee, Ontario to a devout Christian family. Lavigne's musical talent was first spotted at the age of two when her mother says Lavigne began singing along with her on church songs. The family moved to Napanee, Ontario, when Lavigne was five years old.

In 1998, Avril Lavigne won a competition to sing with fellow Canadian singer Shania Twain on her first major concert tour. She appeared alongside Twain at her concert in Ottawa, appearing on stage to sing "What Made You Say That".

She was discovered by her first professional manager, Cliff Fabri, while singing country covers at a Chapters bookstore in Kingston, Ontario. During a performance with the Lennox Community Theatre, Lavigne was spotted by local folk singer Steve Medd (a relation of the influential Canadian journalist, Ben Medd), who invited her to sing on his song "Touch the Sky" for his 1999 album Quinte Spirit. She also sang on "Temple of Life" and "Two Rivers" for his follow up album, My Window to You, in 2000.

At the age of sixteen she was signed by Ken Krongard, the artists-and-repertoire (A&R) representative of Arista Records, who invited the head of Arista, Antonio "L.A." Reid, to hear her sing at the New York City studio of producer Peter Zizzo. She then completed work on her first album, Let Go. The Matrix, who worked extensively with Lavigne on the album, commented on her songwriting, saying, "We conceived the ideas on guitar and piano. Avril would come in and sing a few melodies, change a word here or there."

Cameron Diaz

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Cameron Diaz Profile

Name: Cameron Diaz

Birth Name: Cameron Michelle Diaz

Height: 5' 9"

Sex: F

Nationality: American

Birth Date: August 30, 1972

Birth Place: San Diego, California, USA

Profession: actress, model

Education: Long Beach Polytechnic High School in Long Beach, California

Relationship: Justin Timberlake (musician; born January 31, 1981; dated since 2003; split January 11, 2007), Jared Leto (actor; born December 26, 1971; 1999-2003), Matt Dillon (actor; born February 18, 1964; 1996-1998), Carlos De La Torre (producer; 1990-1995)

Father: Emilio Diaz (oil foreman)

Mother: Billie Early (exporting agent)

Sister: Chimene Diaz (older)

Claim to fame: as Tina Carlyle in The Mask (1994)

Cameron Diaz Biography

Cameron Michelle Diaz (born August 30, 1972) is an American actress and former fashion model. She is perhaps best known for her roles in blockbuster movies such as The Mask, There's Something About Mary, My Best Friend's Wedding, Charlie's Angels, Shrek, and Gangs of New York. Diaz was the second of three actresses to join the coveted "$20 Million Club" after receiving this salary for Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle.

Diaz was born in San Diego, California to Emilio Diaz and Billie (née Early). Diaz's father is a second-generation Cuban-American and her mother has German, English And Native American descent, . Diaz attended Long Beach Polytechnic High School at the same time as rapper Snoop Dogg. During her school days, she was nicknamed Skeletor by her classmates because she was so thin.

At 16 she began her career as a fashion model. Diaz signed with top modeling agency Elite Model Management. After graduating from high school, she went to work in Japan and met video director Carlo de la Torre. On her return to America, she moved in with him. For the next few years, her modeling took her around the world, working for contracts with major companies. She modelled for designers such as Calvin Klein and Levi's. She also graced the cover of the July 1990 issue of Seventeen magazine. During this period she also made a brief but now notorious soft pornographic film.

At 21, Diaz auditioned for the Jim Carrey film The Mask. Even though she had no previous acting experience, she was cast as the female lead. She signed up for acting lessons right after getting the part. Over the next three years, she won roles in low-budget, independent films, such as The Last Supper, Feeling Minnesota, and She's The One. She then regained mainstream success with her roles in My Best Friend's Wedding and There's Something About Mary. She won critical acclaim for her performance in Being John Malkovich, which earned her Best Supporting Actress nominations at the Golden Globes, the BAFTA Awards and the SAG Awards.

Holly Valance

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Holly Valance Profile

Birth name: Holly Rachel Vukadinović

Born: Australia 11 May 1983 (age 24)

Origin: Australia

Genre(s): Pop, Dance, Urban Pop

Occupation(s): Singer, Actress, Model

Years active : 2002-present (singer), 1999-present (actress)

Website HollyValance.com

Holly Valance Biography

Holly Rachel Vukadinović ( Serbian Cyrilic : Вукадиновић) (born 11 May 1983), who is better known by her stage name of Holly Valance, is an Australian actress and ARIA nominated singer.

Valance was born in Melbourne, Australia, on 11 May 1983 to a Serbian father and a British mother. She is related to the late British comedian Benny Hill — Hill's cousin was her grandfather (cousins twice removed). Holly was educated at the Star of the Sea College, a Roman Catholic high school located in Melbourne.

Holly's first single as a recording artist was "Kiss Kiss", released in 2002. The song debuted at #1 in both the Australian ARIA and UK Singles Charts charts in April/May 2002. "Kiss Kiss" is an English interpretation of the song Şımarık by Turkish superstar Tarkan. The video was notable in that Valance appeared to be dancing naked, but in fact she was wearing flesh colored panties but no top. The footage was then digitally retouched adding strategically placed lighting effects. The song was nominated for 4 ARIA awards.

Her next single, "Down Boy" peaked at #2 in the UK and at #3 in Australia. Her début album Footprints was released on October 14, 2002. It debuted and peaked at #9 in the UK and #15 in Australia. The album's third and final single "Naughty Girl" peaked at #3 in Australia and at #16 in the UK.

In 2003, the first single "State of Mind" from Holly's second album of the same name debuted and peaked at #8 in the UK and at #14 in Australia, but the album didn't get into the top 50 of either country.

Alyson Michalka

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Alyson Michalka Profile

Name: Aly Michalka

Birth Name: Alyson Renae Michalka

Height: 5' 6½

Sex: F

Nationality: American

Birth Date: March 25, 1989

Birth Place: Torrance, California, USA

Profession: Actress, Musician

Father: Mark Michalka

Mother: Carrie Begley

Sister: Amanda Joy Michalka (aka. AJ Michalka; born on April 10, 1991)

Claim to fame: Her role as Keely Teslow in the Disney Channel Original Series, Phil of the Future and one of the musical duo Aly & AJ

Alyson Michalka Biography

Alyson Renae Michalka (born March 25, 1989), often credited as Aly, is an American actress and singer. She is perhaps best known for her role as Keely Teslow in the Disney Channel Original Series, Phil of the Future and in the Disney Channel Original Movie Cow Belles and as one-half of the musical duo Aly & AJ with her sister Amanda Joy "AJ" Michalka.

Alyson Michalka was born in Torrance, California. Alyson and her sister, Amanda (who is two years younger), lived and grew up in Seattle, Washington. Michalka has been playing the piano since she was six and started playing the guitar at the age of thirteen. She started acting when she was five years old, mostly in church productions. She was raised in Christianity and continues to practice the religion. She loves to sing and has albums out with her sister.

Michalka's acting debut came when she was cast in the role of Keely Teslow on the Disney Channel Original Series, Phil of the Future. She has also starred in the Disney Channel Original Movies Now You See It..., in which she plays "Allyson Miller", an ambitious television producer, and Cow Belles, in which she appears opposite her sister.

Michalka and her sister comprise the musical duo Aly & AJ, and released their first album, Into the Rush, in August 16, 2005. In 2007, their new album, Insomniatic, hit stores, with their chart-topping song, Potential Breakup Song.