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339 celebrities 5' 2" tall have been found. Add to favourites (253 fans)Biography of Christina Aguilera
Christina María Aguilera (born December 18, 1980 (birth time source: Astrodatabank)) is an American recording artist and actress. She first appeared on national television in 1990 as a contestant on the Star Search program, and went on to star in Disney Channel's television series The Mickey Mouse Club from 1993 to 1994. She signed with RCA Records after recording "Reflection", the theme song for the animated film Mulan (1998). In 1999, Aguilera came to prominence following her debut album Christina Aguilera, which was a commercial success with three number one singles on the Billboard Hot 100—"Genie in a Bottle", "What a Girl Wants", and "Come On Over Baby (All I Want Is You)." Her second album, Mi Reflejo (2000), a third studio album, My Kind of Christmas (2000), and several collabora... Add to favourites (292 fans)Biography of Shakira
Shakira Isabel Mebarak Ripoll (pronounced ; born February 2, 1977 (birth time source: Paddy de Jabrun, Astrodatabank)), known mononymously as Shakira (English /ʃəˈkɪərə/, Spanish: ), is a Colombian singer-songwriter, dancer, record producer, choreographer and model who emerged in the music scene of Colombia and Latin America in the early 1990s. Born and raised in Barranquilla, Shakira began performing in school, demonstrating her vocal ability with rock and roll, Latin and Arabic influences with her own original twist on belly dancing. Shakira is a native Spanish speaker who speaks fluent English and Portuguese, as well as some Italian, French, and Catalan. After a poor commercial reception with local producers on her first two albums, and being little-know... Add to favourites (173 fans)Biography of Alyssa Milano
Alyssa Jayne Milano (born December 19, 1972) is an American actress. She is best known for her roles in the sitcom Who's the Boss? and on the supernatural series Charmed. At the beginning of her career, Alyssa was known mainly for her role as Samantha Micelli on Who's the Boss? (1984-1992). She tried to shed her "nice girl" image by appearing in several films targeted at adults, such as Casualties of Love: The Long Island Lolita Story (1992), Embrace of the Vampire (1994), Confessions of Sorority Girls (1994), Deadly Sins (1995), and Poison Ivy II: Lily (1995), where she starred opposite Johnathon Schaech and Xander Berkley. She gained more mainstream success in TV as Jennifer Mancini on Melrose Place (1997-1998), Meg Winston in Spin City and most notably as Phoebe Halliwell on Charmed ... Add to favourites (169 fans)Biography of Elizabeth Taylor
Dame Elizabeth Rosemond Taylor, DBE (February 27, 1932 (birth time source: her birth certificate, Astrodatabank) – March 23, 2011), also known as Liz Taylor, was an English-American actress. A former child star, she grew to be known for her acting talent and beauty, as well as her Hollywood lifestyle, including many marriages. Taylor was considered one of the great actresses of Hollywood's golden age. The American Film Institute named Taylor seventh on its Female Legends list. Early years (1932–1942) Elizabeth Rosemond Taylor was born in Hampstead, a wealthy district of North West London, the second child of Francis Lenn Taylor (1897–1968) and Sara Viola Warmbrodt (1895–1994), who were Americans residing in England. Taylor's older brother, Howard Taylor, was born in 1929. Her pare... Add to favourites (18 fans)Biography of Eva Joly
Eva Joly (born December 5, 1943 as Eva Gro Farseth) is a Norwegian-French magistrate. Born in Grünerløkka, Oslo, she moved to Paris at 18 to work as an au pair. Here, against the will of the parents, she married the son of the family, Pascal Joly (now deceased). Working as a secretary, she took her legal education at night school. Joly specialised in financial affairs, and in 1990 she joined the High Court of Paris as an investigating judge. Here she quickly made a mark with her tireless crusade against corruption, in particular taking on, among others, former minister Bernard Tapie and the bank Crédit Lyonnais. Her most famous case, however, was that of France’s leading oil company – Elf Aquitaine. In the face of death threats, she carried on the case to uncover several cases of fraud.... Add to favourites (76 fans)Biography of Charles Manson
Charles Milles Manson (born November 12, 1934; first proper name Charles Milles Maddox) was leader of what came to be known as the Manson Family, a cult-like commune that began to form around him in San Francisco in 1967. He was convicted of conspiracy to commit the Tate-LaBianca murders, which members of the commune carried out at his instruction. Though there was no evidence Manson personally killed any of the victims, he was also found guilty of the murders themselves, through the joint-responsibility rule of conspiracy. Background Born to the unwed Kathleen Maddox in Cincinnati General Hospital, Cincinnati, Ohio, Charles Manson was first known as "no name Maddox." No more than three weeks after his birth, he was Charles Milles Maddox. Although the record that includes that n... Add to favourites (94 fans)Biography of Eva Longoria
Eva Jacqueline Longoria-Parker (born March 15, 1975 (birth time source: http://www.astrolreport.com/gallery.php?cid=13&pid=75) is a Golden Globe Award-nominated American film and television actress. She is best known for her role as Gabrielle Solis in the ABC television series Desperate Housewives. She has also become an internationally recognized model after appearing in several high-profile advertising campaigns and numerous men's magazines. Longoria announced her engagement to French NBA guard Tony Parker on November 30, 2006. They married on July 6, 2007. The ceremony was held on July 7, 2007, in Maincy, France at the Vaux-le-Vicomte castle. Early life Longoria was born in Corpus Christi, Texas, to Mexican-American Catholic parents, Enrique Longoria Jr. (born in Rachal, Brooks Coun... Add to favourites (100 fans)Biography of Jenifer (singer)
Jenifer Yaël Dadouche-Bartoli (born on 15 November 1982 in Nice), better known as simply Jenifer, is a pop singer who has, since 2002, had a number of hit singles in the French and Swiss charts. Biography Jenifer was raised with her younger brother Jonathan, by her mother and father, Michel Dadouche and Christine Bartoli. Her mother is part Corsican and part Spanish; her father is a Jewish-Algerian pied noir. She comes from a modest background. She participated in the Graines de star television broadcast in 1997, but this was a failure. Jenifer decided to go to Paris and attend the casting for the first series of Star Academy in France . She was selected, and eventually won. The hit single "J'attends L'amour" (I'm waiting for love) soon followed. After the tour with her band that ... Add to favourites (116 fans)Biography of Prince (musician)
Prince Rogers Nelson (born June 7, 1958 (birth time source: Frank C. Clifford )), known from 1993 to 2000 as (or informally, The Artist Formerly Known as Prince, TAFKAP, or simply The Artist), is an iconic, award-winning American musician. He is best known for performing under the name Prince. His music has spanned myriad styles; from his early material, rooted in R&B, funk, and soul, he has constantly expanded his musical palette throughout his career, absorbing many other genres including New Wave, pop, rock, blues, jazz, and hip hop. The distinctive characteristics of the early-to-mid 1980s work which brought him to super-stardom (including sparse and industrial-sounding drum machine arrangements, and the use of synthesizer riffs to serve the role traditionally occupied by horn riff... Add to favourites (102 fans)Biography of Salma Hayek
Salma Hayek Jiménez (born September 2, 1966) is an Academy Award-nominated Mexican actress, Daytime Emmy-winning director, and a film and television producer. Hayek has appeared in more than thirty films and performed as an actress outside of Hollywood in Mexico and Spain. Hayek's charitable work includes increasing awareness on violence against women and discrimination against immigrants. Early life and career in Mexico Hayek was born in Coatzacoalcos, Veracruz, Mexico to Sami Hayek, a Lebanese Mexican oil company executive, and Diana Jiménez, an opera singer. Hayek's paternal grandparents were Mexicans of Lebanese descent, while her mother is of Spanish descent. Reflecting her Arab heritage, her first name literally means ‘peace’ or ‘calm’ in Arabic. Raised in a wealthy, devoutly ... Add to favourites (60 fans)Biography of Nicki Minaj
Onika Tanya Maraj (born December 8, 1982 (birth time source : Vibe Magazine Feb. 2012)), better known by her stage name Nicki Minaj, is a Trinidadian rapper and singer-songwriter. In August 2009, Minaj signed to Young Money Entertainment with distribution from Universal Motown. Early life Minaj was born on December 8, 1984 in Saint James, Trinidad and Tobago to parents of Indian and Afro Trinidadian descent. She lived in Saint James, Trinidad and Tobago with her grandmother until age five, because her parents were looking for a place to live in the Queens borough of New York City. Her mother would occasionally visit, and one day, when Minaj was five, her mother picked her up to move to Queens. According to Minaj, her father drank alcohol, took drugs, and once tried to kill her mother... Add to favourites (79 fans)Biography of Hilary Duff
Hilary Erhard Duff (born September 28, 1987 (birth time source: "Hilary Duff Life Story 2006")) is an American actress, author, entrepreneur and recording artist. Born and raised in Houston, Texas, Duff appeared in local theatre plays and television commercials before coming to prominence in the title role of the Disney Channel's teen comedy Lizzie McGuire and The CW's teen drama Gossip Girl as movie star Olivia. Established as a teen idol, Duff reprised that role in the The Lizzie McGuire Movie and subsequently ventured into motion pictures, appearing in a string of successful films that include Agent Cody Banks, Cheaper by the Dozen, A Cinderella Story and Cheaper by the Dozen 2. Most recently, she has performed in a legion of television dramas and independent films. Duff expanded her... Add to favourites (44 fans)Biography of Holly Marie Combs
Holly Marie Combs (born December 3, 1973) is an American film and television actress and producer whose roles have included a portrayal in Charmed as Piper Halliwell and another in Picket Fences, where she received a Young Artist Award for her role, as Kimberly Brock. She now stars in the ABC Family original series Pretty Little Liars as Ella Montgomery. Early life Combs was born in San Diego, California. At the time of her birth, her mother, Lauralei Combs (née Berckhem), was sixteen years old and her father was seventeen. Combs' biological parents married, but the two split up after two years, feeling they were too young to make a marriage work. While Combs was learning to walk, she hit her head on a marble table, resulting in a scar over her right eyebrow. She went through many di... Add to favourites (54 fans)Biography of Yoko Ono
Yoko Ono Lennon (小野 洋子 Ono Yōko, born February 18, 1933) is an Japanese-American artist and musician. She gained international fame because of her marriage to British musician John Lennon. She currently lives in New York City. Despite having a kanji reading, Ono's name appears in katakana (ヨーコ・オノ Yōko Ono) in the Japanese press and on album credits. Early life Yoko Ono was born in 1933. Her mother was Isoko Ono, of the Yasuda banking family, and her father was Eisuke Ono, who worked for the Yokohama Specie Bank. Two weeks before she was born, her father was transferred to San Francisco. The rest of the family followed soon after. In 1937, her father was transferred back to Japan and Yoko was enrolled at ... Add to favourites (95 fans)Biography of Tori Amos
Tori Amos (born Myra Ellen Amos on August 22, 1963) is an American pianist and singer-songwriter. She is married to English sound engineer Mark Hawley. Together they have one daughter, Natashya "Tash" Lórien Hawley, born on September 5, 2000. Amos was at the forefront of a number of female singer-songwriters in the early 1990s and was noteworthy early in her career as one of the few music stars to use a piano as her primary instrument. She is known for emotionally intense songs that cover a wide range of subjects including sexuality, religion and personal tragedy. Some of her charting singles are "Crucify", "Silent All These Years", "Cornflake Girl", "Caught a Lite Sneeze", "Professional Widow", and "Spark". Other significant recordings include "Me and a Gun", "Winter", "God", "Playboy ... Add to favourites (23 fans)Biography of Bianca Beauchamp
Bianca Stéphanie Beauchamp (born October 14, 1977 (birth time source: http://www.biancabeauchamp.com/home.html Bianca/Bio)) is a Canadian fetish and adult model, known for her glamour, erotic and latex modelling. Early life and education Beauchamp was born in Montreal, Quebec to a French Canadian father and an Italian mother. She was named after Bianca Jagger. Growing up in the low-income neighbourhood, Beauchamp managed to pass the entrance exam for an exclusive private school. She realised that she was bisexual at the age of 15. After having difficulty at home, she moved away soon after graduating high school, and began a course in French literature at CEGEP, hoping to become a high-school French teacher. After achieving her certificate, she began studying French and teaching at th... Add to favourites (45 fans)Biography of Patricia Arquette
Patricia T. Arquette (born April 8, 1968) is an American actress and director. She plays the lead character in the supernatural drama series Medium. Early life and family Arquette was born in Chicago, Illinois, the daughter of Lewis Arquette, an actor, and Brenda "Mardi" Olivia (née Nowak), an actress, poet, theater operator, activist, acting teacher and therapist. Arquette's mother was Jewish, the daughter of a Holocaust refugee from Poland, and Arquette's father was a convert to Islam and a descendant of explorer Meriwether Lewis. Her paternal grandfather was comedian Cliff Arquette, and her siblings are actors Rosanna, Alexis, Richmond and David Arquette. Arquette was raised in Virginia and California. Career At the age of seventeen, Arquette was first cast in a role for P... Add to favourites (16 fans)Biography of Eva Braun
Eva Anna Paula Braun, died Eva Hitler (February 6, 1912 – April 30, 1945) was the longtime companion of Adolf Hitler and briefly his wife. Background Born in Munich, Germany, Eva Braun was the second daughter of school teacher Friedrich "Fritz" Braun and Franziska Kronberger, who both came from respectable Bavarian families. Her elder sister Ilse was born in 1908 and her younger sister Margarete (called "Gretl") was born in 1926. Eva was educated at a lyceum, then for one year at a business school in a convent where she had average grades, a talent for athletics and is said to have had the "dreamy beauty of a farmer's daughter." She worked for several months as a receptionist at a medical office, then at age seventeen took a job as an office and lab assistant for Heinrich Hoffmann, the... Add to favourites (34 fans)Biography of Lily Allen
Lily Rose Beatrice Allen (born 2 May 1985) is an English singer-songwriter best known for songs such as "Smile" and "LDN," and for her collaboration with Common entitled "Drivin' Me Wild." She is the daughter of actor/musician Keith Allen and film producer Alison Owen. Height: 5' 2" (1.57 m) Her single "Smile" reached number one on the UK singles charts in July 2006. In December 2006 her debut album Alright, Still was voted the third best album of the year by Mixmag. In 2007 it was nominated for the award of Best British Album at the Brit Awards and for Best New Artist at the 2007 MTV Video Music Awards. The album was nominated for a 2008 Grammy Award in the category of "Best Alternative Music Album" . Early years Allen was born in Hammersmith, west London, daughter of Welsh-born... Add to favourites (16 fans)Biography of Angus Young
Angus McKinnon Young (born on 31 March 1955, in Glasgow, Scotland) is a guitarist and songwriter who has been the lead guitarist of Australian hard rock band AC/DC since the group was formed in 1973. Young is known for his hard-edge style lead (and signature vibrato), wild stage energy, and schoolboy clothing. Angus Young was brought up in Cranhill, Glasgow along with older brothers Malcolm, George and Alex, who all became musicians. Angus started playing guitar when he was five years old — a local child had one and Angus would play it during visits. He got his own guitar by taking a banjo his family had lying around the house and re-stringing it like a guitar. Early years Young did not get into guitar-playing seriously until his early teens, after the Young family moved from Scot... Add to favourites (37 fans)Biography of Honoré de Balzac
Honoré de Balzac (May 20, 1799 – August 18, 1850), born Honoré Balzac, was a nineteenth-century French novelist and playwright. His work, much of which is a sequence (or Roman-fleuve) of almost 100 novels and plays collectively entitled La Comédie humaine, is a broad, often satirical panorama of French society, particularly the petite bourgeoisie, in the years after the fall of Napoléon Bonaparte in 1815—namely the period of the Restoration (1815–1830) and the July Monarchy (1830–1848). Along with Gustave Flaubert (whose work he influenced), Balzac is generally regarded as a founding father of realism in European literature. Balzac's novels, most of which are farcical comedies, feature a large cast of well-defined characters, and descriptions in exquisite detail of the scene of action. ... Add to favourites (12 fans)Biography of Marie-France Pisier
Marie-France Pisier (born 10 May 1944) is a French actress. Pisier was born in Dalat, Indochina now Vietnam, where her father served as colonial governor. She died on 24th April 2011 in Saint-Cyr-sur-Mer, Var. The source for her birth time is her birth certificate. Gilles Pisier, her younger brother, is a mathematician and a member of French academy of sciences. Her sister, Evelyne, is the first wife of Bernard Kouchner. Pisier moved to Paris with her family at the age of 12 and began acting in films five years later. Her debut was in the François Truffaut L'Amour a vingt ans/Love at Twenty (1962) and she later appeared in Truffaut's Baiser voles/Stolen Kisses (1968) and L'Amour en fuite/Love on the Run (1980), which she also co-wrote. Pisier had made her screenwriting debut with Cel... Add to favourites (22 fans)Biography of Paula Abdul
Paula Julie Abdul (born June 19, 1962) is an American television personality, jewelry designer, multi-platinum Grammy-winning singer, and Emmy Award-winning choreographer. In the 1980s, Abdul's career rose rapidly, from being a cheerleader for the Los Angeles Lakers to being a highly sought-after choreographer at the height of the music video era, then to being a Pop-R&B singer with a string of top hits in the late 1980s and early 1990s. According to Abdul, she has sold over 53 million records to date. After her initial period of success, she suffered a series of reverses in her professional and personal life, until she found renewed fame and success in the 2000s as a judge on the highly rated television series American Idol. Early life Abdul was born in San Fernando, California, to... Add to favourites (22 fans)Biography of Rachel Bilson
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 and will star in the 2008 thriller Jumper. Early life Bilson was born in Los Angeles, California to a Jewish American father (writer/director/producer Danny Bilson) and a Philadelphia-born Italian American mother, Janice Stango, who is a sex therapist. Her father comes from a showbusiness family, as her great-grandfather, George Bilson, was the head of the trailer department at RKO Pictures, while her great-grandmother, Hattie, was a screenwriter and her grandfather, Br... Add to favourites (11 fans)Biography of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad (help·info), (born October 28, 1956) is the 6th and current president of the Islamic Republic of Iran. He became president on 6 August 2005 after winning the 2005 presidential election. Ahmadinejad's current term will end in August, 2009, but he will be eligible to run for one more term in office in 2009 presidential elections. Before becoming president, he was the Mayor of Tehran. He is the highest directly elected official in the country, but, according to article 113 of Constitution of Islamic Republic of Iran, he has less total power than the Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, who is the commander in chief of the armed forces of Iran and has the final word in all aspects of foreign and domestic policies Ahmadinejad is an outspoken critic of the Bush Adminis... Biography of Kajol
Kajol Devgan, née Mukherjee (Bengali: কাজল দেবগন Kajol Debgôn, Marathi: काजोल देवगण, IPA: , ITRANS: kajol), born August 5, 1975 in Mumbai, India, popularly known as Kajol, is six-time Filmfare Award-winning popular Bollywood actress and is one of India's most successful actresses. Film Background Main article: Mukherjee-Samarth family (film) Touted as one of the best actresses in the Bollywood industry, Kajol, who is of Bengali-Marathi descent, in fact belongs to a family tree with a long respectable history in the Indian cinema. Her mother Tanuja is a Marathi/Hindi actress whilst her father Shomu Mukherjee is a film producer. Late maternal aunt Nutan is the record... Add to favourites (45 fans)Biography of Elisha Cuthbert
Elisha Ann Cuthbert (born November 30, 1982) is a Canadian actress. She is known as the former co-host of the Canadian children's television series, Popular Mechanics for Kids, and for her role as Kim Bauer in the American action-thriller television series 24. She had her first lead role in the 2004 feature film The Girl Next Door. The source for her birth time is http://www.librarising.com/astrology/celebs/elishacuthbert.html. Cuthbert was born in Calgary, Alberta to Patricia, a homemaker, and Kevin Cuthbert, an automotive design engineer. She has two younger siblings, Jonathan and Lee-Ann, and grew up in Greenfield Park, near Montreal, Quebec. In 2000, she graduated from Centennial Regional High School and moved to Los Angeles, California at the age of 17 to pursue a career in acting.... Add to favourites (44 fans)Biography of Fiona Apple
Fiona Apple McAfee Maggart (born September 13, 1977 (birth time source: "Tidal" Album liner notes) is an American singer-songwriter. She is best known as Fiona Apple. Early life Apple is a member of a family rich with roots in entertainment. Born in New York City, she is the daughter of singer Diane McAfee and actor Brandon Maggart. Her older sister, Amber Taleullah, sings cabaret under the stage name Maude Maggart. Her brother Spencer is a director and directed the video for her single "Parting Gift". Her half brother Garett Maggart starred in the TV series The Sentinel. In addition, her maternal grandparents were Millicent Green, a dancer with the George White's Scandals, a series of 1920s musical revues similar to the Ziegfeld Follies, and Johnny McAfee, a multireedist and vocalist... Add to favourites (23 fans)Biography of Dannii Minogue
Danielle Jane Minogue (born October 20, 1971), known as Dannii Minogue, is an Australian singer-songwriter and occasional actress and fashion designer. Minogue rose to prominence in the early 1980s for her roles in the Australian television talent show Young Talent Time and in the long-running Australian soap Home and Away, before commencing her career as a pop singer in the early 1990s. Minogue achieved early success with hits such as "Love and Kisses" and "This Is It", though by the release of her second album, her popularity as a singer had declined, leading her to concentrate on other fields such as television presenting. The late 1990s saw a brief return to music after Minogue reinvented herself as a dance artist with "All I Wanna Do", her first number one UK Club hit. In 2001, Min... Biography of Alejandra Guzman
Alejandra Gabriela Guzmán Pinal (born February 9, 1968) is a Latin Grammy Award winning-Mexican rock singer and actress, the daughter of Mexican actress Silvia Pinal and Venezuelan rock and roll singer Enrique Guzmán. She has a young daughter, Frida, named after Frida Kahlo. Alejandra Guzman was born in Mexico City. After traveling with her mother's theater troupe, Guzmán recorded her debut album in Bye Mama after deciding she wanted to focus on singing. She has had a dedicated fanbase throughout Latin America in the late 1980s and 1990s. Her latest album is Indeleble released in 2006 went 2x Platinum in Mexico hitting #1. In 1990, Guzmán scored one of the biggest hits of her career, the song "Eternamente Bella" ("Eternally Beautiful"), which became a number one hit in Mexico and ... Add to favourites (14 fans)Biography of Joan Rivers
Joan Rivers (born June 8, 1933) is an American comedian, talk show host, businesswoman, and celebrity. She is known for her brash manner and loud, gruff voice with a heavy metropolitan New York accent. Rivers is the National Chairwoman of the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation and is a board member of God's Love We Deliver. Like the ground-breaking Phyllis Diller, Rivers' act relied heavily on poking fun at herself. A typical Rivers joke about her unattractiveness: "I used to stand by the side of the road with a sign: 'Last girl before freeway.'" Early life and career Joan Rivers was born Joan Sandra Molinsky in Brooklyn, New York, to Jewish-American parents Beatrice and Meyer C. Molinsky. She was raised in Westchester County, New York. She attended Connecticut College between 1950 and 1952, ... Add to favourites (25 fans)Biography of Emma Bunton
Emma Lee Bunton (born 21 January 1976 (birth time source: "Emma Bunton" by Frederic P. Miller)) is an English pop singer, songwriter, and occasional actress. Emma is best known for being a member of the successful '90s girl group, Spice Girls. Emma was known as "Baby Spice", in the group, as she was the youngest member, had an "innocent" demeanour, and often wore "baby doll" dresses. Bunton was born in Finchley and grew up in Woodside Park, both in Barnet, London. Her parents, Pauline, a karate instructor, and Trevor, a milkman, split up when she was eleven, and she stayed with her mother. She has a younger brother, Paul James. She attended St Theresa's Roman Catholic Primary School in Finchley, and then went on to go to the Sylvia Young Theatre School in Marylebone, Westminster. In 199... Biography of Jessica Burciaga
American sexy model.... Add to favourites (30 fans)Biography of Lisa Bonet
Lisa Michelle Boney (born November 16, 1967), known professionally as Lisa Bonet, is an American actress. She is best known for portraying the character Denise Huxtable on The Cosby Show, and its spinoff A Different World. Early life Bonet was born in San Francisco, California to an African American father, Allen Boney, and a Jewish American mother, Arlene. Her parents divorced when she was young. She lived most of her life in New York and Los Angeles, where she attended Birmingham High School in Van Nuys, California, and Celluloid Actor's Studio in North Hollywood where she majored in acting. Career Bonet is known for playing the role of Denise Huxtable on The Cosby Show alongside Bill Cosby and Phylicia Rashad, among others, but Bonet actually began acting when she was 11, att... Add to favourites (25 fans)Biography of Julie Christie
Julie Frances Christie (born 14 April 1941) is an Academy Award-winning English film actress. She was also a pop icon of the Swinging London era of the 1960s. Early life Christie was born in Assam, India, then part of the British Empire, as one of two children. Her mother, Rosemary Ramsden, was a Welsh-born painter and childhood friend of actor Richard Burton. Her father, Frank St. John Christie, ran the tea plantation around which Christie grew up. She had a brother and a half-sibling from her father's affair with an Indian mistress. Christie's parents separated during her childhood. She was baptized in the Anglican religion, and studied at a convent school in England (from which she was later expelled), also living with a foster mother from the age of six. After her parents' divorce,... Biography of Yuri Gagarin
Yuri Alekseyevich Gagarin (Russian: Ю́рий Алексе́евич Гага́рин, Yuriy Alekseyevich Gagarin IPA: ; 9 March 1934 – 27 March 1968), Hero of the Soviet Union, was a Soviet cosmonaut. On 12 April 1961, he became the first man in space and the first human to orbit the Earth. He also received many medals from his home country, for his first tour in space. Early life Yuri Gagarin was born in a village of Klushino near Gzhatsk (now in Smolensk Oblast), Russia, on 9 March 1934 and was partly Armenian. The adjacent town of Gzhatsk was renamed Gagarin in 1968 in his honor. His parents worked on a collective farm. His father, Peter Eyruero Gagarin, and mother ... Add to favourites (20 fans)Biography of Emma de Caunes
Emma de Caunes (born 9 September 1976 in Paris) is a French film actress. Biography She is the daughter of French actor and director Antoine de Caunes, and of director and graphic designer Gaëlle Royer. She was married to French singer Sinclair (real name Mathieu Blanc-Francard) who fathered her daughter Nina (born Paris, October 2002). Film career Her career began at the age of ten courtesy of of a role granted by Michèle Reiser, her godmother. She obtained her Baccalaureate in film in 1995. de Caunes appeared in various advertisements before landing her first major film role in Sylvie Verheyde's Un Frère. Filmography Le Scaphandre et le papillon (2008) (in post-production) L'Âge des ténèbres (2007) (in post-production) Mr. Bean's Holiday (2007) The Science of... Add to favourites (22 fans)Biography of Katie Melua
Ketevan "Katie" Melua (Georgian: ქეთევან "ქეთი" მელუა, surname pronounced IPA: /ˈmeluˌɑː/; born 16 September 1984) is a British-Georgian singer, song-writer and musician. She was born in Georgia, but moved to Northern Ireland at the age of eight and then relocated to England at the age of 14. Melua is signed to the small Dramatico record label, under the management of songwriter Mike Batt, and made her musical debut in 2003. In 2006, she was the United Kingdom's biggest-selling female artist and Europe's highest selling European female artist. In November 2003, at the age of 19, Melua released her first album, Call off the Search, which reached the top of the United Kingdo... Add to favourites (19 fans)Biography of Lena Katina
Lena Katina (Russian: Елена Сергеевна Катина) (born on 4 October 1984 in Moscow) is one of the two members of the Russian music duo t.A.T.u.; the other being Yulia Volkova. She is known for being the "good girl" of the duo. Childhood She is the eldest of three children, and the only child of Sergey Katin, a renowned Russian pop music author, and Inessa Katina. Her younger, half sister Katya has a different father and her brother Ivan has a different mother. She was raised religious and is a practicing Russian Orthodox Christian. In 1992 she joined the famous Russian children's ensemble "Avenue". She was part of it for three years, and at age 11 was selected for "Ne... Add to favourites (18 fans)Biography of Shirley Temple
Shirley Jane Temple (born April 23, 1928) is an American former child actress. She starred in over 40 films during the 1930s. She was later a diplomat and is now retired. Height: 5' 2" (1.57 m) Early life Temple began dance classes at Meglin's Dance School in Hollywood in 1931, at the age of 3. Her film career began when a casting director from Educational Pictures visited her class. Although Temple hid behind the piano in the studio, she was chosen by the director, invited to audition, and, eventually, signed to a contract with Educational. Temple worked at Educational from 1932 to 1933, and appeared in two series of short subjects for the studio. Her first series, Baby Burlesks, satirized recent motion pictures and politics. In the series "Baby Burlesks", Temple would dress up ... Add to favourites (18 fans)Biography of Jean Harlow
Jean Harlow (b. Harlean Harlow Carpenter, March 3, 1911 – June 7, 1937) was an American film actress and top sex symbol of the 1930s. Known as the "Platinum Blonde" for her famous hair, Harlow starred in several films mainly designed to showcase her magnetic sex appeal and strong screen presence before transitioning to more developed roles and achieving massive fame under contract to MGM. Known as "The Baby" to family and close friends, Harlow's enormous popularity and "laughing vamp" image were in distinct contrast to her personal life, which was marred by disappointment, tragedy, and ultimately her sudden death from renal failure at 26. Early life Harlow was born Harlean Harlow Carpenter in Kansas City, Missouri, the daughter of Mont Clair Carpenter, a dentist, and his wife, Jean Poe... Biography of Petula Clark
Petula Clark, CBE (born November 15, 1932), is an English singer, actress and composer best known for her upbeat popular international hits of the 1960s. With more than 70 million records sold worldwide, she is the most successful British female solo recording artist to date, and is cited as such in the Guinness Book of World Records. She also holds the distinction of having the longest span on the international pop charts of any artist — 51 years — from 1954, when "The Little Shoemaker" made the UK Top Twenty, through 2005, when her CD L'essentiel - 20 Succès Inoubliables charted in Belgium. Early years Born to an English father and Welsh mother in Ewell, Surrey, England, she was christened Petula Sally Olwen Clark. Her father Leslie coined her first name, jokingly alleging it was a c... Add to favourites (22 fans)Biography of Melissa Joan Hart
Melissa Joan Hart (born April 18, 1976 (birth time source: http://www.tel357.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/Bio.htm)) is an American actress who is best known for playing the title roles in two successful television series, Clarissa Explains It All and Sabrina, the Teenage Witch. Early life Hart was born in Smithtown, New York, on Long Island, to Paula and William Hart, and grew up in Sayville, New York. Her stepfather (since 1994) is television executive Leslie Gilliams, and her stepmother is Lisa Hart. Hart was named after the Allman Brothers song "Melissa", while her middle name, Joan, came from her maternal grandmother. Hart chose Catherine as her confirmation name when she was in eighth grade. Hart has three sisters, three half-sisters and one brother, all younger than she is. Her oldest... Add to favourites (21 fans)Biography of Ayn Rand
Ayn Rand (IPA: /ˈaɪn ˈrænd/, February 2 1905 – March 6, 1982), born Alisa Zinov'yevna Rosenbaum (Russian: Алиса Зиновьевна Розенбаум), was a Russian-born American novelist and philosopher. She is widely known for her best-selling novels The Fountainhead and Atlas Shrugged, and for developing a philosophical system she called Objectivism. She was an uncompromising advocate of rational individualism and laissez-faire capitalism, and vociferously opposed socialism, altruism, and other contemporary philosophical trends, as well as religion. Her influential and often controversial ideas have attracted both enthusiastic admirers and sc... Add to favourites (26 fans)Biography of Missy Elliott
Melissa Arnette Elliott (born July 1, 1971 in Portsmouth, Virginia), better known as Missy Elliott, is an American rapper, singer, songwriter, MC, and record producer. Height 5' 2" (1.57 m) With record sales (including singles) of over 24 million worldwide and 7.6 million domestically, she is the highest selling female rapper of all time. She is the only female rapper to have six certified platinum albums by the RIAA, including one double platinum plaque. Elliott is known for a series of hits including "The Rain (Supa Dupa Fly)", "Hit 'Em Wit Da Hee", "Hot Boyz", "Get Ur Freak On", "One Minute Man", "Work It", "Pass That Dutch" and "Lose Control". Alone, Missy Elliott has also produced songs mainly for females including Monica, Destiny's Child, Aaliyah, Mariah Carey, Fantasia... Add to favourites (22 fans)Biography of Paul Simon
Paul Frederic Simon (born October 13, 1941) is an American singer-songwriter and guitarist. Simon is a member of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, both as half of the folk-singing duo Simon and Garfunkel and as a solo artist. In 2006, Time magazine called him one of the "100 people who shape our world." As of 2007, he resides in New Canaan, Connecticut. Early life and career Simon was born in Newark, New Jersey to Jewish American parents: Belle, an English teacher, and Louis Simon, a bandleader and teacher. His family soon moved to Kew Gardens Hills, Queens in New York City, Simon's musical career began in Forest Hills High School when he and his friend Art Garfunkel began singing together as a duo, occasionally performing at school dances. Their idols were the Everly Brothers, whom they... Add to favourites (25 fans)Biography of Sally Field
Sally Margaret Field (born November 6, 1946) is a two-time Academy Award winning American actress. She is also a two-time Emmy Award winner who became a household name at age 20 as Sister Bertrille in the 1960s sitcom, The Flying Nun. She is currently starring as Nora Holden Walker on the ABC hit drama, Brothers & Sisters, as a grieving matriarch who helps out in the family business. Her newest film, Two Weeks came out in early 2007. Early life Field was born in Pasadena, California. Her parents, Richard Dryden Field and Margaret Field (a Southern-born actress), divorced in 1950. Her mother subsequently remarried, to actor and stuntman Jock Mahoney. She attended Birmingham High School in Van Nuys, California. Among her classmates were famed financier Michael Milken and fellow actres... Add to favourites (14 fans)Biography of Gloria Estefan
Gloria María Milagrosa Fajardo García de Estefan, known professionally as Gloria Estefan (born September 1, 1957 (birth time source: https://twitter.com/Kevin_Murnane)) is a Cuban-born American singer, songwriter, actress and entrepreneur. Known as the "Queen Of Latin Pop", she is in the top 100 best selling music artists with over 100 million albums sold worldwide, 31.5 million of those in the United States alone. She has won three Grammy Awards and four Latin Grammys, and is the most successful crossover performer in Latin music to date. Early life Gloria María Milagrosa Fajardo was born September 1, 1957 in Havana, Cuba, to Jose and Gloria Fajardo. Her maternal grandfather, Leonardo García, immigrated to Cuba from Pola de Siero, Asturias, Spain, where he married Gloria's maternal ... Add to favourites (25 fans)Biography of Emily Browning
Emily Jane Browning (born December 7, 1988) is an Australian actress, probably best known for her role as Violet Baudelaire in Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events. Height: 5' 2" (1.57 m) Early life Browning was born in Melbourne. She says she learned her American accent from the television show Sesame Street on the ABC. She has two younger brothers, Nicholas and Matthew. She remains based in Melbourne and was taking a break from acting to complete her education at Eltham High School, where, in November of 2006, she completed her Victorian Certificate of Education exams. Career Browning's acting career began when she was noticed by a friend's father at a school play and he recommended that she pursue acting as a profession. Shortly afterwards, she won a role alongs... Biography of Nancy Grace
Nancy Ann Grace (born October 23, 1959) is an American legal commentator, television host, and former prosecutor. She frequently discusses issues from what she describes as a victims' rights standpoint, with an outspoken style that has won her both praise and condemnation. She is the host of Nancy Grace, a nightly current affairs show on CNN's Headline News, and she was the host of Court TV's Closing Arguments. She also co-wrote the book Objection! -- How High-Priced Defense Attorneys, Celebrity Defendants, and a 24/7 Media Have Hijacked Our Criminal Justice System. Early life Grace was born in Macon, Georgia to a working-class family. As a student, Grace was a fan of Shakespearean literature, and intended to become an English professor after graduating from college. However, after the... Biography of William Wallace
Sir William Wallace (c. 1270-76 - 23 August 1305) was a Scottish knight and landowner who is renowned for leading a resistance during the Wars of Scottish Independence. Wallace was originally only a minor landowner however, along with Andrew Murray he won a decisive victory over the English at Stirling and became Guardian of Scotland, serving until his defeat at the Battle of Falkirk. After several years in hiding Wallace was eventually found in Scotland and handed over to Edward I of England who had him executed for treason. Wallace was the inspiration for the poem, The Acts and Deeds of Sir William Wallace, Knight of Elderslie, by the 15th century minstrel, Blind Harry and the 1995 film Braveheart'. Background Wallace's birth date and birthplace are disputed. While some suggest... Add to favourites (16 fans)Biography of Holly Hunter
Holly Hunter (born March 20, 1958) is an Academy Award-winning American actress. Height : 5' 2" (1m57) Early life Hunter was born in Conyers, Georgia, the daughter of Opal Marguerite (née Catledge), a housewife, and Charles Edwin Hunter, a farmer and sporting-goods manufacturer representative. Hunter earned a degree in drama from Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, after which she moved to New York City and roomed with Frances McDormand, both aspiring actors. When she first moved to Los Angeles she shared a house with a group of people which included Frances McDormand and director Sam Raimi as well as future collaborators Joel and Ethan Coen. Career Hunter's first starring role in films came in 1987's Raising Arizona. That year, she also starred in Broadcast News, for w... Add to favourites (10 fans)Biography of Keyshia Cole
Keyshia Miesha Cole, (born October 15, 1981) in Oakland, California is a Grammy Award nominated American, R&B singer-songwriter, and record producer known for her soulful voice. She released her platinum selling debut album The Way It Is in 2005, and her second album Just Like You in 2007. Keyshia was born to an African-American mother, Frankie, and an Italian father, Sal (deceased). Her mother's drug addiction led to her becoming a foster child adopted by Yvonne Cole at the age of 4. She has said that her musically talented brother, Sean Cole and Tupac Shakur were close friends. Sean Cole raps under the alias "Nutt-So", and recorded several songs with Shakur before his death. Keyshia's first recordings were with MC Radiant at the age of twelve. In the early 2000s, she appeared on track... Add to favourites (21 fans)Biography of Christina Milian
Christina Milian (born Christine Flores on September 26, 1981) is an American actress and Grammy Award-nominated R&B and pop singer, songwriter, record producer, dancer and former MTV host. She has released three studio albums and one compilation album. She has also had four solo top five singles (and also a top ten featuring credit single) in the UK as well as hits in the rest of Europe and North America. As an actress, Milian appeared in the 2003 film Love Don't Cost a Thing opposite Nick Cannon. Milian wrote songs for Jennifer Lopez, Paula DeAnda and PYT's. She also starred as singer Linda Moon in Be Cool, the sequel to Get Shorty, and appeared in the 2006 horror film Pulse. Early life Milian was born in Jersey City to native Cuban parents of Afro-Cuban descent, Don and Carmen, and ... Add to favourites (15 fans)Biography of Alexis Amore
Alexis Amore (born December 29, 1978 in Lima, Peru) is a Latina pornographic actress, exotic dancer and model. Amore and her parents moved to Redondo Beach, California when she was nine years old. She attended a Christian high school in Hermosa Beach, and she was a cheerleader during her time there. At fifteen, she began her modeling career as a model for Nordstrom and was featured in their fliers and publications. She continued modeling for catalogs. She had a breast augmentation prior to beginning her pornographic career. Around 1998, during an audition for an HBO production, the person auditioning her suggested that she audition for Playboy, where she became a model for Playboy TV. While working on Playboy's Nightcalls, she interviewed Jewel De'Nyle and Alexa Rae about the pornogr... Add to favourites (18 fans)Biography of Louise Brooks
Louise Brooks (14 November 1906 – 8 August 1985) was an American dancer, showgirl, and silent film actress. She became, at the end of her life, a writer and critic of the silent film era. Height: 5' 2" (1.57 m) Early life Born Mary Louise Brooks in Cherryvale, Kansas, she was a daughter of a lawyer who was usually too busy with his practice to discipline his children, and an artistic mother who determined any "squalling brats" she produced could take care of themselves. Although she inspired her children with a love of books and music--she was a talented pianist who played the latest Debussy and Ravel for Louise--Myra Brooks failed to protect her eldest daughter from childhood sexual abuse at the hands of a neighborhood predator. This single event was a major influence on Louise's l... Add to favourites (26 fans)Biography of Emilie de Ravin
Emilie de Ravin (pronounced ) (born 27 December 1981) is an Australian actress. She is known for starring in the hit ABC drama Lost as the character Claire Littleton. Height : 5' 2" (1.57 m) Early life De Ravin was born in Mount Eliza, Victoria, Australia (a town to the south east of Melbourne). Having studied ballet since the age of nine, she was accepted into the highly selective Australian Ballet School at fifteen. There, she performed in productions with the Australian Ballet Company as well as Danceworld 301. De Ravin studied acting at Australia's National Institute of Dramatic Art, and with the Prime Time Actors Studio in Los Angeles. Career (Photo by Robin Wong)Emilie de Ravin's first major role was as Curupira in the TV series BeastMaster. Later, she played alien/... Add to favourites (17 fans)Biography of Carole Lombard
Carole Lombard (October 6, 1908 – January 16, 1942), born Jane Alice Peters in Fort Wayne, Indiana, was an Oscar-nominated American actress. She was particularly noted for her comedic roles in a number of classic films of the 1930s. Height: 5' 2" (1.57 m). Ancestry and early life Her parents were Frederick C. Peters and Elizabeth Knight. Lombard's paternal grandfather, John Claus Peters, was the son of German immigrants, Claus Peters and Caroline Catherine Eberlin. One distant branch of Lombard's mother's family originated in England; her ancestors John and Martha Cheney emigrated to North America in 1634. She was the youngest of three children. She spent her early childhood in a sprawling, two-story house at 704 Rockhill Street in Fort Wayne near the St. Mary's River. Her parent... Biography of Beverly d'Angelo
Beverly D'Angelo (born November 15, 1951 in Columbus, Ohio) is an American singer and actress. D'Angelo began work in the theatre, appearing on Broadway in 1976 in Rockabye Hamlet (also known as Kronborg: 1582) a musical based on Shakespeare's Hamlet. Although the production was a failure, running less than a month, D'Angelo's performance as Ophelia attracted positive attention. After gaining minor roles in movies including Annie Hall, D'Angelo had a string of hit movies in the late 1970s, appearing in Every Which Way But Loose, Hair, and Coal Miner's Daughter (she portrayed the singer Patsy Cline, and did all her own singing). Her biggest break came with Chevy Chase in the 1983 National Lampoon film Vacation. Her role as Ellen Griswold was reprised in three Vacation sequels from 198... Add to favourites (13 fans)Biography of Sarah Polley
Sarah Polley (born January 8, 1979) is a Canadian actress, singer and film director. She has starred in such films as The Sweet Hereafter, for which she also contributed several songs as lead vocalist, Guinevere, Go, My Life Without Me, and Terry Gilliam's The Adventures of Baron Munchausen. Early life Born in Toronto, Ontario, Sarah Polley is the youngest of five children born to Michael Polley, a British-born actor (he attended acting classes with Albert Finney in England before moving to Canada), and actress and casting director Diane Polley, who died of cancer just before Polley's 11th birthday. She attended Earl Haig Secondary School, but dropped out before graduating. Early career and fall-out with Disney Her first cinematic appearance was at the age of four, as Molly in ... Add to favourites (13 fans)Biography of Elisabeth Shue
Elisabeth Shue (born October 6, 1963) is an Academy Award-nominated American film actress. Height 5' 2" (1.57 m) Early life Shue was born in Wilmington, Delaware, into an upper class, well-educated family and grew up in Bergen and Essex counties in New Jersey. Her parents divorced while she was in the fourth grade. Her father, who was active in Republican politics, once unsuccessfully ran for the U.S. Senate in New Jersey. Shue graduated from Columbia High School, in Maplewood, New Jersey, and attended Wellesley College and Harvard University, from which she withdrew to pursue her acting career. She returned to Harvard, 15 years after withdrawing, to finish her degree in Government in 2000. Shue was awarded entrance into Columbia High School's Hall of Fame in 1994, along with her... Add to favourites (10 fans)Biography of Alyson Stoner
Alyson Rae Stoner (born August 11, 1993 in Toledo, Ohio) is an American actress and dancer. Early life Alyson Stoner trained at the O'Connell Dance Studio (in Holland, Ohio) and the Margaret O'Brien Modeling Studio. Consequently, she received several awards for acting, modeling, and dance (including the award for best model of the year at the IMTA convention). After choreography training in Los Angeles, Stoner famously appeared as a background dancer in the music video for Missy Elliott's "Work It" and Eminem's "Just Lose It". She danced with a dancing group called the JammXKids between 2003 and 2006. She quit the group in early 2006 due to scheduling conflicts, but continues to work with the individual kids in different jobs. Alyson is now working on music for her debut album. Rumors ... Biography of Nayantara
Diana Mariam Kurien (born November 8, 1984 in Tiruvalla, Kerala, India), popularly known by her stage name Nayanthara (Malayalam :നയന് താര), is a south Indian actress and has acted in Malayalam,Tamil, Telugu and movies. Career Nayanthara was born on 8th November 1984 as an Orthodox Syrian Christian in Tiruvalla, Pathanamthitta District, Kerala. She did her schooling at various parts of India (Kerala and Tamil Nadu) as her father was an Air Force Official. She joined Balikamadom High School, Thiruvalla for +2, then joined Marthoma college in Thiruvalla for her bachelors degree (English Literature). While at college, she was spotted by director Satyan Anthikkad and cast opposite Jayaram in Mansinakkare. Afterwards, she co-starred alongsid... Add to favourites (20 fans)Biography of Sissy Spacek
Mary Elizabeth "Sissy" Spacek (born December 25, 1949) is an Academy Award-winning American actress and singer. Height 5' 2" (1.57 m) Early life Spacek was born in Quitman, Texas to Edwin Arnold Spacek, Sr., a county agricultural agent, and Virginia Frances (Spilman). Her paternal grandparents, Mary Cervenka and Arnold A. Spacek (who served as Mayor of Granger, Texas in Williamson County), were of Moravian/Czech/Bohemian descent. Spacek's mother was from the Rio Grande Valley of Texas. Spacek was given the nickname Sissy by her older brothers. She was greatly affected by the death of her eighteen-year old brother, Robbie, in 1967. Spacek decided life was too short to waste in college and moved to New York City to pursue acting. Career Spacek started out as a country singer,... Biography of Alley Baggett
Alley Baggett (born July 14, 1973) is a Fillipino-American-- glamour model. She was born and raised near Houston, Texas. Growing up in a small town, Baggett was on the cheerleading squad, played basketball and participated in track. Baggett originally aspired to be a traditional model, but was turned down because of her height (5'2"). Her big break came when she auditioned for well known photographer Harvey Butts (no relation to Seymore). Baggett burst onto the national scene in May 1995 when she appeared on the cover of Playboy's Book of Lingerie. She has since appeared on over twelve Playboy Special Edition covers and has made more appearances in Playboy Special Editions than almost any other model. She has also been featured in British lad mags FHM and Loaded. Outside of the model... Biography of Nia Peeples
Nia Peeples (born December 10, 1961 in Hollywood, California) is an American R&B and dance music singer and actress. She is best known for her television work prior to her musical career. She portrayed Nicole Chapman on the hit TV series Fame, hosted the short-lived American version of Top of the Pops as well as her own video music program called Party Machine, and portrayed Texas Ranger Sydney Cooke in the CBS hit series Walker, Texas Ranger from 1999-2001. In 1988 she hit #1 on the Hot Dance Music/Club Play chart with "Trouble," which climbed to #35 on the Hot 100. Her most successful single is "Street Of Dreams," which hit #12 on the Hot 100 in 1991. Nia Peeples joined the cast of The Young and the Restless in 2007. Trivia She attended UCLA on a music scholarship, during which time ... Add to favourites (11 fans)Biography of Alison Goldfrapp
Alison Goldfrapp (born Alison Elizabeth Margaret Goldfrap on May 13, 1966, in Enfield, London) is an English singer-songwriter with the band Goldfrapp. Goldfrapp was born in London and raised in Alton, Hampshire, the youngest of six children. At age 19, she moved to Belgium to work as a singer for a theatrical composer and on her return to England, attended Middlesex University's School Of Art, where she studied Fine Art. It was at Middlesex that she was discovered by Orbital during a now infamous show in which she milked a cow while yodeling. After acquiring her degree from Middlesex, Goldfrapp toured internationally with British rapper Tricky, appearing on his album Maxinquaye. Her mainstream success began when she started collaborating with film composer Will Gregory under the nam... Biography of Loretta Lynn
Loretta Lynn (born Loretta Webb April 14, 1932 (birth time source: Astrodatabank)) is an American country singer-songwriter and was one of the leading country female vocalists during the 1960s and 1970s and overall is revered as a country icon. Early life Born to Melvin "Ted" Webb (1906–1959) and Clara Marie (Ramey) Webb (1912–1981) and named in honor of Loretta Young, Loretta Webb was the second of eight children; her youngest sister is country singer Crystal Gayle. Lynn grew up in Butcher Hollow, a section of Van Lear, a mining community officially a part of Paintsville, Johnson County, Kentucky. Loretta's mother Clara was of Scots-Irish and Cherokee ancestry. Her father Ted was a coal miner, store keeper and farmer. Growing up with such humble roots had a huge effect on Lynn's life,... Biography of Danica Patrick
Danica Sue Patrick (born March 25, 1982 in Beloit, Wisconsin) is an American auto racing driver competing in the IndyCar Series. She is from an Irish-American family and was raised in Roscoe, Illinois. Danica Patrick was named the Rookie of the Year for both the 2005 Indianapolis 500 and the 2005 IndyCar Series season. In May 2006, she published her autobiography, Danica: Crossing the Line. Early Racing Career Danica Patrick began go-karting in 1992 at Sugar River Raceway outside of Brodhead, Wisconsin and went on to win several national championships. She moved to England at the age of 16 in order to advance her racing career. She has also earned a GED. Focusing primarily on road racing, Patrick raced in several developmental open-wheel series while in Europe, including Formula Ford a... Biography of Linda Blair
Linda Denise Blair (born January 22, 1959 in St. Louis, Missouri) is an Academy Award-nominated American actress most famous for her role as the possessed child in the 1973 film The Exorcist and its sequel, Exorcist II: The Heretic. Born in St. Louis, Missouri, she moved with her parents to Westport, Connecticut when she was two years old. As a young child, Linda Blair began her career by model, then later started acting in commercials, including one for Gulden's Mustard that ran for years. Blair had originally planned to become a veterinarian, but instead accepted a role in The Exorcist because money she would earn would allow her to pursue her interest in horsemanship, particularly show jumping. She was chosen over the very similar-looking Pamelyn Ferdin since the director wanted an u... Add to favourites (23 fans)Biography of Lucy Hale
Lucy Kate Hale (born June 14, 1989) is an American actress and singer from Memphis, Tennessee. Hale appeared on the reality show American Juniors in 2003. She was part of the vocal quintet formed with the top 5 finishers. She had guest roles on shows such as Drake & Josh, Ned's Declassified School Survival Guide, The O.C., and How I Met Your Mother, in the last as Robin Scherbatsky's younger sister Katie. In Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants 2 she portrayed Effie, Lena's little sister. She appeared in two episodes of the Disney show Wizards of Waverly Place as Miranda Hampson, Justin Russo's girlfriend. Hale also appeared in NBC's short-lived re-imagining of the Bionic Woman as Becca Sommers, younger sister to title character Jaime Sommers. She starred in The CW's new TV show P... Biography of Fernanda Vasconcellos
Fernanda de Vasconcellos Galvez, born September 14, 1984 in São Paulo, is a Brazilian actress and model. Filmography (source: http://www.imdb.com/name/nm1876320/ ) "Desejo Proibido" .... Laura (29 episodes, 2007) - Episode dated 8 December 2007 (2007) TV episode .... Laura - Episode dated 7 December 2007 (2007) TV episode .... Laura - Episode dated 6 December 2007 (2007) TV episode .... Laura - Episode dated 5 December 2007 (2007) TV episode .... Laura - Episode dated 4 December 2007 (2007) TV episode .... Laura (24 more) "Páginas da vida" .... Nanda (52 episodes, 2006-2007) - Episode dated 2 March 2007 (2007) TV episode .... Nanda - Episode dated 27 February 2007 (2007) TV episode .... Nanda - Episode dated 23 February 2007 (2007) TV epi... Add to favourites (10 fans)Biography of Eva Gabor
Eva Gabor (in Hungarian Gábor Éva) (February 11, 1919 – July 4, 1995) was a Hungary-born Jewish-American actress. Early life Gabor was born in Budapest, the daughter of Vilmos and Jolie Gabor (Janci Tilleman). Her elder sisters were Magda Gabor and Zsa Zsa Gabor. Gabor's maternal family was Jewish and her maternal grandparents died in the Holocaust. Biographers speculate that her paternal family were originally Jewish as well, but converted to Roman Catholicism in order to assimilate, although this has not been confirmed. Career Eva was the first in her family to immigrate to America. She moved with her first husband, Swedish physician Eric Drimmer. Her first movie role was a bit part in Forced Landing (1941) at Paramount Pictures. She acted in movies and on the stage throughout... Add to favourites (11 fans)Biography of Nia Long
Nia Long (born Nitara Carlynn Long on October 30, 1970) is an American actress and occasional music video director. She is best known for her roles in Big Momma's House, Soul Food, and Are We There Yet?. Early life Long was born in Brooklyn, New York to Talita and Doughtry "Doc" Long, an Afro-Trinidadian couple. Her father was a high school teacher and her mother was an art teacher and a bus driver. Her stage name, Nia, is one of the seven days of Kwanzaa, which means "purpose" in Swahili. Her parents divorced when Long was two years old, and she and her mother moved to Iowa City, Iowa, where her mother studied fine arts. They subsequently moved to a South Los Angeles neighborhood when Long was seven. Long's father currently resides in nearby Trenton, New Jersey in the township of Ewin... Biography of Dana Plato
Dana Michelle Plato (November 7, 1964 – May 8, 1999) was an American actress who became famous playing the role of Kimberly Drummond in the U.S. television sitcom Diff'rent Strokes. Plato's career declined after her departure from the show, with appearances in low-budget films, including some softcore pornography. She had longstanding personal problems and committed suicide on May 8, 1999. Childhood Plato was born on November 7, 1964, in Maywood, California to Linda Strain (although other sources state November 1, 1963), an unwed mother who was 16 at the time of Dana's birth and was already caring for an 18-month-old child. Strain put her infant daughter up for adoption and in June 1965, Dean and Florine "Kay" Plato adopted the child , raising her in the San Fernando Valley in Los Ange... Add to favourites (18 fans)Biography of Thandie Newton
Thandiwe Adjewa "Thandie" Newton (born on November 6, 1972 in Zambia) is an English BAFTA Award-winning actress. Height: 5' 2" (1.57 m) Early life Newton was born in Zambia, to a Zimbabwean health-care worker, Nyasha, and a white English lab technician and artist, Nick Newton. The name "Thandiwe" means "beloved" in Ndebele and the name "Thandie" is pronounced TAN-dee. Newton played a character named "Beloved" in the film adaptation of the Toni Morrison novel Beloved in 1998. According to Newton, her mother is a Zimbabwean Shona Princess. She was raised in Zambia and Penzance, England, and educated at Downing College, University of Cambridge. Career Newton made her film debut in Flirting (1991). This Australian movie was also a launch pad for a young Nicole Kidman, with whom s... Add to favourites (11 fans)Biography of Rachael Leigh Cook
Rachael Leigh Cook (born October 4, 1979) is an American actress. She came to fame after her role in the 1999 teen romantic comedy, She's All That, and has since appeared mostly in lower-profile films. Early life Cook was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota to Thomas H. Cook, a social worker and former stand-up comic, and JoAnn, a cooking instructor and weaver. Cook attended school at Laurel Springs School and Minneapolis South High School. She began working as a print model at the age of 10, most notably in nationwide advertisements for Target and appearing on the boxes of Milk-Bone dog biscuits for medium sized dogs. Career At the age of fourteen, Cook began auditioning for acting work. Her modeling agency sent her to read for a short film, 26 Summer Street (1996). She first gained n... Biography of Sonia Braga
Sônia Maria Campos Braga (born June 8, 1950) is an internationally known Brazilian actress. She was born in 1950 in Maringá, Paraná Brazil. In 1975, she became famous in Brazil with the telenovela Gabriela (based on the book Gabriela, Cravo e Canela by Jorge Amado). She made another notable Jorge Amado adaptation, when she played the lead role in the film Dona Flor e Seus Dois Maridos ("Dona Flor and Her Two Husbands") in 1976. She made appearances in several Brazilian blockbuster films such as A Dama do Lotação (The Bus Lady) in 1978 and Eu Te Amo (I Love You) in 1981. She achieved world fame with her title role in the film Gabriela, the silver screen adaptation of the Amado's novel, in 1983. Amado's story was set in Bahia in 1925, with Braga playing the part of a beautiful mulatto ... Add to favourites (29 fans)Biography of Emma Roberts
Emma Rose Roberts (born February 10, 1991 in Rhinebeck, New York) is an American teen actress, singer-songwriter, spokesperson, and designer. She is the niece of actress Julia Roberts. Emma Roberts rose to prominence for her lead role as Addie Singer in the Nickelodeon television series Unfabulous, a role for which Roberts garnered various awards and critical acclaim. Following the success of the show in September 2005, she released her debut album, which also served as the show's soundtrack Unfabulous and More. Roberts then pursued a solo singing career by recording two songs for the soundtracks of Ice Princess and Aquamarine (in which Roberts starred as one of the leads). Roberts then began to focus on her acting career, the title character in the 2007 film Nancy Drew, and her voice-o... Add to favourites (14 fans)Biography of Ayumi Hamasaki
Ayumi Hamasaki (浜崎 あゆみ Hamasaki Ayumi?, also 濱崎 歩; born October 2, 1978) is a Japanese singer-songwriter, record producer, model, lyricist, and actress. Also called "Ayu" by her fans, Hamasaki has been dubbed the "Empress of Pop" because of her popularity and widespread influence in Japan and throughout Asia. Born and raised in Fukuoka, she moved to Tokyo at fourteen to pursue a career in entertainment. In 1998, under the tutelage of Avex CEO Max Matsuura, she released a string of modestly selling singles that concluded with her 1999 debut album A Song for ××. The album debuted atop the Oricon charts and stayed there for four weeks, establishing her popularity in Japan. Birth time sources: http://zuihoo.com/sp/2011/01/post-69.ht... Add to favourites (10 fans)Biography of Alison Lohman
Alison Marion Lohman (born September 18, 1979) is an American actress. She made her mark on Hollywood in 2002 with a leading role in the drama White Oleander. She has since starred in several Hollywood films, including Matchstick Men, Big Fish and Flicka. She also had roles on several television shows, like 7th Heaven, Crusade, Tucker and Pasadena. Early life Lohman was born and raised in Palm Springs, California, the daughter of Diane (née Dunham), a bakery owner, and Gary Lohman, an architect. She has one younger brother, Robert (born 1982). She is a vegetarian and has two cats, Monk and Clint. Her family had no industry connections, but at age nine, she played Gretyl in The Sound of Music at the Palm Desert's McCallum Theater. Two years later, she won the Desert Theater League's awa... Biography of Kathryn Erbe
Kathryn Erbe (born July 5, 1965 or July 2, 1966) is an American actress, known for her role as Det. Alexandra Eames on Law & Order: Criminal Intent, a spin-off of Law & Order. Erbe is a veteran of film, stage, and television, and has been a working actress since she graduated from New York University in 1989. Height: 5' 2" (1.57 m) Erbe was born in Newton, Massachusetts, daughter of Elsbeth and Richard Erbe, a research geneticist. While an undergraduate student at NYU, Erbe was cast as Lynn Redgrave's daughter on the sitcom Chicken Soup. Following the series, she became a member of the Steppenwolf Theatre Company and has starred in many of their productions, including A Streetcar Named Desire, Curse of the Starving Class, My Thing of Love, and The Grapes of Wrath, which ran for six m... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of Jimmy Somerville
Jimmy Somerville (born June 22, 1961) is a gay Scottish pop singer, born and raised in Glasgow. He had considerable success in the 1980s with the pop groups Bronski Beat and The Communards, and has also had a successful solo career. In 1983, Somerville co-founded the synth pop group Bronski Beat, who proceeded to have a number of hits in the British charts. Their biggest hit, "Smalltown Boy", which reached #3, was considered groundbreaking because of its lyrical content regarding homophobia. Somerville played the song's titular character in the music video, leaving his hostile hometown for the city. Somerville left Bronski Beat in 1985, and formed The Communards with classically trained pianist Richard Coles. They had a number of hits, including a cover version of Thelma Houston's "D... Add to favourites (10 fans)Biography of Valerie Bertinelli
Valerie Anne Bertinelli (born on April 23, 1960) is an American film and television actress best known for her role as Bonnie Franklin's smart and lovable daughter, Barbara Cooper, on the long-running television series One Day at a Time. Height: 5' 2" (1.57 m) Early years Bertinelli was born in Wilmington, Delaware to Italian parents Nancy and Andy (a General Motors executive) Bertinelli. Along with her one older and two younger brothers, the family lived in Claymont, Delaware and Clarkston, Michigan before moving to Van Nuys, California where Bertinelli studied acting at the Tami Lynn School of Artists. She graduated from Granada Hills High School in 1978. She was raised Catholic. . Career Commercial Age fourteen, J.C. Penney's commercial. Jenny Craig commercials. ... Add to favourites (10 fans)Biography of Sasha Cohen
Alexandra Pauline "Sasha" Cohen (born October 26, 1984 (birth time source: Astrodatabank)) is an American figure skater. She is the 2006 U.S. National Champion, 2003 Grand Prix Final Champion, and 2006 Olympic silver medalist. Personal life Cohen was born in Westwood, California, a neighborhood in Los Angeles. Her mother, Galina Feldman, is a Jewish immigrant from Ukraine and a former ballet dancer; her father, Roger Cohen, is a Jewish American business consultant who used to practice law. Sasha attended Aliso Niguel High School in Aliso Viejo, California and graduated from Futures High School in Mission Viejo, California in 2002. Her sister, Natalia ("Natasha"), began college at Barnard College in August 2006. In 2005, she published her autobiography, Fire on Ice. Cohen understa... Biography of Amy Jo Johnson
Amy Jo Johnson (born October 6, 1970 in Dennis, Massachusetts on Cape Cod) is an American actress, singer-songwriter and musician. She is best known for her role as Kimberly Hart, the first Pink Ranger of the Power Rangers franchise in Mighty Morphin Power Rangers. In her early life, Johnson became interested in gymnastics and after training for years, decided to aim for the Olympic Games. She eventually reached Class One - the highest status in gymnastics - and participated in competitions hosted both in the United States and in Europe, in all four events, uneven bars, vault, beam and floor. She was forced to abandon her career as a professional gymnast due to a severe injury. Career At the age of eighteen, after graduating from Dennis Yarmouth Regional High School, Johnson left C... Biography of Beverley Mitchell
Beverley Ann Mitchell (born January 22, 1981) is an American actress and country music singer. She is perhaps best known for her role as Reverend Lucy Camden-Kinkirk on the television series 7th Heaven. Height: 5' 2" (1.57 m) Career Mitchell's debut role was in the TV movie Big Brother Jake (1990). Her first important film role came with The Crow: City of Angels (1996). Shortly after this, she appeared on the WB network as one of the new faces on 7th Heaven (1996), and has starred on the popular show throughout its eleven-season run. More recently, she debuted a country music album titled Beverley Mitchell, which included the single "Angel". The single premiered on the November 5, 2006, episode of 7th Heaven (Episode #227: Broken Hearts and Promises). The album was released on Janua... Biography of Annabella Sciorra
Annabella Gloria Philomena Sciorra (born March 24, 1964) is an American film and stage actress who has starred in a number of films and television series. Height: 5' 2" (1.57 m) Early life Sciorra was born in Wethersfield, Connecticut to a veterinarian father and mother of Italian descent. At age eleven, her family moved to New York City, where as a teenager she began taking acting lessons. She attended South Shore High School in the Canarsie neighborhood of Brooklyn. Sciorra formed The Brass Ring Theatre Company when she was 20 years old. Career Sciorra first came to widespread attention in her co-lead role in Spike Lee's 1991 film, Jungle Fever. Other major films roles include True Love, the director Nancy Savoca's first film that took the Grand Jury Prize at the Sundance F... Add to favourites (10 fans)Biography of Anne Rice
Anne Rice (born on October 4, 1941) is a best-selling American author of gothic and later religious themed books. Best known for her Vampire Chronicles, her prevailing thematical focus is on love, death, immortality, existentialism, and the human condition. She was married to poet Stan Rice for 41 years until his death in 2002. Her books have sold nearly 100 million copies, making her one of the most widely read authors in modern history. Height: 5' 2" (1.57 m) Early years Rice was born and spent most of her early life in New Orleans, Louisiana, which forms the background against which most of her stories take place. She was the second daughter in a Catholic Irish-American family; Rice's sister, Alice Borchardt, also became a noted genre author. She lives in East Haven, Connecticut.... Biography of Michelle Kwan
Michelle Wing Kwan (Traditional Chinese:關穎珊; Pinyin: Guan Yingshan; Cantonese IPA: ; ) (born 7 July 1980 (birth time source: Astrodatabank)) is an American figure skater. She has won nine U.S. championships, five World Championships, and two Olympic medals. She has remained competitive for over a decade and is the most decorated figure skater in U.S. history. Known for her consistency and expressive artistry on ice, she is widely considered to be one of the greatest figure skaters of all time. Height : 1m58 Personal biography Born in Los Angeles, California, Kwan is the third child of Danny and Estella Kwan, Chinese immigrants from Hong Kong. As a child, Kwan grew up speaking a mixture of Cantonese and English at home. In addition, she also speaks some conversa... Add to favourites (15 fans)Biography of Ani Difranco
Ani DiFranco (pronounced /ˈɑːniː/) (born Angela Maria Difranco on September 23, 1970) is a singer, guitarist, and songwriter. She is known as a prolific artist (having released nineteen albums) and is seen by many as a women's rights and feminist icon. DiFranco was born in Buffalo, New York to mother Elizabeth and father Dante, both graduates of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. She started playing Beatles covers at local bars and busking with her guitar teacher, Michael Meldrum, at the age of nine. In 1989, at the age of eighteen, DiFranco started her own record company, "Righteous Records" (renamed Righteous Babe Records in 1994), with just $50. Prior to the renaming of Righteous Records to Righteous Babe Records, DiFranco worked with manager Dale Ander... Biography of Jodie Marsh
Jodie Louisa Marsh, (born 23 December 1978) is an English glamour model and TV personality. She has appeared topless in many tabloid newspapers and has appeared on her own reality TV show, Totally Jodie Marsh. She has been involved in many feuds with fellow celebrities. Early life Marsh was born in Brentwood, Essex, England to a middle-class family, her father John Marsh running his own scaffolding business. She has one younger brother, Jordan. In her autobiography Keeping It Real published in 2005, Marsh jokingly mentions that it is ironic that her brother shares his name with celebrity and glamour model Jordan with whom she has had a long-running feud. Marsh's nose was disfigured as the result of a childhood hockey accident. During her schooling at Brentwood School, a private scho... Biography of Lisa Marie Scott
Lisa Marie Scott (born February 1, 1974) is an American model and actress. She was born in Pensacola, Florida to an American serviceman (of Scottish and Swiss descent) and his Japanese wife, from the island of Okinawa. Ms. Scott is known through her appearances in Playboy magazine. She first appeared as the Playmate of the Month for February 1995 (US edition), and has continued to appear in Playboy magazines, videos, and television. She had a short career playing smaller roles in some Hollywood films and television shows. Her film appearances include Ringer (1996), The Corporate Ladder (1996), and Glass Cage (1995). Television appearances include the sitcom Married... with Children. Scott has also appeared in FHM and Vanity Fair. Two of her main passions in life are traveling and architect... Biography of Merle Oberon
Merle Oberon (February 19, 1911 – November 23, 1979), born Estelle Merle O'Brien Thompson, was an Academy Award-nominated British film actress. Early life Oberon was born in Bombay (now Mumbai), India. Her mother, Charlotte, was an Anglo-Sinhalese nurse; her father, Arthur, was a British railway engineer. Merle was her mother's second child. Charlotte had abandoned her first daughter, Constance, and refused to take care of another child born out of wedlock. She insisted that Arthur marry her, although there is no evidence that he actually did. In 1914, when she was 3, Merle's father died of pneumonia on the Western Front in the early months of World War I. Mother and daughter led an impoverished existence in shabby Bombay apartments for a few years. Then, in 1917, they moved to bett... Biography of Anna Chlumsky
Anna Chlumsky (born December 3, 1980 in Chicago, Illinois) is an American actress. She entered show business at an early age modeling with her mother in an advertising campaign. She is best known for playing Vada Sultenfuss in the 1991 movie My Girl. She was in Gold Diggers: The Secret of Bear Mountain with Christina Ricci, in which they "clown around" on a "haunted" mountain. Chlumsky graduated from the University of Chicago in 2002 and had worked in New York City as a researcher for Zagat, a restaurant review company, for a short while. Chlumsky appeared on the March 8, 2007 episode of 30 Rock called "The Fighting Irish." She played Liz Lemler who is the girlfriend of Floyd (Jason Sudeikis) who sent the flowers to Lemler in "Up All Night" that ended up with Liz Lemon. She ... Add to favourites (21 fans)Biography of Amy Poehler
Amy Meredith Poehler (born September 16, 1971 in Newton, Massachusetts) is an American comedienne and actress. She is a cast member and parody news anchor on the NBC television program Saturday Night Live. In 2008, Poehler starred in the film Baby Mama. Early life Poehler was born in Newton, Massachusetts, the daughter of Eileen, a teacher, and Bill Poehler. She has a younger brother, Gregory, who was a copyright lawyer in New York before moving to Stockholm, Sweden with his wife. A 1993 graduate of Boston College, Poehler was a key member of America's oldest collegiate improv comedy troupe, My Mother's Fleabag. After graduating from college, Poehler moved to Chicago where she studied improv at Second City alongside friend and future co-star Tina Fey. She also studied with Del Clos... Biography of Aurélie Vaneck
Aurélie Vaneck, born June 15, 1983 in Les Lilas, Seine-Saint-Denis, is a French actress. She is Ninon, is French TV soap Plus belle la vie (2004 -). Aurélie Vaneck is the grand-daughter of actor Pierre Vaneck and the sister of Thibault Vaneck. Filmographie Short movies 2002 : Ben et Thomas de Jon Carnoy 2004 : L'audition (co-auteur et comédienne) de Vincent Jouan Television 2004 : Le Tuteur de Pierre Grimblat 2004 : Blandine l'insoumise de Claude d'Anna 2004 : Plus belle la vie Ninon Chaumette (saison 1, 2, 3 et 4) 2008 : Une maman pour un coeur de Patrice Martineau : Myriam Theater 1999 : Chroniques de Gérard David 2000 : Prunus de Nicole Garcia et de Colette Sardet 2000 : Ubu Roi de Gérard David 2000 : La mastication des morts de Gérard David ... Biography of Crystal Gayle
Crystal Gayle is an American country singer best known for her Grammy Award winning crossover hit, "Don't It Make My Brown Eyes Blue." She accumulated 18 No. 1 Country hits during the 1970's and 1980's. She is also famous for her nearly floor-length hair and was voted one of the 50 most beautiful people in the world in 1983. She is the sister of singer Loretta Lynn (15 years her senior) and the distant cousin of singer Patty Loveless. Early years Crystal Gayle was born Brenda Gail Webb in Paintsville, KY, on January 9, 1951, the youngest daughter of Melvin "Ted" and Clara Marie (Ramey) Webb. Her sister, country music legend Loretta Lynn, was raised in nearby rural Butcher Holler and had already married and left home by the time Webb was born. Webb's family moved to Wabash, IN when sh... Biography of Anna Friel
Anna Friel (born July 12, 1976) is a Golden Globe-nominated English actress from Rochdale, in Greater Manchester. She currently stars as Charlotte "Chuck" Charles, the female lead in the American television series Pushing Daisies. Early life Anna Louise Friel was born July 12, 1976 in Rochdale, Greater Manchester, England. She attended Crompton House Secondary School, in Shaw and Crompton. The daughter of two teachers, Friel became interested in acting at an early age and received frequent praise for her work at local talent shows. Acting career At the age of 13, she was hired for her first professional acting job in the Channel 4 drama serial G.B.H., as the daughter of Michael Palin's character. Her performance led to a series of appearances on various British television shows... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of Teresa Heinz
Maria Teresa Thierstein Simões-Ferreira Heinz (born October 5, 1938), known as Teresa Heinz, is an American philanthropist, the widow of former U.S. Senator H. John Heinz III (R-Pennsylvania), and the wife of U.S. Senator John Kerry (D-Massachusetts). Early life Maria Teresa Thierstein Simões Ferreira was born to Portuguese parents in Mozambique, at the time a colony of the Portuguese Empire. Her father was José Simões Ferreira Júnior (1910–1989; born in Albergaria-a-Velha, and died in Porto, Portugal), and her mother was Irene Thierstein (1912–1997), born a Portuguese and British national in Lourenço Marques, daughter of Alberto Thierstein, a British national of Swiss origin from Valletta, Malta (at the time a British-ruled territory), and Maria Burló, born in Alexandria, Egypt, who... Biography of Wanda Sykes
Wanda Sykes (born March 7, 1964), also known as Wanda Sykes-Hall, is an Emmy-winning American stand-up comedian and actress. She is well known for her blunt observations on current events, the differences between the sexes and races, and life in general, as well as for her roles on the Emmy winning series, The New Adventures of Old Christine, opposite Julia Louis-Dreyfus, as Barb and on HBO's Curb Your Enthusiasm, as herself. Early life Sykes was born in Portsmouth, Virginia to an Army colonel father who worked at the Pentagon and a banker mother. She is a graduate of Hampton University in Hampton, Virginia and a member of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority Inc. Career Sykes began her stand-up comedy career in 1987 when she entered a Washington D.C.-area talent competition. Although she ... Add to favourites (31 fans)Biography of Lea Michele
Lea Michele Sarfati (born August 29, 1986), known professionally as Lea Michele, is an American actress and singer. Michele began working professionally as a child actress on Broadway in productions such as Ragtime and Les Misérables. She originated the role of Wendla in the musical Spring Awakening and currently plays Rachel Berry in the Fox television series Glee. Early life Michele was born in the Bronx, New York City, the daughter of Edith Sarfati, a nurse, and Marc Sarfati, a delicatessen owner. Michele's mother is Italian American and Roman Catholic, while her father is a Spanish Sephardic Jew. Michele grew up in New York City and Tenafly, New Jersey. She attended Rockland Country Day School for elementary school in New York and then Tenafly High School. Michele was home school... Biography of Debbie Reynolds
Debbie Reynolds (born April 1, 1932) is an Academy Award-nominated American actress, singer, and dancer. Height: 5' 2" (1.57 m) Early life Reynolds was born Mary Frances Reynolds in El Paso, Texas, the second child of Raymond Francis Reynolds (1903-1986), a carpenter for Southern Pacific Railroad, and Maxine N. (née Harman; 1913-1999). Reynolds was a Girl Scout and a troop leader. A scholarship in her name is offered to high-school age Girl Scouts. Her family moved to Burbank, California, in 1939. While a student at John Burroughs High School, at age sixteen, Reynolds won the Miss Burbank Beauty Contest, a motion picture contract with Warner Brothers, and acquired her new first name. Career Reynolds regularly appeared in movie musicals, most notably Singin' in the Rain, during ... Biography of Lââm (singer)
Lââm (born 1 September 1971 in Paris) is a French female singer and actress of Tunisian descent. She has sold more than 500,000 albums and more than 2 million singles. Biography Lââm, (whose real name is "Lamia") lived a difficult childhood stemming from family problems at home. At a very young age, she developed a passion for music. Within a day, a producer commented on her singing and loved the way she interpreted songs; thus Lââm's career finally began. She released her first single "Chanter pour ceux qui sont loin de chez eux", a reprise of Michel Berger's legendary song. The French public immediately loved the new version of the song and 960,000 copies of the song were sold (gold disc certification). The song ranked second on the Top 50 for nine weeks straight. From that succ... Biography of Miki Komori
Miki Komori, born August 12, 1982 in Tokyo, is a Japonese model and actress.... Biography of Patricia Heaton
Patricia Heaton (born March 4, 1958 in Bay Village, Ohio) is an Emmy Award-winning American actress best known for playing lead character and Ray Barone's wife Debra Barone on the CBS television sitcom Everybody Loves Raymond. She recently made a return to television opposite Kelsey Grammer in the FOX comedy series Back To You. Height: 5' 2" (1.57 m) Childhood and family Heaton was the second youngest of five children born to an Irish American Roman Catholic family in Bay Village, Ohio, a suburb of Cleveland, Ohio. Her father is well-known Cleveland Plain Dealer sportswriter, Chuck Heaton. Patricia spent her grade school years attending St. Raphael Elementary School in Bay Village, Ohio. When Heaton was twelve, her mother died. Heaton has three sisters, Sharon, Alice, and Frances... Add to favourites (12 fans)Biography of Jane March
Jane March (born Jane March Horwood in Edgware, London, England on March 20, 1973) is an English film actress, who has had lead roles in all of the films she has appeared in, and has made films in several countries. Height: 5' 2" (1.57 m) Personal history March is Eurasian. Her mother Jean is half-Vietnamese and half-Chinese, and her father Bernard is English of Spanish descent. She was a top teenage fashion model prior to becoming an actress. At age 14, she won a local "Become a Model" contest. At age 15, she began working as a print model using her middle name March, which was named after her birth month. Her role in The Lover She was chosen for her innocent look at age 18 for the role of The Young Girl in The Lover, which was the start of her acting career. Her performa... Biography of Dulce María
Dulce María (born Dulce María Espinoza Saviñón, December 6, 1985) is a Mexican actress, singer and songwriter born in Mexico City, Mexico. Early life Dulce María Espinoza Saviñón was born on December 6, 1985 in Mexico City, Mexico. She began acting in commercials since she was five. Dulce became well known for playing Roberta Pardo on Rebelde and for being a member of the pop band RBD. She is close to her RBD members. She has stated that she will release a book that she states are her poems and songs she wrote for the group. The release date of the book was on February 14, 2008. In present, Dulce Maria wrote a book called Dulce Amargo in which her fans can find a lot of poems she wrote since she was 11. Dulce Amargo is a book dedicated to each of us who want to know what can be ... Biography of Ellen MacArthur
Dame Ellen Patricia MacArthur, DBE (born July 8, 1976) is an English sailor from Whatstandwell near Matlock in Derbyshire, now based in Cowes, on the Isle of Wight. She is best known as a solo long-distance yachtswoman who, on February 7, 2005, broke the world record for the fastest solo circumnavigation of the globe. Early life She acquired her early interest in sailing by reading Arthur Ransome's Swallows and Amazons books and is the Patron of the Nancy Blackett Trust which owns and operates Ransome's yacht, Nancy Blackett. She saved her school dinner money in order to buy her first boat. She was named 1998 British Telecom/Royal Yachting Association "Yachtsman of The Year" in the UK and "Sailing's Young Hope" in France. Racing career She first came to general prominence in ... Biography of Christina Vidal
Christina Abbi Vidal (born November 18, 1981) is an American film and television actress and singer. She is known for her role in the Nickelodeon sitcom Taina in which she played the title character. Early life Vidal was born in Whitestone, an area in Queens, New York, the daughter of Puerto Rican parents Anne, a secretary, and Manuel Vidal, Jr. a business and tax consultant. She attended the Performing Arts School Of New York. When she was 17 she joined a girl group called Gemstone (along with Jade Villalon and Crystal Grant). Vidal later moved to Orlando, Florida, to proceed with the filming of Taina. Her sisters Lisa Vidal and Tanya Vidal are also actors and have appeared on TV and in theatre; she also has a brother, Christian. Acting career Vidal's acting career started when... Biography of Debbie Allen
Debbie Allen (born Deborrah Kaye Allen on January 16, 1950 in Houston, Texas) is an American actor, choreographer, film director, television producer, and a member of the President's Committee on the Arts and Humanities. She is best known for her role as Lydia Grant in the hit television series, Fame. Height: 5' 2" (1.57 m) Allen earned a B.A. degree in classical Greek literature, speech, and theater from Howard University and holds honorary doctorates from both her alma mater and the North Carolina School for the Arts. She currently teaches young dancers at her Debbie Allen Dance Academy. She also taught choreography to former L.A. Laker dancer-turned singer, Paula Abdul. Her daughter, Vivian Nixon, played Kalimba in the Broadway production of Hot Feet.She graduated from Jack Yates ... Biography of Ann Blyth
Ann Marie Blyth (born August 16, 1928) is an Oscar-nominated American actress and singer, most often cast in Hollywood musicals, but who also succeeded in the dramatic roles she was given. Height: 5' 2" (1.57 m) Early life Blyth was born in Mount Kisco, New York to parents who divorced shortly after her birth. She was raised a devout churchgoing Roman Catholic by her mother. Career Blyth began her acting career initially as "Anne Blyth", changing the spelling of her name back to the original (Ann) at the beginning of her film career. Her first acting role was on Broadway in Watch on the Rhine (from 1941 until 1942). She was signed to a contract with Universal Studios, and made her film debut in Chip Off the Old Block (1944). In musical films such as Babes on Swing Street and ... Biography of Tonya Harding
Tonya Maxine Harding (born November 12, 1970 (birth time source: Astrodatabank)) is an American former figure skater and celebrity. Despite a tough childhood in an unstable family, as well as being plagued by asthma, she became an elite figure skater. She won the U.S. Figure Skating Championships twice and placed second in the 1991 World Championships. She was the second woman, and the first American woman, to complete a triple axel jump in competition. She became notorious for her part in the conspiracy to harm competitor Nancy Kerrigan at a practice session during the 1994 U.S. Figure Skating Championships. Early life Harding was born in Portland, Oregon, the daughter of LaVona and Al Harding. She had a half-brother named Chris Davison (deceased). Harding began skating at an early... Biography of Namie Amuro
Namie Amuro (born September 20, 1977) is a Japanese singer, dancer, and former child actor/singer.At one time known as the "Queen of J-pop", Amuro has transcended fads and controversy to become one of Japan's most prolific and enduring musical acts. Born in Naha, Okinawa, Amuro debuted at the age of 14 as an idol in the girl group, Super Monkey's. Largely unsuccessful, the group grew popular during their final year together with the single, "Try Me ~Watashi wo Shinjite~" (1995). Amuro would leave the group after two more singles and begin a solo career with then small indepedent label, Avex Trax. Under the guidance of producer, Tetsuya Komuro, Amuro quickly gained major success scoring several million selling hits and creating a cultural phenomenon dubbed "Amura". However, in late 1997, Am... Biography of Liz Phair
Liz Phair (born Elizabeth Clark Phair on April 17, 1967 in New Haven, Connecticut, USA) is an American singer-songwriter and guitarist. Her signature guitar, which she is often seen playing (and is prominent upon the cover of her self-titled fourth album), is a Fender Duo-Sonic. Her album Exile in Guyville was chosen as one of Rolling Stone's 500 Greatest Albums of All Time. Early life Phair was born in Connecticut, but was raised in Winnetka, Illinois. Phair was adopted, as was her older brother Philip. She graduated from New Trier High School in 1985. She attended Oberlin College in Oberlin, Ohio, and majored in art history. Career Origins of music career Phair's entry into the music industry began when she met guitarist Chris Brokaw, a member of the band Come. Brokaw was ... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of Oksana Kazakova
Oksana Kazakova (Russian: Оксана Казакова, born April 8, 1975, St. Petersburg, Russia) is an Olympic and European figure skating champion. With partner Artur Dmitriev, she won the gold at the 1998 Olympics. Biography Kazakova began skating at age 4. Before skating with Dmitriev, she skated with Dmitri Sukhonov. The pair finished 15th at the 1993 World Championships. Artur Dmitriev's partner Natalia Mishkutenok decided to retire in 1994, but Dmitriev still wanted to compete. He and Kazakova began skating together in 1995. They won the European Championship in 1996 and the Olympics in 1998. They then turned professional and continued to skate together for several years. Kazakova and Dmitriev w... Biography of Kristina Uhrinová
Kristina Uhrinová, born on November 25, 1985 in Prague, is a Czech model and actress. Filmography (source: http://www.imdb.com/name/nm3061272/) 2009 Caligula's Spawn (video) Vlada (as Kristyna Uhrinova) 2009 Sweethearts Lesbians: Party Time (video) 2009 Sweethearts Special 10: Shooting Pool (video) (as Alma) 2009 Teenage SuperStar 10: Mia (video) (as Alma) 2009 Teeny Hot Spots 7 (video) (as Alma) 2008 Blood Countess 2: The Mayhem Begins (video) Countess Elizabeth Bathory (as Kristina Uhrinova) 2008 Blood Countess (video) Girl #4 2008 Hairy Teens 3 (video) Girl at the bar 2008 My Sexy Kittens 33 (video) (as Alma) 2008 Seventeen's Playground 8 (video) (as Alma) 2008 Sweethearts Special 8: Real Workout (video) (as Alma) 2008 Teeny Splash 5... Biography of Michala Banas
Michala Elizabeth Laurinda Banas (born November 14, 1978 in Wellington, New Zealand), is a New Zealand actress. Her debut television performance was as Louisa in miniseries Mirror, Mirror. From 2001-2003 she played Marissa Taylor in Always Greener. In 2002, she had a small part in Scooby-Doo. In 2003, Banas released a single, Kissin' The Wind, which peaked at #28 on the ARIA Singles Chart. McLeod's Daughters In 2004, Michala Banas joined the cast of McLeods Daughters as the character Kate Manfredi, the best friend of Jodi Fountain McLeod. She played Kate from episodes 88 to 170, when she took a short break to later return in episode 177. It was announced In mid/late 2007 that she would leave McLeod's Daughters in its final season. As well as an acting career she has has recen... Biography of Taylor Dayne
Taylor Dayne (born Leslie Wunderman, March 7, 1962) is an American pop vocalist, dance artist, and actress. Career Dayne, who was born in Baldwin, Nassau County, New York, came to prominence in the late 1980s and continued to appear at the top of the charts through the 1990s. Her most recent U.S. dance chart Billboard number-one song was "Beautiful" in March 2008. She remains a pop favorite in the U.S. and abroad. Dayne began singing professionally after graduating from high school, singing in rock bands such as Felony and Next. However, both bands failed to become successful. She began singing solo after finishing college, and as Les Lee released the dance single "I'm The One You Want" in 1985. Signed to Arista Records, her first song to crack the top ten was the dance-pop hit "Tel... Biography of Zoë Kravitz
Zoë Isabella Kravitz (born December 1, 1988 (birth time source: Astrodatabank)) is an American actress, singer and model. She is the daughter of musician Lenny Kravitz and actress Lisa Bonet. She has appeared in the films The Brave One (2007) with Jodie Foster, and No Reservations (2007) with Catherine Zeta-Jones. Kravitz played Pearl on the fourth season of the Showtime television series Californication, and appeared as Angel Salvadore in the 2011 film X-Men: First Class. Early life Kravitz was born in Venice Beach, Los Angeles, California, at the canal-front home of her parents, actress Lisa Bonet and musician Lenny Kravitz. Her paternal grandmother, actress Roxie Roker, was of African American and Bahamian descent (and a second cousin of meteorologist Al Roker), and her maternal g... Add to favourites (9 fans)Biography of Chloë Moretz
Chloë Grace Moretz (born February 10, 1997) is an American teen actress, known for her roles in (500) Days of Summer and in Diary of a Wimpy Kid. She also played Hit-Girl in the 2010 superhero film Kick-Ass and will take the role of Abby in Let Me In. Life and career Moretz was born in Atlanta, Georgia. Her father, McCoy, is a plastic surgeon, and her mother, Teri, is a nurse practitioner. She has four brothers ranging from 5 to 15 years older than she is. She became interested in acting when her second eldest brother, Trevor, was accepted to the Professional Performing Arts School in New York. Her Hollywood career began when the Moretz family moved to Los Angeles in 2003. Her first role in Hollywood was in two episodes of the series The Guardian, and her first film role was as Mol... Biography of Rosy Varte
Rosy Varte (22 November 1923 – 14 January 2012) was a Turkish-born French actress of Armenian descent. She has appeared in 95 film and television shows since 1949. She starred in the 1972 film The Bar at the Crossing, which was entered into the 22nd Berlin International Film Festival. Selected filmography Manon (1949) Three Women (1952) Fortunat (1960) La Vendetta (1962 film) Antoine and Colette (1962) Love at Twenty (1962) Thomas the Impostor (1964) Male Companion (1964) Angélique, Marquise des Anges (1964) Merveilleuse Angélique (1965) The Bar at the Crossing (1972) Waiter! (1983) Monsieur de Pourceaugnac (1985)... Biography of Susan Lucci
Susan Victoria Lucci (born in Scarsdale, New York, December 23, 1946) is a Daytime Emmy Award-winning American actress. Lucci has been called "Daytime's Leading Lady" by TV Guide, with New York Times and Los Angeles Times citing her as the highest-paid actor in daytime television. Her salary is reportedly over $1 million a year. Early life Susan Lucci was born to Jeanette and Victor Lucci. She attended Garden City High School in Garden City, New York, graduating in 1964. She then attended Marymount College at Fordham University, and graduated from Marymount in 1968. Career Daytime television Lucci is best known for playing the larger-than-life diva Erica Kane on the ABC television soap opera All My Children, on which she has appeared since the show's inception on January 5, 1... Biography of Carol Kane
Carolyn Laurie Kane (born June 18, 1952, Cleveland, Ohio, U.S.) is an American actress. Height: 5' 2" (1.57 m) Early life Kane's parents are Joy, a jazz singer, dancer, and pianist, and Michael Kane, an architect, who worked for the World Bank. Her family was Jewish, with her grandparents having immigrated from Russia. Her parents divorced when she was twelve years old. She attended the Professional Children's School in New York and made her professional theatre debut in a 1966 production of The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, starring Tammy Grimes. Career Kane is best-known for her portrayal of Simka Dahblitz-Gravas, wife of Latka Gravas (Andy Kaufman), on the American television series Taxi from 1981 to 1983. Kane earned two Emmy Awards for her work in the series. She was nomin... Biography of Taryn Manning
Taryn Manning (born November 6, 1976) is an American actress, fashion designer, and singer-songwriter. She is the vocalist for electronic duo Boomkat and co-owner of the clothing brand Born Uniqorn. Manning gained her first major role as an actress in 2001 when she played the role of Maddy in Crazy/Beautiful. She is well known for her film portrayals in Crossroads, 8 Mile, A Lot Like Love, Hustle & Flow, Weirdsville and Jack and Jill vs. the World. She has appeared in film genres ranging from drama and comedy to science fiction. Early life Taryn Manning was born to Sharyn and Bill Manning , who divorced when she was two months old. Her mother took Taryn and her brother Kellin to Tucson, Arizona. At the age of 12, Manning and her mother moved to California, where she attended school i... Biography of Dani Pedrosa
Daniel "Dani" Pedrosa (born September 29, 1985 in Sabadell, Spain) is a Grand Prix motorcycle racer . Pedrosa grew up in a village near Sabadell called Castellar del Vallès. He is the youngest world champion in 125cc and 250cc Grands Prix. Pedrosa is 1.58m (5ft, 2in) tall and weighs 51kg (112.4lbs). Career Early days Dani Pedrosa started riding bikes at the early age of four, when he got his first motorcycle, an Italjet 50, which had side-wheels. His first racing bike was a minibike replica of Kawasaki, which he got at the age of six and which he used to race with his friends. Pedrosa experienced real racing at the age of 11, when he entered the Spanish Minibike Championship and ended his debut season in second place, scoring his first podium finish in the second race of the season... Biography of Kristin Cavallari
Kristin Elizabeth Cavallari (born January 5, 1987 (source: Imdb)) is an American reality television celebrity and actress. Early life Kristin Cavallari was born in Denver, Colorado, the younger of two children. When her parents divorced, her older brother moved with their father to Laguna Beach, California, while she moved with their mother to Barrington, Illinois, a suburb northwest of Chicago. After having trouble adjusting to a new life with a stepfather and stepbrother, Cavallari moved to California to be with her dad and brother, and was enrolled at Santa Margarita Catholic High School her freshman year of high school. After attending a Driver's Education course through Laguna Beach High School, her father enrolled her in LBHS. Career Cavallari was in her junior year of high ... Biography of Katherine Helmond
Katherine Marie Helmond (born July 5, 1928, Galveston, Texas) is an American film, theater and television actress. Career Television Helmond first came to fame as “Jessica Tate”, the matriarch on Soap. She was a lead player on the controversial ABC series from 1977 until it was cancelled in 1981. In 1984, she took the role of “Mona Robinson” on the sitcom Who’s the Boss? with Judith Light, Alyssa Milano, Danny Pintauro, and Tony Danza. The show was a ratings success, running for eight seasons and finshing in the Nielsen top 10 four straight years. From 1995-1997, she starred in the sitcom Coach as Doris Sherman, eccentric owner of the fictional Orlando Breakers professional football team. From 1996 to 2004, Helmond had a recurring role on Everybody Loves Raymond, appearing... Add to favourites (10 fans)Biography of Susanna Hoffs
Susanna Lee Hoffs (born January 17, 1959) is an American vocalist and rhythm guitarist best known for being a member of the all-female pop band The Bangles. Early life Hoffs was born on the Westside of Los Angeles, California to a Jewish family. Her mother played records of The Beatles for Hoffs when she was a child and she began playing the guitar in her teens. She eventually joined with Vicki Peterson and Debbi Peterson, which would later become The Bangles. Hoffs attended Palisades High School in Pacific Palisades, Los Angeles. In 1980, she graduated from University of California, Berkeley with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Art. Career with The Bangles The Bangles released their first album All Over the Place in 1984 and saw a moderate hit with the single "Hero Takes A Fall", ... Biography of Patti Lupone
Patti LuPone (born April 21, 1949) is a Tony Award-winning American singer and actress. Early life LuPone was born in Northport, New York, the daughter of Angela Louise (née Patti), a college library administrator, and Orlando Joseph LuPone, a school administrator. LuPone’s great-grand-aunt was the celebrated 19th-century opera singer Adelina Patti. One brother is actor, dancer, and director Robert LuPone, and her other brother, William, is a teacher. When they were young, they performed on Long Island as the LuPone Trio. She is of Italian/Sicilian descent and a graduate of Northport High School. LuPone was part of the first graduating class of Juilliard’s Drama Division. Theater work LuPone is an important player in contemporary American dramatic and musical theater. In 1972 Jo... Biography of Jennifer Kirk
Jennifer Anne "Jenny" Kirk (born August 15, 1984) is an American retired competitive figure skater. She is the 2000 World Junior Champion and the 2002 Four Continents Champion. Jennifer Kirk was born in Newton, Massachusetts. She trained at the Toyota Sports Center in El Segundo, California with her coaches Frank Carroll and Ken Congemi. Prior to skating, she was a gymnast until she turned nine. She also studied ballet and once performed with the Boston Ballet. She placed 4th at the 2005 United States Figure Skating Championships and placed 3rd at the 2005 Four Continents Championships. Kirk placed 3rd at the 2004 Nationals. She is the 2002 Four Continents Champion and the 2000 World Junior Champion. In May 1999, Kirk's mother, Pat Harris, was diagonosed with breast cancer. She di... Biography of Pauline Collins
Pauline Collins OBE (born 3 September 1940) is an Academy Award-nominated English actress who is best known for playing Sarah in Upstairs, Downstairs and for playing the title role in Shirley Valentine. Early life and career Collins was born in Exmouth, Devon of Irish Catholic extraction and studied at the Central School of Speech and Drama in London. Before turning to acting, she worked as a teacher until 1962. She made her stage debut at Windsor in A Gazelle in Park Lane in 1962 and her West End debut in Passion Flower Hotel in 1965, and many stage roles followed. Her first film was Secrets of a Windmill Girl (1965). Collins played Samantha Briggs in the 1967 Doctor Who serial The Faceless Ones and was offered the chance to continue in the series as a new companion for the Doctor,... Biography of Jasmine Guy
Jasmine Guy (born March 10, 1964 in Boston, Massachusetts (birth time source: Nick Dagan Best, Astrodatabank)) is an American actress, singer and dancer. She is most well known for her starring role as Southern belle Whitley Gilbert in the television series A Different World. Born to an African-American father and a Portuguese mother, Guy was raised in Atlanta, Georgia, where she attended the former Northside High School (which merged with North Fulton High School to form North Atlanta High School). Her mother's name is Jaye Rudolph, and her father, the Reverend William Guy, was pastor of the historic Friendship Baptist Church in Atlanta, which served as an early home to Morehouse College and Spelman College. (The latter school served as the setting for "Hillman College," the fictional ... Biography of Lisa Loeb
Lisa Anne Loeb (born March 11, 1968) is an American singer-songwriter and actress. In 1994, she had her first hit with the song "Stay (I Missed You)". The song today still remains her biggest hit and most well-known song. Recently, she has moved into other endeavors, such as television. In 2006, she had her own reality TV show on the E! channel. Early years Loeb was born to Jewish parents in Bethesda, Maryland, and raised in Dallas, Texas where she attended The Hockaday School, an all-girls private school. Her parents still live in Dallas, where her mother is a homemaker and her father, Peter Loeb, is a gastroenterologist. She has three siblings -- Benjamin Loeb, Debbie Loeb, and Philip Loeb. After graduating from high school in 1986, she went to Brown University, where she graduated ... Biography of Elizabeth Peña
Elizabeth Peña (born September 23, 1961 or 1959) is an American actress. Peña was born in Elizabeth, New Jersey, daughter of Estella Margarita (née Toirac), an arts administrator and producer, and Mario Peña, a Cuban-born actor, writer, and director who co-founded the Latin American Theatre Ensemble. Peña graduated from New York's famed High School of Performing Arts in 1977. Her classmates include Ving Rhames (with whom she would later co-star in Jacob's Ladder) and Esai Morales (with whom she would later co-star in La Bamba). Peña has appeared in movies such as La Bamba, Lone Star, Vibes and Rush Hour. She recently starred in Showtime's Resurrection Blvd. as Tia Bibi Corrades and voiced the character Mirage in Pixar's animated film The Incredibles. She guest stars in the 18th episo... Biography of Simone Simon
Simone Simon (April 23, 1911 (source: B.C. in hand from Steinbrecher) – February 22, 2005) was a French film actress who began her film career in 1931. Early life Simone Simon Pas-de-Calais, France. She was the daughter of Henri Louis Firmin, a French engineer, and Erma Maria Domenica Giorcelli, an Italian housewife. She grew up in Marseille. She went to Paris in 1931 and worked briefly as a singer, model and fashion designer. Height 5' 2" (1.57 m) Career Simon made her screen debut in Le Chanteur inconnu (The Unknown Singer, 1931). She quickly established herself as one of the country's most successful film actresses. After seeing her in the 1934 film Lac Aux Dames (USA title: Ladies' Lake), Darryl F. Zanuck brought her to Hollywood in 1936 with a widespread publicity cam... Biography of Beth Ditto
Beth Ditto (born 19 February 1981 in Searcy, Arkansas) is an American singer for the indie rock band The Gossip. Ditto is know for her distinctive lyrics and powerful vocals as well as her outspoken and unconventional lifestyle offstage. Career Ditto came to wider public attention in November 2006 when she was selected by NME as the coolest person in rock—being placed at number one in the magazine's annual "Cool List." The magazine cited her "non-conformity" as the reason for her selection - she is a lesbian, an outspoken advocate of gay rights, weighs 210 lbs (95 kg) and is also in a relationship with a transman. The band's breakthrough song "Standing in the Way of Control" was written by Ditto as a response to her government's decision to deny LGBT couples marriage rights. "Nobod... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of Arlette Chabot
Arlette Chabot (born Chartres, 21 July 1951) is a prominent French journalist and political commentator. She currently is head of the editorial team of France 2. Chabot began her career at France Inter in 1974, where she was a speaker and headed the political services of the redaction. In 1984, she joined TF1 and headed its political service until 1990. She joined FR3 and became head redactor of the political and economical service. From 1992, she held the same office at France 2. From 1994 to 1998, she was deputy director of the redaction of France 2. She animated the debate show Mots Croisés from September 1997 to September 2005, when she was replaced by Yves Calvi. Since February 2004, Arlette Chabot has been director of the editorial team of France 2, replacing Olivier Mazerol... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of Kumiko Takeda
Kumiko Takeda, born August 12, 1968 in Shizuoka, is a Japonese model and actress. Her modeling career began at age 6 with a TV commercial. Filmography (source: http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0847479/ ) # Big show! Hawaii ni utaeba (1999) # 24 jikan dake no uso (1999) (TV) .... Yukari Sakai ... aka The Twenty-Four Hour Lie # Reikai gakkô: Mako sensei no kubi (1997) (V) ... aka Ghost School: Teacher Mako's Head (USA) # Me wo tojite daite (1996) .... Hanabusa ... aka Close Your Eyes and Hold Me (USA: video catalogue title) # Zero Woman III: Keishichô 0-ka no onna (1996) .... Rei (aka Zero Woman) ... aka Zero Woman: Assassin Lovers (USA: video title) # "If: Moshimo" (1993) TV series (unknown episodes) # Gurenbana (1993) .... Yoko # Ai to heisei no iro - Otoko (1989) .... Yuri Nodate... Biography of Kellie Martin
Kellie Noelle Martin (born October 16, 1975) is an American television actress. Height: 5' 2" (1.57 m) Career A native of Riverside, California, Martin loved to perform for her close-knit family. She began her acting career at age seven, when her aunt Rhonda, a nanny for actor Michael Landon's children, helped Martin land a guest spot on the Landon produced series Father Murphy. Among many roles in motion pictures, made-for-TV movies and television series, she is perhaps most famous for her role as Rebecca "Becca" Thatcher on the drama Life Goes On, which ran on ABC (1989–1993), and for her role as med student Lucy Knight on the NBC drama ER (1998–2000). Martin also contributed the voice of Daphne Blake on the animated series A Pup Named Scooby-Doo. 1990s In 1994, she star... Biography of Marilou Berry
Marilou Berry, born February 1, 1983 in Paris, is a French actress. She is the daughter of actress Josiane Balasko and sculptor Philippe Berry, and the niece of actor Richard Berry. Filmography 1991 : Ma vie est un enfer de Josiane Balasko 2003 : Comme une image d'Agnès Jaoui 2004 : La Première fois que j'ai eu 20 ans de Lorraine Levy 2004 : Il était une fois dans l'oued de Djamel Bensalah 2005 : La Boîte noire de Richard Berry 2006 : On ne devrait pas exister de HPG 2006 : Nos jours heureux d'Éric Toledano 2006 : La Disparue de Deauville de Sophie Marceau avec Christophe Lambert et Simon Abkarian 2007 : Lisa et le pilote d'avion de Philippe Barassat Television 2006 : La volière aux enfants d'Olivier Guignard avec Olivier Sitruk, Rufus Theater 2004 : L... Biography of Debra Paget
Debra Paget (born August 19, 1933) is an American actress and entertainer who made a name for herself in the 1950s and early-1960s in a variety of feature films including Cecil B. DeMille's epic The Ten Commandments and Love Me Tender, the film début of Elvis Presley. Height: 5' 2" (1.57 m) Early life and career Debra Paget was born in Denver, Colorado to show-business parents. Her birth name was Debralee Griffin; she later took the stage name of Paget from two of her ancestors, Lord and Lady Paget of England. The family moved from Denver to Los Angeles in the 1930s to be close to the developing film industry. Her mother, actress Margaret Griffin, was determined that Debra and her siblings would also make their careers in show business. This ambition was realized: Paget's sisters Ju... Biography of Natasha Gregson Wagner
Natasha Gregson Wagner (born on 29 September 1970 in Los Angeles, California, U.S.) is an American actress. She is the daughter of Richard Gregson and movie actress Natalie Wood and the adopted daughter of actor Robert Wagner. She left Emerson College to pursue an acting career. She married D.V. DeVincentis on October 11, 2003. She is the half-sister of jewelery maker, Courtney Brooke Wagner, with whom she shares a mother, and stepsister of TV personality and Hollywood reporter, Katie Wagner. Height: 5' 2" (1.57 m) Natasha's birth surname is Gregson, though Robert Wagner adopted her, along with his own daughters Katie and Courtney, after Natalie Wood's death by drowning in 1981. Selected filmography ER (TV series) Wonderland (2003) The 4400 (2004) (TV series) Pasadena (2001... Add to favourites (16 fans)Biography of Evanna Lynch
Evanna Lynch (born 16 August 1991 in Termonfeckin, Ireland) is an Irish actress, known for playing Luna Lovegood in Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix. Personal life Evanna is from Termonfeckin, County Louth, Ireland. She lives with her father Donal, mother Marguerite, elder sisters Máiréad and Emily, and younger brother Patrick. As of September 2008, she is in her fifth year at Our Lady's College, Greenhills, an all girls' Catholic school located in Drogheda, Ireland. While filming however, she does not attend Greenhills but is tutored on set. During her primary school years, she attended Cartown National School. She has been attending CTYI and completed a 'Speculative Fiction' course. She returned to CTYI for Session 2 in 2008, with her subject choice being Drama. Car... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of Ellen Victoria Futter
Ellen Victoria Futter, born September 21, 1949 in Manhattan, New York, is an American attorney and president of Barnard College for Women. Barnard College is a women's liberal arts college founded in 1889. Barnard is affiliated with Columbia University, but Barnard maintains an independent campus in the Morningside Heights neighborhood in the borough of Manhattan, in New York City, and separate faculty, administration, trustees, operating budget, and endowment. The four acre (16,000 m²) campus stretches along Broadway between 116th and 120th Streets, adjacent to Columbia's campus, and has been used by Barnard since 1898. The neighborhood is sometimes called the Academic Acropolis; as well as being on a hill, the area is home to numerous academic institutions including the Bank Street... Biography of Tia Tanaka
Tia Tanaka (born March 15, 1987) is a Vietnamese-American pornographic actress and adult model; her mother is Vietnamese/French and her father is Vietnamese. Tanaka was born in Indonesia and emigrated to the United States at the age of one with her mother. She lived in New York and later moved to California. Tanaka attended high school with Kitty Jung and Jasmine Mai. Jung suggested that Tanaka enter the pornographic industry. She shot under the names Sasha Lei and Mulan Wang, until Ed Powers gave her the name Tia Tanaka. She is an import model. At one point in 2006 she was attending university majoring in psychology. Awards 2007 Adam Film World award – Best Asian Starlet 2007 FAME Award finalist – Favorite Female Rookie... Biography of Melissa Reeves
Melissa Reeves (born Melissa Brennan on March 14, 1967) is an American soap opera actress. She was born in Eatontown, New Jersey. Her first television role was as Jade Perkins on Santa Barbara (TV series) from 1984 to 1985. She originated the role of the adult Jennifer Horton (later Jennifer Deveraux) on Days of Our Lives in 1985 (prior to which, the character had been a young child) and played her until 1995. She abruptly left Days during the show's thirieth anniversary, ostensibly to spend some time at home with husband Scott Reeves, formerly of The Young and the Restless, whom she had married in 1990. The role of Jennifer was quickly recast with Stephanie Cameron, who remained on the show until 1998. Speculation ran rampant as to the reasons behind Reeves' sudden departure, and the d... Biography of Lesley Gore
Lesley Gore (born May 2, 1946 in New York City as Lesley Sue Goldstein) is an American singer-songwriter of the "girl group era". She is perhaps best known for her 1963 pop hit, "It's My Party," which she recorded at the age of 16. Following the hit, she became one of the most recognized teen pop singers of 1963-1967. Career: 1960s and 1970s Gore was raised in Tenafly, New Jersey in a Jewish family. She was a junior at the Dwight School for Girls in nearby Englewood when "It's My Party" became a #1 hit. Her first hit was followed by many others, including "Judy's Turn to Cry" (the sequel to "It's My Party"), "She's a Fool", the proto-feminist "You Don't Own Me", "That's The Way Boys Are", "Maybe I Know", "The Look Of Love" and "Sunshine, Lollipops and Rainbows". Her record producer ... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of Diana Bianchedi
Diana Bianchedi, born in Milan November 4, 1969, is an Italian fencer.... Biography of Coco Austin
Nicole Natalie Marrow (née Austin) (born March 17, 1979) commonly known as Coco Austin, Coco, Coco Marie Austin, Coco Marie, Coco-T, is an American actress, dancer, glamour model and web personality. She has been married to rapper-actor Ice-T since 2001. Early life Austin was born in Tarzana, California. Her parents were actors who met on the set of Bonanza. Austin also has a younger sister Kristy Williams and three younger brothers. As a small child, her sister would mispronounce her sister's name, saying "Cole Cole" or "Co-co" in place of "Nicole". Eventually her family began addressing her as Coco. The family moved to Albuquerque, New Mexico when she was 10. She grew up as a tomboy, riding quads and playing football. Austin began dancing (jazz, tap and ballet) at the age of six, a... Biography of Amanda Coetzer
Amanda Coetzer (born 22 October 1971 in Hoopstad, South Africa) is the most accomplished female professional tennis player from South Africa. Coetzer turned professional in 1988 and retired in 2004. She won her first top-level singles title in 1993 in Melbourne, and her second later that year in Tokyo. Coetzer entered the top-20 on the women's world rankings in 1992 and remained there for most of the next 10 years. She developed a reputation for regularly beating players who were higher ranked than her as she climbed to her career high ranking of World No. 3 in 1997. As a result of her many upset wins and her small size, she earned the nickname "The Little Assassin." Career At the Canadian Open in 1995, Coetzer defeated three players ranked in the world's top-5 – Steffi Graf (N... Biography of Brenda Blethyn
Brenda Blethyn OBE (born 20 February 1946) is an Academy Award-nominated, Golden Globe-winning English film, stage, television and voice actress, and writer. Blethyn performs predominantly in leading roles in a variety of films, ranging from comedies and dramas to historical films and crimes. She is best known for her films released in the 1990s and 2000s, including Secrets & Lies (1996), Little Voice (1998), Saving Grace (2000), and Pride & Prejudice (2005). Early life Born Brenda Anne Bottle in Ramsgate, Kent, England, Blethyn is the youngest of nine children of a working-class Roman Catholic family. Her mother, Louisa Kathleen (née Supple), was a homemaker, and her father, William Charles Bottle, was a mechanical engineer. The family lived in modest circumstances, influenced by afte... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of Alice Guy-Blache
Alice Guy-Blaché (July 1, 1873 – March 24, 1968) was a pioneer filmmaker who was the first female director in the motion picture industry and is considered to be one of the first directors of a fiction film. Height: 5' 2" (1.57 m) Early years Alice Guy was born to French parents who were working in Chile where her father owned a chain of bookstores. Her mother returned home to give birth to Alice in Paris. For the first few years of her life she was left in the care of her grandmother in Switzerland until her mother came to take her to Chile where she lived with her family for about two years. She was then sent to study at a boarding school in France and was a young girl entering her teens when her parents returned from Chile. However, shortly thereafter, her father and brother both... Biography of Adele Silva
Adele Silva (born 19 November 1980 in Norbury, Greater London) is an English actress and television personality. She was educated at the Sylvia Young Theatre School and has been on stage and television since she was a child. Career Silva's first TV appearance was as Squeak in the 1989 Doctor Who story Survival. As a young girl she also appeared in Mr Majeika, The Bill and EastEnders. She is best known for playing the role of Kelly Windsor in the television soap opera Emmerdale. She first played this role from 1993 to 2000 before returning to the soap in 2005. Her plotlines have been amongst the most daring in the soap opera, including a relationship with her stepbrother and running off with one of her school teachers. When she returned in 2005, she promised to be the “biggest bitch... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of Max Linder
Max Linder (December 16, 1883 – October 31, 1925) was an influential French pioneer of silent film. Birth and early career Born Gabriel-Maximilien Leuvielle in Saint-Loubès, Gironde, France to a Jewish wine growing family, he grew up with a passion for the theater and as a young man joined a theater troupe touring the country. While working in Paris on the theater stage and in music halls, Leuvielle became fascinated with motion pictures and in 1905 took a job with Pathé Frères that saw him become a comedic actor, director, screenwriter, as well as a producer under the stage name, Max Linder. Film Max Linder created what was probably the first identifiable motion-picture character who appeared in successive situation comedies. Linder made more than one hundred short films portra... Biography of Elaine Zayak
Elaine Zayak (born April 4, 1965) is an American figure skater. She won the United States national title in 1981 and the World title in 1982. Zayak was coached jointly by Peter Burrows and Marylynn Gelderman throughout her amateur and professional career. At age two, Zayak lost part of her left foot in a lawn mower accident. On the advice of her doctors, she began figure skating as physical therapy, but her injury was not generally known to the skating world during her amateur career. Her left boot is stabilized with a wood mold to compensate for the irregularity in the shape of her left foot. Zayak grew up in Paramus, New Jersey. There, she attended Paramus High School. In 1980, Zayak was part of the first trip to China by American skaters. An excellent student, she was awarde... Biography of Barbara Mandrell
Barbara Ann Mandrell (born December 25, 1948) is an American country music singer. She is best-known for a 1970s–1980s series of Top 10 hits and TV shows (1980-82) that helped her become one of country music's most successful female vocalists of the 1970s and 1980s. She is the only female in country music history to win the Country Music Association's "Entertainer of the Year" award twice, and she has also won the Country Music Association's "Female Vocalist of the Year" twice. Barbara Mandrell's first number-one hit was 1978's "Sleeping Single in a Double Bed" and immediately followed by "(If Loving You Is Wrong) I Don't Want to Be Right" in early 1979. Later in the year, "Years" also reached number one, as did three more singles: "I Was Country When Country Wasn't Cool" (her signat... Add to favourites (3 fans)Biography of Conchita Campbell
Conchita Elizabeth Campbell (born October 25, 1995) is a Canadian actress. Campbell is known for her role as Maia Skouris on the hit USA channel miniseries and show The 4400, on which she portrays a child who's been missing for decades and returns unaged and with psychic ability to foretell the future. Campbell has also made two guest appearances on CTV's hit show Cold Squad. She starred on Wilder Days with Peter Falk and Tim Daly in 2003. She starred in the 2004 film Pursued opposite Gil Bellows, Michael Clarke Duncan and Christian Slater. Though she completed a small role in Bob the Butler, her scenes were deleted. Her feature film debut ultimately came with Scary Movie 4, which set the box office record for Easter weekend 2006. Campbell is fluent in both Polish and English as her ... Biography of Zola Budd
Zola Pieterse, still better known by her maiden name of Zola Budd (born May 26, 1966 in Bloemfontein, Orange Free State in South Africa), is a former Olympic track and field competitor who, within a period of less than three years, twice broke the world record in the women's 5000 meters, and twice was the women's winner at the World Cross Country Championships. Budd's career as a pioneer in women's distance running was as unusual as it was meteoric, in that she always trained and raced barefoot. However, her achievements on the track were often overshadowed by the political controversy she aroused during her short stay in Great Britain. Women's 5000 metre world record Budd shot to international fame in 1984, at the age of 17, when she broke the women's 5000 metre world record, posting ... Biography of Trista Rehn
Trista Nicole Sutter (née Rehn) (born October 28, 1972 in Indianapolis, Indiana, USA (birth time source: Astrodatabank)) is a prominent former participant in the ABC reality television shows, The Bachelor (in which she was runner-up to Amanda Marsh) and The Bachelorette. She has also appeared on NBC's Fear Factor and ABC's Dancing with the Stars. The Bachelorette As part of her participation in The Bachelorette, Sutter was paid $1 million by ABC for affording the network the right to televise her December 6, 2003 marriage to Ryan Sutter, the bachelor she selected to marry on the show. The televised wedding, broadcast as the finale of a three-episode special Trista & Ryan's Wedding drew over 26 million viewers, making it one of the most-widely viewed episodes in the history of realit... Biography of Jessie Wallace
Jessie Wallace (born Karen Jane Wallace on September 25, 1971 in Enfield, Greater London) is an English actress. Karen Jane Wallace was born at 204 Durants Road, Enfield, North London. After schooling, Wallace trained as a make-up artist and worked at the Royal Shakespeare Company for two years. She met and became friends with actor Iain Glenn, who helped her apply for London drama college The Poor School, from where she graduated in 1999. While undertaking auditions - including for Andrew Lloyd Webbers Sunset Boulevard, she worked as a real life barmaid at her local pub, The Royal Oak in Loughton, Essex. Her first television appearance was in an episode of the ITV police drama series The Bill in 1999. Wallace is best known for playing the role of Kat Slater in BBC One soap opera ... Biography of Buckminister Fuller
Richard Buckminster “Bucky” Fuller (July 12, 1895 – July 1, 1983) was an American visionary, designer, architect, poet, author, and inventor. He was the second President of Mensa. Throughout his life, Fuller was concerned with the question "Does humanity have a chance to survive lastingly and successfully on planet Earth, and if so, how?" Considering himself an average individual without special monetary means or academic degree, he chose to devote his life to this question, trying to find out what an individual like him could do to improve humanity's condition that large organizations, governments, or private enterprises inherently could not do. Pursuing this lifelong experiment, Fuller wrote more than thirty books, coining and popularizing terms such as "spaceship earth", ephemeral... Biography of Layla El
Layla El (born June 25, 1978) is a British dancer, model and professional wrestler of North African heritage, currently residing in the United States. She is employed by World Wrestling Entertainment as a WWE Diva, and appears on the Raw brand. Before joining WWE in 2006, Layla El was a dancer for Carnival Cruise Lines, the Miami Heat franchise of the NBA, and has also danced for Kanye West at the MTV Video Music Awards. Billed height 1.57 m (5 ft 2 in) Billed weight 54 kg (120 lb/8.5 st) World Wrestling Entertainment Diva Search Layla El first entered the world of professional wrestling after her trainer suggested she try out for the $250,000 WWE Diva Search contest in 2006. During the contest she won a week's worth of "immunity" on the July 14 (taped July 10) edition of ... Biography of Elisabeth Wiener
Élisabeth Wiener, born November 23, 1946 in Paris (birth time source: Didier Geslain), is a French actrice, singer and composer, daughter of French director Jean Wiener and known as one of the most beautiful actresses in France (DVDtoile). Filmography (source : http://us.imdb.com/name/nm0927480/ ) Légende de Parva, La (2003) (voice) .... Déesse Kali "Misérables, Les" (2000) TV mini-series .... Mme Victurnier ... aka Misérables - Gefangene des Schicksals, Les (Germany) ... aka Miserabili, I (Italy) ... aka Miserables, Los (Spain) Des cornichons au chocolat (1991) (TV) .... Djill Deux filles sur un banc (1984) (TV) .... Georgette Longuelune, Les (1982) (TV) .... La mère d'Hélène Qu'est-ce qu'on attend pour être heureux! (1982) .... Une 'comceptrice' Sept jours du marié,... Biography of Joan Benoit
Joan Benoit Samuelson (born May 16, 1957) is an American marathon runner who won gold at the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles, the year that the women's marathon was introduced. As a result she was the first ever women's Olympic marathon champion. Career Born in Cape Elizabeth, Maine, Benoit took to long-distance running to help recover from a broken leg suffered while slaloming. At Bowdoin College she excelled in athletics and then entered the 1979 Boston Marathon as a relative unknown. She won the race, while wearing a Red Sox cap, in 2:35:15, knocking eight minutes off the competition record. She repeated that success with a victory again in 1983 that took more than two minutes off the world's best time, set by Grete Waitz in the London Marathon just the day before, despite havin... Biography of Sylvie van der Vaart
Sylvie Françoise van der Vaart (née Meis; born 13 April 1978) is a Dutch television personality and model, and wife of footballer Rafael van der Vaart. Career Netherlands Aged 18, Meis decided that she wanted to be a model and was cast for various shoots by casting agencies. After becoming interested in television, she gained popularity through assignments at FoxKids and music station TMF. She hosts several events at TMF, such as presenting the annual TMF-awards, and conducting interviews with international artists such as Britney Spears and Kylie Minogue. In addition, she features in video clips and the Dutch TV-series Costa. She also introduced the Pure by Sylvie jewelery line to the Dutch market. Thereafter, she hosted the 2008 FIFA World Player of the Year award ceremony. Af... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of Emily Cook
Emily Cook, born July 1, 1979 in Boston, is an American freestyle skier.... Biography of Hikaru Utada
Hikaru Utada (宇多田 ヒカル Utada Hikaru), born January 19, 1983 in New York, New York, USA, known by her stage name Utada (English pronunciation: /ˈuːtədə/) in America and Europe, and as Hikki (ヒッキー, Hikkī?), is a Japanese American singer and songwriter, arranger, and record producer. Birth time sources: http://unkar.org/r/fortune/1187004094 (Scorpio Ascendant) http://jobtalk.jp/company/217837_about_blog_7.html (Scorpio Ascendant) http://zuihoo.com/sp/2010/12/post-392.html (01:17 AM) Before her First Love album (1999), she sold several records with mediocre success. After First Love's release, which went on to become the best-selling album in Oricon's ... Add to favourites (12 fans)Biography of Emilia Clarke
Emilia Clarke (born 1 May 1987) is an English actress, best known for portraying Daenerys Targaryen in the HBO medieval-fantasy series Game of Thrones. Early life Clarke was born in London, England, and grew up in Berkshire. Clarke's father is a theatre sound engineer, her mother is a businesswoman, and her younger brother is studying politics. Clarke's interest in acting began at the age of three after seeing the musical Show Boat on which her father was working at the time. She was educated at St Edward's (2000–2005) and Rye St Antony before studying at Drama Centre London where she graduated in 2009. Career Clarke's early work includes two plays at St. Edwards, ten plays at Drama Centre London, the 2009 Company of Angels production of Sense, and a 2009 commercial for Samaritan... Biography of Anna Nalick
Anna Christine Nalick (born March 30, 1984, in Glendora, California), is an American singer-songwriter. Her debut album, Wreck of the Day, featuring her first radio hit, "Breathe (2 AM)," was released on April 19, 2005. Early years She says in her Columbia Records biography that ever since she was a little girl she wanted to be a performer and that she actually began to write songs in fifth grade. Reportedly, while showing off her talents to her third grade teacher, her teacher told her that she'd end up "one day on The Tonight Show With Jay Leno." Leno recounted that story when Nalick actually did perform on his show earlier in 2006, quipping "which shows you how long I've been running this show". Nalick grew up in Glendora, California, east of Pasadena. As a teenager, she says she... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of Vivien Cardone
Vivien Elisabeth Cardone (born April 14, 1993) is an American child actress. She is perhaps best known for her role as Delia Brown on The WB's Everwood. Early life Cardone was born in Port Jefferson Village, Long Island, New York. Her father, Mark, is a Long Island Residential Home Builder and her mother is a homemaker. Vivien is the second oldest of four children. Her older sister Olivia is also an actress. She has a younger brother named Dallas and a younger sister named Lydia. Vivien was named after Vivien Leigh - her mother's favorite actress. Career Cardone first began her professional acting career at the age of three months in national campaign commercials, for such companies as Pizza Hut, Sears, Pillsbury, Sherman Williams, and Prudential. Cardone had her first big scree... Biography of Stacey Farber
Stacey Helene Farber (born August 25, 1987) is a Canadian actress who is best known for playing Eleanor "Ellie" Nash (since 2002) in the television series Degrassi: The Next Generation, airing on CTV in Canada and on The N in United States. In her role as Ellie Nash, she plays a young journalist who has problems with depression and cutting.... Biography of Brenda Song
Brenda Song (born March 27, 1988) is an American actress, film producer, model, and singer. Song started in show business as a child fashion model. Her early television work included roles in the shows Fudge (1995) and 100 Deeds for Eddie McDowd (1999). After many commercials and television roles in the late 1990s, Song won a Young Artist Award for her performance in The Ultimate Christmas Present (2000). She made her screen debut in Santa with Muscles (1996) and appeared in 20th Century Fox's Like Mike (2002). Her movies on the Disney Channel include Get a Clue (2002) and Stuck in the Suburbs (2004). In 2005, Song began playing the lead female role of London Tipton in the Disney series The Suite Life of Zack & Cody and The Suite Life on Deck. The character was noted as Disney's longest... Biography of Malinda Williams
Malinda Williams (born December 3, 1975) is an American actress. Personal life Williams was born in Elizabeth, New Jersey. She grew up in Westfield, New Jersey and attended Union County College in Elizabeth, New Jersey. Williams was married to actor Mekhi Phifer and the two share a son together. The couple is now divorced. She is currently in a relationship with photographer and former Boogie Down Productions member and solo artist D-Nice. She resides in Westfield, New Jersey. Career Williams, who studied at The Actor's Conservatory in New York City, has appeared in several television shows such as The Cosby Show, Sister, Sister and Moesha. She has also starred in several movies including, Sunset Park, High School High, The Wood and recently the Outkast produced movie, Idlewild.... Biography of Kimberly Guilfoyle
Kimberly Ann Guilfoyle (born March 9, 1969 in San Francisco, California) is an American cable news personality and is currently a regular contributor on Geraldo at Large, a weekend show that airs on the Fox News Channel, as well as host of an internet-only crime-related program for Fox News. She is a contributor to the The O'Reilly Factor and Hannity. Another Fox News show that she frequents on is the late-night satire program Red Eye w/ Greg Gutfeld. She was previously an anchor at Court TV and a legal analyst/commentator for CNN and ABC. She is the ex-wife of San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom. Guilfoyle married Eric Villency in May of 2006; they separated in June of 2009. They have one son, Ronan. Early career While in school, she worked as a catalog model for Macy's and Victoria's ... Biography of Gioia Bruno
Gioia Bruno (born Carmen Gioia Bruno June 11, 1963, sometimes professionally credited as just Gioia) is a popular music singer, most noted as a member of the vocal group Exposé. Early life and career Bruno was born in Bari, Italy. She was raised in New Jersey. At the age of 16, she started singing in night clubs with bands, after being encouraged by her friend David Fields to make serious efforts with her musical career. After high school, she decided to move to Florida. When performing at the Gee Wiz nightclub in Miami, Florida, she was approached by Frank Diaz, of Pantera Group Enterprises, who offered her a role in Exposé. After over nine months of recruitment attempts, Bruno finally accepted the offer and ended up joining the group. Bruno sang lead on the Exposé singles Let M... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of Beth Heiden
Elizabeth ("Beth") Lee Heiden-Reid (born 27 September 1959) is an American athlete who excelled in speed skating, cross-country skiing, and bicycle racing. She was born in Madison, Wisconsin. Her brother Eric was a gold-medalist speedskater at the 1980 Lake Placid Winter Olympics. Short biography Her first year in high school, Heiden was a tennis and soccer player, and later that year she ran a national record in the mile for her age group, and ran in states for both the eight hundred and the mile. In 1979, she won the World Allround Speed Skating Championships, making her only the second female American to do so. Kit Klein had been the first, winning the first official World Championships in 1936. At the 1980 Winter Olympics of Lake Placid, Heiden won a bronze medal in the 3,000 m ... Biography of Josie Loren
Josie Loren, born March 19, 1987 in Miami, Florida, is an American actress. Filmography (source: http://www.imdb.com/name/nm2374841/) 2009-2011 Make It or Break It (TV series) Kaylie Cruz – The New Normal (2011) … Kaylie Cruz – At the Edge of the Worlds (2010) … Kaylie Cruz – If Only... (2010) … Kaylie Cruz – Rock Bottom (2010) … Kaylie Cruz – Party Gone Out of Bounds (2010) … Kaylie Cruz See all 31 episodes » 2010 10 Things I Hate About You (TV series) Kaylie – The Winner Takes It All (2010) … Kaylie 2009 Un costume pour deux (TV movie) Angela Morrissey 2009 17 ans encore Nicole (as Josie Lopez) 2008 This Is Not a Test Laline (as Josie Lopez) 2007 Christmas in Paradise (TV movie) Blair 2007 Hardly Married (short) Leti (as Josie Lopez) 2007 T... Biography of Janet Lynn
Janet Lynn Nowicki (born Janet Nowicki April 6, 1953 in Chicago, Illinois) is an American figure skater and Olympic bronze medalist. Amateur career Lynn began to skate almost as soon as she could walk and took part in her first exhibition performance at the age of four in a group number at Chicago Stadium. By age seven, she was living away from home part of the year, staying with the slightly older skater Jada Steinke to be close to her coach Slavka Kohout, who worked out of Rockton, Illinois, but her close-knit family was never far away. Eventually her family moved from the Chicago suburb of Evergreen Park to Rockford, Illinois, some fifteen miles from Rockton and the rink. Janet would attend Junior High in Rockford. She used her middle name Lynn instead of Nowicki, which was constant... Biography of Candace Cameron Bure
Candace Helaine Cameron Bure (born April 6, 1976) is an American actress best known for playing D.J. Tanner on the television show Full House and Summer in the television drama Make It or Break It. She is the sister of Kirk Cameron, and is married to former Russian ice hockey player Valeri Bure. Early life Candace Cameron Bure was born in Panorama City, California, to Robert Cameron and Barbara Bausmith. Following in the footsteps of her older brother Kirk, she decided to pursue acting. She started in the entertainment business by appearing in a number of television commercials. Soon after, she guest starred roles on shows such as St. Elsewhere, Growing Pains, and Who's the Boss? Career When she got the chance to audition for and got the role of D.J. Tanner on Full House, she im... Biography of Juno Temple
Juno Violet Temple (born July 21 1989) is an English actress. Early life Temple is the daughter of producer Amanda Pirie and film director Julien Temple. She went to Enmore Primary School, Bedales School and King's College, Taunton. She has a younger brother, Leo Temple. Movie career Temple began her career as a child actress in the 1997 film Vigo: Passion for Life, a film about Jean Vigo. She has won critical praise for several supporting roles. One reviewer said that she played her part in Notes on a Scandal with "petulance and angst", while her performance in Atonement has been called "impressive". Some of her other film credits include Celia in St. Trinians and St. Trinian's II: The Legend of Fritton's Gold, Drippy (Jennifer Logan) in Wild Child, and Jane Parker in The Ot... | |||||||