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647 celebrities 5' 4" tall have been found. Add to favourites (277 fans)Biography of Britney Spears
Britney Jean Spears (born December 2, 1981) is a American pop singer, songwriter, dancer, actress, and author. Height: 5' 4" (1.63 m) She is best known for her studio albums, music videos, and songs such as "...Baby One More Time", "Oops!...I Did It Again", "I'm a Slave 4 U" and the Grammy Award-winning "Toxic". In the early 2000s, Spears's success as a singer led her way to high-profile advertising deals and endorsements, as well as forays into other forms of media, including film and reality television. Her third and fourth albums, Britney and In the Zone, were released during this era. In 2004, she married back-up dancer and aspiring rap artist Kevin Federline, and the following year she gave birth to their first son, Sean Preston. Their second son, Jayden James, was born in 2006.... Add to favourites (83 fans)Biography of Emmanuelle Béart
Béart was born in Gassin, Var (not far from St. Tropez), on the French Riviera. She is the daughter of the French singer and poet Guy Béart, and actress Geneviève Galéa. In a recent trip to Croatia, she revealed that one of her grandmothers was Croatian. She obtained an acting role in the 1976 film Demain les mômes. In her teens she appeared in bit parts in television then went to Montreal, Quebec, Canada to work as a nanny before returning to France the following year to attend drama school in Paris. A short time later she was cast in her first adult role in a film, and in 1986 she achieved fame with her role opposite Yves Montand, in the film Manon des Sources. For her performance, she won the 1987 César Award for "Best Supporting Actress." She also won a "Best Actress" award at the M... Add to favourites (277 fans)Biography of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, baptized Joannes Chrysostomus Wolfgangus Theophilus Mozart) (January 27, 1756 – December 5, 1791) was a prolific and influential composer of the Classical era. His output of over 600 compositions includes works widely acknowledged as pinnacles of symphonic, concertante, chamber, piano, operatic, and choral music. Mozart is among the most enduringly popular of European composers and many of his works are part of the standard concert repertoire. He is generally considered to be one of the greatest composers of classical music ever to have lived.... Add to favourites (143 fans)Biography of Pablo Picasso
Pablo Ruiz Picasso (October 25, 1881 – April 8, 1973) was a Spanish painter and sculptor. His full name was Pablo Diego José Francisco de Paula Juan Nepomuceno María de los Remedios Cipriano de la Santísima Trinidad Clito Ruiz y Picasso. One of the most recognized figures in 20th century art, he is best known as the co-founder, along with Georges Braque, of cubism. Pablo Picasso was born in Málaga, Spain, the first child of José Ruiz y Blasco and María Picasso y López. He was christened with the names Pablo, Diego, José, Francisco de Paula, Juan Nepomuceno, Maria de los Remedios, and Cipriano de la Santísima Trinidad. Picasso's father was Jose Ruíz, a painter whose specialty was the naturalistic depiction of birds and who for most of his life was also a professor of art at the School... Add to favourites (198 fans)Biography of Björk
Björk Guðmundsdóttir (born November 21, 1965 in Reykjavík, Iceland) is an Icelandic singer/songwriter and composer, as well as an occasional actress. She is best known for her expressive range and an interest in many kinds of music, including pop, alternative rock, jazz, ambient music, electronica, folk, and classical music. She has won numerous awards, and has received 12 Grammy Award nominations and an Academy Award nomination. Her record label, One Little Indian, reported in 2003 that she has sold more than 15 million albums worldwide. Her most recent album, Volta, was released worldwide on 8 May 2007. She was ranked #36 on VH1's "The 100 Greatest Women in Rock and Roll".... Add to favourites (89 fans)Biography of Isabelle Adjani
Isabelle Yasmine Adjani (born June 27, 1955 in Paris' 17th arrondissement) is a César Award-winning and Academy Award-nominated French film actress. She is of German-Algerian parentage, and performs in her native French, English, and German. She has been nominated twice for the Academy Award for Best Actress and was awarded the César award four times. Adjani grew up in Gennevilliers, Hauts-de-Seine to Kabyle Mohammed Adjani and a German Augusta Gusti. She was drawn to acting at a young age, playing in amateur theater by the age of twelve. Career She first gained fame as a classical actress for her interpretation of Agnès, the main female role in Molière's L'École des femmes, but soon left the Comédie française she had joined in 1972 to pursue a movie career. After minor roles in sev... Add to favourites (57 fans)Biography of Tina Turner
Tina Turner (born Anna Mae Bullock) (November 26, 1939) is an eight time Grammy Award-winning, American Singer, Dancer, and performer whose career has spanned from 1960 to present. Tina Turner's popularity and success in rock and roll throughout the 1980s and 1990s garnered her the title, "Queen of Rock 'n' Roll". Tina Turner is noted for her energetic stage presence, and her physical trademarks, such as her long, well-proportioned legs, hair, and her instantly identifiable voice. Born in Nutbush, Tennessee, at age 16, she moved to St. Louis, Missouri, and became well known for her high energy performances with The Ike & Tina Turner Revue during the 1960s and 1970s. At the height of The Revue's success, Tina Turner developed a reputation as a consummate live entertainer. Although wel... Add to favourites (29 fans)Biography of Martine Aubry
Martine Aubry (née Delors, born 8 August 1950) is a French politician. She has been the First Secretary of the French Socialist Party since November 2008 and Mayor of Lille (Nord) since March 2001, and is considered a possible candidate for President of France in 2012. Aubry was born in Paris. Her father, Jacques Delors, was a former Minister of Finance under President François Mitterrand, and a former President of the European Commission. She joined the PS in 1974 and was appointed Minister of Labour by then-Prime Minister Édith Cresson, in 1991, but lost her position in 1993 after the RPR won the legislative elections. However, she became Minister of Social Affairs when Lionel Jospin was elected Prime Minister in 1997. She is mostly known for having pushed the controversial 35-h... Add to favourites (148 fans)Biography of Ludwig van Beethoven
Ludwig van Beethoven (IPA: ), (baptised December 17, 1770 – March 26, 1827) was a German composer. He is generally regarded as one of the greatest composers in the history of music, and was a crucial figure in the transitional period between the Classical and Romantic eras in Western classical music. His music and his reputation inspired — and in many cases intimidated — ensuing generations of composers, musicians, and audiences. While primarily known today as a composer, Beethoven was also a celebrated pianist. Born in Bonn, Germany, he moved to Vienna, Austria, in his early twenties and settled there, studying with Joseph Haydn and quickly gaining a reputation as a virtuoso pianist. Despite gradual hearing loss beginning in his twenties, Beethoven continued to produce notable masterpi... Add to favourites (26 fans)Biography of Jeanne Moreau
Jeanne Moreau (born 23 January 1928 in Paris, France) is a French actress, and director. Moreau was born in Paris, France to an English (dancer) mother and a French barman on January 23, 1928. She studied at the Conservatoire in Paris. In 1947, she made her theatre debut at the Avignon Festival. By her twenties, Moreau was already one of France's leading stage actresses at the Comédie-Française. After 1951 she began appearing in films with small or "bit" parts. By the late 1950s, after making many mainstream films, including several successes, she made Elevator to the Gallows with first-time director Louis Malle. Largely thanks to that film, she went on to work with many of the best known New Wave and avant garde directors. After 1959's sexy "Les Amants" (The Lovers) the media tagged he... Add to favourites (108 fans)Biography of Drew Barrymore
Drew Blyth Barrymore (born February 22, 1975) is an American actress and film producer, the youngest member of the Barrymore family of American actors. She has her own production company, Flower Films. Barrymore made her screen début in Altered States (1980); she made her breakout role two years later in E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial. She quickly became one of Hollywood's most recognized child actresses. In the late-1980s and early-1990s, Barrymore had various problems with alcohol and drugs, which somewhat damaged her career. She also posed nude for Playboy in 1995. She made a comeback with the thriller Poison Ivy (1992), and afterwards began to perform predominantly in leading roles in a variety of films, ranging from big budget romantic comedies and dramas to science fiction, horror fil... Add to favourites (149 fans)Biography of Winona Ryder
Winona Ryder (born October 29, 1971) is a two-time Academy Award-nominated and Golden Globe-winning American actress. She has received a Golden Globe Award, a Screen Actors Guild Award and two Academy Award nominations in 1993 and 1994, respectively. Ryder made her screen debut in Lucas (1986) playing a teenage girl with a crush on the film's title character, Lucas. In 1988 she had what some may consider her breakout role in Beetlejuice as a Gothic teenager named Lydia. After making various appearances in film and television, Ryder received her breakthrough role in the cult classic high-school set black comedy, Heathers (1989) alongside Christian Slater. Since then, Ryder's acting career has developed greatly. Her performances in films such as Edward Scissorhands (1990), Mermaids (1990)... Add to favourites (49 fans)Biography of Pope Benedict XVI
Benedict XVI (Latin: Benedictus XVI; born Joseph Aloisius Ratzinger; 16 April 1927) is pope emeritus of the Catholic Church. He served as the 265th pope from 2005 to 2013. In that role he was both the leader of the Catholic Church and Sovereign of the Vatican City State. Benedict was elected on 19 April 2005 in a papal conclave, celebrated his Papal Inauguration Mass on 24 April 2005, and took possession of his cathedral, the Archbasilica of St. John Lateran, on 7 May 2005. Ordained as a priest in 1951 in his native Bavaria, Ratzinger established himself as a highly regarded university theologian by the late 1950s and was appointed a full professor in 1958. After a long career as an academic, serving as a professor of theology at several German universities—the last being the University... Add to favourites (43 fans)Biography of Elizabeth II
Elizabeth II (Elizabeth Alexandra Mary ; born 21 April 1926) is Queen of sixteen sovereign states that were once part of the British Empire, and their overseas territories and dependencies. She holds each crown and title equally, however she is most directly involved with the United Kingdom, her oldest realm and the place of residence of the Royal Family. Apart from the United Kingdom, Elizabeth II is also Queen of Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Jamaica, Barbados, the Bahamas, Grenada, Papua New Guinea, the Solomon Islands, Tuvalu, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Antigua and Barbuda, Belize, and Saint Kitts and Nevis, where she is represented by Governors-General. The 16 countries of which she is Queen are known as Commonwealth Realms, and their combined population is 12... Add to favourites (24 fans)Biography of Anne Sinclair
Anne Sinclair (born Anne-Élise Schwartz, 15 July 1948) is a French television and radio interviewer who hosted one of the most popular political shows for more than thirteen years on TF1, the largest European private TV channel. She also covered the 2008 US presidential campaign for the leading French Sunday paper Le Journal du Dimanche and the French TV channel Canal+. Early life and education Sinclair was born in New York to Joseph-Robert Schwartz (changed to Sinclair in 1949) and Micheline Nanette Rosenberg, French-Jewish parents who fled from Nazi persecution of Jews during World War II. She is the granddaughter of Paul Rosenberg, one of France's biggest art dealers. After completing part of her secondary schooling in the US, she went on to finish in France. She then majored in p... Add to favourites (59 fans)Biography of Louis XIV of France
Louis XIV (baptised as Louis-Dieudonné) (September 5, 1638 – September 1, 1715) ruled as King of France and of Navarre. He acceded to the throne on May 14, 1643, a few months before his fifth birthday, but did not assume actual personal control of the government until the death of his First Minister ("premier ministre"), Jules Cardinal Mazarin, in 1661. Louis would remain on the throne till his death just prior to his seventy-seventh birthday in 1715. The reign of Louis XIV, known as The Sun King (in French Le Roi Soleil) or as Louis the Great (in French Louis le Grand, or simply Le Grand Monarque, "the Great Monarch"), spanned seventy-two years—the longest reign of any major European monarch. During that period of time he increased the power and influence of France in Europe, fighti... Add to favourites (49 fans)Biography of Fergie (singer)
Stacy Ann Ferguson (born March 27, 1975 (birth time source: Astrodatabank)), better known by her stage name Fergie, is an American pop and R&B singer-songwriter, and actress. She is a former member of the kids' TV series Kids Incorporated, and the girl group Wild Orchid. Ferguson was also a co-host of the TV show Great Pretenders. She is currently a vocalist for the hip hop/pop group The Black Eyed Peas, as well as a solo artist, releasing her debut album, The Dutchess, in 2006. Early life Ferguson was born in Whittier, California to Terri Gore and Patrick Ferguson in nearby Hacienda Heights. She has one sister, Dana, who is an actress. Her parents were Catholic and worked as schoolteachers, and Ferguson had a strict Catholic upbringing. During her youth, she was involved with members ... Add to favourites (62 fans)Biography of Shania Twain
Shania Twain, OC (play /ʃəˈnaɪ.ə ˈtweɪn/; born Eilleen Regina Edwards; August 28, 1965) is a Canadian country pop singer-songwriter. She rose to fame in the mid 1990s with her album The Woman in Me (1995), and achieved worldwide success with her 1997 album Come On Over, which became the best-selling album of all time by a female musician in any genre, and the best-selling country album of all time. It has sold over 40 million copies worldwide and is the 9th best-selling album in the U.S. Her 4th album, titled Up! was released late 2002. To date it has sold 20 million copies worldwide. The source for her birth time is her autobiography. A five-time Grammy Award winner, Twain has also achieved major success as a songwriter, winning 27 BMI Songwriter awar... Add to favourites (94 fans)Biography of Pink (singer)
Alecia Beth Moore (born September 8, 1979 (birth time source: Blender Magazine, October 2002)), known by her stage name Pink (stylized as P!nk), is an American singer-songwriter, musician and actress. In 2000, she released her first single "There You Go", from her debut album Can't Take Me Home. The song was a commercial success, peaking at number 7 on the Billboard Hot 100. In 2001 she released her second studio album Missundaztood, which was critically acclaimed, and her most commercially successful album to date. The album produced the hit singles "Get the Party Started", "Don't Let Me Get Me", "Just Like a Pill" and "Family Portrait". In November 2003, Pink released her third studio album Try This, which produced the hit singles "Trouble", "God is a DJ" and "Last to Know". Although the... Add to favourites (52 fans)Biography of Renée Zellweger
Renée Kathleen Zellweger (born April 25, 1969) is an Academy Award-winning American-Norwegian film actress. Early life Zellweger was born in Baytown, Texas. At the age of 9 years old, her family moved to Katy, Texas. She is the daughter of Emil Eric Zellweger (a Swiss immigrant and mechanical / electrical engineer) and Kjellfrid Iren Andreassen (a Norwegian immigrant of Sami origin from Tromsø), and graduated from Katy High School in Katy, a suburb of Houston in 1987. She was a cheerleader and gymnast, and participated in the drama club. After high school, she went to the University of Texas at Austin to major in English. Though she took a drama class only because she needed a fine arts credit to complete her degree, it made her appreciate how much she loved acting. During this time, s... Add to favourites (75 fans)Biography of Lara Fabian
Lara Fabian (born Lara Crokaert January 9, 1970 in Etterbeek, Belgium) is an international Belgian-Canadian francophone singer, known for her vocal prowess and skilled technique. She often sings in Italian, Spanish, and English in addition to French. She has also sung once in Portuguese, though she is not fluent in the language. Biography Early life Lara was born to a Flemish father and a Sicilian mother. Her name comes from her parents' inspiration of the theme song of the film Doctor Zhivago. Although born in Etterbeek (Belgium), she spent her first five years in Catania, learning Italian as a first language, before moving back to Belgium, in Brussels. Lara began singing, dancing, and taking piano lessons at a very young age and began formal music lessons at the Royal Conservatory ... Add to favourites (15 fans)Biography of Sophie Davant
French journalist and TV host.... Add to favourites (77 fans)Biography of Alanis Morissette
Alanis Nadine Morissette (born in Ottawa, 1 June 1974) is a Canadian and naturalized American singer-songwriter, record producer, and occasional actress. She ranks among the top selling recording artists in history, largely thanks to her multi-million selling third album, and she has won seven Grammy Awards. Morissette began her career in Canada, and as a child recorded two dance-pop albums, Alanis and Now Is the Time, under MCA Records. Her international debut album was the rock-influenced Jagged Little Pill. Jagged Little Pill sold thirty million copies, making it the best-selling debut album of all time by a female artist. Morissette took up producing duties for her subsequent albums, including Under Rug Swept and So-Called Chaos. These garnered weaker reviews and lower sales. ... Add to favourites (66 fans)Biography of Michelle Williams
Michelle Ingrid Williams (born September 9, 1980 (birth time source: GQ Magazine Feb. 2012)) is an Academy Award-nominated American actress. Williams broke into stardom on the teen series Dawson's Creek and later graduated to full length features, such as Brokeback Mountain, for which she earned an Oscar nomination for Best Supporting Actress. Early life Born in Kalispell, Montana, she is the eldest of the five children of Larry Williams, a renowned commodities trader, and Carla Williams, a homemaker. She also has a half sister named Sara Williams, who is the vice principal of Loma Vista Elementary School, in Brentwood, California. When she was nine, her family moved to San Diego, California. At an early age, Williams took interest in acting. With her parents' disapproval, at age fifte... Add to favourites (45 fans)Biography of Sarah Jessica Parker
Sarah Jessica Parker (born March 25, 1965), is a Golden Globe and Emmy-winning American actress and an Emmy-winning producer, with a portfolio of television, movie, and theatre performances. She is best known for her role as Carrie Bradshaw, a newspaper journalist, on the HBO television series Sex and the City. Early life and career Parker was born in Nelsonville, Ohio, to Stephen Parker, a Jewish American businessman, and Barbara, who may also have Jewish ancestry. Her parents divorced early on in Parker's life and her mother remarried Paul Forste, who was 19. Parker grew up with her mother, stepfather and seven siblings. As a young girl, she trained in singing and ballet, soon being cast in the Broadway production of The Innocents. Her family moved to Cincinnati, Ohio, and then to D... Add to favourites (25 fans)Biography of Charles Aznavour
Charles Aznavour (born May 22, 1924) is an Armenian-French singer, songwriter and actor. Besides being one of France's most popular and enduring singers, he is also one of the most well-known French singers abroad. He has appeared in more than 60 movies, composed more than 1000 songs (including 150 in English, 100 in Italian, 70 in Spanish, and 50 in German), and sold well over 100 million records. Aznavour started his global farewell tour in late 2006. Film career Aznavour has had a long and varied parallel career as an actor, appearing in over 60 films. In 1960 Aznavour starred in François Truffaut's Tirez sur le pianiste, playing a character called Édouard Saroyan. He also put in a critically acclaimed performance in the 1974 movie And Then There Were None. Aznavour had an importan... Add to favourites (18 fans)Biography of Karen Cheryl
Karen Cheryl, born Isabelle Morizet on July 19, 1955 in Saint-Germain-en-Laye, is a French TV host and radio host, and a former singer (1975-2001). Discography 1975 : Garde-moi avec toi 1975 : Ma vie n'appartient qu'à toi 1975 : Aimée ou amoureuse 1976 : Samedi, dimanche et fêtes 1976 : Ne raccroche pas, je t'aime 1977 : L'amour que l'on se donne 1977 : Épouse-moi 1978 : Sing to me Mama / (There's a) Sweet Melody 1979 : Show me you're man enough 1979 : Tchoo Tchoo hold on the line 1980 : Making up, making love / The lady is me 1980 : La marche des machos / Chante pour nous Mama 1980 : Si / Docteur menteur 1981 : I hope it's me 1981 : Les nouveaux romantiques 1982 : Je me souviens / Naturell'ment 1982 : Oh chéri chéri 1983 : Twister ma peine (avec San... Add to favourites (56 fans)Biography of Janet Jackson
Janet Damita Jo Jackson (born on May 16, 1966 (birth time source: herself, in this video http://youtu.be/EJAeaLt_hQc)) is a Grammy Award-winning and Academy Award-nominated American singer, songwriter, composer, actress, dancer and record producer. She is ranked as the ninth most successful artist in the history of rock and roll and the second most successful female recording artist of all time in the US according to Billboard. . In 2006, it was announced that Jackson was the "Most Searched in Internet History", and the "Most Searched for News Item", in the Guinness Book of World Records. In 2007, Jackson was ranked the 7th richest woman in the entertainment business by Forbes Magazine, amassing a fortune of over $150 million. Personal life In 1984, at age eighteen, Jackson eloped with... Add to favourites (21 fans)Biography of Catherine Ringer
Catherine Ringer (born October 18, 1957, Suresnes, France) is a singer, musician, songwriter, and pornoactress. She is a lead member of the band Les Rita Mitsouko, along with Frédéric Chichin, whom she met in 1979. Solo Discography 1988 : Qu’est-Ce Que T’es Belle (duo with Marc Lavoine) 1990 : Tatie Danielle (soundtrack, music of Gabriel Yared) 1995 : Doux Daddy (soundtrack "Les Trois Frères") 1995 : Peut-Etre Ce Soir (from the album "Roots" by Coba) 1997 : Sinon, oui (soundtrack "Les Trois Frères", music of Archie Shepp) 1997 : Les Joyeux Bouchers ("Jazz à St Germain" with the Renegade Brass Band) 1997 : Eso Es El Amor (sountrack "Un Grand Cri D'Amour") 1998 : Rendez-Vous (from the album "Conscious Posi" by Coba) 1998 : Sa Raison d'être (from the album "Ensemble" ag... Add to favourites (13 fans)Biography of Olivia Del Rio
Olivia Del Rio (born April 16, 1969 in Rio Casca, Brazil) is a Mulatto/Brazilian pornographic actress. She grew up in Belo Horizonte with 15 brothers and sisters. She is married with 2 children. She allegedly derived her stage name from the legendary pornstar Vanessa del Rio, a personal favorite of Olivia's. Olivia is primarily known for her exotic beauty, large enhanced breasts, and her enthusiastic anal sex performances. Olivia has stated that she finds receptive anal sex "delicious", and has also commented that she doesn't feel that sex is complete until she has been sodomized. Per her own personal accounting, she had not experienced anal sex until she began performing in pornographic movies. Today she is living in Marseille, France and currently directs and produces her own movie... Add to favourites (21 fans)Biography of Laurence Ferrari
Laurence Ferrari, born July 5, 1966 in Aix-les-Bains, is a French journalist.... Add to favourites (40 fans)Biography of Michèle Mercier
Michèle Mercier, (born January 1, 1939 as Jocelyne Yvonne Renée Mercier) is a French actress. In the course of her career she has worked with leading directors like François Truffaut, Jean-Pierre Melville, Jacques Deray, Dino Risi, Mario Monicelli, Mario Bava, Peter Collinson and Ken Annakin. Her leading men have included Marcello Mastroianni, Vittorio Gassman, Jean-Paul Belmondo, Jean Gabin, Charles Aznavour, Robert Hossein, Charles Bronson, Tony Curtis and Charlton Heston. Although she appeared in more than fifty films, it is for her role as "Angélique" that she is best known in France. The daughter of a French pharmacist father and an Italian mother, she initially wanted to be a dancer. The circumstances of war made this difficult and her parents saw it as only a whim; however, her d... Add to favourites (21 fans)Biography of Vanessa Marcil
Vanessa Marcil (born October 15, 1968) is an American actress known for her roles in the TV series General Hospital and Las Vegas. Early life Marcil, the youngest of four children, was born Sally Vanessa Ortiz in Indio, California, the daughter of Peter Ortiz, a contractor and self-made millionaire, and Patricia Marcil, an herbalist; her parents are separated. Marcil's father is Mexican and her mother is American of French, Italian and Portuguese ancestry. Marcil was named after actress Vanessa Redgrave. Career Marcil acted in a number of theatre productions before landing the role of Brenda Barrett on the soap opera General Hospital in 1992. She garnered three Daytime Emmy Award nominations (1997, 1998 and 2003) for her portrayal, winning in 2003 as "Outstanding Supporting Actr... Add to favourites (10 fans)Biography of Cécile Duflot
Cécile Duflot (born 1 April 1975 in Villeneuve-Saint-Georges) is a French politician. She is Minister of Territories Equality and Housing in the Ayrault Cabinet. Until June 2012, she was Party Secretary (i.e. leader) of Europe Écologie–The Greens, a position she held from November 2006 and was, with Jean-Luc Bennahmias, the only Green leader to have served two consecutive terms (although Dominique Plancke served three non-consecutive ones). In May 2012 she announced her resignation from this role. Biography The eldest daughter of a railway unionist and a physics and chemistry teacher (who was herself also a unionist), Cécile Duflot spent her childhood and adolescence in district of Montereau-Surville before returning to her native town, Villeneuve-Saint-Georges, in the early 1990s. S... Add to favourites (73 fans)Biography of Julianne Moore
Julianne Moore (born Julie Anne Smith on December 3, 1960 in Fayetteville, North Carolina) is an Emmy Award-winning American actress. She has been nominated for four Academy Awards. Early life Moore was born to Peter Moore Smith, a military judge and army colonel, and Anne, a psychiatrist and social worker who emigrated from Dunoon, Scotland. She has a younger sister, Valerie, and brother, Peter Moore Smith III (born 1965). Growing up as an "army brat", she lived in twenty-three places across the United States and Germany. Moore attended Frankfurt American High School in Frankfurt, Germany, graduating in 1979. She received her Bachelor's degree at the College of Fine Arts in Boston University. Career Moore moved to New York City in 1983, working as a waitress before being cast i... Add to favourites (64 fans)Biography of Rose McGowan
Rose Arianna McGowan (born September 5, 1973) is an Italian-born American actress. She is known for her role as Paige Matthews in The WB Television Network supernatural drama series Charmed. She played Ann-Margret alongside Jonathan Rhys Meyers as Elvis Presley in the CBS mini-series Elvis. In 2008, she was guest programmer and co-host of TCM's film-series program, The Essentials. She made her film debut in the 1992 comedy Encino Man, where she played a small role. Her performance as Amy Blue in the 1995 dark comedy film The Doom Generation brought her to a wider attention, and received an Independent Spirit Award nomination. McGowan then appeared in the 1996 hit horror film Scream and starring alongside Ben Affleck in the 1997 thriller feature Going All the Way. Later, she appeared in ... Add to favourites (30 fans)Biography of Edie Sedgwick
Edith Minturn "Edie" Sedgwick (April 20, 1943 – November 15, 1971) was an American actress, socialite, and heiress who starred in many of Andy Warhol's short films in the 1960s. In popular culture Sedgwick has been referenced in popular music, numerous times in addition to the works of her contemporaries described above. Rochester, NY garage band, THE PRIESTS refer to Edie Sedgwick in the lyrics to the song "She'll Never Know" from their debut CD, "THE PRIESTS", released on Garage-Pop Records in 2000.The Priests MySpace page The Cult wrote a song about her life called "Edie (Ciao Baby)" which was on their Sonic Temple album released in 1989. It was released as a single and video-clip starring an Edie-Double. The cover featured the famous "Ciao! Manhattan" cover shot. James Ray a... Add to favourites (69 fans)Biography of Martin Scorsese
Martin Marcantonio Luciano Scorsese (born November 17, 1942) is an Academy Award, Golden Globe, BAFTA, and Directors Guild of America award winning American film director, writer and producer and founder World Cinema Foundation. Scorsese's body of work addresses such themes as Italian American identity, Roman Catholic concepts of guilt and redemption, machismo, and the violence endemic in American society. Scorsese is widely considered to be one of the most significant and influential American filmmakers of his era. He earned an MFA in film directing from the NYU Film School. He won the Academy Award for Best Director for his film The Departed, which also won the Academy Award for Best Picture at the 79th Academy Awards in 2007. Childhood Martin Scorsese was born in New York City. H... Add to favourites (13 fans)Biography of Nina Hartley
Nina Hartley is an American pornographic actress and sex educator.... Add to favourites (10 fans)Biography of Madhuri Dixit
Madhuri Dixit (Marathi: माधुरी दीक्षित) (born as Madhuri Shankar Dixit to a Marathi Chitpavan Brahmin family on May 15, 1967) is an award winning Indian Bollywood actress and one of the biggest stars of the Indian film industry. Throughout the late 1980s and 1990s, she dominated Hindi cinema as a leading actress, appearing in many hit films. She is considered to be an icon of the Bollywood film industry. Dixit has been praised for her beauty, acting talent and dancing skills. Film career Maduri Dixit made her acting debut in Abodh (1984). After a few minor and supporting roles her first major role was in Tezaab (1988) which launched her career. She then went on to star in the hit films Ram Lakhan (1989), Pari... Add to favourites (16 fans)Biography of Katie Price
Katie Price (born Katrina Alexandra Infield on May 22, 1978) is an English glamour model, television personality, magazine columnist and businesswoman commonly known as Jordan. Her personal life is regularly featured in British tabloids and celebrity-based magazines. She is married to pop singer Peter André and has two children (Harvey Daniel & Junior Savva) and is currently expecting her third child, a baby girl. Early life Price was born and brought up in the seaside town of Brighton in East Sussex, England. Her mother is English and her maternal grandmother is Jewish. She took the surname Price after her mother remarried following the split from her biological father when she was a child. Price has an older brother named Daniel and a younger sister, Sophie. Her decision to sta... Add to favourites (34 fans)Biography of Natalie Imbruglia
Natalie Jane Imbruglia (pronounced im-brul-yah) (born February 4, 1975) is an Australian singer-songwriter, model and actress. In the early 1990s, Imbruglia was known to audiences as Beth Willis in the popular Australian soap Neighbours (also responsible for launching pop singer Kylie Minogue). Two years after leaving the program, she launched a highly successful singing career with the international hit, "Torn". The subsequent debut album Left of the Middle (1998) sold 6 million copies worldwide. While following releases White Lilies Island (2001) and Counting Down the Days (2005) have been unable to match the commercial success of her debut, the latter became her first UK #1. Imbruglia is married to Silverchair frontman Daniel Johns. To date she has sold more than 8 million albums aro... Add to favourites (24 fans)Biography of Priscilla Presley
Priscilla Beaulieu Presley (born Priscilla Ann Wagner on May 24, 1945 in Brooklyn, New York) is an American model, author and actress and ex-wife of rock 'n' roll singer and musician Elvis Presley and mother of singer Lisa Marie Presley. Their marriage took place on May 1, 1967. Early life Priscilla's biological father, James Wagner, was a pilot who was killed in a plane crash when Priscilla was just an infant. Her mother, Norwegian-American Anna Lillian Iversen, then married Paul Beaulieu, a United States Air Force officer. Beaulieu took over the raising of Priscilla and is known as her father. The Beaulieus were stationed in West Germany at the same time as Elvis during his stint in the United States Army. Priscilla, an Air Force brat, was 14 years old when she met Elvis in Wiesbaden... Add to favourites (16 fans)Biography of Annie Girardot
Annie Girardot (25 October 1931-28 February 2011) was a French actress. She began performing in 1954, making her film debut in Treize à table. She won the Prix Suzanne Bianchetti in 1956, and in 1977 won the César Award for Best Actress portraying the title character in Docteur Françoise Gailland. In 2002, she was awarded the César Award for Best Supporting Actress for her role in The Piano Teacher. She collaborated with director Michael Haneke again, in the 2005 film Caché. Another of her famous roles is Nadia the prostitute in Luchino Visconti's epic Rocco e i suoi fratelli (1960). Nadia's beauty drives a wedge between Rocco and his brother Simone (Renato Salvatori), who eventually rapes her. In contrast to their violent on-camera relationship, Girardot and Salvatori married in 196... Add to favourites (15 fans)Biography of Kat Deluna
Kat DeLuna (Born Kathleen Emperatriz de Luna in the Bronx, New York) is a bilingual American musician, of Dominican descent, who is signed to Epic Records. DeLuna was born November 17, 1987. Height: 5' 4¼" (1.63 m) At the age of 12, she was invited by the 'Queen of Merengue', Milly Quezada, to sing with her on stage in front of a big crowd of over thousand people. In April 2004, she opened for J Records musician Cassidy as part of the all Latino girl group Coquette. Kat and her family moved from The Bronx, US to the Dominican Republic, where she spent her time listening to Aretha Franklin and realized her potential as a singer. Kat was accepted to the Arts High School in Newark, New Jersey under the vocal instruction of Dr. Jerry Forderhase. Kat is said to have a 5 octave vocal ra... Biography of Dorothée (TV host)
Frédérique Hoschédé (born on 14 July 1953 in Paris, France), known as Dorothée, is a French singer and actress. She started her TV career in the Dorothée et Blablatus show. She also had a brief cinema career, playing in L'amour en fuite, François Truffaut's last film in the Antoine Doinel series, and in 1981 in Pile ou face by Robert Enrico. From 1982 to 1987, she presented the Récré A2 TV show on Antenne 2, then the Club Dorothée show (TF1) until 1997. Through popular TV shows for children like "Club Dorothée" famous in France for screening Japanese anime and tokusatsu shows like Choujuu Sentai Liveman and Sekai Ninja Sen Jiraiya which she had appearances in, she gained a huge fan-base among the generation born in the late 1970s and early 1980s, who still worship her though th... Biography of Haile Selassie I
Emperor Haile Selassie I (July 23, 1892 – August 27, 1975) was de jure Emperor of Ethiopia from 1930 to 1974 and de facto from 1916 to 1936 and 1941 to 1974. He is also widely known as the religious symbol for God incarnate among the Rastafari movement, founded in Jamaica in the early 1930s. To Ethiopians he has been known by many names, including Janhoy, Talaqu Meri, Abba Tekel, amongst others.... Add to favourites (11 fans)Biography of Preity Zinta
Preity Zinta (Hindi: प्रीति ज़िंटा, Urdu: پریتی زینتا. Pronunciation: /priːt̪ɪ zɪɳʈaː/ born 31 January 1975) is an award-winning Indian film actress who primarily works in Bollywood movies. She is among the most successful actresses in the Indian film industry. Height 5' 4" (1.63 m) Making her acting debut in Mani Ratnam's Dil Se (1998), Zinta had her first commercial success with Soldier from the same year, and won a Filmfare Best Debut Award for both of the films. She was widely recognized with her performance as a teenage single mother in Kundan Shah's hit Kya Kehna (2000). After that, she went on to enact diverse... Add to favourites (28 fans)Biography of Mia Farrow
Mia Farrow (born Maria de Lourdes Villiers-Farrow on February 9, 1945) is an American actress. Farrow has appeared in more than forty films and won numerous awards, including a Golden Globe award (and seven additional Golden Globe nominations), three BAFTA Film Award nominations, and a win for best actress at the San Sebastian International Film Festival. Farrow is also notable for her extensive humanitarian work as a UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador. Her latest effort is "www.miafarrow.org", containing a guide on how to get involved with Darfur activism, along with her photos and blog entries from Darfur, Chad, and the Central African Republic. Early life Farrow is the daughter of John Farrow, an Australian film director, and Irish actress Maureen O'Sullivan. Both parents were practicing Ca... Biography of Estelle Denis
Estelle Denis, born December 1976 in Paris, is a French journalist and TV host. She is the mate of Raymond Domenech.... Add to favourites (33 fans)Biography of Helen Mirren
Dame Helen Mirren, DBE, (born on July 26, 1945) is an English stage, television and film actress. She has won an Academy Award, four SAG Awards and assorted BAFTAs, Golden Globes and Emmy Awards during her career. Personal life Mirren was born Ilyena Vasilievna Mironov in Ilford, Essex, now a part of Greater London. She was the second of three children of a father of Russian origin and an English mother. Mirren's paternal grandfather, a Russian nobleman, tsarist colonel and diplomat, was negotiating an arms deal in Britain and was stranded there, along with his family, during the Russian Revolution. Her father, Vasily Petrovich Mironov, called himself Basil and changed the family name to Mirren in the 1950s. He played the viola with the London Philharmonic before World War II and, afte... Add to favourites (32 fans)Biography of PJ Harvey
Polly Jean Harvey (born 9 October 1969) is an English musician and songwriter. PJ Harvey began her career as part of a trio (with drummer Rob Ellis and bassist Steve Vaughan). She has since recorded as a solo artist under the name PJ Harvey. Origins Harvey was born in Yeovil, Somerset and brought up in nearby Corscombe, Dorset. The daughter of a stonemason and a sculptor, Harvey grew up on a small sheep farm in Dorset. At an early age her parents introduced her to the blues, jazz and art-rock music which would later influence her the most strongly: "I was brought up listening to John Lee Hooker, to Howlin' Wolf, to Robert Johnson, and a lot of Jimi Hendrix and Captain Beefheart. So I was exposed to all these very compassionate musicians at a very young age, and that's always remaine... Add to favourites (22 fans)Biography of Kim Wilde
Kim Wilde (born Kim Smith, November 18, 1960 in Chiswick, West London) is an English pop singer, professional gardener, and pop cultural figure. She debuted in 1981 with the hit "Kids in America", which was number two in the UK Singles Chart. In 1986 she cracked the #1 spot in the United States with her hit "You Keep Me Hangin' On". Wilde was the first child of 1950s rock 'n' roller Marty Wilde (real name Reginald Smith) and Joyce Baker, formerly of the British singing and dancing group, The Vernons Girls. Prior to the age of nine, she attended Oakfield Preparatory School, Dulwich. She moved with her family to Hertfordshire at the age of nine, where she was educated at Presdales School, Ware, before completing a foundation course at St Albans College of Art & Design in 1980. Wilde... Add to favourites (17 fans)Biography of Nadia Comaneci
Nadia Elena Comaneci (originally Comăneci /ko.mə'neʧʲ/) (born November 12, 1961) is a Romanian gymnast, winner of five Olympic gold medals, and the first to be awarded a perfect score of 10 in an Olympic gymnastic event. She is one of the most well-known gymnasts in the world and, along with Olga Korbut, is credited with popularizing the sport around the world. Early life Comaneci was born in Oneşti, Romania, on 12 November 1961 as the daughter of Gheorghe and Ştefania-Alexandrina. Comaneci's pregnant mother was watching a Russian film in which the heroine of the story's name was Nadya, the shortened version of the Russian name Nadyezhda (which means, literally, "Hope"). She decided that her daughter would be named Nadia, too. Comaneci has a younger br... Biography of Alessandra Sublet
Alessandra Sublet is a French TV host and radio host, born October 5, 1976 in Lyon.... Biography of Zahia Dehar
Zahia Dehar, born February 25, 1992 in Ghriss, Algeria , is a French (since April 2009) escort girl of Algerian descent. Zahia was one of several girls detained for questioning after a police raid on the Zaman Café, an after-hours nightclub off the Champs Elysées. Footballers used to unwind there, but not any more. She reported a relationship with French footballers Karim Benzema, Franck Ribéry and Sidney Govou.... Add to favourites (12 fans)Biography of François-René de Chateaubriand
François-René, vicomte de Chateaubriand (September 4, 1768 (birth time source: Penfield, Astrodatabank) – July 4, 1848) was a French writer, politician and diplomat. He is considered the founder of Romanticism in French literature. Early life and exile Born in Saint-Malo, the last of ten children, Chateaubriand grew up in his family's castle in Combourg, Brittany. His father, René de Chateaubriand (1718-86), was a former sea captain turned ship owner. His mother's maiden name was Apolline de Bedée. Chateaubriand's father was a morose, uncommunicative man and the young Chateaubriand grew up in an atmosphere of gloomy solitude, only broken by long walks in the Breton countryside and an intense friendship with his sister Lucile. Chateaubriand was educated in Dol, Rennes and Dinan. For ... Add to favourites (22 fans)Biography of Kathy Griffin
Kathy Griffin (born November 4, 1960 (birth time source: Official Book Club Selection: A Memoir According To Kathy Griffin)) is an Emmy Award-winning American stand-up comedienne, producer, and actress. She has also been a voice actress and a red carpet commentator. Griffin is a self-proclaimed "D-list celebrity." She is arguably best known for her role on NBC's Suddenly Susan. She is also known for her reality show, Kathy Griffin: My Life on the D-List, and for guest co-hosting on The View. Early life Griffin was born Kathleen Mary Griffin in the Chicago suburb of Oak Park, Illinois, and raised there and in nearby Forest Park. She is a 1978 graduate of Oak Park and River Forest High School. Career Stand-up comedy Griffin began performing in the early 1980s with the Los Ange... Add to favourites (17 fans)Biography of Jane Seymour
Jane Seymour OBE (born Joyce Penelope Wilhelmina Frankenberg on February 15, 1951) is an English actress probably best known today as the co-star of the James Bond film Live and Let Die and star of the TV series and film Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman. Early life Born in Hayes, London, England to John Frankenberg, an English Jewish obstetrician of Polish and German origin and his Dutch wife, she took the stage name of Jane Seymour at the age of 17. Acting career She has had a long career in both film and television, beginning in 1969 with an uncredited role in Richard Attenborough's film version of Oh! What a Lovely War. Soon afterward she married Attenborough's son, Michael Attenborough. Her first major film role was as Lillian Stein, a Jewish woman seeking shelter from the Nazis wi... Add to favourites (28 fans)Biography of Liza Minnelli
Liza May Minnelli (born March 12, 1946 in Los Angeles, California) is an Academy Award and Tony Award-winning American actress and singer. She is the daughter of legendary actress and singer Judy Garland and her second husband, film director Vincente Minnelli. Minnelli is from a well-known artistic family; her maternal lineage had entertainers in the family going back six generations. Her famous mother, Judy Garland, had success in film and in music, and her aunts had been part of a singing group, "The Gumm Sisters," with her mother. Her father, also from a theatrical family including circus performers, was an acclaimed film director. Minnelli's first film appearance was at the age of three in the final scene of the 1949 musical In the Good Old Summertime, starring her mother and Van Jo... Add to favourites (16 fans)Biography of Anggun (singer)
Anggun Cipta Sasmi (born April 29, 1974, in Jakarta) is a singer/songwriter of French nationality. Her name means "Graceful" in Indonesian. Anggun is also the highest-selling Asian artist outside Asia and made a history for being the first Asian artist to break into international music scene. She is best known in Europe, particularly in France and Italy, as well as in several parts of Asia. At a young age, Anggun decided to follow in her father, Darto Singo's footsteps, and become an entertainer. During her early years, she was influenced by rock sounds of native Javanese artists and the rock & roll icon, Elvis Presley. She was educated in Catholic schools because her father wanted Anggun to have a high quality education, although she is a Muslim. Anggun began performing at age 7 and re... Add to favourites (16 fans)Biography of Joanne Woodward
Joanne Gignilliat Trimmier Woodward (born February 27, 1930) is an Academy Award, Golden Globe, Emmy award winning American actress. Woodward, who is married to Paul Newman, is also a television and theatrical producer. Early life Woodward was born in Thomasville, Georgia, where she remained until she was in the second grade. Her family relocated to Marietta, Georgia. They moved once again when she was a junior in high school. She graduated from Greenville High School in 1947, in Greenville, South Carolina. Woodward won many beauty contests as a teenager. She majored in drama at Louisiana State University, where she was an initiate of Chi Omega sorority, then headed to New York City to perform on the stage. She was influenced to become an actress by her mother's love of movies. Her ... Biography of Danielle Mitterrand
Danielle Mitterrand (born Danielle Émilienne Isabelle Gouze 29 October 1924 – 22 November 2011) was the widow of former French President François Mitterrand, and was president of the foundation France Libertés Fondation Danielle Mitterrand. Biography When she was seventeen years old, her family (her parents were professors) aided the French Resistance and helped lodge men of the Maquis (French Resistance), and she became a liaison officer in the Resistance. She met François Mitterrand there, and married him after the Liberation three years later, on 28 October 1944. She created the France-Libertés Foundation in 1986, when she was First Lady, with the fusion of three smaller associations started in 1981. Danielle Mitterrand had three sons: Pascal (who died in childhood), Jean-Ch... Add to favourites (28 fans)Biography of Maria Ozawa
Maria Ozawa (小澤マリア, Ozawa Maria?), who used the name Miyabi (みやび?) early in her career, is a Japanese adult video (AV) actress known in Japan as an AV idol. Life and career Ozawa was born in Hokkaido, Japan on January 8, 1986. Her mother is Japanese and her father is French-Canadian. Since she attended an international school from Primary School to High School, she claims that her English reading and writing ability is better than her Japanese. While at school, she played hockey every day, and often went to karaoke after class. Ozawa had her first sexual experience at the age of 13, and learned the "48 sexual positions" through a book that she bought herself. In 2002, while still in high school, Ozawa appeared in a short (30 s... Add to favourites (24 fans)Biography of Mia Kirshner
Mia Kirshner (born January 25, 1975) is an actress who works in movies and television series. Early life Born in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, she is the daughter of Sheldon Kirshner, a journalist for The Canadian Jewish News, who was born in a displaced person camp in Germany in 1946. He met her mother, Etti, a Bulgarian Jewish refugee, in Israel. She is a granddaughter of Holocaust survivors. Education Mia Kirshner studied Russian literature and 20th-century movie industry at McGill University in Montreal. Career In 1993, she played a dominatrix in Denys Arcand's movie Love and Human Remains and won a Genie nomination for Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role. The year after she starred in Atom Egoyan's Exotica. In 1995, she auditioned for the role of Jenny in... Add to favourites (17 fans)Biography of Roseanne Barr
Roseanne Cherrie Barr (born November 3, 1952) is an Emmy Award-winning American actress, writer, talk-show host, and comedian. At times in her career she has also been known as "Roseanne Arnold" and "Roseanne Thomas". On the opening credits of one final-season episode of her TV show, she was credited as "Roseanne Barr Pentland Arnold Thomas". For several years in the late 1990s and early 2000s, she was known simply as Roseanne, but by 2005 had resumed referring to herself by her maiden name, Roseanne Barr. Early life She was born in Salt Lake City to a working-class Jewish family, the oldest of four children. In her 1989 biography, she described her family's partial involvement in Mormonism, saying that on "Friday, Saturday, and Sunday morning I was a Jew; Sunday afternoon, Tuesday after... Biography of Sabrina Bryan
Sabrina Bryan (born Reba Sabrina Hinojos on September 16, 1984 in Yorba Linda, California) is an American singer, actress, and dancer best known as a member of the girl group, The Cheetah Girls and for starring in the Disney Channel Original Movie of the same name, and its sequel. She currently resides in Anaheim Hills, California. Early Life / Cheetah Girls Sabrina Bryan was born in Orange County, California. She is of Mexican descent on her father's side. She attended Chapman University in Orange, CA from 2003 until 2007, she studied Public Relations and Advertising. She was initiated into Delta Gamma there. Following the success of the Disney Channel original movie The Cheetah Girls, Bryan, along with Adrienne Bailon and Kiely Williams (the other stars from the movie), achieved g... Add to favourites (40 fans)Biography of Betty White
Betty Marion White Ludden (born January 17, 1922 (birth time source: Stephen Przybylowski, Astrodatabank)), better known as Betty White, is an American actress, comedienne, singer, author, and television personality. With a career spanning over seven decades, she is best known to contemporary audiences for her television roles as Sue Ann Nivens on The Mary Tyler Moore Show and Rose Nylund on The Golden Girls. Since the death of co-star Rue McClanahan in 2010, she is now the only living Golden Girl. She currently stars as Elka Ostrovsky in the TV Land sitcom Hot in Cleveland and hosts the practical-joke show Betty White's Off Their Rockers. White has won seven Emmy Awards (six for acting) and has received 20 Emmy nominations over the course of her career, including being the first woman ... Add to favourites (21 fans)Biography of Lisa Edelstein
Lisa Edelstein (born May 21, 1966) is an award-winning American actress and playwright. She currently stars as Dr. Lisa Cuddy on critically-acclaimed FOX drama, House. Early life Lisa Edelstein was born to Jewish parents Alvin and Bonnie Edelstein in Boston, Massachusetts, USA. Her father is currently a pediatrician in New Jersey. One of three children, she was raised in Wayne, New Jersey and attended Wayne Valley High School, graduating in 1984. She moved to New York City at the age of 18 to study theatre at New York University's Tisch School of the Fine Arts. While living in New York, she became involved in the club scene known only as "Lisa E.", and caused enough of a stir in the community to be dubbed New York City's "Queen of Downtown" by writer and fellow celebutante James St. Ja... Add to favourites (11 fans)Biography of Emilio Estevez
Emilio Estévez (born May 12, 1962) is an American actor, director and writer. Height: 5' 4" (1.63 m) Personal life Estévez was born in New York, New York, the eldest child of artist Janet (née Templeton) and actor Martin Sheen. His siblings are Career is perhaps most famous as part of the 1980s Brat Pack group of actors, having starred in The Breakfast Club, Young Guns, and St. Elmo's Fire (1985). He also appeared in the cult film Repo Man (1984), as the punk-rocker turned car-repossessor Otto. Estévez is probably most recognizable among younger audiences for his The Mighty Ducks movie series. Most recently, he has directed episodes of the TV series, Filmography Seventeen Going on Nowhere (1980) (TV) To Climb a Mountain (1981) (TV) In the Custody of Strangers (1982) (TV) T... Biography of Zsa Zsa Gabor
Zsa Zsa Gábor (born Sári Gábor on February 6, 1917(1917-02-06)) is a Hungarian-American actress and socialite. Personal Gábor was born in Budapest, the second of three daughters (Magda, Sári, and Éva) born to Vilmos Gábor, a soldier, and Jolie Gábor (Janci Tilleman). She was named after the then top Hungarian actress Sári Fedák, who was also called Zsa Zsa because her daughter couldn't pronounce the name Sári. 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. Following studies at a Swiss boarding-school, Zsa Zsa won the Miss Hungary beauty contest, in 1936, but was disqual... Add to favourites (22 fans)Biography of Mae West
Mae West (August 17, 1893 – November 22, 1980) was an American actress, playwright, screenwriter, and sex symbol. Famous for her bawdy double entendres, West made a name for herself in vaudeville and on the legitimate stage in New York before moving to Hollywood to become renowned as a comedienne, actress and writer in the motion picture industry. One of the most controversial stars of her day, West encountered many problems including censorship. When her cinematic career ended, she continued to perform on stage, in Las Vegas, in England, on radio and television, and recorded Rock and Roll albums. Early life Born Mary Jane West in Woodhaven, a middle class section of Queens, New York City, her childhood was moved on to various parts of Williamsburg and Greenpoint. She was the... Add to favourites (16 fans)Biography of Truman Capote
Truman Capote (30 September 1924 – 25 August 1984) was an American writer whose non-fiction, stories, novels and plays are recognized literary classics, including the novella Breakfast at Tiffany's (1958) and In Cold Blood (1965), which he labeled a "non-fiction novel." At least 20 films and TV dramas have been produced from Capote novels, stories and screenplays.... Add to favourites (18 fans)Biography of Seth Green
Seth Benjamin Green (born February 8, 1974) is an American actor, comedian, voice actor, and television producer. He is well known for his role as Daniel "Oz" Osbourne in Buffy the Vampire Slayer, as Dr. Evil's son Scott in the Austin Powers series of comedy films, Mitch Miller in That '70s Show, and the voice of Chris Griffin on Family Guy. He also voices Lieutenant Gibbs in Titan Maximum and Jeff "Joker" Moreau in the Mass Effect video game series. Green is one of the creators and producers of the stop motion comedy series Robot Chicken, in which he also voices several characters. He has appeared in many other movies, such as Rat Race, The Italian Job, Can't Hardly Wait, Without a Paddle, as a child in Woody Allen's Radio Days, and in the horror films Stephen King's It and "Idle Hands". ... Biography of Sinem Kobal
Sinem Kombal is a Turkish actress born August 14, 1987. She is 1m63 (5' 4¼") tall. Filmography Dünyayi kurtaran adam'in oglu (2006) .... Bianca ... aka Turks in Space (International: English title) "Selena" (2006) (mini) TV Series .... Selena "Nefes nefese" (2005) (mini) TV Series .... Asligül Okul (2004) .... Sebnem "Lise defteri" (2003) TV Series .... Inci "Hürrem Sultan" (2003) (mini) TV Series .... Ayse "Dadi" (2001) TV Series .... Dilara... Biography of Nancy Reagan
Nancy Davis Reagan (born Anne Frances Robbins on July 6, 1921) is the widow of former United States President Ronald Reagan and was First Lady of the United States from 1981 to 1989. Reagan was born in New York in 1921 and moved to California in the 1940s, where she became an actress before meeting her husband, Ronald Reagan. They married in 1952, and had two children. Reagan became First Lady of California in 1967 with her husband's gubernatorial victory, during which she promoted the Foster Grandparents Program, and assisted former Prisoners of War from Vietnam. Upon Ronald Reagan's ascension to the presidency in 1981, Nancy Reagan became the First Lady. Mrs. Reagan experienced a great deal of criticism early in her husband's first term, mainly dealing with her decision to replenish t... Add to favourites (12 fans)Biography of Shauna Sand
Shauna Sand, born September 2, 1971 in San Diego, California, is an American television actress and model, most famous for her appearance as a Playboy Playmate. Starting at the age of five, Shauna studied ballet, jazz, and theater. In her Playmate Profile, she claims to have been very independent and highly motivated at an early age and being a straight A student. At 11, she enrolled in The School of Creative and Performing Arts and by 13 she received a dance scholarship with Ballet West in Aspen, Colorado. She admits to being shy and not having much time for a social life. Shauna began modeling at the age of nine after being approached by a local photographer. She signed with the Elite/Petite agency in New York at the age of 15. She took time off from modelling and went to Paris and ea... Add to favourites (27 fans)Biography of Thora Birch
Thora Birch (born March 11, 1982) is an American actress. She was one of the leading child actors of the 1990's, starring in movies such as Hocus Pocus (1993), Now and Then (1995), and Alaska (1996). Since the 1990's she has moved on to more mature roles, with notable performances in films such as American Beauty (1999), and the acclaimed cult film Ghost World (2001). Early life and career Birch was born in Los Angeles, California, the eldest child of Jack Birch and Carol Connors. Both her parents (who have managed her career and remain her managers right up to the present day) were former adult film actors and her mother appeared in the pornographic film, Deep Throat. Birch, who has a brother named Bolt Birch, is of Jewish, Nordic, and Italian descent. The family's original surname wa... Biography of Erik Per Sullivan
Erik Per Sullivan (born on July 12, 1991) is an American actor. He is perhaps best known for his role as Dewey, the younger brother to middle child Malcolm, on the FOX series "Malcolm in the Middle", which is well-known for its originality. He also played the only child in the movie Unfaithful and played an orphaned child in The Cider House Rules. He was also in the movie Christmas with the Kranks, playing the character of Spike. He played young Joe Dirt in the film of the same name. In the movie Finding Nemo he voiced Sheldon the Seahorse. Biography Sullivan was born in Worcester, Massachusetts, the only child of Fred and Ann Sullivan; his mother is from Sweden. He currently lives in Milford, Massachusetts, where his family owns a Mexican restaurant called "The Alamo". He speaks fl... Add to favourites (13 fans)Biography of Kirsten Prout
Kirsten Prout (born September 28, 1990) is a teenage actress born in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. She stars in ABC Family's drama Kyle XY as Amanda Bloom. Height: 5' 4" (1.63 m) Kirsten started acting in grade three and has come a long way since then. She is now 16 years old and is going into the eleventh grade. She loves acting, but in her off-time, she expresses a love for art and Track and Field. Her outlook for the future is to go to a university while doing other movies on the side. Kirsten is recognized for her role in the film Elektra, in which she starred alongside stars such as Jennifer Garner and Goran Visnjic. She has also been in the SciFi TV show Stargate SG-1 as Nesa in the episode "Birthright". Filmography Tell me no lies (2007) as Samantha Cooper Kyle... Biography of Lea Thompson
Lea Katherine Thompson (born May 31, 1961, in Rochester, Minnesota) is an American actress. Early life Thompson studied dance as a girl, and would practice three to four hours every day. She was dancing professionally by the age of 14. Lea then won scholarships to several ballet schools, including The American Ballet Theatre and The San Francisco Ballet. She danced with the The Minnesota Dance Theatre, The Pennsylvania Ballet Company, and The Ballet Repertory. She was informed by Baryshnikov that she was "too stocky". Due to this (as well as some small nagging injuries) she decided to give up dancing in favor of an acting career. She moved to New York at the age of 20, and performed in a number of Burger King ads in the 1980s along with Elisabeth Shue, her eventual co-star in the Ba... Add to favourites (11 fans)Biography of Renée O'Connor
Renée O'Connor (born Evelyn Renée O'Connor on February 15, 1971 in Katy, Texas) is an American actress, producer and director best known for playing the role of Gabrielle on the television series Xena: Warrior Princess from 1995 to 2001. Height: 5' 4" (1.63 m) Renée O'Connor was born to Walter and Sandra O'Connor. Her mother and stepfather, Sandra and Eddie Wilson, own the restaurant "Threadgill's" in Austin, famous for being the site of Janis Joplin's first gig. She has an older brother named Chris, who is a grocery store manager, and her biological father Walter is a finance manager. Her first role was at age 8 as a caterpillar during a Theater on Wheels production. At age 12, she began studying acting at Houston's Alley Theatre, and later attended The High School for the Perfor... Biography of Kavya Madhavan
Kavya Madhavan is a popular Malayalam cinema actress . Though she normally does regular unimportant heroine roles, she has proved her ability in handling serious roles as well. Life Kavya Madhavan belongs to the Shaliya community who are traditionally engaged in weaving. Born in the village of Nileshwaram in Kasaragod district, Kerala, India to P. Madhavan and Shyamala. She started to learn dance while studying in Nileswaram Rajas High School. She was the kalathilakam (A title bestowed to the artist who proves her skills in most artistic fields during a Sub District youth festival.) in Kasargod. Career Kavya entered the industry as a child artist in the film Pookkalam Varavayi (1991) doing the role of a School Girl. She came to public attention when she did the childhood part of... Add to favourites (16 fans)Biography of Keri Russell
Keri Lynn Russell (born March 23, 1976) is a Golden Globe-winning American actress and dancer. After appearing in a number of made-for-television films and series during the mid-1990s, she came to fame for portraying the title role of Felicity Porter on the series Felicity, which ran from 1998 to 2002. Russell has since appeared in several films, including We Were Soldiers, The Upside of Anger, Mission: Impossible III and Waitress. Early life Russell was born in Fountain Valley, California to David Russell, a Nissan Motors executive, and Stephanie (Stephens). She has an older brother, Todd, and a younger sister, Julie. Russell grew up in Dallas, Texas; Mesa, Arizona; and Denver, Colorado, moving frequently because of her father's job. Career Russell first appeared on television ... Add to favourites (13 fans)Biography of Kendra Wilkinson
Kendra Leigh Baskett (born June 12, 1985), better known by her birth name of Kendra Wilkinson, is an American television personality and glamour model. She is well known for her role on the E! reality-television show The Girls Next Door, on which her life as one of Hugh Hefner's three girlfriends was documented. Although not a Playboy Playmate, she has appeared in three nude pictorials with her Girls Next Door costars and fellow Hefner girlfriends Holly Madison and Bridget Marquardt. Her own reality series, Kendra, debuted in June 2009. Kendra Wilkinson was born in San Diego, California, and is of English and Irish descent She is the elder of two children; her younger brother is Colin. Her mother, Patti, was originally from Cherry Hill, New Jersey, and had been a cheerleader for t... Biography of Brittany Snow
Brittany Anne Snow (born March 9, 1986) is an American television and film actress. Personal life Snow was born and grew up in Tampa, Florida to Cinda, who works for Prentice Hall, and John Snow, who worked in insurance and now organizes Snow's schedule. She is also a close personal friend of High School Musical's Ashley Tisdale and John Tucker Must Die co-star Sophia Bush. She is a 2004 graduate of Gaither High School in Tampa, Florida. Snow is a Roman Catholic. She enjoys spending time with old friends and family and often visits her hometown of Tampa, Fl. In an October, 2007 People magazine interview Snow admitted that for the longest time she was anorexic. However, with the help of family, friends, and other help, she got back on track. She currently has family who live in Country... Biography of Florence Arthaud
Florence Arthaud born October 28, 1957 in Boulogne-Billancourt, is a French navigator.... Biography of Michelle Yeoh
Dato' Michelle Yeoh Choo-Kheng (Traditional Chinese: 楊紫瓊; Simplified Chinese: 杨紫琼; pinyin: Yáng Zǐqióng; Cantonese (Yale romanization): yèuhng jí kìhng; born August 6, 1962) is a Malaysian actress and dancer, well known for performing her own stunts in the action films that brought her to fame in the early 1990's. Height: 5' 4" (1.63 m) Born in Ipoh, Malaysia, she is based in Hong Kong and was chosen by People magazine as one of the 50 Most Beautiful People in the World in 1997. She is credited as Michelle Khan in some of her earlier films. Beginning of career Michelle Yeoh was born to an ethnic Chinese family in Ipoh, Malaysia on August 6, 1962. She was very sporty when she was young and had a passion in dance. She started to stu... Biography of Cassia Riley
Cassia Riley (born October 27, 1980, in Los Angeles, California) is a model and was the Penthouse Pet of the Month for April 2005 and was Pet of the Year Runner-Up 2006. Riley made her first appearance on the Howard Stern radio show in June 2005, her second appearance in June 2006, and her third appearance on December 11, 2006. In January 2006 she was rumored to have had relations with New York Yankees star Derek Jeter which she has denied on Howard Stern and in an interview with Chaunce Hayden for New York Magazine "Steppin' Out". Measurements: 34C-26-34 Height: 5 ft 4 in (1.63 m) Weight: 110 lb (50 kg) Eye colour: Hazel Hair colour: Brown Natural bust: Yes Orientation: Bisexual References ^ Stern Show Archive for 2/9/2006. marksfriggin.com. Retrieved on 2007-02-08. ... Biography of Caterina Scorsone
Caterina Scorsone (born October 16, 1981) is a Canadian actress. Scorsone was born in Toronto, Ontario. She is the middle child of 5 in her family. She has two older twin sisters, a younger sister and brother. Francesca Scorsone is Caterina's older sister and also an actress. Caterina attended the Cardinal Carter Academy for the Arts in Toronto where she starred in "Oklahoma!" and a several other productions. In addition, she went to Trinity College and, most recently, in 2005, she finished her studies at the University of Toronto where she learned literary studies, comparative religions and obtained a poli-sci degree. Acting career Caterina's first TV appearances were as a child on the Canadian children's TV show Mr. Dressup. In that show Caterina was a regular guest. The ser... Add to favourites (17 fans)Biography of Sherilyn Fenn
Sherilyn Fenn (born February 1, 1965) is an Emmy- and Golden Globe award-nominated American actress and filmmaker, best known for playing Audrey Horne on the cult TV series Twin Peaks, for her roles in Ruby, Of Mice and Men, Boxing Helena and Rude Awakening, and for portraying actress Elizabeth Taylor in Liz: The Elizabeth Taylor Story. Height: 5' 4" (1.63 m) Early life Fenn was born Sheryl Ann Fenn in Detroit, Michigan. She comes from a family of musicians: her mother is keyboard player Arlene Quatro, her aunt is singer Suzi Quatro, her grandfather Art Quatro was a jazz musician, and her father, Leo Fenn, managed such rock bands as Suzi Quatro's The Pleasure Seekers, Alice Cooper, and The Billion Dollar Babies. Fenn is of Italian and Hungarian descent on her mother's side and of Ir... Biography of Debra Winger
Debra Winger (born May 16, 1955) is an Academy Award- nominated American actress. Early life Born Mary Debra Winger in Cleveland Heights, Ohio to a Jewish family, she spent several years in Israel, and served in the Israel Defense Forces. After returning to the United States, she was involved in an automobile accident and suffered a cerebral hemorrhage as a result. She was left partially paralyzed and blind for ten months, although she was initially told that she would never see again. With time on her hands to think about her life, she decided that, if she recovered, she would move to California and become an actress. Career Her first acting role was as "Debbie" in the 1976 sexploitation film Slumber Party '57. Her next role was as Diana Prince's younger sister Drusilla (Wonder... Add to favourites (14 fans)Biography of Gustav Mahler
Gustav Mahler (July 7, 1860 – May 18, 1911) was a Bohemian-Austrian composer and conductor. Mahler was best known during his own lifetime as one of the leading orchestral and operatic conductors of the day. He has since come to be acknowledged as among the most important late-romantic composers, although during his lifetime his music was never fully accepted by the musical establishment. With the exceptions of an early piano quartet, Das Klagende Lied, an early cantata, and Totenfeier, the original tone-poem version of the first movement of the second symphony, Mahler's entire output consists of only two genres: symphony and song. Besides the nine completed numbered symphonies, his principal works are the song cycles Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen (usually rendered as 'Songs of a Wayfa... Biography of Barbara Eden
Barbara Eden (born Barbara Jean Huffman on August 23, 1931 in Tucson, Arizona) is an American film and television actress and singer who is best known for her starring role in the sitcom I Dream of Jeannie. Early years Eden graduated from Abraham Lincoln High School in San Francisco in 1949, and was elected Miss San Francisco, 1951, a preliminary to Miss America. She changed from "Huffman" to "Eden" came at the behest of her manager who thought the name Huffman would not sell in Hollywood. Eden agreed to change her last name, but insisted on keeping her first name, stating that she could not answer to anything else. TV and film roles Eden made featured appearances on popular television shows such as I Love Lucy, The Andy Griffith Show, Perry Mason, Bachelor Father, Gunsmoke, ... Biography of Karisma Kapoor
Karisma Kapoor, nicknamed "Lolo" (Hindi: करिश्मा कपूर, born 25 June 1974 in Mumbai, Maharashtra, India) is a National Film Award-winning popular Indian actress who appears in Bollywood films. Making her film debut in 1991, Kapoor went on to become one of the most popular actresses of her generation. During her career years, she has been part of many commercially and critically successful films, Raja Hindustani being the most notable of them, as it was one of the biggest hits of its decade, and won Kapoor her first Filmfare Best Actress Award. She surprised critics and audiences with her performances in art films such as Fiza (2000) and Zubeidaa (2001), for which she earned a Best Actress and Best Actress (Critics) awards ... Biography of Sibel Kekilli
Sibel Kekilli (born June 16, 1980 in Heilbronn, Germany) is an award-winning Turkish-German actress. Height: 5' 4¼" (1.63 m) Life and career One day while at a Cologne shopping mall, she was noticed by a casting director who called her up for an audition for a role in a movie. Sibel won the leading role for Fatih Akın's planned movie against a field of 350 other hopefuls. This movie Gegen die Wand (Head-On) written and directed by Fatih Akın was a major public success and received several prizes at film festivals: The "Golden Bear" prize for the best movie at the "54. Berlinale" (Berlin International Film Festival) on February 14. The golden prize in the category for the best actress at the "Deutscher Filmpreis" ("German Film Prize") on June 18. The "Quadriga" pr... Add to favourites (10 fans)Biography of Kristian Alfonso
Kristian-Joy Alfonso (born September 5, 1963 in Brockton, Massachusetts) is an American soap opera actress. Height: 5' 4" (1.63 m) She began her career as a figure skater and gold medal champion at the Junior Olympics. At the age of 13, a devastating tobogganing accident ended her skating career and Kristian began modeling. By the time she was 15 she had appeared on the cover of over 30 magazines, including Vogue and Harper's Bazaar. She was first seen on TV, playing opposite Rock Hudson in the TV movie The Starmaker in 1981. Her career took off in April 1983 when she started playing Hope Williams on the soap opera Days of Our Lives. During that time, her character fell in love with, and married, ruggedly handsome Bo Brady (Peter Reckell). Alfonso left the show in April 1987 for a... Add to favourites (16 fans)Biography of Mena Suvari
Mena Adrienne Suvari (born February 13, 1979) is an American actress, model, designer and spokeswoman. She is perhaps best known for her work in American Beauty (1999) and the first two American Pie films. Early life Suvari was born in Newport, Rhode Island to Ando Süvari, an Estonian psychiatrist, and Candice, a Greek American nurse. By the age of twelve, Suvari was modeling; she starred in a Rice-a-Roni commercial by the age of thirteen. Attended Providence High School, in Los Angeles, California, class of 1997. Suvari spent her early years in an stone mansion, built in 1870, that she insists was haunted. She and her brothers saw several apparitions over the years, all of which she believed were friendly. The family later relocated to Charleston, South Carolina, where her three ol... Add to favourites (17 fans)Biography of Morgan Fairchild
Morgan Aimee Alexandra Fairchild (born February 3, 1950) is an American actress. Early life Fairchild was born Patsy Anne McClenny in Dallas, Texas, to Edward Milton McClenny and Martha Jane Hartt. Her first job was as a stand-in for Faye Dunaway during location filming for the movie Bonnie and Clyde (1967). She took her new first name, Morgan, from the 1966 David Warner film, Morgan: A Suitable Case For Treatment. Moving to New York City, she secured her first on-screen role, appearing as maniacal Jennifer Pace in the daytime soap opera Search for Tomorrow from 1973 until 1977. Career Fairchild moved to Los Angeles and was cast as Jenna Wade in the television series Dallas in 1978, appearing in one episode (the role was later played by Priscilla Presley). Penthouse magazine had... Biography of Rachel Miner
Rachel Miner (born July 29, 1980 in New York City, New York) is a Broadway, film and television actress. She is a Scientologist. A third generation Miner in show business, she is the daughter of director/teacher Peter Miner and the granddaughter of director/producer Worthington Miner and actress Frances Fuller. She briefly came under the media spotlight for her two-year (1998-2000) marriage to actor Macaulay Culkin. The marriage was noted for the relatively young age at which the two were wed. Career Television Miner's television credits include Vickie in Shining Time Station: 'Tis A Gift (1990), Michelle Bauer on Guiding Light (1990–1995) and a guest starring role as Laurel in a Sex and the City episode, Twenty-something Girls vs. Thirty-something Women (1999). Theatre Among... Biography of Eliana Michaelichen Bezerra
Eliana (born Eliana Michaelichin (or Michaelichen) Bezerra on November 22, 1973 in São Paulo, Brazil) is a Brazilian TV hostess, actress and singer. She is currently the hostess of the TV show "Tudo é Possível", broadcast at the Brazilian TV network Rede Record on Sundays at 1:30 p.m. History Childhood: 1969-1982 José Bezerra, a Ceará native born in the city of Solonópole, came to São Paulo and met Eva Michaelichen (a Brazilian descendant of Russians and Ukrainians ), born in Irati. José and Eva, who first met in a family home where they both worked, were married and had their first daughter Helena Duarte. At this time José worked as caretaker of a residential building in the São Paulo Garden in São Paulo (a job he still holds today) and Eva, to help with the family budget, was a m... Biography of Ronnie James Dio
Ronnie James Dio (born Ronald James Padavona on July 10, 1942 in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, USA), is an American heavy metal vocalist who has performed with Black Sabbath, Rainbow, Elf, and his own band Dio. Other musical projects include the collective fundraiser Hear 'n Aid. He is widely hailed as one of the best singers in heavy metal; renowned for his consistently powerful voice and for popularizing the "devil's horns" hand gesture in metal culture. He is currently collaborating on a project with former Black Sabbath bandmates Tony Iommi, Geezer Butler and Vinny Appice, which is going under the name Heaven and Hell. On January 17, 2007, he was inducted into the Rock Walk of Fame at Guitar Center on Hollywood's Sunset Boulevard. Early years Ronnie James Dio was born Ronald James Pad... Biography of Paola Andrea Rey
Paola Andrea Rey (born December 19, 1979 in Bucaramanga, Santander) is a Colombian actress. She has worked in many telenovelas but her most familiar role would be in the popular Colombian telenovela, Pasión de Gavilanes. Height: 5' 4" (1.63 m) Career Before 1998, Rey never realized that in the short period time of two days she would officially be in the cast of an up and coming telenovela. In 1998, Rey starred as Graciela in Fuego Verde. To Rey and her family it was a surprise that she was even given the opportunity. Since Rey had no prior experience or references in the drama field, Rey decided to leave her industrial engineering career in La Sabana University, to take up drama courses. This decision left a good mark in her career because, in the end of the year Rey was rewarded a... Add to favourites (17 fans)Biography of Julie Benz
Julie Benz (born May 1, 1972 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) is an American actress. Benz grew up in Murrysville, Pennsylvania, and graduated from Franklin Regional High School in 1984. She later graduated from New York University. Initially, Benz followed her mother and older siblings, Jeffrey and Jennifer, into the figure skating field, and competed in the 1988 US Junior Ice Skating Championship. Benz gave up her pursuit of ice skating after an accident. Benz achieved her first acting role in a local play in 1989. She is perhaps best known for portraying the vampire Darla in the TV series Buffy the Vampire Slayer, where she was the first character seen on screen and spoke the first line, and later in the spin-off series, Angel. She has acted in such films as Jawbreaker and As Good as It ... Biography of Irene Cara
Irene Cara (born Irene Escalera on March 18, 1959, in The Bronx, New York City) is an American singer, Academy Award-winning, Grammy Award-winning, and a two-time Golden Globe-winning songwriter and actress of African, Cuban and Puerto Rican descent. Cara won an Academy Award in 1984 in the category of Best Original Song for co-writing "Flashdance... What a Feeling". She is best known for her recordings of the songs "Fame" and "Flashdance... What a Feeling". She also starred in the 1980 film version of Fame. Personal Cara's father, Gaspar (died in 1994), was an Afro-Puerto Rican. Her mother, Louise Escalera, is of French and Cuban descent. She has two sisters and two brothers. Married Hollywood stuntman Conrad Palmisano in 1986. They divorced in 1991. Cara's age has been the ... Biography of Jean Lefebvre
Jean Lefebvre (October 3, 1919 - July 8, 2004) was a French actor. He was born in Valenciennes, Nord in France and died in Marrakech, Morocco. Selected filmography Les tontons flingueurs (1963) Le gendarme de Saint-Tropez (1964) Relaxe-toi chérie (1964) Quand passent les faisans (1965) Le gendarme à New York (1965) Trois enfants dans le désordre (1966) Un idiot à Paris (1967) Un drôle de colonel (1968) Le bourgeois gentil mec (1969) La valise (1973) C'est pas parce qu'on a rien à dire (1974) Pas de problème (1975) Le maestro (1977) On n'est pas sorti de l'auberge (1982)... Biography of Elisabeth Hasselbeck
Elisabeth Hasselbeck (née Filarski; born May 28, 1977) is an American television host and television personality. She was a contestant on Survivor: The Australian Outback (2001) and is a current co-host on the daytime talk show The View (since 2003). Early life Elisabeth DelPadre Filarski was born in Cranston, Rhode Island. She is the daughter of Roman Catholic-school teacher and lawyer Elizabeth DelPadre and architect Kenneth Filarski. She has one brother, Kenneth, Jr., a lawyer and aspiring musician. As a child, she lived in Providence and Cranston, Rhode Island. Hasselbeck was raised Roman Catholic and attended St. Mary School in Cranston, followed by St. Mary Academy - Bay View in Riverside, Rhode Island, where she graduated in 1995. She then attended Boston College, where she... Biography of Phylicia Rashad
Phylicia Rashād (born Phylicia Ayers-Allen on June 19, 1948) is a Tony Award-winning African American actress, best known for her role as Clair Huxtable in the 1980s television series The Cosby Show. Rashād is also a black activist. Rashād was born in Harris County, Texas, to Andrew Arthur Allen and Vivian Ayers. She has one younger sister, Debbie. Her family spent one year in Mexico growing up, and consequently Rashād speaks both English and Spanish fluently, as well as Portuguese. She graduated from Howard University (where she later taught drama), and is a prominent member of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Inc., the oldest historically Black collegiate sorority. Rashād first became notable on the stage with a string of Broadway credits, including roles in the... Add to favourites (13 fans)Biography of Stacy Ferguson
Stacy Ann Ferguson (born March 27, 1975), better known by her stage name Fergie, is an American pop and R&B singer-songwriter, and actress. She is a former member of the kids' TV series Kids Incorporated, and the girl group Wild Orchid. Ferguson was also a co-host of the TV show Great Pretenders. She is currently a vocalist for the hip hop/pop group the Black Eyed Peas, as well as a solo artist, releasing her debut album, The Dutchess, in 2006. Early life Ferguson was born to Terri Gore and Patrick Ferguson. She has one sister, Dana, who is an actress. Her parents were Catholic and worked as schoolteachers, and Ferguson had a strict Catholic upbringing. During her youth, she was involved with members of the Mexican gangs in Hacienda Heights. Ferguson attended Glen A. Wilson High Schoo... Biography of Olivia Palermo
Olivia Palermo (born February 28, 1986) is currently a cast member on the MTV reality television series The City. The daughter of a Connecticut real estate developer named Douglas Palermo, Palermo came to New York to attend the New School. She has been noted as a former socialite and has graced the cover of New York Magazine as the It-Girl in 2007. Palermo was born in New York and was raised between New York City and Connecticut. Growing up as an athlete, Palermo participated in sports such as ice hockey, skiing, lacrosse and tennis. She studied abroad in Paris before returning to New York to complete her undergraduate degree in Communications Studies at The New School. She is currently dating German model, Johannes Huebl. Career Palermo made her debut on the New York social sce... Biography of Fabienne Carat
Fabienne Carat, born August 24, 1979 in Pau, is a French actress ("Plus belle la vie" and "Bin'o Bine").... Biography of Cheryl Ladd
Cheryl Ladd (born July 12, 1951) is an American actress and singer. Early life Ladd was born Cheryl Jean Stoppelmoor in Huron, South Dakota to Marion Wayne Stoppelmoor, an engineer, and Delores H. Katz, a waitress. Career Ladd was known as "Cherie Moor" when she performed on the album based on Hanna-Barbera's Josie and the Pussycats animated series. Her most famous role was Kris Munroe on Charlie's Angels, when she replaced Farrah Fawcett starting in the second season of the series (1977). She also starred in the 1994–1996 series One West Waikiki. In January 1980, she sang the national anthem prior to Super Bowl XIV. In 1996, Ladd released a children's book, The Adventures of Little Nettie Windship. She followed that up in 2005 with Token Chick: A Woman’s Guide To Golfing With T... Add to favourites (12 fans)Biography of Stephenie Meyer
Stephenie Meyer (née Morgan, born December 24, 1973) is the American author of the bestselling, young adult Twilight series, which revolves around the relationship between mortal Bella Swan and vampire Edward Cullen. The Twilight books have sold more than 25 million copies worldwide, with translations into 37 different languages around the globe. A film adaptation of Twilight was released domestically on November 21, 2008. Meyer is also the author of the adult science-fiction novel, The Host. Personal life Stephenie Meyer was born in Hartford, Connecticut, to Stephen and Candy Morgan. She grew up in Phoenix, Arizona, with five siblings: Seth, Emily, Jacob, Paul, and Heidi. She attended Chaparral High School in Scottsdale, Arizona, and Brigham Young University in Provo, Utah, where she ... Biography of Manju Warrier
Manju Warrier (born on 1 November 1978) was an Indian actress specialising in Malayalam cinema. She is married to actor Dileep and has a daughter named Meenakshi. Selected filmography Pathram (1999) Kannezhuthi Potttum Thottu (1998) Summer in Bethlahem (1998) Thooval Kottaram Krishnagudiyil Oru Pranayakalathu Sammanam Daya Kaliyattam Pranayavarnangal Erattakkuttikalude Achan Innalakalillathe Thirakalkkappuram Kaliveedu Kanmadam Dillivaala Rajakumaran Kudamattom (1997) Aaram Thamburan (1997) Ee puzhayum kadannu (1996) Sallapam (1996) Saakshyam(1996)... Biography of Siti Nurhaliza
Dato' Siti Nurhaliza binti Tarudin DIMP, JSM, SAP, PMP, AAP (born January 11, 1979) is a multiple-award winning Malaysian pop singer-songwriter. She is currently the most successful Malaysian singer in the industry. Unlike artists who have left Malaysia and reached international stardom, she became an international icon as her career blossomed locally. To date, she has garnered more than 100 local awards as well as international awards. Biography Early childhood (1979 – 1995) Siti Nurhaliza was born in Kampung Awah (Temerloh), Pahang on 11th January 1979. Siti is the fifth child in the family of of eight siblings. She comes from a musically inclined family. Her grandfather was a famous violinist, and her mother was a famous local traditional singer. From the age of 5, she follow... Biography of Nicole Narain
Nicole Narain is an American model and actress. She was chosen as Playboy's Playmate of the Month in January 2002 and has appeared in numerous Playboy videos. Her mother is Afro-Guyanese while her father is East Indian and Chinese-Guyanese. Measurements 34"B - 27" - 35" Height 5 ft 4 in Weight 110 lb She has appeared in music videos like R.L's song "Got Me a Model", LL Cool J's "Luv You Better", Mario Winans' "I Don't Wanna Know" and Fabolous' "Baby". Reports surfaced in 2005 of a sex tape involving Narain and actor Colin Farrell. A restraining order was sought by Farrell and granted which prevented the sale, distribution or display of the tape. Appearances in Playboy special editions Playboy's Book of Lingerie Vol. 62 July 1998 - pages 48-49. Playboy's Book of Linge... Biography of Lynette Fromme
Lynette Alice "Squeaky" Fromme (born October 22, 1948) is an American member of the Manson Family. She was sentenced to life imprisonment for attempting to assassinate U.S. President Gerald Ford in 1975. After serving 34 years in custody, she was released from prison on August 14, 2009. Early life Fromme was born in Santa Monica, California, the daughter of William Millar Fromme, an aeronautical engineer, and Helen Benzinger, a homemaker. As a child, Fromme was a performer for a popular local dance group called the Westchester Lariats, which in the late 1950s began touring the U.S. and Europe, appearing on The Lawrence Welk Show and at the White House. Fromme was in the 1959 tour. In 1963, the family moved to Redondo Beach, a suburb of Los Angeles, in the South Bay, and Fromme ... Biography of Heather Carolin
Heather M. Carolin, born Augsut 15, 1982, is an American model and actress. She was chosen as Playboy's Playmate of the Month in April, 2002 and has appeared in numerous Playboy videos. She is well-known in the soft-core pornography industry for her 100% natural red hair, a relative rarity in the business. Measurements 34"B - 22" - 30" Height 5 ft 4 in Weight 98 lb... Add to favourites (12 fans)Biography of Robin Tunney
Robin Tunney (born June 19, 1972) is an American actress of stage, television and film. Early life Tunney was born in Chicago, Illinois to a car salesman father and a bartender mother. Tunney is Irish American; her father emigrated from Ireland and her mother is a first generation Irish-American. Tunney is Roman Catholic, and grew up on the South Side of Chicago. Robin graduated from Carl Sandburg High School in the class of 1990. She then went on to study acting at the Chicago Academy for the Arts. Career At the age of eighteen, Tunney moved to Los Angeles, California and obtained several recurring TV roles on Class of '96, Law & Order, Dream On, and Life Goes On. Her breakthrough role was as a suicidal teenager in Empire Records before receiving the leading role as a Gothic wi... Add to favourites (20 fans)Biography of Noomi Rapace
Noomi Rapace or Noomi Norén, born December 28, 1979 in Hudiksval, Sweden, is a Danish actress. Filmography (source: http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0636426/ ) Luftslottet som sprängdes (2009) (filming) .... Lisa Salander Män som hatar kvinnor (2009) (post-production) .... Lisbeth Salander ... aka Mænd som hader kvinder (Denmark) ... aka The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (International: English title) Flickan som lekte med elden (2009) (post-production) .... Lisbeth Salander ... aka The Girl Who Played with Fire (International: English title) "Labyrint" .... Nicky (12 episodes, 2007-2008) - Födelsedag (2008) TV episode .... Nicky - Vendetta (2007) TV episode .... Nicky - Utmätning (2007) TV episode .... Nicky - Skuld (2007) TV episode .... Nicky - Spelets r... Biography of Ginger Lynn
Ginger Lynn (born Ginger Lynn Allen, December 14, 1962) is an American pornographic actress, remembered for her work in the 1980s. She also had occasional roles in low budget B-movies. AVN has ranked her at #7 in a list of the 50 greatest pornstars of all time. After ending her porn career, she began using her full name of Ginger Lynn Allen and found work in a variety of B movies. She had a late career comeback to the porn industry and made a short series of movies. During this two-year period she toured the country doing interviews for radio shows and appearances at adult stores. Early life Lynn was born Ginger Lynn Allen in Rockford, Illinois, the daughter of 18-year-old dock supervisor Wayne Allen and 19-year-old switchboard operator Marilyn née McBride. Life in the Allen household ... Biography of Jean-Pierre Bouvier
Jean-Pierre Bouvier is a French climber born May 6, 1957 in Taverny.... Biography of Mary Stuart Masterson
Mary Stuart Masterson (born June 28, 1966) is an American actress. Height: 5' 4" (1.63 m) She was born in New York City, New York, to Peter Masterson and Carlin Glynn. She attended schools in New York, including eight months studying anthropology at New York University. Her first movie appearance was in the original 1975 movie The Stepford Wives at the age of eight. She has starred in such movies as Fried Green Tomatoes, Bed of Roses, Benny & Joon, Radioland Murders, Some Kind of Wonderful and Bad Girls. More recently, she appeared on Law & Order: Special Victims Unit as Dr. Rebecca Hendrix. She has also appeared on the stage, being nominated for a 2003 Tony Awards as Best Actress in the Maury Yeston's musical Nine: The Musical directed by David Leveaux. Masterson made... Biography of Paulina Rubio
Paulina Rubio Dosamantes (born June 17, 1971) is a Grammy and Latin Grammy-nominated Mexican singer and actress. Height: 5' 4" (1.63 m) Daughter of Mexican actress Susana Dosamantes, Rubio was born in Mexico City, Distrito Federal, Mexico. Her music is popular in Latin America, Spain, Italy and the United States. English-speakers may recognize her from her 2002 hit single "Don't Say Goodbye". Paulina Rubio has sold over 20 million albums worldwide. Paulina Rubio released her latest album Ananda on September 19th, 2006 in th U.S. and on September 18th, 2006 worldwide. It reached the #1 spot in the U.S. and countries all over Latin America. It reached #25 on U.S. Billboard's "Billboard Hot 200" albums chart, and it reached the #1 spot on Billboards "Top Latin Albums." Ni Una Sola Pa... Biography of Sydney Penny
Sydney Penny (born August 7, 1971 in Nashville, Tennessee) is an American Daytime Emmy nominated actress best known for the roles of Julia Santos Keefer on the soap opera All My Children and Samantha "Sam" Kelly on the CBS soap opera The Bold and the Beautiful. She is of part Cherokee Native American descent and raised in Chatsworth, California. An early acting appearance was on the miniseries The Thorn Birds when she was only 12 years old as young Meggie. She also appeared as Dani in "The New Gidget" and as a pigeon-obsessed youngster in an episode of the cop series TJ Hooker. She also voiced Lucy Van Pelt on "It's Magic, Charlie Brown" (1981). She played the role of Julia Santos Keefer on the soap opera All My Children, from 1993 to 1996, with guest appearances in 1997 and 2002 ... Biography of Alina Kabaeva
Alina Maratovna Kabaeva Tatar: Älinä Marat qızı Qabayeva, Russian: Алина Маратовна Кабаева, born May 12, 1983 in Tashkent, Uzbek SSR of Tatar parents). She is a rhythmic gymnast from Russia. Kabaeva is known for her extreme natural flexibility. She stands at 1.66m (5'4) and weighs 48kg (106lbs). Alina is Russia's most successful rhythmic gymnast to date, and is also one of the most decorated gymnasts in the history of rhythmic gymnastics. Kabaeva started rhythmic gymnastics in Tashkent, Uzbekistan in 1987 at age 4. Her first coach was A. Malkina. Her father was a professional football (soccer) player and the family was constantly following him to differ... Add to favourites (15 fans)Biography of Angela Bassett
Angela Evelyn Bassett (born August 16, 1958 (birth time source: Essence March 2011 Issue)) is an American actress and comedienne. She has become well known for her biographical film roles portraying real life women in African American culture, including Tina Turner in What's Love Got to Do with It, as well as Betty Shabazz in Malcolm X and Panther, Rosa Parks in The Rosa Parks Story, Katherine Jackson in The Jacksons: An American Dream,and Voletta Wallace in Notorious. Early life Bassett was born Angela Evelyn Bassett in Harlem, New York on August 16, 1958, the daughter of Betty Jane and Daniel Benjamin Bassett. After her parents' separation, she relocated to St. Petersburg, Florida, where she and her sister D'nette were raised by their social worker/civil servant mother. As her inte... Biography of Lisa Ann Walter
Lisa Ann Walter (born August 3, 1963) is an American actress, comedian, writer and film producer. She has appeared in such films as the 1998 version of The Parent Trap, Bruce Almighty, Shall We Dance, and War of the Worlds as Cheryl. Walter also created and starred in the short-lived 1996-1997 sitcom, Life's Work. She is a judge on ABC's reality television series The Next Best Thing: Who Is the Greatest Celebrity Impersonator?. life Walter was born in rural Pennsylvania and raised in suburban Silver Spring, Maryland, near Washington, D.C., where she remembers "always liking to show off" as a child. Her father was a geophysicist at NASA and indulged his own love of performing after-hours in local community theater. Eventually, Walter studied drama at Catholic University of America where... Add to favourites (23 fans)Biography of Jessica Chastain
Jessica Chastain (born March 24, 1977) is an American theater, film, and television actress. She is best known for her roles in the films The Help, The Debt, Take Shelter, Coriolanus, The Tree of Life, and Lawless. She broke out in 2011, having starred in seven films released in that year. For her role in the film The Help she received Best Supporting Actress nominations for the Golden Globes, Screen Actors Guild, BAFTA, and the Academy Award. In 2012, Time Magazine named her one of "The 100 Most Influential People in the World". She is currently starring as Catherine Sloper in a limited run (Nov 1, 2012 to Feb 10, 2013) of the Broadway revival of The Heiress in New York City. She will be starring in upcoming films this year; Kathryn Bigelow's military action film Zero Dark Thirty and t... Add to favourites (20 fans)Biography of Rashida Jones
Rashida Leah Jones (born February 25, 1976) is an American actress, model, and musician, best known for her portrayal of Louisa Fenn on Boston Public and Karen Filippelli on The Office. Early life Jones was born in Los Angeles, California, the youngest daughter of media mogul Quincy Jones and his former wife, actress Peggy Lipton. Her father is an African-American and her mother is Jewish, descended from immigrants from Ireland and Russia. Jones attended Hebrew school and made the National Honor Society. In his autobiography, Jones' father recalled how he would often find his 5-year-old daughter under the covers after bedtime with a flashlight reading five books at a time. Around the same age, Jones was already playing classical concerts and winning awards. Her mother told Entertain... Add to favourites (14 fans)Biography of Alexz Johnson
Alexzandra Spencer Johnson (born November 4, 1986) is a Canadian actress and singer/songwriter best known for screen roles in Final Destination 3 , So Weird and for playing the lead role of Jude Harrison in the hit teen drama series Instant Star . Early life Alexz Johnson was born in New Westminster, British Columbia, Canada as the sixth of what would become ten children in her family. One of her sisters is a stage actress, and her brother Brendan is a musician with whom she often collaborates. She also has a brother named Zak who owns a Green Day fan site. From the age of two, Alexz would frequently sing for her large extended family; and by the age of seven, she was receiving vocal training, participating in festivals with her local youth choir, and giving solo performances at sc... Biography of Kirsten Storms
Kirsten Renee Storms (born April 8, 1984, in Orlando, Florida) is an American actress best known for her role as Isabella "Belle" Black in the NBC soap opera Days of our Lives from 1999 - 2004. Storms currently stars on the ABC soap opera General Hospital and its prime-time spin-off General Hospital: Night Shift portraying Maxie Jones Early life and career Storms was born in Orlando, Florida. She is the daughter of Mike (a sportscaster) and Karen Storms (who is a successful acting coach and teacher, www.stormsacting.com). She has a younger sister named Gretchen and an older brother named Austin ( an Army paratrooper/medic). At the age of 5, Storms was discovered by a talent scout while performing in a showcase at an acting school for children. The talent scout convinced her parents in... Biography of Bebe Neuwirth
Bebe Neuwirth (born December 31, 1958) is an Emmy Award and Tony Award-winning American theater, television, and film actress. She was born Beatrice Neuwirth to Jewish American parents Lee, a mathematician, and Sydney Anne, an artist, in Princeton, New Jersey. She began to study dance at the age of five, and chose it as her field of concentration when she attended Juilliard in New York City in 1976 and 1977. During this period, she performed with the Princeton Ballet Company in Peter and the Wolf, The Nutcracker, and Coppelia and appeared in community theater musicals. Neuwirth made her Broadway debut in the role of Sheila in A Chorus Line in 1980. She has been featured in revivals of Little Me (1982) Sweet Charity (1986), for which she received a Tony Award for Best Featured Actress... Add to favourites (11 fans)Biography of Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio
Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio (born November 17, 1958 in Lombard, Illinois) is an American actress and singer of Italian descent. Mastrantonio's first credited screen appearance was in Brian DePalma's Scarface as Gina Montana, sister of Al Pacino's Tony Montana. She achieved prominence in her Academy Award nominated role in The Color of Money, opposite Paul Newman and Tom Cruise. Her other featured roles of the 1980s include Slam Dance, opposite Tom Hulce and The January Man with Kevin Kline. She starred in writer/director James Cameron's science fiction blockbuster The Abyss with Ed Harris. Her most famous role, however, may be Maid Marian in Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves, in which she was cast as a late replacement for the pregnant Robin Wright. She has since limited her roles to tho... Add to favourites (10 fans)Biography of Inna (singer)
Elena Alexandra Apostoleanu (born October 16, 1986) best known only as Inna, is a dance singer from Mangalia, Romania. She debuted in 2008 with the album Hot, produced by Play & Win. The main single from the album, the eponymous "Hot", reached number one in Romania, Moldova, Bulgaria, Lebanon, Malta, Poland, Serbia, Spain, Syria, Turkey, Russia, Hungary, Greece and Ukraine. The second single promoted from the album, "Love", reached number 16 in Kiss FM's Fresh Top 40 in its debut week. She was nominated for best singer and best single at the Eska Awards in Poland. Inna also released a single titled "Deja Vu", in collaboration with Bob Taylor (aka Fizz), that was a major hit in Romania, Moldova, Bulgaria, Russia, The Netherlands and Hungary.Her fourth single from her debut album was Am... Add to favourites (13 fans)Biography of Rita Ora
Rita Sahatçiu Ora (born November 26, 1990), better known as Rita Ora, is a Kosovar-British mezzo-soprano, recording artist, and actress. In 2009, she appeared on the BBC's Eurovision: Your Country Needs You where she auditioned to be the British contestant for the 2009 Eurovision Song Contest. Later in 2009 she signed to Roc Nation. She is of Kosovar Albanian ethnicity. Biography Early life and career beginnings Rita Ora was born in Pristina, SFR Yugoslavia (now Kosovo) and moved to the United Kingdom the same year of her birth. She grew up in West London and attended St Cuthbert with St Matthias CE Primary School in Earls Court, following which she graduated from Sylvia Young Theatre School and then St Charles Catholic Sixth Form College. She began singing from a young age. In 2004, ... Biography of Alain Robert (Spider-Man)
Alain Robert (born August 7, 1962 in Digoin, France as Robert Alain Philippe) is a rock and urban climber. Nicknamed "Spider-Man," Robert is an urban climber, free solo climbing rocks and up the vertical, smooth exteriors of skyscrapers. Overview While other famous urban climbers sometimes used clamps or suction cups, Robert uses no tools or safety devices of any kind. Using only his bare hands and climbing shoes, Robert has scaled more than 70 giant structures around the globe including many of the world's tallest structures. Robert began climbing as a young boy, scaling rock cliffs in the area around his home. His buildering career began at the age of 12 when he forgot his keys and was locked out of his parents' eighth-floor apartment. Instead of waiting for them to return home, A... Biography of Roma Downey
Roma Downey (born on May 6, 1960 in Derry, Northern Ireland) is an actress and producer, best known for her role as Della Reese's employee, Monica, the main character of the TV series Touched by an Angel (1994–2003). Her most famous prior roles were as Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy Onassis in the 1991 USA TV movie A Woman Named Jackie and as the Amazon leader in Hercules and the Amazon Women. Height 5' 4" (1.63 m) Twice divorced, she has a daughter, Reilly Marie Anspaugh (b. 1996). She married Mark Burnett on April 28, 2007 in their Malibu home. The wedding was officiated by Roma's Touched By An Angel co-star Della Reese, an ordained minister. Burnett is the creator of The Apprentice, Rock Star and Survivor reality series, and, coincidentally, served as a British soldier in Northern I... Biography of Lech Kaczynski
Lech Aleksander Kaczyński (Polish pronunciation: (18 June 1949 – 10 April 2010) was the President of the Republic of Poland from 2005 to 2010, a politician of the party Prawo i Sprawiedliwość (Law and Justice, PiS). Kaczyński served as Mayor of Warsaw from 2002 until 22 December 2005, the day before his presidential inauguration. He was the identical twin brother of the former Prime Minister of Poland and current Chairman of the Law and Justice party, Jarosław Kaczyński. On 10 April 2010, he and his wife Maria Kaczyńska were killed when a Tupolev Tu-154 crashed while attempting to land at Smolensk-North airport in Russia. There were no survivors on the plane, which was carrying senior Polish government officials on a trip to commemorate the 70th anniv... Biography of Marlee Matlin
Marlee Beth Matlin (born August 24, 1965) is an Academy Award-winning American actress who is almost completely deaf. Height: 5' 4" (1.63 m) Early life Matlin was born in Morton Grove, Illinois to Libby and Donald Matlin, an automobile dealer. She was raised in a Jewish family in Morton Grove, Illinois. Matlin graduated from John Hersey High School in nearby Arlington Heights and attended Harper College She lost all hearing in her right ear, and 80% of hearing in her left ear at the age of eighteen months. Career Matlin made her stage debut at the age of seven, as Dorothy in a children's theatre version of The Wizard of Oz, and continued to appear with the same children's theatre group throughout her childhood. Her film debut, 1986's Children of a Lesser God, brought her a ... Biography of Clyde Barrow
Bonnie Parker (October 1, 1910 – May 23, 1934) and Clyde Barrow (March 24, 1909 – May 23, 1934) were notorious outlaws, robbers, and criminals who traveled the Central United States during the Great Depression. Their exploits were known nationwide. They captured the attention of the American press and its readership during what is sometimes referred to as the "public enemy era" between 1931 and 1935. Though the gang was notorious for their bank robberies, Barrow preferred to rob small stores or gas stations. The gang was believed to have killed at least nine police officers, among several other murders. Though the public at the time believed Parker to be a full partner in the gang, and thus its crimes, her role in the Barrow Gang crimes has long been a source of controversy. Gang member... Biography of Carolina Dieckmann
Carolina Dieckmann, born September 16, 1978 in Rio de Janeiro, is a Brazilian model and actress. Height: 5' 3¾" (1.62 m) Filmography (Source : http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0225867/ ) Sexo com Amor (2008) (post-production) .... Luisa Onde Andará Dulce Veiga? (2007) "Cobras & Lagartos" .... Leona / ... (165 episodes, 2006) - Episode dated 17 November 2006 (2006) TV Episode .... Leona - Episode dated 16 November 2006 (2006) TV Episode .... Leona - Episode dated 15 November 2006 (2006) TV Episode .... Leona - Episode dated 14 November 2006 (2006) TV Episode .... Leona - Episode dated 13 November 2006 (2006) TV Episode .... Leona (160 more) "Senhora do Destino" .... Isabel / ... (163 episodes, 2004-2005) - Episode dated 11 March 2005 (2005) TV ... Biography of Anne Hidalgo
Anne Hidalgo, born June 19, 1959 in San Fernando, near Cadix in Spain, is a French politician, member of PS (Parti Socialiste).... Biography of Chiaki Kuriyama
Chiaki Kuriyama (栗山 千明, Kuriyama Chiaki?), born October 10, 1984 in Tsuchiura, Ibaraki Prefecture, is a Japanese actress and model. Height: 5' 4" (1.63 m) Career Chiaki was one of most popular models of the mid-1990s child model boom in Japan. In 1997, she appeared in her break in the photobooks Shinwa-Shoujo (Girl of Myth) and Shoujokan (Girl's Residence), photographed by Kishin Shinoyama. Shinwa-Shoujo became a best-seller but, as it contained some nudity, was discontinued by the publisher in 1999 after the institution of new anti-child pornography laws. She also posed as a model for the child fashion magazines Nicola (1997-2001) and Puchi Lemon (1996-2001). She first achieved widespread recognition as an actress in Japan for her starring roles in th... Biography of Eva Marie Saint
Eva Marie Saint (born July 4, 1924) is an Academy Award-winning American actress. She has starred on Broadway, in films and on television beginning in the 1950s. Early life Saint was born in Newark, New Jersey but attended Bethlehem Central High School in Delmar, NY, graduating in 1942. Eva was inducted into the high school's hall of fame in 2006. She studied acting at Bowling Green State University, while a member of Delta Gamma Sorority. There is also a theatre on Bowling Green campus named after her. Early television career In the late '40s, she began doing extensive work in radio and television before winning the Drama Critics Award for her Broadway stage role in the Horton Foote play The Trip to Bountiful (1953), in which she co-starred with such formidable actors as Lillian ... Biography of Michelle Vieth
Michelle Vieth Paetau (November 19, 1979, Marshalltown, Iowa) is an American-born Mexican actress of telenovelas. She was married to actor Héctor Soberón from 2002 to 2003. Her family moved to Acapulco when she was three, and at the age of 15 she was invited to be an extra in the telenovela Acapulco, cuerpo y alma. Chilean producer Valentín Pimstein invited her to a casting for Televisa, however it was suggested that she first enroll in the Centro de Educación Artistica (CEA) to study acting and modeling. Two years later, she auditioned for Mi pequeña traviesa and she obtained the leading role. In 2003, she was one of the celebrities living in the house of Big Brother VIP Mexico, and the fourth member to be expelled from the show. After her divorce from Héctor Soberón, an explicit ho... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of Alain Giresse
Alain Giresse (born August 2, 1952 in Langoiran, Gironde) was a French professional football (soccer) midfielder. He played for the France national football team in the 1982 FIFA World Cup (fourth place) and the 1986 FIFA World Cup (third place). He also was a member of the Euro 84 winning team.... Biography of Robert Blake
Robert Blake (born September 18, 1933) is an American actor most famous for starring in the U.S. television series "Baretta." Height 5' 4" (1.63 m) Early years He was born Michael James Vincenzo Gubitosi in Nutley, New Jersey, the son of Giacomo Gubitosi (January 14, 1906–August 15, 1956) and Elizabeth Cafone (born December 28, 1910). His brother was James Gubitosi (October 26, 1930–January 30, 1995) and his sister Giovanna Gubitosi. His father was born in Italy, arriving in the United States in 1907, and his mother was an Italian-American born in New Jersey. They married in 1929. In 1930, James worked as a die setter for a can manufacturer. Eventually, James and Elizabeth began a song-and-dance act. In 1936, the three children began performing, billed as "The Three Little Hil... Biography of Mamie van Doren
Mamie Van Doren (born February 6, 1931 some sources say 1933) is an American actress and sex symbol. Early life She was born Joan Lucille Olander in Rowena, South Dakota, the daughter of Warner Carl Olander (March 30, 1908-June 4, 1992) and Lucille Harriet Bennett (January 21, 1912-August 27, 1995). She is of three-quarters Swedish ancestry; the remainder is mixed English and German. Her mother named her after Joan Crawford. In 1939, the family moved to Sioux City, Iowa. In May 1942, they moved to Los Angeles. In early 1946, Joan began working as an usher at the Pantages Theatre in Hollywood. The following year, she had a bit-part on an early television show. She also sang with Ted Fio Rito's band and entered beauty contests. In the summer of 1949, at age 18, she won the titles "Mis... Biography of Nancy Kerrigan
Nancy Kerrigan (born October 13, 1969 in Stoneham, Massachusetts) is a two-time American Olympic figure skating medalist and 1993 U.S. champion. Kerrigan began skating at age six. She grew up with brothers who played hockey, and often joined in herself. She describes herself as having been a "tomboy". She won her first figure skating medal at age nine. Kerrigan was coached by Evy and Mary Scotvold. Her first placement at a major international competition was at the 1991 World Figure Skating Championships, when the United States team scored a medal sweep in the ladies' event. Kerrigan received the bronze medal behind Kristi Yamaguchi and Tonya Harding. She received a bronze medal in the 1992 Winter Olympics (Yamaguchi won the gold), and the silver medal at the 1992 World Championships... Add to favourites (14 fans)Biography of Trish Stratus
Patricia Anne Stratigias (born December 18, 1975, IPA: /strætɛˈdʒiːʌs/), better known by her stage name Trish Stratus, is a former fitness model, retired professional wrestler and television personality from Canada. After beginning her career as a fitness model, Stratus began working for the World Wrestling Federation (WWF), which was later renamed World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE), in March 2000. Early in her career, she was involved in sexually themed angles, such as managing the team T & A and a storyline affair with Vince McMahon. As Stratus spent more time in the ring, her wrestling skills and popularity strengthened. Because of this, she was a one-time WWE Hardcore Champion, three-time "WWE Babe of the Year" and was proclaimed "Diva of the Decade". Af... Biography of Letitia Dean
Letitia Dean (born 14 November 1967 in Potters Bar, Hertfordshire) is an English actress, probably best known for her role as Sharon Rickman in the popular BBC soap opera EastEnders. Height 5' 3½" (162 cm) Early life Letitia Dean was born in Hertfordshire to parents Leslie and Ellie Dean, in a cottage rented on the grand estate of the late British romantic novelist Barbara Cartland, known as Camfield Place. The youngest of three children, Dean picked up a penchant for performing at an early age. Both Dean and her older brother Stephen attended dance school in the village where they lived and they also performed a dance act together on stage. This later prompted Dean's successful application to attend the Italia Conti Theatre School at ten years old, and later the Sylvia Young Theat... Biography of Talia Shire
Talia Shire (born April 25, 1946) is an American actress most known for her roles as Connie Corleone in The Godfather films and Adrianna Balboa (née Pennino) in the Rocky series. Personal life Shire was born Talia Rose Coppola in Lake Success, New York, the daughter of Italia (née Pennino) and arranger/composer Carmine Coppola. Talia is the sister of director and producer Francis Ford Coppola and academic August Coppola, the aunt of actor Nicolas Cage and director Sofia Coppola, and the niece of composer and conductor Anton Coppola. She was married to composer David Shire, with whom she had a son, Matthew Orlando Shire. She has two other sons, actors/musicians Robert Schwartzman and Jason Schwartzman, from her second marriage to the late producer Jack Schwartzman. Career Shire fi... Biography of Dianne Wiest
Dianne Wiest (born March 28, 1948) is a double Academy Award-winning, Golden Globe Award-winning, Emmy Award-winning and BAFTA-nominated American actress. She has enjoyed a successful career on stage, television, and film, and has received several awards in her career. Early life Wiest was born in Kansas City, Missouri to a father who was a college dean and former psychiatric social worker for the U.S. Army, and a mother who worked as a nurse. She had two brothers: Greg and Don Wiest. Wiest's original ambition was to be a ballerina, but in late high school she switched her sights to acting in theatre. She made her film debut in 1980, but did not make a name for herself as a film actress until teaming up with Woody Allen during the 1980s. Stage career Wiest's early career was in ... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of Natalee Holloway
Natalee Ann Holloway (born October 21, 1986) disappeared on May 30, 2005, during a high school graduation trip to Aruba, a Caribbean country in the Kingdom of the Netherlands. An American student from Mountain Brook, Alabama, Holloway graduated from Mountain Brook High School on May 24, 2005, shortly before the trip. The disappearance caused a media sensation in the United States. Holloway was scheduled to fly home later on May 30; however she failed to appear for her flight. Holloway was last seen by her classmates outside Carlos'n Charlie's, a Caribbean chain restaurant and nightclub in Oranjestad, with locals Joran van der Sloot and brothers Deepak and Satish Kalpoe. When questioned, the three men denied knowing what became of Holloway. Upon further investigation by authorities, Van ... Biography of Miranda Lambert
Miranda Lambert (born November 10, 1983 in Longview, Texas (the source for her time of birth is http://www.facebook.com/mirandalambert?sk=wall)) is a two time Grammy Award nominated American country music artist who gained fame as a finalist on the 2003 season of Nashville Star, where she finished in third place and later signed to Epic Records. Lambert made her debut with the release of "Me and Charlie Talking", the first single from her 2005 debut album Kerosene. This album, which was certified Platinum in the United States, also produced the singles "Bring Me Down", "Kerosene", and "New Strings". All four singles were Top 40 hits on the Billboard Hot Country Songs charts. Lambert was transferred to Columbia Records Nashville for her second album, Crazy Ex-Girlfriend, which was releas... Biography of Anne Baxter
Anne Baxter (May 7, 1923 – December 12, 1985) was an Academy Award-winning American actress. Height: 5' 4" (1.63 m) Early life Baxter was born in Michigan City, Indiana to Kenneth Stuart Baxter and Catherine Wright; her maternal grandfather was architect Frank Lloyd Wright. Baxter's father was a prominent executive with the Seagrams Distillery Co. and she was raised in New York City amidst luxury and sophistication. At age ten, Baxter attended a Broadway play starring Helen Hayes, and was so impressed that she declared to her family that she wanted to become an actress. By the age of thirteen, Anne had appeared on Broadway. During this period, Baxter learned her acting craft as a student of the famed teacher Maria Ouspenskaya. Career Baxter screen-tested for the role of Mrs... Biography of Kayleigh Pearson
Kayleigh Emma Pearson (born 25 June 1985 in Bath, England) is an English model. She was the winner of FHM's (For Him Magazine) High Street Honeys competition in 2003. Kayleigh sent a snap of herself to her soldier boyfriend to boost his morale while he was stationed in Iraq. She also posted the photo to competition judges, which has proved to be a wise decision. Height: 163cm She was voted in FHM's list of the 100 Sexiest Women in 2004 and 2005, and came 67th in FHM 100 Sexiest Women in the World 2006. She is contracted to model agency IMM. She attended Bewdley High School and Sixth Form Centre from 1996 until 2001. She studied sports science at University College Worcester. In 2006 she had her breast size increased from 34B to 34DD/E.... Add to favourites (10 fans)Biography of Mia Sara
Mia Sarapocciello (born June 19, 1968 in Brooklyn Heights, New York) is an American actress who uses the stage name Mia Sara. She is best known for her roles as Ferris Bueller's girlfriend, Sloane Peterson, in Ferris Bueller's Day Off and as Melissa Walker, Jean-Claude Van Damme's wife in Timecop. Born in Brooklyn Heights, New York, Sara is a graduate of St. Ann's School. She has two Wheaten Terriers, enjoys flying and holds a Private Pilot license. In March 1996, Sara was married to Jason Connery (son of Sean Connery) with whom she performed in Bullet to Beijing. In June 1997 they had a son, Dashiell Quinn Connery. The couple divorced in 2002. Career Sara got her first major role playing opposite Tom Cruise in Legend, but is best known for her role as Ferris Bueller's girlfriend... Biography of Ricki Lake
Ricki Pamela Lake (born September 21, 1968) is an American actress and tabloid talk show host, perhaps best known for her long-running Ricki Lake talk show and starring in the original version of the film Hairspray. In Fall 2007, Lake is expected to return to TV as the new host of ABC's America's Funniest Home Videos. (source: prnewswire.com/06-27-2007 Early life Lake was born in Hastings-on-Hudson, New York to Jill, a homemaker, and Barry Lake, a pharmacist. She attended Ithaca College and the Professional Children's School. Early career Lake first appeared to audiences when she played the hefty Tracy Turnblad, the main character of the 1988 John Waters film Hairspray. Her role as the overweight Red Cross recreation worker "Holly the Donut Dolly" in the television series Chi... Biography of Régine Cavagnoud
Régine Cavagnoud (June 27, 1970 - October 31, 2001) was a French alpine skier. The 2001 Super-G World Champion, she was killed in a training accident. Career Régine Cavagnoud was born in Thônes, Haute-Savoie. Her career as professional skier was plagued by injuries. She finally secured a World Cup race victory in her 10th year of competition, a downhill race held in Cortina d'Ampezzo, Italy on 21 January 1999. That was the first World Cup downhill race victory by a Frenchwoman in 17 years. All in all, she had nine World Cup victories, four of them Super-G, three downhill and two giant slalom. Her last World Cup victory occurred on 21 Mar 2001 in the giant slalom in Courchevel, France. She topped the Super-G World Cup rankings in 2001 and was ranked third overall for the World Cup se... Add to favourites (10 fans)Biography of Eartha Kitt
Eartha Mae Kitt (January 17, 1927 – December 25, 2008) was an American actress, singer, and cabaret star. She was perhaps best known for her 1953 Christmas song "Santa Baby". Orson Welles once called her the "most exciting woman in the world".. She took over the role of Catwoman for the 4th series of the 1960s Batman TV series, replacing Julie Newmar who was unavailable for the final series. Early life Kitt was born Eartha Mae Keith on a cotton plantation in the tiny town of North, South Carolina. She said her mother was of Cherokee and African-American descent and her father of German and Dutch descent. She also claimed she was conceived by rape. Kitt was raised by Anna Mae Riley, an African American woman whom she believed was her mother. After Riley's death, she was sent to live ... Biography of Cécilia Cara
Cécilia Cara is a French actress and singer. Cécilia was born on June 5, 1984 in Cannes, on the French Riviera. Before making it big in France, Cécilia was still a 15-year-old attending secondary school. She started learning ballet at the age of 3, and at the age of 5 she began singing in the school choir and soon proved to be very gifted and talented. Thanks to different shows and singing contests, she improved her voice and progressively gained self-confidence. For two years in a row, she won first prize in a contest in Nice. She became very popular in her region and she soon gained popularity all over France with a TV show launching young artists. She finally came in 4th out of 500 candidates. Around the same time, a new musical was being born in France "Roméo et Juliette, de la H... Biography of Lorna Luft
Lorna Luft (born November 21, 1952 in Santa Monica, California) is an American stage, film and television actress. She is the daughter of the legendary singer/actress, Judy Garland and Sidney Luft who was Judy's third husband and manager. As Garland's daughter, Lorna is the half-sister of Liza Minnelli. Childhood and early life Lorna was born on November 21st, 1952 to parents Sid Luft and Judy Garland. Shortly before giving birth, Judy became convinced she would die giving birth to her daughter Lorna, and even planned a farewell party, inviting many A-listers in Hollywood. Her fears turned out to be unfounded as she gave birth to Lorna through a caesarean procedure. Luft debuted on her mother’s CBS television series, The Judy Garland Show and was soon asked to join the family act... Biography of Betty Grable
Betty Grable (December 18, 1916 (birth time source: Astrodatabank) – July 2, 1973) was an American dancer, singer, and actress. Her iconic bathing suit photo became the number-one pin-up girl of the World War II era. It was later included in Life 100 Photos that Changed the World. Grable's legs were famously insured by her studio for $1,000,000 per leg at Lloyds of London. Early life She was born Elizabeth Ruth Grable in St. Louis, Missouri to John C. Grable (1883-1954) and Lillian Rose Hofmann (1889-1964). She was the youngest of three children. Most of Grable's recent ancestors were American, but her distant heritage included Dutch, Irish, German and English. She was propelled into acting by her mother. For her first role, as a chorus girl in the film Happy Days (1929), Grab... Biography of Melyssa Ford
Melyssa Savannah Ford (born on November 7, 1976 in Toronto, Ontario) is an Canadian model and actress. She attended York University and studied in the field of forensic psychology. Ford's father is Afro-Bajan and her mother is Russian and Norwegian. She is currently dating songwriter Bryan-Michael Cox. Career Music video director Little X discovered Ford while she was a bartender at a Toronto nightclub and helped her launch her modeling career. She has been in several music videos, magazines such as XXL, King and had several television and film appearances. In March 2004, she hosted BET's How I'm Livin' series, and was the host of BET's lifestyle show entitled BET Style. That same year, she was featured in Maxim magazine and is currently in their online Girls of Maxim gallery. She is ... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of Irina Kazakova
Irina Kazakova, born October 11, 1968, is a Russian athlet, specialist of marathon.... Biography of Moira Kelly
Moira Kelly (March 6, 1968 in Queens, New York) is an American actress. She is the third of six children. Her father, Peter, was trained as a concert violinist. Her mother, Anne, is a nurse. Both are Irish immigrants. Moira was raised in Ronkonkoma, NY. She attended Connetquot Senior High School in Bohemia, Long Island, graduating in the class of 1986. Later she attended Marymount Manhattan College. Kelly is notable for playing Mandy Hampton in the first season of the White House television drama The West Wing, as well as for providing the voice of Nala in Disney's The Lion King, The Lion King 1 1/2, and The Lion King II: Simba's Pride. She also has appeared in the movies Chaplin, With Honors, Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me, and, in arguably her best-known film appearance, as figur... Biography of James Madison
James Madison (March 16, 1751 – June 28, 1836), was an American politician and the fourth President of the United States (1809–1817), and one of the Founding Fathers of the United States. Considered to be the "Father of the Constitution", he was the principal author of the document. In 1788, he wrote over a third of the Federalist Papers, still the most influential commentary on the Constitution. As a leader in the first Congresses, he drafted many basic laws and was responsible for the first ten amendments to the Constitution (said to be based on the Virginia Declaration of Rights), and thus is also known as the "Father of the Bill of Rights". As a political theorist, Madison's most distinctive belief was that the new republic needed checks and balances to limit the powers of special inte... Add to favourites (14 fans)Biography of Megan Mullally
Megan Mullally (born November 12, 1958 in Los Angeles, California, U.S.) is a three-time SAG and two-time Emmy Award-winning Irish-American actress, talk show host and singer, best known for her role as Karen Walker on Will & Grace. Height: 5' 4" (1.63 m) Early life Born in Los Angeles, Mullally moved to Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, at the age of 7. Her father, Carter Mullally, Jr., was a contract player with Paramount Pictures during the 1950s and her mother was a model. She studied ballet from the age of six and performed in a ballet company during high school. She revealed on a March 2006 episode of NBC's The Tonight Show with Jay Leno that she spent her summers in Los Angeles because of her mother's work. Following her graduation from Casady School, she attended Northwestern Univ... Biography of Peggy Fleming
Peggy Gail Fleming (born July 27, 1948) is an American figure skater. She is the 1968 Olympic Champion in Ladies' singles and a three-time World Champion (1966-1968). Fleming has been a television commentator on figure skating for over 20 years, including several Winter Olympic Games. Life and career Fleming was born in San Jose, California, the daughter of Doris Elizabeth (née Deal) and Albert Eugene Fleming, a newspaper journalist. She began skating at age nine when her family moved to Cleveland and soon began skating in earnest on the advice of her father. In 1961, when Fleming was twelve years old, her coach William Kipp was killed in the crash of Sabena Flight 548 along with the rest of the United States figure skating team while on route to the 1961 World Figure Skating Champio... Biography of Agathe de La Fontaine
Agathe de La Fontaine (born 27 March 1972 in Dieppe (birth time source: birth certificate)) is a French actress. Her film roles include Train de vie (1998), which shared the 1999 Sundance World Cinema Audience Award with Run Lola Run, and Love in Paris, the sequel to 9½ Weeks. La Fontaine was married to former football player Emmanuel Petit. Selected filmography 2007 Le Scaphandre et le papillon Inès 2000 J'aime Andrea 1998 Train de vie, Esther 1997 Love in Paris, Claire 1995 La Nouvelle Tribu, Victoria 1994 Louis 19, le roi des ondes 1994 Killer Kid, Isabelle 1994 Jeanne 1994 La Caverne de la Rose d'or (Fantagaro), Princesse Angélique... Biography of Amber Benson
Amber Nicole Benson, born on January 8, 1977, is an American actress, writer, film director, and film producer. She is best known for her role as "Tara Maclay", on the TV series Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Early life Benson was born in Birmingham, Alabama. She had a mixed Christian and Jewish upbringing. Career Feature and animation films While still working on Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Benson wrote, directed, produced, edited, and acted in a digital video feature called Chance (2002) which also featured James Marsters. After her time on Buffy, Benson began production on a series of animation film for the BBC with co-creator Christopher Golden and animation studio Cosgrove Hall. Ghosts of Albion: Legacy (2003) and its sequels are available on the BBC Cult website (http://www.bbc... Biography of Suzanne Pleshette
Suzanne Pleshette (born January 31, 1937 in New York City) is an American actress, best known as "Emily Hartley" on The Bob Newhart Show in the '70s. Height 5' 4" (1.63 m) Early life Born to Eugene Pleshette, manager of the Paramount Theater in Brooklyn, New York and dancer Geraldine Kaplan, she is a cousin of Knots Landing actor John Pleshette. Pleshette graduated from Manhattan's School of Performing Arts. She then attended Syracuse University. Acting career Pleshette has been in over two dozen made-for-television films and numerous film dramas of the late '50s, '60s and '70s. She has been nominated for an Emmy Award several times, most notably for Dr. Kildare. Pleshette is a former Broadway leading lady, having replaced Anne Bancroft in The Miracle Worker opposite Pat... Biography of Tuesday Weld
Tuesday Weld (born August 27, 1943) is an Emmy and Academy Award-nominated Golden Globe-winning American film and television actress. Height: 5' 4" (1.63 m) Early life Weld was born Susan Ker Weld in New York City, on 27 August, 1943 (a Friday). Her father, Lathrop Motley Weld, was a member of the wealthy Weld Family of Boston; he died when she was three and left her widowed mother, Aileen Ker, and two older siblings in difficult financial circumstances. Weld's mother capitalized on her daughter's beauty and put her to work as a child model to support the entire family. Using Weld's résumé from modelling, her mother secured an agent and Tuesday (an extension of her childhood nickname, "Tu-Tu") Weld made her acting debut on television at age twelve and her feature film debut at age t... Biography of Sung Hi Lee
Sung Hi Lee (born April 1, 1970) is a Korean American model who appears mostly in soft-core nude photoshoots. She has appeared in Playboy magazine as well as in numerous other magazines and some commercial advertising. Height 5 ft 4 in (1.63 m) Hair color Black Eye color Brown Measurements 33B-23-33.5 Weight 106 lb (48 kg) Born in Eunpyong-Gu (Gija-Chon), a borough of Seoul, Lee moved to the United States in 1978. She attended Ohio State University on a scholarship for three years. Lee has worked as an actress, appearing in films such as the erotic-thriller A Night On the Water (1998), Error in Judgment (1998), Chain of Command (2000), Nurse Betty (2000), This Girl's Life (2003), Christmas Vacation 2: Cousin Eddie's Island Adventure (2003), and The Girl Next Door (2004). S... Biography of Donna Mills
Donna Mills (born Donna Jean Miller on December 11, 1940 in Chicago, Illinois) is an American actress, primarily for her roles on soap operas and television. Height: 5' 4" (1.63 m) The naturally blonde-headed Mills began her career in the 1960s, playing, Laura Donnelly, on the daytime serial, Love is a Many Splendored Thing (a role she played from 1967 to 1970), and later as Michele Lee's least popular sister-in-law and homewrecker, Abby Fairgate Cunningham Ewing Sumner, on the long-running 1980s soap opera, Knots Landing (a role she played from 1980 to 1989). She even had a recurring role as Josie Bissett's mother on Melrose Place. Youth She attended the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and began her career onstage in the late 1950s, first gaining prominence as ex-nun ... Biography of Cindy Williams
Cindy Williams (born August 22, 1947) is an American actress best known for starring in the TV series Laverne & Shirley and the eponymous "Shirley". Height: 5' 4" (1.63 m) Early life Williams was born Cynthia Jane Williams in Van Nuys, California, to John and Lillie Williams. She has a sister Carol Ann Williams. She graduated from Birmingham High School. Among her classmates were famed financier Michael Milken and fellow actress Sally Field. Cindy also attended Los Angeles City College and went on to become a movie actress in the early 1970s. She has appeared in 19 movies, but is best known for starring in the TV series Laverne & Shirley. Career Williams picked up important film roles early in her career: George Cukor's Travels with My Aunt 1972; as Ron Howard's high school s... Biography of Farrah Franklin
Farrah Franklin (born Destiny Farrah Franklin on May 3, 1981 in Fresno, California to an Italian father and an African American mother) is an American singer, actress, songwriter, model and former member of Destiny's Child. Early life Franklin was born in Iowa, raised in Fresno and Los Angeles. Growing up, she performed in various church choirs and in off Broadway musicals. In addition to performing, Franklin regularly mentored under privileged girls at Penny Lane, one of the world’s largest group homes in Los Angeles, in her spare time—something that she reportedly continues to do this day. Destiny's Child In 1999, Franklin was hired to be an extra in the music video for Destiny’s Child’s “Bills, Bills, Bills.” It was there that she became acquainted with group members Kelly Ro... Add to favourites (14 fans)Biography of Anna Kendrick
Anna Kendrick (born August 9, 1985, Portland, Maine) is an American film and stage actress. She is known for her prominent roles in the 2003 film Camp and the 2007 film Rocket Science, and her supporting role in the 2008 film Twilight. Career Kendrick claims to have "caught the bug" at the age of ten, when her parents would drive her from her hometown of Portland, Maine to New York so that she could attend auditions. Her first appearance was the role of Dinah in the Broadway musical High Society in August 1998, at the age of twelve, which earned her Theatre World Award, Drama Desk Award and Tony Award nominations, the latter of which made her the second-youngest nominee ever. Afterwards, she featured in a number of other theatre productions, including the musical A Little Night Music,... Biography of Sal Mineo
Salvatore "Sal" Mineo, Jr. (January 10, 1939 – February 12, 1976) was a Golden Globe-winning American film and theatre actor, best known for his Academy Award-nominated performance opposite James Dean in the film Rebel Without a Cause. Mineo, born in The Bronx, the son of a Sicilian coffin maker, was enrolled by his mother in dancing and acting school at an early age. Acting career Mineo had his first stage appearance in The Rose Tattoo (1950), a play by Tennessee Williams. He also played the young prince opposite Yul Brynner in the stage musical The King and I. After a few more film and television appearances his breakthrough was Rebel Without A Cause in which he played John "Plato" Crawford, the sensitive teenager smitten with Jim Stark (played by James Dean). Mineo's biographe... Biography of Shelley Fabares
Shelley Fabares (born January 19, 1944) is an American actress and singer, primarily for her roles on movies, soap operas and television. Height: 5' 4" (1.63 m) The naturally blonde-haired Fabares is best known for her roles as Donna Reed's daughter and oldest child, Mary Stone, on the long-running The Donna Reed Show (a role she played from 1958 to 1963), and as Craig T. Nelson's love interest and wife, Christine Armstrong Fox, on the long-running 1990s sitcom Coach. Born Michele Ann Marie Fabares in Santa Monica, California, she is the niece of Nanette Fabray, who changed the spelling of her last name, though Shelley kept the original form. She got her big break in the role of the teenage daughter in the long-running television family sitcom, The Donna Reed S | |||||||