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9071 celebrities heights in our database on November 21, 2009. The celebrities 5' 4" tall are listed here, sorted by decreasing popularity. The popularity is the real time consultation statistics by our users for each celebrity on Astrotheme. You can either access the picture and detailed map of the heavens by clicking on the thumbnail, or read the horoscope by clicking on "Display his/her horoscope with biography and chart". Heights Home · Home · 35,925 dominants · Astrology and Statistics · Celestar · AstroSearch 35,925 Celebrities
363 celebrities 5' 4" tall have been found. 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 rea... Biography of Emmanuelle BEART
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 ... 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 ... Biography of 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[1]. 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 wi... Biography of BJORK
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... 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, p... Biography of LOUIS XIV de 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 S... 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 Zhi... Biography of ELISABETH II du ROYAUME-UNI
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... 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... 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 a... 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 Nut... Biography of FERGIE (BLACK EYED PEAS)
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 in Whittier, Calif... 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, wh... 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... 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 J... 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 a... Biography of Shania TWAIN
Shania Twain, OC (born Eilleen Regina Edwards, August 28, 1965, Windsor, Ontario) is a Canadian singer and songwriter in the country and pop music genres. Her third album Come on Over is the biggest-selling album of all time by a female artist, and the best-selling album in the history of country music. She is the only female artist to have three albums certified Diamond by the RIAA, and has earned five Grammy awards and nearly forty BMI Songwriter awards. She is married to rock producer Robert ... Biography of Michelle WILLIAMS
Michelle Ingrid Williams (born September 9, 1980) 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... 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 a... Biography of Rose MCGOWAN
Rose Arianna McGowan (born September 5, 1973) is an American actress known for her role as Paige Matthews in The WB television series Charmed and the cult-classic The Doom Generation. She has also appeared in several major Hollywood films, with leading roles in Scream, Jawbreaker and the Quentin Tarantino / Robert Rodriguez double-feature Grindhouse. Early life McGowan is the second-eldest of six children (plus two half-siblings), born in Florence, Italy to parents Terri, an American writer ... 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 ear... Biography of JORDAN (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... 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 acros... 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 world... 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 Rec... Biography of PINK
Alecia Moore (IPA pronunciation: ) (born on September 8, 1979), known professionally as Pink (often stylized as P!nk), is an American singer-songwriter who gained prominence in 2000. Pink released her first record, the R&B based Can't Take Me Home, in 2000 via LaFace Records. In 2001, she participated in the worldhit single Lady Marmalade. Her pop rock-based second studio album, M!ssundaztood, was released in 2001 and is her biggest seller to date, including big hits like Get The Party Starte... 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, ... Biography of Janet JACKSON
Janet Damita Jo Jackson (born May 16, 1966) 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 Bo... Biography of Nina HARTLEY
Nina Hartley is an American pornographic actress and sex educator.... 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 m... 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 Vane... 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", containi... 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 America... 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 ...
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... 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 A... 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 g... 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...
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... Biography of HAILE SELASSIE Ier
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.... 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 Ş... 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-... 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.... 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 Uni... 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 i... 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 movi... 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 rec... 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 finishe... 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 n... 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,...
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 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 neg... 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 ... 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, Ros...
Biography of ANGGUN
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 entertai... 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 t... 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 m... Biography of Kathy GRIFFIN
Kathy Griffin (born November 4, 1960) 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. Taille : 5' 4" (1.63 m) Early life Griffin was born Kathleen Mary Griffin in the Ch... 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 con... 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... 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 th... 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 Holoc... 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 collaborat... 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 ... 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 we... 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 ea... 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 ... 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... 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 t... 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 p... 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, wa... 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 ...
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 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 ... 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 ... 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 ... Biography of Elisabeth HASSELBECK
Elisabeth Hasselbeck (née Filarski) (born May 28, 1977) is a former reality show contestant and current American talk show personality, one of the co-hosts on the daytime talk show The View. Height: 5' 4" (1.63 m) Early life Hasselbeck was born Elisabeth Grace Filarski in Cranston, Rhode Island, the daughter of Elizabeth DelPadre, a teacher at Catholic school and lawyer, and Kenneth Filarski, an architect. As a child, she lived in Providence and Cranston, Rhode Island. She attended St...
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 or... 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, Cal... Biography of Ginger Lynn ALLEN
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 s...
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 Be... 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 (1... Biography of Jean-Pierre BOUVIER
Jean-Pierre Bouvier is a French climber born May 6, 1957 in Taverny.... 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 P... 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 Baryshni... Biography of Seth GREEN
Seth Benjamin Gesshel-Green (born February 8, 1974) is an American actor, comedian, voice actor, and television producer. He is known for his acting roles as Doctor Evil's son Scott in the Austin Powers series of comedy films and Daniel "Oz" Osbourne in Buffy the Vampire Slayer. He voices the character of Chris Griffin on Family Guy, Flight Lieutenant Jeff "Joker" Moreau in the 2007 video game Mass Effect, and is the co-creator and producer of the stop motion comedy series Robot Chicken. Green a... 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. E...
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 no... 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 Nurhal... 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 w... Biography of Surya BONALY
Surya Bonaly (born 15 December 1973) is a professional figure skater. Bonaly represented France as a competitive skater, but is now also a United States citizen. Career Bonaly was born in Nice, France in 1973. She began skating when she was eighteen months old. When she was a child, her skating heroes were Midori Ito and Brian Boitano. When Bonaly first began to compete at the international level, her coach at the time, Didier Gailhaguet, fabricated a story that she had been born on Reuni... 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, magazine... 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... 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 ... 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 Novemb... 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 name... 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 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 wi... 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 Skatin... 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'... 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 Ne... 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 ... 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 Won... 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 mo... 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 ... 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 i... 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... Biography of Farrah FRANKLIN (Destiny's Child)
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...
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 albu... Biography of Amber Nicole 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. Height: 5' 4" (1.63 m) 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 ... 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 a... 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 Uni... 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.... 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 an... 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 ... 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'... 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. S...
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 marr... 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... 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... Biography of Caroline QUENTIN
Caroline Quentin née Jones, (born June 11, 1961, in Reigate, Surrey) is a British actress. Height: 5' 4" (1.63 m) Career Quentin has had an extensive television and acting career and has become a very well-known actress. Her early work included appearing on the stage when she was in the chorus of the original cast of Les Misérables. Quentin became well-known for her television appearances in Men Behaving Badly, playing Dorothy, and playing Maddy Magellan in Jonathan Creek for many years. ...
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, sh... Biography of Irina KAZAKOVA
Irina Kazakova, born October 11, 1968, is a Russian athlet, specialist of marathon.... 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... 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 Car... 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-runnin... Biography of Sandra DEE
Sandra Dee (April 23, 1942 (or 1944) - February 20, 2005) was an American film actress best known for her role as "Gidget." Birth and background Born Alexandria Zuck to Mary Cimboliak, who was of Rusyn ancestry, and John Zuck, in Bayonne, New Jersey, Dee was a professional model by the age of four. She progressed to television commercials and then made her first film, Until They Sail, in 1957. There is some confusion as to her actual birth year, with evidence pointing to both 1942 and 1944; ... 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... 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 da... Biography of Angela BASSETT
Angela Evelyn Bassett (born August 16, 1958) is an Emmy and Academy Award-nominated, and Golden Globe winning American actress who is particularly known for biographical film roles portraying women in American culture. Height: 5' 4" (1.63 m) Bassett was born in New York city on August 16, 1958, then relocated to St. Petersburg, Florida, as a child. She and her sister D'nette were raised by their social worker mother, Betty. As a young child, her interest in entertaining developed, as she a... Biography of Shelley WINTERS
Shelley Winters (August 18, 1920 – January 14, 2006) was a two-time Academy Award-winning American actress. Early life Winters was born Shirley Schrift in St. Louis, Missouri, the daughter of Jewish parents Jonas Schrift, a designer of men's clothing, and Rose (Winters), a singer. Her family moved to Brooklyn, New York when she was three years old. She studied in the Hollywood Studio Club, sharing the same bedroom with another beginner: Marilyn Monroe. Career As the New York Times obi... Biography of Betty WHITE
Betty White (born January 17, 1922) is a five-time Emmy Award-winning American film and television actress with a career spanning sixty years. She also appeared in radio programs, in movies and the theater, in commercials, and was also a talk show host and a game show host, but is best known for her roles in the sitcoms The Mary Tyler Moore Show and The Golden Girls. Height: 5' 4" (1.63 m) Personal life White was born Betty Marion White in Oak Park, Illinois, the daughter of Tess, a homem... Biography of Heinz WEIXELBRAUN
Heinz Karl Weixelbraun, born May 19, 1963 in Spittal an der Drau, is an Austrian actor. He is famous as Christian Böck in TV serie Inspector Rex. Height: 5' 4¼" (1.63 m) Kommissar Rex (English Inspector Rex) is a popular Austrian-made police television drama, aired from 1994 to 2004 even though new series are being released. The series is set in Vienna and focuses on the three-man staff of an office of the Kriminalpolizei - the Austrian Crime Squad - specifically a Mordkommission, or Ho... Biography of Talia SHIRE
Talia Shire (born April 25, 1946), is an American actress. Her name is in honor of her ancestral country (Italy). Height: 5' 4" (1.63 m) Born Talia Rose Coppola in Lake Success, New York; she is the sister of director and producer Francis Ford 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 Jason Schwartzman and Robert Carmine, from her second mar... Biography of Francesca ANNIS
Francesca Annis (born May 14, 1944) is a British actress, particularly well known for her film and television appearances, most recently the BBC series, Wives and Daughters and Deceit. Height: 5' 4" (1.63 m) Annis was born in London and was convent educated. She began acting professionally in her teens, and made her film debut in the 1950s. In 1967 she played Estella in a television adaptation of Great Expectations. She also presented children's television programmes. While becoming an ... Biography of Angel BORIS
Angel Lynn Boris (born August 2, 1974 in Ft. Lauderdale, Florida) is an American model, actress and singer. Measurements 34" - 22" - 34" Height 5 ft 4 in (1.63 m) Weight 110 lb (50 kg) While working for Hawaiian Tropic, she appeared in a Playboy pictorial featuring the women of Hawaiian Tropic, and in July 1996 she became Playboy's Playmate of the Month. She appeared in many Special Editions of the magazine and has also appeared nude in other magazines and websites. She has also acted ... 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 f... 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 th... Biography of Danica McKELLAR
Danica Mae McKellar (born January 3, 1975), is an US American actress and mathematician. She is best known for her role as Winnie Cooper in the television show The Wonder Years. As a result of this unusual combination of interests, McKellar has a Erdős–Bacon number of 6. Height: 5' 4" (1.63 m) Early life Born in La Jolla, California, McKellar moved with her family to Los Angeles when she was eight. McKellar and sister Crystal McKellar have maintained a friendly competition to see who... 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 H...
Biography of ANAHI
Anahí Giovanna Puente Portilla, better known as Anahí, (or incorrectly as Anahi in English) (born May 14, 1982 (source: Imdb, Wikipedia in French), is a Mexican actress and singer. Anahí Giovanna Puente Portilla was born on May 14, 1983 in Mexico City. Anahi has an older sister who used to be an actress. Anahi became famous for playing Mia in Rebelde and for being a member of the well known group RBD. She had a relationship with Christopher Uckermann for eight months and eventually broke up b... Biography of Mitch GAYLORD
Mitchell ("Mitch") Jay Gaylord (born March 10, 1961) is an American gymnast and Olympic gold medalist. He was born in Van Nuys, California to a Jewish family. While attending UCLA, he won the All-Around in the 1983 & 1984 U.S. National Championships, and the 1984 NCAA Men's Gymnastics Championship. In the 1984 Summer Olympic Games, Gaylord led the gold-medal-winning U.S. men's gymnastics team. There, Gaylord became the first American gymnast to score a perfect 10.00 in the Olympics. He als... 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... 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-repossess... Biography of Oksana BAIUL
Oksana Baiul (Ukrainian: Оксана Баюл) (born November 16, 1977) is a Ukrainian professional figure skater. She is the 1994 Olympic Champion. Oksana Baiul was born in Dnipropetrovsk, Soviet Union, in what is present-day Ukraine. She was only 13 when her mother, Marina, died of ovarian cancer. She had already lost her loving maternal grandparents as well. Her father had departed from her life after her parents' divorce when she was a ba... Biography of Izabella MIKO
Izabella Anna Mikołajczak (born January 21, 1981), better known as Izabella Miko, is a Polish actress and model. Miko was born in Łódź, Poland to Grażyna Dyląg and Aleksander Mikołajczak, both of whom were actors. She grew up in Warsaw, where she studied to be a ballerina. An American choreographer invited her to study in New York City on a scholarship, and she traveled there with her mother on her fifteenth birthday. Three of Miko's best-known roles are Cammi... 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 d... 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 Co... 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 televisio... Biography of Adriana ESTEVES
Adriana Esteves, born December 15, 1969 in Rio de Janeiro, is a Brazilian actress. Television 2007 - Toma Lá Dá Cá - Celinha 2005 - Belíssima - Stella Assumpção (voz - participação especial) 2005 - A Lua me disse - Heloísa Queiroz 2004 - Senhora do Destino - Maria de Nazaré Esteves Tedesco/Lourdes - 1ª fase 2003 - Kubanacan - Lola 2002 - Coração de Estudante - Amélinha (Amélia Mourão) 2000 - O Cravo e a Rosa - Catarina Batista 1998 - Torre de Babel - Sandrinha (Sandra da Silva... Biography of Betty GRABLE
Betty Grable (December 18, 1916 – 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 ... Biography of Tracey E. BREGMAN
Tracey E. Bregman (born May 29, 1963) is an Emmy Award-winning American soap opera actress. She was born in Munich, Germany to American producer Buddy Bregman and actress Suzanne Lloyd. She lived in Great Britain until the age of 10 when her family relocated to California. She has been acting since she was 11 years old. At one time, she was credited as Tracey E. Bregman-Recht. She was the first actress to be awarded the Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Younger Actress in a Drama Series (the... Biography of Kathleen ROBERTSON
Kathleen Robertson (born July 8, 1973 in Hamilton, Ontario) is a Canadian actress best known for her role of Clare Arnold on Beverly Hills, 90210. Height: 5' 4" (1.63 m) Robertson began acting when she was 10, launching a television and film career in Canada. During this time, she attended the prestigious Hamilton High School and Hillfield Strathallan College. Her first continuing series was in the Canadian television program Maniac Mansion, from 1990-1993. She played Tina Edison, the elde... 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 suburba... 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 te... Biography of Laura INNES
Laura Elizabeth Innes (born August 16, 1959) is an American actress and director. Height: 5' 4" (1.63 m) Career Innes was introduced to professional theater by her father, who frequently took the family to the Stratford Festival of Canada in Stratford, Ontario. Following his advice to "do what you love", she attended Northwestern University where she was a member of the Alpha Chi Omega sorority and earned a degree in theater. Her first stage credits were in Chicago at the renowned Good... Biography of Monica BRANT
Monica Brant (born October 26, 1970) is an IFBB professional figure competitor and a former fitness competitor. She is well-known for competing in and becoming the 1998 Ms. Jan Tana Pro Fitness Champion and 1998 Ms. Fitness Olympia Champion. Originally born in Ft. Hood, Texas and raised on a 20 acre ranch in a small town outside of San Antonio called Castroville. Her mother is a professional horse training business and Monica started learning how to help her around the stables, riding and sho... Biography of Hayley MILLS
Hayley Catherine Rose Vivien Mills (born April 18, 1946) is an English actress. Height: 5' 4" (1.63 m) Mills is the younger daughter of the actor Sir John Mills and the playwright Mary Hayley Bell. She is also the younger sister of actress Juliet Mills, who appears on the U.S. soap opera Passions and played the Nanny in Nanny and the Professor. Mills was 12 when she was discovered by J. Lee Thompson, who was looking for a boy at first to play the lead role in Tiger Bay. Walt Disney's wi... Biography of Isabelle DUCHESNAY
Isabelle Duchesnay (born December 18, 1963, Aylmer, Quebec, Canada) was an ice dancer who competed for both Canada and France. She and her brother Paul Duchesnay were a successful pair in the sport, winning a world championship in 1991 and an Olympic silver medal in 1992. Raised in Canada, the Duchesnays started skating at an early age. Their first major success came at the 1982 Canadian Nationals, where they placed second in the junior competition. Over time, the Duchesnays' skating becam... 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 t... Biography of MING-NA
Ming-Na Wen (Simplified Chinese: 温明娜; traditional Chinese: 溫明娜; pinyin: Wēn Míngnà; born November 20, 1963) is a Chinese American actress. She has been credited with and without her surname, but most credits since the late 1990s have been without it. Early life Ming-Na was born on Coloane Island, Macau, to Chinese parents and moved to the United States as a young girl with her mother; her parents divorced when she was a toddler. She attended hig... Biography of Amy IRVING
Amy Davis Irving (born September 10, 1953) is an American actress, known for her films Crossing Delancey, The Fury, Carrie and her Oscar-nominated role in Yentl. Height: 5' 4" (1.63 m) Early life Irving was born in Palo Alto, California, the daughter of film and stage director Jules Irving (née Jules Israel) and actress Priscilla Pointer. Irving's brother is writer/director David Irving (not the British holocaust denier of the same name), and her sister is singer Katie Irving. Irving is o... 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 las... Biography of Chelan SIMMONS
Chelan Simmons (born October 29, 1982) is a Canadian actress. Height: 5' 4" (1.63 m) Simmons was born in Vancouver, British Columbia, one of three children (one younger brother and an older sister) and has been a natural performer since the age of two. Her first movie role was as 'Its' first victim in the horror movie It (1990) in which she played Laurie Ann Winterbarger. Her most recognizable roles are in movies such as Final Destination 3 (2006) as Ashley Freund, and also in other movies... Biography of Rick DERRINGER
Rick Derringer (born Richard Zehringer, 5 August 1947, in Fort Recovery, Ohio) is an American guitarist, vocalist, and entertainer. He is perhaps best known for the song "Rock and Roll, Hoochie Koo". Derringer was also "Weird Al" Yankovic's producer and additional guitarist for five years, before rhythm guitarist Jim West became sole guitarist. Life and career When he was just 17, his band The McCoys recorded "Hang on Sloopy" in the summer of 1965, which became the number one song in America... Biography of Adrienne FRANTZ
Adrienne Frantz (born June 7, 1978 in Mount Clemens, Michigan) is an Emmy Award-winning American actress, best known for her role as Ambrosia "Amber" Moore on the soap opera The Bold and the Beautiful, which she now plays on The Young and the Restless. While on B&B, she also played Amber's sister, April Knight, briefly in 2003. Height: 5' 4" (1.63 m) First breaking into the soap opera genre in 1997 as Tiffany Thorne on Sunset Beach, she left the show later that year for her role as the vil... Biography of Laura RAMSEY
Laura Ramsey (born November 14, 1982) is an American film and television actress. Ramsey was born in Brandon, Wisconsin, where she attended Laconia High School and subsequently moved to Los Angeles to pursue an acting career. She was discovered while waiting tables in a Los Angeles restaurant on Sunset Blvd. Ramsey was first cast in the reality show-based film, The Real Cancun (2003) where she had a sexual encounter on screen. The Real Cancun broke ground with this as they were the first t... Biography of Giovanna RALLI
Giovanna Ralli is an Italian actress. She was born in Rome, January 2, 1935 (Source: Imdb). She won one Nastro d'Argento for her supporting role in C'eravamo tanto amati. Filmography I bambini ci guardano by Vittorio De Sica (1942) Variety Lights di Alberto Lattuada and Federico Fellini (1950) La lupa by Alberto Lattuada (1953) Villa Borghese by Gianni Franciolini (1953) Racconti romani by Gianni Franciolini (1955) Le ragazze di San Frediano by Valerio Zurlini (1955) Il bigamo b... 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 M... Biography of Geneviève BUJOLD
Geneviève Bujold (born July 1, 1942 in Montreal, Quebec) is an Oscar-nominated Canadian actress. Early life Related to 19th century Quebec strongman/weightlifter Louis Cyr, Bujold was raised by strict Roman Catholic French-Canadian parents who sent her to a convent school for her full 12 years of education. She disliked the school and its strict discipline, and eventually left it to pursue an acting career. Dramatically trained at Montreal's Conservatory of Dramatic Art, she got her big b... Biography of Rod SERLING
Rodman Edward "Rod" Serling (December 25, 1924–June 28, 1975) was an American screenwriter, most famous for his science fiction anthology television series, The Twilight Zone. Height 5' 4" (1.63 m) The second of two sons (his brother Robert J. Serling later became a novelist), Rod was born in Syracuse, New York to Samuel and Esther Serling, but was raised in Binghamton, New York, where he later graduated from Binghamton High School. Though brought up in a Jewish family, Serling became a ... Biography of Katie LOHMANN
Katie Lohmann (born 29 January 1980 in Scottsdale, Arizona) is a model, actress, and most notably a Playboy Playmate for the month of April 2001. Measurements 32D - 22 - 32 Height 5 ft 4 in (1.63 m) Weight 103 lb (47 kg) She is the youngest of three children, with a brother and a sister. Her father, Dan, is a successful accountant and her mother, Sharon, is the head of payroll for Citibank. They were divorced in 1992. Lohmann discovered early on that she loved performing on stage. ... Biography of Joan BENNETT
Joan Geraldine Bennett (February 27, 1910 – December 7, 1990) was an Emmy-nominated American film actress who also achieved success later in life as a television actress. Height: 5' 4" (1.63 m) Early life Bennett, the youngest of three daughters, was born in Palisades Park, New Jersey, the daughter of stage actors Richard Bennett and Adrienne Morrison, and the younger sister of actresses Constance and Barbara Bennett (the mother of Morton Downey, Jr.). Bennett and her siblings were also t... Biography of Marcia GAY HARDEN
Marcia Gay Harden (born August 14, 1959) is an Academy Award-winning American actress. Early life Harden, one of five children, was born in La Jolla, California, the daughter of Beverly (née Bushfield), a housewife, and Thaddeus Harold Harden, a Texas native who was an officer in the Navy. One of her siblings is also named Thaddeus. Harden's family frequently moved because of her father's job, living in Japan, Germany, Greece, California and Maryland. She graduated from Surrattsville High Sc... Biography of Fats DOMINO
Antoine Dominique "Fats" Domino (born February 26, 1928 in New Orleans, Louisiana) is a classic R&B and rock and roll pianist and singer-songwriter. Imperial Records era (1949-1962) Domino first attracted national attention with "The Fat Man" in 1949 on Imperial Records. This song is an early rock and roll record, featuring a rolling piano and Domino doing "wah-wah" vocalizing over a fat back beat. It sold over a million copies and is widely regarded as the first rock and roll record to do s... Biography of Kona CARMACK
Kona Carmack (born Jennifer Konaluhiole Carmack on October 1, 1976, Honolulu, Hawaii) is an American model and actress who was born and raised in Honolulu. She studied marketing at the University of North Carolina at Wilmington and graduated from USC in 2004. She was Playboy magazine's Playmate of the Month in February 1996. She is of Irish, Spanish, Filipino, Chinese, and Hawaiian descent. Measurements 34" B - 24" - 34" Height 5 ft 4 in (1.63 m) Weight 107 lb She has lived in Israel, ... Biography of Tatyana ALI
Tatyana Marisol Ali (born January 24, 1979) is an American actress and R&B singer, perhaps best known for her role as Ashley Banks in The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air. Early life Ali was born in Long Island, New York, daughter of Sonia, a nurse, and Sheriff Ali, a police detective. Her mother is a native of Panama and her father is of mixed Black and Indian descent from Trinidad and Tobago. She has two younger sisters, Anastasia and Kimberly. She is fluent in both English and Spanish. She atte... Biography of Marsha MASON
Marsha Mason (born April 3, 1942) is a Golden Globe Award-winning, Academy Award-nominated American actress and television director. Early life Mason was born in St. Louis, Missouri, to Edward Marion Mason, Jr., and his wife Catharine Kentwood-Mason. She has a younger sister, Linda (b. 1943). She grew up on Elmont Lane in Crestwood, MO. Mason is a graduate of Nerinx Hall High School and Webster College, both in Webster Groves, MO. Marriage and films She was married to playwright and s... Biography of Susan WARD
Susan Ward (born April 15, 1976) is an American actress and model. Career Ward began modeling at the age of 13, leaving school and moving to New York to do so, deciding to try her hand at acting several years later. After a few years of small TV jobs on All My Children and NBC's short-lived Malibu Shores, she landed her first main role as the heroine on Aaron Spelling's daytime soap opera Sunset Beach, where she played the virginal Meg Cummings. In 1999, she began to pursue a movie career... Biography of Thelma TODD
Thelma Todd (July 29, 1905 – December 16, 1935) was a popular American actress of the late 1920s and early 1930s film. Appearing in over 40 pictures between 1926 and 1935, she is best remembered for her comedic roles in films like Marx Brothers' Monkey Business and Horse Feathers, and co-starring with Buster Keaton and Jimmy Durante in Speak Easily. She also had roles in Laurel and Hardy's Another Fine Mess, The Devil's Brother (aka Fra Diavolo), and Chickens Come Home, and appeared briefly in T... Biography of Mickie JAMES
Mickie Laree James (born August 31, 1979) is an American professional wrestler signed to World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) appearing on its Raw brand. Ring name(s) Mickie James{ Alexis Laree Princess Alexis Queen Alexis Superball Vicki Adams Billed height 5 ft 4 in (1.63 m) Billed weight 124 lb (56 kg/8.9 st) James began her professional wrestling career in 1999 as a valet on the independent circuit, where she was known under the name Alexis Laree. She trained in several camps ... Biography of Laura LEIGHTON
Laura Leighton (born Laurie Miller on July 24, 1968) is an American actress. She was born and raised in Iowa City, Iowa and is a 1986 graduate of West High School in Iowa City (ironically located on Melrose Avenue). In 1988, she assumed her grandfather's surname. Filmography Laura Leighton is probably best known for starring on Melrose Place from 1993 to 1997 as Jane Mancini's sister, Sydney Andrews. She originally appeared in a one-off guest appearance during the show's first season a... Biography of Rianna LOVING
Rianna Loving, born September 13, 1980 in Burbank California, is an American actress. Filmography "The Bold and the Beautiful" (1987) "Undressed" (1999) "The Andy Dick Show" (2001) "American Family" (2002) "All That" (1994).... Biography of Yvonne de CARLO
Yvonne De Carlo (born Margaret Yvonne Middleton) (September 1, 1922 – January 8, 2007) was a Canadian-born American film and television actress, best known for her role as "Lily Munster" on the 1964-1966 CBS television series The Munsters. Early life The daughter of an aspiring actress, Marie De Carlo, and a salesman, William Middleton, De Carlo was born Margaret Yvonne Middleton in Vancouver, British Columbia. "I was named Margaret Yvonne - Margaret because my mother was very fond of one of... Biography of Khandi ALEXANDER
Khandi Alexander (born September 4, 1957) is an American dancer, choreographer, and film and television actress. Early life Born in New York City and educated at Queensborough Community College, she appeared on Broadway starring in Chicago, Bob Fosse’s Dancin and Dreamgirls. Also she was a choreographer for Whitney Houston’s world tour from 1988–1992. Career Since the early '90s, Alexander has concentrated on film and TV, playing the character Catherine Duke on NewsRadio and the recur... Biography of Lee PRIEST
Lee Andrew Priest McCutcheon, also known as “The Blond Myth” (born July 6, 1972 in Newcastle, Australia) is a IFBB professional bodybuilder. Background Priest was raised together with his two-year older sister by their mother, who also practices bodybuilding in Wallsend, Newcastle, NSW, Australia where he attended Platsburg Primary school. Priest has gained popularity in the bodybuilding world due to his down-to-Earth manner, laconic sense of humour and willingness to talk to and help you... Biography of Jayma MAYS
Jayma Suzette Mays (born 16 July 1979) is an American television and film actress. Mays was born in Grundy, Virginia. After graduating from Grundy Senior High School, she attended Radford University, graduating with a degree in Performing Arts. In 2004, she made her first television appearance on Joey. The following year, she made her feature film debut with a supporting role in Red Eye. Mays' other credits include House, Six Feet Under, The Comeback, Entourage, Stacked, How I Met Your Mother... Biography of Idina MENZEL
Idina Kim Menzel (born May 30, 1971) is a Tony Award-winning American actress, singer and songwriter who achieved fame for her performances as Elphaba, the Wicked Witch of the West, in the Tony award-winning musical Wicked and as Maureen Johnson in the Broadway and film versions of Rent. Early life Born in Queens, New York with the birth name Idina Kim Mentzel, Menzel is the daughter of Helene and Stuart Mentzel, who worked as a therapist and a pajama salesman respectively. She was raised in... Biography of Amanda HOLDEN
Amanda Louise Holden (born 16 February 1971) is an English actress, known for her work on British television. Early life Her father, Frank Vallely Holden, was a Petty officer in the Merchant Navy, from Liverpool. Her mother, Judith Mary Harrison, was a secretary from Gloucestershire. Her father left her mother when Amanda was four. Her mother married Leslie, whom Amanda regards as her real father, shortly afterwards. Her parents bought a guesthouse in Alum Chine in Bournemouth. Amanda went t... Biography of Jeanette MACDONALD
Jeanette MacDonald (June 18, 1903 – January 14, 1965) was an American singer and actress best remembered for her musical films of the 1930s with Maurice Chevalier (Love Me Tonight, The Merry Widow) and Nelson Eddy (Naughty Marietta, Rose Marie, and Maytime). During the 1930s and 1940s she starred in 29 feature films, four nominated for Best Picture Oscars (The Love Parade, One Hour With You, Naughty Marietta and San Francisco), and recorded extensively, earning three Gold Records. She later appe... Biography of Leila ARCIERI
Leila C. Arcieri (born December 18, 1973) is an American actress and model. She was Miss San Francisco in the 1997 Miss California pageant and has appeared in the many films such as XXX, Wild Things 2, and Daddy Day Care. Early life Arcieri was born in San Francisco, California, the daughter of an Italian American father and African-American Mother. Arcieri spent the better part of her childhood in Sebastopol, located in California's wine and redwood country. Shyness was a major obstacle in... Biography of Daniela DENBY-ASHE
Daniela Denby-Ashe (born 9 August 1978, London) is an English actress. Early life Daniela Denby-Ashe was born in London in 1978, and she has a brother two years her junior. Denby-Ashe is of exclusively Polish descent. Her father, Mirosław Pszkit (pronounced "Pshkeet"), was born in Poland and came to the United Kingdom aged 12. Denby-Ashe's mother was born in the UK and raised in France, but had Polish parents. Because of this, Denby-Ashe is fluent in French and Polish, as well as Englis... Biography of Reiko AYLESWORTH
Reiko Aylesworth (born December 9, 1972 in Chicago, Illinois) is an American film and television actress, probably best known for her work on the television series 24. She is of Dutch, Welsh, and Japanese ancestry. Aylesworth moved to Seattle, Washington when she was 13 years old. She went on to study at the University of Washington. Height: 5' 4" (1.63 m) Career Beginning her career on the soap opera One Life to Live, Aylesworth also had minor roles in Random Hearts, and You've Got Mail.... Biography of Bonnie BEDELIA
Bonnie Bedelia (born March 25, 1948) is an American actress. Bedelia was born Bonnie Bedelia Culkin in New York City, New York, the daughter of Marian Ethel (née Wagner), a writer and editor, and Philip Harley Culkin, a journalist. She is the sister of Kit Culkin; she is also the aunt of actors Macaulay, Quinn, Kieran, Christian, Shane and Rory Culkin. Bedelia was nominated for a Golden Globe for her starring role in 1983's Heart Like a Wheel as drag racer Shirley Muldowney. Other well-kno... Biography of Yvette MIMIEUX
Yvette Carmen Mimieux (b. January 8, 1942) is a now-retired American movie and television actress. She was born in Los Angeles, California to a French father and Mexican mother. (Some sources say she was born in 1939 - .) In 1960, Mimieux appeared in the hugely popular teen movie Where The Boys Are as well as George Pál's 1960 film version of H.G. Wells' classic 1895 novel, The Time Machine, co-starring Rod Taylor. The Time Machine was followed by The Light in the Piazza (1962) with Olivia de... Biography of Jeanne CRAIN
Jeanne Elizabeth Crain (May 25, 1925 – December 14, 2003) was an American actress. Early life Crain was born in Barstow, California to George A. Crain (a school teacher) and Loretta Carr; she was of Irish heritage on her mother's side, and of English and distant French descent on her father's. She moved to Los Angeles as a young child. An excellent ice skater, Crain first attracted attention when she was crowned Miss Pan Pacific at L.A.'s Pan Pacific Auditorium. Later, while still in high sc... Biography of Hannah SPEARRITT
Hannah Louise Spearritt (born April 1, 1981) is an English actress and former singer. She was previously a member of the successful pop group S Club (7). Personal life and early career She was born in Great Yarmouth in Norfolk, the youngest of three children and is the younger sister of former model and fashion designer Tanya Spearritt. Her uncle, Eddie Spearritt, from Lowestoft was a professional football player who played for Ipswich Town F.C. in the 1960s. At the age of 3, Spearritt model... Biography of Kyla PRATT
Kyla Alissa Pratt (born September 16, 1986), is an American actress and occasional singer. She is a native of Culver City, California, and sometimes she is credited as Kyla A. Pratt. Kyla is also the eldest of five children. Biography Kyla Pratt was born in California. Her first real acting experience came on a Friends episode, "The One Where Rachel Quits." She plays the little girl that Ross argues with in the Brown Bird meeting. She also starred in the 2001-2006 series One on One, where s... Biography of Cathy DOWNS
Cathy Downs (born March 3, 1924; died December 8, 1976) was an American film actress. Height: 5' 4" (1.63 m) Born in Port Jefferson, New York, Downs began her film career with a small role in The Dolly Sisters (1945) and the following year played the title role in My Darling Clementine. Following the success of the latter, Downs was cast in a prison drama For You I Die (1947), an Abbott & Costello comedy The Noose Hangs High, and several western films. By the beginning of the 1950s she ... Biography of Kaila YU
Kaila Yu (Chinese: 于麗萍, pinyin: Yú Lìpíng), born May 16, 1979 in Taipei, Taiwan, is a Taiwanese American nude model and pop singer. She gained popularity through modeling in import car shows. Kaila is known for her appearances in Import Tuner, Playboy, FHM, and her roles in The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift, House of Style, and Dark Blue. She began college at UC San Diego and later transferred to UCLA in order to live in Los Angeles to pursue modeling and singing. ... Biography of Peaches GELDOF
Peaches Honeyblossom Michelle Charlotte Angel Vanessa Geldof (born 16 March 1989) is a British socialite and occasional broadcaster. Background Geldof was born in London in 1989, the second daughter of Bob Geldof and Paula Yates. She is the granddaughter of Hughie Green. Her sisters are Fifi Trixibelle Geldof (born 1983) and Pixie Geldof (born 1990), and she also has a younger half-sister, Heavenly Hiraani Tiger Lily Hutchence, (born 1996). She grew up in Chelsea, and sat AS-level exams... 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... 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 J... Biography of Sabrina LLOYD
Sabrina Lloyd (born November 20, 1970 in Fairfax, Virginia) is an American film and television actress. She was raised in Eustis, Florida. Two of her most high-profile roles were as Wade Welles in the science fiction series Sliders and as Natalie Hurley in the ABC sitcom Sports Night Height: 5' 4" (1.63 m) Early life Sabrina Lloyd was born in Fairfax, Virginia. At age 12, she began acting by scoring the role of Pepper in a Mount Dora production of Annie. When she was 15, she participat... Biography of Barbara LA MARR
Barbara La Marr (Reatha Dale Watson) (July 28, 1896 in Yakima, Washington – January 30, 1926 in Altadena, California) was a popular American stage and motion picture actress, cabaret artist and writer. Height: 5' 4" (1.63 m) Career After marrying and moving with her husband to New York City, La Marr found employment writing screenplays and her association with movie makers led to her returning to Los Angeles and making her film debut as an actress in 1920. Over the next few years she acte... Biography of Marisol NICHOLS
Marisol Nichols (born November 2, 1973) is an American actress known for her role in the sixth season of 24 as Special Agent Nadia Yassir. She is also known for her portrayal of Audrey Griswold in Vegas Vacation and for being the spokesperson for Bally Total Fitness. Nichols was born to Hungarian and Mexican American parents and raised in Chicago, Illinois. She is the oldest of the three and has two younger brothers. At age 12 she started using alcohol and drugs but has been sober since s... Biography of Emma SAMMS
Emma Samms (born Emma Samuelson on August 28, 1960, in London) is a British television actress. Emma Samuelson trained as a ballet dancer at the Royal Ballet School but had to stop dancing at 15 after an injury to her hip. She then decided to train as an actress, changing her name to Emma Samms as there was already an Emma Samuelson registered at actors union Equity. Career Samms has played Holly Sutton Scorpio on the daytime soap opera General Hospital in three stints: 1982 to 1985; 1... Biography of Dino de LAURENTIIS
Agostino De Laurentiis, usually credited as Dino De Laurentiis, (born August 8, 1919) is an Academy Award-winning Italian movie producer born at Torre Annunziata in the province of Naples. He grew up selling spaghetti produced by his father. A study at the Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia in Rome was interrupted by the Second World War. Since his first movie, L'ultimo Combattimento, (1940) he has produced nearly 150 movies to date. In the early years De Laurentiis produced neoclassica... Biography of Stacie ORRICO
Stacie Joy Orrico (born March 3, 1986) is a Grammy-nominated and Dove Award-winning pop singer, songwriter, and occasional actress. Early life Stacie Orrico was born in Seattle, Washington to Italian-American parents. Orrico is one of five children: her siblings are Jesse, Rachel, Alicia and Joshua. Music career Orrico got her start in 1998 at the age of 12 by attending a Christian music festival Praise in the Rockies, held in her then-home state of Colorado. Orrico inadvertently ente... Biography of Patti PAGE
Patti Page (born Clara Ann Fowler on November 8, 1927 in Claremore (some sources give Muskogee), Oklahoma) is one of the best-known female singers in traditional pop music. She is the best-selling female artist of the 1950s and was among the first to cross over from country music to pop. Her recording career spans the years 1947 to 1981. Page continues to perform live and was billed as "The Singing Rage, Miss Patti Page". Early life and rise to success She was born into a large and poor fami... Biography of Catherine O'HARA
Catherine Anne O'Hara (born March 4, 1954) is a Canadian-American Emmy and Gemini Award-winning actress and comedienne. She is well known for her comedy work on SCTV and for her film roles as Delia Deetz in Beetlejuice, Kate McCallister in Home Alone, Sally in The Nightmare Before Christmas and the series of mockumentary films written and directed by Christopher Guest. Career She started her acting career in 1974 as a cast member of The Second City in Toronto. She was an understudy for Gilda... Biography of Alison SWEENEY
Alison Ann Sweeney (born September 19, 1976) is an American soap opera actress. She was born in Los Angeles, California. Sweeney is best known for her portrayal of Samantha "Sami" Gene Brady on the American soap opera Days of Our Lives. In this role, she has earned four Soap Opera Digest Awards and a Fan Voted Daytime Emmy Award. She has been on Days since January 6, 1993. A teenage actress on the soap, she took fellow Days star Bryan Dattilo to her high school prom. Her television debut w... Biography of Gülcan KARAHANCI
Gülcan Kamps (née Karahancı, born 20 September 1982 in Lübeck, Germany) is a German TV personality of Turkish descent. Gülcan was born on 20 September 1982 in Lübeck. After finishing her Abitur (A-level) at Lübeck, she decided to embark on a career in management economics. During this time, she was chosen by VIVA from among a pool of 1000 hopefuls in a VJ search. In 2004, teaming up with Mustafa Sandal she got onto the European top 10 music charts with Aya Benzer. In 2004, she placed 2nd... Biography of Linda DARNELL
Linda Darnell (October 16, 1923 – April 10, 1965) was an American film actress. Born Monetta Eloyse Darnell in Dallas, Texas, and one of five children, Darnell was a model by the age of 11 and was acting in theater by the age of 13. She was chosen by a talent scout to go to Hollywood but was sent home to Dallas when the scout discovered she had lied about her age. By 1939, Darnell had returned to Hollywood and immediately began to secure good roles, appearing in such films as Blood and San... Biography of Louise NURDING
Louise Elizabeth Redknapp (born Louise Elizabeth Nurding, November 4, 1974) is an English singer and television presenter, known as a member of the girl group Eternal and subsequently as a solo singer (billed simply as "Louise"). Among UK sport fans she is known as the wife of English footballer-turned-pundit Jamie Redknapp. In the July 2004 edition of FHM, she was named Sexiest Woman of the Decade. Music career Eternal While out illegally clubbing (at the age of 16) Nurding met mu... Biography of Adam LAMBERG
Adam Matthew Lamberg (born September 14, 1984) is an American actor, perhaps best known for playing David "Gordo" Gordon in the Disney Channel series Lizzie McGuire from 2001 to 2004. Lamberg was born in New York City, the son of Suzanne, a public high school teacher, and Marc Lamberg. His father is Jewish and his mother is French Canadian; Lamberg considers himself a "cultural Jew." He attended P.S. 183 on the Upper East Side and Wagner Middle School. In 1998 he enrolled in the Bronx High Sc... Biography of Barbara PAYTON
Barbara Payton (born Barbara Lee Redfield, November 16, 1927 - May 8, 1967) was an American film actress. Early life and career Born Barbara Lee Redfield in Cloquet, Minnesota, she was the daughter of restaurateurs, and raised in Odessa, Texas. In 1945, at age seventeen, she headed for Hollywood in search of a career in movies and was eventually placed under contract by Universal Studios where she began appearing in bit parts. After being discovered by James Cagney and his producer brother... Biography of Jade VILLALON (SWEETBOX)
Jade Valerie Villalon, also known by her stage name, Jade Valerie (born August 12, 1980) is an American pop singer, songwriter and actress. She is sometimes known as Jade from Sweetbox. She was the former lead singer of Sweetbox until she quit in September 2007, to pursue her own career under her new stage name. She had been with the band for 7 years between 2000 and 2007, solidifying the success of the band which previously had a hit with Everything's Gonna Be Alright in 1998 when the frontwoma... Biography of Annette O'TOOLE
Annette O'Toole (born Annette Toole on April 1, 1952 in Houston, Texas) is an American dancer and actress. Early life and career Born to William West Toole Jr. and Dorothy Geraldine Niland, Annette began acting at a very young age, doing guest appearances in shows such as My Three Sons (1960), The Virginian (1962), Gunsmoke (1955), and The Partridge Family (1970). 1970s-1980s Her first major role was as Robby Benson's tutor/girlfriend in the college basketball opus One on One in 1977.... 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 ... Biography of Gail PORTER
Gail Porter (born March 23, 1971 at the Simpson's Memorial Hospital in Edinburgh, Scotland), sometimes known by her married name Gail Hipgrave, is a British television presenter who became widely known after presenting Fully Booked in the late 1990s. Porter has tended to present family-friendly television programmes, or ones aimed directly at children, for example The Movie Chart Show, Top of the Pops, and Live & Kicking, work for CITV , and other programmes such as The Big Breakfast and Gail Po... Biography of Shae MARKS
Christy Shae Marks (born June 1, 1972) is an American model and actress. Stats Measurements Bust: 34" D Waist: 23" Hips: 34" Height 5 ft 4 in (1.63 m) Weight 105 lb (48 kg/7.5 st) She was born in New Orleans, Louisiana where she spent most of childhood. According to her Playmate Profile, she was a tomboy growing up. Soon after her tenth birthday, Marks' family moved to a small town outside of Atlanta, Georgia. While in high school she played soccer and tennis and was involved in swi... Biography of Faye EMERSON
Faye Margaret Emerson (July 8, 1917 – March 9, 1983) was an American film actress. She is remembered as an actress in many Warner Bros. films beginning in 1941. She was born in tiny Elizabeth in Allen Parish in south central Louisiana. In 1944, she played one of her more memorable roles as Zachary Scott's ex in The Mask of Dimitrios. In 1948, she made her move to television, acting in various anthology series, such as The Chevrolet Tele-Theatre, The Philco Television Playhouse and Goodyear Te... Biography of Bijou PHILLIPS
Bijou Lily Phillips (born April 1, 1980) is an American actress, fashion model, and singer. Some of her larger film roles include Bully, Havoc, Hostel: Part II, and Tart. Early life Bijou Phillips was born in Greenwich, Connecticut, and is the daughter of John Phillips of The Mamas and the Papas and his then-wife Geneviève Waïte, a South African model. Her older brother is Tamerlane Phillips and her half-siblings are Mackenzie Phillips, Jeffrey Phillips, and Chynna Phillips. The name "Bijou"... Biography of Alice BRAGA
Alice Braga (born April 15, 1983) is a Brazilian actress. She has appeared in several films, most notably as Angélica in 2002's highly acclaimed City of God. In 2007 her first U.S. blockbuster, I Am Legend, was released. Early life Braga was born in São Paulo, Brazil. Her exposure to the world of acting came at an exceedingly early age. As both her mother, Ana Maria Braga, and aunt, Sônia Braga, are actresses, Alice often accompanied the two to film sets and it did not take long for her to d... Biography of Gala LEON GARCIA
Gala Leon Garcia (born December 23, 1973 in Madrid, Spain) is a professional female tennis player from Spain. WTA Tour titles (1) Singles (1) Legend Grand Slam (0) WTA Championships (0) Tier I Event (0) WTA Tour (1) No. Date Tournament Surface Opponent in the final Score 1. 28 May 2000 Madrid, Spain Clay Fabiola Zuluaga 4–6, 6–2, 6–2 Singles finalist (4) 1998: Maria Lankowitz (lost to Patty Schnyder) 2000: Sopot (lost to Anke Huber) 2001: Knokke-Heist (lost... 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. ... Biography of Sondra LOCKE
Sondra Locke, actress and director (born May 28, 1947 in Shelbyville, Tennessee, USA), made her film debut in 1968 in The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter with Alan Arkin, for which she received an Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actress. She then went on to co-star regularly with Clint Eastwood in his films, The Gauntlet, Every Which Way But Loose, Any Which Way You Can, Bronco Billy, Sudden Impact, and The Outlaw Josey Wales. Height: 5' 4" (1.63 m) Sondra Locke began a romantic rela... Biography of Gwen VERDON
Gwyneth Evelyn “Gwen” Verdon (January 13, 1925 – October 18, 2000) was an American dancer and actress. Early life & career Verdon was born in Culver City, California, the second child of Gertrude Lilian (née Standring; October 24, 1896-October 16, 1956) and Joseph William Verdon (December 31, 1896-June 23, 1978), who were British emigrants to the United States by way of Canada. Her brother was William Farrell Verdon (August 1, 1923-June 10, 1991). The Verdon family could be described as "sho... Biography of Charlotte ROSS
Charlotte Ross (born January 21, 1968) is an Emmy-nominated American actress, who is perhaps most widely known as a cast member of NYPD Blue from 2001 to 2004. Early years Ross was born and raised in Winnetka, Illinois. Her first theater performance was at the age of 8 in My First Mouthpiece. As a young woman, she performed in productions at her hometown theater. She attended New Trier High School and later moved to Los Angeles. Career Ross appeared on Days of Our Lives as Eve Baron... Biography of Valentina VEZZALI
Maria Valentina Vezzali (born February 14, 1974 in Jesi) is an Italian fencer who has won four Olympic gold medals in foil competitions. She also won a silver medal in foil at the 2006 World Fencing Championships. Later in the tournament she also won a silver in the team's foil event together with her team mates Elisa Di Francisca, Giovanna Trillini and Margherita Granbassi.... Biography of Skyler SHAYE
Skyler Shaye (born October 14, 1986) is an American actress. She is best known for playing Cloe in the 2007 film Bratz: The Movie. Shaye was born Skyler Anna Shuster in Los Angeles, California, the god daughter of acting veteran Jon Voight. At age fifteen she was emancipated from her parents, and in 2003 she began her own production company, Skye Entertainment. Shaye began acting as a child. Her first film acting role was in the 1996 independent horror film The Whispering as a ghost girl. ... Biography of Jean ROBIC
Jean Robic (born June 10, 1921 in Vouziers (Champagne-Ardenne) – died Claye-Souilly, October 6, 1980 ) was a French road racing cyclist, who won the 1947 Tour de France. Robic was a professional cyclist from 1943 to 1961, and died in a car accident near Claye-Souilly. Robic is best known for winning the Tour de France in 1947, when he went against tradition and attacked the race leader, Pierre Brambilla, on the last day. Robic secured enough of an advantage by accelerating on the Côte de Bon ... Biography of Tammy Lynn MICHAELS
Tammy Lynn Michaels (born Tammy Lynn Doring November 26, 1974, north of Lafayette, Indiana), also known by the surname Etheridge after exchanging vows with Melissa Etheridge, and is an American actress. Michaels was a regular cast member on the Warner Brothers Network television show Popular and guest-starred on the Showtime drama The L Word. Career Michaels developed a passion for acting in junior high school and after graduating moved to New York to pursue it. She attended AMDA and comp... Biography of Ida LUPINO
Ida Lupino (February 4, 1918 – August 3, 1995) was an English film actress, director, and a pioneer in the field of women filmmakers. Early life She was born in Camberwell, London (allegedly under a table during a World War I zeppelin raid), the daughter of actress Connie O'Shea (aka: Connie Emerald) and music hall entertainer, Stanley Lupino, one of the Lupino family. Career rise Encouraged to enter show business by both her parents and a first cousin once-removed, Lupino Lane, Ida L... Biography of Amanda DETMER
Amanda Jeannette Detmer (born September 27, 1971) is an American actress who has appeared in various films and television shows. Personal life Detmer was born in Chico, California, the daughter of Susan, a reading teacher, and Melvin Detmer, a singing cowboy. She attended California State University, Chico for her undergraduate education; deciding to complete her Master of Fine Arts from NYU's Tisch School of the Arts before seriously embarking on a career in show business. Career Det... Biography of Niki GUDEX
Niki Gudex (born 19 July 1978, Guildford, England) is an Australian professional mountain biker from Sydney. She competes in both downhill and cross country disciplines. In addition to being a professional mountainbiker, Gudex is also a model and a graphic designer. In the Australian edition of FHM magazine she has been listed in the 100 Sexiest Women in the World in 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005 and 2006.... Biography of Carole MONTILLET
Carole Montillet-Carles (born April 7, 1973) is a French alpine skier. Career She became a member of the Villard de Lans ski club in Grenoble. In 1994 and 1998, finished 14th in the Super-G at the Winter Olympics at Lillehammer and Nagano respectively. In January 2002 Montillet was chosen by the Comité national olympique et sportif français to be the flag bearer for the 2002 Winter Olympics at Salt Lake City. Her victory in the downhill ski event at the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt La... Biography of Jermaine DUPRI
Jermaine Dupri, also known as JD, (born Jermaine Dupri Mauldin September 23, 1972 in Atlanta), is an American record producer and rapper. Music career Dupri has pursued a recording career of his own resulting in hits such as "Money Ain't a Thang" (1998, with Jay-Z), "Welcome to Atlanta" (2001, with Ludacris), "It's like That" (2005, with Mariah Carey), and "Gotta Getcha" featuring Johnta Austin. He became involved in a dispute between Eminem and Dr. Dre in 2002. So So Def, a label spec... Biography of Lisa HARTMAN
Lisa Hartman (born June 1, 1956 in Houston, Texas) is an actress. She made her first big splash in television in 1977 in the TV flop Tabitha; the belated spin-off of the 1960s sitcom Bewitched. Lisa played the now grown-up Tabitha Stephens, who tried making it on her own without using her magic powers. After that series' cancellation, she did several TV series guest spots and appeared in the 1981 CBS TV remake of Jacqueline Susann's Valley of the Dolls. She played singer/actress Neely O'Hara,... Biography of Sarah CLARKE
Sarah Clarke (born February 16, 1972) is an American actress, best known for her role as Nina Myers on the Fox Network's television show, 24. Early life Clarke was born in St. Louis, Missouri, the daughter of Carolyn, a homemaker, and Ernest Clarke, an engineer. Clarke attended Indiana University, where she studied Fine Arts and Italian. While a student at IU, Clarke became a member of the Kappa Alpha Theta sorority. She was initiated into the Beta chapter in 1990. Clarke first became... Biography of Elizabeth HASSELBECK
Elisabeth Hasselbeck (née Filarski; born May 28, 1977) is an Emmy- nominated American former reality show contestant of Survivor: The Australian Outback and current co-host on the United States daytime talk show The View. Early life Elisabeth DelPadre Filarski was born in Cranston, Rhode Island. She is the daughter of Catholic school teacher/lawyer Elisabeth DelPadre, and architect Kenneth Filarski. She has one brother, Kenneth Jr. As a child, she lived in Providence and Cranston, Rhode Isla... Biography of Patty WAGSTAFF
Patty Wagstaff (née Patricia Rosalie Kearns Combs) (born September 11, 1951 in St. Louis, Missouri) is an aerobatic pilot from the United States. Wagstaff traveled all over the world as a child: her father was a pilot for Japan Airlines, and Wagstaff would travel to Southeast Asia, Australia and Alaska to prepare for her own career as a pilot. Her first lesson was on a Cessna 185; since then, she has earned licenses to fly multiple aircraft, including helicopters. Her sister, Toni, is a pilot fo... Biography of Jane PAULEY
Margaret Jane Pauley (born October 31, 1950, in Indianapolis, Indiana) is an American television journalist, and has been involved in news reporting since 1975. She is most known for her 13 year tenure on NBC's "Today" program and later 12 years of "Dateline NBC," and has acknowledged publicly her struggle with mental health and bipolar disorder. Early life and career Pauley competed in debate and public speaking tournaments while enrolled at Warren Central High School in Indianapolis. Paul... Biography of Carmen SEVILLA
Carmen Sevilla (born October 16, 1930 in Seville) is a popular Spanish actress, singer and TV presenter. She made her film debut in 1948 in Jalisco Canta en Sevilla. Other roles include Academy Award nominee La venganza (film) , Buscando a Mónica (1962) and the 1956 French film Don Juan.. She played Mary Magdalene in Nicholas Ray's King of Kings (film). In 1972 she played Octavia in the English-language film Antony and Cleopatra, directed by Charlton Heston. She received a Círculo de Escri... Biography of Peggy Ann GARNER
Peggy Ann Garner (February 3, 1932 – October 16, 1984) was an Academy Award-winning American cinema and theater actress. Born in Canton, Ohio, Garner's mother pushed her into the limelight, and entered her in talent quests while Garner was still a child. By 1938 she had made her first film appearance and over the next few years appeared in several more films including Jane Eyre (1944) and The Keys of the Kingdom (1944). She reached the height of her success at the age of 13 in A Tree Grows in... Biography of Isabelle DELOBEL
Isabelle Delobel (born June 17, 1978) is a French figure skater. She currently competes in ice dance with Olivier Schoenfelder. They are the 2007 European champions. They have been skating together since 1990. Competitive highlights (with Schoenfelder) Post-2000 Event 2000-2001 2001-2002 2002-2003 2003-2004 2004-2005 2005-2006 2006-2007 2007-2008 Winter Olympic Games 16th 4th World Championships 13th 12th 9th 6th 4th 5th 4th 1st European Championships 10th 7th 4th 3rd 4th... Biography of Patricia GIRARD-LENO
Patricia Girard-Léno (born April 8, 1968 in Pointe-à-Pitre, Guadeloupe, France) is a French athlete who competed mainly in the 100 metre Hurdles. She competed for France in the 1996 Summer Olympics held in Atlanta, U.S. in the 100 metre hurdles where she won the bronze medal. She also won a gold medal in the 2003 World Championships in Athletics held in Paris in the 4x100 m relay. Height 1.63 m Weight 48 kg... Biography of Miranda LAMBERT
Miranda Lambert (born November 10, 1983 in Longview, Texas) 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...
Biography of Alona TAL
Alona Tal (born October 20, 1983) is an Israeli television actress. Career Tal started her career fresh out of the Israeli army, with a children's musical video tape, in which she played an evil witch. Following that, she appeared in a commercial for a laundry detergent. After that she got the lead role in the Israeli film Lihiyot Kohav (Being a Star). During the filming of the movie, she was offered two roles in two different Israeli television shows, and she took both. The first was a ... Biography of Shavon KIRKSEY
Shavon Kirksey, born August 8, 1989 in San Francisco, California, is an American actress. Filmography (source: http://www.imdb.com/name/nm2058323/ ) A Thousand Words (2009) (post-production) .... Teenager Dragonball Evolution (2009) .... Emi ... aka Dragonball Evolution (Japan) ... aka Dragonball: Evolution (USA) "Private Practice" .... Maya Bennett (2 episodes, 2007) - In Which Addison Has a Very Casual Get Together (2007) TV episode .... Maya Bennett - In Which Sam Receiv... Biography of Natalia RODRIGUEZ
Natalia Rodríguez Gallego (born December 11, 1982) is the full name of the Spanish singer Natalia. She was a contestant on the successful Spanish TV show Operación Triunfo in 2001, where she finished 14th. She is the Spanish Pop Princess. In 2002, she released her highly successful album No soy un ángel (I'm Not an Angel), produced by British dance producers Xenomania. She was transformed into the Spanish Britney Spears, and the first single off the album, Vas a volverme loca. In 2003, Nat... Biography of Beth EHLERS
Beth Ehlers (born July 23, 1968 in Queens, New York) is a Daytime Emmy-nominated American actress. Personal life Born in Queens, Ehlers eventually moved closer to Manhattan and attended Satellite Academy, a performing arts school, as a child. Ehlers briefly attended Syracuse University before focusing on her acting career. In 1991, Ehlers married Dr. William Parsons. Ehlers became involved with Mark Derwin, her co-star on Guiding Light shortly after marrying Parsons and they later divorc... Biography of Kate RITCHIE
Kate Ritchie (born August 14, 1978 in Goulburn, New South Wales) is a Gold Logie Award winning Australian actress who is best known for her portrayal of Sally Fletcher on the television soap opera Home and Away. She has played the character since the series began in 1988 and, along with fellow original cast member Ray Meagher, holds the Guinness Record for the longest continuous role in an Australian drama series. In addition to 20 years on Home and Away, Ritchie has appeared in commercials, ... Biography of Giovanna TRILLINI
Giovanna Trillini (born 17 May 1970 in Jesi) is an Italian foil fencer. She is a 4-time Olympic champion (3 times in the team event, 1 time individual) and she won an additional silver and 2 bronze medals in individual Olympic competitions. Trillini won the bronze medal at the foil 2006 World Fencing Championships after she lost 15-8 to Margherita Granbassi in the semi final. Later in the tournament she also won a silver in the team's foil event together with her team mates Elisa Di Francisca... Biography of Patti CATALANO
Patti Catalano, born April 6, 1953 in Chelsea, Massachusetts, was an American field and track champion.... Biography of Esther RANTZEN
Esther Louise Rantzen CBE (born 22 June 1940 (1940-06-22) (age 68)) is an English journalist and television presenter who is best known for her long stint in That's Life! and her child protection activities as founder of the charity ChildLine. Esther Rantzen was born in Berkhamsted, Hertfordshire, England into a Jewish family. She was educated at the North London Collegiate School and Somerville College, Oxford, where she read English and performed with the Drama Society. After training in ty... Biography of Ruta LEE
Ruta Lee (born May 30, 1936) is a Canadian actress and dancer who appeared as one of the brides in the film Seven Brides for Seven Brothers. She is also best known for a being a "regular" on a number of game shows, including Hollywood Squares, What's My Line?, and as Alex Trebek's co-host on High Rollers. Early life Lee was born Ruta Mary Kilmonis in Montreal, Canada, the only child of Lithuanian immigrants. In 1948 her family moved to Los Angeles where she attended high school and began st... Biography of BIG BROTHER KAREN
Karen Fowler, divorcee, was a contestant on Big Brother 1. She was most remembered for asking to divorce her husband on national television. She had also asked the television audience to vote for her to leave the Big Brother house since she missed her kids. Karen was marked for banishment in Week 6, and was banished on Day 43. Brittany revealed that Karen had moved to Los Angeles and settled there with her family.... Biography of Landry ALLBRIGHT
Landry Alexandra Allbright (born August 1, 1989) is an American film and television actress. Allbright was born in San Dimas, Los Angeles, California. She got her start as the fifth Bridget Forrester on CBS's daytime soap The Bold and the Beautiful. She played Nicolas Cage's young daughter in the 1997 big screen hit Con Air. She gained further recognition as Malcolm's first girlfriend, Julie Houlerman, on Fox's off-beat single-camera sitcom Malcolm in the Middle. She had a minor role in Ron H... Biography of Eva BARTOK
Eva Bartok (June 18, 1927 - August 1, 1998) was an actress born in Hungary. She began acting in films in 1950 and her last credited appearance was in 1966. She is best known for appearances in Blood and Black Lace, The Crimson Pirate and Ten Thousand Bedrooms. She died on August 1, 1998. Bartok spent several years in a German concentration camp, eventually marrying a Nazi officer. After the war, the marriage was annulled on the grounds of coercion of a minor. Three decades after the affair, s...
Biography of Darlene CONLEY
Darlene Conley (July 18, 1934 – January 14, 2007) was an American actress. Conley's career spanned fifty years, but she was best known for her performances in daytime television, and in particular, for her portrayal of larger-than-life fashion industrialist Sally Spectra on The Bold and the Beautiful. Conley played the Emmy Award-nominated role from 1988 until her death nineteen years later. Darlene's character Sally is the only soap opera character to be displayed at Madame Tussaud's wax fig... Biography of Ingrid PITT
Ingrid Pitt (born November 21, 1937) is an actress best known for her work in horror films of the 1960s and 1970s. Height: 5' 4" (1.63 m) Background Born Ingoushka Petrov in Poland to a German father and a Jewish mother, during World War II she and her family were imprisoned in a concentration camp. She survived, and in Berlin, Germany in the 1950s met and married an American soldier and ended up living in California. After her marriage failed, she returned to Europe but after a small rol... Biography of Estelle PARSONS
Estelle Margaret Parsons (born November 20, 1927) is an Academy Award-winning American theatre, film and television actress. She is a member of the American Theatre Hall of Fame. Early life Parsons was born in Lynn, Massachusetts, the daughter of Elinor Ingebore (née Mattson), who was a native of Sweden, and Eben Parsons. She attended the Oak Grove School for Girls in Maine. After graduating from Connecticut College in 1949, Parsons initially studied law and then worked as a singer with a ba... Biography of Kate O'MARA
Kate O'Mara (b. August 10, 1939, Leicester) is an English film and television actress. Born as Kate Carroll, the daughter of John Carroll and actress Hazel Bainbridge. She was educated at the Aida Foster School, beginning an early career as a speech therapist, but switched gears to acting. O'Mara had an out of wedlock son, Chris (b. 1963), whom she was forced to give up for adoption but was later reunited with him. She made her debut in a stage production of The Merchant of Venice in 1963. ... Biography of Eilen HERLIE
Eileen Herlie, born March 8, 1918 in Clarkston, Glasgow (source: British Entertainers, the astrologial profiles, third edition), is a Scottish actress. Filmography (source: http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0379047/ ) "All My Children" .... Myrtle Lum Fargate / ... (66 episodes, 1976-2008) ... aka All My Children: The Summer of Seduction (USA: promotional title) - Episode #1.9900 (2008) TV episode .... Myrtle Fargate - Episode #1.9774 (2007) TV episode .... Myrtle Fargate - Episode... Biography of Anna WING
Anna Wing (born 30 October 1914) is an English actress. She has had a long career in television and theatre. She was born in Hackney, London, and started out as an artist's model and later, during the Second World War, worked in East End hospitals. At 30, she married the actor Peter Davey, by whom she had a son, the actor-director Mark Wing-Davey, but the marriage ended in divorce after three years. She later had a long relationship with the poet Philip O'Connor. She is well remembered for... Biography of Corinne REY-BELLET
Corinne Rey-Bellet (2 August 1972 – 30 April 2006) was a Swiss alpine skier. Rey-Bellet shared a World Championship silver medal in the downhill event in St. Moritz in 2003 and won a total of five World Cup races. She retired in 2003 because of a series of injuries to her right knee. Death Rey-Bellet was shot and killed in her parents' home in the Swiss village of Les Crosets, Canton Valais on Sunday, 30 April 2006 by her husband Gerold Stadler. She was three months pregnant. Her brother... Biography of Frances FISHER
Frances Fisher (born 11 May 1952) is an English-American actress. Biography Personal life Fisher was born in Milford on Sea, Hampshire, England, daughter of Olga (née Moen), a homemaker, and William I. "Bill" Fisher, Sr., an oil refinery construction superintendent. Before she reached the age of fifteen, Fisher moved nine times because of her father's job. Upon completing high school in Orange, Texas, Fisher worked as a secretary until she moved to Virginia to perform at the Barter Thea... Biography of Angell CONWELL
Angell Conwell (born August 2, 1983 in Orangeburg, South Carolina) is an American actress and model. Angell moved to Columbia, South Carolina at the age of 2. She attended Seven Oaks Elementary School in Columbia where she was the first African-American student body president. In 1994 she moved to Los Angeles to film the TV pilot "On Our Own". She also starred in films such as Soul Plane and Baby Boy and appeared in TV productions and series like What About Your Friends: Weekend Getaway, One ... Biography of Jeanne VALERIE
Micheline Yvette Voituriez, best known as Jeanne Valérie, born August 19, 1941 in Paris, is a French actress. Filmography (source: http://french.imdb.com/name/nm0885510/ ) Villa del venerdì, La (1992) .... Luisa's Mother ... autre titre : Husbands and Lovers ... autre titre : In Excess Pelle, La (1981) .... Principessa a Capri ... autre titre : Peau, La (France) ... autre titre : The Skin Joë Caligula - Du suif chez les dabes (1969) .... Brigitte ... autre titre : Joe Caligula ... Biography of Yuriko ISHIDA
Yuriko Ishida (石田 ゆり子 (石田 百合子), Ishida Yuriko?, October 3, 1969 -) is a Japanese actress and essayist from Nagoya. She was the Japanese voice of "San" in Princess Mononoke. She is older sister of Hikari Ishida, also an actress. She graduated from Kagawa Education Institute of Nutrition. Filmography Metal Skin Panic Madox-01 (1987) (Video) Gokudo no onna-tachi: Saigo no tatakai (1990) 3-4x juugatsu (Boiling Point (film... Biography of Beatrice LILLIE
Bea Lillie (May 29, 1894 – January 20, 1989) was a comic actress. She was born as Beatrice Gladys Lillie in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Following her marriage in 1920 to Sir Robert Peel, she was known in private life as Lady Peel. Early career She began performing in Toronto and other Ontario towns as part of a family trio with her mother and older sister, Muriel. Eventually, her mother took the two girls to London, England where she made her West End debut in 1914. She was noted primarily ... Biography of Nathalie PECHALAT
Nathalie Pechalat, born December 12, 1983 in Rouen, is a French artistic skater.... Biography of Ruby KEELER
Ruby Keeler, born Ethel Hilda Keeler, (August 25, 1909– February 28, 1993), was an actress, singer, and dancer most famous for her on-screen coupling with Dick Powell in a string of successful early musicals at Warner Brothers, particularly 42nd Street. From 1928 to 1940, she was married to legendary singer Al Jolson. She retired from show business in the 1940s but made a widely publicized comeback on Broadway in 1971. Early Life Keeler was born in Dartmouth, Nova Scotia, Canada, in 1909, t... Biography of Constance BENNETT
Constance Campbell Bennett (October 22, 1904 – July 24, 1965) was an American actress. Known as much for her elegant persona as for her acting career, Bennett was one of Hollywood's most luminous stars, delivering amusing, madcap, and occasionally arch performances that belie her ornamental reputation. Early life She was born in New York City, the daughter of actor Richard Bennett and actress Adrienne Morrison, whose Afro-Caribbean descendant father was the stage actor Morris W. Morris. Her ... Biography of Norma TALMADGE
Norma Talmadge (May 26, 1893 – December 24, 1957) was one of the greatest film stars of the silent era. A major box office draw for more than a decade, her career reached a peak in the early 20s, when she ranked among the most popular idols of the American screen. Her most famous film was Smilin’ Through (1922), but she also scored artistic triumphs teamed with director Frank Borzage in Secrets (1924) and The Lady (1925). Her younger sisters Constance Talmadge and Natalie Talmadge were also m... Biography of Lauryn WILLIAMS
Lauryn Williams (born September 11, 1983 in Rochester, Pennsylvania) is a track and field sprint athlete, competing internationally for the United States. Williams was born and raised in suburban Pittsburgh and Detroit, Michigan. She attended the University of Miami. Williams is a silver medalist in the 100 meters at the 2004 Summer Olympics and a 4-time medalist at the World Championships in Athletics, where she won (together with Angela Daigle, Muna Lee and Me'Lisa Barber) a gold medal in t... Biography of Maureen TEEFY
Maureen Teefy (born October 26, 1953 in Minneapolis, Minnesota) is an American film and theatre actress who has appeared in such movies as Grease 2, Fame, and Supergirl. Height: 5' 4" (1.63 m) Early life Maureen Jane Teefy was born and raised in Minneapolis, Minnesota. One of eight sisters, Maureen won admittance to the Children's Theater School of Mineapolis summer program at age 15 where she received actor's training and later taught dramatics in the local Howe Elementary School. In 19...
Biography of Jacques FOUROUX
Jacques Fouroux (July 24, 1947 – December 17, 2005) was a French rugby union player and coach. He captained France when they won the Grand Slam in 1977, and was the manager when the side repeated the feat in 1981 and 1987. Player Fouroux, who played as a scrum half, played for his hometown team FC Auch, as a youngster and at the end of his career (1976–1980). He started as as senior with US Cognac until 1970 and played for La Voulte until 1976. He made his international debut in 1972 althou... Biography of Jill HALFPENNY
Jill Halfpenny (born 15 July 1975) is an English actress. Halfpenny is possibly best known for her role as Kate in the British TV drama EastEnders, from 2002-5. She has appeared on television regularly since the early 1990s in serials such as Byker Grove, Coronation Street, EastEnders and Waterloo Road. A native of Leam Lane, Gateshead, she attended St Edmund Campion there. She is a former student of the Webber Douglas Academy of Dramatic Art (1994-1996) and she also went to drama school F... Biography of Luise RAINER
Luise Rainer (born January 12, 1910), is a two-time Academy Award-winning German film actress. Of living people who have won Academy Awards, she holds the earliest-awarded Oscars. She is also the oldest of Academy Award winners at 98. The daughter of Heinrich Rainer by his spouse Emmy née Koenigsberger, Luise was born in Düsseldorf, Germany and educated in Vienna. She made her first appearance on the stage at the Dumont Theatre in Düsseldorf in 1928. She next appeared at various theatres in J... Biography of Ingrid FEVRE
Ingrid Fèvre, born in Auxerre May 29, 1975, is a French weightlifter. She won France Championship in 1994....
Biography of Gévrise EMANE
Gévrise Émane, born July 27, 1982 in Yaoundé, Cameroun, is a French judoka. She won gold medal in World Judo Championships in Brazil in 2007.... Biography of Frankie DETTORI
Lanfranco "Frankie" Dettori, MBE (born December 15, 1970 in Milan) is an Italian thoroughbred race horse jockey and celebrity. He is the son of Sardinian jockey Gianfranco Dettori, who was a prolific winner in Italy. Career Dettori's father bought him a palamino pony when he was 12 and he used to practise on it for an hour every night. When he was 13 Dettori left school to become a stable boy and apprentice jockey. The following year he went to Great Britain where he apprenticed with traine... Biography of Carlo AQUINO
Carlo Aquino is a Filipino actor, born September 3, 1985 in Quezon City. Formerly an exclusive contract star of ABS-CBN Star Magic, but now appears in some shows of GMA Network. He reach his biggest break on Television is when he lead the role of Oscar in the remake series Sinasamba Kita aired on GMA Network. Filmography Television Year Title Role 2008 Rakista (TV5) Caloy Eugenio 2008 Maging Akin Ka Lamang (GMA7) Ernie Balboa 2007 Sinasamba Kita (GMA7) Oscar 2006-2007 Makita Ka ... Biography of Siobhan FAHEY
Siobhan Fahey (born Siobhan Máire Deirdre Fahey on 10 September 1958) was a founding member of the 1980s British girl group Bananarama, and later founded the musical outfit Shakespears Sister. Fahey was born the eldest of three daughters (Maire and Niamh being the other siblings) to Helen and Joseph Fahey in Dublin, Republic of Ireland, (her parents had both come from Co Tipperary). Fahey lived in Dublin for about two years, before her family moved to Yorkshire, United Kingdom where her fathe... Biography of Nancy TRAVIS
Nancy Travis (born September 21, 1961) in New York city, is an American actress. She is known for supporting roles in both movies and television. Career Travis's first job after graduating high school was in the play "It's Hard to be a Jew" at The American Jewish Theatre in New York. She was an intern at the New Jersey Shakespeare Festival where she played minor roles and understudied leading actresses. After that, Travis appeared in a stage version of Neil Simon's Brighton Beach Memoirs an... Biography of Clare KRAMER
Clare Elizabeth Kramer (September 3, 1974) is an American actress best known for her portrayal of Glory, the main villain in Season 5 of the TV series Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Early life and career Born in Atlanta, Georgia, Kramer spent most of her childhood in Delaware, Ohio, located just north of Columbus. After graduating from high school, she attended New York University and received a BFA from NYU's Tisch School of the Arts. She moved to Los Angeles in December 1999. Kramer's film r... Biography of Kelly PACKARD
Kelly Chemane Packard (born January 29, 1975 in Glendale, California) is an American actress who starred in the TV shows Baywatch, California Dreams, and Ripley's Believe It or Not!. Packard also appeared as a contestant, and won $3,200, on Card Sharks as a child during "Kids Week." She also appeared on infomercials for Billy Blanks' Tae-Bo product, "Billy Blanks Boot Camp.", and also for Gripping Eyewear Trucolor glasses. Packard converted and was baptized as a member of The Church of Jes... 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 So... Biography of Gale Anne HURD
Gale Anne Hurd (born October 25, 1955 in Los Angeles, California) is a Hollywood film producer. Hurd is the daughter of a Los Angeles businessman and grew up in Palm Springs, California. She formed her own production company, Pacific Western Productions, in 1982. Hurd has produced many movies including The Terminator (1984), Aliens (1986), The Abyss (1989), and Armageddon (1998). Many of her films were directed by former husband, James Cameron, to whom she was married from 1985 to 1989. In... Biography of Nik KERSHAW
Nik Kershaw (born Nicholas David Kershaw, March 1, 1958, Bristol, England) is an English singer-songwriter, popular during the 1980s. Career Although born in Bristol, Kershaw grew up in Ipswich and after leaving Northgate High School in 1976, Kershaw worked as a shop assistant and in the Department of Employment for several years, during which time he played guitar and sang in a number of underground Ipswich bands. However, when the last of these, Fusion, split up in 1982, he embarked on a ... Biography of Susan Seaforth HAYES
Susan Seaforth Hayes (born Susan Seaforth on July 11, 1943 in Oakland, California) is an American actress. Career Seaforth Hayes grew up in the Hollywood environment; her mother, Elizabeth Harrower, was an actress and writer who eventually became a part of the writing team of The Young and the Restless. Although Seaforth Hayes had a number of featured roles on primetime television, and was active in theater as a teenager, she is perhaps best known for her role as Julie Olson Williams on ...
Biography of Rossana PODESTA
Rossana Podestà (born June 20, 1934) is an Italian former actress. Life She was born in the Italian colony of Libya, where she spent her first years in Tripoli and later moved to Rome after World War II. She still lives in Italy, in Dubino (Sondrio province), together with the famous mountain climber, explorer and journalist Walter Bonatti.. Actress career Her most memorable role was as Helen in Helen of Troy, produced by Robert Wise in 1956. She could not speak English so she learned ... Biography of Franco MENICHELLI
Franco Menichelli (born August 3, 1941 in Rome) is an Italian gymnast and Olympic champion. He competed at the 1960 Summer Olympics in Rome, where he received bronze medals in floor exercise and team combined exercises, and at the 1964 Summer Olympics in Tokyo where he received a gold medal in floor exercises, a silver medal in rings and a bronze medal in parallel bars. Awards Menichelli was inducted into the International Gymnastics Hall of Fame in 2003.... Biography of Tamara PODEMSKI
Tamara Podemski, born October 16, 1977 in Toronto, is a Canadian actress. She is the sister of Tamara Podemski and Sarah Podemski, and married Darrell Dennis (10 juin 2001 - 28 mai 2006, divorced). Filmography (source: http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0687947/ ) "New Amsterdam" .... Young Lenape Woman (1 episode, 2008) - Pilot (2008) TV episode .... Young Lenape Woman "Rabbit Fall" .... Gabrielle (4 episodes, 2007) - Lost and Found (2007) TV episode (uncredited) .... Gabrielle - Th... Biography of Marie MARCHAND-ARVIER
Marie Marchand-Arvier, born April 8, 1985 in Laxou, Meurthe-et-Moselle, is a French alpine skier.... Biography of Faustine MERRET
Faustine Lucie Merret (born March 13, 1978 in Brest) is a French windsurfer, who became Olympic champion at the 2004 Summer Olympics in the windsurfing class. She also has won several medals at World and European championships in the mistral and RS:X windsurfing classes. Achievements 2006 RS:X - Women's Windsurfer 2006 RS:X World Championships 2006 RS:X - Women's Windsurfer Qingdao International Regatta 2006 RS:X - Women's Windsurfer Holland Regatta 2004 Mistral - Women 2004 S... Biography of Melinda MESSENGER
Melinda Jayne Messenger (born 23 February 1971 in Swindon, Wiltshire) is an English television presenter and was one of the UK's most successful glamour models. Messenger was born in Swindon, Wiltshire, the middle child between two brothers, Jamie and Warren. Her parents Terry and Avis divorced when she was aged five. After attending local schools, she spent six months working as a flight attendant for Britannia Airways. Messenger later joined a local marketing company, rising to become custo... Biography of Nives ZEGNA
Nives Zegna, born July 11, 1933 in Luino, is an Italian former TV host, and Miss Italy in 1956.... Biography of Michael JETER
Michael Jeter (August 26, 1952 – March 30, 2003) was an American actor of film, stage, and screen. Early life Michael Jeter was born in Lawrenceburg, Tennessee to Virginia (1929) and William Jeter (1922), a dentist. Jeter was a student at Memphis State University when his interests changed from medicine to acting. He pursued his initial stage career in Baltimore, Maryland, as he had heard it was hard to get work in New York without an equity card. Career His woebegone look, extreme f... Biography of Bakary KONE
Bakari Koné (born September 17, 1981 in Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire) is an Ivorian football striker who plays for the Côte d'Ivoire national team and French Ligue 1 side OGC Nice. The Early Years Like many other Ivorian stars, he began his career at the famed youth academy at ASEC Abidjan, run by Frenchman Jean-Marc Guillou in his home country. He stayed in the academy for five years before joining the first team squad and turning professional in 1999. During his time with the ASEC first team Bak... Biography of Morgan BRITTANY
Morgan Brittany (born as Suzanne Cupito on December 5, 1951, Los Angeles, California) is an American film and television actress. Under her birth name, she appeared on TV in a 1960 episode of Lloyd Bridges's Sea Hunt; in the 1962 film Gypsy as "Baby" June, (June Havoc). She also appeared on Bridges's CBS anthology series The Lloyd Bridges Show. She appeared, under her birth name as well, in a 1967 episode of The Andy Griffith Show as "Mary Alice Carter", whom Opie Taylor (Ron Howard) asks out... Biography of Jessica TANDY
Jessie Alice "Jessica" Tandy (7 June 1909 – 11 September 1994) was a British-American stage and film actress. Early life Youngest of three siblings, Tandy was born in Geldeston Road in the Metropolitan Borough of Hackney. Her mother, Jessie Helen (née Horspool), was the head of a school for mentally handicapped children, and her father, Harry Tandy, was a travelling salesman for a rope manufacturer. Her father died when Tandy was 12, and her mother subsequently taught evening courses to earn... Biography of Vera MILES
Vera Miles (born Vera June Ralston; August 23, 1929) is an American actress known from such classic films as The Searchers, Psycho and The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance. Early life Miles was born in Boise City, Oklahoma, the daughter of Burnice (née Wyrick) and Thomas Ralston. She grew up in Pratt and in Wichita, Kansas where, as a teenager, she worked nights as a Western Union operator-typist and graduated from Wichita North High School. She was crowned Miss Kansas in 1948. Career: 19... Biography of Paulette GODDARD
Paulette Goddard (June 3, 1910 – April 23, 1990) was an American film and theatre actress. A former child fashion model and in several Broadway productions as Ziegfeld Girl, she was a major star of the Paramount Studio in the 1940s. She was married to several notable men, including Charlie Chaplin, Burgess Meredith and Erich Maria Remarque. Goddard was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her performance in So Proudly We Hail! (1943). Early life Paulette Goddard wa... Biography of Iris ADRIAN
Iris Adrian (May 29, 1912 – September 17, 1994) was an American film actress. Born in Los Angeles, California as Iris Adrian Hofstadter, Adrian won a beauty pageant and worked with the Ziegfeld Follies, before she entered films at the end of the silent era in Chasing Husbands (1928). During the 1930s she specialised in playing glamorous gold-diggers and gangsters' "molls", and played supporting roles in numerous features. She was considered a versatile actress, who could play drama or come... | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||