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649 celebrities 5' 5" tall have been found. Add to favourites (178 fans)Biography of Demi Moore
Demi Guynes Kutcher (pron.: /dəˈmiː/ de-MEE; born November 11, 1962 (birth time source: Astrodatabank)), known professionally as Demi Moore, is an American actress, film producer, film director, former songwriter, and model. Moore dropped out of high school at age 16 to pursue an entertainment career, and posed for a nude pictorial in Oui magazine in 1980. After making her film debut in 1981, she appeared on the soap opera General Hospital and subsequently gained attention for her roles in Blame It on Rio (1984) and St. Elmo's Fire (1985). Her first film to become both a critical and commercial hit was About Last Night... (1986), which established her as a Hollywood star. In 1990, Moore starred in Ghost, which was the highest-grossing film of that year and brought her a G... Add to favourites (42 fans)Biography of Sharon Tate
Sharon Marie Tate (January 24, 1943 (birth time source: Gene Lockhard, birth certificate, Astrodatabank) - August 9, 1969) was an American actress. During the 1960s she played small television roles before appearing in several films. After receiving positive reviews for her comedic performances, she was hailed as one of Hollywood's promising newcomers and was nominated for a Golden Globe Award for her performance in Valley of the Dolls (1967). She also appeared regularly in fashion magazines as a model and cover girl. Married to film director Roman Polanski in 1968, Tate was eight-and-a-half months pregnant when she was murdered in her home, along with four others, by followers of Charles Manson on August 9, 1969. A decade after the murders, Tate's mother, Doris, in response to the g... Add to favourites (144 fans)Biography of Charlie Chaplin
Sir Charles Spencer Chaplin, Jr. KBE (April 16, 1889 – December 25, 1977), better known as Charlie Chaplin, was an English comedy actor, becoming one of the most famous performers in the early to mid Hollywood cinema era, and also a notable director and musician. He is considered to be one of the finest mimes and clowns caught on film and has greatly influenced performers in this field. Chaplin was one of the most creative and influential personalities in the silent film era: he acted in, directed, scripted, produced, and eventually scored his own films. His working life in entertainment spanned over 65 years, from the Victorian stage and music hall in England as a child performer, almost until his death at the age of 88. Chaplin's high-profile public and private life encompassed highs ... Add to favourites (31 fans)Biography of Yasmine Bleeth
Yasmine Amanda Bleeth (born June 14, 1968 (birth time source: Paul Cerrito)) is an American actress. Her television roles include Caroline Holden in the long-running series Baywatch and Lee Anne Demerest on the soap opera One Life to Live. Early life and career Bleeth was born in New York City, the daughter of Carina, a model, and Philip Bleeth, a business proprietor. Her father is Jewish of Russian and German descent, her late mother Carina was of French and Algerian descent. Her earliest known acting role was in a Johnson & Johnson's No More Tears baby shampoo television commercial at age 10 months in 1969. At the age of six, she appeared on Candid Camera. Later that year she appeared in a Max Factor cosmetic advertising campaign with model Cristina Ferrare. Her work in this campai... Add to favourites (113 fans)Biography of Lindsay Lohan
Lindsay Dee Lohan (born July 2, 1986 (birth time source: Seventeen Magazine April 2006)) is an American actress and pop music singer. Lohan started in show business as a child fashion model for magazine advertisement and television commercials. At age 10, she began her acting career in a soap opera; at 11, she made her motion picture debut by playing identical twins in Disney's 1998 remake of The Parent Trap. The source for her birth time is Seventeen Magazine, April 2006. Lohan rose to stardom with her leading roles in the films Freaky Friday, Confessions of a Teenage Drama Queen, Mean Girls and Herbie: Fully Loaded. Her subsequent roles include appearances in A Prairie Home Companion and Bobby. In 2004, Lohan launched a second career in pop music yielding the albums Speak (2004) , A L... Add to favourites (74 fans)Biography of Nicole Scherzinger
Nicole Prescovia Elikolani Valiente Scherzinger (also known as Nicole Kea) (born June 29, 1978 (source: Imdb)) is an American pop/R&B singer, songwriter, dancer, producer and occasional actress best known for her role as the lead vocalist for the Pussycat Dolls. Early life Scherzinger was born in Honolulu, Hawaii to a Filipino father and a Hawaiian/Russian mother. Her mother Rosemary was 18 at the time of Nicole's birth and lived in an inner city neighborhood and separated from her father when Nicole was a baby. The family moved to Louisville, Kentucky with her sister Ke'ala and German American stepfather Gary Scherzinger. She stated she had a "conservative Catholic" upbringing. Scherzinger began her life as a performer in Louisville, attending the Youth Performing Arts School at duPon... Add to favourites (103 fans)Biography of Silvia Saint
Silvia Saint (born February 12, 1976) is a Czech pornographic actress. In 1996, she was Penthouse Pet of the Year in the Czech edition of the magazine, and between 1997 and 2001, she appeared in over 200 pornographic movies. Before entering into the pornography arena, Silvia studied management and was employed as a manager of a large hotel in the Czech city of Zlin. She was Penthouse Pet of the Year in 1996 (Czech edition), and after her introduction to the American porn industry, in 1997, and again in 1998 (U.S. edition). Pornographic film career: Her first movie was shot in Prague for Private Media, and was a great success co-starring with Bradley Raby. From there, she moved across the Atlantic where she has spent over three years on U.S. soil. Much of her work includes anal sex a... Add to favourites (80 fans)Biography of Selena Gomez
Selena Marie Gomez (born July 22, 1992 (birth time source: https://twitter.com/#!/search/realtime/Selena%20Gomez%20born%207%3A19)) is an American actress and singer best known for portraying Alex Russo in the Emmy Award-winning Disney Channel television series Wizards of Waverly Place. She subsequently ventured into feature films and has starred in the television movies Another Cinderella Story, Wizards of Waverly Place: The Movie, and Princess Protection Program. She made her starring theatrical film debut in Ramona and Beezus. Her career has expanded into the music industry; Gomez is the lead singer and founder of the pop band Selena Gomez & the Scene, which has released three RIAA Gold certified studio albums, Kiss & Tell, A Year Without Rain, and When the Sun Goes Down, spawned thre... Add to favourites (74 fans)Biography of Woody Allen
Woody Allen (born Allen Stewart Königsberg on December 1, 1935) is a three-time Academy Award-winning American film director, writer, actor, jazz musician, comedian, and playwright. His large body of work and cerebral film style, mixing satire, wit and humor, have made him one of the most respected and prolific filmmakers in the modern era. Allen writes and directs his movies and has also acted in the majority of them. For inspiration, Allen draws heavily on literature, philosophy, psychology, Judaism, European cinema and New York City, where he was born and has lived his entire life.... Add to favourites (37 fans)Biography of Angela Merkel
Angela Dorothea Merkel (b. Angela Dorothea Kasner, 17 July 1954, in Hamburg, Germany), is the Chancellor of Germany. Merkel, elected to the German Parliament from Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, has been the chairwoman of the Christian Democratic Union CDU since April 9, 2000, and Chairwoman of the CDU-CSU parliamentary party group from 2002 to 2005. She leads a Grand coalition with its sister party, the Christian Social Union (CSU), and with the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD), formed after the 2005 federal election on November 22, 2005. Vital topics of her term in office so far are the Health care reform and the problems concerning the Future energy development. Merkel, who studied physics and holds a doctorate in physical chemistry, is simultaneously the first female Chancellor of G... Add to favourites (68 fans)Biography of Roman Polanski
Roman Raymond Polanski (pl. Roman Rajmund Polański; born August 18, 1933) is a Polish-French film director, producer, writer, and actor. Polanski began his career in Poland, and later became a celebrated Academy Award-winning director of both art house and commercial films, making such films as Rosemary's Baby (1968), Chinatown (1974) and The Pianist (2002). Polanski is one of the world's best known contemporary film directors and is widely considered one of the greatest directors of his time. He is also known for his turbulent and controversial personal life. In 1969, his pregnant wife, Sharon Tate, was murdered by the Manson Family, and in 1977, he was convicted of "unlawful sexual intercourse with a minor"; he subsequently fled the United States and is presently (since 27 September... Add to favourites (26 fans)Biography of Cécile de Ménibus
Cécile Moharic, best known as Cécile de Ménibus, born September 16, 1970 in Chartres, is a French journalist and TV host. She is well known to work with Sébastien Cauet for the French TV show "La Méthode Cauet" (2003 - ).... Add to favourites (30 fans)Biography of Claire Chazal
Famous french journalist and TV host.... Add to favourites (39 fans)Biography of Jamel Debbouze
Jamel Debbouze (Arabic: جامل دبّوز) (born June 18, 1975) is a French actor, comedian and producer of Moroccan descent, born in Paris. In 1992, he got his first role in Nabil Ayouch's short film Les Pierres bleues du désert. Many people know him from the French television series H and his standup comedy show, Jamel Comedy Club. In 2001, he sold 400,000 videotapes of Jamel en scène. In 2002, he was the best paid actor in France. [edit] Facts Oldest of 6 children Has 3 brothers and 2 sisters 5' 5" (1.65 m) Muslim Grew up in Trappes, France Drives an Enzo Ferrari Is currently dating French news anchor Mélissa Theuriau He sings the ending theme of the movie "Mission Cleopatra" with American rapper Snoop Dogg Lost the u... Add to favourites (100 fans)Biography of J. K. Rowling
Joanne "Jo" Rowling OBE (born 31 July 1965 (birth time source: http://planetaryinfluence.com/charts/j-k-rowling/ it's an assumption)) is an English fiction writer who writes under the pen name J. K. Rowling. Rowling is the author of the Harry Potter fantasy series, which has gained international attention, won multiple awards, and sold over 325 million copies worldwide. In February 2004, Forbes magazine estimated her fortune at £576 million (just over US$1 billion and still is at the same spot in 2007), making her the first person to become a US-dollar billionaire by writing books. In 2006, Forbes named her the second richest female entertainer in the world, behind talk show host Oprah Winfrey. Name Rowling's surname is pronounced "rolling" (IPA: /rəʊ.lɪŋ/). Her ful... Add to favourites (102 fans)Biography of Miley Cyrus
Miley Ray Cyrus (born Destiny Hope Cyrus on November 23, 1992 (borth time sources: https://twitter.com/#!/search/realtime/MILEY%20%206%3A37 and http://www.facebook.com/pages/Hannah-Montana-Forever/100983443307485) is an American actress and singer-songwriter. Cyrus is better known for starring as Miley Stewart/Hannah Montana in the television series Hannah Montana on the Disney Channel. Cyrus became a sensation after Hannah Montana debuted in March 2006. Following the success of the show, in October 2006, a soundtrack CD was released in which she sang eight songs from the show. In December 2007, she was ranked #17 in the list of "Forbes Top Twenty Superstar Earners under the age of 25" with an annual earning of US$3.5 million. As of December 2007, she is working on a movie spin-off of H... Add to favourites (29 fans)Biography of Françoise Sagan
Françoise Sagan (June 21, 1935–September 24, 2004), real name Françoise Quoirez, was a French playwright, novelist and screenwriter, best known for strong romantic themes involving middle-class characters. Sagan was born in Cajarc, Aveyron, where she lived for the first few years of her life, until her family moved to Lyon at the outset of World War II. She failed entrance examinations to the Sorbonne in 1953 mainly due to her active nightlife in the Paris clubs.[citation needed]Though notorious all her life for her extravagant lifestyle, she would later attend school there but without graduating. Her first novel was published in 1954, at the age of 18. Bonjour Tristesse (meaning "Good Morning, Heartache," the French translation of the Billie Holiday song) and was an immediate intern... Add to favourites (29 fans)Biography of Ursula Andress
Ursula Andress (born 19 March 1936) is a Golden Globe award winning Swiss actress and a major sex symbol of the 1960s. She is best known for her role as the first Bond girl. Biography Ursula Andress was born in Ostermundigen, Berne, Switzerland, to a Swiss mother and a German father. Her father, Rolf Andress, was a German diplomat. He disappeared during World War II. Andress has four sisters and one brother. She is fluent in English, French, Italian, and German. Andress started her career as an art model in Rome, which led to her first roles in the active Italian movie industry. She became famous as Honey Ryder, a shell diver and James Bond's object of desire in Dr. No (1962), the first Bond movie. Her introduction in Dr. No became one of the most iconic moments of the franchise.... Add to favourites (82 fans)Biography of Rachel McAdams
Rachel McAdams (born November 17, 1978 (birth time source: The Rachel McAdams Handbook - Everything You Need To Know About Rachel McAdams by Emily Smith)) is a Canadian actress. She is known for her roles in the Hollywood films Mean Girls, The Notebook and Wedding Crashers, which all proved to be successful at movie theaters. Early life McAdams was born in London, Ontario and grew up in nearby St. Thomas. Her father, Lance, is a truck driver, and her mother, Sandra, is a nurse. She has a younger brother, Daniel, and a younger half-sister, Kayleen. She took up competitive figure skating at the age of four and acting at age thirteen at a summer theater camp in London, Ontario named Original Kids. When the company extended to a year-round company, she was invited to continue with them. Sh... Biography of Kay Parker
Kay Parker (born Kay Rebecca Taylor on August 28, 1944, in Birmingham, England, United Kingdom) is a pornographic actress, best known for her depictions of incest scenes in the Taboo series. She is member of the XRCO and the Adult Video News (an adult-industry publication) Hall of Fame. Adult film career Kay Parker was reportedly introduced to the adult film industry during the late 1970s by actor John Leslie who suggested Parker to take part in one of Leslie's upcoming films at that time. Upon hearing that it was a pornographic movie, Parker reportedly declined the offer. But eventually she got eased into the industry by only playing bit parts in non-sexual roles, until porn director Anthony Spinelli talked her into doing her first sex scene in the 1977 film, Sex World. Parker's... Add to favourites (52 fans)Biography of Courteney Cox
Courteney Bass Cox (born June 15, 1964) is an American actress, who achieved fame for her role as Monica Geller on the NBC sitcom Friends. Cox has also starred in Dirt and the Scream series, and has guest-starred in Scrubs and Seinfeld. She currently stars in Cougar Town, for which she earned her first Golden Globe nomination. The source for her time of birth is http://www.librarising.com/astrology/celebs/courteneycox.html. Early life Cox was raised in the Birmingham, Alabama suburb of Mountain Brook, the daughter of businessman Richard Lewis Cox (January 28, 1931 - September 3, 2001) and his wife Courteney (née Bass, later Copeland). She has two older sisters, Virginia and Dottie, and an older brother, Richard, Jr. Her parents divorced in 1974 and her mother was remarried to busines... Add to favourites (16 fans)Biography of Juliette Gréco
Juliette Gréco (born February 7, 1927) is a French actress and popular chanson singer. Personal history Juliette Gréco was born in Montpellier to a Corsican father and a mother active in the Résistance, in the Hérault département of southern France. She was raised by her maternal grandparents. Gréco also became involved in the Résistance, and was caught but not deported because of her young age. She moved to Saint-Germain-des-Prés in Paris in 1946 after her mother left the country for Indochina with the French Navy. Gréco came to be one of the stars of the bohemian "in" crowd of post-war France. She embodied the disenchantment and poverty of the French intellectuals following World War II. Gréco dressed all in black and let her long, black hair hang free. A famous description of ... Add to favourites (26 fans)Biography of Sofia Essaïdi
Sofia Essaïdi (born August 6, 1984) is a Franco-Moroccan singer. She was born in Casablanca, Morocco. From August 30 to December 13, 2003, she participated in the show Star Academy France's third season, becoming a semi-finalist. From March 12 to August 7, 2004, she participated in the Star Academy tour, going to Tunisia and Morocco, and Papeete, Tahiti, where she celebrated her 20th birthday.... Add to favourites (33 fans)Biography of Patricia Kaas
Patricia Kaas (born 5 December 1966 in Forbach, Moselle) is a French singer and actress. Kaas is a very successful French-speaking singer, with an International following. Stylistically her music is not classical chanson, but is closer to a mixture of pop music, jazz and chanson. Since the appearance of her debut album Mademoiselle chante... in 1988 Kaas has sold over 16 million records worldwide. She had her greatest success in Germany, Switzerland, Belgium, Canada, Russia, Finland, and Korea with her third album Je te dis vous. Kaas is almost constantly on tour internationally. In 2002 Kaas had her film debut in And now... Ladies and Gentlemen beside Jeremy Irons. Kaas is currently on "Kabaret" world tour since the end of 2008. Kaas represented France in the Eurovision Song Contest... Add to favourites (64 fans)Biography of Kirsten Dunst
Kirsten Caroline Dunst (born April 30, 1982) is a Golden Globe-nominated American actress, known for her roles in Interview with the Vampire, The Virgin Suicides, Marie Antoinette, and Bring It On, as well as Mary Jane Watson in the Spider-Man film series. Early life Dunst was born in Point Pleasant, New Jersey, to Inez and Klaus Dunst, who are separated. Her father, a German medical services executive from Hamburg, remained in New Jersey but now lives in Los Angeles, California. Her mother, a Swedish former art gallery owner, also moved to California. Dunst has a younger brother, Christian. Dunst attended the Ranney School in New Jersey, and graduated in 2000 from Notre Dame High School in the Sherman Oaks neighborhood of Los Angeles. Career Dunst got her start as a child fa... Add to favourites (57 fans)Biography of Barbra Streisand
Barbra Joan Streisand (born April 24, 1942) is an Academy Award-winning American singer, theatre and film actress, composer, liberal political activist, film producer and director. She has won Oscars for Best Actress and Best Original Song as well as multiple Emmy Awards, Grammy Awards, Golden Globe Awards. Streisand has ranked as the best selling female album artist of all-time in the United States, according to the RIAA, for over thirty years.. She is considered one of the most successful female entertainers in modern entertainment history and is the only woman on the list of best selling album recording artists in the US, with RIAA-certified shipments of over 71 million records.... Add to favourites (15 fans)Biography of Kareena Kapoor
Kareena Kapoor (Hindi: करीना कपूर, born 21 September 1980) nicknamed "Bebo" is a four-time Filmfare Award-winning prominent Indian actress who appears in Bollywood movies. Height: 5' 5" (1.65 m) Making her acting debut with Refugee (2000), for which she won a Filmfare Best Debut Award, Kapoor had her first commercial success with her second release, Mujhe Kucch Kehna Hai (2001). Her performance as a cosmetic beauty in Karan Johar's melodramatic Kabhi Khushi Kabhie Gham (2001) was praised and the film turned out to be her biggest commercial success so far. After that, Kareena starred in many films without much box office success. She was criticized for doing the same kind of roles in her films. As a result of this, she began taking... Add to favourites (15 fans)Biography of Roselyne Bachelot
Roselyne Bachelot-Narquin, generally known as Roselyne Bachelot (born 24 December 1946 in Nevers) is a French politician and Member of the European Parliament for the west of France. She currently is the French Minister of Health, Youth Affairs and Sport. She is a member of the Union for a Popular Movement, which is part of the European People's Party, and sits on the European Parliament's Committee on Employment and Social Affairs. She is a substitute on the Committee on Industry, Research and Energy, a member of the delegation for relations with the Palestinian Legislative Council, and a substitute for the delegation for relations with Israel. Career Doctor of Pharmacy Head of the UMP list for the Grand Ouest region in the European elections on 13 June 2004 Member of ... Biography of Kamal Haasan
Kamal Haasan (Tamil: கமல்ஹாசன்) (born on November 7, 1954) is a four time (1960, 1983, 1988 and 1997) National Film Award winning Indian film actor. He began his career as a child artist in many films, while also attending a theatre for stage plays. Kamal Haasan has acted in over two hundred Indian films and is widely considered one of the finest method actors in Indian cinema. Kamal Hassan has received India's fourth highest civilian honour, the Padma Shri for his services to Indian cinema in 1990. His popular films include Moondram Pirai (1982), Saagara Sangamam (1983), Nayagan (1987), Michael Madana Kama Rajan (1990), Indian (1996), Hey Ram (2000), Anbe Sivam (2003). In his currently unreleased film Dasavatharam, he attempts to por... Add to favourites (68 fans)Biography of Demi Lovato
Demetria Devonne "Demi" Lovato (born August 20, 1992 (birth time sources: http://www.twittywatch.com/mycity.php/Dallas-Texas/1313866800/44 and https://twitter.com/#!/search/demi%20lovato%202%3A34) is an American actress and singer-songwriter. She played Mitchie Torres in the Disney Channel Original Movie Camp Rock, and she plays Sonny Monroe in the Disney Channel Original Series Sonny With A Chance. Besides acting, she is also a solo music artist and released her debut album Don't Forget on September 23, 2008. The album debuted at #2 on the Billboard 200 selling over 89,000 copies in the first week. Lovato is set to release her sophomore album, Here We Go Again, on July 21, 2009. Early life Lovato was born in Dallas, Texas to Patrick Lovato and Diana Lovato (née Hart). She has an olde... Add to favourites (68 fans)Biography of Naomi Watts
Naomi Ellen Watts (born September 28, 1968 (birth time source: http://www.astrology.com.au)) is a British-Australian actress known for her roles in Mulholland Dr., the film remakes of The Ring and King Kong, as well as her Academy Award-nominated role in the film 21 Grams. Early life Watts was born in Shoreham, Kent, England, and lived there until the age of eight. Her parents, Peter and Myfanwy Watts, separated when she was four years old, and when she was seven, her father died. She has one brother, Ben Watts, a year older and now a photographer in the United States (Watts confessed that they fought like cats and dogs as children). Following her father's death, her mother relocated the family to the town of Llangefni (more specifically Llanfawr Farm), on the Isle of Anglesey in North... Add to favourites (11 fans)Biography of Aamir Khan
Aamir Khan (/ɑːmɪr xɑːn/; Hindi: आमिर हुसेन ख़ान, Urdu/Persian: عامر حسین خان) (born March 14, 1965 as Aamir Hussain Khan) in Mumbai, India, is a highly acclaimed and a prominent National Film Award-winning Indian film actor, producer and director. Appearing as a child actor in Yaadon Ki Baaraat (1973), Khan's career started eleven years later with the film, Holi (1984). He received his first commercial success with Qayamat Se Qayamat Tak (1988) and won a Filmfare Best Male Debut Award for his performance in the film. After eight previous nominations during the 1980s and 1990s, he received his first Filmfare Best Actor A... Add to favourites (30 fans)Biography of Emma Daumas
Manuelle "Emma" Daumas is a young French songwriter and performer, particularly well known for her participation in Star Academy. Born on November 23, 1983 in Avignon, Daumas grew up in a family of music lovers. Her passion for music led her to write several songs by the age of 12: her parents then allowed her to record her first song Stupid boy. After the piano, she took lessons in guitar, and enrolled at the academy of Villeuneuve-lès-Avignon at the age of 15. She frequently entered contests, in particular Mon Dieu of Édith Piaf: she came in 8th in the Laudun song contest playing one of her own compositions, Dis-moi pourquoi ("Tell me why"), before 700 people. From this point on, her potential not only as a singer but as a songwriter started to become noticed. At this time, she beg... Add to favourites (49 fans)Biography of Sienna Miller
Sienna Rose Miller (born December 28, 1981) is an American-born English actress and model. Early life Miller was born in New York City. She moved to England as a child and attended the Heathfield school in Ascot, Berkshire and later studied for a year at the Lee Strasberg Institute with luminaries like Will Lee and Koni Summer in New York City. Miller was born to hippie parents. Her father, Edward Miller, is an American banker born in Meadville, Pennsylvania. Her mother, Jo Miller, is a South African who ran Lee Strasberg's acting academy in London. Her parents parted when she was six years old, and her father subsequently married (and later separated from) the English interior designer Kelly Hoppen. Miller has one sister, Savannah, who is a fashion designer; two half-brothers, Char... Add to favourites (71 fans)Biography of Eliza Dushku
Elizabeth Patricia Dushku (born December 30, 1980) is an American film actress, who has appeared in several Hollywood movies such as True Lies, Bring It On, and Wrong Turn. She is also well known for her acting on television, such as her recurring appearances on Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Angel as Faith, as well as the main character in the series Tru Calling. Early life Dushku was born in Watertown, Massachusetts to Philip R. Dushku (born June 1, 1941), an Albanian-American administrator-teacher in the Boston Public Schools and Judith (Judy) Rasmussen (born March 30, 1942) (a half-Danish-American university administrator and professor at Suffolk University); she was raised a Mormon, the faith of her mother (though she is not actively practicing). She has three older brothers, Aaron,... Add to favourites (48 fans)Biography of Alicia Silverstone
Alicia Silverstone, (born October 4, 1976) is an American actress and former fashion model. She first came to widespread attention in music videos for Aerosmith and later starred in Hollywood films such as Clueless and Batman & Robin. Early life Alicia Silverstone was born in San Francisco, California, to Monty Silverstone, a real-estate investor, and Didi Radford, a former flight attendant. Silverstone's father is English-born and her mother is Scottish. Her father, a native of East London, is Jewish and her mother converted to Judaism upon marrying Silverstone's father. She attended San Mateo High School but did not complete her high school studies. Silverstone is the youngest of three children and also has a half-sister, London rock singer Kezi Silverstone, and a half-brother, David... Add to favourites (70 fans)Biography of Nastassja Kinski
Nastassja Kinski (born Nastassja Aglaia Nakszynski, January 24, 1961) is a prolific German actress, having appeared in more than 60 movies. Her starring roles include her Golden Globe Award-winning portrayal of 'Tess Durbeyfield' in Roman Polanski's film Tess and her parts in Wim Wenders' films The Wrong Move, Paris, Texas, and Faraway, So Close. During the late 1970s and throughout the 1980s Nastassja Kinski was widely regarded as an international sex symbol. Born in Berlin, Kinski is the daughter of the late German actor Klaus Kinski from his marriage to actress Ruth Brigitte Tocki. Her parents divorced in 1968. Kinski rarely saw her father after the age of 10. Kinski and her mother struggled financially. Eventually they ended up living in a commune in Munich. Kinski's foray into t... Add to favourites (35 fans)Biography of Aristotle Onassis
Aristotelis Sokratis (also Ari) Onassis (January 20, 1906 – March 15, 1975) was the most famous shipping magnate of the 20th century. Life Onassis was born in Smyrna, Ottoman Empire (now İzmir, Turkey) to a middle-class Greek family. At the time of his birth, Smyrna had a very significant and prosperous Greek population. After being briefly occupied by Greece (1919-1922) in the aftermath of the allied victory in World War I, the city was re-captured by Turkey; the Onassis family holdings were lost, causing them to move to Greece as refugees. In 1923, Aristotle Onassis left his country to go to Argentina with allegedly only $63. After difficult beginnings, he revived there the family's tobacco business . In 1925, he received Argentinian and Greek citizenships. After engaging in ma... Add to favourites (56 fans)Biography of Whoopi Goldberg
Whoopi Goldberg (born Caryn Elaine Johnson, November 13, 1955), is an American actress, comedian and radio DJ. Goldberg is one of only ten individuals who have won an Emmy, a Grammy, an Oscar, and a Tony Award, counting Daytime Emmy Awards. She is the second African American female performer to win an Academy Award for acting (the first being Hattie McDaniel); she has also won two Golden Globe Awards. Whoopi Goldberg was born on November 13, 1955 in New York City. Later in life, a DNA test would trace her ancestry to the Papel and Bayote peoples of Guinea-Bissau. Her stage name was taken from "whoopie cushion", which she initially wanted as her name, but chose the last moniker of Goldberg after her mother pointed out that her initial name pick was not Jewish enough to make her ric... Add to favourites (50 fans)Biography of Hélène Segara
Hélène Ségara (born Hélène Rizzo February 26, 1971 in Six-Fours-les-Plages, France) is a French female singer. She was born to an Italian father and a Armenian mother. She got a role in the French musical Notre Dame de Paris, in which she played the role of Esmeralda. On August 30, 2003, she married Mathieu Lecat, they have two sons: Raphaël (born 1 February 1990) and Matteo (born on May of 2003). On November 4, 2006, Hélène took part in the Concert for Tolerance in Agadir, Morocco, where she performed with many international artists( Samira Said ,Zucchero, Pascal Obispo, F.Pagny, Faudel, Cheb Mami, Lorie, and Amina...) Trivia Has released 3 albums: Coeur de verre (1997), Au nom d'une femme (2000) and Humaine(2004). Left home at age 14. Parents:Thérèse and Bernard. She is of I... Add to favourites (37 fans)Biography of Fran Drescher
Francine Joy Drescher (born September 30, 1957) is an American film and television actress. She is famous for her nasal voice, "machine-gun" laugh, and Queens accent. Early life and career Drescher was born in Flushing, Queens, New York City to a Jewish family of Eastern European origin. She grew up in Queens with her parents Sylvia and Morty Drescher and was a studious girl who was quite popular in school. Drescher attended Hillcrest High School in Jamaica, Queens. At 15 she met the man she believed she would spend much of her life with, Peter Marc Jacobson, and in 1978, at age 21, they were married. Her first break was a bit part in the movie Saturday Night Fever (1976). In January 1985, robbers ransacked Drescher's Los Angeles apartment and raped her and a friend at gunpoint.... Add to favourites (50 fans)Biography of Heather Locklear
Heather Deen Locklear (born September 25, 1961 in Westwood, California) is an American actress, primarily on soap operas and television, probably best known for her roles as William Shatner's sexy, young partner and Richard Herd's daughter, Off. Stacy Sheridan in the successful 1980s crime drama T.J. Hooker, as John Forsythe's and Linda Evans's no angelic, selfish niece, Sammy Jo Carrington on the popular 1980s soap, Dynasty (a role she played from 1981 to 1989), as another bad girl Amanda Woodward on the popular 1990s soap opera Melrose Place (a role she played from 1993 until the show ended in 1999), and as Caitlin Moore on Spin City (a role she played from 1999 until the show ended in 2002). Personal life Heather is the daughter of Bill and Diane Locklear. Her father was the dean at... Add to favourites (26 fans)Biography of LeAnn Rimes
LeAnn Rimes (born Margaret LeAnn Rimes August 28, 1982 in Jackson, Mississippi) is an American country music singer. Rimes emerged with the single "Blue" when she was only 13 years old, and by age 24 she had sold over 37 million albums. She has won an American Music Award, two Grammy Awards, three Academy of Country Music Awards, and twelve Billboard Music Awards. She holds three important records in the music industry, as the current youngest person to win a Grammy and her version of "How Do I Live" is currently the longest charting song on the U.S. Hot 100 at 69 weeks. This was the first multi-platinum country single , selling over 3 million copies. Guided by her guitar playing mother, Rimes started singing and tap dancing at the age of two. At age six, her family moved to Garland, Te... Biography of Catherine Ceylac
Catherine Ceylac, born Catherine Cognet on June 20, 1954 in Rennes, is a French journalist, TV host and producer.... Add to favourites (18 fans)Biography of Lio
Lio is a Belgian singer and actress, born as Wanda Ribeiro de Vasconcelos in 1962 in Mangualde, Portugal. In 1968, she and her family moved to Belgium. She was an enormous pop icon in francophone Europe during the 1980's. In 1982 the American music duo Sparks worked with her on the album Suite Sixteen, on which some of her previous songs were translated into English. She has an extensive discography and has collaborated with several important French music artists, including Etienne Daho and Jacno. Many of Lio's singles were successful, but her biggest hit was probably 1980's Banana Split. This track was redone on the Suite Sixteen album as Marie Antoinette. She first appeared on the screen in 1983 in Chantal Akerman's film The Eighties. Ackerman recast her in the 1986 film Golden Eig... Add to favourites (33 fans)Biography of Vladimir Lenin
Vladimir Ilyich Lenin (22 April 1870 – 21 January 1924) was a Russian revolutionary, author, lawyer, economic theorist, political philosopher, creator of the Soviet Communist Party, leader of the 1917 October Revolution, and founder of the USSR. As head of the Bolsheviks (1917–1924) he led the Red Army to victory in the Russian Civil War, before establishing the world's first officially socialist state. As a theorist, his extensive theoretical and philosophical contributions to Marxism produced Leninism.... Add to favourites (28 fans)Biography of Sinéad O'Connor
Sinéad Marie Bernadette O'Connor (born December 8, 1966) is a Grammy Award winning Irish singer and songwriter. She is Ireland's second biggest-selling female artist, after Enya. Early life O'Connor was born in Dublin and was named after Sinéad de Valera, wife of Irish President Éamon de Valera and mother of the doctor presiding over the delivery, and Saint Bernadette of Lourdes. She was the middle of five children, sister to Joseph, Eimear, John, and Eoin. Joseph O'Connor is now a notable novelist. Her parents were Jack O'Connor, a structural engineer later turned barrister, and Marie O'Connor. The couple married young and had a troubled relationship, splitting up when O'Connor was eight. The three eldest children went to live with their mother, where O'Connor claims they were subj... Add to favourites (32 fans)Biography of Michelle Rodríguez
Michelle Rodriguez (born Mayte Michelle Rodriguez on July 12, 1978 in San Antonio, Texas) is an American actress, best-known for her roles in the television series Lost and movies The Fast and the Furious, S.W.A.T., and Resident Evil. Early life Rodriguez was born to Walter Rodríguez (who is Puerto Rican) and Carmen Milady Pared (of the Dominican Republic), and has a total of ten half-siblings or siblings. She was raised by her devoutly religious maternal grandmother. Rodríguez moved to the Dominican Republic with her mother when she was 8 and lived in Puerto Rico when she was 11, later settling in New Jersey. She dropped out of high school at age 17 and later earned her GED. Career Rodríguez was a struggling actress when she ran across an ad advertising an open casting call ... Add to favourites (38 fans)Biography of Evangeline Lilly
Nicole Evangeline Lilly (born August 3, 1979) is a Canadian Golden Globe-nominated actress. She is best known for her role as Katherine "Kate" Austen in ABC's hit drama Lost. Early life Lilly was born in Fort Saskatchewan, Alberta, Canada to a devoutly Christian family. Her father is a home economics teacher, and her mother is a beauty consultant. Lilly also has a younger sister, whom she has described as "the actor in the family." During her childhood, the family did not have a television. Before leaving the city of Fort Saskatchewan at the age of 10, she attended three elementary schools. She briefly attended Fort Elementary, Rudolph Henning and James Mowat Elementary. During a phone interview with the local paper, The Record, Evangeline was quoted saying, "When I was a kid, the F... Add to favourites (40 fans)Biography of Josh Hutcherson
Joshua Ryan Hutcherson (born October 12, 1992) is an American film and television actor. He began performing in the early 2000s, appearing in several minor film and television roles, before gaining wider exposure with major roles in the 2005 films Little Manhattan and Zathura, the 2006 comedy RV, the film adaptation of Bridge to Terabithia as Jesse Aarons and Firehouse Dog as Shane Fahey. Early life Hutcherson was born in Union, Kentucky to Michelle and Chris Hutcherson. He has a younger brother, Connor, as well as several pets, including a dog (Diesel, a boxer), two cats (Jell-O and Paws), and a turtle. He has wanted to be an actor since he was four years old, but had only began auditioning for roles in 2002, after a successful screen test. Career Hutcherson's first role was i... Add to favourites (39 fans)Biography of Kate Bosworth
Kate Bosworth (born January 2, 1983) is an American actress. After appearing in 1998's The Horse Whisperer, Bosworth became well known with a leading role in 2002's Blue Crush, and has since appeared in several notable films, including Superman Returns, where she played Lois Lane. Early life Born Catherine Ann Bosworth in Van Nuys, California as the only child of Hal Bosworth, an executive for Talbots, and Patricia Potter, a homemaker. She was born with sectoral heterochromia, resulting in a hazel section at the bottom of her right blue eye, while the left is completely blue. After leaving San Francisco at the age of six, Bosworth's family frequently moved around the country because of her father's job, and she grew up mainly on the East Coast, spending the rest of her youth in Darien,... Add to favourites (34 fans)Biography of Jayne Mansfield
Jayne Mansfield (born Vera Jayne Palmer; April 19, 1933—29 June 1967) was an American actress and Playboy centerfold. One of the leading sex symbols of the 1950s, like Marilyn Monroe, Mansfield starred in several popular Hollywood films that emphasized her platinum-blonde hair, dramatic hourglass figure and cleavage-revealing costumes. She was a recipient of a Golden Globe Award and a Theatre World Award for two early screen and stage performances. Though Mansfield appeared in several popular Hollywood films, her status in the industry proved fleeting, and she was quickly relegated to low-budget melodramas and comedies. Negative publicity and poor business decisions eventually forced her into regional nightclub appearances before her death in an automobile accident at the age of 34. ... Add to favourites (21 fans)Biography of Anna Paquin
Anna Helene Paquin (born July 24, 1982) is an Academy Award-winning and Emmy and Golden Globe-nominated New Zealand actress who was born in Canada. Her breakthrough performance was in The Piano, which earned her an Academy Award for Best Supporting actress as the second youngest winner in history. She was nine years old when the movie was made, and has continued acting since. Height: 5' 5" (1.65 m) Early life Paquin was born in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada, the child of Brian, a Canadian high school physical education teacher, and Mary (née Brophy) Paquin, an English teacher and native of Wellington, New Zealand. Paquin moved to New Zealand when she was four. Her musical childhood hobbies in New Zealand included playing the viola, cello and piano. She has also done gymnastics, ballet,... Add to favourites (32 fans)Biography of Leighton Meester
Leighton Marissa Claire Meester (born April 9, 1986) is an American actress and aspiring Singer-Songwriter, best known for her role as Blair Waldorf in the TV show Gossip Girl. Her first acting role on a television program was on NBC's legal drama Law & Order in 1999. Other series in which Meester has appeared include Surface, Entourage, CSI: Miami, 8 Simple Rules, 24, 7th Heaven, and House. Career Meester became interested in acting when she appeared in a local production of The Wizard of Oz. When she was 11, she moved with her family to New York City and soon after began working as a model with Wilhelmina, booking a Ralph Lauren campaign shot by Bruce Webber and working with then-photographer Sofia Coppola. Other roles include a role as Savannah Bennett on Surface. She has guest s... Add to favourites (14 fans)Biography of Gina Lollobrigida
Gina Lollobrigida (born July 4, 1927) is a Golden Globe-nominated Italian actress who was born Luigina Lollobrigida in Subiaco, Italy. Lollobrigida is one of four daughters of a furniture manufacturer (her sisters are Giuliana, Maria and Fernanda). She spent her youth in a picturesque mountain village. In her youth, Gina did some modeling, and from there she went to participate successfully in several beauty contests. At around this time, she began appearing in Italian language films. In 1947, Gina entered the Miss Italy pageant and came in 3rd place. The contest was won by Lucia Bosé and second place was Gianna Maria Canale - they would both go on to be actresses though neither would come near Lollobrigida's success. It is rumoured that after seeing her in a film, eccentric milliona... Add to favourites (27 fans)Biography of Aretha Franklin
Aretha Louise Franklin (born March 25, 1942) is an American R&B, Pop and Gospel singer, songwriter, and pianist. She has been called for many years "The Queen Of Soul", but many also call her "Lady Soul," as well as the more affectionate "Sister Ree." She is renowned for her soul recordings but is also adept at jazz, rock, blues, pop, gospel, and even opera. She is generally regarded as one of the top vocalists ever, due to her ability to inject whatever she may be singing about with passion, soul and sheer conviction. Franklin is the second most honored female singer in Grammy history after Alison Krauss. Ms. Franklin has won seventeen competitive Grammy Awards. Aretha has also been awarded the Living Legend Grammy and the Lifetime Achievement Grammy as well. She won an unprecedented e... Add to favourites (26 fans)Biography of Tara Reid
Tara Reid (born November 8, 1975) is an American actress. She is known for her roles in the films American Pie (1999), American Pie 2 (2001), National Lampoon's Van Wilder (2002), The Big Lebowski (1998), and My Boss's Daughter (2003). The source for her birth time is http://www.librarising.com/astrology/celebs/tarareid.html. Early life Reid was born in Wyckoff, New Jersey to Donna and Tom Reid, both of whom are teachers and day care centre owners. She attended Dwight D. Eisenhower Middle School then went to Ramapo High School in Franklin Lakies, New Jersey. She has a younger sister, Colleen, and two brothers, Tom and Patrick (who is a twin of Colleen). Reid grew up in New Jersey. Career Reid began her career at the age of six in 1982 on the short-lived game show, Child's Play. As... Biography of Nathalie Delon
French actress and film director. She was Alain Delon's former wife and the mother of Anthony Delon, also an actor.... Add to favourites (17 fans)Biography of Eva Peron
Maria Eva Duarte de Perón (May 7, 1919 (birth time source: Astrodatabank) – July 26, 1952) was the second wife of Argentine President Juan Domingo Perón (1895–1974) and the First Lady of Argentina from 1946 until her death in 1952. She is often referred to as simply Eva Perón, or by the Spanish language diminutive Evita, which translates into English as "Little Eva" or "Beloved Eva". Born out of wedlock in rural Argentina in 1919, at age 15 Eva Duarte made her way to the nation's capital of Buenos Aires where she pursued a career as a stage, radio, and film actress. Eva met Colonel Juan Perón in 1944 at a charity event in San Juan, Argentina. The two married in 1945. Eva Perón became involved in Argentine politics in 1946 shortly after Juan Perón's first election as President of Argenti... Add to favourites (22 fans)Biography of Glenn Close
Glenn Close (born March 19, 1947) is a five time Academy Award-nominated American film and stage actress. Her success, which has been abundant over the span of her career, has not only allowed her to become a one time Emmy Award- winning TV movie actress, but also a three time Tony Award-winning stage actress. Apart from winning those awards Glenn Close has received nominations for seven Emmys, seven Golden Globes and five Oscars.... Add to favourites (23 fans)Biography of Mel B
Melanie Janine Brown (born 29 May 1975) is an English R&B and pop recording artist, songwriter, dancer, actress, author, television presenter and model. Brown rose to fame when she became a member of British girl group, the Spice Girls, in which she was famously known as "Scary Spice". Brown has been signed to a number of record labels during her career including Virgin Records, Independent record label, Amber Café and her latest record deal EMI Music, which she signed in judged for X Factor Australia in 2012. The Spice Girls signed to Virgin Records and released their debut single, "Wannabe", which hit number-one in more than 30 countries and helped establish the group as a "global phenomenon". Followed by their debut album, Spice, which sold more than 28 million copies worldwide, beco... Add to favourites (24 fans)Biography of Harry Houdini
Harry Houdini (March 24, 1874 (OS) (April 5 (Gregorian calendar) (birth time source: Astrodatabank) – October 31, 1926), whose real name was Ehrich Weiss (which was changed from Erich Weisz when he emigrated to America), was a Hungarian-American magician, escapologist (widely regarded as one of the greatest ever), stunt performer, as well as an investigator of spiritualists, film producer, actor, and an amateur aviator. Birth Harry Houdini was born into a Jewish family in Budapest, Hungary. His given name is found spelled differently in different sources and also his birth date is uncertain. However, years after his death a copy of his birth certificate was found and published in The Houdini Birth Research Committee's Report (1972). According to that original source, he was born on Mar... Add to favourites (39 fans)Biography of Christina Applegate
Christina Applegate (born November 25, 1971) is an American actress. She is best known for playing Kelly Bundy on the FOX sitcom Married... with Children. Since then, she has since established a film and television career, winning a Primetime Emmy and earning Tony and Golden Globe nominations. She has had major roles in several films including Don't Tell Mom the Babysitter's Dead, The Big Hit, The Sweetest Thing, Anchorman, Farce of the Penguins, and Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Squeakquel. She has also starred in numerous Broadway theatre productions such as the 2005 revival of the musical Sweet Charity. Early life Applegate was born in Hollywood, California. Her father, Robert W. Applegate, was a record producer and record company executive, and her mother, Nancy Lee Priddy, was a ... Add to favourites (20 fans)Biography of Priscilla (French singer)
French singer and actress.... Add to favourites (25 fans)Biography of Joan Crawford
oan Crawford (March 23, 1905 – May 10, 1977), was an acclaimed, iconic, Academy Award-winning American actress, arguably one of the greatest from the Golden Age of Hollywood from the 1920s through 1940s. The American Film Institute named Crawford among the Greatest Female Stars of All Time, ranking her at number ten. Starting as a dancer, she was signed to a motion picture contract by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios in 1925 and played in small parts. By the end of the '20s, as her popularity grew, she became famous as a youthful flapper. At the beginning of the 1930s, her fame rivaled that of fellow MGM colleagues Norma Shearer and Greta Garbo. She was often cast in movies in which she played hardworking young women who eventually found romance and success. These "rags to riches" stories we... Add to favourites (12 fans)Biography of Elie Semoun
French humorist, actor, writer and singer.... Add to favourites (32 fans)Biography of Marianne Faithfull
Marianne Faithfull (born 29 December 1946) is an English singer and actress whose career spans over four decades. Faithfull's early work in pop and rock music was overshadowed by her struggle with drug abuse in the 1970s. After a long absence, she returned with the landmark album, Broken English. With a recording career that spans over four decades, Faithfull has continually reinvented her musical persona, experimenting in vastly different musical genres and collaborating with such varied artists as David Bowie, Patrick Wolf, Beck, Sly and Robbie, The Chieftains, Tom Waits, Lenny Kaye, PJ Harvey, Nick Cave, Rupert Hine, Metallica and Roger Waters. Faithfull's subsequent solo work, often critically acclaimed, has at times been overshadowed by her personal history. Born Marian Evelyn ... Add to favourites (23 fans)Biography of Meagan Good
Meagan Good (born August 8, 1981) is an American actress. Height: 5' 5" (1.65 m) Early life This article needs additional citations for verification. Please help improve this article by adding reliable references. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. (July 2007) Meagan Good was born in Panorama City, California. Good stated in an interview with the magazine, Sister2Sister, that they were one of the first black families in that area of California. She recalls being treated differently at school especially by one teacher who was a racist; this meant she had a hard time fitting in. Good did not pick up on these issues until she became older and thinks that her grades at the time may have suffered because of them. Good describes herself as a spiritual person and says... Biography of Nathalie Kosciusko-Morizet
Nathalie Geneviève Marie Kosciusko-Morizet (born 14 May 1973), often referred to by her initials NKM, is a French politician, current deputy of the 4th electoral constituency of Essonne. She is mayor of Longjumeau and a candidate for mayor of Paris in the local elections in 2014. Education and political career She graduated from the École Polytechnique and the Collège des Ingénieurs. As a 29-year-old, she was elected a deputy member of the French National Assembly in 2002, representing the department of Essonne, to the south of Paris, serving out the term for Pierre-André Wiltzer who was appointed deputy minister. She was reelected in 2007 and 2012. She was elected mayor of Longjumeau (Essonne) in March 2008. In 2007, she became secretary of state in the French government wi... Add to favourites (23 fans)Biography of Anne Heche
Anne Celeste Heche (IPA: ) (born May 25, 1969) is an American actress, director and screenwriter. Heche was born in Aurora, Ohio to Donald Heche, a Baptist minister and choir director, and Nancy. In her book, Call Me Crazy, Anne claimed that her father molested her during her childhood, giving her herpes. Her father later disclosed his homosexuality to his family, before dying of AIDS in 1983. In that same year, Anne's older brother Nate, who was also an actor, was killed in a car accident just a few months before his graduation from high school. Heche was a noted actress even at Francis W. Parker School, and the soap opera As the World Turns offered her a contract in 1985, when she was 16. However, both she and her mother felt it best that she finish high school first. Career Im... Biography of David Pujadas
David Pujadas was born in Barcelona on December 2, 1964 to a Spanish father and a French mother. A former news broadcaster for TF1's LCI, he now is an anchorman France 2's weeknight newscast, Le Journal de 20 Heures, at 8:00 CET in Metropolitan France. He has anchored these newscasts since September 2001, when he replaced Claude Sérillon, on orders from Olivier Mazerolle, the new France 2 news director. The newscasts Pujadas presents are repeated in Canada on TV5 Monde weeknights at 6:30 North American Eastern Time, and in Australia on SBS at 9.20 weekday mornings. In Metropolitan France, the audience for France 2's flagship evening newscast, at 25%, is less than the 40% audience share garnered by Patrick Poivre d'Arvor's TF1 evening newscast. David Pujadas has gone to the midd... Add to favourites (42 fans)Biography of Billie Holiday
Billie Holiday (April 7, 1915 – July 17, 1959), born Eleanora Fagan and later called Lady Day, was an American jazz singer. Billie Holiday had a difficult childhood, which greatly affected her life and career. Much of her childhood is clouded by conjecture and legend, some of it propagated by her autobiography, Lady Sings the Blues, published in 1956. This account is known to contain many inaccuracies. Her professional pseudonym was taken from Billie Dove, an actress she admired, and Clarence Holiday, her probable father. At the outset of her career, she spelled her last name "Halliday," presumably to distance herself from her neglectful father, but eventually changed it back to "Holiday." Holiday's grandfather was one of 17 children of a black Virginia slave and a white Irish pla... Add to favourites (11 fans)Biography of Donatella Versace
Donatella Versace (born May 2, 1955) is an affluent Italian fashion designer, like her famous brother, Gianni Versace, the founder of the Versace clothing empire. Her current title is Vice-President of the Versace Group and Chief Designer of the fashion line. She holds a great amount of Versace stock, totalling 20% of the entire stock market assets of Versace. Her brother, Santo Versace, owns 30%. Donatella's daughter Allegra Versace got 50% of the company stocks after Gianni Versace died, the two were very close and he testamented his half to Allegra. Early life and fashion debut Donatella Versace was born in the Italian city of Reggio di Calabria, the youngest of three children in her family, her father being a personal financier to the Italian aristocracy. In the mid 1970s, Donatell... Add to favourites (10 fans)Biography of Hélène Rollès
French actress and singer.... Add to favourites (17 fans)Biography of Ann-Margret
Ann-Margret (born April 28, 1941) is a five-time Golden Globe Award-winning, Academy Award, Emmy Award and Grammy-nominated American actress, singer and dancer. Early life Ann-Margret was born Ann-Margret Olsson in Valsjöbyn, Jämtland, Sweden to Anna Aronsson and Gustav Olsson, a native of Ornskoldsvik. She had a Lutheran upbringing and grew up in a small town "of lumberjacks and farmers high up near the Arctic Circle." Her father worked in the United States during his youth, and immigrated back there in 1942, working with the Johnson Electrical Company. Ann-Margaret and her mother moved to the United States four years later, and her mother worked as a funeral parlor receptionist after her father became too ill for his job. She grew up in Wilmette, Illinois, and attended Northwestern U... Biography of Jeane Manson
Jeane Manson, born Jean Manson, (born October 1, 1950 in Cleveland, Ohio) is an American model, singer and actress. She was Playboy magazine's Playmate of the Month for the August 1974 issue. (The pictorial opens with her nude in the ocean while lying in the sand.) Her centerfold was photographed by Dwight Hooker. Jean's father was a writer; her mother was a signer. She attended The American School in Mexico, where she spent much of her childhod, and graduated from Orange Coast College in California with an associate degree in music. She also studied at the legendary Actor's Studio with Lee Strasberg. She had a few film roles before she was a Playmate, but her entertainment career took a major turn forward when she moved to France soon after she appeared in Playboy. Performing under ... Biography of Barbara Walters
Barbara Jill Walters (born September 25, 1929) is an American journalist, writer and media personality who has been a regular fixture on morning television shows (Today and The View), an evening news magazine (20/20), and on The ABC Evening News as the first female evening news anchor. Walters was first known as a popular TV morning news anchor for over 10 years on NBC's Today, where she worked with Hugh Downs and later hosts Frank McGee and Jim Hartz. Walters later spent over 20 years as co-host of ABC's newsmagazine 20/20. She was the first woman to co-anchor the network evening news, working with Harry Reasoner on The ABC Evening News. In 2001, she was named the fourth most powerful woman in America by the Ladies Home Journal. Height: 5' 5" (1.65 m) Early life Walters was born in... Biography of Alain Prost
Alain Marie Pascal Prost, OBE (born 24 February 1955) is a French racing driver. He retired from Grand Prix racing at the end of 1993 after becoming Formula One World Champion for the fourth time. Only Juan Manuel Fangio and Michael Schumacher have won more Formula One World Drivers' Championship titles. From 1987 until 2001 Prost held the record for most Grand Prix victories. Schumacher surpassed Prost's total of 51 victories at the 2001 Belgian Grand Prix . Prost now races on ice in the Andros Trophy. Prost discovered karting at the age of 14 during a family holiday. He progressed through motor sport's junior ranks, winning the French and European Formula Three championships, before joining the McLaren Formula One team in 1980 at the age of 25. He finished in the points on his Formula... Add to favourites (18 fans)Biography of Jennie Garth
Jennifer Eve Garth (born April 3, 1972 in Urbana, Illinois) is an American actress, best known for her role of Kelly Taylor in Beverly Hills, 90210 and of Valerie Kelly Tyler in What I Like About You. Height: 5' 5" (1.65 m) Early life Jennifer Eve Garth was born in Illinois to John and Carolyn Garth, who each already had three children from different marriages. She grew up on a 25-acre horse ranch in Arcola, Illinois with her six older half-siblings: Johnny, Chuck, Lisa, Cammie, Wendy and Lynn. When Garth was 11, she and her family moved to Phoenix, Arizona. She took dancing lessons and did a little modeling while living there, at the time wanting to go to college and later start her own dance studio. At age 15, she was discovered and encouraged to pursue an acting career by a talen... Add to favourites (12 fans)Biography of Stacey Dash
Stacey Dash (born January 20, 1966, in The Bronx, New York) is an American film and television actress of African American and Aztec Indian descent. Height: 5' 5" (1.65 m) Career Stacey Dash started her career as a child actress on the television series, Sesame Street. She later appeared in shows such as The Cosby Show, where she acted beside friend Lisa Bonet, and in The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air. Dash's first substantial television role was in the 1988 television series, TV 101 which also featured Matt LeBlanc and Sam Robards. The series was cancelled after 13 episodes. Dash's first major film role was in the Richard Pryor comedy Moving in 1988. She also had sizeable roles in Mo' Money and Renaissance Man during this time. In 1995, Dash starred as a femme fatale in a low budget f... Add to favourites (30 fans)Biography of Zhang Ziyi
Zhang Ziyi (章子怡; pinyin: Zhāng Zǐyí) (born February 9, 1979 in Beijing, China) is one of the most well-known Chinese film actresses working today, with a string of Chinese and international hits to her name. She has worked with renowned directors such as Zhang Yimou, Ang Lee, Wong Kar-Wai, Seijun Suzuki and Rob Marshall. Born in Beijing, China, Zhang joined the Beijing Dance Academy at the age of 11, and at 15 she entered China's prestigious Central Academy of Drama (regarded as the top acting college in China). When her parents suggested she go to the dance academy, Zhang was skeptical. While at the boarding school, she noticed how catty the other girls were while competing for status amongst the teachers. She would cry each night and morning, and on o... Add to favourites (13 fans)Biography of Joe Pesci
Joseph Francesco DeLores Eliot Pesci (born February 9, 1943), commonly known as Joe Pesci, is an Italian-American Academy Award-winning actor, comedian and singer. Early life Pesci was born in Newark, New Jersey to Edwardo Francesco Pesci, a forklift driver and bartender, and Mary DeLores Mesce, who worked part-time as a barber. Pesci's father worked for General Motors. Pesci started out working as a barber in the 1960s, following in his mother's footsteps. He released an album entitled Little Joe Sure Can Sing under the pseudonym Joseph Richie, accompanied by a band that included good friend and future fellow actor Frank Vincent. It was announced on July 27, 2007 that Pesci had become engaged to Angie Everhart. Career Pesci's breakthrough as an actor came in 1980 opposite... Add to favourites (18 fans)Biography of Bon Scott
Ronald Belford "Bon" Scott (July 9, 1946 – February 19, 1980) was a Scottish born Australian rock musician. He was born in Kirriemuir, Scotland, and immigrated to Melbourne, Australia with his family in 1952 at the age of six. Scott is most well-known for being the lead singer and co-lyricist of hard rock band AC/DC from 1974 until his death in 1980. AC/DC's most successful album with Bon Scott is Highway to Hell released in 1979. After his death, AC/DC and their new lead singer, Brian Johnson recorded the album Back in Black as a tribute to him. Some sources rank Back in Black as the second-best-selling album in history.... Add to favourites (20 fans)Biography of Amy Adams
Amy Lou Adams (born August 20, 1974) is an Academy Award-nominated American film and television actress best known for her award-nominated roles in the films Junebug and Enchanted. Height: 5' 5" (1.65 m) Adams was born in Vicenza, Italy, the daughter of American parents Kathryn and Richard Adams, who was a U.S. serviceman stationed in Italy. She grew up as one of seven children in Castle Rock, Colorado and attended Douglas County High School. Adams was raised in the Mormon religion, although her family left the church after Adams' parents divorced when she was eleven. While working at the famous dinner theater in Chanhassen, Minnesota, Adams was discovered by a movie producer. Shortly after, she was cast in her first comedic role in Drop Dead Gorgeous. She moved to Los Angeles, Ca... Biography of Kyra Sedgwick
Kyra Sedgwick (born August 19, 1965) is an Emmy-nominated and Golden Globe Award-winning American actress. In 2007, Sedgwick won Best Actress for lead role in a dramatic TV series at the Golden Globes for her role in The Closer. Height: 5' 5" (1.65 m) Early life Sedgwick was born in New York City, daughter of Patricia (née Rosenwald), a speech teacher, and Henry Dwight Sedgwick V, a venture capitalist. On her father's side, she is a descendant of Judge Theodore Sedgwick; Endicott Peabody, the founder of the Groton School; William Ellery, signer of the Declaration of Independence; Rev. John Lathrop; and Governor Thomas Dudley; first cousin once removed of Edie Sedgwick, a star of Andy Warhol's early films; niece of the writer John Sedgwick and half-sister of jazz guitarist Mike Stern... Biography of Jo Frost
Joanne A. "Jo" Frost (born June 27, 1971) is an English nanny and the central figure of the reality television programme Supernanny. She has also written three books on the subject of child care. She is married to Nick frost and he does the naration on the supernanny tv show UK. Frost was born in London to an English father and a Gibraltar-born mother. Jo has more than 15 years experience in child care, working as a nanny in the United Kingdom and the United States, including her work with families on the hit television series, Supernanny, shown in over 47 countries around the world. Jo has written three books: Supernanny: How to Get the Best from Your Children (ISBN 1-4013-0810-4), Ask Supernanny: What Every Parent Wants to Know, and Jo Frost's Confident Baby Care. Her approach to p... Add to favourites (18 fans)Biography of Anna Faris
Anna Kay Faris (born November 29, 1976 in Baltimore, Maryland, U.S.) is an American actress, best known for her leading role of Cindy Campbell in the Scary Movie films. Height 5' 5" (1.65 m) Personal life Faris, the daughter of Jack and Karen, and sister of Bob Faris, grew up in Edmonds, Washington, north of Seattle. Her parents encouraged her to pursue acting when she was young and she gave her first professional acting performance at age 9 at the Seattle Repertory Theater. After attending Edmonds Woodway High School, she studied English literature at the University of Washington. She is of Irish, Scottish, English, German, and French descent. In 2004, Faris married actor Ben Indra, whom she met while working on Lovers Lane and whom she had dated since 1999. She filed for divo... Add to favourites (17 fans)Biography of Catherine Frot
Catherine Frot is a theatre and film actress born in Paris, France on 1 May 1956. Biography Early life The daughter of an engineer and a mathematics teacher, Frot demonstrated comic traits and expressions at an early age. At the age of fourteen, she enrolled in the Versailles conservatory while still in school. By 1974, she began her education at the Rue Blanche school and afterwards took up full-time studies at the conservatory. Career In 1975, she demonstrated her talent at the Festival d'Avignon in the Compagnie du Chapeau Rouge which she founded with the help of others. From then on, Catherine put all her energy into theatre performances in roles such as the Présidente de Tourvel in the play Les Liaisons dangereuses in 1987. She performed in a number of classical plays suc... Biography of Brian Johnson (AC/DC)
Brian Johnson (born October 5, 1947) is a British singer and songwriter, best known as the lead vocalist for the Australian hard rock band, AC/DC since April 1980. He currently lives in Sarasota, Florida. In 1972, Johnson formed the glam rock band Geordie and became their lead singer. However, after a few hit singles, the band split up in 1978. Johnson reformed Geordie in 1980, however, just after a record deal had been signed, he was asked to audition for AC/DC. A few days after the audition, Johnson was told he would be replacing deceased Bon Scott as the lead vocalist of the band. Scott passed away after his last album Highway To Hell. Johnson's first album with AC/DC, Back in Black, is the band's best selling album and ranks among the top-selling albums of all time. Johnson's sar... Add to favourites (22 fans)Biography of Ella Fitzgerald
Ella Jane Fitzgerald (April 25, 1917 – June 15, 1996), also known as the "First Lady of Song", "Queen of Jazz", and "Lady Ella", was an American jazz and song vocalist. With a vocal range spanning three octaves (D♭3 to D♭6), she was noted for her purity of tone, impeccable diction, phrasing and intonation, and a "horn-like" improvisational ability, particularly in her scat singing. Fitzgerald was a notable interpreter of the Great American Songbook. Over the course of her 59-year recording career, she was the winner of 13 Grammy Awards and was awarded the National Medal of Arts by Ronald Reagan and the Presidential Medal of Freedom by George H. W. Bush. Early life Fitzgerald was born in Newport News, Virginia, the child of a common-law marriage between William and Temp... Add to favourites (12 fans)Biography of Poppy Montgomery
Poppy Petal Emma Elizabeth Deveraux Donahue (born 19 June 1975 in Sydney, New South Wales) is an Australian actress. Her brother is named Jethro Tull, after Jethro Tull. Her sisters are named Rosie Thorn, Daisy Yellow, Lily Belle and Marigold Sun - all named after flowers, as Poppy is. She has stated the reason for her siblings interesting names was that her parents "were big hippies." She chose her mother's maiden name, Montgomery, as her stage name. She left Australia at 16 to be with her then-boyfriend. They broke up, and she arrived in Hollywood at 18 carrying a copy of How to Make It In Hollywood. She currently stars as Samantha Spade in the American television series Without a Trace. Montgomery was the "cover girl" for the May 2005 Stuff, which labelled her "TV's Hottest Cop... Add to favourites (28 fans)Biography of Carly Rae Jepsen
Carly Rae Jepsen (born November 20, 1985) is a Canadian recording artist and singer/songwriter from Mission, British Columbia. In 2007, she placed third in the fifth season of Canadian Idol, and was a part of the Canadian Idol Top 3 concert tour. Shortly after competing on Idol, she signed to Fontana and MapleMusic, and released her debut album, Tug of War, on September 30, 2008. Three years later, she released a new single, entitled "Call Me Maybe", which was released by 604 Records, and was followed by the release of her debut extended play, Curiosity, on February 14, 2012. "Call Me Maybe" was met with much success, reaching the Top 10 on the Billboard Hot 100 and reaching the number 1 spot on the Canadian Hot 100. The single also went to number 1 in Australia, Ireland and the United ... Add to favourites (14 fans)Biography of Angie Dickinson
Angie Dickinson (born September 30, 1931, Kulm, North Dakota (birth time source: Stephen Przybylowski, Astrodatabank) is a Golden Globe award winning American television and film actress, best known for her role as the sultry Sergeant Leann (not Suzanne) "Pepper" Anderson in the 1970s crime drama, Police Woman. Youth Dickinson was born Angeline Brown, the second of three daughters born to Frederica and Leo H. Brown. Leo was a small-town newspaper publisher. Her first job was selling Hershey's Kisses for five cents, so her sisters could buy ice cream cones. In 1942, her family moved to Burbank, California. She graduated from Bellamarine Jefferson High School in 1947, at 15 years of age. The previous year, she won the Sixth Annual Bill of Rights essay contest. She studied at Glendale Com... Add to favourites (10 fans)Biography of Jean d'Ormesson
Jean Lefèvre, comte d'Ormesson (born June 16, 1925) is a French novelist, mostly writing partially or totally autobiographic novels. Life Jean d'Ormesson's grew up in Bavaria. His father was a French ambassador. He was admitted at the École normale supérieure and passed the philosophy agrégation. He later became Secretary-General of the International Council for Philosophy and Humanistic Studies at the UNESCO and the director of the French newspaper Le Figaro from 1974 to 1979. On October 18, 1973, he was elected a member of the Académie française on seat 12, following the death of Jules Romains. He is also a Grand Officer of the Legion of Honour. Bibliography L'Amour est un plaisir (1956) Du côté de chez Jean (1959) Un amour pour rien (1960) Au revoir et merci (1966)... Add to favourites (15 fans)Biography of Olivia de Havilland
Olivia Mary de Havilland (born July 1, 1916) is a two-time Academy Award winning British actress and is the last surviving principal cast member from Gone with the Wind. She is the sister of Academy Award winning actress Joan Fontaine. Early life De Havilland was born in Tokyo, Japan, and is the elder daughter of Walter de Havilland, a British patent attorney with a practice in Japan, and the former Lilian Augusta Ruse, an actress known by her stage name of Lilian Fontaine, whom he married in 1914. Her father was the half-brother of Charles de Havilland, who was the father of the aviation pioneer Sir Geoffrey de Havilland (1882-1965). Her younger sister is the actress Joan Fontaine (b. 1917), from whom she has been estranged for many decades, not speaking at all since 1975. De... Add to favourites (13 fans)Biography of Lucy Pinder
Lucy Katherine Pinder (b. 20 December 1983 in Winchester, Hampshire, England) is a glamour model. She was spotted by a freelance photographer while sunbathing on Bournemouth beach in the summer of 2003; as a result of photographs taken that day, she signed a professional modeling contract with The Daily Star. In the 2005 UK edition of the FHM 100 Sexiest Women in the World Lucy was a new entry in the poll and finished 16th overall. She appeared at 35th place in the 2006 poll. Unlike most glamour models, Pinder did not pose for photographs showing her nipples, until she finally posed topless for the weekly UK lads mag Nuts in the April 6-April 12 issue in 2007. She is regularly partnered with Michelle Marsh, with whom she has appeared in magazines, television and corporate appearan... Add to favourites (10 fans)Biography of William Faulkner
William Cuthbert Faulkner (September 25, 1897 – July 6, 1962) was an American novelist and poet whose works feature his native state of Mississippi. He is regarded as one of the most influential writers of the twentieth century and was awarded the 1949 Nobel Prize for Literature. Faulkner's writing is often criticized as being dense, meandering and difficult to understand because of his heavy use of such literary techniques as symbolism, allegory, multiple narrators and points of view, non-linear narrative, and especially stream of consciousness. Faulkner was known for an experimental style with meticulous attention to diction and cadence, in contrast to the minimalist understatement of his peer Ernest Hemingway. Faulkner is sometimes lauded as the inventor of the "stream-of-consciousne... Add to favourites (21 fans)Biography of Sean Lennon
Sean Taro Ono Lennon (aka Sean Ono Lennon, born October 9, 1975) is an American singer, songwriter, musician and actor. He is the son of musicians and peace activists John Lennon and Yoko Ono. Kyoko Chan Cox and Julian Lennon are his half-siblings. Early life and education Sean Lennon was born in New York City on October 9, 1975, his father's 35th birthday. After Sean's birth, John became a house husband, doting on his young son until his own murder in 1980. Sean was educated at the exclusive private boarding school, Institut Le Rosey (which Prince Edward, Duke of Kent, King Albert II of Belgium, Dodi Al-Fayed as well as Strokes members Julian Casablancas and Albert Hammond, Jr. also attended) in Switzerland, and earlier at New York's private Ethical Culture Fieldston and Dalton School... Biography of Chaz Bono
Chaz Salvatore Bono (born Chastity Sun Bono; March 4, 1969) is an American transgender advocate, writer, actor, and musician. Bono is the only child that American entertainers Sonny and Cher had together, though each had children from other relationships. Bono is a female-to-male transgender man. In 1995, after several years of being outed as lesbian by the tabloid press, Bono publicly declared herself as such in a cover story in a leading American gay monthly magazine, The Advocate. Bono went on to discuss the process of coming out to oneself and to others in two books. Family Outing: A Guide to the Coming Out Process for Gays, Lesbians, and Their Families (1998) includes the author's coming out account. The memoir, The End of Innocence (2003) discusses the author's outing, music caree... Add to favourites (14 fans)Biography of Scott Caan
Scott Andrew Caan (born August 23, 1976) is an American actor. Early life Caan was born in Los Angeles, California to actor James Caan and Sheila Ryan, an actress and former model. His paternal grandparents were Jewish immigrants from Germany. His parents divorced a year after his birth; he has four half-siblings from his father's other marriages. Caan was a roadie for the rap groups Cypress Hill and House of Pain, and was a member of the hip-hop group The Whooliganz (with producer and fellow emcee, The Alchemist), before enrolling at the Playhouse West acting school in Los Angeles. Career Caan began acting in the late 1990s, appearing in a number of low-budget independent films and low-budget films. His first role in a major film release was that of a Texas football player i... Biography of Dalene Kurtis
Dalene Kurtis (born November 12, 1977 in Apple Valley, California) is an American model. She was Playboy Playmate of the Month for September 2001 and Playmate of the Year for 2002. She grew up in Barstow, California. Dalene began her modeling career by entering and winning a Venus Swimwear contest. She then debuted in Playboy magazine as the Miss September 2001 Playboy Playmate after being spotted at the Miss Hawaiian Tropic pageant. Kurtis' Playmate pictorial was the first Playmate of the Month pictorial without any pubic hair at all. Another signature attribute is her lower back tattoo of a butterfly just above her buttocks. In 2003, Playboy released a soft plastic Playboy Doll of her. The doll was based on computer scans of her face and body; hence it is an anatomically accurat... Add to favourites (12 fans)Biography of Tia Mowry
Tia Dashon Mowry (born July 6, 1978) is an American actress. She first gained fame for her role opposite her identical twin sister Tamera Mowry in the sitcom Sister, Sister. Height: 5' 5" (1.65 m) Early life Mowry was born in Gelnhausen, West Germany to Darlene Flowers, who managed her children's careers and also worked as a security guard, and Timothy Mowry, who was in the armed services and later became a police officer in California. Her mother is African American and her father is Italian-American; the two met in high school in Miami and both joined the military. She is the older sister of Tavior and Tahj Mowry. She is younger than her twin sister, Tamera, by two minutes. Her family is "close-knit" and "deeply religious", as the sisters became born-again Christians when they wer... Biography of Coralie Trinh Thi
Coralie Trinh Thi (born April 11, 1976 in Paris, France) was a French pornographic actress of French and Vietnamese ethnicity. She is most famous for her acting, writing and directing of the movie Baise-moi. Filmography 2000: Baise-moi pour lequel, elle est également co-réalisatrice. 1998: Déjà mort d'Olivier Dahan 1998: Sombre de Philippe Grandrieux 1996: Parfait Amour ! de Catherine Breillat sous le pseudonyme de "Coralie Gengenbach". 1995: En avoir ou pas de Laetitia Masson... Add to favourites (13 fans)Biography of Aung San Suu Kyi
Aung San Suu Kyi (Burmese: ; MLCTS: aung hcan: cu. krany; IPA: ); born 19 June 1945 in Yangon (Rangoon), is a nonviolent pro-democracy activist and leader of the National League for Democracy in Myanmar (Burma), and a noted prisoner of conscience. A Buddhist, Suu Kyi won the Rafto Prize and the Sakharov Prize for Freedom of Thought in 1990 and in 1991 was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for her peaceful and non-violent struggle under a military dictatorship. Personal life Myanmar Aung San Suu Kyi was born on 19 June 1945. Her father, Aung San, negotiated Burma's independence from the United Kingdom in 1947, and was assassinated by his rivals in the same year. She grew up with her mother, Khin Kyi, and two brothers, Aung San Lin and Aung San U in Rangoon. Aung San Lin drowned in a poo... Add to favourites (10 fans)Biography of Barbara Hershey
Barbara Hershey is an American actress, known for her many film roles. Born Barbara Lynn Herzstein on February 5, 1948 in Hollywood, California to an Irish American mother and a Jewish American father who was a horse-racing columnist, Hershey attended Hollywood High School. Her debut was guest starring in three episodes of Gidget in 1965, which she followed up by being cast in the television series The Monroes (1966). She found working on The Monroes to be such a dispiriting experience that she wrote pseudonymous letters to the producers asking that the show be cancelled. In 1967 she also made a guest appearance on the hit series "Daniel Boone" the episode was titled, "The Kings Shilling". Her feature film debut was in the 1968 comedy - With Six You Get Eggroll - which also marked Doris... Biography of Michel Blanc
Michel Blanc (born April 16, 1952 in Courbevoie, France) is a French actor and director who is noted for his roles of hypochondriacs. Height: 1m65 Filmography As actor unless otherwise specified * 1974 : Que la fête commence, directed by Bertrand Tavernier * 1975 : La Meilleure Façon de marcher, directed by Claude Miller * 1975 : Attention les yeux, directed by Gérard Pirès * 1975 : Un bol d'air * 1976 : Je t'aime… moi non plus, directed by Serge Gainsbourg * 1977 : Le Locataire, directed by Roman Polanski * 1977 : L'Ordinateur des pompes funèbres * 1977 : On aura tout vu, directed by Georges Lautner * 1977 : Le Diable dans la boîte, directed by Pierre Lary * 1978 : Des enfants gâtés, directed by Bertrand Tavernier * 1978 :... Add to favourites (15 fans)Biography of Van Morrison
George Ivan Morrison OBE (generally known as Van Morrison) (born August 31, 1945 (birth time source: Astrodatabank)) is a Grammy Award-winning Northern Irish singer, songwriter, author, poet and multi-instrumentalist, who has been a professional musician during the last five decades. He plays a variety of instruments, including the guitar, harmonica, keyboards, drums, and saxophone. Featuring his characteristic growl — a unique mix of throaty folk, blues, Irish, scat, and Celtic influences — Morrison is widely considered one of the most unusual and influential vocalists in the history of rock and roll.Critic Greil Marcus has gone so far as to say that "no white man sings like Van Morrison." Known as "Van the Man" by his fans, Morrison first rose to prominence as the lead singer of the N... Add to favourites (12 fans)Biography of Charlotte Church
Charlotte Church (born Charlotte Maria Reed on 21 February 1986) is a Welsh pop singer and television presenter who rose to international fame in childhood as a popular classical singer. To date, she has sold 10 million albums worldwide. Early life Church was born in Llandaff, a district of Cardiff, Wales. She was raised a Roman Catholic by her mother, Maria, who was separated from Church's biological father. Church was legally adopted by her mother's second husband, James Church. She had her first taste of stardom when she performed "Ghostbusters" at a holiday camp in Caernarfon at the age of 3, and it was rumored that she had to be dragged from the stage when she refused to leave (she denied that part in her autobiography). Her big break came at the age of 11 when she sang "Pie Jesu"... Add to favourites (18 fans)Biography of Niccolo Paganini
Niccolò (or Nicolò) Paganini (October 27, 1782 – May 27, 1840) was an Italian violinist, violist, guitarist, and composer. He is one of the most famous violin virtuosi, and is considered one of the greatest violinists who ever lived, with perfect intonation and innovative techniques. Although nineteenth century Europe had seen several extraordinary violinists, Paganini was the preeminent violin virtuoso of that century—it was rumored by his contemporaries that he had sold his soul to the devil for his unbelievable ability. Life Niccolò Paganini was born in Genoa, Italy, on 27 October 1782, to Antonio and Teresa, née Bocciardo, Paganini. Paganini first learned to play the mandolin from his father at the age of five, moved to the violin by the age of seven, and began composing before he ... Biography of Mylène Demongeot
Mylène Demongeot (born September 29, 1935 in Nice) is a French actress. Height: 5' 5" (1.65 m) She gained fame and adulation for her portrayal of Abigail Williams in the French-German movie Les Sorcières de Salem (1957). The blonde Actress has played in adventures like Milady de Winter in The three Musketeers and in Comedys like the Fantômas-Adventures directed by André Hunebelle. In USA she has co-starred to David Niven in Otto Premingers Bonjour Tristesse. Filmography 1953 : Les Enfants de l'amour de Léonide Moguy : Nicole 1955 : Frou-Frou d'Augusto Genina : La maîtresse de Cousinet-Duval 1955 : Futures vedettes de Marc Allégret : La fille qui vocalise 1956 : Quand vient l'amour de Maurice Cloche : Micheline 1956 : It's a Wonderful World de Val Guest : Georgie 1957 : ... Add to favourites (12 fans)Biography of Carla Gugino
Carla Gugino (born August 29, 1971) is an American actress best known for her roles of Ingrid Cortez in the Spy Kids trilogy and the title character of the TV series Karen Sisco. Height: 5' 5" (1.65 m) Early life She was born in Sarasota, Florida to an Irish-Italian father and a mother of English descent. Her mother moved the family to Paradise, California, when she was four years old. Despite moving around California a great deal as a child, Carla Gugino remained a straight-A student and graduated valedictorian. At the age of 15 she was spotted by a modeling agency in San Diego and moved to New York. This was unusual as at only 5 feet 4 inches (1.65 meters) tall, she was considered too short for catwalk work. Finding the experience too much, Gugino moved back to California that sum... Add to favourites (13 fans)Biography of Felicity Huffman
Felicity Huffman (born December 9, 1962) is an Academy Award nominated American actress. She is well known for her role as Lynette Scavo, the hectic busy Super-Mom on the ABC hit show Desperate Housewives which debuted in 2004, and for which Huffman won an Emmy Award. A year later, her role as a transwoman in the independent film Transamerica was praised by many critics and earned her an Academy Award nomination and a Golden Globe Award. Early life Huffman was born in New York to Grace Huffman. Her parents divorced a year after her birth, and she was raised mostly by her mother. She has six sisters and a brother, Moore. She graduated from Interlochen Arts Academy in Michigan. After high school she went on to New York University where she graduated in 1988 from the Tisch School of the... Add to favourites (11 fans)Biography of Kelly Hu
Kelly Ann Hu (Chinese name: 胡凱麗; Pinyin: Hú Kǎilì) (born February 13, 1968) is an American actress and former fashion model who held the Miss Teen USA 1985 title. Height: 5' 5" (1.65 m) Early life Hu was born in Honolulu, Hawaii to Juanita, an engineering drafter for Honolulu, and Herbert Hu, a salesman and exotic bird feeder; the two divorced during Hu's childhood. She is of English, Chinese, Filipino and Hawaiian descent. She attended Maʻemaʻe Elementary School and Kamehameha Schools in Honolulu, Hawaiʻi. Kelly Hu as Miss Hawaii Teen USA 1985Hu has held a lifelong interest in singing and dancing and has also been interested in martial arts since her early childhood, when her older brother would arrange for her to fight neighborhood bo... Biography of Joanna Thomae
Joanna Thomae, born August 21, 1983, is a French model. She was a friend of Michael Jackson.... Add to favourites (11 fans)Biography of Richard Dreyfuss
Richard Stephen Dreyfuss (born October 29, 1947) is an Academy Award-winning American actor. Taille : 5' 5" (1.65 m) Early life Dreyfuss was born in Brooklyn, New York, the son of Norman, an attorney and restaurateur, and Geraldine, a peace activist. Dreyfuss is Jewish and his surname is of Yiddish origin, a variant spelling meaning tripod. His surname is pronounced "DRAY-fuss". For years, though, the public mispronounced it as "DRY-fuss" until he corrected them. He has said that according to family tradition, he is either a direct descendant or at least a relative of Alfred Dreyfus. This is disputed by others. Dreyfuss spent his early childhood in Brooklyn and in Bayside, Queens, until he moved to Los Angeles with his family at the age of nine. In 1965, he graduated from Beverly Hi... Biography of Manfred von Richthofen
Manfred Albrecht Freiherr von Richthofen (May 2, 1892 (birth time source: birth certificate, Astrodatabank) - April 21, 1918) was a German fighter pilot known as The Red Baron. He was the most successful flying ace of World War I, and was credited with 80 confirmed air combat victories. Nicknames Von Richthofen is also known as "le Baron Rouge", "le Diable Rouge" ("Red Devil") or "Le Petit Rouge" ("Little Red") in French, and the "Red Knight" or the "Red Baron" in the English-speaking world. The German translation of Red Baron is "der rote Baron", and von Richthofen is known by this title in Germany as well, although he was rarely referred to as "Baron" in Germany during his lifetime, as Freiherr is the correct title for his level of nobility. Richthofen's 1917 autobiography is titled ... Biography of Emmylou Harris
Emmylou Harris (b. April 2, 1947, Birmingham, Alabama) is a country, folk and alternative rock musician, occasional singer-songwriter but is better known as an interpreter of other people's songs. In addition to her work as a solo artist and bandleader, she is a sought-after backing vocalist and duet partner, working with numerous big-name artists. Height: 5' 5" (1.65 m) Early years Emmylou Harris was the daughter of a career military father, a Marine Corps officer who was reported Missing In Action in Korea in 1952 and spent ten months as a prisoner of war. Emmylou was born in Birmingham, Alabama and spent her childhood in North Carolina, and Woodbridge, Virginia, where she graduated from Gar-Field Senior High School as class valedictorian. In high school, she also won a drama scho... Add to favourites (11 fans)Biography of Faudel
Faudel (born Faudel Belloua on June 6, 1978 in Mantes-la-Jolie) is a French singer of Algerian descent, considered the "Prince of Raï". He grew up in the suburbs of Paris, where he picked up his musical talents from his grandmother who taught him traditional Algerian music. His first public singing experience was during a family wedding celebration in Oran, Algeria. Faudel started to cover the popular tracks by Cheb Khaled and Cheb Mami at 12, after which he soon fronted the popular band "Les Etoiles du Raï". His debut album, Baida, catapulted him to fame. He has also performed with Khaled and Rachid Taha on the live album 1,2,3 Soleils. His other albums include Samra and his album Un Autre Soleil (released Sept. 2003) and, most recently, Mundial Corrida (2006). He also has acted in a f... Add to favourites (19 fans)Biography of Jaime Pressly
Jaime Lynn Pressly (born July 30, 1977) is an Emmy Award winning American actress and model. She currently plays Joy on the NBC sitcom My Name Is Earl. Height: 5' 5" (1.65 m) Personal life Pressly was born in Kinston, North Carolina to James Liston Pressly and Brenda Sue Smith. She has a sister, Jessie Pressly and a brother, Jim Pressly. Pressly spent 11 years studying gymnastics and dancing. By the time she was 14, she was already the spokeswoman for her modeling agency, "International Cover Model Search", and she had begun to gain recognition for her modeling in the USA, as well as in Italy and Japan. Pressly attended Costa Mesa High School in California, where her mother had moved while her parents were going through the process of a divorce. Jaime subsequently sought and succ... Biography of Roselyn Sanchez
Roselyn Sanchez (born April 2, 1973) is a Latin Grammy Award-nominated singer, model, film and television actress. Height: 5' 5" (1.65 m) Early life Sánchez was born in San Juan, Puerto Rico, the youngest of four siblings, having three older brothers. Her father works in business. Sanchez received her primary education in San Juan. At a young age, she showed an interest in both dancing and acting and would put on shows for her family. In 1991, at the age of 18, Roselyn moved to New York City, where she took classes in dancing, acting and singing. She returned to Puerto Rico and in 1992, she made her movie debut, having landed a small part as an island girl in the movie Captain Ron, which was partly filmed on the island, starring Martin Short and Kurt Russell. Roselyn enrolled in th... Biography of Jason Alexander
Jason Alexander (born Jason Scott Greenspan on September 23, 1959) is a television, cinema and musical theatre actor, best known for his role as George Costanza on the hit television series Seinfeld. Height: 5' 5" (1.65 m) Early life Alexander was born in Newark, New Jersey to Josh and Ruth Greenspan. He has a half-sister, Karen Van Horn, and a half-brother, Michael Greenspan. Alexander is Jewish. Alexander is a 1977 graduate of Livingston High School in Livingston, New Jersey. He had also attended Boston University, but abandoned his studies the summer before his senior year after getting work in New York City. He was later given an honorary degree. In September 2006 on Access Hollywood , he identified Robert Lampf as his favorite teacher and the teacher that most influenced and en... Add to favourites (15 fans)Biography of Billie Piper
Billie Piper (born 22 September 1982 (birth time source: "Growing Pains" by Billie Piper)) is an English actress and pop singer. She was originally named Lianne Piper, but her parents decided later that they would choose Billie. She began her career as a pop singer in her teens and was well known for her marriage to DJ Chris Evans but is now best known for portraying Rose Tyler, companion to the Doctor in the television series Doctor Who from 2005 to 2006, a role she is set to reprise in 2008. In 2007, Broadcast magazine listed Piper at #6 in its "Hot 100" list of influential on-screen performers, the top woman on the list. Career Music Piper's first break in the entertainment world came as a teenager, when she was selected to appear on the Saturday morning kids' television sho... Biography of Cara Wakelin
Cara Wakelin is a Canadian model and actress. She was chosen as Playboy's Playmate of the Month in November, 1999 and has appeared in numerous Playboy videos. She appeared on the cover, and in the 2005 Playmates at Play at the Playboy Mansion swimsuit calendar as the model for June. The calendar was the inaugural Playmates at Play calendar and it was shot on the grounds of the Playboy Mansion in 2004. This was Playboy's first attempt at creating a non-nude swimsuit calendar featuring Playmates similar in style with those from Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue. Appearances in Playboy special editions/videos Playboy's Playmate Review Vol. 16 August 2000 - pages 80-85. Playboy's Playmates in Bed October 2000 - pages 34-35. Playboy's Nude Playmates April 2001 - pages 8-9. Playboy'... Biography of Mel Brooks
Mel Brooks (born June 28, 1926) is a multi-award winning American director, writer, comedian, actor and producer best known as a creator of broad film farces and comedy parodies. Brooks is a member of the short list of entertainers with the distinction of having won an Emmy, a Grammy, an Oscar and a Tony award. Height: 5' 5" (1.65 m) Early life Born Melvin Kaminsky in Brooklyn, New York, U.S., to Polish-Jewish parents Maximillian Kaminsky and Kate "Kittie" Brookman. Brooks' grandfather, Abraham Kaminsky, was a herring dealer who immigrated in 1893. He and his wife Bertha raised their ten children on Henry Street on the Lower East Side of New York City. His father died of kidney disease at age 34. A year later, in 1930, Kittie Kaminsky and her sons Irving, Leonard, Bernard and Me... Biography of Phil Spector
Harvey Phillip Spector (born December 26, 1939) is an American record producer and songwriter whose fame reached its height in the 1960s. The originator of the "Wall of Sound" production technique, Spector was a pioneer of the 1960s' girl group sound and clocked in over twenty-five Top 40 hits between 1960 and 1965. In later years he worked with such artists as Ike and Tina Turner, John Lennon, George Harrison and the Ramones with similar success, including production work on the Academy Award winning Let It Be and Grammy Award winning Concert for Bangladesh soundtracks. In 1989, Spector was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as a non-performer. The 1965 song "You've Lost That Lovin' Feelin'", produced and co-written by Spector for the The Righteous Brothers, is listed by B... Biography of Jillie Mack
Jillie Mack, born December 25, 1957, is an American actress and the wife of actor Tom Selleck. Filmography "ER" (1 episode, 2002) - Chaos Theory (2002) TV Episode "Fired Up" .... Eleanor (1 episode, 1997) - Are We Not Friends? (1997) TV Episode .... Eleanor "Frasier" .... Charlotte (1 episode, 1996) - Police Story (1996) TV Episode .... Charlotte Adventures of Nicholas at Roaring Camp (1996) (TV) (voice) .... Brittany Silverfox (1991) (TV) .... Joanie "Hooperman" (1 episode, 1988) - Nick Derringer, P.I. (1988) TV Episode "Tales from the Darkside" .... Jayne (1 episode, 1987) - My Ghostwriter - The Vampire (1987) TV Episode .... Jayne "The Wizard" .... You (1 episode, 1987) - The Heart of a Dancer (1987) TV Episode .... You "Magnum, P.I." .... E... Add to favourites (14 fans)Biography of Alisha Klass
Alisha Klass (born January 3, 1972 in Chino, California) is an American pornographic actress. Measurements: 34C-24-34 Height: 5 ft 5 in (1.65 m) When Klass was 2, her mother was killed by her father, who in turn killed himself. Her grandmother subsequently raised Klass. After graduating from high school, she went to Las Vegas to become a stripper and "sex worker." After ending her job as a sex worker, she graduated with a degree in fashion from the Fashion Institute of Design and Merchandising in California. Klass was first introduced to pornography by Ron Jeremy while working at a club; Jeremy was later instrumental in introducing her to producer Adam Glasser, aka Seymore Butts. By 1997 she began starring in pornographic movies where she quickly became known for her penchan... Add to favourites (14 fans)Biography of Buster Keaton
Buster Keaton (born Joseph Frank Keaton, October 4, 1895 – February 1, 1966) was an American silent film comic actor and filmmaker. His trademark was physical comedy with a stoic, deadpan expression on his face, earning him the nickname "The Great Stone Face" (referencing the Nathaniel Hawthorne story about the "Old Man of the Mountain" ). His career as a performer and director is widely regarded to be among the most innovative and important work in the history of cinema. He was recognized as the seventh greatest director of all time by Entertainment Weekly. A 2002 world-wide poll by Sight and Sound ranked Keaton's The General as the 15th best film of all time. Three other Keaton films received votes in the survey: Our Hospitality, Sherlock, Jr., and The Navigator. Early life in v... Add to favourites (33 fans)Biography of Ashley Greene
Ashley Michele Greene (born February 21, 1987) is an American television and film actress. She is best known for playing Alice Cullen in the 2008 film Twilight, and will be reprising the role in its sequels. Personal life Greene was born in Jacksonville, Florida, the daughter of Michele, who works in insurance, and Joe Greene, a U.S. Marine who now owns his own concrete business. She grew up in Middleburg and Jacksonville, and went to University Christian School before transferring to Wolfson High School when she was in tenth grade. She moved to Los Angeles, California at the age of 17 to pursue an acting career. Greene has one sibling, an older brother named Joe, who still resides in Jacksonville with her parents. Greene is good friends with her Twilight co-stars, particularly Ke... Biography of Patricia Cornwell
Patricia Cornwell (born Patricia Carroll Daniels June 9, 1956) is a contemporary American author. She is widely known for writing a popular series of crime novels featuring the heroine Dr. Kay Scarpetta, a medical examiner. In 2002, Cornwell claimed to have solved the mystery of the Jack the Ripper murders by accusing noted artist Walter Sickert, though her conclusions and methods have been widely criticized. Early life A descendant of abolitionist and writer Harriet Beecher Stowe, Cornwell was born in Miami, Florida. Cornwell says that there are numerous links between herself and the main character in her novels, Dr. Kay Scarpetta, a forensic pathologist. They are both Miami-born, divorced, and had troubled relationships with their late fathers. Cornwell's father, Sam Daniels, w... Biography of Elena Anaya
Elena Anaya (born July 17, 1975) is a Spanish actress whose career dates back to 1995. Height: 5' 5" (1.65 m) Anaya was born in Palencia, Spain. She first received international attention in 2001 for her role in the sexually explicit drama Lucía y el sexo (Sex and Lucía) and also appeared in Pedro Almodóvar's Hable con ella (Talk to Her). Her best-known mainstream film role was as a vampire in 2004's Van Helsing, playing Dracula's bride, Aleera. She is also featured in Justin Timberlake's music video for his 2006 single, SexyBack. Filmography Year Title Directed by Notes 2007 The Floating World John Winter in production Savage Grace Tom Kalin Miguel & William Inés París In the Land of Women Jon Kasdan 2006 Alatriste Agustín Díaz Yanes Stage Kiss Eduardo Carrillo 200... Biography of Dorothy Dandridge
Dorothy Jean Dandridge (November 9, 1922–September 8, 1965) was an American actress. She was the first African American to be nominated for the Academy Award in the Best Actress category and the third African American to receive a nomination in any category overall (after Hattie McDaniel and Ethel Waters). In the 1950s, Dandridge was the first African American female to appear at the Las Vegas Frontier and the Waldolf-Astoria, as well as the first to be on the front cover of Life Magazine.Career Beginnings Singing in her church's choir, her mother, Ruby Dandridge — an ambitious, small-time local performer who would become a successful stage and screen actress — created an act with her daughters that performed as "The Wonder Children", later renamed The Dandridge Sisters. The Dandridge... Biography of Ally Sheedy
Alexandra Elizabeth Sheedy (born June 13, 1962) is an American screen and stage actress, possibly best known for her roles in the "Brat Pack" films The Breakfast Club and St. Elmo's Fire. Early life Sheedy was born in New York City to John J. Sheedy, Jr., a Manhattan-based advertising executive, and Charlotte Baum, a notable press agent who was involved in women's and civil rights movements. Her parents divorced in 1971. She has two siblings, Patrick and Meghan. Sheedy, who is Jewish, attended Columbia Grammar and Preparatory School in New York City, graduating in 1980. She started dancing with the American Ballet Theatre at the age of six, and was planning on making it a full-time career. At twelve years old, she wrote a children's book, She Was Nice to Mice; the book was published... Biography of Cass Elliot
Cass Elliot (September 19, 1941 – July 29, 1974), born Ellen Naomi Cohen, was a noted American singer, best remembered as Mama Cass of the pop quartet The Mamas & the Papas. After the group broke up, she had a successful solo career, releasing nine albums. Elliot was found dead in her hotel room in London from an apparent heart attack after two sold-out performances at the Palladium. Early life and career Ellen Cohen was born in Baltimore, Maryland, and grew up there and in Alexandria, Virginia (a suburb of Washington, DC). She adopted the name "Cass" in high school – possibly, as Denny Doherty tells it, borrowing it from the actress Peggy Cass – but in any case, it was just 'Cass,' not 'Cassandra.' She assumed the surname Elliot sometime later, in memory of a friend who had died. S... Biography of Patsy Kensit
Patricia Jude Frances Kensit (born 4 March 1968 in Hounslow, Middlesex) is an English actress and singer, and is also well-known for her three celebrity marriages. Career Aged four, Kensit appeared in a television advert for Birds Eye frozen peas. In 1972 she had her first role in a movie "For The Love Of Ada". Her next film role was two years later in The Great Gatsby starring with Mia Farrow - whom she would later portray in the 1995 biopic Love and Betrayal: The Mia Farrow Story. A pupil at the Italia Conti Academy stage school, Kensit's first starring roles were in British children's television programmes such as The Adventures of Pollyanna (1982) and Luna. She also appeared as Estella in a BBC adaptation of Great Expectations in 1981. Rise to fame She started to come to ... Add to favourites (12 fans)Biography of Barbara Stanwyck
Barbara Stanwyck (July 16, 1907 – January 20, 1990) was a four-time Academy Award-nominated, three-time Emmy Award-winning, and Golden Globe-winning American actress of film, stage, and screen. Height: 5' 5" (1.65 m) Barbara Stanwyck was born Ruby Catherine Stevens in New York City to Catherine Ann McPhee, a Canadian immigrant from Nova Scotia, and Byron E. Stevens, an American. She was raised in Brooklyn, New York. When she was two, her mother, who was pregnant at the time, died after being pushed off a moving trolley by a drunk. By age four, her father had abandoned the family. She was raised in foster homes and by an elder sister, but began working at age 13, and was a fashion model and Ziegfeld Girl by the age of 15. In 1926, Stanwyck began performing at the Hudson Theatre in ... Add to favourites (10 fans)Biography of Elizabeth Banks
Elizabeth Banks (born February 10, 1974) is an American actress (source: birth certificate). Personal life Banks was born Elizabeth Maresal Mitchell in Pittsfield, Massachusetts. As a young child, she was a contestant on the Nickelodeon game show Finders Keepers. She graduated from Pittsfield High School in 1992 and is a magna cum laude graduate of the University of Pennsylvania (1996). In 1998 she completed schooling at the American Conservatory Theater. In 2003, Banks married Max Handelman, who had been her boyfriend since college. She converted to Judaism upon marrying him. Career Banks is known for her roles in Seabiscuit, Heights, the Spider-Man films (playing the part of Betty Brant), and the cult comedy Wet Hot American Summer. She quickly gained widespread exposure throu... Biography of Jami Gertz
Jami Gertz (born October 28, 1965 in Chicago, Illinois) is an American actress. Acting career She is also best known for her early roles in the movies The Lost Boys, Quicksilver, Less Than Zero, the short-lived 1980s TV series Square Pegs with Sarah Jessica Parker, as well as the 2000s CBS sitcom Still Standing with Mark Addy. Other appearances Gertz also had supporting roles in the 1996 blockbuster Twister, the 1984 teen film Sixteen Candles, the 1986 film Crossroads and a 1994 episode of Seinfeld (as a girlfriend of Jerry who is also both Kramer's phone-sex partner and Elaine's toilet-paper-hogging nemesis). Gertz played the recurring character Dr. Nina Pomerantz during the 1997 season of ER. Gertz made her film debut (along with Tom Cruise) in the 1981 romance film Endless... Biography of Amrita Rao
Amrita Rao (Marathi: अमृता राव. IPA: , born June 7, 1981) is an Indian model and Bollywood actress. Beginning her career as a model, Rao made her acting debut with Ab Ke Baras (2002), which went unnoticed. However, she grew into prominence when she starred in Ken Ghosh's love-story, Ishq Vishk (2003) and earned her first Filmfare nomination in the Best Female Debut category. Delivering acclaimed performances and commercial success with films like Main Hoon Na (2004) and Vivah (2006), her biggest commercial success so far, she has established herself as one of the most promising actresses of Bollywood. Personal life Amrita Rao was born on June 7, 1981 to a Chitrapur Saraswat Brahmin family in Mumbai. She speaks English, Hindi, Marathi, ... Biography of C. Jérôme
Claude Dhotel, better known by his stage name C. Jérôme, (born 21 December 1946 in Paris, France (birth time source: André Dekoster, Didier Geslain); died 14 March 2000 of cancer) was a French singer that had a musical career of three decades and sold 26 million records and was particularly popular in the 1970s. In 1995, C. Jérôme became a radio announcer at Radio Monte Carlo where he presented a daily morning show entitled Les Années tubes with Claire Cardell. In 1996, he moved to TF1 for a daily oldies show La Chanson trésor. He also joined Michel Drucker in Vivement dimanche for presenting a section on oldies. Discography Kiss me Jérôme, c'est moi Et tu danses avec lui Dernier baiser Himalaya Le Charme français Manhattan Le petit chaperon ro... Add to favourites (11 fans)Biography of Maria Bello
Maria Elaine Bello (born April 18, 1967) is a Golden Globe-nominated American actress. Height 5' 5" (1.65 m) Early life Bello was born in Norristown, Pennsylvania to an Italian American father and a Polish American mother. She grew up in a working-class Roman Catholic family and graduated from Archbishop Carroll High School (Radnor, PA). Later she attended Villanova University, majoring in political science. She had every intention of becoming a lawyer, but took an acting class during her senior year, just for fun. She was soon cast in small off-Broadway plays, such as The Killer Inside Me, Small Town Gals With Big Problems and Urban Planning. She later guest-starred on episodes of The Commish (1991), Nowhere Man (1995), Misery Loves Company (1995) and Due South (1994). Care... Biography of Ashley Bashioum
Ashley Bashioum (born December 30, 1983) is an American actress. She starred on The Young and the Restless as Mackenzie Browning from 1999 to 2002 and from 2004 to 2005. She briefly dated Stephen Colletti from Laguna Beach: The Real Orange County.... Add to favourites (10 fans)Biography of Tippi Hedren
Nathalie Kay "Tippi" Hedren (born January 19, 1930) is an American actress with a career spanning six decades. She is perhaps best known for her role as Melanie Daniels in Alfred Hitchcock's The Birds, and her extensive efforts in animal rescue at Shambala Preserve, an 80-acre wildlife habitat which she founded in 1983. Hedren is the mother of actress Melanie Griffith, and they share credits on six films, notably Pacific Heights (1990). Early life Hedren was born in New Ulm, Minnesota, the daughter of Dorothea Henrietta (née Eckhardt) and Bernard Carl Hedren. Her paternal grandparents were immigrants from Sweden, and her maternal ancestry was German and Norwegian. Her father ran a small general store in the small town of Lafayette, Minnesota and gave her the moniker "Tippi". "My father... Biography of Heidi Montag
Heidi Montag (born September 15, 1986) is an American singer and television personality. Montag is best known for appearing on the MTV reality series The Hills. Career Reality TV Born in Crested Butte, Colorado, Montag moved to California after graduating high school where she enrolled at the Academy of Art University in San Francisco. During freshman orientation, she met Lauren Conrad who was then a featured cast member on the MTV reality series Laguna Beach: The Real Orange County. After Montag and Conrad transferred to Fashion Institute of Design & Merchandising in Los Angeles, Conrad received her own spin-off series The Hills, which premiered on May 31, 2006. Montag was featured in the series sharing an apartment with Conrad while studying at the Fashion Institute of Design & Me... Add to favourites (19 fans)Biography of Michelle Branch
Michelle Jacquet DeSevren Branch-Landau (born July 2, 1983) is an American singer, songwriter and guitarist. She made her debut in 2000, and released the platinum-selling albums The Spirit Room and Hotel Paper in August 2001 and June 2003 respectively. During this period, she collaborated with Santana on the single "The Game of Love", which won a Grammy Award. In 2004, she formed the musical duo The Wreckers with fellow musician Jessica Harp. Height: 5' 5" (1.65 m) Early life and solo career Michelle was born seven weeks premature in Flagstaff, Arizona on July 2 1983 , and was named after the Beatles' song "Michelle". Her father is of Irish ancestry while her Indo mother was born in the Netherlands; her maternal grandmother was a Dutch Indonesian and was held in a Japanese internmen... Biography of Océane (actress)
Océane, born January 6, 1975 in Paris, is a French pornographic actress. Height: 5' 5" (1.65 m) Awards 2001 : Hot d'Or, best French pornographic actress... Biography of Lili Taylor
Lili Anne Taylor (born February 20, 1967) is an American theater, film and television actress. Taylor, the second youngest of six children, was born in Glencoe, Illinois to Marie, a professional babysitter, and Park Taylor, a folk artist and hardware store operator. She grew up in a "warm family environment" and has described herself as being a "tomboy" and "a bit of a searcher" during her childhood. Taylor graduated from New Trier High School in Winnetka, Illinois, 1985. Thereafter, she attended the Theatre School of Drama at DePaul University and the Piven Theatre Workshop. Taylor has been dating author Nick Flynn since 2004. She was previously engaged to Michael Imperioli,, and previously linked to John Cusack, Eric Stoltz, Matthew Broderick, and Michael Rapaport. Career ... Biography of Britt Ekland
Britt Ekland (born October 6, 1942) is a Swedish actress, long resident in the UK. Height 5' 5" (1.65 m) Ekland became famous as a result of her 1964 whirlwind romance and marriage to British actor and comedian, Peter Sellers, who proposed after seeing her photograph in the paper. She stood by him after he suffered a series of massive heart attacks shortly after their marriage, and in 1965 they had a daughter, Victoria. The couple made two films together, After the Fox in 1966 and The Bobo in 1967, before she divorced Sellers. Ekland also has a son, Nicholai (born 1973) from her relationship with record producer Lou Adler. Britt Ekland had a much-publicised romance with rock star Rod Stewart; they were introduced in 1975 by Joan Collins and lived together for over two years, with ... Biography of Virginia Madsen
Virginia Madsen (born September 11, 1961) is an American actress. She came to fame during the 1980s, having appeared in several films aimed at a teenage audience. During the 2000s, she once again became known after an Academy Award and Golden Globe-nominated role in the film Sideways. Height: 5' 5" (1.65 m) Early life Madsen was born in Chicago, Illinois to Cal Madsen, a fireman, and Elaine (née Melson), an Emmy-winning poet, producer and playwright who often works for PBS; Madsen's mother left a career in corporate business to pursue a writing career. Madsen's brother is actor Michael Madsen. Her paternal grandparents were Danish and her mother has Irish and Native American ancestry. Madsen is a graduate of New Trier High School in Winnetka, Illinois. Her first stab as a thespia... Add to favourites (10 fans)Biography of Kelly Kelly
Barbara Jean "Barbie" Blank (born January 15, 1987) is an American model and professional wrestling valet, dancer, and wrestler, better known by her ring name Kelly Kelly. She is currently working for World Wrestling Entertainment on its Raw brand. Billed height 5 ft 5 in (1.65 m) Billed weight 108 lb (49 kg/7.7 st) Early life Blank was a broadcast journalism student and a Hawaiian Tropic bikini model before she entered professional wrestling. World Wrestling Entertainment Ohio Valley Wrestling World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) contacted her modeling agency and invited her to their developmental territory, Ohio Valley Wrestling (OVW) for a try out despite her having no previous wrestling experience, and eventually offered her a contract. Even after being called up to... Biography of Mel Lisboa
Mel Lisboa Alves (born January 17, 1982) is a Brazilian actress born in Porto Alegre. A precocious child, she began dating at 11, got her first tattoo at 13 years and various small piercings. She started seeing a psychotherapist at 15 and debuted on television as the protagonist in the series Presença de Anita on Brazil's TV Globo, at the age of 19. She acted in telenovelas (Desejos de Mulher — "Woman's Desires" and Como uma Onda — "Like a Wave"), theatre (Moças de Fino Trato) and TV special programmes, as well as several photo shootings for magazines and fashion companies (including a pictorial for the Brazilian Playboy in 2004), even though she says a career as a model does not appeal to her.... Biography of Devon Aoki
Devon Edwenna Aoki (born August 10, 1982) is an American supermodel and actress. Height: 5' 5" (1.65 m) Early life Aoki was born in New York City and grew up in California, attending high school in London. Her Japanese American father, Rocky Aoki, a former Olympic wrestler, is the owner of the Benihana restaurant chain. Her mother, Pamela Hilburger, is a jewellery designer of English and German heritage. Her brother, Steve Aoki, is a well-known Los Angeles, California DJ, and is the head of the Dim Mak record label. She also has a sister. Aoki was discovered in New York at a Rancid concert she had gatecrashed. She started modeling when she was 13, the same year Aoki was introduced to supermodel Kate Moss by her godmother who would later take the young Devon under her wing. It was... Add to favourites (14 fans)Biography of Allison Mack
Allison Mack (born July 29, 1982, in Preetz, Germany) is an American film and television actress. Mack currently stars as Chloe Sullivan on the WB/CW series Smallville. She and co-star Kristin Kreuk have become close friends. Mack was born in Germany to American parents, Mindy and Jonathan Mack. Her father was an opera singer performing there. The Mack family moved back to the United States when Allison was two years old. She began her acting career at the age of four in commercials for "German Chocolate." Mack then went into modeling for a short period because her mother thought she "looked cute in clothes." She began studying at The Young Actors Space in Los Angeles when she was seven. Her first major TV role came in an episode of the WB series 7th Heaven, in which she gained... Biography of Ione Skye
Ione Skye Leitch (born September 4, 1971 in Hertfordshire, England) is an actress. She is the daughter of Scottish singer Donovan and American model Enid Karl. Height: 5' 5" (1.65 m) Her most well-known performance was in the 1989 film Say Anything. She made her film debut in River's Edge in 1986, and played the title character in The Rachel Papers (1989). In 1992, she played the role of Elanore Grey on the short-lived TV show Covington Cross. More recently, she appeared as Mrs. Veal in an episode of the TV show Arrested Development. She was in a relationship with Red Hot Chili Peppers frontman Anthony Kiedis. Her first husband, Adam Horovitz, is a member of the the Beastie Boys. She married her second husband, David Netto, in March 2001; they were divorced in 2004. They have a... Add to favourites (12 fans)Biography of Tamera Mowry
Tia Dashon Mowry (born July 6, 1978) is an American actress. She first gained fame for her role opposite her identical twin sister Tamera Mowry in the sitcom Sister, Sister. Early life Mowry was born in Gelnhausen, West Germany to Darlene Flowers, who managed her children's careers and also worked as a security guard, and Timothy Mowry, who was in the armed services and later became a police officer in California. Her mother is African American and her father is Italian American; the two met in high school in Miami, Florida, and both joined the U.S. military. She is the older sister of Tavior and Tahj Mowry. She is younger than her twin sister, Tamera, by two minutes. Her family is "close-knit" and "deeply religious", as the sisters became born again Christians when they were eight.. ... Biography of Virna Lisi
Virna Lisi (b September 8, 1937) is an Italian film actress. She was born in Ancona, Marche, as Virna Lisa Pieralisi. Lisi began her film career in her teens, in 1953. Cast more for her stunning looks than her talent, her early films included La Donna del Giorno (1956), Eva (1962), and the Italian-made spectacle Romolo e Remo (1961). Virna in The Secret of Santa Vittoria, one of her european films in the sixties.The pert and sexy star also made a decorative dent in Hollywood comedy as a tempting blue-eyed blonde starring opposite Jack Lemmon in How to Murder Your Wife (1965), and appearing with Tony Curtis in Not with My Wife, You Don't! (1966). Confined to glamour roles, she returned to Europe within a few years, but fared little better in such mediocre movies as Arabella (1... Biography of Edie Falco
Edith Falco (born July 5, 1963) is a three-time Emmy award winning American television, film and stage actress best known for her lead role as Carmela Soprano on HBO's award winning hit series The Sopranos. Height: 5' 5" (1.65 m) Family Falco was born in Brooklyn, New York to Frank Falco (an Italian-American commercial artist, who is, at present, a sculptor) and Judith Anderson (a retired Swedish actress) . Falco's siblings are Joseph, Paul and Ruth. Her uncle is novelist, playwright and poet Edward Falco, an English professor at Virginia Tech in Blacksburg. She was raised in Northport, on Long Island. She has an adopted son named Anderson Falco. Education Falco graduated from Northport High School in 1981, after playing Eliza Doolittle in a production of My Fair Lady. She at... Biography of Frankie Valli
Frankie Valli (born May 3, 1937 in the First Ward of Newark, New Jersey as Francis Stephen Castelluccio) is best known as the lead singer of The Four Seasons, a music act of the 1960s, which continued from then to the 1970s disco scene to the present day. Valli scored over 25 Top-40 hits with The Four Seasons, a handful of Top-40 hits dubbed as a solo act in the late 1960s, one dubbed as "The Wonder Who?" in 1965 and again in the mid to late 1970s. Together they made the hit single December, 1963 (Oh What a Night) that can still be heard on the radio today. His best known "solo" single is Can't Take My Eyes Off You which reached number 2 on the Billboard Hot 100 in 1967' 'Are you ready now' became a surprise hit in the UK as part of the Northern Soul scene and hit no11 on the UK pop cha... Biography of Sachin Tendulkar
Sachin Ramesh Tendulkar, born 24 April 1973 in ) is an Indian cricketer widely regarded as one of the greatest batsmen in the history of cricket. He is the leading run-scorer and century maker in Test and One Day International cricket. He is the only male player to score a double century in an innings in the history of ODI cricket. In 2002, Wisden ranked him the second greatest Test batsman of all time, next to Donald Bradman, and the second greatest one day international (ODI) batsman of all time, next to Viv Richards. In September 2007, the Australian leg spinner Shane Warne rated Tendulkar as the greatest player he has played with or against. Tendulkar was the only player of the current generation to be included in Bradman's Eleven. He is sometimes referred to as Little Master or Ma... Add to favourites (13 fans)Biography of Selena (singer)
Selena y Los Dinos, born April 16, 1971, is the band which music legend Selena belonged to until her untimely death in 1995. Birth time source: "Selena: como la flor" by Joe Patoski. Soundtrack (5 titles) (source: http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0702373/?ref_=fn_al_nm_1) 1997 Selena (writer: "Bidi Bidi Bom Bom" 1994 / as Selena Quintanilla-Perez / performer: "Amor Prohibido" 1994, "Baila esta Cumbia" 1992, "Bidi Bidi Bom Bom" 1994, "Como la Flor" 1992, "Dreaming of You" 1989, "I Could Fall in Love" 1995, "El Chico del Apartamento 512" 1994, "La Carcacha" 1992, "Funky Town" 1979, "I Will Survive" 1975, "Last Dance" 1978, "No Me Queda Mas" 1994, "On the Radio" 1979, "Si Una Vez" 1994, "Regresa a Mi" 2004, "Where Did the Feeling Go?" 1984) 1995 Cara e Coroa (TV series) 1995 Brooklyn Boog... Biography of Vanessa Gleason
Vanessa Gleason (born August 31, 1979 in San Diego, California) is an American model and actress. She was chosen as Playboy Playmate of the Month for September 1998. While most playmates say their families were supportive of their decision to pose nude, Vanessa readily admitted that she was disowned by her parents and that they threw her out of the house. She was able to live at the Mansion for a year due to her contract, and she has since reconciled with her parents. Trivia Is an animal rights activist. Graduated with honors from high school. Enjoys practicing yoga, riding horses, and doing Tae Bo. Is a big fan of David Bowie and the White Stripes. Good friends with Playmates Kelly Monaco and Jennifer Rovero. Ranked second on Netscape's Top 10 Internet Models. Appearanc... Biography of Lauren Holly
Lauren Michael Holly (born October 28, 1963) is an American actress. She is best known for her role as Deputy Sheriff Maxine Stewart in the TV series Picket Fences and as Mary Swanson in the 1994 film Dumb & Dumber, co-starring Jim Carrey. Early life Lauren Holly was born in Bristol, Pennsylvania. Her father is an English literature professor at Hobart and William Smith Colleges. Both of her parents were educators, her mother is Michael Ann Holly, an eminent art historian, who was a professor at the University of Rochester. She was raised in upstate Geneva, New York, and graduated from Geneva High School with the class of 1981, where she was a cheerleader. She graduated from Sarah Lawrence College in 1985 with a B.A. degree in English Literature. Career At the age of 23, Holly joi... Biography of JoJo Starbuck
JoJo Starbuck (born Alicia Starbuck, February 14, 1951 in Birmingham, Alabama) is an American figure skater. With partner Kenneth Shelley, she is a three-time United States pair skating champion (1970-1972). From 1975-83, Starbuck was married to Pittsburgh Steelers and NFL Hall of Fame quarterback Terry Bradshaw. She was Bradshaw's second wife. Starbuck also had a minor career as an actress, performing in New York Stories (1989), The Cutting Edge (1992), and the TV movie Beauty and the Beast: A Concert on Ice (1996).... Biography of Christel Khalil
Christel Khalil (born November 30, 1987 in Los Angeles, California) is an Emmy Award-nominated American actress. Khalil is best known for her role as the first actress to portray Lily Winters Romalotti on the CBS soap opera The Young and the Restless. She played the role from August 15, 2002 until September 2, 2005. Soon after she left the soap, Khalil was replaced by Davetta Sherwood. Sherwood was let go seven months later by Lynn Marie Latham in favor of Khalil, who officially returned to the show on November 7, 2006. Her father is Pakistani, and her mother is African American. Khalil had small roles in movies such as Dragon Fury, Matilda, Interview With the Assassin and White Like the Moon. She also voices Cornelia Hale in W.I.T.C.H. and also appeared on That's So Raven and Mal... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of Arnaud Lagardère
Arnaud Lagardère, born in Boulogne-Billancourt, France, on March 18, 1961 (birth time source: Act n° 650, André Dekoster), is the son of Jean-Luc Lagardère, the former chairman of Matra and Hachette. He is the General and Managing Partner of Lagardère SCA, holding company of the Lagardère Group. Career With a DEA higher degree (Master) in economics from Paris Dauphine University, Arnaud Lagardère joined the Lagardère Group in 1986. He was appointed Director (1986) and then CEO (1989) of MMB, which became Lagardère SCA in 1996. Since that time, he has held different positions within the Group, including Chairman of Grolier Inc. in the United States (1994–1998), Chairman of Europe 1 - Communication (1999–2007), etc.; since 2003, he has headed the Lagardère Group as General Partner. ... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of Deborah Compagnoni
Deborah Compagnoni (born June 4, 1970) is an Italian former Alpine skier who won three gold medals at the 1992, 1994 and 1998 Winter Olympics. Career Deborah Compagnoni was born in Bormio, northern Lombardy. Compagnoni soon was noticed for her great talent. Her career was always marked by great successes, by also by great accidents. After her first great victory, the World Junior Title in Giant slalom, and her first podium in World Cup, she broke her right knee in the Val d'Isére downhill. After the surgery operation she decided to abandon the downhill races, where her talented could have permitted even greater successes than those she obtained in her yet victorious career. Compagnoni won her first race in the World Cup in 1992. She also won the gold medal at the Winter Olympics... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of Jodi Ann Paterson
Jodi Ann Paterson (born July 31, 1975) is an American model, actress and former beauty queen. Measurements 32" D - 23" - 34 ½" Height 5 ft 5 in (1.65 m) Weight 112 lb She was born in Balikpapan, Indonesia and grew up in Springfield, Oregon, United States. Her mother is of Indonesian descent and her father is of European-American descent. Paterson, who attended Thurston High School, first came to prominence in 1994 when she won the Miss Oregon Teen USA 1994 title and competed in the Miss Teen USA pageant. The event, which was televised live from Biloxi, Mississippi, was won by Shauna Gambill of California. After high school she attended Oregon State University, which was featured in both her October Playboy 1999 issue and Playmate of the Year Video Edition. She was a member of... Biography of Mia Hamm
Mia Hamm (born Mariel Margaret Hamm on March 17, 1972 in Selma, Alabama) is a former American soccer player. Playing for many years as a forward for the United States women's national soccer team, she scored more international goals in her career than any other player, male or female, in the history of the sport (158). Hamm eventually became one of the most famous women athletes in the world, an iconic symbol of women's sports, and an inspiration and role model to a generation of sports-minded girls. She was named the women's FIFA World Player of the Year the first two times that award was given (in 2001 and 2002), and is listed as one of FIFA's 125 best living players (as chosen by Pelé). She retired from the sport in 2004, when she played her last game in the 2004 Fan Celebration Tour... Biography of Brahim Asloum
Brahim Asloum (Arabic: إبراهيم اسلوم) born January 31, 1979 in Bourgoin-Jallieu, Isère) is a French boxer. He won the Light Flyweight Gold medal at the 2000 Summer Olympics. Asloum is the former WBA light flyweight world champion. Olympic results Defeated Mohamed Rezkalla (Egypt) 12-3 Defeated Brian Viloria (United States) 6-4 Defeated Kim Ki-Suk (South Korea) 12-8 Defeated Maikro Romero (Cuba) 13-12 Defeated Rafael Lozano (Spain) 23-10 Pro career Asloum began his professional career in 2001 and went on a streak of 19 consecutive victories to earn a shot at WBA Flyweight Title holder Lorenzo Parra. Parra dominated the fight, dropping Asloum in the 2nd and taking a unanimous decis... Biography of Sharleen Spiteri
Sharleen Eugene Spiteri (born 7 November 1967 in Glasgow) is a Scottish singer. She fronts the band Texas. Height: 5' 5" (1.65 m) Spiteri was born in Glasgow to father Eddie, a violin-playing merchant seaman of Maltese descent and mother Vilma, a singer of German/Irish roots. When she was young the family moved from the Glaswegian suburbs to nearby Balloch, Dumbartonshire, close to the banks of Loch Lomond. At school her nickname was ‘Spit the Dog’, after the gobbing mutt on the TV show Tiswas. Musical career Spiteri's musical influences range from The Clash (the main reason she plays a black Fender Telecaster) to Blondie to Marvin Gaye and Prince. She is also a dedicated Diana Ross fan. She co-founded the band Texas while still a hairdresser in Glasgow at the Irvine Rusk s... Biography of Kiro (Cinema Bizarre)
Kiro, born January 11, 1988 in Birkenfeld, is a German musician, a member of German group Cinema Bizarre. Cinema Bizarre is a German band from Berlin formed in 2005. They describe their music as synthpop, New Wave, electro, gothic rock and pop merged into some kind of glamorous synthrock. They released their debut album in 2007. History Cinema Bizarre was formed in 2005 by three friends Strify, Kiro and Yu. They met at an anime convension. They found two other members,Shin and Luminor, via internet. Their first single CD "Lovesongs (They Kill Me)" was released on September 14, 2007, two weeks after their first live performance in the German music show The Dome..The Norddeutscher Rundfunk (north German television broadcast) nominated the band for the national final of the Eurovision Son... Biography of Chloe Vevrier
Chloe Vevrier, born Andrea Irena Fischer on September 18, 1968 in Berlin, is a German model and actress. She was born to conservative French and Czechoslovakian parents.... Biography of Samaire Armstrong
Samaire (pronounced Sa-mee-rah) Armstrong (born October 31, 1980) is an American actress perhaps best known for her roles as Emily on Entourage and as Anna Stern on The O.C. Early life Armstrong was born in Tokyo, Japan to a Scottish father, Hunter Armstrong, and an Italian mother, Sylvia. Her mother designs spas for resorts and her father teaches soldiers close combat training. Her first name, pronounced or Sa-mee-rah is Gaelic. The first 3 months of her life her parents pronounced her name Sam-air, until they met a Gaelic man who told them it was properly pronounced Sa-mee-rah. She lived in Japan for several years, before moving to Hawaii and later Sedona, Arizona where she grew up. They've also lived in Malaysia and China. attended the University of Arizona, but dropped out becaus... Biography of Tia Texada
Tia Nicole Tucker, most commonly known as Tia Texada, (born December 14, 1971 in Louisiana) is an American film and television actress and singer. She is probably best known for portraying the role of Sgt. Maritza Cruz from the American television show Third Watch.... Biography of Nicole Appleton
Nicole Marie Appleton (born December 7, 1974) is a pop singer and a member of All Saints. She was formerly a member of Appleton along with her older sister Natalie. Appleton was born in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada. She has three older sisters; Lori, Lee, and Natalie. While growing up she lived in Toronto, New York City, and London . In 1983 enrolled in the Sylvia Young Theatre School and it was there were she met Melanie Blatt and they immediately became best friends. In 1995, Nicole and her sister Natalie joined Melanie Blatt and Shaznay Lewis in forming the band All Saints. The band was highly successful, but broke up in 2001. On December 7, 1997 Nicole met Robbie Williams while filming for Top of the Pops. They had a love affair and were subsequently engaged, but Nicole became pr... Biography of Delta Burke
Delta Ramona Leah Burke (born July 30, 1956 in Orlando, Florida) is an American television and film actress. She is probably best known for her role as Suzanne Sugarbaker in the sitcom Designing Women. Height: 5' 5" (1.65 m) Miss Florida Burke attended Colonial High School in Orlando, Florida, where she was voted "Most Likely to Succeed." After graduation, she won the Miss Florida title for 1974. Burke was paired with Miss Georgia, Gail Nelson, in the Miss America pageant in 1974, and won a talent scholarship allowing her to attend a two-year study program at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art. Early career Delta's best-known role as Suzanne Sugarbaker in Designing Women was created by Linda Bloodworth-Thomason. Before Designing Women, she spent a year on Filthy Ri... Add to favourites (13 fans)Biography of Erika Christensen
Erika Jane Christensen (born August 19, 1982) is an American actress whose film appearances include Traffic (2000) and The Perfect Score (2004), among others. She also co-starred in the drama Six Degrees on ABC. Height: 5' 5" (1.65 m) Personal life Christensen was born in Seattle, Washington, the daughter of Kathy, a construction manager, and Steven Christensen, an insurance worker/human-resources executive. She has an older half-brother, Nick, two younger twin brothers, Dane (who appeared in the film The Upside of Anger) and Brando. She has Swedish, Danish, Norwegian, Welsh, and Irish ancestry. Christensen was raised in Los Angeles, California and started out on television in commercials for McDonald's. Christensen is a member of the Church of Scientology. Her parents became Sci... Biography of James Cagney
James Francis Cagney Jr. (July 17, 1899 – March 30, 1986) was an Academy Award-winning American film actor who won acclaim for a wide variety of roles, including the career-launching The Public Enemy, and won the Oscar for Best Actor in 1942 for his role in Yankee Doodle Dandy. Like James Stewart, Cagney became so familiar to audiences that they usually referred to him as "Jimmy" Cagney — a billing never found on any of his films. In 1999, the American Film Institute ranked Cagney eighth among the Greatest Male Stars of All Time. Early life Cagney was born on the Lower East Side to James Cagney Sr., an Irish American bartender and amateur boxer, and Carolyn Nelson; his maternal grandfather was a Norwegian ship captain while his maternal grandmother was an Irish American. He moved... Add to favourites (22 fans)Biography of Maggie Smith
Dame Margaret Natalie “Maggie” Smith, DBE (born December 28, 1934) is an English film, stage, and television actress who made her screen debut in 1958 and is still performing after 50 years. She is a two-time Academy Award-, five-time BAFTA Award-, two-time Golden Globe- and one-time Emmy-winner. Early life Smith was born in Ilford,Essex, the daughter of Margaret (née Hutton), a Glasgow-born secretary, and Nathaniel Smith, a Newcastle upon Tyne-born public health pathologist who worked at Oxford University. She has older twin brothers, Alistair and Ian. Smith studied at Oxford High School, although she has been quoted as not having enjoyed the experience at school. Career Smith has had an extensive career both on screen and in live theatre, and is known as one of Britain's pre-e... Add to favourites (12 fans)Biography of Jessica Capshaw
Jessica Capshaw (born August 9, 1976) is an American actress, perhaps best known for her role as attorney Jamie Stringer on the ABC legal drama The Practice. Capshaw was born in Columbia, Missouri, the daughter of actress and producer Kate Capshaw (née Kathleen Sue Nail) and Robert Capshaw, a sales manager, marketing director, business executive, and high school principal. She is the stepdaughter of director Steven Spielberg. She graduated from Harvard-Westlake School in 1994 and Brown University in 1998 with an English degree. She then attended acting classes at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts (RADA) in London. In the motion picture, Valentine, she played Dorothy Wheeler. Capshaw married Healthy Child, Healthy World CEO Christopher Gavigan on May 22, 2004 in East Hampton. On Septemb... Biography of Dyan Cannon
Dyan Cannon (born Samille Diane Friesen on January 4, 1937) is a three-time Academy Award-nominated American film and television actress, director, screenwriter, editor, and producer. Height: 5' 5" (1.65 m) Early life Cannon was born in Tacoma, Washington to a Baptist father and a Jewish mother, Claire Portnoy, who had immigrated from Russia.She attended West Seattle High School. Career Cannon received two Oscar nominations for Best Supporting Actress, one for Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice (1969) and another for Heaven Can Wait (1978). In addition, she became the first Oscar-nominated actress to be nominated in the Best Short Film, Live Action Category for Number One (1976), a project which Cannon produced, directed, wrote and edited. It was a story about adolescent sexual curios... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of Holly Witt
Holly Witt (born December 10, 1968 in Lima, Pennsylvania) is an American model and actress. She was named Playboy Playmate of the Month for November, 1995 and has appeared in numerous Playboy videos. Measurements 34 - 23 - 34 Height 5 ft 5 in (1.65 m) Weight 112 lb (51 kg) Prior to that Holly worked at a local Hooters for a few months in Arlington, TX next to the Ballpark in Arlington. Notable TV guest appearances Howard Stern playing "Herself" January 24, 1997 Her appearances in Playboy newsstand Specials Playboy's Playmate Review Vol. 12 June 1996 - pages 80-87. Playboy's Blondes, Brunettes, Redheads January 1997 - pages 3-7. Playboy's Book of Lingerie Vol. 58 November 1997 - Andrew Goldman, cover, back & page 1. Playboy's Celebrating Centerfolds Vol. 1 Decemb... | |||||||