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825 celebrities 5' 6" tall have been found. Add to favourites (100 fans)Biography of Abbé Pierre
L'Abbé Pierre (born Henri Antoine Grouès; 5 August 1912–22 January 2007) was a French Catholic priest, member of the Resistance during the World War II, and deputy of the Popular Republican Movement (MRP). He founded in 1949 the Emmaus movement, which has the goal of helping poor and homeless people and refugees. Abbé means abbot in French, and is also used as a courtesy title given to Catholic priests. He was one of the most popular figures in France, but had his name removed from such polls after some time.... Add to favourites (288 fans)Biography of Nicolas Sarkozy
Nicolas Sarkozy, born Nicolas Paul Stéphane Sarközy de Nagy-Bocsa; 28 January 1955) is the 23rd President of the French Republic and ex officio Co-Prince of Andorra. He has served since 16 May 2007 and is set to step down on 17 May 2012 to make way for François Hollande. Before his presidency, he was leader of the Union for a Popular Movement (UMP). Under Jacques Chirac's presidency he served as Minister of the Interior in Jean-Pierre Raffarin's (UMP) first two governments (from May 2002 to March 2004), then was appointed Minister of Finances in Raffarin's last government (March 2004 to May 2005) and again Minister of the Interior in Dominique de Villepin's government (2005–2007). Sarkozy was also president of the General council of the Hauts-de-Seine department from 2004 to 2007 and... Add to favourites (253 fans)Biography of Beyonce Knowles
Beyoncé Giselle Knowles (born September 4, 1981 (the source for her time of birth is Destiny's Child autobiography "Soul Survivors") is an American R&B singer, songwriter, record producer, actress, dancer, fashion designer, and model. Knowles rose to fame as the creative force and lead singer of R&B girl group Destiny's Child, the world's best-selling female group of all time. After a series of commercially successful releases with the group, Knowles released her debut solo album Dangerously in Love in 2003. The album became one of the biggest commercial successes of the year, topping the album charts in the U.S. and the UK. It also spawned the number-one singles "Crazy in Love" and "Baby Boy" and earned Knowles five Grammy Awards in a single night in 2004. Knowles' sophomore album, B’D... Add to favourites (133 fans)Biography of Juliette Binoche
Juliette Binoche (born March 9, 1964) is a French Academy Award-winning actress. Juliette Binoche was born in Paris on March 9 1964 to a sculptor father and an actress mother.At age 4 her parents were divorced and Binoche was dispatched to a boarding school with her sister Marion. She began acting in amateur stage productions, and at 17 she directed and starred in a student production of the Eugene Ionesco play, Le Roi se meurt. The next year, she studied acting at the National Conservatory of Dramatic Arts of Paris. She found an agent through a friend, and joined a theatre troupe that toured France, Belgium and Switzerland under the pseudonym Juliette Adrienne. After graduation, she followed her mother's footsteps and became a stage actress, occasionally taking bit parts in French f... Add to favourites (242 fans)Biography of Jessica Alba
Jessica Marie Alba (born April 28, 1981) is an American actress. She is best known for her roles in Dark Angel, Sin City, Fantastic Four and Into the Blue. Early life Jessica Alba was born in Pomona, California, to Mark Alba (who is of Mexican descent), and Catherine Jensen (who is of French and Danish ancestry). Her maternal grandfather was a Marine noncom for 30 years, serving in the Pacific during WWII, and later as Asst. Drum Major for the United States Marine Band. Alba was raised in an Air Force family, along with her brother, Joshua, an actor who appeared with her in the season one finale of Dark Angel, and her grandparents until she was 17 years old. Her father's Air Force career took the family to Biloxi, Mississippi and Del Rio, Texas, before they settled back in California. ... Add to favourites (150 fans)Biography of Megan Fox
Megan Denise Fox (born May 16, 1986 (birth time source: http://m-fox.org/pix/displayimage.php?pid=11046&fullsize=1 In this article Megan Fox herself talks about her interest in astrology. The interview mentions that "For the record, she is a Taurus with a Leo Rising" And as Megan Fox is into Astrology (she spoke about it on the Ellen show) it's likely that she knows her risign sign.)) is an American actress and model, perhaps best known for her roles on the television series Hope & Faith and in the 2007 film Transformers. Personal life Fox was born in Oak Ridge, Tennessee and has Irish, French and Native American ancestry. She grew up in a 'very poor' household and has one older sister. Fox began her training in drama and dance at the age of 5, then moved to Florida when she was 10 y... Add to favourites (148 fans)Biography of Kristen Stewart
Kristen Jaymes Stewart (born April 9, 1990 (birth time source: Nick Dagan Best, Astrodatabank)) is an American film and television actress. She is perhaps best known for her roles in the films Panic Room, Catch That Kid, Speak, Zathura, The Messengers, In the Land of Women, and the critically acclaimed Into the Wild. She recently finished filming Twilight, based on the novel by Stephenie Meyer. Personal life Stewart was born and raised in Los Angeles, California. Her father, John Stewart (not to be confused with The Daily Show's Jon Stewart), is a stage manager and television producer who worked for FOX. Her mother is a scriptwriter who comes from Australia. She attended school until the seventh grade, and continued her education by correspondence. She has an older brother, Cameron. St... Add to favourites (199 fans)Biography of Emma Watson
Emma Charlotte Duerre Watson (born 15 April 1990) is an English actress and model who rose to prominence playing Hermione Granger, one of three starring roles in the Harry Potter film series. Watson was cast as Hermione at the age of nine, having previously acted only in school plays. From 2001 to 2010, she starred in seven Harry Potter films alongside Daniel Radcliffe and Rupert Grint; she will return for the final installment: the second part of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows. Watson's work on the Harry Potter series has earned her several awards and more than £10 million. She made her modelling debut for Burberry's Autumn/Winter campaign in 2009. In 2007, Watson announced her involvement in two non-Harry Potter productions: the television adaptation of the novel Ballet Shoes an... Add to favourites (147 fans)Biography of Daniel Radcliffe
Daniel Jacob Radcliffe (born 23 July 1989) is an English film, television and stage actor. He is best known for playing school-aged wizard Harry Potter in each of the first five films based on the best-selling Harry Potter book series, and will appear in the final two films of that series as well. Early life Radcliffe was born in Fulham, London, the only child of Alan Radcliffe, a literary agent, and Marcia Gresham (born "Marcia Gresham Jacobson"), a casting agent who was involved in several films for the BBC, including The Inspector Lynley Mysteries and, most recently, Walk Away And I Stumble. Radcliffe's mother is Jewish and grew up in Westcliff-on-Sea, Essex; his father is a Protestant who grew up in Northern Ireland. He has two dogs, Binka and Nugget. Radcliffe first expressed a de... Add to favourites (142 fans)Biography of Meryl Streep
Mary Louise Streep, mostly known as Meryl Streep (born June 22, 1949) is a two-time Academy Award-winning, six-time Golden Globe-winning, two-time SAG-winning, Grammy Award-nominated and BAFTA Award-winning American actress who has worked in theatre, television, and film. She is the most nominated actress in Academy Award history with 14 nominations. She is widely considered one of the most respected and talented actresses of all time. Streep made her professional stage debut in 1971's The Playboy of Seville and her screen debut came in 1977's made-for-television movie The Deadliest Season. She is also one of the select actors that has won all three major motion picture acting awards (Oscars, Golden Globes, SAG Awards). Streep made her film debut in 1977's Julia opposite Jane Fonda and ... Add to favourites (90 fans)Biography of Catherine Deneuve
Catherine Deneuve (October 22, 1943, in Paris, France), is an Academy Award-nominated French actress. A model of French elegance, cultivated lust object for art house filmgoers everywhere, and one of the best-respected actresses in the French film industry, Catherine Deneuve made her reputation playing a series of beautiful ice maidens for directors such as Luis Buñuel and Roman Polanski. The daughter of French stage and film actor Maurice Dorléac and actress Renée Deneuve, Deneuve was born Catherine Fabienne Dorléac, in Paris on October 22, 1943. She made her screen debut at the age of 13, with a role in the 1956 film Les Collegiennes, and went on to make a string of films with directors such as Roger Vadim (with whom she had a child) before getting her breakthrough role in Jaques D... Add to favourites (80 fans)Biography of Dalida
Dalida (Born Yolanda Christina Gigliotti) (January 17, 1933 – May 3, 1987) was a French singer of Italian and Egyptian origins. She received 55 golden records and was the first singer to receive a diamond disc. Dalida’s quest for a career in French cinema proved to be of limited success. Instead, she began taking singing lessons, and was booked as a cabaret act on the Champs Elysées, which proved successful. Performing the song "Etrangère au Paradis" in a variety show at Coquatrix’s recently-opened Paris Olympia theatre, Dalida was introduced to Lucien Morisse and Eddie Barclay, who played a considerable part in launching the starlet’s career. Morisse was artistic producer of the popular Radio Europe 1, and Barclay an established record producer. After signing a recording contract with ... Add to favourites (80 fans)Biography of Victoria Beckham
Victoria Caroline Beckham (née Adams; born 17 April 1974 in Hertfordshire (birth time source: OK! Magazine April 2013)) is an English fashion designer, businesswoman and former singer. In the late 1990s, Beckham rose to fame with the all-female pop group Spice Girls and was dubbed Posh Spice by the July 1996 issue of the British pop music magazine Top of the Pops. Since the Spice Girls split, she has had a solo pop music career, scoring four UK Top 10 singles. Her first single to be released, "Out of Your Mind", reached Number 2 in the UK Singles Chart and is her highest chart entry to date. During her solo career, she has been signed to Virgin Records and Telstar Records. Beckham has found more success as an internationally recognised and photographed style icon. Her career in fashion... Add to favourites (96 fans)Biography of Alicia Keys
Alicia Augello Cook (born January 25, 1980 (source: Imdb)), better known by her stage name Alicia Keys, is an American R&B singer-songwriter, record producer, and actress. Keys was raised by a single mother in the Hell's Kitchen area of Manhattan in New York City. At age seven, Keys began playing the piano. She attended Professional Performing Arts School and graduated at 16 as valedictorian. Keys released her debut album with J Records, having had previous record deals first with Columbia and then Arista Records. Keys' debut album, Songs in A Minor, was a commercial success, selling over 12 million copies worldwide. She became the best-selling new artist and best-selling R&B artist of 2001. The album earned Keys five Grammy Awards in 2002, including Best New Artist and Song of the Year... Add to favourites (128 fans)Biography of Janis Joplin
Janis Lyn Joplin (19th January, 1943 – 4 October 1970) was an American blues-influenced rock singer and occasional songwriter with a distinctive voice. Joplin performed on four albums recorded between 1966 and 1970 -- two as the lead singer of San Francisco's Big Brother and The Holding Company, and two released as a solo artist. Joplin was inducted to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1995, and received a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award in 2005. She was ranked #41 on VH1's The 100 Greatest Artists of Rock 'n Roll in 1998, the third highest ranking for a female (only behind Aretha Franklin and Joni Mitchell) on the list. In 1999, she was ranked #3 on VH1's The 100 Greatest Women in Rock and Roll (behind Aretha Franklin and Tina Turner). In 2004, Rolling Stone magazine ranked Joplin #4... Add to favourites (18 fans)Biography of Ilona Staller
Honourable Anna Ilona Staller (or credited as originally named Anna Elena Staller, 26 November 1951 - ), also known by her stage name Cicciolina, is an Italian-Hungarian porn star turned politician, and the first hardcore performer in the world to be elected to a democratic parliament. Biography She was born in Budapest. Her stepfather was an official in the Ministry of the Interior, her mother a midwife. In 1964, she began working for the Hungarian modelling agency, M.T.I. According to her memoirs, she lost her virginity at sixteen with a black university student. In her memoirs and in a 1999 TV interview, she claimed that she had provided Hungarian authorities with information on American diplomats staying at a Budapest luxury hotel where she worked as a maid in the late 1960s. Na... Add to favourites (25 fans)Biography of Sylvie Vartan
Sylvie Vartan (born August 15, 1944 in Svoge Bulgaria (birth time source: Cedra, birth certificate)), is a French pop singer, the daughter of a Bulgarian father of Armenian descent and a Hungarian mother . Vartan arrived in France when she was 10. She married the French rocker Johnny Hallyday on April 12, 1965 in Loconville. They have a son, David Hallyday (who is also a singer), born David Michael Benjamin Smet on August 14, 1966. Johnny Hallyday and Sylvie Vartan were France's "Golden Couple" of their generation. They divorced on November 4, 1980. She is currently married to American media mogul Tony Scotti. She is actor Michael Vartan's aunt. In 2005, Sylvie Vartan was appointed as WHO Goodwill Ambassador for Maternal and Child Health in the European Region. Her European hit... Add to favourites (115 fans)Biography of Ava Gardner
Ava Lavinia Gardner (December 24, 1922 (birth time source: Gauquelin – January 25, 1990) was an Academy Award-nominated American screen actress who worked on film and television. She is listed as one of the American Film Institute's greatest stars of all time. Early years Gardner was born in the small farming community of Boon Hill, North Carolina, the youngest of seven children (she had two brothers and four sisters) of poor cotton and tobacco farmers; her mother, Molly, was a Baptist of Scots-Irish descent, while her father, Jonas Bailey Gardner, was a Catholic of Irish American and Tuscarora Indian descent. While the children were still young, the Gardners lost their property, forcing Jonas Gardner to work at a sawmill and Molly to begin working as a cook and housekeeper at a dormit... Add to favourites (40 fans)Biography of Marie Trintignant
Marie Trintignant (January 21, 1962 – August 1, 2003) was a French actress. She was born in Boulogne-Billancourt, being the daughter of actor Jean-Louis Trintignant and his second wife Nadine Marquand. When her younger sister died at the age of nine, Marie Trintignant became withdrawn and virtually stopped speaking. Throughout her early life she was afflicted by severe shyness, but despite this, by her mid-teens she had decided to become an actress. She was the mother of four sons: Roman with drummer Richard Kolinka; Paul with actor François Cluzet; Léon with Mathias Othnin-Girard; and Jules with director Samuel Benchetrit. Marie Trintignant died of a cerebral edema on August 1, 2003 while on a film location in Vilnius, Lithuania after being beaten up by her boyfriend Bertrand Can... Add to favourites (52 fans)Biography of Rita Hayworth
Rita Hayworth (born Margarita Carmen Dolores Cansino on October 17, 1918 – May 14, 1987), was an American actress of Spanish and Anglo-Irish descent who reached fame during the 1940s as the era's leading sex symbol. Although it was not popular for someone to be Hispanic back in the 40's, Rita Hayworth is now widely regarded to be the first Hispanic-American 'sex goddess' in 'Hollywood' films. Personal life Rita Hayworth liked horses and thoroughbred horse racing, and became a member of the Del Mar Thoroughbred Club. Her husband Prince Ali Khan and his family were heavily involved in horse racing and Hayworth's filly Double Rose won several races in France and notably finished second in the 1949 Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe. Naturally shy and reclusive, Hayworth was the antithesis of t... Add to favourites (27 fans)Biography of Sophie Favier
Sophie Favier, born October 5, 1963 in Lyon, is a French TV host and a former actress and singer. Filmography 1983 : Lady libertine de Gérard Kikoïne 1984 : Vénus de Peter Hollison 1984 : Par où t'es rentré ? On t'a pas vu sortir de Philippe Clair TV host / actress 1982-1983 : Cocoricocoboy de Stéphane Collaro et Marie-France Brière (TF1) 1986 : Maxitête (Canal+) 1991-1992 Ciel, mon mardi ! de et avec Christophe Dechavanne (TF1) 1992-1993 : Coucou c'est nous ! de et avec Christophe Dechavanne(TF1) 1993 : Sophie ... sans interdit de Franck Schlesinger (Emission-pilote) (TF1) 1994 : Sacrée Soirée de Gérard Louvin avec Jean-Pierre Foucault (TF1) 1994-1995 : Super Mecs de et avec Patrick Sébastien (TF1) 1995-1996 : Sans aucun doute de Gérard Louvin avec Julien Co... Add to favourites (43 fans)Biography of Lil Wayne
Dwayne Michael Carter, Jr. (born September 27, 1982), better known by his stage name Lil Wayne, is an American rapper. Formerly a member of the rap group the Hot Boys, he joined the Cash Money Records collective as a teenager. Get It How U Live, released in 1997, was Lil Wayne's first album with Hot Boys, and Tha Block is Hot, his solo debut, came out 1999. After gaining fame with two other albums in the early 2000s, Lil Wayne reached higher popularity with 2004's Tha Carter and its two subsequent albums Tha Carter II (2005) and Tha Carter III (2008). He earned various accolades following Tha Carter III, including being nominated for eight Grammy Awards. He will release a rock album titled Rebirth in 2009. Early life Lil Wayne was born Dwayne Michael Carter, Jr. and grew up in the H... Add to favourites (25 fans)Biography of Sarah Palin
Sarah Louise Heath Palin (born February 11, 1964) is the current Governor of Alaska, and the presumptive 2008 Republican candidate for Vice President of the United States. She is expected to be the second female Vice Presidential nominee representing one of the two major American political parties. Born in Idaho and raised in Alaska, Palin gained statewide recognition as a championship high school athlete and was the 1984 runner-up in the Miss Alaska pageant. After graduating from the University of Idaho and working as a sports reporter at an Anchorage television station, Palin served two terms on the Wasilla, Alaska, City Council from 1992 to 1996, was elected mayor of Wasilla in 1996, and ran unsuccessfully for Lieutenant Governor in 2002. After charging ethical violations by state Re... Add to favourites (49 fans)Biography of Eva Mendes
Eva Mendes (born March 5, 1974) is an American actress. She began acting in the late 1990s, and became known after a series of roles in several major Hollywood films, including 2 Fast 2 Furious and Hitch. Early life Mendes was born in Miami, Florida to "lower-middle-class" Cuban-American parents and was raised in Los Angeles by her mother after her parents' divorce; Mendes has said that her mother "suffered so much to make my life OK" during her early years. Her father is a car salesman and her mother, Eva, is not an elementary school principal. As a child, Mendes was teased about her "buck teeth." She went to Hoover High School in Glendale, California and later attended California State University, Northridge but dropped out to seek an acting career. She studied with Ivana Chubbuck. M... Add to favourites (33 fans)Biography of Ornella Muti
Ornella Muti (born March 9, 1955) is an Italian actress. She was born in Rome as Francesca Romana Rivelli, to a Neapolitan father and Estonian mother. She has an older sister, Claudia (1951). Muti modeled as a teenager and made her film debut in 1970 in La Moglie più bella (aka The Most Beautiful Wife). She has primarily worked in Italian films but she made her UK film debut in 1980 in Flash Gordon. American movies she appeared in include Oscar (1991) and Once Upon A Crime (1992). She is mostly known to the French for appearing in a TV commercial of Giovanni Panzani pasta. Muti has been married twice, to Alessio Orano and Federico Facchinetti. She is separated from Facchinetti and has been living with Stefano Piccolo since 1998. Muti has three children: Naike Rivelli, who is also ... Add to favourites (78 fans)Biography of Brian Molko
Brian Molko (born December 10, 1972 in Belgium) is lead vocalist and guitarist of the band Placebo. Career Born to an American international banker father and a Scottish mother, Brian Molko's family moved frequently during his childhood, including spells in Scotland, Liberia, Lebanon and Luxembourg. Molko has referred to his mother's home town of Dundee, Scotland as "where I grew up".. He attended Goldsmiths College in London, where he studied drama. He describes his childhood as a period when he felt very lonely and alienated. He started to wear make-up at the age of 11. He was an actor in a school drama theater. While Molko was brought up in a strict household that disapproved of artistic expression (his father wanted him to become a banker) he rebelled by affecting an androgynous... Add to favourites (116 fans)Biography of Zooey Deschanel
Zooey Claire Deschanel (pronounced /ˈzoʊ.iː ˌdeɪʃəˈnɛl/ ZOE-ee day-shə-NEL; born January 17, 1980 in Santa Monica, California (source: birth cerrtiicate) is an American actress, musician, and singer-songwriter. In 1999, Deschanel made her film debut in Mumford, followed by her breakout role as young protagonist William Miller's troubled older sister Anita in Cameron Crowe's 2000 semi-autobiographical film Almost Famous. Deschanel soon became known for her deadpan supporting roles in films such as Elf (2003), The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (2005) and Failure to Launch (2006). She then began playing lead roles in films, including Yes Man (2008) and (500) Days of Summer (2009). For a few years starting in 2001, Deschanel performed in ... Add to favourites (28 fans)Biography of Nathalie Baye
Nathalie Baye (born July 6, 1948 in Mainneville, Eure, France) is an award winning French actress. She has won the César award for her acting four times and been nominated a further five times. Biography At the age of fourteen she started her artistic career by joining a school of dance in Monaco. Three years later she went to the United States to sample a new world and new culture. On returning to France, she continued with dance but in parallel registered for the Simon Course for the Academy where she graduated in 1972 with a second prise in comedy, dramatic comedy and foreign theatre. Her first cinema appearance was in Brève Rencontre à Paris ((Brief Meeting in Paris) (Two People)) by Robert Wise. Then she rose to fame as the 'script girl' in 'La Nuit américaine' (Day for Night) ... Add to favourites (41 fans)Biography of Asia Argento
Asia Aria Anna Maria Vittoria Rossa Argento (born 20 September 1975, Rome) is an Italian television and film actress and director. In Rome, the city's register office refused to acknowledge Asia as an appropriate name, and instead officially inscribed her as Aria Argento. Despite this, she uses the name Asia Argento professionally. Asia is pronounced in Italian. Background Family and early life Her mother is the actress Daria Nicolodi and her father is Dario Argento, an Italian film director, producer and screenwriter well known for his work in the Italian giallo genre, and for his influence on modern horror and slasher movies. Her first child, a girl, was born on 20 June 2001. Italian rock and roll musician Marco Castoldi (lead singer of Bluvertigo), also known as Morgan, is the ... Add to favourites (31 fans)Biography of Tabatha Cash
Tabatha Cash (born Céline Barbe on December 27, 1973, in Saint Denis, France) is a former French pornographic actress who starred in the early 1990s, starring in over 100 adult movies and appearing on countless magazine covers. Her exotic looks and enthusiastic on-screen performances made her one of the most popular performers with audiences in France and Europe. She was born into a poor working class family. As a teenager, she was involved with a notorious gang leader and also served time in a youth prison. Seeking a way to make money and get out of the ghetto, she turned to nude modeling while still in school and found that she could earn more money than in a regular job. Appropriately she took the name "Cash" and, using false identity papers to disguise her age, began working in the ... Add to favourites (31 fans)Biography of Rose Byrne
Mary Rose Byrne (born 24 July 1979 (birth time source: Vogue Australia)) is an Australian actress. Byrne made her screen debut in 1994 with a small role in the film Dallas Doll. In 2000, she played a leading role in the Australian film The Goddess of 1967, which brought her a Venice Film Festival award for Best Actress. Since 2007, she has played Ellen Parsons in the cable television series Damages, which has earned her two Golden Globe and two Emmy nominations. In 2011, she starred in the critically acclaimed and financially successful films Insidious, X-Men: First Class and Bridesmaids. Early life Byrne was born in Balmain, a suburb of Sydney, Australia, and is of Irish and Scottish descent. She is the daughter of Jane, a primary school administrator, and Robin Byrne, a semi-re... Add to favourites (54 fans)Biography of Marquis de Sade
Donatien Alphonse François, Marquis de Sade (June 2, 1740 – December 2, 1814) (pronounced IPA: ) was a French aristocrat and writer of philosophy-laden and often violent pornography. He was a philosopher of extreme freedom (or at least licentiousness), unrestrained by morality, religion or law, with the pursuit of personal pleasure being the highest principle. Sade was incarcerated in various prisons and in an insane asylum for about 32 years of his life (a year in Paris, 10 years in the Bastille, a month in Conciergerie, 2 years in a fortress, a year in Madelonnettes, 3 years in Bicetre, a year in Sainte-Pelagie, 13 years in an insane asylum, Charenton); much of his writing was done during his imprisonment. The term "sadism" is derived from his name.... Add to favourites (60 fans)Biography of Eva Green
Eva Gaëlle Green (born July 5, 1980 (birth time source: Patrick de Jabrun) is a BAFTA award-winning French actress who has starred in such film as The Dreamers, Kingdom of Heaven, and Casino Royale. Early life Green was born in Paris, France to French actress Marlène Jobert and Swedish dentist Walter Green, who appeared in the 1966 film Au hasard Balthazar, which was his first and only on-screen appearance. She has said that she comes from a "bourgeois" family, and was raised in the 17th arrondissement of Paris. Green attended the American School of Paris for her formal years. She has one sibling, a fraternal twin sister, Joy, from whom she is reportedly estranged. Green's name is pronounced /gre:n/, (approximately rhyming with "wren") in Swedish; it comes from the Swedish word gren, w... Add to favourites (42 fans)Biography of Kate Hudson
Kate Garry Hudson (born April 19, 1979) is an American film actress. She came to fame in 2000, after an Oscar-nominated role in the drama Almost Famous, and has since established herself as a Hollywood lead actress, starring in several successful films, including How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days, The Skeleton Key, and You, Me, and Dupree. Early life Hudson was born in Los Angeles to Bill Hudson (a singer, comedian and member of the Hudson Brothers) and the Academy Award-winning actress Goldie Hawn. Her maternal grandmother is of Hungarian Ashkenazi Jewish descent while her paternal grandmother was of Italian descent and her paternal grandfather's ancestry traces to 15th-century England. Hudson was raised in the Jewish religion, though her family also practiced Buddhism. Hudson's parents... Add to favourites (31 fans)Biography of Mathilde Seigner
Mathilde Seigner (born January 17, 1968 (birth time source: birth certificate)) is a French actress. Mathilde Seigner was born in Paris, France. She is the granddaughter of the respected French actor Louis Seigner (1903-1991). She is the sister of the actresses Emmanuelle Seigner (and sister-in-law of Roman Polanski) and Marie-Amelie Seigner, and the niece of Françoise Seigner. Since 2006 she has been the partner of Mathieu Petit, a cameraman, and their first child, a son Louis, was born 10 August 2007. Her acting performances have been confined to French language films, but she has appeared in a number of notable productions, including Time Regained. She won the prix Michel Simon in 1995 for her performance in Rosine and the Prix Romy Schneider in 1999, and has been nominated for a ... Add to favourites (38 fans)Biography of Nicola Sirkis
Nicola Sirkis (born Nicolas Sirchis, in Antony, Hauts-de-Seine, France on June 22, 1959) is the singer, guitarist and principal lyricist with the French band Indochine. He is the only surviving member of the original line-up of the band which he formed in 1981 with a friend, Dominique Nicolas, soon to be joined by his twin brother Stéphane and Dimitri Bodianski. The band has been active for 25 years, and Nicola Sirkis saw critical and wide appeal and success in 2002 with the release of Paradize. In 1992, Nicola Sirkis released a solo-album, Dans la Lune, covering a few of his favourite songs, in french or english. Nicola Sirkis is also the author of the novel "Les Mauvaises Nouvelles", published in 1998.... Add to favourites (11 fans)Biography of Haifa Wehbe
Haifa Wehbe (Arabic: هيفا وهبي also spelled Haifa Wehbeh, Haifa Wahbi, Hayfa Wehbe, Hayfa Wehbi; born March 10, 1970), is a Lebanese model, actress, and singer who rose to fame in the Arab world as runner up for 'Miss Lebanon' and later the release of her debut album Huwa az-Zaman (Arabic: هو الزمن It is Time). Haifa Wehbe was born in a small farming town near South Lebanon. She grew up listening to jazz and R&B. She became a model at a very young age and won the title of "Miss South Lebanon" at age sixteen. Wehbe's next distinction came in 1995 when she was runner up for Miss Lebanon. However, it was shortly discovered that she was married and had a daughter named Zeinab (Zaza). Her title was t... Add to favourites (55 fans)Biography of Dita von Teese
Dita Von Teese (born Heather Renée Sweet on September 28, 1972) is a popular American burlesque artist, model and actress. Often heralded as "the Queen of Burlesque", she has become a key figure in the burlesque revival. Early life Dita Von Teese was born in Rochester, Michigan. Her mother was a manicurist and her father was a machinist. Von Teese is well known for her fascination with 1940s cinema and classic retro style, and this began at a young age and was fostered by her mother, who would buy clothes for Dita to dress up in. Her mother was a fan of old, Golden-era Hollywood films, and it was from her that Dita developed a fascination with the actresses of that day, especially Betty Grable, an actress that she frequently cites as her favorite. She was classically trained a... Add to favourites (13 fans)Biography of Daniel Cohn-Bendit
Daniel Marc Cohn-Bendit (born Montauban, France, April 4, 1945) is a European politician and was a leader of the student protesters during the May 1968 riots in France. He was also known during that time as "Danny the Red" (because of both his politics and the color of his hair). He is currently co-president of the group European Greens–European Free Alliance in the European Parliament. Childhood Cohn-Bendit was born in France to German-Jewish parents who had fled Nazism in 1933. He spent his childhood in Paris. He moved to Germany in 1958, where his father had been a lawyer since the end of the war. He attended the Odenwaldschule in Heppenheim near Frankfurt, a secondary school for children of the enlightened upper middle class. Being officially stateless at birth, when he reached the... Add to favourites (48 fans)Biography of Denise Richards
Denise Lee Richards (born February 17, 1971 (source: http://www.librarising.com/astrology/celebs/deniserichards.html)) is an American actress and former fashion model. She came to fame in the late 1990s, after a string of films that highlighted her sex appeal, including Wild Things and The World Is Not Enough. Richards is also known for her marriage to (and divorce from) actor Charlie Sheen. Early life Richards was born in Downers Grove, Illinois to Joni, a coffee shop owner, and Irv Richards, a telephone engineer.She is of Croatian and Welsh descent.She was raised a Roman Catholic.She graduated from El Camino High School in Oceanside, California, where she became a cheerleader. Career Before she was an actress, Richards was a fashion model. Richards spent the majority of the 19... Add to favourites (66 fans)Biography of Emma Stone
Emily Jean "Emma" Stone (born November 6, 1988 (birth time source: OK! Magazine) is an American actress and singer. She made her feature film debut in 2007 with the comedy Superbad and gained wide exposure in 2008's The Rocker and The House Bunny. Early life Stone was born in Scottsdale, Arizona, the daughter of Jeff and Krista Stone, and has a younger brother, Spencer. Stone was a member of the Valley Youth Theatre while growing up, a regional theater in Phoenix, Arizona where she appeared in her first stage production, The Wind in the Willows, at the age of 11. Stone attended Sequoya Elementary School and then Cocopah Middle School for sixth grade. She was home schooled for two years, at which time she appeared in 16 productions at Valley Youth Theatre, including: A Winnie-the-Pooh C... Add to favourites (44 fans)Biography of Hilary Swank
Hilary Ann Swank (born July 30, 1974 (birth time source: by email)) is a two-time Academy Award-winning American actress. Her Hollywood film career began with a small part in Buffy the Vampire Slayer (1992) and then a major part in The Next Karate Kid (1994), where she played Julie Pierce, the first female protégé of the sensei Mr. Miyagi. She has become known for her two Oscar-winning performances: first as Brandon Teena, a transgender man in the movie Boys Don't Cry, and a struggling waitress-turned-boxer, Maggie Fitzgerald, in Million Dollar Baby. Early life Swank was born in Lincoln, Nebraska to Stephen Swank, an officer in the Air National Guard and later a traveling salesman, and Judy Clough. She has a brother, Dan. Many of her family members hail from Ringgold County, Iowa. Swan... Add to favourites (14 fans)Biography of Alexandra Neldel
Alexandra Neldel (born February 11, 1976) is a German actress from Berlin. Career Neldel worked as a dental assistant before she was discovered by the boss of a Berlin casting agency during a polo competition. He helped her audition for daily soap opera Gute Zeiten, schlechte Zeiten and Neldel, barely experienced in acting, immediately landed the role of Katja Wettstein. After leaving GZSZ in 1999 Neldel starred in several German motion pictures and TV films, including Lammbock, Samba in Mettmann and Emmy-winning Berlin, Berlin. In 2005 Neldel made her breakthrough as Lisa Plenske, the leading role in the Sat.1 telenovela Verliebt in Berlin. She decided to leave the series after the final episode of season one. Filmography Films 1997: Die Mädchenfalle – Der Tod kommt onli... Add to favourites (72 fans)Biography of Marlene Dietrich
Marlene Dietrich (December 27, 1901 – May 6, 1992) was a German-born actress, singer, and entertainer. Throughout her long career, starting as a cabaret singer, chorus girl and film actress in 1920s Berlin, Hollywood movie star in the 1930s, World War II frontline entertainer during the 1940s, and finally as an international stage show performer from the 1950s to the 1970s, Dietrich constantly re-invented herself and eventually became one of the entertainment icons of the 20th century. The American Film Institute ranked Dietrich No. 9 amongst the Greatest Female Stars of All Time. She was born Marie Magdalene Dietrich in Schöneberg near Berlin, Germany to Louis Erich Otto Dietrich and Wilhelmina Elisabeth Josephine Dietrich (née Felsing) on December 27, 1901. Nicknamed "Lena" within ... Add to favourites (82 fans)Biography of Elijah Wood
Elijah Jordan Wood (born January 28, 1981) is an American actor. Acting since the age of nine, Wood is best known for the role of Frodo Baggins in the Lord of the Rings film trilogy. Making his film debut with a minor part in Back to the Future Part II (1989), Wood landed a succession of subsequent larger roles, and became a critically acclaimed child actor. His role as Frodo in The Lord of the Rings made him a star, but he has resisted typecasting by choosing varied roles in critically-acclaimed films such as Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Sin City and Everything Is Illuminated. Most recently he starred in ensemble film Bobby and provided the voice of the main character in box office hit Happy Feet, both Golden Globe Award-nominated films. He also played an American tourist ... Add to favourites (50 fans)Biography of Goldie Hawn
Goldie Jeanne Hawn (born November 21, 1945(birth time source: Contemporary American Horoscopes, Astrodatabank)) is an Academy Award-winning American actress, director and producer. She is best known for starring in a series of successful film comedies during the 1970s, 1980s and 1990s. Her daughter is Kate Hudson, who is also a well-known, Oscar-nominated actress. Her son, Oliver Hudson, is a television and film actor as well. Early life Hawn was born in Washington, DC, to Edward Rutledge Hawn (a band musician who played at major events in Washington) and Laura Steinhoff (a jewelery shop/ dance school owner); she has a sister, Patricia, and had a brother, Edward, who died before she was born. She was raised in Takoma Park, Maryland. Her father, a descendant of Edward Rutledge (a signer... Add to favourites (64 fans)Biography of Teri Hatcher
Teri Lynn Hatcher (born December 8, 1964) is an Emmy-nominated and Golden Globe Award-winning American actress and author. She gained attention for her role as Lois Lane in the television series Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman co-starring with Dean Cain. Hatcher is also well-known for portraying Susan Mayer, in Desperate Housewives, a charming accident-prone divorcee. She is also a "Bond Girl", having played Paris Carver in Tomorrow Never Dies in 1997. Early life Hatcher was born to parents Owen and Esther Hatcher in Palo Alto, California, and grew up in Sunnyvale, California. Her father is an electrical engineer and her mother is a computer scientist. An only child, she attended Mango Junior High (now Sunnyvale Middle School), Fremont High School in Sunnyvale and De Anza ... Add to favourites (18 fans)Biography of Diego Maradona
Diego Armando Maradona (born October 30, 1960) is an Argentine former football superstar. He played in four World Cups and received the FIFA award for best footballer of the 20th century, after being voted in an international fan poll organized by FIFA in 2000 to choose the best football player of all time. Maradona won various trophies with Boca Juniors, FC Barcelona and SSC Napoli over the course of his career. During an international career that included 91 caps and 34 goals, he played in four FIFA World Cup tournaments, leading the Argentina national team to its victory over West Germany in 1986, in which he collected the Golden Ball award as the tournament's best player. His second goal against England in the quarter-finals of the '86 tournament -- a spectacular 60-meter weave thro... Add to favourites (38 fans)Biography of Raquel Welch
Jo Raquel Tejada (born September 5, 1940), best known by her stage name Raquel Welch, is an American actress of Spanish-Bolivian and Anglo-Irish descent who reached fame during the 1960s as one of the most beautiful women in Hollywood. Early life Welch was born in Chicago, Illinois, the oldest of three children born to Armando Carlos Tejada and Josephine Sarah Hall. Her father, who immigrated from La Paz, Bolivia, was an aerospace engineer of Castilian Spanish descent; her mother was an Irish-American. In 1942, Armando Tejada was transferred to San Diego, California. The family moved to the suburb of La Jolla, where Welch grew up. She took dancing lessons as a child, and was winning beauty pageants by the time she was a teenager. Among her titles were "Miss Photogenic," "Miss La Jol... Add to favourites (31 fans)Biography of January Jones
January Jones (born 5 January 1978) is an American actress and former Abercrombie & Fitch model. She currently appears in the AMC original television drama series Mad Men as young suburban housewife and mother Betty Draper, but may be best known for her role as Cadence Flaherty in American Wedding (2003), from the American Pie comedy film series. Jones has also had supporting roles in Anger Management (2003), Love Actually, and Dirty Dancing: Havana Nights. In 2005 she appeared in the film The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada directed by and starring Tommy Lee Jones. In 2006 in We Are Marshall she played the role of Carol Dawson, wife of coach William 'Red' Dawson. Jones was ranked #82 on the Maxim Hot 100 Women of 2002. She dated Josh Groban for three years, 2003-2006, but ... Add to favourites (43 fans)Biography of Marcel Proust
Valentin Louis Georges Eugène Marcel Proust (July 10, 1871 – November 18, 1922) was a French intellectual, novelist, essayist and critic, best known as the author of In Search of Lost Time (in French À la recherche du temps perdu, also titled Remembrance of Things Past in its original edition), a monumental work of twentieth-century fiction published in seven volumes from 1913 to 1927. Proust was born in Auteuil (the southern sector of Paris's then-rustic 16th arrondissement) at the home of his great-uncle, two months after the Treaty of Frankfurt formally ended the Franco-Prussian War. His birth took place during the violence that surrounded the suppression of the Paris Commune, and his childhood corresponds with the consolidation of the French Third Republic. Much of Remembrance of T... Add to favourites (13 fans)Biography of Monica Lewinsky
Monica Samille Lewinsky (born July 23, 1973) is an American woman whom the former United States President Bill Clinton admitted to having sexual relations with while Lewinsky worked at the White House in 1995 and 1996. Its repercussions in the impeachment of Bill Clinton and the surrounding scandals of 1997-99 became known as the Lewinsky scandal, or "Monicagate". The scandal severely affected Clinton's second term and gave Lewinsky significant notoriety. Early life Lewinsky was born in San Francisco, California and grew up in Southern California on the west side of Los Angeles and in Beverly Hills. Her father was born in El Salvador, but comes from a family of German Jewish immigrants, while her mother is of Russian Jewish descent. She attended the private John Thomas Dye School in Bel-... Add to favourites (36 fans)Biography of Phil Collins
Philip David Charles Collins (born January 30, 1951 in Chiswick, London) is an English rock and pop musician. He is best known as the lead singer and drummer of progressive rock group Genesis and as a Grammy and Academy Award-winning solo artist. Collins sang the lead vocals on eight American chart-toppers between 1984 and 1989; seven as a solo artist and one with Genesis. His singles, often dealing with lost love, ranged from the drum-heavy "In the Air Tonight", to the dance pop of "Sussudio", to the political statements of his most successful song, "Another Day in Paradise". His international popularity transformed Genesis from a progressive rock group to a regular on the pop charts and an early MTV mainstay. Collins's professional career began as a drummer, first with obscure rock gr... Add to favourites (30 fans)Biography of Kim Novak
Kim Novak (born February 13, 1933) is an American actress who was one of America's most popular movie stars in the late 1950s. She is perhaps best known for her performance in Alfred Hitchcock's Vertigo (1958). Personal life She had a relationship with Ramfis Trujillo, the son of Rafael Leónidas Trujillo, the dictator of the Dominican Republic as well as with the entertainer Sammy Davis, Jr. She has had two husbands, English actor Richard Johnson (married March 15, 1965-divorced April 23, 1966) and veterinarian Dr. Robert Malloy (married March 12, 1976-present). Her home in Eagle Point, Oregon, was destroyed in a fire on July 24, 2000. A deputy fire marshal said the blaze was probably caused by a tree falling across a power line. Among Novak's lost mementos were scripts of some of h... Add to favourites (22 fans)Biography of Lauren Conrad
Lauren Katherine Conrad (born February 1, 1986), often referred to as "L.C.", is an American reality television star and fashion design student. She is best known for her role in the MTV reality series Laguna Beach: The Real Orange County and The Hills, the latter of which earned her a Teen Choice Award in 2006. Height 5' 6" (1.68 m) Lauren Conrad was born in Newport Beach, California on February 1, 1986 to Jim and Katherine Conrad. Her father is an architect (designer of the Conrad family home). Lauren Conrad has a sister three years younger named Breanna (featured in Laguna Beach season three), and a brother six years younger named Brandon. Conrad lived with her parents in Laguna Beach throughout her childhood and high school years, In early February 2004, her senior year at ... Add to favourites (26 fans)Biography of Juliette Lewis
Juliette L. Lewis (born June 21, 1973) is an Oscar-nominated American actress and musician whose most memorable roles occurred early in her career. Early life Lewis was born in Los Angeles, California. Her father is actor Geoffrey Lewis and her mother, Glenis Batley (nee Duggan), is a graphic designer; her parents divorced when she was two years old. She has a brother, Lightfield. Her uncle is the late composer, Peter Tod Lewis. She wanted to act since she was six years old, and got her start in TV at the age of twelve. Career Lewis has appeared in over forty films and made-for-TV movies. She has also appeared in a GAP commercial which she was dancing with Daft Punk to the tune of the song "Digital Love." She was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress in 1992... Biography of Jodi Arias
Jodi Ann Arias was born on July 9, 1980, in Salinas, California (birth time source: Sue Kay, Astrodatabank), to William Angelo and Sandy D. (née Allen) Arias. She is of Mexican descent from her father and German and English from her mother. Arias has an older half-sister (from her father's first marriage), two younger brothers, and a younger sister. Although she attended Yreka Union High School, she did not graduate; she later received her GED in jail while awaiting trial. Murder of Travis Alexander The murder of Travis Alexander occurred on June 4, 2008, in Mesa, Arizona. The murder resulted in the opening of a 2013 criminal trial in which Jodi Arias was charged in relation to the shooting and stabbing death of her ex-boyfriend. Victim Travis Victor Alexander (born July 28, 1977... Add to favourites (47 fans)Biography of Olivia Newton-John
Olivia Newton-John AO OBE (born 26 September 1948) is a Grammy Award-winning, Golden Globe-nominated, and Academy Award-nominated English-born Australian pop singer, songwriter and actress. Her highly acclaimed vocal musical and acting talents made her a globally recognized name. Olivia Newton-John is also a small business entrepreneur and an avid activist in ecological or environmental issues. Songwriting While she largely built her popularity through singing the compositions of others, from her album Gaia onwards, Newton-John has increasingly written or co-written her own songs. These often reflect her personal philosophy and interests, with lyrics concerning such matters as mental and physical health, peace, spirituality, and environmental concerns. Personal life Newton-John ... Add to favourites (21 fans)Biography of Martin Gore
Martin Gore (born Martin Lee Gore, 23 July 1961, Basildon, Essex, England) is an English songwriter, lyricist, singer, guitarist and keyboardist. He is an original founding member of Depeche Mode, a quintessential 1980s synthpop band. His work now spans three decades, but he is best known as the composer of hits such as "Personal Jesus" and "Everything Counts". Career Gore left St. Nicholas's Comprehensive School in 1977 and took a job as a bank teller. During evenings, weekends and any other spare time, he was involved with the local band 'Norman and the Worms'. In 1980, Gore met Andrew "Fletch" Fletcher at the Van Gogh club. Fletcher recruited Gore into his band with Vince Clarke, Composition of Sound. Soon the band drafted David Gahan to be the lead singer after seeing him sing "... Add to favourites (23 fans)Biography of Tiffani-Amber Thiessen
Tiffani-Amber Thiessen (born January 23, 1974 in Long Beach, California) is an American television and film actress. After many years of going by her full name, she is now credited as simply Tiffani Thiessen. Career She was born in Long Beach, California; her father, Frank, was a park designer and her mother, Robyn, was a homemaker. She is of German, Greek, Turkish and Welsh descent. She told InStyle, "I'm a mutt. I have so much of everything in me, and half of it I don't even know. German on one side, Greek, Turkish and Welsh on the other. My mom is very olive-skinned; I get my blue eyes from my dad." She credits her brother, Todd, as one of her most important inspirations, and mother and grandmother as her role models. As a child, she competed in many beauty pageants, and she won... Biography of Lova Moor
French dancer for the famous Crazy Horse Saloon, created by her husband, Alain Bernardin.... Add to favourites (25 fans)Biography of Aria Giovanni
Aria Giovanni (born Cindy Renee Volk, November 3, 1977 in Los Angeles, California) is a nude model and actress who was Penthouse Pet for the month of September 2000. Giovanni was born Cindy Renee Volk in Los Angeles to a mostly Italian-American family, the middle child of three. About her early life, Aria has recounted she was quite shy, with only one friend in high school, but that she did very well in her classes. According to her website, she did so well that she was able to graduate and head to college by the age of 16. She attended UCSD for several years studying biochemistry, while waitressing and tutoring in science and mathematics on the side, when she decided to enter modeling. She started answering newspaper ads in October, 1999, and soon began appearing on various amateur ... Biography of Sridevi
Sridevi (Tamil:ஸ்ரீதேவி, Telugu:శ్రీదేవి, Hindi:श्रीदेवी), born on August 13, 1963, is an Indian actress who has starred in hundreds of Hindi, Tamil, Telugu and Malayalam language films. She started acting at the age of four, and made her debut as an adult in the early 80s. She established herself as one of the leading actresses of her times, and although she left the industry in 1997, she has been regarded by the industry members, as one of the most talented and prominent actresses of India. Personal Sridevi was born and brought up in Sivakasi, a district in Tamil Nadu. Her mother tongue is Tamil. Her father's name was Ayyapan and her mothe... Biography of Dounia Coesens
Dounia Coesens, born September 20, 1988 in Aix-en-Provence, is a French actress. Filmography Protection rapprochée de Gérald Marx, téléfilm, 1997 Le Détective de Denis Berry, téléfilm, 2002 Johanna dans Plus belle la vie, feuilleton depuis 2004 Merci les enfants vont bien de Stéphane Clavier, téléfilm, 2005 Histoire sans faim (Poids plume) de Nolwenn Lemesle, court-métrage, 2005 Le Temps des secrets (téléfilm) de Thierry Chabert, téléfilm, 2006 Le Temps des amours (téléfilm) de Thierry Chabert , téléfilm, 2006... Add to favourites (17 fans)Biography of Barbara Mori
Bárbara Mori Ochoa (born February 2, 1978 in Montevideo, Uruguay) is a Mexican actress and model. Mori started to work as a model and then became a telenovela actress with TV Azteca but her big break came with the remake of the telenovela Rubí of rival network Televisa in 2004 playing the title character. Actress-model Bárbara Mori Ochoa was born on the 2nd of February 1978 in Montevideo, Uruguay. She is of Uruguayan-Japanese and Mexican heritage. She has two siblings; actress Kenya Mori and Kintaró Mori. (Mori is a Japanese family name.) At the age of 3, her parents divorced and she later moved to Mexico. One day, while working as a waitress at the age of fourteen, fashion designer Marcos Toledo invited her to work as a model. She became independent by the age of 17 and went to l... Add to favourites (13 fans)Biography of Hunter Tylo
Hunter Tylo (born Deborah Jo Hunter on July 3, 1962 in Fort Worth, Texas (birth time source: Stephen Przybylowski, Astrodatabank)) is an American actress of half Cherokee descent. She is also credited as Deborah Morehart; Morehart was the last name of her first husband. She made her career acting on soap operas. She debuted on All My Children as pickpocket Robin McCall in 1985. She met her future husband Michael Tylo on the set; she played his love interest. She left the show in 1987 and married Michael that same year. She insisted that her husband leave his storyline on All My Children, lest she divorce him, as she perceived that series co-star Taylor Miller, who played Tylo's love interest at the time, to be coming on to him in real life; she makes the accusation in her autobiography ... Add to favourites (22 fans)Biography of Robin Wright (actress)
Robin Gayle Wright (born April 8, 1966) is an American actress. She is best known for her roles as Jenny Curran in Forrest Gump, as Buttercup in The Princess Bride, and as Mary Surratt in The Conspirator. She has also been credited as Robin Wright Penn. Early life Wright was born Robin Gayle Wright in Dallas, Texas, the daughter of Gayle (née Gaston), an Independent Executive National Sales Director for Mary Kay cosmetics, and Freddie Gayle Wright, a pharmaceutical executive. She was raised in San Diego, California. She attended Pine Tree High School in Longview, Texas. Career She was listed as one of twelve "Promising New Actors of 1986" in John Willis' Screen World, Vol. 38. . Wright first became famous on television, playing Kelly Capwell on the soap opera Santa Barbara, whic... Add to favourites (14 fans)Biography of Tori Spelling
Victoria Davey "Tori" Spelling (born May 16, 1973) is an American actress. She is best known for being Aaron Spelling's daughter; in acting she is known for her role as Donna Martin in the 1990s teen soap opera Beverly Hills, 90210. Early life Spelling was born in Los Angeles, California, the daughter of Candy Marer (born Carole Gene Marer) and Aaron Spelling, a famed television producer with the ABC network in the 1970s. Both of Spelling's parents were Jewish, though her family celebrated both Christmas and Hanukkah while she was growing up. She attended Beverly Hills High School in Beverly Hills, California but a graduate of Harvard-Westlake School. Her brother, Randy Spelling, is an actor as well. Career Spelling appeared in a number of guest roles (mostly in her father's shows... Add to favourites (18 fans)Biography of Joan Collins
Joan Henrietta Collins OBE (born May 23, 1933) is a Golden Globe Award winning British actress and bestselling author. She is most widely known for her role as Alexis Colby in the 1980s primetime soap opera Dynasty. She was born in London, England, Great Britain and is one of the United Kingdom's most popular actresses. Family and early life Collins was born in London to Joseph William "Will" Collins (a South African Jewish talent agent, 1902-88) and Elsa Bessant (an English mother, who died at 56 in 1962). She has one full sister, the author Jackie Collins, and a brother Bill Collins. She was educated at the Francis Holland School and then trained at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (RADA) with actors such as Sir Roger Moore and Sir Michael Caine. Early film career At the age of... Add to favourites (19 fans)Biography of Brian Jones
Lewis Brian Hopkin Jones (28 February 1942 (birth time source: Sy Scholfield, Astrodatabank) – 3 July 1969) was an English guitarist and one of the founding members of the English rock group The Rolling Stones. Jones was known for his use of multiple instruments, fashionable mod image, recreational drug excesses and his death at age 27. Early life Jones was born in the Park Nursing Home in Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, during World War II. Supposedly he suffered from asthma all his life. His middle-class parents, Lewis Blount Jones and Louisa Beatrice Jones were of Welsh descent. Brian had two sisters: Pamela, who was born on 3 October 1943 and who died on 14 October 1945 of leukemia; and Barbara, born in 1946. Both Jones's parents were interested in music — his mother Louisa was a p... Add to favourites (25 fans)Biography of Kristin Scott Thomas
Kristin Scott Thomas OBE (born 24 May 1960) is an Academy Award-nominated English actress. Biography Kristin Scott Thomas was born in Redruth, Cornwall. Her father was a pilot for the Royal Navy and died in a flying accident in 1964, and she is the older sister of the actress Serena Scott Thomas. She is the niece of Admiral Sir Richard Thomas, who was Black Rod in the House of Lords, and a more distant grand niece of Capt. Robert F. Scott, who was the ill fated explorer who lost the race to the South Pole. Her last name is an amalgam of the last names of those two families. Scott Thomas's childhood home was Dorset, England. Her mother remarried another Royal Navy pilot, who also died in a flying accident six years after the death of her father. Scott Thomas was educated at Cheltenha... Add to favourites (21 fans)Biography of Christian Clavier
Christian Clavier is a French actor born May 6, 1952 in Paris. After his studies at Institut d'Etudes Politiques de Paris (Sciences Po) he started his acting career with the comedic theater troupe Splendid and participated in a number of burlesque films with the troupe, which had hits with films like Les Bronzés font du ski and Le Père Noël est une ordure. His most notable success without the Splendid group, and by far his biggest hit to date, was in the 1993 film les Visiteurs, where he played a character known as Jacquouille la fripouille; the character's cry of "Okkkkkkkayyyyyyy!!!" became a popular exclamation after the movie's success. After les Visiteurs he was a certified star, participating in big-budget films like Astérix et Obélix contre César, Astérix & Obélix : Mission... Add to favourites (19 fans)Biography of Anne Parillaud
Anne Parillaud (born 6 May 1960 in Paris) is a French actress. She is married to Jean Michel Jarre. She has a daughter with ex-husband Luc Besson, Juliette, born in 1987. A native Parisian and still a resident there, Anne was born May 6, 1960. While in school she studied ballet and her ambition was to become a lawyer, but a role during summer vacation - when she was only 16 - in Michel Long's "L'hôtel de la plage" launched her into the world of film. She is rather guarded regarding her private life and biographical details, preferring in her interviews to expound on metaphysical, as opposed to personal, questions. She believes her life outside of films - where she likes "dancing, talking with friends, things like that" - is prosaic: "Me, I don't like myself much. I'm not interesting.... Add to favourites (23 fans)Biography of Thalía (Mexican entertainer)
Thalía (born Ariadna Thalía Sodi Miranda, August 26, 1971 in Mexico City, Distrito Federal, Mexico (birth time source: Imdb)) is a successful Latin Grammy-awarded Mexican singer and actress. She is amongst Mexico's most famous telenovela actresses and has sold more than 12 million albums worldwide. In 1981, Thalía started her musical career as a vocalist in the Mexican child group Din Din. She performed in the music festival Juguemos a Cantar as a member of the group and later, as a soloist. As a vocalist, she is considered a mezzo-soprano. In 1984, she was cast in the teenage version of the stage production Grease, being cast in the lead role of Sandy. In 1986, Thalía replaced one of the original female vocalists of Timbiriche, Sasha Sokol. That same year, she was cast in her first soa... Add to favourites (28 fans)Biography of Vanessa L. Williams
Vanessa Lynn Williams (born March 18, 1963 in Millwood, New York (birth time source: Astrodatabank)) is an American pop-R&B recording artist, producer, dancer, model and actress. In 1983, she became the first woman of African-American descent to be crowned Miss America, but a scandal arose when Penthouse magazine bought and published nude photographs of her. She relinquished her title early and was succeeded by the first runner-up, Suzette Charles of New Jersey – who was also African-American. Williams rebounded by launching a career as an entertainer, earning multiple Grammy, Emmy, and Tony Award nominations. Williams released her debut album The Right Stuff in 1988, which spawned the hits "The Right Stuff", a #1 on Hot Dance Songs, and "Dreamin'" a #1 on R&B and #8 on Billboard Hot 10... Add to favourites (24 fans)Biography of Marisa Tomei
Marisa Tomei (born December 4, 1964) is an Academy Award-winning American film and stage actress. Early life Tomei, an Italian American, was born in Brooklyn, New York to Patricia, an English teacher, and Gary A. Tomei, a trial lawyer. She has a younger brother, Adam, and was partially raised by her paternal grandparents, Rita and Romeo Tomei. Tomei grew up in Midwood, a Jewish neighborhood. While there she became captivated by the Broadway shows that her theater-loving parents took her to, and became drawn to acting as a career. After graduating from Edward R. Murrow High School she attended Boston University for a year, then transferred to New York University in 1983 after landing a role in the soap opera As The World Turns. Soon after, she dropped out of school altogether as her car... Add to favourites (23 fans)Biography of Peter Falk
Peter Michael Falk (September 16, 1927 – June 23, 2011) was an American actor, best known for his role as Lieutenant Columbo in the television series Columbo. He appeared in numerous films and television guest roles and was nominated for an Academy Award twice (for 1960's Murder, Inc. and 1961's Pocketful of Miracles), and won the Emmy Award on five occasions (four for Columbo) and the Golden Globe award once. Director William Friedkin, when discussing Falk's role in his 1978 film The Brink's Job said that "Peter has a great range from comedy to drama. He could break your heart or he could make you laugh." In 1968 he starred with Gene Barry in a ninety-minute TV pilot about a highly-skilled, laid-back detective. Columbo eventually became part of an anthology series titled The NBC Myster... Add to favourites (36 fans)Biography of Alyson Hannigan
Alyson Hannigan (born Alyson Lee Hannigan on March 24, 1974) is an American actress who plays Lily Aldrin in the CBS sitcom How I Met Your Mother. She is also known for her previous roles as Willow Rosenberg on the television series Buffy the Vampire Slayer and flautist Michelle Flaherty in the American Pie film series. Early life Hannigan was born in Washington, D.C. to Albert Hannigan, an Irish American Photographer, and Emilie Posner, a Jewish American real estate agent. Her parents divorced a year after her birth and she was raised mostly by her mother in Atlanta. Although Hannigan had appeared in an industrial film for "Active Parenting" as a baby, as well as starred in a commercial for the "Duncan Hines cookie mix" in 1978, it wasn't until she moved to Los Angeles, California in ... Add to favourites (24 fans)Biography of Jewel (singer)
Jewel Kilcher (born May 23, 1974) is an American singer, songwriter, actress, poet and philanthropist, generally known just by her first name, Jewel. She has received three Grammy Award nominations. Her debut album Pieces of You became one of the best selling debut albums of all time going platinum twelve times. Source for her birth time: http://www.librarising.com/astrology/celebs/jewelkilcher.html Early years Jewel was born in Payson, Utah, the daughter of Nedra Carroll, an artist and personal manager, and Atz Kilcher, an elementary school music teacher, folk singer and social worker. Her mother of Irish descent and her father is of Swiss-German origin. She is the cousin of actress Q'Orianka Kilcher. She spent most of her young life in Homer, Alaska, living with her father. The home ... Add to favourites (26 fans)Biography of Chelsea Handler
Chelsea Joy Handler (born February 25, 1975 (birth time source: autobiography "Chelsea Chelsea Bang Bang")) is an American stand-up comedian, humorist, television host, actress, producer and best-selling author. She has her own late night talk show Chelsea Lately on the E! Cable Television Network. In 2009 she won a Bravo A-List Award. She also has her own column in Cosmopolitan and the UK celebrity magazine NOW. Handler has described her technique as "not so much humor as it is comments that aren't actually funny." Early life Handler grew up in the suburban town of Livingston, New Jersey. The youngest of six children, she was raised in Reform Judaism by her Mormon mother and Jewish father. Handler has said that while growing up, she felt like an outsider, telling a reporter, ... Add to favourites (18 fans)Biography of Simone Signoret
imone Signoret (French IPA: ) (March 25, 1921 - September 30, 1985), was an Academy Award-winning Jewish-French actress.She was born Simone-Henriette-Charlotte Kaminker in Wiesbaden, Germany to André and Georgette (Signoret) Kaminker. She was the oldest child of three, with two younger brothers. Her father, a linguist who later worked in the United Nations, was a French-born Jewish army officer, who brought the family to Neuilly on the outskirts of Paris. Signoret grew up in Paris in an intellectual atmosphere and studied the English language in school, earning a teaching certificate. She tutored in English and Latin and briefly worked part-time as a typist for a French collaborationist newspaper, Le Nouveau Temps, run by Jean Luchaire. During the German occupation of France, Signoret f... Biography of Rey Mysterio
Oscar Gutierrez (born December 11, 1974) better known by his ring name Rey Mysterio, is an American professional wrestler currently signed to World Wrestling Entertainment wrestling on its SmackDown! brand. Despite competing as a cruiserweight for most of his career, he is a former World Heavyweight Champion, as well as a record-setting eight-time Cruiserweight Champion. Mysterio is known for having a high flying style, which helped kick-start the cruiserweight revolution in the United States, in the late 1990s during his time in WCW. Billed height 5 ft 6 in (1.68 m) Billed weight 165 lb (75 kg/11.8 st) Career Born in San Diego, California, Gutierrez trained for pro wrestling with his uncle, who wrestled under the name Rey Misterio. He debuted as a wrestler on April 30, 1989 a... Add to favourites (17 fans)Biography of Roberto Benigni
Roberto Remigio Benigni (born October 27, 1952) is an Academy Award-winning Italian film and television actor, writer and director. Early years Benigni was born in Misericordia, a frazione of Castiglion Fiorentino, province of Arezzo (Tuscany) and raised in Manciano. In 1958 Roberto's family moved to Vergaio, near Prato. When he was fourteen he joined the circus, where he learned some gymnastics and pantomime. His first experiences as a theatre actor began in 1972, in Prato. In the autumn of the same year he moved to Rome where he took part in some experimental theatre spectacles, some of which he also directed. In 1975 Benigni met his first theatrical success with Cioni Mario di Gaspare fu Giulia, written by Giuseppe Bertolucci. Benigni became famous in Italy in the 1970s for a ... Add to favourites (16 fans)Biography of Doris Day
Doris Mary Ann von Kappelhoff (born April 3, 1922) is an American singer, actress, and animal welfare advocate known as Doris Day. A vivacious blonde with a wholesome image, Day was one of the most prolific actresses of the 1950s and 1960s. Able to sing, dance, and play comedy and dramatic roles, she has been an all-round star whose personality has permeated many popular and diverse movies. Day was born in the Cincinnati, Ohio, neighborhood of Evanston to Alma Sophia Welz and William/Wilhelm Kappelhoff; all four of her grandparents were German immigrants. The youngest of three children, she had two brothers, Richard, who died before she was born and Paul, a few years older. She was named after silent movie actress Doris Kenyon, whom her mother admired. Her family was Roman Catholic and ... Add to favourites (37 fans)Biography of Lars Ulrich
Lars Ulrich (born December 26, 1963) is the drummer and co-founder of Metallica. He was born in Gentofte, Denmark to an upper middle-class family. A tennis prodigy in his youth, Ulrich moved to Los Angeles, California at age seventeen to pursue his training, but instead of playing tennis, he ended up as a drummer. After publishing an advertisement in a local Los Angeles newspaper called The Recycler, he met James Hetfield and created Metallica. Lars's father, Torben Ulrich, who was an acclaimed tennis pro from the late 1940s into the early 1980s, was also a musician, playing jazz with such giants as Stan Getz and Miles Davis; legendary saxophonist Dexter Gordon is Ulrich's godfather. In February 1973, Torben Ulrich obtained five passes for five of his friends to a Deep Purple concert th... Biography of Luisana Lopilato
Luisana Loreley Lopilato (born May 18, 1987) is a well known Argentine actress and model. Luisana Lopilato is a native of Buenos Aires. She grew up as a believer of the Christian faith and as a fan of the River Plate football team. Lopilato, who lists Andrea Del Boca and Luis Miguel among her career influences, made her television acting debut at the age of twelve, in 1999. She was chosen to play Luisana Maza in "Chiquititas"(known in English as Tiny Angels). She joined "Chiquititas" in it's fifth season and continued to the show until it's final season, three years later. She also had a role in Chiquititas movie. In 2002 Luisana Lopilato became one of the biggest celebrities in Argentina thanks to her role in Rebelde Way. Even being only 15 years old, the girl became a sex symbol... Add to favourites (12 fans)Biography of Giovanna Antonelli
Giovanna Antonelli, born March 18, 1976 in Rio de Janeiro, is a Brazilian actress. Height: 5' 6¼" (1.68 m) Filmography Television Minisséries 2007 - Amazônia, de Galvez a Chico Mendes ... Delzuite Gonçalves 2003 - A Casa das Sete Mulheres ... Anita Garibaldi Programas 2006 - Minha Nada Mole Vida (episódio: Procura-se uma namorada) ... 1999 - Você Decide Movies 2007 - Por Acaso 2007 - Caixa 2 .... Ângela 2004 - A Cartomante .... Karen Albuquerque 2003 - Maria, Mãe do Filho de Deus .... Maria 2002 - Avassaladoras .... Laura (também produtora associada) 2000 - Bossa Nova .... Sharon Theater 2003 A Paixão de Cristo ... Maria 2004 Dois na Gangorra ... Gittel... Biography of Shobana (actress)
Shobana Chandrakumar Pillai(Malayalam:ോശഭന) (born March 21, 1966 (source Imdb), Wikipedia gives 1970) is an exponent of the Bharatanatyam dance and a leading actress of South Indian motion pictures. She was born into a Malayalam speaking family from Kerala, India. Shobana is the niece of the Travancore sisters Lalitha, Padmini and Ragini, all of whom were renowned for their skill in classical Indian dance. She has acted in over 150 movies in 5 languages. Shobana acted for the first time in a leading role in the Malayalam motion picture "April 18" in 1984, directed by Balachandra Menon. She also acted alongside the Malayalam actor Mammootty in the film Kanamarayathu (1984). Shobana won her first National Film Award for Best Actress from the government of India in ... Add to favourites (25 fans)Biography of Melanie Chisholm
Melanie Jayne Chisholm (born 12 January 1974, Widnes) is an English singer-songwriter, actress and businesswoman professionally known simply as Melanie C (or Mel C). She is best known as one of the five members of the girl group Spice Girls, in which she was nicknamed "Sporty Spice". She toured the world for years with the Spice Girls, gaining worldwide popularity and when the Spice Girls decided to pursue solo careers, Melanie decided to produce her own brand of music, in 1999 she released her first studio album Northern Star which sold 4 million copies worldwide. After the release of Northern Star Melanie battled depression and an eating disorder, and released her second studio album in 2003, Reason. Melanie was victorious in her battle against depression and eating disorder, and release... Add to favourites (21 fans)Biography of Kristin Davis
Kristin Landen Davis (also listed as Kristin Lee Davis) (born February 24, 1965) is an American Golden Globe and Emmy award-nominated actress best known for the role of Charlotte York on HBO's Sex and the City. Davis was born in Boulder, Colorado. An only child, her parents divorced when she was a baby and she was adopted by her stepfather after he married her mother in 1968. Early in her childhood Kristin and her parents moved to Columbia, South Carolina, where her adoptive father served as provost and taught psychology at the University of South Carolina. She lived in South Carolina until she graduated from A.C. Flora High School in 1983. She then moved to New Jersey, where she attended Rutgers University. After graduation in 1987, Davis moved to New York and waited tables before o... Add to favourites (22 fans)Biography of Bridget Fonda
Bridget Jane Fonda (born January 27, 1964) is an American actress. Early life Fonda was born in Los Angeles, California, USA, into a family of actors, including her grandfather Henry Fonda, father Peter Fonda, and aunt Jane Fonda. Her mother, Susan Jane Brewer, is an artist. She was named after Bridget Hayward, with whom her father was in love at one time. Peter and Susan Brewer divorced and he married Portia Rebecca Crockett (aka Becky McGuane), who brought up Bridget and her brother, Justin, in the Coldwater Canyon section of Los Angeles. Fonda attended Westlake School for Girls in Los Angeles. During this time, Bridget and Justin had little contact with their father or any of the Fonda family, recalling in an interview: When I was a kid, the most important thing for me was my hom... Add to favourites (12 fans)Biography of Kelly Brook
Kelly Brook (born Kelly Ann Parsons on November 23, 1979) is an English model, actress, and occasional swimwear designer and television presenter. After leaving school in Rochester, Brook studied at the Italia Conti stage school in London for three years before becoming a professional model. Model Brook's modeling career began at 16 after winning a beauty competition, her early work was in a range of advertising campaigns, including for the new "Bravissimo" company that specializes in bras and lingerie for full-figured women, and for Foster's beer. Brook is 5 feet, 9 inches (173 cm) tall, and her voluptuous figure caught the eye of the editorial team of the Daily Star who began featuring her as a Page Three girl. Brook's picture soon began appearing in other lad mags such as F... Biography of Denise Fabre
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Michel Fourniret (born Sedan, France, 4 April 1942) is a French serial killer who confessed, in June and July 2004, to kidnapping, raping and murdering nine girls in a span of fourteen years during the 1980s and the 1990s. He is also suspected of ten additional murders, nine in France and one in Belgium. He is currently detained in Belgium awaiting trial. He is sometimes referred to as the "Ogre of the Ardennes". His wife, Monique Olivier, denounced him following the conviction of Michelle Martin, wife of convicted child murderer Marc Dutroux for complicity in his crimes. Fourniret has been charged with the abduction of minors and sexual misconduct, and has been in detention since June 2003 for the attempted kidnapping of a 14-year-old girl in 2000. Fourniret buried at least two of h... Add to favourites (20 fans)Biography of Natasha Bedingfield
Natasha Anne Bedingfield (born 26 November 1981) is an English singer and songwriter who debuted in the 1990s as a member of the Christian dance/electronic group The DNA Algorithm with her siblings Daniel Bedingfield and Nikola Rachelle. Throughout the 1990s and early 2000s, Bedingfield recorded rock and gospel songs for the Hillsong London Church. She recorded her first album Unwritten in 2004. The album contained primarily uptempo pop songs and was influenced by R&B music, it enjoyed international success with over 2.5 million sold worldwide. In 2007, she received a Grammy Award nomination for "Best Female Pop Vocal Performance" for "Unwritten". Bedingfield's second album N.B. (2007) yielded the singles "I Wanna Have Your Babies", "Soulmate" and "Say It Again". Bedingfield has achieve... Add to favourites (21 fans)Biography of James Brown
James Joseph Brown (May 3, 1933 – December 25, 2006), commonly referred to as "The Godfather of Soul" and "The Hardest Working Man in Show Business," was an American entertainer recognized as one of the most influential figures in 20th century popular music. He was renowned for his shouting vocals, feverish dancing and unique rhythmic style. As a prolific singer, songwriter, bandleader, and record producer, Brown was a pivotal force in the evolution of gospel and rhythm and blues into soul and funk. He left his mark on numerous other musical genres, including rock, jazz, disco, dance and electronic music, reggae and hip hop. Brown's music also left its mark on the rhythms of African popular music, such as afrobeat, jùjú and mbalax, and provided a template for go-go music. Brown began... Biography of Thallia (TV host)
Thallia, born Jessie Focosi, March 15, 1979 in Metz, Lorraine, is a French model and actress, of Vietnamese, Italian, and Britain descent. Filmography * La Septième Porte (film - 2000) * Drôles de jeux (téléfilm - 2001) * Troublantes visions (téléfilm - 2001)... Add to favourites (23 fans)Biography of Flea (musician)
Michael Peter Balzary (born October 16, 1962 in Melbourne, Australia), better known by his nickname/stage name Flea, is an Australian-American bassist for the alternative rock/funk rock band Red Hot Chili Peppers and a frequent session musician for other music acts. He has also acted in a number of movies. Early life Family Life Michael Balzary lived a relatively conventional childhood in Melbourne, Australia, until his father Mick, a customs officer, was posted to New York in March 1967. Mick Balzary relocated his entire family to New York, including wife Patricia, his daughter Karen, and 5-year-old Michael. In 1971, only four years after arriving in the U.S., Balzary's mother, Patricia, fell in love with jazz musician Walter Urban, Jr. and filed for divorce from Mick Balzary. M... Add to favourites (14 fans)Biography of Willie Nelson
Willie Nelson (born William Hugh Nelson, April 30, 1933) is an American entertainer and songwriter, born and raised in Abbott, Texas. He reached his greatest fame during the so-called "outlaw country" movement of the 1970s. Early life and career Willie Nelson and his sister, Bobbie Nelson were raised by their grandparents after their parents, Ira Doyle Nelson and Myrle Marie Greenhaw divorced. His grandparents William Alfred Nelson and Nancy Elizabeth Smothers gave him mail-order music lessons starting at age six. Willie played the guitar, while Bobbie played the piano. He met Bud Fletcher, a fiddler, and both siblings joined his band, Bohemian Fiddlers, while Nelson was in high school. After graduation, Nelson joined the Air Force, but left due to back problems. He also attended Ba... Biography of Claudia Jamsson
Claudia Jamsson is an actress from Hungary, born October 12, 1980 in Budapest. Alternate Names:Alice / Claudia / Claudia Jackson / Claudia Jameson / Claudia Jamesson / Claudia Janson / Rita Filmography Private Gems: The Best Scenes of the Year 2006 (2006) (V) The Private Life of Claudia Jamsson (2006) (V) Rocco's Best POV (2006) (V) Anal Hazard 2 (2005) (V) Rocco: Animal Trainer 16 (2004) (V) The Best by Private 62: Private Penthouse Greatest Moments 1 (2004) (V) Hustler XXX 4 on 1 (2004) (V) (as Claudia Jamesson) Reinas de la noche, Las (2004) (V) ... aka The Show Must Go On (USA) Sex Thriller (2003) (V) The Best by Private 45: Chicks & Big Dicks (2003) (V) The Best by Private 46: Facial Shots (2003) (V) Cum Dumpsters 2 (2003) (V) The Best by Private 41... Biography of Bill Wyman
Bill Wyman (born William George Perks on 24 October 1936) was the bassist for the English rock and roll band The Rolling Stones from its founding in 1962 until 1993. Early life Bill Wyman (real name Bill Perks) was born at Lewisham Hospital, Pied Heath Road, Ladywell, Lewisham, South London the son of a bricklayer and spent most of his early life in Penge, then in the county of Kent, England. He attended Beckenham and Penge Grammar School from 1947 to Easter 1953, leaving before the GCE exams after his father found him a job working for a bookmaker and insisted that he take it. Music Career Wyman took piano lessons from ages 10 to 13. After his marriage, he bought a guitar, but wasn't satisfied by his own progress. After hearing a bass guitar at a Barron Knights' concert, he fel... Biography of Céline Balitran
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Maria Schneider (27 March 1952 – 3 February 2011) was a French actress. She is best known for playing Jeanne opposite Marlon Brando in the 1972 motion picture Last Tango in Paris. Career Schneider performed numerous full-frontal nude scenes in Last Tango in Paris, which were controversial at the time. On a television interview in 2007 with the Daily Mail, Schneider described Last Tango in Paris director Bernardo Bertolucci as "fat and sweaty and very manipulative, both of Marlon and myself, and he did certain things to get her reaction." As for her working relationship with Brando, she says that, while their relationship on the set was paternal, it was Brando who came up with the 'butter scene' and it was only known to her just before filming it: "I should have called my agent... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of Jade Goody
Jade Cerisa Lorraine Goody (5 June 1981 – 22 March 2009) was a British celebrity. She came into the spotlight while appearing on the third series of the Channel 4 reality TV show Big Brother in 2002, an appearance which led to her own television programmes and the launch of her own products after her eviction. In January 2007, she was a housemate in Celebrity Big Brother. During the show she was accused of racist bullying against Indian actress Shilpa Shetty. Following her eviction from the show, she admitted her actions had been wrong and she subsequently made many public apologies. In August 2008, she appeared on the Indian version of Big Brother, Bigg Boss, but withdrew early from the show and returned to the UK after being told she had cervical cancer. In February 2009, after the... Biography of Hema Malini
Hema Malini (Tamil: ஹேமமாலினி, Hindi:हेमा मालिनी) (born October 16, 1948 in Ammankudi, Tamil Nadu, India) is an Indian actress and Bharatanatyam dancer, who starred in several successful Bollywood films in the 1970s, most notably the extremely successful Sholay. She is the most successful female filmstar of Bollywood. She has starred in a large number of hit films and is considered a living legend. She is remembered as Bollywood's one and only Dream Girl. She is a member of India's Bharatiya Janata Party and represents the party in Rajya Sabha, the upper House of parliament. Now almost 60, she spends most of her time involved in charitable and social ventures. However, she stil... Add to favourites (24 fans)Biography of Twiggy
Twiggy (born 19 September 1949) is an English supermodel, actress, and singer, now also known by her married name of Twiggy Lawson. A 1960s pop icon known for her big eyes, long eyelashes, and thin build, she is regarded as one of the most famous models of all time. Twiggy went on to star in movies, and is currently a judge in the reality show, America's Next Top Model. Early life Twiggy was born Lesley Hornby in the London suburb of Neasden, the daughter of William Norman Hornby, a master carpenter and joiner, and Nellie Lydia "Helen" Reeman, a factory worker at a printing firm and a counter girl at Woolworth's. She attended Brondesbury and Kilburn High School in Salusbury Road, Kilburn. Modelling career In 1966, Nigel Daves noticed the young Lesley Hornby working in a hair sal... Add to favourites (29 fans)Biography of Mary J. Blige
Mary Jane Blige (born January 11, 1971) is an American R&B, soul, and hip hop soul singer, songwriter, occasional rapper, record producer, and actress who has sold over forty million records worldwide. She is widely known as the "Queen of Hip Hop Soul", and has also received over twenty-six Grammy Award nominations for her works, winning six. Early in her career, Blige's highly personal songs and gritty voice earned her comparisons to earlier soul singers such as Chaka Khan and Aretha Franklin; however her artistic evolution and commercial success throughout the years has seen her exert her own influence over a new generation of artists. Height: 5' 6" (1.68 m) Music career In 1988, Blige recorded an impromptu cover of Anita Baker's "Rapture" at a recording booth in a local shopping ... Add to favourites (11 fans)Biography of Bruce Dickinson
Paul Bruce Dickinson (born August 7, 1958 in Worksop, Nottinghamshire, England) is a British singer, airline pilot, radio show host, DJ, Historian, television presenter, fencer and songwriter, best known as the lead singer in the iconic heavy metal band Iron Maiden. According to All Music Guide, Dickinson "was the most acclaimed and instantly recognizable vocalist to emerge from the New Wave of British Heavy Metal movement of the early-'80s". Brief summary Before Iron Maiden, Dickinson was the singer in a similar band called Samson from 1979 until he joined Iron Maiden two years later in 1981. In Samson and previous bands, he went by the name of "Bruce Bruce". During previous years, he was in Styx (1976) (not to be confused with the American band of the same name), then went on to sing... Biography of Erika Eleniak
Erika Maya Eleniak (born September 29, 1969) is an American Playboy Playmate and actress, best known for her role in Baywatch. Measurements 34C" - 24" - 32" Height 5 ft 6 in (1.68 m) Weight 129 lb (59 kg) Early life Eleniak was born in Glendale, California. She is the eldest daughter in her family of four girls and one boy whose parents divorced. Her father, who was born in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, is of Ukrainian descent, and her mother is Estonian and German. During the late 1970s, Eleniak's father introduced her to her future career in the movie industry when his then girlfriend got Eleniak a part to model children's clothing for TV commercials. Her first acting role was in the film E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (1982) - as the girl kissed by Elliott in the school classroom s... Add to favourites (12 fans)Biography of Gilbert Montagné
Gilbert Montagné (born December 28, 1951 in Paris) is a leading French musician who is both a pianist and organist, as well as a singer. Blind from birth, he is best remembered for his international hit "The Fool", which was a number 1 single across Europe in 1971. In France he is still a popular albums and concert artist, having toured with the likes of Johnny Hallyday.... Add to favourites (10 fans)Biography of Julianna Margulies
Julianna Luisa Margulies (born June 8, 1966) is an Emmy award winning American actress best known for her role as Nurse Carol Hathaway on the NBC medical drama ER. Height: 5' 6" (1.68 m) Early life Margulies was born in Spring Valley, New York, the youngest of three daughters. She attended Green Meadow Waldorf School. Her father is an advertising writer (whose greatest success was the Alka-Seltzer catchphrase "Plop, plop, fizz, fizz, oh what a relief it is"), and her mother is a former dancer with the American Ballet Theatre. As a child, she lived in New York, France, and England. Although her parents are Jewish, Margulies's mother converted to Roman Catholicism at some point in her life, and raised Julianna in the Catholic faith as well. She obtained a B.A. from Sarah Lawrence C... Biography of Carlos (singer)
Yvan-Chrysostome Dolto, sometimes called Jean-Christophe Doltovitch, better known as Carlos, was a French singer and humorist, born February 20, 1943 in Paris, died January 17, 2008 in Paris. He was the son of French psychoanalyst Françoise Dolto and Boris Dolto. Height: 1m68 Discography A faire danser les Antilles (1983) A la queue leu leu (1974) Ali-Baba (1971) Allez la France (1998) Animal parade (1971) Arriba Sevillana (1986) Arriba Sevillana (Version maxi) (1986) Avec elle (1991) Baby bla-bla (Susanne) (1984) Bakana (Bakala Nanu Meme) (1977) Balade animée (1991) Bamba Carlos (1976) Barbe Bleue avec Chantal Goya Big bisou (part I) (1977) Big bisou (part II) (1977) Big bisou (version intégrale) (1977) Big bisous (version 1993) Big bisous (versi... Biography of Xavier Bertrand
Xavier Bertrand (born March 21, 1965 in Châlons-sur-Marne, Marne) is a French politician. He is the current Minister of Labour, Social Affairs and Solidarity in François Fillon's second government. He was for almost two years Minister of Health in Dominique de Villepin's government under President Jacques Chirac. He played a foremost role in Nicolas Sarkozy's presidential campaign in 2007. Family and studies Born on March 21, 1965 in Châlons-sur-Marne, in the Marne département, of the Champagne-Ardenne région of France, Xavier Bertrand is the son of Jean-Pierre Bertrand, a bank executive and of Madeleine Bedin, a bank employee. Bertrand studied in Reims, where he obtained a masters in public right, then a Diplôme d'Études Supérieures Spécialisées (DESS) in local administration. I... Add to favourites (22 fans)Biography of Kris Jenner
Kristen Mary "Kris" Jenner (née Houghton, previously Kardashian; born November 5, 1955) is an American television personality, socialite, and businesswoman. She is also the manager for all of her family members including Kim Kardashian, Kourtney Kardashian and Khloe Kardashian. She is the wife of Olympic Champion Bruce Jenner. Jenner was previously married to lawyer Robert Kardashian Sr. They divorced in 1990. Early Life Kristen Mary Houghton grew up in University City, a suburb of San Diego, and attended Clairemont High School. She is the daughter of Mary and David Houghton, who had two other daughters, Karen and Sarah. She was raised solely by her mother, because her parents went through a divorce when she was 7. Her father died in 2001 at age 71. In 1978, Kris met future husban... Add to favourites (19 fans)Biography of Victoria Principal
Victoria Principal (born January 3, 1950 in Fukuoka, Japan) is an American actress, best known for her role as Larry Hagman's sister-in-law and Patrick Duffy's wife, Pamela Barnes Ewing, "Pam", on the long-running CBS nighttime drama Dallas from 1978 to 1987. She is well-known for her line of cosmetic products. Height: 5' 6" (1.68 m) Born in 1950, she was the elder of two daughters born to Victor Principal and Bertha Ree Veal. On Lifetime Television's Intimate Portrait, she revealed that she is of English, Italian, and Filipino descent. Her father was a sergeant in the Air Force, and like most military brats, Principal moved often, growing up in London, Florida, Puerto Rico, Massachusetts, and Georgia, among other places, and attending 17 different schools. She studied at the Royal A... Add to favourites (15 fans)Biography of Leisha Hailey
Leisha Hailey (born July 11, 1971) is an American actress, musician, and producer. Early life Born in Okinawa, Japan to American parents, Hailey grew up in Bellevue, Nebraska and attended Bellevue West High School. She came out as a lesbian before moving to New York City to attend the American Academy of Dramatic Arts, where she graduated in 1991. Acting career Hailey's first major role was in 1997's cult hit All Over Me, and right around this time she played a struggling musician on an episode of Boy Meets World. Since 2004 she has starred as Alice Pieszecki, a bisexual journalist, on the The L Word. Some of her notable minor roles have been as an extra in an episode of Ellen and, since 2003, various Yoplait commercials that still air as of 2007. Partial filmography Boy ... Biography of Keeley Hazell
Keeley Rebecca Hazell (born on September 18, 1986) is a British Page 3 Girl and glamour model noted for her large yet non-augmented breasts (UK bra size 32E). Measurements: 32E-26-32 Height: 5 ft 6 in (1.68 m) Personal life Early life Hazell was born in Lewisham, London, England, grew up in Grove Park, and attended the Ravensbourne School in Bromley. Her mother, Amber, is a dinner lady and her father, Roy, is a window fitter; they separated when she was thirteen. She has an older sister, Roxanne, and a younger sister, Georgia. As a teenager, Hazell was a frequent truant and stayed out late on school nights drinking. She confesses to having only taken five GCSE examinations due to being ejected from several of them; however, she did well in mathematics and English despite ha... Add to favourites (10 fans)Biography of Frances Farmer
Frances Elena Farmer (September 19, 1913 – August 1, 1970) was an AmericanEarly life, career and marriage Farmer was born in Seattle, Washington, to Ernest Melvin Farmer and Lillian Van Ornum Farmer. In 1931, while attending West Seattle High School, she entered and won $100 in a writing contest sponsored by Scholastic Magazine with her controversial essay God Dies, a precocious attempt to reconcile her wish for, in her words, a "superfather" God with her observations of a chaotic, seemingly Godless, world. In 1935, as a student at the University of Washington, she won a subscription contest for the leftist newspaper The Voice of Action. First prize was a trip to the Soviet Union, which she took despite her mother's strong objections. These two incidents fostered accusations that Farmer w... Biography of Melody Thomas Scott
Melody Thomas Scott (born April 18, 1956 - is an American actress best known for playing Nikki Newman on the soap opera The Young and the Restless. Early Training Melody Thomas Scott has been a working actress since the age of three. Under the tutelage of Ethel Meglin, who was instrumental in starting Shirley Temple’s career, Melody was chosen to be the youngest member of what ultimately became Mrs. Meglin’s last professional group, known then as The Meglin Kiddies. Acting, singing, tap dancing, ballet, jazz were but a few of the skills that the performing troupe was highly trained in. She also was part of the Hollywood Children’s Theater and the Three Arts Studio for many years. Through both the Meglin Kiddies and the Three Arts Studio, Melody performed in countless stage production... Add to favourites (11 fans)Biography of Haley Joel Osment
Haley Joel Osment (born April 10, 1988) is an Academy Award-nominated American actor. After a series of roles in television and film during the early 1990s, Osment came to fame with his starring role in the 1999 thriller, The Sixth Sense. He subsequently had leading roles in several high-profile Hollywood films, including Pay It Forward and A.I., with his most recent being 2003's Secondhand Lions. He is also notable for providing the voice of Sora, the protagonist in the Kingdom Hearts series, one of the most high-profile video game series to make heavy use of voice acting. Personal life Osment was born in Los Angeles, California, where his family still resides, to actor Michael Eugene Osment and Theresa Osment née Seifert a teacher. He is the brother of actress Emily Osment of Hannah ... Add to favourites (17 fans)Biography of Spike Lee
Shelton Jackson Lee (born March 20, 1957, in Atlanta, Georgia), better known as Spike Lee, is an American film director, producer, writer, and actor noted for his films dealing with controversial social and political issues. He also teaches film at New York University and Columbia University. His production company, 40 Acres & A Mule Filmworks, has produced over 35 films since 1983. Height : 5' 6" (1.68 m) Early years Lee was born in Atlanta to Bill Lee, a jazz musician and Mary, a school teacher. Lee moved with his family to Brooklyn when he was a small child. The Fort Greene neighborhood is home of Lee's production company, 40 Acres & A Mule Filmworks, and other Lee-owned or related businesses. As a child, his mother nicknamed him "Spike." In Brooklyn, he attended John Dewey High... Add to favourites (10 fans)Biography of Savannah (pornographic actress)
Shannon Michelle Wilsey Longoria (October 9, 1970 – July 11, 1994), commonly known by her stage name of Savannah, was an American pornographic actress, starring in more than 100 pornographic films during her career. One of the most high-profile porn stars of her time, she achieved notoriety within her short (1990 - 1994) career due to her on-screen presence as well as her off-screen life. Savannah committed suicide in 1994 after an auto accident. Savannah reportedly took her stage name from Savannah Smiles, a 1982 movie she enjoyed. Measurements: 34D-24-34 Height: 5 ft 6 in (1.68 m) Weight: 105 lb (48 kg) Early life When Savannah's parents divorced in 1972, she moved to Texas to live with her mother. When she grew older, she lived briefly with her father in Oxnard, Californi... Biography of Stepfanie Kramer
Stepfanie Kramer (born August 6, 1956) is an American actress, writer, and singer/songwriter. She is probably best known for her role as the tough-minded detective, "Sgt. Dee Dee McCall," on the NBC TV series Hunter." She has been nominated for an Emmy in Special Class Programming and won the Outstanding Performance by a Lead Actress Award, honored by the First Americans in the Arts organization in 1995, 2002, and 2003. She was voted one of the most beautiful women in television in 1988, through a national TV Guide poll of viewers. Kramer has written and directed for television, and is also a singer. Biography Kramer was born and raised in Los Angeles, California. She is part Native American from her mother's side. Her father was a classically-trained violinist and her mother a high-... Add to favourites (16 fans)Biography of Deborah Kerr
Deborah Kerr, CBE (September 30, 1921 – October 16, 2007) was a Golden Globe award winning and six-time Academy Award nominated Scottish actress. Height: 5' 6" (1.68 m) Early life Deborah Kerr (pronounced kar) was the eldest child and only daughter of Capt. Arthur Kerr-Trimmer, a naval architect, and his wife, Kathleen Rose, Deborah Jane Kerr-Trimmer was born in Helensburgh, near Glasgow, Scotland. She had a younger brother, Edward (a.k.a. Teddy), who became a journalist and died in a road-rage incident in 2004. She originally trained as a ballet dancer, first appearing on stage at Sadler's Wells in 1938. After changing careers, she soon found success as an actress. Her first acting teacher was her aunt, Phyllis Smale, who ran the Hicks-Smale Drama School in Bristol. Career... Biography of Lauralee Bell
Lauralee Kristen Bell (born December 22, 1968) is an American soap opera actress. She was born in Chicago, Illinois. She attended The Latin School of Chicago. The daughter of soap opera creators William J. Bell and Lee Phillip Bell, she was offered a bit role as a model, Christine "Cricket" Blair, on the Bells' show The Young and the Restless in 1983. Over time, her role expanded and she was offered a contract in 1986. Controversy arose when former co-star Terry Lester left the program, and complained in the press that she had been given excess airtime at the expense of himself and other actors. Over time, her character matured from a model into a Legal Aid lawyer. Her character also dropped the childish epithet of "Cricket," especially after her rival Phyllis (Michelle Stafford) tur... Add to favourites (10 fans)Biography of Valérie Kaprisky
Valérie Kaprisky (born August 19, 1962) is a French actress. Height 5' 6" (1.68 m) She was born in Neuilly-sur-Seine, near Paris, France. Kaprisky is her mother's maiden name. She appeared in soft-core exploitation (Aphrodite), then made her American debut in the A Bout de Souffle remake Breathless (1983) frolicking with Richard Gere with whom she subsequently had a reportedly-tempestuous affair. The film was critically panned and she returned to filming in her native France. She also appeared in La femme publique (1984) by Andrzej Żuławski. Filmography 1981 : Le Jour se lève et les conneries commencent 1981 : Les Hommes préfèrent les grosses (Men Prefer Fat Girls): A friend of Éva 1982 : Une glace avec deux boules ou je le dis à maman 1982 : Aphrodite ... Biography of Candide Thovex
Candide Thovex is a French professional Skier. History Thovex learned to ski in the Aravis region of the French Alps called La Clusaz. La Clusaz is where his childhood friends and girlfriend live and where he perfected his big air technique. He quietly burst on to scene when he in 1998 he took fourth in the X Games Big Air. He became famous though for his role in the deflowering of Chad's Gap when he became the first person to land the jump. He almost didn't go. In 1999 he was eliminated from the U.S. Freeskiing Nationals at Snowbird. With a few days to kill he was convinced by film maker Kris Ostness to go into the backcountry to film Ostness's film, Clay Pigeons. After Chad Zurinskas failed in his attempt to take the jump Thovex asked if he could try. Then 16, Candide pulled... Biography of Courtney Thorne-Smith
Courtney Thorne-Smith (born November 8, 1967) is an American actress. Height 5' 6" (1.68 m) Personal Life Thorne-Smith was born in San Francisco, California, and grew up in Menlo Park, a suburb south of the city. Her father was a computer market researcher and her mother was a therapist. They divorced when she was 7 and she lived with both at different stages. Courtney attended Menlo-Atherton High School in Atherton, California, and graduated from Tamalpais High School in Mill Valley, California, in 1985. She also performed with the Ensemble Theater Company in Mill Valley, California, while attending high school. In June of 2000, Courntey married a genetic scientist named Andrew Conrad, but they divorced in January of 2001. She married Roger Fishman on January 1, 2007 and they e... Biography of Kathie Lee Gifford
Kathie Lee Gifford (born Kathryn Lee Epstein on August 16, 1953) is an American playwright, singer, songwriter, and actress, famous for her stint on the television talk show Live with Regis and Kathie Lee, which she co-hosted with Regis Philbin for 15 years. So far she has received 11 Emmy nominations. Height : 5' 6" (1.68 m) Early life Kathie Lee Gifford was born in Paris, France to Aaron Leon Epstein and his wife, Joan. Her father was serving in the United States Navy. She grew up in Bowie, Maryland, in the United States where she was a cheerleader for Bowie High School. One of her grandparents was Jewish and her mother was a Methodist; Gifford grew up in a culturally Jewish environment, but she became a born-again Christian at the age of 12 (after seeing a Christian education fil... Biography of Chris Evert
Christine Marie Evert (born December 21, 1954) is a former World No. 1 woman tennis player from the United States. During her career, she won 18 Grand Slam singles titles, including a record 7 at the French Open. She also won 3 Grand Slam doubles titles. Evert's career win-loss record in singles matches of 1,309-146 (.900) is the best of any professional player in tennis history. In tennis writer Steve Flink's book The Greatest Tennis Matches of the Twentieth Century, he named Evert as the third best female player of the 20th century, after Steffi Graf and Martina Navratilova. Chris evert has never lost in the 1st round of any grand slam, her earliest exits being the 3rd round. Height 5 ft 6 in (168 cm) Weight 125 lb (57 kg) Turned Pro 1972 Retired 1989 Tennis career Evert beg... Biography of Amy Smart
Amy Lysle Smart (born March 26, 1976) is an American actress and former fashion model. Life and career Early life Amy Lysle Smart was born in Topanga, California. Inspired by her friend Vinessa Shaw, Smart studied ballet for ten years and enrolled in acting classes when she was 16, but began her career as a fashion model, working in Italy, France, Mexico, and Tahiti (Awards-winning spots for Club Med directed by Bruno Aveillan). Career Smart's first film role was for director Martin Kunert's film Campfire Tales, followed by a very minor role in the 1997 film Starship Troopers as the co-pilot for (and friend of) Carmen Ibanez (Denise Richards). Amy had a starring role in the mini-series titled The 70s, playing a young woman from Ohio. In 1999, Smart played the girlfriend of a... Add to favourites (12 fans)Biography of Marg Helgenberger
Mary Margaret Helgenberger (born November 16, 1958) is an Emmy- and Golden Globe-nominated American film and television actress. Helgenberger is known for her role as Catherine Willows in CSI: Crime Scene Investigation, and her role as KC Koloski in China Beach, the latter for which she won an Emmy. Early life Helgenberger (pronounced with a hard 'G', unlike the name Marge) was born in North Bend, Nebraska to Kay, a nurse, and Hugh Helgenberger, a meat inspector. She has German and Irish ancestry and had a Catholic upbringing. One of her first jobs, as a teenager, was spending her summers and her Christmas breaks working as a ‘boner’ at the meat packing plant where her father was employed. Helgenberger played the French horn in her high school (North Bend Central High School) marching... Biography of Frankie Muniz
Frankie Muniz (born Francisco James Muniz IV on December 5, 1985, in Wood-Ridge, New Jersey) is an Emmy Award and a Golden Globe Award nominated American actor, who is now a full time Formula Atlantic driver. He was the star of the Fox Network television situation comedy, Malcolm in the Middle, as well as several films aimed at preteen and teen audiences, including Big Fat Liar, Agent Cody Banks and Stay Alive. By 2003, Muniz was considered "one of Hollywood's most bankable teens". He was also the original voice of Chester McBadbat on the Nickelodeon animated television series The Fairly OddParents from 2001 until 2003 (when Jason Marsden took over). Height 5' 6" (1.68 m) Early life Muniz was born Francisco Muniz IV in Wood-Ridge, New Jersey, USA, to Francisco Muñiz III (a restaur... Biography of Linda Hamilton
Linda Carroll Hamilton (born September 26, 1956) is a Saturn Award-winning, Emmy- and Golden Globe-nominated American actress, best known as Sarah Connor in The Terminator and its sequel, Terminator 2: Judgment Day. Height: 5' 6" (1.68 m) Early life Hamilton was born in Salisbury, Maryland to a physician father who died when she was five. She has said that she was raised in a "very boring, white Anglo-Saxon" family, and "voraciously read books" during her spare time. Hamilton went to Wicomico Junior High (now Wicomico Middle School) and Wicomico High School in Salisbury, Maryland, with her identical twin sister, Leslie Hamilton Gearren. She studied for two years at Washington College in Chestertown, Maryland, before moving on to acting studies in New York. While attending Washington... Biography of Jean Seberg
Jean Seberg (November 13, 1938 – September 8, 1979) was an American actress. She starred in 34 films in Hollywood and in France. Seberg became even more of an icon after her roles in numerous French films and the tragedy of her turbulent life. Height 5' 6" (1.68 m) Early life Seberg was born in Marshalltown, Iowa to Edward Seberg and Dorothy Benson. Her family background was Lutheran. Career Seberg was discovered by Otto Preminger, who directed her in her first two films. She made her film debut in 1957 in the title role of George Bernard Shaw's Saint Joan. She secured the role after being chosen from 18,000 hopeful actresses. The young Seberg was then thrust into the glaring spotlight and subject of countless Cinderella stories. Expectations were high. When the film was re... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of Paul Anka
Paul Albert Anka, OC (born July 30, 1941, in Ottawa, Ontario) is a Canadian singer, songwriter and actor of Lebanese origin. He became a naturalized U.S. citizen in 1990. Height: 5' 6" (1.68 m) Anka first became famous as a teen idol in the late 1950s and 1960s, with hits songs like "Diana," "Lonely Boy," and "Put Your Head on My Shoulder." He went on to write such well-known music as the theme for The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson, Tom Jones' biggest hit, "She's A Lady", and the English lyrics for Frank Sinatra's signature song, "My Way." Early life Anka's parents, who owned a restaurant, were of Lebanese Christian descent. He sang with the St. Elijah Syrian Antiochian Orthodox Church choir under the direction of Frederick Karam, with whom he studied music theory. He also ... Biography of Rumer Willis
Rumer Glenn Willis (born August 16, 1988 (birth time source: Astrodatabank)) is an American actress, the oldest daughter of Bruce Willis and Demi Moore and the stepdaughter of Emma Heming. Personal life Born in Paducah, Kentucky, where her father, Bruce Willis was filming In Country at the time, she was named for British author Rumer Godden. Her mother, actress Demi Moore, hired a cameraman to videotape her birth. She has two younger sisters, Scout LaRue Willis (born 1991) and Tallulah Belle Willis (born 1994) and a younger half-sister Mabel Ray Willis (born 2012). Raised in Hailey, Idaho, Willis enrolled as a freshman at the Interlochen Arts Academy in Interlochen, Michigan. In January 2004, she enrolled as a sophomore at Wildwood Secondary School in Los Angeles, California. She ... Biography of Loni Anderson
Loni Kaye Anderson (born August 5, 1945) is an American actress, best known for her role as "Jennifer Marlowe" on the television sitcom WKRP in Cincinnati and as a former wife of Burt Reynolds (from 1988 to 1993). Her divorce from Reynolds was a bitter, well-publicized debacle. Anderson was born in St. Paul, Minnesota to Carl K. Anderson and Maxine H. Kallin. As she tells it in her autobiography, My Life in High Heels, her father was originally going to name her "Leiloni", but then realized to his horror that when she got to her teen years it was liable to be twisted into "Lay Loni". So it was changed to just plain "Loni". Shortly after her divorce from Reynolds, she appeared as a regular in the final season (1993-1994) on the NBC sitcom Nurses. Her most famous acting role came as... Biography of Mike Bloomberg
Michael Rubens Bloomberg (born 14 February 1942) is an American businessman, and the founder of Bloomberg L.P., currently serving as the Mayor of New York City. He was a general partner at Salomon Brothers before founding the financial software service company in 1981. Although a lifelong Democrat, he ran on the Republican ballot and was elected mayor in 2001, and was reelected to a second term in 2005. He is frequently mentioned as a possible independent candidate for the 2008 presidential election and fueled that speculation when he left the Republican Party in June 2007; however, he has denied any plans to run. Bloomberg was born to a Jewish family of Russian and Polish ancestry, at St. Elizabeth's Hospital, in the Boston neighborhood of Brighton on 14 February 1942. His parents wer... Biography of La La (entertainer)
Alani "La La" Vasquez (born in June 25, 1979, in Brooklyn) is an American disc jockey, television personality and MTV VJ of Puerto Rican descent. Early years Vasquez's parents, were born in the island of Puerto Rico. They met in New York City, where they married (they are currently divorced) and lived in the borough of Brooklyn where Vasquez was born. Vasquez also has a younger brother named Christian. As a young child, she was involved in many activities, but music was her main interest. Career In Atlanta, Vasquez obtained a job as a programming assistant at WHTA-FM radio station. While a student at Redan High School (c/o 97), she received her first big break with her debut in a radio show alongside Ludacris (then know as Chris Lova Lova), called Future Flavas. After working fo... Biography of Gena Rowlands
Gena Rowlands (born June 19, 1930) is an American actress. Early life Born Virginia Cathryn Rowlands in Madison, Wisconsin, and raised in Cambria, Wisconsin, her father, Edwin Myrwyn Rowlands, was a state legislator, and her mother, Mary Allen Neal, a housewife originally from Arkansas. The family moved to Washington, D.C. in 1939 when Edwin was appointed to a position in the U.S. Department of Agriculture, to Milwaukee, Wisconsin in 1942 when he was appointed as branch manager of the Office of Price Administration, and later to Minneapolis, Minnesota. Gena attended the University of Wisconsin from 1947 to 1950, where she was a popular student already renowned for her beauty. She left for New York City to study drama at the American Academy of Dramatic Arts. Career Rowlands went... Biography of Phoebe Cates
Phoebe Cates (born on July 16, 1963) is an American film actress known for her roles in several teen films, most notably Fast Times at Ridgemont High and Gremlins. Early life Cates was born Phoebe Belle Katz in New York City, New York to Lily and director and producer Joseph Cates (born "Joseph Katz"). Her uncle is producer/director Gilbert Cates and her stepfather was Marshall Naify, a horse breeder. Cates' maternal grandfather was of Chinese/Filipino descent, and her father as well as her maternal grandmother were of Russian Jewish origin. Cates attended the Professional Children's School and the Juilliard School. Career Cates achieved icon status in 1982 for her popular girl role in Fast Times at Ridgemont High, particularly the monumental topless scene in which she sheds her... Add to favourites (17 fans)Biography of Chyler Leigh
Chyler Leigh (born April 10, 1982) is an American actress. Early life Leigh was born Chyler Leigh Potts in Charlotte, North Carolina, the daughter of Yvonne Norton and Robert Potts. She was raised in Virginia Beach, Virginia, until the age of twelve when she moved with her mother and brother Christopher Khayman Lee to Miami, Florida. During eighth grade she started modeling. She soon moved on to acting by appearing in local television commercials and a syndicated teen news show called Hall Pass. Leigh did not graduate from high school and she took the California High School Proficiency Exam. Career Leigh started acting at an early age and debuted in the film world at age 15 in 1997's Kickboxing Academy. In this movie, her real life brother plays her love interest. In the movie, ... Biography of Catherine Destivelle
Catherine Destivelle (born 24 July 1960, Algeria) is a French climber and mountaineer.... Add to favourites (13 fans)Biography of Lara Flynn Boyle
Lara Flynn Boyle (born March 24, 1970 in Davenport, Iowa) is an American actress who was raised in Chicago, Illinois and Wisconsin. Although she is of mostly Irish descent, Boyle also has an Italian-American great-grandfather. She is named for a character in the book and movie Dr. Zhivago. She is also dyslexic. Career Boyle's first film role was a bit part in Ferris Bueller's Day Off (1986), which earned her a SAG card, though her scene was eliminated from the final cut of the film. She then appeared in Amerika (1987), Poltergeist III (1988) and Dead Poets Society (1989), before landing her first major part, and the role which made her well known, playing Donna Hayward in the critically acclaimed series Twin Peaks. When the series ended in 1991, creator David Lynch produced a movie, T... Biography of Aimee Osbourne
Aimee Rachel Osbourne (born September 2, 1983 in London, England), is a singer, actress, and columnist. She is the fourth child of rock legend Ozzy Osbourne and the first child to Ozzy's second wife Sharon. Unlike her siblings Jack and Kelly, she chose not to appear on her family's MTV reality show, The Osbournes. She has three half siblings; Elliot, Jessica and Louis from Ozzy's first wife Thelma Riley; an adopted brother, Robert Marcato; and her full siblings Kelly and Jack. Personal life Refusing to involve herself in the media hoopla surrounding the MTV show, Aimee chose to leave home and would not allow the MTV cameras to reveal her face when she was caught on film. Since then, she has broken her silence on her famous family only a handful of times. In 2002, she appeared on the... Biography of Laurel Holloman
Laurel Holloman (born May 23, 1971 in Chapel Hill, North Carolina) is an American actress, currently best known for her roles as Justine on Angel and Tina on the Showtime series The L Word. Career Holloman attended the University of North Carolina and appeared in numerous threater productions while in College. After her first year of college, she moved to Chicago to work with the Piven Theatre Workshop. Studied with John Lynn in Los Angeles; was cast in David Orr's independent feature Blossom Time. She moved to New York in early 1994 and set her eye on the theater and enjoyed success on the stage including roles in Tenessee Williams' Glass Managerie, Carson Macullers' The Heart is a Lonely Hunter at Theatre for the New City. Holloman also performed off-Broadway in Julia Jordan's "Night... Add to favourites (11 fans)Biography of Vanessa Demouy
Born 5 April 1973 in Montreuil, France. Vanessa Demouy is an actress and model known for her Occitan French features and nude pictorials. She began modeling at age fourteen and later crossed over into film and television, though modeling has remained her primary career. Demouy was the second official Lara Croft model (after Rhona Mitra), portraying the fictional Tomb Raider heroine in a promotional capacity. She is primarily known for her role as Linda in a french sitcom "Models in Paradise". Filmography Television 1993 : Classe mannequin (Linda) 1995 : Cœurs Caraïbes 1996 : Aventures Caraïbes 2005 : Navarro 2007 : Central Nuit Movies 1999 : Les jolies doses (Court métrage) 1999 : Chloé 2000 : Le marquis Theater 2002 : Les Monologues du vagin 2... Add to favourites (12 fans)Biography of Freddie Highmore
Alfred Thomas Highmore (born February 14, 1992) is an English actor. Height: 5' 6" (1.68 m Personal life Highmore was born in England to a show business family. His mother, Sue Latimer, is a talent agent whose clients include Daniel Radcliffe, and his father, Edward Highmore, is an actor. He has a younger brother named Albert ("Bertie"), born in 1995. Highmore resides in Hampstead, suburb of north London. He goes to Highgate School and is currently in Year 11. Career Highmore began acting with small parts on TV at the age of 7. In 2004, he had a major breakthrough with his critically acclaimed performance as Peter in Finding Neverland. Highmore received several nominations and awards for the role, including a Broadcast Film Critics' Award and a Screen Actors' Guild Award nomi... Add to favourites (12 fans)Biography of Jennifer Esposito
Jennifer Esposito (born April 11, 1973) is an American actress and dancer. Height: 5' 6" (1.68 m) Esposito was born in Brooklyn, New York of Italian descent. She made her first appearance in Law & Order in 1996, but she is best known as Stacey in the prime time hit Spin City. She can also be seen in I Still Know What You Did Last Summer playing the role of Nancy. One of her more recent successes was her role as Ruby in Spike Lee's controversial Summer of Sam in 1999, which was set against the mid-Seventies backdrop of the Son of Sam murders. Esposito's next film was Wes Craven Presents: Dracula 2000. She played the detective's girlfriend "Ria" in the Academy Award-winning film Crash. Esposito's most recent project was the now cancelled WB show Related in which she played Ginnie Sorel... Biography of Alexander Pschill
Alexander PSCHILL is an Austrian actor born June 13, 1970 in Vienna.... Add to favourites (10 fans)Biography of Tony Jaa
Panom Yeerum (Thai: พนม ยีรัมย์; IPA: ) born on February 5, 1976 in Surin Province, Thailand, better known in the West as Tony Jaa and in Thailand as Jaa Panom, is a Thai martial art film actor, choreographer and director. His films include Ong-Bak: Thai Warrior and Tom-Yum-Goong (also called Warrior King or The Protector). Early life Tony Jaa was born in the Surin Province of the Isan region of Thailand and is of Khmer descent. Jaa grew up in a rural area and watched films by Bruce Lee, Jackie Chan and Jet Li at temple fairs. While doing chores or playing with friends, he would imitate the martial arts moves he had seen in the films. He would practice in his father's rice paddy or, when bathing the family's elephants, he woul... Biography of Silvana Mangano
Silvana Mangano (April 21, 1930 – December 16, 1989) was an Italian actress. Known for her appearance, at a young age she won a Miss Rome beauty pageant, which led her to cinema. The movie that brought her to stardom was Bitter Rice and she continued to have success in cinema without ever surpassing Sophia Loren or Gina Lollobrigida's level of stardom. Born in Rome to an Italian father and an English mother, Mangano lived in poor times caused by the war. Trained for seven years as a dancer, she was supporting herself as a model. In 1946, at age 16, Mangano won the Miss Rome beauty pageant and through this she obtained a rôle in a Mario Costa movie. One year later she became a contestant in the Miss Italia contest. Potential actress Lucia Bosé became "The Queen", among Mangano and ... Biography of Angela Melini
Angela Melini (born July 25, 1969 in Saigon, Vietnam) is an American model, actress and entrepreneur. Melini was chosen Playmate of the Month for the June, 1992 issue of Playboy magazine, and her centerfold was photographed by Arny Freytag. Melini has appeared in several Playboy newsstand special editions and videos, working steadily for Playboy for more than ten years after she graced the magazine's fold-out page, first as a nude glamour and pin-up model, and then as a promotional model and a feature reporter for the Playboy Channel. Melini's mother is Vietnamese, and her father was an Italo-American soldier who, prior to the birth of Melini and her twin brother, was a casualty of war, killed in action during the Second Indochina War (more commonly known as the Vietnam War). It is this... Add to favourites (10 fans)Biography of Shannon Stewart (actress)
Shannon N. Stewart (born May 25, 1978, in Baton Rouge, Louisiana) is an American model and actress. She started modeling at an early age when her mother took her to beauty pageants and continued to do fashion shows and runway modeling into her teens. After winning numerous state titles she travelled to Los Angeles to pursue a career in modeling where she was spotted by Playboy magazine and chosen as the June 2000 Playboy Playmate of the Month. She has also starred in several Playboy videos. Biography 1996 Graduated from St. Amant High School (Louisiana) March 10, 2005, Gave birth to her first child, a daughter Filmography Playboy: No Boys Allowed, 100% Girls 3 (2006) at the Internet Movie Database Playboy Playmate DVD Calendar Collection: 2000-2005 (2006) at the Internet M... Add to favourites (17 fans)Biography of Kaya Scodelario
Kaya Rose Scodelario (born on 13 March 1992) is an English actress and model. She is best known for her role as Effy Stonem in the E4 drama Skins. Career Skins With no prior acting experience, at the age of 14, Scodelario was cast in the 2007 first series of Skins as Effy Stonem. Upon Scodelario's arrival to the auditions she felt she was too young and became discouraged, but a producer stopped her before she could leave and asked her to read for the part. While Scodelario's role had minimal speaking lines in the first series, her character developed considerably in the 2008 series, before she eventually became the central character in the 2009 series after the cast had been replaced with a new generation of characters. This made Scodelario the only main character to appear in seri... Add to favourites (11 fans)Biography of Vanessa Carlton
Vanessa Lee Carlton (born August 16, 1980) is an American pop singer, songwriter, and pianist best known for the single "A Thousand Miles" from her debut album, Be Not Nobody (2002), which was certified platinum in the U.S. The commercial failure of Carlton's second album, Harmonium (2004), led her to part company from her record label A&M, though she still holds a dedicated fanbase. Her third album, Heroes and Thieves, was released in October 2007 on Irv Gotti's record label The Inc. Height: 5' 6" (1.68 m) Early life Carlton was born in Milford, Pennsylvania to Ed Carlton, a pilot, and Heidi, a pianist and school music teacher; she has two younger siblings, a sister named Gwen, who is a student at George Mason University, and a brother named Edmund, who is a member of his school's ... Add to favourites (10 fans)Biography of Gilles Villeneuve
Joseph Gilles Henri Villeneuve (Gilles Villeneuve pronounced ) (January 18, 1950 – May 8, 1982) was a Canadian Formula One racing driver. An enthusiast of cars and fast driving from an early age, he started his professional career in snowmobile racing in his native province of Quebec. He moved into single seaters — winning the US and Canadian Formula Atlantic championships in 1976 before being offered a one-off drive with McLaren at the 1977 British Grand Prix. He was taken on by reigning world champions Ferrari for the end of the season — in only his fifth season racing cars — and from 1978 to his death in 1982 drove for the Italian team. He won six Grand Prix races in a short career at the highest level. In 1979 he finished second by four points in the championship to teammate Jody Schec... Biography of Vanna White
Vanna White (born Vanna Marie Rosich on February 18, 1957) is an American television personality, best known as the hostess and puzzle board operator on the long-running game show Wheel of Fortune. She is the niece of actor Christopher George. Television career White's first national television appearance came on the June 20, 1980 episode of The Price Is Right, where she was one of the first four contestants to "come on down". She did not make it onstage, but the clip of her running to Contestants' Row would be rebroadcast as part of The Price Is Right 25th Anniversary Special in 1996 and was also shown on Game Show Moments Gone Bananas. Two years later she auditioned for the letter-turning job on Wheel of Fortune that Susan Stafford had vacated. Merv Griffin chose her over two other f... Biography of Patsy Cline
Patsy Cline (b. Virginia Patterson Hensley September 8, 1932 – March 5, 1963) was an American country music singer, who enjoyed pop music cross-over success during the era of the Nashville Sound in the early 1960s. Since her death at the age of 30 in a 1963 plane crash at the height of her career, she has been considered one of the most influential, successful, revered and acclaimed female vocalists of the 20th century. Her life and career has been the subject of numerous books, movies, documentaries, articles and stage plays. Height: 5' 6" (1.68 m) Cline was best known for her rich tone and emotionally expressive voice, which, along with her role as a mover and shaker in the Country Music industry, has been cited and praised as an inspiration by many vocalists of various music genre... Biography of Dary Cowl
Darry Cowl, born André Darricau, (27 August 1925 – 14 February 2006) was a French musician and actor. He won a César Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role in 2004 for his role as a concierge in Pas sur la bouche (Not on the mouth), which was to prove his last appearance. He was born in Vittel, and came to prominence when he was cast by Sacha Guitry in Assassins et voleurs (1956) (Assassins and Robbers). Following this he turned to acting in cinema roles, and soon gained celebrity status with his role as Antoine Péralou in le Triporteur (1957) (The Tricycle). A game addict, he often acted only for money in films that did not stretch his acting ability. He explained this by noting he did not read the script (or, on occasion, know the title) of the work in which he was to act. He... Add to favourites (19 fans)Biography of Victoria Justice
Victoria Justice (born February 19, 1993 (birth time source: her Twitter account (@VictoriaJustice).)) is an American actress, singer, songwriter, and dancer. She debuted as an actress at the age of 10 and has since appeared in several films and television series including the Nickelodeon series Zoey 101 and Victorious. She has made appearances in several theatrical releases, including Unknown as well as the 2006 thriller The Garden. She has appeared in several Nickelodeon series, including True Jackson, VP, The Troop, The Penguins of Madagascar and iCarly, as well as on the Nickelodeon game show BrainSurge as a contestant. In 2010 she starred in the Nickelodeon film The Boy Who Cried Werewolf. Aside from acting, Justice is involved in her musical career. She has performed several songs... Biography of Dina Eastwood
Dina Ruiz, born July 11, 1965 in Castro Valley, California, is the wife of Clint Eastwood. She met Clint Eastwood for the first time while doing an interview in 1993. They married March 31, 1996. Their only child, daughter Morgan, was born December 12th 1996.... Biography of Mathieu Amalric
Mathieu Amalric (born on October 25, 1965 in Neuilly-sur-Seine, Hauts-de-Seine, France) is a French actor and film director. Amalric is the son of journalists. His father, Jacques Amalric, has worked as an editorialist for French newspapers Le Monde and Libération and his mother, Nicole Zand, as a literary critic for Le Monde. Awards 1997 — César Award for Most Promising Actor — Comment je me suis disputé...(ma vie sexuelle) (My Sex Life...or How I Got Into an Argument) 2005 — César Award for Best Actor — Rois et Reine (Kings and Queen) 2005 — Runner-up for Best Supporting Actor — National Society of Film Critics Awards — Munich Selected filmography (actor) Favourites of the Moon (Les Favoris de la lune) (1984) The Sentinelle (La Sentinel) (1992) Diary of a Seducer (Le... Biography of Honor Blackman
Honor Blackman (born 1925-08-22 ) is an English actress, who is best known for the roles of Cathy Gale on The Avengers and as Bond girl Pussy Galore in Goldfinger. Height 5' 6" (1.68 m) Youth Blackman, who was born in West Ham, London, trained as an actress at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in London after persuading her father that an appropriate birthday gift would be acting lessons. Films Blackman's films include: Quartet and So Long at the Fair with Dirk Bogarde, Life at the Top with Laurence Harvey, The Virgin and the Gypsy, Shalako with Sean Connery and Brigitte Bardot and Something Big with Dean Martin. She played the role of Hera in Jason and the Argonauts (1963). She also did an overdub for an actress in the same film providing the voice for the character... Biography of Jill St. John
Jill St. John (born August 19, 1940 in Los Angeles, California, United States) is a film and television actress. Born Jill Arlyn Oppenheim, she played her major film roles during the 1960s and early 1970s, including Barbara Tuttle in Jerry Lewis' Who's Minding the Store? and a turn as Bond Girl Tiffany Case opposite Sean Connery in the 1971 James Bond film, Diamonds Are Forever. In the 1980's, she starred with Dennis Weaver on the short-lived soap opera, Emerald Point N.A.S. She played Deanna Kinkaid, Thomas Mallory's conniving former sister in law. St. John continues to act, although her roles in the 1990s and 2000s have primarily been for television sitcoms and made-for-TV movies. In 1997, St. John had a guest appearance on the Seinfeld episode "The Yada Yada." St. John is also known ... Biography of Meg Tilly
Meg Tilly (born February 14, 1960) is an Academy Award-nominated American actress, Broadway stage dancer and ballerina. Early life Tilly was born Margaret E. Chan in Long Beach, California, the third of four children of Harry Chan, a Chinese American used car salesman, and Patricia Tilly, a schoolteacher. Following her parents' divorce when she was three, she was raised by her mother and stepfather, John Ward, in British Columbia, Canada. Tilly graduated from Esquimalt High School in Victoria, British Columbia. She has two sisters: Rebecca, and actress Jennifer Tilly (born 1958). Career As a teen, she was involved with the Connecticut Ballet Company, as well as the Throne Dance Theatre, and made her screen debut with Alan Parker's Fame in 1980. A serious back injury forced he... Biography of Sienna Guillory
Sienna Tiggy Guillory (pronounced /ˈɡɪləri/; born 16 March 1975) is an English actress, and a former model. She is well known for playing the title role in the TV miniseries, Helen of Troy. She is also well known for her portrayal of Jill Valentine in the science fiction action horror film Resident Evil: Apocalypse and as elf princess Arya Dröttningu in fantasy-adventure film, Eragon, based on the novel by Christopher Paolini. She resumed her role as Jill Valentine in the action horror film Resident Evil: Afterlife in 2010. Personal life Early life and family Born in Kettering, Northamptonshire, England, Guillory is the daughter of the American folk guitarist Isaac Guillory and his first wife, English model Tina Thompson, whom he married in 1973. Isaac Guillory ... Biography of Christi Taylor
Christi Nicole Taylor is a adult model best known for her frequent appearances in Playboy Special Editions between 1998 and 2001. Her big break came when she was spotted by glamour photographer Stephen Wayda as a dancer in a production of the musical Stop the World - I Want to Get Off. Her first appearance in a Playboy publication was in the August 1996 issue in the pictorial "Women of Atlanta". Her first appearance in a Playboy Special Edition was in 1998. After frequent Special Edition appearances over the following two years, she was selected by readers to be the "Special Editions Model of the Year" for 1999. Taylor was named Cyber Girl of the Week for the fourth week of March 2001 and Cyber Girl of the Month for July 2000. Name Confusion Because of their nearly identical names, ... Biography of Patricia Ford
Patricia Pualani Ford (Waialae) (born March 17, 1969 in Honolulu, Hawaii) is a popular American model of multi-ethnic ancestry (German, Irish, Chinese, Portuguese and Hawaiian). Height: 5 ft 6 in (1.68 m) Weight: 105 lb (48 kg) Career Patricia Ford was born in 1969 and raised in Honolulu, but she also lived in Waianae during that time. She attended Moanalua High School in Hawaii, but graduated from Waianae High School, Waianae, HI in 1987. She is of German, Irish, Portuguese, Chinese, and Hawaiian ancestry. Her modeling career started at a Tropical Teen pageant. Japanese modeling scouts saw her and offered to send her to work in Japan when she was 15. She is best known for modeling for Playboy's Special Editions, but has appeared various swimsuit and lingerie catalogues, and posed... Biography of Julie Bowen
Julie Bowen (born March 3, 1970) is an American film and television actress. Early life Bowen was born Julie Bowen Luetkemeyer in Baltimore, Maryland to Suzanne Frey and John Alexander Luetkemeyer, Jr., a real estate agent. She first attended St. George's School and went on to Brown University, majoring in Italian Renaissance studies. In her junior year, Bowen spent a year abroad in Florence, Italy. During college, she had roles in Guys and Dolls, Stage Door and Lemon Sky. Before graduating, Bowen had the lead role in the independent film Five Spot Jewel. Among other places, Bowen studied acting at the Actor's Institute. Career After graduation, Bowen had a role in the soap opera Loving and made her primetime debut on an episode of the college drama Class of '96. She also had th... Biography of Mitzi Gaynor
Mitzi Gaynor (born September 4, 1931, Chicago, Illinois, although some sources indicate 1930) is an American actress, singer, and dancer. Height: 5' 6" (1.68 m) Career Born as Francesca Marlene de Czanyi von Gerber, Gaynor trained as a ballerina as a child and began her career as a chorus dancer. She sang, acted and danced in a number of film musicals, often paired with some of the biggest male musical stars. Notable early roles included There's No Business Like Show Business (1954) which featured Irving Berlin's music and also starred Ethel Merman, Dan Dailey, Marilyn Monroe, Donald O'Connor, and Johnnie Ray. She also appeared in Les Girls (1957, directed by George Cukor) with Gene Kelly and Kay Kendall, and the remake of Anything Goes (1956), co-starring Bing Crosby, Donald ... Biography of Marie-Josée Croze
Marie-Josée Croze (born February 23, 1970) is a Canadian actress. She won the Cannes Film Festival award for Best Actress in 2003 for her performance in The Barbarian Invasions. She was cast by prominent Hollywood director Steven Spielberg for his film Munich which was released in December 2005. Filmography Deux jours à tuer (2008) .... Diane (post-production) Le nouveau protocole (2008) .... (post-production) Le scaphandre et le papillon (The Diving Bell and the Butterfly) (2007) .... Henriette Durand Jacquou le Croquant (2007) .... La mère de Jacquou Ne le dis à personne (2006) .... Margot Beck La mémoire des autres (2006) .... Constance Les oiseaux du ciel (2006) .... Tango Munich (2005) .... Jeanette the Dutch Assassin La petite chartreuse (2005) .... Pascale Bl... Add to favourites (12 fans)Biography of Laura Harring
Laura Elena Harring (born March 3, 1964) is a Mexican American actress and former Miss USA (1985). She starred as Rita/Camilla Rhodes in David Lynch's 2001 film Mulholland Drive Height: 5' 6" (1.68 m) Early life Harring was born Laura Elena Martínez Harring in Los Mochis, Sinaloa, Mexico. Her mother, María Martínez, is a Mexican psychotherapist, real estate investor, and secretary, and her father, Raymond Harring, is a farmer of German descent. The two divorced in 1971. Harring lived the first ten years of her life in Mexico, before her family relocated to San Antonio, Texas. At age 16 sixteen, she convinced her family to let her study in Switzerland at one of the top schools, Aiglon College. She eventually returned to America, settling down in El Paso, Texas and entered the world o... Biography of Jean-Marc Thibault
Jean-Marc Thibault is a French director, actor and screenwriter, born August 24, 1923 in Saint-Bris-le-Vineux (Yonne). Filmography 1944 - Premier de cordée (Louis Daquin), tiré du livre Premier de cordée de Frison-Roche. 1947 - Antoine et Antoinette (Jacques Becker). Une vie de garçon (Jean Boyer). Lettre ouverte (Alex Joffé). Femmes de Paris / Women of Paris (Jean Boyer). 1953 - Belle mentalité / Wonderful mentality (André Berthomieu). L'œil en coulisse (André Berthomieu). 1954 - Escalier de service / Service entrance (Carlo Rim). Les nuits de Montmartre (Pierre Franchi). 1955 - Les deux font la paire (André Berthomieu). Les assassins du dimanche (Alex Joffé). 1956 - La Vie est belle / Life is beautiful (Roger Pierre & Jean-Marc Thibault). Une nuit aux Baléar... Biography of Drea de Matteo
Andrea Donna de Matteo (born January 19, 1972) is an Emmy-winning American actress, perhaps best known for her roles as Adriana La Cerva on the HBO TV series The Sopranos and as Joey Tribbiani's sister Gina on the NBC sitcom Joey. Height: 5' 6" (1.68 m) Early life De Matteo, an Italian American, was born in Queens, New York to Donna, a playwright and playwriting teacher, and Albert De Matteo, a furniture manufacturer. She grew up in a Catholic family. After graduating from the prestigious Loyola School, she studied at New York University's Tisch School of the Arts, originally hoping to become a director, not an actress. Career De Matteo's role in The Sopranos was one of her earliest, helping to launch her career. She has also appeared in several films including Swordfish, Deu... Biography of Nina Persson
Nina Persson (born Nina Elisabet Persson September 6, 1974 in Örebro, Sweden) is the lead singer of the Swedish pop group The Cardigans. She has also worked as a solo artist, releasing an album as A Camp and appearing on the tribute album to Serge Gainsbourg entitled Monsieur Gainsbourg Revisited. She has also worked with rock group Sparklehorse. Persson also made her acting debut in the movie Om Gud vill which was released in 2006. She appears on the Manic Street Preachers song "Your Love Alone Is Not Enough" on the album Send Away the Tigers. This track was voted "Track of the year" by dutch radiostation KXradio. She is currently working on the second A Camp album. Personal life She married U.S. composer and musician Nathan Larson on 16 June 2001. Nina Persson discograph... Biography of Christine Caron
Christine Caron (often called Kiki Caron) is a French swimmer, born July 10, 1948 in Paris. She has been World Champion in 1966.... Add to favourites (10 fans)Biography of Sara Carbonero
Sara Carbonero Arévalo (born 3 February 1984 in Corral de Almaguer, Toledo) is a Spanish TV presenter for Telecinco and sports journalist. Press controversy During the 2010 FIFA World Cup it was alleged that Carbonero, reporting during the match between Spain and Switzerland, had distracted Casillas, causing the unexpected Swiss victory. The allegations were made in the English press, originally by The Guardian and The Times, prompting the Spanish newspapers El Mundo, El País and the popular sports daily Marca to all run articles suggesting that the claims were preposterous and untrue. Questions were also raised about her journalistic integrity after she undertook to interview her boyfriend Casillas after the match. As a result of the controversy Carbonero in Spain became "one of ... Biography of Nancy McKeon
Nancy Justine McKeon (born April 4, 1966) is an American actress. Height: 5' 6" (1.68 m) Early life & career McKeon was born in Westbury, New York to a show business family; she and her brother Philip did numerous commercials at the insistence of their parents, Don and Barbara. Nancy also appeared on the soap operas The Secret Storm and Another World. The McKeons moved to Los Angeles in 1975, when Philip got a job as Linda Lavin's son on the television series Alice. In 1979, McKeon was discovered by a casting director for The Facts of Life after a performance in a Hallmark greeting cards advertisement. She was cast as tough and independent tomboy Jo Polniaczek, and debuted on the show in the fall of 1980. This would be Nancy's most famous role and her shot to stardom; she would p... Biography of Cheryl Bachman
Cheryl Bachman is an American model and actress. She was chosen as Playboy's Playmate of the Month in October, 1991. Today, Cheryl is a single mom living in Florida. Measurements 34" - 22" - 35" Height 5 ft 6 in (1.68 m) Weight 110 lb (50 kg) Appearances in Playboy special editions Playboy's Playmate Review Vol. 8 June 1992 - pages 82-91. Playboy's Book of Lingerie Vol. 26 July 1992. Playboy's Book of Lingerie Vol. 27 September 1992. Playboy's Girls of the World October 1992. Playboy's Book of Lingerie Vol. 28 November 1992. Playboy's Book of Lingerie Vol. 29 January 1993. Playboy's Book of Lingerie Vol. 31 May 1993. Playboy's Wet & Wild Women July 1993. Playboy's Book of Lingerie Vol. 34 November 1993 - cover. Playboy's Nudes December 1993 - pages 22-23. ... | |||||||