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999 celebrities 5' 7" tall have been found. Add to favourites (140 fans)Biography of François Hollande
François Gérard Georges Hollande (French pronunciation: ; born 12 August 1954) is a French politician who is the President-elect of France. He also served as the First Secretary of the French Socialist Party from 1997 to 2008 and as a Deputy of the National Assembly of France for Corrèze's 1st Constituency since 1997, and previously represented that seat from 1988 to 1993. He was the Mayor of Tulle from 2001 to 2008, and was the President of the Corrèze General Council from 2008 to 2012. He was elected as President of France on 6 May 2012, defeating the incumbent Nicolas Sarkozy. Early life and background Hollande was born in Rouen, Seine-Maritime, Upper Normandy, to a middle-class family. His mother, Nicole Frédérique Marguerite Tribert (1927–2009), was a social worker, and his fath... Add to favourites (223 fans)Biography of Tom Cruise
Thomas Cruise Mapother IV (born July 3, 1962 (birth time source: http://www.vegaattractions.com/fun/celebrity/indiv/tomcruise.html)) is an American actor and film producer. Counted as one of the most successful movie stars in Hollywood, he is tied with Tom Hanks as the only actors to have seven consecutive US$100 million plus blockbusters on their resume. Forbes ranked him as the world's most powerful celebrity in 2006. He has been nominated for three Academy Awards and he has won the Golden Globe Award. His first leading role in a blockbuster movie was 1983's Risky Business. After that, he starred in many top films and became an iconic celebrity of Hollywood. Cruise is also known for his support of Scientology and his related criticism of psychiatry. In 1990, 1991 and 1997, Peopl... Add to favourites (90 fans)Biography of Pamela Anderson
Pamela Denise Anderson (born July 1, 1967) is a Canadian/American[1] actress, sex symbol, glamour model, producer, TV personality, and author. For a time, she was known as Pamela Anderson Lee after marrying the drummer for Mötley Crüe, Tommy Lee. Anderson is popularly known for modeling and television acting in the 1990s and for her large breast implants. After graduating from Highland Secondary School in 1985, Anderson moved to Vancouver and worked as a fitness instructor. During the summer of 1989, Pamela went with her friends to a Canadian football game; at some point during the game she was shown on the stadium screen wearing a Labatt's t-shirt, causing the crowd to cheer for the twenty one year old Anderson. She was taken down to the field to get an ovation from the crowd. Labatt's i... Add to favourites (397 fans)Biography of Kurt Cobain
Kurt Donald Cobain (February 20, 1967 – c. April 5, 1994) was the lead singer, guitarist, and songwriter of the Seattle-based rock band Nirvana. Cobain was born in Aberdeen, Washington and grew up with a troubled childhood, which he frequently addressed in his songs and interviews. Known for his abrasive and often disturbing songwriting as well as his distinctive vocal style, Cobain is often cited among the most influential musicians of his time. Cobain formed Nirvana in 1987 with Krist Novoselic. Within two years, the band became a fixture of the burgeoning Seattle grunge scene. In 1991, the arrival of Nirvana's "Smells Like Teen Spirit" marked the beginning of a dramatic shift of popular rock music away from the dominant genres of the 1980s (glam metal, arena rock, and dance-pop) and ... Add to favourites (208 fans)Biography of Al Pacino
Alfredo James "Al" Pacino (born April 25, 1940) is an Academy Award, Emmy Award and Tony Award-winning American stage and film actor who played such iconic roles as Michael Corleone in The Godfather Trilogy and Tony Montana in the 1983 film Scarface. He is regarded by many as one of the best actors of his generation. In 1966, Pacino studied under legendary acting coach Lee Strasberg (alongside whom he would later feature in the 1974 film The Godfather Part II). He found acting to be an enjoyable talent that he had possessed since childhood, though it left him penniless and homeless. But by the end of the decade, he had won an Obie award for stage work in The Indian Wants the Bronx and a Tony award for Best Supporting Actor in the Broadway play, Does the Tiger Wear a Necktie?. He made hi... Add to favourites (147 fans)Biography of Grace Kelly
Grace, Princess of Monaco, born Grace Patricia Kelly (November 12, 1929 – September 14, 1982) in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania was an Academy Award-winning American film actress who, upon marriage to Rainier III, Prince of Monaco on April 19, 1956, became Her Serene Highness The Princess of Monaco. She is the mother of the principality's current Sovereign Prince, Albert II. Princess Grace maintained dual American and Monegasque citizenship after her marriage. Her "fairy tale" life made Grace one of the most popular and beloved celebrities of the 20th century. Family Grace Kelly was born in the East Falls section of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, the third of four children to John Brendan Kelly, Sr., also known as Jack Kelly, and Margaret Katherine Majer Kelly. Grace's siblings, in order of a... Add to favourites (58 fans)Biography of Dominique Strauss-Kahn
Dominique Gaston André Strauss-Kahn (French pronunciation: ; born 25 April 1949), often referred to in the media as DSK, is a French economist, lawyer, and politician, and a member of the Socialist Party of France (PS). A former Communist,Strauss-Kahn became the Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) on 28 September 2007, with the backing of his country's president, Nicolas Sarkozy. He is a full professor of economics at the Paris Institute for Political Studies ("Sciences Po"). Strauss-Kahn was Minister of Economy and Finance from 1997 to 1999 as part of Lionel Jospin's "Plural Left" government. He belongs to the right wing of the PS (which is on the center-left of French politics) and sought the nomination in the primaries to the Socialist presidential candidacy fo... Add to favourites (99 fans)Biography of Aishwarya Rai
Aishwarya Rai (born November 1, 1973), is a three-time Filmfare Award-winning Indian actress. She was Miss World in 1994 and has acted in Hindi, Tamil, Bengali and English films. Rai is married to Indian actor Abhishek Bachchan and is daughter-in-law to Amitabh Bachchan. Aishwarya Rai was born in Mangalore, in the South Indian state of Karnataka, to Krishnaraj Rai, a marine engineer, and Vrinda Rai, a writer. Her ancestors are from the Bunt (community) of Mangalore.Her family later relocated to Mumbai(Bombay). Rai has one brother, Aditya Rai, who is three years older than she is. Aditya is a film producer, and has occasionally produced films in which Rai acted. Aditya got married in early 2004. Rai attended the Arya Vidya Mandir at Santacruz, Mumbai, then entered Ruparel College, Mat... Add to favourites (111 fans)Biography of Justin Bieber
Justin Drew Bieber (pronounced /ˈdʒʌstɨn ˈbiːbər/; born March 1, 1994) is a Canadian pop/R&B singer. He began his professional career on YouTube, where he was discovered by his future manager, Scooter Braun. Braun flew Bieber to Atlanta, Georgia to consult with Usher and soon signed a record deal with Island. The first part of his two-part debut album My World was released on November 17, 2009. Four successful pre-album singles have been released: "One Time", "One Less Lonely Girl", "Love Me", and "Favorite Girl", which were Top 15 hits on the Canadian Hot 100 and Top 40 hits on the Billboard Hot 100. This accomplishment made Bieber the only artist in Billboard history to have four singles from a debut album chart in the Top 40 of the Hot 100 before th... Add to favourites (175 fans)Biography of Bruce Lee
Bruce Lee (November 27, 1940 – July 20, 1973) was a Chinese American martial artist, philosopher, instructor, and martial arts actor widely regarded as one of the most influential martial artists of the twentieth century. Lee is iconic for his presentation of Chinese martial arts to the non-Chinese world. Lee's films, especially his performance in the Hollywood-produced Enter the Dragon, elevated the traditional Hong Kong martial arts film to a new level of popularity and acclaim. Lee's films sparked the first major surge of interest of Chinese martial arts in the West. The direction and tone of his films changed and influenced martial arts and martial arts films in Hong Kong, China, and the rest of the world. Lee became an iconic figure particularly to Chinese; as he portrayed Chinese ... Add to favourites (158 fans)Biography of Halle Berry
Halle Maria Berry (born August 14, 1966 (birth time source: Astrodatabank)) is an award-winning American actress. Berry has received Emmy and Golden Globe awards, and was awarded the Academy Award in 2002 for her performance in Monster's Ball. She is the only woman of African American descent to have won the award for Best Actress. Early life and career Berry's parents selected her first name from Halle's Department Store, which was then a local landmark in her birthplace of Cleveland, Ohio. She is the daughter of Englishwoman Judith Ann Hawkins, a Liverpudlian, and Jerome Jesse Berry, who was African American. Berry's maternal grandmother, Nellie Dicken, was born in Sawley, Derbyshire, England, while her maternal grandfather, Earl Ellsworth Hawkins (an American), was born in Ohio. Ber... Add to favourites (44 fans)Biography of Caroline, Princess of Hanover
HRH Caroline Louise Marguerite, The Princess of Hanover, Hereditary Princess of Monaco (Caroline Louise Marguerite Prinzessin von Hannover, Erbprinzessin von Monaco), formally styled Her Royal Highness The Princess of Hanover , (born 23 January 1957) is the eldest child of Prince Rainier III of Monaco and his wife, the former American film actress Grace Kelly. She has many relatives in the United States where her mother is originally from and when she was a child she would spend time at the home of her maternal grandparents in Philadelphia. She married Ernst August V, Prince of Hanover in 1999. Born Her Serene Highness Princess Caroline of Monaco and bearing the surname Grimaldi, she is the second wife of Ernst August, Prince of Hanover and, since her father's death on 6 April 2005, is ... Add to favourites (159 fans)Biography of Audrey Hepburn
Audrey Hepburn (May 4, 1929 – January 20, 1993) was an Academy Award-winning actress of film and theatre, Broadway stage performer, ballerina, fashion model, and humanitarian. Raised under Nazi rule in Arnhem, Netherlands during World War II, Hepburn trained extensively to become a ballerina, before deciding to pursue acting. She first gained notice for her starring role in the Broadway production of Gigi (1951). She was then cast in Roman Holiday (1953) as Princess Ann, the role for which she won an Academy Award. She was one of the leading Hollywood actresses during the 1950s and 1960s and received four more Academy Award nominations, including one for her iconic performance as Holly Golightly in Breakfast at Tiffany's (1961). In 1964, she played Eliza Doolittle in My Fair Lady, the c... Add to favourites (134 fans)Biography of Gwen Stefani
Gwen Renée Stefani (play /stɛˈfɑːni/; born October 3, 1969 (birth time source: Allure October 2005 Issue)) is an American singer-songwriter and fashion designer. Stefani is the lead vocalist for the rock and ska band No Doubt. Stefani recorded Love. Angel. Music. Baby., her first solo album, in 2004. The album was inspired by music of the 1980s and was a success with sales of over seven million copies. The album's third single, "Hollaback Girl", was the first US digital download to sell one million copies. Stefani's second and final solo studio album, The Sweet Escape (2006), yielded "Wind It Up", "4 in the Morning", and the highest-selling single "The Sweet Escape". Including her work with No Doubt, Stefani has sold more than forty million albums worldwide. She won the... Add to favourites (70 fans)Biography of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis
Jacqueline Lee Bouvier Kennedy Onassis (July 28, 1929 – May 19, 1994) was the wife of John F. Kennedy from 1953 to 1963 and was known as Jacqueline Kennedy or Jackie Kennedy. She served as First Lady of the United States from 1961 until her husband's assassination in 1963. From 1968 until his death in 1975, she was married to Aristotle Onassis and was known as Jacqueline Onassis, Jackie Onassis, or more informally as Jackie O. In later years she had a successful career as a book editor. She preferred the French pronunciation of her first name.... Add to favourites (57 fans)Biography of Charlotte Casiraghi
Charlotte Marie Pomeline Casiraghi (born August 3, 1986, at the Princess Grace Clinic in Monte Carlo, Monaco) is the daughter of HSH Princess Caroline of Monaco (now styled HRH Princess of Hanover by marriage) and, Stefano Casiraghi, an Italian industrialist. She is named after her maternal great-grandmother, Princess Charlotte of Monaco. She is popular the with paparazzi and society reporters, who find her stylish good looks to be reminiscent of her mother and maternal grandmother, American Actress Grace Kelly. She has many relatives in the United States where her grandmother was from; when her mother, Princess Caroline, was younger, Charlotte would spend holidays at her grandparents home in Monte Carlo. Although she holds no title, she is fourth in line to the throne of Monaco.... Add to favourites (136 fans)Biography of Keira Knightley
Keira Christina Knightley (born 26 March 1985 (source: http://www.librarising.com/astrology/celebs/keiraknightley.html)) is an English film and television actress. She began her career as a child actress, and came to international fame in 2003, after major roles in the films Bend It Like Beckham and the first film in the Pirates of the Caribbean trilogy. Knightley has since become a notable lead actress, having starred in several Hollywood films and earning an Academy Award nomination for her role as Elizabeth Bennet in Joe Wright's 2005 adaptation of Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice. Early life Knightley was born in Teddington, Middlesex, England to Sharman Macdonald, a Scottish actress turned award-winning playwright, and Will Knightley, an English theatre and television actor. She ... Add to favourites (83 fans)Biography of Frank Sinatra
Francis Albert Sinatra (December 12, 1915 – May 14, 1998) was a jazz oriented popular singer and Academy Award-winning actor. Beginning his musical career in the swing era with Harry James and Tommy Dorsey, Sinatra became a solo artist with great success in the early to mid 1940s. His professional career had stalled by the 1950s, but it was reborn in 1953 after he won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor. He signed with Capitol Records, and released several critically lauded albums (such as In the Wee Small Hours, Songs For Swingin' Lovers, Come Fly With Me, Only the Lonely and Nice 'n' Easy). Sinatra left Capitol to found his own record label, Reprise Records (finding success with albums such as Ring-A-Ding-Ding, Sinatra at the Sands and Francis Albert Sinatra & Antonio Carlos J... Add to favourites (101 fans)Biography of Kate Moss
Katherine Ann Moss (born January 16, 1974 (birth tume source: Kate Moss: The Making of an Icon by Christian Salmon)), known as Kate Moss, is an iconic English supermodel and fashion designer. She is known for her waifish figure and many advertising campaigns and is also recognised for her high-profile relationships and party lifestyle. She has appeared on over 300 magazine covers. Early life Moss was born in Addiscombe, London Borough of Croydon, England. She attended Ridgeway Primary School, then Riddlesdown High School. She then attended 6th Form at Croydon High School. She was not noted for her academic success, although she did excel at sports. According to Vermorel's book Addicted to Love: Kate Moss, she received one C (in Science) and Ds, Es, and Us in all others at GCSE level ... Add to favourites (33 fans)Biography of Claude François
Claude François (February 1, 1939 in Ismaïlia, Egypt - March 11, 1978 in Paris, France) was a French pop singer. The son of an Italian mother and a French father, Claude François was born in Egypt, where his father, Aimé François, was working as a shipping traffic controller on the Suez Canal. In 1951 the job took the family to the city of Port Tawfik on the Red Sea. Claude François' mother was very musical and had her son take piano and violin lessons. On his own, the boy learned to play the drums. As a result of the 1956 Suez Crisis, the family returned to live in Monaco, where they struggled financially after Claude's father fell ill and could not work. A young Claude found a job as a bank clerk and at night earned extra money playing drums with an orchestra at the luxury hotels a... Add to favourites (35 fans)Biography of Princess Stephanie of Monaco
Princess Stéphanie of Monaco (Stéphanie Marie Elisabeth Grimaldi, born 1 February 1965) is the youngest child of Grace Kelly and Rainier III of Monaco. She has been at one time a singer, swimwear designer, and fashion model; her mother lovingly called the princess her "wild child" — she is the sister of Albert II of Monaco and Princess Caroline. She was the passenger in the car when her mother was killed in an accident on a mountain road 13 September 1982. Rumours persist to this day that Stéphanie was driving. She was unable to attend her mother's funeral because she was in hospital with injuries from the crash. Fashion In 1983, after her physical recovery from the accident, Stephanie started an apprentice program at Christian Dior under the direction of head designer Marc Bohan, w... Add to favourites (38 fans)Biography of Sabrina Ferilli
Sabrina Ferilli (born June 28, 1964 in Rome, Italy) is an Italian theater and movie actress mainly popular inside her homeland, where she is one of the most prevalent celebrities. Ferilli's father was the speaker of the Lazio regional council of the Italian Communist Party. Ferilli was herself clearly influenced by her father’s political orientation and activism, making no secret of her own leftism. Ferilli starred in several movies and TV series since the mid 1980s, as well as debuting in theater plays. While her popularity stems in large part from her movie acting, theater always remained her real passion. Upon leaving school, Ferilli first was rejected by Rome's Experimental Cinematography Centre. She subsequently took elocution lessons and meanwhile managed to win bit parts in... Add to favourites (46 fans)Biography of Gia Carangi
Gia Marie Carangi (January 29, 1960 – November 18, 1986) was an American fashion model during the late 1970s and early 1980s. Carangi, who was of Italian, Welsh and Irish ancestry, was considered by some to be the first supermodel, although that title has also been given to others including Janice Dickinson and Dorian Leigh. Cindy Crawford, who also appeared on the covers of several fashion publications during her time, was later referred to as "Baby Gia", due to her resemblance to Carangi. Carangi was also the first to present unusual poses, facial expressions and gestures. She is credited by many at the upper echelons of fashion to have created a new style of modeling, emulated by models since then to the present. Carangi was featured on the cover of many fashion magazines, including ... Add to favourites (58 fans)Biography of Matthew Bellamy
Matthew James Bellamy (born June 9, 1978 in Cambridge, England) is the lead singer, guitarist and pianist of rock group Muse. Background Bellamy's father, George, was the rhythm guitarist in the 1960s English rock group The Tornados, who were the first English band to have a U.S. number one, with "Telstar". Bellamy's mother, Marilyn, was born in Belfast, and emigrated to England in the 1970s. On her first day in England she met George Bellamy, who was at that time working as a taxi driver in London. They moved to Cambridge, where Bellamy's older brother Paul was born, followed a couple of years later by Matthew himself. In the mid-1980s they moved to Teignmouth, Devon where Matthew was educated at Teignmouth Community College. Bellamy now lives in Lake Como with his fiancee, Gaia... Add to favourites (105 fans)Biography of Niall Horan
Niall James Horan (born 13 September 1993) in Mullingar, County Westmeath, Republic of Ireland, is an English singer, a member of One Direction. Horan was born to mother Maura and father Bobby Horan. His parents divorced when he was five years old. He was a pupil at Coláiste Mhuire, Mullingar, a boys' CBS secondary school. Horan played numerous gigs around his homeland including as a support act for Lloyd Daniels (in Dublin). He plays the guitar since his childhood. In an interview he referred to his guitar as "the best present I ever received for Christmas".. Horan has an older brother Greg (23). Horan revealed that his parents first realised he was a good singer during a car journey. "My aunt said she thought the radio was on," he said. "Exactly the same thing happened to Michael Bublé w... Add to favourites (85 fans)Biography of Jennifer Lawrence
Jennifer Shrader Lawrence (born August 15, 1990 (birth time source: Gateway Biography )) is an American film and television actress. She has had lead roles in TBS's The Bill Engvall Show and in the independent films The Burning Plain and Winter's Bone, for which she received critical acclaim and a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Actress. At age 20, this made her the second youngest actress to ever be nominated for the award. She was cast as Katniss Everdeen in the upcoming 2012 film, The Hunger Games, which is based on the first book in The Hunger Games trilogy by Suzanne Collins. Early life Lawrence was born and raised in Louisville, Kentucky, the daughter of Karen (née Koch), who runs a children's camp, and Gary Lawrence, who once owned a concrete construction firm, Lawr... Add to favourites (73 fans)Biography of Rachel Weisz
Rachel Hannah Weisz (pronounced /ˈvaɪs/, like the word "vice"; born 7 March 1970) is an English screen and theatre actress and fashion model. She gained wide public recognition after her portrayal of Evelyn "Evy" Carnahan-O'Connell in the films The Mummy and The Mummy Returns. In 2002, she starred opposite Hugh Grant in the hit About a Boy and continued to garner leading roles in Hollywood productions. Her performance in The Constant Gardener (2005) won her the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress, along with other major motion picture awards. Early life and background Weisz was born in Westminster, London, England, and grew up in the Hampstead Garden Suburb. Her mother, Edith Ruth (née Teich), is a teacher turned psychotherapist who was born in Vienna, Austria. Her fa... Add to favourites (67 fans)Biography of Mark Wahlberg
Mark Robert Michael Wahlberg (born June 5, 1971) is an Academy Award-nominated American actor, television producer and former rapper. He has also spent time working as a male fashion model. Early life Born in Dorchester, Massachusetts, he was the youngest of nine children, with siblings Arthur, Jim, Paul, Robert, Tracey, Michelle, Debbie, and Donnie Wahlberg. His father, Donald Edward Wahlberg, was a delivery driver, and his mother, Alma Elaine Donnelly, was a nurse; the two divorced in 1982. His paternal grandfather was of Swedish descent, while the majority of his other ancestry is Irish. Wahlberg had a Catholic upbringing and attended Copley Square High School (but never graduated) on Newbury Street in Boston. As a teenager, Wahlberg participated in several acts of violence for w... Add to favourites (40 fans)Biography of Portia de Rossi
Portia de Rossi, born Amanda Lee Rogers on January 31, 1973, is an Australian actress who is best known for her role as lawyer Nelle Porter on the television series Ally McBeal, and as Lindsay Bluth Fünke on the television series Arrested Development. Portia de Rossi birthtime 3AM quoted from autobiography "Unbearable Lightness" Personal Born in Melbourne, Victoria, de Rossi was raised in Grovedale, a suburb of Geelong. As a child she modeled for print and TV commercials. She took the name Portia de Rossi at a young age: “ When I was 15, I changed it legally. In retrospect, I think it was largely due to my struggle about being gay. Everything just didn’t fit, and I was trying to find things I could identify myself with, and it started with my name. I picked Portia because I was a Sh... Add to favourites (56 fans)Biography of Lenny Kravitz
Leonard Albert "Lenny" Kravitz (born May 26, 1964 (birth time source: http://www.astrolreport.com/famous-k/kravitz.lenny.php)) is an American Grammy Award-winning singer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, producer, and arranger whose "retro" style incorporates elements of rock, soul, funk, reggae, hard rock, psychedelic, folk, and ballads. In addition to singing lead and backing vocals, he often plays all the guitar, bass, drums, keyboards, and percussion himself when recording. He won the Grammy Award for Best Male Rock Vocal Performance four years in a row from 1999 to 2002. He was ranked #93 on VH1's "100 Greatest Artists of Hard Rock". Early life Kravitz was born in New York City, the son of Ukrainian-Jewish American NBC television news producer Sy Kravitz, and Bahamian America... Add to favourites (26 fans)Biography of Jacques Dutronc
Jacques Dutronc (born April 28, 1943 in Paris) is a French singer, composer, and actor. He is married to the singer Françoise Hardy, as of March 30, 1981, with whom he had a son (Thomas Dutronc, born 1973). Between 1963 and 1964, Dutronc played guitar for the group "El Toro et les Cyclones" with Hadi Kalafate. During this time he also appeared at Le Golf Drouot in Paris as backing guitarist for stars including Eddy Mitchell. After performing his obligatory military service, he landed a job as assistant at Vogue Records to Artistic Director Jacques Wolfsohn. In this capacity, he arranged songs for several lesser known artists such as Zou Zou and Cleo. At Vogue Records, he teamed with writer Jacques Lanzmann, then director at Lui magazine, to create songs for up-and-coming artists. One of... Add to favourites (48 fans)Biography of Dustin Hoffman
Dustin Lee Hoffman (born August 8, 1937) is a two-time Academy Award-winning, two-time BAFTA-winning, and three-time Golden Globe-winning American actor. Private life Hoffman has two children (Karina and Jenna) with his first wife Anne Byrne (married May 1969; divorced in 1980), and four more (Jacob, Maxwell, Rebecca and Alexandra) with wife Lisa Gottsegen, who is an attorney (married since October 1980). Hoffman also has two grandchildren. A political liberal, Hoffman has long supported the Democratic Party, as well as Ralph Nader. He is unrelated to fellow Academy Award winner Philip Seymour Hoffman. Trivia The rock band Of Montreal made an album called The Early Four Track Recordings which tells a fictional, sarcastic story about Dustin Hoffman. Robert Duvall was a ... Add to favourites (36 fans)Biography of Leona Lewis
Leona Louise Lewis (born 3 April 1985 (birth time source: Blender Magazine, July 2008)) is an English singer-songwriter and winner of the third series of the popular television talent show The X Factor. Her debut single, "A Moment like This", was released on 20 December 2006. The single was also available as a digital download from midnight on 17 December and broke a world record after it was downloaded fifty thousand times in thirty minutes. Her debut album, Spirit, was released on 12 November 2007. It is claimed Lewis will be the first winner of a major television talent show in both the UK and U.S. to be given a major global launch with the release of the album. Early life Lewis was born in the London district of Islington to parents Aural Josiah, an Afro-Caribbean youth worker, ... Add to favourites (15 fans)Biography of Bow Wow
Shad Gregory Moss (born March 9, 1987 in Columbus, Ohio) known by his stage name Bow Wow (formerly Lil' Bow Wow), is an American rapper, actor and music producer. Lil' Bow Wow was born in Reynoldsburg, Ohio to Teresa and Junie Moss. Junie left the family and his mother worked three jobs to care of him. Teresa later married Rodney Caldwell, and Bow Wow has two step-siblings, Erica and Jasarah. At age five, he started his career in rap using the moniker "Kid Gangsta". One year later, in 1993, he performed at a Chronic tour in Columbus, and was noted by rapper Snoop Dogg and rapper Dr. Dre, who subsequently gave him a stage name, "Lil' Bow Wow". Dr. Dre later hired him as an opening act. "Lil' Bow Wow" then appeared on a skit on Snoop's debut Doggystyle. In 1998 at the age of eleven,... Add to favourites (27 fans)Biography of Anna Nicole Smith
Vickie Lynn Marshall (November 28, 1967 – February 8, 2007), better known under the stage name of Anna Nicole Smith, was an American sex symbol, model, actress and celebrity. Her highly publicized marriage to oil business executive and billionaire J. Howard Marshall, 63 years her senior, resulted in speculation that she married the octogenarian for his money, which she denied. Following his death, she began a lengthy legal battle over a share of his estate; her case, Marshall v. Marshall, reached the U.S. Supreme Court on a question of federal jurisdiction. Born and raised in Texas, Smith dropped out of high school and first married at the age of 17. She first gained popularity in Playboy, becoming the 1993 Playmate of the Year. She modeled for clothing companies, including Guess jeans.... Add to favourites (41 fans)Biography of Ashley Judd
Ashley Judd (born Ashley Tyler Ciminella on April 19, 1968) is an American actress. She is perhaps best known for her leading roles in a series of late 1990s and early 2000s thrillers, including Kiss the Girls, Double Jeopardy and High Crimes. Judd was born in Granada Hills, California to Michael Ciminella, Jr., an Italian American marketing analyst for the horseracing industry, and Naomi Judd, a well-known country music singer; she has a half-sister, Wynonna Judd, who is also a country music singer. At the time of her birth, her mother was working as a nurse, and wouldn't become well-known as a singer along with her daughter Wynonna until the early 1980s. Judd's parents divorced in 1972, and in 1974, her mother took her back to her own native Kentucky, where Judd grew up in poverty. Th... Add to favourites (38 fans)Biography of James Blunt
James Blunt (born James Hillier Blount, February 22, 1974) is a BRIT Award winning, 5 times Grammy Nominated, English singer-songwriter whose debut album, Back to Bedlam, and single releases — especially the number one hit "You're Beautiful" — brought him to fame in 2005. His style is a mix of pop and acoustic rock. Along with vocals, James Blunt plays a wide variety of instruments including the piano, guitar, organ, marimba, and mellotron. He is signed to Linda Perry's American label Custard, and became the first British artist to top the American singles chart in nearly a decade when his song "You're Beautiful" reached number one on the Billboard Hot 100 in 2006. The last British artist to do so had been Elton John in 1997 with the song "Candle in the Wind". Early life Blunt was born... Add to favourites (52 fans)Biography of Sade Adu
Helen Folasade Adu (born 16 January 1959), better known as Sade (pronounced /ʃɑːˈdeɪ/), is a Nigerian-born English singer, songwriter, composer, and record producer, noted for her soulful, smoky contralto voice. She has achieved success in the 1980s, 1990s, and 2000s as the frontwoman and lead vocalist of the popular Grammy Award-winning group Sade. Height: 5' 7" (1.70 m) Sade (pronounced shar-day) was born in Ibadan, Ọyọ State, Nigeria. Her parents, Bisi Adu, a Nigerian lecturer in economics of Yoruba background, and Anne Hayes, an English nurse, met in London and moved to west Africa. Later, when the marriage ran into difficulties, Anne returned to Clacton-on-Sea, Essex, England, taking four-year-old Sade and her older brother Banji to live with... Add to favourites (27 fans)Biography of Béatrice Dalle
Béatrice Dalle (born December 19, 1964) is a French actress. Béatrice Dalle was born in Brest, Finistère, France, as Béatrice Cabarrou. She was married to Jean-François Dalle but is now divorced. She was working as a model when she met filmmaker Jean-Jacques Beineix. Beineix cast her in the lead role in the 1986 film 37°2 le matin (later released in the United Kingdom and United States under the title Betty Blue). She went on to appear in a series of major roles in French films. She made her debut to American audiences in Jim Jarmusch's Night on Earth in 1991. In 1997, she was cast in The Blackout, her first film made in the United States. The film itself was a commercial failure. She was cast to play opposite Bruce Willis in The Sixth Sense in 1998. However, she lost the part ... Add to favourites (54 fans)Biography of Ben Stiller
Benjamin Edward Stiller (born November 30, 1965) is an Emmy-winning American comedian, actor, film producer and director. He is the son of Jerry Stiller and Anne Meara, both of whom are veteran comedians and actors themselves. Ben Stiller's most recent role was in the film Night at the Museum and his next upcoming film is The Heartbreak Kid. Stiller has a total gross of $1.38 billion throughout his film career and is a core member of the comedic acting brotherhood known as the Frat Pack. With multiple cameos in music videos, television shows, and films, he may be best known for his roles in films such as: There's Something About Mary, Zoolander, Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story, Mystery Men, Along Came Polly, Starsky & Hutch, Meet the Parents, and its two sequels, Meet the Fockers and L... Add to favourites (45 fans)Biography of Diane Kruger
Diane Kruger (born July 15, 1976), is a German actress and former fashion model. Early life and career Born Diane Heidkrüger in Algermissen, near Hildesheim, Germany, she started her career as a dancer in London when she was still young, but after an injury she changed her mind and went to Paris to become a model. Her education in art led her to be able to speak perfect English and French, added to her mother language, German. She won Elite's 1992 "Look of the Year" at the age of 15. Kruger soon became interested in acting and took lessons at the Cours Florent. She landed some small appearances in several French movies. She then changed her last name to ease her movie career. Kruger made her onscreen debut in 2002 opposite Dennis Hopper and Christopher Lambert in The Piano Player, a... Add to favourites (41 fans)Biography of Bruno Mars
Peter Gene Hernandez (born October 8, 1985 birth time sources: http://wiki.answers.com/Q/What_time_was_Bruno_mars_born and http://twittywatch.com/mycity.php/Honolulu-Hawaii/1307559600/17)), better known by his stage name Bruno Mars, is an American singer-songwriter and music producer. Raised in Honolulu, Hawaii by a family of musicians, Mars began making music at a young age. After performing in various musical venues in his hometown throughout his childhood, he decided to pursue a musical career. Mars began producing songs for other artists, joining production team The Smeezingtons. He became recognized as a solo artist after lending his vocals and co-writing the hooks for the songs "Nothin' on You" by B.o.B, and "Billionaire" by Travie McCoy. He also co-wrote the hits "Right Round" by... Biography of Adel Imam
Adel Emam (sometimes credited as: Adel Imam), (Arabic: عادل إمام), born May 17, 1940, is a popular Egyptian movie and stage actor. He is primarily a comedian, but he has starred in more serious works and, especially early in his earlier films, combined comedy with romance. Height: 5' 7" (1.70 m) He earned a Bachelor's Degree in Agriculture from Cairo University. Since then he has appeared in over 100 movies and 10 plays. He is probably the most famous actor in the Arab World. He has received critical and popular praise throughout his career. Short, slight, and with a face seemingly more appropriate a character actor than a leading man -- let alone a star whose career has flourished since the late sixties -- Adel Imam is able to portray ... Add to favourites (37 fans)Biography of Billie Joe Armstrong
Billie Joe Armstrong (born February 17, 1972, in Oakland, California) is best known for his role as the main songwriter, lead vocalist, lyricist, and guitarist for the rock band Green Day. Early life Armstrong grew up in Rodeo, California. He's the youngest of six children. His father, Andy, was a retired Minor League Baseball catcher, who worked as a jazz musician and truck driver for Safeway to support the family. He died from esophageal cancer on September 10, 1982 when Billie Joe was 10. His mother Ollie worked as a waitress at Rod's Hickory Pit, where Billie Joe and Mike Dirnt got their first gig during their teen years. Billie Joe's interest in music started at a young age. He recorded a song titled "Look For Love" at the age of 5 on the Bay Area label "Fiat Records". As a tee... Add to favourites (21 fans)Biography of John McCain
John Sidney McCain III (born August 29, 1936) is the senior United States Senator from Arizona and a candidate for the Republican Party nomination in the 2008 presidential election. Both McCain's grandfather and father were Admirals in the United States Navy. McCain also attended the United States Naval Academy and finished near the bottom of his graduating class in 1958. McCain became a naval aviator flying attack aircraft from carriers. Participating in the Vietnam War, he narrowly escaped death during the 1967 Forrestal fire. On his twenty-third bombing mission over North Vietnam later in 1967, he was shot down and badly injured. He became a prisoner of war. He endured five and a half years of captivity, including periods of torture, before he was released following the Paris Peace A... Add to favourites (33 fans)Biography of Daniel Auteuil
Daniel Auteuil (born January 24, 1950) is a French actor. He was born in Algiers, Algeria, to French parents who were both opera singers. His starring role in Jean de Florette brought him international recognition, and he is now one of the best known and most popular actors in France. He has two daughters; Aurore Auteuil with his former partner, Anne Jousset, and Nelly from a ten-year relationship with actress Emmanuelle Béart, his co-star in films such as the acclaimed Un cœur en hiver (A Heart in Winter). He recently married Aude Ambroggi a Corsican sculptor, July 22nd, 2006 in Oporto-Vecchi, Corsica.... Add to favourites (40 fans)Biography of Susan Sarandon
Susan Sarandon (born October 4, 1946) is an Academy Award-winning American actress. Early life Sarandon was born as Susan Abigail Tomalin in New York City to Phillip Leslie Tomalin (of English, Irish and Welsh ancestry) and Lenora Marie Criscione (who was born in Ragusa, Sicily). Susan grew up as the eldest of ten children in a large Roman Catholic family. She graduated from Edison High School in 1964, and then attended The Catholic University of America from 1964 to 1968 where she attained a BA in drama. Sarandon, and 10 of her relatives (including her significant other Tim Robbins and her son Miles), recently travelled to Wales to track her family's Welsh genealogy. Their journey was documented by the BBC Wales programme "Coming Home: Susan Sarandon". Career In 1969, Susan ... Add to favourites (26 fans)Biography of Michelle Trachtenberg
Michelle Christine Trachtenberg (born October 11, 1985) is an American television and film actress. Early life Trachtenberg was born in New York City. Her father, Michael, is an ATT field engineer, and her Russian-born mother, Lana, is a former actress turned puppeteer. Trachtenberg can speak Russian fluently. She is of Jewish heritage and celebrates both Christmas and Hanukkah; her grandparents live in Israel. Trachtenberg was raised, along with older sister Irene, in Sheepshead Bay in Brooklyn and attended P.S. 254 Elementary School and Bay Academy Junior High School. Career She made her first television appearance in 1988 in a commercial for Wisk Detergent. She went on to feature in over 100 more commercials. She appeared in her first credited role as Nona F. Mecklenberg in T... Add to favourites (47 fans)Biography of Anaïs Nin
Anaïs Nin (February 21, 1903 - January 14, 1977) was a French-born author of Spanish, Catalan, Cuban, and Danish descent who became famous for her published journals, which span more than sixty years, beginning when she was eleven years old and ending shortly before her death. Anais is also famous for her erotica, which not only proves sensual, but also acts as a study of human sexuality in its perfection and flaws. For many years, Anaïs Nin maintained a double life as a lover of the poor but also a wealthy wife. Her first husband was Hugh Guiler, a banker and artist, whom she married as a young woman in the 1920s. Rupert Pole, whom she married in 1955 while still married to Guiler, was a forester and the step-grandson of architect Frank Lloyd Wright. After the death of Hugh Guiler in 1... Add to favourites (22 fans)Biography of Jean-Louis Aubert
Jean-Louis Aubert (born April 12, 1955 in Nantua) is a French guitarist, singer and songwriter. In 1976, he co-founded the rock band Téléphone. After their split, he recorded a single album ( Platre et Ciment ) with Téléphone's drummer Richard Kolinka as Aubert'n'Ko (1987), and in 1989 released his first solo album, Blue Blanc Vert. Studio Albums Plâtre Et Ciment! (1987, Virgin) Bleu Blanc Vert (1989, Virgin) H (1992, Virgin) Stockholm (1997, Virgin) Comme Un Accord (2001, Virgin) Idéal Standard (2005, Virgin) Live Albums Une Page De Tournée / Deux Pages De Tournée (1994, Virgin) Concert Privé M6 (1998, Virgin)... Add to favourites (60 fans)Biography of James McAvoy
James Andrew McAvoy (pronounced MACK-uh-voy; born 21 April 1979 (birth time source: Caroline Gerard, Astrodatabank)) is an acclaimed BAFTA Scotland, ALFS Award, Rising Star Award and two-time BAFTA, European Film Award, Golden Globe nominated Scottish stage and screen actor best known for his starring roles in the Academy Award for Best Picture nominated film Atonement, Academy Award winning The Last King of Scotland, and the Emmy nominated and BAFTA winning British TV series Shameless. Early life McAvoy was born in Glasgow, Scotland, the son of Elizabeth (née Johnstone), a psychiatric nurse, and James McAvoy, a builder. McAvoy's parents divorced when he was seven, and he subsequently lived with his maternal grandparents, Mary and James Johnstone in the Drumchapel area of Glasgow. His ... Add to favourites (24 fans)Biography of Charlotte Rampling
Charlotte Rampling, OBE (born February 5, 1946 in Sturmer, England, UK) is an English actress and former model (her height is 170 cm (5' 7")). She attended Jeanne d'Arc Academie pour Jeunes Filles in Versailles and St. Hilda's School in Bushey, England. Career After beginning her acting career at age seventeen in a starring commercial role and working as a model for a while, Rampling's first screen role was uncredited as a water skier in Richard Lester's film The Knack...and How to Get It in 1965 which was followed a year later by the role of Meredith in the film Georgy Girl. After this her acting career blossomed in both English and French cinema. Despite her early flurry of success, she told The Independent, "We weren't happy. It was a nightmare, breaking the rules and all that... Add to favourites (21 fans)Biography of Traci Lords
Traci Lords (born Nora Louise Kuzma on May 7, 1968), also known as Traci Elizabeth Lords and Tracy Lords, is an American film actress and singer. She first achieved notoriety for her underage appearances in pornographic films and Penthouse magazine (she was 16 years old in her first film), later becoming a television and B-movie actress. Early life Nora Louise Kuzma was born in Steubenville, Ohio to Ukrainian-descended Louis and Patricia Kuzma (née Briceland). Her stage name is said to be in tribute to Katharine Hepburn's character Tracy Lord from The Philadelphia Story or from the first name of her high school best friend Traci; and the last name of her favorite actor from Hawaii Five-O, Jack Lord. At twelve she fled from her abusive, alcoholic father to Lawndale, California, with he... Add to favourites (15 fans)Biography of Letizia Ortiz
Letizia, the Princess of Asturias (born Letizia Ortiz Rocasolano September 15, 1972, Oviedo, Spain) is the wife of Felipe, the Prince of Asturias, the heir apparent to the Spanish throne. She is styled HRH The Princess of Asturias. Family Letizia is the eldest daughter of Jesús Ortiz Álvarez, a journalist, and Paloma Rocasolano Rodríguez, (born April 15, 1952) a registered nurse and also a hospital union representative. Her parents divorced in 1999 and her father remarried fellow journalist Ana Togores . Letizia's paternal grandmother, Menchu Álvarez del Valle, was a well known radio broadcaster in Asturias for over 40 years. She is the first future Queen of Spain not born to a noble family. Princess Letizia has two sisters: Telma Ortiz Rocasolano, (born October 25, 1973) an econ... Add to favourites (19 fans)Biography of Shy'm
Shy'm, born Tamara Marthe on November 28, 1985, is a French singer. She has released an album, Mes Fantaisies, in 2006 which rose to #6 in the French chart. 4 songs from that album have been released as singles, all of which charted in the top 10 in France. Tamara was born in Trappes, France to a Martinique mother and Moroccan father, in a family oriented to music and creative arts. From an early age, she became interested in dancing and singing. She started taking lessons in dancing. She earned the nickname, "Spicy Tam" as a result of the effort she put in it. In academics, she obtained her diploma at the age of seventeen. Along with her studies, she had been making demo recordings of herself, while avoiding public scrutiny. Later, she made it to Paris, France and sent the recording... Biography of Katherine Kelly Lang
Katherine Kelly Lang (born Katherine Kelly Wegeman on July 25, 1961 (birth time source: birth certificate, Stephen Przybylowski, Astrodatabank) is an American actress. She is known for her role as Brooke Logan Forrester on The Bold and the Beautiful (1987–present). Personal life She was born in Los Angeles, California and graduated from Beverly Hills High School. She is the daughter of Olympic ski-jumper Keith R. Wegeman and actress Judith Lang and the granddaughter of Oscar-winning cinematographer Charles Lang. Lang has been married twice, the second time to manager Alex D'Andrea. D'Andrea represents such actors as Stephen Baldwin and works for Edmonds Entertainment. Lang is the mother of three children: Jeremy Skott Snider (born 1990), Julian Lang Snider (born 1992), Zoe Katrina ... Add to favourites (29 fans)Biography of Sofia Vergara
Sofía Margarita Vergara (born July 10, 1972, in Barranquilla, Atlantico) is a Colombian model and actress. Height 5' 7" (1.70 m) Early life "La Toti" was the nickname given to Vergara by her five brothers and sisters and many cousins, including television news anchor and reporter Carlos Vergara, who currently works for WTVJ in Miami, Florida. She grew up between her hometown of Barranquilla and her father's farm in Colombia, where for recreation and exercise, she liked to swim in a river and ride horses. She came from a well-off family in Colombia and was sent to private bilingual (Spanish/English) schools there, including elementary school. She got married at the age of 18, and she gave birth to her son Manolo in 1991 at the age of 19. The marriage did not last very long, and the... Add to favourites (25 fans)Biography of Macaulay Culkin
Macaulay Carson Culkin (born August 26, 1980) is an American actor. He is best known for portraying Kevin McCallister in Home Alone and the title character of Richie Rich. Early life Culkin was born in New York City, New York to Christopher 'Kit' Culkin and Patricia Brentup. He was the couple's third child of seven children and he has four brothers Shane (b. 1976), Kieran (b. 1982), Christian (b. 1987) and Rory (b. 1989), and two sisters Dakota (b. 1978) and Quinn (b. 1984). Culkin is the nephew of actress Bonnie Bedelia, who is the sister of Kit Culkin. During Culkin's early childhood, the family lived in a small apartment; his mother was a telephone operator and his father worked as a sacristan at a local Catholic church. His father was also a former stage actor with a long career... Add to favourites (25 fans)Biography of Diane Lane
Diane Lane (born January 22, 1965) is an Academy Award-nominated American actress. Early life Lane was born in New York City. The daughter of acting coach Burt Lane and singer/Playboy centerfold Colleen Farrington, Lane was raised by her father after her parents divorced when she was still a baby. Career She began acting professionally at the age of six at the La Mama Experimental Theatre in New York where she appeared in acclaimed productions of Medea and The Cherry Orchard, among others. At 13, she made her film debut opposite Sir Laurence Olivier in A Little Romance, and at 14 was featured on the cover of Time. One of the few child actors to make a successful transition into adult roles, Lane made a hit with audiences in the back-to-back cult films The Outsiders and Rum... Add to favourites (24 fans)Biography of Jean Gabin
Born Jean-Alexis Moncorgé in Paris, France, he grew up in the village of Mériel in the Seine-et-Oise département, about 22 mi (35 km) north of Paris. The son of cabaret entertainers, he worked as a laborer, but at age 19 entered show business with a bit part in a Folies Bergères production. He continued performing in a variety of minor roles before going into the military. After completing his military service, Gabin returned to the entertainment business, working under the stage name of Jean Gabin at whatever was offered in the Parisian music halls and operettas. He was part of a troupe that toured South America and upon returning to France found work at the Moulin Rouge. His performances started getting noticed and better stage roles came along that led to parts in two silent films in... Add to favourites (21 fans)Biography of Nigella Lawson
Nigella Lucy Lawson (born 6 January 1960) is a British food writer, journalist and broadcaster. Lawson was born to Nigel Lawson, who would become Chancellor of the Exchequer, and Vanessa Salmon, whose family owned the J. Lyons and Co. empire. After graduating from Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford University, Lawson started to work as a book reviewer and restaurant critic, later becoming the deputy literary editor of The Sunday Times in 1986. She then embarked upon a career as a freelance journalist, writing for a number of newspapers and magazines. In 1998, Lawson brought out her first cookery book, How to Eat, which sold 300,000 copies and became a bestseller. She went on to write her second book in 2000, How to be a Domestic Goddess, winning her the British Book Award for Author of The Year. ... Add to favourites (24 fans)Biography of Kim Cattrall
Kim Victoria Cattrall (born August 21, 1956, in Liverpool, England) is an English-born Canadian actress. She is perhaps best known for her role as Samantha Jones in the HBO comedy/romance series Sex and the City. The role earned her an Emmy Award nomination and a Golden Globe Award. Childhood Her mother, Shane Cattrall, was a housewife; her father, Dennis Cattrall, was a construction worker. Cattrall has three siblings. When she was less than a year old, her family emigrated to Courtenay, British Columbia, Canada. When her grandmother became ill, she returned to England at the age of 11. During this time she took lessons at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art (LAMDA). Career Cattrall began her career at age 16 when she left home to live alone in New York City. There, sh... Add to favourites (33 fans)Biography of Jack Black
Jack Black (born Thomas Jack Black, Jr. on August 28, 1969) is a Golden Globe-nominated American actor, comedian and musician. He is considered a core member of the Frat Pack, a name used by members of the media for a group of comedians active in today's Hollywood films, though he is also in demand for Hollywood blockbusters and indie films. He and Kyle Gass make up the comedy/rock duo Tenacious D. Black is also known by his nicknames, Jables or JB. Height: 5' 7" (1.70 m) Early life Black is the son of two satellite engineers. His mother, Judith Cohen, is Jewish, while his father, Thomas Jack Black, Sr., converted. He was raised in the Jewish religion. His parents divorced when he was 10. Black moved to Culver City with his father and frequently visited his mother’s home until the e... Add to favourites (13 fans)Biography of Zara Whites
Zara Whites (born Esther Kooiman, November 8, 1968, in Hoeksche Waard, Netherlands) is a notable Dutch porn actress. She started her career in Italy by performing as a topless dancer on the television show Colpo Grosso at age 19. She was photographed for magazines such as Playboy and Penthouse and then tried the adult film industry. Between 1990 and 1992 she appeared in 22 porn movies both in Europe and in the United States. In 1992, she reoriented her career towards soft core porn with a TV series for French television, Joy. She retired afterwards, though in 1999 she did a "comeback" hardcore movie, La Dresseuse. She was married to porn actor Roberto Malone. Further reading Zara Whites (1992). Ma vie et mes fantasmes - Jean-Claude Lattès - ISBN 2-7096-1147-3 (NOTE: in F... Add to favourites (22 fans)Biography of Eve Angeli
Eve Angeli is a French singer.... Add to favourites (33 fans)Biography of George Lucas
George Walton Lucas, Jr. (born May 14, 1944) is a four-time Academy Award nominated American film director, producer, and screenwriter famous for his epic Star Wars saga and Indiana Jones films — the latter a collaboration with his friend Steven Spielberg. He is one of American film industry's most financially successful independent directors and producers, with an estimated net worth of $3.6 billion. Early life and education George Walton Lucas Jr. was born in Modesto, California to George Walton Lucas, Sr. (1913–1991) and Dorothy Ellinore Bomberger Lucas. His father, who was mainly of British and Swiss-German heritage, his mother was a member of a prominent Modesto family (one of her cousins is the mother of former U.S. Secretary of Agriculture and director of UNICEF Ann Veneman) and... Add to favourites (10 fans)Biography of Nikki Cox
Nikki Cox (born Nicole Avery Cox on June 2, 1978 in Los Angeles, California) is an American actress known mostly for her roles on the television series Unhappily Ever After and Las Vegas. Cox's career as an entertainer started at the age of four, as she appeared as a dancer in several ballet productions and TV specials. She began acting at the age of ten, making appearances in several movies and guest starring on shows such as Baywatch, California Dreams, Star Trek: The Next Generation, and Blossom. She also starred in General Hospital from 1993 to 1995. Her appearances on various TV shows would lead to her first prime-time starring role as Tiffany Malloy on the sitcom Unhappily Ever After, which ran on the WB 1995–1999. After Unhappily left the airwaves, she would portray former ... Add to favourites (34 fans)Biography of Jenny McCarthy
Jennifer McCarthy (born November 1, 1972 (birth time source: http://www.astrologyweekly.com/data-archive/celebrities.php)) is an American model, comedian, actress and author. She first appeared in Playboy magazine in October 1993 and was named Playmate of the Year in its June 1994 issue. She later began a career in television and film and has recently started writing books. She and fellow model and actress Pamela Anderson are generally considered the most recognizable Playboy Playmates. Early life McCarthy was born in Chicago, Illinois, to a middle-class Irish American Catholic family that lived in Southwest Chicago in the West Elsdon neighborhood. She is the second of four daughters; her sisters are named Joanne, Amy and Lynette. Her mother, Linda, was a housewife, and her father, Dan... Add to favourites (36 fans)Biography of Gael García Bernal
Gael García Bernal (born November 30, 1978) is a Mexican actor and director. Early life Gael García was born in Guadalajara, Jalisco, to Patricia Bernal (an actress and former model) and José Ángel García (an actor and director). His stepfather is Sergio Yasbek, whom his mother married when he was young. He started acting at just a year old and spent most of his teen years starring in soap operas. When he was 14, he taught literacy to indigenous peoples in Mexico, most often with the Huichol Indians. In his later teens he took part in peaceful demonstrations during the Chiapas uprising of 1994. He can speak 4 languages, Spanish, English, French & Italian Career García Bernal was becoming a soap opera heartthrob, but at age 19, he left Mexico's television world to study ... Add to favourites (16 fans)Biography of Cassandra Peterson
Cassandra Peterson (born September 17, 1949) is an American actress best known for her on-screen horror host persona "Elvira, Mistress of the Dark". She gained fame on Los Angeles television station KHJ wearing a black, gothic, cleavage-enhancing gown as host of Movie Macabre, a weekly horror movie presentation. Her wicked vampish appearance was offset by her comical character, quick-witted personality and Valley girl-type speech. Early life Although born in Manhattan, Kansas, Peterson grew up in Colorado Springs, Colorado, and graduated from General William J. Palmer High School in 1967. Days after graduating, she drove to Las Vegas, Nevada were she became a showgirl at The Dunes. The guinness book of world records cited her as the youngest showgirl in Las Vegas history. In the early ... Add to favourites (12 fans)Biography of Nicky Hilton
Nicholai "Nicky" Olivia Hilton (born October 5, 1983 in New York City, New York), is an American fashion model, socialite, and fashion designer. Hilton is also an heiress to a part of the Hilton Hotel chain, as well as to about 5%-15% of her father's real estate fortune and investments. She shares her nickname with her grandfather's brother, Conrad "Nicky" Hilton, who died 14 years before she was born. Early life and family background Nicky is the second of four children born to Richard Hilton and Kathy Richards. Her sister is Paris Hilton, and her brothers are Barron Hilton II and Conrad Hilton III. On the maternal side of her family, Nicky is a niece of two popular child stars of the 1970s, Kim Richards and Kyle Richards, who appeared in the motion picture Escape to Witch Mountain an... Add to favourites (13 fans)Biography of Corey Taylor
Corey Todd Taylor (born December 8, 1973 in Des Moines, Iowa) is lead vocalist for Slipknot, a nine-piece nu metal band and founding member for hard rock band Stone Sour. Taylor grew up in hometown Des Moines in Iowa, United States, along with other Slipknot band members. This has been an inspiration to much of Slipknot's work; including their third studio album Iowa, and the song "(515)", which is the telephone prefix code for central Iowa. Taylor is currently contributing to thrash metal band Anthrax' latest untitled album. Taylor is currently signed to Roadrunner Records, and has been along with other members of Slipknot to record 3 of 4 albums. Discography Main articles: Slipknot discography and Stone Sour discography Slipknot Mate.Feed.Kill.Repeat (1996) Roadrunner Reco... Add to favourites (16 fans)Biography of Pierre Arditi
Pierre Arditi (born 1 December 1944) is an award-winning French film and stage actor. He has often played romantic, womanizing roles, similar to those played by Marcello Mastroianni. In 1994, he received a César Award for Best Actor for his role in Smoking/No Smoking.... Add to favourites (23 fans)Biography of Zoe Saldana
Zoë Saldaña (born Zoë Yadira Zaldaña Nazario on June 19, 1978) is an American actress. Taille : 5' 7" (1.70 m) Personal life Zoë Saldaña was born in New Jersey to immigrants from the Dominican Republic. Her first languages are Spanish and English. She was raised in Queens, New York. When Saldaña was nine, her father died in a car accident, and Saldaña's mother moved her and her sisters back to the Dominican Republic. While there, Saldaña enlisted in a ballet class and gained experience as a dancer, enlisting in one of the most prestigious dancing schools of that country, which benefited her during her later role in Center Stage. She returned to the USA after her sophomore year in high school and enrolled in the Faces Theater Program, an acting course. She also worked in Burger King ... Add to favourites (26 fans)Biography of Ellen Pompeo
Ellen Pompeo (born November 10, 1969) is a Golden Globe nominated and Screen Actors Guild award winning American actress, best known for playing the title role of Meredith Grey on the ABC medical drama Grey's Anatomy. Early life Pompeo was born in Everett, Massachusetts, then lived on New York City's Upper West Side. Ellen is part Italian; her grandfather was born in Gesualdo, a village in Province of Avellino, Italy. Her mother died when she was four years old. In 1996, she was bartending at the SoHo Bar & Grill when an agent approached her about appearing in commercials. Subsequently appeared in commercials for Citibank and L'Oreal. She began her career with minor roles on television shows like Strangers with Candy and a handful of films. She also appears in Stereophonics' video for ... Add to favourites (22 fans)Biography of Kirk Hammett
Kirk Lee Hammett (born on November 18, 1962) is the lead guitarist in the band Metallica. Hammett is one of the better-known students of guitarist and instructor Joe Satriani. In 2003, he was ranked 11th in the Rolling Stone's The 100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time. Early life Born in San Francisco to a Filipino mother and an Irish Merchant Marine father, he later attended De Anza High School in El Sobrante, California when his family moved to the East Bay which is where he met Les Claypool from Primus. As a child and teenager, he showed great interest in his older brother Rick's extensive collection of guitars, Rickenbacker Basses and hard rock records, including material by Led Zeppelin, Black Sabbath, Status Quo, The Rolling Stones, Jimi Hendrix and UFO. One of his biggest influenc... Biography of Severina Vučković
Severina Vučković (born April 21, 1972 in Split) is a Croatian pop music star and actress. Her stage name is simply Severina. Her style has various folk and cabaret-style influences. She is also widely known for her 2004 sex tape. Career Severina's career began in 1989, and she has been one of the most popular Croatian artists in history. She won many festival-awards and her albums achieved high sales. Some of the better known songs have included Kad si sam, Dalmatinka, Djevojka sa sela, Ja samo pjevam, Paloma Nera, Virujen u te, Ante, Adio ljube, Hrvatica, Adam i Seva, Moja štikla, Krivi spoj etc. She released a Greatest Hits album in 2005. In 2004 she became part of a sex scandal reported worldwide after a personal sex tape featuring her and a wealthy married businessma... Add to favourites (13 fans)Biography of Helen Keller
Helen Adams Keller (June 27, 1880 – June 1, 1968) was a deafblind American author, activist and lecturer. Childhood Helen Keller was born at an estate called Ivy Green in Tuscumbia, Alabama, on June 27, 1880, to parents Captain Arthur H. Keller, a former officer of the Confederate Army, and Kate Adams Keller, cousin of Robert E. Lee. The Keller family originates from Germany. (This page suggests father was of Swiss descent ("decent"), http://www.afb.org/braillebug/askkeller.asp?issueid=200511). She was not born blind and deaf; it was not until nineteen months of age that she came down with an illness described by doctors as "an acute congestion of the stomach and the brain," which could have possibly been scarlet fever or meningitis. The illness did not last for a particularly long tim... Biography of Brittany Daniel
Brittany Ann Daniel (born March 17, 1976 in Gainesville, Florida) is an actress, well known for her role as Jessica Wakefield in the television series Sweet Valley High, who she co-starred with her twin sister, Cynthia Daniel. Height: 5' 7" (1.70 m) Both twin sisters began modeling at age eleven in print ads. They have appeared in magazines such as Seventeen and YM. In 1992, when she was sixteen, Brittany won a role on Swan's Crossing. She moved to New York. After high school, the twins landed roles in Sweet Valley High and a Doublemint gum campaign. Although Cynthia Daniel took a break from acting, Brittany continued to act in both television and films. Most noticeably, she played Eve in season 3 of Dawson's Creek, and teamed up with the Wayans Brothers for their films White Chic... Biography of Sandra Cretu
Sandra Cretu (born Sandra Ann Lauer May 18, 1962, Saarbrücken, Germany), and professionally known as "Sandra", is a popular German singer/songwriter, currently living in Ibiza (Spain). After enjoying some success as lead singer of the disco trio Arabesque, Sandra began performing under her solo name in 1984. She can also be heard on her husband Michael Cretu's project Enigma. Other members of her team include Hubert Kemmler (singer and song writer), Markus Löhr, Klaus Hirschburger, Armand Volker, Frank Peterson, Andy Jonas (singer) and Jens Gad (song writer, co-producer). Early history Sandra Ann Lauer was born on May 18th, 1962 in the German town of Saarbrücken, close to the French border. Sandra’s father, Robert Lauer is French and her mother, Karin Lauer is German. Sandra also ha... Add to favourites (21 fans)Biography of Jacqueline Bisset
Jacqueline Bisset (born Winifred Jacqueline Fraser-Bisset on 13 September 1944) is an English actress. Early life Bisset was born in Weybridge, Surrey to Max Fraser-Bisset, a Scottish General Practitioner, and the former Arlette Alexander, a lawyer of French and English descent; Bisset's mother cycled from Paris and boarded a British trooper in order to escape the Germans during WWII. Bisset has a brother, Max. Bisset's mother taught her to speak French fluently and she was educated at the Lycée Français Charles de Gaulle in London. When Bisset was a teenager, her mother was diagnosed with disseminating sclerosis. Bisset's parents divorced in 1968, after 28 years of marriage. Bisset subsequently moved in to help her mother. She had taken ballet lessons as a young child, and now began t... Add to favourites (55 fans)Biography of Donna Summer
LaDonna Adrian Gaines (December 31, 1948 (birth time source: Frank C. Clifford) – May 17, 2012), known by the stage name Donna Summer, was an American singer-songwriter who gained prominence during the disco era of the late 1970s. She had a mezzo-soprano vocal range, and was a five-time Grammy Award winner. Summer was the first artist to have three consecutive double albums reach number one on the U.S. Billboard chart, and she also charted four number-one singles in the United States within a 13-month period. Born into a devoutly Christian lower middle class African-American family in Boston, Massachusetts, she first became involved with singing through church choir groups before joining a number of bands influenced by the Motown Sound. Influenced by the counterculture of the 1960s, she... Add to favourites (23 fans)Biography of Alexis Bledel
Kimberly Alexis Bledel (born September 16, 1981) is an American actress and former fashion model. She is known for her role in the television series Gilmore Girls and for the films Tuck Everlasting, Sin City, and The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants. She goes by her first name of "Kimberly" with family and friends, but is known professionally as Alexis Bledel. Early life Bledel was born in Houston, Texas. Her father, Martin Bledel, is Argentinian and her mother, Nanette Blake, is Mexican. She has one younger brother, Eric, born 1986. Her first language is Spanish, and she did not learn English until she began school. In fact, America Ferrera was surprised during an interview with a Spanish magazine when Alexis Bledel started speaking Spanish. Bledel's mother encouraged her to try comm... Add to favourites (10 fans)Biography of Guy Bedos
Guy Bedos (born June 15, 1934) is an actor and stand-up comedian, mostly known in France for playing in the movie Nous irons tous au paradis. He is also famous for his left-wing political affiliation and support to politicians such as François Mitterrand.... Add to favourites (21 fans)Biography of Grace Slick
Grace Slick (born October 30, 1939) is an American singer and songwriter, who was one of the lead singers of the rock groups Jefferson Airplane, Jefferson Starship, Starship, and also as a solo artist, for nearly three decades, from the mid-1960s to the mid-1990s. Slick is considered to be one of the most important musicians in bringing the 1960s psychedelic rock to mainstream appeal. She is known for her witty, influential, thought-provoking lyrics, and her powerful contralto voice. Early life Slick was born in Evanston, a Chicago suburb, to Ivan W. Wing (of Norwegian-Swedish extraction) and his wife Virginia Barnett. She attended Castilleja, a private, all-girls school in Palo Alto, California, near San Francisco. Following graduation, she attended Finch College in New York from 1... Add to favourites (22 fans)Biography of Jon Stewart
Jon Stewart (born Jonathan Stuart Leibowitz on November 28, 1962) is a nine-time Emmy-winning American comedian, satirist, actor, writer, author, and producer. He is perhaps best known as the host of Comedy Central’s The Daily Show and for his political satire. Stewart started off as a stand-up comedian but later moved on to television, hosting Short Attention Span Theater for Comedy Central. He then went on to host his own show on MTV, called The Jon Stewart Show. Stewart also hosted another show on MTV, called You Wrote It, You Watch It. Stewart began hosting The Daily Show on Comedy Central in early 1999. He is also a writer and co-producer of the show. After Stewart joined it, The Daily Show steadily gained popularity and critical acclaim leading to his first Emmy Award in 2001. ... Add to favourites (36 fans)Biography of Faye Dunaway
Faye Dunaway (born January 14, 1941 (birth time source: Steinbrecher)) is an Academy Award-winning American actress. Early life Dunaway was born Dorothy Faye Dunaway in Bascom, Florida to Grace April Smith, a homemaker, and John MacDowell Dunaway, Jr., a career army officer. She attended the University of Florida and Boston University, and joined the American National Theatre and Academy in 1962. Career Dunaway appeared on Broadway in 1962 as the daughter of Thomas More in A Man for All Seasons. Her first screen role was in 1967 in Hurry Sundown, but that same year, she got the leading female role in Bonnie and Clyde (opposite Warren Beatty) which garnered her an Oscar nomination. It was in the 1970s that she began to stretch her acting muscles in such films as Three Days of ... Add to favourites (30 fans)Biography of Sasha Grey
Sasha Grey (born March 14, 1988, in Sacramento, California) is an award-winning American pornographic actress. She is also active outside of pornography through modeling, acting and music. Early life Grey grew up in a working-class family in Sacramento, California and her mother worked for the state of California. Her parents divorced before Grey finished middle school, and her mother remarried in 2000 when Grey was 12. She attended four high schools before graduating, unhappy in each one. In autumn 2005, she attended junior college and took classes in film, dance, and acting. She waited tables at a steak house through March 2006 and saved $7000 for a move to Los Angeles. Career Adult career In May 2006 Grey moved to Los Angeles and started her career in adult films just after... Add to favourites (29 fans)Biography of Eddie Izzard
Edward John "Eddie" Izzard (born February 7, 1962) is an English stand-up comedian and actor, known for his cross-dressing. His comedic style is expressed in rambling, surreal monologue and self-referential pantomime. In addition to touring, he is also a television, stage and film actor, and is active in charity work. Early years Izzard was born in Aden, Yemen, and is the youngest son of Harold John and Dorothy Ella Izzard, an English couple. In 1962, shortly before the Aden Emergency, the Izzards moved to Northern Ireland. He lived in Bangor, County Down until 1967, when the Northern Irish political situation worsened, and the family moved to Skewen, Wales, and then Bexhill-on-Sea, East Sussex, England, where he studied at Eastbourne College. His mother died of cancer in March of 1968... Add to favourites (23 fans)Biography of Yvan Attal
Yvan Attal (born January 4, 1965) is a Israeli Born-French actor and director. Born in Tel-Aviv, Israel to French-Algerian Jewish parents, he grew up in the Paris suburbs. His acting debut was in Éric Rochant's Un monde sans pitié (1989), which earned him a César Award for Most Promising Actor. His first feature film as director was Ma femme est une actrice (2001), which co-starred Charlotte Gainsbourg, Attal's real-life wife. They have two children: Ben and Alice. He also acted in The Interpreter. He has also dubbed the voice of Tom Cruise in the French versions of Eyes Wide Shut (1999), Mission: Impossible II (2000) and Vanilla Sky (2001).... Add to favourites (22 fans)Biography of Marc Bolan
Marc Bolan (born Mark Feld; 30 September 1947 - 16 September 1977), was an English singer, songwriter and guitarist whose hit singles, fashion sensibilities and stage presence with T. Rex in the early 1970s helped cultivate the glam rock era and made him one of the most recognisable stars in British music of the time. His death, two weeks before his 30th birthday, contributed to giving him a cult status which remains to this day. Early life and career The son of a Jewish van driver and caretaker, Bolan grew up in post-war Hackney in East London and later lived in Wimbledon, southwest London. He fell in love with the rock and roll of Gene Vincent and Chuck Berry at an early age and became a Mod, hanging around coffee bars such as the 2 I's in Soho. He appeared in an episode of the telev... Add to favourites (10 fans)Biography of Adeline Blondieau
Adeline Blondieau, born on February 9, 1971 in Paris (birth time source: Daisy Van De Vin, André Dekoster) is a French actress, comedian, and screenwriter, former wife of Johnny Hallyday. Filmography Television 1994 : Les Filles d'à côté (Série TV) : Adeline 1995-1996 : Les Nouvelles Filles d'à côté (Série TV) : Adeline 1996-2007 : Sous le soleil (Série TV) : Caroline Drancourt 1999 : Les Cordier, juge et flic (Série TV) : Irina 2002 : Navarro (Série TV saison 14 - épisode 1) : Promotion Macabre (Katia Lentz) - réalisation: Gérard Marx 2004 : Petits mythes urbains (Série TV) : La mère 2004 : Ariane Ferry (Série TV) : Barbara Perrin 2005 : Femmes de loi (Série TV) : Christine Legoff 2006 : Léa Parker (Série TV) : Sabine, saison 1 épisode 8 l... Add to favourites (20 fans)Biography of Timbaland
Timothy Z. Mosley (born March 10, 1971) better known by his stage name Timbaland, is an American musical composer, record producer, singer and rapper. With partner Magoo, he is a member of hip-hop duo Timbaland & Magoo. Timbaland has been considered similar to producers such as Brian Eno, Phil Spector or Norman Whitfield in that he helped to redefine the sound of an entire genre of music with an immediately recognizable production style. The songs he produces feature unusual arrangements, sounds, and instrumentation, tied together by a trademark sense of space and rhythm. Like Spector and Whitfield, Timbaland’s production sometimes overshadows the credited performer and becomes the actual "star" of the song. With songwriters Steve "Static" Garrett and childhood friend Missy Elliott, Tim... Add to favourites (23 fans)Biography of Kirstie Alley
Kirstie Louise Alley (born January 12, 1951) is an American Emmy Award winning actress known for her role in the TV show Cheers, where she played Rebecca Howe from 1987-1993, winning an Emmy as the Outstanding Lead Actress in a Comedy Series for 1991. A year later, she won a Golden Globe for her performance in Cheers as well. She won an Emmy in 1994 for her role in the TV-drama David's Mother. Other critically acclaimed roles Alley is known for include: playing Diane Barrows in It Takes Two and a single mother in Look Who's Talking, Look Who's Talking Too, and Look Who's Talking Now (all co-starring John Travolta). Alley has won two People's Choice Awards in the years 1991 and 1998. Early life Alley was born in Wichita, Kansas, where she was raised, to Robert Deal Alley, who owned a... Add to favourites (26 fans)Biography of Tim Roth
Tim Roth (born 14 May 1961, as Timothy Simon Smith) is an Academy Award-nominated English film actor and director. Height: 5' 7" (1.70 m) Roth was born in Dulwich, London to a landscape painter mother and a journalist father and attended the Strand School in Tulse hill. His father adopted the German surname Roth after World War II to hide his nationality when traveling in countries hostile to the British. As a young man, Roth wanted to be a sculptor and studied at London's Camberwell School of Art. After some time there, he tried acting and made his debut at the age of 21 playing a racist skinhead in a TV movie entitled Made in Britain. In 1984, Roth played an apprentice hitman in Stephen Frears' The Hit with Terence Stamp and John Hurt, earning an Evening Standard Award for Mo... Biography of Jennifer Freeman
Jennifer Nicole Freeman (born October 20, 1985) is an American actress. She was born in Los Angeles, California. Career Freeman is best known for playing the role of Claire Kyle in the ABC sitcom My Wife and Kids. Freeman performed in the 2004 movie You Got Served. She has also made guest appearances on television (such as the shows 7th Heaven, Switched, and The OC). She is a spokesmodel for the Neutrogena skin care products company. Freeman appeared on the March/April dual cover issue of King magazine, the other being Toccara Jones from America's Next Top Model and Celebrity Fit Club. Personal life Born and raised in sunny California, Jennifer Freeman knew from an early age that she wanted to be an actress. She grew up in Long Beach with her mother and a pair of younger twin... Add to favourites (30 fans)Biography of Rosario Dawson
Rosario Dawson (born May 9, 1979) is an American actress and occasional singer known for her roles in films such as Sin City, Rent, Clerks II, Alexander, and Grindhouse. Early life Dawson was born in New York City to Isabel -- a Bronx-born professional vocalist -- and Greg Dawson -- a construction worker; The two are now divorced. Her father is of Native American and Irish ancestry and her mother is of Puerto Rican and Afro-Cuban ancestry. Dawson grew up on Manhattan's Lower East Side and has a brother named Clay. She and her family squatted in an abandoned building during most of her childhood. While attending school, she had aspirations of becoming a marine biologist. Career Dawson's acting career began when filmmaker Larry Clark saw her on a Manhattan stoop and asked her t... Biography of Franck Ribéry
Franck Bilal Ribéry (born 7 April 1983 in Boulogne-sur-Mer) is a French football midfielder who plays for Bundesliga club Bayern Munich. Ribéry had previously represented a number of French clubs, including Marseille, as well as briefly playing for Galatasaray in Turkey. He is known for "pace, energy, skill and precise passing." Since joining Bayern for a club record fee, Ribéry has been recognised on the world stage as one of the best French players of his generation. The previous talisman of Les Bleus, Zinedine Zidane, has called Ribéry the "jewel of French football." Club career After spending the first four years of his career in his home country with four different clubs, Ribéry relocated to Turkey in January 2005, brought in by Gheorghe Hagi, signing a three-and-a-half year con... Add to favourites (11 fans)Biography of Sharon Case
Sharon Case (born February 9, 1971 in Detroit, Michigan) is an Emmy Award-winning American soap opera actress. In 1994, she became the third, and longest-running, actress to play Sharon Collins Newman on The Young and the Restless, a role that she still plays today. Case has won several awards for her work on Y&R, including the Outstanding Supporting Actress Daytime Emmy in 1999. She also received the 1998 Soap Opera Award for Hottest Female In A Daytime Drama. Case followed this honor up with a 2001 appearance in FHM magazine. In 1989, she assumed the role of Dawn Winthrop on General Hospital; she left the show in 1990. She took the role of Debbie Simon on As the World Turns in 1992 and played the role until 1993. She is a member of the Church of Scientology. In 2005, she filmed ... Biography of Thierry Roland
Thierry Roland (Boulogne-Billancourt, 4 August 1937 (birth time source: Didier Geslain) - Paris, 16 June 2012) was a French sports commentator. Bibliography La légende de la coupe du monde, Minerva, 1998 La Fabuleuse histoire de la Coupe du monde, Minerva, october 2002 Mes 100 plus grands matchs, Larousse, october 2005 Mes 100 plus grands joueurs, Larousse, may 2006 100 % Bleus, Solar, 2008 Mes 13 coupes du monde, Edition du Rocher, april 2010 Mes plus grands moments de football, Larousse, may 2012... Add to favourites (30 fans)Biography of Sarah McLachlan
Sarah Ann McLachlan, OC, OBC (born January 28, 1968(birth time source: The Canadian Astrology Collection by John McKay-Clements, Page 94)) is a Grammy-winning Canadian musician, singer and songwriter. She is known for the emotional sound of her ballads, some of her most popular songs include "Angel", "Building a Mystery", "Adia", "Possession", "Fallen", "I Will Remember You", and "World on Fire". Her best-selling album to date is Surfacing, for which she won four Juno Awards and two Grammy Awards. In addition to her personal artistic efforts, she founded the Lilith Fair tour, which showcased female musicians in the late 1990s. Early life Sarah McLachlan was born on January 28, 1968, and adopted in Halifax, Nova Scotia. As a child, she took voice lessons, along with studies in classi... Biography of Elena Paparizou
Eleni "Elena" Paparizou (Greek: Έλενα Παπαρίζου, pronounced ; born 31 January 1982), usually referred to abroad as Helena Paparizou, is a Greek–Swedish singer and occasional songwriter and television personality. Born and raised in Sweden to Greek immigrant parents, she enrolled in various arts schools before launching a career there in 1999 as a member of the laïko and Eurodance duo Antique, whose rise to fame in Greece was preceded by its participation in the Eurovision Song Contest 2001. Antique disbanded in 2003 and Paparizou signed a solo recording contract with Sony Music, releasing the chart-topping debut single "Anapandites Kliseis" and album Protereotita (2004), with emphasis on laïko, pop, and dance sounds, ... Add to favourites (11 fans)Biography of Emile Hirsch
Emile Davenport Hirsch (born March 13, 1985) is an American television and film actor. He began performing in the late 1990s, appearing in several television films and series, and became known as a film actor after roles in The Emperor's Club, The Girl Next Door, and Alpha Dog, among others. Hirsch is slated to appear in several upcoming films, including Into the Wild and Speed Racer. Height: 5' 7" (1.70 m) Personal life Hirsch was born in Topanga, California to David Hirsch, an industrial consultant, and Margaret (née Davenport), a pop-up book artist; his parents are now divorced and he lives with his father. He has an older sister, Jenny, who is also an actress. Hirsch attended Paul Revere Middle School and the Academy of Music at Alexander Hamilton High School in Los Angeles; he ... Biography of Philippe Candeloro
Philippe Candeloro (born February 17, 1972) is a French figure skater who medalled at the 1994 and 1998 Winter Olympics. Early years Philippe Candeloro was born in Courbevoie, in France, the youngest of four children. His father, Luigi, was a mason, and, a few years after Philippe's birth, built a family home in the Parisian suburb of Colombes. Colombes, which hosted several events of the 1924 Paris Olympic Games, still boasted many sporting facilities in the 1970s. Although Candeloro's early tastes ran more to action heroes than athletics, he too began to foster an interest in sports. At first, he liked swimming and elastic springboard. In 1979, at age seven, Candeloro began taking weekly skating lessons. He displayed natural talent, taking to the ice with flair while his friend... Add to favourites (20 fans)Biography of Claire Forlani
Claire Forlani (born July 1, 1972 (source: Imdb)) is an English actress. She is well known for the roles played in Meet Joe Black, Police Academy and Boys and Girls. Early life Forlani was born in Twickenham in London to Pier Forlani, a music manager from Ferrara, Italy, and Barbara, who was English. At the age of eleven, Forlani entered the Arts Educational School in London, where she began to study acting. During her six years at the school, she also studied dance, which led to performances on stage in The Nutcracker and Orpheus in the Underworld. Career Forlani's parents moved to San Francisco in 1993, in order to allow for wider casting opportunities in Hollywood films. Subsequently, Forlani was cast in the television mini-series J.F.K.: Reckless Youth and the film Police Ac... Add to favourites (10 fans)Biography of Josip Broz Tito
Josip Broz Tito (born Josip Broz; Cyrillic script: Јосип Броз Тито; 7 May 1892 – 4 May 1980) was a Yugoslav revolutionary and statesman. While his presidency has been criticized as authoritarian, Tito was a highly popular public figure both in Yugoslavia and abroad, viewed as a unifying symbol for the nations of the Yugoslav federation. Josip was born as the seventh child of Franjo and Marija Broz in the village of Kumrovec within Austria-Hungary (modern-day Croatia). Drafted into the army, he distinguished himself, becoming the youngest Sergeant Major in the Austro-Hungarian Army. Josip was sent to a work camp in the Ural Mountains, after being seriously wounded and captured by the Russians. He participated i... Add to favourites (10 fans)Biography of Pierre Mondy
Pierre Mondy, whose real name was Pierre Cuq, born 10 February 1925 in Neuilly-sur-Seine, is a French actor and director. He died on 15 September 2012 in Paris. He began his film career in 1949 and has appeared in over 140 films. In 1960, he received international revcognition for the role of Napoléon Bonaparte in the film Austerlitz directed by Abel Gance. In the 1970s, his most successful film was the comedy Mais où est donc passée la septième compagnie?. From 1992 until 2005, he appeared in the French television series Les Cordier, juge et flic. He has directed four films and thirteen television episodes, as well as writing two television screenplay adaptions. He has been married four times. Selected filmography Les Compagnes de la nuit (1953) Capitaine Pantoufle (... Add to favourites (18 fans)Biography of Vanessa Minnillo
Vanessa Joy Minnillo (born November 9, 1980) is an American television personality. A former Miss Teen USA, she is also mostly known for hosting TRL on MTV from 2003-2007 as well as being the New York-based correspondent for Entertainment Tonight. Early life Vanessa was born at Clark Air Base in Angeles City, Philippines to Vincent Minnillo, a U.S. Air Force aircrew member, and Helen Berecero. Her father is of Italian and Irish descent and her mother is Polynesian or Filipino. Because of her father's career, her family moved numerous times, spending time in California, Nevada, Florida, Germany and Japan before eventually settling in Charleston, South Carolina. Career Minnillo entered the public eye as Miss South Carolina Teen USA 1998, and went on to be crowned as the winner of ... Biography of Hosni Mubarak
Muhammad Hosni Sayyid Mubarak (Arabic: محمد حسني سيد مبارك, Egyptian Arabic pronunciation: , Muḥammad Ḥusnī Sayyid Mubārak; born May 4, 1928) is the fourth and current President of the Arab Republic of Egypt. He was appointed Vice President in 1975, and assumed the Presidency on October 14, 1981, following the assassination of President Anwar El Sadat. He is the longest-serving Egyptian ruler since Muhammad Ali Pasha. Before he entered politics Mubarak was a career officer in the Egyptian Air Force, serving as its commander from 1972 to 1975. Beginning on January 25, 2011, a popular uprising called for his resignation as president of Egypt. On February 1, 2011, Mubar... Add to favourites (15 fans)Biography of Martin Sheen
Martin Sheen (né Ramón Estévez) (born August 3, 1940) Emmy-winning and Golden Globe Award-winning Spanish American actor and perhaps best known for his role as Captain Willard in the film Apocalypse Now and, most recently, as President Josiah Bartlet on the acclaimed and long-running television drama series The West Wing. Early life Sheen was born Ramón Gerardo Antonio Estévez in Dayton, Ohio to Francisco Estévez, a Galician factory worker/machinery inspector from Parderrubias, Galicia, Spain, and Mary Anne (Phelan), an immigrant from County Tipperary, Ireland. Sheen's mother fled from Ireland during the Irish War of Independence due to her family's IRA connections. Sheen adopted his stage name in honor of Catholic archbishop and theologian Fulton J. Sheen. Sheen lived on Brown Street ... Add to favourites (28 fans)Biography of Roger Daltrey
Roger Harry Daltrey, CBE (born 1 March 1944) is a rock vocalist, songwriter, and actor, best known as the founder and lead singer of English rock band The Who. He has maintained a successful musical career as a solo artist and has also acted in a large number of film, theatre and television roles. Daltrey and his second wife, former model Heather Taylor, have two daughters, Rosie and Willow, and a son, Jamie (born 1981). He also has a son, Simon (born 1964), with his first wife, Jacqueline Rickman. Early Years Roger Harry Daltrey was born in the Hammersmith area of London, but was raised in Chiswick, the same working class suburban neighbourhood that produced fellow Who members Pete Townshend and John Entwistle. He was one of three children born to parents Irene and Harry Daltrey, and ... Add to favourites (18 fans)Biography of Toni Collette
Toni Collette (born November 1, 1972) is an Academy Award-nominated Australian actress and musician. She is perhaps best known for her roles in the films The Sixth Sense, Muriel's Wedding, In Her Shoes and Little Miss Sunshine. Early life Collette was born Antonia Collette in Blacktown, Sydney, New South Wales to Bob Collette, a truck driver, and Judy, a customer-service representative. She has two younger brothers, Ben and Christopher. When Collette was eleven years old she faked appendicitis out of boredom and longing for attention. She was so convincing that doctors removed her appendix, even though tests showed nothing wrong with it. She attended both the Australian Theatre for Young People and NIDA. Career Collette has won four Australian Film Institute awards, including th... Add to favourites (11 fans)Biography of Jane Russell
Jane Russell (born June 21, 1921) is an American actress and sex symbol. Early life Born Ernestine Jane Geraldine Russell in Bemidji, Minnesota, she was the only daughter of Roy William Russell (January 5, 1890 – July 18, 1937) and Geraldine Jacobi (January 2, 1891 – December 26, 1986). Her four younger brothers are Thomas Ferris Russell (born April 16, 1924), Kenneth Steven Russell (born September 2, 1925), James Hyatt Russell (born February 9, 1927) and Wallace Jay Russell (born January 31, 1929). Her parents were both born in North Dakota. Three of her grandparents were born in Canada, while her paternal grandmother was born in Germany. Her parents married in 1917. Her father was a former commissioned First Lieutenant in the U.S. Army and her mother was a former actress with a ro... Add to favourites (22 fans)Biography of Neve Campbell
Neve Adrianne Campbell (born October 3, 1973) is a Canadian actress. Beginning her career on stage, she came to fame on the 1990s television series Party of Five (1994–2000), and subsequently appeared in leading roles in several Hollywood films, including Scream (1996–2000), The Craft (1996) and Wild Things (1998). She has since appeared in smaller roles. Early life Campbell was born in Guelph, Ontario, Canada. Her father, Gerry Campbell, emigrated to Canada from Glasgow, Scotland. After studying theatre in university, he taught high-school drama classes in Mississauga, Ontario -- first at Westwood Secondary School (Now Lincoln Alexander Secondary School) and later at Lorne Park Secondary School. Neve's mother, Marnie Neve, is a psychiatrist from Amsterdam, the Netherlands. Campb... Add to favourites (12 fans)Biography of Elisabetta Canalis
Elisabetta Canalis (born 12 September 1978 in Sassari, Sardinia) is an Italian model and actress. A popular personality on Italian television, Canalis acted in the film Deuce Bigalow: European Gigolo and the upcoming film Virgin Territory with Hayden Christensen and Mischa Barton. She was involved in an on-and-off relationship with famous football player Christian Vieri. Most Recently she has been romantically linked with Didier Drogba of Chelsea. She was also a "velina" in one of Italy's most popular television shows, Striscia la notizia. In 2007, she hosted the annual music festival, Festivalbar. She lives with actor George Clooney (september 2009 - ).... Add to favourites (26 fans)Biography of Gong Li
Gong Li (Simplified Chinese: 巩俐; Traditional Chinese: 鞏俐; Pinyin: Gǒng Lì) (born December 31, 1965) is a Chinese film actress. She first came into international prominence through close collaboration with Chinese director Zhang Yimou. Gong Li is generally considered as one of the best actresses in China. Early life Gong Li was born in Shenyang, Liaoning, China, the fifth child in her family. Her father was a professor of economics and her mother, who was 40 when Gong was born, was a teacher. Gong grew up in Jinan, the capital of Shandong Province. She knew from a young age that she wanted to be an actress, and at school she excelled at singing and dancing almost to the exclusion of other subjects. She was eventually accepted to the Beijing Central Colle... Add to favourites (11 fans)Biography of Martin Lawrence
Martin Fitzgerald Lawrence (born April 16, 1965) is an actor, comedian, director and producer. He came to fame during the 1990s, establishing a Hollywood career as a leading actor. Height: 5' 7" (1.70 m) Early life Lawrence was given his first name after Martin Luther King, Jr. and his middle name after that of John F. Kennedy. He was born in Frankfurt-am-Main, Germany, where his father, John Lawrence, served in the US military. He has three siblings, Robert, Rae and Ursula. When Lawrence was seven, his father left the military and the family moved from Germany back to the United States, settling in Landover, Maryland, in the Washington, D.C., area. After his parents divorced in 1973, Lawrence rarely saw his father, who worked as a police officer. His mother, Chlora, worked several ... Biography of Tishara Cousino
Tishara Lee Cousino, born June 16, 1978 in Las Vegas, Nevada, is an American model and sometime actress. She was chosen as Playboy's Playmate of the Month in May 1999 and has appeared in numerous Playboy videos. In 2004, Cousino appeared nude in a photo spread in the Italian edition of Vogue with fellow playmates, Pamela Anderson, Audra Lynn and Karen McDougal. It was a tennis themed men's fashion spread shot in Las Vegas by photographer David LaChapelle. Upon the expiration of her exclusive contract with Playboy, Cousino focused on a career in real estate, and acquired a real estate broker's license from her home State of Nevada in 2005. In addition to her real estate sales professional career, Cousino finds time to attend various fan conventions, most notably Glamourcon, where ... Add to favourites (21 fans)Biography of Gene Kelly
Eugene Curran Kelly (August 23, 1912 – February 2, 1996), better known as Gene Kelly, was an American dancer, actor, singer, director, producer, and choreographer. Kelly was a major exponent of 20th century filmed dance, known for his energetic and athletic dancing style, his good looks and the likeable characters that he played on screen. Although he is probably best known today for his performance in Singin' in the Rain, he dominated the Hollywood musical film from the mid 1940s until its demise in the late 1950s. In 1999, the American Film Institute named Kelly among the Greatest Male Stars of All Time, ranking at No. 15. Early life Gene was the third son of James Kelly, a phonograph salesman, and Harriet Curran, who were both children of Irish Roman Catholic immigrants. He was b... Add to favourites (18 fans)Biography of Ludacris
Christopher Brian Bridges (born September 11, 1977), better known by his stage name Ludacris, is an American rapper and actor. Along with his manager, Chaka Zulu, Ludacris is the co-founder of Disturbing tha Peace, an imprint distributed by Def Jam Recordings. Ludacris is tied with Nelly for the title of the hip-hop solo artist with the second most Billboard Hot 100 number-one hits (four each). He has sold more than thirteen million records in the United States. alone. He is also the rapper with the most Top 40, Top 25 and Top 10 Billboard Hot 100 Hits of all time. Early life Ludacris was born Christopher Brian Bridges in Champaign, Illinois, the son of Roberta Shields and Wayne Brian Bridges. His family moved to live in Atlanta, Georgia and in this time his father exposed him to all k... Add to favourites (35 fans)Biography of Gemma Arterton
Gemma Christina Arterton (born 2 February 1986) is an English actress. She is best known for her roles in St Trinian's (2007), Quantum of Solace (2008), Clash of the Titans (2010), Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time (2010) and Hansel and Gretel: Witch Hunters (2013). Arterton has upcoming roles in the crime thriller film Runner, Runner with Ben Affleck and Justin Timberlake and Byzantium with Saoirse Ronan. Early life Arterton was born in Gravesend, Kent, the daughter of Sally-Anne Heap, a cleaner, and Barry Arterton, a welder. Arterton was born with polydactyly, and at her birth a doctor tied off the boneless sixth digits to remove them, and also repaired a crumpled ear. After her parents divorced when she was 5, Arterton and her younger sister, Hannah, were raised by their mother ... Add to favourites (15 fans)Biography of Lars von Trier
Lars von Trier (born Lars Trier, April 30, 1956) is a Danish film director. He is closely associated with the Dogme 95 collective, although his own films have taken a variety of different approaches. Lars Trier was born in Copenhagen, Denmark. He was raised by nudist communist parents. Trier notes that he was brought up in an atheist family, and that although his stepfather was Jewish, he was not religious. His parents did not allow much room in their household for "feelings, religion, or enjoyment," and also refused to make any rules for their children, with complex results for von Trier's personality and development. The young Lars found in cinema an outlet to the outside world through which he could learn about subjects otherwise forbidden from his study by his parents. He began maki... Add to favourites (22 fans)Biography of Gene Tierney
Gene Tierney (November 19, 1920 – November 6, 1991) was an American Film and Stage actress. Acclaimed as one of the most beautiful women of the 20th century, she is probably best-remembered for her performance in the title role of Laura (1944) and her Academy Award-nominated performance for Best Actress in Leave Her to Heaven (1945). Other notable roles Martha Strable Van Cleve in Heaven Can Wait (1943), Isable Bradley Maturin in The Razor's Edge (1946) , Lucy Muir in The Ghost and Mrs. Muir (1947), Ann Sutton in Whirlpool (1949) and Maggie Carleton McNulty in The Mating Season (1951) and Anne Scott in The Left Hand of God (1955). She was born Gene Eliza Tierney in Brooklyn, New York, the daughter of Howard Sherwood Tierney and Belle Lavina Taylor. She had an older brother, Howard Sherw... Add to favourites (33 fans)Biography of Jean-Luc Godard
Jean-Luc Godard (born 3 December 1930) is a French filmmaker and one of the most influential members of the Nouvelle Vague, or "French New Wave". Born to Franco-Swiss parents in Paris, he was educated in Nyon, Switzerland, later studying at the Lycée Rohmer, and the Sorbonne in Paris, where he studied anthropology. During his time at the Sorbonne, he became involved with the young group of filmmakers and film theorists that gave birth to the New Wave. Known for stylistic implementations that challenged, at their focus, the conventions of Hollywood cinema, he became universally recognized as the most audacious and radical of the New Wave filmmakers. He adopted a position in filmmaking that was unambiguously political. His work reflected a fervent knowledge of film history, a comprehen... Add to favourites (10 fans)Biography of Jamie Bell
Andrew James Matfin "Jamie" Bell (born 14 March 1986) is an English actor. He is best known for his roles in the films Billy Elliot (2000), King Kong (2005), Hallam Foe (2007), Jumper (2008), Defiance (2008), The Eagle (2011) and The Adventures of Tintin: Secret of the Unicorn (2011). Early life Bell was born in Billingham, in the Borough of Stockton-on-Tees, England, where he grew up with his mother, Eileen (née Matfin), and older sister, Kathryn. His father, John Bell, a toolmaker, left before Bell was born. Bell began his involvement with dance after he accompanied his sister to her ballet lessons. He was a pupil at Northfield School and took performing arts classes at the local franchise of Stagecoach Theatre Arts. He was a member of the National Youth Music Theatre. In 1999, he ... Biography of Florence Cassez
Florence Marie Louise Cassez Crepin (born 17 November 1974 in Lille (birth time source: Marc Brun, FDAF)) is a French woman convicted in Mexico of belonging to the kidnapping gang Los Zodiaco (The Zodiacs). She is currently serving a 60-year sentence for the crimes of kidnapping, organized crime, and illegal possession of firearms. The sentence and a possible extradition to her home country has created diplomatic tensions between France and Mexico. Florence Cassez continues to claim her innocence. On January 23, 2013, the Mexican Supreme Court voted to release Cassez. Relationship with Israel Vallarta In 2003, Florence Cassez arrived in Mexico in order to live and work with her brother, who was there with his Mexican wife. She met Israel Vallarta the following year thanks to her b... Add to favourites (13 fans)Biography of Jaclyn Smith
Jaclyn Smith (born October 26, 1947) is a Golden Globe-nominated American actress. She is best known for the role of Kelly Garrett in the television series Charlie's Angels (1976–1981). Smith was the only original female lead to remain with the series for its complete run. For two decades, Smith has held the unofficial title of "Queen of TV Movies and Mini-series." She has appeared in over two dozen television movies and miniseries. Height: 5' 7" (1.70 m) Early life She was born Ellen Jaclyn Smith in Houston, Texas to Jack Smith and Margaret Ellen Hartsfield. Her father was a Roman Catholic Irish dentist and her maternal grandfather was a Methodist minister. She attended Pershing Middle School (Houston). Career Acting Her first acting venture outside the Angels mold wa... Add to favourites (14 fans)Biography of Billy Crystal
Billy Crystal (born March 14, 1947 or 1948) is a Golden Globe Award-nominated and Emmy Award-winning American actor, writer, producer, comedian and film director. He gained prominence in the 1970s for playing Jodie Dallas on the ABC dramedy, Soap, and became a Hollywood film star during the late 1980s and 1990s, appearing in the box office successes When Harry Met Sally... and City Slickers. Personal life Crystal was born in Long Beach, New York to Helen Gabler, a housewife, and Jack Crystal, a record company executive and producer of jazz records who owned and operated the Commodore Record store. His uncle was musician and songwriter Milt Gabler and his brother, Richard Crystal, is a television producer. Crystal grew up in a Jewish family that he has described as "large" and "loving".... Add to favourites (16 fans)Biography of Jordana Brewster
Jordana Brewster (born April 26, 1980) is an American actress, best known for her roles in The Fast and the Furious, Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Beginning, The Faculty, D.E.B.S., and Annapolis. Early life Jordana Brewster was born in Panama City, Panama to Alden Brewster, an American investment banker, and Maria João Leal de Sousa, a former Sports Illustrated swimsuit model from Brazil. She left Panama when she was two months old, relocating to London where she would spend six years before moving to her mother's native Rio de Janiero, Brazil. She left Brazil at the age of ten, settling in Manhattan, New York, where she would live for the next fifteen years. Brewster studied at the Convent of the Sacred Heart in New York and graduated from the Professional Children's School in New York... Biography of Rekha (actress)
Rekha (Tamil: ரேகா, Hindi: रेखा, Urdu: ریکھا), born Bhanurekha Ganesan on 10 October 1954, is a National Film Award-winning Indian actress who has appeared in Bollywood films. She has frequently been described as The Diva of Bollywood, and throughout the 1970s till date, has been featured as a sex symbol in the Indian media. Noted for her versatility as an actress, Rekha was particularly recognised for her willingness to play female-oriented characters, such as that of the school-girl in Khubsoorat and the decisive avenger in Khoon Bhari Maang, both of which earned her the Filmfare Best Actress Award. Her portrayal of a classical courtesan in Umrao Jaan, won her the National Film Award for Best Actress, and wa... Add to favourites (12 fans)Biography of Maurice Béjart
Maurice Béjart (January 1, 1927 – November 22, 2007) was a French choreographer who ran the Béjart Ballet Lausanne in Switzerland. He was the son of the French philosopher Gaston Berger. Height: 1m70 He was born in Marseille, France and founded the Ballet de l'Etoile company in 1954. In 1960 he founded the Ballet du XXe Siècle in Brussels. In 1984 he converted to Islam In 1987 he moved to Lausanne in Switzerland, where he founded the Béjart Ballet Lausanne, one of the most famous and successful dance companies in the world. Among his works is a thoroughly revised version of The Nutcracker, presumably inspired by his own life story, which he staged in 2000. It still uses Tchaikovsky's original score, but completely scraps the original plot and characters, instead supplying a ... Add to favourites (14 fans)Biography of Harvey Keitel
Harvey Keitel (born May 13, 1939) is an Academy Award-nominated American actor from New York City. Early life The son of Nikonar Keitel and Maritska LeCose, Jewish immigrants from Poland and Romania , Keitel was born in the New York City borough of Brooklyn, and grew up in the Brighton Beach section of Brooklyn with his sister, Renee, and brother, Jerry. At the age of sixteen, Keitel decided to join the United States Marine Corps, a decision that took him to Lebanon. After his return to the United States, he was a court reporter and was able to support himself before beginning his acting career. Career As a younger adult in New York City, before becoming a famous actor, Harvey Keitel was a free-lance court reporter. Keitel studied under both Stella Adler and Lee Strasberg, ev... Biography of Martina Hingis
Martina Hingis (pronounced: hing-GISS) (born September 30, 1980 in Košice, Czechoslovakia, now Slovakia) is a former World No. 1 Swiss tennis player. Known as the "Swiss Miss," she has won five Grand Slam singles titles (three Australian Open, one Wimbledon, and one US Open). She has also won nine Grand Slam women's doubles titles, winning a calendar year Grand Slam in 1998, and one Grand Slam mixed doubles title. She spent a total of 209 weeks as World No. 1 and set a series of "youngest-ever" records before ligament injuries in both ankles forced her to withdraw from professional tennis at the relatively early age of 22. On November 29, 2005, after several surgeries and long recuperations, the 25-year-old Hingis announced that she would return to the WTA tour, starting her professiona... Add to favourites (16 fans)Biography of Laura Vandervoort
Laura Vandervoort (b. September 22, 1984, Toronto, Ontario, Canada) is a French Canadian actress. Height: 5' 7" (1.70 m) Vandervoort is the granddaughter of Fred Sanger, a local hockey legend from Grand Falls-Windsor who went on to play Junior 'A' hockey with the Quebec Citadelles. She graduated from York Mills Collegiate Institute in North York, Ontario. She made her American debut in the Disney Channel Original Movie Mom's Got a Date with a Vampire in 2000. Vandervoort plays Sadie Harrison on Instant Star. While filming the episode "18" from the third season, she met current boyfriend, Corey Sevier, who had a guest spot on the show. Ironically, in the episode, his character - assuming she was dating his enemy - tried to kill her character. She has also appeared on CSI and The... Add to favourites (29 fans)Biography of Piper Perabo
Piper Lisa Perabo (born October 31, 1976) is an American movie actress. Personal life Perabo was born in Dallas, Texas and grew up in Toms River, New Jersey. Her father, George William Perabo, is Portuguese and her mother, Mary Charlotte Ulland, is Norwegian. Piper's parents chose to name her after the classic actress, Piper Laurie. Her brothers, Noah and Adam, are also actors. She graduated from high school at Toms River High School North and then attended Ohio University (in Athens, Ohio) where she graduated summa cum laude in 1998 with a Bachelor of Fine Arts in theater. In high school she appeared in each yearly musicals. Her senior year, she was Katie in "Meet Me In St. Louis"; junior year, Cousin Fan in "Mame"; sophomore year, Lady Brighton in "Me and My Girl"; and freshman ye... Add to favourites (11 fans)Biography of Jean-Louis Trintignant
Jean-Louis Trintignant (born on December 11, 1930 in Piolenc, Vaucluse, France) is a French actor. At the age of twenty, Trintignant moved to Paris, France to study drama, and made his theatrical debut in 1951 going on to be seen as one of the most gifted French actors of the post-war era. After touring in the early 1950s in several theater productions, his first motion picture appearance came in 1955 and the following year he gained stardom with his performance opposite Brigitte Bardot in Roger Vadim's And God Created Woman. From a wealthy family, he is the nephew of race car driver, Louis Trintignant, who was killed in 1933 while practicing on the Péronne racetrack in Picardie. His other uncle, Maurice Trintignant (born 1917), was a Formula One driver who twice won the Monaco Grand... Biography of Felix Baumgartner
Felix Baumgartner (German: ; born 20 April 1969) is an Austrian skydiver and a BASE jumper. He set the world record for skydiving an estimated 39 kilometres (128,000 ft), reaching an estimated speed of 1,342 kilometres per hour (834 mph), or Mach 1.24, on October 14, 2012. He is also renowned for the particularly dangerous nature of the stunts he has performed during his career. Baumgartner spent time in the Austrian military where he practiced parachute jumping, including training to land on small target zones. Baumgartner's most recent project was Red Bull Stratos, in which he jumped to Earth from a helium balloon in the stratosphere on 14 October 2012. As part of said project, he reached the altitude record for a manned balloon flight, parachute jump from the highest altitude, and gr... Add to favourites (21 fans)Biography of Brandy Norwood
Brandy Rayana Norwood (born February 11, 1979), known professionally as Brandy, is an American R&B singer-songwriter, record producer, television entertainer, actress, and film producer. In 2009, she introduced her rap alter-ego Bran'Nu. The source for her time of birth is http://www.librarising.com/astrology/celebs/brandynorwood.html. Born into a musical family in McComb, Mississippi and raised in Carson, California, Norwood first appeared in a supporting role on the short-lived ABC sitcom Thea in 1993. Her engagement led to her own star vehicle, successful UPN sitcom Moesha in 1996, and resulted in roles in the 1998 horror sequel I Still Know What You Did Last Summer, and the TV films Rodgers and Hammerstein's Cinderella (1997) and Double Platinum (1999), two of television's best rate... Biography of Justin Berfield
Justin Tyler Berfield (born February 25, 1986) is an American actor, writer and producer. Personal life Berfield was born in Los Angeles County, California, USA. He is the younger brother of lesser-known actor Lorne Berfield. Berfield is Jewish. In 2001, Berfield was asked to serve as a National Youth Ambassador for Ronald McDonald House Charities, in which he participated for 3 years until turning 18. Most known for his comedic roles, Berfield is also known for his charity work through his work with RMHC, St. Judes and most recently Virgin Unite (the charitable arm of Virgin). Press and media outlets often refer to Justin as a modest, growing entrepreneur and role model for young people. He has a red belt in tang soo do karate and is an avid golfer and scuba diver. Acting career... Add to favourites (15 fans)Biography of Sasha Alexander
Sasha Alexander (born Suzana S. Drobnjaković on May 17, 1973 (rather than in 1975)) is an American actress of Serbian and Italian descent. She is well known for her role as Caitlin Todd in the CBS television drama NCIS. Early life Alexander was born in Los Angeles, California. She began acting in school productions at the seventh grade. She was also an ice skater, but had to stop due to an injury to her knee. She continued acting through high school and college, and then moved to New York to act in summer stock and Shakespeare festivals. She graduated from the University of Southern California's School of Cinema-Television. Career Alexander was a regular on two short-lived series, the medical drama Presidio Med and ABC's twenty-something drama Wasteland. She appeared on the... Add to favourites (26 fans)Biography of Hedy Lamarr
Hedy Lamarr (November 9, 1914 (source IMDB) – January 19, 2000), born Hedwig Eva Maria Kiesler, was an Austrian-Jewish naturalized American actress and communications technology innovator. Though known primarily for her great beauty and her successful film career, she also co-invented the first form of spread spectrum, a key to modern wireless communication. Early life and education Lamarr was born Hedwig Eva Maria Kiesler in Vienna, Austria in 1914. While married to her first husband, Friedrich Mandl, aka Fritz Mandl Budde, an arms manufacturer, she became educated technically in her husband's business. Mandl was 13 years older than Lamarr, and extremely possessive of her. To escape him, one night she drugged her maid and took a train to London. Movie career After her flight f... Biography of Pattie Boyd
Patricia Anne "Pattie" Boyd (sometimes known as Pattie Boyd-Harrison or Pattie Clapton) (born 17 March 1944 in Taunton, Somerset, England (birth time source: her book Wonderful Tonight towards the end. She gets up at 4 to drink a glass of champagne at the time of her birth.), model and photographer, is best known as the wife of two famous rock musicians and the inspiration for several monumental rock love songs. Marriages After meeting on the set of A Hard Day's Night, Pattie married George Harrison on January 21, 1966, during the heyday of his group, The Beatles. Harrison's friend Eric Clapton, first of The Yardbirds, then of Cream, also fell in love with her. Pattie went on to divorce Harrison on June 9, 1977, and later marry Clapton on March 27, 1979. She and Clapton divorced in Jun... Biography of Kate Capshaw
Kate Capshaw (born November 3, 1953) is an American actress. She is known for her role in the film Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom, and as the wife of director Steven Spielberg. Early life Capshaw was born in 1953 Kathleen Sue Nail in Fort Worth, Texas and moved to St. Louis, Missouri at the age of five. She graduated from Hazelwood Senior High in 1972. She earned a degree in education from the University of Missouri–Columbia. She taught Special Education at Southern Boone County High School in Ashland, Missouri and Rock Bridge High School in Columbia, Missouri, but later moved to New York to pursue her dream of acting, landing her first role on the soap opera Love of Life. She took the surname Capshaw upon her marriage to Robert Capshaw; they had one child, actress Jessica Capsha... Add to favourites (13 fans)Biography of Hélène de Fougerolles
Hélène Christine Rigoine de Fougerolles (French pronunciation: ; born February 25, 1973) is a French actress. She is the daughter of Alain Rigoine de Fougerolles and Anne Saumay de Laval. Initially planning to become a beautician, she began to study acting at age 15. She later attended acting classes in Paris and briefly at the Actors Studio in New York City. The source for her birth time is her birth certificate. Fougerolles was married to Éric Hubert. They have a daughter Shana born in 2003. Filmography Le Collège des coeurs brisés (1992) TV Series - Anne-Marie Le mari de Léon (1993) - Geneviève Avocat d'office (1994) TV Series - Marie Moretti Jeanne la Pucelle II - Les prisons (1994) - Jeanne de Bar La Cité de la peur (1994) - Sandy L'histoire du gar... Add to favourites (15 fans)Biography of Tatum O'Neal
Tatum Beatrice O'Neal (born November 5, 1963 in Los Angeles, California) is an Academy Award-winning American actress best known for her film work as a child actress in the 1970s. To this day, she remains the youngest actor ever (at the age of 10) to win an Oscar. O'Neal was born into the motion picture family of actor Ryan O'Neal and actress Joanna Moore. Her brother, Griffin, was born in 1964. In 1967 her parents divorced. Her father married actress Leigh Taylor-Young, the mother of her half-brother, Patrick (who was married to actress Rebecca DeMornay). She also has another half-brother, Redmond, from Ryan O'Neal's relationship with actress Farrah Fawcett. Tatum's mother died in 1997 of lung cancer at age 63 after a career in which she had appeared in such movies as Touch of Evil. ... Biography of Florence Griffith Joyner
Florence Griffith-Joyner (born Delorez Florence Griffith), also known as Flo-Jo (December 21, 1959 – September 21, 1998) was an American track and field athlete. She is best known for her media flamboyance and setting World Records in the 100 m and 200 m, which still stand as of 2007. Her career was dogged by allegations of drug use, which was speculated to have caused her premature death. She was the wife of track star Al Joyner and the sister-in-law of Jackie Joyner-Kersee. Track Career Already fast at an early age, Los Angeles-born, Jordan Downs-raised Delorez Florence Griffith finished fourth in the 200 m at the inaugural World Championships in 1983. The following year, she gained much more attention, though mostly because of her extremely long and colorful fingernails rather th... Add to favourites (11 fans)Biography of Ellen Barkin
Ellen Rona Barkin (born April 16, 1954) is an Emmy Award-winning and Golden Globe Award-nominated American actress. Early life Barkin was born in the Bronx, New York to a chemical salesman and a hospital administrator at Jamaica Hospital, and raised in a Jewish home. Education She received her high school diploma at Manhattan's High School of Performing Arts. Barkin then attended Hunter College and received her degree in history and drama (a double major). At one point she wanted to teach ancient history. Barkin continued her acting education at New York's Actor's Studio. According to Time she studied acting for seven years before landing her first audition. Career Barkin became a notable actress in the 1980s. Her break out role was in Barry Levinson's Diner (1982) where ... Biography of Michelle Phillips
Michelle Phillips (born June 4, 1944) is an American singer, songwriter and actress. She was born Holly Michelle Gilliam in Long Beach, California and grew up partly in Mexico City where her father was attending college on the GI Bill. She gained fame as a member of the popular 1960s singing group The Mamas & the Papas. She is the last surviving member of the group. Career & Life Michelle Gilliam married John Phillips on December 31, 1962, when she was 18 years old, long before the formation of the band. In 1968 they had a child together, Chynna Phillips, who went on to co-found the singing group Wilson Phillips. Early on in the band's history (in 1965), Michelle and fellow band member Denny Doherty began an affair. They were able to keep it secret from the other two band members f... Biography of Victoria, Crown Princess of Sweden
Victoria, Crown Princess of Sweden, Duchess of Västergötland (Swedish: Kronprinsessan Victoria, Sveriges kronprinsessa, hertiginna av Västergötland, full name: Victoria Ingrid Alice Désirée), born July 14, 1977, is the heiress apparent to the Swedish throne. She is currently the world's only female heir apparent to a royal throne. Family background She is the eldest child of King Carl XVI Gustaf and Queen Silvia, and belongs to the Royal House of Bernadotte. She is the only female heir-apparent in the world (though there are several females who are heiresses-apparent of an heir-apparent) and is usually styled HRH The Crown Princess. She is currently 186th in the Line of Succession to the British Throne through her father, who is a great-great-grandson of Queen Victoria of the United Ki... Biography of David Suchet
David Suchet OBE (born May 2, 1946) is an English actor best known for his television portrayal of Agatha Christie's Hercule Poirot in the television series Agatha Christie's Poirot. Early life Suchet was born in London to Jack and Joan Suchet. Suchet's father was Jewish and his mother was Anglican, and Suchet converted to the Anglican religion. His paternal grandfather was a Latvian whose surname was shortened from Suchedowitz to Suchet. He also has some French blood on his mother's side. He took an interest in acting and joined the National Youth Theatre at 18. He studied at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art, where he now serves as a council member. He began his acting career at the Watermill Theatre, Bagnor, Berkshire and retains a great affection for the place saying it ... Biography of Shannon Whirry
Shannon Meta Whirry (born November 7, 1964 in Green Lake) is an American actress. Despite serious acting training at the American Academy for Dramatic Arts in the 1980s (she appeared in Mrs. Warren's Profession and Butterflies Are Free on Off-Broadway), Ms. Whirry worked mostly in erotic B-movies in the early 1990s along with other "queens" of that era Tanya Roberts, Delia Sheppard, Maria Ford, and Shannon Tweed. Director Gregory Hippolyte, in particular, was adept at bringing out the best of Ms. Whirry. His productions of Animal Instincts I and II, Body of Influence, and Mirror Images II featured Shannon's outstanding assets in various stages of undress in repeated scenes. Other notable roles included Private Obsession and Playback, a Playboy production. As her roles in softcore mov... Add to favourites (12 fans)Biography of Anna Karina
Anna Karina (born Hanna Karin Blarke Bayer September 22, 1940) is a Danish-born French film actress. Early life Before Anna turned one, he had left her mother. After being raised by her maternal grandparents, where she stayed until the age of four, she spent time in and out of foster homes, before returning to live with her mother from the age of eight. She has described her childhood as "terribly wanting to be loved" and made numerous attempts as a child to run away from home. She began her career in Denmark, where she sang in cabarets and worked as a model playing in commercials and short films. At age 14, she appeared on a Danish short film which won a prize at Cannes. She studied dance and painting in Denmark and for a while made a living selling her paintings, before moving to Par... Biography of Stefanie Powers
Stefanie Powers (born Stefania Zofia Federkiewicz on November 2, 1942) is an Emmy Award-nominated American stage and film actress and singer, who's best known for her role as Robert Wagner's wife and crime-fighting partner, Jennifer Hart, on the popular 1980s crime drama, Hart to Hart. For her contribution to the television industry, Powers has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 6778 Hollywood Blvd. Early life Powers was born in Hollywood, California to Polish American parents and was raised in the Roman Catholic religion. Her parents divorced during her childhood and her mother, Julia Golen, re-married. Career As an actress, the red headed Powers appeared in several motion pictures in the early 1960s in secondary roles such as the thriller Experiment in Terror (1962), the ... Biography of Gilbert Collard
Gilbert Collard, born on February 3, 1948 in Marseille (birth time source: FDAF, fdaf.org), is a French lawyer and politician, a member of Parliament (2012- ).... Biography of Valeria Golino
Valeria Golino (October 22, 1966) is an Italian film and television actress. Early life Golino was born in Naples, Italy to an Italian father who was a Germanist and scholar and a Greek mother who was a painter. She grew up in an "artistic household" and was partly raised in Athens. Golino is the niece of L'Espresso journalist Enzo Golino; her brother is a musician. Golino grew up between Athens and Naples. She started work as a model in Athens and then dropped out of high school after her first movie, after having been discovered by the movie's director, Lina Wertmuller. Career Golino obtained her first starring role in 1985's (Little Fires) and won the Best Actress Award at the Venice Film Festival for Storia d'amore in 1986. She began to work in Hollywood in 1988 with the mov... Biography of Fantasia Barrino
Fantasia Monique Barrino (born June 30, 1984), or simply Fantasia, is an American pop, R&B, soul singer and Broadway / television actress who rose to fame as the winner of the third season of the television series American Idol in 2004. Her first album, Free Yourself, was a commercial success, earning her four Grammy nominations and selling over 2.1 million copies. Barrino was also named the number-one artist of the Adult Urban Contemporary format for 2005 according to the December 13, 2005 Billboard Magazine. Her second album, Fantasia, was released on December 12, 2006. On April 10, 2007, Fantasia began starring as Celie in the Broadway musical, The Color Purple. Height: 5' 7" (1.70 m) Early life Barrino was born and raised in High Point, North Carolina, to Diane and Joseph Barrin... Biography of Mikhail Baryshnikov
Mikhail Nikolaevitch Baryshnikov (Russian: Михаил Николаевич Барышников) (b January 27, 1948) is a Russian dancer, choreographer, and actor. He is often called the world's greatest living male ballet dancer. Critic Clive Barnes once called him "the most perfect dancer I have ever seen" . Early life Baryshnikov (whose name is sometimes transliterated as Baryshinikov or Barishinikov) was born to Russian parents in Riga, in the Latvian Soviet Socialist Republic of the Soviet Union. His father was an engineer and his mother a seamstress. When he was twelve, his mother committed suicide leaving him to be raised by his father and his gran... Add to favourites (15 fans)Biography of Edward Furlong
Edward Walter Furlong (born August 2, 1977 in Glendale, California, USA) is an American actor well known for playing young John Connor in Terminator 2: Judgment Day and Danny Vinyard in American History X. Early life Furlong was born in Glendale, California, near Burbank, to Eleanor (née Tafoya), a youth-center worker, and an unknown father. He is half-Mexican on his mother's side, and also has Russian and possibly Native American ancestry. Furlong has a younger half-brother, Bobby Torres, from his mother's marriage to Moises Torres. Furlong moved in with his aunt and uncle, Nancy Tafoya and Sean Furlong, in the summer of 1990; the two gained legal guardianship of Furlong in September of 1991 and subsequently lost it in August 1993, to his mother. Furlong attended Elliot Junior High Sc... Biography of Kenny Chesney
Kenny Chesney (born Kenneth Arnold Chesney, March 26, 1968) is an American country music singer. Early life Kenny Chesney was born in Knoxville, Tennessee, to school teacher father David Chesney and hair dresser mother Karen Chandler. He has a younger half-sister, Jennifer Chandler. He was raised in Luttrell, Tennessee, and attended Gibbs High School in Corryton, Tennessee, where he was a receiver on the football team. Chesney studied at East Tennessee State University in Johnson City, Tennessee, joining the Lambda Chi Alpha International Fraternity and he was a member of the ETSU mens ensemble. Chesney played tunes at local places around Johnson City like Chucky's Trading Post (a small Mexican restaurant), Quarterbacks BBQ, and Rafters. He recorded his first album in 1989 at Classi... Add to favourites (no fan yet)Biography of Jimmy Swaggart
Jimmy Lee Swaggart (born March 15, 1935 in Ferriday, Louisiana) is a Pentecostal preacher and pioneer of televangelism who reached the height of his popularity in the 1980s. Swaggart is first cousin to recording artists Jerry Lee Lewis and Mickey Gilley. The sons of three sisters, all of them share the same middle name and play the piano. Early life and early ministry Jimmy Swaggart's parents, Sun and Minnie Belle, became Pentecostal evangelists in 1943 while Jimmy began to preach on street corners and lead congregations in singing at age nine. In 1952, at age seventeen, he married Frances Anderson. They have one son, Donnie, who has also become a minister. In 1958, Swaggart became a full-time traveling preacher and began developing a substantial revival-meeting following throughout... Add to favourites (10 fans)Biography of Vivica A. Fox
Vivica Anjanetta Fox (born July 30, 1964 in South Bend, IN) is a film and television actress. Height: 5' 7" (1.70 m) After graduating from Golden West College with an Associate Art degree in Social Sciences, Fox moved to California to become an actress, first on soap operas such as Generations, Days of Our Lives and The Young and the Restless. One of her earliest roles saw her as Patti LaBelle's fashion designer daughter, Charisse Chamberlain, on the NBC TV series Out All Night. She also appeared as Jazz's sister on the hit show The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air. She got her big break in film as Will Smith's stripper girlfriend in Independence Day. From there, she was cast in many other films and earned critical acclaim for her role in the 1997 movie Soul Food, which netted her MTV Movie A... Biography of Davina McCall
Davina Lucy Pascale McCall (born 16 October 1967) is an English television presenter and actress who works on British television. She is best known for presenting the UK edition of Big Brother. Height: 5' 7" (1.70 m) Background Although she was born in London, at the age of three McCall went to live with her grandparents in their Surrey home after her parents' marriage dissolved. Her French mother Florence – whom McCall has described as something of a "wild child" – returned to Paris, and McCall would see her only on holidays. She continued to see her father Andrew, a graphic designer, at weekends before moving in with him and his new wife Gaby when she was 13. McCall attended the Godolphin and Latymer Girls School, a famous independent school in Hammersmith, London, whose alumni... Biography of Linda Fiorentino
Linda Fiorentino (born 9 March 1958) is an American actress. She is known for her roles in films such as Dogma, Vision Quest, Men in Black, and The Last Seduction, perhaps her signature role. Height: 5' 7" (1.70 m) Personal life Fiorentino was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Fiorentino is of Italian American Catholic background. She has studied photography, off and on, since 1987 at the International Center of Photography in New York City. She was married to director John Byrum for a time, but they divorced in 1993. She is still very close to Byrum's children. She splits her time between Westport, Connecticut and New York City. In 2000, she donated $1,000 to the United States Senate campaign of Hillary Rodham Clinton. Career Fiorentino got her first professional acting ro... Add to favourites (13 fans)Biography of Brooke Burke
Brooke Lisa Burke (born September 8, 1971) is an American television personality and model, known for hosting Wild On! (1999-2002) and Rock Star. (2005-present) Height: 5' 7" (1.70 m) Early life Burke was born as the fourth of seven children in Hartford, Connecticut to Donna and George Burke, and was raised in Tucson, Arizona. She is Jewish (through her mother) and was raised in the Jewish religion; she also has Irish, French and Portuguese ancestry. She studied broadcast journalism at UCLA, but was signed to top modeling agencies, including the renowned Ford Models Agency, and subsequently appeared in prominent television commercials for Bally Fitness clubs, Coca-Cola, and Discover Card. She went to both Palo Verde and Sahuaro high school in Tucson,Az. Career Before getting... Add to favourites (11 fans)Biography of Michelle Hunziker
Michelle Yvonne Hunziker (born January 24, 1977), is a Swiss actress, model and a famous personality on Italian and German television. Birth time sources: Sources: http://astrologia.forumfree.it/?t=12488444 http://www.astrologiainlinea.it/astro_magazine/articoli/astromagazine_dett_articolo.asp?ID=569 http://oroscopo.virgilio.it/oroscopovip/michelle_hunziker.html Early years Hunziker was born at Sorengo (Lugano), in the southern, Italian speaking part of Switzerland. Her mother Ineke is Dutch; her father Rudolf, who died of a heart attack in the fall of 2001, was a German speaking Swiss national. He was a painter, but worked as a hotel manager. In 1983, the family moved to Ostermundigen, a suburb of Berne in the German speaking part of Switzerland, where Hunziker attended element... Biography of Mariska Veres
Mariska Veres (1 October 1947 - 2 December 2006) was a Dutch singer who was best known as the lead singer of the rock group Shocking Blue. Veres was born in Den Haag (The Hague). Her father was the Hungarian violinist Lajos Veres; her mother was born in Germany of French and Russian parents. Veres began her career as a singer in 1963 with the guitar band Les Mysteres, later singing with the Bumble Bees in 1965, the Blue Fighters, Danny and his Favourites and General Four in 1966, and the Motowns later in 1966. She also played organ in the last band. In 1968 she was invited to join Shocking Blue to replace lead singer Fred de Wilde who had to join the army. In 1969/1970 Shocking Blue gained worldwide fame with the hit single "Venus". Shocking Blue split up on 1 June 1974; Veres contin... Biography of Zdenka Podkapova
Zdenka Podkapová (born August 6, 1977 in Brno, Czech Republic) is a Czech erotic actress and an adult model. She is sometimes credited as Zdenka or Zdenka Popová. She is best known for winning Penthouse magazine's Pet of the Year for 2001. Height: 5 ft 7 in (1.70 m) Weight: 105 lb (48 kg) Before Podkapová started her modelling career she was a professional gymnast for more than ten years. She was in the Czech national team for five years and she became the Czech national champion four times during her young career. In 1996 she posed for her first photoshoot, and in 1998 tried contacting Penthouse. Her first pictorials for Penthouse were published in April 1998. She was chosen as Penthouse Pet of the Month. Two years later she won Penthouse Pet of the Year 2001. "It was a very b... Biography of Kelly Preston
Kelly Kamalelehua Palzis Preston-Travolta (born October 13, 1962) is an American model and occasional Razzie Award-winning actress best known for being the wife of actor John Travolta since 1991. Height: 5' 7" (1.70 m) Early life Preston was born Kelly Kamalelehua Smith in Honolulu, Hawaii. Her mother, Linda, was an administrator of a mental health center, and her father, who worked for an agricultural firm, drowned when Preston was three years old. Preston's adoptive father was Peter Palzis, a personnel director, and her step-father was Lee Carlson. She spent time living in Iraq and Australia as a result of her biological father's work when she was a child. While living in Australia, she attended Pembroke School in Adelaide. Career She began her modeling career as a teenager... Add to favourites (11 fans)Biography of Clémence Poésy
Clémence Poésy (French pronunciation: ; born October 30, 1982) is a French actress and fashion model. After starting on the stage as a child, Poésy had dramatic education, and has been active in both film and television since 1999, including some English-language productions. She is known for the roles of Fleur Delacour in the Harry Potter film series, Chloë in In Bruges, and Rana in 127 Hours. She is also known for her small role as Eva Coupeau on Gossip Girl. Early life Born as Clémence Guichard in Meudon (source: Imdb) a southern suburb of Paris, the daughter of actor/writer Étienne Guichard and a French teacher, Poésy took her mother's maiden name as her stage name. She was sent to an alternative school in Meudon. She was not popular at school, and described herself as maladjuste... Biography of Hassanal Bolkiah
Hassanal Bolkiah Mu'izzaddin Waddaulah GCB GCMG (born 15 July 1946) is the Sultan and Yang Di-Pertuan of Brunei Darussalam, the 29th Sultan of Brunei, the eldest son of Omar Ali Saifuddien III, the previous Sultan of Brunei, and Pengiran Anak Damit. Marriage and children The Sultan currently has one wife, with Raja Isteri Pengiran Anak Hajah Saleha being designated his first wife. His former second wife, Pengiran Isteri Hajah Mariam, was a former stewardess for the national carrier, Royal Brunei Airlines (RBA) whom he divorced in 2003, stripping her of all her royal titles. In August 2005 her place was taken by a former Malaysian TV3 presenter, Azrinaz Mazhar Hakim, who is 33 years younger than the Sultan. They divorced in 2010. Prince Al-Muhtadee Billah is the crown prince and th... Biography of Reba McEntire
Reba Nell McEntire (born March 28, 1955 (birth time source: Reba: My Story by Reba Mcentire and Tom Carter)) is a Grammy award winning American singer and country music performer, and actress. Sometimes referred to as "The Queen of Country Music", she is known for her lively stage-shows and pop-tinged ballads. She has issued 31 albums, with over 50 million records sold worldwide. Reba McEntire was the most successful female recording artist in country music in the 1980s and 1990s, during which time she scored 22 number one hits and released five gold albums, six platinum albums, two double-platinum albums, four triple-platinum albums, a quadruple-platinum album, and a quintuple-platinum album, for certified album sales of 33.5 million over the 20-year period. She expanded her activitie... Biography of Karen Velez
Karen Velez (born January 27, 1961 is an American model. She was Playboy magazine's Playmate of the Month in December, 1984, and Playmate of the Year for 1985. She was the cover model for the maiden issue of Playmate Review. She was married to Lee Majors (The Six Million Dollar Man) from 1988 to 1994. This marriage produced one daughter, Nikki Majors, and twin sons, Dane Majors and Trey Majors. Appearances in Playboy Special Editions Playboy's Playmate Review Vol. 1 May 1985. Playboy's Girls of Summer '86 July 1986. Playboy's Book of Lingerie Vol. 2 March 1987. Playboy's Wet & Wild Women July 1987 - pages 10-11, 44-45, 111. Playboy's Bathing Beauties April 1989. Playboy's Girls of Summer '89 August 1989. Playboy's Nudes October 1990. Playboy's Playmates in Paradise ... Biography of Gérard Jugnot
Gérard Jugnot (born 4 May 1951 in Paris) is a French actor, film director, screenwriter and producer. He was one of the founders of the comedy troupe "Le Splendid" in the 1970s, along with, among others, his high-school friends Christian Clavier, Thierry Lhermitte, and Michel Blanc. That group adapted a number of its stage hits for the cinema, and scored major successes with films such as Les Bronzés (1978), Les Bronzés font du ski (1979) and Le Père Noël est une ordure (1982). He gained international fame for his lead role in Les Choristes in which he played Clément Mathieu. Filmography Actor 1973 - 1979 1973 : L'An 01 de Jacques Doillon, Jean Rouch et Alain Resnais Salut l'artiste d'Yves Robert : présence non créditée 1974 : Les Valseuses de Bertrand Blier :... Biography of Helen Shaver
Helen Shaver (born February 24, 1951 or 1952) is a Canadian actress and film and television director. Personal life Shaver was born in St. Thomas, Ontario, Canada, and grew up in a small town near Toronto, Ontario with her five sisters. As a child, she suffered from rheumatic fever and was forced to spend six months of each year in bed. Shaver is married to top key grip Steve Smith (whom she met on the set of Desert Hearts); they have a son. Career Shaver has worked with such directors as Sam Peckinpah, Martin Scorsese, Steven Spielberg and Brian De Palma. In 1978 she won a Canadian Film Award for her role as "Ann MacDonald" in the film In Praise of Older Women. In 1985, she appeared in the film Desert Hearts as a 1950s university professor who falls in love with another woman... Add to favourites (11 fans)Biography of Ana Paula Arosio
Ana Paula Arósio (born 16 July 1975 in São Paulo, Brazil) is a Brazilian model and actress. She is 1.70 m (5 ft 7 in) tall, blue-eyed and is known for her naturally curly hair. Arósio is one of the most popular actresses in Brazil. She was "discovered" by a representative for an advertisement agency when Ana Paula was shopping at a supermarket. In 1989, Arósio moved to Japan to work as a model. Returning later back to Brazil, she played in Éramos Seis, which was her first soap opera. Arósio became famous in Brazil when she played the role "Hilda Furacão" in 1998. In 1999, Ana Paula's beauty and talent was known all around the world with Terra Nostra soap opera, where Ana Paula, acted as the Italian immigrant Giuliana. In 2001, Arósio changed the color of her hair and eyes to pl... Add to favourites (10 fans)Biography of Michelle Wild
Katalin Vad, better known by her porn star name Michelle Wild (vad literally means "wild" in Hungarian), (January 16, 1980 in Sátoraljaújhely, Hungary – ) is a Hungarian actress and former erotic performer who had worked mainly for Private Media Group (international) and LUXx Video (Hungary). Vad graduated from the high school Kossuth Lajos Gimnázium in her home town in 1999. She worked as a phone sex operator and erotic dancer, which led to her involvement in the adult film industry at the age of 21. Her first adult film, Sex Opera, was shot in 2001, and subsequently she worked repeatedly with the same company, Private, and the director Kovi (István Kovács), producing such adult films as Brides & Bitches and The Sex Secrets of the Paparazzi. She has also worked with such prominent porn... Biography of Alexandria Karlsen
Alexandria ("Lexie") Karlsen (born October 26, 1978) is an American model, actress and author. Measurements 34"C - 23" - 34" Height 5 ft 7 in Weight 107 lb With a background in journalism and finance, Karlsen has been described as a brainy adult model. She began posing nude for Perfect 10 magazine in their summer 1997 premiere issue, and was selected Playboy Playmate of the Month for March, 1999. Her centerfold was photographed by Arny Freytag and Stephen Wayda. Lexie has appeared in several Playboy videos and special editions, working steadily for Playboy for more than three years following her centerfold appearance. In 2001, Karlsen started writing a regular column on love and dating for Perfect 10. Karlsen has also been featured in the November 2002 issue of Stuff magazine in ... Biography of J. J. Abrams
Jeffrey Jacob Abrams (also credited as J.J. Abrams) (born June 27, 1966) is an Emmy Award-winning film and television producer, writer, actor, composer, and director. Born in New York and raised in Los Angeles, J.J. Abrams attended Sarah Lawrence College where, during his senior year, he teamed with a friend to write a feature film treatment. Purchased by Touchstone Pictures, the treatment was the basis for Taking Care of Business, Abrams' first produced film, which starred Charles Grodin and Jim Belushi. He followed that up with Regarding Henry, starring Harrison Ford, and Forever Young, starring Mel Gibson. Since 1996 Abrams has been married to Katie McGrath. Their 3 children are Henry (b. 1998), Gracie (b. 1999) and August (b. 11 January, 2006). Career Abrams then collabora... Add to favourites (10 fans)Biography of Keith Flint
Keith Charles Flint (born 27 March 1969 in Chelmsford, Essex, England) is a member of the British electronic band The Prodigy. Flint was born and raised in the Essex town of Chelmsford. In the late 1980s he met the DJ Liam Howlett in a rave club and expressed his appreciation of Howlett's taste in music. After receiving a mixtape from Liam Howlett, the tape's B side had a few of Liam's own tracks on it that he made in his bedroom studio 'Earthbound'. Keith came back to Liam with great enthusiasm, insisting that Liam should be playing his tracks up on stage, and that Keith himself and his friend Leeroy Thornhill would dance to them. Soon after, in 1990, he joined Howlett's new project, The Prodigy Originally he was only a dancer, but in 1996 he was the vocalist on the hit single "Firesta... Biography of Eric Tabarly
Éric Tabarly (July 24, 1931 in Nantes – June 14, 1998) was a notable French sailor. A former officer in the French navy who is often considered the father of French yachting, Tabarly was a record-setting distance sailor who won several notable races aboard his boats, all named Pen Duick. He was lost at sea when struck by a gaff during heavy swell and knocked overboard from his yacht while on the way to Belfast, Northern Ireland. Tabarly was a two-time champion of the OSTAR, winning in 1964 — for which he was awarded the Légion d'honneur — and 1976. He also competed twice in the Whitbread Round the World Race, finishing second in 1973 and seventh in 1993.... | |||||||