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9071 celebrities heights in our database on November 21, 2009. The celebrities 5' 8" tall are listed here, sorted by decreasing popularity. The popularity is the real time consultation statistics by our users for each celebrity on Astrotheme. You can either access the picture and detailed map of the heavens by clicking on the thumbnail, or read the horoscope by clicking on "Display his/her horoscope with biography and chart". Heights Home · Home · 35,925 dominants · Astrology and Statistics · Celestar · AstroSearch 35,925 Celebrities
505 celebrities 5' 8" tall have been found. Biography of Angelina JOLIE
Angelina Jolie (born Angelina Jolie Voight on June 4, 1975) is an American film actor and a Goodwill Ambassador for the UN Refugee Agency. She has received three Golden Globe Awards, two Screen Actors Guild Awards, and an Academy Award. Jolie has promoted humanitarian causes throughout the world, and is noted for her work with refugees through UNHCR. She is frequently cited as one of the world's most beautiful women and her off-screen life is widely reported. Though she made her screen debut ... Biography of Adolphe HITLER
Adolf Hitler (April 20, 1889 – April 30, 1945) was the German Chancellor (Reichskanzler) from 1933 to 1945 and Führer of Germany from 1934 until 1945. Hitler was also the leader of the National Socialist German Workers Party (Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei or NSDAP), the Nazi Party. Hitler gained power during Germany's period of crisis following World War I. Using propaganda and charismatic oratory, he appealed to the economic needs of the lower and middle classes, while so... Biography of Sophie MARCEAU
Sophie Marceau (IPA: ) is a French actress. She has worked in international films such as Braveheart and The World is Not Enough. Early life Sophie Marceau was born Sophie Danièle Sylvie Maupu on November 17, 1966 in Paris, France, the second child of Benoît and Simone Maupu. Her father, Benoît, a veteran of the Algerian War, worked as a truck driver, painter, and bartender; her mother, Simone, was a demonstrator in department stores. Her brother Sylvain is three years older. Career M... Biography of Catherine ZETA-JONES
Catherine Zeta-Jones (born 25 September 1969) is an Academy Award-winning Welsh actress who began her career on stage at an early age. After starring in a number of television films and small roles in films, she came to prominence with roles in films such as The Phantom, The Mask of Zorro, and Entrapment in the late 1990s. She is married to Michael Douglas, with whom she starred in the 2000 film Traffic. She won an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for portraying Velma Kelly in the 20... Biography of Tuba BUYUKUSTUN
Tuba Buyukustun (Hatice Tuba Büyüküstün), born July 5, 1982 in Istanbul, is a Turkish actress. Filmography (source: http://www.imdb.com/name/nm1735048/ ) "Asi" .... Asiye 'Asi' Kozcuoglu (22 episodes, 2007-2008) - Episode #1.29 (2008) TV episode .... Asiye 'Asi' Kozcuoglu - Episode #1.28 (2008) TV episode .... Asiye 'Asi' Kozcuoglu - Episode #1.27 (2008) TV episode .... Asiye 'Asi' Kozcuoglu - Episode #1.25 (2008) TV episode .... Asiye 'Asi' Kozcuoglu - Episode #1.24... Biography of Brigitte LAHAIE
Brigitte Lahaie (born Brigade Van Meerhaegue on October 12, 1955, in Tourcoing, France) is a notable French porn actress who began her career at the age of 20 performing in pornographic films from 1976 through 1980. In 1980, having become a kind of idol of the French adult film industry's golden age, she decided to put an end to her hardcore career and appeared in more "traditional" movies and "big" productions, such as I comme Icare (Henri Verneuil, 1980) in which she played a stripper, and ... Biography of Camilla PARKER BOWLES
Camilla, The Duchess of Cornwall (Camilla Rosemary; formerly Parker Bowles; née Shand, Born 17 July 1947) is the second wife of Charles, Prince of Wales, heir apparent to the thrones of the United Kingdom and the other 15 Commonwealth Realms. Prior to their marriage she had been his long-time partner. As the consort of the Prince of Wales she is legally the Princess of Wales; Clarence House has announced that she is officially styled HRH The Duchess of Cornwall. This is mainly because the for... Biography of Joseph STALINE (STALIN)
Joseph Stalin (Georgian: ნამდვილი გვარი ჯუღაშვილი, Russian: Иосиф Сталин, ISO 9: Iosif Stalin; December 18 1878 – March 5, 1953) was General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union's Central Committee from 1922 until his death in 1953. During that time he established the regime now known... Biography of Elton JOHN
Sir Elton Hercules John CBE (born Reginald Kenneth Dwight on 25 March 1947) is a multiple Grammy and Academy Award-winning English pop/rock singer, composer and pianist. In his four-decade career, John has been one of the dominant forces in rock and popular music, especially in the 1970s. John has sold more than 250 million albums plus hundreds of millions of singles , making him one of the most successful artists of all time. He has more than 50 Top 40 hits including seven consecutive #1 U... Biography of EMINEM
Marshall Bruce Mathers III (born October 17, 1972), better known as Eminem or Slim Shady, is an American rapper, record producer and actor from the Detroit, Michigan area. Having sold seventy million albums worldwide, Eminem is one of the best-selling musicians of the early 2000s, and one of the best-selling rappers of all time. Eminem was discovered by pioneer gangsta rapper and producer Dr. Dre, who signed him to his Aftermath Entertainment label. Nobel Laureate Seamus Heaney has praised Ma... Biography of Meg RYAN
Meg Ryan (born November 19, 1961) is an American actress who specializes in romantic comedies, but has also worked in other film genres. Early life Born Margaret Mary Emily Hyra in Fairfield, Connecticut to Susan Jordan (née Ryan), a former English teacher, and Harry Hyra, a math teacher, she went by the name Peggy (also her grandmother's nickname) as a child. She has two sisters, Dana and Annie, and a brother, Andrew. Ryan was raised in the Catholic religion and graduated from Saint Pius X El... Biography of Friedrich NIETZSCHE
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (October 15, 1844 – August 25, 1900) was a German philosopher. His writing included critiques of religion, morality, contemporary culture, philosophy, and science, using a distinctive style and displaying a fondness for aphorism. Nietzsche's influence remains substantial within and beyond philosophy, notably in existentialism and postmodernism. Nietzsche began his career as a philologist before turning to philosophy. At the age of 24 he became Professor of Classica... Biography of Whitney HOUSTON
Whitney Elizabeth Houston (born on August 9, 1963), is an American R&B/pop singer, actress, former fashion model, record and film producer. Houston is one of the most successful and influential singers of all time. Her body of work includes ballads, dance-pop and urban contemporary soul. She is well known for her vocal power, control, range and coloratura soprano voice. Houston was one of a handful of black artists to receive heavy rotation on MTV in the 1980s. She became the first artist to ... Biography of Shahrukh KHAN
Shahrukh Khan (Devanagari: शाहरुख़ ख़ान, Nastaleeq: شاهرخ خان, pronunciation: /ʃɑːhrux xɑːn/) born November 2, 1965, is a highly acclaimed Bollywood actor, producer, and was recently the host of the popular game show, Kaun Banega Crorepati. Personal life Shah Rukh Khan was born to a Muslim family but was raised by Hindus for most of his life. His father T... Biography of Courtney LOVE
Courtney Love (born July 9, 1964) is an American rock musician and Golden Globe-nominated actress, best-known as lead singer for the now-defunct alternative rock band Hole and for her two-year marriage to Nirvana frontman Kurt Cobain. Rolling Stone has called Love "the most controversial woman in the history of rock." Early life Courtney Love was born on July 9, 1964, at 2:08 p.m., in San Francisco, California, where her parents first met and married. Her mother, Linda Carroll (born Risi), a... Biography of MARLENE (MOUREAU)
Marlène was the Monegasque representative]] in the Eurovision Song Contest 1970, performed in French by Dominique Dussault. The song is a paean to Marlene Dietrich, whom Dussault famously refers to as "a silhouette in Sexyrama" at one point in the lyrics, before comparing her appearance to that of the star and concluding that she will never live up to the standards of her idol. The song was performed tenth on the night (following Spain's Julio Iglesias with Gwendolyne and preceding Germany... Biography of Petra VERKAIK
Petra Charlotte Verkaik (born November 4, 1966 in Los Angeles, California) is an adult model known for her many appearances in Playboy publications. Verkaik is the most published woman in Playboy history with appearances in over 70 Playboy magazines and Special Editions in the U.S. The prodigiously endowed Verkaik was Playmate of the Month for December 1989 after first appearing in the Great Playmate Hunt Special Edition in February 1989. As she describes it, "Playboy just bounced off my ches... Biography of Maria CALLAS
Maria Callas (December 2, 1923 – September 16, 1977) was an American-born Greek dramatic coloratura soprano and perhaps the best-known opera singer of the post-World War II period. She combined an impressive bel canto technique with great dramatic gifts. An extremely versatile singer, her repertoire ranged from classical opera seria to the bel canto operas of Donizetti, Bellini, and Rossini, and further, to the works of Verdi and Puccini, and in her early career, the music dramas of Wagner. Her ... Biography of Carole BOUQUET
Carole Bouquet (born 18 August 1957) is a French actress best known internationally as Bond girl Melina Havelock in For Your Eyes Only. She is also recognised for her work in Luis Buñuel's surrealist classic That Obscure Object of Desire, and in the internationally successful French film Too Beautiful For You. Bouquet was a model for Chanel in the 1990s. Bouquet was born in Neuilly-Sur-Seine, France. She is the widow of producer Jean-Pierre Rassam with whom she had a son, Dimitri Rassam. S... Biography of Ayrton SENNA
Ayrton Senna da Silva (March 21, 1960 – May 1, 1994) was a Brazilian triple Formula One world champion. He died following an accident whilst leading the 1994 San Marino Grand Prix at Imola in Italy. Character Beyond his exceptional driving skills Senna was one of the sport's most compelling personalities. Intensely introspective and extremely passionate, he used driving as a means for self-discovery, and racing as a metaphor for life: “The harder I push, the more I find within myself. I am a... Biography of Charlotte GAINSBOURG
Charlotte Gainsbourg (born on 21 July 1971 (1971-07-21) (age 35)) is an Anglo-French actress and singer. Gainsbourg was born in London, England and raised in Paris, France. Her father is Serge Gainsbourg, and her mother is Jane Birkin. Career Gainsbourg made her motion picture début playing Catherine Deneuve's daughter in the 1984 film Paroles et musique. In 1986, Gainsbourg won a César Award for "Most Promising Actress" for L'effrontée, and in 2000 she won "Best Supporting Actress"... Biography of Estelle LEFEBURE
Estelle Lefébure-Essebag (formerly known as Estelle Hallyday) is a French actress. She was one of the top fashion models in the 1980s and 1990s. Born in Rouen, France on May 5, 1966, she began modeling at age 19. Over the years, she has appeared in advertisements for Guess?, Cartier, Christian Dior, Revlon, Lord & Taylor, and Samsung. In 1993, she appeared in the Sports Illustrated swimsuit issue. In 1994, she was named one of People Magazine's "50 most beautiful people". In 1999, she was one... Biography of Condoleezza RICE
Condoleezza Rice (born November 14, 1954) is the 66th United States Secretary of State, and the second in the administration of President George W. Bush to hold the office. Rice is the first African American woman, second African American (after Colin Powell, who served before her from 2001 - 2005), and second woman (after Madeleine Albright who served from 1997 to 2001, before Colin Powell) to serve as Secretary of State. Condoleezza Rice was President Bush's National Security Advisor during... Biography of Luc BESSON
Luc Besson (born March 18, 1959) is a French film director, writer and producer. Little is known about Luc Besson's private life since he rarely discusses his personal life in interviews. He was born in Paris to parents who were both scuba diving instructors. This had a heavy influence on his childhood and throughout his childhood Besson planned on becoming a marine biologist until the age of 17 when he had a diving accident which left him unable to dive any longer. He has since fully recover... Biography of Angela MERKEL
Angela Dorothea Merkel (b. Angela Dorothea Kasner, 17 July 1954, in Hamburg, Germany), is the Chancellor of Germany. Merkel, elected to the German Parliament from Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, has been the chairwoman of the Christian Democratic Union CDU since April 9, 2000, and Chairwoman of the CDU-CSU parliamentary party group from 2002 to 2005. She leads a Grand coalition with its sister party, the Christian Social Union (CSU), and with the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD), formed after th... Biography of Linda LOVELACE
Linda Susan Boreman (January 10, 1949 – April 22, 2002), better known by her stage name Linda Lovelace, was a pornographic actress in the 1972 film Deep Throat, who went on to leave the pornography industry and became a spokeswoman for the anti-pornography movement. Deep Throat was notable for beginning a brief fad of porn chic; it was also the inspiration for Bob Woodward's name of his secret Watergate source, W. Mark Felt. Boreman later stated that she regretted her pornographic career and ... Biography of Jane FONDA
Jane Fonda (born December 21, 1937) is a two-time Academy Award-winning American actress, writer, political activist, former fashion model, and fitness guru. Since the 1960s Fonda has appeared in several movies. She has won two Academy Awards and received several other awards and nominations. She initially announced her retirement from acting in 1991, and said for many years that she would never act again, but she returned to film in 2005 with Monster in Law, and later Georgia Rule released in 2... Biography of Ringo STARR (BEATLES)
Richard Starkey, MBE (born 7 July 1940), known by his stage name Ringo Starr, is an English musician, singer and actor, best known as the drummer of The Beatles. He was the oldest and shortest member of the band, and the last to join the now familiar 'Fab Four' line-up. Early years He was born and raised in the working class Dingle area of Liverpool, England. Starr's parents split up when he was three years old; his mother, Elsie, married Harry Graves, whom Starr liked and who encouraged his... Biography of Laura SMET
Laura Smet, daughter of rock musician Johnny Hallyday and the actress Nathalie Baye, is a French actress born in Paris, France, on November 15, 1983. Filmography 2003 - La Demoiselle d'honneur (lit., Lady of Honour), dir. Claude Chabrol 2003 - La Femme de Gilles (Gilles' Wife), dir. Frédéric Fonteyne 2002 - Les Corps impatients (Eager Bodies), dir. Xavier Giannoli... Biography of Noel GALLAGHER (OASIS)
Noel Thomas David Gallagher (born May 29, 1967 in Burnage, Manchester, England) is an English songwriter, guitarist and occasional vocalist with the English rock band Oasis. He is the older brother of Oasis lead vocalist, Liam Gallagher, the two of whom are famous for publicly squabbling. In the 1990s, Gallagher was centre-stage of what the media coined the Britpop movement. The band enjoyed much critical and commercial success. His outspoken opinions on other bands and modern culture have, m... Biography of Robin WILLIAMS
Robin McLaurin Williams (born July 21, 1951 or 1952) is an Academy Award-winning American actor and comedian. He has had starring roles on television, stage, and film. Personal life Williams' first marriage was to Valerie Velardi on June 4, 1978, with whom he has one child, Zachary (born April 1983). The marriage ended in 1988. On April 30, 1989, he married Marsha Garces. They have two children, Zelda Ray (born July 31, 1989) and Cody Alan (born November 25, 1991). Williams currently reside... Biography of Kate BECKINSALE
Kathryn Bailey "Kate" Beckinsale (born July 26, 1973) is an English actress, known for her roles in the films Pearl Harbor (2001), Van Helsing (2004), and Underworld (2003). Early life Kate Beckinsale was born in London to Judy Loe, a stage and television actress, and Richard Beckinsale, a television actor who died in 1979 at the age of 31. She has a paternal half-sister, Samantha, who is also an actress. Beckinsale's paternal great-grandfather was Burmese, and Beckinsale has said that she w... Biography of ELISABETH de WITTELSBACH (SISSI)
Elisabeth Amalie Eugenie, Duchess in Bavaria, Princess of Bavaria, (December 24, 1837 – September 10, 1898), of the House of Wittelsbach, was the Empress consort of Austria and Queen consort of Hungary due to her marriage to Emperor Franz Joseph. Her father was Maximilian Joseph, Duke in Bavaria and her mother was Ludovika, Royal Princess of Bavaria; her family home was Possenhofen Castle. From an early age, she was called Sisi (or Sissi in films and novels) by family and friends. While Elisa... Biography of Claudia CARDINALE
Claudia Cardinale (born April 15, 1938) is an Italian actress born in Tunis, Tunisia to Sicilian parents. Claudia Cardinale was born Claude Joséphine Rose Cardin. She had her break into films after winning a Tunisian beauty contest in 1957. She made her film debut in Goha (1958) and later that year had a role in the minor international success I soliti ignoti. Her early career was largely managed by producer Franco Cristaldi. Throughout the 1960s she appeared in many Italian or Italian co-fin... Biography of Emmanuelle SEIGNER
Emmanuelle Seigner (born June 22, 1966) is a French actress and former fashion model. Seigner was born in Paris, France. She is the granddaughter of the respected French actor Louis Seigner (1903-1991) and sister of the actress Mathilde Seigner. She was educated at a Catholic convent school, and began modelling at the age of fourteen, capitalizing on her beauty. She achieved international status as a professional model. She married the Franco-Polish film director Roman Polanski in 1989,... Biography of Edgar Allan POE
Edgar Allan Poe (January 19, 1809 – October 7, 1849) was an American poet, short story writer, playwright, editor, critic, essayist and one of the leaders of the American Romantic Movement. Best known for his tales of the macabre and mystery, Poe was one of the early American practitioners of the short story and a progenitor of detective fiction and crime fiction. He is also credited with contributing to the emergent science fiction genre. Poe died at the age of 40. The cause of his death is und... Biography of Isabella ROSSELLINI
Isabella Fiorella Elettra Giovanna Rossellini (born June 18, 1952 in Rome, Italy) is an Italian actress, filmmaker, author, philanthropist, and model. Rossellini is the daughter of Swedish actress Ingrid Bergman and the Italian director Roberto Rossellini. She has three siblings from her mother: her twin sister Isotta Ingrid Rossellini, who is an adjunct professor of Italian literature; a brother, Roberto Ingmar Rossellini, who works in finance; and a half-sister, Pia Lindström, who formerly ... Biography of Salman KHAN
Salman Khan (Hindi: सलमान ख़ान)(pronunciation: /səlmɑːn xɑːn/), born Abdul Rashid Salim Salman Khan on December 27, 1965 is a popular Indian film actor who appears in Bollywood movies. Taking part in some of Bollywood's biggest hits, along with his critically acclaimed performances, today he is considered to be one of the biggest superstars and leading actors in the industry. Career Salman made his acting debut in... Biography of Anna KOURNIKOVA
Anna Sergeyevna Kournikova (Anna Sergeeyevna Kurnikova) born June 7, 1981) is a retired Russian professional tennis player and model. Although she never won a major singles tournament, she became one of the best known tennis players worldwide. At the peak of her fame, fans looking for images of Kournikova made her name (or misspellings of it) one of the most common search strings on Google. She was born in Moscow, Soviet Union to Alla and Sergei Kournikov; her family later emigrated to the Un... Biography of Shirley MANSON (GARBAGE)
Shirley Ann Manson (born August 26, 1966) is a Scottish musician, the lead vocalist of the band Garbage. Early life Born in Edinburgh, Scotland, Manson is the second of three daughters. She has an older sister, Lindy-Jayne and a younger sister, Sarah. Her mother is a former big band singer and her father is a geneticist who was a part of the faculty that cloned Dolly the Sheep. At age seven, Shirley began learning the piano, later attending the City of Edinburgh Music School where she also j... Biography of Roberto ALAGNA
Roberto Alagna (born June 7, 1963) is a French operatic tenor. Alagna was born in Clichy-sous-Bois, Seine-Saint-Denis, France. His family of Sicilian immigrants was very musically talented. As a teenager the young Alagna began busking and singing pop in Parisian cabarets for tips. Influenced primarily by the films of Mario Lanza, but also from recordings of many historic tenors, he then switched to opera. He is largely self-taught as a singer, but he learned most of the tenor repertory from C... Biography of John FRUSCIANTE
John Anthony Frusciante (IPA pronunciation: ) (born March 5, 1970) is an American guitarist, singer, songwriter and musician. He is best known as the guitarist of the alternative/funk rock band Red Hot Chili Peppers, with whom he has performed on five studio recordings (Mother's Milk, Blood Sugar Sex Magik, Californication, By the Way and Stadium Arcadium). He also maintains an active solo career, having released eight albums as well as collaborations with friends Josh Klinghoffer and Joe Lally ... Biography of Helen HUNT
Helen Elizabeth Hunt (born June 15, 1963) is an Emmy, Golden Globe and Academy Award-winning American actress, perhaps most widely known for her role in the television sitcom Mad About You. Hunt began her career in the 1970s as a child actress. Her early roles included an appearance as Murray Slaughter's daughter on The Mary Tyler Moore Show, and a regular role in the television series The Swiss Family Robinson. She appeared as a marijuana-smoking classmate on an episode of The Facts of Life.... Biography of Anne HATHAWAY
Anne Jacqueline Hathaway (born November 12, 1982) is an American film and stage actress. Hathaway made her acting debut in the 1999 television series Get Real, but her first prominent role was in Disney's family comedy The Princess Diaries (2001), which established her career. She continued to appear in Disney films in the next three years, and she had the lead roles in Ella Enchanted and The Princess Diaries 2: Royal Engagement (both 2004). Hathaway took more creative control over her career in... Biography of Humphrey BOGART
Humphrey DeForest Bogart (December 25, 1899 – January 14, 1957) was an American actor. In 1999, the American Film Institute named Bogart the Greatest Male Star of All Time. Playing primarily smart, playful and reckless characters anchored by an inner moral code while surrounded by a corrupt world, Bogart's most notable films include The Petrified Forest (1936), Kid Galahad (1937), Angels with Dirty Faces (1938), The Roaring Twenties (1939), High Sierra (1941), The Maltese Falcon (1941), Casablan... Biography of Marcia CROSS
Marcia Anne Cross (born March 25, 1962 in Newton, Massachusetts) is an Emmy and Golden Globe Award-nominated American actress. She graduated from Juilliard and earned a master's degree in psychology at Antioch University in Los Angeles. In 2005, she was nominated for her first Emmy for her work as Bree Hodge, the "Perfect" Housewife on Desperate Housewives. In December 2006, Cross earned her third consecutive nomination for the Golden Globe for Best Actress in a Comedy Series with the show. E... Biography of Alexandra ROSENFELD (Miss FRANCE / EUROPE 2006)
Alexandra Rosenfeld (born November 23, 1986, Béziers, Hérault) was elected Miss France in 2006. Representing the region of Languedoc, she succeeded Cindy Fabre as the 52nd Miss France on December 3, 2005. Rosenfeld has blonde hair and brown eyes . She is 1.73 meters tall. She lives in Saint-Thibéry and studies tourism in Pézenas. On February 2006, Rosenfeld, who is Jewish, took part in a French demonstration against anti-Semitism and racism following the brutal murder of a young Jewish ...
Biography of LOANA
French TV host and business woman. She has won the first French reality TV Loft Story in 2001.... Biography of Kanye WEST
Kanye Omari West (pronounced /'kɑnjeɪ/) (born June 8, 1977 in Atlanta, Georgia) is an American record producer and rapper who rose to widespread fame in the early 2000s. He released his debut album The College Dropout in 2004, his second album Late Registration in 2005, and is working on his delayed third album, scheduled to be released on September 11, 2007, called Graduation. His first two albums, The College Dropout and Late Registration, received numerous awards (including six Gram... Biography of CIARA
Ciara (born Ciara Princess Harris on October 25, 1985) is an American singer, songwriter, record producer, dancer, and actress. Ciara made her debut in the summer of 2004 with the Billboard number-one single "Goodies". The album Goodies was released the fourth quarter of 2004 and first quarter of 2005. It produced three top two singles on the Billboard Hot 100, selling over 2.6 million in the U.S., and 5 million worldwide, and earned various awards and nominations. Ciara's second album, Ciara... Biography of Klaus KINSKI
Klaus Kinski (October 18, 1926 – November 23, 1991) was a German actor, famous for his ability to project on-screen intensity, and for his explosive temperament. He acted in over 180 films. Life Kinski was born Nikolaus Karl Günther Nakszyński in Zoppot, then in Germany, today Sopot in Poland. His parents were Bruno Nakszyński, a German pharmacist of Polish origin, and Susanne Lutze, a German pastor's daughter from Danzig. In 1930/31, the family moved to Berlin and Kinski attended ... Biography of Jessica LANGE
Jessica Phyllis Lange (born April 20, 1949) is a two-time Academy Award-winning American actress. Early life Lange, the third of four children, was born in Cloquet, Minnesota to Dorothy Florence Sahlman and Albert John Lange. Her maternal grandparents were of Finnish descent, while her paternal grandfather was German and her paternal grandmother was Dutch. She studied art briefly at the University of Minnesota before going to Paris where she studied mime. She returned to New York City in 197... Biography of Julie ANDREWS
Dame Julia Elizabeth Andrews, DBE (born Julia Elizabeth Wells on 1 October 1935) is a BAFTA, Emmy, Grammy and Academy Award-winning English actress, singer, author and cultural icon. Andrews rose to prominence after starring in Broadway musicals such as My Fair Lady and Camelot, as well as musical films like Mary Poppins (1964) and The Sound of Music (1965). In 2001, she had a major revival of her acting career as a result of her role in The Princess Diaries, its sequel The Princess Diaries 2... Biography of Bam MARGERA
Bam Margera (born Brandon Cole Margera on September 28, 1979, name legally changed to "Bam") is a professional skateboarder and television personality. He released a series of videos under the CKY banner and came to prominence after being drafted into MTV's Jackass crew. He has since appeared in MTV's Viva La Bam and Bam's Unholy Union, both Jackass movies, and Haggard, which he also co-wrote and directed. Margera was born in West Chester, Pennsylvania to Phil and April Margera. He is also th... Biography of Charlie WATTS (ROLLING STONES)
Charles Robert "Charlie" Watts (born 2 June 1941) is the drummer of The Rolling Stones. He is also a jazz bandleader and commercial artist. Sometimes referred to as "The Wembley Whammer" when introduced by Mick Jagger during a concert. Early life Watts was born to a driver and his wife Jessica Mort Watts at University College Hospital, London, England and raised in Islington, a London borough. In his early days, he attended Tylers Croft Secondary Modern School and Harrow Art School. In 1960,... Biography of Bryan ADAMS
Bryan Adams OC, OBC, (born 5 November 1959) is a Canadian rock singer, guitarist, songwriter and photographer. Some of his best-known albums are Reckless, 18 til I Die, and Waking Up the Neighbours. Adams was awarded the Order of Canada and the Order of British Columbia for his contribution to popular music and his philanthropic work. He was also inducted into Canada's Walk of Fame in 1998, and more recently inducted into the Music Hall of Fame at Canada's Juno Awards in April 2006. He has be... Biography of DHARMENDRA
Dharam Singh Deol (Hindi:धर्मेन्द्र सिंह देओल), born 8 December 1935 in Phagwara, Punjab, better known as Dharmendra, is a legendary Indian Bollywood film star. Early life He belongs to a Jat Sikh farmer family of Punjab. He is the son of Kewal Kishen Singh Deol and Satwant Kaur. At the peak of his film career he was considered a matinée idol. Currently he is a member of the 14th Lok ... Biography of Katy PERRY
Katy Perry (born Katheryn Elizabeth Hudson on October 25, 1984) is an American singer-songwriter. She has risen to prominence with her 2008 single "I Kissed a Girl" which has become a worldwide hit topping the charts in more than 20 countries, including the United States, United Kingdom, Canada, Australia and Ireland. In the United States, the song is also noted for being the 1000th chart-topper of the Rock Era. Perry has a contralto vocal range. Early life Perry was born in Santa Barbara, ... Biography of Ali MacGRAW
Alice MacGraw (born April 1, 1938 in Pound Ridge, Westchester County, New York) is an Academy Award-nominated, Golden Globe-winning American model and actress. Born to an Irish-American father, whom she recently described as "violent" (New York magazine, April 3, 2006, pp. 69-70), and a Jewish mother, she has one sibling, a brother. An alumna of Wellesley College, she began working in 1960 as a photographic assistant at Harper's Bazaar, as an assistant to the legendary fashion maven, Diana Vr... Biography of Joanna LUMLEY (THE AVENGERS)
Joanna Lumley OBE, FRGS (born 1 May 1946) is an Indian-born English actress and former model best known for her roles in The New Avengers, Absolutely Fabulous and Sapphire and Steel. Early career Joanna Lumley was born in Srinagar, India in 1946. She was educated at St Mary's School in Sussex. Tall, leggy, slim and blonde, Lumley spent three years as a photographic model, and is said to have made her TV debut in a well-known UK advert for Nimble bread first screened in 1969. She also work... Biography of Eddie Van HALEN
Edward Van Halen or Eddie Van Halen (born Edward Lodewijk van Halen on January 26, 1955 in Nijmegen, Netherlands), is a guitarist, songwriter and producer most famous for being leader and a co-founder of the hard rock band, Van Halen. Eddie Van Halen is also known as a skilled keyboardist, as demonstrated in his performance on the smash hit "Jump". Childhood Edward Van Halen was born to Jan Van Halen, a Dutch father, and Eugenia, an Indo-European mother, in Nijmegen, Netherlands. The Dutch V... Biography of Rudolf NOUREEV
Rudolf Nureyev (Tatar form Rudolf Xämät ulı Nuriev, Russian Рудольф Хаметович Нуриев) (17 March 1938 – 6 January 1993), a Tatar ballet dancer, is regarded as one of the greatest male dancers of the 20th century, alongside Vaslav Nijinsky and Mikhail Baryshnikov. Early life and career at the Kirov Nureyev was born on a train near Irkutsk, while his mother wa... Biography of Laëtitia BLEGER
Lætitia Bléger (born April 10, 1981 in Colmar, Alsace) is a beauty queen who has competed at the Miss Universe pageant. Bléger won the Miss France title in 2004 and represented France at the Miss Universe 2004 pageant held in Quito, Ecuador in May 2004. She was later was barred from wearing her sash and crown for a period of six months after posing 'half-naked' in Playboy magazine.... Biography of Henry MILLER
Henry Valentine Miller (December 26, 1891 – June 7, 1980) was an American writer and painter. He is known for breaking with existing literary forms and developing a new sort of "novel" that is a mixture of novel, autobiography, social criticism, philosophical reflection, surrealist free association, and mysticism, one that is distinctly always about and expressive of the real-life Henry Miller and yet is also fictional. His most characteristic works of this kind are Tropic of Cancer, Tropic of C... Biography of Chloe SEVIGNY
Chloë Stevens Sevigny (born November 18, 1974) is an Academy Award and Golden Globe-nominated American actress. Sevigny, who became well known for starring in a string of critically acclaimed, well received independent films in the 1990s, experienced her mainstream breakout role as Lana in Boys Don't Cry (1999), for which she received an Oscar and Golden Globe nomination for Best Supporting Actress. More recently, Sevigny has enjoyed success playing Nicki Grant, on the American television, se... Biography of Linda EVANS
Linda Evans (born Linda Evanstad on November 18, 1942 in Hartford, Connecticut) is a Golden Globe-winning American actress known primarily for her roles on soap operas and television. At 23, she arose to fame as Barbara Stanwyck's daughter and Lee Majors's sister, Audra Barkley, on the 1960s western, The Big Valley (1965-1969) and later as John Forsythe's younger compassionate wife, Krystle Carrington, on the 1980s prime-time television soap opera, Dynasty (1981-1989). Evans's first guest-sta... Biography of Andie MACDOWELL
Andie MacDowell (born Rosalie Anderson MacDowell on April 21, 1958 in Gaffney, South Carolina) is an American screen actress. Life and work MacDowell dropped out of Winthrop College as a sophomore in 1978 and signed with Elite Model Management. She appeared in print and television advertisements for the cosmetic and haircare company L'Oreal, a job she continued after she got her first role as an actress. A series of television commercials for Calvin Klein drew attention to her and led to her... Biography of Rene RUSSO
Rene Marie Russo (born February 17, 1954) is an American film actress and former fashion model. Early life Russo, an Italian American, was born in Burbank, California to Shirley Jean (a secretary and barmaid) and Nino Russo, a sculptor and mechanic who left the family when Rene was 2. Russo grew up with her sister, Toni, and their single mother. She attended Burroughs High School (where her classmates included director Ron Howard), but eventually dropped out in the tenth grade. Due to financ... Biography of Martina NAVRATILOVA
Martina Navratilova (born October 18, 1956, in Prague, Czechoslovakia) is a former World No. 1 woman tennis player. Billie Jean King said about Navratilova in 2006, "She's the greatest singles, doubles and mixed doubles player who's ever lived." Tennis writer Steve Flink, in his book The Greatest Tennis Matches of the Twentieth Century, named her as the second best female player of the 20th century, directly behind Steffi Graf. Tennis magazine has selected her as the greatest female tennis playe... Biography of Evan Rachel WOOD
Evan Rachel Wood (born September 7, 1987) is an American film, television and theater actress, and singer. She began acting in the late 1990s, appearing in several television roles, including American Gothic and Once and Again. Wood made her debut as a lead film actress in 2002's Little Secrets, and became well known after her Golden Globe-nominated role in Thirteen, which garnered her critical praise. She has since starred in several independent films, including Pretty Persuasion and Down in th... Biography of Mary-Louise PARKER
Mary-Louise Parker (born August 2, 1964 in Fort Jackson, South Carolina) is an American actress. She has been the recipient of the Tony, Emmy and Golden Globe awards. Her best-known works include Fried Green Tomatoes, Boys on the Side, Proof, The West Wing, Angels in America, and her current role on Showtime's Weeds. Height: 5' 8" (1.73 m) Early Work Parker majored in drama at the North Carolina School of the Arts. She then got her start in a bit part on the soap opera Ryan's Hope. In ... Biography of Tia CARRERE
Tia Carrere (born Althea Rae Duhinio Janairo on January 2, 1967) is a Hawaiian actress, model, and singer, most widely known for her role as Cassandra in the feature film Wayne's World. Early life Born in Honolulu, Hawaii of Filipino heritage, Carrere longed to be a singer as a child. Although she was eliminated during the first round of her 1985 Star Search appearance at the age of 17, she was spotted by the parents of a local producer while shopping at a Waikiki grocery store and was cast ... 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. 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 ret... Biography of Heather GRAHAM
Heather Joan Graham (born January 29, 1970, in Milwaukee, Wisconsin) is an American film and television actress from Agoura Hills, CA. Childhood and early career Her father, Jim, is a retired FBI agent and her mother, Joan, is a noted author of children's books. Graham has a younger sister, Aimee, who is also an aspiring actress and writer. The family followed a strict traditional Catholic upbringing of Irish descent. Heather has since estranged herself from the Catholic Church, saying it is... Biography of Tea LEONI
Téa Leoni (born Elizabeth Téa Pantaleoni on February 25, 1966) is an American actress. Her name is pronounced /'teːɑ lɛ'oːniː/, although some Americans say /'tiːə li'oːniː/ Personal life Leoni was born in New York City to Anthony Pantaleoni, a corporate lawyer, and his wife, the former Emily Patterson, a dietician. Leoni's paternal grandfather, Lt. Col. Guido Pantaleoni, who was the general manager of Westinghouse, had an Italian engineer father a... Biography of Angela LANSBURY
Angela Lansbury CBE (born October 16, 1925) is a four-time Tony-winning, six-time Golden Globe-winning, three-time Oscar-nominated, and eighteen-time Emmy-nominated English actress. Her multi-faceted career has spanned seven decades and she is well-known for her roles on both stage and screen. Early life Born in London, Lansbury was the daughter of Belfast-born actress Moyna MacGill and Edgar Lansbury, a prominent businessman, and the granddaughter of the former Labour Party leader George La... Biography of Julian LENNON
John Charles Julian Lennon known universally as Julian Lennon, (born April 8, 1963 in Liverpool, England) is an English singer, songwriter, musician, and first son of Beatle John Lennon and the only child of his first wife Cynthia Lennon. His godfather was Beatles' manager Brian Epstein. His father's nickname for him was "JCJ", and he was named after John Lennon's late mother, Julia. Early childhood Julian Lennon attended the set of The Beatles' film Magical Mystery Tour, and made his musica... Biography of Cybill SHEPHERD
Cybill Lynne Shepherd (born 18 February 1950) is a Golden Globe award winning American actress, singer, and former fashion model. Her best known roles include starring as Jacy in "The Last Picture Show", Maddie Hayes in Moonlighting, as Cybill Sheridan in Cybill, as Betsy in Taxi Driver and as Phyllis Kroll in The L Word. Youth Shepherd was born in Memphis, Tennessee to William Jennings Shepherd and Patty Shobe. Named after her grandfather Cy and her father Bill, Shepherd won the 1966 "Mi... Biography of Robert CONRAD
Robert Conrad (born either Conrad Robert Falk or Konrad Robert Falkowski on March 1, 1935 in Chicago, Illinois, although the year is still subject to question), is an American film and TV actor and director. He is primarily known for the 1965-1969 television series The Wild Wild West, in which he played the title character, James West. The movie remake starring Will Smith was based on this series, and Conrad was openly critical of the film. Before The Wild Wild West, Conrad played Tom Lopaka ... Biography of John BELUSHI
John Adam Belushi (January 24, 1949 – March 5, 1982) was an Emmy Award-winning American actor, comedian and musician, notable for his work on Saturday Night Live, National Lampoon's Animal House and The Blues Brothers. Early life Belushi was born in Chicago, Illinois to Agnes B. Samaras, a first-generation Albanian American, and Adam Belushi, an Albanian immigrant and restaurant operator who left his native village, Qytezë, in 1934 at the age of fifteen. Belushi was raised in the Albanian Or... Biography of Stéphane AUDRAN
Stéphane Audran (born on November 8, 1932 and christened Colette Stéphane Dacheville in Versailles, France) is a film and television actress, known for her performances in Oscar winning movies like Le charme discret de la bourgeoisie (1972) and Babette's Feast (1987) and in critically acclaimed films like The Big Red One (1980) and Violette Nozière (1978). She married French director and screenwriter Claude Chabrol in 1964, after a short marriage to the French actor Jean-Louis Trintignant. He... Biography of Xaviera HOLLANDER
Xaviera Hollander (born 15 June 1943) is a former call girl and madam. She was born Vera de Vries in Soerabaja, Indonesia (then known as the Dutch East Indies) to a Jewish father and Christian mother. She is best known as the author of The Happy Hooker: My Own Story (1971, ISBN 0-06-001416-4). The book was notable for its frankness at the time and is considered a landmark of positive writing about sex. It was made into a film starring Lynn Redgrave. Hollander has since written a number of oth... Biography of Molly RINGWALD
Molly Kathleen Ringwald (born February 18, 1968) is an American actress, singer, and dancer. She became popular with teenage audiences in the 1980s, as a result of her starring roles in the John Hughes movies Sixteen Candles, The Breakfast Club and Pretty in Pink. Early life Ringwald was born outside Sacramento, California in Roseville, California, the daughter of blind jazz pianist Robert Scott "Bob" Ringwald, and Adele Edith (Frembd), a housewife and chef. Ringwald has two siblings, Elizab... Biography of Jack OSBOURNE
Jack Joseph Osbourne (born November 8, 1985 in London, England) is the son of music legend Ozzy Osbourne and music manager Sharon Osbourne, which also makes him the grandson of Don Arden. He has 2 older sisters, Aimee Osbourne and Kelly Osbourne, and also two elder half-siblings; Jessica Osbourne and Louis John Osbourne, both of whom are from Ozzy's previous marriage to Thelma Riley. Jack also has an adopted brother Robert Mercato, a long-time friend of the Osbourne family who was adopted after ... Biography of Mike MYERS
Michael John Myers (born May 25, 1963, in Scarborough, Ontario) is an Emmy Award-winning British-Canadian comedian, actor, screenwriter, and film producer, best known for his comedy work in Saturday Night Live and the film roles including the title characters of Wayne's World, the Austin Powers series, and Shrek. Height 5' 8" (1.73 m) Personal life Both of Myers' parents, Eric and Alice, are from Liverpool, England, and Myers has British, as well as Canadian, citizenship. His ethnic her...
Biography of José GARCIA
José Garcia is a famous French actor and humorist. Filmography 1988 : Romuald et Juliette de Coline Serreau 1994 : Élisa de Jean Becker 1995 : Beaumarchais, l'insolent de Edouard Molinaro 1997 : Les Démons de Jésus de Bernie Bonvoisin 1997 : Tout doit disparaître de Philippe Muyl 1997 : La Vérité si je mens ! 1 de Thomas Gilou 1998 : Les Grandes bouches de Bernie Bonvoisin 1999 : Extension du domaine de la lutte de Philippe Harel 2000 : En face de Mathias Ledoux 2000 : Je... Biography of Marisa BERENSON
Marisa Berenson (born February 15, 1947) is an American actress and model. Early life Marisa Berenson is the elder daughter of Robert L. Berenson, a U.S. diplomat of Lithuanian Jewish descent whose original family name was Valvrojenski. Her mother is Countess Maria Luisa Yvonne Radha de Wendt de Kerlor, better known as Gogo Schiaparelli, a socialite of Italian, Swiss, French, and Egyptian ancestry. (She is now Marchesa Cacciapuoti di Giugliano). Her maternal grandmother was the fashion desig... Biography of Bill MAHER
William Maher, Jr., (pronounced: /mɑɹ/) (born January 20, 1956) is an American comedian, actor, writer, and producer. He hosted the late-night television talk show Politically Incorrect on Comedy Central and ABC, and is currently the star of Real Time with Bill Maher on HBO. On June 1, 2006, he also began hosting an Internet-exclusive talk show on Amazon.com entitled Amazon Fishbowl. Maher is known for his political satire and sociopolitical commentary. His commentaries target a wid... Biography of Stephanie McMAHON
Stephanie Marie McMahon-Levesque (born September 24, 1976) better known by her maiden name Stephanie McMahon, is World Wrestling Entertainment's Executive Vice President of Talent Relations, Live Events and Creative Writing. She is the daughter of WWE Chairman Vince McMahon and WWE CEO Linda McMahon, and is the younger sister of Shane McMahon. She is married to Paul "Triple H" Levesque, with whom she has one daughter, Aurora Rose Levesque. Billed height 5 ft 8 in (1.73 m) Billed weight 135 ... Biography of Catherine BACH
Catherine Bach (born Catherine Bachman on March 1, 1954) is an American actress. She is best known for playing Daisy Duke in the television series The Dukes of Hazzard and for playing Margo Dutton in African Skies. Career Bach's first screen appearance was in the Burt Lancaster murder mystery, The Midnight Man, shot in Upstate South Carolina in 1973, in which she played the murdered coed, Natalie Underwood. It was released in June 1974. Her next role was Melody in the 1974 film Thunderbol... Biography of Matthew BRODERICK
Matthew Broderick (born March 21, 1962) is a Tony Award-winning American film and stage actor who is perhaps best known for his role as the title character in Ferris Bueller's Day Off. He also received considerable acclaim for his role as Leo Bloom in The Producers. Early life Broderick was born in New York City, the son of actor James Wilke Broderick and Patricia (née Biow), a playwright, actress and painter whose work was posthumously shown at the Tibor de Nagy gallery in New York. Broderi... Biography of Rubin CARTER (HURRICANE)
Rubin "Hurricane" Carter (born May 6, 1937) is an African-American former middleweight boxer between 1961 and 1966, although he is better known for his controversial convictions (1967, 1976) for three June 1966 murders in Paterson, New Jersey, and his subsequent release from prison in 1985. The question of Carter’s actual guilt or innocence remains a strongly polarizing one. However, this much is certain: either the criminal justice system released a triple murderer from the punishment that t... Biography of Maurice GIBB (BEE GEES)
Maurice Ernest Gibb CBE (December 22, 1949 – January 12, 2003), was a musician and singer-songwriter. He was born in Douglas, Isle of Man to English parents. Maurice (pronounced Morris), was a twin brother to Robin Gibb, and was the younger of the twins by thirty-five minutes. He is best known as a member of the singing-songwriting trio the Bee Gees, formed with his brothers Robin and Barry. The trio had their start in Australia; their major success came when they returned to England where th... Biography of Peter SELLERS
Peter Sellers, CBE (8 September 1925 – 24 July 1980) was an English comedian and actor best known for his Inspector Clouseau roles in Pink Panther films. Sellers first rose to fame on the BBC Home Service radio series The Goon Show. Early life Sellers was born Richard Henry Sellers in Southsea, Portsmouth, England to a family of entertainers. His parents nicknamed him "Peter" at an early age, after his elder stillborn brother. He attended a Roman Catholic school, St. Aloysius College, alth... Biography of Kelly ROWLAND (Destiny's Child)
Kelly Rowland (born Kelendria Trene Rowland on February 11, 1981) is an American R&B singer, songwriter, dancer, and actress, who rose to fame as one of the founding members of the successful R&B girl group Destiny's Child, One of the world's best-selling female group of all time selling over 53 million records worldwide. After a series of commercially successful releases with the group and a worldwide number-one success with rapper Nelly and their Grammy-winning single "Dilemma", Rowland r...
Biography of JUANES
Juan Esteban Aristizábal Vásquez best known as Juanes (born August 9, 1972 in Carolina del Príncipe, Antioquia) is a Colombian rock musician. During the 1980s and 1990s, Juanes was a member of heavy metal band Ekhymosis but disbanded the group in 1998 to pursue a solo career. His 2000 solo debut album, Fíjate Bien, had moderate commercial success and went on to win three Latin Grammy Awards. Height: 5' 8" (1.73 m) His second album, Un Día Normal was certified platinum throughout much of th... Biography of ICE CUBE
O'Shea Jackson (born June 15, 1969), better known by his stage name, Ice Cube, is an American rapper, actor and film director. Regarded as one of the greatest hip hop artists, he began his career as a founding member of the famously controversial rap group N.W.A., and later launched a successful solo career in music and cinema. In 1992, he married Kimberly Woodruff, with whom he has four children. Later, in 1992, he converted to Sunni Islam. From the mid-1990s onwards, Cube focused on acting, an... Biography of Kathleen TURNER
Mary Kathleen Turner (born June 19, 1954) is an Academy Award-nominated American actress. She came to fame during the 1980s, after roles in the Hollywood films Body Heat, Romancing the Stone and Prizzi's Honor. Height 5' 8" (1.73 m) Early life Turner was born in Springfield, Missouri, the daughter of Patsy Magee and Allen Richard Turner, who was a U.S. Foreign Service officer and schoolteacher; he grew up in China (where Turner's great-grandfather worked as a Methodist missionary) and, ... Biography of Shannyn SOSSAMON
Shannon Marie Sossamon (born October 3, 1978), better known as Shannyn Sossamon, is an American actress, musician and dancer. Early life Sossamon was born in Honolulu, Hawaii, to Sherry Sossamon and Todd Lindberg, grew up in Reno, Nevada, and attended Galena High School there. She is of French, Hawaiian, Dutch, English, Irish, Filipino and German descent; her maternal grandmother is Hawaiian-Filipino, and her maternal grandfather is English-German. The y in her first name was an adolescent a... Biography of Inés SASTRE
Inés Sastre (born November 21, 1973, Valladolid) is a Spanish model and actress. Early Life Sastre's career started at the age of 12, when she was selected for a fast-food commercial with McDonalds. Her first movie appearance occurred in 1987 in El dorado by Carlos Saura. In 1989, she was awarded the look of the year by the Elite Model Agency group. At that point in her life she was offered to continue in the modelling business but she chose to continue her studies instead. She studied at... Biography of Gérard DARMON
Gérard Darmon, born February 29, 1948 in Paris, is a French actor and singer. Discography 2003 : Au milieu de la nuit 2006 : Dancing Filmography 1973 : Les Aventures de Rabbi Jacob, de Gérard Oury 1980 : Diva, de Jean-Jacques Beineix 1982 : Le Grand Pardon, de Alexandre Arcady 1982 : Les Princes, de Tony Gatlif 1982 : La Baraka, de Jean Valère 1983 : Cap Canaille, de Juliet Berto 1983 : Le Grand Carnaval, de Alexandre Arcady 1984 : Notre histoire, de Bertrand B... Biography of Tonya KINZINGER
Tonya Kinzinger is an American actress, business woman and model born June 10, 1968 in Monroe. She is the wife of Bernard Lignon. Filmography Télévision Top Models (Amour, Gloire et Beauté) (2007) Sous le soleil (1996-2007) Higlander (1996) Extrême Limite (1993) Garde à vue (1993) Les danseurs du Mozambique (Then myth that wouldn't die) (1992) Le soleil naît derrière le Louvre (Nestor Burma) (1992) Les dessous de la passion (1991) Films Dark Realm (2000) Dancin... Biography of Sarah CHALKE
Sarah Chalke (born August 27, 1976 in Ottawa, Ontario) is a Canadian television and movie actress best known for portraying Dr. Elliot Reid on the NBC sitcom Scrubs and also for portraying the second Becky Conner-Healy on ABC's Roseanne. Height: 5' 8" (1.73 m) Early life Chalke was born in Ontario, Canada, and was raised in Vancouver, British Columbia. She is the middle of the three daughters of Doug and Angie Chalke. Her mother is from Rostock, Germany. Chalke maintains contact with her ... Biography of Roland ORZABAL (TEARS FOR FEARS)
Roland Orzabal (full name Roland Jaime Orzabal de la Quintana) is an internationally acclaimed musician, songwriter and record producer. He is known mainly as a co-founding member of Tears for Fears, of which he is the main songwriter and predominant vocalist, but he has also achieved success as a producer of other artists. Born on 22 August 1961, in Portsmouth, England, Orzabal's mother is English and his father is from Paris, but of Spanish-Basque descent. Orzabal was originally named "Raou... Biography of Marie-George BUFFET
Marie-George Buffet (born May 7, 1949 in Sceaux, Hauts-de-Seine) is a French politician, currently the head of the French Communist Party (PCF). She joined the Party in 1969, and was the Minister of Youth Affairs and Sports from June 4, 1997 to May 5, 2002. Ms. Buffet was re-elected on June 16, 2002 to another five-year term in the National Assembly, as a representative of Seine-Saint-Denis. Height: 1m73 Buffet was elected in 2001 as National Secretary of the Party, succeeding Robert Hue, ... Biography of Solange KNOWLES
Solange Piaget Knowles (born June 24, 1986 in Houston, Texas) is an American actress, R&B singer, songwriter, producer, model and younger sister of Beyoncé Knowles. Height: 5' 8" (1.73 m) Personal life Solange Piaget Knowles-Smith was born on June 24, 1986 in Houston, Texas, to Mathew and Tina Knowles. Her father is African-American and her mother is of Creole descent. Her maternal grandparents are Lumis Beyincé and Agnéz Deréon (a seamstress). Knowles married college football player Dani... Biography of Thierry REY
Thierry Rey is a French judoka, born June 1, 1959 in Lagny-sur-Marne. He is also an actor. He was the boyfriend of Claude Chirac, the daugther of former French President Jacques Chirac. They have a son, Martin Rey-Chirac.... Biography of F. Scott FITZGERALD
Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald (September 24, 1896 – December 21, 1940) was an American Jazz Age author of novels and short stories. He is regarded as one of the greatest twentieth century writers. Fitzgerald was of the self-styled "Lost Generation," Americans born in the 1890s who came of age during World War I. He finished four novels, left a fifth unfinished, and wrote dozens of short stories that treat themes of youth, despair, and age. Works Novels This Side of Paradise (New York: Cha... Biography of Chris FARLEY
Christopher Crosby Farley (February 15, 1964 – December 18, 1997) was an American actor and comedian. Farley was a cast member at Chicago's Second City Theatre and achieved his greatest fame as a cast member on the American sketch comedy show Saturday Night Live. He starred in a string of moderately successful comedic films in the 1990s before his death in late 1997. Early life Chris Farley was born in Madison, Wisconsin. His family consists of three brothers (Tom, Jr., and actors Kevin a... Biography of Gwendal PEIZERAT
Gwendal Peizerat (born April 21, 1972 in Bron, France) is a French figure skater and 2002 Olympic champion in ice dancing. Peizerat started skating at age four when he and his sister, then six, followed their parents to the skating club at the rink. He was introduced into ice dancing straight away, coached by Murielle Boucher-Zazoui, who to this day, remains his coach. His first partner was the French figure skater Marina Morel. Together they finished 3rd at the 1990 World Junior Champions... Biography of Rhona MITRA
Rhona Mitra (born August 9, 1976) is an English actress. She is sometimes credited as Rona Mitra. Height: 5' 6½" (1.69 m) Early life Mitra was born in Paddington, London, England, to Nora and Anthony Mitra, a cosmetic surgeon. Her father is part Indian and part English; her mother is Irish. In 1984, when Mitra was eight, her parents divorced and, as part of an overall lifestyle change, she was sent to boarding school. Several years passed at two different all-girls schools, including Roe... Biography of Shelley DUVALL
Shelley Alexis Duvall (born July 7, 1949) is an award winning American film and television actress. She began her career in the 1970s, playing quirky and waif-like characters in the movies of Robert Altman, and eventually starred in movies by Woody Allen, Stanley Kubrick, Terry Gilliam and Tim Burton. Early life Duvall was born in Houston, Texas to Robert Richardson Duvall, a defense attorney, and Bobbie Ruth Massengale, a real estate broker. She has three brothers, Scott, Shane, and Stuart.... Biography of Kelly BROOK
Kelly Brook (born Kelly Ann Parsons on November 23, 1979) is an English model, actress, and occasional swimwear designer and television presenter. After leaving school in Rochester, Brook studied at the Italia Conti stage school in London for three years before becoming a professional model. Model Brook's modeling career began at 16 after winning a beauty competition, her early work was in a range of advertising campaigns, including for the new "Bravissimo" company that specializes in ... Biography of Debra MESSING
Debra Lynn Messing (born August 15, 1968) is an Emmy and SAG winning American actress, known for portraying Grace Adler in Will & Grace and for appearing in a series of film roles. Height: 5' 8" (1.73 m) Early life Messing was born in the New York City borough of Brooklyn to Jewish American parents Brian Messing, a sales executive for a jewelry manufacturer, and Sandra, who has worked as a professional singer, banker, travel and real estate agent. When Messing was three, she moved with he... Biography of Christina HENDRICKS
Christina Hendricks (born Christina Rene Hendricks on May 3, 1978) is an American actress. Hendricks was born in Knoxville, Tennessee and raised in Twin Falls, Idaho from third grade until high school. She left Twin Falls after the 8th grade in 1989. She got her start acting in Junior Musical Playhouse productions, including Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat. As an actress, Hendricks has made her mark in a number of guest TV appearances. Her first television break came when she ... Biography of Mimi ROGERS
Mimi Rogers (born Miriam Spickler on January 27, 1956 in Coral Gables, Florida) is an American movie actress and competitive poker player. Her breakthrough role was opposite Tom Berenger in Someone to Watch Over Me (1987). Since then, her career has largely been focused on independent films, including the controversial The Rapture (1991). Although she continues to do independent films, Rogers is certainly not averse to Hollywood. She has appeared in sci-fi films such as Lost in Space (1998), ... Biography of Paz VEGA
Paz Campos Trigo (born January 2, 1976), better known as Paz Vega, is a Spanish actress. Height: 5' 8" (1.73 m) Early life Vega was born in Seville, Andalucía and takes her stage name from her grandmother. After attending a performance of Federico García Lorca's La casa de Bernarda Alba at the age of 15 she was convinced that she wanted to become an actress. After completing compulsory education at 16, she was accepted at the prestigious Centro Andaluz de Teatro stage school. After two ye... Biography of Heather KOZAR
Heather Kozar (born May 4, 1976, in Akron, Ohio) is an American model. Kozar was Playboy's Playmate of the Month for January 1998, appeared on the cover of the June 1999 issue of the magazine, and was voted Playmate of the Year for 1999. She was also the St Pauli Girl for 2002. She has also been a Barker's Beauty model for the popular daytime TV game show, The Price Is Right. She is married to former Cleveland Browns quarterback Tim Couch. Heather and Tim have a son together, named Chas... Biography of Alessandra MARTINES
Alessandra Martines (born September 19, 1963) is an Italian-French dancer and actress, best known for her portrayal of Princess Fantaghirò in the Fantaghirò series and her interpretations under the direction of her husband, the french director Claude Lelouch, in several movies (Les Misérables, And now... Ladies and Gentlemen). Alessandra Martines was born in Rome. She has a daughter, called Stella. Filmography 1987 : Miss Arizona de Pal Sandor 1991 à 1996 : La Caverne de la Rose d'Or ... Biography of Anne BANCROFT
Anne Bancroft (September 17, 1931 – June 6, 2005) was an iconic Academy Award, Golden Globe, Tony, and Emmy-winning American actress. Early life Bancroft was born Anna Maria Louisa Italiano in the Bronx, New York to Michael and Mildred Italiano, both children of Italian immigrants. Bancroft graduated Christopher Columbus High School in the Bronx in 1948, and attended the American Academy of Dramatic Arts, the Actors Studio, and the American Film Institute's Directing Workshop for Women at... Biography of Groucho MARX
Julius Henry "Groucho" Marx (October 2, 1890 – August 19, 1977), was an American comedian and film star. He is famed as a master of wit. He made 15 feature films with his siblings, the Marx Brothers. He had a distinctive image which included a heavy moustache, glasses and fake eyebrows. Childhood & Pre-Hollywood Successes The Marx family grew up on the Upper East Side (E 93rd Street) of New York City, in a small Jewish neighborhood sandwiched between Irish-German and Italian neighborhoods. ... Biography of Andrew McCARTHY
Andrew McCarthy (born November 29, 1962) is an American actor, producer and screenwriter. Height : 5' 8" (1.73 m) McCarthy grew up in Westfield, New Jersey before moving to Bernardsville, New Jersey and attending The Pingry School. He began acting at the age of 15. He attended New York University as a theater major. His first film role was the lead in the 1983 film Class. His better known films include the Brat Pack films St. Elmo's Fire and Pretty in Pink. Other memorable roles include... Biography of Jeri RYAN
Jeri Lynn Ryan (born February 22, 1968) is an American actress who came to fame as the ex-Borg Seven of Nine on Star Trek: Voyager. Height: 5' 8" (1.73 m) Childhood Ryan was born Jeri Lynn Zimmerman in 1968 in Munich, Germany, to American parents; she has one older brother, Mark. Her father was in the United States Army and as a military brat she grew up on military bases in Kansas, Maryland, Hawaii, Georgia, and Texas. When Ryan was eleven, the family settled in Paducah, Kentucky. After ... Biography of Naveen ANDREWS
Naveen William Sidney Andrews (born January 17, 1969) is an Emmy- and Golden Globe-nominated Indian-English actor. He is known for his roles in The English Patient (1996) and as Sayid in the U.S.A. television series Lost. Height: 5' 8" (1.73 m) Early life Andrews was born in London, England to Nirmala, a psychologist, and Stanley Andrews, a businessman, both immigrants from Kerala, India. He was raised in Wandsworth, South London (beside the River Thames) and had what he has described as ... Biography of Carrie WESTCOTT
Carrie Westcott is an American model and actress. Measurements 34"D - 24" - 34" Height 5 ft 8 in Weight 120 lb Carrie was born on December 12, 1969, in Mission Hills, Kansas and graduated from Canyon Country High School in 1988. She spent her childhood in Mission Viejo, California, 50 miles south of Los Angeles. She and her sister were photogenic at an early age with Carrie starting to professionally model in her teens. She sent in some test photos to Playboy in late 1992. She was cho... Biography of Leslie EASTERBROOK
Leslie Easterbrook (born July 29, 1949) is an American actress. Height: 5' 8" (1.73 m) Early life She was born in Los Angeles and adopted by a family in rural Nebraska and raised there. Her father later earned a PhD and became a voice/trumpet professor at Kearney University. He prepared her for operatic roles and coached her in trumpet playing for Laverne & Shirley. Career Easterbrook has become a familiar face to American audiences, with about a dozen feature films and over 300 te... Biography of Christophe SOUMILLON
Christophe Soumillon (born June 4, 1981 in Schaerbeek near Brussels, Belgium) is a Belgian-born Thoroughbred horse racing jockey. Raised in a horse racing family, he is the son of a horse jumping jockey Jean-Marc Soumillon. Christophe Soumillon apprenticed at Chantilly Racecourse in Chantilly, France to Cédric Boutin, and won his first race in November, 1997. By the end of 1999 he had been named Champion Apprentice. In April of 2000, Soumillon won five races on the same day, tying the all-... Biography of Kimberly DONLEY
Kimberly Donley (born December 15, 1965 in Aurora, Illinois, U.S.A.) is an American adult model and actress. She was Playboy's Playmate of the Month in March 1993 and continues to model there. Appearances in Playboy special editions Playboy's Playmate Review Vol. 10 May 1994 - pages 22-31. Playboy's Book of Lingerie Vol. 38 July 1994. Playboy's Playmates at Play July 1994 - pages 30-33. Playboy's Beauty Queens August 1994. Playboy's Book of Lingerie Vol. 39 September 1994 - front ... Biography of Chris DAUGHTRY
Christopher Adam Daughtry (born December 26, 1979) is a Grammy nominated American rock guitarist, singer and songwriter who is the lead vocalist of Daughtry, a band he formed in 2006. He was the fourth-place finalist on the highly publicized fifth season of American Idol, eliminated from the competition on May 10, 2006. After his fallout from Idol, his band's self-titled debut album sold more than 1 million copies after just 5 weeks of release, becoming the fastest selling debut rock album in... Biography of Jennifer O'NEILL
Jennifer O'Neill (born February 20, 1948) is an American actress and author. Born in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, the daughter of a Spanish-Irish businessman and his English wife. As a teenager, O'Neill worked as a fashion model and appeared in television commercials and on magazine covers. In 1968 she landed a small role in For the Love of Ivy. In 1970 she played one of the lead female roles in Rio Lobo starring John Wayne. After her success in Summer of '42 in 1971, in which she plays the you... Biography of Maureen O'HARA
Maureen O'Hara (born Maureen FitzSimons on August 17, 1920 in Ranelagh, County Dublin, Ireland) is an Irish film actress and singer. Height: 5' 8" (1.73 m) Born to Charles Stewart Parnell FitzSimons (a Catholic) and Marguerita Lilburn (a Protestant) in Ranelagh, County Dublin, Ireland not long before partition, the famously red-headed beauty is noted for playing fiercely passionate heroines with a highly sensible attitude. She often worked with director John Ford and longtime friend John W... Biography of Brad RENFRO
Brad Barron Renfro (July 25, 1982 – January 15, 2008) was an American actor. A native of the state of Tennessee, he made his movie debut in 1994 in The Client at the age of 12 years old. He acted in 24 movies and several television episodes during his career. In 2006, he spent 10 days in jail for conviction of driving while under the influence and attempted heroin possession. Career Brad Renfro was born in Knoxville, Tennessee, the son of Angela and Mark Renfro, who works in a blueprint fact... Biography of Rachel BLANCHARD
Rachel Elise Blanchard (born March 19, 1976 in Toronto, Ontario) is a Canadian actress. Her career was launched with a part in a McDonald's commercial, and as an eight-year-old on the Canadian children's show The Kids of Degrassi Street, where she played Melanie Schlegel. Blanchard is probably best known for playing the part of Cher Horowitz (originally portrayed by Alicia Silverstone) on the television series Clueless based on the 1995 movie Clueless. Height: 5' 8" (1.73 m) She received c...
Biography of Niki KARIMI
Niki Karimi (Persian: نیکی کریمی), born 10 November 1971 in Tehran, is a multi-award winning Iranian actress and movie director. Niki Karimi was born and raised in Tehran. She participated in theatrical work while she was in elementary school. Her hobby of reading and watching movies from an early age inspired her to become an actress. Her talent as an actress was found by the famous Iranian actor Jamshid Gorgin, while she was playing a ro... Biography of Jack LAMOTTA
Giacobbe La Motta (born July 10, 1921), better known as Jake LaMotta, nicknamed "The Bronx Bull" and "The Raging Bull", is a former boxer who was world middleweight champion and whose life has been as controversial outside the ring as it was inside it. He was portrayed by Robert De Niro in the biopic Raging Bull. Height: 5' 8" (1.73 m) Boxing records LaMotta, who compiled a record of 83 wins, 19 losses and 4 draws with 30 wins by way of knockout, was the first man to beat Sugar Ray Robin... Biography of Marla MAPLES
Marla Maples (born October 27, 1963) is an American actress, perhaps best known for her former marriage to billionaire celebrity Donald Trump. Maples was born in Dalton, Georgia to Ann, a former office worker, and Stan Maples, a real estate developer. She lives in Los Angeles with their daughter, Tiffany. In May 2007, she became part of the television show, "The Ex-Wives Club". In July 2007, Maples was briefly seen in a segment of the 1-hour NBC special "Victoria Beckham: Coming To America" d... Biography of Camilla BELLE
Camilla Belle (born Camilla Belle Routh; October 2, 1986) is an American actress. She is known for her lead role in the 2006 remake of When a Stranger Calls, the 2008 film 10,000 BC, and the 2000 Disney Channel film Rip Girls. Belle is known for her trademark dark, defined eyebrows and exotic appearance. Personal life Belle was born Camilla Belle Routh in Los Angeles California, the daughter of Cristina Routh, who designed a fashion line in her native Brazil and is now Camilla's manager, and... Biography of Carmella DECESARE
Carmella Danielle DeCesare (born July 1, 1982) is an American model and a former WWE RAW diva who was Playboy magazine's Miss April 2003 and Playmate of the Year for 2004. She is of Italian and Puerto Rican descent. She married Tampa Bay Buccaneers quarterback Jeff Garcia on April 21, 2007. DeCesare was born in Avon Lake, Ohio and lives in Manhattan Beach, California. She graduated from Avon Lake High School in 2000, and later worked at a title company in the Cleveland area. She responded to ... Biography of Amanda PEET
Amanda Peet (born January 11, 1972) is an American film and television actress. Height: 5' 8" (1.73 m) Early life Peet was born in New York City to Charles Peet, a lawyer, and Penny Levy, a social worker; the two are now divorced. Her father is a Quaker and her mother is Jewish. Peet attended Friends Seminary, then studied history at and graduated from Columbia University, where she auditioned for acting teacher Uta Hagen and decided to become an actress after taking Hagen's class. During... Biography of Ben KINGSLEY
Sir Ben Kingsley, CBE, (born December 31, 1943) is a British actor. He is perhaps best known for his portrayal of Mahatma Gandhi in Richard Attenborough's 1982 film Gandhi, for which he won an Academy Award for Best Actor. Height: 5' 8" (1.73 m) Early life Kingsley was born Krishna Bhanji in Scarborough, Yorkshire, England, the son of Ann Lyna Mary (née Goodman), an actress and model, and Rahimtulla Harji Bhanji, a medical doctor. Kingsley's father, an Ismaili Muslim, was born in Kenya of... Biography of Danny WOOD
Daniel William Wood Jr. (born 14 May 1969, Boston, Massachusetts) was a member of the boy band New Kids on the Block. Height: 5' 8" (1.73 m) Early days He was the "body" of the group being the most physically fit, and very interested in sports. Wood was keen on his appearance and his own physical fitness. He also choreographed a lot of the dance moves for the band. He and fellow group member, Donnie Wahlberg, worked together and produced tracks for Marky Mark and the Funky Bunch, a gro... Biography of Marcy WALKER
Marcy Walker (born November 26, 1961) is an American soap opera actress. She was born in Paducah, Kentucky, and grew up in Lancaster, California. Walker graduated from Antelope Valley High School in 1978 after only three years enrolled. In 1981, she got her first soap job as Liza Colby on All My Children. After a successful three-year run (and two Outstanding Supporting Actress Daytime Emmy nominations, in 1983 and 1984), she decided to leave the show for other opportunities. She was replaced... Biography of Gabrielle UNION
Gabrielle Monique Union (born October 29, 1972) is an African-American actress and former model. Among her notable roles is as the cheerleader opposite Kirsten Dunst's in the film Bring it On. Union also starred opposite Will Smith and Martin Lawrence in the blockbuster film Bad Boys II and played a medical doctor in the CBS drama series City of Angels. She also starred with L.L. Cool J and Meagan Good in "Deliver Us from Eva" in 2003. Height: 5' 8" (1.73 m) Early life Gabrielle Union was... Biography of Marthe KELLER
Marthe Keller (born January 28, 1945, Basel, Switzerland) is a Swiss actress. She studied ballet as a child, but stopped after a skiing accident at age 16. She changed to acting, and worked in Berlin at the Schiller Theatre and the Berliner Ensemble. Height: Taille : 5' 8" (1.73 m) Keller's earliest film appearances were in Funeral in Berlin (1966, uncredited) and the German film Wilder Reiter GmbH (1967). She appeared in a series of French films in the 1970s, including Un cave (1971), La ... Biography of Anne POHTAMO
Anne Marie Pohtamo (born August 15, 1955), from Helsinki, Finland, was the second woman from Finland to capture the Miss Universe crown. She claimed the Miss Universe crown in 1975 at the pageant held in El Salvador. Pohtamo was crowned by Miss Universe 1972 Kerry Anne Wells, not by her predecessor Amparo Muñoz, as Muñoz was dethroned shortly before her reign ended. Pohtamo became the second Finn to claim the title of Miss Universe, 23 years before Armi Kuusela had claimed it. She pursued a m... Biography of Steve WINWOOD
Stephen Lawrence "Steve" Winwood (born May 12, 1948 in Handsworth, Birmingham, England) is an English singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist who, in addition to his solo career, was a member of the bands the Spencer Davis Group, Traffic, Go and Blind Faith. Career While still a pupil at Great Barr School (where actor Martin Shaw was a classmate), Winwood was a part of the Birmingham rhythm and blues scene, playing the Hammond B-3 Organ and guitar, backing blues singers such as Muddy Wat... Biography of Joe STRUMMER (CLASH)
John Graham Mellor (August 21, 1952 – December 22, 2002), better known as Joe Strummer, was the co-founder, lyricist, rhythm guitarist and lead singer of the English punk rock band The Clash. He was also a member of the The 101'ers, The Mescaleros and (temporarily) The Pogues. The early years 1952-1976 Joe Strummer was born as John Graham Mellor in Ankara, Turkey on August 21, 1952. His mother, a crofter's daughter and one of nine children born and raised in the Scottish Highlands, was a nur... Biography of Madeline ZIMA
Madeline Rose Zima (born September 16, 1985) is an American actress. She is mostly known for her six years as Grace Sheffield on the TV Series The Nanny or more recently as the promiscuous 16 year old, Mia Gross, on the Showtime dramedy Californication. Height: 5' 8" (1.73 m) Early life Zima was born in New Haven, Connecticut, to Marie and Dennis Zima. She has two sisters, Vanessa and Yvonne, both of whom are also actresses. Career She played the role of Grace Sheffield on the tele... Biography of Aida YESPICA
Aída María Yéspica Jaime (IPA: ), is a Venezuelan beauty queen born on July 15, 1982 in Barquisimeto, Venezuela. Height 173 cm / 5'8" Hair color black Eye color brown Measurements 90-61-90 Weight 55 kg Pageant participation Aida Yespica's career began in the Venezuelan famous national pageant Miss Venezuela in 2002. As Miss Amazonas, she represented the state of Amazonas. The winner was Mariangel Ruiz but Yespica became a big favorite among the press. Her measurements 90-60-90 de... Biography of Bruno SOLO
Bruno Lassalle, best known as Bruno Solo, born September 1964 in Paris, is a French actor, humorist, director, screenwriter and TV host. Height: 1m73 Filmography Actor 1993 : Tom est tout seul 1997 : La Vérité si je mens ! 1997 : les Sœurs Soleil 1997 : Mauvais genre 1998 : Grève party 1998 : Les Mille et Une Nuits 1999 : Restons groupés 1999 : Mille bornes 1999 : Le Gril à cagouille 1999 : Les Fans 1999 : L'Homme de ma vie 2000 : Jet Set 2000 : Noël et les g... Biography of Unnur Birna VILHJALMSDOTTIR (Miss WORLD 2005)
Unnur Birna Vilhjálmsdóttir (born May 25, 1984 in Reykjavík, Iceland), former Miss Iceland. She was crowned Miss World 2005 on December 10, 2005. Height: 5 ft 8.5 in (1.74 m) She was crowned Miss World in the Beauty Crown Theatre located in the Chinese beach city of Sanya, by the reigning beauty queen, 2004's Miss Peru Maju Mantilla. Mexico (Dafne Molina Lona) and Puerto Rico (Ingrid Marie Rivera Santos) were the first and second runners up. Other contestants who made it into the final... Biography of Brooke BERRY
Brooke Berry (born March 7, 1980 in Vancouver, British Columbia) is a Canadian model and actress. She was chosen as Playboy's Playmate of the Month in May, 2000, while a student of the University of California, Berkeley, and has appeared in several Playboy videos. Brooke is of Japanese and Scandinavian descent. Her uncle is Jan Berry, of Jan & Dean fame. Measurements 36" C - 24 ½" - 34" Height 5 ft 8 in (1.73 m) Weight 115 lb Filmography Playboy Video Playmate Calendar 2001 at the I... Biography of Burt BACHARACH
Burt Bacharach (IPA: /ˈbɝt ˈbækəræk/, born May 12, 1928 in Kansas City, Missouri) is an award-winning American pianist and composer. He is best known for his many pop hits from 1962-70, with lyrics written by Hal David, many of which were recorded by Dionne Warwick. As of 2006, Bacharach had written a total of 70 Top 40 hits in the U.S., and 52 Top 40 hits in the UK. Professional biography Bacharach studied music at McGill University, the Mannes School of Music, and the ... Biography of Peggy LIPTON
Peggy Lipton, also known as Peggy Lipton Jones (born August 30, 1946) is an American actress and socialite. She is best known for her portrayal of hip young detective Julie Barnes in the late 1960s early 1970s television show The Mod Squad and conflicted waitress Norma Jennings from the 1990s television drama Twin Peaks. Height 5' 8" (1.73 m) Lipton was born in New York City to Rita and Harold Lipton. Her American father had Russian Jewish heritage. Her Irish-born mother was also Jewish,... Biography of Nadia BJORLIN
Nadia Alexandra Björlin (credited as Bjorlin) (born August 2, 1980) is an American actress. Height: 5' 8" (1.73 m) Early life Bjorlin was born in Newport, Rhode Island, but lived in Sweden until the age of 7. Her father was the Swedish composer and conductor Ulf Björlin (1933-1993). Her mother, Fary, whose background is Persian, is an interior decorator. Nadia speaks Swedish, Farsi, English and can sing in other languages as well. She is also renowned for her beautiful soprano voice. When... Biography of Sophie HOWARD
Sophie Howard (born February 24, 1983) is a glamour model from Southport, England. She appears regularly on Page Three and in lads mags like Maxim, Zoo Weekly and Loaded. She has often been photographed with other big-bust models like Lucy Pinder and Michelle Marsh. In August 2005 Howard was voted number 1 in Loaded magazine's "Most Beautiful Breasts" poll, and in the same year she was voted 73rd in the UK FHM 100 Sexiest Women poll. In the 2006 poll she rose to 68th place. Howard has featured o... Biography of Pam GRIER
Pamela Suzette Grier (born May 26, 1949) is an American actress. She came to fame in the early 1970s, after starring in a string of moderately successful women-in-prison and blaxploitation films, and has generally remained in the public eye, starring in B-movies such as 1974's Foxy Brown, and in mainstream films such as Quentin Tarantino's 1997 film, Jackie Brown. Height: 5' 8" (1.73 m) Early life Grier was born in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, U.S., to African-American parents Clarence ... Biography of Shanna MOAKLER
Shanna Lynn Moakler (born March 28, 1975) is an American model, actor and reality television star. She is best known for being crowned Miss USA in 1995 and for her appearances on the television series Pacific Blue and Meet the Barkers. Measurements 34C - 24 - 34 Height 5 ft 8 in (1.73 m) Weight 117 lb (53 kg) Early life Shanna Moakler, who is of Portuguese and Irish descent, was born to John W. Moakler III, a dentist, and Gail Moakler in Providence, Rhode Island. She has two older br... Biography of Ulysses S. GRANT
Ulysses S. Grant, born Hiram Ulysses Grant (April 27, 1822 – July 23, 1885), was an American general and the eighteenth President of the United States (1869–1877). He achieved international fame as the leading Union general in the American Civil War, capturing Vicksburg in 1863 and Richmond in 1865. He accepted the surrender of his Confederate opponent Robert E. Lee at Appomattox Court House. After service in the Mexican-American War, an undistinguished peacetime military career, and a series... Biography of Faith HILL
Audrey Faith Perry McGraw, known professionally by her first married name Faith Hill (born September 21, 1967), is an American country singer, known for her commercial success as well as her marriage to fellow country singer Tim McGraw. Hill's "soulful and rasping voice" and talent for picking songs have helped her to sell over 30 million records and accumulate 11 number one singles on the Country charts. Hill has been honored by the Country Music Association, the Academy of Country Music, t... Biography of Bojan KRKIC
Bojan Krkić (pronounced ) (born August 28, 1990 in Lleida, Catalonia, Spain), is a 17-year-old Serbian-Spanish footballer who plays for FC Barcelona in Spain. Height 1.73 m (5 ft 8 in) Career Bojan joined the Barcelona FC's cantera in 1999, and scored 889 goals in seven years, breaking all previous goal scoring records held at the clubs youth levels. A quick striker, with quite notable dribbling skills, Bojan shot to prominence at the UEFA European Under 17 Championships in Luxembou... Biography of Lake BELL
Lake Bell (born March 24, 1979) is an American actress. Height : 5' 8" (1.73 m) Bell was born in New York City to Robin Bell and Harvey Siegel. She has an older brother named Luke Siegel who owns a sliding wall and door company called Raydoor in New York City. They were featured together in InStyle magazine in 2005. She also has two half-sisters, Courtney and Mackenzie. Lake attended Skidmore College in Saratoga Springs, New York before transferring to Rose Bruford College in London, E... Biography of Sean PAUL
Sean Paul Henriques (born January 8, 1973) is a Jamaican reggae and dancehall artist. He is professionally known only by his first names, Sean Paul. Background Sean Paul was born in Kingston, Jamaica, and spent his early years "comfortably" (according to his VH1 biography) in Upper Saint Andrew Parish, a few miles north of his birthplace. His parents were both talented athletes, and his mother Frances, is a well-known painter. His father Garth is a Sephardic Jew of Portuguese descent and his... Biography of Vanessa ANGEL
Vanessa Madeline Angel (born 1966) is an English model, and actress. She is best remembered for playing the role of Lisa on the Weird Science TV series. Her movie roles include King of New York, The Perfect Score and Kingpin. Angel has also had recurring roles on the television shows Reasonable Doubts and Stargate SG-1. Height: 5' 8" (1.73 m) Life and career Born in London, England, Angel attended Heathfield High School for Girls in Harrow, Middlesex, England, before being discovered whil... Biography of Terry JONES (MONTY PYTHON)
Terence Graham Parry Jones (born February 1, 1942) is a British comedian, screenwriter and actor, film director, children's author, popular historian, political commentator and TV documentary host. He is best known as a member of the Monty Python comedy team. Height: 5' 8" (1.73 m) Jones was born in Colwyn Bay, Wales. He was educated at the Royal Grammar School in Guildford, where he was head boy; he graduated in English at St Edmund Hall, Oxford. While there he performed comedy with Micha... Biography of Brian LITTRELL (BACKSTREET BOYS)
Brian Thomas Littrell (born February 20, 1975) is an American singer, best known as a member of the Backstreet Boys. He is also a contemporary Christian recording artist, and released a solo album, Welcome Home (You), in 2006. Early life Littrell was born in Lexington, Kentucky to Jackie and Harold Littrell. He has an older brother, Harold Littrell, Jr. At five, he took a tumble from his Big Wheel tricycle that his doctors later assumed signified the start of a bacterial infection that began... Biography of Jill HENNESSY
Jillian Noel Hennessy (born November 25, 1968) is a Canadian actress, known for her television roles on Law & Order and Crossing Jordan. Height: 5' 8" (1.73 m) Early life Hennessy was born in Edmonton, Alberta. Her father, John Hennessy, was a meat salesman, a job that required considerable travel and resulted in frequent moves for the family. Her mother, Maxine, left the family in 1982, leaving her daughter to be partially raised by her paternal grandmother, Eleanor, in Kitchener, Ontari... Biography of Elizabeth PERKINS
Elizabeth Perkins (born November 18, 1960) is an Emmy and Golden Globe award-nominated American film, television and theater actress. Height: 5' 8" (1.73 m) Early life Perkins was born in Queens, New York City to James Perkins, a farmer, writer and businessman, and Jo Williams, a drug treatment counselor and concert pianist. Her paternal grandparents were Greek immigrants who anglicized their surname from "Pisperikos" to "Perkins" when they immigrated to the United States. Perkins was rai... Biography of Tamzin OUTHWAITE
Tamzin Outhwaite (born on November 5, 1970) is an English actress best known for playing Melanie Owen in the BBC soap opera EastEnders. Height: 5' 8" (1.73 m) Early career Outhwaite attended the Stagestruck Theatre Company as a teenager. At 16 she left school to join the London Studio Centre to study drama and dance. She went on to many stage roles including Grease, Oliver! and work at the Stephen Joseph Theatre before landing bit parts in The Bill and Men Behaving Badly. Mainstream... Biography of Ali LANDRY
Ali Germaine Landry (born July 21, 1973) is a former Miss USA (1996), model and actress. She is recognized as the Doritos Girl from her popular 1998 Super Bowl commercial. In 1998, she was named by People magazine as one of 50 most beautiful people in the world. Height: 5 ft 8 in (1.73 m) Eye color: Brown Hair color: Brown Early life Landry grew up in Breaux Bridge, Louisiana. This southern region of Louisiana is referred to as "Acadiana," the heart of Cajun country. Landry is of Fr... Biography of Beverly SILLS
Beverly Sills (May 25, 1929 – July 2, 2007) was perhaps the best-known American opera singer in the 1960s and 1970s. She was famous for her performances in coloratura soprano roles in operas around the world and on recordings. After retiring from singing in 1980, she became the general manager of the New York City Opera. In 1994, she became the Chairman of Lincoln Center and then, in 2002, of the Metropolitan Opera, stepping down in 2005. Sills lent her celebrity to further her charity work for ... Biography of Ali LARTER
Alison Elizabeth "Ali" Larter (born February 28, 1976) is an American actress and former fashion model best known for her screen roles aimed at teenage audiences. Her best known television series is Heroes. Her famous Hollywood films, so far, have been Varsity Blues, House on Haunted Hill, Final Destination, Legally Blonde, and finally Resident Evil: Extinction. Early life Ali Larter was born in Cherry Hill, New Jersey. She attended Carusi Middle School and Cherry Hill High School West. She ... Biography of Michael KEATON
Michael John Douglas (born September 5, 1951), better known by the stage name Michael Keaton, is an American actor, perhaps best known for his early comedic roles in films such as Night Shift, Beetlejuice, and his portrayal of Batman in the two Tim Burton-directed films of the series. Height: 5' 8" (1.73 m) Personal life Keaton, the youngest of seven children, was born in Coraopolis, Pennsylvania. His father worked as a civil engineer and surveyor and his mother, Leona, a homemaker, came ... Biography of Griff RHYS-JONES
Griffith Rhys Jones (born 16 November 1953), better known as Griff Rhys Jones, is a Welsh comedian, writer and actor. He came to national attention in the 1980s when he starred with Mel Smith in a number of comedy sketch shows on British TV. Early life and education Rhys Jones was born in Cardiff, Wales, the son of a doctor. Moving with his father's work, he attended Primary School in Midhurst, Sussex, junior school in Harlow, Essex and Secondary School at Brentwood School, in Brentwood, Ess... Biography of Jason GOULD
Jason Emanuel Gould (born December 29, 1966 in New York City), is an American actor, writer and director. His parents are Barbra Streisand and Elliott Gould, who divorced a few years after his birth. Gould spent his formative years around major Hollywood players in Los Angeles, California. Height: 5' 8" (1.73 m) Gould has appeared in such films as Say Anything (1989) and the Streisand-directed film The Prince of Tides (1991), but has since rarely appeared in front of the camera. In 1997 he... Biography of Patti DAVIS
Patti Davis (born Patricia Ann Reagan on October 21, 1952 in Los Angeles, California) is the daughter of former President of the United States Ronald Reagan and First Lady Nancy Davis. She is the older sister of Ron Reagan, the half-sister of Maureen Reagan, and has an adopted half-brother Michael Reagan. She was called the black sheep of the Reagan children, and her conflict with her parents was well publicized. Davis is a former actress and a bestselling author. She was romantically involve... Biography of Shaun WHITE
Shaun Roger White (born September 3, 1986 in Carlsbad, California) is an American athlete. He has been a notable competitor in professional snowboarding since he was fourteen years old, but is also known for his skateboarding. White stands 5' 8.5" (1.73 m) tall. He rides regular stance, twelve and negative three degrees on his board. He is known for his shock of red hair, for which he has become known as "The Flying Tomato." Addressing his perception of the nickname, Rolling Stone magazine wr... Biography of Esther WILLIAMS
Esther Jane Williams (born August 8, 1921 or 1922) is a retired United States competitive swimmer and movie star, famous for her musical films that featured elaborate performances with swimming and diving. Height: 5' 8" (1.73 m) Early years Williams was born in Inglewood, California to Bula Myrtle Gilpin and Louis Stanton Williams. She was enthusiastic about swimming in her youth. She was National AAU champion in the 100 meter freestyle. Williams went to Hollywood, where she quickly becam... Biography of Lily TOMLIN
Lily Tomlin (born September 1, 1939) is an Academy Award-nominated American actress, comedian, writer and producer. Tomlin's body of work, which has spanned over 40 years, has garnered her several Tony Awards and Emmy Awards, as well as a Grammy Award. Height: 5' 8" (1.73 m) Early life Tomlin was born Mary Jean Tomlin in Detroit, Michigan, daughter of Lillie Mae (née Ford), a housewife and nurse's aide who moved to Detroit from Paducah, Kentucky during the Great Depression, and Guy Tomlin... Biography of William Claude FIELDS
W. C. Fields (January 29, 1880 – December 25, 1946) was an American juggler, comedian, and actor. Fields created one of the great American comic personas of the first half of the 20th century—a misanthrope who teetered on the edge of buffoonery but never quite fell in, an egotist blind to his own failings, a charming drunk; and a man who hated children, dogs, and women, unless they were the wrong sort of women. This characterization that he portrayed in films and radio was so strong that it w... Biography of Holly VALANCE
Holly Rachel Vukadinović ( Serbian Cyrilic : Вукадиновић) (born 11 May 1983), who is better known by her stage name of Holly Valance, is an Australian actress and ARIA nominated singer. Height: 5' 8" (1.73 m) Early life Valance was born in Melbourne, Australia, on 11 May 1983 to a Serbian father and a British mother. She is related to the late British comedian Benny Hill — Hill's cousin was her grandfather (cousins twi... Biography of Alicia RICKTER
Alicia Rickter (born September 21, 1972 in Long Beach, California, USA) is an American model and actress. She appeared as “Laura” in the comedy Buying the Cow and her notable TV appearances include Baywatch Hawaii and The Young and the Restless. She has posed nude for Playboy magazine as Miss October 1995 and has the honor of being the 500th Playmate. She has also appeared in three Playboy videos. Alicia Rickter is a painter and in her 1997 playmate profile video says that “Art has always bee... Biography of Catherine KEENER
Catherine Ann Keener (born March 23, 1959) is a two time Academy Award-nominated American actress. Height: 5' 8" (1.73 m) Early life Keener, the third of five children, was born in Miami, Florida, to Evelyn and Jim Keener, a manager of an automotive store. Keener is of Irish descent on her father's side and of Egyptian descent on her mother's. Keener attended Immaculate Conception Catholic School in Hialeah, Florida. Although she didn’t get into trouble growing up, by the time she reached... Biography of Daphne ZUNIGA
Daphne Eurydice Zuniga (born October 28, 1962) is an American actress. Height: 5' 8" (1.73 m) Early life Zuniga was born in Berkeley, California. Her father is an emeritus professor of philosophy originally from Guatemala and her mother is a Unitarian minister. Zuniga graduated from Woodstock Union High School in Woodstock, VT, in 1980. She and her mother and sister moved from Berkeley to Reading, VT after her parents' divorce. She has been interested in acting since high school, having p... Biography of Lesley Ann WARREN
Lesley Ann Warren (born August 16, 1946), is a Golden Globe Award-winning, Oscar nominated American stage, film and television actress and singer. Height: 5' 8" (1.73 m) Warren was born in New York City to a Jewish family whose surname was originally "Woronoff". The 5-foot-8 inch actress began her career as a ballet dancer, training at the School of American Ballet. She entered the Actors Studio at the age of seventeen - reputedly the youngest applicant ever to be accepted. Her Broadway... Biography of Neriah DAVIS
Neriah Davis (born 12 October 1972 in Van Nuys, California) is an American model and actress. She was Playboy magazine's Playmate of the Month for its March 1994 issue. Measurements: 36" - 23" - 36" Height: 5 ft 8 in (1.73 m) Weight: 118 lb (54 kg) Neriah grew up in a commune with no electricity in Northern California's Sierra Nevada mountains. She had two sisters and a brother; she described her parents as well-meaning hippies. She graduated from Bret Harte High School in Angels Camp,... Biography of John Paul JONES (LED ZEPPELIN)
John Paul Jones (born John Baldwin on January 3, 1946 in Sidcup, Kent) is an English multi-instrumentalist musician, and was known for being the bassist, the keyboardist and the mandolinist for rock band Led Zeppelin. In recent years he has developed a successful solo career, and is widely respected as both a musician and a producer. A versatile musician, Jones also plays guitar, koto, lap steel guitars, autoharp, ukulele, sitar, cello, and the three over-dubbed recorders heard on "Stairway to H... Biography of Michelle STAFFORD
Michelle Stafford (born September 14, 1965 in Chicago, Illinois) is a two-time Emmy Award-winning American actress. Career Of her many film and television roles, she is best known for her scheming persona as Phyllis Summers Newman on the soap opera The Young and the Restless. First joining the cast in 1994, she was introduced as an obsessed fangirl stalking rock star Danny Romalotti (Michael Damian). She eventually stole Danny from his wife Christine Blair (Lauralee Bell) and then had a majo... Biography of Ashley COX
Ashley Cox (born November 15, 1956 in Dallas, Texas) is an American model and actress. She was Playboy magazine's Playmate of the Month for its December 1977 issue. Her centerfold was photographed by Mario Casilli, Phillip Dixon and Arny Freytag. Ashley had been acting since before she was a Playmate, appearing in the 1976 sci-fi film Logan's Run. Her career continued following her appearance in Playboy, but she left the business in 1984 and returned to Texas, where she found work as a legal ... Biography of Tanya ROBERTS
Victoria Leigh Blum - better known as Tanya Roberts (born on October 15, 1954) is an American actress best known for her roles in Charlie's Angels, The Beastmaster, A View to a Kill, Sheena and That '70s Show. Reportedly 5' 8" (1.73 m) tall and with measurements of 36-21-34, Roberts was regarded as one of Hollywood's most popular sex symbols during the early 1980s. Early life and career Roberts grew up in the Bronx, New York City. The daughter of an Irish American pen seller and a Jewish ... Biography of Alexa CHUNG
Alexa Chung (born November 5, 1983) is a British TV presenter and former fashion model. She is the girlfriend of Arctic Monkeys frontman Alex Turner. Early life Alexa Chung was raised in Privett, Hampshire by her English mother (a housewife) and three-quarters Chinese father (a graphic designer). She is the youngest of four children and has two brothers and one sister. Her elder brother is DJ Dom Chung. She attended the local comprehensive school, Perins Community College, and later the s... Biography of John LYDON (SEX PISTOLS)
John Joseph Lydon (born 31 January 1956), also known as Johnny Rotten, is an English rock musician. He is the lead vocalist for the punk rock group Sex Pistols and Public Image Ltd. With his sarcastic and provocative public personality, he participated in laying down a new template for rebellious youth and band frontmen. His musical innovations have also been influential. He is currently working on a new, as-yet, untitled solo album. Height: 5' 8" (1.73 m) He is married to Nora Forster. Th... Biography of Liam AIKEN
Liam Padraic Aiken (born January 7, 1990) is an American actor who has starred in a number of films, most notably as Klaus Baudelaire in A Series of Unfortunate Events. Height 5' 8" (1.73 m) Early life Aiken was born in Manhattan, New York, the only child of Bill Aiken, an MTV producer, and an Irish immigrant mother, Moya Aiken. He made his professional acting debut in a Ford Motor Company Wind star commercial. Liam made his stage debut in the Broadway play A Doll's House at the age of ... Biography of Alex TREBEK
George Alexander "Alex" Trebek (born July 22, 1940) is an Emmy Award-winning Canadian-American television personality and game show host. He has been the host of the game show Jeopardy! since September 10, 1984. He has hosted numerous game/quiz shows and has appeared in television series, usually as himself. Though a native of Canada, he became a naturalized United States citizen in 1998. Early life Trebek was born Giorgi Suka-Alex Trebek in Sudbury, Ontario, Canada, the son of Lucille (née ... Biography of Rebecca GAYHEART
Rebecca Gayheart (born August 12, 1971, in Hazard, Kentucky) is an American actress. Height: 5' 8" (1.73 m) Personal life Gayheart was born in Hazard, Kentucky but raised in Pinetop, Kentucky, by parents of Irish, Mexican, Italian, German and Cherokee Indian heritage. Her father, Curtis, was a coal miner. She moved to New York City at 15 where she completed her education at New York's Professional Children's School and the Lee Strasberg Institute. Gayheart was for a time engaged to dir... Biography of JoAnne WORLEY
Jo Anne Worley (born September 6, 1937) is an American actress. Her work covers television, movies, theater, game shows, talk shows, commercials, and cartoons. She is best known for her work on the comedy-variety show Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In. Height: 5' 8" (1.73 m) Worley was born in Lowell, Indiana, the third of five children. In 1962, her father remarried and his second union gave her two half-brothers and two half-sisters. Always remembered for her loud voice, Worley once said that wh... Biography of Mary Elizabeth WINSTEAD
Mary Elizabeth Winstead (born November 28, 1984) is a SAG Award- and Young Artist Award-nominated American actress. She has been called a scream queen, à la Jamie Lee Curtis, because of her roles in such horror films as Final Destination 3, Death Proof, and Black Christmas, but has branched out into other genres, including comedy (Sky High), drama (Bobby) and action (Live Free or Die Hard). Early life Winstead was born in Rocky Mount, North Carolina, the daughter of Betty Lou (née Knight)... Biography of Michael OWEN
Michael James Owen (born 14 December 1979, in Chester, Cheshire) is an English football player currently with Newcastle United. He previously played for Liverpool (1996–2004) and Real Madrid (2004–05). He plays as a striker and has enjoyed a hugely successful and high-profile career at both club and international level and was the European Footballer of the Year in 2001. Owen is currently England's fourth highest scorer of all time, with 40 goals in 85 games for his country, and is England's lea... Biography of Neneh CHERRY
Neneh Cherry (born Neneh Marianne Karlsson on March 10, 1964 in Stockholm) is a Swedish singer-songwriter, rapper, DJ, and occasional broadcaster. Cherry blended hip hop with other influences, and experienced some moderate mainstream success with several of her recordings. Cherry was born as Neneh Mariann Karlsson, to a Sierra Leonean father, Amahdu Jah (a drummer) and a Swedish painter/textile artist mother, Monika Karlsson, known as Moki Cherry. Her siblings include the singers Titiyo Jah a... Biography of Julie SNYDER
Julie Snyder (born August 6, 1967 in Greenfield Park, Quebec, Canada) is a Francophone Canadian talk show host and producer, appearing as host or guest on various television programs in Canada and France. Snyder is also the CEO of Productions J, a company that she founded in 1997. Programs that Snyder participated in include Star Académie, L'enfer c'est nous autre, Sortir, and Le poing J. Snyder made her first television appearance in 1983. Snyder currently hosts the Québécois adaptatio... Biography of Emily MORTIMER
Emily Mortimer (born 1 December 1971) is an English actress. She began performing on stage, and has since appeared in several film and television roles, including 2000's Scream 3 and 2005's Match Point. Height: 5' 8" (1.73 m) Early life Mortimer was born in London, England, the daughter of Penelope (née Gollop) and dramatist John Clifford Mortimer, known for his Rumpole of the Bailey series. Her maternal grandfather was a pig farmer. She has a younger sister, Rosie, and a half brother, Ro... Biography of Leslie BIBB
Leslie Louise Bibb (born November 17, 1974 in Bismarck, North Dakota) is an American actress and former fashion model. Taille : 5' 8" (1.73 m) Leslie Louise Bibb was born in Bismarck, North Dakota, on November 17, 1974, and raised in Nelson County, Virginia. Her father died when she was only 3 years old. Later she and her mother, along with her three older sisters, moved to Richmond, Virginia where she attended an all-girls Catholic high school, Saint Gertrude High School. Leslie was on he... Biography of Emily VanCAMP
Emily Irene VanCamp (born May 12, 1986 in Port Perry, Ontario) is a Canadian actress. She is best known for her role as Amy Nicole Abbott on the WB Network series Everwood, which ran from 2002 to 2006. She currently portrays Rebecca Harper in the ABC network series Brothers & Sisters. Height: 5' 8" (1.73 m) Filmography VanCamp first appeared in 2000's Canadian television Are You Afraid of the Dark? as the character Peggy Gregory for the two episodes "The Tale of the Silver Sight: Part ... Biography of Priscilla TAYLOR
Priscilla Lee Taylor (born August 15, 1976 in Miami, Florida) is an American model and actress. She was Playboy magazine's Playmate of the Month for its March 1996 issue. She started modelling at age 12. Her centerfold was photographed by Richard Fegley. Measurements 36" - 25" - 34" Height 5 ft 8 in (1.73 m) Weight 118 lb (54 kg)... Biography of GOVINDA
Govinda (Hindi: गोविंदा; Punjabi: ਗੋਵਿੰਦਾ) ( born Govind Arun Ahuja, on December 21, 1958 (source : Imdb)) is a Filmfare award-winning Indian actor and politician currently serving as the 5th Member of Parliament for the Mumbai North Constituency of Maharashtra, India. He has appeared in over 120 Hindi language films, also known as Bollywood. As a young man, his acting and dancing skills gained him widespread att... Biography of Charles RIGOULOT
Charles Rigoulot (November 3, 1903 – August 22, 1962) was an French weightlifter, professional wrestler, race car driver, and actor who competed in the 1924 Summer Olympics. Born in in Le Vésinet, Rigoulot became French champion in 1923 and won a gold medal in the light-heavyweight class in 1924. He died in Paris.... Biography of Tom HULCE
Thomas Hulce (born December 6, 1953) is an Academy Award-nominated, Tony Award and Emmy Award-winning American actor and producer. Height: 5' 8" (1.73 m) Early life Born in Whitewater, Wisconsin, Hulce was raised in Plymouth, Michigan. He wanted to be a singer as a small child, but switched to acting when his voice changed. He graduated from Interlochen Arts Academy and then obtained a second degree from North Carolina School of the Arts. Career Hulce's first film role was in the J... Biography of Bonnie HUNT
Bonnie Lynn Hunt (born September 22, 1961) is an Emmy-, Golden Globe- and SAG Award-nominated American actress, comedian, writer, director and television producer. Early life Hunt was born in Chicago, Illinois, the daughter of Alice, a homemaker, and Bob Hunt, an electrician. She was raised in a large Irish Catholic family, and has three older brothers, Patrick, Kevin, and Tom, two older sisters, Cathy and Carol, and one younger sister, Mary. Hunt was educated in Catholic schools and attende... Biography of Aurélie CLAUDEL
Aurélie Claudel (born August 7, 1980 in Saint-Mars-d'Outillé, France) is a French model. She is one of three children and has two brothers. She comes from a relatively prominent family (her father was a distinguished notary). She is a descendant of the famous French sculptress Camille Claudel. Height: 5' 8" (1.73 m) She was approached in the Jardin des Plantes in Paris by Dawn Wolfe at the young age of 13. Her father thoroughly disapproved of her quitting school and pursuing a career in mo... Biography of Kevin KEEGAN
Joseph Kevin Keegan, OBE (born 14 February 1951 in Armthorpe, Doncaster, England) is a former footballer, former England national team coach and the current manager of Newcastle United. He is widely regarded as one of the all-time greatest English football players. He is the only Englishman to be named European Footballer of the Year twice. His playing career started at Scunthorpe United in 1968 and by the time he retired in 1984 he was playing for Newcastle United, but the most successful ye... Biography of Dixie CARTER
Dixie Virginia Carter (born May 25, 1939 in McLemoresville, Tennessee) is an American Emmy Award winning actress. Height: 5' 8" (1.73 m) Early life Dixie Virginia Carter was born in McLemoresville, Tennessee and spent many of her early years in Memphis. She attended college at the University of Tennessee at Knoxville and Southwestern at Memphis (now Rhodes College). She is a graduate of Memphis State (now University of Memphis) with a degree in English. At school, she was a member of t... Biography of Rita WILSON
Rita Wilson (born October 26, 1956) is an American film and stage actress and producer. She is the wife of actor Tom Hanks. Height: 5' 8" (1.73 m) Wilson was born as Margarita Ibrahimoff in Los Angeles, California. Her father, a Greek Pomak who worked at a racetrack, was born in Greece. Before immigrating to the U.S. she had lived in Bulgaria and Turkey; her mother, Dorothy, was born and raised in a Greek village on the Albanian border. Wilson's family changed their surname from "Ibrahimof... Biography of Rebecca GIBNEY
Rebecca Gibney (December 14, 1964) is a New Zealand born, Australia-based actress. Born Rebecca Catherine Gibney in Levin, New Zealand on December 14th 1964, the youngest of six children, and brought up in Wellington. Gibney moved to Australia at the age of 19. Acting Career After working as a model, she broke in to television with the role of Julie Davis in the children's series Zoo Family in 1985 and went on to play Emma Plimpton for four years in the successful drama series The Flying... Biography of Bob NEWHART
George Robert "Bob" Newhart (born September 5, 1929) is an American stand-up comedian and actor. Early life Bob Newhart was born on September 5, 1929 in Oak Park, Illinois to George David Newhart and Julia Pauline Burns. Newhart attended St. Ignatius College Prep and Loyola University of Chicago where he graduated in 1952 with a bachelor's degree in business management. He was drafted in the U.S. Army and served stateside during the Korean War until discharged in 1954. Early career A... Biography of Fred GRANDY
Fred Lawrence Grandy (born June 29, 1948) is a former actor who became a member in 1986 of the United States House of Representatives from the state of Iowa. Grandy was born in Sioux City, Iowa. He received his bachelor's degree in English from Harvard University in 1970 and is conversant in both French and Arabic. He played the ship's purser Burl "Gopher" Smith for nine years on the American television series The Love Boat. Earlier, he was a recurring character on the 1970s sitcom Maude, pla... Biography of Adam ANT
Adam Ant (born Stuart Leslie Goddard on 3 November 1954) is an English musician who gained popularity as the lead singer of 1980s New Wave/post-punk group Adam & the Ants and later as a solo artist. He is also an actor, having appeared in two dozen films or television episodes between 1985 and 1999. Early life Goddard, an only child, was born in Marylebone, London. One of the themes he used in his later work - suppressed minorities - was part of his inheritance; he is of Romnichal stock. His... Biography of Hal SPARKS
Hal Sparks (born Hal Harry Magee Sparks III, September 25, 1969 in Cincinnati, Ohio) is an actor, comedian one-time game show host, best known for his witty additions to VH1 and the role of Sharon Gless's son, Michael Novotny, on the American television series Queer as Folk. His previous claim to fame was hosting E!'s Talk Soup. In addition to acting, Hal is also the lead singer and guitarist for a rock band, Zero 1 (previously called The Hal Sparks Band). Members include Hal Sparks(himself),... Biography of David FURNISH
David Furnish (born October 25, 1962) is a Canadian filmmaker who is the civil partner of British entertainer Sir Elton John. Furnish is a former advertising executive who is now a film director and producer most famous for his documentary Elton John: Tantrums & Tiaras. Life and career David Furnish was born in Toronto Ontario, Canada to Jack Furnish (retired, former director of Bristol-Myers) and Gladys Furnish (retired, homemaker). He has an older brother, John, and a younger brother, Pete... Biography of Bryce DALLAS HOWARD
Bryce Dallas Howard (born March 2, 1981) is an American actress best known for her film roles in the M. Night Shyamalan-directed The Village and Lady in the Water, and as Gwen Stacy in Sam Raimi's Spider-Man 3. Height: 5' 8" (1.73 m) Early life Conceived in Dallas, Texas – the source of her middle name – Howard was born in Los Angeles, California, the daughter of Hollywood actor-director Ron Howard and writer Cheryl Alley. Her paternal grandfather is actor Rance Howard and her uncle is ac... Biography of Chris REA
Christopher Anton Rea (born 4 March 1951) is a singer-songwriter from Middlesbrough, England, instantly recognisable for his distinctive, raspy voice. Rea has sold over 30 million albums worldwide. Biography Early career Rea had not played the local music scene around Middlesbrough much, and had no real history of playing with any local bands. However, under the guidance of local club owner, and promoter John B. McCoy he managed to gain a record deal with Magnet Records Whatever Happene... Biography of Phyllis GEORGE
Phyllis George (b. 25 June 1949 in Denton, Texas) is an American businesswoman. She is a former Miss Texas and Miss America of 1971. George attended the University of North Texas until crowned Miss Texas in 1971. At that time, Texas Christian University awarded scholarships to Miss Texas honorees. As a result, Phyllis left UNT and enrolled at TCU for several weeks until winning the Miss America crown later that fall. She is a member of Zeta Tau Alpha women's fraternity. She has worked as a telev... Biography of Jeff GORDON
Jeffery Michael Gordon (born August 4, 1971) is a professional American race car driver. He was born in Vallejo, California, raised in Pittsboro, Indiana, and currently lives in Charlotte, North Carolina. He is a four-time NASCAR Winston Cup (now Sprint Cup) Series champion, three-time Daytona 500 winner, and driver of the #24 Chevrolet Impala. His primary sponsor is DuPont, though Pepsi and Nicorette both supplement the team as secondary sponsors. Other sponsors include Quaker State, Haas Autom... Biography of Ann JILLIAN
Ann Jillian (born Ann Jura Nauseda on January 29, 1950 in Cambridge, Massachusetts) is an American actress born to Roman Catholic Lithuanian immigrant parents. Height: 5' 8" (1.73 m) Jillian has been acting since 1961 when she played "Little Bo Peep" in the Disney film, Babes In Toyland. She appeared in the Rosalind Russell- Natalie Wood 1962 movie version of Gypsy. She later became a regular on the 1960s sitcom Hazel, the Twilight Zone ("Mute" 1963) as the mute telepathic Ilse Nielson; an... Biography of Melissa McINTYRE
Melissa Erin McIntyre (born May 31, 1986 in Port Colborne, Ontario, Canada) is a Canadian actress. She is best known for her role as rocker "Ashley" in the television show Degrassi: The Next Generation. McIntyre, whose nickname is Mel, had relatively humble beginnings in acting, as she was a participant of many community theater plays as a small girl. Among the plays that she participated in were The Wizard of Oz and The Secret Garden. McIntyre is also one of the nowadays rare radio actres... Biography of Ryan SEACREST
Ryan John Seacrest is an American television/radio host and television producer.His first big break after college was him hosting a small radio station called Star 94. Then, He rose to fame as the host of American Idol, and he has since gone on to host E! News Live, Dick Clark's New Year's Rockin' Eve, as well as such radio shows as On Air with Ryan Seacrest on KIIS-FM in Los Angeles and American Top 40. He also hosts The Entertainment Edge in the United Kingdom which is broadcast simultaneously... Biography of Valerie CRUZ
Valerie Cruz (born 18 July 1976 in Elizabeth, New Jersey) is an American actress. Height: 5' 8" (1.73 m) Valerie is of Cuban ancestry. She attended Florida State University and received a BFA theatre degree. At one point she dated Robbie Williams. She has appeared in films such as Cellular and played Grace Santiago in Nip/Tuck. She played a main character in Nip/Tuck, but she left the show just after the first season. She has made guest appearances in series such as Grey's Anatomy and L... Biography of Jack BENNY
Jack Benny (born Benjamin Kubelsky February 14, 1894 - December 26, 1974) was an American comedian, vaudeville performer, and radio, television, and film actor. Benny was known for his comic timing and his ability to get laughs with either a pregnant pause or a single expression, such as his signature exasperated "Well!" Height: 5' 8" (1.73 m) Early life Jack Benny was born on February 14, 1894 in Chicago, Illinois and grew up in neighboring Waukegan, Illinois. He was the son of a Jewish ... Biography of Paul MEURISSE
Paul Gustave Pierre Meurisse, born December 21, 1912 in Dunkerque, died January 19, 1979 in à Neuilly-sur-Seine, was a French actor and comedian. Height: 5' 8" (1.73 m) Filmography 1941 : Ne bougez plus, de Pierre Caron - Hector, le mélancolique 1941 : Montmartre-sur-Seine, de Georges Lacombe - Paul 1942 : Défense d'aimer, de Richard Pottier - Maxime Gavard 1942 : Mariage d'amour d'Henri Decoin - Robert, l'animateur de l'auberge 1943 : La Ferme aux loups, de Richard Pottier - ... Biography of Marisa MILLER
Marisa Miller (born August 6, 1978) is an American supermodel. She is known for her many appearances in the Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issues and Victoria's Secret catalogs. Height: 5' 8" (1.73 m) Early life and career start Born Marisa Bertetta in Santa Cruz, California, she was first "discovered" at age 16 walking through a San Francisco café by two Italian modeling agents. After talking to her parents, Marc and Krista Bertetta, she was on a plane to Italy with her mom a few months lat... Biography of Amy ACKER
Amy Louise Acker (born December 5, 1976) is an American actress. Height: 5' 8" (1.73 m) Early life Acker was born in Dallas, Texas, to Robert Acker, a lawyer, and Sandra Bruyere, a housewife of French ancestry. She is the oldest of four children. Acker studied ballet, modern dance, and jazz dance for 13 years. She underwent knee surgery while in high school, ending her ballet career, and she began to study acting in her sophomore year. She enrolled at Southern Methodist University in 1995... Biography of Alejandro SANZ
Alejandro Sanz, born Alejandro Sánchez Pizarro on December 18, 1968 in Madrid, is an Award winning, Spanish pop/ballad musician and singer-songwriter who has won a record 17 Latin Grammy´s, more than any other Spanish musician in history. Alejandro Sanz is the second son of María Pizarro Medina from Alcalá de los Gazules, and Jesús Sánchez Madero from Algeciras. He began playing guitar at the age of seven and composing his first songs three years later. The young musician started attending ma... Biography of Deborah NORVILLE
Deborah Norville (born August 8, 1958 in Dalton, Georgia) is an American television broadcaster and journalist. Since 1995, she has been host of the syndicated American television program Inside Edition. She hosted Today on NBC, substitute anchored both the NBC Nightly News, and the weekend CBS Evening News, and was a host and correspondent for two CBS News magazine programs. Career NBC years After serving as a reporter and an anchor for local television stations first in Atlanta and the... Biography of Bob FOSSE
Bob Fosse (June 23, 1927 – September 23, 1987) was a musical theater choreographer and director, and a film director. He won an unprecedented eight Tony Awards for choreography, as well as one for direction, and received the Academy Award for Best Director in 1972 for Cabaret. He was born Robert Louis Fosse in Chicago, to a Norwegian father and Irish mother, the youngest of six children. He teamed up with Charles Grass, another young dancer, and began a collaboration under the name, The Riff ... Biography of Maeve QUINLAN
Maeve Anne Quinlan (born November 16, 1964 in Chicago, Illinois) is an American actress. She is currently starring in the critically acclaimed hit series South of Nowhere which just received its second nomination in a row for Best Drama at the GLAAD Media Awards and recently finished shooting season three. Prior to South of Nowhere she was a regular on the soap opera The Bold and the Beautiful from 1995–2005 where she played Megan Conley. She returned for a three week guest starring role on t... Biography of Christina CINDRICH
Christina Cindrich, born August 26, 1981 in Pittsburgh, is an American actress of Croatian/Italian Decent. Height: 1.73 m (5' 8") Filmography (Source Imdb http://www.imdb.com/name/nm1250983/ ) Spider-Man 3 (2007) .... Test Site Technician #6 ... aka Spider-Man 3: The IMAX Experience (USA: IMAX version) 2095 (2007) .... Shannon "Who Wants to Be a Superhero?" .... Stacy (1 episode, 2006) ... aka Who Wants to Be a Superhero? 2 (USA: second season title) - Episode #1.3 (2006) TV ... Biography of Karen McDOUGAL
Karen McDougal (born March 23, 1971) is an American model and actress. She is known for her appearances in Playboy magazine as Playmate of the Month for December 1997 and Playmate of the Year of 1998. In 2001, the readers of Playboy voted McDougal "No. 2 Sexiest Playmate of the 1990s." McDougal taught pre-kindergarten before winning a swimwear competition and beginning her career as a glamour, promotional, and swimsuit model. Since her appearances in Playboy, she has extended her career into ... Biography of Kim RAVER
Kimberly Jayne Raver (born March 15, 1969) is an American actress. She is best known for her roles as Kim Zambrano on the TV show Third Watch and Audrey Raines on 24. Biography Personal life Raver was raised in New York City. From the ages of six to nine, she had a regular role on the seminal children's television series Sesame Street. After Sesame Street, the young actress joined Off-Off-Broadway's first all-children's theater. A fine arts graduate of Boston University, Raver contin... Biography of Katharine McPHEE
Katharine Hope McPhee (born March 25, 1984) is an American Pop singer who was the runner-up to Taylor Hicks on the fifth season of American Idol in 2006. Early years Born in Los Angeles, California, McPhee moved with her parents and sister to the Sherman Oaks neighborhood when she was 12 years old. McPhee has been singing since the age of two. Her mother, Patricia Burch McPhee (stage name Peisha Arten), a vocal coach and accomplished cabaret singer, recognized a talent for music in her daugh... Biography of Sonali BENDRE
Sonali Bendre (Marathi:सोनाली बेंद्रे, born 1 January 1975) is an Indian actress and model. She has starred in Bollywood films mostly but has acted in a few Marathi, Telugu, Tamil and Kannada films. Sonali studied in Bangalore and Mumbai in Kendriya Vidyalaya and Holy Cross High School Thane respectively. Sonali Bendre started out as a model before being selected for the "Star Dust Talent Search". Her first role... Biography of Elisabeth ROHM
Elisabeth Röhm (born April 28, 1973 in Düsseldorf, Germany) is a German-American television actress best known for playing Assistant District Attorney Serena Southerlyn on the television drama Law & Order, a role she played from 2001 to 2005. Röhm moved to New York City before reaching her first birthday and later lived in Greenwich, Connecticut. She maintains dual citizenship (U.S. and Germany). Her father, Eberhard, was a German corporate attorney. Her mother, Lisa, once wrote for the soap ... Biography of Amanda DONOHOE
Amanda Donohoe (born June 29, 1962) is an English actress. Early life Donohoe was born in London, the daughter of Joanna and Ted Donohoe, antique dealers. Her father (who also worked for the foreign office), is of Irish/Russian descent and her mother is Swiss. She left home at sixteen, in her early twenties she was accepted at the Central School of Speech and Drama and in the late 1980s she decided to move to Los Angeles to expand her career. Career Donohoe first came to attention of ... Biography of Patricia NEAL
Patricia Neal (born January 20, 1926, Packard, Kentucky) is an Academy Award winning American actress. Height: 5' 8" (1.73 m) Born Patsy Louise Neal, Patricia Neal grew up in Knoxville, Tennessee. She studied drama at Northwestern University, before moving to New York, where, after only a few months, she got her first job (an understudy in the Broadway production of The Voice of the Turtle). Soon, though, she appeared in Another Part of the Forest (1946), winning a Tony Award as Best Featu... Biography of Jill GOODACRE
Jill Goodacre Connick (born March 29, 1965 in Lubbock, Texas) is an American actor and former supermodel. She was one of Victoria's Secret main models in the 1980s and early 1990s. She is married to Harry Connick, Jr. Jill Goodacre appeared as herself in an episode ("The One With the Blackout") of the popular sitcom Friends in 1994. She directed one of Harry Connick, Jr.'s live performance videos (The New York Big Band Concert) in 1992. She appears in several of his music videos. Victor... Biography of Kenan THOMPSON
Kenan Thompson (born May 10, 1978 in Atlanta, Georgia), is an American actor and comedian who is currently known for the titular role in Fat Albert (film), and as a regular cast member of Saturday Night Live, and former cast member of All That. Career Thompson's first appearance was in the movie D2: The Mighty Ducks. Thompson got his first big break when he was 16. He started on Nickelodeon's All That from 1994 to 1999. He and co-star Kel Mitchell had their own spin-off television series Ken... Biography of Tessie SANTIAGO
Tessie Santiago (born August 10, 1975 in Miami, Florida, U.S.) is an American actress of Cuban descent. Making her television debut in 2000 in the action/adventure syndicated television series Queen Of Swords as Tessa Alvarado/The Queen, Tessie is now an experienced actress. She has starred on television shows such as the first season of Good Morning, Miami (from 2002-2003; after appearing on the first 11 episodes, the series creators decided to drop her character of Lucia from the sitcom, re... Biography of Robert CARLYLE
Robert Carlyle OBE (born April 14, 1961) is an acclaimed Scottish film actor known for his performances as psychopaths or killers. Height: 5' 8" (1.73 m) Early life Carlyle was born in Maryhill, Glasgow, the son of Elizabeth, a bus company employee, and Joseph Carlyle, a painter and decorator. He was raised by his father after his mother left when he was four years old. Carlyle enrolled in acting class at the Glasgow Arts Centre at the age of 21. Career Carlyle is a graduate of the...
Biography of Stan LAUREL
Stan Laurel (born Arthur Stanley Jefferson; June 16, 1890 – February 23, 1965) was an English comic actor, writer and director, famous as part of the comedy double-act Laurel and Hardy, whose career stretched from the silent films of the early 20th century until post-World War II. Laurel's star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame is situated at 7021 Hollywood Blvd. Height: 5' 8" (1.73 m) Early life Stan Laurel was born Arthur Stanley Jefferson on June 16, 1890 in Ulverston, Lancashire (now Cumb... Biography of Serge REDING
Serge Reding (born December 23, 1941 in Oudergem – died June 28, 1975 in Manilla, Philippines) was a Belgian weightlifter, who was born as Serge Yvan Arthur Gérard. Gérard was the name of his unmarried mother Adeline Gérard and his father was unknown. His parents were originally from the Belgian Ardennes (Herbeumont). When Ernest Reding married Adeline he adopted Serge and gave him his name. When Reding was about sixteen years old he had his first contact weightlifting training. But he rea... Biography of Richard MARX
Richard Noel Marx (born September 16, 1963 in Chicago, Illinois) is an adult contemporary and pop/rock singer, songwriter, musician, and record producer. He had a string of highly successful hit singles in the late 1980s and 1990s, including "Endless Summer Nights", "Right Here Waiting", "Now and Forever", and "Hazard". Although most of his major hit songs were slow ballads like these, many of his songs had a classic rock style, such as "Don't Mean Nothing," "Should've Known Better," "Satisfied,... Biography of Tania ZAETTA
Tania Zaetta (born November 17, 1970, surname is pronounced Zay-etta) is an Australian actress and television presenter. Career On television in 1995 she co-hosted the Seven Network show Who Dares Wins with Mike Whitney She also appeared in Baywatch in 1999. In 2005 she played a minor role as an American billionaire's wife in the Bollywood film Bunty Aur Babli, and she was also in Salaam Namaste. In 2005 she has also appeared on Australia's Dancing with the Stars where she was the first... Biography of Alisen DOWN
Alisen Elizabeth Jean Down (born January 3, 1976) is a Canadian film and television actress. She was born in Langley, British Columbia. Down showed an interest for acting early, and during her younger years she used to write and produce her own plays. After she graduated from H. D. Stafford Secondary School, Down studied at the American Academy of Dramatic Arts in California, and then the British American Dramatic Academy in Oxford. Down's most famous appearance is most likely in the TV serie... Biography of Gates McFADDEN
Cheryl Gates McFadden (born March 2, 1949, in Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio), usually credited as Gates McFadden, is an American actress and choreographer. She is best known for portraying the character of Dr. Beverly Crusher in the television and film series Star Trek: The Next Generation. Height: 5' 8" (1.73 m) Early life She attended Brandeis University earning B.A Cum Laude in Theater Arts. After graduating from Brandeis, she moved to Paris and studied theater with actor Jacques LeCoq. C... Biography of Bill WARD (BLACK SABBATH)
Bill Ward (born William Thomas Ward, May 5, 1948, Aston, Birmingham, England), is the drummer for the pioneering British heavy metal band Black Sabbath. In addition to playing drums as an original founding member of the band, Ward sang lead vocals for two Black Sabbath songs; "It's Alright" (from Technical Ecstasy), and "Swinging The Chain" (from Never Say Die!). Ward's drumming often closely doubles the rhythms of the bass and guitar riffs, producing a combined effect. An example of this ... Biography of Tahj MOWRY
Tahj Dayton Mowry (born May 17, 1986 in Honolulu, Hawaii) is an American actor and singer. He played varsity football at Westlake High School in California and Savannah State University. He also attended Pepperdine University. Family Tahj Mowry was born and raised in Hawaii to Darlene Flowers, who manages her children's careers, and Timothy Mowry, a police officer in California. His mother is African American and his father is Italian American; the two met during high school in Miami and lat... Biography of Gypsy Rose LEE
Gypsy Rose Lee (also known as Rose Louise Hovick and Louise Hovick) (b. February 9, 1911/1914 – April 26, 1970) was an American actress, burlesque entertainer, and writer whose 1957 memoir, which included a scathing portrait of her domineering mother, was made into the stage musical and film Gypsy. Early life Born as Rose Louise Hovick in Seattle, Washington in either 1911 or 1914, Gypsy was initially known by her middle name, Louise. Her mother, Rose Thompson Hovick, was fifteen when she ma... Biography of Michele ALBORETO
Michele Alboreto (December 23, 1956 - April 25, 2001) was an Italian racing driver who participated in Formula One from 1981 to 1994 in Tyrrell, Ferrari, Larrousse, Arrows, Footwork, BMS Scuderia Italia and Minardi. Tyrrell driver Born in Milan, Alboreto studied design, and started racing in 1976 in a car designed by himself; it was called CMR and was raced in Formula Monza without success. He moved to Formula 3 in 1978 and in 1979 finished third in the Italian F3 series. He moved to the Eur... Biography of Jennie EISENHOWER
Jennie Eisenhower, born August 15, 1978 in San Clemente, California, is the the first child of Julie Nixon and her husband David Eisenhower. She is the great-granddaughter of President Dwight "Ike" Eisenhower and the granddaughter of President Richard M. Nixon.... Biography of Tony RANDALL
Tony Randall (February 26, 1920 – May 17, 2004) was an American comic actor. Height: 5' 8" (1.73 m) Early life He was born as Arthur Leonard Rosenberg to a Jewish family in Tulsa, Oklahoma, the son of Mogscha Rosenberg, an art and antiques dealer, and his wife, Julia Finston. Known as Leonard, he had a sister Edna. Show business He was first attracted to show business when a ballet company played in Tulsa. He attended Northwestern University for a year before traveling to New York ... Biography of Jill CLAYBURGH
Jill Clayburgh (born April 30, 1944) is a twice Academy Award-nominated American actress of stage, motion pictures, and television. Early life Clayburgh was born in New York City to Julia (née Dorr), a theatrical production secretary for David Merrick, and Albert Henry "Bill" Clayburgh, a manufacturing executive. Clayburgh's family was Jewish and upper class; she was raised in a "fashionable" neighborhood in Manhattan's Upper East Side. She attended Sarah Lawrence College, where she decided ... Biography of Sergio LEONE
Sergio Leone (January 3, 1929 – April 30, 1989) was an Italian film director. Leone is well-known for his spaghetti western films and his recognizable style of juxtaposing extreme close-up shots with lengthy long shots. With his innovative filming techniques and revolutionary directing style, Leone is recognized as one of the greatest directors of all time. His most well-known movies include The Man With No Name trilogy (which consists of A Fistful of Dollars, For a Few Dollars More and The G... Biography of MONICA
Monica Denise Arnold (born October 24, 1980), professionally known as Monica, is an American R&B singer, songwriter, and occasional actress. She debuted in 1995 under the guidance of Rowdy Records head Dallas Austin and became the youngest recording act to ever have two consecutive chart-topping hits on the U.S. Billboard Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs chart. Following a major success with "The Boy Is Mine," a duet with singer Brandy, in 1998, a series of hit records established her position as one of th... Biography of Ilary BLASI
Ilary Blasi (born 28 April 1981, Rome) is an Italian showgirl and model. Height: 5' 8" (1.73 m) She started her career at 3 in an Italian commercial. At 5 years old she got her first part in a film called David and David, then at 6 years old, she starred in Da grande di Franco Amurri and in Vizio di vivere di Dino Risi. After she worked in the film Fiori di zucca (1988) di Stefano Pomicia e La dolce casa degli orrori (1989) di Lucio Fulci. After some other television programs she became... Biography of Maria KIRILENKO
Maria Yuryevna Kirilenko (Russian: Мари́я Ю́рьевна Кириле́нко; born January 25, 1987 in Moscow) is a Russian professional tennis player. She won her first WTA Tour title in 2005, beating Anna-Lena Groenefeld 6-3, 6-4 in the China Open. Kirilenko reached #20, her career-high singles ranking, on the WTA tour in June 2006. She is a good friend of Maria Sharapo... Biography of Scott WOLF
Scott Richard Wolf (born June 4, 1968) is an American actor. Born in Boston, Massachusetts to Steven Wolf and Susan Enowitch, Wolf was raised in West Orange, New Jersey. He graduated in 1986 from West Orange High School. He attended The George Washington University and received a Bachelor of Arts degree in finance. He also became a Brother of the Alpha Epsilon Pi Fraternity. Wolf is known for his role as Bailey Salinger on Party of Five. On both Everwood and the short-lived The Nine, he po... Biography of Ethan COEN
Joel and Ethan Coen, known as The Coen Brothers, are Academy Award winning American filmmakers. For more than 20 years, the pair have written and directed numerous successful films, ranging from screwball comedies (O Brother, Where Art Thou?, Raising Arizona, The Hudsucker Proxy) to film noir (Miller's Crossing, Blood Simple, The Man Who Wasn't There, No Country For Old Men), to movies where those two genres blur together (Fargo, The Big Lebowski, Barton Fink). The brothers write, direct and pro... Biography of Mia TYLER
Mia Abagale Tallarico aka Mia Tyler (born December 22, 1978 in Mary Hitchcock Hospital, Hanover, New Hampshire) is an American plus-size model and actress. She is the daughter of Aerosmith lead singer Steven Tyler and actress Cyrinda Foxe. Mia is also the half-sister of actress Liv Tyler (whose mother is actress and singer Bebe Buell). While growing up, the young Mia and Liv crossed circles many times and were good friends before they ever discovered that they were sisters. While Mia and Liv ...
Biography of Jim CORR
James Steven Ignatius 'Jim' Corr MBE (born July 31, 1964) is the guitarist for the Irish folk rock band The Corrs. He is also the eldest and the only male sibling in the group. Standing at 5'8", he is the tallest of the group. He plays acoustic and electric guitar as well as piano, keyboard, accordion and background vocals. He has also had an active role in the production aspects of all of their albums to present date, working with David Foster and Olle Romo on two separate albums. He sang a ... Biography of Shirley JONES
Shirley Mae Jones (born March 31, 1934) is an American actress and singer. She starred as wholesome characters in a number of well-known musical films, such as Oklahoma!, Carousel, and The Music Man. Ironically, she won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for playing a "bad girl" in Elmer Gantry. For younger fans, she is probably best known as Shirley Partridge, the widowed mother of five children in the television series The Partridge Family, co-starring her real-life stepson David Ca... Biography of Chantal KREVIAZUK
Chantal Kreviazuk (born May 18, 1973) is a Canadian singer-songwriter of the Adult contemporary music genre. She is also a classically trained pianist, who in addition can play the guitar. Career Albums Kreviazuk's first album, Under These Rocks and Stones, was released in Canada in 1996 and the U.S. in early 1997 to much critical praise. The album sold over 100,000 copies in the U.S., fueled mostly by the singles "Surrounded" and "God Made Me", while in Canada it went double platinum wi... Biography of Mary STEENBURGEN
Mary Steenburgen (born February 8, 1953) is an Academy Award-winning American actress. Personal life Steenburgen was born in Newport, Arkansas, daughter of Nell, a school-board secretary, and Maurice Steenburgen, a freight-train conductor. Steenburgen grew up in North Little Rock, Arkansas. Steenburgen married Malcolm McDowell in 1980 and they had two children together: Lily Amanda, born January 21, 1981 and Charles Malcolm born July 10, 1983, before divorcing in 1990, and has been married t... Biography of William Henry HARRISON
William Henry Harrison (February 9, 1773 – April 4, 1841) was an American military leader, politician, and the ninth President of the United States. He served as the first Governor of the Indiana Territory and later as a U.S. Representative and Senator from Ohio. Harrison first gained national fame for leading U.S. forces against American Indians at the Battle of Tippecanoe in 1811 and earning the nickname "Tippecanoe" (or "Old Tippecanoe"). As a general in the subsequent War of 1812, his most n...
Biography of Sergey BRIN
Sergey Mikhailovich Brin (born August 21, 1973) is a Soviet Union-born American entrepreneur who co-founded Google with Larry Page. Brin currently holds the position of President of Technology at Google and has a net worth estimated at $18.5 billion as of March 9, 2007, making him the 26th richest person in the world and the 5th richest person in the United States, together with Larry Page. He is also the fourth-youngest billionaire in the world. Biography Early life and education Se... Biography of Noel EDMONDS
Noel Ernest Edmonds DL (born December 22, 1948) is an English television presenter and executive who made his name as a DJ on BBC Radio 1 in the UK. He has presented many light entertainment television shows, including Multi-Coloured Swap Shop, Top of the Pops and Noel's House Party. He currently presents the Channel 4 gameshow Deal or No Deal and the Sunday edition of Sky One's Are You Smarter Than A Ten Year Old?. Early life and radio career The son of a headmaster who worked in Hainault, ... Biography of Burt WARD
Burt Ward (born Bert John Gervis, Jr., on July 6, 1945) is an American television actor. He is best known for his work as Robin, the "Boy Wonder", in the 1960s television series, Batman. The show, which aired on ABC from 1966 to 1968, starred Ward and Adam West as the title character, also known as "The Caped Crusader." Early life Ward was born in Los Angeles, California. At the age of two, he was listed in the prolific magazine, Strange as it Seems, as the world's youngest professional i...
Biography of TARKAN
Tarkan Tevetoğlu (born October 17, 1972), popularly known as Tarkan, is a World Music award winning pop singer in Turkey. Tarkan has been known for the use of sexual and romantic themes in his work and has been nicknamed the "Prince Of Pop" by the media. He has released several platinum-selling albums during his career, with an estimated 15 million albums sold. He also produces music through his company HITT Music, which he established in 1997. One of a few European singers that has managed... Biography of Denis LAWSON
Denis Stamper Lawson (born September 27, 1947) is a Scottish actor. He is best known for his roles as Wedge Antilles in the original Star Wars trilogy and as Gordon Urquhart in the film Local Hero. Personal life Lawson was born in Crieff, Perth and Kinross, the son of Phyllis Neno (née Stamper), who sold sweets, and Laurence Lawson, a watchmaker and Glasgow native. His sister, Carol Diane McGregor, is a retired teacher who still lives in Perthshire. She is the mother of actor Ewan McGregor a... Biography of John LEGUIZAMO
John Leguizamo (born July 22, 1964) is an Emmy Award-winning and Golden Globe-nominated Colombian-American comedian, actor and producer. Early life Leguizamo was born in Bogotá, Colombia to Alberto and Luz Leguizamo. His paternal grandfather was of Italian and Puerto Rican descent; his maternal grandfather was Lebanese. Leguizamo's father was once an aspiring film director and studied at Cinecittà but eventually dropped out due to lack of finances. When Leguizamo was three years old, his fam... Biography of Alizé CORNET
Alizé Cornet (born January 22, 1990 in Nice, Alpes-Maritimes, France) is a female tennis player from France. She has a career-high ranking of #33, achieved on April 21, 2008 She made her Grand Slam debut at the French Open in 2005 and made it to the second round, where she lost to Amélie Mauresmo. In 2006, she reached the second round again by beating Virginia Ruano Pascual of Spain in the first round. She could not repeat this performance in 2007, as she lost in the first round to Venus Will... Biography of Judith LIGHT
Judith Light (born Judith Ellen Licht on February 9, 1949) is an Emmy Award-winning American actress. She is best known for her role as Angela Bower on the sitcom Who's the Boss?, and is now starring as Claire Meade on ABC's Ugly Betty. Early life Light was born in Trenton, New Jersey of Jewish heritage, the daughter of Benjamin Licht (Benny Light), who owned a major furniture store in Trenton. After graduating from Carnegie-Mellon University with a degree in drama, she started out starring... Biography of Kenneth WILLIAMS
Kenneth Charles Williams (22 February 1926 – 15 April 1988) was an English comic actor, star of twenty six Carry On films and notable radio comedies with Tony Hancock and Kenneth Horne, as well as a witty raconteur on a wide range of subjects. Life and career Kenneth Williams was born in 1926 in Bingfield Street, King's Cross, London. The son of barber Charles Williams, he was educated at Lyulph Stanley School. His relationship with his parents—he adored his vivacious mother, Louisa ("Lou"),... Biography of Charles LAUGHTON
Charles Laughton (1 July 1899–15 December 1962) was an English Academy Award-winning stage and film actor, screenwriter, producer and one-time director. He became an American citizen in 1950. While best known for his historical roles in films, he started his career as a remarkable stage actor. During a time when many serious stage actors despised the motion picture medium, seeing it only as a source of income, Laughton showed keen and serious interest in the pioneering possibilities of film, and... Biography of Naomie HARRIS
Naomie Melanie Harris (born 6 September 1976) is an English screen actress known for her starring role as Selena in 28 Days Later and her supporting turn as Tia Dalma in the second and third Pirates of the Caribbean movies. Personal life Harris was born and raised in London, England, the daughter of sitcom writer Lisselle Kayla, a single mother who had emigrated to England from Jamaica as a child. After graduating in 1998 from Pembroke College, Cambridge with an undergraduate degree in socia... Biography of Jesse BRADFORD
Jesse Bradford Watrouse (born May 28, 1979), better known as Jesse Bradford, is an American actor. Early life Bradford was born in Norwalk, Connecticut, the only child of actors Terry Porter and Curt (or Kurt) Bradford/Watrouse, who appeared in commercials, soap operas, and industrial films. His mother also played his character's mother in Hackers (1995). Bradford's cousins are Jonathan Svec (a member of the bands Splender and Edison) and Sarah Messer, a writer and poet. He began acting at t... Biography of George BEST
George Best (22 May 1946 – 25 November 2005) was a football player, best known for his years with Manchester United. He was a winger whose game combined pace, acceleration, balance, two-footedness, goalscoring and the ability to beat defenders. In 1968, his annus mirabilis, he won the European Cup with Manchester United, and was named the European Footballer of the Year. When fit, he was an automatic choice for the Northern Ireland team, but he was unable to lead them to the World Cup qualificat... Biography of Pat ROBERTSON
Marion Gordon "Pat" Robertson (born March 22, 1930) is a televangelist from the United States. He is the founder of numerous organizations and corporations, including the American Center for Law and Justice (ACLJ), Christian Broadcasting Network (CBN), the Christian Coalition, Flying Hospital, International Family Entertainment, Operation Blessing International Relief and Development Corporation, and Regent University. He is the host of The 700 Club, a Christian TV program airing on channels thr... Biography of Geraldine PAGE
Geraldine Sue Page (November 22, 1924 – June 13, 1987) was an Academy Award, Golden Globe and Emmy Award-winning and Tony Award-nominated American actress. Although starring in at least two dozen feature films, she is primarily known for her celebrated work in the American theater. Life and career Page was born in Kirksville, Missouri. She attended the Goodman Theatre Dramatic School in Chicago and studied acting with Uta Hagen. She began appearing in stock at the age of seventeen. Sta... Biography of Zachary TAYLOR
Zachary Taylor (November 24, 1784 – July 9, 1850) was an American military leader and the twelfth President of the United States. Known as "Old Rough and Ready", Taylor had a 40-year military career in the U.S. Army, serving in the War of 1812, Black Hawk War, and Second Seminole War before achieving fame leading U.S. troops to victory at several critical battles of the Mexican-American War. A Southern slaveholder who opposed the spread of slavery to the territories, he was uninterested in po... Biography of Sam BEAM
Iron & Wine is the stage and recording name of folk rock singer-songwriter Sam Beam. He has released three studio albums, as well as several EPs and singles, and a few download-only releases, including a live album (a recording of his 2005 Bonnaroo performance). Beam was raised in South Carolina before moving to Florida to attend school, but now resides outside of Austin, Texas. The name Iron & Wine is taken from a dietary supplement named "Beef Iron & Wine" that he found in a general store whil... Biography of Cindy KLASSEN
Cindy Klassen (born August 12, 1979 in Winnipeg, Manitoba) is a Canadian skater and Canada's all-time most decorated Olympian. Klassen is a descendant of Mennonite immigrants to Manitoba and is a graduate of Maple Leaf School in the North Kildonan area of Winnipeg and Mennonite Brethern Collegiate in the Elmwood area of Winnipeg. She started her sports career as an ice hockey player at Gateway Community Club in Winnipeg; in her youth she played for the Canadian National Youth Team. When she w... Biography of Claudine AUGER
Claudine Auger (born Claudine Oger April 26, 1942 in Paris (Imdb gives 1941 and Wikipedia 1942)) was a former Miss France Monde and actress during the 1960s and onwards. Her most famous role was as Bond girl Dominique "Domino" Derval in the James Bond film Thunderball. The role of Domino was originally to be an Italian woman: Dominetta Petacchi. Auger impressed the producers so much that they re-wrote the part to that of a French woman to better suit Auger. Her voice is dubbed by Nikki van der Z... Biography of Persis KHAMBATTA
Persis Khambatta (October 2, 1948 (source: Wikipedia in German, Imdb) – August 18, 1998) was an Indian model and actress of Parsi ethnicity and Zoroastrian religion. She was born in Bombay, India. At age 15, Khambatta became Miss India and participated in the 1965 Miss Universe pageant, but could not achieve much success in the Indian movie industry in Bollywood, partially due to her relatively Western looks, which appeared unconventional for the Indian audiences. She later entered the world ... Biography of Sid JAMES
Sid James (born Joel Solomon Cohen; 8 May 1913 – 26 April 1976) was a South African actor, who made his career in the British film and television industry. James, who was often credited as Sidney James, is best remembered for his roles in the Carry On films, Bless This House and Hancock's Half Hour. Early life James was born Joel Solomon Cohen, to Jewish parents, later changing his name to Sidney Joel Cohen and then Sid James. His family lived on Hancock Street in Hillbrow, Johannesburg, Sou... Biography of Vinessa SHAW
Vinessa Elizabeth Shaw (born July 19, 1976) is an American actress. Shaw was born in Los Angeles, California, the daughter of Larry Shaw and actress Susan Damante-Shaw (née Susan Jean Damante). Vinessa plays a hustling realtor (Sally St. Claire) in the forthcoming film Garden Party (film) opening July 11, 2008 in Los Angeles, New York, Portland, and Seattle. Official Site Filmography Two Lovers (2008).... Sandra Garden Party (2008).... Sally Stag Night (2008) .... Brita 3:10 to ... Biography of Wolfgang PUCK
Wolfgang Johann Puck (born Wolfgang Johann Topfschnig on July 8, 1949) is an Austrian celebrity chef, restaurateur, and businessman based in Los Angeles. Wolfgang Puck restaurants, catering services, cookbooks and licensed products are run by Wolfgang Puck Companies, with three divisions. He was born to Maria Topfschnig and a butcher who abandoned her before their child's birth. Maria married Josef Puck in 1956, who adopted Wolfgang. The marriage produced another son and two daughters. Puc... Biography of Luc LEBLANC
Luc Leblanc (born on August 4, 1966 in Limoges, France) was a professional male cyclist from France. In 1994 he became World Road Champion. Major achievements World Cycling Road Race Championship: 1994 France National Road Race Championship: 1992 Vuelta a España: 1994 King of the Mountains GP de Ouest France Plouay: 1988 GP du Midi Libre: 1992 GP de Wallonie: 1990 Tour of Haut-Var: 1990 Tour of Trentin: 1997 Tour de France 1991: 5th overall, Maillot jaune after Stage 1... Biography of Hu JINTAO
Hu Jintao (simplified Chinese: 胡锦涛; traditional Chinese: 胡錦濤; pinyin: Hú Jǐntāo; born 21 December 1942) is currently the Paramount Leader of the People's Republic of China, holding the titles of General Secretary of the Communist Party of China since 2002, President of the People's Republic of China since 2003, and Chairman of the Central Military Commission since 2004, succeeding Jiang Zemin in the fourth generation leadership of the People's ... Biography of Trisha YEARWOOD
Patricia Lynn Yearwood, known professionally as Trisha Yearwood (born September 19, 1964) is an American country music singer, best known for her series of major hits throughout the 1990s decade and into the new millennium. She is a three-time Grammy award-winner, a two-time Country Music Association Awards-winner and a two-time Academy of Country Music Awards-winner. Yearwood made her debut in 1991 with the #1 hit single, "She's in Love with the Boy". Her debut album was certified by the RIA... Biography of Art BUCHWALD
Arthur Buchwald (October 20, 1925 – January 17, 2007) was an American humorist best known for his long-running column that he wrote in The Washington Post, which in turn was carried as a syndicated column in many other newspapers. His column focused on political satire and commentary. He received the Pulitzer Prize for Outstanding Commentary in 1982 and in 1986 was elected to the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters. Buchwald was also known for the Buchwald v. Paramount lawsuit,... Biography of Judy HOLLIDAY
Judy Holliday (June 21, 1921–June 7, 1965) was an Academy- and Tony Award-winning American actress. Early life Born Judith Tuvim ("Tuvim" is Hebrew for "Holiday") in New York City, she was the only child of Abe and Helen Tuvim, Jewish immigrants from Russia. she attended elementary school at PS 150, a school in Sunnyside, Queens, New York. Her first job was as an assistant switchboard operator at the Mercury Theatre run by Orson Welles and John Houseman. Career Holliday began her show... Biography of Annabeth GISH
Annabeth Gish (b. Anne Elizabeth Gish on March 13, 1971 in Albuquerque, New Mexico) is a contemporary American actress known for starring roles in Shag, The X-Files, Mystic Pizza and Double Jeopardy. Biography Gish was born to Robert and Judy Gish. Her grandmother was named Lillian, but Annabeth is not related to the early silent film actress sisters Lillian Gish and Dorothy Gish. When she was 2, her family moved to Cedar Falls, Iowa, where she grew up with her brother Tim and sister Robin.... Biography of Harold WILSON
James Harold Wilson, Baron Wilson of Rievaulx, KG, OBE, FRS, PC (11 March 1916 – 24 May 1995) was one of the most prominent British politicians of the later 20th century. He emerged as Prime Minister after more general elections than any other 20th century premier. He contested 5 general elections and received victory in 4 of them, winning in 1964, 1966, February 1974 and October 1974. He is the most recent British Prime Minister to serve non-consecutive terms. Harold Wilson first served as P... Biography of Laurent ROBERT
Laurent Robert (born May 21, 1975 in Saint Benoît, Réunion, French Overseas Departments) is a French left winger who currently plays for Derby County. Clubs Robert started his career at Montpellier, before signing for Paris Saint-Germain in 1999. He made his debut for France shortly after, on August 18, 1999, against Northern Ireland. In a Champions League match against Rosenborg in 2000 he set up six goals in a 7-2 win. Following a recall to the national team, Robert scored his first goal f... Biography of Harry Dean STANTON
Harry Dean Stanton (born July 14, 1926) is an American actor. Early life Stanton was born in West Irvine, Kentucky, the son of Ersel (née Moberly), a hair dresser, and Sheridan Harry Stanton, a tobacco farmer and barber. His parents divorced when Stanton was in high school and later re-married. He had two younger brothers, Archie and Ralph. Stanton attended the University of Kentucky in Lexington, Kentucky, where he studied journalism and radio arts. He also studied at the Pasadena Playhouse... Biography of Mel HARRIS
Mel Harris (born July 12, 1956) is an American actress. She played Sylvia Capshaw on the MyNetworkTV limited-run serial Saints & Sinners. Career Harris is perhaps best known for her role as Hope Murdoch Steadman on the popular 1980s television show, thirtysomething (1987-1991). During that time, in 1989, Harper's Bazaar named her one of "America's 10 Most Beautiful Women". From 1996-1998, she starred with Jere Burns in the NBC sitcom Something So Right. In addition, Harris has appeared in... Biography of George TAKEI
George Hosato Takei (born April 20, 1937) is an American actor best known for his role in the TV series Star Trek, in which he played the helmsman Hikaru Sulu on the USS Enterprise (later Captain Sulu of the USS Excelsior). Most recently, he played Hiro Nakamura's father Kaito Nakamura on the NBC television show Heroes. Takei is also known for his baritone voice. Takei began recurring appearances as the announcer for The Howard Stern Show on January 9, 2006, after that show's move to satellit... Biography of Serria TAWAN
Serria Tawan (Born September 4, 1978) is an African-American model and actress. She was chosen as Playboy's Playmate of the Month in November, 2002 and has appeared in numerous Playboy videos. She guest-starred on a special Playmates vs. Bachelors edition of Family Feud. Measurements Bust: 34B/C Waist: 25 Hips: 34 Height 5 ft 8 in (1.73 m) Weight 130 lb (59 kg/9.3 st)... Biography of Anne FRANCIS
Anne Francis (born September 16, 1930, in Ossining, New York) is an American actress, famous for her role in the science fiction film classic Forbidden Planet (1956) and as private detective Honey West in the television series Honey West (1965-1966). For her role in Honey West, Francis won the Golden Globe award as best actress in a TV series, and she was nominated for an Emmy award for the same role. Francis entered show business at a young age, working as a model at age 5, to help her fa... Biography of Neil GAIMAN
Neil Richard Gaiman (IPA: /ˈgeɪmən/) (born November 10, 1960) is an English author of science fiction and fantasy short stories and novels, graphic novels, comics, and films. His notable works include The Sandman comic series, Stardust, and American Gods. The extreme enthusiasm of his fans has led some to call him the "rock star" of the literary world. He lives near Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States, in an "Addams Family house". He is married to Mary T. McGrat | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||