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February 29, 2008

Born Februarr 29, 1928
Location: Eastman Ga.
Tempest Storm (born Annie Blanche Banks February 29, 1928) in Eastman, Georgia is a retired American burlesque star and motion picture actress.
A victim of child abuse, she ran away from home as a young girl. By age 20 she had been twice married and divorced and headed for Hollywood. Her beauty landed her work as a chorus girl, but her curvaceous figure and very generous and natural 40" bosom and 22" waist combined with a magnetic stage personality led to a highly successful career in burlesque. Her professional debut was at the El Rey Theater in Oakland, California. She took Tempest Storm as her stage name around 1950, legally changing her name in 1957.
Career
Tempest was a regular performer for many years on stage at a burlesque theatre in Oakland, California as well as at other clubs around the United States including in Las Vegas. Tempest was famous for her astounding physical measurements (44DD-25-35) and her red hair. She was featured in numerous magazines and burlesque movies including Russ Meyer's French Peep Show (1950), Paris After Midnight (1951), Striptease Girl (1952), Irving Klaw's Teaserama, (1955) (which also featured Bettie Page) and his Buxom Beautease (1956), and other films. She travelled extensively during her career, and did many performances in Las Vegas and Reno, Nevada. In the late 1950s, her breasts, or her "moneymakers" as she called them, were insured by Lloyds of London for one million dollars. In the 1950s and 60s she starred in a number of motion pictures both as herself and in a character role. Much admired for her intelligence, personality and sense of humor, over the years, icons such as Walter Cronkite joined the line up of personalities to have their photo taken with her.
During her career, she was romantically linked with John F. Kennedy, Elvis Presley, Sammy Davis, Jr., and Vic Damone.
Along with Lili St. Cyr and Blaze Starr, Tempest was among the most famous burlesque performers of the 1950s and 1960's. She is regarded as having one of the longest careers as a burlesque performer.
Retirement and current life
With writer Bill Boyd, Ms. Storm told her life story in a 1987 book titled Tempest Storm: The Lady Is a Vamp. (ISBN 0-934601-25-9). She was inducted into the Exotic World Burlesque Museum Hall of Fame in Helendale, California, her G-string part of the museum's display.
Tempest officially retired in 1995 at the age of 67, but has done the occasional stage performance since then. She still receives requests for interviews about her life. In 1999 she stripped in San Francisco's O'Farrell Theatre to mark the club's 30 year anniversary; Mayor Willie Brown declared a "Tempest Storm Day" in her honor.
Tempest was married four times. She has one daughter, from her last marriage to singer and cowboy actor Herb Jeffries, which ended in divorce. She currently resides in Las Vegas, Nevada.
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February 28, 2008

AKA Alison Gertrude Larter
Born: 28-Feb-1976
Birthplace: Cherry Hill, NJ
Gender: Female
Race or Ethnicity: White
Sexual orientation: Straight
Occupation: Actor
Nationality: United States
Executive summary: Final Destination
Boyfriend: Azazel Jacobs (director)
Ali Larter was born in Cherry Hill, New Jersey to parents Danforth and Margaret Larter. She attended Carusi Middle School and Cherry Hill High School West. She began modeling with Ford Models at the age of fourteen and traveled the world. At seventeen, Larter settled temporarily in Japan. A year later, in 1995, she accompanied her boyfriend in his move to Los Angeles, California. Soon after, she began taking acting classes, at a friend's suggestion.
Larter is best friends with actress Amy Smart with whom she co-starred in Varsity Blues. The two had previously been roommates before pursuing acting careers. Larter has previously lived briefly in Tokyo in 1993, then Miami, Florida and New York City after the spring of 2002. In January 2007, she moved to Los Angeles to take on the commitment of working on Heroes.
Career
In November 1996, Larter portrayed the hoax model Allegra Coleman in Esquire magazine which told of the fictional model's relationship with David Schwimmer, how Quentin Tarantino broke up with Mira Sorvino to date her, and Woody Allen's overhaul of a film to have her star. Even after the hoax had been revealed, its effects lingered, and various talent agencies sought to represent the non-existant Coleman.
Larter landed her first professional roles in 1997, in which she appeared for one episode in the Brooke Shields' television series, Suddenly Susan, and the short lived television series Chicago Sons. The roles were followed by a number of other appearances on Dawson's Creek with James Van Der Beek, Chicago Hope and Just Shoot Me!
In 1999, Larter began her film career with an appearance in Varsity Blues which re-united her with Dawson's Creek star Van Der Beek, and close friend Amy Smart. Varsity Blues drew a domestic box office gross of $53 million, making Larter's first film a commercial success. Afterwards, Larter appeared in teen comedies, Giving It Up and Drive Me Crazy. That year as well, Larter starred in the horror remake House on Haunted Hill. Made for around $20 million, the movie was panned by the critics but grossed $15 million on its opening weekend and went on to earn over $40 million.
In 2000, Larter starred in the teenage audience aimed horror film Final Destination as the "final girl" Clear Rivers. The following year in 2001, she appeared in the comedy Legally Blonde with Reese Witherspoon, western American Outlaws with Colin Farrell and the Kevin Smith film Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back. That year as well, Larter performed in the stage play The Vagina Monologues in New York City. The next year in 2002, Larter was ranked #40 in Stuff magazine's "102 Sexiest Women in the World". In 2003, Larter reprised her role as Clear Rivers in the sequel to Final Destination, Final Destination 2. The series went on for a third installment without Larter as her character was killed off in the second installment of the series. In 2005, Larter appeared in the independent film Confess and the romantic comedy A Lot Like Love alongside Amanda Peet and Ashton Kutcher.
2006 saw Larter in the biographical film Crazy based on guitarist Hank Garland. As of September 2006, Larter has been portraying Niki Sanders on the NBC Emmy Award-nominated science fiction drama television series Heroes, created by Tim Kring. The show includes an ensemble cast including Hayden Panettiere, Milo Ventimiglia, Leonard Roberts, Masi Oka and Greg Grunberg. Larter's character Niki Sanders, who is a wife and mother, is a former internet stripper from Las Vegas who exhibits superhuman strength and an alternate personality who goes by the name of Jessica. After completing half its first season, Heroes had already collected an assortment of honors and accolades, and Larter had been nominated for "Best Supporting Actress" for the 33rd Saturn Awards.
In 2007, Larter starred in the Bollywood Marigold as the title character along side Salman Khan, which was released in August. She also joined the cast of the popular film franchise Resident Evil: Extinction portraying the character Claire Redfield in the upcoming horror film with Milla Jovovich. Her role sent her to Mexicali, Mexico for filming from May to late July in which she also dyed her hair a light red for the film. Larter explains on her character Claire, "She became the leader of this convoy. She's incredibly strong, patient. I think she serves a role for everyone within this convoy, let it be a mother to someone, a buddy, a best friend." Larter also attended the 2007 Comic Con International, her second appearance at the event, to promote the film to be released in theaters on September 21, 2007. This year as well, she will appear in the comedy Homo Erectus. Larter was also featured as #6 in Maxim's Hot 100 for 2007.
In an interview for Resident Evil: Extinction, Larter had expressed interest in producing films in the future, saying, "I definitely have many ideas and different avenues that I want to take as my career goes on.
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February 28, 2008

Born: 28-Feb-1984
Birthplace: Decin, Czechia
Gender: Female
Race or Ethnicity: White
Sexual orientation: Straight
Occupation: Model
Nationality: Czechia
Executive summary: Graced cover of February 2001 Vogue
Father: Josef Kurka (Czech)
Mother: (Slovak)
Boyfriend: (cohabiting with her in TriBeCa, name apparently unpublished)
Karolína Isela Kurková (born February 28, 1984) is a Czech supermodel, best known as one of the Victoria's Secret Angels. Mario Testino said of Kurková, "The proportions of her body and her face, as well as her energy level, make her a model who could fit almost into any moment." Designer Marc Jacobs said, "She has an angelic look with a dark side, she's sweet and fun but looks like she could be an evil bewitching child." Vogue editor Anna Wintour called her the "next supermodel.".
Early life and career
Karolína Kurková was born in Dìèín, Czech Republic, to Josef Kurka, a Czech basketball player, and a Slovak mother.
After a friend sent photos of Kurková to an agency in Prague, she immediately landed a runway appearance, as well as a commercial and print ad. She later traveled to Milan to gain more experience. There, Miuccia Prada, the designer behind the brand Prada, signed her to a modeling contract.
Modeling career
In September 1999, Kurková met with Vogue editors in New York City, then she moved to NYC permanently. At seventeen years old, she landed a spot on the cover of the February 2001 issue of Vogue. Kurková was now recognized at haute couture fashion shows, and lingerie brand Victoria's Secret chose her to be a part of that year's televised fashion show special. Prominent fashion houses such as Yves Saint Laurent signed Kurková to modeling contracts. Print campaigns for Tommy Hilfiger, Valentino, and others helped expose her even more, while she headlined the second Victoria's Secret show the following year. She was named "Model of the Year" at the 2002 VH1/Vogue Fashion Awards. Kurková later signed contracts with designers including Ralph Lauren, Óscar de la Renta, Chanel and Balenciaga.
Most recently, she has appeared on the cover of Korea's W, as well as the Greek Vogue. Kurková has been featured in fashion spreads in most major fashion magazines including U.K., U.S., and French Vogue (as well as other international versions of), Vanity Fair, and The Face. She has worked with well-known fashion photographers including Steven Klein, Mario Sorrenti, and Mario Testino. She was also featured in the 2006 Victoria's Secret Fashion Show.
Kurková is also set to make her film debut alongside Frankie Muniz, Harvey Keitel and Amber Valletta in Howard Himelstein's coming-of-age dramedy, My Sexiest Year.
Kurková is among the world's top-earning models.
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February 27, 2008

Born: 27-Feb-1983
Birthplace: Westchester County, NY
Gender: Female
Race or Ethnicity: White
Occupation: Actor
Nationality: United States
Executive summary: Shooter
Father: Chris Mara (baseball scout)
Mother: Kathleen Rooney
Brother: Dan
Sister: Patricia
Brother: Conor
Kate Mara (born February 27, 1983) is an American television and film actress. Beginning acting in her hometown of Bedford, New York, she moved from the stage to her first film, Random Hearts (1999). Notable roles include appearances in Academy Award-winner Brokeback Mountain and on Fox television series 24. Included on the New York Daily News list of "10 young actors who have a shot at making it big" at the start of 2006, she has since appeared in the feature films We Are Marshall and Shooter.
Biography
Early life
Mara was born in New York, the daughter of Chris Mara, a scout for the New York Giants, and Kathleen Rooney. Mara has one older brother, Daniel, and two younger siblings, Patricia and Conor. Mara was raised in Bedford, New York and wanted to be an actress since seeing Les Misérables at a young age. Mara said she "fell in love with Broadway and musicals",[2] and grew up watching movie musicals on television and going to Broadway shows with her mother. She was especially a fan of Judy Garland's films. She began acting at the age of nine, appearing in a school musical. Mara attended several youth theater-arts schools and appeared in community theater and in school plays.
Beginning at a young age, Mara continually asked her mother to help her get an agent. Mara's mother got the name and address of a management company, sent in a photograph, and Mara signed with her first agent, beginning her professional career at the age of 14. Mara's first audition was for the television drama Homicide: Life on the Street. She didn't get the role, but knew she just wanted to act from then on. Mara was accepted into the Tisch School of the Arts at New York University to study musical theater, and graduated from Fox Lane High School early by a year. Mara felt pressure from her parents to go to college, but was already getting work as an actress, so she deferred for three or four years before deciding not to go. Mara moved to Manhattan in order to act full time.
Television and stage roles
Mara's first television role was in the drama Law & Order in 1997. She went on to guest star on numerous television series including, Madigan Men, Ed, and Law & Order: Special Victims Unit. Recurring parts on the series Everwood and Nip/Tuck followed in 2003, along with appearances on Cold Case, Boston Public, CSI: Miami, and CSI: Crime Scene Investigation. Mara debuted theatrically in 2003 at the Williamstown Theatre Festival in Landscape of the Body with Lili Taylor. She has said that doing more theater work is a "dream" because it was "all I really wanted to do as a kid. I didn't care about movies or tv, I just wanted to do Broadway". A large recurring role on the WB Television Network series Jack & Bobby was next in 2005. Mara appeared in 2006 on Fox television series 24, playing computer analyst Shari Rothenberg for a 5 episode arc.
Film career
Mara's film debut was in Random Hearts with Harrison Ford in 1999, directed by Sydney Pollack. She next appeared in the Sundance Film Festival award-winning films Joe the King (1999) and Tadpole (2002), alongside Sigourney Weaver. Mara later starred in Urban Legends: Bloody Mary, and appeared with Noah Wyle and Illeana Douglas in The Californians in 2005. However, it was her supporting role in the Academy Award-winning Brokeback Mountain (2005) that brought her more widespread attention.
At the beginning of 2006, Mara signed with the William Morris Agency. That year, she appeared in Zoom with Tim Allen and Courteney Cox and in We Are Marshall, starring Matthew McConaughey. We Are Marshall recalled the aftermath of the 1970 Marshall University plane crash that took the lives of most of the football team, with Mara playing fictional cheerleader Annie Cantrell. It was a script that Mara responded to emotionally because of her football background.
In 2007, Mara appeared in the comedy Full of It with Ryan Pinkston for New Line Cinema. The film later aired on television as Big Liar on Campus. Mara was also featured in an advertising campaign for clothing retailer Gap called, "khakis with attitude." She appeared in Shooter, a thriller about a master sniper lured out of retirement to prevent an assassination, based on the novel Point of Impact. Mara played Kentucky widow Sarah Fenn, the love interest of Mark Wahlberg's character's partner, and then Mark Wahlberg's character himself. She adopted a southern dialect for the role. Director Antoine Fuqua immediately felt Mara was right for the part when she auditioned.
Also in 2007, Mara finished the film Transsiberian by Brad Anderson, the director of The Machinist (2004). Transsiberian takes place on the Trans-Siberian Railway that runs from China to Moscow. The cast includes Woody Harrelson, Ben Kingsley, Eduardo Noriega, and Emily Mortimer. Mara spent three months shooting the thriller in Vilnius, Lithuania, starting in December 2006. The film also shot on location in Beijing and Russia. Mara describes her character as "dark", "mysterious", "sort of goth", and doesn't talk much.
Mara will also star in Stone of Destiny, written and directed by Charles Martin Smith, a film about the theft of the Stone of Scone on Christmas Day, 1950. Mara plays Kay Matheson, one of four students that removed the stone in a Scottish nationalist plot. The period "adventure-comedy" co-stars Charlie Cox. Filming began in June 2007 in locations around Glasgow, including Film City studio and Arbroath Abbey. A 2008 release is scheduled for the film. Mara will also appear with Charlie Hunnam in Deal, a film by Michael Corrente.
NFL football ties
Kate Mara's family owns the New York Giants and the Pittsburgh Steelers; she is the great-granddaughter of Giants founder Tim Mara, the granddaughter of late Giants owner Wellington Mara on her father's side, as well as the great-granddaughter of Steelers founder Art Rooney on her mother's side. Mara's uncle is John Mara, the president and CEO of the Giants, and her father is the vice president of player evaluation. Mara attended almost every Giants home game while growing up. On Sundays, after attending church, her family would head directly to the games. When asked who she roots for when the Giants play the Steelers she replied, "that question is not allowed. I can't answer." Mara missed the Steelers' winning Super Bowl in 2006 because she was working in Los Angeles. Mara was so disappointed, she added to her contract that if the Giants or Steelers go to the Super Bowl, she can attend.
Mara's favorite Giants game was when she was asked to sing the national anthem in honor of her grandfather, Wellington Mara, who died in October 2005. Mara has regularly sung at home games and season openers of the Giants since about the age of 15 or 16 when her uncle asked her to fill in when they couldn't find a singer. She sang the national anthem at the 2006 NFL season opener, dubbed "Manning versus Manning," where the Giants played the Indianapolis Colts. Mara's singing was featured in the film The Californians.
Personal life
Mara has stated she comes from a "huge" family. Her father was one of 11 children. She has 22 aunts and uncles and 40 cousins. She lives in Los Angeles, having resided there on and off since around 2003. Her younger sister, Patricia, is living with her temporarily since relocating to Los Angeles in 2007. Mara travels back to New York when her schedule allows and has stated, "If I could live in New York, I would", specifying that she likes "the cold... the rain" and "miss[es] it". Mara tries to spend the football season in New York when she can.
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February 26, 2008

AKA Alexandria Hilfiger
Born: 26-Feb-1985
Birthplace: New York City
Gender: Female
Race or Ethnicity: White
Occupation: Actor, Model
Nationality: United States
Executive summary: MTV's Rich Girls
Daughter of Susie and Tommy Hilfiger. Chosen for MTV Real World: London.
Father: Tommy Hilfiger
Alexandria "Ally" Hilfiger is an American heiress, socialite and model.
Hilfiger is the daughter of Tommy Hilfiger. She split her childhood between Greenwich, Connecticut, where she attended Convent of the Sacred Heart (although she spent one year attending The Eagle Hill School), and Manhattan, where she attended the Professional Children's School. At age thirteen, she performed on Broadway in Abby's Song. At age seventeen, she produced the World War II film Proud.
She produced and hosted a show for Nantucket television, starring herself, entitled In the House with Ally Hilfiger. In 2003, she starred with then-friend Jaime Gleicher in MTV's reality show Rich Girls, which the two co-produced.
She has also been linked to attempting to break into the fashion world under the wing of her father. She took a crack at designing and also had input in store design for the 'H' by Hilfiger brand in Westchester, New York.
It was reported in the Chicago Sun Time Chicago Sun Times that Hilfiger went to rehab after Rich Girls. Hilfiger and Gleicher are no longer friends Gawker Report.
At present, she is attending the Stella Adler Studio of Acting in New York City and running her own vintage-accessories business according to a 2006 British Vogue article on fashion designers children.
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February 25, 2008

AKA Elizabeth Téa Pantaleoni
Born: 25-Feb-1966
Birthplace: New York City
Gender: Female
Race or Ethnicity: White
Sexual orientation: Straight
Occupation: Actor
Nationality: United States
Executive summary: Nora Wilde on The Naked Truth
Father: Anthony Pantaleoni (attorney)
Mother: Emily Pantaleoni (dietician)
Brother: Thomas "Tom" Pantaleoni (owns an antique store)
Boyfriend: Colin Irving (son of novelist John Irving, dated in high school)
Boyfriend: Chris Thompson (producer, The Naked Truth, b. 1952, dated 1995-96)
Husband: Neil Joseph Tardio (director of TV commercials, m. 1992, div. Oct-1995)
Husband: David Duchovny (actor, m. 6-May-1997)
Daughter: Madelaine West Duchovny (b. 24-Apr-1999)
Son: Kyd Miller Duchovny (b. 15-Jun-2002)
Leoni was born Elizabeth Téa Pantaleoni 'teːɑ lɛ'oːniː in New York City, the daughter of Emily (née Patterson), a dietician and nutritionist, and Anthony Pantaleoni, a corporate lawyer. Leoni’s mother is a native of Texas and her father is of Italian and Polish descent. Leoni’s paternal grandmother, Helen "Helenka" Tradusa Adamowska (1901 - 1987), was a film and stage actress who was a member of a family of prominent musicians known as the Adamowski Trio; through her, Leoni is related to Polish musician and prime minister Ignacy Jan Paderewski. Leoni's paternal great-grandfather was the brother of Italian economist and politician Maffeo Pantaleoni.
Career
Leoni attended Brearley School and The Putney School. She attended but did not complete studies at Sarah Lawrence College. She went on to star in a number of TV series and movies, starting as “Lisa DiNapoli” on Santa Barbara in 1989. She starred in the 1995 box-office hit, Bad Boys, along with Will Smith and Martin Lawrence. Her most commercially successful movie was Deep Impact, in which her character breaks the story of a comet that is going to hit Earth. She also starred in Woody Allen’s movie Hollywood Ending, with Allen and Mark Rydell. In 2004, she starred in Spanglish with Adam Sandler, Cloris Leachman, and Paz Vega.
In 1992, she landed the starring role in Fox’s Flying Blind, a short-lived sitcom. In 1995, Leoni landed the lead role in the television sitcom The Naked Truth, playing Nora Wilde, a tabloid news journalist. The show was a minor hit and was cancelled in 1998. Another film role followed in 2000, playing the lead alongside Nicolas Cage in The Family Man. In 2001, she starred with Sam Neill and William H. Macy in the blockbuster, Jurassic Park III, the third instalment of the Jurassic Park franchise. The film was a major box office hit and is one of her most notable roles.
She was ranked #79 on the FHM 100 Sexiest Women of 2000.
Personal life
Leoni states in the October 27, 2006, issue of Life magazine that she became a goodwill ambassador for UNICEF partially because her paternal grandmother was the president of the U.S. Fund for UNICEF for 25 years.
She married her first husband, Neil Joseph Tardio, Jr., a television producer, on June 8, 1991, at St. Luke’s Episcopal Church in Hope, New Jersey. The couple divorced in 1995. She married her second husband, actor David Duchovny, on May 6, 1997, after a nine-week courtship. Their first child, daughter Madelaine West Duchovny, was born on April 24, 1999, in Southern California, and their second, son Kyd Miller Duchovny, was born on June 15, 2002, in Los Angeles, California. During a June 14, 2007, interview on The Tonight Show, she commented on her 10 year anniversary and how 10 years in Hollywood is like “50 years in the real world”. She also revealed that she and Duchovny got tattoos on their ring fingers to celebrate their tenth anniversary. She is a vegetarian. The family lives in Malibu, California. Leoni starred as herself representing Dana Scully alongside Duchovny in the X-Files season 7 spoof episode "Hollywood A.D.". Duchovny was also writer and director.
An asteroid, 8299 Téaleoni, has been named after her.
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February 24, 2008

AKA Karen Michelle Johnston
Born: 24-Feb-1962
Birthplace: Dallas, TX
Gender: Female
Religion: Born-Again Christian
Race or Ethnicity: White
Sexual orientation: Straight
Occupation: Musician
Nationality: United States
Executive summary: Short Sharp Shocked
Father: Bill Johnston
Mother: (fundamentalist Mormon)
Brother: Max Johnston
Husband: Bart Bull (m. 1992, div. 2004)
Boyfriend: David Willardson
Michelle Shocked (born Karen Michelle Johnston, 24 February 1962, in Dallas, Texas) is a U.S. singer-songwriter whose music and performances are influenced by her Texas roots, her political activism, and a self-assured style that her first major-label producer likened to troubadours such as Joni Mitchell, Spider John Koerner, and Dave Van Ronk.
Shocked is the daughter of a carpenter. She graduated from high school in Gilmer, Texas, and received her bachelor's degree in the Oral Interpretation of Literature from the University of Texas in Austin. She was raised in a strict Mormon household and worked her way through college.
The singer's name dates back to the one she gave when arrested in 1984 at a protest called "The War Chest Tour" during the Democratic National Convention in San Francisco, California. The demonstration challenged the practice of U.S. corporations giving campaign contributions to both Democratic and Republican parties, thus benefiting from political favors regardless of which party is elected. "Michelle Shocked" was a play on words intended to resemble the phrase "shell shocked." The front cover of one of her best-known albums, Short Sharp Shocked, shows her restrained by the chokehold of a San Francisco policeman in a front-page photograph published by the San Francisco Examiner the following day.
Shocked received her first international exposure in Europe, particularly Britain, with her debut album The Texas Campfire Tapes. The album was originally recorded as a field recording directly onto a Sony Walkman at the Kerrville Folk Festival by Pete Lawrence, who represented himself as a journalist for the UK publication Folk Roots and was released on his label, Cooking Vinyl, in 1986.
Her break into U.S. national renown came with the release of her 1988 album Short Sharp Shocked on college radio rotations around the country, which was met with strong acclaim from listeners. On the crest of this independent momentum, her 1989 album Captain Swing on Mercury Records was accompanied by a strong promotional push, including an MTV-aired video of the single "On the Greener Side." However, the label did not invest in further promotion, stating that she had "cut too good a deal" for herself. After litigation following her release of 1992's Arkansas Traveler, she extricated herself from the deal, citing a violation of her 13th Amendment constitutional right prohibiting slavery.
Starting in 2002 with the release of Deep Natural, Michelle established her own label, Mighty Sound. She reissued expanded versions of her entire catalog, a plan made possible by her having retained ultimate ownership of her work when she signed with Mercury in 1987. The label got her work for a 10-year period. After litigation dating back to Mercury's refusal to release a gospel record she wanted to work on, ownership of the material reverted to her.
An acoustic version of her song "How You Play the Game" was featured as the opening and credits soundtrack in the DVD of the 2004 documentary film Bush's Brain.
Shocked continues to make music as an independent artist. In September 2007 she released album ToHeavenURide.
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Her mother committed a teenaged Michelle to a Dallas mental hospital, where she endured electroshock therapy. Was later committed to an institution in San Francisco, for a grand total of five weeks.
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February 23, 2008

Born: 23-Feb-1965
Birthplace: Boulder, CO
Gender: Female
Race or Ethnicity: White
Sexual orientation: Straight
Occupation: Actor
Nationality: United States
Executive summary: Good girl Charlotte on Sex and the City
Father: Tom Atkinson (biological father)
Mother: Dorothy
Father: Keith Davis (adoptive father, Rutgers psychology professor)
Boyfriend: Tom Burroughs (high school)
Boyfriend: Mike Pulliam (high school)
Boyfriend: Scott Carter (high school)
Boyfriend: Alec Baldwin (2001)
Boyfriend: Reed Diamond
Boyfriend: Jeff Goldblum (2002)
Boyfriend: Liev Schreiber
Boyfriend: Matt Crane
Boyfriend: Damian Lewis (2003-04)
Davis was born in Boulder, Colorado. An only child, her parents divorced when she was a baby and she was adopted by her stepfather after he married her mother in 1968. Early in her childhood Kristin and her parents moved to Columbia, South Carolina, where her adoptive father served as provost and taught psychology at the University of South Carolina. She lived in South Carolina until she graduated from A.C. Flora High School in 1983. She then moved to New Jersey, where she attended Rutgers University.
After graduation in 1987, Davis moved to New York and waited tables before opening a yoga studio with a friend. In 1995 she got her big break when she landed the role of Brooke Armstrong Campbell on Melrose Place. She left the show after one year when producers found that viewers hated her bitchy character. Davis also had roles in other television series including Friends and Seinfeld. In 1998, Davis was cast as Charlotte York in "Sex and the City", of which she remained an integral cast member until the series ended in 2004. She has also hosted the VH1 show 200 Greatest Pop Culture Icons.
In 2005, Davis starred in a television pilot entitled Soccer Moms in which she and Gina Torres star as two suburban mothers who moonlight as private detectives. Other films include The Adventures of Sharkboy and Lavagirl in 3D, where she plays Max's mom, opposite David Arquette and George Lopez, and the Walt Disney Pictures film The Shaggy Dog, where she plays Rebecca Douglas, opposite Tim Allen, and Deck The Halls, opposite Matthew Broderick. She also performed in ABC Family's Christmas movie, Three Days, and starred in a commercial for Head and Shoulders in 2006.
Preparations are already underway for a Sex and the City feature film. HBO is currently in negotiations with executive producer Michael Patrick King and the cast from the TV series of the same name, including Davis.
Personal life
Davis was introduced to alcohol early. It left her with a liking that turned into an excess need, and from which she battled back.
Having admitted to a preference for dating actors, her ex-boyfriend list is high profile and extensive, including: Alec Baldwin (with whom she guest starred on both "Will & Grace" 1998 and "Friends") Jeff Goldblum and Liev Schreiber. She says: ""If I had one wish for myself, it would be to fall in love. That's asking for trouble, but that's the truth."
Davis currently resides in Los Angeles.
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February 23, 2008

AKA Hannah Dakota Fanning
Born: 23-Feb-1994
Birthplace: Conyers, GA
Gender: Female
Race or Ethnicity: White
Occupation: Actor
Nationality: United States
Executive summary: Uptown Girls
Father: Steve Fanning (minor league baseball player, electrician)
Mother: Joy Fanning
Sister: Elle Fanning (actress, b. 9-Apr-1998)
In the movies, Dakota Fanning usually plays the cute, precocious, know-it-all kid. It's not much of a stretch.
Fanning began her acting career at the age of 5, in a Tide commercial, and her parents soon sent her to "drama camp," where her tutors were so impressed they recommended to her mother that Dakota sign with an agency.
She soon portrayed a leukemia patient in an especially tearjerking episode of ER, and with guest roles on CSI, Ally McBeal, The Practice, etc., the paychecks and opportunities were large enough that Fanning was soon supporting her entire family, and the Fannings moved from Georgia to L.A.
Her first film role, at age 7, was as "Little Girl in Park" in the teen sex comedy Tomcats, with Jerry O'Connell and Shannon Elizabeth. She garnered rave reviews in her next role, as the daughter of retarded Sean Penn in I am Sam. And ever since, Fanning has been deemed the "little 'it' girl," the second coming of Jodie Foster or Drew Barrymore.
In Uptown Girls, Fanning was nannied by Brittany Murphy. She played 'Sally' in Mike Myers's trashing of Dr. Seuss's Cat in the Hat (in Suess's book, the girl didn't even have a name). She was safeguarded by Denzel Washington in Man on Fire, and had her first on-screen kiss with Thomas Curtis in Reese Witherspoon's Sweet Home Alabama. In Hide & Seek, Robert De Niro played her father, as Fanning's imaginary friend terrorized the family. She starred in Steven Spielberg's remake of The War of the Worlds with Tom Cruise, played the lead in an adaptation of Charlotte's Web, and at 12 she told Time she wants to direct.
Fanning's parents are repeating this process with her younger sister, Elle, who has appeared in several films, including Daddy Day Care with Eddie Murphy and The Door in the Floor with Jeff Bridges and Kim Basinger.
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February 22, 2008

AKA Drew Blyth Barrymore
Born: 22-Feb-1975
Birthplace: Culver City, CA
Gender: Female
Race or Ethnicity: White
Sexual orientation: Bisexual
Occupation: Actor, Film/TV Producer
Nationality: United States
Executive summary: Flashed David Letterman for his birthday
Father: John Drew Barrymore (actor, b. 4-Jun-1932, d. 29-Nov-2004)
Mother: Ildiko Jaid Mako Barrymore (actress, "Jaid Barrymore", b. 8-May-1946)
Brother: John Blyth Barrymore (actor, half-brother, b. 15-May-1954)
Sister: Blyth Dolores Barrymore (half-sister, b. 28-Oct-1960)
Sister: Jessica Barrymore (half-sister)
Boyfriend: Corey Feldman (actor, b. 16-Jul-1971, dated 1989-90)
Boyfriend: Phedon Papamichael (cinematographer, b. 1962, dated 1991-92)
Boyfriend: Jamie Walters (actor/singer, b. 13-Jun-1969, dated and briefly engaged 1992-93)
Husband: Jeremy Thomas (bartender, m. 20-Mar-1994, div. 28-Apr-1994)
Boyfriend: Eric Erlandson (Hole, b. 9-Jan-1963, dated c. 1995)
Boyfriend: Luke Wilson (actor, b. 21-Sep-1971, dated 1996-99)
Husband: Tom Green (comic/irritant, b. 30-Jul-1971, m. 7-Jul-2001, sep. Dec-2001, div. 15-Oct-2002)
Boyfriend: Brandon Davis (model, millionaire heir, dated 2002)
Boyfriend: Joel Shearer (guitarist/singer for Alanis Morissette, dated 2002)
Boyfriend: Alec Piro (drummer for Deadsy, "Alec Pure", b. 1976, dated 2002-03)
Boyfriend: Fabrizio Moretti (drummer for The Strokes, b. 02-Jun-1980, dated 2003-07)
Boyfriend: Johnny Borrell (singer, dated 2007)
Boyfriend: Zach Braff (actor, dated 2007)
In her first movie, at the age of 4, Drew Barrymore played William Hurt's daughter in the trippy drama Altered States. She was already a veteran performer, having appeared in numerous TV commercials, and two years later she played Henry Thomas's pigtailed kid sister in E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial. At the end of E.T., the cuddly space alien told Barrymore to be good, and at 7 she became the youngest person ever to host Saturday Night Live. Off camera, though, she was an alcoholic by the age of 9, a cokehead by 12, and after two stints in rehab she wrote her autobiography at 14, titled Little Girl Lost.
Drama is a tradition in the Barrymore family. Her great-great-grandmother was Louisa Lane, a pre-Civil War stage actress and owner of Philadelphia's prestigious Arch Street Theatre, who starred with John Wilkes Booth in a staging of Macbeth, his last role before killing Abraham Lincoln. Louisa Lane married actor John Drew, and their son John Drew Jr was a Broadway star from the 1880s to the 1920s. Their daughter, actress Georgiana Drew, married actor Maurice Barrymore, spawning three offspring familiar to anyone who watches old movies, Ethel, John, and Lionel Barrymore. John Barrymore married four times and died of alcoholism. His son, actor John Drew Barrymore, amidst his own four marriages and heavy drinking, fathered Drew Barrymore but left the home before she was born, and was never a part of her life.
At 15, Drew Barrymore went to court, argued that her mother was a bad influence, and won her emancipation as an adult. Freed from her mother's guardianship, Barrymore started her comeback with several Lolita-roles in the early 1990s, including Guncrazy with Joe Dallesandro and Poison Ivy with Sara Gilbert. At 17 she played an aspiring actress in a prime time soap opera, 2000 Malibu Road, with Lisa Hartman as her ex-hooker landlady. At 18 she starred in a delightfully lurid TV telling of the The Amy Fisher Story. In the mid-1990s she had a small, almost superfluous role in Batman Forever with Val Kilmer, and appeared in Woody Allen's musical Everyone Says I Love You (but had her singing dubbed by someone who could carry a tune). She posed for Playboy and famously flashed David Letterman on his show in 1995. She was the first victim in Scream with Neve Campbell, she was at her cutest opposite Adam Sandler in The Wedding Singer, and she showed dramatic abilities in the weirdly profound Donnie Darko with Jake Gyllenhaal and the profoundly weird Confessions of a Dangerous Mind with George Clooney.
Now a major star, she has produced several of her biggest hits, including the unlikely charmer Ever After with Barrymore as Cinderella to Dougray Scott's Prince Charming, Never Been Kissed with David Arquette, Charlie's Angels with Cameron Diaz and Lucy Liu, and Fever Pitch with Jimmy Fallon. She produced and voiced the animated Olive the Other Reindeer Christmas special.
In 1994 she married bartender Jeremy Thomas in his Los Angeles tavern, where the ceremony was performed by a clairvoyant they reached by dialing a psychic hot line. Their marriage lasted barely a month. She was later married briefly to comic-irritant Tom Green, after her Beverly Hills mansion burned to the ground in 2001. She was the focus of the charming stalker documentary My Date with Drew, in which a lifetime fan went to frightening lengths to briefly gain Ms Barrymore's attention. She is the godmother of Kurt Cobain and Courtney Love's daughter, Frances Bean Cobain.
Her half-brother, John Blyth Barrymore, was an actor whose career peaked with a recurring role as Caine's nephew on the original Kung Fu with David Carradine. Her aunt, Diana Barrymore, was a successful film and stage actress in the 1940s who was -- like Drew -- abandoned by her father and neglected by her mother. She killed herself in 1960, and her story was told in the film Too Much, Too Soon starring Errol Flynn as John Barrymore and Dorothy Malone as Diana Barrymore.
Trivia
Barrymore was delivered by Dr. Paul Fleiss, father of Heidi Fleiss (interview on The Tonight Show, January 22, 2003).
She is the godmother of Frances Bean, the daughter of musicians Kurt Cobain and Courtney Love.
She has 6 tattoos: a crescent moon on her big toe, a cross with ivy on her lower leg, a butterfly on her stomach, a daisy on her hip, and 2 angels on her lower back (one has a banner with her mother's name, Jaid, and the other has the name James--a tribute to her then-boyfriend Jamie Walters).
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February 22, 2008

AKA Jeri Lynn Zimmerman
Born: 22-Feb-1968
Birthplace: Munich, Bavaria, Germany
Gender: Female
Religion: Roman Catholic
Race or Ethnicity: White
Sexual orientation: Straight
Occupation: Actor
Nationality: United States
Executive summary: Seven of Nine on Star Trek: Voyager
Father: Jerry Zimmerman
Mother: Sharon Zimmerman
Brother: Mark
Husband: Jack Ryan (m. 1991, div. 1999)
Son: Alex (b. 1995)
Boyfriend: Brannon Braga
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 Ryan graduated from high school in 1986 (as a National Merit Scholar), she attended Northwestern University, where she was a member of the Alpha Phi sorority. In 1989, Ryan became Miss Illinois and was a preliminary swimsuit winner at the Miss America Pageant. Jeri finished as the third runner-up to Miss America 1990, Debbye Turner. Ryan graduated from Northwestern in 1990 with a BA in Theatre.
Career
Ryan was hired for a role in Planes, Trains & Automobiles during the summer prior to her freshman year at Northwestern, but was cut out of the final version due to her (in her own words) "ruining every scene I was in" by laughing. After college, she pursued acting full-time in Los Angeles. She made her acting debut in Who's the Boss? and followed that with guest-starring roles in TV shows like Melrose Place, Matlock, and The Sentinel as well as TV movies such as Co-Ed Call Girl.
Her big break came when she won a regular role as an extraterrestrial investigator named Juliet Stuart on the TV show Dark Skies. The show was cancelled after one season, but the role had drawn the attention of the science-fiction community.
In 1997, Ryan was cast to play Seven of Nine, a Borg drone freed from the collective on the science fiction series Star Trek: Voyager. The role drew her instant fame and her tight-fitting uniform made her a sex symbol among some science-fiction fans. It also drew criticism from some fans who felt that character was created to add sexuality to the show, and who felt that a disproportionate number of episodes focused on her character to the exclusion of others. Co-star Kate Mulgrew, who played Captain Janeway, reportedly was upset at the addition of a sex icon and Seven of Nine. However, her appearance also coincided with higher ratings and more positive critical reviews of Voyager, which were partly attributed to media hype over her addition, better screenwriting and her character being both intrinsically interesting and well-acted. However after this blip the ratings began to slide year on year until the show ended in 2001. Seven of Nine appeared on seven TV Guide covers in the USA.
After Voyager ended in 2001, Ryan joined the cast of Boston Public in the role of Ronnie Cooke, a frustrated lawyer who quits to become a high school teacher. The show's producer, David E. Kelley, wrote the role specifically for her. The show was cancelled in 2004.
Ryan has recently appeared in films, such as Down With Love. Ryan played Lydia in the independent film Men Cry Bullets, with a rave review for her performance from Roger Ebert. Jeri then starred in her first film lead in the indie comedy "The Last Man", playing the last woman on Earth, released by Lion's Gate.
She also had a recurring role on The O.C. (as Charlotte Morgan) in the autumn of 2005 and guest-starred on David E. Kelley's Boston Legal in 2006.
Ryan stars in the new CBS legal drama Shark; she plays Los Angeles District Attorney Jessica Devlin, opposite James Woods.
Personal life
In 1990, while dealing blackjack at a charity event, Jeri Lynn met investment banker and future political candidate Jack Ryan. The couple married in 1991 and had a son, Alex, in 1994. Throughout the marriage, Ryan and her husband took turns commuting between Los Angeles and Chicago for their careers, but finally divorced in 1999. Although Ryan mentioned (in an interview for Star Trek), that the frequent separations had been difficult for the marriage, the reasons behind the divorce were kept sealed at their mutual request.
Five years later, when Jack Ryan's Senate campaign began, the Chicago Tribune newspaper and WLS-TV, the local ABC affiliate, sought to have the records released. Both Jeri and Jack agreed to make their divorce records public, but not the custody records, claiming that their release could be harmful to their son.
On June 22, 2004, the California judge (Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Robert Schnider) in the case agreed to release the custody files; the decision generated much controversy because it went against both parents' direct request and because it generally reversed the early decision to seal the papers in the best interest of the child. It was revealed that, six years previously, Jeri had accused Jack Ryan of asking her to perform sexual acts with him in public, and in adult clubs in New York, New Orleans, and Paris. Jeri Ryan described one as "a bizarre club with cages, whips and other apparatus hanging from the ceiling." Jack Ryan denied these allegations. Although Jeri Ryan refused to comment on the matter during the campaign, the document disclosure led Jack Ryan to withdraw his Republican candidacy for an open United States Senate seat in Illinois which was eventually won by Barack Hussein Obama, Jr..
During later seasons of Star Trek Voyager she was romantically linked to the series producer Brannon Braga.
Jeri Ryan has long admitted to a love of food, and while starring in Boston Public, she moonlighted on weekends in the kitchen of the Los Angeles restaurant The House. In February 2005, she opened - in partnership with her then boyfriend, Chef Christophe Émé - the restaurant Ortolan. Located on Third Street in Los Angeles, California, the restaurant serves French food with a modern interpretation. Ryan married Émé in the Loire Valley, France on June 16, 2007 . On September 7, 2007, Ryan announced that she and Émé are expecting their first child together in March 2008
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February 21, 2008

Born: 21-Feb-1979
Birthplace: Waco, TX
Gender: Female
Race or Ethnicity: White
Sexual orientation: Straight
Occupation: Actor
Nationality: United States
Executive summary: Ghost Whisperer
Father: Tom Hewitt (medical technician)
Mother: Pat Hewitt (speech pathologist)
Brother: Todd Hewitt (chiropractor, b. 1971)
Boyfriend: Joey Lawrence (actor, dated 1996)
Boyfriend: Will Friedle (actor, dated 1996-97)
Boyfriend: Carson Daly (talk show host, dated 1997-99)
Boyfriend: Wilmer Valderrama (actor, That 70s Show, dated 1999)
Boyfriend: John Mayer (singer, dated 2002)
Hewitt's parents divorced when she was eight months old, and Hewitt spent her formative years in Texas, where at the age of three, she gave her first performance, singing as a side attraction at a Texas livestock show. It must have been a busy childhood -- she was taking tap, jazz, and ballet lessons when she was five. She won a beauty pageant at the age of nine, and soon a talent scout suggested that Hewitt could be a child star, if she moved to California. The family moved to the coast, leaving Hewitt's older brother behind to finish high school with his friends. 10-year-old Hewitt became a spokeschild for L.A. Gear, and a regular on Kids Incorporated. She had small roles in just two films before landing the title role in Little Miss Millions, opposite Howard Hesseman.
She played "the teenaged daughter" in three cancelled TV series (Shaky Ground, McKenna, and Byrds of Paradise) before Fox called with Party of Five. That teen melodrama had already finished its first season, but the producers wanted a new character, and Hewitt was cast as Sarah Reeves. She bailed from the show before its last season, when her character received her own quick-flopping spin-off series, called Time of Your Life. Since Time of Your Life, Hewitt has primarily appeared in a long line of forgettable films, uninterrupted by any bright spots. I Know What You Did Last Summer and I Still Know What You Did Last Summer, from 1997 and 1998 respectively, remain her most recognisable big-screen work. Hewitt also starred in a TV telling of The Audrey Hepburn Story. Insert your own punchline. (Or, if you don't get the joke, just rent anything with Audrey Hepburn in it.) Inevitably, she has also tried to make it as singer, and has released several albums.
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February 20, 2008

AKA Cynthia Ann Crawford
Born: 20-Feb-1966
Birthplace: DeKalb, IL
Gender: Female
Race or Ethnicity: White
Sexual orientation: Matter of Dispute
Occupation: Model
Nationality: United States
Executive summary: It's the mole
Father: John Crawford
Mother: Jennifer Moluf
Brother: Jeffery Crawford (d. 1976, leukemia)
Boyfriend: John Enos III (actor)
Girlfriend: Christy Turlington (reportedly dated in 1991)
Husband: Richard Gere (actor, m. 12-Dec-1991, div. 1995)
Boyfriend: Shaquille O'Neal (basketball player, dated in 1995)
Boyfriend: Val Kilmer (actor, dated in 1997)
Husband: Rande Gerber (bar owner, m. 29-May-1998)
Son: Presley Walker Gerber (b. 2-Jul-1999)
Daughter: Kaya Jordan Gerber (b. 3-Sep-2001)
Cindy Crawford is an aging supermodel with a mole (or "beauty mark") above her left upper lip. She has said she was uncomfortable with the mole through childhood, and considered having it removed, but beauty experts now praise the blemish as the facial distinction that makes Crawford recognisable.
As a child she wore braces, and lost a younger brother to leukemia. As a teenager, her parents divorced. She dated her high school's starting quarterback, got straight-A's, and was her class valedictorian. Crawford scored perfectly on her college calculus exams and earned a scholarship to study chemical engineering at Northwestern, where she dropped out after less than one semester. Almost immediately, she began working as a model, and she soon blossomed into one of the first "supermodels". The work is not without its perils. Crawford has complained of developing a rash and small scabs from putting on and taking off up to 250 different skin-tight swimsuits in one afternoon.
"In my work," Crawford says, "I've realized that Cindy Crawford is a product. I decide how to use that image. It's a business." She has served as celebrity spokeswoman for Revlon, Pepsi, Omega watches, 24-Hour Fitness, Clairol Nice N' Easy, among numerous other products. She has marketed her own fragrances, including Cindy Crawford Joyful, Cindy Crawford Waterfalls, and Cindy Crawford Feminine. She also has a line of skin care products called Meaningful Beauty. In 1994, she posed with several other supermodels for the famous anti-fur campaign, "I'd rather go naked than wear fur". Ten years later, following a well-paid change of heart, she became the celebrity spokesmodel for Blackglama, famous maker of mink stoles and other fine furwear.
From 1989-95, she hosted MTV's House of Style. Crawford has also worked occasionally as an actress, most memorably earning disastrous reviews starring opposite William Baldwin in 1995's Fair Game.
While she has never announced her sexual preference, her marriage to Richard Gere was widely whispered to be a publicity ploy to hide his and her homosexuality. Crawford was caught by paparazzi kissing Christy Turlington behind a New York nightclub in 1991.
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February 20, 2008

Born: 20-Feb-1983
Birthplace: Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Gender: Female
Race or Ethnicity: White
Sexual orientation: Straight
Occupation: Model
Nationality: Australia
Executive summary: Australian fashion model
Father: John Kerr
Mother: Therese
Brother: Matthew (younger)
Boyfriend: Brent Tuhtan (Australian model/musician, cohabiting)
Miranda Kerr is an Australian supermodel. She was discovered by Dolly magazine in 1997 and is well-known for campaigns with Maybelline, Victoria's Secret and Australian fashion chain-store Portmans.
Biography
Kerr was born in Sydney, Australia, and raised in the small rural village of Gunnedah, which has a population of 8000. She is the eldest child of Therese and John Kerr, and has a younger brother named Matthew. She was educated at All Hallows in Brisbane, which is an all-girl Catholic high school.
At the age of 13, she entered the Dolly/Impulse Covergirl Competition in 1997 because her friends had entered her into it. She signed a modelling contract with Melbourne's Chadwick agency, followed by Sydney's Chic agency.
She took up part-time modelling whilst studying, and as her fame gradually increased, the local media used her youth as an opportunity to debate about pedophilia in the fashion industry.
“ All the media attention was absolutely ludicrous. I don't think it would have mattered how old I was, they would have still made it out to be something it wasn't. I was more concerned about Dolly magazine's reputation. I was fine, I just didn't didn't take any notice of it all," she said at the time. ”
Career
Kerr became the face of Australian fashion chain store Portmans. She was now well-known in the fashion industry in Australasia making frequent stints in Australia and New Zealand's top fashion magazines, fashion catalogues and catwalk shows. As well as this, she appeared in television adverts for brands such as Portmans, Bonds and Veet.
In 2004, she then moved to New York City and was signed to Next agency. To date, Miranda has modelled for the likes of Baby Phat, Lisa Ho, Voodoo Dolls, Levi's, Bettina Liano, Nicola Finetti, L.A.M.B, Heatherette, Betsey Johnson, Trelise Cooper, Jets, John Richmond, Blumarine Swimwear, Seafolly Swimwear, Victoria's Secret, Anna Molinari, Roberto Cavalli, Enrico Coveri, Arden B, Cia Maritima, Amuleti J, and magazines such as Elle, Oyster, Madison, Australian Vogue, Harpers Bazaar and more.
In 2006, Kerr signed a deal with Maybelline New York, and featured in numerous print campaigns. As well as this, in one of her most high-profile campaigns yet, Kerr became the first Australian to be chosen as a runway model for Victoria's Secret at their annual fashion show in 2006. She was made a Victoria's Secret Angel soon after. Kerr was recently seen in Victoria's Secret's popular "Angels, Wireless" commercial, wearing animated wings and reciting a limerick. The advert is available to be viewed on youTube.
Kerr was recently signed as the face of Californian fashion retailer Arden B. After debuting in their Spring and Summer ad campaigns, Kerr returned for their Fall 2007 campaign, shot by world- renowned fashion photographer Diego Uchitel.
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February 19, 2008

AKA Arielle Caroline Kebbel
Born: 19-Feb-1985
Birthplace: Winter Park, FL
Gender: Female
Race or Ethnicity: White
Occupation: Actor
Nationality: United States
Executive summary: The Grudge 2
Arielle Caroline Kebbel (born February 19, 1985) is an American film and television actress.
Kebbel was born in Winter Park, Florida. She graduated from high school in Crenshaw a year early at age seventeen.
Within the first week of moving to Los Angeles, she booked her first major role as Lindsay Lister on Gilmore Girls, which became a recurring role in the 3rd-5th seasons of the series. She also has previously guest starred on the series Grounded for Life. She played Heather Hunkee in Soul Plane (2004), Elyse Houston in American Pie: Band Camp (2005), Cookie in Reeker, and in 2006 appeared in both John Tucker Must Die and the Japan-filmed horror film The Grudge 2; she has described her character in The Grudge 2, who becomes involved with the "Grudge" curse as part of an initiation rite, as "the girl you see in the background of all the pictures that wants to be a part of everything but never really is".
Kebbel was featured on Maxim's Girls of Maxim gallery. She was also ranked #95 in the magazine's Hot 100 of 2005 list.
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February 18, 2008

AKA Molly Kathleen Ringwald
Born: 18-Feb-1968
Birthplace: Roseville, CA
Gender: Female
Race or Ethnicity: White
Sexual orientation: Straight
Occupation: Actor
Nationality: United States
Executive summary: The Breakfast Club
Father: Robert Scott Ringwald (jazz pianist, b. 26-Nov-1940, m. 27-Nov-1960)
Mother: Adele Edith Frembd (pastry chef, b. 16-Mar-1941)
Sister: Beth Ringwald (physical therapist, b. 1965)
Brother: Kelly Ringwald (b. May-1966)
Boyfriend: Anthony Michael Hall (actor)
Boyfriend: King Ad-Rock
Husband: Valery Lameignère (writer, b. 1965, m. 28-Jul-1999, div. Nov-2002)
Ringwald was born outside Sacramento, California in Roseville, the daughter of Adele Edith (née Frembd), a housewife and chef, and Robert Scott "Bob" Ringwald, a blind jazz pianist. Ringwald has two siblings, Elizabeth and Kelly. She started her acting career at age 5, starring in a stage production of Alice in Wonderland as the dormouse. By the time she was 6 years old, she had recorded I Wanna Be Loved by You, a music album of Dixieland jazz with her father and his group, the Fulton Street Jazz Band; this album has become highly collectible[citation needed]. She attended Casa Roble High School.
Acting career
As an actress, Ringwald appeared in numerous local TV commercials and stage plays before landing a guest spot on The New Mickey Mouse Club. In 1978, at the age of 10, she was chosen to play Kate in the movie Annie. She later took over the role of Pepper, the toughest orphan, in the broadway musical Annie. In 1979, Ringwald appeared in one episode of the television series Diff'rent Strokes and was selected to become a cast member of the spin-off The Facts of Life. Molly played "Molly Parker," a perky, fun-loving student at Eastland Girls School. Although essentially a supporting role, one entire episode, "Molly's Holiday" revolved around her character dealing with the effects of her parents' divorce. After the first thirteen episodes, the producers restructured the show to be more like the popular film Little Darlings, so Ringwald and three other girls were written out of the series in 1980. However, she made a final guest appearance at the start of the second season.
In 1980, Ringwald performed as a lead vocalist on two Disney albums. On the patriotic album Yankee Doodle Mickey, Ringwald sang "This Is My Country" and "The Star-Spangled Banner". She later performed one track on a Christmas album. Turning toward motion pictures, she found her breakout role in Sixteen Candles (1984). Molly Ringwald was a member of the so-called Brat Pack of 1980s teen actors. The term was first coined in 1985, after Ringwald's night out with a reporter for New York Magazine. The reporter later published a article designating her and fellow actors Judd Nelson, Ally Sheedy, Emilio Estevez, Rob Lowe, Andrew McCarthy, Demi Moore, Mare Winningham, and Anthony Michael Hall as the "Brat Pack."
Though she played a high school "princess" in her biggest hit, 1985's The Breakfast Club, Ringwald specialized in portrayals of moody, awkward, brainy, angst-filled characters. Her performances greatly influenced teen-oriented television and movies that would follow in the 1990s, as previous films with teenage subjects were mostly of the horror or exploitation comedy genres, and did not attempt to realistically portray teenage life. Among Ringwald's movies are Fresh Horses, The Pick-up Artist and Pretty in Pink. During the mid- to late-1980s, when Ringwald was Hollywood's top female teen, she appeared on countless covers of such publications as Tiger Beat and Teen.
Her career slowed down in the 1990s, as she appeared mainly in made-for-TV and direct-to-video B-horror films. Ringwald reportedly turned down the leading role of Julia Roberts' part in the 1990 box office smash Pretty Woman and also Demi Moore's leading role in the film Ghost. She has stated many times that she regrets turning down those roles,[citation needed] and she has given various reasons as to why she did so. In 1995, her nude appearance in the film Malicious made some media waves due to her previous archetypical 'good girl' movie roles. Her 1996 return to television, starring on the ABC sitcom Townies, was critically praised, but low viewer ratings resulted in the show's cancellation after nine episodes.
During the 1990s, Ringwald lived in France for four years and appeared in French-language films. She performed on Broadway before moving to England to perform in stage plays in London. She also starred with Lara Flynn Boyle and Teri Hatcher in the 1998 made-for-television movie Since You've Been Gone. In 2000, she appeared in an episode of Showtime's The Outer Limits.
Ringwald appeared in Not Another Teen Movie, a parody/tribute film of many teen films, including some in which she had starred. In late 2004, she starred in the play Modern Orthodox on Broadway, opposite Jason Biggs and Craig Bierko. Ringwald recently appeared in an episode of the TV series Medium in the episode "The Darkness is Light Enough", as a blind woman.
In the fall of 2006, Ringwald appeared in Cabaret and Enchanted April on stage, and in the fall and winter of 2006 she starred as Charity Hope Valentine in the national tour of the Broadway revival of the musical Sweet Charity which starred Christina Applegate. However, her performance in the role was not well received, and in June 2007, the role was taken over by Paige Davis.
Personal life
Ringwald briefly dated actor Anthony Michael Hall during the time when they co-starred in Sixteen Candles and The Breakfast Club. During the filming of Pretty in Pink, Ringwald was dating Dweezil Zappa, son of Frank Zappa. She was romantically linked with Beastie Boys member Adam Horovitz in the mid '80s. They dated for about a year. At the time, rumours incorrectly hinted at their marriage.
Ringwald married her long time fiancé, Valery Lameignère, on July 28, 1999, but they have since filed for divorce. On October 22, 2003, she gave birth to her first child, daughter, Mathilda Ereni, with boyfriend Panio Gianopoulos.
Ringwald in popular culture
Ringwald was ranked #1 in VH1's list of the "100 Greatest Teen Stars."
She was on the cover of Time magazine issue dated May 26, 1986.
The Detroit rock group Sponge had a 1995 hit "Molly," that appeared to make several clear references to Ringwald and her film career ("Sixteen candles down the drain"), even though the song's title was not mentioned in its lyrics. The band denied that the song was about Molly Ringwald.
The Molly Ringwalds is the name of a popular '80s tribute band, claiming to hail from Sheffield, England, and who tour throughout the Southern United States.
After going back in time in the Family Guy episode "Meet the Quagmires," Peter marries Ringwald after making out with her.
Fall Out Boy originally had a song titled "A Little Less Molly Ringwald, a Little More Samantha Fox", but was later changed to A Little Less Sixteen Candles, A Little More Touch Me which references the film Sixteen Candles, which Ringwald starred in.
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February 17, 2008

AKA Denise Lee Richards
Born: 17-Feb-1971
Birthplace: Downers Grove, IL
Gender: Female
Religion: Roman Catholic
Race or Ethnicity: White
Sexual orientation: Straight
Occupation: Actor
Nationality: United States
Executive summary: Starship Troopers, Wild Things
Father: Irving Richards (telephone engineer)
Mother: Joni Richards (coffee shop owner)
Boyfriend: Patrick Muldoon (actor, dated in late 1990s)
Husband: Charlie Sheen (actor, m. 15-Jun-2002, sep. 2005, div. 17-Nov-2006, two children)
Daughter: Sam J. Estevez (b. 9-Mar-2004 with Sheen)
Daughter: Lola Rose Estevez (b. 1-Jun-2005 with Sheen)
Boyfriend: John Stamos (actor, dated in late 1980s, and again 2005-06)
Boyfriend: Richie Sambora (guitarist for Bon Jovi, dated 2006-07)
Denise Richards is the stunning star of Starship Troopers, where she played the smiling military pilot drawn to Casper Van Dien. She was the Bond girl in The World Is Not Enough, portraying weapons expert Christmas Jones to Pierce Brosnan's 007. She was also spread across several pages of Playboy's December 2004 issue.
Besides Starship Troopers, Richards' main claim to fame is her marriage to Hollywood bad-boy Charlie Sheen, known for his bouts with cocaine and born-again Christianity and as Heidi Fleiss' best customer. An old-fashioned Catholic girl, Richards insisted that she and Sheen attend pre-marriage counseling with a priest, but she had no worries about Sheen's past. "He doesn't live that life anymore," she explained, days before their wedding. "He's actually very traditional and very old fashioned." When she filed for divorce in the spring of 2005, she claimed Sheen had posted pictures of his penis on-line, was a drug addict, a gambling addict, a pornography addict, a frequent customer of prostitutes, and that he had threatened her life. A court granted Richards a restraining order, mandating that Sheen stay at least 300 yards away from her and their two daughters.
Critics have complained that Richards has little acting talent, and gets by on her gorgeous exterior and vacuous posing. And she is breathtakingly beautiful, but even in her best film, Starship Troopers, her performance drew general derision. She played White She Devil in Undercover Brother with Eddie Griffin, and said that her butt was "enhanced" for the movie's promotional posters. She played a beauty contestant in Drop Dead Gorgeous with Kirsten Dunst, a predatory vamp kissing Neve Campbell in Wild Things, and a con artist in Empire with John Leguizamo, but these borderline successes are among the highlights on Richards' résumé. She has also starred in such bombs and direct-to-video disasters as the road comedy Tail Lights Fade with Jake Busey and the detached semi-documentary on prostitution Yo Puta with Daryl Hannah. In her first starring feature,1994's Tammy and the T-Rex with Paul Walker, their romance is cut short by his murder, but his brain is implanted in a mechanical dinosaur, and she then helps him wreak havoc on the town before doing a strip tease.
On TV, Richards was the 15-year-old whose cleavage held George's attention a little too long on Seinfeld. In a 1990 episode of Life Goes On, she played Kellie Martin's competition in a beauty pageant, and she later went on a blind date with Doogie Howser, M.D. and briefly rivaled Heather Locklear for Michael's attentions on Melrose Place. In 2005, she starred with Eric Balfour in a prime time soap opera, Sex, Love & Secrets, which was cancelled after only four episodes.
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February 17, 2008

AKA Paris Whitney Hilton
Born: 17-Feb-1981
Birthplace: New York City
Gender: Female
Religion: Roman Catholic
Race or Ethnicity: White
Sexual orientation: Bisexual
Occupation: Socialite
Nationality: United States
Executive summary: Unexpected porno actress
Father: Rick Hilton (executive, b. 17-Aug-1955)
Mother: Kathy Hilton (socialite, b. 7-Apr-1959)
Sister: Nicky Hilton (socialite, b. 5-Oct-1983)
Brother: Barron Nicholas Hilton (b. 7-Nov-1989)
Brother: Conrad Hughes Hilton (b. 3-Mar-1994)
Boyfriend: Jason Shaw (actor, ex-, broken engagement, b. circa 1973)
Boyfriend: Nick Carter (dated 2003-04)
Slept with: Rick Salomon (appears in sex tape)
Slept with: (reportedly) Oscar De La Hoya, Brandon Davis, Leonardo DiCaprio,
Slept with: Robert Evans, Colin Farrell, Edward Furlong, Vincent Gallo, Jamie Kennedy,
Slept with: Jared Leto, Robert Mills (5th place in 2003 Australian Idol), Mark Philippoussis,
Slept with: Simon Rex, Jake Sumner (son of Sting), Deryck Whibley,
Slept with: Paris Latsis (Greek shipping heir, dated 2004-05, ex-, broken engagement)
Slept with: Tom Sizemore (according to him, she disputes)
Boyfriend: Joe Francis (ex-, according to salon.com)
Boyfriend: Stavros Niarchos III (Greek shipping heir, grandson of Stavros Niarchos, dated 2005-06)
As the prodigal daughter of the Hilton family, Paris Hilton has always had everything she wanted. She owns a tiger, practices the trendy Hollywood religion Kabbalah, and fancies herself a model and actress. She has posed for fashion magazine photo shoots, and has appeared in several films, including Zoolander with Ben Stiller, The Cat In the Hat with Mike Myers, and Raising Helen with Kate Hudson.
Many Americans had never heard of "Paris the Heiress" until autumn of 2003, when a video began circulating showing Hilton having sex with Rick Salomon, Shannen Doherty's ex-husband. The video, made three years earlier, has been titled One Night In Paris and widely sold and shared on the internet. There have, of course, been lawsuits. Salomon has sued Hilton's parents for insensitive comments they made about him when they first heard of the video, Hilton herself is suing the film's on-line distributors, and a friend of Salomon's who did the camera work has sued, claiming he has creator's artistic rights to the video.
And as with most hit films, there have been sequels. Ten months after the first video surfaced, a second video circulated, showing Hilton smoking marijuana, writhing in the back seat of a car with Nick Carter, and answering the door naked for ex-boyfriend Jason Shaw. In other "unauthorized" videos, she is seen making out with celebrity lesbian Ingrid Casares, MTV personality Eglantina Zingg, and Playboy Playmate Nicole Lenz.
In 2005, Hilton's cell phone provider was hacked and her address book copied and posted on the internet, making public the phone numbers and email addresses of many of Hilton's partying friends. Among the numbers were those of Nicole Richie, Lindsay Lohan, Christina Aguilera, and Eminem. Everyone on the list was immediately subject to an enormous volume of crank calls. In 2007, after Hilton failed to pay the $208 rent for a storage facility, many of her belongings were sold at auction. These items -- personal pictures and videos, notebooks, prescriptions -- were then offered for sale on-line, without her permission or participation, before a federal court blocked the sale.
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February 17, 2008

Born
February 17, 1996
Johannesburg, Gauteng, South Africa
Occupation Child actress
Sasha Embeth Pieterse (born February 17, 1996 in Johannesburg, South Africa) is a child actress.
Sasha Pieterse got her big break into acting in 2002, when she landed a role as one of the Davis children on the WB's canceled remake of the popular show Family Affair.
In 2004 she appeared in Stargate SG-1 as well as Fox's House. In 2005, she appeared in her first film The Adventures of Shark Boy & Lava Girl.
Sasha appeared in a short lived series called Wanted with her former Family Affair co-star Gary Cole.
Personal Life
Sasha is an only child that is home-schooled and wishes to complete studies early to pursue her acting career. When Sasha is not acting, she likes to chat with her friends Taylor Dooley and Taylor Lautner and also likes to sing and dance.
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February 16, 2008

AKA Amanda Louise Holden
Born: 16-Feb-1971
Birthplace: Bishop's Waltham, Hampshire, England
Gender: Female
Race or Ethnicity: White
Sexual orientation: Straight
Occupation: Actor
Nationality: England
Executive summary: Mia Bevan on Cutting It
Sister: Debbie
Husband: Les Dennis (m. 4-Jun-1995, div. 18-Nov-2003)
Boyfriend: Neil Morrissey (actor, notorious extramarital affair, causing her divorce)
Boyfriend: Chris Hughes (music producer, one daughter)
Daughter: Alexa Louise Florence Hughes ("Lexi", b. 21-Feb-2006)
Amanda Louise Holden (born 16 February 1971 in Bishop's Waltham, Hampshire) is an English actress. She made her television debut as an unsuccessful contestant on the long-running ITV series Blind Date. Amanda trained at the Mountview Academy of Theatre Arts. Her first television role was in the BBC soap opera EastEnders in 1994 but she is perhaps best known for playing Mia Bevan in the BAFTA Award nominated drama series Cutting It from 2002 to 2004.
She married television presenter Les Dennis in 1995, but separated from him following her affair with actor Neil Morrissey. These events made her a popular target for the British tabloid press. The couple were divorced on 18 November 2003. An affair parodied in the TV series Extras.
Amanda Holden has appeared in several stage musicals and in 2004 was nominated for a Laurence Olivier Theatre Award for Best Actress in a Musical for her performance in the West End production of Thoroughly Modern Millie, but did not win. On 19 November 2004 she appeared on the BBC's Children in Need charity appeal singing Aretha Franklin's "(You Make Me Feel Like) A Natural Woman". On that night also, she announced her engagement to record boss Chris Hughes.
Her most recent TV appearance was in the ITV1 drama Wild at Heart, alongside Stephen Tompkinson. The first series aired in 2006 and a second series followed in early 2007.
Amanda's other TV credits include three series of the hit comedy Kiss Me Kate alongside Caroline Quentin, three series of the ITV comedy series The Grimleys, Celeb with Harry Enfield, the critically acclaimed BBC series Hearts and Bones alongside Damien Lewis, the comedy series Mad About Alice with Jamie Theakston, and a Boxing Day special Marple alongside Geraldine McEwan and John Hannah. She also co-starred with Bill Nighy and Sir Tom Courtenay in Ready When You Are, Mr McGill, Jack Rosenthal's classic comedy drama.
On 21 January 2006, she gave birth to her first child, Alexa Louise Florence Hughes, by Caesarean section.
In June 2007 she appeared as one of the judges, alongside Simon Cowell and Piers Morgan, on the talent show Britain's Got Talent. The show was hosted by Ant and Dec and won by opera singer Paul Potts.
She is an Everton FC supporter. In April this year she stated her dismay on Parkinson to Everton's 4-2 loss against Manchester United after leading 2-0.
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February 15, 2008

Born: 15-Feb-1951
Birthplace: Hillingdon, England
Gender: Female
Race or Ethnicity: White
Sexual orientation: Straight
Occupation: Actor
Nationality: United States
Executive summary: Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman
Father: John Frankenberg (obstetrician, d. 1990)
Mother: Mieke van Trigt (nurse)
Sister: Sally Frankenberg
Sister: Anne (homeopathic nurse)
Husband: Michael Attenborough (m. 1971, div. 1973)
Husband: Geoffrey Planer (m. 1977, div. 1978)
Husband: David Flynn (m. 18-Jul-1981, div. May-1992, one son, two daughters)
Son: Sean Flynn (b. 1986)
Daughter: Katherine Flynn ("Katie", b. 1981)
Daughter: Jennifer Flynn (stepdaughter, "Jenny")
Husband: James Keach (m. 15-May-1993, twin sons)
Son: John Stacy Keach (twin, b. 1995)
Son: Kristopher Steven Keach (twin, b. 1995)
Son: Kalen Keach (stepson)
Joyce Penelope Wilhelmina Frankenberg was born in Hayes, London, England to John Frankenberg, an English Jewish obstetrician of Polish and German origin, and his Dutch wife, Mieke Frankenberg, who survived Japanese prison camps during World War II and cared for other prisoners with no medicine and only relying on her Red Cross training. John died in 1990 after 40 years of marriage, and Mieke died on October 2, 2007. Their daughter took the stage name Jane Seymour, also the name of King Henry VIII's third wife, at the age of 17.
Acting career
Seymour has had a long acting career in both film and television, beginning in 1969 with an uncredited role in Richard Attenborough's film version of Oh! What a Lovely War. Soon afterward she married Attenborough's son, Michael Attenborough. Her first major film role was as Lillian Stein, a Jewish woman seeking shelter from the Nazis with a Danish Christian family in the 1970 war drama The Only Way.
From 1972 to 1973, she gained her first major TV role as Emma Callon in the successful 1970s series The Onedin Line. During this time she appeared as female lead Prima in the two-part TV mini-series Frankenstein: The True Story and as Winston Churchill's lover Pamela Plowden in another of the films produced by her father-in-law, Young Winston. She also drew her first major international attention as Bond girl Solitaire in the James Bond film Live and Let Die.
Seymour divorced Michael Attenborough in 1973. She then took only two minor TV roles until cast as Princess Farah in Sinbad and the Eye of the Tiger, the third part of Ray Harryhausen's Sinbad trilogy, in 1975. (The film was not released, however, until its stop motion animation sequences had been completed in 1977.) In 1978, she played Serina in the Battlestar Galactica motion picture, and then in the first two episodes of the series that followed, until the character was killed. In 1981, she was cast as Cathy Ames in the TV miniseries of John Steinbeck's East of Eden. She also played the role of an undercover reporter in a TV movie about the Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders.
In 1980, Seymour returned to the big screen in the comedy Oh Heavenly Dog opposite Chevy Chase, and as Elise McKenna in the romantic fantasy Somewhere in Time opposite Christopher Reeve. Seymour appeared nude in the 1984 film Lassiter, co-starring Tom Selleck, but in 1987 she posed semi-nude pictorial in Playboy magazine.
Seymour won the female lead in the 12-part TV miniseries, War and Remembrance (1988), in which she played Natalie Henry, an American Jewish woman trapped in Europe during World War II. The series was based on the successful novel by Herman Wouk, and is noted for its accurate and graphic depiction of the Holocaust.
In 1989, on the occasion of the 200th anniversary of the French Revolution, Seymour appeared in the television movie La révolution française (filmed in both French and English). Seymour appeared as the doomed French queen, Marie Antoinette; the actress' two children — Katherine and Sean — appeared as the queen's children.
Seymour continued to take numerous roles in TV movies and series, most notably as Dr. Michaela "Mike" Quinn in the TV series Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman and its TV-movie sequels (1993-2001), through which she met her fourth husband, actor-director James Keach. In 2004, she made several guest appearances in the WB Network series Smallville, playing Genevieve Teague, the wealthy, scheming mother of Jason Teague (Jensen Ackles). She also made a guest appearance on Law & Order: Special Victims Unit.
Seymour returned to the big screen in 2005 with playing Kathleen Cleary, wife of fictional U.S. Secretary of the Treasury William Cleary (Christopher Walken), in the comedy Wedding Crashers. She returned to TV in the short-lived WB series Modern Men, broadcast in spring 2006.
In fall 2006, Seymour guest-starred as a law-school professor on an episode of the CBS sitcom How I Met Your Mother and as a wealthy client on the FOX legal drama Justice. In 2007, she guest-starred in the ABC sitcom In Case of Emergency, which stars Lori Loughlin and Jonathan Silverman. She also appeared in ITV's Marple: Ordeal By Innocence based on the Agatha Christie novel. She was a contestant on season five of the U.S. reality show Dancing with the Stars, which on the 7th week of competition, she was eliminated. Seymour also currently fronts an advertising campaign for the Scottish furniture chain Reid.
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February 14, 2008

Born February 14, 1976
Ossining, New York, U.S.
Leerhsen was born in Ossining, New York on Valentine's Day, where she was raised along with her two sisters, Nora and Debbie, by their father Charles Leerhsen, a long time editor of celebrity publication US Magazine (which became US Weekly in March 2000). She attended St. Augustine's School and Ossining High School (where she sang in the choir) and graduated from Boston University College of Fine Arts in 1998. She earned B.F.A (summa cum laude) in acting the same year.
Career
After graduation, Leerhsen's first role was as Sarah in a 1999 short film Junior Creative, which received several good reviews. During its production, she got the lead role of a practicing witch in the controversial film Book of Shadows: Blair Witch 2, though she originally auditioned for the part that eventually went to Kim Director. She went to the audition with short blonde hair, and, as director Joe Berlinger described it, "completely Gothed-out", but ultimately was given the supporting role of "Erica". It was Berlinger who decided to make her character a long-haired redhead.
Following Blair Witch 2, she appeared in the third season of The Sopranos, where she played a lesbian tennis instructor who falls for Drea De Matteo's character. She would also have part in the well-acclaimed TV show The Guardian, where her character got written out after several episodes. In the same year she had a supporting role in Woody Allen's Hollywood Ending.
The year 2003 saw the release of the very successful horror remake The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, in which Leerhsen had a prominent role as one of the doomed teens. The film grossed more than $100 million on the Box Office, making it one of the most profitable horror movies ever made, and spawned a prequel which took place 4 years before the events of the Remake. The same year she returned to acting on television with a guest appearance on Alias, and then reunited with Woody Allen in his new comedy, Anything Else, which also starred Christina Ricci and Jason Biggs.
In 2004, Leerhsen starred in a thriller film The Warrior Class, where she played Anson Mount's love interest. The film got released on DVD on February 06, 2007. Months later, she started acting in theaters, and appeared in Woody Allen's A Second Hand Memory. The show attracted attention from a wider adult audience and received good reviews.
A year later, Leerhsen starred along Michael Pena in an independently-made Toronto Film Festival-smash Little Athens, which was premiered at the chaotic festival in 2005. Though made two years earlier, the movie got released on DVD on November 21, 2005, celebrating the second anniversary of its playing on the festival. The same year she had a guest appearance on Jennifer Love Hewitt's television show Ghost Whisperer and starred in Mozart and the Whale with Radha Mitchell and Josh Hartnett, which was released in limited theaters on April 14, 2006.
In January 2006, Leerhsen made a guest appearance on CSI: Miami, and then filmed The Living Hell in May 2006, where she plays a hazmat specialist. The film is set for an early 2008 release.
Shortly after, Erica was landed a starring role in Wrong Turn 2: Dead End, the highly anticipated 2007 sequel to the 2003 horror film Wrong Turn, where she did a lot of her own stunts. The sequel, which was filmed in June 2006, is scheduled for an October 09, 2007 straight-to-video release.
Commenting on the characters she often plays, Leerhsen has said: "It's weird because I always seem to be dead. I'm gonna have to change that because I wouldn't want to be typecast."
Personal life
Leerhsen enjoys running, playing basketball and Yoga. She currently lives in Los Angeles.
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February 13, 2008

AKA Mena Adrienne Suvari
Born: 13-Feb-1979
Birthplace: Newport, RI
Gender: Female
Race or Ethnicity: White
Sexual orientation: Straight
Occupation: Actor
Nationality: United States
Executive summary: American Beauty and American Pie
Father: Ando Suvari (psychiatrist, Estonian)
Mother: Candice (nurse, Greek)
Brother: A. J.
Brother: Sulev
Brother: Yuri
Husband: Robert Brinkmann (cinematographer, m. 11-Mar-2000)
Suvari was born in Newport, Rhode Island to Ando Süvari, an Estonian psychiatrist, and Candice, a Greek American nurse. By the age of twelve, Suvari was modeling; she starred in a Rice-a-Roni commercial by the age of thirteen. Attended Providence High School, in Los Angeles, California, class of 1997.
Suvari spent her early years in an stone mansion, built in 1870, that she insists was haunted. She and her brothers saw several apparitions over the years, all of which she believed were friendly. The family later relocated to Charleston, South Carolina, where her three older brothers lined up to attend the Citadel (a military college). Mena, meanwhile, was entertaining dreams of becoming an archaeologist, astronaut, or doctor, when a modeling agency stopped by her all-girls school to offer classes. At age 12, after receiving a few pointers on her runway strut, Suvari attended a modeling convention and was snapped up by the New York-based Wilhelmina agency.
Career
Suvari made appearances in television shows such as Boy Meets World and ER at the age of fifteen and sixteen respectively. In 1999, Suvari starred in the Oscar winning American Beauty and the popular American Pie. Suvari was nominated for a BAFTA for Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role for: American Beauty.
She followed these movies with roles in such movies as Loser (2000), The Musketeer (2001), and Spun (2002). Suvari is the only actress to appear in three consecutive movies that start with the word "American": American Pie (1999), American Beauty (1999), American Virgin (2000). Suvari also became a recurring character in the fourth season of the critically acclaimed HBO serial Six Feet Under in 2004, as lesbian performance poet and artist, Edie. Suvari was nominated for a Blockbuster Entertainment Award for Favorite Actress - Newcomer (Internet Only) in 2000 for American Pie.
In 2006, she took the voice role of Aeris Gainsborough in the Square Enix/Disney video game Kingdom Hearts II, as well as the English-language version of Square Enix's Final Fantasy VII Advent Children. She has lead roles in the upcoming remake of the zombie movie Day of the Dead as well as Stuart Gordon's controversial film Stuck.
In early August 2007 the first pictures of Suvari as a bald were published in many gossip websites. Suvari’s representative has revealed the actress shaved off her locks in June while she was shooting a movie adaptation of Ernest Hemingway’s Garden of Eden in Spain. In the film, the actress plays a beautiful bored newlywed who falls for a sultry Italian girl while she is honeymooning in Europe. She has a lead role in the film. Suvari says she fulfilled a long-standing ambition by losing her hair. She explained: “I was really excited to get to shave my head - it’s something I’d wanted to do for a while and now I had a good excuse. It was nice to shed that level of vanity for a girl.”
Personal life
Suvari married German-born cinematographer Robert Brinkmann on March 18, 2000. The marriage was notable as Brinkmann is 18 years older than Suvari. However, Suvari filed for legal separation from Brinkmann on April 24, 2005, citing irreconcilable differences. The two divorced in May of the same year. In summer 2005, she began dating professional breakdancer Mike "Murda" Carrasco. Mike Carrasco is a member of Knuckle Head Zoo. They met in October 2005 in Braunschweig, Germany.
She is quoted on her website as saying, "I really like most styles of music. I am very much into hip-hop, soul, funk, and especially reggae, and really, there are too many artists to mention, but I like a lot of old school music."
Suvari also plays on the World Poker Tour in the Hollywood Home games for the Starlight Children's Foundation charity.
Her hobbies include: jewelry making, photography, mountain biking, and hiking. In January 2007 Suvari was spotted working at a trendy Melrose boutique. It was so busy at the boutique that she wound up waiting until closing time -- and helped the staff put away all the displayed jewelry.
Mena is also heavily into issues about female empowerment. She is involved with several breast cancer charities and the End Violence Against Women campaign. She also tours high schools trying to encourage women to quit smoking. She has also visited New Orleans shortly after Hurricane Katrina in 2005 to help women and girls who are in need, and donated millions of dollars to help women and children in need. Mena recently began organizing her very own organization that encourages strong bonds and friendships between women and girls. "I would never have gotten through the rough times in my life if it weren't for all the strong women I know - my mother, my aunts and all of my girlfriends...and, I think too many women see each other as enemies". Mena recently bad mouthed the media for its' unfair treatment of young female celebrities.
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February 12, 2008

Born: 12-Feb-1980
Birthplace: Santa Monica, CA
Gender: Female
Religion: Christian
Race or Ethnicity: White
Sexual orientation: Straight
Occupation: Actor
Nationality: United States
Executive summary: The Addams Family
Father: Ralph Ricci (primal scream therapist)
Mother: Sarah Murdoch (model, stage mom)
Brother: Dante Ricci (musician, b. 1974)
Sister: Pia Ricci (b. 1976)
Brother: Rafael Ricci (b. 1971)
Boyfriend: Orlando Bloom (actor)
Boyfriend: Adam Goldberg (actor)
Boyfriend: Matthew Frauman (actor)
Christina Ricci was a child star in the early 1990s, making commercials for cereal and toys beginning at age 5. Her first film, at age 9, was Mermaids with Cher and Winona Ryder. She made more of an impression as goth girl Wednesday in the Addams Family movies, and as the manipulative girlfriend of murderous hooker Charlize Theron in Monster. Her career has been in something of a slump since her last real hit, Sleepy Hollow in 2000, with Johnny Depp.
She was always a cute, slightly chubby kid, and even played a younger version of Rosie O'Donnell's character in Now and Then. Her co-star in that film, 13-year-old Thora Birch, played a young Melanie Griffith, and you would not have to be a sensitive adolescent to recognize what was being telegraphed about Ricci's future. Ricci has said that by her mid-teens, she felt completely removed from any ordinary semblance of reality. Her parents divorced while she was making Addams Family Values, and she reportedly no longer speaks to her father. In a 1998 interview, when Ricci was 17, she rolled up her sleeve to show the reporter a long series of purple burn marks on her arm. "I wanted to see if I can handle pain... It's sort of an experiment to see if I can take it." As an adult, Ricci says the anorexia is behind her, but she still somewhat resembles a skeleton with breasts.
She prefers to work in independent films, finding them better written and more intelligent than Hollywood blockbusters. She says she won't consider scripts that offend her, but the only things that seem to truly offend her are poorly-written scripts and overwrought melodrama. She reportedly turned down the little-girl role in Spielberg's Jurassic Park, and the Kate Winslet role in Titanic. Ricci has at least three tattoos, a huge forehead, and likes wearing men's underwear. She describes herself as "hermit-like" and prefers watching reruns of Law & Order to the glitter of show-biz nightlife.
Ricci owns her own production company, Blaspheme Films, responsible for Prozac Nation and Pumpkin. Ricci told a magazine in a 2005 interview that she is a Christian. She is on the national board of VOX-Voices for Planned Parenthood. She will also be appearing in national ads for emergency contraception. She supported John Kerry's presidential bid in 2004. Ricci maintains a close friendship with former child star and actress Gaby Hoffmann, with whom she starred in Now and Then. She is also a friend of Black Snake Moan costar Samuel L. Jackson.
After making the top of PETA's worst-dressed list and receiving a letter from the animal rights group, Ricci decided to give up wearing fur. Ricci also owns two dogs (The Sheriff Steve Goldburg and Buzz Goldicci).
In 2004, Ricci appeared as the first model in the Spring/ Summer 2005 Louis Vuitton show, and also appeared in advertisements for the popular French fashion house that year.
In April 2007, Ricci became the national spokesperson for RAINN, the Rape, Abuse and Incest National Network for the United States, which assists victims of these crimes and promotes programs that help prevent them from occurring. She cited some of her research in Black Snake Moan role as educational on the importance of the issues that RAINN deals with.
She has cited Pulp Fiction, Lord of the Rings, Gangs of New York, and My Own Private Idaho as her favorite films. She drives a Porsche Boxster. Her favorite musicians are the Red Hot Chili Peppers, Tom Petty, The Ramones, R.E.M., The White Stripes, Weezer, and the Pixies.
Ricci also has many tattoos: a lion on her right shoulder blade (a reference to The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe, a favorite novel of hers as a child), a fairy on the inside of her right wrist, praying hands on her left hip (this tattoo was originally a bat), a bouquet of sweetpeas on her lower back, the words "Move or Bleed" on the left side of her ribcage, the name "Jack" on her right thigh for a dead pet, a sparrow on her right breast, and a mermaid on her left ankle.
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February 12, 2008

AKA Alexandra Estella DeAnna Meneses
Born: February 12, 1965
Location: Chicago, Illinois
Alex Meneses is an American television and film actress and model. She is of Mexican descent on her father's side and Ukrainian descent on her mother's.
Meneses studied acting at Chicago's The Second City Improvisational Theater during summer vacations. Immediately upon graduation from high school, she got a modeling contract in Milan, Italy. Originally she was to stay in Italy for only 3 months, but fell in love with Italy and stayed there for 2 years where she became a successful model. When Alex came back to the USA, she headed to Los Angeles, where she studied acting at the Lee Strasberg Institute.
Meneses portrayed Teresa Morales in Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman, and has had significant recurring roles on Everybody Loves Raymond as Robert's Italian lover Stefania, and The Hughleys. She also appeared in the films Amanda and the Alien, Selena, The Flintstones in Viva Rock Vegas, Auto Focus and Funny Money. Alex has also appeared in numerous L.A. stage productions.
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February 11, 2008

Born: 11-Feb-1969
Birthplace: Sherman Oaks, CA
Gender: Female
Race or Ethnicity: White
Sexual orientation: Straight
Occupation: Actor
Nationality: United States
Executive summary: Rachel on Friends
Father: John Aniston (actor, b. 24-Jul-1933)
Mother: Nancy Dow (author, b. 22-Jul-1936)
Boyfriend: Adam Duritz (musician, Counting Crows; dated 1990s)
Boyfriend: Tate Donovan (actor, dated mid-1990s)
Boyfriend: Charlie Schlatter (actor, ex-)
Boyfriend: Paul Rudd (actor, dated 1998)
Husband: Brad Pitt (actor, dated 1999-2000, m. 29-Jul-2000, div. 2-Oct-2005)
Boyfriend: Vince Vaughn (actor, dated 2005-06)
Aniston was born in Sherman Oaks, California, and grew up in New York City. She is the daughter of the Greek-American actor John Aniston (originally Yannis Anastassakis) and actress Nancy Dow. Aniston has two half-brothers, John Melick and Alex Aniston. Aniston's father was born on the island of Crete, while her maternal grandfather, Gordon McLean Dow, was of Scottish and English descent, and her maternal grandmother, Louise Grieco, was of Italian ancestry. Aniston's godfather was the late Greek American actor Telly Savalas, her father's best friend. Aniston spent part of her childhood in Greece, but most of it in New York City, where her father appeared in the soap operas Love of Life and Search for Tomorrow. In 1985, the family moved to Los Angeles, where Aniston's father starred on the soap opera Days of our Lives as Victor Kiriakis. Aniston graduated from Manhattan's Fiorello H. LaGuardia High School of Music & Art and Performing Arts. Among her high school friends was future gay rights activist Chastity Bono. Aniston's desire to become an actress grew as she worked in Off-Broadway productions such as For Dear Life and Dancing on Checker's Grave. During this time, she supported herself with several part-time jobs, including working as a telemarketer and bike messenger.
Career
Aniston moved to Hollywood and was cast in her first television role in 1990, starring as a regular on the short-lived series Molloy and in the TV movie Camp Cucamonga. She also co-starred in Ferris Bueller, a television adaptation of the 1986 hit movie Ferris Bueller's Day Off, the same year; the series, however, was quickly canceled. Aniston then appeared in two more failed television comedy shows, The Edge and Muddling Through, and guest-starred on Quantum Leap, Herman's Head, Burke's Law, on South Park in episode Rainforest Schmainforest. After the string of cancelled shows, along with her appearance in the critically derided 1993 horror film, Leprechaun, Aniston considered giving up acting.
Aniston's plans changed, however, after auditioning for Friends, a sitcom that was set to debut on NBC's 1994-1995 fall line-up. The producers of the show originally wanted Aniston to audition for the role of Monica Geller, but she persuaded them that she was better suited for the role of Rachel Green. She was cast in the role and played the character from 1994 until the show ended in 2004.
The program was hugely successful and Aniston, along with her co-stars, gained wide renown among television viewers. Her hairstyle at the time, which became known as the "Rachel", was widely copied. Aniston received a salary of one million dollars per episode for the last two seasons of Friends, as well as five Emmy nominations, including a win for "Outstanding Lead Actress in a Comedy Series".
According to the Guinness World Book of Records (2005), Aniston (along with her female costars) became the highest paid TV actress of all time with her $1 million-per-episode paycheck for the tenth season of Friends.
Aniston has starred in several theatrical films, including Office Space and Picture Perfect (1997) .
She gained the most critical acclaim for her role in the low-budget 2002 film, The Good Girl, directed by Miguel Arteta, playing an unglamorous cashier in a small town. The film opened in relatively few theaters - under 700 in total - taking $14M in the U.S. box office.
Jennifer's biggest box office success was her appearance in 2003's Bruce Almighty, in which she played the girlfriend of title character (Jim Carrey); the film grossed $243M at the United States box office and almost twice that worldwide. Aniston's 2004 film, Along Came Polly (opposite Ben Stiller), also did well at the box office after opening at the #1 spot.
In late 2005, Aniston headlined two major studio films, Derailed and Rumor Has It, both of which performed fairly at the box office, grossing over $36 million each despite little support from critics.
In 2006, Aniston appeared in the low-budget drama, Friends with Money, which was first shown at the Cannes Film Festival, received a limited release, and grossed over $13 million. Aniston's next film, The Break-Up, which was released on June 2, grossed approximately $39.17 million during its opening weekend, despite lukewarm reviews. It has currently grossed over $118 million at the U.S. box office and over $203 million worldwide.
In addition to acting, Aniston has also directed a hospital emergency room-set short film named Room 10, starring Robin Wright Penn and Kris Kristofferson; Aniston has noted that she was inspired to direct by actress Gwyneth Paltrow, who directed a short film in 2006.
Forbes listed Aniston as the 10th richest woman in the entertainment industry for the year 2007. She is behind such powerhouses as Oprah Winfrey, J. K. Rowling, Madonna and Jennifer Lopez and is ahead of Britney Spears, Christina Aguilera and the Olsen twins. Aniston's net worth is approximately $110 million. Aniston was also included in the annual Star Salary Top 10 of trade magazine The Hollywood Reporter for 2006. According to Forbes in October 2007, Aniston was the top-selling celebrity face of the entertainment industry.
Aniston has been signed to play a role in the up-coming thriller Wanted along with Meryl Streep and Martin Hernandez.
Personal life
Aniston has previously dated musician Adam Duritz, actor Paul Rudd and was engaged to actor Tate Donovan. Her high-profile relationship with actor Brad Pitt was frequently publicized in the press. She married Pitt on July 29, 2000, in a lavish Malibu wedding. Though their marriage was, for years, considered the rare Hollywood success, rumors of trouble began circulating, and the Pitts announced their separation on January 7, 2005. As Pitt's marriage to Jennifer drew to a close, he and actress Angelina Jolie were involved in a well-publicized Hollywood scandal in which Jolie was often painted as the "other woman," largely due to their chemistry during the filming of the movie Mr. and Mrs. Smith. While Jolie and Pitt both denied any claims of adultery, speculations continued to mount throughout 2004 and early 2005. Aniston and Pitt later separated on January 7, 2005, and Aniston officially filed for divorce on March 25, 2005. The divorce was finalized on October 2, 2005.
Media reports have speculated that the split was due to Aniston's refusal to have children. Aniston vehemently denied this later on in an August 2005 Vanity Fair interview, stating, "I've never in my life said I didn't want to have children... I've always wanted to have children, and I would never give up that experience for a career." (Also, in the same article, she has said that because of the divorce, she reached out to her mother, from whom she was estranged for nearly a decade. They initially became estranged when Nancy talked about Jennifer on a tv show and later wrote a book titled "From Mother and Daughter to Friends: A Memoir" (1999).
She has also stated that the death of her longtime therapist, whose work helped to make the separation from Pitt easier, more than a year ago was "devastating." Summing up her relationship with Pitt, Aniston has said that their relationship, which she does not regret, was "seven very intense years together" and that "it was a beautiful, complicated relationship."
Since the couple's divorce, Aniston has been romantically linked with actor Vince Vaughn. In August of 2006, Aniston denied rumors that the two were engaged or that Vaughn had proposed. In October 2006, gossip magazine Us Weekly quoted sources from Vaughn that the couple had split. "Jen lives in a crazy crazy world with all the press. It's just not his world." In December 2006, reps for both Aniston and Vaughn confirmed that they had indeed split up a few weeks before when Aniston visited Vaughn in London.
Courteney Cox Arquette is Aniston's best friend. In 2007, Aniston was invited to guest star in an episode of Arquette's new television show Dirt. Aniston played Arquette's snobby rival Tina Harrod on March 27. Jennifer Aniston is also the godmother of Courtney's child, Coco.
She has had two septoplastys to thin her deviated septum: one incorrectly done in 1994 and one in early 2007. This is a simple medical procedure which helps cure the common condition which can lead to breathing difficulty and trouble sleeping. Tabloids falsely reported this as a "nose job."
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February 10, 2008

AKA Elizabeth Maresal Mitchell
Born: 10-Feb-1974
Birthplace: Pittsfield, MA
Gender: Female
Religion: Jewish
Race or Ethnicity: White
Sexual orientation: Straight
Occupation: Actor
Nationality: United States
Executive summary: The Baxter
Husband: Max Handelman (m. 5-Jul-2003)
Banks was born Elizabeth Maresal Mitchell in Pittsfield, Massachusetts. As a young child, she was a contestant on the Nickelodeon game show Finders Keepers. She graduated from Pittsfield High School in 1992 and is a magna cum laude graduate of the University of Pennsylvania (1996). In 1998 she completed schooling at the American Conservatory Theater. In 2003, Banks married Max Handelman, who had been her boyfriend since college. She converted to Judaism upon marrying him.
Career
Banks is known for her roles in Seabiscuit, Heights, the Spider-Man films (playing the part of Betty Brant), and the cult comedy Wet Hot American Summer. She quickly gained widespread exposure through movies like The 40-Year-Old Virgin and Slither. She also plays Mark Wahlberg's love interest in the Disney movie, Invincible.
In May 2006, she appeared in the season five finale of the NBC sitcom Scrubs as Dr. Kim Briggs, the love interest of J.D. (Zach Braff). The character has appeared throughout season six as a recurring guest star. Banks will also be a recurring guest throughout season seven. In the same year she also appeared on the show Stella, as she is a long time friend of the creators/stars of the show, the Stella comedy troupe.
Banks also has a string of mainstream films lined up. She plays the female lead in the dark comedy Bill, alongside Aaron Eckhart and Jessica Alba. Banks also has a small role in the family comedy Fred Claus, along with Vince Vaughn and Paul Giamatti, as well as a love interest in the comedy Definitely, Maybe. She recently started filming the thriller A Tale of Two Sisters.
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February 09, 2008

Born: 9-Feb-1974
Birthplace: Phoenix, AZ
Gender: Female
Race or Ethnicity: White
Sexual orientation: Straight
Occupation: Model, Actor
Nationality: United States
Executive summary: Supermodel turned actress
Husband: Hervé Le Bhihan (m. 1994, div. 1996)
Boyfriend: Leonardo DiCaprio (actor, dated 1998)
Husband: Christian McCaw (volleyball player, m. 2003, one son)
Son: Auden (b. 2000)
Valletta was born in Phoenix, Arizona to a mother who worked at the post office. Shortly after her birth, her family moved to Tulsa, Oklahoma. She attended Booker T. Washington High School. She got her start in the fashion industry when her mother enrolled her in modeling school at the age of fifteen at the Linda Layman Agency.
Career
Valletta has gone on to act in several films, been on the cover of magazines and in advertisements for Louis Vuitton, Calvin Klein and Versace and hosted MTV's House of Style with friend and fellow supermodel Shalom Harlow. Valletta was scheduled to appear on Punk'd on Season 6 Episode 3, along with David Boreanaz and Kristin Cavallari, but Kutcher had to move the prank played on Valletta to an episode later to make room for the prank played on Dallas Cowboys wide receiver Terrell Owens, which is based on his suspension on November 19, 2005, while playing for the Philadelphia Eagles.
Personal life
Valletta is married to renowned Olympic volleyball player Christian "Chip" McCaw, with whom she has a son, Auden. Before her marriage, she dated Leonardo DiCaprio in early-1998. As of August 24, 2006, her publicist announced that she was going into rehab for non-substance abuse issues related to stress and image problems.
Valletta also serves as the spokesperson for Oceana’s Seafood Contamination Campaign, where she brings awareness of the dangers of mercury poisoning in various kinds of seafood. The decision to join Oceana's campaign was prompted by the mercury-poisoning experience of a friend and the fact that she is a mother.
In August 2006, the New York Daily News reported that Valletta completed a stint at The Meadow rehabilitation facility in Wickenburg, Arizona, for stress and non-substance-related issues. Valletta told People magazine, "As was correctly reported earlier this week, my stay at The Meadows had nothing to do with substance abuse or addiction; I am pleased to say I have seven years' sobriety. But I continue every day to heal and grow as a person".
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February 08, 2008

AKA Mary N Steenburgen
Born: 8-Feb-1953
Birthplace: Newport, AR
Gender: Female
Race or Ethnicity: White
Sexual orientation: Straight
Occupation: Actor
Party Affiliation: Democratic
Nationality: United States
Executive summary: Goin' South
Father: Maurice Steenburgen (railroad conductor, d.)
Mother: Nell Steenburgen (high school secretary)
Sister: Nancy Kelly
Husband: Malcolm McDowell (actor, m. 1980, div. 1990, one daughter, one son)
Husband: Ted Danson (actor, m. 7-Oct-1995)
Daughter: Lily Amanda (b. 22-Jan-1981, with McDowell)
Son: Charles Malcolm (b. 1983, with McDowell)
Steenburgen was born in Newport, Arkansas, daughter of Nell, a school-board secretary, and Maurice Steenburgen, a freight-train conductor. 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 to actor Ted Danson since 1995. In 2006, Steenburgen received an honorary Doctor of Humane Letters degree from Lyon College in Batesville, Arkansas.
She is a close personal friend of former first lady, New York Senator, and new presidential candidate Hillary Clinton. She currently resides in Oxford, Mississippi.
Career
Steenburgen moved to New York City in 1972, working at Doubleday's while studying acting at New York's Neighborhood Playhouse School of the Theatre. Her break came when she discovered by Jack Nicholson in the reception room of Paramount's New York office, and soon after cast her as the lead in his second directorial effort, the 1978 Western Goin' South. She won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her role in the 1980 film Melvin and Howard. She played Clara Clayton in Back to the Future Part III (1990), a role which her children, fans of the Back to the Future movies, convinced her to play. She reprised the role by providing the character's voice in the Back to the Future: The Animated Series. She also had a role in the 1979 film Time After Time in which she played the love interest to H.G. Wells played by her husband-to-be Malcolm McDowell. In both films, she played the love interest of a time traveller. She also starred in the sitcom Ink and the television miniseries of Gulliver's Travels with her husband Ted Danson.
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February 07, 2008

AKA Robyn Elaine Lively
Born: 7-Feb-1972
Birthplace: Powder Springs, GA
Gender: Female
Race or Ethnicity: White
Sexual orientation: Straight
Occupation: Actor
Nationality: United States
Executive summary: Lana Milford on Twin Peaks
Father: Ernie Lively
Mother: Elaine
Brother: Eric Lively (actor, b. 31-Jul-1981)
Brother: Jason Lively (actor, b. 12-Mar-1968)
Sister: Blake Lively (actress, b. 25-Aug-1987)
Sister: Elaine Lively
Husband: Bart Johnson (actor, m. 25-Sep-1999)
Robyn Elaine Lively is an American actress. She is the sister of Blake Lively, Eric Lively, Jason Lively, and Lori Lively.
Robyn is probably most well-known for supporting characters; among them, a 2-season stint opposite Neil Patrick Harris in the series Doogie Howser, M.D., and more famously, the character of Becky Carson in Disney's first two installments of their Not Quite Human franchise. Her many other films include The Karate Kid, Part III, Teen Witch, Where is the Cat?, The Less-Than-Perfect Daughter...the latter of which co-starred her real-life father Ernie Lively, and Johnny Kapahala: Back on Board. She married fellow actor Bart Johnson on September 25, 1999.
Robyn recently guest-starred on the television series' CSI: NY and Nip/Tuck.
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February 07, 2008

Born: 7-Feb-1979
Birthplace: Las Vegas, NV
Gender: Female
Race or Ethnicity: White
Occupation: Actor
Nationality: United States
Executive summary: Cabin Fever
Brother: Gino Vincent
Cerina Vincent (born February 7, 1979 in Las Vegas, Nevada) is an American film actress perhaps best known for playing the Yellow Ranger Maya in the television series Power Rangers: Lost Galaxy. Older audiences might know her best for playing a naked foreign exchange student in Not Another Teen Movie.
In 1996 Vincent won the Miss Nevada Teen USA title and competed at Miss Teen USA. Though she made it to the top 15, she failed to place at the pageant (televised live), which was held in Las Cruces, New Mexico and won by Christie Lee Woods of Texas.
She also appeared in the film Not Another Teen Movie (2001) as the foreign exchange student Areola, and spends the entire film nude. According to her character, she is a genetically-engineered foreign exchange student released into America as object of lust for poor nerds who cannot get American pussy. The character was a spoof of Shannon Elizabeth's character, Nadia, in American Pie (1999). She admits that being nude in the movie made her feel much more comfortable with her body.
She also starred in a R-rated horror film called Cabin Fever (2003). In 2006, Vincent appeared in the Sci-Fi Channel Original Movie Sasquatch Mountain, alongside Lance Henriksen, and got her first leading role in It Waits. She will be in the upcoming Return to House on Haunted Hill.
Cerina is publishing her first book in 2007, which she co-wrote with author Jodi Lipper. It is called How to Eat Like a Hot Chick.
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February 06, 2008

Died 02/06/2007
On February 8, 2007, Smith was found unresponsive in room 607 at the Seminole Hard Rock Hotel and Casino in Hollywood, Florida. According to Seminole Police Chief Charlie Tiger, at 1:38 p.m. (18:38 UTC) Smith's friend and bodyguard, Maurice "Big Moe" Brighthaupt, who was a trained paramedic, called the hotel front desk from her sixth floor room. The front desk in turn called security, who then called 911. At 1:45 p.m. the bodyguard administered CPR before she was rushed to Memorial Regional Hospital at 2:10 p.m and pronounced dead on arrival at 2:49 p.m.
A phone call was released to the public on February 13, 2007 involving Seminole police and the local 911 operators, saying:
We need assistance to Room 607 at the Hard Rock. It's in reference to a white female. She's not breathing and not responsive...actually, it's Anna Nicole Smith.
After Smith's death, various legal battles began regarding: the will, the paternity of her daughter, and her final resting place, which resulted in the delay of her burial. Smith was finally buried March 2, 2007 at Nassau's Lakeview Memorial Gardens and Mausoleum in a plot adjacent to her son, Daniel. Daniel's father reportedly wants his son exhumed and reburied in his home state of Texas.
After a seven week investigation led by Broward County Medical Examiner and Forensic Pathologist Dr. Joshua Perper in combination with the Seminole police and several independent forensic pathologists and toxicologists, Dr. Perper announced that Smith died of "combined drug intoxication" with the sleeping medication chloral hydrate as the "major component." No illegal drugs were found in her system. The official report states that her death was not considered to be due to homicide, suicide, or natural causes. The full investigative report has been made public and can be found online. Additionally, an official copy of the autopsy report was publicly released on March 26, 2007 and can be found online.
Ultimately her death was ruled an accidental drug overdose of the sedative chloral hydrate that became increasingly lethal when combined with other prescription drugs in her system, specifically 4 benzodiazepines: Klonopin (Clonazepam), Ativan (Lorazepam), Serax (Oxazepam), and Valium (Diazepam). Furthermore, she had taken Benadryl (Diphenhydramine) and Topamax (Toprimate), an anticonvulsant GABA agonist, which likely contributed to the sedative effect of chloral hydrate and the benzodiazepines. Although the individual levels of any of the benzodiazepines in her system would not have been sufficient to cause death, their combination with a high dose of chloral hydrate led to her overdose. The autopsy report indicates that chloral hydrate was the "toxic/lethal" drug, but it is difficult to know if chloral hydrate ingestion would have killed her alone, since Dr. Perper indicated (in the March 26 press conference) that she had built up a tolerance to the drug and took more than the average person. He indicated that she took about 3 tablespoons, whereas the normal dosage is between 1 and 2 teaspoons. Despite rumors of methadone use due to its involvement in her son's death, Dr. Perper only found methadone in her bile, indicating that it could only have been ingested 2-3 days prior to her death and was not a contributing factor. The autopsy report indicates that abscesses of buttocks (presumably from prior injections of vitamin B12 (cyanocobalamin) and human growth hormone), and viral enteritis were contributory causes of death. Tests for influenza A and B were negative.
It was reported that 8 of the 11 drugs in Anna Nicole Smith's system, including the chloral hydrate, were prescribed to Howard K. Stern, not Anna Nicole. Additionally, two of the medicines were written for Alex Katz and one was written for Anna Nicole's friend and psychiatrist, Dr. Khristine Eroshevitz. Dr. Perper acknowledged that all 11 prescriptions were written by Dr. Eroshevitz herself.
Anna Nicole's will, drawn up in April 2001, named her son Daniel as the sole beneficiary of her estate, specifically excluded other children, and named Howard K. Stern as the executor. It indicated personal property valued at $10,000 and real property valued at $1.8 million (with a $1.1 million mortgage) at the time of death. A petition to probate Smith's will was filed in Los Angeles County Superior Court. The petition to probate lists Larry Birkhead as a party with interest to Anna's estate.
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February 05, 2008

AKA Jennifer Lee Morrow
Born: 5-Feb-1962
Birthplace: Hollywood, CA
Gender: Female
Race or Ethnicity: White
Sexual orientation: Straight
Occupation: Actor
Nationality: United States
Executive summary: Fast Times at Ridgemont High
Father: Vic Morrow (actor, m. 1957, div. from Turner in 1964)
Mother: Barbara Turner (screenwriter, Pollock, div. 1964)
Father: Reza Badiyi (stepfather, TV director, Get Smart, b. 17-Apr-1930, m. 1968, div. 1985)
Sister: Carrie Ann Morrow (drug counselor)
Sister: Mina Badie (half-sister, actress, Roger Dodger, )
Boyfriend: Eric Stoltz (1985-89)
Boyfriend: Jason Patric
Boyfriend: David Dukes (actor, The Winds of War, b. 6-Jun-1945, cohabited in early 1980s)
Though her mother tried to talk her out of it, Leigh started taking acting lessons at 14 and, coming from a show business family, she had little trouble getting into film. She won early acclaim as an anorexic in a TV movie, and became famous in Fast Times at Ridgemont High. While that movie was still in first run theaters and getting generally good reviews, her father Vic Morrow was killed by a helecopter filming the Twilight Zone movie. At her mother's house the next night, Leigh and the rest of the family paid their respects by watching Morrow's The Blackboard Jungle.
Robert Altman directed her in two of her best films, Short Cuts and Mrs. Parker and the Vicious Circle. She usually appears in small, independent films as opposed to multiplex blockbusters, but her few truly mainstream movies include Single White Female, Road to Perdition, and Stephen King's Dolores Claiborne. Leigh memorably directed herself and an all-star cast in the Hollywood drawing room drama The Anniversary Party, co-starring, co-written, and co-directed by Alan Cumming. They played husband and wife believably, but were never romantically linked in real life.
Leigh's mother, Barbara Turner, is an accomplished screenwriter, and wrote Leigh's Georgia. Her stepfather, Reza Badiyi, was a TV director for decades in a career stretching from Get Smart to She Spies. He was also good buddies with film director Robert Altman. Leigh's on-screen middle name, Jason, is an homage to family friend Jason Robards.
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February 04, 2008

Born: 4-Feb-1970
Birthplace: Laleham, Middlesex, England
Gender: Female
Race or Ethnicity: White
Sexual orientation: Straight
Occupation: Actor
Nationality: England
Executive summary: Wild Hearts Can't Be Broken
Boyfriend: Craig Sheffer (actor, dating since 1989)
Daughter: Willow (b. 1993)
Anwar was born in Laleham, Middlesex, England. Her father is Tariq Anwar, an Iranian-born award-winning British film editor of Irainian and Austrian parents, and her mother is an English actress. Anwar attended Laleham C. of E. Primary and Middle School from 1975 to 1982; an end-of-term St. Trinians sketch in the school concert of 1982 gave an early indication of her theatrical leanings. She studied at a London drama and dance school.
Career
Anwar's acting debut was in the British miniseries Hideaway. She made her film debut in Manifesto, which was followed by more British television productions including First Born, Summer's Lease, Press Gang, and The Mysteries of the Dark Jungle. While working on movies and television in London, she met American actor Craig Sheffer, and moved with him to Hollywood. Anwar and Sheffer have also co-starred in a number of American movies together, such as In Pursuit of Honor, The Grave,Turbulence 3: Heavy Metal, Flying Virus, Save It for Later, Water Under the Bridge, and Long Lost Son.
Her first American film was If Looks Could Kill - Teen Agent. She followed that with the acclaimed films Wild Hearts Can't Be Broken, Scent of a Woman, Body Snatchers, For Love or Money and The Three Musketeers.
In 1993, People magazine named her one of the 50 most beautiful people in the world.
Anwar has appeared in the TV series John Doe. She recently acted in The Librarian: Return to King Solomon's Mines.
Anwar plays Princess Margaret, sister of Henry VIII of England, on Showtime's The Tudors, which debuted in April 2007.
Currently Anwar co-stars as Fiona Glenanne in the USA Network series Burn Notice. Though she performed the character with a thick Irish accent in the pilot episode, in the second installment Fiona speaks with an American accent.
Personal life
Anwar has a daughter, Willow, born in 1993, with whom she appeared in the film Daddy Who?. Willow's father is American actor Craig Sheffer with whom Anwar had a lengthy relationship in the late 1980s and 1990s. Anwar was later married to actor John Verea; the couple had a son and daughter together before divorcing. Additionally, Anwar had a relationship with actor Johnathon Schaech in 1997.
In June 2007 Anwar announced during an interview regarding Burn Notice that she was a pagan.
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February 03, 2008

Birth name Jessica Leigh Harp
Born February 3, 1982
Origin Kansas City, Missouri, USA
Genre(s) Pop
Country rock
Occupation(s) Singer-songwriter
She grew up with her parents and her sister with a love for music, singing for the first time when she was 3, writing lyrics when she was 8 and at 13 picking up her guitar. Jessica pursued a solo career in music, releasing her independent album, Preface in 2002.
She joined up with her long-time friend Michelle Branch to form The Wreckers, whose song "The Good Kind" was featured on One Tree Hill and on the show's soundtrack. The Wreckers' album Stand Still, Look Pretty was released May 23, 2006, which was preceded by the single and music video "Leave the Pieces".
On November 23, 2006, Jessica appeared on the very first live game broadcast by the NFL Network to sing the U.S. national anthem before the Thanksgiving Day game between her hometown Kansas City Chiefs and the Denver Broncos.
In December 2006, the Wreckers were nominated for a Grammy Award for Best Country Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocal for the song "Leave the Pieces".
On January 24, 2007, the Wreckers performed at the 55th Annual NHL all star game and sang the American national anthem.
Jessica's bandmate, Michelle Branch, announced to the audience of the Bowery Ballroom in New York City on July 23rd, 2007 that Jessica is engaged to the fiddle player of the duo's band - Jason Mowery. At The Wreckers concert in Adrian, Michigan at the Lenawee County Fairgrounds on July 23, 2007, Michelle introduced Jason as the fiddle player by dubbing him - Mr. Jessica Harp.
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February 03, 2008

AKA Maura Lynn Tierney
Born: 3-Feb-1965
Birthplace: Boston, MA
Gender: Female
Race or Ethnicity: White
Sexual orientation: Straight
Occupation: Actor
Nationality: United States
Executive summary: Lisa from Newsradio
Father: Joseph Tierney (ex-Boston City Council President)
Husband: Billy Morrissette (actor, m. 1994, div. 2006)
Tierney was born and raised in the Hyde Park neighborhood of Boston, Massachusetts. Her father, Joseph Tierney, was a prominent Boston politician who served multiple terms on the Boston City Council. Her mother, Pat, was a real estate agent. Tierney is of Irish descent. She attended Notre Dame Academy in Hingham, Massachusetts, where her studies included drama and led to her appearance at the Boston Globe Drama Festival. After graduation, she moved to New York City to attend New York University, but left before graduation to study drama at Circle-in-the-Square Theatre School. After thirteen years of marriage, in 2006, Tierney filed for divorce from her husband, director Billy Morrissette, citing irreconcilable differences.
Career
After appearing in several plays, she moved to Los Angeles, California and in 1987 got her first break in a role in Walt Disney's made-for-TV film Student Exchange. Tierney's first starring role in a film was in a low-budget, independently-produced film called Dead Women in Lingerie, shot in 24 days. Although the cast included well-known actors such as Jerry Orbach as her boss, and June Lockhart and Lyle Waggoner as her parents, the film, a thriller with opening and closing credits paying tribute to the plights of Illegal immigrants post-1986, never received a theatrical release. Much later (in 2005), the film was released on DVD by MTI Home Video; the company's press release and packaging makes it clear that the release is an attempt to capitalize on her more recent career successes.
Tierney continued winning small roles in film and television, though it was not until her leading role in NewsRadio from 1995–1999 and roles in major feature films such as Liar Liar, Primary Colors, and Forces of Nature that she received regular national exposure. It was after NewsRadio ended that she got the role of Nurse Abigail "Abby" Lockhart on ER. She started off guest starring as an OB nurse, a role which expanded in 2000 to a full-time regular part as an ER nurse; within a year, her work on ER had earned her an Emmy Award nomination, recognition she credits to a "juicy" story arc featuring her and Sally Field. Tierney's character Abby Lockhart graduated from medical school and became a doctor at the end of the 2003–2004 season. Since then, her character has gone on to become the female lead on the show. As of 2007, Maura Tierney is still a member of the cast, and is currently contracted to appear through Season 14. Since Goran Visnjic will not return on season 14 as a regular, Tierney will be the longest-standing cast member and lead actress on the show.
Tierney starred in Scotland, Pa., playing a Lady Macbeth-like role written specifically for her by writer/director and then-husband Billy Morrissette. She also collaborated with NewsRadio writer Joe Furey for a special "Working with Joe Furey" featurette for Furey's film Love and Support.
Tierney won the second season tournament of Bravo's Celebrity Poker Showdown against Lauren Graham, her former NewsRadio colleague. The show, first telecast in 2004, was hosted by Dave Foley, who was her co-lead and romantic interest in NewsRadio. She returned to the stage in May 2006 in an appearance opposite Eric McCormack in the off-Broadway U.S. premiere of Some Girl(s).
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February 03, 2008

AKA Isla Lang Fisher
Born: 3-Feb-1976
Birthplace: Muscat, Oman
Gender: Female
Race or Ethnicity: White
Sexual orientation: Straight
Occupation: Actor
Nationality: Australia
Executive summary: Shannon Reed on Home and Away
Boyfriend: Darren Day (TV presenter, broken engagement)
Boyfriend: Sacha Baron Cohen (comic actor, her fiancée)
Isla Lang Fisher (born February 3, 1976) is an Australian actress and author. She began acting on Australian television, and is since perhaps best known for her role in the 2005 comedy Wedding Crashers. Fisher is scheduled to appear in several more Hollywood films.
Early life
Fisher was born in Muscat, Oman, to Scottish parents, a father who worked for the United Nations and a romance novelist mother. Fisher moved with her family to Perth, Western Australia, when she was nine months old. Her name, after the Scottish island of Islay, is pronounced eye-luh; she has two brothers. Fisher has said that she had a "great" upbringing in Perth with a "very outdoorsy life". She began appearing in commercials on Australian television at the age of nine, before going on to win roles in popular children's television shows Bay City and Paradise Beach.
Career
At the age of 18, with the help of her mother, she wrote two teen novels, Bewitched and Seduced by Fame, that became bestsellers. From 1994 to 1997 she played the role of Shannon Reed on the hit Australian soap opera Home and Away. After leaving the popular soap to pursue new challenges, Fisher enrolled at prestigious theatre and arts training school in Paris, and went on to appear in pantomime in the United Kingdom. She also toured with Darren Day in the Summer Holiday musical, and appeared in a London theatre production called Così. Fisher's ambition was always to progress onto the big screen however, and in 2002 she had a part in the film version of Scooby-Doo as Mary-Jane, Shaggy Rogers's love interest, and subsequently was taken on by an American agent. A larger role in Wedding Crashers, alongside Vince Vaughn and Owen Wilson, in 2005 won her the Breakthrough Performance Award at the MTV Movie Awards. While promoting Wedding Crashers, she was officially crowned the 1000th guest on Australian talk show Rove on August 2, 2005. She entered the set ahead of Owen Wilson, winning the title by two meters.
In 2006, Fisher starred as Becca, a Manhattan party host in the offbeat relationship drama London co-starring Jessica Biel, Chris Evans and Jason Statham. In 2007 she appeared in The Lookout, a thriller co-starring Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Matthew Goode, and Hot Rod, opposite Andy Samberg. She will next appear in Wedding Daze, co-starring Jason Biggs, Definitely, Maybe, with Rachel Weisz and Abigail Breslin, and will have a voice role in Horton Hears a Who! Fisher has also co-written a treatment for a script entitled Groupies with Amy Poehler, as well as another project entitled The Cookie Queen. She was scheduled to appear in The Simpsons Movie, although her appearance was cut from the final version.
Fisher signed up to act in the movie adaption of the book Confessions of a Shopaholic, the filming of which will start in January 2008.
Fisher has spoken out against the lack of opportunities for female comedians in Hollywood.
Personal life
Fisher resides in Los Angeles, California, as well as in London, with her fiancé, English comedian Sacha Baron Cohen. She reportedly has converted to Judaism in advance of her marriage to Cohen, who is Jewish. As of March 2007, the two have not yet set a date for their wedding.
Fisher has said that her "sensibility is Australian" and that she has a "laid-back attitude to life" that she feels is "very Australian". Her mother and siblings live and work in Athens, Greece, while her father lives in Frankfurt, Germany.
She has recently announced that she is expecting her first child with actor Sacha Baron Cohen, best known for his film Borat: Cultural Learnings Of America For Make Benefit Glorious Nation Of Kazakhstan and the TV show Da Ali G Show. The actress showed off her pregnancy after weeks of speculation that she was expecting a child with Baron Cohen. The Wedding Crashers star was pictured at the Pride parade in Los Angeles in a tight-fitting top, which clearly displayed her expectant mother status after months of being spotted in loose-fitting clothing. Friends publicly congratulated the pair on their baby news at the MTV Movie Awards, according to People magazine.
On July 26, 2007, Fisher spoke to People about her pregnancy, saying that she and Cohen are not finding out the sex of the child and haven't decided whether to have the baby in London or LA.
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February 02, 2008

AKA Christie Lee Hudson
Born: 2-Feb-1954
Birthplace: Detroit, MI
Gender: Female
Race or Ethnicity: White
Sexual orientation: Straight
Occupation: Model, Actor
Nationality: United States
Executive summary: Supermodel
Father: Don Brinkley (producer)
Husband: Jean-François Allaux (m. 1973, div. 1981)
Husband: Billy Joel (musician, m. 23-Mar-1985, div. 25-Aug-1994, one daughter)
Daughter: Alexa Rae (b. 1-Jan-1986, with Joel)
Husband: Richard Taubman (m. 22-Dec-1994, div. 1995, one son)
Son: Jack Paris Brinkley (b. 2-Jun-1995, with Taubman)
Husband: Peter Cook (m. 21-Sep-1996)
Daughter: Sailor Lee Brinkley Cook (b. 2-Jul-1998, with Cook)
Early life and career
She was born Christie Lee Hudson in Monroe, Michigan, USA even though she has claimed to have been born and raised in California. Majoring in art and graduating in 1972, Christie attended Palisades High School in Pacific Palisades, California. In the early 1970s, she and her family lived in the Bel Air hills. She was educated at le Lycée Français de Los Angeles and worked in Paris as an entry-level illustrator.
In 1976, she signed a contract with cosmetics giant Cover Girl, which they continued to renew for twenty years. A few years after Cover Girl ended their contract with Brinkley, they again signed her on as a model with ads in magazines and commercials for mature skin products in 2005. She appeared on the cover of three consecutive Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issues (1979 – 1981).
Brinkley appeared as "The Girl in the Ferrari" in the movie National Lampoon's Vacation in 1983, a role she reprised in the 1997 sequel Vegas Vacation (though in Vegas Vacation her character was cast as "Woman in Ferrari".)
She is currently a pitch person for a line of home fitness equipment sold on cable TV infomercials.
Personal life
Brinkley had a romantic relationship with Olivier Chandon de Brailles, heir to the Moët-Chandon Champagne fortune. Chandon died in 1983 in an auto racing accident. The two first met in 1972 at Studio 54 in New York City at a party promoting a calendar in which Christie appeared.
Brinkley has been married four times. Her first three marriages were to artist Jean-François Allaux (1973–1981), musician Billy Joel (1985–1994) and developer Richard Taubman (1994–1995). Her fourth husband is Peter Cook, an architect, whom she married in 1996. Brinkley filed for divorce from Cook in the summer of 2006.
Brinkley has three children: daughter Alexa Ray Joel (b. January 1, 1986) with Joel, son Jack Paris (b. June 2, 1995) with Taubman, and daughter Sailor Lee (b. July 2, 1998) with Cook. She is a supporter of animal rights and long time PETA member. She has spoken out against the Ringling Brothers Circus on behalf of PETA.
After hurting her back while on a ski trip in Aspen, Colorado, in December 2006, Brinkley was forced to undergo emergency back surgery in February 2007 since the injury had worsened in the days preceding the surgery.
Brinkley is an avid fan of the New York Islanders. In 2007, she showed her support for the team by writing a blog for NHL.com and filming a commercial for the Islanders.
Songs
The song, "Uptown Girl", was written about her by her then-husband, Billy Joel. It was conceived as Joel wondered aloud how Christie Brinkley could wind up with a guy like him.
The songs "All About Soul", "Blonde Over Blue", "Shameless", "A Matter of Trust", "Christie Lee" and many more were also written by Joel with Brinkley in mind.
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February 01, 2008

AKA Lauren Katherine Conrad
Born: 1-Feb-1986
Birthplace: Newport Beach, CA
Gender: Female
Race or Ethnicity: White
Sexual orientation: Straight
Occupation: TV Personality
Nationality: United States
Executive summary: Laguna Beach
Father: Jim Conrad (architect)
Mother: Katherine
Sister: Breanna Christine Conrad (b. 23-Aug-1989)
Brother: Brandon
Boyfriend: Stephen Colletti (reality TV personality, ex)
Boyfriend: Jason Wahler (ex, together 2006)
Boyfriend: Brody Jenner (ex, together in 2006)
Lauren Conrad was born in Laguna Beach, California on February 1, 1986 to James (Jim) and Katherine (nee Lawrence) Conrad. Her father is an architect (designer of the Conrad family home). Lauren Conrad has a sister three years younger named Breanna Christine Conrad (featured in Laguna Beach season three),, born August 23, 1989 and a brother six years younger named Brandon James Conrad, born October 29, 1992.
Conrad lived with her parents in Laguna Beach throughout her childhood and high school years, In early February 2004, her senior year at Laguna Beach High School, MTV began filming Laguna Beach: The Real Orange County, which followed the personal lives of Conrad and seven other Laguna Beach teens. The show made the introverted Conrad an overnight celebrity. The television exposure, she says, has brought her out of her shell; "I went from, 'You can't take a picture of me,' to it doesn't faze me to have five cameras in the room". After graduation from high school, Conrad's new-found independence led her to Academy of Art University in San Francisco. According to Kaitlyn Healey, one of Conrad's closest friends since elementary school, it was a shock that Conrad went away to school because before Laguna Beach she was always "the most shy, reserved person;" the show "made her a completely different person."
Conrad entered Academy of Art University in the fall of 2004. She met Heidi Montag (Conrad's co-star in The Hills) at freshmen orientation and the two immediately became friends. After only one semester, Conrad left San Francisco and moved back to her parents' house. Conrad transferred to the Fashion Institute of Design and Merchandising in Los Angeles and worked as an intern at Three Dots clothing company beginning in early 2005. She also briefly dated Jason Wahler, a Laguna Beach cast member. Conrad was featured on the second season of Laguna Beach, filmed over a period of approximately eight months beginning in December of 2004.
In summer 2005, Conrad moved into a Los Angeles apartment with new roommate Montag. Conrad continued her studies at the Fashion Institute and started an internship at Teen Vogue. MTV began filming Conrad for a new reality series, The Hills, which was announced in the fall of 2005. Around that time Conrad resumed dating Wahler, who also moved to Los Angeles from Laguna Beach. When Teen Vogue offered Conrad an opportunity to spend the summer of 2006 working in Paris, France, she turned it down so that she could spend time with Wahler. Conrad and Wahler stayed together until the beginning of August 2006. Conrad acknowledged that the breakup with Wahler (described as her first love) was "the hardest thing [she has] ever done" because she "still wanted to be with him, but knew that [she] could not be." Conrad credited Montag with helping her get through the rough period following the split. Lauren soon found a new man in her life, Bryan Moore, an Air Force guy who is stationed at Nellis AFB, NV.
MTV renewed The Hills for a second season, which filmed from late summer of 2006 through February of 2007. Throughout that time the friendship between Conrad and Montag deteriorated, as Montag increasingly spent her time with new boyfriend Spencer Pratt. By February 2007 Audrina Patridge, another co-star on The Hills, replaced Montag as Conrad's roommate after Montag moved into a separate apartment with Pratt. This is seen as a symbol of the end of Montag and Conrad's friendship. As of the spring of 2007, Conrad continues to attend the Fashion Institute and intern at Teen Vogue.
Conrad confronted a scandal in April 2007, when rumors circulated on hollywood gossip websites that Wahler was planning to sell a sex tape he supposedly made with Conrad when they were a couple. A representative for SugarDVD.com indicated the company was approached by a third party claiming to have a video of Lauren and Wahler. However, the existence of a sex tape is questionable, as it has thus far failed to surface. In response to the story, Conrad posted a statement on her website asserting that she and Wahler did not make a sex tape. According to Conrad's post, Jason had nothing to do with starting the sex tape rumor. Conrad's statement also indicated that the individual responsible for the rumor was trying to damage her reputation.
Entertainment career
Lauren Conrad has been featured on two reality television series on MTV: Laguna Beach: The Real Orange County and The Hills. She also had a cameo role as herself in the film Epic Movie.
Despite Conrad's success in entertainment, she has explained that she has no interest in an acting career because she does not enjoy it and she is not good at it.
Laguna Beach
Conrad was the narrator of the first season of Laguna Beach: The Real Orange County. The show featured eight teenagers from wealthy families in Laguna Beach, California. It followed their daily lives and otherwise typical high school activities such as parties, spring break and prom. The show depicted Conrad as nursing a crush for castmate Stephen Colletti, who was constantly stuck in an ongoing love triangle between Conrad and Kristin Cavallari, where Conrad constantly interfered in Stephen and Kristin's relationship. At the end of season one, Conrad and Colletti both went off to attend college in San Francisco.
Conrad also appeared on the second season of the show, but narrating duties were passed on to Cavallari. In that season, both girls lost interest in Colletti. Season two showed Conrad return home to Laguna Beach from San Francisco, after deciding to transfer to fashion school in Los Angeles. Conrad's storyline in the last few episodes focused on her relationship with new boyfriend Jason Wahler.
The Hills
After the success of Laguna Beach, MTV gave Conrad her own spin-off series, The Hills. The show's first season followed Conrad post-high school as she studied fashion design and began her career in the fashion industry. The Hills introduced three supporting characters as core cast members: Heidi Montag (Conrad's roommate), Audrina Patridge (Conrad's and Montag's friend) and Whitney Port (Conrad's co-worker). On season one of The Hills, some time after Conrad's Laguna Beach break-up with Wahler, she resumed dating him.
At the beginning of season two on The Hills, Conrad ended her relationship with Wahler after approximately one year with him. The couple broke up because they argued too much, in part, because he partied excessively. The second season featured Conrad's short-lived romance with Brody Jenner, who had previously dated Kristin Cavallari, Conrad's supposed adversary on Laguna Beach and Nicole Richie.
Conrad returned for season three of The Hills, which debuted on MTV during the summer of 2007. The hour long season premiere aired August 13, 2007.
Lauren was rumored to be dating Chris Richardson from American Idol season 6. But Chris Richardson has stated several times that they are just friends.
Lauren has also been linked to Desperate Housewives actor Josh Henderson an ex of Ashlee Simpson, claims in tabloid magazines reported that Lauren and Josh were spotted kissing at the 2007 MTV Video Music Awards.
Professional career
Lauren Conrad's interest in fashion design began at a very young age, when a neighbor taught her to draw and helped her make clothes for her Barbie doll. This passion led her to the Academy of Art University in San Francisco. Conrad attended for one semester but eventually transferred to the Fashion Institute of Design and Merchandising, where she currently majors in product development. Conrad has described her reality television career as an opportunity to make contacts "hopefully that will help [her] . . . move into a fashion career." She is also noted for her resemblance to Prince William's sometimes girlfriend, Kate Middleton but has been frequently told throughout school that she resembles the character Marsha Brady, from The Brady Bunch.
Internship
Conrad landed her internship at Teen Vogue while filming season one of The Hills.
According to Lisa Love, the West Coast editor of Vogue who evaluated Conrad for the internship position, the reality star had to interview successfully in order to get the job, "regardless of what the cameras wanted." Love, who had not seen any of Conrad's television shows, did not know what to expect, but found Conrad to be "a very good interview." Conrad "knew photographers, she knew magazines, she knew why she wanted to work at Teen Vogue." Conrad joined Teen Vogue as an intern in September of 2005.
Conrad and her reality show appearances have been credited with improving sales of Teen Vogue. It was reported in March 2007 that, since the second season of The Hills began airing in mid-January, newsstand sales for the magazine increased by double digits over 2006 sales.
Spokesperson
In January 2007, Conrad was named the first official spokesperson of "mark.," a line created by Avon and marketed towards young women. She will partner with "mark." and collaborate in both beauty and fashion initiatives. She will be featured in the brand’s magalog (a combination magazine and catalog reaching over six million customers every month), and in the "mark." online community. A line of exclusive co-branded items are part of future plans and will be available on the website and through "mark." representatives.
Fashion line
MTV and Lauren Conrad announced the launch of the first-ever celebrity-inspired digital fashion line, available on the Virtual Hills website, in March 2007. In connection with the project, Conrad has also developed a real-world fashion line, scheduled to hit stores in fall of 2007 and available online at www.shoplaurenconrad.com.
Lauren's line officially debuted on September 15, 2007 under the name Lauren Conrad Collection. The theme of the collection is "reflected Lauren's upbringing in Southern California, embracing the laid-back lifestyle with dresses, tops, silhouettes that feature novelty detailing, playful accents and clean lines and shapes."
Press
Lauren Conrad appeared on the cover of the June/July 2006 issue of Teen Vogue magazine. It was the first time an intern at the magazine appeared on the cover. Also in June of 2006, TV Guide published an in-depth interview with Conrad that discussed the Teen Vogue cover shoot and detailed her life as the subject of reality television.
In August of 2006, Conrad was featured on the cover of Seventeen magazine. The issue included a six page article on Conrad, with an interview and three full-page photos. Conrad appeared again in the "So Embarrassing" feature of the August issue of Seventeen, with a photo and quote. Also in August 2006, Teen People covered the upcoming season three of Laguna Beach. The first page of the story showed a full page photo of Conrad and her younger sister (Breanna Conrad) with a summary biography of the siblings.
In the October 2006, second issue of Us Weekly, Conrad was named one of the magazines "Fresh 15 Faces for 2006." Conrad was the first face featured in the article, and her picture appeared in a spread on the story's opening two pages.
The book The Hills: City of Angels by Andrew Perry, released in November 2006, gives an in-depth look at the lives of Conrad, Montag, Patridge and Port.
The January 15, 2007 issue of Us Weekly, included a one page feature interview with Conrad. Also, the February 7, 2007 issue of Us Weekly featured a two page "fashion diary" of Conrad.
Conrad made her third major cover girl appearance on the March 2007 issue of Cosmo Girl magazine. The issue was published under two different covers, both featuring Conrad. The accompanying interview with Conrad (entitled "Don't Call Her L.C.") covered the topics of fame, fashion and Conrad's 21st birthday.
The August 16, 2007 issue of Us Weekly featured Conrad on an inset of the cover, with an article entitled "LC Speaks: The Drama TV Didn't Show." Lauren Conrad was also the Covergirl for seventeen in their October 2007 issue.
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February 01, 2008

AKA Sheryl Ann Fenn
Born: 1-Feb-1965
Birthplace: Detroit, MI
Gender: Female
Race or Ethnicity: White
Sexual orientation: Straight
Occupation: Actor
Nationality: United States
Executive summary: Twin Peaks starlet
Father: Leo Fenn
Mother: Arlene
Brother: Leo (older)
Brother: David (older)
Husband: G. Toulouse Holliday (m. 4-Dec-1994, div. 1997)
Son: Myles (b. Nov-1993)
Boyfriend: Johnny Depp (1985-88, broken engagement)
Boyfriend: Kiefer Sutherland (rumored)
Sherilyn Fenn is an Emmy- and Golden Globe award-nominated American actress and filmmaker, best known for playing Audrey Horne on the cult TV series Twin Peaks, for her roles in Ruby, Of Mice and Men, Boxing Helena and Rude Awakening, and for portraying actress Elizabeth Taylor in Liz: The Elizabeth Taylor Story.
Early life
Fenn was born Sheryl Ann Fenn in Detroit, Michigan. She comes from a family of musicians: her mother is keyboard player Arlene Quatro, her aunt is singer Suzi Quatro, her grandfather Art Quatro was a jazz musician, and her father, Leo Fenn, managed such rock bands as Suzi Quatro's The Pleasure Seekers, Alice Cooper, and The Billion Dollar Babies. Fenn is of Italian and Hungarian descent on her mother's side and of Irish and French descent on her father's. She frequently traveled with her mother and two older brothers before the family settled in Los Angeles when she was 17. Fenn, who claims to be demure, didn't want to start with a new school again, and soon enrolled at the prestigious Lee Strasberg Theatre Institute.
Acting career
Early career
Sherilyn Fenn began her career with a number of B-movies including The Wild Life (1984, opposite Chris Penn), 1986 skater film Thrashin' (opposite Josh Brolin and Pamela Gidley), 1986 teen-fantasy movie The Wraith (opposite Charlie Sheen and Nick Cassavetes), 1987 horror film Zombie High (alongside Virginia Madsen), and Beauty and the Beast-inspired erotic movie Meridian. She had a memorable part in the 1985 cult teen-comedy Just One of the Guys in which she tries to seduce a teenage girl disguised as a boy, played by Joyce Hyser. Sherilyn starred alongside Johnny Depp in the 1985 short student film Dummies, directed by Laurie Frank for the American Film Institute. Dating for three and a half years, Sherilyn Fenn and Johny Depp subsequently got engaged. In 1987, she joined Depp in an episode of 21 Jump Street.
About her early career, Fenn is the first to admit that she has appeared in many films that are worth forgetting, and that turned into sexploitation films "where directors tried to convince [her] to appear naked after the contract was signed." "Still, I did a lot of movies instead of waitressing or that kind of thing at the beginning, and it wasn't as if I even took acting very seriously when I started," she admits. "I was in California for the first time. I was going to clubs, I was going here, I was going there, I was skipping acting classes when I could. Luckily, I had an agent who really believed in me and she just kept pushing me, thinking something would happen."
Fenn landed her first starring role, as an engaged heiress to an old Southern family who falls for carnival worker Richard Tyson in Zalman King's erotic drama film Two Moon Junction, after which she said she wanted to hide for a year. "I was so embarrassed about how it turned out that I went into a cocoon for a year afterwards," she said. Junction was meant to be Fenn’s big break, but the film turned into another sexploitation film. "A lot of people said some really bad things about me for doing such a sexy movie. But I decided to do it because I wasn't comfortable with the material. I didn't want to make choices that would always put me in a place that was comfortable and secure. I thought interesting would happen and I would grow. Interesting things did happen. I cried at the end of all my love scenes."
After these film experiences, Fenn decided to take control of her career. "I decided to be more myself and not to be pushed into what other people wanted me to be. It’s scary how little imagination many people in this business have."
Rise to fame - Twin Peaks
Fenn won her most outstanding role and made an indelible impression on the public when she was cast by David Lynch and Mark Frost as the tantalizing, reckless Audrey Horne, the high-school femme fatale from the critically acclaimed TV series Twin Peaks. The series ran from 1990 to 1991, and the character of Audrey was one of the most popular with fans, in particular for her unrequited love for FBI Special Agent Dale Cooper (played by Kyle MacLachlan) and her style from the '50s (with her saddle shoes, plaid skirts and tight sweaters). Sherilyn hit cult status with a scene in which Lynch filmed her dancing on Angelo Badalamenti's music and with another memorable scene in which her character knotted a cherry stem in her mouth. "With Sherilyn Fenn, Twin Peaks came on and effortlessly destroyed every other show’s sexuality", said co-star James Marshall. "Audrey is a woman-child who dresses like the girls in the '50s and shows her body", said Fenn. "But she's daddy's little girl at the same time." In the show's second season, when the idea of pairing Audrey with Cooper was abandoned, Audrey was paired with other characters like Bobby Briggs (played by Dana Ashbrook) and John Justice Wheeler (Billy Zane). About Audrey, Fenn said:
“ Audrey’s been great for me. She has brought out a side of me that’s more mischievous and fun that I had suppressed, trying to be an adult. She has made it OK to use the power one has as a woman to be manipulative at times, to be precocious. She goes after what she wants vehemently and she takes it. I think that’s really admirable. I love that about her. ”
Shortly after shooting Twin Peaks' pilot episode, David Lynch gave her a small but impressive part in Wild at Heart, as a girl injured in a car wreck, obsessed by the contents of her purse, opposite Nicolas Cage and Laura Dern, which won the Golden Palm Award at the 1990 Cannes Film Festival. "David’s direction was, ‘Only think of this: bobby pins, lipstick, wallet, comb, that’s it.’ It’s very abstract." "I just pictured her being able to do this", said Lynch of her scene, "she’s like a broken China doll." David Lynch, who once described Sherilyn Fenn as "five feet of heaven in a ponytail", and said that she makes him think of a porcelain doll, said about her:
“ She's a mysterious girl and I think that actresses like her who have a mystery - where there's something hiding beneath the surface - are the really interesting ones. ”
"He's very creative and unafraid of taking chances," she said of the director. "I really respect him. He's wonderful."
She soon portrayed John Dillinger's girlfriend Billie Frechette in ABC's 1991 gangster TV movie Dillinger opposite Mark Harmon, and shot the neo-noir black comedy Desire and Hell at Sunset Motel in which she played a sultry, seductive femme fatale, opposite Whip Hubley and David Hewlett. After Twin Peaks, Fenn chose to focus on widening her range of roles and was determined to avoid typecasting. "They’ve offered me every variation on Audrey Horne, none of which were as good or as much fun." She turned down the Audrey Horne spin-off series that was offered to her, and unlike most of the cast, chose not to return for the 1992 prequel movie Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me, as she was then shooting Of Mice and Men.
Post-Peaks roles
After two nominations (Emmy and Golden Globe) for Twin Peaks, and a pictorial in Playboy magazine (for which she chose her then boyfriend photographer Barry Hollywood to photograph her), Sherilyn Fenn was propelled to stardom and became a major sex symbol, with her Old Hollywood looks. In October 1990, while promoting Twin Peaks, Fenn made the cover of Rolling Stone magazine along with Mädchen Amick and Lara Flynn Boyle. In 1990 Us Magazine chose her as one of the "10 Most Beautiful Women in the World" and in 1991 People magazine chose her as one of the "50 Most Beautiful Women in the World". She posed for photographer Steven Meisel for the autumn-winter 1991-1992 Dolce & Gabbana campaign, for which he photographed her as a classical Hollywood femme fatale. In 1992 photographer George Hurrell took a series of photographs of Sherilyn Fenn, Sharon Stone, Julian Sands, Raquel Welch, Eric Roberts and Sean Penn. In these portraits he recreated his style of the 1930s, with Fenn posing in costumes, hairstyle and makeup of the period.
In 1991, her acting coach, veteran Hollywood acting coach Roy London chose her to star in his directorial debut Diary of a Hitman (nominated for the Critics Award at the 1991 Deauville Film Festival, and costarring Sharon Stone, also one of London’s alumni), in which she plays a young mother determined to protect her child from hit-man Forest Whitaker. According to Fenn, the turning point in her career was when she met Roy London in 1990. She credits him with instilling confidence and newfound enthusiasm.
“ I was disillusioned with acting after the pilot of Twin Peaks. I'd been doing low-budget films. I didn't want to walk through movies being a pretty ornament. At 25 I didn't know if I had it. I questioned if there was depth, if there was integrity to me. I was longing to go inside, to do deeper work. ”
She learned from her beloved teacher "to find the roles that you're passionate about, that speak to you on some level and which will help you grow on some level," which has then become her line of conduct. "A lot of the sentiment that acting should be about an art form rather than mass entertainment and celebrity is at the core of Fenn’s attitude to the business," wrote Jessica Sully in Australian magazine Movie. "I try to keep myself centered," Fenn said. "I don't go to parties and all that. I don't think being seen or being in the right place is going to make me a better actress. I care about my work and try to do what's right in my heart." As Mike Bygrave wrote in Sky Magazine: "One of the keys to understanding Fenn is that when she talks about the characters she plays she's really talking about herself." Fenn was eager to play varied parts that could eclipse her sex-symbol image. "People who think they know me would be surprised that my whole life doesn't revolve around sex," she said. After Twin Peaks, Fenn demanded a no-nudity clause in her contracts. She turned to the independent world, to manage to carve out a career on her own terms as a versatile actress. She worked often and she worked hard (seven films in two years), chosing varied and unusual roles:
“ The world has certain rules - Hollywood has certain rules - but it doesn't mean you have to play by them, and I don't, or I'd be a miserable person.
A highlight of Fenn's film career is Gary Sinise's film adaptation of Of Mice and Men (nominated for the Golden Palm at the 1992 Cannes Film Festival) in which she played a sad and lonely country wife, desperately in need to talk to somebody, opposite Sinise and John Malkovich. "Sherilyn’s one of the reasons we got such a great ovation at Cannes", said Sinise. "She’s like a terribly sad angel in this film. Sherilyn plays against just being a sexy and beautiful girl," he added. "Hopefully her performance in my film will show her deep talent because she certainly showed the right mix of innocence and seductiveness for the role. We needed a fresh face but also one who knew what she was doing." "Gary Sinise was one of the first people who didn’t see me like a lot of other people did," she said. "It was a wonderful experience. Horton Foote adapted the novel and he fleshed out my character, and he made her much, much more." The same year saw her starring alongside Danny Aiello, Arliss Howard and Marc Lawrence in John Mackenzie's Ruby, that attempts to unravel the mystery of who killed John F. Kennedy and why, and depicts the events that led Jack Ruby to shoot Kennedy's suspected killer. Fenn plays the part of small-town stripper and singer Sheryl Ann DuJean, a Marilyn Monroe look-alike fictional character, who is a composite of some of the women around Jack Ruby and John Kennedy. "She’s got a brain and all the right emotional instincts", said Mackenzie about Fenn, "and that’s a great combination."
In 1993 she starred in the romantic comedy Three of Hearts as Kelly Lynch and William Baldwin's love interest. During the shooting the relations between Fenn and director Yurek Bogayevicz became more and more strained as she refused to play nudity scenes in the film. Fenn was also considered for the title role in Roger Vadim's remake of his 1968 film Barbarella that ultimately didn't come off.
Her most notable film role to date was in the controversial Boxing Helena (nominated for the Grand Jury Prize at the 1993 Sundance Film Festival), directed by David Lynch's daughter Jennifer Chambers Lynch, in which she played a narcissistic seductress amputated and imprisoned by Julian Sands, who makes her become his personal Venus de Milo in an effort to possess her. Helena was a way for Fenn to avoid being type-cast, with a risqué and radically different role from what she’d done in the past:
“ I like taking risks and I decided to put every bit of me into the role. ”
"Women do feel like they're in a box," she says of the subtext that attracted her to the role. "Society, Hollywood, some men... they want to wrap women up in a neat little package." Both Lynch and Fenn were proud of their work in it but the film - which was overshadowed by the lawsuits against Kim Basinger after she dropped out - ultimately was a critical and commercial failure. However, both women enjoyed a lot their collaboration. "Sherilyn is an amazing actress, a total bundle of energy and a real powerhouse and I think people will see a side of her that we have never seen of Sherilyn anywhere else before," said Lynch of the actress. "I have with Sherilyn something I didn't think I'd ever find and that is the entire whole." "Jennifer’s one of the brightest person I know," said Fenn. "Boxing Helena was something that I think was pretty cool, but people judged it without even having seen it. It’s not perfect, but I think for the story that we were trying to tell, it turned out pretty good. What it signified was really powerful to me: how society puts us in boxes one way or another."
She then starred in Carl Reiner's film noir parody Fatal Instinct as Armand Assante's devoted secretary and Sean Young and Kate Nelligan’s rival. She was asked to read for the femme fatale Lola (eventually played by Young), but opted for Assante's lovesick secretary.
Fenn also portrayed Potiphar's wife Zulaikha in Showtime's biblical TV movie Slave of Dreams opposite Adrian Pasdar and Edward James Olmos. The film was directed by multi-award winning Robert M. Young and produced by Martha and Dino De Laurentiis.
After a short break during which she married and gave birth to a son, Fenn was chosen amongst more than 100 actresses to portray legendary actress Elizabeth Taylor in NBC's 1995 telemovie Liz: The Elizabeth Taylor Story.
“ Playing Elizabeth Taylor was probably the hardest job I’ve ever done.”
"Director Kevin Connor and I arranged a lunch, not an audition," said executive producer Lester Persky. "We knew 10 minutes into our meeting that Sherilyn was it. She has the same striking beauty, and because of that she's experienced some of the things in life and in this business that make Elizabeth such a fascinating person." When she accepted the part, Fenn was unaware that Taylor was suing to stop both broadcast of the film and the unauthorized biography that it is based on. But that didn't let her distract from her work. "I am somebody who doesn't make choices lightly at this point of my life. I'm not somebody who wants to exploit another's woman story or life in any way." Some parallels with her life made it important for Fenn to do the biography. Like Taylor, Fenn's mother married several times. "It's remarkable, to be married so many times. How do you say 'I do' yet again and again and mean it? Maybe she lives her life in the moment, and ferociously believe in love. My mother getting married over and over definitely had an effect on me." Also, Fenn and Taylor both encountered similar experiences in the film business. "There are stereotypes of what a beautiful woman is. She struggled with that. A certain part of her life she went on that calling card. I certainly know I've come into contact with that. ‘You are too pretty,’ I'm told." During the shooting, Fenn fought to keep integrity in the script. Her priority was to respectfully and accurately portray Taylor, and she supported the original screenwriter's effort to concentrate on Taylor the person, not the legend.[
“ I fought to keep the integrity of the story because the producer was bringing in a writer that was making it very soapy. They wanted many scenes of her when she was very overweight. I said, ‘I'm not doing that. I'll do one. That's not this woman's life.’ For me it was just: I didn't want to make an impression. I just tried to play the truth of the woman. Not the legend, not the stories that we hear about her. Because even when she was a child, you were seeing a version of her that was manipulated by the studios, so you didn't really see her. I thought the closest she ever came to revealing herself was Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, and she lost herself in that role. It was cathartic for her to do that in a lot of ways, to let herself be that wild. ”
In the same year, Fenn starred in an episode of Tales from the Crypt directed by Robert Zemeckis, alongside Isabella Rossellini and John Lithgow, in which she played the lover of Humphrey Bogart, who appeared in the episode via CGI special effects. "It was wonderful working with Bob Zemeckis and Isabella, and everybody was really nice."
Fenn lives in Los Angeles, California. She practices kundalini yoga. Fenn dated Prince and was linked to Dweezil Zappa. She briefly dated Hollywood agent Jay Moloney. Fenn also dated photographer Barry Hollywood, whom she chose to photograph her for the December 1990 issue of Playboy magazine.
Sherilyn Fenn was engaged to actor Johnny Depp, whom she refers to as her first true love. Depp and Fenn met on the set of the 1985 short film Dummies. "It was just so gorgeous, and their eyes locked and that was it," said director Laurie Frank. "But the minute we finished shooting, she had this red Corvette. And they would get into the Corvette and the windows would steam up and we’d see this Corvette rocking away and then they wouldn’t come out again until it was time to do the next shot. They really fell madly in love." Dating for three and a half years, Sherilyn Fenn and Johny Depp subsequently got engaged. He later signed a contract to become a series regular on 21 Jump Street, which went into production in Vancouver. In pursuit of their different careers in Los Angeles and Vancouver, the two parted ways.
In 1994, Fenn married guitarist/songwriter Toulouse Holliday, whom she met on the set of Three of Hearts, and bore a son, Myles, in late 1993. The marriage came to an end in 1997.
Sherilyn Fenn has worked twice with David Lynch (Twin Peaks, Wild at Heart), Adrian Pasdar (Slave of Dreams, Cement), Chris Penn (The Wild Life, Cement), Bruce Davison (Lovelife, Off Season), Amy Sherman-Palladino (the Gilmore Girls spin-off project Windward Circle, Gilmore Girls), Johnny Depp (Dummies, 21 Jump Street), Jeremy Piven (Just Write, Cupid), Isabella Rossellini (Wild at Heart, Tales from the Crypt), Virginia Madsen (Zombie High, Smith), Mark Harmon (Dillinger, NCIS), Robert Berlinger (Rude Awakening, The Dukes of Hazzard: The Beginning), Costas Mandylor (Just Write, Scent of Murder), and David Carradine (Crime Zone, Treasure Raiders).
After directing a documentary film about child enrichment program CosmiKids, Fenn joined its executive team as executive director of the film and television division.
Her second son Christian, with boyfriend Dylan Stewart, was born in August 2007.
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