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May 31, 2008

AKA Brooke Christa Shields
Born: 31-May-1965
Birthplace: New York City
Gender: Female
Religion: Roman Catholic
Race or Ethnicity: White
Sexual orientation: Straight
Occupation: Model, Actor
Nationality: United States
Executive summary: Jailbait of the 1970s and 80s
Father: Francis Alexander Shields (Revlon executive, d. Apr-2003, cancer)
Mother: Maria Theresia Schmonn (model)
Sister: Marina Shields (half sister, older)
Boyfriend: Prince Albert II (Monaco royalty, spawn of Prince Rainier and Grace Kelly))
Boyfriend: Michael Bolton (singer)
Boyfriend: Dean Cain (actor, dated at Princeton, late 1980s)
Boyfriend: Woody Harrelson (actor)
Boyfriend: Michael Jackson (King of Pop)
Boyfriend: John F. Kennedy, Jr. (American royalty)
Boyfriend: Ted McGinley (actor, escorted Shields to her senior prom, 1982)
Boyfriend: Liam Neeson (actor)
Boyfriend: John Travolta (actor)
Husband: Andre Agassi (tennis player, m. 19-Apr-1997, annulled Apr-1999)
Husband: Chris Henchy (writer for Spin City, b. 23-Mar-1964, m. Apr-2001, two daughters)
Daughter: Rowan Francis Henchy (b. 15-May-2003 with Henchy)
Daughter: Grier Hammond Henchy (b. 18-Apr-2006 with Henchy)
Brooke Shields got an early start in modeling when her mother, an aspiring actress, signed her up for an Ivory Snow commercial when she was only eleven months old. Her mother was reportedly so afraid of crib death that she bound the sleeping Brooke to her body at night with a cloth before going to sleep. The mother-daughter team didn't seem to be much farther apart for the next 30 years.
In 1978 a barely adolescent Shields played a child prostitute in Louis Malle's Pretty Baby with Susan Sarandon as her mother. Audiences were sufficiently disturbed by Shields's nude scenes that she spoke before a Congressional inquiry, testifying that some of the most scandalous scenes had been filmed by older body doubles. Nude pictures of Shields, taken when she was 10, surfaced when she was 15, and mother and daughter sued to have them suppressed. The court decided the contracts were in order and deemed the photos "art".
Shields captured the essence of the virgin-whore, as she famously proclaimed "Nothing comes between me and my Calvins", yet filmed commercials warning teen girls against the perils of too-early sex. In 1980's Blue Lagoon, the movie for which the teenage Shields is probably most famous, her hair was reportedly glued to her breasts to prevent them from showing. In her autobiography, On My Own -- written at 16 -- Shields stated her intention to abstain from premarital sex. Reportedly her contract with her publisher required her to remain a virgin for a specified number of years after publication of the book. She received Golden Raspberry Awards as Worst Actress for Blue Lagoon in 1980, and Speed Zone in 1989. She was also nominated for Endless Love in 1981, and Sahara in 1984.
Following her entrance into Princeton in 1983, Shields concentrated primarily on her studies and didn't do much modeling or acting. She graduated with honors, then launched her comeback in critical and commercial flops like Brenda Starr. In 1995 she fired her alcoholic mother as her manager, and her career was quickly revived by starring in the sitcom Suddenly Susan. It ran for four seasons. She has appeared on stage in Chicago and starred in Broadway revivals of Cabaret and Grease.
She has a scarred cervix from surgery to remove pre-cancerous cells, and has suffered through at least five miscarriages. In 2003, after the C-section birth of her daughter Rowan Francis just three weeks after the death of Shields' father, she was leveled by a serious round of postpartum depression which left her suicidal and uninterested in baby Rowan. She has since recovered, and written a book about postpartum depression called Down Came the Rain.
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May 30, 2008

AKA Colleen Marie Applegate
Born: 30-May-1963
Birthplace: Bellflower, CA
Died: 21-Mar-1984
Location of death: Palm Springs, CA
Cause of death: Suicide
Remains: Buried, Saint Michael's Catholic Cemetery, Empire, MN
Gender: Female
Religion: Roman Catholic
Race or Ethnicity: White
Sexual orientation: Straight
Occupation: Pornstar
Nationality: United States
Executive summary: Killed herself with a .22 rifle
Father: Phil Applegate
Mother: Karen Applegate
Boyfriend: Mike Marcell
Boyfriend: Jake Ehrlich
Slept with: Tom Byron
Slept with: Ron Jeremy
Slept with: Herschel Savage
Slept with: Joey Silvera
Slept with: Marc Wallice
Born in Bellflower, California, Applegate grew up in the small town of Farmington, Minnesota. Her family moved there from California in 1973 when her father took a managerial position with Central Telephone Company of Minnesota. She was a cheerleader in high school. Applegate graduated from Farmington High in 1981, but eschewed her job as a repair clerk with the phone company. Later that year she consumed a handful of prescription sinus pills in a suicide gesture; sessions at a counselling center did not provide much assistance for her. Applegate ran away from home and moved to California in March 1982, accompanied by her high school sweetheart, Mike Marcell. She left behind her parents, a brother, and three sisters.
Adult industry
The couple arrived in Los Angeles, California. Applegate and Marcell looked into a number of jobs in the first month. Little came of this until one of them saw an ad for World Modeling, an agency in Van Nuys. This business diligently sought attractive new recruits for "figure modeling." Accompanied by Marcell, Applegate visited agent Jim South, who set up a photo session with photographer J. Stephen Hicks. The pictorial's theme featured a mock camping set and was to be published by Club. Hicks reflected on Applegate's appearance and personality, saying "I deal with a lot of girls who are new in the business, a lot of young girls and a lot of girls from out of town. Colleen was so incredibly young and naive. She was completely un-hip and non-L.A." Her wholesome, "girl next door" looks soon landed her work posing for other magazines such as Hustler and Penthouse.
As Shauna Grant, she made a number of popular adult movies, more often plot-oriented than "wall-to-wall sex." One such movie was Suzie Superstar, in which she plays the lead singer of a rock band. By industry standards, Grant was early in her career when it suddenly came to an end. In a filmed interview, she said that she "wasn't ready" to try anal sex, which usually marks a starlet rather than a star. She also did only heterosexual scenes; most porn actresses also do lesbian scenes.
Applegate's relationship with her boyfriend did not endure two months in California, as Marcell joined the U.S. Army. Before his induction he informed his family that Applegate had become a nude model. Soon she progressed to filming "hardcore" scenes for Suze Randall. Veteran porn producer Bobby Hollander launched Applegate's movie career and suggested what he felt was a "classy" stage name, Shauna Grant. As a fast-rising adult film personality she was featured in Virginia, Suzie Superstar, and Flesh and Lace, among many others. Her pay rose from $300 a day to nearly $1,500. Off-screen she traveled in limousines and stayed in first-class hotels. Grant was provided with her own make-up artist, Laurie Smith, age 27. Her popularity earned her three acting nominations at the March 1984 Erotic Film Awards. Despite her beauty she had some difficulty getting work due to her cocaine addiction and lack of "enthusiasm" during sex scenes. In some circles she acquired the nickname "Applecoke" and gained a reputation for being flaky.
Retirement
In 1983, Grant retired from the adult film industry after less than a year and just over 30 movies. She disliked the industry, although she regarded Joey Silvera well. Through Hollander she found a new boyfriend, Jack "Jake" Ehrlich, age 44. Ehrlich had "eased her out" of adult films and the two settled in Palm Springs, California. He owned a leather goods store, Pelle, in downtown Palm Springs, which Grant began to manage. According to Palm Springs Police, Ehrlich made his living supplying cocaine to tenants of an upscale condominium park close to his house. He had compiled an extensive record of arrests in California which included such offenses as selling narcotics and possession of stolen property. In the summer of 1983, Ehrlich was sentenced to a five-year prison sentence which he began serving in the State Institution for Men in Chino, California. The charges related to Ehrlich's 1981 arrest for possession of what detectives described as "several" pounds of cocaine.
Grant was ambivalent about her circumstances following her boyfriend's conviction, which cut off her drug supply. Her desire for work in mainstream films was not working out, so she committed to work on her first adult film in months. Matinee Idol was due to begin filming in a few days in San Francisco, California. Grant persuaded her friend and veteran porn actress, Kelly Nichols, to take the role which was intended for her. Shauna also had the option of returning to Minnesota. Grant's parents offered to pay for her college expenses, but she believed she would no longer be comfortable at home in Minnesota.
Death
On March 21, 1984, Grant committed suicide at age twenty in Palm Springs by shooting herself with a .22 caliber rifle. Shortly after 7 p.m. she lay down, placed the gun horizontally against her head, and pulled the trigger. The shot passed through her right temple, out the left and into the bedroom wall, according to police reports. The gun was discharged from such close range that the bullet left virtually star-shaped holes. Brain dead, Shauna was rushed to Desert Hospital, where life support systems were disconnected after two days.
Grant's funeral was held March 28, 1984, at St. Michael's Church, a Catholic parish near the center of Farmington. Members of the adult industry were absent from the ceremony, believing their presence would only exacerbate the family's anguish. Instead they contributed both flowers and letters. Grant was buried in her favorite color, pink.
Preliminary investigations by Palm Springs police posed questions regarding the circumstances surrounding Grant's death. Weeks after the event, police were still awaiting results of toxicological and gun-residue tests. The possibility of a foul play investigation hung in the balance. It is known that Grant had received threatening phone calls that related to her boyfriend's business affairs. Also, detectives noted Ehrlich had avoided jail for some time by providing authorities with information. At the time of Grant's death there were two people playing pool in Ehrlich's house, Brenda Rosenow, a friend of Colleen's, and Cal Ardigo, a friend of Ehrlich's. Shortly before Grant's shooting, two unidentified visitors showed up outside the home. The back door of Ehrlich's house was a possible means of access to the bedroom and to Grant.
Grant's career and death were fictionalized as the basis for a television movie called Shattered Innocence, a film that bears little resemblance to her actual life. Her parents used their proceeds from selling the rights to the movie to fund Grant's tombstone.
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May 29, 2008

Born May 29, 1982
Location Itabira, Minas Gerais, Brazil
Height 5 ft 11 in
Hair color Naturally Dark Brown
Eye color Green
Measurements 35-24.5-35
Weight 114 lb
She was born in a small town of Itabira, Minas Gerais, Brazil. Later, her family moved to Rio de Janeiro, where she spent her childhood. She is of Portuguese and Spanish descent, and is the youngest of three sisters; Patricia and Malu (Maria Luisa).
Modeling career
Barros and her older sister, Patricia (also a model), were walking on a Rio beach when they were spotted by a representative from Elite Model Management. Barros went to see Elite office in Rio and Sergio Mattos - art director of 40 Graus. They then encouraged Barros to participate in the Elite Model Look 1996, which she won. She subsequently competed for international Elite Model Look and placed second worldwide. Elite sent her portfolio, along with some recent Polaroid shots, to GUESS? which led her to do the Millennium GUESS? campaign along with her friend and fellow Brazilian supermodel Alessandra Ambrosio. She has done advertisements not only for Guess? but also for Christian Dior, Armani jeans, Oakley, L'Oreal, Naf Naf, Diesel, Ermanno Scervino, Victoria's Secret, Chanel cosmetics, and Jennifer Lopez's JLO fashion line, among others. In 2004 Jennifer Lopez selected Barros to be the face of her new lingerie line, JLO Lingerie. Said Lopez, "I wanted someone young, sexy and urban, with a universal appeal." Barros has been in shows for the likes of Valentino, Missoni, Gucci, Christian Dior, Versace, Emporio Armani, BCBG, DKNY, Jean-Paul Gaultier, Dolce & Gabbana, Michael Kors and many more prestigious fashion houses.
She has been on numerous covers of magazines such as Glamour, Vogue, Marie Claire, Allure; Brazilian magazines such as Capricho and Audi magazine, W, ELLE to name a few. Barros appeared six times on Sports Illustrated in the Swimsuit Issue (2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007).
Personal life
She currently lives in New York but is always traveling. She also has an apartment in Brazil and very often visits her family. After a hard day of work, she loves to go bicycle riding or going to the beach. She also likes to read about art, especially about painting.
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May 28, 2008

Born: 28-May-1964
Birthplace: New York City
Gender: Female
Race or Ethnicity: White
Sexual orientation: Straight
Occupation: Actor
Nationality: United States
Executive summary: The Drew Carey Show
Husband: Bill Lawrence (m. 27-Nov-1999, two children)
She was born in New York City, the daughter of model Bonnie Trompeter. Miller was a model as a child, appearing in a Wonder Bread commercial when she was six months old, posing at three for Francesco Scavullo in an Ivory soap advertisement, and photographed for the cover of Redbook. Her days as a child model were curtailed after an operation for a benign bone tumor. After attending Convent of the Sacred Heart, Miller returned briefly to modeling, but soon took acting lessons, abandoning modeling for good when she moved to Los Angeles, California, in 1990.
Career
Her first role on television was in Kate & Allie, which starred her real- life aunt, Susan Saint James. She was also in episodes of Northern Exposure, Seinfeld, Fresh Prince of Bel Air and Party of Five. She had a major role on The Drew Carey Show from 1995 to 2002 playing Kate, and was the voice of Cleopatra in her husband's short-lived animated show Clone High.
In 2001, her husband, writer-producer Bill Lawrence, conceived a new show called Scrubs and Miller was given a recurring guest role as surly Dr. Cox's (John C. McGinley) equally bitter ex-wife Jordan Sullivan. Her role has increasingly become a major part of the show.
Miller also appeared twice in Seinfeld, as two different characters. In "The Sniffing Accountant", she was the boss of George Costanza's potential employer; in "The Doodle", she was a woman whom George unsuccessfully dates.
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May 28, 2008

AKA Elisabeth Grace Filarski
Born: 28-May-1977
Birthplace: Cranston, RI
Gender: Female
Religion: Roman Catholic
Race or Ethnicity: White
Sexual orientation: Straight
Occupation: TV Personality
Party Affiliation: Republican
Nationality: United States
Executive summary: The View
Father: Kenneth Filarski (architect)
Mother: Elisabeth DelPadre (schoolteacher)
Brother: Kenneth Filarski Jr.
Husband: Tim Hasselbeck (NFL quarterback, m. 6-Jul-2002, one daughter)
Daughter: Grace Elisabeth Hasselbeck (b. 6-Apr-2005)
Elisabeth Filarski was a contestant on the second season of Survivor. Pretty, blonde, and popular at tribal councils on that show, she was subsequently hired to host the Style Network's The Look for Less, where she led viewers toward designer looks at bargain prices. In 2002 she married pro football quarterback Tim Hasselbeck, and in 2003 she replaced Lisa Ling as one of the co-hosts on ABC's popular all-female talk show The View. On that show she has become the voice of conservative political perspectives, battling Rosie O'Donnell and Whoopi Goldberg and speaking up for the Iraq war, the PATRIOT Act, and the Bush administration. In 2004 she gave a prime time speech at the Republican National Convention. Describing her success, Hasselbeck has said, “Every day I open my heart and say exactly what I’m saying".
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May 28, 2008

AKA Kylie Ann Minogue
Born: 28-May-1968
Birthplace: Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Gender: Female
Race or Ethnicity: White
Sexual orientation: Straight
Occupation: Singer/Songwriter
Nationality: Australia
Executive summary: Red-blooded Australian pop singer
Father: Ron Minogue (accountant)
Mother: Carol Jones (dancer)
Brother: Brendan Minougue (cameraman, b. 30-Aug-1983)
Sister: Dannii Minogue (actress singer and model, b. 20-Oct-1971)
Boyfriend: Rupert Penry-Jones (actor)
Boyfriend: Tim Jeffries
Boyfriend: Zane O'Donnell (model)
Boyfriend: Stephane Sednaoui (photographer)
Boyfriend: Pauly Shore
Boyfriend: James Gooding (broken engagement)
Boyfriend: Jason Donovan (actor, ex-, her co-star in Neighbors, Australian TV)
Boyfriend: Michael Hutchence
Boyfriend: Lenny Kravitz
Boyfriend: Olivier Martinez (French actor, dated and engaged 2004-07)
Kylie Ann Minogue (pronounced /ˈkaɪli mɪˈnoʊg/) (born May 28, 1968) is a Brit and Grammy award-winning Australian pop singer-songwriter and actress. Minogue rose to prominence in the late 1980s through her role in the Australian television soap opera Neighbours, before she commenced her career as a pop artist in the late '80s. According to Warner Music Australia, Minogue has sold over 40 million records worldwide.
Signed to a contract by British songwriters and producers Stock, Aitken & Waterman in 1988, she achieved a string of hit records throughout the world. Her popularity began to decline during the early 1990s, leading her to part company from Stock, Aitken & Waterman in 1992. During the mid to late 90s, Minogue distanced herself from her earlier work and attempted to establish herself as a credible and independent performer and songwriter. Her projects were widely publicised, but her albums failed to attract a substantial audience and resulted in the lowest sales of her career to date. She returned to popularity as a dance–pop artist in 2000, and became well-known for her provocative music videos and expensively mounted stage shows.
In Europe and Australia, Minogue has become one of her generation's most recognisable celebrities and sex symbols. In Australia, after being dismissed early in her career by some critics, she has been acclaimed for her achievements.
Minogue released her tenth studio album, X, on November 26, 2007.
Childhood and beginning
Kylie Minogue was born in Melbourne, Australia, to Ron Minogue, an accountant with an Irish family background, and Carol Jones, a Welsh dancer, from Maesteg. She is the eldest of three children; her sister Dannii is also a pop singer, and her brother, Brendan, works as a news cameraman in Australia.
Kylie attended Camberwell High in Melbourne, Australia.
The Minogue sisters began their careers as children on Australian television, and from the age of eleven, Kylie Minogue appeared in soap operas such as Skyways, The Sullivans and The Henderson Kids. Dannii Minogue became successful as a regular performer on the weekly music programme Young Talent Time, in which Kylie gave her first singing performance in 1983. Kylie was overshadowed by her younger sister until achieving success in 1986 with her role in the soap opera Neighbours, but the two in this period of their lives were known for spending their free time listening to Electric Furs.
In Neighbours Minogue played the character of Charlene Mitchell, a female garage mechanic. As stated in the Guardian "Her appeal at first lay in her unapologetic ordinariness... she played an oil-smudged mechanic with no desire to better herself. Charlene was happy to spend her life grappling with the intestines of greasy cars." A story arc that created a romance and eventual marriage between her character and that played by Jason Donovan culminated in a wedding episode in 1987 that attracted a large audience.
Her popularity in Australia was demonstrated when she became the first person to win four Logie Awards in one event, including the "Gold Logie" as the country's "Most Popular Television Performer", with the result determined by public vote. Neighbours began screening in the United Kingdom in 1986, achieving high ratings.
Recording and performing career
Stock, Aitken and Waterman: 1987 – 1992
During a Fitzroy Football Club benefit concert with other Neighbours cast members, Minogue performed “The Loco-Motion” and was signed to a recording contract with Mushroom Records in 1987. Released as a single, and retitled “Locomotion”, the Australian recording spent seven weeks at number one on the Australian music charts, and was the highest selling single in Australia for the 1980s. Its success resulted in Minogue traveling to London with Mushroom Records executive Gary Ashley to work with Stock, Aitken & Waterman. They knew little of Minogue and had forgotten that she was arriving; as a result, they wrote “I Should Be So Lucky” while she waited outside the studio. The song reached number one in the UK and Australia and was a hit in many parts of the world. Her debut album Kylie, a collection of dance-oriented pop tunes, reached number one on the British albums chart and became the year's highest-selling album. It sold over seven million copies worldwide, with most sales occurring in Europe and Asia, and it contained six successful singles. In the United States and Canada the album did not sell strongly, however the re-recorded version of “The Loco-Motion” reached number three on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 chart and number one on the Canadian Singles Chart. “It's No Secret”, released only in the U.S., peaked at number thirty-seven in early 1989. In late 1988 Minogue left Neighbours in order to concentrate fully on her music career.
Kingdom in early 1989. “Especially for You” was also the first Kylie Minogue single to sell over 1 million copies in the UK (The second was “Can't Get You Out of My Head”). The critic Kevin Killian wrote that it was “majestically awful… makes the Diana Ross, Lionel Richie ‘Endless Love’ sound like Mahler”. She was sometimes referred to as “the Singing Budgie” by her detractors over the coming years. Chris True's comment about the album Kylie for All Music Guide suggests that Minogue's appeal transcended the limitations of her music, by noting that “her cuteness makes these rather vapid tracks bearable”. Her follow up album Enjoy Yourself (1989) was a success in the United Kingdom, Europe and Australia, and contained several successful singles, but it failed throughout North America, and Minogue was dropped by her American record label Geffen Records. She embarked on her first concert run, the Enjoy Yourself Tour, in the United Kingdom, France, Belgium and Australia, where Melbourne's The Herald Sun wrote that it was “time to ditch the snobbery and face facts — the kid's a star”. Minogue had become Stock, Aitken and Waterman's highest selling act, so in the face of widespread comment that the second album was a poor imitation of the first, it was decided to adjust the overall style of her music.
Rhythm of Love (1990) presented a more sophisticated and adult style of dance music and also marked the first signs of rebellion against her production team and the “girl-next-door” image. Determined to be accepted by a more mature audience, Minogue took control of her music videos, starting with “Better the Devil You Know”, and presented herself as a sexually aware adult. A relationship with INXS lead singer Michael Hutchence furthered her attempts to gain acceptance as a mature performer, with Hutchence saying his favourite hobby was “corrupting Kylie”, and writing the INXS hit song “Suicide Blonde” in reference to her.
The singles from Rhythm of Love sold well in Europe and Australia and were popular in British nightclubs where Minogue started to be regarded as fashionable by the older audience she had targeted. When “Shocked” reached the British Top 10 in 1991, she became the first recording artist to place their first thirteen single releases in the Top 10. In May 1990, 22-year-old Minogue performed her band's arrangement of The Beatles's “Help!” before a crowd of 25,000 at the John Lennon: The Tribute Concert on the banks of the River Mersey in Liverpool. Yoko Ono and Sean Lennon offered Minogue their thanks for her support of “the John Lennon Fund”, while the media commented positively on her performance. The Sun wrote “The soap star wows the Scousers — Kylie Minogue deserved her applause”.
Minogue's contract had been for three albums, but she was persuaded to record a fourth. Let's Get to It (1991) was designed to broaden her appeal by presenting a diverse range of ballads and slower dance songs. Despite generally positive reviews it failed to make the British Top 10, although the album spawned two UK Top 5 singles: “If You Were with Me Now” and a cover of “Give Me Just a Little More Time”.
By this time Minogue had fulfilled the requirements of her contract and elected not to renew it. She had often expressed the viewpoint that she was stifled by Stock, Aitken and Waterman, and later compared the experience to her time with Neighbours, saying all they wanted her to do was “learn your lines… perform your lines, no time for questions, promote the product”. Realising that her fans were growing apathetic towards the Stock, Aitken and Waterman formula, and that she could only develop as an artist if she broke away from them, she decided to leave. She agreed to record three new songs to be included on the Greatest Hits album, which was released to coincide with her departure from them in 1992.
Deconstruction: 1993 – 1998
Minogue's subsequent signing with Deconstruction Records was highly touted in the music media as the beginning of a new phase in her career, but the eponymous Kylie Minogue (1994) received mixed reviews. It sold 2,500,000 copies worldwide, and the single "Confide in Me" spent five weeks at number one in Australia. Subsequent singles, "Put Yourself in My Place" and "Where Is the Feeling?" were top twenty hits in the UK.
Australian artist Nick Cave had been interested in working with Minogue since hearing "Better the Devil You Know", saying it contained "one of pop music's most violent and distressing lyrics" and "when Kylie Minogue sings these words, there is an innocence to her that makes the horror of this chilling lyric all the more compelling". "Where the Wild Roses Grow" (1995), was a brooding ballad whose lyrics narrated a murder from the points of view of both the murderer (Cave), and his victim (Minogue), and its success demonstrated that Minogue could be accepted outside of her established genre as a pop artist. It received widespread attention in Europe, where it reached the top 10 in several countries, and acclaim in Australia where it reached number two, and won ARIA Awards for "Song of the Year" and "Best Pop Release". She performed it with Cave at the Australian summer rock festival, "The Big Day Out" before a crowd of alternative music fans, and was well received. She also appeared with Cave during several of his concerts in small venues throughout Europe, as well as the T in the Park festival in Scotland which gave her more experience performing outside of the dance/pop genre and before audiences that were not necessarily her fans. She recited the lyrics to "I Should Be So Lucky" as poetry in London's Royal Albert Hall "Poetry Jam", at the suggestion of Cave, and later credited him with giving her the confidence to express herself artistically, saying: "He taught me to never veer too far from who I am, but to go further, try different things, and never lose sight of myself at the core. For me, the hard part was unleashing the core of myself and being totally truthful in my music".
By 1997 Minogue was in a relationship with the French photographer Stephane Sednaoui, who described her as a combination "geisha and manga superheroine". He began taking photographs of her that downplayed her glamour, with the aim of attracting a more 'rocky' and discerning audience, and she drew inspiration from artists such as Shirley Manson and Garbage, Björk, Tricky and U2, and Japanese pop musicians such as Pizzicato Five and Towa Tei (with whom she would later collaborate on the singles "GBI: German Bold Italic" and "Sometime Samurai").
Impossible Princess (named after a poetry collection by artist Billy Childish) featured collaborations with musicians such as James Dean Bradfield and Sean Moore of the Manic Street Preachers, and Minogue contributed the majority of the lyrics. Largely a dance album, its style was not represented by its first single "Some Kind of Bliss", and Minogue countered questions that she was trying to become an indie artist. She told Music Week, "I have to keep telling people that this isn't an indie-guitar album. I'm not about to pick up a guitar and rock." Billboard magazine described the album as "stunning" and concluded that "it's a golden commercial opportunity for a major [record company] with vision and energy [to release it in the United States]. A sharp ear will detect a kinship between Impossible Princess and Madonna's hugely successful album, Ray of Light". In the UK, Music Week gave a negative assessment, "Kylie's vocals take on a stroppy edge ... but not strong enough to do much".
It became the lowest-selling album of her career in the UK, but was her highest-selling album in Australia since her debut album, with sales boosted by a highly successful live tour. In reviewing her show, The Times wrote of her ability to "mask her thin, often nondescript voice with musical diversity and brittle charisma and genuinely great pop songs by any standard", and a live album recorded during her tour, titled Intimate and Live, was successful in Australia.
She maintained her high profile in Australia with live performances, including the 1998 Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras, the opening of Fox Studios in Sydney in 1999, where she performed Marilyn Monroe's "Diamonds Are a Girl's Best Friend", and a Christmas concert in Dili, East Timor in association with the United Nations Peace-Keeping Forces.
Parlophone: 1999–2004
Minogue and Deconstruction Records parted company and following a duet with the Pet Shop Boys' on their Nightlife album, she signed with Parlophone in April 1999. Her album Light Years (2000) was strongly influenced by 1970s disco artists, such as Donna Summer and Village People and included several songs written by Guy Chambers and Robbie Williams who imbued their lyrics with humour. New Musical Express wrote: "Kylie's capacity for reinvention is staggering" and summarised the album as "sheer joy" and "what she does best". It generated career-best reviews for Minogue and quickly became a success throughout Asia, Australia and Europe and sold over two million copies worldwide. The single "Spinning Around" became her first UK number-one in ten years, and its accompanying video, which featured Minogue in revealing gold hot pants, received widespread television airplay. The subsequent single releases were hits, including "Kids", a duet with Robbie Williams.
In 2000 Minogue performed a cover version of ABBA's "Dancing Queen" and her single "On a Night like This" at the 2000 Sydney Olympics closing ceremony, an event watched by an estimated 2.1 billion people in 220 countries. Afterwards, she embarked upon a concert tour, On A Night like This Tour, which played to sell-out crowds in Australia and the United Kingdom, where she sold over 200,000 tickets and set an Australian record for a female artist. Her six planned Melbourne shows were increased to twenty-two due to public demand. Minogue was inspired by the style of Broadway shows such as 42nd Street and films such as Anchors Aweigh, South Pacific and the Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers musicals of the 1930s. Describing Bette Midler as a "heroine", she also incorporated some of the "camp and burlesque" elements of Midler's live performances. The show directed and choreographed by Luca Tommassini featured elaborate sets such as the deck of an ocean liner, an Art Deco New York City skyline, and the interior of a space ship, and Minogue was praised for her new material and her reinterpretations of some of her greatest successes, turning "I Should Be So Lucky" into a torch song and "Better the Devil You Know" into a 1940s big band number. She won a "Mo Award" for Australian live entertainment as "Performer of the Year". Following the tour she was asked by a Seattle Post-Intelligencer journalist what she thought was her greatest strength, and replied, "That I am an all-rounder. If I was to choose any one element of what I do, I don't know if I would excel at any one of them. But put all of them together, and I know what I'm doing."
In 2001 Parlophone released Fever, which retained some disco elements and combined them with 1980s electropop. Its lead single "Can't Get You out of My Head" became the biggest success of her career and reached number one in over twenty countries, which sold more than four million copies worldwide. The album's success was equally widespread, and following extensive airplay by North American radio, Capitol Records released it in the United States in 2002. It attracted favourable comment, with Rolling Stone calling it "campy as a tent full of Boy Scouts and yet easy on the cheese", while Popmatters described it as "a perfect album of gorgeous dance music". Minogue attracted some negative commentary, such as from Launch's Bob Gulla, who wrote: "she'll do virtually anything to get our attention. Not since Pia Zadora have we seen a more vacant talent grab... an astoundingly bland helping of hollow dance pop grooves and nauseating pleas for sex... it's so desperately lightweight it's in imminent danger of disintegrating altogether". The album debuted on the U.S. Billboard 200 albums chart at number three, and the single reached number seven on the Hot 100. Fever peaked at number ten on the Canadian albums chart and the single reached the BDS airplay top three. Following singles "In Your Eyes", "Love at First Sight" and "Come into My World" were substantial successes throughout the world, and Minogue established a presence in the mainstream North American market, achieving particular success on the club scene. In 2003 she received a Grammy Award nomination for "Best Dance Recording" for "Love at First Sight", and the following year won the same award for "Come into My World".
Minogue's former stylist and creative director William Baker explained that the music videos for the Fever album were inspired by science fiction films—specifically those by Stanley Kubrick—and accentuated the electropop elements of the music by using dancers in the style of Kraftwerk. Alan MacDonald, the designer of the 2002 KylieFever tour, brought those elements into the stage show which was based around a framework of seven iconic female images, drawing from Minogue's past incarnations. The show opened with Minogue as a space age vamp, which she described as "Queen of Metropolis with her drones", through to scenes inspired by Kubrick's A Clockwork Orange, followed by the various personas of Minogue's career. Minogue said that she was finally able to express herself the way she wanted, and that she had always been "a showgirl at heart".
Her next album, Body Language (2003), was released following an invitation-only concert, titled Money Can't Buy, at the Hammersmith Apollo in London. The event marked the presentation of a new visual style, designed by Minogue and Baker, inspired in part by 1960s icon Brigitte Bardot, about whom Minogue commented: "I just tended to think of BB as, well, she's a sexpot, isn't she? She's one of the greatest pinups. But she was fairly radical in her own way at that time. And we chose to reference the period, which was ... a perfect blend of coquette and rock and roll."
The show attracted mixed reviews, with the main criticisms being that nothing substantially new was presented, and that the new songs did not match the appeal of her previous hits. Despite this, the concert was made into a successful television special that drew high ratings.
The album downplayed the disco style and Minogue said she was inspired by 1980s artists such as Scritti Politti, Human League, Adam and the Ants and Prince, blending their styles with elements of hip hop. It received some of the most positive reviews of her career with Billboard Magazine writing of "Minogue's knack for picking great songs and producers". All Music described it as "a near perfect pop record... Body Language is what happens when a dance-pop diva takes the high road and focuses on what's important instead of trying to shock herself into continued relevance" Sales in the United Kingdom and Australia were good but paled in comparison to "Fever", despite the large success of its first single, "Slow" and in the United States the album made little impression, although the singles became major club hits. In November 2004, "Slow" was nominated for a Grammy Award in the category of "Best Dance Recording".
Minogue released her second official greatest hits album in November 2004, entitled Ultimate Kylie, along with her music videos on a DVD compilation of the same title. The album introduced her singles "I Believe in You", co-written with Jake Shears and Babydaddy from the Scissor Sisters, and "Giving You Up". Both songs reached the British top ten, and with a tally of twenty-nine top ten singles, Minogue became the second most successful woman on the British singles charts, behind Madonna. "I Believe In You" reached the U.S. Hot Dance Club Play top three and attained dance and rhythmic radio airplay nationwide. Minogue was nominated for a Grammy Award for the fourth consecutive year when "I Believe in You" was nominated in the category of "Best Dance Recording".
Early in 2005, 'Kylie : the Exhibition' opened in Melbourne. The free exhibition featured costumes and photographs spanning Kylie's entire career and went on to tour Australian capital cities receiving over 500,000 visitors, before opening at the Victoria and Albert Museum in London in January 2007 where the show set a new attendance record with 8000 visitors in one week.
In April 2005, Minogue and her creative director William Baker issued a joint statement announcing the end of their professional relationship, with Minogue commenting that the break had been timed to coincide with the release of the Ultimate Kylie album and the launch of Showgirl - The Greatest Hits Tour. However the split was to be short-lived, with Baker back on board with Kylie by late 2006. The tour was intended to be the most extensive of her career, and anticipated a total audience of more than 700,000.
Breast cancer
Minogue was in Melbourne following the European stage of the tour when she was diagnosed with breast cancer, leading to the postponement of the remainder of the tour and her withdrawal from the Glastonbury Festival.
Minogue's cancer diagnosis, and her hospitalisation and treatment in Melbourne, resulted in a brief but intense period of media coverage, particularly in Australia, where the Prime Minister John Howard issued a statement supporting Minogue. As media and fans began to congregate outside the Minogue residence in Melbourne, the Victorian Premier Steve Bracks warned the international media that any disruption of the Minogue family's rights under Australian privacy laws would not be tolerated. His comments became part of a wider criticism of the media's overall reaction, with particular criticism directed towards paparazzi.
Minogue underwent surgery on 21 May 2005 at the private Catholic Cabrini Hospital in Malvern. Friends such as Olivia Newton-John (who had overcome her own battle against the illness several years earlier) urged the media and fans to respect Minogue's privacy. Soon after, Minogue commenced chemotherapy as part of her treatment regimen.
Minogue issued a public statement, thanking her fans for their support and urging them not to worry. On 8 July 2005, she made her first public appearance after her surgery, when she visited a children's cancer ward at Melbourne's Royal Children's Hospital. She returned to France where she completed her chemotherapy treatment at the Institut Gustave-Roussy in Villejuif, near Paris.
Recovery
In December 2005, Minogue released a digital-only single, "Over the Rainbow", a live recording from her Showgirl tour. During the early months of 2006, media began reporting Minogue's upcoming projects and the general improvement in her health. In June 2006, she was reported to be recording material for a new album, collaborating with Scissor Sisters, Steve Anderson, Richard Stannard, Johnny Douglas, Ash Thomas, and Teddy Riley while also making preparations to continue her newly renamed Showgirl Homecoming tour. She gave her first public interview since her diagnosis with breast cancer on the British satellite channel Sky One, 16 July 2006.
Her children's book, The Showgirl Princess, written during her period of convalescence, was published in October 2006, and her perfume, "Darling", was launched in November. On her return to Australia for her concert tour, she likened her cancer battle and chemotherapy to experiencing a nuclear bomb, and said that she is determined to resume her career. Minogue confirmed that she had collaborated with Boy George on a song called "Ready" and had been working on a new album, scheduled for release in late 2007.
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May 26, 2008

Born: 26-May-1966
Birthplace: London, England
Gender: Female
Race or Ethnicity: White
Sexual orientation: Straight
Occupation: Actor
Nationality: England
Executive summary: Marla in Fight Club
Father: Raymond Bonham Carter (banker, d. 2004)
Mother: Elena Propper de Callejon (psychotherapist)
Brother: Thomas Bonham Carter (soldier)
Brother: Edward Bonham Carter (banker)
Boyfriend: Kenneth Branagh (film director, dated and cohabited, 1994-99)
Boyfriend: Rufus Sewell (actor, A Knight's Tale, b. 1967, dated 1999)
Boyfriend: Steve Martin (actor, dated 2000)
Boyfriend: Tim Burton (cohabited since 2001)
Son: Billy Ray (b. 6-Oct-2003, with Tim Burton)
Helena Bonham Carter was once known for art films, including Merchant-Ivory's A Room With a View and Howard's End, and Zeffirelli's spin on Hamlet. She has more recently taken less artsy roles, playing the self-help addict in Fight Club with Edward Norton and Brad Pitt, and as a chimp in Tim Burton's Planet of the Apes. Bonham Carter may look like an ethereal English Rose, but she cusses, smokes, arm-wrestles. She has suffered through depression, undergone psychotherapy, and underwent a self-described "mid-life crisis" at 35. She is now the happily unwed mother of a young son with Burton.
She was born the youngest child of an English banker and his thoroughly mixed wife, who was half French, with a soupcon Jewish, Russian, Viennese, and Spanish. Bonham Carter's grandmother was Lady Violet Bonham Carter, a famous socialite, orator, and politician. Her great-grandfather was Prime Minister Lord Herbert Henry Asquith. Her cousin is British stage actor Crispin Bonham Carter. When Bonham Carter was five, her mother had a nervous breakdown. When she was 13, her father suddenly went deaf in one ear, then suffered a stroke during surgery and was paralyzed on one side and confined to a wheelchair. As her older brothers were already in college, only Helena remained at home to help with her father's care.
At thirteen she won a poetry contest and used the 25 pound prize to buy a listing in a British casting guide. Her first job was as Juliet in a radio ad for electronics, and she worked often in local theater as a teen. At 17, she played an Edwardian ghost in a British television movie called A Pattern of Roses. As union rules allowed only one non-union member in be cast, an unknown Hugh Grant, who was also not a union member at the time, was bumped from the movie to make room for her. After several corset-and-bustle film roles, Bonham Carter applied to attend Cambridge University, but, fearing she would drop out at midterms to make another film, she was turned down.
She played Don Johnson's junkie ex-fiancée in a few 1987 episodes of Miami Vice in 1987, and played a stripper in Dancing Queen, another British TV movie. In 1993 she won a Golden Globe for playing the widow of Lee Harvey Oswald in an American TV movie, Fatal Deception.
In 1994, while filming Frankenstein with Kenneth Branagh that she had her first highly publicized romance. While Branagh and his then-wife, Emma Thompson, went through a difficult breakup, Bonham Carter provided succor for Branaugh, an affair that lasted for five years. Bonham Carter reportedly lived with her parents until she was 30, when she moved in with Branagh. She was Oscar-nominated for her role as the scheming Kate Croy in The Wings of the Dove, which included Bonham Carter nudity and a sex scene. She lost the award to Helen Hunt, but accepted the loss with a joke, saying, "I'd won for the first two syllables."
Her affair with Branaugh ended in 1999, and in 2001 Bonham Carter made movies with two more of her real-life leading men. In Novocaine, she played a patient who seduced her dentist (Steve Martin), into prescribing drugs for her. In Planet of the Apes, she played a chimp who fell for Mark Wahlberg, while Bonham Carter herself fell for the director, Burton. At the time, he was engaged to Apes co-star Lisa Marie. Burton and Bonham Carter have been together since, and both frequently appear in public looking uncombed and unkempt. Rather than living together, he bought the house next to hers and they broke a hole in the wall. Their son, Billy Ray, was born in October of 2003.
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May 26, 2008

AKA Stephanie Lynn Nicks
Born: 26-May-1948
Birthplace: Good Samaritan Hospital, Phoenix, AZ
Gender: Female
Race or Ethnicity: White
Sexual orientation: Straight
Occupation: Singer/Songwriter
Party Affiliation: Democratic
Nationality: United States
Executive summary: Fleetwood Mac
Brother: Chris
Husband: Kim Anderson
Boyfriend: Jimmy Iovine
Boyfriend: J.D. Souther
Boyfriend: Lindsey Buckingham
Boyfriend: Joe Walsh
Boyfriend: Don Henley (1976-78)
Boyfriend: Waddy Wachtel
Boyfriend: Rupert Hine
Boyfriend: Paul Fishkin
Boyfriend: Mick Fleetwood
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May 26, 2008

AKA Eugenie Ann Francis
Born: 26-May-1962
Birthplace: Englewood, NJ
Gender: Female
Race or Ethnicity: White
Sexual orientation: Straight
Occupation: Actor
Nationality: United States
Executive summary: Laura Spencer on General Hospital
Father: Ivor Francis (actor, b. 1918, d. 1986)
Husband: Jonathan Frakes (actor, m. 28-May-1988, one son, one daughter)
Son: Jameson Ivor (b. 20-Aug-1994)
Daughter: Elizabeth Francis (b. 30-May-1997)
Eugenie Ann Francis was born in Englewood, NJ in 1962 to actor Ivor Francis and actress/model Rosemary Daley. Her father was of English descent; her mother Lithuanian. Genie has an older brother Ivor, a younger brother Kenneth, and an older half-sister, Shelley, from her father's first marriage. She grew up on Centerport, Long Island and later moved to Los Angeles with her family when she was still a young child.
Francis grew up on the set of General Hospital, having started acting on the show at 14 years of age. She was encouraged to leave high school in order to meet the demands of the shooting schedule, and eventually earned her GED with help from the on-set tutor. After 5 years on the show, and a year-long romance with her co-star Kin Shriner, Genie left GH and tried her hand at primetime. She starred in the miniseries Bare Essence, where she met her future husband, Jonathan Frakes, although they did not start dating until they both co-starred together again in North and South. Francis married Frakes on May 28, 1988 in Encino, California.
Francis continued to act in several daytime shows, including All My Children and Days of Our Lives. She eventually returned to GH in 1993 and remained for nine years before leaving again. During this time, Genie and Jonathan had two children, Jameson Ivor Frakes, born on August 20, 1994 and Elizabeth Francis Frakes, born on May 30, 1997.
After unhappily leaving GH in 2002, she spent time in London, England with her family while her husband finished shooting a movie. Eventually, Francis and family moved back to the US and settled in Maine, where Francis operates her own furnishings store, The Cherished Home. Francis has also become a spokesperson for Medifast, Inc. She returned to GH for one month during sweeps in November 2006, where her short-lived but memorable appearance garnered her a Supporting Actress Emmy Award.
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May 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)
Before becoming an actress, Tea Leoni taught English in Japan, and got her first acting work in a Japanese soap opera. After returning to America, she was "discovered" in a nationwide talent search for a Fox version of Charlie's Angels in 1988. When the network changed its mind, the pilot was never filmed. She is best known for playing Nora Wilde on the sitcom The Naked Truth, a show created and produced by her then-boyfriend, Chris Thompson. She played a hooker in Wyatt Earp, and helped Will Smith and Martin Lawrence find the killers in Bad Boys. In Spanglish, she played Adam Sandler's dissatisfied wife.
Leoni's grandmother, Helenka Adamowska, was a Broadway actress, and appeared in silent films of the 1920s.
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May 25, 2008

Born: 25-May-1973
Birthplace: Murray, KY
Gender: Female
Race or Ethnicity: White
Sexual orientation: Straight
Occupation: Model
Nationality: United States
Executive summary: Delinda Deline on Las Vegas
Father: Jim Sims
Mother: Dottie Sims
Boyfriend: Stéphane Dessaint (broken engagement)
Born to Jim and Dottie Sims, she was raised in Murray, Kentucky. Sims enrolled in Vanderbilt University for two years but dropped out in 1993 to pursue a career in modeling. While in Vanderbilt, she was a member of Delta Delta Delta. She was an official spokesmodel for Old Navy ads known for using the tag line "You gotta get this look!" She appeared in the Sports Illustrated "Swimsuit Issue"" in 2000, 2001, and 2006 as well as MTV's House of Style. In the 2006 issue of Sports Illustrated Swimsuit she appeared in a photo wearing an extremely skimpy bikini worth 30 million dollars that was made of diamonds. She is a CoverGirl model. She also appears as Delinda Deline in the series Las Vegas.Las Vegas currently in season 5 on NBC has ensured that Molly remains in the public eye constantly. She just recently got out of a six-year relationship with Enrique Murciano (who plays Danny Taylor on Without A Trace). She has said publicly that they were at the point in the relationship where it was time to get married or go their separate ways. She also appeared in the 2006 movie The Benchwarmers. Molly is an avid yoga practitioner. She takes classes from Kathleen Kastner at Maha Yoga in Santa Monica, California.
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May 23, 2008

AKA Kelly Marie Monaco
Born: 23-May-1976
Birthplace: Philadelphia, PA
Gender: Female
Religion: Roman Catholic
Race or Ethnicity: White
Occupation: Actor
Nationality: United States
Executive summary: Port Charles
Third of five sisters, grew up in the Pocono mountains (Pennsylvania).
Sister: Kara (younger)
Monaco was the third of five daughters. Monaco grew up with a love of sports such as soccer, swimming, and track, and worked as a lifeguard for several years while attending a community college until she broke into modeling. As a young adult, Kelly moved to Los Angeles with dreams to become an actress. Success was limited for several years. In 1999, she landed her first major role on the soap opera "Port Charles". Kelly has been nominated twice for an acting Emmy, and she currently plays the role of Samantha McCall on the soap opera General Hospital.
Modeling
In 1996, Monaco sent nude modeling photos of herself to Playboy and in April 1997 she became the Playboy Playmate of the Month. Throughout her tenure with Playboy in the 1990s, Monaco was also featured in many Playboy Special Edition publications.
She was a booth babe for Eidos Interactive at the 1999 Electronic Entertainment Expo in Los Angeles, California.
She was featured in the November 2005 issue of Playboy, however the pictorial consisted of previously unpublished photos from her Miss April 1997 shoot.
Temporary return to modeling
After moving on from Playboy in the 1990s, Monaco has significantly distanced herself from Playboy, possibly as a move to "clean up" her image. More recently, Monaco has made numerous cover appearances in other lad mags such as FHM and Maxim magazine. Along with her Maxim feature in 2005, the magazine also awarded her 13th place on their annual Hot 100 List in May 2006.
Relationships
Kelly has been rumored to be single for several years because of her solo appearances at public events. She says that for the past 15 years, she has been dating her childhood sweetheart, Michael Gonzalez. On a recent interview on The View, she stated that as a 31-year-old woman, she is in no rush to get married; she feels as if she already is.
Acting
Her first television role was on the nighttime drama Baywatch from 1997 to 1998. In addition to playing the role of Susan on the show, Monaco also was Carmen Electra's body double at times, as Electra could not swim. Monaco also had minor roles in the late 1990s-films BASEketball, Idle Hands, and Mumford.
Monaco had two roles on the supernatural television soap opera Port Charles: Olivia “Livvie” Locke Morley (1999–2003) and Tess Ramsey (2002–2003). When that program ended, she joined the cast of soap opera General Hospital as con woman Samantha “Sam” McCall in September 2003.
In 2003, Monaco was nominated for a Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series for her role on Port Charles. In 2006 Monaco was again nominated for a Daytime Emmy, this time for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series for her role as Sam McCall on General Hospital.
Dancing with the Stars
In Summer 2005, Monaco appeared as a contestant in the highly-rated American version of the television series Dancing with the Stars. Despite her perceived lack of height and an initial lack of grace, she improved each week and became a popular underdog. In the quarterfinal round samba, she coolly recovered from a mid-dance wardrobe malfunction without becoming exposed on live national television. On July 6, 2005, Kelly Monaco won the Dancing With The Stars competition.
This was viewed by some as an upset, whereas others suspected ballot-box stuffing, a frequent complaint of Internet-based voting. This was discussed briefly on a Larry King Live interview with several members of the show, but was not pursued by runner-up John O'Hurley, who took the high road and declared that participation and viewer popularity were more important to him than winning. However, it was decided to have a "Dance-Off" special as a follow up to this controversial result, with a presumably lessened chance of Internet voting skewing the results. It was held "live" on September 20, 2005 and results were announced two days later. This time, O'Hurley and his dance partner Charlotte emerged as the winners.
The win on Dancing With the Stars boosted her visibility level considerably and resulted in a number of appearances on talk shows as well as new job offers, but she stated that she intends to remain with General Hospital.
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May 23, 2008

Born: 23-May-1971
Birthplace: Chapel Hill, NC
Gender: Female
Race or Ethnicity: White
Sexual orientation: Bisexual
Occupation: Actor
Nationality: United States
Executive summary: Tina Kennard on The L Word
Boyfriend: Billy Crudup (actor, dated 1990s)
Husband: Paul Macherey (m. 13-Jul-2002, one daughter)
Daughter: Lola Reiko Macherey (b. 4-Nov-2004)
Holloman attended the University of North Carolina and appeared in numerous threater productions while in college. After her first year of college, she moved to Chicago to work with the Piven Theatre Workshop. She studied with John Lynn in Los Angeles; was cast in David Orr's independent feature Blossom Time. She moved to New York City in early 1994 and set her eye on the theater and enjoyed success on the stage including roles in Tenessee Williams' Glass Menagerie, Carson McCullers's The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter at Theatre for the New City. Holloman also performed off-Broadway in Julia Jordan's Night Swim at Playwright's Horizons.
In 1995, she kicked off a successful film career with her breakout role as baby butch Randy Dean in The Incredibly True Adventure of Two Girls in Love for which she received critical acclaim and became an icon for many lesbians. After her success in The Incredibly True Adventures of Two Girls in Love she has worked steadily in a variety of mostly independent film roles that showcased her range, such as The Myth of Fingerprints, Boogie Nights, Tumbleweeds, Loving Jezebel and more.
Nearly 10 years later, she took over the small screen in Showtime's lesbian drama, The L Word. As Tina Kennard, she's had many ups and downs – from a tumultuous breakup with Bette (Jennifer Beals) and a return to dating men to being back at the top of her game in the entertainment world while balancing being a mom to her and Bette's daughter.
Holloman has won praise from fans and critics alike for her performance as the complex and misunderstood Tina Kennard. Her peers recognized Holloman for her brilliant performance in S1 and honored her with a Golden Satellite Award in 2005 as Best Actress in a Drama series. She remains the only actress on The L Word to be recognized for her work on the show.
Personal life
She has been married to Paul Macherey since 2002; they have a daughter, Lola, who was born on November 4th, 2004. Holloman identifies as bisexual.
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May 22, 2008

AKA Margaret Denise Quigley
Born: 22-May-1979
Birthplace: Honolulu, HI
Gender: Female
Race or Ethnicity: Multiracial
Occupation: Actor
Nationality: United States
Executive summary: Mission: Impossible III
Q was born in Honolulu, Hawaii to an American father of French, Polish and Irish descent, and a Vietnamese mother. Her parents met while her father was stationed in Vietnam. Maggie is the youngest of 5 children. She has two sisters and two half-siblings from her mother's previous marriage in Vietnam. She still visits Hawaii with her family[citation needed]. After graduating from Mililani High School she travelled to Japan and Hong Kong to earn money as a fashion model. In 1998 she got her first role in a Chinese-language TV series, and she has been acting ever since.
Career
While still relatively unfamiliar[citation needed] to audiences in the United States, she has achieved celebrity status in Hong Kong and elsewhere in East Asia. Because of her non-Chinese heritage[citation needed], many of her Asian film appearances are in English or dubbed in the Chinese language. Her big breakthroughs[citation needed] into the film world came when she bagged the lead roles in the Hong Kong action thrillers Gen-Y Cops and Naked Weapon, in which she played the sexy but vulnerable martial artist assassin Charlene Ching. She has also played the titular role of Harmony in the German-Singapore telemovie collaboration Das Haus Der Harmonie, opposite leading Singaporean actress Fann Wong.
Recently, she starred in her biggest Hollywood role to date alongside Tom Cruise in Mission: Impossible III. She played Zhen, the only female member of his elite IMF team. Maggie plays one of the computer-hacking extortionists in the 2007 Bruce Willis action thriller, Live Free Or Die Hard, the fourth film in the popular Die Hard franchise. On August 29, 2007, Balls of Fury opened nationwide in the U.S. starring Maggie as the ping pong paddle-wielding niece of table tennis guru Master Wong (James Hong).
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May 22, 2008

Born: 22-May-1972
Birthplace: Carmel, CA
Gender: Female
Race or Ethnicity: White
Occupation: Actor
Nationality: United States
Executive summary: Tightrope
Father: Clint Eastwood (actor/director, b. 31-May-1930)
Mother: Maggie Johnson
Brother: Kyle Eastwood (b. 19-May-1968)
Alison Eastwood (born on May 22, 1972, in Carmel, California) is an American model, fashion designer and Hollywood actress. The daughter of swimsuit model Maggie Johnson and the legendary western filmstar Clint Eastwood (and younger sister to Kyle Eastwood), she attended Santa Catalina School in Monterey, California and Stevenson School in Pebble Beach. Alison was a rebellious teenager. When she was eighteen, in 1990, Alison moved to Santa Barbara to study acting.
In addition to rebelling against her parents and being arrested for drunk driving, Alison also landed some professional acting roles during her childhood and preadolescent years. Her acting in the 1984 movie Tightrope won her some degree of success. Alison has also worked as a runway and magazine model in Paris, posing for several European fashion magazines and Vogue (U.S. edition). She posed nude in the February 2003 issue of Playboy.
More recently, Ms. Eastwood has again appeared on screen. Credits include the movie Absolute Power (1997), Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil (1997), Black and White (1998), Breakfast of Champions (1999), and Poolhall Junkies (2003).
She has also moved into working behind the camera, becoming associate producer for Don't Tell (2005) and she is currently directing the upcoming movie Rails & Ties
Ms. Eastwood has her own clothing line, called the Eastwood Ranch.
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May 18, 2008

Born: 18-May-1946
Birthplace: England
Gender: Female
Race or Ethnicity: White
Sexual orientation: Bisexual
Occupation: Photographer
Executive summary: Fetish/porn photographer
Husband: Humphry Knipe
Daughter: Holly Randall (b. 5-Sep-1978)
Daughter: Lucy Randall
Son: Nick
Slept with: Larry Flynt
Slept with: Althea Flynt
Slept with: Hugh Hefner
Slept with: Jack Nicholson
Slept with: Traci Lords
Slept with: Warren Beatty
Slept with: Jim Brown
Suze Randall (born 1946) is an American model, photographer, and pornographer originally from England. She has been one of the world's leading erotic photographers for more than 25 years.
Working first as a nurse, then as a fashion model in the early 1970s, Randall gained attention for erotic photographs she took of her fellow model friends. In 1972 she played an au pair in Éric Rohmer's film Love in the Afternoon. She gave up modelling and devoted her time to erotic photography. After working for years in top adult magazines like Penthouse and Playboy, she now continues her career as a freelance photographer. In recent years her work has included a lot of bondage imagery.
Her breakthrough came when she spotted the pinup model Lillian Müller and photographed her for Playboy. Müller was chosen as Playmate Of The Month in August 1975 and subsequently Playmate of the Year in 1976. In a pictorial in Playboy's May 1976 issue, Randall was both photographer and model. She went on to shoot a much more explicit self-portrait in a 1977 Hustler pictorial.
Suze Randall was staff photographer from 1975 until 1977 for Playboy under the supervision of the magazine's West Coast editor Marilyn Grabowski, then from 1977 until 1979 staff photographer for Hustler. Later she provided Penthouse Pet feature photo layouts for Aria Giovanni, Alexus Winston, Lanny Barbie, Stormy Daniels, Nikita (see List of Penthouse Pets) , Sunny Leone, Lexus Locklear, Lilly Ann, Silvia Saint, Zdenka, Elizabeth Hilden, Jisel, Tera Patrick, Julie Strain, Racquel Darrian, Aimee Sweet, Swan, & Pamela.
Randall has shot the prestigious British Lamb's Navy Rum calendar, has done album covers for recording artist such as Peter Hook (New Order), and Robert Palmer, as well as a music video for Capitol Records.
Suze Randall is married to writer Humphry Knipe, who helped write her biographical book Suze (1977), wrote and directed several of her films as Victor Nye, and still manages Suze Randall Productions websites. Her daughter Holly Randall (born September 5, 1978) is an erotic photographer who now works with her mother and has her own erotic website
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May 17, 2008

AKA Andrea Jane Corr
Born: 17-May-1974
Birthplace: Dundalk, County Louth, Ireland
Gender: Female
Race or Ethnicity: White
Occupation: Singer
Nationality: Ireland
Executive summary: Lead singer of The Corrs
Father: Gerry Corr
Mother: Jean
Brother: Jim Corr (guitar for The Corrs, b. rn 31-Jul-1964)
Sister: Sharon Corr (violin for The Corrs, b. 24-Mar-1970)
Sister: Caroline Corr (drummer for The Corrs, b. 17-Mar-1973)
She was born in Dundalk, County Louth, Ireland, the youngest daughter of Jean and Gerry Corr, two musicians. She and her elder siblings, sisters Caroline (b. 1973) and Sharon Corr (b. 1970) and brother Jim Corr (b. 1964), formed The Corrs to audition for the 1991 film The Commitments. Although all four appeared in the film, Andrea was the only one to be given a speaking part. But several years later, in another fleeting appearance in a major film, she was wanted strictly for a singing role - it was the musical Evita, in which she played Juan Peron's mistress, who is abruptly displaced by Madonna's title character.
I 2002 a chance for Andrea to launch a more extensive acting career appeared to open up as she was strongly rumoured to have been offered the role of Lara in a fresh British television production of Boris Pasternak's classic novel Doctor Zhivago. The character was however ultimately played by the then little known Keira Knightley.
As the youngest member of the band, Andrea joined directly from school.
She usually performs on stage in her bare feet.
As of March 2006 The Corrs are taking a sabbatical from music as Jim, Caroline, and Sharon all have families of their own and need the respite to spend more time with them. In November of 2006, the band released a second greatest hits compilation, titled "Dreams: The Ultimate Corrs Collection".
Solo career
Andrea has recorded her first solo album entitled Ten Feet High. The album, which was released in the third week of June 2007, is produced by Nellee Hooper and executive produced by U2's Bono. Besides singing, she's also playing the piano. Eleven tracks are penned by Andrea herself, except for one, which is a cover of Squeeze's "Take Me I'm Yours". June 3rd saw the first single being aired on radio across the Republic of Ireland.
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May 16, 2008

AKA Megan Denise Fox
Born: 16-May-1986
Birthplace: Memphis, TN
Gender: Female
Race or Ethnicity: White
Sexual orientation: Straight
Occupation: Actor
Nationality: United States
Executive summary: Sydney Shanowski on Hope and Faith
Boyfriend: Brian Austin Green (engaged to be married)
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May 16, 2008

AKA Victoria Davey Spelling
Born: 16-May-1973
Birthplace: Los Angeles, CA
Gender: Female
Race or Ethnicity: White
Sexual orientation: Straight
Occupation: Actor
Nationality: United States
Executive summary: Donna in Beverly Hills 90210
Father: Aaron Spelling (TV producer, b. 22-Apr-1923, d. 23-Jun-2006 stroke)
Mother: Carol Jean Marer Spelling ("Candy", Los Angeles Parks Commissioner, b. 20-Sep-1945)
Brother: Randall Gene Spelling ("Randy", actor, b. 9-Oct-1978)
Boyfriend: Nick Savalas (son of actor Telly Savalas, b. 1973, dated late 1980s)
Boyfriend: Brian Austin Green (actor, b. 15-Jul-1973, dated early 1990s)
Boyfriend: Greg Vaughan (actor, b. 15-Jun-1973, dated 1990s)
Boyfriend: Vincent Young (actor, b. 6-Jun-1964, dated 1999-2001)
Boyfriend: Rick Alvarez (movie producer, b. 1969, dated 2001-02)
Husband: Charlie Shanian (actor/writer, b. 1971, dated 2002-04, m. 3-Jul-2004, sep. 2005, div. 20-Apr-2006)
Husband: Dean McDermott (actor, cohabited 2005-06, m. 7-May-2006, one son)
Son: Liam Aaron McDermott (b. 13-Mar-2007)
Tori Spelling played longtime virgin Donna Marie Martin on Beverly Hills, 90210 with Jason Priestley and Luke Perry, and received good reviews for the big-screen dark comedy The House of Yes with Freddie Prinze, Jr. and Parker Posey. She played a dog-walker on the quickly-cancelled sitcom The Help with David Faustino, and offered a scripted version of herself in the pseudo-reality show So NoTORIous, with Loni Anderson as Spelling's mother.
She was seven years old when she began her acting career, playing a victimized child on an episode of the detective show Vega$ with Robert Urich. At 10 she portrayed Parker Stevenson's daughter in the failed pilot for a detective show, Shooting Stars. As a pre-teen she sailed twice on The Love Boat with Gavin MacLeod, and came ashore twice on Fantasy Island with Ricardo Montalban. She made her movie debut in Troop Beverly Hills with Shelley Long, and she was an occasional student on Saved by the Bell before landing her star-making role on Beverly Hills, 90210.
Her father, of course, was television producer Aaron Spelling, who worked behind the scenes on virtually all of his daughter's early TV projects. Spelling and her mother, Candy Spelling, have been estranged since her mother struck up a close friendship with another man in the months before her father's death. Their strained relationship was worsened when Mrs Spelling, executor of her husband's estate -- estimated at nearly half-a-billion dollars -- limited her daughter's inheritance to a mere several hundred thousand dollars.
Spelling has been romantically linked almost exclusively with actors who played her romantic interests, including Brian Austin Green, Greg Vaughan, and Vincent Young from 90210. She met her first husband, comedian-actor Charlie Shanian, when they co-starred in a Los Angeles stage production of Maybe Baby, It’s You, but their wedding was delayed because Spelling's father insisted that his future son-in-law sign a prenuptial agreement. She left him after fourteen months of marriage, moving in with boyfriend and eventual second husband Dean McDermott, her co-star in the TV movie Mind Over Murder, who left his wife of twelve years and two children to pursue Spelling.
The geography of Spelling's nose was somewhat altered in a 1994 surgery, and while she has never admitted it, her breasts seemed to become larger and perkier in 2005. Her brother, Randy Spelling, is a part-time actor who visited 90210 as Steve's brother Ryan Sanders in several episodes, and played a high school doof named 'Flipper' in his father's short-lived Malibu Shores.
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May 14, 2008

AKA Catherine Elise Blanchett
Born: 14-May-1969
Birthplace: Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Gender: Female
Race or Ethnicity: White
Sexual orientation: Straight
Occupation: Actor
Nationality: Australia
Executive summary: Galadriel in LOTR
Father: (advertising executive, d. heart attack when she was 10)
Mother: June Blanchett (teacher)
Brother: Robert Blanchett, Jr. (older, computer programmer)
Sister: Genevieve (younger, set designer, Queensland Theatre Company)
Husband: Andrew Upton (playwright, m. 29-Dec-1997, two sons)
Son: Dashiell John Upton (b. 3-Dec-2001)
Son: Roman Robert Upton (b. 23-Apr-2004)
Blanchett was born in Ivanhoe, a suburb of Melbourne, Australia to Robert Blanchett, a Texas-born United States Navy Petty Officer who later worked in advertising, and June, an Australian schoolteacher. When Blanchett was 10, she lost her father to a heart attack. She has two siblings; the elder, Bob, is a computer systems engineer, and her younger sister, Geneviève, is a theatrical designer. She is of partial French ancestry.
Career
Blanchett attended primary school in Melbourne at Ivanhoe East Primary School before completing secondary education at Methodist Ladies' College, where she explored her passion for acting. She studied economics and fine art at the University of Melbourne before leaving Australia to travel. When she was 18, Blanchett went on a vacation to Egypt. A fellow guest at a cheap hotel in Cairo asked if she wanted to be an extra in a movie, and the next day she found herself in a crowd scene, cheering for an American boxer who was losing to an Egyptian. She walked off from the set. She returned to Australia and later moved to Sydney to study at the National Institute of Dramatic Art; graduating in 1992 and beginning her career in the theatre.
Her first major stage role was opposite Geoffrey Rush in the 1993 David Mamet play Oleanna. She also appeared as Ophelia in an acclaimed 1994–95 Company B production of Hamlet, directed by Neil Armfield, starring Rush and Richard Roxburgh.
Blanchett appeared in the mini-series Heartland opposite Ernie Dingo, the mini-series Bordertown and in the Police Rescue episode, "The Loaded Boy".
She made her film debut as an Australian nurse captured by the Japanese in a production of Paradise Road directed by Bruce Beresford, co-starring Glenn Close and Frances McDormand.
Blanchett's first high-profile role was as Elizabeth I of England in the 1998 movie Elizabeth. This role earned her an Academy Award nomination for Best Actress, losing to Gwyneth Paltrow for Shakespeare in Love. However, Blanchett's performance won her a British Academy (BAFTA) Award and a Golden Globe Award for Best Actress in a Motion Picture Drama.
The following year, Blanchett was nominated for another BAFTA Award for her supporting role in The Talented Mr. Ripley. She won an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress in 2005 for playing Katharine Hepburn in Martin Scorsese's The Aviator. This made Blanchett the first person ever to garner an Academy Award for playing a previous Oscar-winning actor/actress.
Already an acclaimed actress, Blanchett received a host of new fans when she appeared in Peter Jackson's The Lord of the Rings movies. She played the role of the High Elf Queen Galadriel in all three films, which hold the record as the highest grossing film trilogy of all time.
In 2006 she starred in both Babel opposite Brad Pitt, and Notes on a Scandal playing Sheba Hart opposite Dame Judi Dench. Dench won the Best Supporting Actress Academy Award for playing Elizabeth I, the same year Blanchett lost for playing the same historical figure, albeit in a different category. She received her third Academy Award nomination for her performance in the film (Dench was also Oscar nominated).
Blanchett will reprise her role as Elizabeth I in the upcoming sequel tentatively entitled Golden Age. She is set to star as a young Bob Dylan in the feature film I'm Not There.
As of 2008, she and her husband will commence three-year contracts as artistic co-directors of the Sydney Theatre Company. The contracts include a clause that will allow either of them to take three months out each year to pursue other activities. Blanchett also makes a cameo appearance in the fourth installment to the Indiana Jones sequel.
Blanchett also works as the face of SK-II, the luxury skin care brand owned by Procter & Gamble.
In 2007, Blanchett was listed among Time Magazine's 100 Most Influential People in The World. Also in 2007, Blanchett was named one of the most successful actresses by Forbes.
Personal life
Blanchett's husband is playwright and screenwriter Andrew Upton, whom she met in 1996 while she was performing in a production of The Seagull. They were married the following year 1997. It was not love at first sight, however. "He thought I was aloof and I thought he was arrogant," Blanchett later remarked. "It just shows you how wrong you can be. But once he kissed me that was that." The two were married on December 29, 1997. Their first child, Dashiell John, was born on December 3, 2001; their second child, Roman Robert, was born on April 23, 2004. The younger son received a minor burn injury on May 15, 2005 while the family was in Marrakech, Morocco, for the filming of the movie Babel. After initial treatment there, Blanchett flew with him to London for further treatment.
After making England her main family home for most of the early 2000s, she and her husband returned to their native Australia. In 2006, Blanchett said in a Vogue interview of November 2006: "Andrew and I realized how much Australia meant to us. We saw the theatre community in Sydney and we felt, well, we know you all; we have worked with many of you. We have tried to live a few other places, but something really hit us in the gut. It's just a feeling about what home is. It became clear to us, particularly after the children were born, that family and the theatrical community in Australia were a large part of who we are."
In 2006 a portrait of Cate Blanchett and family painted by McLean Edwards was a finalist in the Archibald Prize. The prize is awarded for the "best portrait painting preferentially of some man or woman distinguished in Art, Letters, Science or Politics".
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May 14, 2008

AKA Sofia Carmina Coppola
Born: 14-May-1971
Birthplace: New York City
Gender: Female
Race or Ethnicity: White
Sexual orientation: Straight
Occupation: Film Director, Actor
Nationality: United States
Executive summary: Lost in Translation
The big break in writer/director Sofia Coppola's career was being born the daughter of Francis Ford Coppola. Just days old, she was the infant baptized toward the end of The Godfather. As a child she was often an extra in the background of her father's movies, and at 15 she was given a small role as Kathleen Turner's kid sister in Peggy Sue Got Married. At 19, when Winona Ryder backed out of The Godfather: Part III, the elder Coppola asked his daughter to play the part. Untrained as an actress and with barely a week before the cameras would roll, she gave a performance that might have seemed adequate for most other films, but surrounded by major league actors like Al Pacino, Diane Keaton, Andy Garcia, and Eli Wallach, Coppola was the weakest link, and she was mercilessly savaged by critics.
After that, she disappeared from public view and attended art school. A few years later she gave an endearing performance as Patricia Arquette's unexpectedly pregnant girlfriend in Inside Monkey Zetterland, and she was one of the Queen's handmaidens in Star Wars: Episode I: The Phantom Menace. She also created and co-hosted the funny but short-lived spoof news magazine Hi-Octane on Comedy Central.
Coppola was impressed when she read Jeffrey Eugenides's novel of adolescent turmoil The Virgin Suicides, and she started writing a screenplay for it even before buying the rights. Critics and perhaps audiences were pleasantly surprised when her adaptation proved an effective art house drama. Coppola's next film, Lost in Translation with Bill Murray and Scarlett Johansson, told of an odd emotional connection between an older man and a younger woman in Tokyo. Coppola has said she was inspired in part by her own empty marriage to director Spike Jonze and in part by her father's trip to Japan to film a liquor commercial for director Akira Kurosawa. Her third feature was the curious rock'n'roll retelling of Marie Antoinette with Kirsten Dunst and Marianne Faithfull.
Coppola's aunt is Talia Shire, and her cousins include Nicolas Cage and Jason Schwartzman. Her father has five Oscars and her grandfather, composer Carmine Coppola, won an Oscar for scoring The Godfather: Part II. With Coppola's Oscar for writing Lost in Translation, hers is the second family to win Oscars in three consecutive generations, joining Walter, John, and Anjelica Huston.
Coppola sits on the board of her father's Niebaum-Coppola Winery, and one of the company's best-selling products is Sofia blanc de blancs sparkling wine-in a can -- each can comes with a pink straw for elegant sipping. Coppola herself owns Milk Fed, a line of "California style" clothes marketed in Japan.
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May 14, 2008

Born: May 14, 1977
Location:Bristol, England
Anderton attended Redland High School for Girls in Bristol between 1988 & 1993. During this time she sustained serious injuries in a road accident necessitating some 18 operations from which she took 3 years to recover. In 1993 she briefly attended Bristol Cathedral School. After school she developed a career as a model, and became famous in 1999 after appearing in revealing underwear for the provocative Gossard Glossies "Girl in the grass" advertising campaign shot by Herb Ritz, with the strapline "Who said a woman couldn't get pleasure from something soft ?".
The tabloid press have documented her party lifestyle, including a self-confessed night as a "high-class" call girl, love affairs (particularly with footballer Mark Bosnich) and a cocaine addiction that lasted ten years.
Anderton traces her cocaine addiction back to when she was prescribed morphine after her car accident as a child. In 2006, she was diagnosed and treated for bipolar disorder
Anderton's return from "Celebrity Love Island" has resulted in an increase in modelling and promotional work, including:
Successfully completed the Flora London Marathon.
British Berries summer fruits campaign 2006 - she posed with various fruits in a suggestive manner. Sales of strawberries and raspberries have hit a record £240 million since the campaign was launched.
Appeared on the July edition of Maxim.
Promoting breast cancer awareness in a promo with Peacocks stores.
In November 2006 announced as the face of La Senza's Christmas collection.
Reality TV
In 2004 Anderton was a contestant on the fourth series of ITV's I'm A Celebrity, Get Me Out Of Here, where she came fifth and was remembered for having a disagreement with the singer Natalie Appleton.
She has also taken part in Simply the Best and a celebrity edition of the UK version of Fear Factor. In 2005 she appeared in the programme Cold Turkey which followed her attempts to quit smoking cigarettes alongside Tara Palmer Tomkinson. She later became the face of the SOS Instant Quit Programme which consists of a mouth spray which makes smokers feel sick at the smell and taste of cigarette smoke. She has since resumed the habit.
In 2006 Anderton was a contestant on the second series of ITV's Love Island in Summer 2006. Known as Me-Me by the show's presenters, Fearne Cotton and Patrick Kielty, she was covered extensively in the press as being emotionally unstable, crying relentlessly and being highly self-absorbed. She fell out with friend Lady Victoria Hervey, after Anderton transferred her affections from ex-boyband member Shane Lynch to Hervey's island interest Chris Brosnan. After a long discussion expressing how upset she was with her former friend's behaviour, Hervey then poured a bottle of wine over Anderton's head. In a task Sophie guessed that Ayers Rock is in Canada and the Falkland Islands are in Europe. Anderton was evicted from Love Island on 25 August.
Anderton appeared on Friday Night with Jonathan Ross on the September 22, 2006, and announced that she was about to star in a new TV series. The series was later announced as Sky One's Cirque de Celebrité, but had to quit after she sustained ligament damage.
Relationships
At the age of 19 she started seeing millionaire Robert Hanson, 17 years her senior, who introduced her to a world of royalty, private jets, glitz and glamour. The relationship lasted 4 years
Matt Graham, a previous boyfriend, told the press: "I was trapped in a nightmare relationship with the girl. It was simply two years of hell. The sex was amazing, really steamy, some of the best I've ever had. But it wasn't worth having to put up with all her emotional baggage." Graham said that Anderton had lesbian sex behind his back and boasted that the best sex she'd ever had was with a woman.
After an early period in her modelling career as muse to the designer Scott Henshall, from 2002 to 2004 she had a tumultuous relationship with the footballer Mark Bosnich, before leaving him due to a cycle of drug taking and violence. In 2004 she met and was subsequently engaged to nightclub owner Mark Alexiou, but the relationship broke up soon after her call-girl confession.[
After returning from Fiji for Love Island, it was reported in the Sunday Mirror's showbiz section "Radar" in September 2006 that she was dating Crystal Palace F.C. chairman Simon Jordan. The relationship quickly broke up.
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May 13, 2008
AKA Julianne Smith
Born: 13-May-1960
Birthplace: Lake Oswego, OR
Gender: Female
Race or Ethnicity: White
Sexual orientation: Straight
Occupation: Actor
Nationality: United States
Executive summary: Actress/wife of Bruce Springsteen
Julianne Phillips is an American model and actress.
Born in Chicago, Illinois, she was raised in the Portland suburb of Lake Oswego, Oregon, the daughter of insurance broker William Phillips and wife Ann Phillips. She was the youngest of six children in a Roman Catholic family.
Phillips is a graduate of Lake Oswego High School and Brooks College. She began work as a model in Manhattan in the early 1980s. By 1982 she was represented by the Elite Modeling Agency, which characterized her as a "perfect ten package" earning as much as $2,000 a day. She then moved to Los Angeles, where she appeared in a .38 Special music video. This led to her first notable acting roles, in 1984's made-for-TV movies Summer Fantasy and the Robert Urich vehicle His Mistress.
Phillips became known for being the girlfriend, and later the wife, of musician Bruce Springsteen. Phillips met him in October 1984, and they were married in Lake Oswego on May 13, 1985 surrounded by intense media attention. Opposites in background, their marriage was not to be long-lived. Springsteen's 1987 album Tunnel of Love described some of his unhappinesses in the relationship and during the subsequent Tunnel of Love Express tour, Springsteen took up with backup singer Patti Scialfa. Media reports made it appear Phillips found out by reading tabloids, though they had already agreed to a separation, as recounted in Dave Marsh's "Glory Days - 3rd Edition." Phillips and Springsteen filed for divorced in 1989. The divorce was finalized later in 1989 and Springsteen finally married Scialfa in 1991.
Phillips continued her acting career during and after the marriage. In 1991, she began the role of Frankie Reed, the business-oriented one of the four main titular characters on the popular television drama Sisters, in which she played until 1995. It became her best-known role. She left the show a couple of seasons before it concluded its run, and after 1997, was no longer being seen in television or film roles.
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May 12, 2008

Born: 12-May-1963
Birthplace: Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Gender: Female
Race or Ethnicity: White
Occupation: Actor
Nationality: Canada
Executive summary: Bangkok Hilton
Deborah Kara Unger is a Canadian actress. Before becoming an actress, she studied economics and philosophy at University of British Columbia. She later became the first Canadian to be accepted into Australia's National Institute of Dramatic Art. Her mother is a real estate agent and father is a gynaecologist. She is perhaps most famous for her controversial nude scene in Sunshine. Unger initially refused to do the scene when told that her genitalia would be in full view. Cast members stated then when Unger was told of what would happen during the scene she said: "no lady should ever be seen in such a revealing way." The quote became hugely famous after the movie was released as Unger carried out the nude scene and received much ridicule for going ahead with it. Film critic Harry Conewood-Brand famously joked: "The second we saw the hair between Deborah's legs was the moment dignity abandoned her."
When Unger is not working, she resides in either Vancouver or Los Angeles, California, USA.
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May 12, 2008
Born: 12-May-1970
Birthplace: Brooklyn, NY
Gender: Female
Race or Ethnicity: White
Sexual orientation: Straight
Occupation: Actor
Nationality: United States
Executive summary: Jack and Sarah
Mother: Bibi Besch (actress, d. 7-Sep-1996)
Boyfriend: Noah Wyle (actor, 1995)
Boyfriend: Christian Slater (actor, dated while filming Pump Up the Volume)
Boyfriend: River Phoenix (actor, dated during filming of The Thing Called Love)
Samantha Mathis (born May 12, 1970) is an American actress.
Mathis was born in Brooklyn, New York, the daughter of actress Bibi Besch and granddaughter of actress Gusti Huber. When Mathis was three years old, her parents divorced, and she stayed with her mother. Growing up with an actress mother influenced Mathis's career choice.
Her first starring role in a feature film was the part of Nora in Pump Up the Volume with Christian Slater, whom she was dating at the time. They were also both in Broken Arrow. Mathis began dating River Phoenix when they starred together in The Thing Called Love. She was with him the night that he died outside the Viper Room, a nightclub in Los Angeles. Mathis is a vegetarian
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May 11, 2008

AKA Holly Rachel Vukadinovic
Born: 11-May-1983
Birthplace: Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Gender: Female
Race or Ethnicity: White
Occupation: Actor, Singer
Nationality: Australia
Executive summary: Neighbours
Father: Rajko Vukadinovic ("Rake")
Mother: Rachel Stevens
Sister: Coco Melody
Sister: Olympia Montana
Holly Rachel Vukadinović ( Serbian Cyrilic : Вукадиновић), who is better known by her stage name of Holly Valance, is an Australian actress and ARIA nominated singer of Serbian origin.
Awards and recognitionEarly life
Valance was born in Melbourne, Australia, on 11 May 1983 to a Serbian father and a British mother. She is related to the late British comedian Benny Hill — Hill's cousin was her grandfather (cousins twice removed). Holly was educated at the Star of the Sea College, a Roman Catholic high school located in Melbourne.
Music career
Holly's first single as a recording artist was "Kiss Kiss", released in 2002. The song debuted at #1 in both the Australian ARIA and UK Singles Charts charts in April/May 2002. "Kiss Kiss" is an English interpretation of the song Şımarık by Turkish superstar Tarkan. The video was notable in that Valance appeared to be dancing naked, but in fact she was wearing flesh colored panties but no top. The footage was then digitally retouched adding strategically placed lighting effects. The song was nominated for 4 ARIA awards.
Her next single, "Down Boy" peaked at #2 in the UK and at #3 in Australia. Her début album Footprints was released on October 14, 2002. It debuted and peaked at #9 in the UK and #15 in Australia. The album's third and final single "Naughty Girl" peaked at #3 in Australia and at #16 in the UK.
In 2003, the first single "State of Mind" from Holly's second album of the same name debuted and peaked at #8 in the UK and at #14 in Australia, but the album didn't get into the top 50 of either country.
"Desire" was, according to some rumours, to be the second official single from the album and she even made a few performances for the promotion, but it was cancelled due to poor album sales. Following legal problems with her manager/boyfriend, and poor sales from the album State of Mind, Valance was dropped from her recording company.
Though her official website originally reported Valance would release new material via another label, this never materialized, with Valance recently confirming she is no long interested in recording music, telling Men's Style magazine:
"No one can make any money. It was a really tough slog and I had a good go at it, but it was difficult. You put in so much effort and put in so many long hours for not much return. I was making all my money from endorsements and appearances, but I didn't make that much from the actual record sales. I think everyone is suffering in the music industry. It wasn't just me. I do something until it's not fun any more and then move on. Music wasn't fun any more."
She signed a £3 million deal with the hair products company Schwarzkopf Live to front the new line aimed at an early teen to early 20s market. Valance was seen modelling Cosmic Blue, Sahara True Blonde, Hypnotic Red as well as XXL dresses and XXL hats (each colour has a strapline which referenced other popular culture artists). The adverts could be seen across the United Kingdom at bus stops, shopping malls, on buses and in magazines.
During this time, Valance appeared on Har Mar Superstar's album The Handler singing on tracks "Body Request" and "Back the Camel up".
In 2002, she won the British GQ Award for Woman of the Year.
Film and television career
From 1999 to 2002 Holly played the role of feisty, and lustful Felicity "Flick" Scully on Australian soap Neighbours.
In 2004 Valance returned to acting, this time in the United States, appearing in episodes of the television series CSI: Miami and Entourage, and in 2005 she appeared in an episode of CSI: NY. She then guest-starred in Prison Break in 2006 as Nika Volek, a role which she continued to portray in the show's second season. She also had a small role in an episode in the second season of US TV show Entourage.
She appeared in the National Lampoon comedy Pledge This!, alongside American socialite Paris Hilton, and DOA: Dead or Alive, an adaptation of the popular video game Dead or Alive, where she played Christie.
She'll be working on the new Luc Besson feature called “Taken” starring Liam Neeson in Paris in March and an Australian drama later on in the year within Australia.
Valance is also set to play a Bosnian Muslim in a new movie titled 'The Tourist', a true story set in the Balkan war.
Holly Valance stars in the Bushells Tea TV Ad (Australia)
She also served as the promotional face of Australian collect call company 1800-Reverse and the UK equivalent.
Legal action
In 2003 she fired her then-manager Scott Michaelson (who owns Biscayne Partners Pty Ltd) by fax, 15 months before her contract was due to expire. Biscayne Partners Pty. Ltd. sued Valance Corp., won their case and were awarded damages by the Supreme Court of New South Wales.
During the trial Valance's mother claimed that Michaelson was negligent in his duties as a manager, which forced her to take over from his role as manager. Former Neighbours co-star Kym Valentine also gave evidence that Valance "said she was feeling bad, a bit stressed out, because she was leaving Scott" and that "she said the solicitors for her record company would get her out of the contract and would be faxing him the paper work (from the UK) to do so." Valance denied that she told Valentine this conversation in court, even though she had signed an affidavit where she stated she had no recollection of the conversation.
Justice Clifford Einstein said, "I have given close consideration to the question of whether or not the circumstances presently before the Court which do, it seems to me, show a calculated disregard of the rights of Biscayne as well as a cynical pursuit of benefit". The court subsequently ordered Valance Corp. pay $350,000 to Biscayne Partners Pty. Ltd. Of this amount, $47,264.56 was "from shares Ms Valance and Mr Michaelson had bought together on the London Stock Exchange", though the court did not award in favour of Biscayne getting a percentage of sales of her album, State of Mind.
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May 10, 2008

AKA Gina Consolo
Born: 10-May-1975
Birthplace: Miami Beach, FL
Gender: Female
Race or Ethnicity: White
Sexual orientation: Straight
Occupation: Actor
Executive summary: Jeepers Creepers
Boyfriend: Johnny Whitworth (actor, dated 1996-9)
Gina Philips is an American actress.
Philips was born Gina Consolo in Miami Beach, Florida. She is known for her recurring roles on David E. Kelley's Ally McBeal and Boston Public. She has also starred in the movies Jeepers Creepers, Dead and Breakfast and The Sick House.
Philips has made several guest television appearances, playing Rebecca Ann Rhodes in Seven Days' "Shadow Play" in 1998, Devin in Sliders' "Desert Storm" in 1996, and Varis Sul in Star Trek: Deep Space Nine's "The Storyteller" in 1993.
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May 09, 2008

Born May 9, 1985
Audrina Cathleen Patridge is an American reality television participant, best known as one of the cast members, along with Lauren Conrad, Heidi Montag and Whitney Port, on the MTV reality show The Hills (TV series).
Biography
Early life
Patridge was born in 1985 in Los Angeles, California and was raised in Yorba Linda in Orange County. She has 2 sisters, Casey and Samantha, who appeared briefly on The Hills. She aspired to become an actress and model at a young age.
Personal life
Audrina Patridge was Lauren Conrad and Heidi Montag's first friend upon their 2005 arrival in Los Angeles. She lived in the same apartment complex as the girls. She briefly dated Shannon Leto, from the band 30 seconds to Mars. She briefly dated Brian Drolet, a supporting cast-member on The Hills.
In season three of The Hills, it shows her mystery boy toy Michael Cruz often called "Remo" of Orange County whom she met at Hollywood hot spot "Hyde" and her brief relationship with Justin "Bobby" Brescia.
In January 2007, Patridge was one of the nominated candidates running for "Hollywood Prom Queen." The title went to Angie Cole (presented by Hollywood Covered magazine).
Career
Patridge aspires to be a model and actress ("mactress") and is currently featured in the popular reality television program The Hills.
The Hills
Patridge has appeared in seasons one, two and three of reality television show The Hills featuring Whitney Port, Heidi Montag and former Laguna Beach star Lauren Conrad.
Throughout season one of The Hills, Patridge worked as a receptionist at Quixote Studios (a photo studio) in Los Angeles.
In 2006, prior to filming the second season of The Hills, Patridge began a new job at Epic Records. Patridge moved in with Conrad in the spring of 2007, taking over Montag's role on The Hills as best friend and roommate to Conrad.
As of the end of season 3, Audrina and Justin Bobby are no longer dating. She was last seen on screen dating an Australian named Corey.
As Posted On Her Myspace Audrina Will Run Her Upcoming Website Which Is Still Yet Be Confirmed.
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May 08, 2008

AKA Johanna Selhorst Maran
Born: 8-May-1978
Birthplace: Menlo Park, CA
Gender: Female
Race or Ethnicity: White
Sexual orientation: Straight
Occupation: Model, Actor
Nationality: United States
Executive summary: Fashion model, sometime actress
Boyfriend: David Blaine (magician, ex)
Boyfriend: Ali Alborzi (one daughter)
Daughter: Rumi Joon (b. 20-Jun-2006)
Maran's modeling career began at the age of 12; when an agent spotted her at a local barbecue restaurant, she began modeling part time. Maran graduated from the Castilleja School in Palo Alto, then began to pursue modeling more seriously. As those in the fashion industry consider her height of 5'7" to be too short for runway modeling, Maran works mainly in editorial modeling and advertising/image modeling.
Signed at age 17 with the Elite modeling agency of Los Angeles, Maran appeared on her first cover with Glamour magazine in 1998, and she was the featured Guess? Girl in their summer 1998 and fall 1998 campaigns. After building a resumé of over 25 commercials and advertisements, including a music video for the popular boy-band the Backstreet Boys, in which she was bitten on the neck by Dracula, played by Howie. Maran moved cross-country to join with Elite in New York City. In 1999, she landed a multi-year deal with Maybelline. Maran appeared in the annual Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue for three consecutive years; from 2000 to 2002.
Josie's interest in the arts extends beyond film. When not in acting class, Josie is training herself in "dance classes... violin classes, speech classes, everything. I'm just trying to train myself in the arts, you know? Nobody else is gonna do it so I'm going to. I'm gonna take on the world." Her interest in music led her to play casually in two bands: Darling, with actress Nicole Richie, and Hollywood 2000, where she sang and played violin.
In 2001, Maran appeared in an independent film, as title character Mallory in The Mallory Effect. In 2002, Maran appeared as Susan in Swatters. In 2004, she appeared in three films - as a French model in Little Black Book, as one of Dracula's brides in Van Helsing, and briefly as a cigarette girl in The Aviator. Maran appeared in a short film "The Confession" alongside Wentworth Miller in 2005, and as Kira Hayden in The Gravedancers in 2006. Maran will not play Polly Hudson in The Final Season, scheduled for release in 2007. This role is now played by Rachael Leigh Cook.
In 2005, she was recruited by EA Games to appear as a main character in the street-racing computer and video game, Need for Speed: Most Wanted, which was released on November 17, 2005. She plays the game's second lead Mia Townsend, who guides the lead character through the game.
In June 2007, Josie Maran launched her own cosmetics product line, named Josie Maran Cosmetics.
On August 29, 2007 ABC announced Josie will compete on Dancing with the Stars. Josie and dance partner Alec Mazo took part in a chat session held at JosieAndAlec.com. They were the first couple eliminated from the show on September 26, 2007.
Later that same night, Josie Maran appeared on Jimmy Kimmel Live and in reference to getting voted off first, said, "I should have cut my legs off."
Personal life
Maran was quoted as saying on Jimmy Kimmel Live, August 12, 2004: "I don't believe in marriage. I just don't think it's necessary in this day and age. I just think if you need to get married, then you're already distrusting the person. Why do you have to sign something to show your love? You just love, everyday." Maran talked about quitting modeling and acting to live in Hawaii and teach children, on Jimmy Kimmel Live, 24 October 2005. She reported to have also started yoga, eating organic foods, and trying to quit smoking.
Maran gave birth to her first child, daughter Rumi Joon, on June 20th at her home in Los Angeles. Father is photographer Ali Alborzi.
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May 07, 2008

AKA Nora Louise Kuzma
Born: 7-May-1968
Birthplace: Steubenville, OH
Gender: Female
Race or Ethnicity: White
Sexual orientation: Bisexual
Occupation: Pornstar, Actor
Nationality: United States
Executive summary: We Love You, Traci
Father: Louis Kuzma
Mother: Patricia Briceland
Sister: Lorraine (older)
Sister: Rachel (b. 1970)
Sister: Grace (youngest)
Husband: Brook Yeaton (m. 29-Sep-1990, div. 1995)
Husband: Ryan Riel Grainger (m. 26-Jun-1999, div. Feb-2000)
Husband: Jeffery Lee (m. 23-Feb-2002)
Boyfriend: John Enos III (1996-98, broken engagement)
Slept with: Tom Byron (25 scenes)
Slept with: Christy Canyon (7 scenes)
Slept with: Ron Jeremy (4 scenes)
Slept with: Ginger Lynn (3 scenes)
Slept with: Peter North (16 scenes)
Slept with: Harry Reems (5 scenes)
Slept with: Marc Wallice (11 scenes)
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May 07, 2008
AKA Nora Louise Kuzma
Born: 7-May-1968
Birthplace: Steubenville, OH
Gender: Female
Race or Ethnicity: White

Sexual orientation: Bisexual
Occupation: Pornstar, Actor
Nationality: United States
Executive summary: We Love You, Traci
Father: Louis Kuzma
Mother: Patricia Briceland
Sister: Lorraine (older)
Sister: Rachel (b. 1970)
Sister: Grace (youngest)
Husband: Brook Yeaton (m. 29-Sep-1990, div. 1995)
Husband: Ryan Riel Grainger (m. 26-Jun-1999, div. Feb-2000)
Husband: Jeffery Lee (m. 23-Feb-2002)
Boyfriend: John Enos III (1996-98, broken engagement)
Slept with: Tom Byron (25 scenes)
Slept with: Christy Canyon (7 scenes)
Slept with: Ron Jeremy (4 scenes)
Slept with: Ginger Lynn (3 scenes)
Slept with: Peter North (16 scenes)
Slept with: Harry Reems (5 scenes)
Slept with: Marc Wallice (11 scenes)
Traci Lords, also known as Traci Elizabeth Lords and Tracy Lords, is an American film actress, producer, film director, writer and singer. She first achieved notoriety for her underage appearances in pornographic films and Penthouse magazine (she was 15 years old in her first film), later becoming a television and B-movie actress.
Early life
Nora Louise Kuzma was born in Steubenville, Ohio to Louis and Patricia Kuzma (née Briceland). Her stage name is said to be in tribute to Katharine Hepburn's character Tracy Lord from The Philadelphia Story (the same character played by Grace Kelly in High Society), or from the first name of her high school best friend Traci and the last name of her favorite actor from Hawaii Five-O, Jack Lord. At twelve, she fled from her abusive, alcoholic, father to Lawndale, California, with her mother and three sisters. In 1983, she began attending Redondo Union High School. She eventually had an abortion, which she paid for by herself, went through a nervous breakdown, and ran away from home.
Porn career
At age 15, she was living with her mother's ex-boyfriend, Roger. Posing as her stepfather, he helped her respond to classified ads requesting models. Using a fake ID provided by Roger that stated she was 20 rather than 15, she started in the porn industry with Jim South at the World Modeling Agency in Sherman Oaks, under the name Kristie Elizabeth Nussman.
Shortly after, she was modeling for widely distributed adult magazines, most notably Penthouse, in the same September 1984 issue that exposed Miss America 1984, Vanessa Williams. She quickly ventured into adult movies. Her first movie was What Gets Me Hot!, followed by Those Young Girls and Talk Dirty To Me Part III, all made in the first half of 1984. Lords' youthful appearance and enthusiastic sexual performances propelled her to stardom. By the time she was 18, she had appeared in 100 adult films; however, Lords argued in her autobiography that about 80 of those films were composed from leftover and re-edited footage from the original 20 films that were shot.
In May 1986, authorities discovered she had been underage while making pornographic movies and arrested her, as well as the owners of her movie agency and X-Citement Video, Inc. (See United States v. X-Citement Video.) The ensuing prosecution against the agencies cost the pornographic film and distribution industry millions of dollars, as they were obliged by law to remove hundreds of thousands of her videotapes, films and magazines from store shelves to avoid the risk of prosecution for trafficking in child pornography (the legality varies with countries: while it is illegal in France to produce a pornographic film involving an actor under 18, the film remains legal). In her book, Lords suggested hypocrisy on the part of the movie producers and the news media, arguing that the porn industry actually got richer from the publicity of the scandal, even as they complained of losing money after destroying her illegal movies. Lords felt she was also exploited by the reporters, who used censored stills from her unlawful films. Lords herself was never charged with a crime, since as a minor she was unable to give informed consent to perform sex acts on film for money. Instead, the agents and producers who accepted her fake IDs were charged and people affiliated with the films in question experienced legal troubles for years.
Like most starlets of the time, Lords received a salary for her appearances in X-rated movies and didn't own the rights of those films. According to her autobiography, she made $35,000 as total salary for all of those movies, including the $5,000 she received for her appearance in Penthouse. Most of this money was spent on rent and drugs. It also paid for a black Corvette that her boyfriend later wrecked.
For her last few films, she and another much older boyfriend formed the Traci Lords Company, where he co-produced and directed the movies. Lords received a smaller salary, but also received part of the rights of these movies.
Only one of these films, Traci, I Love You, was produced after her eighteenth birthday, making it the only one legally available in the United States. (However, in non-US jurisdictions where the age of consent is lower, as well as over the Internet, her earlier films continue to be distributed).
After her arrest, Lords sold her rights to this film for $100,000. This action led to claims that Lords herself had tipped off the authorities to gain immunity from prosecution, while profiting from the movie. No proof has ever surfaced to substantiate this claim. Lords denies this notion in her autobiography, and claims that she was reluctant to sell the rights, since at that time she was trying to become a mainstream actress and didn't want any older movies still available. Also, she wrote she knew nothing of people's real names or who produced which film, and did not provide such information to the FBI. The FBI agents, "appeared annoyed" when she could not provide the information they wanted. She said that the agents claimed to have monitored her for three years.
Government prosecutors declared that Lords was a victim of a manipulative industry, maintaining she was drugged and made to do non-consensual acts. But industry insiders, like Ron Jeremy, Ginger Lynn and Tom Byron, say they never saw her use drugs, and that she was fully aware of her actions, even if, as a minor, she could not legally consent. One of her co-workers from that time, Christy Canyon, has gone so far as to say about Lords' autobiography: "I think her book could have been fabulous, except that she was lying throughout the whole thing."
While Lords decries the pornographic film industry, she continues to use the stage name she gave herself as a minor, and ultimately made it her legal name. She wrote, "I chose to stop running from it. Instead, I won it, legally changing my name to Traci Elizabeth Lords. That's who I was, and that's who I was going to be." Lords stated that she is not trying to deny her past, telling Oprah Winfrey: "I found you can run but you cannot hide".
Post porn career
Lords moved into mainstream films, and has appeared in a number of B-movies. At 18, Lords began studying at the Lee Strasberg Theatre Institute, and soon after, starred in a remake of Roger Corman's film Not of This Earth. Then in 1990, she appeared in John Waters' Cry-Baby, playing the role of Wanda Woodward. Other movies on her resume include Blade, Tommyknockers, Black Mask 2: City of Masks, and Chump Change. The latter won her a Best Actress Award at the U.S. Comedy Arts Festival. She has also made cameo appearances in Serial Mom, Nowhere and Virtuosity.
In addition to movies, Lords has also made many appearances in TV shows, including Married... with Children, MacGyver, Highlander: The Series, Tales from the Crypt, Hercules, Gilmore Girls, and Will & Grace among others, along with recurring roles in Profiler, Roseanne, and Melrose Place. From late in 2000 to 2001, Lords appeared in the Francis Ford Coppola produced sci-fi series First Wave, playing Jordan Radcliffe, the newest member of a group called Raven Nation that combats extraterrestrial aliens.
In the 1990s, Lords began developing a career as a singer, performing vocals on the Manic Street Preachers U.K. Top 40 hit, "Little Baby Nothing", and also appearing in the music videos of other performers and groups. In 1995, Lords made her solo debut, in collaboration with Juno Reactor and Jesus Jones' Mike Edwards, called 1000 Fires. The Juno Reactor-produced first single "Control" reached #2 on the Billboard Dance Charts. The song "Control" was featured in the 1995 movie adaptation of the game Mortal Kombat, which played as an instrumental.
Lords returned to the music scene in 2004 with a new, independently produced recording, the double A-side "Sunshine".
In 2003 she published her autobiography, Traci Lords: Underneath It All (ISBN 0-06-050820-5), which made the New York Times bestseller list. In December 2003, Lords wrote and directed a short film with Fox Searchlab entitled Sweet Pea, released and shown at film festivals in 2005. The film is loosely inspired by an experience recounted in her autobiography; a teenage girl finds herself overcome with doubt after being raped by her boyfriend.
Lords' most recent film appearance is Zack and Miri Make a Porno, which her character is loosely based on herself. She is a fan of Kevin Smith's films, but refused to do some of her nude scenes because her famous body changed after giving birth to her child.
Personal life
On October 7, 2007, Lords gave birth to a son, Joseph Gunnar, her first child with husband of five years, Jeff Lee.
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May 06, 2008

Birthdate:May 6, 1983
Birth Place:Toledo, Ohio
Height:5' 11"
Career Start:
Getting Rachel Back (2003)
Adrianne Palicki (b. May 6, 1983, Toledo, Ohio) is an American actress who currently stars as "Tyra Collette" on the NBC television series Friday Night Lights.
She appeared in the Aquaman-based WB pilot Mercy Reef as an evil siren, but the pilot was not picked up for series by the CW network, a result of The WB and UPN network merger, which occurred while the pilot was being filmed.
Other television credits include Smallville as Kara in the season 3 finale ("Covenant"). Palicki also starred in Supernatural as "Jessica Moore", Sam Winchester's doomed girlfriend, killed by a demon, in its pilot episode. The character reappears in the Supernatural season 2 episode, "What is and What Never Should Be".
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May 04, 2008

AKA Kimora Lee Perkins
Born: 4-May-1975
Birthplace: St. Louis, MO
Gender: Female
Race or Ethnicity: Multiracial
Sexual orientation: Straight
Occupation: Fashion Designer, Model
Nationality: United States
Executive summary: Fabulosity
Father: Vernon Whitlock, Jr.
Mother: Kyoko Perkins
Husband: Russell Simmons (Def Jam records, m. 20-Dec-1998, two daughters, separated)
Daughter: Ming Lee Simmons (b. 21-Jan-2000)
Daughter: Aoki Lee Simmons (b. 2002)
Simmons is the daughter of an Asian mother named Joanne Perkins (who now goes by the Japanese name "Kyoko") and an African American father named Vernon Whitlock Jr., a former federal marshal who is now a barber in St. Louis.
Growing up in the North St. Louis suburb of Florissant, she was very self-conscious about being a geek. Other children called her "Chinky giraffe" because of her height and Asian ancestry. By the time she was 10 years old, she was 5-foot, 8-inches tall, and she became the target of schoolyard taunts and teasing. With no Asian population in her community, she had difficulty fitting in with the mostly black student body who shunned her because of her Asian ancestry. Hoping to boost her confidence, Simmons's mother enrolled her daughter in a modeling class when she was eleven years old. Two years later, at the age of thirteen, Simmons was awarded an exclusive modeling contract with Chanel and just after her fourteenth birthday, she left for Paris to work under the tutelage of famed Chanel designer Karl Lagerfeld. She quickly gained attention in the fashion world when Lagerfeld closed his haute couture show with Simmons, who strutted down the runway decked out as a child bride. "Everything people thought was weird about me before," Simmons told People Weekly, "was now good". By age 14, she had grown to a height of six feet, and became a self-professed muse for Lagerfeld. She and three other Lagerfeld models (Bernadette Jurkowski, Shoshanna Fitzgerald and Olga Sobolewska) were dubbed "the four Karlettes".
She is a graduate of Lutheran North High School in St. Louis County, Missouri.
Marriage
On December 20, 1998, she married hip-hop mogul Russell Simmons (of Phat Farm Fame and co-creator of Def Jam Records along with Rick Rubin) The Simmons' have two daughters named Ming Lee Simmons (born January 21, 2000) and Aoki Lee Simmons (born August 16, 2002). Both Ming Lee and Aoki Lee model for Baby Phat Kids Collection. Russell Simmons filed for divorce in March 2006 , saying the couple had split some time before. It is unknown whether or not the divorce has been finalized. Kimora and Russell Simmons ended their marriage but still work together on Phat Farm and Baby Phat clothing lines. As of September 2007, Russell stepped down as CEO of Phat Fashions, LLC and Kimora is now active President and Creative Director of Baby Phat and the new Creative Director of Phat Fashions, LLC; a Kellwood Company.
Personal
As of May 2007, Simmons has officially been dating actor Djimon Hounsou. They are often spotted together as a family with her two young children.
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May 04, 2008

Born May 4, 1979
Location Poland
Dominika Wolski is a Polish actress
Biography
Born in Szczecin, Poland Wolski emigrated to North America at the age of 7. She began acting and writing stories at the same time as a youngster and her work, both on and off screen, reflects a mixture of classical and rebellious influences. She is classically trained but is known as an actress who, "takes risks and brings a refreshing energy to any character she brings to life", (Jason Bourque, director, Game Over). She has worked with Jeremiah Chechick (Benny and Joon), Bobby Roth (Prison Break, 2007) and actors that range from Luke Perry to Dominic Purcell to Bruce Greenwood. She has been interviewed on MTV 3 times and photographed for Elle magazine as well as En Route.
Dominika's striking model features are often compared to those of a young Uma Thurman and her natural energy is likened to Cameron Diaz: the tall gamine's physique is deceiving to some degree since Dominika was part of a national volleyball recruit camp for the Olympic Games and enjoys a variety of sports.
She plays classical piano and speaks Polish, French and English. Since switching to a serious pursuit of a film career in 2001, Dominika has guest starred on almost every series on the West Coast Vancouver film scene including Under the Cover which she wrote and starred in. Dominika travelled to Mozambique by invitation of director Ed Zwick to visit the set of "Blood Diamond": she was also a guest on the red carpet for the Los Angeles premiere in Dec. 2006. Dominika actively supports actors working for social and environmental change: she is a member of Hollywood Hill, drives a VW Beetle and hopes to help promote clean diamonds as an alternative for her fellow actresses for glamorous events. Red carpet photos of her can be found on Wire Image, Getty and Daily Celeb- 2007 looks like a big year for Dominika as she travels between Los Angels and Vancouver.
June 2007: Dominika's autographed Sonya Dakar sunscreen from Oscar week is part of a celebrity auction for Cancer Cure alongside Madonna and Drew Barrymore. Her european Elle interview has also just come out and you can find her photos from the "Walk for the Underdog" charity for dog and cat shelters as well as the World Premiere of "Evan Almighty" on line. Dominika is recurring on the series "Jpod" (due for release in 2008) and will be filming the lead role of Miranda in "The Vanquisher" in October-November 2007.
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May 03, 2008

Debora Caprioglio (born 3 May 1968) is an Italian actress. Internationally, she is best known for playing the title character in the 1991 film Paprika by Tinto Brass and for having been married to Klaus Kinski (1987-1989).
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May 02, 2008

AKA Jennifer Jean von Oy
Born: 2-May-1977
Birthplace: Connecticut
Gender: Female
Race or Ethnicity: White
Occupation: Actor
Nationality: United States
Executive summary: Six LeMeure on Blossom
Jennifer von Oÿ (born May 2, 1977 in Stamford, Connecticut, United States) is an American actress and country singer best known as Stevie van Lowe on the UPN sitcom The Parkers and Six LeMure in Blossom
Von Oÿ was born in Stamford, Connecticut and attended Newtown High School in Newtown, Connecticut. She later attended the University of Southern California where she was a member of the sorority Kappa Alpha Theta. Her last name is German and her paternal grandparents were German immigrants. Her maternal grandparents were Dutch immigrants.
Jenna began her acting career in 1986, appearing in the television film The Kingdom Chums: Little David's Adventure and guest-starring in an episode of Tales from the Darkside. She later appeared in a series of commercials endorsing the popular early 1990s beverage, Boku. Jenna has appeared in several television series such as Blossom, in which she played the character Six LeMeure, Family Values, in which she played Phoebe Huck, and The Parkers, as quirky sidekick Stevie van Lowe. She also provided the voice of Stacey in A Goofy Movie and the voice of Trinket St. Blaire in Pepper Ann. She most recently appeared on an episode of Cold Case, and parodied Alexis Bledel's character of Rory Gilmore on Family Guy.
In June 2000, Jenna recorded a demo CD in an attempt to launch a recording career in country music. Jenna's debut album, Breathing Room, was released on September 18, 2007.
In 2004, she posed for a spread in King magazine. In 2005, she was named number 94 on VH1's "100 Greatest Kid Stars". Jenna is precisely 5 feet (152 cm) tall.
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May 01, 2008

Born: 1-May-1972
Birthplace: Pittsburgh, PA
Gender: Female
Race or Ethnicity: White
Sexual orientation: Straight
Occupation: Actor
Nationality: United States
Executive summary: Jawbreaker
Father: (surgeon)
Mother: (ice skater)
Brother: Jeffrey (ice skater)
Sister: Jennifer (ice skater)
Husband: John Kassir (actor, m. 30-May-1998)
Julie Benz is an American actress. Benz grew up in Murrysville, Pennsylvania, and graduated from Franklin Regional High School in 1984. She later graduated from New York University. Initially, Benz followed her mother and older siblings, Jeffrey and Jennifer, into the figure skating field, and competed in the 1988 US Junior Ice Skating Championship. Benz gave up her pursuit of ice skating after an accident.
Benz achieved her first acting role in a local play in 1989. She is perhaps best known for portraying the vampire Darla in the TV series Buffy the Vampire Slayer, where she was the first character seen on screen and spoke the first line, and later in the spin-off series, Angel. She has acted in such films as Jawbreaker and As Good as It Gets.
Benz also provided the voice of Miranda Keyes in the video game Halo 2, though she will not return to the role in the upcoming sequel Halo 3 as Bungie wanted to try a new direction with the Miranda Keyes by giving the character an accent.
She is married to actor John Kassir.
For her role as Rita Bennett on Dexter, Benz won the 2006 Satellite Award for Actress in a Supporting Role in a Series, Mini-Series or Motion Picture Made for Television.
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May 01, 2008

Birthdate May 1, 1974
Birthplace Ft. Lauderdale, Florida, U.S.
Measurements 34" C - 23" - 35"
Tiffany Fallon (born May 1, 1974 in Ft. Lauderdale, Florida) was named Playboy's Playmate of the Year for 2005. She is married to Joe Don Rooney of the country singing group, Rascal Flatts. Fallon is mostly Irish American.
Prior to becoming a Playmate, Fallon was a student and a member of Delta Gamma at Florida State University. In the late 1990's, she was a cheerleader for the Atlanta Falcons, and was a member of the cheerleading squad when the Falcons qualified for Super Bowl XXXIII. In 2000, she won the Miss Georgia USA 2001 title in her first attempt at the pageant crown. She went on to represent Georgia in the Miss USA 2001 pageant. She made the first cut of ten delegates, placed fifth in the swimsuit competition (9.10) and second in the evening gown competition (9.33), going into the top six in fourth place. Her evening gown was a simple black design. Fallon placed highest in the final interview round, but eventually placed second runner-up in the nationally televised event.
In 2005 Fallon posed for Playboy magazine and was named Playmate of the Year. Her award for being chosen as Playmate of the Year was $100,000 cash and a blue Chevrolet Corvette convertible. Her Playmate of the year luncheon at the Playboy Mansion was featured in an episode of E! reality television series, The Girls Next Door. She also had cameo appearances in other episodes.
Receiving the distinction at the age of 31, Tiffany is the second oldest Playmate to be chosen as Playmate of the Year.
Since becoming Playmate of the Year, she has continued to work for Playboy on various occasions, including modeling the new bunny outfit created by Roberto Cavalli at The Palms in Las Vegas. She has also continued her nude modeling work with the launch of her own website, which is a partnership with Playboy in 2005. She was also featured in the Playboy Cyber Club's celebrity photographer section, being photographed by her husband and country music star Joe Don Rooney of Rascal Flatts. Fallon currently lives in Brentwood, Tennessee.
TV Appearances
Fallon first appeared in Toby Keith's country music video "Who's Your Daddy".
She had made several comedic guest star appearances on Spike TV's The Lance Krall Show.
Fallon was on an episode of The Simple Life: Interns as a judge for a beauty pagent which Paris Hilton participated in.
Currently, she is co-host on the International Fight League's weekly program IFL Battleground with MMA legend, Bas Rutten.
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