Born: August 31, 1986
Location: Washington D.C.
Biography
Because Haley’s father Richard operated Glass Wing Recording Studios from the basement of their Washington D.C. home, she has been immersed in melodies and rhythms since infancy. The family relocated to Portland, Oregon when she was three, and a few years later she began playing piano and composing her own tunes, eventually picking up the guitar. While attending Northwest Academy, a performing arts school, she interviewed the Dalai Lama, toured the UK with Hindu saint Shree Maa, performed for the WWII Ace Pilots Convention, and acted in more than 80 plays. Despite her active life, she managed to finish school two years early.
Following graduation, the family moved again, this time to an organic blueberry farm located on Vancouver Island, British Columbia. There, Hayley continued to hone her songwriting skills and familiarized herself with the workings of the recording studio. A move to Los Angeles to pursue acting ended abruptly when a nasty bout of acid reflux made her lose her voice. When it returned almost a half a year later, she recorded the song “Drifter,” which led to a deal with Universal Music. Her debut album, Sunseed, which she wrote, produced, recorded and co-mixed, was released on June 19, 2007. Hayley's mesmerizing voice and her music's infectious grooves have started to catch on with an ever-growing audience. She earned a standing ovation at Seattle's Northwest Folk Life festival as well as the Vancouver Island Music Awards' Female Vocalist of the Year title.

Born: 30 August 1985
Location: Hungary

Filmography
Pali di carne (2007) (V)
... aka Sex Toys Are Not Enough (USA)
Girls on Girls 11 (2007) (V)
Private Black Label 56: I Love Silvia Saint (2007) (V)
Russian Institute: Lesson 8 (2007) (V) (as Cindy)
Russian Institute: Lesson 9 (2007) (V)
Secret World of Young Nymphos 2 (2007) (V)
Asscore 2 (2006) (V) (as Cindy)
Bu$iness (2006) (V)
... aka Business (Italy)
Only Girls Allowed (2006) (V) (as Veronika Clinton)
Story of Sophia (2006) (V) (as Cindy)

AKA Lauren Felice Collins

Born: 29-Aug-1986
Birthplace: Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Gender: Female
Religion: Jewish
Race or Ethnicity: White
Occupation: Actor
Nationality: Canada
Executive summary: Degrassi: The Next Generation
Lauren Felice Collins (born August 29, 1986) is a Canadian actress. She was born in Thornhill, Ontario, is of Jewish heritage, and is a graduate of Thornlea Secondary School. She is currently attending the University of Toronto.
Career
She is perhaps best known for playing Paige Michalchuk on Degrassi: The Next Generation. Collins has also appeared in numerous theatrical productions, playing the title roles in Alice in Wonderland and the production of Annie. She has been a member of CharActors Theatre Troupe, a children's community theatre company, for over five years. In May 2002 she made her directorial debut in a production of Grease, reportedly at Green Acres Summer Camp. She also starred in the film Take the Lead, appearing alongside Antonio Banderas. She has appeared in a reality television show called Girls v. Boys, a battle-of-the-sexes show that airs early Monday mornings on The N.

Born: 29-Aug-1971
Birthplace: Sarasota, FL
Gender: Female
Race or Ethnicity: White
Sexual orientation: Straight
Occupation: Actor
Nationality: United States
Executive summary: Spy Kids
Boyfriend: Sebastian Gutierrez (writer/director)
Carla Gugino (born August 29, 1971) is an American actress known for her roles of Ingrid Cortez in the Spy Kids trilogy and the title character of the TV series Karen Sisco.
Biography
Early life
Gugino was born in Sarasota, Florida, of Italian, Irish, and English ancestry. Her parents separated when she was two and her mother moved the family to Paradise, California, when she was four years old. Despite moving around California a great deal as a child, Carla Gugino remained a straight-A student and graduated valedictorian. At the age of 15 she was spotted by a modeling agency in San Diego and moved to New York. This was unusual as at only 5 feet 4 inches (1.65 meters) tall, she was considered too short for catwalk work. Finding the experience too much, Gugino moved back to California that summer. Partly at the suggestion of her aunt, game show model Carol Merrill, she subsequently studied acting.
Career
Gugino has starred in many films including art-house film Lovelife along with Saffron Burrows and Sherilyn Fenn, Snake Eyes (1998), Judas Kiss (which she also co-produced, 1998), the three Spy Kids films, Son in Law, The One with Jet Li, and Sin City. Her most recent role is in American Gangster.
She also played Ashley Schaeffer in the television series Spin City. Gossip suggested Gugino was removed after twelve episodes because Tracy Pollan—wife of star Michael J. Fox—felt her chemistry with Fox was too good. She starred in the short lived CBS science fiction series, Threshold. In 2004, she starred in Roundabout Theatre Company's After the Fall opposite Six Feet Under's Peter Krause. In late 2006, she will begin the Off-Broadway play by Tennessee Williams, Suddenly Last Summer opposite actress Blythe Danner.
Gugino has also appeared in a wide range of TV programs including ALF, Doogie Howser, M.D., Saved by the Bell, Who's the Boss? and The Wonder Years, and is featured in the video to Bon Jovi's 1994 song "Always" and also on the last season of Chicago Hope as brain surgeon Dr Gina Simon. Gugino also frequently appears in films written and directed by her longtime boyfriend Sebastian Gutierrez, as they've worked together on several films in the past. Their latest collaboration is the vampire horror film Rise: Blood Hunter starring Lucy Liu as a reporter who is turned into a vampire against her will. She then pursues the vampire sect that turned her. Gugino plays a member of the vampire sect. The film was in limited release beginning on June 1, 2007.
Gugino played Vincent Chase's new agent, Amanda, in the second half of Entourage's third season for a couple of episodes. Gugino appeared nude in the May 2007 issue of Allure. Gugino will play Sally Jupiter, the original Silk Spectre, in the upcoming Watchmen movie.

Rimes was born Margaret LeAnn Rimes in Jackson, Mississippi, USA in 1982. LeAnn started singing before the age of two. A few years later, Rimes and her family moved out to Texas, and before age 11, she released her first album titled Everybody's Sweetheart (album) in 1991 on a small independent label. The album's release garnered the attention of label executives and disc jockeys, including disc jockey, Bill Mack, who was fascinated by Rimes' Patsy Cline-styled voice. Mack then began to cultivate a plan to make Rimes a mainstream Country music artist. Between the years 1992 and 1994, Rimes continued to release albums under independent labels that failed gaining any type of success in the Country music world. By then her family had relocated to Garland, Texas. She began honing her skills as a country artist performing on Johnnie High’s Country Music Revue in Ft. Worth, a popular show that featured local artists and national acts. Throughout 1995, Rimes' career continued to gain momentum, as she performed more than 100 concerts and appeared on television shows across Texas.
In 1995, Mack arranged a recording contract for Rimes under the Nashville record label, Curb Records, and also sent out a demo release of the song "Blue", a song Mack had originally intended for legendary Country-Pop music singer, Patsy Cline to record. However, her death in March 1963 failed for Mack to give the song to Cline. The DJ claimed that he had been waiting over 30 years for the right singer to record "Blue" for him. However, this story was later found out to be over-exaggerated. The song had actually been recorded by three different artists, including Bill Mack and Kenny Roberts, who both released singles of the song under Starday Records in the 1960s. Kathryn Pitt released her version of "Blue" in her native country of Australia. Soon, Rimes was recording her newest album (also called Blue), which was soon released to the general public in 1996.
The Success of the "Blue" Album
The album, Blue hit stores in 1996 when Rimes was only 13 years old, and sold 8 million copies. Blue debuted at No. 3 on the Billboard 200 albums chart and sold 123,000 copies within its first week. The album was so successful, it was certified sixtuplet platinum by the RIAA. The single, "Blue" was also released in 1996, and hit the Country Top 10, reaching the very top, peaking at No. 10 on the Billboard charts, as well as reaching the Billboard Hot 100 Top 30 at No. 26. People were shocked by Rimes' Patsy Cline-styled voice, and thererfore, the story of how "Blue" came to be was spread across the country and mainstream press, and added people to believe that Rimes was indeed the successor to the legacy Cline left behind in early 1963. The fact that that Rimes credited Cline to be one of the biggest inspirations to her career could of also been a factor to this myth.
Because of the success of "Blue", Rimes became one of the youngest Country music singers ever to rise to fame. At 13 years old, Rimes was a teenage Country star. Rimes has been often compared to the previous teen stars to rise to fame in Country music, including Brenda Lee in the 1950s, Tanya Tucker in the 1970s, as well as Marie Osmond in the early 70s. Taylor Swift (who rised to fame as Country star in 2006 with her debut Top 10 hit, "Tim McGraw" at 16 years old) credits Rimes as one of the biggest inspirations to her career today.
Two other singles were released from the Blue album in 1996, starting with the song, "Hurt Me" mid-year, which was not a major Country hit. However the successor to the song, "One Way Ticket (Because I Can)", proved to be a solid follow-up reaching the No. 1 spot on the Country charts in late 1996, which was co-written by former Country singer, Judy Rodman. "One Way Ticket" is currently Rimes' only No. 1 Country hit to date on the United States charts. In mid-1997, one last single was released from the album, titled "The Light in Your Eyes". The song was a Top 5 Country hit, peaking at No. 5. Rimes was nominated for the Country Music Association Horizon award and the CMA Best Country Singer, becoming the youngest singer in the history of the CMA awards to receive a nomination; she won neither award. Although Rimes did not win the awards mentioned above, she did win two Grammy awards, one for Best New Artist and one for Best Female Country Vocal Performance for "Blue", becoming the youngest female Country singer to ever win the awards.
Success Continues to Grow - The "You Light Up My Life" and "Sittin' on Top of the World" Albums
The year 1997, marked a year of new trails for LeAnn Rimes. Curb re-released a previous album by Rimes done on an independent label before her breakthrough in 1996, and re-named it Unchained Melody: The Early Years. The title track, a remake of the song "Unchained Melody" reached No. 3 on the Country charts in early 1997. The album hit No. 1 on both the "Top Country Albums" list and the Billboard 200 list. Later that year, she released her third full-length studio project, You Light Up My Life: Inspirational Songs whcih debuted at No. 1 simultaneously on the Billboard 200, Top Country Albums, and Christian Albums charts.
The first single released from the album, "How Do I Live" was made a hit in late 1997, and was more of a Pop music hit than a Country music hit. She recorded "How Do I Live" for the 1997 film Con Air. Though her version was rejected by producers in favor of Trisha Yearwood's rendition, it became the first certified multi-platinum country single and holds the record for most weeks spent on the Billboard U.S. Hot 100, peaking at No. 1 there. Because the song was unsuccessful on the Country charts, it didn't even make the Top 40, only hitting No. 43 there. Yearwood's version hit No. 2 on the Country charts and No. 23 on the Billboard Hot 100. In late 1997, the title track of the album, "You Light Up My Life" was released. The song was a also a cover version (previously recorded and made famous by Debby Boone in 1977), but was not successful, only reaching No. 34 on the Billboard Hot 100, and didn't even peak in the Top 40 on the Billboard Country list. One last single was released in early 1998, titled "On the Side of the Angels", which was a major Country hit, reaching the Top 5 early that year

AKA Sarah Christine Roemer

Born: 28-Aug-1984
Birthplace: San Diego, CA
Gender: Female
Race or Ethnicity: White
Occupation: Actor
Nationality: United States
Executive summary: Disturbia
Sarah Christin Roemer is an American actress and model.
Roemer was born in San Diego, California. At the age of 15, she began modeling. In 2007 she posed for Maxim Magazine. She also portrayed Lacey in the 2006 Takashi Shimizu film The Grudge 2 and co-starred with Shia LaBeouf in 2007's Disturbia.

AKA Barbara Goldbach

Born: 27-Aug-1947
Birthplace: Queens, NY
Gender: Female
Religion: Jewish
Race or Ethnicity: White
Sexual orientation: Straight
Occupation: Actor, Model
Nationality: United States
Executive summary: Atook zug zug Lana
Father: Howard Goldbach (policeman)
Mother: Marjorie Goldbach
Husband: Augusto Gregorini (businessman, m. 1968, sep. 1975, div. 1978, two children)
Daughter: Francesca Gregorini (b. 1969)
Son: Gian Andrea (b. 1972, with cerebral palsy)
Boyfriend: Roberto Quezada (backstage worker, dated 1976-78)
Husband: Ringo Starr (Beatle, m. 27-Apr-1981)
Son: Zak Starkey (stepson, musician, Lightning Seeds, The Who, b. 13-Sep-1965)
Son: Jason Starkey (stepson, musician, b. 19-Aug-1967)
Daughter: Lee Starkey (stepdaughter, fashion designer, b. 17-Nov-1970)
Barbara Bach started modeling at 16, and within a year she was routinely a cover girl. At age 18, she attended the Beatles concert at Shea Stadium in New York, but only to chaperone her younger sister. Bach was not yet a big fan of the Beatles, preferring Aretha Franklin. Still in her late teens, she married an Italian millionaire. While living with him in Rome she began working as an actress, and by the time they were divorced she was more famous for her B-films than for modeling.
In her finest moment as an actress, she played Bond girl Anya Amasova in the 1977 adventure The Spy Who Loved Me, with Roger Moore. She auditioned to be a replacement angel on the original Charlie's Angels, but lost the part to Shelley Hack. She also starred in the comedy Caveman with Ringo Starr and Shelley Long, and married the ex-Beatle after filming. Although she and Starr appeared together in several films, Bach is best remembered for her early work in such low-budget Euroschlock as Il Fiume del grande caimano (The Great Alligator) with Mel Ferrer and L' Umanoide (The Humanoid) with Richard Kiel, and L' Isola degli uomini pesce (Island of the Fishmen) with Joseph Cotten.
Starr and Bach share an estate in Monaco.

AKA Sarah Cassandra Chalke

Born: 27-Aug-1976
Birthplace: Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
Gender: Female
Race or Ethnicity: White
Occupation: Actor
Nationality: Canada
Executive summary: Fake Becky on Roseanne, Dr. Reid on Scrubs
Father: Doug Chalke (lawyer)
Mother: Angie Chalke (adoption agency manager)
Sister: (one elder, one younger)
Boyfriend: Jamie Afifi (media attorney, dated since 2003)
Sarah Chalke was the second actress to play Becky on Roseanne, replacing Lecy Goranson in the show's sixth season. In a strange casting quirk, Goranson returned to the role of Becky for Roseanne's eighth season, but shared the part, with Chalke and Goranson each playing Becky in alternating episodes. Goranson left again at the start of the show's final season, leaving Chalke as Becky until the end. For quick-reference Roseanne purposes, Chalke is usually referred to as "the fake Becky". She later played the cowgirl Gloria on the Canadian drama Nothing Too Good for a Cowboy, and came to moderate fame playing the neurotic Dr Elliot Reid on the long-running American hospital sitcom Scrubs.
Sarah Chalke grew up in Vancouver, Canada, and began appearing in local stage productions at the age of eight. While she was in junior high school, she reported environmental news for the Canadian series, KidZone, and she was still in high school when she started on Roseanne. Her first film role was a brief bit in Jim Varney's ninth outing as Ernest P. Worrell, Ernest Goes to School.

AKA Ariadna Thalía Sodi Miranda

Born: 26-Aug-1971
Birthplace: Mexico City, Mexico
Gender: Female
Race or Ethnicity: Hispanic
Sexual orientation: Straight
Occupation: Singer, Actor
Nationality: Mexico
Executive summary: Latin soap opera queen and pop star
Father: Ernesto Sodi Pallares
Mother: Yolanda Miranda Mange
Sister: Laura Zapata (actress)
Sister: Grasiela
Sister: Federica
Sister: Ernestina Sodi
Boyfriend: Luis Miguel (singer)
Husband: Tommy Mottola (m. 2-Dec-2000)
The youngest of five siblings born into an affluent Mexican family, Thalia's earliest performance training took place in the form of classical ballet lessons. Inspired by her sister's career as an actress, she decided to pursue her own stardom at a very young age, enrolling in the Instituto Mexicano de Musica to study piano at the age of eight and joining child act Din-Din the following year. A period with Vaselina began in 1984, after which she joined the teen pop group Timbiriche -- initially, just in the role of backup singer, but before long taking over the lead position. As a member of Timbiriche she would record three albums and establish enormous popularity for the group (and herself) in Latin America. An acting career was also established around this time when Thalia was offered a role on Quinceñera, a Spanish-language soap opera directed towards the teen and pre-teen viewing audience. Minor parts on (earlier) La Pobre Señorita Limantour and Luz Y Sombra were also undertaken.
Internal squabbles brought an end to Timbiriche before the end of the 1980s and Thalia relocated to Los Angeles for a year, where she met producer Alfredo Díaz Ordaz. With Ordaz she recorded her eponymous 1989 debut, and would susequently collaborate with him on her next two releases Mundo de Cristal (1991) and Love (1992). Building on her new success as a solo artist, she took a job in Spain as a host of the variety show VIP de Noche. A resumption of her work in soap operas was also made in Spain, and consecutive involvement with the programs María Mercedes, Marimar, and María La Del Barrio throughout the mid-90s steadily increaded her popularity.
A return to recording was made in 1995, resulting in her most popular record yet, En Extasis, released on EMI Mexico; the album earned platinum status and spent several weeks at the numer one position on the Latin charts. Two more similarly-successful records had followed by the start of the next decade, as well as a Filipino-language release Nandito Ako and a role in the feature film Mambo Café. The beginning of 2000 was rounded out with a peculiar (although probably unintentional) swapping of partners with singer Mariah Carey: after ending her relationship with fellow Latin star Luis Migel she married Carey's ex-husband Tommy Mottola, while Miguel went on initiate a relationship with Carey soon after calling it quits with Thalia.
A second release titled Thalia in 2002 featured the singer's first few ventures into the English language, while yet another eponymous collection in 2003 announced her full arrival into the English-speaking market. Her own clothing line, the Thalia Sodi Collection, was established in association with the K-Mart chain of stores, soap opera work has remained ongoing, and her own magazine (Thalía La Revista) was launched in 2004.

Born: 25-Aug-1987
Birthplace: Tarzana, CA
Gender: Female
Race or Ethnicity: White
Occupation: Actor
Nationality: United States
Executive summary: The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants
Father: Ernie Lively (actor, b. 29-Jan-1947)
Mother: Elaine (talent manager)
Brother: Eric Lively (actor, b. 31-Jul-1981)
Brother: Jason Lively (actor, b. 12-Mar-1968)
Sister: Elaine Lively
Sister: Robyn Lively (actress, b. 7-Feb-1972)
Blake Christina Lively (born August 25, 1987 in Tarzana, California) is an American actress known for her roles in The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants, Accepted and the book-based TV show Gossip Girl.
Early life
Blake Lively is the youngest of five children; her parents are actors Ernie and Elaine Lively. She has two sisters, Lori and Robyn, and two brothers, Jason and Eric. Both her parents and all four siblings are, or have been, in the entertainment industry. Her brother-in-law is Bart Johnson.
She attended Burbank High School in Burbank and has participated in the National Show Choir. Blake is known for her tall 5' 10" frame and blonde hair.
Career
Lively started out in film with a bit role in Sandman in 1998. In 2005, Lively played Bridget in The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants, for which she received a Teen Choice Award nomination for "Choice Movie Breakout - Female". She will be reprising the role in 2008 in the sequel, The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants 2, alongside co-stars Alexis Bledel, America Ferrera and Amber Tamblyn.
She starred in Accepted, Simon Says and Elvis and Anabelle in 2006. She also received the Breakthrough Award from Hollywood Life for her role in Accepted on December 10, 2006.
In 2007, she was cast in the de facto lead role of Serena van der Woodsen in the new teen drama, Gossip Girl, co-starring alongside Leighton Meester, Chace Crawford, Taylor Momsen and Penn Badgley.
Lively scored her first major magazine cover with November's 2007 Cosmo Girl. In the magazine she discussed her high school career.

Born: 25-Aug-1970
Birthplace: Rheinberg, Germany
Gender: Female
Race or Ethnicity: White
Sexual orientation: Straight
Occupation: Model
Nationality: Germany
Executive summary: Top German supermodel
Boyfriend: David Copperfield (magician, engagement called off, dated 1994 until 1999)
Boyfriend: Tim Jeffries (engagement called off, heir to Green Shields stamp fortune, dated 1999)
Husband: Matthew Vaughn (producer, m. 25-May-2002)
Son: Caspar Matthew De Vere Drummond (b. 30-Jan-2003)
Boyfriend: Prince Albert II
Daughter: Clementine De Vere Drummond (b. 11-Nov-2004)
Claudia Schiffer was born in Rheinberg, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, which is a small town just outside Düsseldorf. She was born to Gudrun Schiffer and her lawyer father Heinz Schiffer. She has two brothers, Stefan and Andreas, and one sister called Ann Carolin.
During her school life, Schiffer commented that she was quite popular but felt socially overshadowed by the other girls in her year, who all acted like stars and were very dominant. She has revealed that because she was so tall, she became very shy and did not want to be noticed. She was also subjected to jealousy by others as she came from a wealthy family that were well-known locally in the area. Schiffer became fluent in French and English as well as in her home language of German.
Schiffer originally wanted to become a lawyer and work in her father's law firm. She later dropped these aspirations when she was spotted in a nightclub in Düsseldorf by Michel Levaton in October 1987 at seventeen, the boss of Metropolitan Model Agency who signed her up to become a model.
Modelling and fashion
After she was spotted as a potential model in a disco at the age of just seventeen, she completed her education by her mother's wishes and then began to work as a model. She flew out to Paris for a trial photo shoot and soon after she appeared in the cover of French ELLE after being well received in Paris. After several other magazine appearances she quickly achieved supermodel status when she was selected by Karl Lagerfeld to become the new face of Chanel. Schiffer continued to become a world-famous supermodel, becoming instantly recognizable with her blue eyes, blond hair and tall figure.
In the early 1990s she starred in highly publicised Guess? jeans adverts in North America which created essential publicity for Schiffer. Soon after appearing in the campaigns, her name was launched worldwide, appearing on five magazine covers in the United States and seven covers around Europe. Her modelling career continued to grow and she was contracted to model for Revlon. She also became deeply involved in modelling for several catalogues and modelled on high profile catwalk shows. Schiffer has done catwalk modelling for Versace, Jil Sander, Dolce & Gabbana, Ralph Lauren and Valentintino. Vanity Fair, Rolling Stone, the New York Times and People all saw Schiffer as the first model to make their covers. She has also appeared many times on covers of Vogue, Harper's Bazaar, Cosmopolitan and Time.
Schiffer has also been the face of Mango, a chain of Spanish clothes stores and Accessorize, where she had her ears pierced especially for her Autumn/Winter 2006 Accessorize advertising campaign in 2006. Schiffer still holds a contract with L'Oreal and Ebel watches, and her billboard picture for Kenar has also hung over millions of tourists at Time Square. Since 1990, she has created a swimsuit calendar each year which she stars in and designs herself.
Her career continued to develop when she secured contracts with Pepsi appearing in advertisements promoting the brand, and has also danced with a cartoon version of Mickey Mouse in advertisements promoting Fanta for an estimated $2 million. She appeared nude in a 1998 Citroën advertisement, securing her a reputed £3 million. However from behind the car only her feet and shoulders upward could be seen and she did not know how to drive at the time. Karl Lagerfeld recently filmed her for a Dom Perignon campaign, some ten years after her first appearances in Chanel adverts.
Beyond modelling
Schiffer has appeared in a number of films and music videos. Her first appearance in film was in the children's movie Richie Rich in 1994 and then starred opposite Dennis Hopper and Matthew Modine in Blackout. She went on to appear in Friends & Lovers and Black and White in 1999, In Pursuit and Life Without Dick in 2001, and then Love Actually in a semi-cameo role. Schiffer has made several other cameo appearances in film which include, Ben Stiller's Zoolander in 2001. However, she never became as successful as an actress as she did by modelling.
As well as many film appearances, Schiffer has appeared on several chat and television shows such as Larry King Live, The Tonight Show, The Late Show with David Letterman, Late Night with Conan O'Brien, Dharma & Greg and Arrested Development. She was also in boyband Westlife's music video of Billy Joel's "Uptown Girl," as the iconic uptown girl and had a cameo in Bon Jovi's video "Thank You for Loving Me".
During her modelling career, she has also released four exercise videos, entitled Claudia Schiffer's Perfectly Fit, which were successful and reached the bestsellers list. Schiffer has hosted the French Fashion Awards and the World Music Awards in Monaco.
With fellow supermodels Christy Turlington, Naomi Campbell, and Elle Macpherson, Schiffer was joint owner of a chain of fashionable restaurants called the Fashion Café in 1995. Schiffer remains a prominent figure in German society and helped present and carry the trophy with Pele during opening ceremonies at the 2006 World Cup. She also presented Prince William with a polo trophy in 2002.
Personal life
Schiffer was engaged to the magician David Copperfield for about six years until 1999. They first met at one of Copperfield's stage shows, where he invited her on stage to take part in his 'Flying' illusion, and he then subsequently sawed her in half during a joint appearance on German television. Following the end of her engagement to Copperfield, she met and had a relationship with Tim Jefferies.
On 25 May 2002, she got married to the film producer Matthew Vaughn. Instead of an engagement ring, Vaughn bought her a tortoise. On her wedding day, many journalists and 200 onlookers gathered to see her in her wedding dress. She was married in St. George's church in the village of Shimpling. The wedding reception was held at Schiffer's Elizabethan mansion.
Schiffer and Vaughn have two children together; son Caspar Matthew, (born 30 January 2003) and daughter Clementine de Vere Drummond, (born 11 November 2004). They all now live in London. During spare time, Schiffer enjoys horse riding, painting, playing tennis and skiing.
Schiffer has had two significant problems with harassment in the past. In 2002, an Italian kitchen porter, known as Agostino Pomata, was arrested after making nine visits to Schiffer's £5 million Suffolk mansion near Bury St Edmunds, attempting to see her. Charges against Agostino Pomata were dropped however, as he was sectioned under the Mental Health Act. He had believed that the Pope had told him to marry Schiffer. Then later in 2004, Louis Brisette a Canadian man, was accused of harassing Schiffer, again at her mansion in Suffolk. He reportedly called at her mansion three times in total in the hope of seeing Schiffer. He also repeatedly left letters at her home.
She is also currently a UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador for the United States.

AKA Rachel Sarah Bilson

Born: 25-Aug-1981
Birthplace: Los Angeles, CA
Gender: Female
Race or Ethnicity: White
Sexual orientation: Straight
Occupation: Actor
Nationality: United States
Executive summary: Summer Roberts on The O.C.
Boyfriend: Adam Brody (actor, dated 2004-06)
Bilson was born in LA, California to a Jewish American father, writer/director/producer Danny Bilson, and a Philadelphia-born Italian American mother, sex therapist Janice Stango. Her father comes from a show business family; her great-grandfather, George Bilson, was the head of the trailer department at RKO Pictures, while her Brooklyn-born great-grandmother, Hattie Bilson, was a screenwriter and her grandfather, Bruce Bilson, is a film director. Bilson's parents divorced during her childhood, and in 1997, her father remarried Heather Medway, an actress and the mother of Bilson's half-sister Hattie (born December 19, 2001).
Bilson has been noted as having a "self-destructive, rebellious period" during her teen years. When she was thirteen, she and a group of her brother's friends were involved in a car accident, a head-on collision with another car. As a result, Bilson was unconscious for a few days, had a scar above her right eye, and sometimes suffers from migraines and memory loss; she has stated that the experience "changed" her, encouraging her to "stop... getting into trouble" and stopping her from "going down that road".
Bilson graduated from Walter Reed Middle School in 1996 and from Notre Dame High School in 1999. During her time at Notre Dame, she appeared in productions of Bye Bye Birdie, Once Upon a Mattress and The Crucible, and appeared on stage together with Katharine McPhee, who attended the same school and would later be a finalist on American Idol.
Career
Bilson attended Grossmont College in San Diego, but dropped out after one year, taking her father's advice to pursue a professional acting career and making several appearances in commercials, including advertisements for Raisin Bran and Pepto-Bismol. She made her screen acting debut in early 2003, appearing in episodes of Buffy the Vampire Slayer, 8 Simple Rules for Dating My Teenage Daughter, and in the short film, Unbroken. Bilson was subsequently cast in The O.C., which debuted in August of 2003. Her character, Summer Roberts, was initially intended to appear in only a few episodes, but became a series regular after a successful run, as Bilson's on-screen romance with Seth Cohen (Adam Brody) became a noted aspect of the series.
As a result of the success of The O.C., Bilson has become well-known among teenage audiences. At the 2005 Teen Choice Awards, Bilson collected three awards - "Choice Hottie Female", "Choice TV Actress (Drama)" and "Best Onscreen TV Chemistry" (jointly won with Adam Brody). In 2005, Maxim magazine named her sixth in their annual "Hot 100 List"; in 2006, the publication awarded her #14. The UK edition of FHM Magazine named her 28th in the 2006 100 Sexiest Women in the World list, while the US Edition Ranked her 77th in 2005. Bilson was also named one of the "50 Most Beautiful People" in 2006 People magazine.
Bilson's first film role was in The Last Kiss, a romantic comedy/drama also starring Zach Braff and Jacinda Barrett. In the film, which opened on September 15, 2006, Bilson plays a college student who seduces Braff's character. Bilson had long wanted to work with Braff, having admired the film Garden State, which he directed and starred in. A body double was used for the film's sexual scene between Bilson and Braff's characters, as Bilson specified that she "feel[s] really strong[ly]" about not appearing in a nude scene. One review of the film noted that Bilson played the role with "surprising depth", although another critic described her role as "Glenn Close in Fatal Attraction as an airhead valley girl with a hot bod".
Bilson has stated that she prefers acting in feature films to appearing on television, and that she would like the kind of roles "that Natalie Portman and Scarlett Johansson are offered". She has specified that though she is "grateful" for the success of The O.C., she feels that the show "is over" and that she is "ready to move on" to film roles. In September of 2006, unconfirmed reports surfaced that Bilson was linked to star in a film version of the comic book character Wonder Woman; Bilson has stated that these reports were untrue. These reports spawned solely from a Wonder Woman costume she wore in an episode of The O.C.
In late 2006, Bilson was cast in the role of Millie in Doug Liman's thriller Jumper, as the replacement for actress Teresa Palmer; Bilson began filming the role in October of that year. The film is scheduled for a February 2008 release. Rachel will also appear in friend Josh Schwartz's new NBC comedy, Chuck.
Personal life
Bilson began dating her The O.C. co-star, Adam Brody in 2003. In 2005, Brody gave Bilson a pit bull, Penny Lane, as a birthday present. The couple later adopted another dog, Thurmen Murmen. The two split in December 2006. Since early Spring 2007, Rachel has been sighted periodically around Los Angeles and the Toronto area with her Jumper co-star, Hayden Christensen, fueling rumors that the two are dating.
Rachel Bilson has been recognized by several media sources as being a "fashion junkie" She has described herself as having a "vintage" sense of style, and noted Kate Moss and Diane Keaton as inspirations. Bilson enjoys watching television game shows, especially Jeopardy!, and has stated that if she were not acting, she would be a pre-school teacher. Her favorite designers are Stella McCartney, Marc Jacobs and Chanel. Bilson has turned down requests to appear seminude in magazines, specifying that she feels that her body "is sacred" and "not there for the whole world to see". However, she has been featured in Stuff magazine. She currently resides in Los Angeles, California.

AKA Allene Walker

Born: 25-Aug-1961
Birthplace: Tullahoma, TN
Gender: Female
Race or Ethnicity: White
Sexual orientation: Straight
Occupation: Actor
Nationality: United States
Executive summary: Dr. Sam Waters on Profiler
Husband: John Landgraf (m. 1997, three children)
Son: Jon Walker Landgraf (b. 7-Aug-1997)
Ally Walker is an American actress. She was born Allene Walker on August 25, 1961 in Tullahoma, Tennessee but grew up in Santa Fe, New Mexico.
Originally intending to become a scientist, she attended the University of California at Santa Cruz, where she obtained a degree in biochemistry. Subsequently, she worked as a researcher on a genetic engineering project, while preparing for UCLA Medical School. However, while spending a semester at Richmond College of Arts in London, England, she discovered an interest in performing. Her professional dramatic career began when she was cast in the 1988 film Aloha Summer. Her role ended up on the cutting room floor, but her interest in acting had been kindled. Her scientific career was put on hold indefinitely.
Walker became a regular in the TV Series Santa Barbara, appearing as Andrea Bedford. Since then, she has gone on to numerous roles in films and TV series. She is probably best known for her starring roles in Moon Over Miami and Profiler. She has also appeared in the films Singles, Universal Soldier and Happy, Texas.
In September 2007 Ally starred in the HBO series "Tell Me You Love Me".
On June 14, 1997 she entered into her second marriage with John Landgraf, then a producer for NBC. The couple were married in her parents' home in Santa Fe. Their son, Jon Walker Landgraf, was born on August 7 of that year.

Born: 24 August 1987
Location: Washington State

Born: August 24, 1985
Location:Glendora, California
Measurements Bust: 36"D
Waist: 24"
Hips: 34"
Height 5 ft 5 in
Weight 110 lb
Destiny Davis is an American model.
Davis graduated high school at the age of sixteen, leaving for Las Vegas to become a certified lifeguard at a posh resort. After winning a bikini contest in Las Vegas, good friend and Playboy Playmate Angela Melini sent pictures of Davis to Playboy magazine. She was chosen to be a Playboy Playmate in January 2005. She later appeared in several episodes of the E! Reality television series The Girls Next Door.
In a Playboy interview, Davis confessed that her health has been affected by eating too many cookies.
She currently studies economics and business law at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas.

Born: August 23, 1989)
Location: Laguna Beach, California
Breanna Christine Conrad (born August 23, 1989 in Laguna Beach, California) is an American teenager featured on season three of MTV's Laguna Beach: The Real Orange County. She is the younger sister of Lauren Conrad, who was featured in seasons one and two of the show and in the MTV spin-off reality series The Hills.
Breanna Conrad was born on August 23, 1989 in Laguna Beach, California. She has lived in Laguna all her life. She is the middle child in her family. She has an older sister, Lauren and a younger brother, Brandon. She has always been athletic. Breanna likes to play tennis. Not long ago, Breanna was just a normal girl living in a beautiful beach city. Then MTV came to town and put her big sister Lauren "LC" in a reality show called "Laguna Beach". Breanna had to get used to the MTV cameras and crew around her house. It was fun to watch her sister and friends being filmed and then to watch it on TV. Little did she know, her turn would come to be in front of the camera. Breanna was very excited when MTV asked if they could film her for "Laguna Beach" Season 3.
Laguna Beach: The Real Orange County
Background
Breanna Conrad first appeared on MTV's Laguna Beach in an episode on season one during a family dinner. Following the show's success in the first two seasons, MTV renewed the franchise for season three, with an all new core cast, including Conrad.
Season Three
The third season of Laguna Beach premiered on August 16 2006. Breanna Conrad was among the cast members shown in the opening credits.
One of the plot-lines on season three of Laguna Beach followed the relationship between Conrad and her childhood best friend Raquel Donatelli. Conrad and Donatelli had a falling-out sometime prior to the start of season three. For the better part of the filming, Donatelli was close friends with Tessa Keller, season three's main character and narrator. Conrad and Keller did not get along with one another, in part because they are attracted to the same guys. Conrad was usually shown with other friends, including Lexie Contursi and Kylie Barela. In episode four Conrad and Donatelli went to lunch and talked, but they did not make up and resume their friendship until the final episode of the season. As of December 2006, Conrad and Donatelli continue to be good friends.
According to Breanna's Official MySpace page she has decided not to return for the fourth season of Laguna Beach.
Laguna Beach has not been renewed for a fourth season. MTV decided to "go up the coast," to Newport Beach, CA.

Born: 22 August 1986
Location: Santa Barbara, California
Lacie Heart, is an American pornographic actress.
Biography
Heart grew up on a ranch in San Luis Obispo, California and studied ballet as a child.
Heart danced at a Canoga Park strip club's amateur night at age 19 on a whim. While she was there she was recruited and subsequently met with agent Derek Hay of L.A. Direct Models in August of 2005. Her first on-camera appearance was in a scene for Fantasy Wash with Jack Venice who had introduced her into the adult film business. She participated in Jenna Jameson's American Sex Star contest, which she lost. She signed with Vivid soon January of 2006 and was with them for nearly a year.
Heart was introduced to fellow performer Scott Nails at a party about a month after she had entered the business. They became a couple soon after. Heart left Vivid after she told them that the only guy she wished to work with on camera was Nails; Vivid already had one actress who did only girl-girl, and they did not care to have Heart signed to work exclusively with one guy. In December 2006, Lacie signed with Digital Playground.
As of June 2007, Heart lives in Arizona and commutes to Los Angeles to film; when asked why she does not live in Los Angeles, Heart replied "I think there's too many people, and I don't like traffic." She has stated that she plans to continue making adult films while she goes to school, then become a museum curator afterwards.

AKA Hayden Leslie Panettiere

Born: 21-Aug-1989
Birthplace: Palisades, NY

Gender: Female
Race or Ethnicity: White
Sexual orientation: Straight
Occupation: Actor
Nationality: United States
Executive summary: Cheerleader Claire Bennet on Heroes
Father: Skip Panettiere
Mother: Leslie Vogel
Brother: Jansen (younger)
Boyfriend: Stephen Colletti (actor/reality TV personality, together since 2006)
Hayden began appearing in commercials at 11 months old, first appearing in an advertisement for Playskool Toy Train. She later landed a role as Sarah Roberts on the ABC soap opera One Life to Live (1994- 1997) and later as the child Lizzie Spaulding on the CBS soap opera Guiding Light when she was eight years old (1997 - 2001). In Guiding Light, for Hayden's character Lizzie's battle with leukemia, the show received a Special Recognition Award from the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society for bringing national awareness of the disease to the attention of daytime viewers.
She has appeared in over a dozen full-length feature films, as well as several made-for-TV movies. In addition, she had a leading role as the voice of Kairi in the highly successful Kingdom Hearts series of video games for the Playstation 2. She had a starring role in FOX's Ally McBeal as Ally McBeal's daughter and a recurring guest role in Malcolm in the Middle. She guest starred in Law & Order: SVU. She played Sheryl Yoast in the film Remember the Titans. She starred in Bring It On: All or Nothing. She has a younger brother, Jansen Panettiere, who acts in the movie The Last Day of Summer.
Panettiere currently stars as Claire Bennet in the NBC series Heroes as a high school cheerleader with regenerative healing powers. Due to her role on Heroes, she has become a regular on the science fiction convention circuit, having been invited to attend many popular conventions around the world in 2007, including New York Comic-Con and Fan Expo Canada.
She will later appear in the drama film Fireflies in the Garden as a younger version of Emily Watson's character Jane Lawrence. Coincidentally, George Newbern, who played Sephiroth in Kingdom Hearts II alongside Panettiere, will also appear in the film.
In June 2007, she signed with the William Morris Agency to represent her in her endeavors. She was previously represented by United Talent Agency.
Forbes estimated that she received $2 million dollars in 2007.
Music
Panettiere was nominated for a Grammy in 1999 for Best Spoken Word Album for Children for A Bug's Life Read-Along [2000].
She is currently working on her debut album, which was originally planned for release on May 8, 2007. The album, however, has been pushed back several times. It was first pushed back until August, then to December. Entertainment Weekly later confirmed that the album would now be released in 2008.
Modeling
Neutrogena made her the cover girl for their new worldwide ad campaign; following in the footsteps of actresses Josie Bissett, Jennifer Love Hewitt, Mandy Moore, Kristin Kreuk, Mischa Barton, Gabrielle Union and Jennifer Freeman.
She was voted sixth on FHM's 100 Sexiest Women in 2007. Hayden Panettiere is the cover girl, and number one star, in Entertainment Weekly's "The EW 100: The Stars We Love Right Now" issue, June 29/July 6, 2007.

AKA Kim Victoria Cattrall

Born: 21-Aug-1956
Birthplace: Liverpool, England
Gender: Female
Race or Ethnicity: White
Sexual orientation: Straight
Occupation: Actor
Nationality: United States
Executive summary: Samantha on Sex and the City
Father: Dennis Cattrall (construction engineer)
Mother: Shane Baugh (homemaker)
Husband: Larry Davis (author, m. 1975, div.)
Boyfriend: Jonathan Silverman (actor, dated in 1980s)
Boyfriend: Daniel Benzali (actor, broken engagement)
Boyfriend: Pierre Trudeau (Canadian Prime Minister, dated 1981)
Husband: Andreas J. Lyson (architect, m. 1982, div. 1989)
Husband: Mark Levinson (audio equipment magnate, m. 4-Sep-1998, sep. 2002)
Kim Cattrall is best known as the slutty Samantha on Sex and the City. She studied drama at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art, at Canada's Banff School of Fine Arts, and at the American Academy of Dramatic Arts in New York. She made her film debut in Otto Preminger's next-to-last but undoubtedly worst film, Rosebud with Peter O'Toole. Her second film was the weird farm-gang drama Deadly Harvest with Clint Walker.
Cattrall was featured in the original Porky's, and starred in the original Police Academy, opposite Steve Guttenberg. She had the title role in Mannequin, the memorable uncomedy about a window figurine that comes to alleged life to fulfill Andrew McCarthy's fantasies. She starred with John Savage in the wretched thriller Where Truth Lies, and with Tom Hanks in the godawful Bonfire of the Vanities. Among her entanglements with monsters, she starred with Craig T. Nelson in the cheesy TV monster movie Creature, with Casper Van Dien in the sucky Modern Vampires, and she faced the intergalactic tyrant Robby Benson in a sci-fi catastrophe called City Limits. She also starred with Kathleen Turner and Christopher Lloyd in the stupefying Baby Geniuses, played Britney Spears' mother in the abysmal Crossroads, and she was Michelle Trachtenberg's skating coach in the saccharine-sweetened Ice Princess.
Among her rare watchable roles, Cattrall played a crusading lawyer in Big Trouble in Little China with Kurt Russell, she was the traitorous Vulcan Valeris in Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country, and she had a featured part in Kathryn Bigelow's sultry mini-series Wild Palms.
Cattrall capitalized on her fame from Sex and the City by writing a sex manual, Satisfaction: The Art of the Female Orgasm. Her husband was co-author for the book, but they separated shortly after its publication.

AKA Alicia Roanne Witt

Born: 21-Aug-1975
Birthplace: Worcester, MA
Gender: Female
Race or Ethnicity: White
Sexual orientation: Straight
Occupation: Actor
Nationality: United States
Executive summary: Cecil B. DeMented
Father: Robert Witt
Mother: Diane Witt (Guinness record holder for "longest hair")
Brother: Ian
Boyfriend: Peter Krause (actor, dated circa 1995)
Witt was born in Worcester, Massachusetts to Diane, a junior high school reading teacher, and Robert Witt, a science teacher and photographer. She has a brother, Ian. Witt was discovered by David Lynch when she appeared on the television show That's Incredible! in 1980; she had recited Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet. He cast her in the movie Dune (1984), where she played Paul Atreides' young sister Alia Atreides. Afterwards, she left Hollywood to concentrate on her studies and music. She was home schooled by her parents. She studied piano at Boston University and won several national and international classical piano competitions, including the "Bartok-Kabalevsky International Piano Competition".
At age fourteen, Witt earned her high school diploma. Shortly thereafter, she moved to Hollywood with her mother (who was noted from 1988-93 in the Guinness Book of Records for the world's longest hair; it is not known for sure if Diane still has her record breaking hair) to pursue a career as a full-time actress. Soon, David Lynch, to whom she refers as a mentor, created the role of Gersten Hayward especially for her in his successful series Twin Peaks. He cast her again in Blackout, a segment in his short-lived HBO series Hotel Room. That was the last collaboration between the two for a while.
Adult career
During this time, Witt supported herself by playing piano at the Regent Beverly Wilshire Hotel. She went on to play small parts in Mike Figgis' Liebestraum (in which her brother Ian also appears), the Gen-X drama Bodies, Rest & Motion and the TV movie The Disappearance of Vonnie. In 1994, Witt landed her first lead role in a film, playing a disturbed teenager named Bonnie in Fun. She received the Special Jury Recognition Award at the Sundance Festival and was nominated for Best Actress at the Independent Spirit Awards. This performance made Madonna want Witt to be cast as her witch-lover in the first segment The missing ingredient of Four Rooms.
Witt was introduced to a larger audience playing the role of Zoey Woodbine, daughter of actress Cybill Shepherd's character in the sitcom Cybill from 1995 to 1998. Between seasons she starred in films: Mr. Holland's Opus, Alexander Payne's abortion comedy Citizen Ruth, Passion's Way and Bongwater. After Cybill was cancelled, Witt received a leading role in the Scream-ish campus-horror Urban Legend and the animated feature Gen¹³ which was never released because the studio stopped funding before the completion of the movie.
In 2000, Witt had starring roles on the television shows Ally McBeal and The Sopranos; the lead role in the comedy Playing Mona Lisa, an instant-classic turn as an anal porn star in John Waters' Cecil B. Demented, and her stage debut in Robbie Fox's musical The Gift at the now-closed Tiffany Theater in Los Angeles, in which she played a high-priced stripper with a disease. In the years following, Witt's acting career slowed down. She had a small part in Cameron Crowe's Vanilla Sky, which was intended as a reference to her roles in Dune and Liebestraum. She also played a college graduate who discussed losing her virginity in the experimental Ten Tiny Love Stories and the trailer-trash girl Barbie in American Girl, which was released to video in 2005.
She appeared in the 2002 romantic comedy Two Weeks Notice. In 2003 and 2004, she turned her back on Hollywood and lived primarily in the UK filming The Upside of Anger opposite Kevin Costner; and she starred as Evelyn in a stage-production of Neil LaBute's The Shape of Things. Between the two projects, she went to South Africa to shoot the German TV movie Kingdom in Twilight which also goes by the name The Sword of Xanten and The Ring of the Nibelungs. She played Kriemhild in this film interpretation of the epic poem Das Nibelungenlied, which was released in the US as Dark Kingdom: The Dragon King. On June 14, 2004, Witt modeled what is believed to be the most expensive hat ever made, for Christie's auction house in London. The Champrau d'Amour, designed by Louis Mariette, is valued at $2.7 million (US) and is covered in diamonds. See the hat.
Witt will join the cast of Law & Order: Criminal Intent for the 2007-08 season as Det. Nola Falacci, a character who will be a temporary replacement for Julianne Nicholson's character as Nicholson is out on maternity leave.

AKA Carrie Anne Moss

Born: 21-Aug-1967
Birthplace: Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Gender: Female
Race or Ethnicity: White
Sexual orientation: Straight
Occupation: Actor
Nationality: Canada
Executive summary: Trinity in The Matrix
Husband: Steven Roy (m. 1999, one son)
Son: (b. Sep-2003)
Moss was born in Burnaby, British Columbia. She has an older brother, Brooke. Moss's mother named her after The Hollies’ 1967 hit song, "Carrie-Anne". As a child, Moss lived with her mother, Barbara, in Vancouver, after her parents divorced. At the age of eleven, she joined the Vancouver children's musical theatre and later went on to tour Europe with the Magee Secondary School Choir in her senior year. She attended high school with Gil Bellows. She subsequently enrolled at the American Academy of Dramatic Arts in Pasadena upon her return. In 1985, she left Vancouver for Toronto and became a model. This career took her to Japan and Spain in the late 1980s.
Career
While in Spain, she landed a role in the drama series Dark Justice, her first television appearance. She moved from Barcelona to Los Angeles, California with the series in 1992. Her big breakthrough came when she was chosen to play the latex-clad hacker Trinity in the 1999 box office success The Matrix. She reprised the role of Trinity in two sequels as well as providing voice-overs for video game and animated spin-offs of the film. (Coincidentally, she had previously co-starred in an unrelated made-in-Canada television series also entitled Matrix.)
Following the release of the The Matrix, Moss was hired for starring roles in four films. First, audiences saw her star opposite Burt Reynolds and Richard Dreyfuss in the Disney mobster comedy The Crew for producers Barry Sonnenfeld and Barry Josephson. Then they saw her star with Val Kilmer in Red Planet for Warner Bros. for producer Mark Canton. She then co-starred opposite Juliette Binoche, Alfred Molina, Johnny Depp and Dame Judi Dench in Miramax’s Oscar-nominated film Chocolat for director Lasse Hallstrom and producer David Brown. Next she starred with Guy Pearce in the independent thriller Memento for which Carrie-Anne earned an Independent Spirit Award.
Personal life
Moss married fellow actor Steven Roy in 1999. They had a son, Owen, in September of 2003. Moss is very keen to protect her and her family's privacy and has not released the name of her other child to the public.
Moss's best friend is actress Maria Bello, who is the godmother of Moss's first son. Moss is the godmother of Bello's son, Jack.

AKA Amy Lou Adams

Born: 20-Aug-1974
Birthplace: Vicenza, Italy
Gender: Female
Religion: Mormon
Race or Ethnicity: White
Sexual orientation: Straight
Occupation: Actor
Nationality: United States
Executive summary: Junebug
Father: Richard Adams (US serviceman)
Mother: Kathryn
Boyfriend: Darren LeGallo
Early life
Adams was born in Vicenza, Italy to American parents Kathryn and Richard Adams, a U.S. serviceman stationed in Italy. She was raised as one of seven children in a Mormon family in Castle Rock, Colorado and attended Douglas County High School. While working at the Chanhassen Dinner Theater in Minnesota, she was discovered by a movie producer. Shortly after she was cast in her first comedic role in the 1999 satire Drop Dead Gorgeous.
Career
Having appeared in the films Cruel Intentions 2 (2000), Catch Me If You Can (2002) and Talladega Nights (2006), Adams has also guest-starred in such television shows as The Office, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Charmed, The West Wing, Dr. Vegas and Smallville. She has also done small films such as Psycho Beach Party.
She received critical acclaim for her role in the 2005 film Junebug. Among the awards she has won for the role are the Special Jury Prize at the Sundance Film Festival, the National Society of Film Critics award for "Best Supporting Actress", the Independent Spirit Award for Best Supporting Female, and the Screen Actors Guild Award for Best Supporting Actress - Motion Picture. In January 2006, Adams was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for the role.
In 2007, Adams will appear in the fantasy film Enchanted, which will be released in November. She is currently filming Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day in London.
Personal life
Adams has dated actor Darren LeGallo for three and a half years. When her Oscar nomination was announced, her mother, who at the time was working in a Starbucks in Castle Rock, yelled out "'My daughter was just nominated for an Oscar!" at the Starbucks.

Born: Aug 19,1987
Location: Portland, Oregon

Tammin Pamela Sursok (born August 19, 1983) is an Emmy-nominated Australian Logie Award-winning actress and musician. She is known for the roles of Dani Sutherland on Home and Away and Colleen Carlton on The Young and the Restless. She also launched a singing career (under the name Tammin), with her debut single, "Pointless Relationship", released on November 14, 2004 and debuting in the top 10 of the Australian singles chart the following week.
Biography
Early life
Tammin Sursok was born on 19 August 1983 in Johannesburg, South Africa, and at the age of 4, she emigrated to Sydney, Australia with her family. Her mother, Julie is a classically trained pianist and guitarist and as a result, Sursok was brought up surrounded by music. As a youngster, Tammin was involved with the Sydney Youth Musical Theatre, where she pursued her interests in acting, music and dance. She also studied with the Trinity Speech and Drama College and graduated with a High Distinction. Sursok was educated at Ravenswood School for Girls, in Gordon, Sydney, studying speech and drama in her final years of school. She won her part in the long-running Australian drama series, Home and Away, at the end of 1999, after completing Year 10.
Subsequent career
In 2000, Sursok began her role as Dani Sutherland on Home and Away. In 2001, she was nominated for, and won the Logie Award for Best New Female Talent category. During 2002, Tammin had the honour of being selected as Junior Youth Ambassador for New South Wales, and in 2003 received the Australian Centenary Medal for her "Service to Australian Society and Acting". While Sursok was working on Home and Away, she also begun taking steps towards starting a music career, by writing her own songs and practicing the guitar. In 2004, the same year she was nominated for Australian of the Year, Sursok left Home and Away to concentrate fully on her budding musical career.
In early 2004, Sursok began recording material for her debut album Whatever Will Be. Travelling across the globe, she worked with high profile producers responsible for churning out hits for some of the music industry's biggest names including Britney Spears, Dido and Christina Aguilera. Sursok's debut single, Pointless Relationship, became the number one most added single to Australian radio in late October, 2004. It went on to peak at number five on the ARIA charts, also earning Platinum accreditation (70,000+ copies shipped).
Sursok's second single Whatever Will Be was the number one most added track to Australian Radio in early March, and debuted and reached thirteenth on the ARIA singles chart, becoming a moderate success. Soon after, Sursok's debut album, Whatever Will Be was released, peaking at thirteenth on the ARIA album chart. The third single from the album, It's a Beautiful Thing, debuted at #30 in the ARIA singles chart.
In August of 2005, Sursok temporarily relocated to the UK and made preparations for Pointless Relationship, to be released as her international debut. However, the release was cancelled due to the lack of support the song received. In early 2006 Sursok officially moved into an apartment in Beverly Hills, Los Angeles, where she began concentrating on her acting career. She has filmed a guest role on David Spade's Rules of Engagement, spent a month in Kansas filming a lead role in the independent film Albino Farm, and has completed a supporting role in the movie Crossing Over, which stars Ray Liotta, Sean Penn, Harrison Ford and Ashley Judd. Sursok has also taken on the role of Colleen Carlton on the long running US soap The Young and the Restless (Y&R).
2008
Apart from her role as Colleen on Y&R, Sursok will be appearing in a musical called Spectacular! Spectacular!. The musical is a fairly typical, all-American story, although it will be shot in Vancouver, Canada, and is about a very preppy high school student, Courtney (Sursok), who is part of the school's Spectacular! choir. The group is in very poor shape, with all its talent having been poached by a rival squad, or having left to go to University. Courtney sees salvation in a cocky rocker (Nolan Funk), who reluctantly joins Spectacular! to win a money prize that would finance his rock 'n' roll dreams. But the rocker doesn't gamble on falling Courtney.
Tammin has been nominated as Outstanding Younger Actress in a Drama Series for the 35th Emmy Awards in 2008 for her performance as Colleen in Y&R.
Personal life
Sursok has a pet Parrot, and two dogs, Smudge and Harry. Sursok moved to USA in February 2006 to pursue an acting career. Sursok is signed with the famous Gersh agency in Los Angelas.

Date of Birth:8/18/82
Hair:Brunette
Eyes:Brown
Ethnicity:Caucasian

Born: Aug 17, 1988
Birthplace: Hunan, China
Height: 5'4"
Weight: 110 lbs.
Measurements: 34B-24-36
Eye Color:Brown
Hair Color:Black
Ethnicity:White/Asian

AKA Rachel Clare Hurd-Wood

Born: 17-Aug-1990
Birthplace: London, England
Gender: Female
Race or Ethnicity: White
Occupation: Actor
Nationality: England
Executive summary: Wendy Darling
Father: Philip Hurd-Wood
Mother: Sarah
Brother: Patrick (b. 4-Apr-1995)
Rachel Hurd-Wood was born in London, England, to Philip and Sarah Hurd-Wood. She has a younger brother, Patrick, and a known uncle, Hugh Laurie, and she currently resides in Godalming, Surrey. She claims to have had thoughts of becoming a marine biologist, until recently, when she apparently became interested in working with children who have special needs or disabilities. She is currently a first-year student at Godalming College.

Audrey Bitoni, (born August 18, 1986) is an American pornographic actress of Spanish and German descent, who was nominated for the 2008 AVN Best New Starlet Award.
Biography
Audrey Bitoni was born in Pasadena and currently resides in Los Angeles County. Bitoni has said she was born an exhibitionist and was very sexual from age 12, experimenting with guys and girls alike.
Audrey entered Adult Entertainment on a whim when she was 20 years old. A former cocktail waitress, Audrey made the transition in late 2006. In July of 2008, Audrey was named JuliLand.com's JGrrl of the Year. Currently Bitoni is nominated in the Nightmoves Adult Entertainment Awards for Best New Starlet.
Audrey is set to be the cover girl for the November 2008 issue of Club International.

AKA Madonna Louise Veronica Ciccone

Born: 16-Aug-1958 (She Is 50 Today)
Birthplace: Bay City, MI
Gender: Female
Religion: Roman Catholic
Race or Ethnicity: White
Sexual orientation: Bisexual
Occupation: Singer/Songwriter, Actor, Author
Party Affiliation: Democratic
Nationality: United States
Executive summary: Truth or Dare
Father: Sylvio 'Tony' Ciccone (automotive engineer)
Mother: Madonna Louise Fortin (b. 11-Jul-1932, d. 1-Dec-1963 breast cancer)
Brother: Martin Ciccone
Brother: Anthony Ciccone
Brother: Christopher Ciccone (designer)
Sister: Paula Mae Ciccone
Sister: Melanie Ciccone Henry (m. to singer-songwriter John Henry)
Brother: Mario Ciccone (half-brother, b. 1957)
Sister: Jennifer (half-sister)
Boyfriend: Mark Kamins (producer)
Boyfriend: John Benitez ("Jellybean", musician)
Boyfriend: Jean-Michel Basquiat (artist)
Husband: Sean Penn (actor, m. 16-Aug-1985, div. 14-Sep-1989)
Slept with: John F. Kennedy, Jr., Warren Beatty, Lenny Kravitz, Sandra Bernhard
Boyfriend: Vanilla Ice (musician, 1991)
Boyfriend: John Enos III (actor)
Boyfriend: Dennis Rodman (basketball player)
Boyfriend: Carlos Leon (personal trainer, one daughter)
Daughter: Lourdes Maria Ciccone Leon (b. 14-Oct-1996 with Leon)
Boyfriend: David Blaine (magician)
Girlfriend: Jenny Shimizu (model, according to published reports)
Husband: Guy Ritchie (film director, m. 22-Dec-2000)
Son: Rocco Ritchie (b. 11-Aug-2000)
Son: David Banda ("interim adopted" in Malawi 12-Oct-2006)
Arguably the most enduring female performer on the international pop scene from the mid 80s to the early 00s -- and one of the few artists to maintain a presence in the youth-dominated charts well into her forties -- Madonna Ciccone (known simply by her first name) has successfully managed to keep media attention on herself by continually updating her sound to fit emerging musical trends, and by regularly bumping against the conservative moral standards of the American mainstream. The extravagant lifestyle of her adult years, however, contrasts sharply with her childhood in the suburbs of Detroit: the middle of six siblings born to a mixed Italian-American/French-Canadian family, Madonna was given a strict Catholic upbringing by her father, who was forced to raised his large family on his own after his wife succumbed to breast cancer in 1963. In addition to their Catholic studies, Sylvio "Tony" Ciccone also expected his children take music lessons, but after a months of piano studies he made an exception and allowed his eldest daughter to pursue her interest in ballet.
Madonna's father eventually remarried, aggravating the already strained relationship that existed between himself and his daughter. The independent, ambitious personality that made her restrictive home life more difficult to endure served her well in high school, where high grades -- as well as her sports and cheerleading activities -- ultimately qualified her for a scholarship. Upon graduating in 1976 she enrolled as a ballet student at the University of Michigan, but after only three semesters she dropped out in favor of moving to New York City to get her dance career underway. Success was far from instantaneous, and Madonna spent the next several years working menial jobs (and occasionally as a nude model) while she continued her dance training.
After working with various modern dance ensembles during the late 1970s, Madonna joined a tour with French singer Patrick Hernandez, primarily known for his 1978 song Born To Be Alive. It was at this time that she became involved with musician Dan Gilroy, who would later include her in the line-up to his band The Breakfast Club as a drummer and vocalist. By 1980 she had moved on to Emmy, a new project that also involved Breakfast Club bandmate Stephen Bray, but soon afterwards the the pair split off to create more club-oriented music, their demo recordings quickly earning a following within the New York disco scene and attracting the interest of local producer Mark Kamins. It was Kamins who subsequently connected the singer with Sire Records, producing her debut solo single Everybody for the label in 1982 and setting her pop career in motion. Both the single and its follow-up Burning Up (1983) did well enough in the dance charts to convince Sire to release a full album, and in 1983 her eponymous release positioned Madonna in the top 10 in several different countries including the US, the UK, France and Australia.
Three more singles from Madonna's debut -- Holiday, Borderline and Lucky Star -- were issued over the following year, each climbing higher than its successor, with Holiday peaking at #16 and Lucky Star reaching #4 in its ninth week. Her second album Like a Virgin (produced by Chic mastermind Nile Rodgers) was issued in November of 1984 and successfully maintained her presence in the upper reaches of the charts around the world with singles such as Material Girl, Angel, Into the Groove and of course the album's title track (her first mainstream #1 in the States). The album also gave Madonna her first significant bit of controversy: instigated in general by her raunchy performances and the sexual content of her lyrics, but focused in particular on Virgin's fourth single Dress You Up. It was this song that was included amongst the "Filthy Fifteen", a list assembled by a group of Washington wives calling themselves the Parent's Music Resource Center (PMRC) as a means to support their demand that the music industry adopt a system of ratings and censorship according to their personal moral standards.
In 1985 Madonna released her second #1 single Crazy For You, included as part of the soundtrack for the wrestling flick Vision Quest. The film also featured a brief appearance by the singer, foreshadowing her more prominent role later in the year opposite Rosanna Arquette in Susan Seidelman's Desperately Seeking Susan; Susan also made use of her track Into the Groove, previously released as the flipside of the Angel single and giving the record an added boost in sales. It was for this role that she would earn her most positive criticial notices -- something that would remain elusive throughout her subsequent acting career. Madonna's enormous commercial success continued to grow in response to her third effort True Blue (1986), which spent 5 weeks at the top of the US album charts and launched three more #1 singles (Live to Tell, Papa Don't Preach, Open Your Heart) and two more top 5 singles (La Isla Bonita and the title track). It also continued the tradition of controversy established with Like a Virgin -- this time centering around her paen to teenage pregnancy Papa Don't Preach.
The next step in Madonna's film career was a leading role alongside then-husband Sean Penn in Shanghai Surprise (1986), a spectacular critical and commercial flop. The dissolution of their marriage four years later would command far more enthusiastic media attention. The singer continued her acting work with a leading role in Who's That Girl (1987), loosely adapted from the 1938 Katharine Hepburn comedy Bringing Up Baby. Although the film did not fare particularly well at the box office, the title song earned it's star yet another #1 single, while also lending it's name to a successful international tour. The Italian leg of the tour marked the first public attack on the singer by the Vatican, who opposed her use of Catholic symbolism in openly sexual contexts and aggressively discouraged attenance to her concerts; this adversarial relationship was only worsened by her next album Like a Prayer (1989), which took the sex/religion associations even further. Papal condemnation did little to diminish sales, however (accomplishing the opposite, in all likelihood), and yet another #1 album and single were added to the iniquitous performer's credits.
Despite her status as one of the most successful pop stars in the world, Madonna's acting endeavors continued to receive poor reviews. Her next movie project, the gangster comedy Bloodhounds Of Broadway (1989), was another commercial and critical disappointment, while her contribution to the financially lucrative comic adaptation Dick Tracy (1990) was still given a lukewarm reception. As usual, her soundtrack contributions fared much better: the latter film's associated release I'm Breathless spending several weeks in the top 5, and it's lead single Vogue (not from the movie) returning her to the top of the single charts. This was followed by the multi-platinum "greatest hits" compilation The Immaculate Collection (1990), whose new track Justify My Love earned her both another #1 and a fresh burst of controversy (in response to its overtly sexual/S&M-themed video).
A temporary reversal in the singer's dismal movie fortunes began in 1991 with the tour documentary Truth or Dare, which provided a candid look behind the scenes of her 1990 Blond Ambition Tour. Although panned by many critics, it earned itself respectable returns at the box office (attracting fans who wanted to watch her make fun of Kevin Costner). This was followed in the summer of 1992 by a prominent role in the successful baseball film A League of Their Own, also featuring Tom Hanks and Geena Davis. That same year saw the publication of Sex, a softcore photo collection that was a clear bid to maintain (and amplifye) Madonna's reputation for controversy. The book served as a companion piece to her 6th full-length release Erotica, the title track of which was turned into a somewhat explicit video (although a milder version was also created for the US market); a world tour named The Girlie Show was subsequently launched in 1993, continuing the prominent use of nudity and overt sexuality that had been presented in the book and video. Her role in the erotic thriller Body of Evidence (1993) also continued this theme, but achieved little more than adding another entry to her list of unsuccessful movie projects. To cap off her "era of infamy" Madonna appeared on The Late Show with David Letterman in March of 1994, making a point of using the word "fuck" as much as possible during her interview, and setting a new record for censoring on network television as a result.
For her sixth studio release Bedtime Stories (1994) the singer backed away somewhat from the confontation of sexual attitudes that had preoccupied her previous projects and enlisted producers Nellee Hooper and Dallas Austin (separately) to create songs with a more mainstream R&B sound. Untypically, only two of the album's four singles managed to reach the top 40 (the Bjork-co-written title track being her first not to do so since 1983's Burning Up), but the second single Take a Bow still managed to spend several weeks at the top of the US charts. A second "best of" collection titled Something to Remember (1995) arrived next, once again including several new songs -- amongst which was included a cover version of Marvin Gaye's I Want You, recorded in collaboration with Hooper and the British electronic ensemble Massive Attack. A role in the Allison Anders-directed segment of Four Rooms and a cameo in Paul Auster's Blue in the Face were added to her film credits that same year.
1996 witnessed a rare occurrence for the ambitious performer: a movie project that received as enthusiastic a response to her acting as to her soundtrack contributions. For the starring role in Alan Parker's film adaptation of the musical Evita, Madonna received a Golden Globe in the category of Best Actress in a Musical or Comedy, while both an Oscar and a Golden Globe for Best Original Song was awarded to You Must Love Me (composed for the film by Tim Rice and Andrew Lloyd Webber). Her next solo release Ray of Light (1998) also marked a particularly successful point in her career, exploring the popular techno styles of the day with the assistance of electronic producer/performer William Orbit. The album would earn Madonna some of her strongest reviews, as well as returning her high into the album and singles charts in the US, the UK, Australia, Europe and Japan.
After earning another worldwide hit single for Beautiful Stranger (1999) -- a track recorded for the Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me soundtrack -- Madonna continued the upward swing of her musical fortunes with her eighth studio release Music (2000), both the album and the title song quickly finding their way to the top of the charts in more than a dozen different countries. Her film career did not fare nearly as well, however, and her next project The Next Best Thing (2000) returned the performer to the familiar territory of bad reviews and poor box office. A similar fate also greeted her next film Swept Away (2002), directed by new husband Guy Ritchie. The uncomplimentary reviews continued for her brief role in the James Bond film Die Another Day -- although, as usual, her contribution to the soundtrack (the title song) still proved to be commercially viable, climbing to the top of the dance charts and reaching the #8 position as a mainstream single despite poor critical response.
In 2003 Madonna released American Life, an album whose sombre mood was in distinct contrast to the mostly upbeat, dance party tone of it's predecessor, while still retaining a similarly ambitious musical content (both albums featuring production input from French electronica composer Mirwais Ahmadzaï). The record managed to jump to the top of the mainstream charts during it's first week, but quickly slid out of the top 40 in subsequent weeks, ending up as one of the least financially successful releases in her catalog. This poor outcome was blamed on a backlash against American Life's anti-war message, arriving as it did only a month after the US invasion of Iraq. This explanation would seem to be supported by the much warmer reception the record received in countries opposed to the invasion -- particularly France, where it remained at #1 and sold in larger quantities. Regardless of her unpopular political views, the Re-Invention world tour launched in 2004 demonstrated that Madonna still commanded an enormous following by earning the highest returns of any tour that year. It was during this period that Madonna initiated yet another facet to her carrer: that of an author of children's books. Her first two books The English Roses and Mr. Peabody's Apples arrived in 2003, followed by Yakov and the Seven Thieves and The Adventures of Abdi in 2004, and Lotsa de Casha in 2005. This new creative avenue was given a consistently positive critical reception, as well as repeatedly placing her on best-seller lists around the world.
A return to less serious fare for her next effort Confessions on a Dance Floor (2005) brought a corresponding return to chart success and platinum sales. Apparently unable to resist inviting a little more controversy into her life, for the concert tour in support of the album the singer created a routine that featured her hanging from a disco-mirror covered cross while wearing a crown of thorns during her performace of the song Live to Tell. The Christian religious community's response was predictable. I'm Going to Tell You a Secret, a live document of the earlier 2004 tour, was issued in 2006.

AKA Debra Lynn Messing

Born: 15-Aug-1968
Birthplace: Brooklyn, NY
Gender: Female
Religion: Jewish
Race or Ethnicity: White
Sexual orientation: Straight
Occupation: Actor
Nationality: United States
Executive summary: Grace on Will & Grace
Father: Brian Messing (jewelry sales executive)
Mother: Sandra (real estate agent)
Brother: Brett Messing (stockbroker)
Husband: Daniel Zelman (screenwriter, b. 1967, dated 1992-2000, m. 3-Sep-2000, one son)
Son: Roman Walker Zelman (b. 7-Apr-2004)
Debra Lynn Messing is an Emmy- and SAG-winning American actress, known for portraying Grace Adler in Will & Grace and for appearing in a series of film roles. She starred as Molly Kagan in the 2007 television series The Starter Wife.
Early life
Messing was born in the Brooklyn borough of New York City, the daughter of Sandra (née Simons), who has worked as a professional singer, banker, travel and real estate agent, and Brian Messing, a sales executive for a jewelry manufacturer. Messing is Jewish, a descendant of immigrants from Russia and Poland. When Messing was three, she moved with her parents and her older brother, Brett, to East Greenwich, a small town outside Providence, Rhode Island.
During her high school years, she acted (and sang) in a number of high school productions, including the starring role in the musical "Annie" and "Fiddler On the Roof". Messing took lessons in dance, singing, and acting. In 1986, she was Rhode Island's Junior Miss and competed in Mobile, Alabama in the America's Junior Miss scholarship program. While her parents encouraged her dream of becoming an actress, they also urged her to complete a liberal arts education before deciding on acting as a career. Following their advice, she attended Brandeis University in Waltham, Massachusetts. During her junior year, she studied theater at the prestigious London-based British European Studio Group program, an experience that fueled her desire to act.
In 1990, after graduating summa cum laude from Brandeis with a bachelor's degree in theater arts, Messing gained admission to the elite Graduate Acting Program (which accepts only about 15 new students annually) at New York University, where she earned a master's degree in fine arts after three years.
Career
In 1993, Messing won praise for her acting in the pre-Broadway workshop production of Tony Kushner's much-lauded play Angels in America: Perestroika. Consequently, she appeared in several episodes of the television series NYPD Blue during 1994 and 1995.
In 1995, Messing made her film debut with a relatively small but important role in Alfonso Arau's A Walk in the Clouds playing the unfaithful wife of Keanu Reeves. This exposure led the Fox network to make her the co-star of the television sitcom, Ned and Stacey. The series lasted for two seasons, from 1995 to 1997. Messing appeared as Jerry Seinfeld's date in two episodes of the series Seinfeld: "The Wait Out" in 1996 and "The Yada Yada" in 1997. Messing turned down a starring role in another television sitcom to appear in Donald Margulies's two-character play Collected Stories, which opened at the Off-Broadway Manhattan Theater Club. She also co-starred in McHale's Navy in 1997.
In 1998, Messing played a lead role as the bio-anthropologist Sloan Parker on ABC's dramatic science fiction television series Prey. During this time her agent approached her with the pilot script for the television show Will & Grace. Messing was inclined to take some time off, but the script intrigued her, and she auditioned for the role of Grace Adler, beating out Nicollette Sheridan, who later guest-starred on the show as a romantic rival of Grace's. Will & Grace became a ratings success, and Messing gained renown.
In 2002, she was named one of the "50 Most Beautiful People in the World" by People Magazine. TV Guide picked her as its "Best Dressed Woman" in 2003. Messing was cast by director Woody Allen in a small role in his 2002 film Hollywood Ending. Her film roles since include a happily married but ill-fated wife in the supernatural thriller The Mothman Prophecies (2002) and a supporting role in Along Came Polly (2004). The Wedding Date (2005) was Messing's first leading role in a high-profile film. It received mixed reviews but performed fairly well at the box office. Messing was featured as a judge on the season finale of the second season of Bravo's reality show, Project Runway. She also starred in the television mini-series The Starter Wife, which was nominated for 10 Emmy awards including one for Messing for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Miniseries or Movie.
In October 2007, it was announced that Messing would be reprising the role of Molly Kagan when The Starter Wife was renewed as a regular series, which will consist of 10 episodes for the second season by the USA Network cable channel.
Personal life
Messing met her husband, Daniel Zelman (an actor and screenwriter), on their first day as graduate students at NYU in 1990. The two were married on September 3, 2000, and live in New York City. On April 7, 2004, Messing gave birth to their son, Roman Walker Zelman.

Born August 15, 1990
Louisville, Kentucky
Jennifer Lawrence is an American actress and model. She is currently appearing in TBS's comedy The Bill Engvall Show, as Lauren Pearson, Engvall's oldest daughter Lauren. In the past, she has appeared on Cold Case, Medium, and Monk.
It all began as far back as she can remember when she wanted to perform in some way or another. "I just couldn't find anything that was my thing, and then I found modeling," she said. After her first local photo shoot, an agent told her she should try taking a bite out of the Big Apple and go to New York. It gave Karen Lawrence, her mother, a little indigestion at first, but Jennifer, who was then 14, soon found herself in Manhattan and later in commercials.
Photographers liked her. "They said, 'You're kind of funny and not like other models,' " she recalled. "I said, 'No, and I'm not skinny either.' "
But California is the place to be if you want to be in movies or television, and that's what Jennifer wanted, although she had almost no theatrical training.
"I got a screen test in L.A.," she said, "so I just stayed out there." Her parents moved too. Her dad, Gary, sold his business and retired and is now working for his daughter as CEO of her company, she said. They live in a condo but still maintain their home base in Louisville.
Like other actress hopefuls, she began making the rounds of casting calls. One of those stops was for "The Bill Engvall Show." She got called back. Then called back again. The third time was the charm.
"I met Engvall in the waiting room," she said. "We hit it right off." When she auditioned, she overheard him talking with the casting director. "He was saying I was the one he wanted," she recalled. Later Engvall called her himself. "He said, 'Would you like to be my daughter on the show?' I just went ballistic. He's a ball and just such a down-to-earth guy," she said.
She's also had small parts in movies, and then she got a call to play a teen in a movie by actor/director Lori Petty.
"It's her true story set in the 1970s, and I play her," Jennifer said. "My mom is a crack whore, and I try to protect my two little sisters and raise them."
But acting is not her whole life.
"I just got back from a mission trip for G.O. (Global Opportunities) Ministries in conjunction with Southeast Christian Church to the Dominican Republic, and I loved it," she said. She's ready for more. "I don't want to just rely on acting. I have an equal love for medicine. I think I might want to go to nursing school someday. I want to volunteer in several countries where I could use my nursing."
But for now she'll pursue acting because it's fun and makes her happy. You might think that with all this success so early, she'd be living the life of a party girl. "I am the most boring person alive," she insisted. "I do nothing. I don't go out to parties. I read."
She loves reading books by Philippa Gregory, who, Jennifer said, "takes history and makes it into a story." Right now she's happy to be in Louisville. "I miss Louisville when I'm in L.A.," she said. "Kentucky is just the best place in the whole world. L.A. is where my job is, but this is where my home and family are."

Born: 15-Aug-1974
Birthplace: Springdale, Newfoundland, Canada
Gender: Female
Race or Ethnicity: White
Sexual orientation: Straight
Occupation: Actor
Nationality: Canada
Executive summary: Species
Father: Brian Henstridge
Mother: Helen
Husband: Damian Chapa (actor, m. 26-Aug-1995, div. 1996)
Boyfriend: Liam Waite (actor, engaged to be married, two sons)
Son: Tristan River Waite (b. 12-Oct-1998)
Son: Asher Sky Waite (b. Sep-2001)
Henstridge was born in Springdale, Newfoundland and Labrador to Helen, a homemaker, and Brian Henstridge, a biker/contractor. She was raised in Fort McMurray, Alberta, Canada. At the age of thirteen, she entered the Casablanca Modeling Agency's "Look of the Year" contest and was chosen first runner-up. The following year, Henstridge went to Paris to pursue her modeling ambitions. At fifteen, she was featured on her first magazine cover, the French edition of Cosmopolitan. Several magazine covers followed and Henstridge went on to do television commercials for products such as Olay, Old Spice, and Lady Stetson. Her modeling career established, Henstridge moved on to a career in movies.
Movies
In her movie debut, in Species, Henstridge played a genetically engineered human form with extraterrestrial DNA. She breaks from the captivity of a laboratory and embarks on a killing spree, persued by a team of experts who band together to stop her. With a strong cast and an interesting story angle, Species was an instant hit, raking in $113 Million (USD). Notable for its sexual content, Henstridge won the MTV Movie award for "best kiss", for a scene in which her character, while kissing an aggressive would-be suitor, impales his head with her tongue. Species is perhaps the most successful debut movie for any model turned actress.
The movie gave Henstridge a perfect platform to launch her acting career, but she could not capitalize on it as most of the following movies failed to generate the same excitement. Species spawned a sequel Species II, where a male alien was attempting to mate with Eve, a genetic duplicate of Sil. Eve was played as gentle and more docile than the original Sil. The film was a failure at the box office, taking in $19 million (USD) domestically. A few smaller independent movies followed, including Bela Donna and Dog Park, with varied box office returns. Despite having some reservations about the sci-fi genre, she signed up for John Carpenter's Ghosts of Mars in the lead role and reprised her role as Eve in a brief cameo in Species III. Ghosts of Mars was not well-received, with a 21% rating in Rotten Tomatoes.
In 2000, she starred in The Whole Nine Yards, which led to its sequel The Whole Ten Yards.
Television
She has played a number of roles on television, such as Caracara and The Outer Limits. From 2005 to 2006, Henstridge had a recurring role in the acclaimed ABC drama Commander in Chief, which starred Geena Davis as a fictional female U.S. President. She also hosted Mostly True Stories: Urban Legends Revealed on TLC, a show about urban legends.
Henstridge was working on the TV show She Spies, prior to its cancellation. She has also completed a TV movie titled Widow on the Hill which has received critical acclaim. In 2006 she filmed the CTV original mini-series Would Be Kings in Hamilton, Ontario.
Personal life
Henstridge was married to actor Damian Chapa twice. However, the second marriage lasted only a few months and the couple divorced in 1996. She has two sons by actor Liam Waite, named Tristan River Waite, born October 1998, and Asher Sky Waite, born September 2001. She is dating Scottish singer-songwriter and actor Darius Danesh. Henstridge said that she and Danesh met at a pedestrian crossing in Los Angeles.

AKA Milena Markovna Kunis

Born: 14-Aug-1983
Birthplace: Kiev, Ukraine
Gender: Female
Religion: Jewish
Race or Ethnicity: White
Sexual orientation: Straight
Occupation: Actor
Nationality: United States
Executive summary: Jackie on That 70's Show
Father: Mark Kunis (mechanical engineer)
Mother: Elvira Kunis (physics teacher)
Brother: Mike Kunis (biochemist)
Boyfriend: Chris Masterson (actor, dated in late 1990s)
Boyfriend: Macaulay Culkin (actor, dating since 2002)
Mila Kunis was born and spent her earliest years in Kiev. As the Soviet Union began descending into chaos, her family emigrated to Los Angeles, and 7-year-old Kunis learned English and capitalism from watching The Price is Right, where, she says, Bob Barker has excellent diction. In grade school she nagged her parents for permission to take acting classes, and the lessons started after school when she was nine. She first appeared on TV commercials as a girl delighted with her new Barbie doll and Payless shoes, and at 11 she landed a small part on a single episode of the soap opera Days of Our Lives. She had a recurring role on early episodes of 7th Heaven, and was briefly seen in the 1998 Richard Dreyfuss comedy Krippendorf's Tribe.
Studios prefer to avoid all the rules and regulations that come into play when hiring underage actors, so the casting call for That '70s Show specifically said that performers had to be 18. "It's a lying business", she has said. "If they want someone Spanish, you tell them you're Spanish. They wanted someone 18..." so she simply lied about her age. The show's producers were impressed by her reading as the spoiled and self-obsessed Jackie Burkhart, and decided to hire her despite the deception. She was 14 when the pilot episode was filmed, and the show ran eight seasons and made her famous.
She replaced Lacey Chabert as the voice of the bespectacled daughter Meg Griffin on Family Guy beginning with that cartoon's second season in 2000. She also voices most of the female characters on Seth Green's Robot Chicken.
She has had less success on the big screen, where her best reviews came as Kirsten Dunst's best friend in the teen comedy Get Over It. In less memorable movies, she played New Kid on the Block Joey McIntyre's bride in Tony 'n' Tina's Wedding, the femme fatale in American Psycho II with William Shatner, a prostitute in Tom 51 with Jason Mewes, and Taryn Manning's lesbian lover in After Sex.
Kunis has Heterochromia iridis, which sounds scary but merely means the irises of her eyes are of different colors. One is green, the other blue, but it is rarely noticeable even in close-ups. Other celebrities with Heterochromia iridis include Dan Aykroyd, Jane Seymour, and the late Gracie Allen.

AKA Susan Jane Miller

Born: 14-Aug-1946
Birthplace: Long Beach, CA
Gender: Female
Religion: Roman Catholic
Race or Ethnicity: White
Sexual orientation: Straight
Occupation: Actor
Nationality: United States
Executive summary: Wife in McMillan and Wife
Father: (chemist)
Husband: Dick Ebersol (husband #3, producer of SNL, m. 1981)
Son: Harmony Lucas
Daughter: Sunshine Lucas
Son: Edward Ebersol (d. 2004 airplane crash)
Son: Charles Ebersol
Son: William Ebersol
Born Susan Jane Miller, she was raised in Rockford, Illinois where she began modeling as a teenager. At the age of 20 she moved to California where she began her acting career. She landed a role in The Name of the Game (TV series), winning an Emmy Award for her role in 1969. From 1971 until 1976 she played Sally McMillan opposite Rock Hudson in the series McMillan and Wife and received four Emmy Award nominations.
She left the show to further her career as an actress in feature films and achieved a significant success in the vampire comedy Love At First Bite (1979).
After other film ventures failed to establish her she returned to television, appearing in the comedy series Kate & Allie opposite Jane Curtin from 1984 until 1989. She received a further three Emmy Award nominations for this role.
Saint James was also a celebrity and commentator for World Wrestling Federation (WWF)'s WrestleMania 2 event in 1986 along with Vince McMahon. Saint James has acted very infrequently since then and has pursued other business ventures such as Seedling and Pip, a baby gift basket business. She made a rare acting appearance in a guest spot as a defense attorney on the February 28, 2006 episode of Law & Order: Special Victims Unit.
Personal life
At the age of 21, she had married aspiring writer-director Richard Neubert; their marriage lasted a year. Saint James had a son, Harmony Lucas, and a daughter, Sunshine Lucas, with second husband Tom Lucas. She married Lucas, a makeup artist, sometime in the 1970s, but the marriage did not last.
When guest-hosting the venerable NBC sketch comedy series Saturday Night Live in 1981, Saint James met her future third husband, then-SNL executive producer (and now president of NBC Sports) Dick Ebersol. They dated immediately and married within the year. The marriage produced three children, Charles, Willie, and Teddy (deceased). In 2002, Saint James filed for divorce, but the couple reconciled later the same year. Saint James has stated that she has returned to Roman Catholicism following her estrangement, in part, because "It's the only way I know how to pray."
On November 28, 2004, a plane carrying Ebersol and two of their sons crashed in Colorado; Ebersol and their oldest son Charles survived the crash, their 14-year-old son Teddy was killed as was the pilot and flight attendant.

AKA Catherine Lisa Bell

Born: 14-Aug-1968
Birthplace: London, England
Gender: Female
Religion: Scientology
Race or Ethnicity: Multiracial
Sexual orientation: Straight
Occupation: Actor
Party Affiliation: Republican
Nationality: United States
Executive summary: Sarah MacKenzie on JAG
Scottish father, Iranian mother. Moved to Los Angeles at age 3.
Husband: Adam Beason (m. 8-May-1994)
Mother: Mina (nurse, b. Iran)
Father: Peter (architect, b. London)
Daughter: Gemma (b. 16-Apr-2003)
Bell is the daughter of a Scottish father and Iranian mother. Her parents divorced, and then she and her mother moved to Los Angeles, California, when she was three years old. She became a naturalized citizen of the United States at the age of 12. She acted in various television advertisements as a child. She attended the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) with an interest in becoming either a biomedical engineer or a physician but dropped out to become a full-time model. One of her first modeling jobs was an extended assignment in Japan. When she returned to California, she studied acting at the Beverly Hills Playhouse with Milton Katselas. Her first television acting role was one line on the sitcom "Sugar and Spice" (1990).
Her first appearance in a film was as a body double for Isabella Rossellini in Death Becomes Her (1992). In 2003, Bell played a supporting role in the comedy Bruce Almighty, which starred Jim Carrey. She reprised that role in a cameo in the 2007 sequel, Evan Almighty.
From 1997 to 2005, Bell played U.S. Marine Corps Lt. Col. Sarah MacKenzie on the television series JAG, as a practicing attorney in the U.S. Navy's Judge Advocate General's Corps of legal experts.
Earlier TV work included an appearance in a late night adult series called "Hot line" which aired in the U.K. From 1994 to 1996. Bell was featured in "The Brunch Club" episode.
Bell is fluent in Persian (Farsi) and English.
Bell married Adam Beason on 8 May, 1994. They have a daughter, Gemma, who was born on 16 April, 2003.
Bell is a survivor of thyroid cancer. She had to have her thyroid gland removed from her neck in her 20s. She has a small surgical scar on her neck. At one time, she used to have a message board on her website but this has been removed citing the inability to constantly monitor it. While the message board was running, Ms. Bell noted that she has had thyroid surgery and LASIK done in the past.
On September 14, 2006, Reuters/Hollywood Reporter announced that Catherine Bell had joined the cast of Lifetime's ensemble drama pilot "Army Wives". In the projected series, Sally Pressman stars as a sassy woman from the wrong side of the tracks who marries a soldier, moves her kids to a military base and becomes friends with a diverse group of Army wives, three of them played by Catherine Bell, Kim Delaney, and Brigid Brannagh. Bell will play the wife of a US Army major, a devoted homemaker who is enduring physical abuse at the hands of her teenage son. In December, Lifetime announced it would produce 13 episodes of the series for 2007. Bell's character is named Denise Sherwood.
Bell has also acted in the Sci-Fi Channel miniseries, The Triangle, presented in December 2005, where she played the role of an ocean engineer.
In 2006, she was nominated in Saturn Award of Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror Films for Best Supporting Actress on Television (The Triangle).
Bell was the grand marshal of the NASCAR Nextel Cup Series race at Dover International Speedway on June 3, 2007.

Born: August 13, 1978
Location: San Francisco, California, U.S.
Crystal Allen (born August 13, 1978) is an American film and television actress
As of 2007, Allen has appeared guest star roles, including episodes of such TV series as Sex and the City, Ed, The Sopranos, Navy NCIS, Boston Legal, Star Trek: Enterprise, JAG, Desperate Housewives and others. She starred in Hallmark's movie of the week "Falling in Love with the girl Next Door".

Born: August 13, 1979
Location: New York, New York, United States
Kathryn Fiore (born August 13, 1979) is an American comic actress.
Fiore was born in New York, New York. She studied Latin at Columbia University, then left to pursue a career in acting. Fiore began her career in a Broadway production of Picnic in 1994, where she played Millie and Madge Owens, alongside Ashley Judd. After college, she moved to Los Angeles to continue her acting career, where she completed all four school levels of the famed Groundlings Theatre.
Fiore currently resides in Los Angeles, California with her Scottish terrier, Sophie. She is currently working on a one-woman show titled There Will Be Penetration

Born: August 13. 1978
Location: Estonia
Miss Estonia Universe (1997)

Born: 12-Aug-1980
Birthplace: Malibu, CA
Gender: Female
Race or Ethnicity: White
Sexual orientation: Straight
Occupation: Actor
Nationality: United States
Executive summary: Nymphet in Lolita redux
Sister: Chelse Swain (actress, b. 25-May-1983)
Sister: Alexis Swain (film make-up artist)
In 1995, Swain was chosen from 2,500 girls to star in the controversial remake of Lolita; the film was released in 1997. Shortly after, Swain starred as the rebellious daughter of John Travolta in action film Face/Off. After Face/Off, she starred in many low-budget films. In 2002, Stuff magazine named her #79 of the "102 Sexiest Women In The World." In February of 2007, she was the cover girl on Stuff magazine. Also in February, the horror movie Dead Mary was released to DVD Starring Dominique as Kim. While it wasn't in theaters, it has become a horror favorite amongst fans. She recently did a cameo appearance in the Nickelback video for Rockstar. She lip syncs the lyrics while lying in a bathtub filled with bubbles.
Personal life
Swain is a spokesperson for the People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA). At the age of 21, she became the youngest model to pose nude for PETA. She has erroneously been reported to be a vegan or vegetarian in the past, but this was probably an incorrect assumption based upon her support of PETA's anti-fur campaigns. Swain says:
Everybody thinks people who promote PETA don't eat meat, but I think animals were made to be eaten. I take my part in the food chain very seriously. I eat meat, the rarer the better. I just don't think animals should be slaughtered for their fur.

AKA Margaret Lawson

Born: 12-Aug-1980
Birthplace: Louisville, KY
Gender: Female
Race or Ethnicity: White
Occupation: Actor
Nationality: United States
Executive summary: Juliet O'Hara on Psych
Father: Mike Lawson
Mother: Judy
Margaret "Maggie" Lawson an Assumption High School graduate, is an actress who has starred in the sitcoms Family Rules, Inside Schwartz, It's All Relative, and Crumbs, as well as the movie Nancy Drew. In 2000, she starred in an ABC-TV movie featuring Justin Timberlake called Model Behavior. She has also made guest appearances on television serials such as Smallville.
She now co-stars in the USA Network original series Psych as Junior Detective Juliet O'Hara. She is currently dating her co-star in the original series Psych, James Roday.

Born: 12-Aug-1971
Birthplace: Hazard, KY
Gender: Female
Race or Ethnicity: White
Sexual orientation: Straight
Occupation: Actor, Model
Nationality: United States
Executive summary: Scream
Father: Curtis Gayheart (trucker, coal miner)
Mother: Flo
Sister: Elizabeth
Sister: Rachel
Brother: Wayne
Boyfriend: Brett Ratner (broken engagement)
Husband: Eric Dane (actor, m. 29-Oct-2004)

AKA Alyson Rae Stoner

Born: 11-Aug-1993
Birthplace: Toledo, OH
Gender: Female
Race or Ethnicity: White
Occupation: Actor
Nationality: United States
Executive summary: Disney actress
Sister: Correy
Sister: Jaimee
Alyson Stoner trained at the O'Connell Dance Studio (in Holland, Ohio) and the Margaret O'Brien Modeling Studio. Consequently, she received several awards for acting, modeling, and dance (including the award for best model of the year at the IMTA convention). After choreography training in Los Angeles, Stoner famously appeared as a background dancer in the music video for Missy Elliott's "Work It" and "Gossip Folks", and Eminem's "Just Lose It". She danced with a dancing group called the JammXKids between 2003 and 2006. She quit the group in early 2006 due to scheduling conflicts, but continues to work with the individual kids in different jobs. Alyson is now working on music for her debut album. Rumors swirl she has signed a major deal but reports have yet to surface on exactly which label she has signed to. She has been confirmed to be working with Billboard award winning songwriters and producers, Drew Lane and Eddie Galan of Trilogy Productions.
Acting career
Alyson started her acting career in 1999 when she went to IMTA. In 2002, Alyson Stoner became the co-host of the Disney Channel's Mike's Super Short Show, an infomercial segment regarding forthcoming Disney releases. She was also one of the dancers in the Special Features for the Shark Tale DVD. In 2003 and 2005, she appeared as one of the twelve Baker children in the successful comedies Cheaper by the Dozen and Cheaper by the Dozen 2. She has also appeared in several television shows aimed at the pre-teen market, including Drake & Josh, The Suite Life of Zack and Cody and That's So Raven. In 2006 she had a small film role in Step Up as Channing Tatum's younger sister. In 2007, Stoner will be starring in the movie Alice, based on the best selling Alice series by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor. In summer 2007, she will be the voice of Isabella in the new Disney Channel animated series, Phineas and Ferb. Continuing with dance, she also regularly teaches a hip-hop dance class at the Millennium Dance Complex. Alyson also recently hosted a global fan summit on amazon.com with good friend and Hannah Montana star, Miley Cyrus. In 2008, Alyson will appear in the Disney Channel Original Movie Camp Rock.

Born: 11-Aug-1975
Birthplace: Fort Walton Beach, FL
Gender: Female
Race or Ethnicity: White
Sexual orientation: Straight
Occupation: Model
Nationality: United States
Executive summary: Cover of 2005 SI swimsuit issue
Boyfriend: Mark Vanderloo (model, ex)
Boyfriend: Jake Schroeder (surf shop owner, together 1999-2002, one daughter)
Daughter: Dylan Blue (b. 28-Dec-2000)
Boyfriend: Brandon Boyd (musician, together 2004-05)
Carolyn Murphy is an American supermodel.
Murphy was born in Fort Walton Beach, Florida, and grew up throughout Northwest Florida, spending most of her childhood in a trailer park there. At the age of 15, she was spotted by Mary Lou Nash, owner and operator of Mary Lou's Models, a modeling agency. Nash saw Murphy's potential and soon she was modeling in local ads and magazines throughout Florida and Alabama. After she graduated from Choctawhatchee Senior High School, Murphy moved to Milan to further her modeling career. Her career kicked into high-gear when she bleached her hair platinum blonde for a photo shoot, ruining her hair and causing it to fall out. Because of this she had to get a short hair cut which made her popular with many top photographers and soon she was in major magazines such as Harper's Bazaar and Vogue and was named VH1/Vogue's "Model of the Year" at the 1998 Fashion Awards. Murphy is featured on the cover of the 2005 Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue, as well as the 1999 cover of Vogue's "Models of the Millennium." She has also posed for the 2002 Playboy calendar. She is currently the face of Estée Lauder, replacing Elizabeth Hurley as the company's primary female spokesmodel. She also started an acting career with the role of "Dubbie the Blonde" in Barry Levinson's Liberty Heights in 1999. She also attended St. Mary's Catholic school in Fort Walton Beach, Florida from kindergarten to 8th grade.
In July 2007, earning at an estimated total of $5 million in the past 12 months, Forbes magazine named her sixth in the list of the World's 15 Top-Earning Supermodels.
As of 2007, she is still one of the industries most in demand and successful models, she shot fall campaigns for, 7 for all Mankind, Anne Klein, Lord & Taylor, Estee Lauder, and Tiffany & Co.
Murphy was asked to pose as Grace Kelly for Town & Country's November 2007 'A Tribute to Grace Kelly' issue due to her striking resemblance to the fashion icon.
Personal life
She previously dated model Mark Vanderloo. In 1999, Murphy married surf shop owner Jake Schroeder, whom she met while on vacation. She gave birth to their daughter, Dylan Blue, on December 28, 2000, and the three posed for Vogue as Kurt Cobain, Courtney Love, and Frances Bean Cobain. Murphy and Schroeder divorced in 2002. Since then she has dated Incubus frontman Brandon Boyd. She and Boyd reportedly split in August 2005.

AKA Angela Michelle Harmon

Born: 10-Aug-1972
Birthplace: Dallas, TX
Gender: Female
Race or Ethnicity: White
Sexual orientation: Straight
Occupation: Actor
Party Affiliation: Republican
Nationality: United States
Executive summary: Ryan McBride on Baywatch Nights
Father: Larry
Mother: Daphne
Husband: Jason Sehorn (pro football player, m. 9-Jun-2001, one daugher)
Daughter: Finley Faith Sehorn (b. 14-Oct-2003)
Harmon was born in Highland Park, Texas to Lawrence Paul Harmon (who worked in a Dallas hospital information network) and Daphne Demar Caravageli, both of whom were well-known models in the 1970s. Her mother is of Greek descent and her father is of German and Native American ancestry. Her parents divorced in 1982 and her father later re-married.
Harmon worked as a child model and in 1988, won a Seventeen magazine modeling contest. She graduated from Highland Park High School in 1990 and won a Spectrum Model Search contest shortly afterward, subsequently pursuing a successful modeling career and becoming well known in the early 1990s. She worked as a runway model for designers Calvin Klein, Giorgio Armani and Donna Karan and appeared on the covers of ELLE, Cosmopolitan and Esquire.
Career
Harmon began acting in 1995, starring in several television series, including Baywatch Nights, Baywatch and C-16: FBI; she also appeared in the 1998 film, Lawn Dogs, which received only a limited theatrical release. In the early 2000s, Harmon became better known after playing Abbie Carmichael on the series Law & Order, a role she played from 1998 to 2001. During this time, she also voiced Commissioner Barbara Gordon in the animated film, Batman Beyond: Return of the Joker, replacing Stockard Channing, as well as appearing on Law & Order.
Harmon left Law & Order to concentrate on her film career, saying that she preferred working in film than television. After appearing in the 2001 direct-to-video film, Good Advice, she had a major role in Agent Cody Banks, playing the CIA handler of a teenage agent (Frankie Muniz). The film opened in March 2003 and became a minor hit, grossing $47 million. Although Harmon was originally scheduled to appear in the sequel, the producers chose to take a more comedic approach, and replaced Harmon with comic actor Anthony Anderson as Banks's handler. In 2006, Harmon co-starred with Cuba Gooding Jr. and James Woods in the direct-to-DVD political suspense drama End Game.
In 2006, Harmon starred as the lead in the ABC pilot Secrets of a Small Town. Despite testing highly with focus groups, the pilot was not picked up by ABC due to its high budget. In 2007, she starred in another ABC pilot, Women's Murder Club, which was picked up by ABC.
Personal life
Harmon is married to former professional football player Jason Sehorn. The two were engaged on March 13, 2000. Harmon was taping an interview segment on the Tonight Show with Jay Leno when Leno called Sehorn out as a surprise guest. Sehorn immediately walked up to where Angie was sitting, and knelt down on one knee in front of her chair. Sehorn asked her to marry him, to Angie's complete and visible surprise. (She thought that he was in New York at the time.) They were married on June 9, 2001 and have two daughters: Finley Faith (born October 14, 2003 in Dallas, Texas) and Avery Grace (born June 22, 2005 in Dallas, Texas).
Harmon is a Republican with a socially conservative political philosophy. She and her husband delivered a speech at the 2004 Republican National Convention.
Comedienne and singer Sandra Bernhard has a song on her album Hero Worship called "Angie Harmon'; it is preceded by a story in which Bernhard reads an interview with Harmon where she lies about her age. The song is more about the youth obsession in Hollywood than about Harmon herself, concluding with the line: "Angie Harmon...look at me, I'm only 22!"

AKA Devon Edwenna Aoki

Born: 10-Aug-1982
Birthplace: New York City
Gender: Female
Race or Ethnicity: Multiracial
Occupation: Model, Actor
Nationality: United States
Executive summary: Sin City
Father: Rocky Aoki (owner of Benihana chain)
Mother: Pamela Hilburger (jewelry designer)
Brother: Steve Aoki (DJ, "Kid Millionaire", owner, Dim Mak records)
Aoki was born in New York City and grew up in California, attending The American School in London in Westminster. Her Japanese American father, Rocky Aoki, a former Olympic wrestler, is the owner and founder of the Benihana restaurant chain. Her mother, Pamela Hilburger, is a jewelery designer of English and German heritage. Her brother, Steve Aoki, is a well-known Los Angeles, California DJ, and is the founder of the Dim Mak Records. Devon also has a sister and half brother Cole Price.
Aoki was discovered in New York at a Rancid concert she had gatecrashed. She started modeling when she was 13, the same year Aoki was introduced to supermodel Kate Moss by her godmother who would later take the young Devon under her wing. It wasn't much later that Devon signed onto Storm Model Management at the tender age of 14. In 1998, Devon replaced Naomi Campbell as the face of Versace.
Aoki has told: "And then I guess from being in New York, I did this photograph for Interview Magazine called "Lovely Rita." My agency says that Kate Moss brought the picture in and told them that they should, you know, sign me. And then it happened, and then in my early career we did a lot of jobs together. She was a big help to me when I first started".
Career
She has modeled for the fashion houses Lancôme, Chanel, and Versace. Aoki is 5 ft 6 in (168cm, according to celebheights.com) — an almost unheard of height for runway models, who are usually at least 5 ft 8 in tall. She has done ad campaigns for: Chanel Couture by Karl Lagerfeld, Versace Atelier by Steven Meisel, Junko Shimada by Bettina Kimenda and Baby Phat by Kimora Lee Simmons
Early on in her career Aoki made cameo appearances in several music videos, including Duran Duran's "Electric Barbarella", Primal Scream's "Kowalski" (With Kate Moss), Elton John's "Something About The Way You Look Tonight", Ginuwine's "In Those Jeans" video and, later, in Ludacris's "Act a Fool". Music from this video was featured in the soundtrack of 2 Fast 2 Furious, which Ludacris and Aoki both appeared in. In 2006, she made an appearance in The Killers's video "Bones". Aoki has also made a cameo appearance in the short films accompanying the new Sean Lennon album, Friendly Fire.
Her acting career includes films like 2 Fast 2 Furious, D.E.B.S., Sin City, Dead or Alive and War. She did not have her driver's license prior to filming 2 Fast 2 Furious and had to learn to drive during filming. Aoki got a part in a film called The Mutant Chronicles, directed by Simon Hunter and starring Thomas Jane, John Malkovich, Ron Perlman and others, will reportedly be released in 2008. The story is set 400 years into the future (23rd or 24th century). The movie is described as a futuristic Saving Private Ryan set in a world where nearly everything is powered by steam.
She has joined L.A.'s International Creative Management for representation and The Firm for management (which manages the likes of Jennifer Lopez and Adrien Brody). Aoki plans on launching her own clothing line, and has signed on to New York entrepreneur Richie Akiva's record label, where she will cut her own album.
In May 2007, Aoki posed for photographer Marc Baptiste’s book Nudes, however she has stated that she was wearing a dress.
It's funny. People have been saying that, and I saw the book. I'm the only person in the book who is wearing clothes. I'm wearing a dress. I'm like 'why am I in this book?' because it's nudes and I'm not nude at all. I'm wearing a dress. I don't think I knew it was for a nude book, because I was wearing clothes and that doesn't work with the whole concept. I had shot with that photographer and he probably wanted to use the pictures and I'm sure my management OK'd the pictures because I was clothed, so that is not actually true.
She has appeared in many magazine covers, books and articles. Aoki has appeared in The Cobrasnake website's party photos among other celebrities.
In September 2007, it was announced she was designing jeans line for Levi's. "One of the coolest designs is an adjustable zip waist you can tighten with an elegant clasp closure," she told to reporters.
Personal life
Aoki lives on her own, and keeps her personal life private. But she is often seen alongside major hip-hop and Hollywood men at high-profile social functions and movie premieres. She used to date Lenny Kravitz and Rick Salomon (also known from Paris Hilton's sex tape).
She recently [2007] bought a house in Los Angeles and likes traveling in Europe.

Born: 9-Aug-1976
Birthplace: London, England
Gender: Female
Religion: Roman Catholic
Race or Ethnicity: Multiracial
Sexual orientation: Straight
Occupation: Actor
Nationality: England
Executive summary: Tara on The Practice
Father: Antony Mitra
Mother: Nora (parents div. 1984)
Mitra was born in Paddington, London, England, to Nora and Anthony Mitra, a cosmetic surgeon. Her father is part Indian and part English; her mother is Irish. In 1984, when Mitra was eight, her parents divorced and, as part of an overall lifestyle change, she was sent to boarding school. Several years passed at two different all-girls schools, including Roedean, but Mitra was eventually expelled from both of them. She has been quoted as saying: "I was kicked out [of Roedean] for taking a sixth-former's car and driving it down to the local boys' school. I was only 14. I left stuffing under my bed sheets but one of my friends told on me and the headmistress tracked me down. They put me in this room with bars on the windows to punish me. I was stuck in there for a whole week with just a rosary for comfort, having my dinner brought in on trays. The only time I got out was to say confession to the school priest. After that, they booted me out. Then at the next school the other girls used to blame me whenever they got caught for something, so all the parents wrote in and said they didn't want me at the school. I crammed my exams in London and did fine."
Career
In 2000, Mitra had a small, non-speaking part as a victim of the title role villain in the film Hollow Man. She appeared in the final season of The Practice playing Tara, and continued that role into its spin-off Boston Legal, but left not long into the second season. She also appeared as the first live action model for Lara Croft, the lead character in Eidos Interactive's Tomb Raider video game series. Mitra was ranked #46 on the Maxim Hot 100 Women of 2001. In 2005, she had a recurring role of Kit McGraw during Season 3 of Nip/Tuck.

AKA Nikki Schieler Ziering

Birthdate August 9, 1971
Birthplace Norwalk, California
Measurements 36" - 23" - 35"
Height 5 ft 8 in (1.73 m)
Weight 118 lb (54 kg)
Nikki Schieler Ziering is an American model and actress. She is part Norwegian.
She was Playboy's Playmate of the Month for September 1997 which is credited for getting her noticed for acting roles. She graced the cover twice, first in August 1997, then in July 2003, along with a feature pictorial.
Prior to Playboy, she was a known swimwear model usually seen modeling for Venus Swimwear and Frederick's of Hollywood. On July 4, 1997 she married Ian Ziering. After four years of marriage, Ian filed for divorce on February 28, 2002. She converted to Judaism before marrying Ian. Ms. Ziering went by the name Nikki Schieler before marrying Ian; since their marriage in 1997, she has gone by the name Nikki Ziering.
She also appeared as a Barker's Beauty on the game show The Price Is Right, from 1999 to 2002.
In the Summer of 2005 she appeared in the British reality television series Celebrity Love Island, where she had a fling with British actor Paul Danan. Their relationship made headlines in the British Press after the couple shared a bed together in the resort, leading to rumours and speculation that they had sex. The rumours have neither been confirmed nor denied by Ziering or Danan.
In 2006 Ziering became a sideline reporter for the CBS tournament blackjack series Ultimate Blackjack Tour.

AKA Gillian Leigh Anderson

Born: 9-Aug-1968
Birthplace: Chicago, IL
Gender: Female
Race or Ethnicity: White
Sexual orientation: Straight
Occupation: Actor
Nationality: United States
Executive summary: Scully on The X-Files
Father: Edward Anderson (film post-production executive)
Mother: Rosemary Anderson (computer systems analyst)
Brother: Aaron (b. 1982, has neurofibromatosis)
Sister: Zoe (b. 7-Jul-1983)
Husband: Errol Clyde Klotz (backstage worker, b. 1961, dated 1993, m. 1-Jan-1994, div. 1997, one daughter)
Daughter: Piper Maru (b. 25-Sep-1994 with Klotz)
Boyfriend: Adrian Hughes (actor, b. 1964, dated 1996-97)
Boyfriend: Rodney Rowland (actor, b. 1964, dated 1997-98)
Husband: Julian Ozanne (documentary filmmaker, b. 1964, dated 2002-04, m. 29-Dec-2004, sep. 24-Apr-2006)
Boyfriend: Mark Griffiths (British businessman, dating since 2006, one son)
Son: Oscar Anderson (b. 1-Nov-2006 with Griffiths)
Gillian Anderson was born in Chicago and raised in Puerto Rico, then London, then Grand Rapids, Michigan. In junior high school, she tried very hard to shed her European accent, but by high school she was more interested in standing out than fitting in. Sporting a dyed Mohawk hairdo and a nose ring, wearing combat boots and usually cloaked in black, she was voted her school's "most bizarre girl," and she was arrested on graduation night for breaking and entering school grounds. When she was not acting up, she was acting; she played Juliet in her high school production of Romeo and Juliet, and decided on that balcony set, she would be an actress.
She won rave reviews and a Theater World Award for her 1991 performance off-Broadway in Absent Friends with Brenda Blethyn. Then she came to Hollywood, where she worked intermittently as a waitress between rare and low-paid acting jobs. She had a small role in the wretched The Turning as the romantic interest of a white supremacist, but she was still virtually unknown when she was cast as the skeptical Special Agent Dana Scully on The X-Files.
She met her first husband, Clyde Klotz, when he worked as an X-Files art designer, and they were married by a Buddhist priest on a golf course. When she became pregnant in 1994, the series worked around her swollen midsection by having Agent Scully abducted. After divorcing Klotz, she was briefly linked with actor Adrian Hughes, who had played an alien on X-Files, but Anderson dropped him when she learned he had been convicted of a sex crime. She later dated actor Rod Rowland, best known for his starring role in the mid-1990s sci-fi series Space: Above and Beyond. Her second husband was documentary filmmaker Julian Ozanne, who had been raised in the palace of King Moshoeshoe II of Lesotho, and had previously dated actress Rachel Weisz.
Anderson's occasional movie work has not yet made her a big-screen success. She received good reviews for The House of Mirth with Eric Stoltz, romanced Jon Stewart in Playing by Heart, played the hooker with a heart of gold in Sharon Stone's The Mighty, and went topless in the violent vengeance film Straightheads. She works frequently on stage, and describes herself as 'difficult', due to her determined personality. She loves salmon sushi, her autobiography is titled Mulder, It's Me, and her first name is pronounced with a soft g sound, as 'Jillian'.

Born: 7-Aug-1975
Birthplace: Benoni, South Africa
Gender: Female
Race or Ethnicity: White
Sexual orientation: Straight
Occupation: Actor, Model
Nationality: South Africa
Executive summary: Monster
Father: Charles (French ancestry, construction company owner, d. 1991 shot by his wife in self-defense)
Mother: Gerda (German ancestry)
Boyfriend: Craig Bierko (actor, dated 1996-98)
Boyfriend: Stephan Jenkins (lead singer Third Eye Blind, Jan-1998 to Jul-2001)
Boyfriend: Stuart Townsend (actor, dated and cohabited since 2001, engaged to be married)
Charlize Theron has stopped protesting when she hears herself introduced as Charlize Theer-on, but in her native language her last name is pronounced "Tron", and she has said she prefers the English pronunciation "Th-rown".
She was raised under apartheid on a South African farm, about 25 miles from Johannesburg. Her father was French Huguenot, her mother German, but both had been raised in South Africa. Her native language is Afrikaans, and she has said she rarely wore clothes on the farm until she was about seven. She was 15 when her alcoholic and abusive father came home in a drunken rage, approaching Theron's mother waving a gun and shouting what would be his last words, "Tonight I am going to kill both of you". Instead, her mother shot him dead. The killing was ruled self-defense, but for years, understandably, young Charlize would answer inquiries about her father by lying that he had died in an auto wreck.
She was trained as a dancer from the age of six, and her earliest performances on stage were ballets such as Swan Lake and The Nutcracker. She worked as a model from the age of 16, in South Africa, Europe, and America, where she took advanced lessons at New York's Joffrey Ballet School, until a knee injury ended that career path.
Deciding to become an actress, she settled in Los Angeles where she was unable to find work. She lived on her savings from modeling work and occasionally subsisted on bread sticks stolen from restaurants. When a bank teller refused to cash her last modeling check because it was drawn on an out-of-state bank, she became furious, swearing in Afrikaans until she was approached in the bank lobby by a stranger who offered his card. She has said she thought he was a creep trying to pick her up, but he was John Hurt's agent, and quickly became Theron's.
After extended speech lessons to lose her Afrikan accent, she landed a tiny, uncredited role in Children of the Corn III, then had a furious fight scene with Teri Hatcher in 2 Days in the Valley. She played the drummer's dissatisfied girlfriend in That Thing You Do with Tom Hanks, the waitress who fell for Jeff Daniels in Trial and Error, Keanu Reeves's schizophrenic wife in The Devil's Advocate, an orgasmic model in Woody Allen's Celebrity, Tobey Maguire's fascination in The Cider House Rules, the mistress of car salesman Billy Bob Thornton in Waking Up In Reno, the safe-cracker in a Mini Cooper in The Italian Job with Mark Wahlberg, and ex-wife Britt Ekland in The Life and Death of Peter Sellers with Geoffrey Rush.
Her first starring role was in Mighty Joe Young with Bill Paxton. She played The Astronaut's Wife, wondering what was wrong with husband Johnny Depp after he returned from outer space, and she was Razzie-nominated as Worst Actress for Sweet November in 1991, playing Reeves' live-in sexual therapist. She won the Oscar as Best Actress two years later playing Aileen Wuornos, the battered prostitute who became a serial killer in Monster with Christina Ricci. She has since played the spandex-clad superhero of the sci-fi comic-inspired Aeon Flux and the determined coal miner of North Country. She also played Jason Bateman's romantic interest on TV's Arrested Development.
In 1999 she appeared nude in Playboy, in photos taken years earlier when she was a struggling model. In South Africa, she has filmed TV commercials for the Cape Town Rape Crisis Center, urging no tolerance for rape or domestic violence. After winning her Oscar, Nelson Mandela told Theron she had "put South Africa on the map."

Born: 8-Aug-1969
Birthplace: Swindon, Wiltshire, England
Gender: Female
Race or Ethnicity: White
Occupation: Actor
Nationality: England
Executive summary: The L Word
Rachel Shelley (born on 25 August 1969) is a Swindon-born English actress. She graduated from Sheffield University with a B.A. Hons in English and Drama.
She played the character Elizabeth Russell in the film Lagaan and, since 2005, plays Helena Peabody on the television show The L Word.

Born: 7-Aug-1967
Birthplace: London, England
Gender: Female
Race or Ethnicity: White
Sexual orientation: Straight
Occupation: Actor
Nationality: England
Executive summary: The Golden Child
Boyfriend: Eric Clapton
Boyfriend: Eric Haymes
Boyfriend: Mickey Rourke
Boyfriend: Charlie Sheen
Charlotte Lewis (born August 7, 1967 in Kensington, London) is an English actress. An exotic beauty, Lewis is Irish from her mother's side and Iraqi-Chilean from her father's side.
Lewis made her film debut as a teenager in the 1986 movie Pirates. She followed this with her role as the female lead in The Golden Child alongside Eddie Murphy that same year. But despite these early successes, her career developed only intermittently. In 2003 she starred in the film Hey DJ.
Lewis returned to London to take care of her mother and now resides there with her son.

Born: 7-Aug-1980
Birthplace: Saint-Mars-d'Autille, France
Gender: Female
Race or Ethnicity: White
Sexual orientation: Straight
Occupation: Model
Executive summary: French runway and print model
Father: (notary)
Brother: (two brothers)
Aurélie Claudel (born August 7, 1980 in Saint-Mars-d'Outillé, France) is a French model. She is one of three children and has two brothers. She comes from a relatively prominent family (her father was a distinguished notary). She is a descendant of the famous French sculptress Camille Claudel.
She was approached in the Jardin des Plantes in Paris by Dawn Wolfe at the young age of 13. Her father thoroughly disapproved of her quitting school and pursuing a career in modeling but she did it nonetheless.
Claudel appeared as "The Pregnant Model" in an editorial for the April 2006 edition of US Vogue, called The Shape Issue.

AKA Lisa Dorene Boyle

Born: 6-Aug-1964
Birthplace: Chicago, IL
Gender: Female
Race or Ethnicity: White
Sexual orientation: Straight
Occupation: Model, Actor
Nationality: United States
Executive summary: Cover of October 1995 Playboy
After posing nude, Boyle took acting classes.
Boyfriend: Bob
Boyfriend: Sean
Boyle was born in Chicago, Illinois. She graduated from Chicago's Steinmetz High School in 1986 (Hugh Hefner's alma mater). After high school, she headed off to Kailua, Hawaii with a friend, and worked as a waitress. A few months later, she went back to Chicago and stayed there for a short while, before moving to Los Angeles with her boyfriend, who had gotten a record contract. She ended up getting a job at a Hard Rock Cafe.
Career
After she broke up with her boyfriend, Boyle decided to become a nude model. She got an agent and within a month was signed up for Playboy magazine. She was asked to pose for the March/April 1995 edition of The Book of Lingerie. A long list of Books of Lingerie followed, and she has appeared in more than 15 editions from 1995 to 2000, five of which were cover shots. In addition to Playboy, Boyle has also posed for Celebrity Skin, L'Equipe magazine, Access magazine and Loaded.
Boyle started her acting career in 1988 with a part in Earth Girls Are Easy and had her first starring role, in 1994's Midnight Tease. She was sometimes credited as Lisa D. Boyle, Lissa Boyle, Lisa Boyles, Cassandra Leigh, or Cassandrea Leigh. She has appeared in several other movies, including cameos in Lost Highway and Face/Off and more substantial roles in direct-to-video softcore movies like I Like to Play Games which helped cement her loyal following. In addition to movies, Lisa has also appeared on TV shows like Married... with Children (playing Fawn, one of Kelly Bundy's friends, in five episodes), Dream On, Silk Stalkings and The Hughleys. She has also appeared in several music videos, including Aerosmith's "Falling in Love (Is Hard on the Knees)" as well as Warren G's "I Shot the Sheriff".
Boyle worked as a booth babe for Eidos Interactive at the 1999 Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3). She was a still photographer in the TV show Chasing Farrah in 2005.
Personal life
Boyle has four tattoos (a baby pink bow on the back of her neck, a pink bow on her tailbone and her inner left wrist, and a pink Japanese sign for feline on her right ankle) and was among the first models in the 1990's to sport a belly ring, long before it became common fashion among other models and actresses.
In 2004, Boyle and various other models took part in the "No more Bush!" Internet campaign. Although the clear visual aspect of the website was the removal of pubic hair, it was merely a soundbite aimed at the removal of President Bush from office. (Lisa had in fact been photographed clean shaven early in her modeling career.)
Boyle operates her own website and has appeared in numerous issues of the Playboy Newsstand Specials.

AKA Adrianne Marie Curry

Born: 6-Aug-1982
Birthplace: Joliet, IL
Gender: Female
Race or Ethnicity: White
Sexual orientation: Bisexual
Occupation: Model
Nationality: United States
Executive summary: America's Next Top Model
Mother: Christine Curry
Husband: Christopher Knight (actor, m. 29-May-2006)
Adrianne Marie Curry (born August 6, 1982 in Joliet, Illinois) is an American fashion model and reality television contestant. Curry is famous for winning the first season of America's Next Top Model. She is married to Christopher Knight, who played Peter Brady on The Brady Bunch. She currently hosts an online radio show.
Biography
Early life
Before participating in America's Next Top Model, Curry was a waitress at Hooters. She dropped out of Joliet West High School in Joliet, Illinois in 2000 when she was a junior. Afterward, she earned her GED. She was also involved with drugs and had gone to rehab prior to America's Next Top Model. Additionally, on the show she mentioned having fallen for numerous modeling scams in her pursuit of becoming a model. She came out of the closet as bisexual right before the show. Her husband doesn't care.
After America's Next Top Model
Curry lives in Los Angeles, and has modeled for Life & Style Weekly, Us Weekly, Star, OK!, Stuff, People, Maxim, Marie Claire, Spanish Marie Claire, Lucky, Macy's, Famous Stars and Straps, Von Dutch, Von Dutch Watches, Ed Hardy, Kinis Bikinis, Beverly Hills Choppers, and Merit Diamonds. Curry appeared on the cover and in a nude pictorial for Playboy in February 2006 (U.S. Version) where she was paid US$1,000,000 for the shoot.
Curry's runway shows include Anne Bowen Spring 2005, Jamie Pressly and Pamela Anderson's lines, and Christopher Deane. She has appeared in a commercial for the Merit Diamonds Sirena Collection that ran from November 2004 to January 2005.
Curry was a co-host on the television game show Ballbreakers. In 2006, she appeared on Gameshow Marathon as a celebrity panelist on the Match Game episode.
Curry appeared on WE tv's From Russia with Love. The show documents her trip to Russia. It is set to air in November 2007. She has also starred in the movies Fallen Angels and Light Year Away.
America's Next Top Model, has disassociated itself with Curry, having not mentioned her in any episodes subsequent to Season 2 except the opening Season 6. This was reportedly due to Curry criticizing Top Model and Tyra Banks for not delivering the promised prizes she won. She also stated that Tyra was fake, claiming the supermodel was the nicest person in the world when the camera was on, but once it wasn't she became "Naomi Campbell in your face." She has since publicly apologized, but continues to be shunned from the show and claims that she didn't get what she won.
My Fair Brady and marriage
In early 2005, Curry appeared on VH1's fourth season of The Surreal Life. After the season ended, Curry and fellow house guest Christopher Knight began dating, and later moved in with each other. On September 11, 2005, VH1 began airing My Fair Brady, a show that documented their life together and paid her an estimated US$250,000. The show led her to being featured in Maxim's Hottest Women of Reality TV and ranked #100 on the Maxim Hot 100 Women of 2005.. Knight proposed to Curry on the season finale of the show, which aired on November 6, 2005. The show was renewed for a second season, and focused on the couple's wedding preparations. The second season began airing on VH1 in June 2006. The couple wed in Curry's hometown of Joliet on May 29, 2006 in a gothic-style wedding. Says Curry of the goth-themed ceremony, "I wanted to go as Gothic as I could and as traditional as I could without ruffling anyone's feathers. ... I wanted to have a black dress ... but I knew it would break my grandmother's heart." Season 3 of My Fair Brady is set to air in January 2008
Personal life
On the October 3, 2005 broadcast of the Opie and Anthony XM Satellite Radio show, Curry discussed her bisexuality and revealed numerous past relationships with women. In addition, on the January 17, 2006 broadcast of Howard Stern's Sirius Satellite Radio show, Curry discussed her sexual orientation at length.

AKA Geraldine Estelle Halliwell

Born: 6-Aug-1972
Birthplace: Watford, Hertfordshire, England
Gender: Female
Religion: Jehovah's Witness
Race or Ethnicity: White
Sexual orientation: Straight
Occupation: Singer
Natonality: England
Executive summary: Ginger Spice
Father: Laurence Halliwell (d.)
Mother: Anna Maria
Brother: Max
Sister: Natalie
Boyfriend: Fred Durst (he disputes this)
Boyfriend: Jerry O'Connell (dated October 2003)
Boyfriend: Robbie Williams
Boyfriend: Chris Evans
Boyfriend: Demian Warner
Boyfriend: Sacha Gervasi (journalist, dated 2005, one daughter)
Daughter: Bluebell Madonna Halliwell (b. 14-May-2006)
Geraldine Estelle "Geri" Halliwell (born 6 August 1972) is an English pop singer-songwriter, children's author, actress and Goodwill Ambassador for the United Nations Population Fund. Halliwell first became famous in the late 1990s as a member of the girl group the Spice Girls, which became one of the most successful girl groups of all time, selling in excess of 55 million records worldwide. As a solo artist, she has received four Brit Award nominations, released four number-one singles in the UK and sold around 4 million albums as a solo artist worldwide.
Early life
Halliwell was born to Lawrence Halliwell, who was of English/Swedish descent, and his wife Ana María (nee Hidalgo), of Spanish descent from Huesca, Spain and grew up in Watford, Hertfordshire. For a brief time, Halliwell's mother tried to bring her up as a Jehovah's Witness. Halliwell took her A-Levels at Camden School for Girls having taken her GCSEs at Watford Girls Grammar School. Before starting her music career, Halliwell had worked as a nightclub dancer in Majorca (Spain), a model and presenter on the Turkish version of Let's Make a Deal and as a glamour model. Following her rise to fame with the Spice Girls, nude photos of Halliwell were re-published in a number of top-shelf magazines in the UK. During the documentary Spice Girls: Giving You Everything broadcast on UK television on 31 December 2007, Halliwell repeated her claim to have only done 'harmless, topless shots', despite extensive evidence to the contrary, including pictures in her own autobiography.
Career
Spice Girls
Halliwell first found fame as one of the five members of the girl group the Spice Girls, and was dubbed Sexy Spice for her seductive outfits and stage costumes. However, she preferred being called Ginger Spice stating, "I always thought of myself as clumsy, not sexy." Of her over-the-top outfits, she is mostly recognized for her famous Union Jack dress that she wore for the 1997 Brit Awards.
Halliwell became renowned for her independent and feminist attitude. The group joined the most successful musical artists of the 1990s, selling over thirty-five million albums with the studio releases Spice and Spiceworld. Their debut single "Wannabe" became the first of a string of number-ones in the United Kingdom (nine in total) and reached the top position in 41 countries around the globe, including Australia, Canada and the US Other successful releases followed, including "Say You'll Be There" and "2 Become 1" from Spice, and "Spice Up Your Life", "Too Much" and "Stop" from Spiceworld. As a songwriter, Geri - as part of the Spice Girls - set the record for the shortest time to achieve 6 no. 1 UK singles, taking 1 year 5 months from Wannabe's first week at no. 1 to the ascent of Too Much. This outpaced Lennon/McCartney, who took 1 year 6 months (From Me to You through I Feel Fine).
On May 30, 1998 Halliwell left the Spice Girls due to depression and differences between the group. The first official confirmation was an announcement to the media by her solicitor on 31 May. Her action aroused controversy, her former band being due to embark on a North American tour, which they eventually completed without her. Although she had already left the group, the Spice Girls released "Viva Forever", the final music video to feature Halliwell's likeness. After she left, the other girls wrote a few songs about her which appeared on their album Forever, notably "Goodbye" (although it is said that Geri had helped write this song before her departure, but since the song was released after her departure, most people see it as a tribute to Geri) and "Let Love Lead the Way."
First album: Schizophonic
Shortly after leaving the Spice Girls, Halliwell appeared in the fly-on-the-wall documentary Geri, a 90 minute piece for the UK television channel Channel 4 by Molly Dineen.
In 1999 Halliwell launched her solo career and released her debut solo album Schizophonic, with lead single "Look at Me", produced by co-writers and old friends, Absolute. The single reached number two in the UK, just 700 copies behind Boyzone's "You Needed Me". The single would go on to sell over 1 million copies worldwide. Further singles from the album, "Mi Chico Latino" and "Lift Me Up", became UK number ones with the latter outselling Halliwell's former bandmate Emma Bunton. The fourth single, "Bag It Up", also reached number one. Geri set another two records for shortest time for a female songwriter to achieve her ninth and tenth no. 1 UK singles. Lift Me Up hit no. 1 3 years, 3 months, and 3 weeks after Wannabe's first week at no. 1, and Bag It Up hit 4 months later. Melanie C, in contrast, took seven more months to achieve her tenth no. 1 single as a songwriter, with I Turn To You. All-time leaders Lennon/McCartney took 3 years, 1 month, 3 weeks between From Me To You and their tenth no. 1 UK hit Paperback Writer.
Demonstrating her flair for outrageous promotion, Halliwell performed "Bag It Up" during the BRIT Awards ceremony in 2000, emerging between giant inflatable legs, ripping off her shirt and walking in stiletto heels over the backs of topless pink-haired men whilst performing the song.
"Look at Me" was released to radio in the U.S. in late 1999, receiving limited airplay. With only a radio single, Schizophonic debuted at number forty-two on The Billboard 200 before dropping out within the next month. This is still the highest charting by a solo Spice album in the U.S.; (Emma Bunton's Free Me peaking at no. 183 and Melanie C's Northern Star peaked at no. 208 on The Billboard 200). The album was eventually certified gold, distributing over 500,000 copies. "Mi Chico Latino" did not have a big impact on USA radio, and no further singles from Schizophonic or albums were released in the U.S.. 'Schizophonic' would go on to sell 2.5 million copies worldwide.
Halliwell had a high-profile but short-lived relationship with Chris Evans during that time. She was also romantically linked to Robbie Williams.
Second album: Scream If You Wanna Go Faster
In 2001 Halliwell followed up with her second album, Scream If You Wanna Go Faster. It also included her cover version of the Weather Girls' 1983 hit, "It's Raining Men", used on the Bridget Jones's Diary film soundtrack, and the video game, DDRMAX2: Dance Dance Revolution 7thMIX. The song also won her the International Song of the Year award at the 2002 NRJ Music Awards.
The song became a huge hit, selling over 4 million copies worldwide, in the United World Chart it hit number two (behind "Lady Marmalade" by Christina Aguilera, Lil' Kim, Mya & Pink) based on Sales, Airplay and Votes, it became the second best selling single of 2001. The song had been added to the album at the last minute; another song, "Feels Like Sex", had already been slated as the lead single. (This song remained an album-only track. "Circles Round the Moon" was rumoured to be a single as Halliwell performed it on CD:UK and 12" Vinyl Promos were sent to clubs, but it was never released.) The follow-up singles were "Scream If You Wanna Go Faster" (number eight) and "Calling" (number seven), the latter, stated by Halliwell was her favourite co-written track on the album. She even released a special French edition of the single, entitled "Calling (Au Nom de L'amour)". The album sold more than 1.3 million copies across the world (this album wasn't released in the USA). But in 2003, she came ninth in the Channel 4 poll of the 100 Worst Britons.
Geri has released two autobiographies in If Only (1999) and Just for the Record (2002), detailing her rise to fame and her turbulent celebrity lifestyle. She has also released two Yoga DVDs Geri Yoga and Geri Body Yoga.
In 2002, Halliwell was featured alongside Pete Waterman and Louis Walsh as a judge on the television series Popstars: The rivals which created Girls Aloud.
In the U.S. Halliwell has also pursued a television career, re-uniting with former Spice Girls manager Simon Fuller to appear as a judge on the reality programme All American Girl and as a guest reporter on celebrity-based series such as Extra. She has also made appearances in the television series Sex and the City and a film, Fat Slags (2004), based on characters from Viz Magazine.
Third album: Passion
In 2004, Halliwell began a period of collaboration with channel Five, as was one of the hosts of the Party in the park event for the Prince's Trust, the presenter and main performer of the Tickled Pink Girls' night in Live! event and an appearance in a documentary There's Something About Geri.
In late 2004, Halliwell made a return to music with the single "Ride It", which reached no. 4 on the UK charts and no. 1 on the dance charts. The single was not promoted abroad, but still sold well throughout continental European countries reaching high positions, such as no. 3 in Spain. This was the first single from her third album, Passion which was at that stage slated for a spring release after a second single. However, several months elapsed before another single was released, during which time she was apparently ordered to record some new tracks for the as-yet unreleased album by her record company, which was unhappy with the setlist. Halliwell was planning her first solo tour around the UK and Ireland, but a bad management and tour schedule plus the label's pressure to record more songs and low ticket sales made her cancel the tour. Eventually a new single, "Desire", was released on May 30, 2005, reaching no. 22 in the UK singles chart and no.1 on the UK Dance chart. Released shortly after, the album Passion similarly received little attention from the public or critics, and stalled at no. 41 in the UK charts. It was rumoured that "Love Never Loved Me" would have been released as the third single from Passion, but it was not.
Spice Girls reunion
On June 28, 2007, Halliwell announced she was joining her former band-mates for "The Return of the Spice Girls", a concert tour that would see all five original members of the Spice Girls together on stage for the first time since Halliwell walked out mid-tour in 1998. Part of the setlist of the reunion tour features Halliwell performing solo, singing her hit single It's Raining Men. It was announced on 1 February that the end of the tour would actually take place in Toronto, on 26 February 2008.
Children's author
Main article: Ugenia Lavender
On April 12, 2007, it was announced that Halliwell had signed a six-book deal with Macmillan Children's Books. The books feature nine year old Ugenia Lavender, as well as characters loosely based on Halliwell's celebrity friends. In interviews to promote the book series, Halliwell said she had no plans to return to a solo musical career in the near future.
Popstars
Halliwell was also a judge on the UK version of the Popstars series, along with Louis Walsh and Pete Waterman. This season of Popstars:the rivals created the successful girl band Girls Aloud.
Personal life
Charity work
In 1999, after having left the Spice Girls, Geri Halliwell became a representative for the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA). As a goodwill ambassador, Halliwell toured the Philippines on a fact-finding trip. She visited with staff and clients of family planning clinics, women's groups in slum areas, and college students.
In 2000, Geri Halliwell appeared in the two part documentary series Geri's World Walkabout for the BBC which followed her work with the UN and other travels. Geri met with kids in Rio de Janeiro and visited child piano-prodigies in the United States, among other things.
Halliwell picked up UN work again in 2006, by visiting Zambia from 14 November to 16 November, to promote greater international awareness of the urgent need to reduce maternal death and halt the spread of HIV/AIDS. Both aims are contained in the Millennium Development Goals adopted by the world's leaders in September 2000. She attended the first 2007 BBC Four Reith Lecture and can be heard asking questions on women's rights in the recording.
Halliwell attended the UK leg of Live Earth at Wembley Stadium, London on July 7, 2007 and introduced Duran Duran to the crowd.
Political affiliations
In the run-up to the 1997 UK General Election, Halliwell declared: "I saw a lot of what Mrs Thatcher did. She was definitely the original Spice Girl rising from the greengrocer's daughter to Prime Minister. She was a real role model of a strong woman". She also claimed that her background was deeply-rooted in support for the Conservative Party and that Thatcher was the pioneer of 'Girl Power' and the spiritual sixth member of the Spice Girls. She claimed in 1996 that Tony Blair was "not a safe pair of hands for the economy".
In the 2001 UK General Election Halliwell appeared in the first Party Political Broadcast on behalf of the Labour Party of the campaign. The reason for her defection was "the good example set by Mr Blair and his wife as parents" and that she "genuinely admires and believes in Tony Blair". Some political commentators ridiculed Halliwell's "speedy" (5 years) change of support and mocked the Labour Party for its reliance on high-profile fans to inspire the electorate.
Family
In October 2005, after Passion was a failure, Halliwell sacked her managers, the husband and wife team Paul and Katie Conroy, and went to Los Angeles, U.S., to work on unnamed projects. Soon after, she was photographed by the paparazzi, having put on weight and looking exhausted. The tabloids reported that Halliwell was pregnant, which was subsequently confirmed. British scriptwriter and former drummer with the band Bush, Sacha Gervasi, is reported to be the child's father. On 7 March 2006, Hello! magazine published an interview with Halliwell which did not confirm the father's identity. Geri stated, "It is tacky to kiss and tell, I would never deprive a child of the right to know its father."
On May 14, 2006, Halliwell gave birth to her daughter, Bluebell Madonna, by caesarean section at London's Portland Hospital with her sister by her side. Explaining her name choice, she said, "What really clinched it for me was my mother telling me that the bluebell is increasingly rare – so it's a precious flower, which seems just right for my daughter." Her daughter's second name came from two of Geri's heroines, the Virgin Madonna and pop singer Madonna.
On 23 April 2007 all the former Spice Girls except Melanie B attended the christening of Halliwell's daughter, with Victoria Beckham, Emma Bunton and George Michael's partner Kenny Goss serving as godparents.

AKA Maureen Denise McCormick

Born: 5-Aug-1956
Birthplace: Encino, CA
Gender: Female
Race or Ethnicity: White
Sexual orientation: Straight
Occupation: Actor
Nationality: United States
Executive summary: Marcia on The Brady Bunch
Father: Richard McCormick
Mother: Irene McCormick (d. 2004, cancer)
Brother: Michael McCormick
Brother: Dennis McCormick ("Denny", handicapped)
Brother: Kevin McCormick
Husband: Michael Cummings (former actor, Drop-Out Father, m. 16-Mar-1985)
Daughter: Natalie Cummings
Maureen McCormick, best known as Marcia Brady on The Brady Bunch, first gained notice as Baby Miss San Fernando Valley at age six. By age eight she was acting in commercials and sitcoms, including My Three Sons and Bewitched.
McCormick, playing the Bradys' oldest daughter, was an object of many young men's affections, but she had "a little crush" on Eve Plumb, who played the middle sister Jan. During their time on The Brady Bunch, McCormick and Plumb tried to appear on screen braless under their shirts. Plumb was caught and chastised almost immediately, while McCormick -- being less endowed -- succeeded until a chilly day filming outdoors gave her away. At one point she and costar Barry Williams, who played her stepbrother Greg, slept together.
After The Brady Bunch, McCormick voiced Marcia Brady in the cartoon The Brady Kids, returned for the subsequent series The Brady Brides and The Brady Bunch Hour, and the reunion shows Brady Bunch Home Movies, The Brady Girls Get Married, A Very Brady Christmas, Bradymania, and Still Brady After All These Years. She was missing in action for The Bradys in 1990, but contributed her recollections for Pop-Up Brady in 2001.
She reportedly asked for and got a higher salary than the other grown-up Brady kids for some of the reunions. "She can get away with more," says her TV brother Christopher Knight, "asking for more money and so forth, because she was the fantasy of many young men growing up who are now the guys running studios."
McCormick recorded a country CD, When You Get a Little Lonely, in 1995.

AKA Julie Kitaen

Born: 5-Aug-1961
Birthplace: San Diego, CA
Gender: Female
Race or Ethnicity: White
Sexual orientation: Straight
Occupation: Model, Actor
Nationality: United States
Executive summary: Bachelor Party
Father: Terry Kitaen (neon signmaker)
Mother: Linda Taylor Kitaen (homemaker)
Husband: David Coverdale (musician, Whitesnake, dated 1985-89, m. 17-Feb-1989, div. Apr-1991)
Husband: Chuck Finley (baseball player, b. 26-Sep-1962, m. 20-Nov-1997, div. 4-Apr-2002)
Daughter: Wynter Merin Finley (b. 18-Mar-1993 with Finley)
Daughter: Raine (b. 1-Jun-1998 with Finley)
Boyfriend: O. J. Simpson (football player-alleged killer)
Boyfriend: Jerry Seinfeld (actor-comic, dated early 1990s)
Boyfriend: Jon Stewart (comic-newscaster, dated 1995)
Slept with: Tommy Lee (musician, Mötley Crüe)
Tawny's first significant work away from home was in modeling, particularly, blue jeans.
She began her acting career in 1983 with a minor role in a television movie, Malibu. In 1984, she starred as the title character of the erotic-adventure movie the Perils of Gwendoline (a.k.a. Gwendoline). She also co-starred in the movie Bachelor Party as the bride-to-be of a young Tom Hanks and was the star of the 1986 horror movie Witchboard.
Kitaen soon became associated with the "glam metal" scene due to her dating a "high school" sweetheart, Ratt guitarist and founder Robin Crosby. Her legs appeared on the cover of Ratt's self-titled EP wearing black stockings and red pumps, pictured with white rats. Then, in ripped-up clothes, she appeared on the cover of Ratt's Out of the Cellar. She also can be seen at the beginning of the Ratt video "Back for More" as the girl in the 50s-style skirt at the juke box.
In 1987, depicting her budding love with the lead singer of Whitesnake, David Coverdale, she appeared in several of the band's music videos. Probably most famous was "Here I Go Again," in which she did the splits and rolled around on the hood of a Jaguar wearing a white negligee. She also appeared in the promotional videos for Whitesnake's "Is This Love" and the ever memorable "Still of the Night". In 1989, she appeared in videos for "Fool For Your Loving" and "Deeper The Love." Kitaen married the band's lead singer David Coverdale in 1989, but the two divorced in 1991.
Riding the publicity from her music-video appearances, Kitaen took on a number of television roles. She was co-host of America's Funniest People with Dave Coulier from 1992 to 1994, and she was a regular cast member on The New WKRP in Cincinnati from 1991 to 1993. She guest-starred in an episode of the sitcom Seinfeld in 1991 and in an episode of Married... with Children in 1994. She had a recurring role as Deianira in three of the Kevin Sorbo Hercules television movies in 1994, and then in the regular television series Hercules: The Legendary Journeys. From 1992 until 1996, she provided the voice of "Annabelle" in the animated television show Eek! The Cat.
After her marriage to Coverdale ended, Kitaen was romantically linked at various times to Tommy Lee, O.J. Simpson, Jerry Seinfeld, Chuck Finley, and Jon Stewart. She married baseball pitcher Chuck Finley in 1997. They had two daughters — Wynter Finley in 1993 and Raine Finley in 1996 — and appeared in a feature of professional athletes and their wives in the 1999 Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue.
Tawny was one of the cast of the sixth edition of The Surreal Life, a reality television show on VH-1, which began airing in March 2006. Notably, in one episode of the show, Tawny verbally attacked Florence Henderson of The Brady Bunch fame to the dismay of her fellow cast mates and the studio audience. In the season finale, she blew up over a phone call when she was told that her fiance had her assistant, Kevin, fired because Kevin was going to tell Tawny that her fiance was allegedly having an affair with her manager.
Legal troubles
On December 13, 2001, Kitaen was arrested in Newport Beach, California, for allegedly vandalizing another woman's automobile.
On April 1, 2002, she was arrested again in Newport Beach and then charged with domestic abuse and battery for attacking her husband, Chuck Finley, while the two were driving home. Kitaen reportedly kicked Finley several times with her high-heeled boots, and severely twisted his ear, leaving visible marks. Finley filed for divorce three days after this incident.
Kitaen admitted shortly afterwards in court filings that she had become addicted to prescription medications for depression and migraine headaches. Finley was granted a temporary restraining order against Kitaen and temporary custody of their children, and also as part of a criminal plea agreement, Kitaen was required to undergo substance abuse, anger management and conflict resolution counseling and to make a $500 donation to a battered-women's shelter in exchange for the dismissal of two misdemeanor counts of spousal abuse.
In November 2006, prosecutors charged Kitaen with possessing 15 grams of cocaine in her San Juan Capistrano home in Orange County. They said her two children were home at the time, and Kitaen had given deputies permission for the search. In December 2006, she entered a six-month rehabilitation program in exchange for the dismissal of a felony drug possession charge.

Crystal Chappell (born August 4, 1965) is an American actress.
Acting
Soap opera and serial roles
Chappell's first daytime appearance was as a day player on All My Children in 1989. In a July 2006 interview in industry magazine Soap Opera Digest, Chappell recalled actor Maurice Benard helping her through her first scenes.
After a brief run on Santa Barbara, Chappell was cast Dr. Carly Manning Alamain (Katerina von Leuschner) on Days of Our Lives. She portrayed the role from June 1990 to October 1993. Chappell and future husband Michael Sabatino met on Days of Our Lives, where he played villain Lawrence Alamain. Chappell was front-burner for most of her time on the show, first when her character Carly was featured in a romance with lead character Bo Brady (Peter Reckell, Robert Kelker-Kelly), and then in a complex, Byzantine storyline that featured her heretofore unknown secret identity as a European blueblood. The story culminated in a controversial plot that had Carly buried alive by Lawrence's aunt Vivian (Louise Sorel). Chappell left after difficult contract negotiations and differences with head writer James E. Reilly.
Chappell's next role was as Maggie Carpenter on One Life to Live from October 1995 through September 1997. The character of Maggie was created for Chappell, and she was again paired with a romantic lead on the show, Max Holden (James DePaiva). The character was eventually written out.
Since July 2, 1999, she has played complex villainess/anti-heroine Olivia Spencer Lewis on Guiding Light . The role of Olivia was initially only intended to be a short-term role, but Chappell's portrayal was so popular she was signed to a contract.
She won a Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Daytime Drama for her work as Olivia in 2002 and was nominated again in the same category in 2005 and 2006. In 2007, she earned her first nomination in the Outstanding Lead Actress category.
Contract controversy
In 2005, Chappell was ambivalent about re-signing to Guiding Light, as her storyline had ebbed considerably. Shortly after re-signing her contract, she was offered the front-burner role of Paige on One Life to Live. Since "GL" had recently cut a number of its actors from the cast roster, Chappell met with the producers to see if she could be released from her contract with GL.
The show ultimately refused. In a July 2006 interview with Soap Opera Digest, Chappell indicated that, while there are no hard feelings, she wasn't sure why the show was so eager to keep Olivia as a character, since the character had not been used much, particularly since the pairing of Olivia and Phillip ended.
Other roles
Chappell has also made appearances in the prime time shows Walker, Texas Ranger, Silk Stalkings, Pensacola: Wings of Gold, and Burke's Law.
Personal life
Chappell was born in Silver Spring, Maryland, and attended Arundel High School. She subsequently attended the University of Maryland Baltimore County.
She was married to Scott Fanjoy from 1988 to 1991. She has been married to actor Michael Sabatino since January 6, 1997. They have two children, Jacob Walker (born April 2000) and Dylan Michael (born September 2, 2003).
Chappell has said that she enjoys watching Grey's Anatomy, Desperate Housewives and reruns of Will and Grace.

Jennifer (Jenny) Beck (born August 3, 1974 in Los Angeles, California) is an American actress best known for playing a young Elizabeth on V: The Final Battle and "V: The Series". Her other well-known television role was on Paradise as Claire Carroll.
Jenny got three consecutive Young Artist Award nominations, 1989 to 1991, Best Young Actress Starring in a Television Series, for her role in Paradise.
Jenny had only two feature film roles, Tightrope 1984 and Troll 1986.

Born: 2-Aug-1964
Birthplace: Fort Jackson, SC
Gender: Female
Race or Ethnicity: White
Sexual orientation: Straight
Occupation: Actor
Nationality: United States
Executive summary: Fried Green Tomatoes
Boyfriend: Billy Crudup (dated seven years, until Nov-2003, one son)
Son: William Atticus (b. 7-Jan-2004, with Crudup)
Boyfriend: Timothy Hutton (1990-92)
Boyfriend: Pat Mannochia (1992-95)
Boyfriend: Adam Duritz (Counting Crows vocalist)
Boyfriend: Jeffrey Dean Morgan (actor, together 2006-07)
Mary-Louise Parker (born August 2, 1964) is an American Tony-, Emmy - and Golden Globe-winning actress. Some of her better known works include Fried Green Tomatoes, Boys on the Side, Proof, The West Wing, Angels in America, and her current role on Showtime's television series Weeds.
Biography
Early life and 1980s
Parker was born in Fort Jackson, South Carolina. Her mother was Swedish and her father was a judge and served in the U.S. Army. Parker majored in drama at the North Carolina School of the Arts. She then got her start in a bit part on the soap opera Ryan's Hope. In the late 1980s, Parker moved to New York, where she got a job measuring feet at ECCO. After a few minor roles, she made her Broadway debut in a 1990 production of Craig Lucas' Prelude to a Kiss, playing the lead role of Rita. She won the Clarence Derwent Award for her performance and was nominated for a Tony Award. Parker also briefly dated her co-star Timothy Hutton during this time.
That same year, Parker was noticed by critics when she appeared in the movie adaptation of another Lucas play, Longtime Companion, one of the first movies to confront AIDS in the public arena. This role was followed by her appearance in 1991's Grand Canyon, which also starred Mary McDonnell, Alfre Woodard and Kevin Kline. Parker's next film was Fried Green Tomatoes, alongside Jessica Tandy, Mary Stuart Masterson, Kathy Bates and Cicely Tyson.
1990s
Parker maintained a strong theater presence in the early 1990s, but also built her reputation on the big screen, starring with Susan Sarandon and Tommy Lee Jones in The Client (1994); with John Cusack in Bullets Over Broadway (1994); and with Drew Barrymore and Whoopi Goldberg in Boys on the Side (1995), as a woman with AIDS. Her next role was in a movie adaptation of yet another Craig Lucas play, Reckless (1995), alongside Mia Farrow, followed by Jane Campion's The Portrait of a Lady (1996), which also starred Nicole Kidman, Viggo Mortensen, Christian Bale, John Malkovich and Barbara Hershey. In addition, she appeared alongside Matthew Modine in Tim Hunter's The Maker (1997).
Parker's theater career continued when she appeared in Paula Vogel's 1997 critical smash How I Learned To Drive, with David Morse. After several independent film releases, she appeared in Let The Devil Wear Black and then a much-lauded role in The Five Senses (1999).
2001 – 2003
In 2001, Parker appeared alongside Larry Bryggman in David Auburn's Proof on Broadway, for which she won a Tony Award. However, Parker again lost out when the play was made into a film and the role was given to Gwyneth Paltrow. During this period, she left the theater for three years to look for other roles: among them, Red Dragon and Pipe Dream (2002).
Next was a guest role on the NBC drama, The West Wing, as women's rights activist Amelia "Amy" Gardner, which soon became a recurring role as a love interest for Deputy Chief of Staff Joshua Lyman and later becoming Chief of Staff to the First Lady. For this role, Parker was nominated for both an Emmy Award and a Screen Actors Guild Award. During the fifth season, however, Parker became pregnant and her character was written out of the series after appearing in four episodes.
On December 7, 2003, HBO aired an epic six-and-a-half hour adaptation of Tony Kushner's acclaimed Broadway play Angels in America, directed by Mike Nichols. The miniseries — about a group of lost souls in New York during the AIDS epidemic of the 1980s — was hailed with international critical acclaim. Parker played Harper Pitt, the Mormon Valium-addicted wife of a closeted lawyer. For her performance, Parker received Golden Globe and Emmy awards for Best Supporting Actress in a Miniseries.
2004 – 2006
In 2004, Parker appeared in the comedy Saved!, and a TV movie called Miracle Run, based on the true story of a mother of two sons with autism, as well as appearing in Craig Lucas' Reckless on Broadway. Parker took the lead role that had been Mia Farrow's on screen. The production, directed by Mark Brokaw, earned Parker another nomination for a Tony Award for Best Actress in 2005.
Parker returned to The West Wing in several guest appearances in 2005 and 2006, the show's final season, portraying the Director of Legislative Affairs under the President-elect Matt Santos. She also starred with Tom Skerritt in the CBS television film Vinegar Hill as a down-on-her-luck schoolteacher who, with her family, moves in with her in-laws only to discover their bitter, loveless relationship.
In 2005, Parker took on the lead role in the television series Weeds, a Showtime comedy-drama. Parker's character, Nancy Botwin, is a suburban mother who, following the death of her husband, decides to sell marijuana to make money, while also attempting to maintain her community reputation. She stars alongside Kevin Nealon, Elizabeth Perkins, her Saved! co-star Martin Donovan, and her Angels in America co-star Justin Kirk. The show's first season aired in 2005, with the second airing in 2006, and the third airing in 2007. In November 2007, a fourth season was picked up, and premiered on June 16, 2008.
In November 2005, Parker was honored with an exhibition of her career at Boston University, where memorabilia from her career were donated to the University's library. Parker received the 2006 Golden Globe Award for Best Performance by an Actress in a Television Series - Musical or Comedy, given by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association, for her lead role in Weeds. In that category, she defeated the four leads of Desperate Housewives. She dedicated the award to the late John Spencer, best known for his work as Leo McGarry on The West Wing. After receiving the award, Parker stated: "I'm really in favor of legalizing marijuana. I don't think it's that controversial."
2007 – 2008
In March 2007, Parker played the lead role in the TV film The Robber Bride. Her next role, Zerelda Mimms, in the Andrew Dominik film The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford, opened in cinemas in September 2007. Parker appeared alongside Brad Pitt, Casey Affleck, Sam Rockwell and Garret Dillahunt. In August 2007, Parker continued her role in the third season of Weeds. In July 2007, Parker was nominated for two Emmy Awards, one for Lead Actress In A Miniseries Or A Movie for playing Zenia Arden in The Robber Bride and the other for Lead Actress in a Comedy Series for Weeds.
In August 2007, she posed nude for an ad for the third season of Weeds. In the ad, she appears as Eve in the Garden of Eden, with a snake draped around her body and a cannabis leaf behind her ear.
On November 9, 2007, Parker was honored as the Entertainer of the Year by Out Magazine at the Out 100 Awards, which were celebrated in New York City.
Parker appeared in 2008's The Spiderwick Chronicles and in off-Broadway's Playwrights Horizons in the New York premiere of Dead Man's Cell Phone, a new play by Sarah Ruhl, alongside Drama Desk Award Winner Kathleen Chalfant.
Personal life
On January 7, 2004, Parker gave birth to her first child, William Atticus Parker. The boy's father is actor Billy Crudup, whom Parker met when they co-starred in a 1996 revival of the William Inge play Bus Stop. After nearly eight years together, the couple split when the actress was seven months pregnant. There was a negative response to this because shortly after, Crudup openly admitted that he was dating actress Claire Danes, whom he met on the set of Stage Beauty. Crudup denies the rumor that the breakup was caused by Danes. Parker has also dated Adam Duritz of the Counting Crows and Timothy Hutton.
In December 2006, Parker began dating actor Jeffrey Dean Morgan, whom she met on the set of Weeds. In March 2007, Parker stated that the relationship was "going great." The two briefly split in June 2007, but later reconciled. On February 12, 2008, Parker and Morgan announced their engagement only to break up again in April 2008.
In September 2007, Parker adopted a baby girl, Caroline "Ash" Aberash Parker, from Africa.

AKA John Carroll O'Connor

Born: 2-Aug-1924
Birthplace: Manhattan, NY
Died: 21-Jun-2001
Location of death: Culver City, CA
Cause of death: Heart Failure
Remains: Buried, Westwood Memorial Park, Santa Monica, CA
Gender: Male
Religion: Roman Catholic
Race or Ethnicity: White
Sexual orientation: Straight
Occupation: Actor
Nationality: United States
Executive summary: Archie Bunker in All in the Family
Military service: US Merchant Marine (1942)
Father: Edward (lawyer)
Mother: (schoolteacher)
Brother: Hugh (b. 1929, d., motorcycle accident)
Brother: Bob (younger)
Wife: Nancy Fields (m. 28-Jul-1951, until his death, one son)
Son: Hugh O'Connor (adopted, actor, b. 7-Apr-1962, d. 28-Mar-1995, suicide)
O'Connor, of Irish descent, was born in The Bronx, New York and spent much of his youth in Forest Hills, Queens, the same borough in which his character Archie Bunker would later live. He served in the United States Merchant Marine during World War II, was educated in Montana and Ireland, and began his acting career shortly afterward. O'Connor's many film roles include Lonely Are The Brave (1962), Cleopatra (1963), In Harm's Way (1965), Hawaii (1966), The Devil's Brigade (1968) and Kelly's Heroes (1970). O'Connor also appeared on episodes of many popular television series such as Gunsmoke, I Spy, The Fugitive and The Wild Wild West. He was also among the actors considered for the role of Dr. Smith in the TV show Lost In Space, as well as being the visual template in the creation of Batman foe Rupert Thorne, a character who debuted at the height of All in the Family's success in Detective Comics #469 (published May 1976 by DC Comics).
O'Connor was living in Italy in 1970 when producer Norman Lear asked him to star as Archie Bunker in a new sitcom called All in the Family. O'Connor did not expect the show to be a success and believed he would be able to move back to Europe. Instead, the show became the highest-rated television program on American television for five years until 1976.
O'Connor's own politics were liberal, but he understood the Bunker character and played him not only with bombast and humor but with touches of vulnerability. The writing on the show was consistently left of center, but O'Connor often deftly skewered the liberal pieties of the day. The result is widely considered to be an absorbing, entertaining television show. All in the Family was based on the BBC show Til Death Us Do Part, with Bunker based on Alf Garnett, but somewhat less abrasive.
Although Bunker was famous for his malapropisms of the English language, O'Connor was highly educated and cultured and was an English teacher before he turned to acting.
O'Connor married his wife Nancy in Dublin, Ireland (and she later converted to Roman Catholicism for him) in 1951, and their only child, adopted son Hugh O'Connor, committed suicide in 1995 after a long battle with drug addiction. Hugh left a widow and small child behind. O'Connor appeared in public service announcements for Partnership for a Drug Free America and spent the rest of his life working to raise awareness about drug addiction. He was instrumental in the passage of California’s Drug Dealers Civil Liability Act.
In the late 1990s, O'Connor taught screenwriting at the University of Montana, where he attended college in his earlier years. In March 2000, he received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame and was given a St. Patrick's Day tribute by MGM.
O'Connor died on June 21, 2001, at the age of 76 from a heart attack brought on by complications from diabetes. In honor of his death, TV Land moved an entire weekend of programming to the next week and showed a continuous marathon of All in the Family. During the commercial breaks they also showed some interview footage of O'Connor and various All in the Family actors, producers with whom he had worked, and other associates.

AKA Nadia Alexandra Bjorlin

Born: 2-Aug-1980
Birthplace: Newport, RI
Gender: Female
Race or Ethnicity: White
Occupation: Actor
Nationality: United States
Executive summary: Days of Our Lives
Father: Ulf Björlin (composer, b. 21-May-1933, d. 23-Oct-1993 leukemia)
Mother: Fary (interior decorator)
Brother: Ulf Björlin, Jr. (actor, b. 1979)
Brother: Jean-Paul (b. 1982)
Bjorlin was born in Newport, Rhode Island, but lived in Sweden until the age of 7. Her father was the Swedish composer and conductor Ulf Björlin (1933-1993). Her mother, Fary, whose background is Persian, is an interior decorator. Nadia speaks Swedish, Farsi, English and can sing in other languages as well. She is also renowned for her soprano voice. When her family moved to West Palm Beach, Florida, she attended the Palm Beach County School of the Arts (now Dreyfoos School of the arts) along with her brothers Ulf and Jean Paul, where she excelled in music and theater. All three siblings have found success in show business since graduation.
Bjorlin once competed in pageants. In 1998, she placed as Second Runner-Up in Miss Florida Teen USA.
Career
Nadia Bjorlin's major exposure has been on the soap opera Days of Our Lives, where she first appeared as the character Chloe Lane in December 1999. At first, Chloe was portrayed as a nerdy and geeky kind of girl with big glasses. Eventually, her character developed into a quiet beauty who could also sing and she fell in love with rich, popular Philip Kiriakis, portrayed by actor Jay Kenneth Johnson. Soon, their romance turned rocky, and she developed a crush on Brady Black, portrayed by actor Kyle Lowder.
Bjorlin originally left Days in June 2003 to concentrate on her singing career. Her character moved to be an opera star. Bjorlin returned on a recurring basis in November 2004 after her character supposedly had a disfiguring car accident and eventually married Brady Black. In September 2005, Bjorlin left Days of Our Lives again and joined the cast of the UPN series Sex, Love & Secrets. The show was canceled by the network, but Bjorlin continued to make guest appearances on television series such as Jake in Progress and Out of Practice. During the summer of 2005, Bjorlin made guest appearances on the Fishbowl radio program 'Coming Out with Reichen,' hosted by her good friend Reichen Lehmkuhl. The Fishbowl Radio Network is an Internet radio station for reality television alumni.
Since leaving Days, Bjorlin has appeared in the independent feature film, If I Had Known I Was a Genius, starring Markus Redmond, Whoopi Goldberg, Sharon Stone, and Tara Reid. The film was screened at the 2007 Sundance Film Festival.
Bjorlin was also cast as the female lead of the Chicago Pictures' feature film, Redline. The film starred Eddie Griffin and Nathan Phillips, and was released in theaters on April 13, 2007. Bjorlin portrays Natasha Martin, a young automobile fanatic and lead singer of a still unsigned West Coast band. The character finds herself caught up in illegal street-racing competitions organized for the pleasure of a bunch of bored multi-millionaires. The movie was released on DVD on August 21, 2007.
Bjorlin now intends to return to Days of our Lives at the end of October 2007. She will begin airing for November sweeps.