AKA Kaley Christine Cuoco

Born: 30-Nov-1985
Birthplace: Camarillo, CA
Gender: Female
Race or Ethnicity: White
Sexual orientation: Straight
Occupation: Actor
Nationality: United States
Executive summary: Bridget on 8 Simple Rules...
Sister: Briana (younger)
Kaley Christine Cuoco is an American television actress, perhaps best known for her role as Bridget Hennessy on the ABC sitcom 8 Simple Rules. She is also known for her role as Billie Jenkins on the CW hit series Charmed, and currently stars on the CBS sitcom The Big Bang Theory with Johnny Galecki and Jim Parsons.
Biography
Early life
Cuoco (Italian for cook) was born in Camarillo, California, to Gary Carmine Cuoco, an Oxnard, California realtor, and Layne Ann Wingate, a homemaker. She also has a younger sister named Briana. She was home schooled on the set and earned her High School Diploma at the age of 16. She had many pets, including a Jack Russel called Raquel.
Career
Cuoco has been a model and commercial actress since the age of 6. Her first major role was in the 1992 TV movie Quicksand: No Escape. Her role as Maureen McCormick in the 2000 TV movie Growing Up Brady brought her much attention, as well as a role on the CBS sitcom Ladies Man. In 2004, in addition to her role on 8 Simple Rules she has had starring roles on the NBC miniseries 10.5, on the ABC Family original movie Crimes of Fashion, and in the independent film Debating Robert Lee. In 2000 she starred in the Disney Channel Original Movie Alley Cats Strike.
Cuoco was named #78 on FHM-Us' 100 Sexiest Women in 2005. She began voicing the character of Brandy Harrington on the Disney Channel's cartoon, Brandy and Mr. Whiskers, later in 2004. Recently, Kaley has lent her voice for Elena Potato, a main character on the Kids' WB, Disney Channel Asia show, Monster Allergy.
In 8 Simple Rules, she was the eldest child and was portrayed as "the most beautiful girl in the school": she had several boyfriends and could convince any boy to do anything. Her younger sister Kerry was played by Amy Davidson. Cuoco also appeared in an episode of Punk'd.
In the eighth season of the hit TV show Charmed Cuoco appeared as Billie Jenkins, a new witch who was searching for her lost sister. Executive producer Brad Kern stated that Kaley's character was initially brought in as a possible spin-off. In 2004, Cuoco co-starred in the movie The Hollow with stars Nick Carter and Kevin Zegers.
In fall 2007, Cuoco began a starring role in the CBS sitcom The Big Bang Theory. She plays Penny, a beautiful and down-to-earth Cheesecake Factory employee that moves next door to two nerds, Sheldon (Jim Parsons) and Leonard (Johnny Galecki). In the show, she moved to California from the Mid-West to chase a career in acting.
Kaley has also starred in the recent Lifetime movie To Be Fat Like Me which premiered on January 8, 2007. She played a minor role in the Prison Break episode "The Message", and in the subsequent episode Chicago.
She was a nationally ranked amateur tennis player, a hobby she took up when she was 3 years old, until she switched to acting full time with 8 Simple Rules in 2002. She was listed as a vegetarian in a 2008 PETA press release, but has said that she does not commit fully to vegetarianism.

AKA Benjamin Stiller

Born: 30-Nov-1965
Birthplace: New York City
Gender: Male
Religion: Jewish
Race or Ethnicity: White
Sexual orientation: Straight
Occupation: Actor, Comic
Party Affiliation: Democratic
Nationality: United States
Executive summary: There's Something About Mary
Father: Jerry Stiller (actor, b. 8-Jun-1927)
Mother: Anne Meara (actress, b. 20-Sep-1929)
Sister: Amy Stiller (actress, b. 9-Aug-1961)
Girlfriend: Jeanne Tripplehorn (actress, ex-)
Girlfriend: Janeane Garofalo (actress, dated 1990)
Girlfriend: Claire Forlani (actress, dated 1998-99)
Girlfriend: Amanda Peet (actress, dated 1998)
Wife: Christine Taylor (actress, m. 13-May-2000)
Daughter: Ella Olivia Stiller (b. 10-Apr-2002)
Son: Quinlin Dempsey Stiller (b. 10-Jul-2005)
Ben Stiller is the son of Jerry Stiller and Anne Meara, a bickering comedy team famous from the 1960s, '70s, and '80s. In addition to their work as a duo, his father was also a regular on Seinfeld and King of Queens; and his mother was on All My Children and Archie Bunker's Place for years. Family friends included Francis Ford Coppola, Rodney Dangerfield, and Peter Max. Andy Kaufman once came over for Thanksgiving dinner, but wouldn't eat the turkey (he had peanut butter and jelly sandwiches instead). When Stiller was 10, he had a small role on his mother's CBS lawyer drama, Kate McShane, and when his parents played Vegas, they stayed in the same hotel as Gladys Knight -- and young Stiller played in the pool with the Pips. He was largely raised by the family's Jamaican housekeeper, Hazel, and her seven kids were almost like siblings to Stiller and his sister Amy. At school, though, he was teased and bullied by other kids, and he's said he was a total misfit throughout his adolescence.
As an adult, Stiller started in show business as a serious actor, appearing on stage in The House of Blue Leaves, but behind the scenes, Stiller was making parody short films. The films got him into the cast of Saturday Night Live in 1989, but it was frustrating for Stiller, as his short films rarely made it on the air. After leaving SNL, Stiller had two Ben Stiller Shows. The first was a weekly MTV show in 1990, a behind-the-scenes parody of a comedy show à la The Larry Sanders Show. It had a very short run, but is not to be confused with the next Ben Stiller Show, a sketch show on Fox in 1992, that also had a very short run. The cast of the latter show included Andy Dick, Janeane Garofalo, and Bob Odenkirk, but the ratings were dismal, and Fox cancelled it without even airing its 13th and final episode. The show subsequently won an Emmy for best writing, beating SNL and In Living Color.
Early reviews sometimes dismissed Stiller as "a well-connected Hollywood brat", but his directing and co-starring in Reality Bites reversed that. He has also directed The Cable Guy and Zoolander, and starred in There's Something About Mary, Mystery Men, Meet the Parents, and Dodgeball.
Stiller co-wrote Feel This Book with Garofalo. It's a parody of self-help books, with insights such as, "Being popular and well-liked is not in your best interest, taking into account the public's regrettable lack of taste; it is incumbent upon you not to fit in." Stiller says he has "bi-polar manic depression", and it runs in his family. He's said he dropped acid in high school, and immediately phoned his parents to let them know.
But in interviews, he usually has nothing to say about his private life. "You separate your own experience from what people think or write about," he says. "Because even if somebody writes about something that happened in your life, 95 percent of the time they get it wrong. I'm not leading a life people should care about. It's not like I've made a sex tape or anything. Not that I think anybody would want to watch a Ben Stiller sex tape."

Born: 29-Nov-1933
Birthplace: Macclesfield, Cheshire, England
Gender: Male
Race or Ethnicity: White
Sexual orientation: Straight
Occupation: Musician
Executive summary: Bluesbreaker
Military service: British Army (Korean War, 1951-54)
Father: Murray Mayall
Mother: Beryl
Wife: Pamela (div.)
Wife: Maggie Parker (musician)
Son: Gaz Mayall (nightclub manager)
Mayall was the son of Murray Mayall, a guitarist and jazz music enthusiast. From an early age, he was drawn to the sounds of American blues players such as Leadbelly, Albert Ammons, Pinetop Smith, and Eddie Lang, and taught himself to play the piano, guitars, and harmonica. Mayall served three years of national service in Korea and, during a period of leave, he bought his first electric guitar. Back in Manchester he enrolled at Manchester College of Art, now part of Manchester Metropolitan University, and started playing with semi-professional bands. After graduation he obtained a job as an art designer but continued to play with local musicians. In 1963 he opted for a full time musical career and moved to London. His previous craft was put to good use in the designing of covers for many of his own albums. John Mayall married twice and has already six grand-children. Mrs Maggie Mayall is an American blues performer and since the early 1980's takes an active part in the management of her husband's career. In 2005 Mayall was awarded an OBE in the Honours List.
The Early Years
In 1956, with college fellow Peter Ward, Mayall had formed the Powerhouse Four which consisted of both men plus other local musicians with whom they played at local dances. In 1962, Mayall became a member of the Blues Syndicate. The band was led by trumpeter John Rowlands and included drummer Hughie Flint who Mayall already knew. It was Alexis Korner, another blues enthusiast, who persuaded Mayall to opt for a full time musical career and move to London. There, Korner introduced him to many other musicians and helped them to find gigs. In late 1963, with his band, which was now called the Bluesbreakers, Mayall started playing at the Marquee Club. The lineup was Mayall, Ward, John McVie on bass and guitarist Bernie Watson, formerly of Cyril Davies and the R&B All-Stars. The next spring Mayall obtained his first recording date with producer Ian Samwell. The band, with Martin Hart at the drums, recorded two tracks: "Crawling Up a Hill" and "Mr. James." Shortly after, Hughie Flint replaced Hart, and Roger Dean took the guitar from Bernie Watson. This lineup backed John Lee Hooker on his British tour in 1964.
Mayall was offered a recording contract and on December 7, 1964 a live performance of the band was recorded at the Klook's Kleek. A single, "Crocodile Walk", was recorded later in studio and released along with the album but both failed to achieve any success and the contract was terminated.
In April 1965 former Yardbirds guitarist Eric Clapton replaced Roger Dean and John Mayall's career entered its decisive phase.
The Late Sixties
The Bluesbreakers with their new guitar player started to attract considerable attention. However Clapton departed without notice and had to be replaced urgently. John Weider, John Slaughter and Geoff Krivit attempted to fill in but finally Peter Green took the charge. John MacVie was dismissed and during the next six months Jack Bruce, from Graham Bond Organization, held the bass. In November Clapton came back and Green departed. Sometime later in the month, the band entered the studio to record a single, "Sitting on Top of the World." Also, a live date recorded at the Flamingo provided tracks that appeared later on the 1969 compilation Looking Back and the 1977 album Primal Solos.
In April 1966, the Bluesbreakers returned to (Decca) Studios to record a second LP with producer Mike Vernon. The sessions with horn arrangements for some tracks (John Almond on baritone sax, Alan Skidmore on tenor sax and Dennis Healey on trumpet) lasted just three days. Bluesbreakers with Eric Clapton was released in the U.K. on July 22, 1966. Today the album has gained the status of a classic, but it was also Mayall's commercial breakthrough, rising to #6 on the chart. In the mean time Clapton announced the formation of Cream with Jack Bruce and Ginger Baker.
Mayall had to replace him and persuaded Peter Green to come back. During the following year with Peter Green on guitar and various other sidemen some 40 tracks were recorded. The album A Hard Road was released in February 1967. Today its expanded versions include most of this material and the album itself also stands as a classic. Peter Green gave notice and soon started his own project Peter Green's Fleetwood Mac which was to include the three former Bluesbreakers.
Mayall's first choice to replace Green was 16-year-old David O'List, guitarist from The Attack. However O'List declined and went to form Nice with organist Keith Emerson. Mayall found two other guitarists for the Bluesbreakers, Terry Edmonds and 19-year-old Mick Taylor.
In a single day of May 1967 Mayall alone had put together in a studio an album which was released in november with the apt title "The Blues Alone". Only former Artwoods drummer Keef Hartley appears on half of the tracks which showcase Mayall's ability as multi-instrumentalist.
A six-piece lineup (consisting of Mick Taylor on lead guitar, John McVie on bass, Hughie Flint or Keef Harley on drums, Rip Kant and Chris Mercer on saxes), recorded the album Crusade on July 11 and 12, 1967. These Bluesbreakers spent most of the year touring and Mayall taped the shows on a portable recorder. At the end of the tour he had over sixty hours of tapes which he edited into an album in two volumes: Diary of a Band, Vols. 1 & 2, released in February 1968. Meanwhile a few lineup changes had occurred: McVie had departed and was replaced by Paul Williams who quit to join Alan Price and was replaced by Keith Tillman; Dick Heckstall-Smith had taken the sax.
Following a U.S. tour, more lineup changes occurred as Mayall replaced Tillman by 15-year-old Andy Fraser, who left within six weeks to join Free and Tony Reeves, previously a member of the New Jazz Orchestra, replaced him. Hartley also left to form his own band, the Keef Hartley Band, and was replaced by New Jazz Orchestra drummer Jon Hiseman, who had also played with the Graham Bond Organization. Henry Lowther who played violin and cornet joined in February of 1968. Two months alter the Bluesbreakers recorded "Bare Wires", co-produced by Mayall and Mike Vernon. Next Hiseman, Reeves and Heckstall-Smith moved on to form Colosseum; the new lineup retained Mick Taylor and added drummer Colin Allen, formerly of Zoot Money's Big Roll Band, Dantalian's Chariot and Georgie Fame, and a young bassist Stephen Thompson. In August 1968, the new quartet recorded Blues from Laurel Canyon.
After nearly two years with Mayall Taylor left and joined officially the Rolling Stones on June 13, 1969. Allen then left for Stone the Crows, leaving as the only holdover bassist Thompson (who would also eventually join Stone the Crows). Mayall recruited acoustic finger-style guitarist Jon Mark and flautist/saxophonist John Almond. Mark was best known as Marianne Faithfull's accompanist for three years and for having been a member of the band Sweet Thursday (which included Nicky Hopkins); Almond had played with Zoot Money and Alan Price. The new band was markedly different from previous Mayall projects. A performance at the Fillmore East provided the tracks for the live album The Turning Point. A studio album Empty rooms was recorded with the same personnel and Mayall continued the experiment of formations without drummers on two more albums. On USA Union a violin replaced the wind instruments and on "Memories" the band was stripped down to a trio.
In November 1970 Mayall launched an recording project involving most of the notable musicians with whom he had played during the last few years. The double album "Back to the roots" features Clapton, M. Taylor, Mandel and McGee on guitar, Thompson and L. Taylor on bass, Keef Heartley and Paul Lagos on drums. "Back to the roots" did not promote new names and "USA Union" and "Memories" were recorded with American musicians: Mayall had exhausted his catalytic role on the British blues-rock scene. The list of musicians who had benefited from association with him remains impressive.
Thru the seventies and beyond
At the start of the seventies Mayall had relocated in the USA where he spent most of the next 15 years, recording with local musicians for various labels.
The Return of The Bluesbreakers
In 1982 Mayall was reunited with M. Taylor, John McVie and Colin Allen, three musicians of his sixties lineups, for a brief tour from which a live album would emerge a decade later. In 1984 Mayall restore the name Bluesbreakers for a lineup comprising the two lead guitars of Walter Trout and Coco Montoya, bassist Bobby Haynes and drummer Joe Yuele. The mythic name did perhaps something to enhance the interest in a band which by all standards was already remarkable. A successful world tour and live recordings achieved the rest. In the early 1990s most of the excitement was already spent and Buddy Whittington became the sole lead guitarist in a formation which included then organist Tom Canning. Mayall's 70th birthday was the occasion for a get together concert with some previous sidemen, including Clapton, Taylor and a few other well known names.

Born: 29-Nov-1971
Birthplace: Duluth, MN
Gender: Female
Race or Ethnicity: White
Sexual orientation: Straight
Occupation: Actor
Nationality: United States
Executive summary: Sheena
Husband: David Alan Feiler (m. 21-Mar-1991, div. 22-Apr-1991, restraining order against him)
Husband: Greg Fahlman (m. 30-Aug-1993, div. 2004, one son)
Son: Spencer (b. 1997)
Husband: Cale Hulse (NHL player, m. 3-Sep-2004, one son)
Son: Hudson Lee Hulse (b. 15-Apr-2006)
Nolin was born in Duluth, Minnesota. During her childhood, Nolin lived on a farm. An athletic child, she enjoyed ice fishing, mens basketball, volleyball and softball. She moved to Las Vegas, Nevada, where she worked as a waitress. She later entered the Miss Las Vegas beauty pageant--and went on to win the title.
After becoming Miss Las Vegas, Nolin got the attention of several modeling agencies. She then moved to Los Angeles, California, to pursue acting and study interior design at Santa Monica College. Nolin first worked as a waitress in L.A.
Nolin's first marriage, to David Alan Feiler in 1991, lasted a month and a day. He would later go on to stalk her, forcing her to get a restraining order. In 1993, she met Greg Fahlman at a convention where he was giving out fliers; they married on November 27, 1993.
Later in 1993, Nolin received breast implants. A year later, she saw a newspaper ad for the popular, long-running game show, The Price Is Right. She beat out 1,200 other women to become one of the show's Barker's Beauties. Soon afterward, Nolin appeared as model named Sandy in the soap opera, The Young and the Restless.
In 1995, Nolin starred in her biggest role as Neely Capshaw in Baywatch (becoming the second actress to play the controversial character, who was originally created to appear as a one-episode part), alongside Pamela Anderson. In June 1997, her only child with Fahlman, son Spencer, was born. Later in the year, Nolin began modelling, for the first time since her pregnancy, for Maxim. In 1998, Nolin quit Baywatch and started her own show, Sheena (TV series), in 2000. In late 2001, Nolin posed nude for Playboy magazine, further increasing her fame.
In 2002, Sheena was cancelled. In 2004, Nolin divorced Fahlman and began dating NHL hockey player Cale Hulse. Around this time, an explicit sex tape of her and Fahlman began to appear on the internet. On September 3, 2004 Hulse and Nolin were married at the Royal Palms Resort and Spa in Phoenix, Arizona. Their son, Hudson Lee Hulse, was born on April 15, 2006, in Scottsdale, Arizona.

Born: 28-Nov-1984
Birthplace: Rocky Mount, NC
Gender: Female
Race or Ethnicity: White
Occupation: Actor
Nationality: United States
Executive summary: Final Destination 3
Father: James Ronald Winstead
Mother: Betty Lou Knight
Mary Elizabeth Winstead is a SAG Award- and Young Artist Award-nominated American actress.
She has been called a scream queen, à la Jamie Lee Curtis, because of her roles in such horror films as Final Destination 3, Death Proof, and Black Christmas, but has branched out into other genres, including comedy (Sky High), drama (Bobby) and action (Live Free or Die Hard).
Early life
Winstead was born in Rocky Mount, North Carolina, the daughter of Betty Lou (née Knight) and James Ronald Winstead. When she was five, her family moved to Sandy, Utah. Her interest in performing art also began to emerge with interests in ballet and acting. As a child, Winstead appeared in the Mountain West Ballet’s version of The Nutcracker. Hoping to become a ballerina, at the age of eleven, she received the opportunity to study dance in a summer program of the prestigious Joffrey Ballet School in New York City. There, she studied ballet and jazz dance, but decided to also study acting. Winstead ended up appearing on Broadway during Donny Osmond’s successful run of Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat.
She was also a member of the International Children's Choir during her youth and honed her skills performing at her church.
Career
Early career
She began her acting career in the late 1990s, guest starring in episodes of the CBS dramas Touched by an Angel and Promised Land, before being cast as Jessica Bennett in the NBC soap opera Passions, a role she played from 1999 to 2000. She subsequently appeared in the short-lived CBS drama series Wolf Lake (2001-2002), and in the made-for-television film Monster Island (2002).
Mainstream success
Trying her hand at comedy, she went the independent film route as the Jewish daughter of a large, zany family in the indie feature Checking Out, but her screen time fared better in the more mainstream Walt Disney Pictures confection Sky High, which was both financially and critically successful. She starred as Gwen Grayson, the in-disguise alter ego of the supervillain Royal Pain.
After the exposure Sky High provided, 2006 saw her forge a professional relationship with the creative team of James Wong and Glen Morgan, formerly best known for their memorable contributions to The X-Files. She and her co-star, Ryan Merriman, landed in the path of the grim reaper’s master plan in Final Destination 3. She had failed to land a part in the second film in the trilogy, but found her place in the third installment, the film to this day is the most successful of the trilogy. Morgan and Wong wanted to collaborate with her again and convinced her to appear in their sorority slasher Black Christmas, the film failed with critics and viewers. One day, she inadvertently received a chance to lampoon horror scream queens when The Tonight Show host Jay Leno, unaware of who she was, knocked on her front door and included her in a comedy segment spoofing horror movies.
The same year, she appeared in Emilio Estevez's Bobby, a valentine to the politics and morals of Robert F. Kennedy, which drew moderate critical attention, and became a minor box office success. The film's cast included Laurence Fishburne, Anthony Hopkins, Ashton Kutcher, William H. Macy, Demi Moore, and Sharon Stone, but most of her scenes were with Shia LaBeouf and Brian Geraghty. She and her co-stars were nominated for the Screen Actors Guild Award for Best Cast in a Motion Picture.
Recent & future success
In 2007, she appeared in a pair of high-profile event films. Quentin Tarantino cast her as a well-intentioned, but vapid and naïve actress in his high-speed segment of Grindhouse titled Death Proof, his half of a double-billed feature, the film failed to produce ticket sales, but drew critical acclaim. The same summer, hot off the heels of its release, Winstead received another shot at action as Lucy McClane in Live Free or Die Hard alongside Bruce Willis. The film earned over 130 million domestically and drew excellent reviews, making the highest grossing film that features this actress.
She is due to star in Make it Happen, a dance film to be shot in and around Chicago and Winnipeg.

AKA Lauren Courtney Mayhew

Born: November 27, 1985
Lauren Courtney Mayhew is an American singer and actress.
Biography
Mayhew was born in Tampa, Florida to David Mayhew, an orthopaedic surgeon and Sharon Mayhew, a nurse. She has a sister named Briana, who was born in 1988. At the age of 8, she starred in the PBS series, The Reppies. At the age of 9 she was a finalist in the national Wilhemnia contest. A judge, Marilyn Zitner, who was a manager in New York, signed her. She booked the role of Marah Lewis on Guiding Light.
Lauren took a break from acting and signed with Sony Records to be part of the group PYT, which went on to release an album and tour with Destiny's Child, 'N SYNC, and Britney Spears. Lauren performed at the preshow for the Super Bowl in 2001, and has been featured in numerous magazines with PYT. She has also appeared in music videos with Mandy Moore, Faith Hill and two of her own music videos with PYT. After PYT broke up, she joined her former bandmate Lydia Bell in a new group called "Turning Point."
In her feature film debut, New Line Cinema's Raise Your Voice, Lauren starred as Hilary Duff's arch-rival "Robin," a role that allowed her to transform into a cynical and malicious diva for the first time. She later appeared in the direct-to-video movie American Pie Presents: Band Camp as Arianna, the lust of Matt Stifler's life.
She has also guest starred on such shows as: CSI: Crime Scene Investigation, CSI: Miami, Law & Order, Joan of Arcadia, Medical Investigation, and had a reoccurring role for one season on NBC's drama American Dreams.
Lauren is involved with The Alliance for Eating Disorders Awareness, a charitable organization in helping to prevent against eating disorders.
In 2006 she released a solo album called Mayhew, available on iTunes. She is also attending college at UCLA in Los Angeles.

Born: November 26, 1981
Location: Santa Maria, California, United States
Measurements: 34B-26-34 in
Height: 5 ft 5 in
Weight: 119 lb
Eye colour: Brown
Hair colour: Brown
Aurora Snow is the pseudonym of an American pornographic actress and occasional director. Her stage name is a combination of two of her favorite childhood fairytales: Princess Aurora from Sleeping Beauty and Snow White.
Biography
Early life
Snow was born and raised in Santa Maria, California, but also spent time in Albuquerque, New Mexico. She's been an actress since the age of 12, performing in local community and regional theater.
An honor roll student, Snow entered college at the University of California, Irvine, originally majoring in Theater Arts.
Career
After her first year of college, she answered an employment-advertisement for nude modeling. From there she moved on to pornography. She continued her education but changed her major to Business.
Despite her choice of career, she was initially very inexperienced sexually. She had performed in several smaller gonzo porn scenes and Pro-Am films featured online when she first started, but she has recently focused more on more traditional, plot-based 'feature' films. One of her first 'professionally' made as well as distributed movies was titled More Dirty Debutantes 152, produced by Ed Powers.
She has also moved into directing and is a hostess on Playboy TV.
Her directorial debut is Assploitations, later followed by a fairy tale type movie called Perverted Tales. She directs hardcore anal films.
Mainstream roles
Aurora appeared in a cameo in the Judd Apatow film Superbad with fellow pornographic actress Jenna Haze. She also made an uncredited masked cameo in the film The Rules of Attraction.
As well, it was reported in June 2008 that she was considering appearing in a reality show.
Personal life
Aurora was at one point in a relationship with fellow pornographic actor Jay Ashley. However, that relationship has since ended after 7-1/2 years and as of June 2008 she was reported to be seeing Richard Abowitz.

AKA Amy Lee Grant

Born: 25-Nov-1960
Birthplace: Augusta, GA
Gender: Female
Religion: Born-Again Christian
Race or Ethnicity: White
Sexual orientation: Straight
Occupation: Musician
Party Affiliation: Republican
Nationality: United States
Executive summary: Christian rocker
Father: Burton Paine Grant
Mother: Gloria Grant
Sister: Carol
Husband: Gary Chapman (m. 19-Jun-1982, div. Jun-1999)
Son: Matthew (b. 1988)
Daughter: Gloria "Millie" (b. 1991)
Daughter: Sarah Cannon (b. 1993)
Husband: Vince Gill (m. 10-Mar-2000)
Daughter: Corrina Grant Gill (b. 2001)

AKA Jillian Noel Hennessy

Born: 25-Nov-1968
Birthplace: Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
Gender: Female
Race or Ethnicity: White
Sexual orientation: Straight
Occupation: Actor
Nationality: Canada
Executive summary: Claire Kincaid on Law and Order
Father: John Hennessy
Mother: Maxine
Sister: Jacqueline Hennessy (twin)
Brother: John Hennessy, Jr.
Husband: Paolo Mastropietro (m. 1-Oct-2000)
Son: Marco (b. 17-Sep-2003)
Hennessy was born in Edmonton, Alberta. Her father, John Hennessy, was a meat salesman, a job that required considerable travel and resulted in frequent moves for the family. Her mother, Maxine, left the family in 1982, leaving her daughter to be partially raised by her paternal grandmother, Eleanor, in Kitchener, Ontario. She has a younger brother, John Hennessy Jr., and an identical twin sister, Jacqueline, who is a magazine writer and TV show host in Canada. Hennessy has Irish, French, Swedish and Italian ancestry on her father's side, and mostly Gypsy Ukrainian, as well as Austrian, ancestry on her mother's. She graduated from Grand River Collegiate Institute in Kitchener, Ontario and used to busk in the Toronto Subway.
Career
Hennessy and her sister played twin call girls in 1988's Dead Ringers. She was short-listed for the role of Dana Scully, on The X-Files. Hennessy is famous for playing Claire Kincaid on Law & Order (1993 – 1996) and the lead role as Jordan Cavanaugh on Crossing Jordan. In 1999 she played Lisa in Chutney Popcorn. In 2000, Hennessy wrote, produced, and co-directed an independent film called The Acting Class. Inspired by a true story, the comedic faux documentary looks at the trials and tribulations of a dysfunctional acting class. The film co-starred her sister, and included cameos by a number of Hennessy's former Law & Order co-stars. In 2001 she portrayed Jackie Kennedy in the film Jackie, Ethel, Joan: The Women of Camelot. In 2003 she made a cameo appearance in the film Abby Singer. She also appeared on Broadway in the musical Buddy - The Buddy Holly Story in 1990. Most recently, she portrayed Tim Allen's wife in the 2007 movie Wild Hogs. On June 9, 2007, she received a star on Canada's Walk of Fame. She also has been recording an album in Austin, Texas. The content and realese dates are currently unknown as of October 5, 2007.
Personal life
Hennessy is multi-lingual, being able to speak Italian, French, Spanish, and German. She married Paolo Mastropietro, a former bartender and sometime actor, on October 1, 2000. Her husband opened a tavern in Northvale, New Jersey in 1999, and named it Hennessy Tavern, after his wife. The tavern is located next to the former bowling alley where the television series Ed was filmed. Hennessy also enjoys riding motorcycles with her husband. They also had a second marriage ceremony in January 2001, which took place at New York City Hall with Mayor Rudolph Giuliani officiating. Their son, Marco, was born on September 17, 2003. The couple is currently expecting their second child, a boy, due in winter 2007/2008.
Hennessy is a fan of the Indigo Girls and a poster of the act hangs in the kitchen of Jordan's on-screen apartment. She sometimes makes appearances at music events as a guest guitarist where she usually performs barefoot.
The Minneapolis-based band Mollycuddle wrote the song "The Ballad of Jill Hennessy" in honor of the actress. Hennessy was reportedly very pleased, and offered to perform with the band on rhythm guitar.

AKA Katherine Marie Heigl

Born: 24-Nov-1978
Birthplace: Washington, DC
Gender: Female
Religion: Mormon
Race or Ethnicity: White
Sexual orientation: Straight
Occupation: Actor
Nationality: United States
Executive summary: Isobel Stevens on Grey's Anatomy
Father: Paul Heigl (accountant)
Mother: Nancy Heigl (Heigl's personal manager)
Brother: Holt Heigl
Brother: Jason Heigl (b. 1971, d. 1986, auto accident)
Sister: Meg Heigl
Boyfriend: Joey Lawrence (dated in mid-1990s)
Boyfriend: Jason Behr (actor, dated 2001-03, broken engagement)
Husband: Josh Kelley (pop singer, b. 1980, dated 2006-07, m. 23-Dec-2007)
Heigl began her professional career as a model when she was nine years old, and ate Cheerios in a nationally-aired TV commercial at ten. She was eleven when she appeared in her first movie, That Night with Juliette Lewis and a pre-adolescent Eliza Dushku. At 15, Heigl starred in My Father, the Hero, as Gerard Depardieu's teenaged daughter who pretended to be his lover. She was a guest on Conan O'Brien and Jay Leno's shows while she was still in high school, and in a frank moment at 22 she described her teenage self as "snobby".
She produced and starred in the low-budget pharmaceutical comedy Side Effects, and she has appeared in more than a dozen films, including The Ringer with Johnny Knoxville and Knocked Up with Seth Rogen. Most of her films have been duds, though, and she is much better known for her small screen work. Heigl plays medical student Isobel Stevens on Grey's Anatomy. Earlier, she had played the space alien Isabel Evans, who inserted herself into other people's dreams in Roswell, and in the misguided 2003 TV-movie of Emily Brontë's Wuthering Heights, she played Isabel.
Her older brother was killed in a car accident in 1986, and through their grief the family decided to donate his heart, kidneys and eyes for transplants to others. She has been an outspoken advocate for organ donation ever since. In 2001, Heigl and her mother/manager appeared on Crossing Over with John Edward, and the paranormalist claimed to make contact with the spirit of Heigl's dead brother. Heigl and her mother seemed less than completely convinced.

AKA Donald Dunn


Born: November 24, 1941
Location:Memphis, Tennessee, US
Genre(s) Rock, Soul, Rhythm and blues
Occupation(s) Musician, Songwriter, Producer, Actor
Instrument(s) Bass
Donald "Duck" Dunn is an American bass guitarist, record producer, and songwriter. Dunn is regularly cited as one of the most influential music figures since the advent of the electric bass guitar.
Early life
Dunn was born in Memphis, Tennessee. Nicknamed "Duck" while watching Disney cartoons with his father one day, Dunn grew up playing sports and riding his bike with fellow future music legend Steve Cropper. After Cropper began playing guitar with a friend named Charlie Freeman, Dunn decided to pick up the bass guitar. Eventually, along with drummer Terry Johnson, the four became "The Royal Spades". The Messick High School group picked up keyboardist Jerry "Smoochy" Smith, singer Ronnie Angel (also known as Stoots), and a budding young horn section in baritone saxophone player Don Nix, tenor saxophone player Charles "Packy" Axton, as well as trumpeter (and future co-founder of The Memphis Horns) Wayne Jackson.
Cropper has noted how when the self-taught Dunn was starting out, he would play along with records, playing what he thought should be there. "That's why Duck Dunn's bass lines are very unique [sic]", Cropper said, "They're not locked into somebody's schoolbook somewhere".
Axton's mother Estelle and her brother Jim Stewart owned Satellite Records and signed the group, who would have a national hit with "Last Night" in 1961 under their new name The Mar-Keys. Dunn; however, did not perform on the record, because he was fishing with his father in Mississippi. The bassist on "Last Night" was actually Lewie Steinberg whom Dunn later replaced in Booker T. & the MGs, the band Steve Cropper founded with organ and piano man Booker T. Jones in 1962.
While Cropper, Jones, Steinberg, and drummer Al Jackson, Jr. enjoyed the success of the MGs' smash "Green Onions", the original Mar-Keys basically ceased to exist. In the future, Booker T. & the MGs plus The Memphis Horns were also known as The Mar-Keys. Dunn continued to do session work with the rest of the MGs at Stax Records (formally Satellite). He also worked at his brother Bobby's King Records Distributorship in Memphis. In 1964, he replaced Steinberg and soon after, Steinberg stopped playing sessions at Stax altogether.
Stax became known for Jackson's drum sound, the instantly recognizable sound of The Memphis Horns, and Duck Dunn's unmistakable grooves. The MGs and Dunn's bass lines on songs like Otis Redding's "Respect" and "I Can't Turn You Loose", Sam & Dave's "Hold On! I'm Comin'", and Albert King's "Born Under a Bad Sign", were hugely influential. After Dunn, Cropper, Jackson, and Jones recorded 1967's Hip Hug-Her album, they became known as more than just the Stax house band that did "Green Onions" and became bona fide stars. Dunn and company enjoyed more than just success, they were shown sheer reverence, on a European tour and via their appearance performing and playing behind Redding at the Monterey Pop Festival.
As an instrumental group, they continued to stretch themselves on McLemore Avenue (their reworking of The Beatles' Abbey Road album) and on their final outing, 1971's Melting Pot where Dunn's work continues to be a source of inspiration for Rap artists.
In the 1970s, with Jones and Cropper gone from Stax, Dunn and Jackson remained, playing and producing. Even though they felt more and more alienated by new political forces above, they stayed with the company — whose success was largely due to them — until the very end.
Dunn went on to play for legends like Muddy Waters, Freddie King, and Jerry Lee Lewis, as well as younger stars like Eric Clapton and Rod Stewart. He reunited with Cropper as a member of Levon Helm's RCO All Stars and also displayed his quirky Southern humor making two movies with Cropper, former Stax drummer Willie Hall, and Dan Aykroyd, as a member of The Blues Brothers band.
Dunn has recently supported Neil Young live and in the studio and still plays with Cropper and Jones, usually with the late, great Al Jackson's cousin Steve Potts on drums, as Booker T. & the MGs.

AKA Destiny Hope Cyrus

Born: 23-Nov-1992
Birthplace: Franklin, TN
Gender: Female
Race or Ethnicity: White
Sexual orientation: Straight
Occupation: Actor
Nationality: United States
Executive summary: Hannah Montana
Her nickname was originally "Smiley", later shortened.
Father: Billy Ray Cyrus (country music singer/actor, b. 1961)
Mother: Leticia Finley
Brother: Christopher (half-brother)
Brother: Braison
Sister: Noah Lindsey
Sister: Brandi (step-sister)
Brother: Trace (step-brother)
Boyfriend: Nick Jonas (singer, together 2007, widely reported but she later denied it)
Boyfriend: Thomas Sturges (together 2008)
Miley Ray Cyrus is an American actress and singer-songwriter. Cyrus is better known for starring as Miley Stewart/Hannah Montana in the television series Hannah Montana on the Disney Channel.
Cyrus became a sensation after Hannah Montana debuted in March 2006. Following the success of the show, in October 2006, a soundtrack CD was released in which she sang eight songs from the show. In December 2007, she was ranked #17 in the list of "Forbes Top Twenty Superstar Earners under the age of 25" with an annual earning of US$3.5 million. As of December 2007, she is working on a movie spin-off of Hannah Montana, titled Hannah Montana: The Movie which set to release on April 10, 2009.
Cyrus's solo music career began with the release of her debut album, Meet Miley Cyrus on June 23, 2007. Her second album, Breakout was released on July 22, 2008. Breakout is Cyrus's first album that does not involve the Hannah Montana franchise. Both albums debuted at #1 on the Billboard 200.
In 2008, Cyrus was listed among artists and entertainers as one of Time magazine's 100 Most Influential People in The World.
Early life
Cyrus was born in Nashville, Tennessee. She is the daughter of Leticia "Tish" (née Finley) and country singer Billy Ray Cyrus,. She has two older half-brothers; Christopher Cody and Trace, the latter being a vocalist and guitarist of an electronic rock band, Metro Station in California. She also has an older half-sister, Brandi, a younger brother, Braison, and a younger sister, Noah, who is also an actress. Cyrus was named Destiny Hope because her parents believed that she would accomplish great things. Cyrus gained her nickname "Miley" because she kept smiling ("Smiley") as a youngster.
Cyrus used to attend Heritage Middle School and was a cheerleader, but now goes to school at a place called Options For Youth. She also has a private tutor on the set of her TV show. She grew up on her parents' farm outside of Nashville, Tennessee. She attended The People's Church in Nashville, Tennessee.
Acting career
Cyrus became interested in acting at age nine when the family briefly lived in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Her first acting role was as a guest star on her father's television series Doc, in which she played a girl named Kylie. In 2003, she played "Young Ruthie" in Tim Burton's Big Fish and was credited as Destiny Cyrus. She was also featured in Rhonda Vincent's music video for "If Heartaches Have Wings", and appeared on Colgate Country Showdown with her father, who was hosting the program.
Disney career
Cyrus was twelve years old when she originally auditioned for Disney for the lead role of Miley Stewart/Hannah Montana, as well as the show's "best friend" roles, but Disney Channel executives judged her to be too small. However, Cyrus was persistent in her desire to be part of Hannah Montana, so Disney called her back for further auditions. According to Disney Channel Executive Vice President Gary Marsh, Cyrus was chosen for the show because of her energetic and lively performance and was seen as a person who "loves every minute of life", with the "everyday relatability of Hilary Duff and the stage presence of Shania Twain". She spent several years trying to get rid of her Southern accent, but in the end Disney wanted her to revive it. Later in an unusual twist, Cyrus had to audition her own father, Billy Ray Cyrus, to see if he would fit the role as Hannah's dad. Cyrus currently stars in Hannah Montana as the lead character Miley Stewart, whose alter ego is the pop music sensation Hannah Montana. Cyrus also performs in character as Hannah Montana for albums and concerts. Cyrus also appeared in the Disney Channel Hannah Montana promotion, "Hannah Montana's Backstage Secrets", in which she portrays Hannah Montana in a fictional interview set in the show's canon.
Cyrus had a brief cameo in the 2007 television movie High School Musical 2 credited as "Girl at Pool", where she danced before the end credits in front of the pool wearing a yellow baby doll top and denim Bermuda shorts. Cyrus also guest-starred as Yatta on Disney Channel's The Emperor's New School.
While attending the Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix premiere, Cyrus stated that they are working on ideas for a Hannah Montana movie. The feature-length film is to be produced by Cyrus's both on and off-screen dad, Billy Ray Cyrus. Hannah Montana: The Movie is scheduled for an April 10, 2009 release.
Cyrus was invited to present the song "That's How You Know" from the film Enchanted at the 80th Academy Awards. She also hosted the 2008 CMT Music Awards with her father in April. On April 9, 2008, Cyrus appeared on the American Idol fundraiser show Idol Gives Back, performing "Good and Broken" and "See You Again". She also told the audience that it has always been one of her dreams to appear on American Idol. In August 2008, Miley hosted and performed at the Teen Choice Awards.
Music career
Studio albums
Walt Disney Records released the first Hannah Montana soundtrack, on October 24, 2006. The soundtrack included eight of the songs that Cyrus performed as Hannah Montana. Cyrus also signed a four-album major record deal with Hollywood Records for her own albums. The album was later re-released twice — a Holiday Edition featuring Cyrus's cover of "Rockin' around the Christmas Tree" and a Special Edition featuring "Nobody's Perfect". Cyrus also opened for The Cheetah Girls in 2006, performing on 20 dates of their 39-city tour.
On June 26, 2007, exactly eight months after the release of the first soundtrack, Cyrus released a double album, Hannah Montana 2: Meet Miley Cyrus. The first disc served as the second Hannah Montana soundtrack, while the second disc was Cyrus's debut solo album as herself. She wrote eight of the ten songs, credited by her birth name Destiny Hope Cyrus. The single "See You Again" became Cyrus's first song to enter the top ten on the Billboard Hot 100.
Just over a year later, Cyrus released her second studio album under her own name. Breakout is the first Miley Cyrus album that has no connection with the Hannah Montana franchise. The album's first single, "7 Things", became her highest charting single.
Touring
Cyrus performed both as herself and in character as Hannah Montana on a North American Best of Both Worlds Tour that started on October 18, 2007 in St. Louis, Missouri; the tour was extended, due to high demand, until January 31, 2008, with 69 total dates, 14 more than previously planned. The Jonas Brothers were the opening act for most of the tour. Tour tickets for each date sold out in record time after they went on sale, disappointing large numbers of fans. The tour was recorded and released to cinemas in Disney Digital 3-D. The concert film brought in $8,651,758 on its opening day, and continued on to gross $31,117,834 to finish off the weekend, making it the highest-grossing opening weekend for a film to be released under 1000 screens, and on July 26, 2008 it was released on Disney Channel. Though its initial run in theaters was due to last just a week, Disney extended the film's run indefinitely because of the demand of the fans.
On September 14, 2008, Cyrus, along with other performers, performed at the Gibson Amphitheatre in Universal City, CA for the City of Hope Benefit Concert that will help raise for cancer research and training programs.
Entrepreneurship
Cyrus became a spokesperson for Daisy Rock Guitars in 2004, when she was presented with her first Daisy Rock guitar — the Stardust Series Acoustic Electric Pink Sparkle. It was given to her by her parents from her father's Country Music Television fan meet-and-greet when she was twelve years old.
Disney released a Hannah Montana clothing collection in late summer 2007. Cyrus helped to design some of the pieces from the collection. "It's not a costume. A tween girl isn't doing dress-up, they want to look like they could be Hannah Montana's friend. This is a fashion line."
In April 2008, Cyrus announced plans to write a book about her life and career. She has since then finished it. The Disney Book Group bought the rights to the book for a reported 7 figures to be published by their imprint Disney-Hyperion Books for a scheduled release spring 2009. An initial printing run of one million copies is planned.
In December 2007, she was ranked #17 in the list of Forbes Top Twenty Superstar Earners under 25 with an annual earning of US$3.5 million. In April 2008, Parade and Us Weekly reported that Cyrus earned $18.2 million in 2007. Cyrus was ranked #35 on the "2008 Forbes Celebrity 100" with an estimated earnings of $25 million during June 2007 to June 2008. A wax figure of Miley Cyrus was unveiled at Madame Tussauds in New York City.
Personal life
Cyrus is good friends with fellow Hannah Montana co-stars Emily Osment and Mitchel Musso, often texting and conference calling each other during busy days. Miley Cyrus also taught Emily Osment how to play the guitar and Osment taught Cyrus how to knit. She is also friends with the stars of the highly successful TV movie High School Musical, including Vanessa Hudgens and Zac Efron, and The Suite Life of Zack & Cody stars including Brenda Song and Ashley Tisdale.
In an appearance on The Oprah Winfrey Show, she stated that she looks up to Hilary Duff as her role model. She also has many pets, including horses, dogs, cats, fish, and chickens. On January 29, 2008 Miley Cyrus announced her intent to officially change her name to "Miley Ray Cyrus," her middle name reflecting that of her father's. The name change became official on May 1, 2008.
In an interview with USA Today, Cyrus was quoted as saying her faith is "the main thing" and is the reason why she works in Hollywood. When interviewed by Parade, she added that she attends church regularly with her family. In an interview with Christianity Today, Billy Ray said, "Being Christian, we believe in heaven," and "We also had a great church, and when you give up your church, your pastor, and the community you are involved in, you're making a big sacrifice. Let's face it, Hollywood is a completely different environment than Franklin, Tennessee."
Beginning in February 2008, Cyrus and her friend Mandy Jiroux (who is also a backup dancer for Cyrus) have been creating videos on YouTube called The Miley and Mandy Show. The show, described as a "YouTube hit", is said to be filmed for fun by Cyrus and Jiroux and to be entirely their work, with Cyrus and Jiroux editing the footage together. It is mostly filmed in Cyrus's bedroom.
In 2007, Cyrus made a large contribution to the City of Hope, giving $1 for every "Hannah Montana" concert ticket sold. She said that "the cool thing about being a part of City of Hope is that they are a cancer research center. They're not only helping kids that are there, but also finding out how they can heal them by figuring out what exactly is going on, which is amazing."
In the September 2008 issue of Seventeen magazine, Cyrus stated she was in a relationship with Nick Jonas of the Jonas Brothers for two years, and that the two "were in love". They broke up at the end of 2007 and she co-wrote a song about him.
Cyrus is hypoglycemic and keeps it under control with her diet.
Cyrus celebrated her 16th birthday with a charity fundraiser at Disneyland, which was closed early for the event attended by 5,000 fans at $250 per ticket. The proceeds went to the charity Youth Service America, a youth volunteering organization. Ten outstanding youth volunteers from Youth Service America were invited to attend, and later in the evening, Cyrus presented a $1 million check to the organization. She also gave a musical performance for the attendees, singing four of her Breakout songs.
Controversies
Pregnancy hoax
On September 24, 2007, rumors began circulating that Cyrus was pregnant. The cause of the rumor was an image of a page of J-14 Magazine circulating on the Internet entitled "Miley's Meltdown" and saying, among other things, "Miley herself confirmed the pregnancy rumors during a J-14 interview". J-14 immediately responded saying that, "Someone doctored the "This Just In" article that appeared on page 16 of J-14's July 2007 issue" and that "this story is completely fabricated!" The real story on J-14's Page 16 magazine was about 'Miley's Gross Habits' told by her co-stars on the set of Hannah Montana.
Seat belt controversy
In her movie, Hannah Montana & Miley Cyrus: Best of Both Worlds Concert, there is a scene where she and her dad did not put their seatbelts on, causing her to be labeled by some newspapers as a "bad role model". Billy Ray Cyrus later apologized for this, and said
“ "We got caught up in the moment of filming, and we made a mistake and forgot to buckle our seat belts ... Seat belt safety is extremely important."”
Vanity Fair photos
On April 25, 2008, the televised entertainment program Entertainment Tonight reported that Cyrus had posed topless for a photo shoot with Vanity Fair. The photo, and subsequently released behind-the-scenes photos, show Cyrus with her bare back exposed but her front covered with a bedsheet. The photo shoot was taken by photographer Annie Leibovitz. The full photograph was published with an accompanying story on The New York Times' website on April 27, 2008. On April 29, 2008, The New York Times clarified that though the pictures left an impression that she was bare-breasted, Cyrus was wrapped in a bedsheet and was actually not topless. Some parents expressed outrage at the nature of the photograph, which a Disney spokesperson described as "a situation [that] was created to deliberately manipulate a 15-year-old in order to sell magazines."
In response to the internet circulation of the photo and ensuing media attention, Cyrus released a statement of apology on April 27, 2008:
“ "I took part in a photo shoot that was supposed to be 'artistic' and now, seeing the photographs and reading the story, I feel so embarrassed. I never intended for any of this to happen and I apologize to my fans who I care so deeply about."”
The photographer Annie Leibovitz also released a statement:
“ "I'm sorry that my portrait of Miley has been misinterpreted. The photograph is a simple, classic portrait, shot with very little makeup, and I think it is very beautiful."”
On April 28, 2008, Vanity Fair published their full interview and photo shoot with Cyrus and her father Billy Ray Cyrus, as well as the behind-the-scenes photographs, on their website. According to the interview, Cyrus's parents and/or minders were present during the entire duration of the photo shoot. The idea to pose with the sheets on was suggested by Annie Leibovitz. When asked if she were "anxious" about the pose, Cyrus stated to interviewer Bruce Handy:
“ "No, I mean I had a big blanket on. And I thought, this looks pretty, and really natural. I think it's really artsy. It wasn't in a skanky way.... And you can't say no to Annie. She's so cute. She gets this puppy-dog look and you're like, okay."”
Playboy offer
In May 2008, Hugh Hefner made news when he offered a magazine pictorial to 15 year old Miley. Hefner said she was a "pretty lady" but would have to wait until she was 18 to appear in the magazine.

AKA William Henry Pratt

Born: 23-Nov-1887
Birthplace: Camberwell, London, England
Died: 2-Feb-1969
Location of death: Midhurst, Sussex, England
Cause of death: Emphysema
Remains: Buried, Garden of Remembrance, Mount Cemetery, Guildford, Surrey, England
Gender: Male
Race or Ethnicity: White
Sexual orientation: Straight
Occupation: Actor
Nationality: England
Executive summary: Horror actor
Wife: Helen Vivian Soule (m.1923, div.1929)
Wife: Dorothy Stein (m.1932, div.1945)
Wife: Evelyn (ex-wife of Tom Helmore, m.1946)
Father: Edward Pratt
Daughter: Sara Karloff (who was born on his birthday)
The future actor was born in Camberwell, London, England. His birth there was acknowledged in 1998 with the addition of one of London's commemorative blue plaques which adorn sites associated with people of note. He was brought up in Enfield. His paternal grandmother was Eliza Julia Pratt, a sister of Anna Leonowens, whose stories about life in the royal court of Siam (now Thailand) were the basis of the musical The King and I. Her maternal grandmother was of East Indian origin from Calcutta in Bengal.
Orphaned in his youth, he was raised by his elder brothers and sister and attended Enfield Grammar School before moving to Uppingham School and Merchant Taylors' School, and eventually the University of London. Karloff's first goal in life was to join the foreign service — his brother, Sir John Henry Pratt, became a distinguished British diplomat — but instead he fell into acting. In 1909, Pratt travelled to Canada, changing his name to something more in keeping with his new vocation while on his way to an acting job with the Jeanne Russell Theater Co. in Kamloops, British Columbia. He spent years testing the waters in North America while living in smaller towns like Kamloops and Prince Albert, Saskatchewan. In 1912, while appearing in a play in Regina, Saskatchewan, Karloff volunteered to be a rescue worker following a devastating tornado. He also lived in Minot, North Dakota, for a year, performing in an opera house above a hardware store. For health reasons, he did not fight in World War I.
Some time after emigrating to Canada in 1909, William Pratt changed his professional name to "Boris Karloff." Some have theorized that he took the stage name from a mad scientist character in the novel The Drums of Jeopardy called "Boris Karlov." However, the novel was not published until 1920, at least three years after Karloff had been using the name on stage and in silent films. (Warner Oland played "Boris Karlov" in a movie version in 1931.) Another possible influence was thought to be a character in the Edgar Rice Burroughs fantasy novel H.R.H. The Rider which features a "Prince Boris of Karlova," but as the novel was not published until 1915, the influence may be backward, that Burroughs saw Karloff in a play and adapted the name for the character. Pratt/Karloff always claimed he chose the first name "Boris" because it sounded foreign and exotic, and that "Karloff" was a "family name." However, his daughter Sara Karloff publicly denied any knowledge of Slavic forebears, "Karloff" or otherwise. One reason for the name change was to prevent embarrassment to his family. Whether or not his brothers (all dignified members of the British foreign service) actually considered young William the "black sheep of the family" for having become an actor, Karloff himself apparently worried they did feel that way. He did not reunite with his family again until 1933, when he went back to England to make The Ghoul, extremely worried that his siblings would disapprove of his new, macabre claim to world fame. Instead, his elder brothers jostled for position around their "baby" brother and happily posed for publicity photographs with him.

AKA Dominique Ellen Dunne

Born: 23-Nov-1959
Birthplace: Santa Monica, CA
Died: 4-Nov-1982
Location of death: 8723 Rangely Blvd., West Hollywood CA
Cause of death: Murder
Remains: Buried, Westwood Memorial Park, Los Angeles CA
Gender: Female
Religion: Roman Catholic
Race or Ethnicity: White
Sexual orientation: Straight
Occupation: Actor
Nationality: United States
Executive summary: Poltergeist
Father: Dominick Dunne (author)
Mother: Ellen Beatriz Griffin-Dunne (actor)
Brother: Griffin Dunne (actor)
Brother: Alexander
Boyfriend: John Thomas Sweeney (chef, killed Dunne)
Dominique Dunne (November 23, 1959 – November 4, 1982) was an American actress. Dunne had parts in several made for television movies, television series, and films, but is probably best known for her role as the oldest daughter, "Dana," in 1982's Poltergeist.
Dunne was born in Santa Monica, California, and grew up in a prominent family. She was the daughter of Ellen Griffin, a ranching heiress, and of producer/journalist/novelist Dominick Dunne. She was also the niece of novelists John Gregory Dunne and his wife, Joan Didion, and the sister of actor and director Griffin Dunne. Dunne attended schools in Los Angeles, California as well as Fountain Valley School and Colorado State University. After spending a year in Italy, Dunne worked for a short period in L.A. as a receptionist and translator for the Italian Trade Commission but eventually turned to acting.
Dunne's first role was in the 1979 made for TV movie "Diary of a Teenage Hitchhiker" with Charlene Tilton. She then obtained small roles in episodes of popular 1980s television series such as Family, Hart to Hart and Fame. She also appeared in four episodes of the short lived TV series Breaking Away and several more made for TV movies. After three years, she finally received her big break with a starring role in the Steven Spielberg produced, Tobe Hooper directed movie Poltergeist. After Poltergeist she appeared in the final season premiere of "CHiPs" and the 1982 TV movie The Shadow Riders with Tom Selleck and Sam Elliott.
In the Fall of 1981, after completing work in Poltergeist, Dunne met and later moved in with a popular Los Angeles chef, John Thomas Sweeney, who was working at the restaurant Ma Maison. After a short and abusive relationship, Dunne ended her relationship with Sweeney. A few weeks later, Sweeney strangled Dunne in the driveway of her home after she refused to reconcile with him. She died at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles, California a few days later, at the age of 22.
Her last TV appearance, shown after her death, was in an episode of Hill Street Blues. In that episode she played a teenage mother who is also the victim of parental abuse. Some of her bruise marks were not make up but were actually from abuse by Sweeney the night before. That episode was dedicated to her.
Sweeney was convicted of manslaughter and was sentenced to 6 and a half years in prison. He served less than four years before his release, having been given credit for time served before conviction.
Dominique Dunne was buried in Westwood Village Memorial Park Cemetery near family friend Natalie Wood. In 1988, Heather O'Rourke, Dunne's young Poltergeist co-star, was buried near her.
Dunne had been cast as Robin Maxwell in the 1983 miniseries V and had been filmed only briefly before her death. The role was recast with actress Blair Tefkin. The only scene in which Dunne appears, according to the commentary, is the one in which the Maxwells and others watch the LA mothership glide in on the day the Visitors first arrive. Dunne's back is all that is seen. The original miniseries is dedicated to Dominique Dunne.

Born: 22-Nov-1984
Birthplace: New York City
Gender: Female
Religion: Jewish
Race or Ethnicity: White
Sexual orientation: Straight
Occupation: Actor
Nationality: United States
Executive summary: Ghost World, Lost in Translation
Father: Karsten Johansson (building contractor)
Mother: Melanie Sloan Johansson (her manager, b. 1951)
Brother: Adrian Johansson (b. 1976)
Sister: Vanessa Johansson (actress)
Brother: Hunter Johansson (her twin)
Brother: Christian Johansson (half brother)
Boyfriend: Jack Antonoff (lead singer of Steel Train, together 2001-02)
Boyfriend: Patrick Wilson (actor, together 2002-03)
Boyfriend: Jared Leto (actor, together in 2004)
Boyfriend: Josh Hartnett (actor, together 2005-07)
Husband: Ryan Reynolds (actor, together 2007-08, m. 27-Sep-2008)
She was named for Scarlett O'Hara of Gone With the Wind, and as a child Scarlett Johansson always loved movies, especially Dirty Dancing and Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory. She loved to sing and dance and pretend, and says she knew at three she would grow up to be an actress. When she was seven years old, her mother took Scarlett and her siblings to an audition for a commercial, and when an agent showed interest in her brother instead, Scarlett began screaming. At the girl's insistence, her parents took her to many more auditions, but she was never the girl anyone wanted for a commercial, and she often cried if she felt a try-out had gone poorly.
Finally understanding that she was serious about her desire to be an actress, her parents enrolled her in the Lee Strasberg Theatre and Film Institute. She was eight when she began her studies there, and almost immediately made her professional stage debut, appearing off-Broadway in a production of Sophistry with Ethan Hawke and Steve Zahn. In her dramatic studies, she was quickly promoted out of the kids' class and in with the adult students. As word of her precocious talent spread, she landed a tiny role in her first film, Rob Reiner's disastrous North, playing John Ritter's young daughter. In her second film, the thriller Just Cause, she played Sean Connery's daughter. At 11 years of age, she finished her course with the Strasberg School.
She first drew critical acclaim for Manny & Lo, as the younger sister of a pregnant runaway. At 12 she played the girl who had her leg amputated after an accident in Robert Redford's The Horse Whisperer (the credits said "introducing Scarlett Johansson", though it was her seventh film). She starred with Thora Birch in Terry Zwigoff's anti-social masterpiece Ghost World, playing a recent high school graduate when she was only 15. In the Coen brothers' The Man Who Wasn't There she was inappropriately eyed by Billy Bob Thornton. She was the Hungarian girl held behind bars in her American bedroom in An American Rhapsody with Nastassja Kinski, and she fought off mutant supersized spiders in Eight Legged Freaks with David Arquette. And then she turned 18.
If any doubt remained about Johansson's talent, it was wiped away with her heartbreaking performance in Lost in Translation, as a neglected newlywed sharing a Tokyo encounter with washed-up star Bill Murray. Opposite Colin Firth in Girl With A Pearl Earring she played the maid immortalized by Jan Vermeer's painting. In A Love Song For Bobby Long she was the depressed homeowner surprised to have John Travolta as a housemate. For her role in the action flop The Island, she offered to film her sex scene with Ewan McGregor topless, but director Michael Bey declined, wanting the film to be rated PG-13, not R. She has starred in two Woody Allen projects, the morality tale about love and tennis Match Point, and the understated comedy of journalism and old money Scoop with Hugh Jackman.
She is only in her mid-20s, but for more than a decade she has been called "mature beyond her years," perhaps because of her husky Lauren Bacall voice. She has won rave reviews and numerous critics' and film festival awards, and even in turkeys like My Brother the Pig or The Perfect Score, her performances always seem to hit the right note. She plans to direct movies, but decided not to attend film school because "it didn't really make any sense to me, to go to school for something I've been involved with for so long."
Johansson was photographed nude, with her arms over her breasts, alongside Tom Ford and Keira Knightley for the February 2006 issue of Vanity Fair. She was a celebrity spokesperson for Calvin Klein's perfume for two years, but left CK in 2006 for a multi-million deal to promote L'Oreal beauty products. She also has a deal with Reebok, for "Scarlett Hearts Rbk" branded shoes and apparel. She collects art, drives a BMW, has said her favorite actress is Judy Garland, and she describes herself as "totally ambitious."
Her high school sweetheart was Jack Antonoff, now the frontman for the band Steel Train. He wrote the band's song "Better Love," about Johansson after she dumped him, with lyrics including "This girl, she had it kinda sweet, Till fame swept her off her feet, She sees nothing she did before, Lets her colors hit the floor, Scars are in her name, And she scars me in blame, Hey Scarlett, you're not the same..."
In 2006, attending the Golden Globes ceremony, she was accosted by fashion designer Isaac Mizrahi, who pawed at Johansson's breasts while conducting red-carpet interviews for the E cable channel. Mizrahi later explained that he had been trying to ascertain how her dress was put together. "Like he doesn't know how a dress works," Johansson said. "I think he's a guy that's starting his TV career and he's making a bit of an exciting moment for himself."
Her paternal grandfather, Ejner Johansson (1922-2001), was a documentary filmmaker who also served as host of Tema (Topic), a Danish talk show in the late 1960s. Her mother comes from the Bronx, manages her daughter's career, and according to Scarlett "she's good about getting what she wants." Her father was born in Denmark, and came to America in his late 20s after divorcing his first wife. Despite her family's Danish background, please note, Johansson's name is pronounced Jo (not Yo) hansson.

AKA Goldie Jeanne Hawn

Born: 21-Nov-1945
Birthplace: Silver Spring, MD
Gender: Female
Religion: Buddhist
Race or Ethnicity: White
Sexual orientation: Straight
Occupation: Actor
Party Affiliation: Democratic
Nationality: United States
Executive summary: Private Benjamin
Father: Edward Rutledge Hawn (concert violinist)
Mother: Laura Steinhoff (jewelry wholesaler, d. 1994)
Sister: Patricia Hawn (film publicist)
Husband: Gus Trikonis (film director, m. 1969, div. 1973)
Husband: Bruno Wintzell (actor, m. 1973, div. 1975)
Husband: Bill Hudson (musician, The Hudson Brothers, m. 1976, div. 1980)
Son: Oliver Hudson (actor, b. 7-Sep-1976)
Daughter: Kate Hudson (actress, b. 19-Apr-1979)
Boyfriend: Kurt Russell (actor, co-habited 1983-2004)
Son: Wyatt Russell (b. 1986)
Goldie Jeanne Hawn is an Academy Award-winning American actress, director and producer. She is known for starring in a series of successful film comedies during the 1970s, 1980s and 1990s. Her daughter is Kate Hudson, who is also an Oscar-nominated actress. Her son, Oliver Hudson, is a television and film actor as well.
Goldie Hawn grew up in the suburbs of Maryland, and started taking dance lessons at the age of three. At ten she made her professional debut, earning $1.50 for dancing on stage in The Nutcracker. At 19, she danced in the can-can line at the Texas Pavilion of the New York World's Fair, and after that she was in chorus lines for stage productions of Kiss Me Kate and Guys and Dolls. After moving to California, Hawn landed a recurring role on a short-lived 1967-68 sitcom, Good Morning, World. It was Carl Reiner's follow-up to The Dick Van Dyke Show, but lasted only one season. Hawn's performance as a ditzy blonde landed her a job as the blonde on Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In the following season.
Between those TV shows, Hawn made her motion picture debut in Disney's The One and Only, Genuine, Original Family Band. Between her first and second seasons on Laugh-In, she took a supporting role as Walter Matthau's mistress in Cactus Flower, which won her an Oscar. The next few noteworthy Hawn films were Steven Spielberg's The Sugarland Express, Shampoo, Foul Play, and Private Benjamin. Then came Swing Shift, co-starring Kurt Russell. The two stars hit it off, and moved in together. They have never married, but Russell helped raise Hawn's kids.
Early life
Hawn was born in Washington, DC, to Edward Rutledge Hawn (a band musician who played at major events in Washington) and Laura Steinhoff (a jewelery shop/ dance school owner); she has a sister, Patricia, and had a brother, Edward, who died before she was born. She was raised in Takoma Park, Maryland. Her father, a descendant of Edward Rutledge (a signer of the Declaration of Independence), was a Presbyterian of part German and part Dutch descent. Her mother was Jewish-American, the daughter of Max Steinhoff and Fanny Weiss, immigrants from Hungary; Hawn was raised in the Jewish religion, although she attended church and the family did celebrate Christmas.
Hawn began taking ballet and tap dance lessons at the age of three, and danced in the chorus of the Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo production of The Nutcracker in 1955. She made her stage debut in 1961, playing Juliet in a Virginia Stage Company production of Romeo and Juliet. By 1964, she ran and instructed a ballet school, having dropped out of American University, where she was majoring in drama.
In 1964, Hawn, who graduated from Montgomery Blair High School, made her professional dancing debut in a production of Can-Can at the Texas Pavilion of the New York World's Fair. She began working as a professional dancer a year later, and appeared as a go-go dancer in New York City.
Career
1960s
Hawn began her acting career as a cast member of the short-lived situation comedy Good Morning, World during the 1967-1968 television season, her role being that of the girlfriend of a radio disc jockey, with a stereotypical "dumb blonde" personality. Her next role which brought her to international attention was as one of the regular cast members on the 1960s sketch comedy show, Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In. On the show, she would often break out into high-pitched giggles in the middle of a joke, and deliver a polished performance a moment after. Noted equally for her chipper attitude as for her bikini and painted body, Hawn personified something of a 1960s "It" girl. This persona was parlayed into three popular film appearances in the late 1960s and early 1970s: Butterflies are Free, There's a Girl in My Soup and Cactus Flower. Hawn won an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her work in Cactus Flower (1969), which was her first film role and which co-starred Walter Matthau and Ingrid Bergman.
1970s-1990s
Hawn remained a popular figure in entertainment into the 1970s and 1980s, appearing in many films (generally comedies), and moving into film production as well. She gathered great respect as a comedy actress and was nominated for an Academy Award as a leading actress for her role in 1980s Private Benjamin, which was one of a series of successful comedies that she had starred in, also including Foul Play, Best Friends, Overboard, and Bird on a Wire. Her career slowed down a bit until 1992, when she appeared opposite Bruce Willis and Meryl Streep in the film Death Becomes Her. She also played an aging actress in the financially successful 1996 film, The First Wives Club, opposite Bette Midler and Diane Keaton, with whom she covered the Lesley Gore hit "You Don't Own Me" for the film's soundtrack. Hawn also performed a cover version of the Beatles' song, "A Hard Day's Night", on George Martin's 1998 album, In My Life.
She made one foray into directing with the television film Hope (1997), starring Christine Lahti and Jena Malone.
2000s
In 2000 Hawn co-starred with Warren Beatty and Diane Keaton once again in Town & Country, a critical and financial fiasco. Budgeted at an estimated US$90 million, the film opened to little notice and grossed only $7 million in its North American theatrical run. As of 2006, her last film appearance was in the 2002 film The Banger Sisters.
In 2005, Hawn's autobiography, A Lotus Grows in the Mud, was published. Hawn claims that the book is not a Hollywood tell-all, but rather a memoir and record of what she has learned in her life so far.
Hawn announced in an interview with AARP's magazine that her next film project would be called Ashes to Ashes and co-star her partner Kurt Russell. The film is about a New York widow who loses her late husband's ashes in India.
Personal life
Relationships and family
Hawn was married to Gus Trikonis from 1969 to 1976. She married Bill Hudson, of the Hudson Brothers, in 1976; the two divorced in 1980 and have two children, Oliver (born 1976) and Kate Hudson (born 1979), both of whom are now noted actors.
Hawn has been in a relationship with actor Kurt Russell since 1982, when the two reconnected on the set of Swing Shift (they previously met while filming 1968's The One and Only, Genuine, Original Family Band). The couple have a son together, Wyatt Russell, who lives in Vancouver, B.C., Canada, learning and playing hockey. Wyatt is currently a goalie with the Brampton Capitals of the Ontario Provincial Junior A Hockey League. He starts college in 2007 and will be playing for the CHA Champion University of Alabama in Huntsville Chargers. She also is stepmother to Kurt Russell's son Boston. Hawn became a grandmother on January 7, 2004, when her daughter, Kate Hudson, gave birth to son Ryder Russell Robinson. She then became a grandmother for a second time when son, Oliver Hudson and his wife, actress Erinn Bartlett, welcomed their son Wilder Brooks Hudson, on August 23, 2007.

AKA Kimberley Jane Walsh

Born: 20 November 1981
Location: Bradford, West Yorkshire, England
Genre(s) Pop
Occupation(s) Singer
Instrument(s) Vocals
Kimberley Jane Walsh (born 20 November 1981) is an English singer for the pop group Girls Aloud. Walsh also acted as band-mate Cheryl Cole's advisor on The X Factor during the judges' houses stage of the show, helping Cole to decide who to put through to the live shows.
Biography
Walsh was born in Bradford, West Yorkshire, to Diane and John Walsh. She grew up with elder sister Sally, younger brother Adam and younger sister Amy in the suburb of Allerton.. Walsh's eldest sister, Sally, appeared on the soap opera, Emmerdale, between 1997 and 2000, playing the role of Lyn Hutchinson.
Kimberley Walsh attended Sandy Lane First School, Stoney Lee Middle School and Beckfoot Grammar Secondary School, and had her first taste of fame starring in an advert as a child along with sister Jennifer in a George for ASDA advert. She starred as Young Cosette in the West End production of Les Misérables. Kimberley also attended the Bradford based theatre school Stage 84 for many years. In 2000 she auditioned for the role of Maria Sutherland in the soap opera Coronation Street, losing out to Samia Smith. Later she appeared in the television series This Is Personal: The Hunt for the Yorkshire Ripper as Gillian Oldfield, and in the same year she starred in a BBC Educational Schools programme called Focus. In 2001 Kimberley Walsh played Tracy in Dream Back.
Personal life
As of May 2006, Walsh was dating and living with Triple 8 singer Justin Scott. Episode 5 of Girls Aloud: Off the Record featured a segment where Scott and Walsh were interviewed at their London residence which they had been sharing for about a year.
Walsh is a supporter of Bradford City. She also enjoys the games of pool and snooker with her friends.
Cannabis controversy
On 8 June 2006, Walsh publicly apologised for smoking cannabis after being caught on camera smoking a spliff. She immediately owned up to it when questioned about the photo, which was taken on 31 December 2005, whilst she was attending a friend's party. She told The Sun newspaper that she had got caught up in the moment and was deeply sorry, and that she realised what she did was wrong, especially since she is in a position where young fans look up to her.
However, it was reported on 9 June 2006 that Walsh's father, John, denied that she had ever smoked cannabis, and that she was just holding a rolled up cigarette that wasn't even lit. He also claimed that Victoria Newton at The Sun pressured Kimberley into apologising for something that she hadn't done, threatening that if she didn't then Newton would make the story worse.
Despite this, Walsh admitted in an interview with The Times, on 20 October 2006, that she had taken a couple of puffs on the spliff, but claimed that "it hardly makes me Pete Doherty.

Born: 19 November 1980
Location: Norbury, Greater London
Adele Silva is an English actress and television personality. She was educated at the Sylvia Young Theatre School and has been on stage and television since she was a child.
Career
Silva's first TV appearance was as Squeak in the 1989 Doctor Who story Survival. As a young girl she also appeared in Mr Majeika, The Bill and EastEnders.
She is best known for playing the role of Kelly Windsor in the television soap opera Emmerdale. She first played this role from 1993 to 2000 before returning to the soap in 2005. Her plotlines have been amongst the most daring in the soap opera, including a relationship with her stepbrother and running off with one of her school teachers. When she returned in 2005, she promised to be the “biggest bitch” in British soap.
During her period away from Emmerdale, Adele Silva appeared on Is Harry on the Boat?, Mile High, The Courtroom and the independent film Jam. However, Silva remained in the public eye more for modelling appearances than acting. She has appeared in men’s magazines like Front, Maxim and FHM, sometimes alongside her friend and fellow model Jakki Degg. It is known she had breast implants during her period away from Emmerdale as she commented on them in a 2005 issue of FHM. Silva has also made appearances in the reality television shows Celebrity Fear Factor, The Salon, I'm Famous and Frightened! and Celebrity 5 Go Dating.
She left Emmerdale in late 2007 to pursue other roles, initially promising fans that she would return to play Kelly in late 2008, Although it has been reported in January 2008 that Adele will not be returning to the show "in the immediate future."
She appeared in the third series of Hell's Kitchen where she came second to Barry McGuigan. More recently she has been seen in Karma Magnet alongside Gary Kemp and it was announced in March 2008 that she would star in a new British film Mixed Up alongside Zara Dawson, Lee Otway and Abi Titmuss. She also recently appeared on "Celebrity Weakest Link" and alongside her Emmerdale cast mates on a celebrity version of the TV show Family Fortunes in December 2006. In August 2007, she appeared as a celebrity guest on Big Brother's Big Mouth.
On the personal front, her name has often been linked romantically to those of a number of footballers. Silva was linked in December 2004 with singer Antony Costa from the group Blue, but in November 2006 they split up.
In September 2008, Silva released her own limited edition selection of wines as part of a new internet reality show "Mistress of the Vines", in association with wine merchants Stowells.

AKA Kim Smith

Born: 18-Nov-1960
Birthplace: London, England
Gender: Female
Race or Ethnicity: White
Sexual orientation: Straight
Occupation: Musician
Nationality: England
Executive summary: Kids in America
Father: Reginald Smith (musician, aka Marty Wilde, b. 15-Apr-1939)
Mother: Joyce Baker (singer)
Sister: Roxanne Wilde (musician)
Husband: Hal Fowler (m. 1-Sep-1996, one son, one daughter)
Son: Harry Tristan (b. 3-Jan-1998)
Daughter: Rose Elizabeth (b. 14-Jan-2000)
Kim Wilde is an English pop singer, professional gardener, and pop cultural figure. She debuted in 1981 with the hit "Kids in America", which reached number two in the UK Singles Chart. In 1987 she made the #1 spot in the United States with her version of "You Keep Me Hangin' On", which had previously been a #1 hit there for The Supremes in 1966.
Biography
Wilde was the first child of 1950s rock 'n' roller Marty Wilde (real name Reginald Smith) and Joyce Baker, formerly of the British singing and dancing group, The Vernons Girls.
Prior to the age of nine, she attended Oakfield Preparatory School, Dulwich. She moved with her family to Hertfordshire at the age of nine, where she was educated at Tewin School and later Presdales School, Ware, before completing a foundation course at St Albans College of Art & Design in 1980.
Wilde was signed to Mickie Most's RAK Records in 1980 and released her debut single, "Kids in America", in January 1981. It was an instant success, topping the charts in France, reaching number 2 in the UK Singles Chart and ending up in the Top 5 in other important markets such as Germany and Australia. In the U.S., where the single was belatedly released in 1982, it became a moderate hit, peaking at no. 25 on the Billboard Hot 100. "Kids in America" also became a staple of college and alternative radio in the U.S. and is often featured by modern rock stations today on "new wave" flashback specialty shows.
The highly successful debut album Kim Wilde (#1 in Germany, #3 in the UK) followed later that year, and spawned a further two hits, "Chequered Love", another #1 in France and #2 in Germany as well as a British and Australian Top Five hit and the UK-only single "Water On Glass". Her second successful album "Select" followed in 1982, including the massively successful midtempo hymne "Cambodia" (#1 in France, #2 in Germany) and the melodramatic up-tempo "View from a Bridge", her fourth french No.1 single and another Top 10 smash in Germany and Australia. Wilde recorded a total of three albums for RAK Records before signing to MCA Records in the summer of 1984. Most of the songs, including all her major hits, were written by her father, Marty and brother, Ricki Wilde.
Six subsequent albums for MCA Records have included international hits. Her 1986 remake of the Supremes classic "You Keep Me Hangin' On" — which gave Wilde her first U.S. #1 single in 1987, also topping the charts in Australia and peaking at #2 in the UK. Further European smash hits include "Another Step (Closer To You)" (recorded with Junior), "Rockin' around the Christmas tree" with Mel Smith, "You Came", "Never Trust A Stranger" and "Four Letter Word", all of them Top 10 hits in the UK. The guitar soft pop hymn "Love is Holy" and the dancefloor-influenced "If I Can't Have You" (a cover of the Yvonne Elliman (Bee Gees written) song from the movie Saturday Night Fever) were UK Top 20 hits in the early 90s, the latter as well a #2 hit in Australia. Her highest charting singles to date in the UK are "Kids in America" and "You Keep Me Hangin' On", both of which reached number 2; and her most successful album in the UK and worldwide is 1988's "Close" which spawned 3 huge Top 10 singles and spent almost eight months on the UK album chart.
This same period corresponded with Wilde's development as a songwriter, having written or co-written the majority of the songs on the MCA albums, including many of the above hit singles.
Wilde received the Best Female Vocalist Award from the British Phonographic Industry (now known as the Brits) in the United Kingdom in 1983, and has subsequently received two further nominations in this category. Also, she has received numerous silver, gold and platinum records from all over the world.
Wilde has undertaken five solo tours and has performed as opening act for Michael Jackson in 1988, and for David Bowie in 1990.
Adding a new dimension to this highly successful career, Wilde appeared in London's West End production of the musical, Tommy, from February 1996 to February 1997.
During the 1980s, Wilde was romatically linked with saxophonist Gary Barnacle, keyboardist Calvin Hayes of Johnny Hates Jazz, and later her band's keyboard player Jeff Hammer, previously of Teardrop Explodes and Stray Cats. In 1993 Wilde was also seeing TV presenter Chris Evans. On September 1, 1996, Kim got married to her co-star in Tommy, Hal Fowler, and wanted to have children as soon as possible.[citation needed] On January 3, 1998 she gave birth to Harry Tristan. Two years later, on January 13, 2000, Rose Elisabeth was born.
During her first pregnancy an old interest in gardening resurfaced, and she attended the famous Capel Manor college to learn about horticulture, so as to create a garden for her children. She was spotted by talent scouts of the UK television station, Channel 4, who asked her to act as a designer for their programme Better Gardens. A year later she started a two year commitment with the BBC, recording two seasons of Garden Invaders. In 2005 she won a Gold award for her courtyard garden at the Royal Horticultural Society's, Chelsea Flower Show.
Her first book about gardening was published in 2005, entitled Gardening With Children. The second book followed in April 2006, entitled The First-time Gardener. Translations of the first book were released at the same time in Spain, France, Denmark and The Netherlands.
On January 13, 2001 she performed live for the first time in years, as a guest star in a show by ABBA tribute band, Fabba, for a local charity. This sparked her interest in performing live again. Since November 2001, she has toured the UK three times in the "Here & Now Tour", an Eighties revival concert series, together with recording artists such as Paul Young, Human League, Belinda Carlisle and Howard Jones.
New music also followed: in 2001 she recorded a new track, "Loved", for a compilation album which became a surprise hit in Belgium, and in 2003 she had pan-European success with "Anyplace, Anywhere, Anytime", a duet with another 1980s pop star German singer, Nena.
In 2006 Wilde signed a new record deal with EMI and released the first single from her 10th studio album in many countries across Europe, Scandinavia and Asia. "You Came 2006" charted well in most of these countries, becoming her biggest solo hit in Germany since 1988. The second single from the album, which was voted for by fans on her official website was "Perfect Girl", released in November 2006, it did spend 9 weeks in the German single Top 100. A third single "Together we belong" was released in March 2007. The album "Never Say Never" includes eight brand new tracks plus five completely re-worked previous hits of hers and has charted well in Belgium, France, Switzerland, Austria and Germany (where her profile has remained high since the duet with Nena). There are no plans at the moment to release the album in her home country. A fourth single from "Never say never" will be released in Germany on August 3rd 2007. The song "Baby obey me" has been remixed and added some rap by the German rapper Il Inspector.
The studio albums
Kim Wilde (1981)
Kim Wilde's debut album was released when she was 20 years old, and turned her into Europe's most popular female popstar within a few months time. Most of the music on this album was played by the symphonic rock band The Enid, and the songs were all written by Marty Wilde and Ricky Wilde. Production duties were fulfilled by Ricky Wilde.
Musically, the album was mainly rock-oriented, which wasn't surprising because of the appearance of The Enid, but it also featured a reggae track ("Everything We Know") and a brass section appeared on "2 6 5 8 0". Lyrically, Marty Wilde provided a few surprises: besides the obligatory love songs there was also a song about a rare minority of people who continually hear sound in their head ("Water On Glass"), the deterioration of inner cities ("Our Town") and a song about a theory that sound is alive ("Tuning In Tuning On"). The singles "Kids In America" and "Chequered Love" were big hits all over Europe, the former would later become a classic pop song.
The album entered the British album charts at no. 10, moving into the top three the next week. During promotion, Kim's band consisted of Ricky Wilde, James Stevenson and later boyfriend Calvin Hayes, who also appeared on the sleeve of the album. Kim later commented that, at that time in the industry, it was passe for a female to attempt to launch a serious career in pop music on her own, and that the backing band had been shown on the sleeve to give credibility to the album. Still she was attacked for trying to copy the allure of U.S. band "Blondie".
Select (1982)
The first single from this album, Cambodia, was released in December 1981 and signalled a different sound from the Wilde camp. The Enid was out, synths and electronic music was in. Again, the songs were written by Marty and Ricky Wilde, production by Ricky Wilde. This was a cause for concern for the "serious" music press at the time: was Kim just a puppet being manipulated by her family? In reality, Kim simply profited from the craftsmanship of her father and brother. The lyrics of the songs were as imaginative as they were on the first album: the second single View From A Bridge and the album track "Wendy Sadd" seemed to be about suicide, "Chaos At The Airport" described a nightmare about flying and "Ego" was quite the opposite of a lovesong. Musically, the 1980s had really begun: lots of synthesizers and drum computers seemed to dominate the soundscape. One old-fashioned rocksong appeared near the end of the album: "Can You Come Over" was recorded at the Wilde's home. The striking cover image was a photograph from Gered Mankowitz.
This long-awaited sequel to the debut album Kim Wilde stormed the charts in a host of mostly European countries, although it did not surpass the success of its predecessor.
Catch As Catch Can (1983)
Kim Wilde returned with the single Love Blonde, a jazz/swing inspired track that lyrically mocked the blonde bombshell image that some media had dealt Kim in the previous years. The album 'Catch As Catch Can' didn't contain any track similar to this single, it rather continued the electronic music theme that was introduced on 'Select'. Most of the songs were again written by Marty and Ricky Wilde, except the second single Dancing In The Dark which was written by Nicky Chinn and Paul Gurvitz. Ricky Wilde produced the album. Some of the songs seemed to be telling a story ("House Of Salome" [released as a single in selected countries], "Sing It Out For Love") whereas "Dream Sequence" was one of Marty's more imaginative lyrics, describing what seems to be a random sequence of images. The cool blue cover image was provided by photographer Sheila Rock.
The album suffered from mixed reviews in the press and the lack of successful singles. Even a second European tour couldn't help the decline in sales, although with hindsight it is easy to recognise how well the album has aged. Quirky electronic noises and beautifully layered soundscapes make this one of the more appealing albums in Kim's repertoire.
Teases & Dares (1984)
Kim Wilde left RAK Records, who released her first three albums, and signed to MCA Records. This was her first album for them. Ricky and Marty Wilde produced this album together, wrote most of the songs. However, it also featured for the first time two songs written and composed by Kim: "Fit In" and "Shangri-la". One obvious thing leapt out: both songs were remarkable for their personal lyrics. "Fit In" was inspired by Kim's neighbours banging on the ceiling when she was playing a 12" single by Frankie Goes to Hollywood, "Shangri-la" seemed to describe a longing for a place without a care. At first, the singles taken from this album seemed to continue the trend of receding sales figures, as both The Second Time and The Touch were relatively unsuccessful. Still "The second time" reached the top ten in Germany and was welcomed as her big comeback single over there. By the end of 1984 Kim was voted for the third time since 1981 "Most popular female popstar" by Germany's biggest teen magazine "Bravo", putting Madonna on hold in the lesser regions of that poll. In addition, The Second Time was Kim's second single to reach the Billboard charts in the U.S., although the song was retitled Go For It on both the single and the U.S. release of the album; it reached No. 65 on the Billboard Hot 100. The third single, Rage To Love (remixed by Dave Edmunds), was Kim's first in three years to break the UK singles top 20. By then, Kim had started her third live tour to mostly sold out halls all over Europe.
Kim's image was changed from a girl wearing second hand clothes and self-dyed hair to a Barbarella-inspired sci-fi goddess (by XL Design) for The Second Time, which confused some fans who still regarded her as the girl next-door. The album sleeve was cited as one of the reasons for misleading record buyers resulting in weak sales and Kim quickly switched back to an image she felt more comfortable in for the next two single releases: For Rage To Love promotion she wore one of her father's Teddy Boy jackets, in keeping with the rockabilly retro theme of the song. Kim taking control of her own image seemed to be a wise choice, as the success of the next album would prove.
Another Step (1986)
Boasting 12 tracks (13 on the CD and cassette) and a varied team of songwriters, Another Step was an artistic but not necessarily a commercial triumph for Kim. She'd co-written more than half of the tracks herself. The first half of the tracks ('Side A' in the days of vinyl) was uptempo, whereas the other half ('Side B') contained ballads. Most of the tracks were produced by Ricky Wilde, but there were also production duties fulfilled by Reinhold Heil, Richard James Burgess, Rod Temperton, Dick Rudolph and Bruce Swedien. The album's first track was a cover of the Supremes hit You Keep Me Hangin' On. Released as a single in the United States, it became number one in the summer of 1987. The track reached No. 1 in Canada and Australia, and was almost equally successful in the UK, where it peaked at no. 2. The next single was Another Step (Closer To You), a duet with British soul singer Junior Giscombe. This UK top 10 hit single was the first one Kim had co-written herself. The third and final uptempo single off the album was Say You Really Want Me, causing a minor controversy when the video was banned from children's programming because it showed Kim writhing on a bed having fun with a pearl necklace. Despite the raunchy image and publicity which accompanied the specially-remixed song, it didn't set the charts alight and the album saw no further single releases. All of the tracks on Another Step were a departure from the synth sound of the previous albums. There was more guitars on most of the tracks: "The Thrill Of It" and "I've Got So Much Love" had a dinstinctive 'rock' feel. The ballads were touching and well produced, the most noteworthy being Kim's self-penned and produced "Don't Say Nothing's Changed" which closed the album. The sound of Kim Wilde had obviously matured. A re-package of this album was released a few months after the initial launch, with a new sleeve design and the addition of bonus tracks, but this failed to reignite interest and has since become a collectors item for fans.
Kim cemented her reputation as a singles artist with this album, as again overall sales were disappointing despite the huge success of the songs released from it. Kim Wilde mentioned a few times that it was probably her mistake not to put more effort into cracking the U.S. market by not touring America after she had scored her first number one hit.
Close (1988)
Produced by Ricky Wilde and Tony Swain, Close was the final album on which Marty Wilde had co-writer credits. The sixth Wilde outing is widely perceived by fans and critics (and Kim herself) as Kim's most well-balanced album. Many kinds of pop are represented; dance, ballad, rock and midtempo.
No less than five singles were culled from this album. Hey Mister Heartache, the debut, featured backing vocals from Junior Giscombe, You Came, a tribute to Kim's nephew Marty, Ricky's first child, was the biggest hit of the five singles. "You Came" was a hit in several countries throughout the world, reaching the top 10 in most; however it missed the U.S. Top 40, peaking at #41 on the Billboard Hot 100. Never Trust A Stranger, Four Letter Word and Love In The Natural Way were the other singles. Attention for the album was further helped by Kim's live opening shows with Michael Jackson across Europe. Reaching the top ten in almost all Scandianvian countries, Austria and Germany the album went on to sell more than 2 Million copies.
Love Moves (1990)
Love Moves contained six tracks written by Ricky and Kim Wilde and four tracks written by Kim Wilde and Tony Swain. Production was done by Ricky Wilde.
Promotion of the first Wilde album of the new decade began with the release of the single "It's Here" in the spring of 1990, a lightweight-upbeat melodic track with summer sounding Spanish guitars where Kim describes her search for a place of her own in a competitive world. Obviously this album was an attempt to follow on from the success of Close, but unfortunately it didn't worldwide. At least it was a Top 10 success in the every loyal Scandinavian countries as well as in Switzerland. There were no clear indications why it didn't succeeded in the big markets: the lyrics were as heartfelt as any lyric written by Kim, and the music was melodic as ever, particularly the singles released (which were as strong as any of the singles from the previous album). Some critics lamented the MOR feel of the album and the use of similar production sounds used throughout. Perhaps this was the point, as unlike the varied styles of sounds of Close, Love Moves seemed to nudge towards concept album territory in the fact the tracks were musically succinct and cohesive. As usual, every effort had been made to create an impressive album. It included guests like Jaki Graham who contributed backing vocals and Deon Estus playing bass guitar. "World In Perfect Harmony" and "Who's To Blame" showed two faces of a similar problem: hope for a better world and despair at how mankind is treating the environment respectively. "In Hollywood" is about a world of glamour where love seems to lose out in between famous people. Kim wasn't especially "Wilde" on this album, except for the track "Can't get enough (of your love)" where the guitar rips one more time. This was the first Wilde project to yield no top 40 releases in the UK (Time, the second release is the lowest charting single in her discography). Nevertheless, astonishingly, five singles in total were released across Europe, with the take off "It's here" becoming a Top 20 hit in the Scandinavian countries and Can't Get Enough notching up Top 20 entry and long run on the French singles chart. Kim stated in many interviews in recent years, that the album marks a rather depressing time in her life, but remains a personal favourite of hers.
Love Is (1992)
Kim Wilde found herself working with Rick Nowels on this album, the same songwriter who had written for Belinda Carlisle and Madonna amongst others. Three of the eleven tracks were produced by him while the remaining eight were produced by Ricky Wilde. The majority of the tracks on this album were co-written by Kim. She'd taken a long hard look at herself, resulting in the song "Who Do You Think You Are?", in which she reflects on how she had behaved through the years in her career. There were more love songs than ever before on this album, titles such as "Touched by your magic" and "Heart Over Mind" are an indication of the themes of the lyrics. Nowels provided "Love Is Holy", a song that immediately struck a chord with Kim when she heard it in his studio in America, and became the first single release, giving Kim her first UK top 20 hit in nearly four years, and although the following two singles fell short of equalling it's success, the project as a whole was well-received by critics, who noted the Carlisle connection in some tracks. The rest of the album, however, was more consistent with the Wilde sound: guitar riffs over synths. Overall, the sound is more introspective and organic than the commercial pop of Love Moves, and especially haunting of all was the closing track, "Too Late", in which the loss of love is described in mournful tones.
Now & Forever (1995)
With the previous three albums somewhat more alike one another than the first five, Kim decided it was time for another change, and she chose to make an album with a decided soul/R&B feel to it. Ricky Wilde still produced the album, but joined forces with CJ Mackintosh for four of them and the Serious Rope team for seven others. Opening with "Breakin' Away", an obvious dance track, and including R&B tracks like "C'mon Love Me", "You're All I Wanna Do" and "Where Do You Go From Here", the album was a departure from the familiar Wilde sound and didn't please the fans and audience like other albums had. It was the first album not to break the albums chart in the UK, whilst Radio One refused to add the lead single Breakin Away to its airplay lists. The album was a daring move for Kim, who wanted to make something to please herself first and foremost. Her interest in music by artists such as Chaka Khan and Pebbles influenced this album heavily. Lyrically, the songs were either very happy ("Sweet Inspiration", "Heaven", "High on you") or bordering on depression ("Now & Forever" (...Time will never mend this broken heart), "Hold On" (...In the day I can smile though I want to die). Two singles were released in the UK, the second being 'This I Swear', a dubious choice given the array of more radio-friendly songs on the album. The flipside, Heaven, was remixed twice (once mix by Matt Darey) and helped sales along, but despite this song's strong performance in the club chart, the top 40 once again became at odds with Kim, as This I Swear stalled at No. 46 in early '96. It was Kim's last album before she started working in the musical Tommy when her pop career started to wind down. During the 12 month run on the play, Kim remixed and released a version of the disco track Shame, which had been recorded in the Now and Forever sessions, but not included on the album. Disastrously, the record shops failed to stock the single on the publicised release date in the UK. Kim, who was ill at the time, could not promote the song and it subsequently became the only single she released not to chart in the top 75, despite a prediction by the ITV Chart Show programme of a No.25 entry in that week's chart.
Never Say Never (2006)
After a comparatively long period of negotiations, Kim Wilde finally signed a new record deal with the German division of EMI in late 2005. In July 2006, it was confirmed that a new album, entitled 'Never Say Never', would be released in Germany on 8th September 2006. The album was since released in Germany, Austria, Belgium, Netherlands, Denmark, Sweden, Finland, France, Spain, Portugal, Switzerland, Poland, South Africa, Turkey and Japan. A single, a re-working of Kim's 1988 hit 'You Came' preceded the album and was released in Germany on 18th August 2006 where it reached no. 20 - her biggest hit there since 1988 (Never trust a stranger). In Austria it reached no. 24, in Belgium no. 33, Finland no. 24, Sweden no. 25, Italy no. 36, Netherlands no. 26, Poland no. 25 and Switzerland no. 19. Kim had announced that the sound of the album would be strongly reminiscent of her earlier work. It is a 14 track album, with eight new songs and six new versions of some earlier hits. The track listing contained a reworking of her biggest hits 'You keep me hangin' on', this time as a duet with Nena, and 'Kids in America', as a duet with Charlotte Hatherley. Cambodia appears as a bonus track in a remix by Paul Oakenfold. The album was a moderate success and reached the top 20 in several European countries. The second single from the album was 'Perfect Girl', released in November 2006 and voted for as a favourite by her fans through a poll on Kim's official website. 'Perfect girl' spent 9 weeks in the German singles top 100 reaching no. 52. It was also released in Belgium, Switzerland and (download only) in the Netherlands. A third single, 'Together we belong', was released in March 2007, but as there was hardly any promotion and no video for the single, it did not reach the German Top 100, even though it did well on radio. A fourth single off the album 'Never say never' was released in August 2007. The single 'Baby obey me' was released in two versions: the original album version and a remixed version featuring German rap artist Ill Inspecta.

AKA Leslie Louise Bibb

Born: 17-Nov-1974
Birthplace: Bismarck, ND
Gender: Female
Race or Ethnicity: White
Sexual orientation: Straight
Occupation: Actor
Nationality: United States
Executive summary: Crossing Jordan
Father: (d. 1978)
Husband: Rob Born (m. 22-Nov-2003, div. 7-Dec-2004)
Leslie Louise Bibb was born in Bismarck, North Dakota, on November 17, 1974, and raised in Nelson County, Virginia. Her father died when she was only 3 years old. Later she and her mother, along with her three older sisters, moved to Richmond, Virginia where she attended an all-girls Catholic high school, Saint Gertrude High School.
In 1990 The Oprah Winfrey Show and the Elite Agency held a nationwide modeling search. Leslie's mother took photos of her then 16-year-old daughter and sent them in. The celebrity judges, John Casablancas, Naomi Campbell, Linda Evangelista and Iman were impressed and they picked her as the winner.
After finishing her junior year, Leslie flew to New York City and signed a contract with Elite Agency. She modeled over that summer, and went on a trip to Japan. She returned home for her senior year and graduated in 1992. Then she decided to attend the University of Virginia. After a single semester, she dropped out and moved to New York City to pursue a full-time modeling career. She attended the William Esper acting studio for three years.
Leslie married Gavin May in the United Kingdom last summer.
Career
Leslie's first film role in the comedy Private Parts, which was followed by her first television series (where she replaced the departed Susan Walters as the female lead) in the second season of The Big Easy. Unfortunately, the show was canceled just months later.
Then in 1999 she had her big break, she appeared as the lead character on the WB Network television series Popular. The show was a major success among teenagers, and led Leslie to more recognizable film roles, such as The Skulls and See Spot Run. Since then she has had notable guest roles on TV shows such as ER, Line of Fire and CSI:Miami.
Nowadays, Leslie has joined the cast of Crossing Jordan and played Will Ferrell's wife in the hit comedy movie Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby.
She will appear as a "fast-talking" reporter named Christine Everhart in the 2008 film, Iron Man.
Leslie has three other projects going. The first is the role of Emma in Trick r Treat . The second is the role of Maya in the horror/thriller Midnight Meat Train. And lastly she will be seen on T.V. in the show Atlanta(2007) in the role of Jessica, opposite Freddie Prinze Jr.

AKA Oliver Burgess Meredith

Born: 16-Nov-1908
Birthplace: Cleveland, OH
Died: 9-Sep-1997
Location of death: Malibu, CA
Cause of death: Alzheimer's
Gender: Male
Race or Ethnicity: White
Sexual orientation: Straight
Occupation: Actor
Nationality: United States
Executive summary: Rocky and Grumpy Old Men
Military service: US Army Air Corps (WWII, captain)
Wife: Helen Derby (m. 1933, div. 1935)
Wife: Margaret Perry (m. 10-Jan-1936, div. Jul-1938)
Wife: Paulette Goddard (actress, m. 21-May-1944, div. 1950)
Wife: Kaja Sundsten (m. 1950, two children)
Son: Jonathan (with Sundsten)
Daughter: Tala (with Sundsten)
Meredith was born in Cleveland, Ohio, to Ida Beth Burgess and Canadian-born William George Meredith, M.D. He graduated from Hoosac School in 1926. He then attended Amherst College as a member of the Class of 1931. In 1933, he became a member of Eva Le Gallienne's theatre company in New York. He attracted favorable attention for playing George in a 1939 adaptation of John Steinbeck's Of Mice and Men and as war correspondent Ernie Pyle in The Story of G.I. Joe (1945).
Meredith was featured in many 1940s films, including three (Second Chorus (1940), Diary of a Chambermaid (1946) and On Our Merry Way (1948) ) co-starring then-wife Paulette Goddard. Among later roles, he became known for playing The Penguin on the television series Batman. His role as the Penguin was so well-received that the show's writers always had a script featuring the Penguin ready whenever Meredith was available. He appeared on the show more times during its run than any other villain.
Meredith served in the United States Army Air Forces in World War II, reaching the rank of captain. As a result of the House Committee on Un-American Activities investigation into Communist influence in Hollywood, Meredith was placed on the Hollywood blacklist in the 1950s.

Born: 11-Apr-1974
Birthplace: Donalda, Alberta, Canada
Gender: Female
Race or Ethnicity: White
Sexual orientation: Straight
Occupation: Actor
Nationality: Canada
Executive summary: Number Six on Battlestar Galactica
Husband: Jonathan Marshall (attorney)
Tricia Helfer (born April 11, 1974), is a Canadian supermodel and actress best known for her major role as Number Six in the Battlestar Galactica re-imagined series.
Early life
Helfer was born in the rural community of Donalda in Stettler County, Alberta. She was raised on her family's grain farm and at the age of 17, while standing in line at a local movie theatre, she was discovered by modelling agency scout Kelly Streit.
Career
Fashion modeling
In 1992, she won Ford Models' Supermodel of the World Contest and was subsequently signed to the Elite Model Management and is currently signed with Trump Model Management. She has appeared in ad campaigns, including Ralph Lauren, Chanel, and Giorgio Armani. Helfer has walked for top fashion shows such as Carolina Herrera, Christian Dior, Claude Montana, Givenchy, John Galliano, and Dolce & Gabbana. Helfer has graced the covers of Flare, Amica, ELLE, Cosmopolitan, Marie Claire, and Vogue, among others. She has also posed nude for the February 2007 issue of Playboy.
Acting
While working in New York as a model, Helfer hosted a Canadian television fashion program Ooh La La. She relocated to Los Angeles in 2002 to pursue a full-time film career. Her first acting assignment was a co-starring role as Sarah on the television series Jeremiah. Thereafter she played the role of a model, Ashleigh James, in the May 16, 2002 episode "The Hunger Artist" on CSI: Crime Scene Investigation. In 2002, Helfer played the female lead, Eva, in the independent film White Rush. In 2003, Helfer was chosen to play Number Six, the Cylon agent in the Sci Fi channel miniseries Battlestar Galactica (2003). The miniseries, which was a remake of the 1970s series Battlestar Galactica, was a huge ratings success, due in part to the visually attractive mind games between Number Six and scientist Dr. Gaius Baltar. It has now become a television series in which Helfer is a main cast member; as of early 2007 the series had completed its third season.
In the fall of 2003, Helfer was offered the role depicting Farrah Fawcett in the NBC telemovie Behind the Camera: The Unauthorized Story of 'Charlie's Angels'. She also regularly appeared in photo shoots by Maxim magazine and was the magazine's wall calendar girl for 2005. She was ranked #57 on the Maxim's Hot 100 Women of 2007. Concurrent with her role in Battlestar Galactica, Helfer began producing and hosting Canada's Next Top Model on May 31, 2006. In 2006, Helfer appeared in the motion pictures Spiral and The Green Chain. She appeared in Maxim Magazine in the fall of 2006.
In October 2006, it was announced that Helfer would not return to host the second season of Canada's Next Top Model in order to concentrate on her work on Battlestar Galactica. Helfer also played a major role in Electronic Arts Command & Conquer 3: Tiberium Wars, as a character named Kilian Qatar, along with her Battlestar Galactica co-star, Grace Park. She also starred in the episode "Roadkill" on the second season of the American paranormal drama TV series Supernatural.
Battlestar Galactica
Main article: Number Six (Battlestar Galactica)
In 2003, the television series Battlestar Galactica was used as the basis for a new three hour miniseries. The project was written and produced by Ronald D. Moore and directed by Michael Rymer. Tricia Helfer is a regular cast member in the two-part 2004 miniseries and the ongoing series. She plays the role of Number Six, a Cylon operative with a human appearance.

AKA Jessica Madison Jacobs

Born: 1990 November 14, 1990)
Location: Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Died: May 10, 2008
Jessica Madison "Jessie" Jacobs was an Australian actress and singer. She was known for her roles in children's television series in Australia including The Saddle Club, Fergus McPhail, and Holly's Heroes. She was also in stage productions, including being alongside Lisa McCune and Bert Newton in The Sound of Music. In the months before her death, Jacobs had taken a break from acting to focus on the 12th grade and music. She was planning to attend the Victorian College of the Arts to study bass guitar and establish herself as a musician. Jessie was a senior at Sandringham College and she was six months away from finishing her VCE and graduateing. She played the bass in a rock band called The Volten Sins. She is featured on the new "The Saddle Club" sound track and on "Friends Forever" with Janelle Corlass-Brown. In 2003 Jessie and Janelle released a CD single for their song "Trouble" under their characters names Melanie and Ashley. In addition to bass guitar Jessie Jacobs also played classical violen when she was six years old and took ballet. In addition to being an actress and a singer Jessie worked at a local bakery.
Death
On May 10, 2008 Jacobs was walking on the platform at Cheltenham railway station when she tripped and fell onto the tracks and into the path of an oncoming train. She couldn't move out of the way in time and died instantly. Jessica was 17 when she got hit by a train. Due to Jacobs carrying a fake ID at the time, it took the police several hours to identify her. On the day Jessie died she was on the way to meet her mom so they could buy a birthday present for Jessie's older brother Adam. She is buried at St Kilda Cemetery in St Kilda,Victoria, Australia.
DAILY TELEGRAPH
THE family of The Saddle Club's Jessica Jacobs were left stunned after being told her train track death "was not an accident".
Kids' TV star Jessica Jacobs, 17, an emerging stage and screen actress and musician, was killed on a shopping trip to buy her brother Adam a birthday present.
She was due to meet him when she slipped from the platform and was hit by a train.
The family have been told Jessica tripped and fell on to railway lines at Cheltenham in Melbourne about noon on Saturday - but were left bemused and shaken when a station worker bizarrely told them it was not an accident.
That claim has been denied by police, but it is unclear why it was made.
Police took several hours to find the family because the teenager, who was arriving home from an overnight stay with a friend, was carrying fake ID.
Jessica, known as Jessie to her friends, was well known in the world of children's television, also starring in Worst Best Friends, Fergus McPhail and Holly's Heroes.
She also appeared in live productions, including the Sound of Music with Bert Newton and Lisa McCune.
Jessica, a gifted violinist and bassist, had planned to join the Victorian College of the Arts next year to establish herself as a musician.
Adam Jacobs, 24, said his sister had been destined to succeed in the entertainment industry.
But he said the family had been distressed by a rail worker who had told people, including them, Jessica's death was not an accident.
Victoria Police investigators, however, have told the family Jessica stumbled as she walked along the platform.
Mr Jacobs said his stepfather and mother visited the station to view a makeshift shrine to Jessica when a woman working at the station told them it was not an accident.
"My stepfather had asked what had happened," he said. "This lady said: 'It was not an accident'."
When he asked her if she was pushed, she said, "no".
"My mum overheard all of this. She is so traumatised by it. It's unacceptable," Mr Jacobs said.
He said his sister was preparing to celebrate her 18th birthday in November and was planning to move out of home. "She was planning to move in with me," he said. "Jessie wanted to be a musician, that was her life. I believed she was going to succeed."
Apart from her older brother, Adam, Jessica also had two younger brothers, Seth, 14, and Charlie, two.
Jessica will be farewelled by more than 400 people in St Kilda today and a horse-drawn carriage will carry her body from Holy Trinity Church to St Kilda Cemetery.
A report on her death will be prepared by the Coroner.

Born: November 14, 1979
Location: Berdyansk, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union
Height 5 ft 9.5 in
Hair color Dark brown
Eye color Green
Measurements 34-23-35
Olga Kurylenko was born to a mother of Russian descent and father of Ukrainian descent. When Olga was three years old her parents divorced, leaving her to be raised by her mother. Olga rarely had contact with her father, meeting him for the first time when she was 8 years old, and later again when she was 13. In 2000, Kurylenko married French fashion photographer Cedric Van Mol, but the couple divorced four years later. In 2006 she married American mobile phone accessory entrepreneur Damian Gabriel Neufeld. They divorced in late 2007. Kurylenko has lived in Paris since leaving Ukraine in 1996 to pursue her modeling career.
The fact she is the first Bond girl from a post-Soviet state got mixed reactions in the post-Soviet countries. The Saint-Petersburg based Communist group KPLO has accused her of "moral and intellectual betrayal" in starring in a film about the "enemy of the Soviet people" (meaning James Bond), but the mayor of Berdyansk has suggested naming a street after her and she met Ukraine's First Lady Kateryna Yushchenko in President Yushchenko's family country house.
Career
She was discovered by a female model scout while on vacation in Moscow at the age of thirteen. When she was 17 she signed a contract with the Paris-based Madison modeling agency. By the age of 18 she had already appeared on the covers of Vogue and Elle.
In 2005 Kurylenko began her film career in France. She received the certificate of excellence award at the 2006 Brooklyn International Film Festival for her performance in L'Annulaire, and also starred in the Paris, je t'aime segment Quartier de la Madeleine opposite Elijah Wood. In 2007, Kurylenko starred in Hitman alongside Timothy Olyphant. She played Bond girl Camille in the latest 007 film, Quantum of Solace, the 22nd film in the Bond Series.
Olga was featured on the cover of Maxim magazine's December 2008 issue.

AKA Kumi Koda

Born: 13-Nov-1982
Birthplace: Kyoto, Japan
Gender: Female
Race or Ethnicity: Asian
Occupation: Singer
Nationality: Japan
Executive summary: Japanese Pop Idol
Sister: Misono Koda (musician)
Kumi Koda (倖田 來未, Kōda Kumi?) (born Kumiko Kōda (神田 來未子, Kōda Kumiko?) is a Japanese pop singer from Kyoto who debuted in Japan in 2000 with Take Back. She is the older sister of Japanese pop singer, Misono. She did not achieve major success until her seventh single, Real Emotion / 1000 no Kotoba. Her popularity reached new levels in 2005 after the release of Secret and Butterfly . Later that year she became one of the best selling artists of 2005 with the success of Best ~first things~. At the end of 2006, Oricon named her the top seller of 2006. Lately, Japanese sports tabloids have paired her together with SMAP leader Masahiro Nakai.
Biography
Pre-Best ~first things~ Era
Before she signed onto Avex, Koda auditioned alongside Maki Goto for the third generation of the Japanese all-girl idol group known as Morning Musume. She ultimately ended up signing a contract with Avex, although it is uncertain whether she forfeited the Morning Musume competition or if she lost to Goto.
Koda officially debuted as a singer under Avex with the single, Take Back, released December 6, 2000 and continued with a second single, Trust Your Love, which was also released in the United States. It sold poorly in Japan and failed to chart, but debuted at #20 on the Billboard Hot Dance Music Charts. It held the nineteenth position on Billboard's Hot 100 Singles Charts and went onto number one on Billboard's Hot Dance Music/Maxi-Singles Charts. Two more singles were released: Color Of Soul and So Into You, which led to the production of her first album, affection, released March 27, 2002.
Koda remained active despite her charting failure. Her fifth single, Love Across the Ocean, debuted at #19, though her sixth single, m·a·z·e, fared much worse on the charts. However, she finally enjoyed success with her seventh single, Real Emotion / 1000 no Kotoba, which was tied to the popular Final Fantasy franchise. The songs were the main vocal themes of Final Fantasy X-2, and Koda had also voiced the character of Lenne in the Japanese version of the game. The single debuted at #3 and outsold all her previous works. Her second album, Grow Into One, came out shortly after Real Emotion / 1000 no Kotoba and was a moderate success.
From then on, Koda would continue a string of top twenty hits with Come With Me, Gentle Words, and Crazy 4 U. These singles were included in her next album, Feel My Mind. The best performing single from that album was Come With Me, which sold 42,000 copies. During the recording of Feel My Mind, Koda was asked to cover the theme song of the anime series, "Cutie Honey". The song, also titled "Cutie Honey", was included as a bonus track on the album and became the title track of her first single after the release of Feel My Mind.
Koda's fourth album, Secret, was released in February 2005 and charted third on Oricon Top 200 Chart. This was her highest charting release, and her first album to debut in the top five. The album included title tracks from singles: Love & Honey (included the hit "Cutie Honey" along with other B-sides from the film), Chase, Kiseki, Hands, and Hot Stuff. The album was certified two times platinum by RIAJ for selling 521,000 copies total.
Best ~first things~ Era
After Secret, Koda released her sixteenth single, Butterfly. The single became her highest charting single at that point in her career, debuting second on the weekly Oricon Charts. It was well-received by the Japanese public and ended up ranking fifth in the monthly charts. Koda also won the Grand Prix prize for the single at the 47th Nihon Record Taishou and Japan Gold Disc Awards, which was named song of the year for 2005.
Koda released two more singles, Flower and Promise/Star; both peaked fourth in the weekly Oricon Charts and continued her string of top ten hits before she released her first greatest hits collection. Titled "BEST ~first things~", the album was released on September 21, 2005 and ranked second to Mr. Children's I♥U album, though it took the number one spot on the daily charts four days after it was released. In its second week on the charts, the album grabbed the number one spot, earning Koda her first number one album. By end of 2006, the album had sold 1,850,635 copies and ranked number seventeen on the yearly chart, dropping from sixth place in 2005.
Best ~second session~ Era
In December 2005, Koda began a project called the “~12 Singles~ Collection” in which she released twelve singles for twelve consecutive weeks. Nine of the singles were limited to 50,000 copies while three of the singles remained normal editions (for future references, a “maxi single”). If all twelve singles were purchased, the cases could be put together to form a bigger image of Koda from the OBI strips and the back covers.
The first single of the project, a maxi single titled "You", ranked number one on the Oricon weekly charts selling 72,000 copies and gave Koda her first single to hit the top spot in the weekly charts. Birthday Eve was released the week after and charted sixth on the weekly charts right after "You".
The fourth and fifth singles of the twelve singles, Shake It Up and Lies, respectively released December 28, 2005, and January 4, 2006, grabbed the sixth and seventh position while "You", was still charting at ninth. This feat made Koda the first female artist to have three singles in the top ten of the Oricon Weekly Singles chart.
The “~12 Singles~ Collection” ended with the release of Someday/Boys♥Girls and later with the "00" single of the collection, Get It On, released exclusively online via cellphone.
Because Koda’s project was a massive success, her management wrapped all of the twelve singles into one best album: BEST ~second session~. The album contained all the title tracks of the “~12 Singles~ Collection”, with the exception of Boys♥Girls and all the music videos of the project. The album came in three versions: a CD-only version, a CD+DVD version, and a limited CD+2DVD version. The extra DVD in the CD+2DVD version contains footage of her from her first live tour in Japan, specifically footage from her performance at Osaka.
The limited edition of the album, limited to 650,000 copies, sold out within days of news about the album. The album charted first on its debut week on the Oricon weekly charts with 983,000 copies sold. This accomplishment makes this album the first to surpass 900,000 copies after Ken Hirai’s Utabaka: Single Collection in December 2005 and the highest debut sales since Utada Hikaru’s Single Collection Vol. 1 released in March 2004 with debut sales of 1,400,000 copies sold.
Oricon reports that 1,768,628 copies of BEST ~second session~ have been sold for the Oricon 2006 year, making it the album with the second highest sales in 2006.
Black Cherry Era
Koda's first single after the “~12 Singles~ Collection” was Koi no Tsubomi (Love Bud), released in May 2006. It charted second in its debut first week with sales of 140,000 copies sold. This was the highest debut week sales for female artists in 2006, until Ayumi Hamasaki surpassed it with Blue Bird in June. Soon afterwards, Koda reclaimed the title with the release of 4 hot wave, which also ranked second behind KinKi Kids, nearly breaking their streak of consecutive #1 singles. Up until 4 hot wave, it makes it Koda's nineteenth consecutive single to debut in the top 10 since Kiseki.
After the release of Koi no Tsubomi, there was news of Koda's first photobook in the making. The photobook was confirmed and titled "MAROC" and photographed by Leslie Kee in Morocco. It was later revealed that the photobook will be tied with her quadruple A-side thirty-second single, 4 hot wave. Both items were released on the same date and have similar covers.
The title tracks in 4 hot wave were used in advertisements. "I'll be there" was used in Seabreeze advertisements for a sun tanning lotion, "Ningyo-Hime" (Mermaid Princess) was used in Vodafone 705T advertisements for a mobile phone, "With your smile" was the theme for NTV's 2006 Japan Pro Baseball, and "JUICY" was used by Gemcerey, a Japanese jewelery company, to promote their product, "Binary Face". "Binary Face" is designed by Koda and the concept is said to be based on her. The "lion" is to represent the dark, sexy and powerful woman while the "rabbit" is for the innocent, weak, and cute side of a woman.
The single following 4 hot wave, Yume no Uta / Futari de... (Dream Song/Two of us...), was released on October 18, 2006. Named the "Two-Story Ballad", it was released in CD and CD+DVD format. The first pressing for the CD+DVD version contained one of nine special photo liners and two bonus tracks, while a special 8 page booklet was available only in the CD-only version.
The "Two-Story Ballad" single originally started out as a single song about "happy love". When Koda listened to the original melody given to her, she commented that the melody had both the elements of happiness and sadness. As a result, she collaborated with her staff on producing two songs but with the same melody, and her staff agreed to it. She wrote another set of lyrics for the song to represent sadness. This is the first single Koda had control over; she wrote the lyrics, chose the outfits, and produced the concepts for the videos of both songs. She confidently remarked that "it was a first time experiment for me, but I was able to convey how happiness and sadness are two sides of the same coin."
After the success of Yume no Uta / Futari de..., Koda and EXILE released their duet covering a pop classic called Won't Be Long, originally by the Bubblegum Brothers. The single charted second in its debut week and sold 130,710 copies.
She followed it up with Cherry Girl / Unmei, released on December 6, 2006. It contained two major tie-ins; "Cherry Girl" is the theme song of a drama starring herself, and "Unmei" (Destiny) will be the theme song of a movie named "Ōoku". Toshiba also signed the usage of "Cherry Girl" in their television commercials to promote their new mobile phone, the SoftBank 811T. This single charted third in its debut week, with 61,817 copies sold.
Two weeks after the release of Cherry Girl / Unmei, Koda's 5th studio album titled Black Cherry was released. The album has three versions: the CD-only version, the CD+DVD version, and the limited CD+2DVD version.
The album includes her singles from 2006: Koi no Tsubomi, 4 hot wave, Yume no Uta / Futari de..., and Cherry Girl / Unmei, with the exception of Yume no Uta / Futari de... in which "Futari de..." will be excluded from the album. The number of tracks is totaled to fifteen, which is raised to eighteen in first pressings of the album. Announced on her official site, the last track on the album, "Milk Tea", will be Koda's first composition. Typical of album releases, the first DVD disc will contain most of Koda's music videos produced in 2006, including a video she made collaborating a duet with Taiwanese singer "Show Luo" of the English version of "Twinkle". This video will be on both Koda's and Show Luo's albums. According to Koda's official site, the second DVD disc, available only in the limited CD+2DVD editions, contains "Cherry Girl", a drama starring herself. It also includes famous drama actors such as Megumi, Yuko Ito, Masaharu Takeda, Mari Hoshino and Mari Hamada.
Oricon reports that Black Cherry is the first female studio album to stay at number one for four weeks in four years, selling 802,000 copies. The last female studio album to have done so is Ayumi Hamasaki's 2000 album, Duty.
Kingdom Era
Koda began 2007 with three releases: But / Aishō, BEST ~Bounce & Lovers~, and a DVD release of her second tour in Japan. But / Aishō, her thirty-fifth single, debuted second and sold 63,692 copies. BEST ~Bounce & Lovers~ charted second as well, selling 161,458 copies. Her tour DVD fared better on the charts; it debuted first, selling 75,000 copies.
Her second single of 2007, titled "Freaky", was released on June 27, 2007 and features four songs, with only "Freaky", and "Run For Your Life" having a music video. The other two songs, "Sora" (Sky) and "girls" were used as Japanese television commercials for her Fever Live in Hall pachinko marketing campaign.
Koda also performed at the Japanese leg of Live Earth in Tokyo on July 7, 2007. in addition to attending ap bank fes '07, an environmental preservation themed concert, hosted by Kazutoshi Sakurai of Mr.Children on July 15, 2007. She performed hits "Cherry Girl", "But", "Freaky", "Kiseki", and "girls".
Her third single of 2007, titled "Ai no Uta", will be released on September 12, 2007 and is described as a "love ballad delivered straight to the person she loves," and also features the theme song to the World Judo Championships 2007, "Come Over". Despite low physical sales, the song reached number 1 on most of the download charts across Japan.
It has been officially confirmed that Koda's 38th single will be a collaboration with Korean boyband Tohoshinki, to be released November 7, 2007, titled "Last Angel feat. Tohoshinki" and is the image song for Resident Evil: Extinction.
On January 30th, she will release her 6th Studio album entitled Kingdom, and her 42nd single entitled anytime on January 23rd.
The album will come in the same 3 forms same as her previous studio album, Black Cherry; in CD Only, CD+DVD and CD+2DVD. The first DVD is a music video collection disc that is about 70 minues long. The second DVD is Kumi's "PREMIUM LIMITED LIVE IN HALL IN YOKOHAMA ARENA" concert.
Kingdom includes the A-Sides from her 2007 singles: But / Aishō, Freaky, Ai no Uta, Last Angel, and anytime. The first press bonus track "Black Cherry" is the full version of "INTRODUCTION" from her fifth album Black Cherry (much like Introduction to the second session from BEST ~second session~ was a short version of Get It On).
Awards and Accomplishments
Music Awards
She won her first award at the 47th Nihon Record Taishō for 'Butterfly' on January 01, 2006, and was awarded "Triple Crown" at the Japan Gold Disc Awards on March 10, 2006, for pocketing three awards: "Pop Artist of the Year", "Pop Album of the Year", and "Music Video of the Year". She continued to win more awards for this song; on May 27, 2006, the MTV VMAJ's awarded Koda with "Best Female Video" and "Best Video of the Year" for Butterfly, and "buzzASIA from Japan" for Trust you, a track off her 4th album, secret.
In the second half of 2006, the song Yume no Uta from her 33rd single, Yume no Uta / Futari de..., garnered Koda more awards. She was a Grand Prix winner at the 39th Japan Usen Grand Prize.
On May 26, 2007, Koda Kumi takes home 3 awards from MTV VMAJ for the second year in a row. Being nominated in 3 categories, she won 2 of the 3 nominated awards for her video Yume No Uta, taking home "Best Female Video and "Best Video of the Year" for the second time. Koda also won herself a special award known as "Best Stylish Artist Award".
Fashion Awards
Within 2006 , Kumi Koda began winning awards for being a new trendsetter in Japan, including the "Best Jeanist Award" on September 4, 2006, and the title of "Nail Queen" for her nail art on November 21, 2006, by Japan Nail Expo. Finally, Vogue Nippon named her one of their "Women of 2006".
Oricon Accomplishments
On Japan's Oricon charts, Kumi Koda has made several notable accomplishments and broken records set by others. From her ~12 Singles~ Collection and Best ~second session~, she became the first female artist to have three singles in the Top 10 of the Oricon weekly singles chart, and the female artist with the highest album debut week sales since Utada Hikaru's Single Collection Vol. 1 with 983,000 copies of Best ~second session~ sold.
On February 13th, 2006 Oricon reported that Kumi's first Live DVD, "secret ~First Class Limited Live~" set a new Oricon record on the music DVD charts by remaining at the top of the Oricon DVD charts for 7 weeks in total.
Then, with the release of her 5th album, Black Cherry, Koda was the first female artist to release a studio album that remained at the top of the Oricon weekly album charts for four weeks after Ayumi Hamasaki with her album, Duty, released in 2000.
At the end of 2006, Oricon named her the top seller of 2006 with 12,702,200,000 Yen profit, approximately 106,808,520 USD.
Online Accomplishments
Koda, while having success on Oricon charts with physical CD sales, maintains success on online music sales as well. It is reported that twenty-two of her music videos chart the top 100 most downloaded videos, with four of her videos dominating the top five, and having Koi no Tsubomi top the Overall Downloads Chart, which thirteen of her other songs chart.
Yahoo! Japan reported Kumi Koda to be the top most searched person in 2006.

Born: 12-Nov-1982
Birthplace: Brooklyn, NY
Gender: Female
Race or Ethnicity: White
Sexual orientation: Straight
Occupation: Actor
Nationality: United States
Executive summary: The Princess Diaries
Father: Gerard Hathaway (lawyer)
Mother: Kate McCauley (stage actress)
Brother: (two brothers; one older, one younger)
Boyfriend: Topher Grace (actor, That 70s Show; "casually dated" 1999-2004)
Boyfriend: Raffaello Follieri (ex)
Anne Hathaway wanted to be a stage actress like her mother, and grew up playing children's roles at a respected New Jersey theater, the Paper Mill Playhouse. In 1999, she played a high school girl in the short-lived Fox TV drama Get Real. A year after that show was cancelled, Hathaway was picked to star opposite Julie Andrews in a Disney film, The Princess Diaries. She then starred in an adaptation of Charles Dickens' Nicholas Nickleby, Ella Enchanted (another fluffy fairy tale), and a sequel to The Princess Diaries. By this time she was in danger of repeating Andrews' career mistake of becoming a "family film" brand name, so Hathaway made the decidedly more adult Havoc and Brokeback Mountain.
She is lactose intolerant, and a vegetarian.

Born: 12-Nov-1966
Birthplace: Astoria, NY
Gender: Male
Religion: Jewish
Race or Ethnicity: White
Sexual orientation: Straight
Occupation: Actor
Nationality: United States
Executive summary: Ross on Friends
Father: Authur Schwimmer
Mother: Arlene Colman-Schwimmer
Girlfriend: Natalie Imbruglia (singer and actress, ex-)
Girlfriend: Mili Avital (actress, dated 1998-2001)
Schwimmer was born in Astoria, Queens, New York to Jewish parents, Arthur Schwimmer and Arlene Colman, and then lived in Valley Stream, Long Island, until he was 2 years old. He was raised in Los Angeles, California, where he attended Beverly Hills High School.
Having attended Northwestern University’s summer “Cherub” program (the National High School Institute) in 1983, he subsequently enrolled at the university as a theater major, joining Delta Tau Delta fraternity and Arts Alliance in addition to acting and directing. In 1988, along with seven other Northwestern graduates, he co-founded Chicago's Lookingglass Theatre Company.
Schwimmer is best known for his role as paleontologist Ross Geller in the television sitcom Friends.
The program was hugely successful and Schwimmer, along with his co-stars, gained widespread recognition among television viewers.
He earned an Emmy Award nomination in the "Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series" category for Friends in 1995. This made him the first cast member of Friends to receive such a nomination. Apart from acting, he also directed ten episodes of the series.
During the shows ten year run, Schwimmer has appeared in numerous movies but perhaps gained most recognition outside of Friends playing Captain Herbert Sobel in the dramatic mini-series Band of Brothers.

AKA Booker T

Born: 12-Nov-1944
Birthplace: Memphis, TN
Gender: Male
Race or Ethnicity: Black
Sexual orientation: Straight
Occupation: Musician
Nationality: United States
Executive summary: Booker T and the MG's
Wife: Priscilla (sister of Rita Coolidge)
Born in Memphis, Tennessee, Jones was a child prodigy, playing the oboe, saxophone, trombone, and piano at school and serving as organist at his church. He attended Booker T. Washington High School, the alma mater of Rufus Thomas and shared the hallowed halls with future stars like Isaac Hayes's writing partner David Porter; saxophonist Andrew Love of The Memphis Horns; soul singer/songwriter William Bell and Earth, Wind, and Fire's Maurice White.
Jones's first entry into professional music came at age sixteen, when he played baritone saxophone on Satellite (soon to be Stax) Records' first hit, "Cause I Love You", by Rufus and Carla Thomas.
While hanging around the Satellite Record Shop run by Estelle Axton, co-owner of Satellite Records with her brother Jim Stewart, Jones met record clerk Steve Cropper, who would become one of the MGs when the group formed in 1962. Besides Jones on organ and Cropper on guitar, Booker T. and the MGs featured Lewie Steinberg on bass guitar and Al Jackson, Jr. on drums (Donald "Duck" Dunn eventually replacing Steinberg). While still in high school, Jones wrote the group's instrumental "Green Onions", which not only became a hit in 1962, but remains an enduring classic more than 40 years later.
Over the next few years, Jones would divide his time between his studies at Indiana University, playing with the MGs, serving as a session musician with other Stax acts, and writing songs that would become classics. He wrote, with Eddie Floyd, "I've Never Found a Girl (To Love Me Like You Do)", Otis Redding's "I Love You More Than Words Can Say", and, with William Bell, Albert King's "Born Under a Bad Sign." The latter would later be popularized in the cover version by power trio Cream.
In 1970, Jones moved to California and stopped playing sessions for Stax, after becoming frustrated with Stax's treatment of the MGs as employees rather than musicians. While still under contract to Stax, he appeared on Stephen Stills' eponymous album (1970). The 1971 album, Melting Pot would be the last Booker T. & the MGs album issued on Stax.
Jones produced three albums with his former wife, under the name Booker T. & Priscilla, as well as making the charts as a solo artist in 1981 with "I Want You". He produced Priscilla's sister Rita Coolidge, Bill Withers's debut album Just As I Am (on which he also played several instruments), and Willie Nelson's album Stardust. He has also lent his trademark keyboards to everyone from Ray Charles to Neil Young to Natalie Merchant. Jones currently still plays with Booker T. & the MGs and his own Booker T. Jones Band.
Jones was inducted into The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1992, and was honored with a Grammy award for lifetime achievement on February 11, 2007.

Born: 12-Nov-1958
Birthplace: Los Angeles, CA
Gender: Female
Race or Ethnicity: White
Sexual orientation: Bisexual
Occupation: Actor
Nationality: United States
Executive summary: Karen Walker on Will & Grace
Father: Carter Mullally, Jr. (actor, worked for Paramount Pictures, d. 1992)
Mother: Martha (former model)
Husband: Michael A. Katcher (talent agent, Creative Artists Agency, div.)
Husband: Nick Offerman (actor, m. 20-Sep-2003)
Megan Mullally in Los Angeles, California, U.S.) is a three-time SAG and two-time Emmy Award-winning Irish-American actress, talk show host and singer, best known for her role as Karen Walker on Will & Grace.
Early life
Born in Los Angeles, Mullally moved to Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, at the age of 7. Her father, Carter Mullally, Jr., was a contract player with Paramount Pictures during the 1950s and her mother was a model. She studied ballet from the age of six and performed in a ballet company during high school. She revealed on a March 2006 episode of NBC's The Tonight Show with Jay Leno that she spent her summers in Los Angeles because of her mother's work.
Following her graduation from Casady School, she attended Northwestern University, where she majored in English Literature and Art History. She became active in local theater and eventually left college without graduating. She worked in Chicago theater for six years.
Career
Television
Mullally moved to Los Angeles in 1981, after just two weeks as a client with the William Morris Agency, she began appearing in bit parts in films and television, such as Murder She Wrote with Angela Lansbury. Megan made her series debut in The Ellen Burstyn Show and guest starred in popular sitcoms such as Seinfeld, Frasier, Wings, Ned and Stacey (with future Will & Grace castmate Debra Messing, although the pair did not appear in any scenes together as they were involved in completely separate storylines), Mad About You, and Just Shoot Me!
In 1998, she landed the role of Karen Walker, Grace Adler's shrill-voiced, pill-popping, eccentric assistant in the NBC sitcom Will & Grace. She won Emmy Awards in 2000 and 2006 for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series (and was also nominated in 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, and 2005), and she has also won three Screen Actors Guild Awards. In addition, Mullally earned four Golden Globe Award nominations for the show. Although she did not win the Emmy in 2005, she did, based on votes from viewers, win the "Emmy Idol" award for singing the Green Acres theme song, in character as Karen, alongside Donald Trump. Although her own voice has a fairly high range, she developed an exaggerated high voice for the Karen Walker character. However, in the pilot episode of the series, she used her real voice. Will & Grace ended in May 2006.
In 2005, Mullally "discovered" comedian and actor Bill Hader while he was with the troupe "Animals From The Future," bringing Hader to the attention of Saturday Night Live producer Lorne Michaels.
Following Will & Grace, Mullally hosted her own talk show, The Megan Mullally Show, which was launched in September 2006. The talk show was canceled in early 2007 due to poor ratings.
Mullally was the host of the 2006 TV Land Awards. She has also been featured in advertisements for M&M's candies and the website cheaptickets.com. Mullally also had a voice cameo as the mother of Neil Patrick Harris' character's mother on a November 2006 episode of the CBS sitcom How I Met Your Mother, and guest starred on Campus Ladies. She was in one episode of the drama Boston Legal in 2007.
Theater and music
She made her Broadway debut in 1994 in a revival of Grease in the role of Marty, with Rosie O'Donnell and later appeared in How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying with Matthew Broderick. She is heard in the cast albums of both productions. She opened in her own one-woman show, Sweetheart, in Los Angeles in 1999.
Mullally has performed at the Orange County Performing Arts Center as part of their 2006 Cabaret series. After a launch for testing in Seattle, she is scheduled to return to the Broadway stage in Mel Brooks' new musical Young Frankenstein, in which she will play Elizabeth, the prissy fiancée of Dr. Frankenstein, in November 2007.
Mullally is also a singer and performs in her own group called The Supreme Music Program. The band has released three albums, The Sweetheart Break-In, Big as a Berry and Free Again!. She also recorded a duet with Carly Simon on the track The Right Thing To Do for the Will & Grace: Let the Music Out! soundtrack. The third album from the SMP was originally titled "The Many Moods.. Vol, 1." however, the title was changed before going to print. The third album, "Free Again!", was released online on 28th July 2007.
Film
Her feature film debut was as a call girl in Risky Business and has parts in Stealing Harvard, Anywhere but Here and the Martin Lawrence comedy Rebound. She also is a voice actress who has done work on several cartoons, such as the 1990s version The Flintstones, Batman: The Animated Series, King of the Hill, the Disney feature film Teacher's Pet, and the upcoming Dreamworks film Bee Movie.
Personal life
Mullally commented in an interview in The Advocate magazine, "I consider myself bisexual, and my philosophy is, everyone innately is."
Mullally dated actor William H. Macy while in college. Her first marriage, in the mid-1990s, was to talent agent Michael Katcher. In 2003, Mullally married actor Nick Offerman (who guest-starred on Will & Grace during its fourth season). She currently lives in West Hollywood, California, with her husband and two poodles, Willa and Elmo.
More
Mullally's father was a longtime bit-player in dozens of movies, rarely receiving on-screen credit. Her mother was a model, and young Megan grew up in Oklahoma City, where she was a singer of some local renown, peaking as soloist with Ballet Oklahoma, the local dance troupe. Bolstered by good reviews for her performances in a few college musicals, she dropped out of school in 1985 to pursue an acting career. She was able to earn a living as a stage actress in Chicago, and in the mid-1990s she starred in two Broadway revivals, Grease with Rosie O'Donnell, and How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying with Matthew Broderick. She also played a hooker in Risky Business.
Will & Grace was Mullally's fourth prime time series. Earlier, she had played Ellen Burstyn's daughter on the mid-'80s sitcom The Ellen Burstyn Show, and she was a regular on Michael Apted's little-seen My Life and Times, and on Rachel Gunn, R.N..
At the 2005 Emmy Awards, she sang the theme from Green Acres in duet with Donald Trump. Earlier that year at the Women in Film Awards, co-star Debra Messing and Mullally were introduced as the new Lucy and Ethel, and fondled each other's breasts on stage (and on live TV).
Following the demise of Will & Grace, Mullally hosted a daytime talk show, The Megan Mullally Show, which was quickly cancelled.

Born: November 11, 1983
Location: Chicago, Illinois
Measurements: 34DDD-24-34
Height: 5 ft 3 in
Weight: 120 lb
Eye colour: Green
Hair colour: Blonde
Candy Manson was born and raised in Chicago, Illinois. Her parents immigrated to Chicago from Poland and Candy was raised Catholic. Church seemed to be just a place for Candy to fantasize about fucking though because she had her first lesbian experience at 12 and began screwing the local boys at 16.
In 2001 the day after Candy turned 18 she began stripping in some local clubs. She began dancing to replace some money out of an account her dad had set up for her. Candy loves to shop and spent it on shoes - she didn't want him to notice it was gone so turned to dancing. She was a housedancer at the Scores club in Chicago for four years before making her first flick in 2005.
Since then Candy has appeared in over 80 flicks and is still going strong. She won the 2005 Miss Nude Galaxy and was nominated for an AVN Newcomer of the Year Award. She loves to be dominated and does alot of fetish flicks as well. Nothing holds back this in your face porn starlet - she sucks, she fucks, she takes it everywhere and just wants more and more and more.
At the end of the summer in 2006 Candy left her modelling agency and porn for about 6 months and wasn't sure she would return. She missed the industry though and returned in February 2007 under Lisa Ann's agency and is loving it. Candy currently lives in Hollywood, California, loves her two tiny dogs and is hoping to settle down one day with a man who can keep up with her and have kids.
Candy began her career in pornography in 2005 after stripping in Chicago for 4 years. She is involved in adult films and website content, including BDSM videos and fetish modeling. She also appears as a feature dancer at clubs around the country.

AKA Richard Walter Jenkins, Jr.

Born: 10-Nov-1925
Birthplace: Pontrhydyfen, Wales
Died: 5-Aug-1984
Location of death: Celigny, Geneva, Switzerland
Cause of death: Cerebral Hemorrhage
Remains: Buried, Protestant Churchyard, Celigny, Switzerland
Gender: Male
Religion: Presbyterian
Race or Ethnicity: White
Sexual orientation: Bisexual
Occupation: Actor
Nationality: Wales
Executive summary: Nineteen Eighty Four
Father: Philip H. Burton (adoptive)
Wife: Sybil Williams (m. 1948, div. 1963, two daughters)
Daughter: Kate Burton (actress, b. 10-Sep-1957)
Daughter: Jessica (b. 1961, autistic)
Wife: Elizabeth Taylor (m. 15-Mar-1964, div. 1974)
Wife: Elizabeth Taylor (m. 10-Oct-1975, div. 1-Aug-1976)
Wife: Susan Hunt (m. 1976, div. 1982)
Wife: Sally Hay (m. 1983)
He was born Richard Walter Jenkins Jr. in the village of Pontrhydyfen, Wales, near Port Talbot and grew up in a poor, Welsh-speaking household, the twelfth of thirteen children. His father was a coalminer, and his mother died after the last birth, before he was two years old; thenceforth a sister in Port Talbot took him into her family where he was raised a Presbyterian.
He showed a talent for English literature at grammar school, though his consuming interest was sport. With the assistance of his inspirational schoolmaster, Philip H. Burton (who mentored him), he excelled in school productions. Philip could not legally adopt Burton because their ages were too close together. It was at this time that he began to develop the distinctive speaking voice that became his hallmark, having been encouraged by Philip (who sidelined as a BBC radio producer) to "lose his Welsh accent". To this day, many aspiring actors study Burton's style of elocution which has been hailed by critics worldwide. His official website claims that he was the highest paid actor in Hollywood during his heyday on and off screen collaborations with fellow icon Liz Taylor and he is often ranked among the greatest actors of all time.
There is a widespread myth (perhaps encouraged or even believed by some members of his stoutly working-class family) that Richard Burton "won a scholarship to Oxford at the age of sixteen" but left after six months. The facts, as recorded by Burton himself in his autobiography and in Richard and Philip, which he co-wrote, are as follows: At the age of sixteen, he was forced to leave school and find work as a shop assistant. His former teacher, Philip Burton, recognising his talent, adopted him and enabled him to return to school. In 1943, at the age of eighteen, Richard Burton (who had now taken his teacher's surname), was allowed into Exeter College, Oxford, for a term of six months study. This was made possible only because it was wartime and he was an air force cadet.
He subsequently served in the RAF (1944-1947) as a navigator. His eyesight was not good enough for him to be considered pilot material.

AKA Vanessa Madeline Angel

Born: 10-Nov-1966
Birthplace: London, England
Gender: Female
Race or Ethnicity: White
Sexual orientation: Straight
Occupation: Actor
Nationality: England
Executive summary: Weird Science
Vanessa Angel (born November 10, 1966) is an English model and actress. She is best known for playing the role of Lisa on the television series Weird Science
Biography
Early life
Born and raised in London, England, Angel was discovered by a Ford model agent in a London cafe as a teenager. During her modeling stint, Angel appeared on the covers of Vogue and Cosmopolitan.
Career
Angel's first movie role was in the 1985 American comedy, Spies Like Us, in which she played a soldier in the Soviet Strategic Missile Forces. Her role was largely "eye candy" in the movie, as she appeared prominently in underwear in scenes. In 1995, Angel was cast in the role of Xena, originally intended to be a three-episode guest arc on Hercules: The Legendary Journeys. Due to an illness, she was unable to take the role. Ultimately, the role went to Lucy Lawless.
In 1998, Angel landed a part in Kissing a Fool with David Schwimmer, followed by a role in the 1999 film, There's Something About Mary. In 2004, she appeared in Superbabies: Baby Geniuses 2, as Scott Baio's wife. Angel has also had roles in Sabretooth, The Perfect Score and Kingpin.
In addition to film work, Angel has also appeared in television. In 1994, she starred in the television series Weird Science. The show ran for four seasons. In 2000, she guest starred in three episodes of Stargate SG-1. Angel played the role of Tok'ra archaeologist/scientist Freya, whose symbiote is named Anise. Her first appearance is in the Season 4 episode "Upgrades", and she appeared in the two following episodes, "Crossroads" and "Divide and Conquer".
In 2005, Angel played herself in the Season 2 episode of Entourage titled "I Love You Too". In 2007, she completed the independent film Blind Ambition.
Personal Life
In 1996, Angel married actor Rick Otto. The couple have one child, a daughter.

AKA Delta Lea Goodrem

Born: 9-Nov-1984
Birthplace: Sydney, Australia
Gender: Female
Race or Ethnicity: White
Sexual orientation: Straight
Occupation: Singer, Actor
Nationality: Australia
Executive summary: Australian TV actress and singer
Father: Denis Goodrem
Mother: Lea
Brother: Trent (younger)
Boyfriend: Blair McDonough (actor, ex)
Boyfriend: Mark Philippoussis (tennis player, together in 2004)
Boyfriend: Brian McFadden (together since 2005, engaged to be married)
Delta Lea Goodrem (born 9 November 1984) is a multi ARIA Award winning Australian singer-songwriter, pianist and Logie Award winning actress. Signed to Sony at the age of 15, Goodrem rose to prominence in 2002, starring in the popular Australian soap Neighbours as Nina Tucker, and this assisted her in establishing an international music career. Her musical output usually falls under the pop and ballad genres and heavily features the piano, which she usually plays in her bare feet while performing live. Her music is usually heavily influenced by classical or Adult Contemporary music, and sometimes by others such as alternative pop (pop rock) and dance-pop.
Career
To date, Goodrem has achieved eight number one ARIA singles and multiple UK Top 10 singles. Her debut album, 2003's Innocent Eyes, made her one of Australia's highest selling female recording artists, spending 29 weeks at #1 selling well over a million copies in Australia and another 1.5 million internationally, debuting at #2 in the UK.
In 2003, at the age of 18, amidst her blooming career, Goodrem was diagnosed with Hodgkin's Lymphoma, a form of cancer which affects the immune system. She has since made a full recovery and now spends much of her time promoting cancer charities.
In 2004 Goodrem released Mistaken Identity, her second studio album which entered the ARIA charts at #1 and gained multi-platinum status. In 2005, Goodrem embarked on The Visualise Tour, her debut concert tour of Australia, combining songs from both Innocent Eyes and Mistaken Identity.
Goodrem released her third studio album, self-titled Delta, on 20 October 2007 to yet another number-one debut, gaining multi-platinum status within the first few months of release. Goodrem also shifted attention to different markets, releasing the album in the Far East and the USA. In January 2009, Goodrem will embark on the Believe Again Tour of Australia to support her third studio album. To date, she has sold approximately 4 million albums, and 6 million combined albums and singles worldwide.
Biography
Childhood and discovery
Delta Lea Goodrem was born on 9 November 1984 in Sydney, New South Wales to parents Denis and Lea Goodrem. Goodrem, who showed a strong interest in music and performing from a very young age, attended The Hills Grammar School, though due to its curriculum placing strong emphasis on sport (Goodrem taking part in netball, running and swimming), music was primarily kept separate. At the age of seven, she appeared in an American commercial for the Galoob toy company, starring alongside fellow Australian Bec Cartwright and began playing piano at ten years of age while taking up singing, dancing and acting lessons. She appeared in numerous commercials for companies such as Optus and Nesquik, and had several minor roles in episodes of successful Australian television shows including Hey Dad...!, A Country Practice and Police Rescue.
At the age of thirteen Goodrem recorded a five song demo CD, financed through her television work. It was sent to the Sydney Swans Football Club (of which Goodrem is a supporter) and they passed it onto Glenn Wheatley] the manager behind successful Australian artists, Little River Band and John Farnham. Interested in Goodrem's potential as a recording artist, Wheatley signed Goodrem an artist development deal with independent label, Empire Records. Between June 1999 to September 2000, she worked with producers Paul Higgins and Trevor Carter on thirteen tracks for an album called Delta, which saw "an ambitious 15-year-old keen to emulate the pop sound of the Spice Girls, Britney Spears and Mandy Moore." The album has yet to surface, Goodrem preventing its release years later via civil action in 2004.
2001–2003: Career launch, Neighbours and Innocent Eyes
At the age of 15, Goodrem signed a record deal with Son] and began work on an album of pop-dance songs including the unsuccessful debut single "I Don't Care", which peaked at number sixty-four on the ARIA singles chart in November 2001. The album and proposed second single "A Year Ago Today" were pushed aside as a result, allowing Goodrem and Sony to re-evaluate her future musical direction. In 2002, Goodrem took up the role as shy school girl and aspiring singer Nina Tucker in the popular soap Neighbours, which helped re-launch Goodrem's music career. The piano-based ballad "Born to Try" co-written by Audius Mtawarira premiered on the show and became her first ARIA number one and UK Top 3. Goodrem's role on the show scored her a Logie for "Most Popular New Talent" at the 2003 Logie Awards and two other nominations at the 2004 Logie Awards (including a Gold Logie nomination).
In January 2003, "Lost Without You" again topped the ARIA singles chart and reached number four in the UK, increasing Goodrem's popularity. Her largely self-penned debut album Innocent Eyes was released in March and debuted at number-one on the ARIA album charts, breaking Australian records previously held by John Farnham's Whispering Jack (1986) by staying at number-one for 25 consecutive weeks, while tying with Neil Diamond's Hot August Night (1972) as the second longest charting number-one album with a total of 29 weeks at top spot. It was the highest selling album in Australia of 2003 and sold over a million copies in Australia alone, 2.5 million worldwide. The album also charted highly in the UK, peaking at #2.
"Not Me, Not I", released following the announcement Goodrem had been diagnosed with cancer, became her fourth consecutive ARIA number-one single, overtaking the previous effort of three number-one's from Kylie Minogue's debut Kylie album.
Goodrem ceased work on Neighbours and her music to begin treatment and in early August, announced she would not renew her contract with Glenn Wheatley, mother Lea Goodrem replacing him as her manager. Later that month, Goodrem won seven ARIA Awards, including "Best Female Artist", surpassing Natalie Imbruglia's previous record of six awards in 1999. Too unwell to perform at the ceremony, singer Darren Hayes performed a rendition of "Lost Without You" as a tribute, bringing an overwhelmed Goodrem to tears. Her first full-length DVD Delta became the highest selling music DVD by an Australian artist in Australia ever, with a certification of 12x platinum, while Australian-only release "Predictable" became her fifth consecutive number one ARIA single in December. Goodrem made a recording that she didn't want to be released publicly and had to battle with her old record company to prevent them from releasing it.
2004–2006: Mistaken Identity, film debut and The Visualise Tour
After announcing in late December 2003 that she was in remission, Goodrem began work on her second album. In September 2004, she became the face of soft drink giant Pepsi in Australia, appearing on the product, billboards, TV advertisements and performing an exclusive show for competition winners. In October, first single "Out of the Blue", co-written and produced by Guy Chambers, debuted at number-one in Australia and number nine in the UK. October saw Goodrem launch her own lingerie line titled "Delta by Annabella".
Goodrem's second album Mistaken Identity, notable for its darker themes inspired by the hardships of her previous twelve months, was released in early November and debuted at number-one in Australia, Top 10 in New Zealand, but peaked at a disappointing number twenty-five in the UK. "Almost Here", a duet with Irish singer Brian McFadden, reached number three in the UK, became her seventh ARIA number one, and her first number one in Ireland. Singles released only in Australia - "Mistaken Identity", "A Little Too Late" and "Be Strong" - were moderately successful.
In March 2005, she starred in her first film role of Hating Alison Ashley, a film based on the popular children's novel, Goodrem acting the title character. The film performed poorly at the box office and was not a critical success, some critics citing Goodrem's performance as too robotic and detached. April saw Goodrem relocate in New York to launch her career in the United States with a re-worked version of "Lost Without You". She appeared in the last two episodes of short-lived American series North Shore in a bid to gain greater exposure around the US. "Lost Without You" proved to be modestly successful, peaking at number eighteen on the Billboard Adult Contemporary chart, but Goodrem was reportedly dissatisfied with its performance. Plans to release a hybrid of her first two albums were later terminated and Goodrem put America on hold.
In July, Goodrem embarked on her first headline concert tour of Australia, The Visualise Tour. Ticket prices (ninety-nine Australian dollars each) came under criticism for being higher than most international acts touring Australia at the time and this initially led to slow sales. By the time the concerts were due to take place, many venues sold out after tickets were reduced to $60. Once the tour concluded, over 80,000 tickets had been bought in total making The Visualise Tour one of Australia's highest selling local tours. The Visualise Tour: Live in Concert was released in November and became Goodrem's second #1 DVD.
On 15 March 2006, Goodrem performed a new song, "Together We Are One", at the Commonwealth Games Opening Ceremony in front of 80,000 spectators and up to 1.5 billion television viewers worldwide. The song, written specifically for the event with Chambers and McFadden, was released in Australia, peaking at number two, and was performed by the Top 5 contestants on American Idol. In June, Goodrem signed to Modest! Entertainment for her world-wide management. October saw Goodrem promoting in Japan with the release of an updated version of Innocent Eyes and the Japan-only single "Flawed", which reached number one on the Japanese download chart. The album peaked at number eight on the Japanese international chart (excluding Japanese artists) and number nineteen on the official Japanese album chart (including Japanese artists). In November, Goodrem appeared with Westlife on UK talent series The X Factor to perform a duet titled "All Out of Love", which appeared on the boyband's ninth LP, The Love Album. She was in Melbourne on Christmas Eve to headline the annual Carols by Candlelight.
2007- present: Delta, American debut and The Believe Again Tour
On 10 August 2007 Goodrem was in Los Angeles to film the music video for "In This Life", the first single which is also the opening theme for the anime Deltora Quest, based on the novels by fellow Australian Emily Rodda. The video premiered on August 31 on Sunrise. "In This Life" was released as the first single from her new album on September 15. It debuted at number one on the Australian Singles Chart, becoming Goodrem's eighth number one single in Australia.
Her latest album, self titled Delta, was released in Australia on 20 October 2007. Goodrem has described the material as "...a lot lighter" compared to her previous album Mistaken Identity. In January she stated, "As people become more aware of your life, they can pinpoint what songs are about. On this album, I've tried to remove a lot of that and just write great pop songs, songs that are from my heart but there's no baggage with them". The album debuted on number one on the ARIA albums chart, marking her third number one album in her home country, and received platinum certification for shipments of 70,000 records, though sales were much lower; only 23,000 copies were sold during the first week. In December the album received a 2x platinum award for shipments of 140,000 copies. The album was certified 3x Platinum in February.
The second single of the album was "Believe Again", released in December. The video for the song was one of the most expensive ones made in the Australian music history. It was the most added song on the radio of week 46. The song debuted and peaked at #2 on the Australian Singles Chart. The third single, "You Will Only Break My Heart", was released on 29 March 2008 and peaked at #14. The fourth single to be lifted from the album is "I Can't Break It To My Heart", which debuted and peaked at #13.
According to Goodrem, she is going to explore new places around the world in 2008, including Brazil. Goodrem has also written numerous songs that have been recorded by other artists, one song even being used as the winners song in Norweign Idol in 2007. Goodrem wrote the Middle-Eastern influenced song, "Eyes On Me", which was recorded by Celine Dion and released as the second single from her worldwide hit album, Taking Chances. It was originally intended to be included on Goodrem's album but didn't make the cut. "Eyes On Me" was released as the second single in the UK from Taking Chances in early January 2008.
In January 2009, Goodrem will embark on the Believe Again Tour tour of Australia to support her third studio album Delta. The concert tour will see Goodrem up close and personal around the nation performing hits from her stellar career and current hit album Delta. Upon announcing the dates Goodrem said; "It's extremely exciting. I can't believe it's taken this long but I've already started putting the set list together and there are so many songs to play. I have been inspired by some intimate shows I have done recently here and internationally, and by playing theatres I can be closer to all the people who have taken my record home." She has also recorded a duet with Olivia Newton-John to help raise money for Olivia's Cancer Hospital in Melbourne. The duet has been confirmed by the Australian magazine, New Idea, to be called "Gotta Be Right Here With You". On March 27-28, Goodrem performed a two night show at The Seymour Centre in Sydney, quoting that she "wants to share a night of music with her loyal fans and forum friends".
In February 2008 different sources reported that Goodrem was dropped by her record company in the US, Sony BMG. However, this was later denied by her partner McFadden, who claimed in an interview that she just switched record labels. She is now a part of Mercury Records. He also stated that she was at that moment in L.A. to shoot a new video and make the cover for the US version of the album Delta. In March, she entered the Australian Recording Industry's record books after becoming the first artist to win 12 Number One Chart Awards. Every single from her 3 albums have also reached the Top 15 on the ARIA Charts, another significant statistic.
In July 2008 Goodrem released her third album in the United States. The tracklisting was the same as the Australian version, only one song was removed ("The Guardian") and one song was replaced by Goodrem's first international hit and anthem "Born To Try". "In This Life" is the first single released from the album and has received considerable airplay on the Hot AC radiostations. The song debuted on the Billboard Hot Adult Top 40 Tracks and has since then peaked at #20. Goodrem travelled around radio stations to promote the song and the album, which debuted at #116 on the Billboard 200 selling over 6,000 copies in its first week. It also peaked at #1 on the Hot Heatseekers Chart. Goodrem states about her adventure in the States: "It feels really wonderful, I don't have expectations, I'm not going over with expectations, I'm just wanting to give my songs to more people." In September Goodrem will begin major promotion through America including an appearance on the Late Show with David Letterman, after having already performed on The View.
Billboard single reviews editor Chuck Taylor offered a Spotlight Review of Goodrem's "In This Life" in April 2008: "At last. Aussie Delta Goodrem has scored eight No. 1 singles at home since 2003, while the first of her three albums spent 29 weeks at No. 1; she’s also a mainstay across much of Europe. Goodrem was signed for a minute to Columbia/U.S., in 2005, where single “Lost Without You” grazed the AC top 20. Now former Sony honcho David Massey, installed as president of resurrected Island Def Jam imprint Mercury, is championing the stunning 23-year-old singer/songwriter here—and he means business. Oz chart-topper “In This Life” is an ideal vehicle to fuel horsepower, showcasing frantic piano, turbine tempo, a singalong lyric about giving into love (“Three steps fight an honest fight/Two hearts can start a fire/One love is all I need, in this life”) and a vocal that illustrates incomparable prowess—not to mention Goodrem’s heaping media-friendly persona. The world knows Delta on a first-name basis. It’s high time America got with the program."
In August 2008 the fourth single from her third album was released in Australia. The song, I Can't Break It To My Heart, debuted at #13 on the ARIA Singles Chart.
In July 2008 it was announced that Goodrem will embark on a national tour of Australia aptly entitled the Believe Again Tour in smaller venues than she did on her Visualise Tour. Goodrem felt that the songs on her new album lent themselves to a smaller, more intimate setting. She announced 9 dates in 7 different cities, but has since announced more shows due to a high volume of ticket sales. To date she will perform 12 shows in 8 cities. Goodrem was quoted as saying what viewers saw at the AFI Awards, regarding her remixed song and dance performance of Believe Again, in 2007, is only a taste of what is to be expected from her new tour. The tour begins on January 9 and will end on February 4, 2009. At the 2008 Aria Awards Delta was nominated for 2 Aria Awards, Highest selling single and Highest selling album. Delta won the award for highest selling album.
Personal life
Cancer
On 8 July 2003, at the age of 18, Goodrem was diagnosed with Hodgkin's Lymphoma, a form of cancer which attacks the body's immune system. As a result, she was forced to put all working commitments on hold while undertaking treatment for the disease. In an exclusive interview with the Australian Women's Weekly, Goodrem revealed that her body had been giving warning signs since 2002. Symptoms included a head to toe rash, fatigue, weight loss, night sweats, and the appearance of a lump on her neck. "I was doing sit-ups when I felt something pop in my neck. I reached down and I felt a small lump at the base of my throat. It wasn't sore, it wasn't visible, but I could feel it." As part of her treatment, Goodrem undertook chemotherapy, which resulted in the loss of her hair, and radiation therapy.
The news of her diagnosis made newspaper and television headlines and an outpouring of support was shown by fans and the general public alike, Goodrem thanking them during The Visualise Tour for all the letters and well wishes she received. Much of Goodrem's 2004 album Mistaken Identity, in particular "Extraordinary Day", is inspired by her battle. Reflecting on that period of her life, Goodrem says,
“ It's weird to see pictures of that time. In some ways the fact that I was so sick was so out there, and yet I kept it really private. No-one saw me on the days I was really sick...I was 18 when I was diagnosed and I had a number one album and single in the country. And in the UK, I was number two. It was such a bipolar year. ”
In 2007, Goodrem's mother, Lea, revealed that she has been diagnosed with breast cancer. On October 27, she told News Limited that she had been diagnosed 8 weeks earlier.
Relationships
During her work on Neighbours, Goodrem had a relationship with fellow cast member Blair McDonough and it is widely speculated that the song "Not Me, Not I" was written about their breakup. In 2004, Goodrem began a nine month relationship with Australian tennis player Mark Philippoussis. Her "comeback" single "Out of the Blue" was written about his support during her cancer battle. The couple ended in controversy when newspapers reported Philippoussis had been unfaithful. Reports indicated Philippoussis had been linked with socialite Paris Hilton before breaking it off with Goodrem, though this was denied by Philippoussis, it was confirmed by Goodrem.
In 2004, Goodrem began dating former Westlife singer Brian McFadden, with whom she collaborated on the single "Almost Here", and this caused immense tabloid scrutiny in the UK. It was suggested the pair had embarked on their relationship before McFadden and then-wife Kerry Katona had separated. In May 2006, newspapers claimed that Goodrem's mother had advised her to end her relationship with McFadden in order to concentrate on furthering her career. In the album sleeve of Delta, Goodrem is candid about her mother as well as boyfriend Brian McFadden. "I'm sorry we hurt each other, this chapter was hard to write," she wrote, referring to Lea. "Be strong in this next chapter, there's so many memories to make, laughs and smiles to have." Goodrem also thanked McFadden: "You made me believe again in life, love, music, and to be the best person and therefore the best artist I can be. "Every dream I have, we're standing side by side, we laugh, we sing, we cry." On November 30 2007, Goodrem and McFadden announced they were engaged. It is revealed in the Christmas Eve issue of OK Magazine Australia that McFadden pre-planned the proposal for months. He wrote a book recounting their moments from when they first met until the final page when he asked Goodrem "Remember the day when I proposed to you in Bali?", and McFadden did propose to her in a delayed trip to Bali because of Lea's problem with breast cancer. The announcement was made because McFadden revealed that his fans thought Goodrem rejected the proposal. Goodrem accepted the proposal and the couple are reportedly planned to marry in Sydney in late 2009.
Family
Goodrem is very close to her family, including mother Lea, father Denis and younger brother Trent. Trent has attracted media attention as an Australian rules footballer who many believed would be an AFL Draft prospect. The left footed wingman attacking defender started with the Sydney AFL with the East Coast Eagles and represented NSW/ACT against Tasmania at under 18 state level. Goodrem was hoping that Trent would join the Sydney Swans, her favourite team, however it did not eventuate and Trent moved to South Australia to increase his draft opportunities playing semi-professionally with the Central District Football Club in the SANFL.
Philanthropy
Goodrem regularly visits sick children in hospital and uses her own experience with cancer to help raise awareness for other young people affected by the disease. A percentage of each ticket for The Visualise Tour went towards the "Delta Goodrem Leukaemia & Lymphoma Research Trust Fund", established by Goodrem in support of cancer research.[68] In May 2005, Goodrem helped launch "Teen Info on Cancer", a UK website aimed at supporting young teenage sufferers. In November 2005, Goodrem became an ambassador for Research Australia's "Thank You Day", which honours the country's health and medical researchers and received a Thank You Day Celebrity Advocacy Award "in recognition of her efforts in raising funds and awareness for Australian medical research and charities." Goodrem is set to be the face of Alternative Hair, the UK hairdressing industry's top fundraising event, in aid of cancer charity Leukaemia Research. Goodrem is also member of RADD (Recording Artists, Actors And Athletes Against Drunk Driving), a group of celebrities raising awareness of the risks of drunk driving.

Born: 9-Apr-1932
Birthplace: Tiptonville, Lake County, TN
Died: 19-Jan-1998
Location of death: Jackson, TN
Cause of death: Stroke
Remains: Buried, Ridgecrest Cemetery, Jackson, TN
Gender: Male
Race or Ethnicity: White
Sexual orientation: Straight
Occupation: Musician
Nationality: United States
Executive summary: Wrote Blue Suede Shoes
Wife: Valda deVere (d. 15-Nov-2005)
Son: Stan
Perkins grew up poor as the son of sharecroppers near Tiptonville, Tennessee. He grew up hearing Southern gospel music sung by whites in church on Sunday morning, and by black field workers when he started working in the cotton fields at age six. On Saturday nights he would listen to the radio along with his father, and hear music from the Grand Ole' Opry. Roy Acuff's broadcast performances on the Opry inspired Perkins to ask his parents for a guitar. By age seven, he was playing a guitar his father made from a cigar box, broomstick and baling wire. Carl learned to play the guitar from an old black friend he called "Uncle John" Westbrook. At age thirteen, he won a talent contest with a song he wrote called "Movie Magg". (Ten years later, the same song convinced Sam Phillips to sign Perkins to his Sun Records label.)
Perkins formed a group with brothers Jay and Clayton, the Perkins Brothers, and began to perform at a local honky tonk known as the El Rancho Club in 1947 and 1948. W. B. Holland joined the group as a drummer. They appeared on WDXT radio in his hometown of Jackson, Tennessee from 1950 to 1952. Meanwhile, Carl spent many years working during the day at Colonial Baking Company in Jackson Tennessee as a baker.

Born: 8-Nov-1949
Birthplace: Burbank, CA
Gender: Female
Race or Ethnicity: White
Sexual orientation: Straight
Occupation: Singer, Guitarist
Party Affiliation: Democratic
Nationality: United States
Executive summary: Redhaired blueswoman
Country/Rock musician.
Father: John Raitt (broadway singer and actor, b. 29-Jan-1917, d. 20-Feb-2005)
Mother: Marge Goddard (pianist and singer)
Husband: Michael O'Keefe (actor, m. 27-Apr-1991, div. 9-Nov-1999)
In 1967, Raitt entered Harvard's Radcliffe College as a freshman, majoring in African Studies. "My plan was to travel to Tanzania, where President Julius Nyerere was creating a government based on democracy and socialism," Raitt recalled. "I wanted to help undo the damage that Western colonialism had done to native cultures around the world. Cambridge was a hotbed of this kind of thinking, and I was thrilled."
One day, Raitt was notified by a friend that blues promoter Dick Waterman was giving an interview at WHRB, Harvard's college radio station. An important figure in the blues revival of the 1960s, Waterman was also a resident of Cambridge. Raitt went to see Waterman, and the two soon became friends, "much to the chagrin of my parents, who didn't expect their freshman daughter to be running around with 65-year-old bluesmen," recalled Raitt. "I was amazed by his passion for the music and the integrity with which he managed the musicians."
During Raitt's sophomore year, Waterman relocated to Philadelphia, and a number of local musicians he counted among his friends went with him. Raitt had become a strong part of that community, recalling that "these people had become my friends, my mentors, and though I had every intention of graduating, I decided to take the semester off and move to Philadelphia...It was an opportunity that young white girls just don't get, and as it turns out, an opportunity that changed everything."
By now, Raitt was also playing folk and rhythm and blues clubs in the Boston area, performing alongside established blues legends like Howlin' Wolf, Sippie Wallace, and Mississippi Fred McDowell, all of whom she met through Waterman.
After more than twenty off and on years, recording popular music, Bonnie Raitt achieved belated commercial success with her 10th album, Nick of Time. Released in 1989, Nick of Time went to the top of the U.S. charts, her first and only No 1 album, and won three Grammy Awards. At the same time, she walked away with a fourth Grammy Award for her duet "In the Mood" with John Lee Hooker on his album The Healer.
She followed up this success with three more Grammy Awards for her 1991 album, Luck of the Draw. Three years later, in 1994, she added two more Grammy's with her album Longing in Their Hearts. Both of these albums were multi-platinum successes. Raitt's collaboration with Was would amicably come to an end with 1995's live release, Road Tested. Released to solid reviews, it sold well enough to be certified gold.
For her next studio album, Raitt hired Mitchell Froom and Tchad Blake as her producers. "I loved working with Don Was but I wanted to give myself and my fans a stretch and do something different," Raitt said. Her work with Froom and Blake was released on Fundamental in 1998.

AKA Parker Christian Posey

Born: 8-Nov-1968
Birthplace: Baltimore, MD
Gender: Female
Race or Ethnicity: White
Sexual orientation: Straight
Occupation: Actor
Nationality: United States
Executive summary: Waiting for Guffman
Father: Christopher Posey (owns Chevrolet dealership)
Mother: Lynda Posey (chef)
Brother: Christopher Posey Jr (attorney, twin b. 8-Nov-1968)
Boyfriend: Zach Leary (author and son of LSD expert Timothy Leary, briefly dated)
Boyfriend: Thomas Beller (poet-publisher)
Boyfriend: Tony Pemberton (actor-director, b. 1969, dated in late 1980s, early 1990s)
Boyfriend: Bob Gosse (film director, dated 1991-96)
Boyfriend: Stuart Townsend (actor-director, dated 1998-99)
Boyfriend: Ryan Adams (singer/songwriter, dating since 2004)
Parker Posey dropped out of college to take a bad-girl role on As the World Turns. After a year on that soap opera, she had a miniscule part in her first film, the almost unseen interracial romance Joey Breaker with Gina Gershon. Her one scene in Sleepless in Seattle was left on the editing room floor, but in her third film, Richard Linklater's marijuana-scented comedy Dazed and Confused, Posey made a lasting impression as a cruel cheerleader. In the mini-series Tales of the City, she played Laura Linney's freewheeling friend from high school, and in her breakthrough role she played a far-from stereotypical librarian in 1995's Party Girl with Liev Schreiber.
She occasionally appears in big-budget films -- she was Tom Hanks' bitchy live-in lover in You've Got Mail, the lisping lead vampire in Blade: Trinity with Wesley Snipes, and Lex Luthor's villainous henchwoman in Superman Returns with Brandon Routh. Posey is at her best, though, when she gravitates toward the offbeat.
She played Jason Wiles's impatient girlfriend in Kicking and Screaming, the art gallery owner in Basquiat with Jeffrey Wright, a Dairy Queen worker hoping for fame in Waiting for Guffman with Christopher Guest, the brother-loving sister in The House of Yes with Tori Spelling, a lovably loudmouthed office worker in Clockwatchers with Toni Collette and Lisa Kudrow, a white-trash sex addict in Hal Hartley's Henry Fool, a high-strung yuppie dog owner in Best in Show with Fred Willard, the wisecracking fag hag in Adam & Steve with Chris Kattan, and the up-and-coming actress in For Your Consideration with Eugene Levy.
She also had a recurring role on Will & Grace, danced across the street from Jimmy Fallon in a Pepsi commercial, sang backup on several songs with her longtime boyfriend Ryan Adams, and she is a contributing editor at the poetry-and-prose magazine Open City. Her college roommate was Sherry Stringfield, who went on to play Dr Lewis on ER in the 1990s and 2000s.
Posey was named after 1950s supermodel Suzy Parker, who had a featured role in Funny Face with Fred Astaire and Audrey Hepburn. An unreleased Beatles song, "Suzy Parker", pays tribute to her, and can be heard briefly in the rockumentary Let It Be.

Born: 7 November 1983
Location: San Diego, California
Lauren-Elaine Edleson is an American model, actress, and fashion designer. She grew up in San Diego.
Career
Acting/Modeling
Lauren-Elaine Edleson's filmography includes appearances as a country music video star (playing "Becky" in all of Dierks Bentley's country videos) and as a model and actress in numerous campaigns and movies such as The Ringer.
As a model, Lauren Elaine has appeared in numerous national publications and ad campaigns, and recently appeared MAXIM magazine. Her photoshoot in the hollywood hills can be seen in a Maxim online video at: Lauren Elaine's MAXIM Videoshoot
Other Films Currently in the Works (according to her representation and online listings): Weekend Junkies (plays the female lead, "Crystal") and Elvis Returns (plays Elvis' love interest).
She is also credited as Lauren Elaine.
Fashion design
Lauren Elaine is also a fashion designer, working under the label Lauren-Elaine Designs (http://www.Lauren-ElaineDesigns.com).
The first full collection by Lauren-Elaine Designs-the Fall 2008 Mirage collection- debuted at LA Fashion Week in March, 2008.

AKA Sally Margaret Field

Born: 6-Nov-1946
Birthplace: Pasadena, CA
Gender: Female
Race or Ethnicity: White
Sexual orientation: Straight
Occupation: Actor
Party Affiliation: Democratic
Nationality: United States
Executive summary: Steel Magnolias
Father: Richard (US Army officer, div. 1950, d. 30-Apr-1993 stroke)
Mother: Margaret Field (actress, b. 10-May-1923)
Brother: Richard Dryden Field Jr. (physicist, b. 14-Apr-1944)
Father: Jock Mahoney (stepfather, actor-stuntman, b. 7-Feb-1919, d. 14-Dec-1989 stroke)
Sister: Princess O'Mahoney (stepsister, backstage TV worker, b. 20-Aug-1952)
Sister: Elizabeth Jane Field (stepsister)
Sister: Shirley Field (stepsister)
Husband: Steven Craig (construction contractor, m. 16-Sep-1968, div. 1975, two sons)
Son: Peter Craig (novelist, b. 10-Nov-1969 with Craig)
Son: Elijah Craig (actor-producer, b. 25-May-1972 with Craig)
Boyfriend: Burt Reynolds (dated 1977-82, refused marriage)
Husband: Alan Greisman (film producer, m. 15-Dec-1984, div. 1993, one son)
Son: Samuel Greisman (b. 2-Dec-1987 with Greisman)
Father: Richard (US Army officer, div. 1950, d. 30-Apr-1993 stroke)
Mother: Margaret Field (actress, b. 10-May-1923)
Brother: Richard Dryden Field Jr. (physicist, b. 14-Apr-1944)
Father: Jock Mahoney (stepfather, actor-stuntman, b. 7-Feb-1919, d. 14-Dec-1989 stroke)
Sister: Princess O'Mahoney (stepsister, backstage TV worker, b. 20-Aug-1952)
Sister: Elizabeth Jane Field (stepsister)
Sister: Shirley Field (stepsister)
Husband: Steven Craig (construction contractor, m. 16-Sep-1968, div. 1975, two sons)
Son: Peter Craig (novelist, b. 10-Nov-1969 with Craig)
Son: Elijah Craig (actor-producer, b. 25-May-1972 with Craig)
Boyfriend: Burt Reynolds (dated 1977-82, refused marriage)
Husband: Alan Greisman (film producer, m. 15-Dec-1984, div. 1993, one son)
Son: Samuel Greisman (b. 2-Dec-1987 with Greisman)
Field was born in Pasadena, California. Her parents, Richard Dryden Field and Margaret Field (a Southern-born actress), divorced in 1950. Her mother subsequently remarried, to actor and stuntman Jock Mahoney.
She attended Birmingham High School in Van Nuys, California. Among her classmates were famed financier Michael Milken and fellow actress Cindy Williams (of Laverne and Shirley fame).
Career
Early television roles
Field got her start on television, starring as the boy-struck surfer girl in the mid-1960s surf culture sitcom series Gidget. She then went on to star in her best known television role, as Sister Bertrille in The Flying Nun. Field also appeared in The Girl with Something Extra. While starring on The Flying Nun, Sally tried her hand at singing, releasing an album on Colgems Records in 1968 and cracking the Billboard Hot 100 with one single, "Felicidad", in 1967.
She had several guest appearances, including a recurring role on the western comedy Alias Smith and Jones starring Pete Duel (whom she worked with on Gidget) and Ben Murphy, and the "Rod Serling's Night Gallery" episode 'The whisper'.
Sybil
Having played mostly comic characters on television, Field had a difficult time being cast in dramatic roles. She studied with famed acting teacher Lee Strasberg. Soon after, Field landed the title role in the 1976 TV film Sybil.
Field's dramatic portrayal of Sybil, a young woman afflicted with multiple personality syndrome in the TV film not only garnered her an Emmy Award in 1977, but also enabled her to break through the typecasting she had experienced from television roles.
Film roles
Field had a number of critical and commercial successes in movies, particularly in the 1980s. In 1977 she co-starred with Burt Reynolds, Jackie Gleason and Jerry Reed in that year's #2 grossing film Smokey and the Bandit. In 1979, she starred as a union organizer in Norma Rae, and won the Academy Award for Best Actress. In 1981, Field played a prostitute opposite Tommy Lee Jones in the South-set comedy Back Roads, which received middling reviews and grossed $11 million at the box office.
She won another Oscar in 1985 for her starring role in Places in the Heart. Her gushing acceptance speech is well-remembered for its earnestness. In it, Field stated "I haven't had an orthodox career, and I've wanted more than anything to have your respect. The first time I didn't feel it, but this time I feel it, and I can't deny the fact that you like me, right now, you like me!". The line ending in "...I can't deny the fact that you like me, right now, you like me!" is often misquoted as simply "You like me, you really like me!" which has subsequently been the subject of many parodies. (Field parodied the line herself in a commercial.)
Also in 1985, she co-starred with James Garner in Murphy's Romance. In A&E's biography of Garner, Field reported that her on-screen kiss with Garner was the best cinematic kiss she had ever had.
Field appeared on the cover of the March 1986 issue of Playboy magazine. She was the "Interview" subject in that month's issue. (She did not appear as a pictorial subject inside the magazine, although she did wear the classic leotard and bunny ears "Bunny Outfit" on the cover).
She has had supporting roles in other movies, including Mrs. Doubtfire (1993) in which she played the wife of Robin Williams and the love interest of Pierce Brosnan, followed by the role of Forrest's mother in Forrest Gump (1994). She is only 10 years older than Tom Hanks, with whom she had co-starred six years earlier in Punchline (film).
Recent roles
On television, Field had a recurring role on ER in the 2000-2001 season as Dr. Abby Lockhart's mother Maggie, who is struggling to cope with bipolar disorder, a role for which she won an Emmy Award in 2001. After her critically acclaimed stint on the show, she returned to the role in 2003 and 2006. She also starred in the very short-lived 2002 series The Court.
Field has also ventured into the realm of directing. Her first directorial stint was for the television film, The Christmas Tree (1996). She also directed the feature film Beautiful (2000), as well as an episode of the TV mini-series, From the Earth to the Moon (1998).
Field was a late addition to the ABC drama Brothers & Sisters, which debuted in September 2006. In the show's pilot, the role of matriarch Nora Walker had been played by noted actress Betty Buckley. However, the producers of the show decided to take the character of Nora in another direction, and Field was cast in the role. She is nominated for an 2007 Emmy Award--Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series--for playing Nora Walker.
Field also has an upcoming voice role as Princess Ariel's mother in Disney's The Little Mermaid III. This movie is scheduled for a direct-to-DVD release on 2008.
Private life
She has a "Feynman Number" (interpreted here as the graph-theoretic relationship "a close acquaintenance of") of two, since her brother, theoretical physicist Richard D. (Rick) Field, collaborated with Richard Feynman in the middle-late 1970s. (See Six degrees of separation.)
Field dated Burt Reynolds for many years. She was first married to Steven Craig from 1968 to 1975. In 1984, she married Alan Greisman. The couple divorced in 1993.
Field has two sons from her first marriage. Her son Peter Craig is a novelist; his brother Eli Craig is an actor and director. Her third son, Sam Greisman, is from her second marriage.

Born: November 6, 1968
Birthplace: Elizabethtown, KY
Gender: Female
Race or Ethnicity: White
Sexual orientation: Straight
Occupation: Actor
Nationality: United States
Executive summary: Megan Mancini on Melrose Place
Husband: Carlos Tarajano (m. 30-Jun-2001, div. 11-Jan-2002)
Kelly Deane Melissa Rutherford (born November 6, 1968) is an American actress known for her roles of Stephanie "Sam" Whitmore on Generations, Megan Lewis on Melrose Place from 1996 to 1999 & Lily van der Woodsen on Gossip Girl 2007-present.
Biography
Career
In addition to her work on Generations and Melrose Place, Rutherford also starred in the early 1990s Homefront as Judy Owen, in 1995's The Great Defender as Frankie Collet, in 1996's Kindred: The Embraced as Caitlin Byrne, in 2003's Threat Matrix as Special Agent Frankie Ellroy Kilmer, and had a recurring role in The Adventures of Brisco County, Jr. as Dixie Cousins. She had a small role on Scream 3 in 2000. Most recently, Rutherford starred as Samantha "Sonny" Liston, on the cancelled TV series E-Ring.
Rutherford currently stars as Lily van der Woodsen in the CW teen drama Gossip Girl.
Personal life
Rutherford was born in Elizabethtown, the seat of Hardin County in central Kentucky. She is the daughter of Ann Edwards, a model and writer who is divorced from Rutherford's father. She has a younger brother, Anthony, and two younger sisters, Courtney and Lindsey. Rutherford was married to Carlos Tarajano from June 30, 2001, to January 11, 2002. Shortly after her wedding her then 31-year-old husband had an unexpected cardiac arrest--he recovered (Summer 2001). She left her husband Carlos a week before an InStyle Special on celebrity weddings that included footage of her wedding to Carlos. She is friends with The O.C. actress Kelly Rowan and also practices yoga together with Lisa Rinna and Marcia Cross.
Rutherford married her second husband, German businessman Daniel Giersch (b. 1973), in August 2006. She gave birth to their first son named Hermés Gustaf Daniel Giersch on October 18, 2006 at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles.

Born: November 5, 1980
Location: Birmingham, Alabama
Measurements Bust: 32
Waist: 24
Hips: 34
Height 5 ft 4 in
Weight 110 lb
Nicole Whitehead (born November 5, 1980 in Birmingham, Alabama) is an American model. She was Playboy's Playmate of the Month for May 2004. Prior to that, she was Cyber Girl of the Week for January 28, 2002 and then Cyber Girl of the Month for May 2002.
Nicole earned her pilot's certificate at Airline Transport Professionals, Inc. (ATP) in Stuart, Florida and is now a first officer for ExpressJet Airlines.

AKA Alexzandra Spencer Johnson

Born: 4-Nov-1986
Birthplace: New Westminster, British Columbia, Canada
Gender: Female
Race or Ethnicity: White
Occupation: Actor
Nationality: Canada
Executive summary: Jude Harrison on Instant Star
Brother: Matt
Brother: Andy
Brother: Brendan
Brother: Adam
Sister: Caity
Brother: Zac
Sister: McKenna
Brother: Garrison
Alexz Johnson is a Gemini Award winning Canadian actress and singer/songwriter known for her roles in Final Destination 3 and So Weird. She is also known for playing the lead role of Jude Harrison in the hit teen drama series Instant Star, where her performances have been three times nominated for a Gemini Award, winning the award in October, 2008.
Early life
Johnson was born in New Westminster, British Columbia, Canada, as the sixth of ten children in her family. One of her sisters is a stage actress, and her brother Brendan is a musician with whom she often collaborates.
From the age of two, Alexz would frequently sing for her large extended family. By the age of seven, she was receiving vocal training, participating in festivals with her local youth choir, and giving solo performances at school and community functions. She entered many talent contests and festivals, winning a National Anthem Contest at the age of 11, with her rendition of the National Anthem being heard on national television. This resulted in numerous radio and television interviews, as well as interest from management. That year, she was also voted Best Anthem singer of the season by the Vancouver Sun.
Locally, she was often referred to as our "West Coast Celine" and sang the National Anthem at games for the NHL team Vancouver Canucks and the NBA team Vancouver Grizzlies (now based in Memphis). She also performed at charity events and fairs around the province, in addition to the B.C. Summer Games. She opened the Variety Club show singing a duet with Bob McGrath, sang the first set of songs at the Molson Indy (a major car race), and entertained on New Year's Eve at Planet Hollywood at the age of 12.
Acting career
So Weird
For the main article see So Weird.
With an outgoing personality, Alexz moved into acting, where she excelled, landing auditions for commercials and a showcase for a pilot called "Most Talented Kids". She auditioned for the Disney television series So Weird which, for the final season of the show, was looking for a lead actress who could also sing. Alexz was offered the job immediately after her audition. This role was a tough assignment, because many fans of the show had already become accustomed to a different story-line, were not happy that the show had shifted from a "darker" to a "lighter" tone, and were upset that the previous lead actress Cara DeLizia was moving on as the show approached its final season. While many long-time fans of the show continued to feel this way, the show nevertheless retained its popularity, and Alexz built up a fan base on the strength of both her acting and her singing.
Unfortunately, the songs she sang on the show are not generally available in complete, high audio quality versions, despite numerous requests from viewers. However, versions of varying length and audio quality can be found on the Internet. Rips from a stream that was on the Zoog Disney site for So Weird include “What You Do”, “One In A Million”, and “Never Give Up”. There are also audio rips from the actual episodes of So Weird that include Johnson in the role of Annie: “Cause’ You’re Watching Over Me”; “Push Me, Pull You”; and a duet of “One In A Million World” with Mackenzie Phillips.
Instant Star
In 2004, Alexz sent in an audition tape to the producers of Degrassi: The Next Generation for their upcoming show Instant Star. They were specifically looking for a Canadian teen actress/vocalist to play the lead role, Jude Harrison. The first audition tape Executive Producer Stephen Stohn received was Alexz's, and he was convinced she was exactly the one who would be perfect for the role. The auditioning continued, returning to Alexz in the end.
After its first season, Instant Star was nominated for three Gemini Awards (Canadian equivalent of the American Emmy Award) in the category of Best Children's or Youth Fiction Program or Series. Nominations included: (1) Best Series; (2) Best Performance (Alexz Johnson); and (3) Best Direction (Graeme Campbell). The show won the award for Best Direction.
On August 28, 2007, the show received three more Gemini Award nominations, in the category of Best Children's or Youth Program or Series - two for best direction (Pat Williams and Graeme Campbell), and one for Best Performance (Alexz Johnson, in the episode, "I Fought the Law"). However, the show did not win further Gemini awards in 2007, with Alexz losing out to Shenae Grimes, who plays the role of Darcy Edwards on Degrassi: The Next Generation.
On August 26, 2008, Alexz Johnson was nominated a third time for a Gemini award. On October 21, 2008, she won the Gemini Award for Best Performance in a Children's or Youth Program or Series, for the Instant Star episode Let It Be.
Alexz Johnson sings all of the songs that her character Jude sings on the show. She has recorded four soundtracks for all of the seasons of Instant Star: Songs from Instant Star, Songs from Instant Star Two, Songs from Instant Star Three, and Songs From Instant Star Four . She co-wrote five of the songs on the first season's soundtrack, including 24 Hours, Let Me Fall, Criminal, Skin, and That Girl. She did not write songs on the albums for the other 3 seasons, focusing her songwriting instead on her solo CD.
Because of her early start in the music business, Alexz has been giving concerts for over a decade. She is at her best in front of an audience, as shown by her performance of four of the songs from seasons one and two of Instant Star at a preview event - Backstage Pass - on The N, just before the broadcast of the second season of the show. From the first season CD, she sang Skin and Let Me Fall (both of which she co-wrote); and from the second season, she sang Another Thin Line and My Sweet Time.
In the live performances, Alexz is accompanied by her band from the show, Spiederman Mind Explosion, which consists of three members who do double duty as actors and real-life musicians. They are: Tyler Kyte ("Vincent Spiederman" - "Spied") on lead guitar; Christopher Gaudet ("Wally") on bass; and Ian Blackwood ("Kyle"), on drums.
Alexz Johnson says that she looks forward to the time when she can hopefully "step away from the acting and focus more on becoming a musician". For her, acting is "a great job" that she works hard at six months of the year and that gives her the financial freedom she needs in order to be able to create her own music for the rest of the year. As reported in the Toronto Star, the show also provides her with much of what she wears. She is a “non-shopper” who wants to stay focused on the music.
Song Samples
Two-minute, CD-quality samples of 7 of the songs from Season 1, and 8 of the songs from Season 2, are on the web site of The N, which broadcasts Instant Star in the USA: Audio - Instant Star on The N Links to a complete set of songs (listed here by episode rather than song title), in a briefer version (1.5 minutes), can also be found on the site for The N: Season 1 Songs and Season 3 Songs.
Brief versions (1.5 minutes each) of the songs for Season 3 can also be found on the web site of The N: Song Samples for Season 3 of Instant Star. One Season 3 song that showcases her voice is Darkness Round the Sun. The Season 3 songs also include I Will Be The Flame, a duet with Cory Lee who plays Karma, her nemesis on Season 3 of the show.
The songs from Season 1 can also be found in one-minute samples on the web site of Viva, which is the counterpart of The N in Germany (and which is also owned by Viacom), at the bottom of the following page (under "Trackliste"): Audio - Instant Star on Viva. The track list includes all the original songs except for "24 Hours", but this is available as a video further up on the page, highlighted in red.
Other Roles
Johnson also decided to audition for the role of Julie Christenson in the thriller Final Destination 3 . As it turned out, she showed up at the audition in an all black, punk rockish outfit, later claiming that she had also been in a bad mood. The casting directors concluded that she would be perfect for the role of Erin Ulmer, a character with a bad attitude. This was not a large part, but she played it convincingly, right to the gruesome end. Her performance attracted praise from some critics, even from one (writing for The Philadelphia Inquirer) who said: "The characters are so loathsome, you're glad to see them go. Except for two: the goth couple Ian (Kris Lemche) and Erin (Alexz Johnson). He's a cynical know-it-all, like Dennis Miller with black fingernails; she's like Parker Posey with raccoon mascara.."
Alexz has also stated that her roles on both Instant Star and Final Destination 3 were great acting experiences, and she is very interested in continuing her acting career down the road, but did not want to make a main career out of it, saying she was interested in trying her hand in actual TV production later down the road though.
Johnson was also one of the final choices to play the lead roles in the horror remake of Black Christmas and in the Britney Spears novel inspired movie Brave New Girl. On one of Britney Spears’ many E! True Hollywood Stories, during a clip of Spears celebrating her birthday during the auditioning for Brave New Girl, one can see Johnson, Lindsey Haun, Lynne Spears, the other girl who was up for the lead role, and others singing happy birthday to Britney. Both auditions were confirmed by Alexz's rep.
In September, 2007, Alexz appeared in the lead role in Devil's Diary, a made-for-television movie, shown as the movie of the week on Lifetime Television in the United States. For this performance, she was nominated for a Leo Award, in the category of Best Lead Performance by a Female in a Feature-Length Drama. The Leo Awards are held annually to promote and celebrate excellence in British Columbia's film industry, which is the third largest in North America (after Los Angeles and New York).
Johnson has also acted in independent films produced and directed by her brother, Matt Johnson.
Solo Musical Career
Johnson first enrolled in singing lessons at age 6, and took classical vocal training (including opera) for at least 8 years, much of it from Joseph Shore, an acclaimed operatic baritone and music educator in the Vancouver area. She is said to have a four-octave range.
She also showed an interest in songwriting, and wrote one of the songs for So Weird. After the show ended, she continued her interest in songwriting, co-writing with her brother Brendan. (They are currently working on Alexz's solo album.) She also learned to play the guitar. She worked as a demo singer on various projects, completed a demo of her own music to shop around to music labels, and opened for David Foster at his charity events.
Solo Album (2006-Present)
After Johnson appeared on So Weird, there was interest in signing her to a record deal, but she preferred to wait for the right deal which would allow her more creative freedom. After recording the soundtrack albums for Instant Star 1 and 2 with the Orange Record Label in Toronto, she negotiated a deal for a solo album with Capitol Records. However, with the merger of the Capitol and Virgin labels within the EMI Group, there was a shake-up, leaving her without the support she had anticipated for her solo album.
The arrangement with Capitol records was in place long enough to affect the line-up of artists for the Instant Star 3 soundtrack, as her record label allowed her a maximum of four songs on Instant Star 3, for reasons which remained unexplained.
Most of the work on the solo album has been completed. She worked on it for several months in 2006, co-writing songs with her brother Brendan, who writes and produces music. There are two updates on her early work on the album from Stephen Stohn the Executive Producer of Instant Star - one saying that "she's written stacks of songs for her CD" (June 17), and the other saying that he had listened to some of "the rough demos" (November 8) which, in his view, were "absolutely stunningly amazing".
In writing songs for the album, she has also worked with UK writers Martin Terefe (KT Tunstall, Jason Mraz) and Sasha Skarbek (James Blunt), as well as producer/songwriter Brio Taliaferro (Sugababes, Sophie Ellis-Bextor, James Blunt).
On June 25, 2007, Johnson appeared on the Canadian version of MTV. She confirmed that all of her songs have been written and recorded. She planned on shopping for a label over the next few months and hoped to release the album in the winter. She said she was in no hurry for it to be released. As of October 2007, as confirmed by her current management -- Watchdog Management -- she remained without a label, but was very close to finding a new home for her music.
On February 15, Alexz Johnson announced in her MySpace blog that she had signed a record deal with label Epic Records, part of the Sony BMG group.
With the songs already written, Alexz Johnson is currently half-way through the studio work for the album, and expects to be finished recording by the end of March, 2008. Having heard the first six songs, Stephen Stohn, in his MySpace blog of Feb. 16, 2008, commented that, "they are just incredibly good - very different from the songs you've come to know through Instant Star, much more rhythmic, with almost a world beat."
The producer for the album is Greg Wells - a Canadian (from Peterborough, Ontario), who now lives and works in Los Angeles as a producer / instumentalist / songwriter. As noted in Stephen Stohn's blog, Wells has previously worked with Pink, Natasha Bedingfield, Michelle Branch, Jewel, Mika, and Celine Dion, among others.
In her MySpace blog of February 15, 2008, Alexz Johnson indicated that she is planning an extensive tour around her new album, saying of her songs that, "I can't wait to perform them live! Looking forward to seeing all of your faces!"
On June 11, 2008, Johnson posted five new songs (Swallowed, Running With the Devil, Chicago, Easy and Golden) on her MySpace site.
Demos and Recordings before Instant Star
Early on, when Johnson’s original site was put up around 1999-2000, she had two clips of demos up for listening: "Sunshine Reigns" and "To Dream About You" (which Johnson co-wrote for the original Disney Channel series, So Weird). Full but low audio quality versions of both songs can be found on the Internet - but the only better quality versions exist only as clips. A short higher quality clip of "To Dream About You" and the actual clip of "Sunshine Reigns" that were originally from Johnson’s site, can also both be found on the Internet.
In 2001, Alexz teamed up with the production/songwriting team of Johnny Elkins and CJ Vanston. Johnson worked with Elkins and Vanston for approximately two to three years, recording several demos, although the total amount of material recorded is unknown. Amongst the material recorded, there were clips - “First In Love”, “Stop The World”, and “Secret Heart” - which had been posted on Alexz’s revamped 2001 website for listening. While working with the team of Vanston and Elkins, Johnson contributed the song “Transparent Lies” for Elkins' project, Fill Your Head - a compilation album with the intent of using a broad range of vocabulary found on the SATs. A video of Alexz recording a clip of the song can be found on the Fill Your Head website.
Two demos from 2002/2003 - “Teach Me How To Love” and “Don’t Pull Off My Wings” - can be found on Vanston’s website under "Music and Movies". Both are produced by Elkins and Vanston; both are co-written by Alexz and Brendan Johnson; and both show a ballad-like, more mature sound than the previous demos, which were more up-tempo.
With her work with Vanston and Elkins ending around 2003, for unknown reasons, three other demo clips surfaced on the Internet. No one knows where the demos came from, because when Johnson launched a new site in 2002/2003, after her old one was taken down due to costs, she was still working with Vanston and Elkins; who did not produce the three demos that surfaced. The three demos were “Crawl”, “Where’s The Sky”, and “Running Back” (which has become a fan favorite amongst her own material). The demos showed Johnson’s music in a new direction. With the addition of more mature lyrics, guitar, and stronger vocals, it showed a new side of what her sound could be. “Where’s The Sky” originally showed up on the Internet in two clips - a short clip of a guitar intro and one line of vocals, and a one-minute clip of the actual song. “Crawl” is rumored to have been from the demo CD Johnson sent to the executives of Instant Star with her audition tape. This three song demo was produced and co-written by Brendan Johnson and Gabriel Maga in 2003 at Trebias Institute.
Other recordings by Johnson over the years can be found on the Internet, including: a low audio recording of “Wishing On A Star” (probably from 1999-2000); a low audio quality two minute studio version and a medium quality audio rip of the song “Everything (Feels Like New)”, originally recorded for the Disney Channel movie, The Other Me; an a capella live version of the song on the Express Yourself commercial (done for the Disney Channel); audio rips of a cover of "Black Velvet", from her role as Angel in Selling Innocence; and audio rips of an unnamed original song composed for the episode of Cold Squad in which she starred.
Charity Work
During 2001, Alexz worked with World Vision, and had a section on her official site where fans could order shirts with a design done by Johnson and also featuring her autograph. Unfortunately, there were production problems and the shirts were never sent out. Alexz made an apology on her site and provided refunds to everyone who ordered one. In 2002, she performed as the opening act at Wayne Gretzky's celebrity dinner and auction, held in Edmonton, Alberta, to raise funds for the Ronald McDonald children's charity. More recently, she has worked with David Foster, opening for his charity events for the David Foster Foundation. After the season premiere of the second season of Instant Star on The N she also did a public service announcement for Second Harvest which was assisting the victims of Hurricane Katrina.

AKA Elizabeth Ann Smart

Born: 3-Nov-1987
Birthplace: Salt Lake City, UT
Gender: Female
Race or Ethnicity: White
Occupation: Victim
Nationality: United States
Executive summary: Kidnap victim
Allegedly kidnapped by Brian David Mitchell and Wanda Barzee.
Father: Ed Smart
Mother: Lois Smart
Sister: Mary Katherine Smart
Brother: Andrew Smart
Brother: Edward Smart
Brother: Charles Smart
Brother: William Smart
Elizabeth Ann Smart (born November 3, 1987) is an American woman who was abducted from her Salt Lake City, Utah bedroom on June 5, 2002 at the age of 14. She was found alive nine months later on March 12, 2003 in Sandy, Utah, about 18 miles from her home, in the company of Brian David Mitchell and Wanda Ileen Barzee, who were indicted for her kidnapping but ruled unfit to stand trial. Her abduction and recovery were widely reported and were the subject of a made-for-TV movie and a published book. She is now a music student at Brigham Young University and a political activist.
Biography
Abduction
Ed and Lois Smart, with their six children, resided in the upper class neighborhood of Federal Heights in Salt Lake City, Utah. On the evening of June 4, 2002, the family attended an award ceremony at Elizabeth's school. After the family returned home and got ready for bed, Ed made sure the doors were all locked, but he did not turn on the alarm. "If the children got up and moved (in the night), it would set the alarm off. And so we just said we’re not going to bother with it," Lois later explained.
In the early hours of the morning, Brian David Mitchell broke into the home and came to the bedroom that Elizabeth shared with her 9-year-old sister, Mary Katherine. While Mary Katherine pretended to be asleep, she watched the abduction, and later gave these hints as to what happened:
A white man about the height of her brother Charles (5 ft 8 in about 30 or 40 years old, wearing light-colored clothes and a golf hat. (He was actually wearing black, did not have a golf hat and was 49.)
He had dark hair, and also dark hair on his arms and on the back of his hands.
The man threatened Elizabeth with a gun. (It was actually a knife, but Mary Katherine thought it was a gun.)
When Elizabeth said "ouch" after stubbing her toe on a chair, Mitchell said something that sounded like: "You better be quiet, and I won’t hurt you."
She heard Elizabeth ask "Why are you doing this?" and though the answer was not clear, Mary Katherine thought the answer might have been "for ransom.
Mitchell was soft-spoken — even polite, calm, and nicely dressed.
Although Mitchell spoke to Elizabeth quietly, Mary Katherine thought Mitchell's voice seemed somehow familiar, but she couldn’t pinpoint where or when she had heard it.
She never got a good look at Mitchell's face. This fact was kept a secret by the police during the investigation.
By listening to the creaking floor as Elizabeth and Mitchell walked, Mary Katherine thought she could tell where Mitchell and Elizabeth were, so when it seemed safe she hopped out of bed to tell her parents, but froze in terror when she nearly ran into Mitchell and Elizabeth as they seemed to be looking into her brothers' bedroom. Fearful that she had been spotted by the abductor, she crept back into her bed. "I thought, you know, be quiet, because if he hears you, he might take you too, and you're the only person who has seen this," Mary Katherine said in a later interview. "I was, like, shaking." She hid for an undetermined amount of time. Investigators later concluded that she may have been hiding over two hours before she felt safe enough to come out.
Just before 4 a.m., Mary Katherine came to her parents' bedroom and woke them up. She told them Elizabeth was gone, but her parents thought she was having a bad dream. Ed went from room to room, and didn’t find her. Mary Katherine told him, "You’re not going to find her. A man took her. A man took her with a gun." Still, the parents found this hard to believe until Lois spotted a screen window downstairs that had been cut with a knife. They immediately began contacting authorities, neighbors, family, and friends. The neighborhood was searched thoroughly and many of the neighbors were immediately there to help. Although this caused some problems with crime scene contamination, it was not considered a major cause for problems in the investigation. One of their neighbors who came to help was Jake Garn, a retired United States senator.
That morning, Ed went on television and asked the kidnapper to return his daughter. A massive search for Elizabeth began.
A massive community search effort, organized by the Laura Recovery Center, looked for Elizabeth in the days immediately following her abduction. Up to 2,000 volunteers a day were dispatched to the area surrounding her home trying to find any trace of the missing girl. Word spread quickly as an impromptu coalition of websites facilitated the distribution of information about Elizabeth Smart with pre-formatted flyers that could be downloaded for printing or immediately circulated online by email or Internet fax. Volunteers combed the hills near her family's home and extended the search using search dogs and aircraft. After many days of intensive searching, the community-led search was closed by the local volunteers and efforts were directed to other means of finding Elizabeth.
Although police had an eyewitness, Mary Katherine's report was not very helpful to investigators. Furthermore, there was almost no significant forensic evidence such as clear fingerprints or DNA samples to help identify the abductor, hindering the investigation. A search using bloodhound dogs was unsuccessful in following Mitchell and Elizabeth's path on foot. Police questioned and interviewed hundreds of potential suspects including one individual, Bret Michael Edmunds, a 26-year-old drifter who was pursued across the country but ultimately was cleared of suspicion in the case after being located in a West Virginia hospital suffering from a drug overdose. One by one, the leads that were pursued often put at-large criminals back in prison, but they did not produce the desired result of finding Elizabeth.
Ultimately, the Salt Lake City police signaled that their prime person of interest was Richard Ricci, being held in custody for unrelated reasons. Ricci, a handyman hired by the Smarts, was on parole for a 1983 attempted murder of police officer Mike Hill. He was charged with felony burglaries of homes in the area similar in circumstances to the break-in at the Smarts. Ricci later died in jail from a brain hemorrhage a few weeks after he refused to provide a confession to Utah corrections officers. With his death, it seemed that all leads were exhausted.
The Smarts and their extended family persistently maintained a presence in the local and national media, in order to keep Elizabeth's name in the press, providing the media with home videos of her as both a teenager and as a child, and created a website to serve as a resource center.
After many months, a breakthrough came in October 2002, when Mary Katherine was cleaning her room, and suddenly remembered where she had heard Mitchell's voice, of which she informed her parents.
The Smarts sought to help unemployed people in the community by paying them for odd jobs or handy work around the property. Mary Katherine now identified Mitchell as a man who had worked in the home for one day in November 2001, but who went by the name "Emmanuel." Lois and some of the children had met him downtown as he was asking for spare change. He was clean, soft-spoken, well-groomed, Caucasian, 5’8" tall, had dark hair, and was "about 45 years old". It seemed clear[citation needed] that "Emmanuel" was not his real name, but had something to do with his self-proclaimed calling as a minister to the homeless. He worked at the Smarts' home for five hours, helping on the roof and raking leaves. While they worked together on Ed's roof, he told Ed that he was traveling to different cities preaching to the homeless.
When this was reported to the police, they had doubts as to its reliability. Mary Katherine had barely heard the suspect's voice, for only a few minutes, in a whisper, several months previously, and after coming out of a sleep. That she suddenly remembered it as the voice of a man she had met for a few moments a year earlier was not seen as a trustworthy lead.
Tensions developed as the parents accused the police of not thoroughly following up on this lead. The family used the services of sketch artist Dalene Nielson to draw "Emmanuel's" face from memory. In February, this drawing was released to the media, with the assistance of John Walsh, who revealed it in an appearance on Larry King Live and on his own series, America's Most Wanted. The drawing was recognized by Emmanuel's family, who reported his actual name, Brian David Mitchell, to the police, and provided them with contemporary photographs of Mitchell.
On March 12, 2003, just over nine months after the abduction, Mitchell, who was now wanted by police for questioning, was spotted traveling with two companions in Sandy, Utah by an elderly couple who had heard of the kidnapping on America's Most Wanted the night before, and alerted police. The companions were Elizabeth Smart — disguised in a red wig, sunglasses, and veil — and Wanda Ileen Barzee. Smart was finally recognized by the officers during questioning, and was promptly reunited with her family. Mitchell and Barzee were taken into custody as suspected kidnappers.
Mitchell was a polygamist who believed it was his religious right to have more than one wife, even by force.
Legal proceedings
Brian David Mitchell (born October 18, 1953) and his wife, Wanda Ileen Barzee, were indicted by a Utah grand jury. His trial on these charges has been postponed indefinitely, following a court ruling that he is not mentally competent to stand trial.
For several months, Mitchell and Barzee were held on $10 million bond awaiting the outcome of mental competency tests. Prosecutors said that Mitchell and Barzee kidnapped Elizabeth to be Mitchell's "second wife", held her against her will in the foothills near Federal Heights until October 8, and then took her to California, where they stayed until March 5.
In January 2004, Barzee was found incompetent to stand trial on charges including kidnapping, sexual assault, and burglary. On July 26, 2005, Mitchell was also found incompetent to stand trial, facing the same charges. A district judge has ordered him held until he is deemed fit for trial. Barzee's condition has not improved since she was found incompetent to stand trial. Barzee has also refused "to take medication that might restore her mental competence."
In February 2006, a bill went before the Utah legislature to allow prosecutors to apply for forcible medication of defendants to restore their competence to face trial. Permission to forcibly medicate Wanda Barzee was also sought, relying upon the U.S. Supreme Court's 2003 Sell decision, which permits compulsory medication when the state can demonstrate a compelling interest is served by restoring a person's competence and that medication would not harm the individual or prevent them from defending themselves. In June 2006, a Utah judge approved the forcible medication of Barzee so that she could stand trial.
On Monday, December 18, 2006, Mitchell was again declared unfit to stand trial after screaming at a judge, during a hearing, to "forsake those robes and kneel in the dust." Doctors have been trying to treat Mitchell without drugs, but prosecutor Kent Morgan said after Monday's scene in court that a request was likely to be made for permission to forcibly administer drugs.

Abduction timeline
June 4, 2002 -- Smart Family arrives late at the Bryant Middle School awards function. Elizabeth receives awards in physical fitness and academics but does not play her harp as planned. Family returns home and retires to bed.
June 5, 2002 -- Elizabeth is abducted from her bedroom in the early hours of the morning. Mary Katherine, her sister, is a witness to the crime. Elizabeth is taken to a secret camp in Emigration Canyon where she is held prisoner.
June 6, 2002 -- Bounty for her return is at $250,000.00.
June 7, 2002 -- A milkman reports suspicious activities of Bret Michael Edmunds in neighborhood.
June 9, 2002 -- Ed Smart is questioned and polygraphed.
June 12, 2002 -- Manhunt for Bret Michael Edmunds.
June 14, 2002 -- Suspect Richard Ricci is arrested on unrelated charges.
June 21, 2002 -- Bret Michael Edmunds caught at City Hospital in Martinsburg, West Virginia and questioned the next day.
June 24, 2002 -- Richard Ricci arrest announced.
July 11, 2002 -- Richard Ricci charged with theft in the Smart home. Denies any involvement with Elizabeth's kidnapping.
July 24, 2002 -- Attempted kidnapping at Elizabeth's cousin's house.
August 2002 -- Mitchell, Barzee and Elizabeth leave Emigration Canyon and go to Salt Lake City
August 27, 2002 -- Richard Ricci collapses.
August 30, 2002 -- Richard Ricci dies of brain hemorrhage.
September 17, 2002 -- Police suspend regular briefings with the Smart family.
September 27, 2002 -- Police arrest Mitchell for shoplifting and later release him.
October 8, 2002 -- Mitchell, Barzee and Elizabeth leave Salt Lake City and head to San Diego.
October 12, 2002 -- Mary Katherine remembers the voice of the kidnapper as that of the man they knew was "Emmanuel".
February 3, 2003 -- Smart family releases the sketch of the man known as Emmanuel.
February 12, 2003 -- Mitchell arrested in El Cajon for breaking into a church. Not recognized as the person wanted in Utah.
February 15, 2003 -- America's Most Wanted features Emmanuel and requests responses.
February 16, 2003 -- Mitchell's family steps forward and identifies him as the man known as "Emmanuel".
February 17, 2003 -- Newly released, more recent photographs of Mitchell made available.
March 5, 2003 -- Mitchell, Barzee and Elizabeth leave Lakeside, California.
March 12, 2003 -- Elizabeth Smart found alive in Sandy, Utah.
March 18, 2003 -- Mitchell and Barzee charged with aggravated kidnapping, aggravated sexual assault and aggravated burglary.
April 30, 2003 -- Elizabeth makes her first public appearance after her return.
October 27, 2003 -- Dateline NBC Interview with Elizabeth.
July 26, 2005 -- Mitchell declared mentally incompetent to stand trial.
December 18, 2006 -- Mitchell again declared unfit to stand trial.
April 30, 2008-- Ed Smart appears on Madeline McCann One Year On.

Media
Television interviews
In October 2003, Elizabeth Smart and her parents were interviewed for a special segment of Dateline NBC. The interview, conducted by the Today show's Katie Couric, featured Elizabeth's first interview with any media outlet. Couric questioned Elizabeth's parents about their experiences while Elizabeth was missing, including the Smarts' personal opinions concerning Elizabeth's captors. Couric then interviewed Elizabeth about school and her life following her kidnapping.
Shortly after the Dateline interview, Elizabeth Smart and her family were featured on The Oprah Winfrey Show, where Winfrey questioned the Smarts about the kidnapping. One detail Elizabeth disclosed is that Mitchell forced her to keep a diary and to write in it daily. She knew he would read the entries she made, so she wrote such things as: "I like it here. They are nice to me." But below the entries in English, she wrote in French things such as: "I hate it here. I hate them. I want to be back with my family."
She also revealed that after her experience, she has more compassion for the homeless. Asked if she felt sorry for her captors, she stated that she was not referring to them and that they were homeless by choice and she had no compassion for their condition or what they did to her. But she went on to say, "It's hard to be cold. It's hard to not have enough to eat."
Book and film
The Smart family published a book, Bringing Elizabeth Home, which was used as the basis of the television movie The Elizabeth Smart Story that aired November 9, 2003 on CBS. The Smarts claimed they wanted to avoid subjecting their daughter to the limelight, but that after realizing it was inevitable, they decided it would be preferable to allow a film authorized by them to be created, rather than allowing an unauthorized version to surface.
A lawyer for Mitchell said the national broadcast of the television film would further delay justice and considered filing a motion. The piece characterizes Mitchell and Barzee as deranged religious zealots, and provides no background on either of them. A small but detailed section of the book Under the Banner of Heaven by Jon Krakauer describes Mitchell and his kidnapping of Smart in the larger context of Mormon fundamentalism. Elizabeth's uncle, Tom Smart, wrote a book called In Plain Sight: The Startling Truth Behind the Elizabeth Smart Investigation criticizing the investigation process by the Salt Lake City Police Department, as well as the media influences that led to her recovery.
Post-abduction life and political activism
On March 9, 2006, Smart went to Congress to support Sexual Predator Legislation, and on July 26, 2006 she spoke after the signing of the Adam Walsh Act.
She currently works as a bank teller and is a junior at Brigham Young University studying music, where she plays the harp. In May 2008, she traveled to Washington, D.C., where she helped introduce a pamphlet to which the U.S. Department of Justice asked her to contribute.
Interview with Nancy Grace
On July 19, 2006, CNN's Nancy Grace interviewed Elizabeth Smart, who appeared on behalf of a bill requiring sex offenders to register with their state of residence. Despite Smart's objection, Grace asked Smart a long series of questions about her abduction, such as "Did you ever hear people calling out your name?" "Did your kidnappers threaten you?" and "How did you see out of that thing?" (referring to the burqa Mitchell had forced her to wear). Although Elizabeth stated after several such questions, "You know, I really am here to support the bill and not to go into what, you know, what happened to me - what, the whole, like, what is in my past because I'm not here to give an interview on that, I'm here to help push this bill through", Grace relented only when Smart, clearly upset, said, "I'm really not gonna talk about this at this time. That's something I just don't even look back at — I really—I really—to be frankly honest, I really don't appreciate you bringing all this up." Grace responded by saying "I'm sorry, dear, I thought that you would speak out to other victims, but you know what? I completely understand. A lot of victims... don't want to talk about it, and don't feel like talking about it."

AKA Gemma Louise Ward

Born: November 3, 1987
Location: Perth, Western Australia, Australia
Height 5 ft 9.5 in
Hair color Blonde
Eye color Blue
Measurements 34-25-36 (in)
Gemma Louise Ward (born November 3, 1987) is an Australian model and actress.
Early life
Ward was born in Perth, Western Australia, as the second child of Gary and Claire Ward. Her older sister, Sophie Ward is also a model and she has younger twin brothers, Oscar and Henry Ward. She was educated at the Presbyterian Ladies' College, Perth and Shenton College.
As said herself in a Teen Vogue interview, she accompanied her friends to a modelling competition and ended up being scouted herself:
I had come straight from my auntie and uncle's farm, and I was wearing this big gray barn jacket with mud all over it. When the scout came up to me, I said, 'No, thank you.' But my friends were like, 'Hell, yes!' They forged my mum's signature [for mandatory parental consent], and pushed me in front of the cameras.
Ward didn't win the competition, but Vivien's Model Agency picked her up after seeing a small picture of her in [Kurv], a quarterly, internationally focused, Australian produced, Fashion Arts Beauty Culture and Style magazine.
Career
At only sixteen, Ward was the youngest model to be listed by American Vogue as one of the nine "It Girls" in the modeling world. She has been in shows for designers such as Versace, Gucci, Chanel, Valentino, Alexander McQueen, and many more. Ward has also graced magazine covers such as Vogue, W, and TIME Magazine's Style and Design issue. In September 2004, at the age of 16, Ward became the youngest fashion model on the cover of the American edition of Vogue and was the first model to appear on the cover of Teen Vogue magazine. She is the first model since Kate Moss to be the face for Calvin Klein's perfume "Obsession Night for Men" along with Philadelphia male model, Drew Keilt.
To date Ward's clients have included Balenciaga, Burberry, Calvin Klein, Christian Dior, Dolce & Gabbana, Hermès, Jean-Paul Gaultier, Jil Sander, Karl Lagerfeld, Louis Vuitton, Prada, Rochas, Swarovski, Valentino and Yves Saint-Laurent, and, altogether, Ward has appeared on 24 covers of Vogue magazine worldwide.
British photographer Nick Knight stated, "Gemma is one of the very, very few models who look as though they come from another dimension." Retrieved on 2007-12-20. Fashion designer Lazaro Hernandez of Proenza Schouler told Teen Vogue in February 2006 that, "She looked like no one else at the time. She was this alien, and fashion is always looking for newness." Her look inspired a new generation of baby doll-like models such as Vlada Roslyakova, Heather Marks, and Jessica Stam.
In Allure magazine (October 2006), Ward is described as "the model of the moment." Allure's creative director Paul Cavaco knows why: "We went through a period that was very va-va-voom, but now the pendulum has swung back. Gemma is ethereal, not earthy." Photographer Michael Thompson says, "She's an exotic blonde, the rarest of creatures."
Ward has long aspired to pursue acting and drama is a passion that she has held since she was a child. She has been cast in Australian director Elissa Down's upcoming film The Black Balloon also starring Toni Collette and Rhys Wakefield, as the girlfriend of a boy whose brother has autism. The Black Balloon had its world premiere at the Berlin International Film Festival in Germany in February 2008, where it received a Crystal Bear as the best feature-length film in the Generation 14plus category. She was also cast opposite Liv Tyler in the suspense thriller The Strangers as one of the three masked intruders, "Doll Face". She also appeared in the music video for "Daughters" by John Mayer.
Ward appeared on the cover of the first issue of Vogue India; photographed by famed photographer Patrick Demarchelier. This is the second time Ward has appeared on an inaugural issue—the first time being the first-ever cover of Vogue China in 2005.
In July 2007, earning at an estimated total of $3 million in the past 12 months, Forbes named her tenth in the list of the World's 15 Top-Earning Supermodels.
Personal life
Ward lives in New York and is close friends with fellow models Lily Donaldson, Caroline Winberg, Daria Werbowy, and Lily Cole.
In early 2008, Ward was reported to have been seeing actor Heath Ledger after media articles linked the two together at end of 2007 holiday celebrations, shortly before Ledger's untimely death of an accidental drug overdose on January 22.

Born: 2-Nov-1973
Birthplace: Chicago, IL
Gender: Female
Religion: Scientology
Race or Ethnicity: White
Occupation: Actor
Nationality: United States
Executive summary: Nadia Yassir on 24
Marisol Nichols (born November 2, 1973) is an American actress known for her role in the sixth season of 24 as Special Agent Nadia Yassir. She is also known for her portrayal of Audrey Griswold in Vegas Vacation.
Nichols was born to Hungarian and Mexican American parents. and raised in Chicago, Illinois. She is the oldest of the three and has two younger brothers. At 12, she started using drugs and alcohol. At age 17, she sobered up. She is an active advocate of Criminon, an international non-profit organization connected to the Church of Scientology that provides rehabilitation for people in prison. She became a member of Church of Scientology when she was introduced to it by her chiropractor. She currently resides in Los Angeles, California.
Nichols is also a casual NFL football fan, saying that her favorite team is her hometown Chicago Bears, indicated in a questions segment on her website.

AKA Antonia Collette
Born: 1-Nov-1972
Birthplace: Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Gender: Female
Race or Ethnicity: White
Sexual orientation: Straight
Occupation: Actor
Nationality: Australia
Executive summary: Muriel's Wedding
Husband: Dave Galafassi (m. 11-Jan-2003, one daughter)
Daughter: Sage Florence (b. 9-Jan-2008)
Antonia "Toni" Collette (born 1 November 1972) is an Academy Award- and Golden Globe-nominated Australian actress and musician. She is perhaps best known for her roles in the films Muriel's Wedding (1994), The Sixth Sense (1999) and Little Miss Sunshine (2006). She is currently working on her next project in which she will play the title character in the upcoming Showtime series, The United States of Tara.
Biography
Early life
Collette was born in Blacktown, New South Wales, the daughter of Judy, a customer-service representative, and Bob Collette, a truck driver. She has two younger brothers, Ben and Christopher. When Collette was eleven years old she faked appendicitis out of boredom and longing for attention. She was so convincing that doctors removed her appendix, even though tests showed nothing wrong with it. She attended Blacktown Girls High School until the age of 16, and then later attended both the Australian Theatre for Young People and NIDA.
Career
Collette has won four Australian Film Institute awards, including the Australian Best Actress in a Lead Role for Muriel's Wedding in 1994, a role for which she gained 18kg (40lb) in seven weeks. In 1996, she was part of the ensemble cast of the comedy, Cosi. She received an Academy Award nomination for her role as the mother of a troubled boy in the U.S. film The Sixth Sense, which also starred Bruce Willis and Haley Joel Osment.
She has also received broad acclaim on Broadway, starring as Queenie in Michael John LaChiusa's musical work, The Wild Party. For this role, Collette received a Tony Award nomination for Best Performance by a Leading Actress in a Musical.
Collette had to turn down the title role in Bridget Jones's Diary because she was committed to perform on Broadway at the time. She then auditioned for the role of ambitious murderess Roxie Hart in the hit film Chicago; She almost got the part but, because she wasn't a well known enough actress, she lost the role to Renee Zellweger.
In 2006, she played Sheryl in Little Miss Sunshine, for which she received a Golden Globe nomination for Best Actress in a Comedy. After filming three films consecutively in the fall of 2006, Collette said in a recent interview that she wants to take a year off from acting and spend time with her friends and family. She has also stated that she wants to take roles in Australian films rather than mainstream US films.[citation needed] In October 2006, she began touring Australia to promote her first vocal album Beautiful Awkward Pictures, released on Hoola Hoop Records under the name Toni Collette & the Finish, a band for which her husband drums. Collette recently appeared on the Australian television show Cool Aid and performed the song "Look Up" off of her album. Collette and the Finish were a headlining act at the Sydney show of Live Earth. She sang T-Rex's "Children Of The Revolution" with The Finish.
“ Thank you so much, it is heartwarming to see so many people here today in the name of going green, and in the name of very necessary change. Just by being here today, just by turning up is helping to create awareness of this very life threatening situation. So I take my hat off to you. ”
Recently, Collette accepted the leading role in the upcoming Showtime series, The United States of Tara. The show was created by Steven Spielberg and developed by the Academy Award-winning screenwriter of Juno, Diablo Cody. She will play a wife and mother of two with Dissociative Identity Disorder. Filming began on 14 April 2008.
Personal life
Collette has previously dated Jonathan Rhys Meyers. She has been married to Dave Galafassi since 11 January 2003 and owns homes in both Australia and the Republic of Ireland. Collette is a supporter of animal rights and PETA. She urged former Prime Minister John Howard to end the Australian practice of mulesing sheep, which is considered by many animal rights activists to be cruel. She later revised her position after doing her own research of the Australian wool industry. She gave birth to her first daughter Sage Florence in Sydney on 9 January 2008