Born: 31-Dec-1951
Birthplace: Managua, Nicaragua
Gender: Female
Race or Ethnicity: White
Sexual orientation: Straight
Occupation: Actor, Model
Husband: Nicholas Mavroleon (shipping magnate, div.)
Husband: Baron Otto von Hoffman (div.)
Husband: Uva Barden (model, div.)
Nationality: United States
Executive summary: Bond girl, Never Say Never Again
Barbara Carrera grew up in Nicaragua, the daughter of a native woman and the U.S. Ambassador. She started modeling at 17, and within a few years became the South American face of Chiquita bananas. She appeared in a small role in her first film in 1970, Puzzle of a Downfall Child, playing a teenaged model and giving her age as 17. In reality, she was at least 19, and may have been as old as 25.
She a Bond girl in Never Say Never Again with Sean Connery, and was the mysterious Angelica Nero during that one season of Dallas that all turned out to be a dream. As an actress, she was usually cast in "eye candy" roles, and her finest work was probably in the 1978 Richard Chamberlain mini-series Centennial, wherein she played the native girl who married Robert Conrad.

AKA Kristin Laura Kreuk

Born: 30-Dec-1982
Birthplace: Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Gender: Female
Race or Ethnicity: Multiracial
Sexual orientation: Straight
Occupation: Actor, Model
Nationality: Canada
Executive summary: Lana on Smallville
Former Neutrogena model.
Father: Peter Kreuk
Mother: Deanna Che
Sister: (younger)
Kreuk (more commonly pronounced "krook") was born in Vancouver, British Columbia. Her father, Peter Kreuk, is of Dutch descent; her mother, Deanna Che, is Chinese descent, but born in Indonesia; her maternal grandmother is Chinese-Jamaican. Both parents are landscape architects. Kristin has a sister who is about five years younger. Kristin trained in gymnastics at the national level until high school but quit in grade 11 due to scoliosis. She attended Eric Hamber Secondary School in Vancouver.
She had plans to study either psychology, environmental science, or forensic science at Simon Fraser University when a casting director for the CBC TV series Edgemont contacted her secondary school, looking for an exotic-looking girl to play the part of a Chinese Canadian, Laurel Yeung on the Vancouver-shot show. Kreuk's drama teacher convinced Kreuk, who had no previous acting experience other than in musicals at her high school, to audition for the role. To her surprise, she won the part.
Career
Television
After shooting the first season of Edgemont (a teen soap opera set at a Vancouver-area high school) and getting herself an agent, Kreuk landed the lead role of Snow White in a TV movie entitled Snow White: The Fairest of Them All. The film, shot in Vancouver, also starred Miranda Richardson and was directed by Caroline Thompson. It aired on ABC on March 17, 2002.
After Snow White, Kreuk's agent sent an audition tape to screenwriters Alfred Gough and Miles Millar, who at the time were putting together the cast of a show they had created for the WB Network entitled Smallville. The series (which was slated to be shot in Vancouver) revolves around the life of teenager Clark Kent before he becomes Superman. Gough and Millar called Kreuk to WB's studios in Burbank, California to audition for the role of Clark Kent's love, Lana Lang. Originally, Kreuk was unsure about auditioning for Lana's role, as the character was to be a popular, gorgeous cheerleader, so she assumed that the part would be that of a shallow idiot. However, upon reading the graveyard scene from the pilot, she was so impressed that when she was offered the role, she immediately accepted.
In 2003, Kreuk wrapped up her role on Edgemont.
In the summer of 2004, Kreuk took the role of Tenar for the Sci Fi Channel two-part miniseries Legend of Earthsea. The miniseries was filmed in Vancouver, directed by Rob Lieberman and broadcast on December 13, 2004.
Modeling
The executives at Neutrogena made her the spokesmodel for their new worldwide ad campaign; in this regard Kreuk followed in the footsteps of fellow teen stars such as Jennifer Love Hewitt, Mandy Moore, and Mischa Barton. In 2005, she renewed her contract with Neutrogena for another two years, making her the company's longest-serving model spokesperson.
Films
In 2003, she made her first feature film, a cameo appearance in the film Eurotrip, starring Scott Mechlowicz and Michelle Trachtenberg. The film, shot in Prague, Czech Republic, also featured cameos by Matt Damon and Lucy Lawless. It debuted in theatres on February 20, 2004.
In early 2005, Kreuk signed on to the independent feature film Partition. She plays Naseem, a vulnerable seventeen-year-old whose world is shattered by the trauma of the Partition of India in 1947, but falls in love with ex-British Indian Army officer Gian Singh (played by Jimi Mistry). Neve Campbell also stars. The film is directed by Vic Sarin and is a co-production between Canada, South Africa and the United Kingdom. The film was released to Canadian theaters on February 2, 2007, with a subsequent Region 1 (US and Canada) DVD release on June 26, 2007.
In the summer of 2006, a short film called the Dream Princess by comic book writer and artist Kaare Andrews was made, where Kristin plays The Princess. The film is a modern sci-punk retelling of the tale of Sleeping Beauty, with a twist. It is due to be released in 2007 in Canada.

Born: December 28, 1985
Location: Pomona, California, US
Height: 5 ft 7 in
Weight: 112 lb
Measurements: 34C-25-36 in
Eye color: Blue/Green
Hair color: Brunette
Skin color: White
Ethnicity: Mexican, Scottish, Irish
Celeste Star is an American adult model.
Biography
Celeste, the daughter of a Mexican father and a Scottish-Irish mother, began her adult career in 2004. She has appeared on the cover of the March 2005 issue of Hustler magazine and was the Penthouse Pet of the Month in July 2005.

Born: 28-Dec-1981
Birthplace: New York City
Gender: Female
Race or Ethnicity: White
Sexual orientation: Straight
Occupation: Actor
Nationality: England
Executive summary: Ex-fiancée of Jude Law
Father: Edward Miller (banker)
Mother: Jo Miller (actress)
Sister: Savannah
Brother: Charles (half-brother)
Brother: Stephen (half-brother)
Sister: Natasha (step-sister)
Boyfriend: Jude Law (actor, broken engagement)
Boyfriend: Daniel Craig (actor, overlapping her relationship with Jude Law)
Miller was born in New York City. She moved to England as a child and attended the Heathfield school in Ascot, Berkshire and later studied for a year at the Lee Strasberg Institute with luminaries like Will Lee and Koni Summer in New York City.
Her father, Edward Miller, is an American banker born in Meadville, Pennsylvania. Her mother, Josephine Miller, is a South African who ran Lee Strasberg's acting academy in London. Her parents parted when she was six years old, and her father subsequently married (and later separated from) the English interior designer Kelly Hoppen. Miller has one sister, Savannah, who is a fashion designer; two half-brothers, Charles and Steven, and one former step-sister, Natasha (daughter of Hoppen).
Career
Model
Prior to her professional acting career, Miller worked as a photographic model. She signed with Tandy Anderson, and modeled for Coca-Cola, Italian Vogue, Prada and the 2003 Pirelli calendar.
Following her appearance at the Glastonbury Festival in 2004, she was credited by many with having popularised the fashion style of boho-chic in Britain.
Miller signed a two-year contract with Pepe Jeans London; the jeans ad campaign first appeared in magazines March 2006.
Miller posed for Vanity Fair magazine's 2006 "Hollywood Issue" topless and smoking a cigarette.
She appeared on the December 2004 and the February 2006 cover of British Vogue, and will appear on the September 2007 cover of U.S. Vogue
Actress
Stage
In her early career, Miller performed in several New York City plays including The Striker, Independence, and Oscar-winning director Anthony Minghella's Cigarettes & Chocolate.
In 2005, Miller made her West End debut as Celia in Shakespeare's As You Like It alongside Helen McCrory, Dominic West and Reece Shearsmith. She played the role of Rosalind for one performance, when McCrory, the actress playing the lead, fell ill.
Television
Miller had a recurring role in Simon West's television action drama series Keen Eddie (2003).
Met boyfriend Jude Law during the filming of Alfie (2004), and they soon became engaged, Christmas Day of that year. But in July of the following year she received a public apology from Jude for his cheating with nanny Daisy Wright, though apparently during this same time she was cheating with actor Daniel Craig, the new James Bond.

AKA Heather Michele O'Rourke

Born: 27-Dec-1975
Birthplace: San Diego, CA
Died: 01-Feb-1988
Location of death: Children's Hospital and Health Center, San Diego, CA
Cause of death: Heart Failure
Remains: Buried, Pierce Brothers Westwood Memorial Park, Los Angeles, CA
Gender: Female
Race or Ethnicity: White
Occupation: Actor
Nationality: United States
Executive summary: Carol Anne in Poltergeist
Father: Michael O'Rourke (carpenter)
Mother: Kathleen O'Rourke
Sister: Tammy O'Rourke
Born Heather Michele O'Rourke in San Diego, California, she was discovered at the age of five by Steven Spielberg while having lunch at the MGM Studios Commissary with her mother and older sister Tammy O'Rourke, a dancer in the film Pennies From Heaven. Spielberg, who was preparing to film E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial, was also looking for a child to play the role of Carol-Anne Freeling in his upcoming production of Poltergeist and when he approached Heather inquiring if she had any acting experience, she advised him that she was not allowed to talk to strangers. Despite her initial shyness, an interview soon followed and she was cast in the part.
Poltergeist was released in June 1982, and Heather's line, "They're he-eere!" entered American pop culture. Her success in Poltergeist immediately led to television work, and in 1982–83 she was a regular on the sitcom Happy Days, playing the daughter of Fonzie's girlfriend.
In between Heather's numerous television appearances, Poltergeist II was filmed and released in 1986 and once again, she delivered another pop culture phrase, "They're ba-aaack!".
Poltergeist III and death
When production of Poltergeist III began in early 1987, Heather had been ill for several months with what was eventually diagnosed as Crohn's disease, and subsequently underwent medical treatment during parts of the filming, which took place in Chicago. Principal photography lasted between April and June of that year, with June 1988 as its scheduled release date, and by all accounts Heather finished her work on the film. After a family vacation, she returned home to California, her illness apparently in remission.
She remained healthy and symptom-free until the morning of February 1, 1988, when she became seriously ill and was rushed to the hospital where it was discovered that she had developed an acute bowel obstruction. Despite surviving emergency surgery, she died of complications caused primarily by septic shock resulting from the obstruction and ensuing infection at the age of only 12.
MGM decided to re-shoot the ending of Poltergeist III in March 1988 using a body double stand-in. The director of the film, Gary Sherman, claims the ending was not a re-shoot, and that Heather died "before they could film the original ending." However, his claim is unsubstantiated, as the finished film was rated "PG" by the MPAA in November 1987, before Heather died.
Heather O'Rourke was interred in the outer wall of the "Sanctuary Of Tenderness" mausoleum at Pierce Brothers Westwood Village Memorial Park Cemetery in Los Angeles, California. Her tomb is near that of Dominique Dunne, who played her sister in Poltergeist. Her last words were "I love you" spoken to her mother.

Born: 27-Dec-1981
Birthplace: Mount Eliza, Victoria, Australia
Gender: Female
Race or Ethnicity: White
Sexual orientation: Straight
Occupation: Actor
Executive summary: Claire on Lost
Boyfriend: Josh Janowicz (actor, dated 2001-06, m. 19-Jun-2006, sep. Dec-2006)
Emilie de Ravin is an Australian actress. She is known for starring in the hit ABC drama Lost as the character Claire Littleton. De Ravin is also known for her role as Brendan Frye's heroin addicted ex-girlfriend Emily in the neo-film noir "Brick." (2006.)
life
De Ravin was born in Mount Eliza, Victoria, Australia (a town to the south east of Melbourne). Having studied ballet since the age of nine at Christa Cameron School of Ballet in Melbourne, and being home schooled by her mother, she was accepted into the highly selective Australian Ballet School at fifteen. There, she performed in productions with the Australian Ballet as well as Danceworld 301. De Ravin studied acting at Australia's National Institute of Dramatic Art, and with the Prime Time Actors Studio in Los Angeles.
Emilie de Ravin's first major role was as Curupira in the TV series BeastMaster. Later, she played alien/human hybrid Tess Harding in Roswell. She landed this role one month after moving to Los Angeles at the age of 18. She later starred in the hit ABC drama Lost, as the character Claire Littleton. In 2006 she starred in the horror film The Hills Have Eyes as Brenda Carter, and in the film Brick, a small film which was popular in the Sundance Film Festival. In 2007, she was honoured by the Australians In Film Council, joining such Australians as Nicole Kidman, Russell Crowe and Hugh Jackman. She presented at the 2007 MuchMusic Video Awards on Sunday, June 17, 2007. Variety.com reported that she will be staring in the film Ball Don't Lie. It was also reported that she will appear in The Perfect Game
Personal life
De Ravin was married to actor Josh Janowicz from 19 June 2006 to January 2007, separating after six months of marriage.
De Ravin's typical French last name means "From the ravine/gully" and her first name is originally spelt Émilie .

AKA Claire Grey

Born: 26 December 1974
Location: Horsham, Sussex, England, UK
Height 5' 3"

Born: December 25, 1984
Location: Brisbane, Australia
The Veronicas are a pop-rock band based in Australia. The band was formed in 2005, in Brisbane, Australia, by twin sisters Jessica and Lisa Origliasso.
They have just released two studio albums since forming three years ago, the first being The Secret Life Of... in 2005. The debut album went on to peak at #2 on the Australian charts and gain an ARIA certification of four times platinum, for 280,000+ sales. The Secret Life Of... spawned five singles, including three top ten singles in Australia.
The duo released their second album Hook Me Up in 2007, it also peaked at #2 on the Australian charts, earning a certification of two times platinum. The album has had four Australian top ten singles released from it to date. The album's title track, "Hook Me Up", was The Veronicas' first number one single in Australia.
History
Early years
Born to Italian (Sicilian)-Australian parents on 25 December 1984, they grew up in Albany Creek (northwest of Brisbane, Australia), where they attended Ferny Grove State High School and Wavell State High School. At an early age the girls expressed interest in performing; they participated with small local papers in shows on television and radio.
Jessica and Lisa also performed in small parts on various television shows including a recurring role in the short-lived 2001 Australian children's series Cybergirl, where they portrayed twin sisters: Lisa played the character 'Sapphire', while Jessica appeared as 'Emerald'. On their 18th birthday Jessica received her first guitar, with this the girls began writing and singing songs. They became Teal which they formed with friends Tracy Woods and R.Viknes and began to experiment with different sounds and genres, releasing a song "Baby It's Over", this only received very minor airplay in Brisbane.
In 2004, Lisa and Jessica were introduced to the Music Director of The Bell Hughes Music Group (BHMG), Hayden Bell. After producing some demo recordings with the twins, Bell invited them to sign a publishing agreement with Excalibur Productions (a subsidiary of BHMG). In the process, Bell helped facilitate their progression in musical style from acoustic pop to the more rhythmic rock pop approach that is now their trademark. On the strength of these demos, Bell took them to meet the executives at Engine Room (a subsidiary of PBL (Packer) Group) and they were immediately signed to a production deal.
To further develop their song writing skills, Bell connected them with internationally acclaimed songwriters and producers including Cliff Magness (who has written for Avril Lavigne), Billy Steinberg (Madonna, Cyndi Lauper), Eric Nova, Dead Mono and Vince DeGiorgio, where they created a catalogue of over 50 songs.
Meetings were then arranged with Warner Bros. Records in the USA. Seymour Stein and senior executives recognized that Bell had indeed discovered and developed a unique musical talent, signing them quickly to a recording contract with Warner Bros. Records/Sire America, for a reported sum of 2 million dollars.
Bell then took one of The Veronicas' songs titled "All About Us" and placed it with t.A.T.u, the Russian girl group, and it became a massive worldwide hit. In Australia, he placed their song "What's Goin' On" with Casey Donovan and the song "Faded" for Kate DeAraugo. Both of these artists were winners of the Australian Idol Competition. "What's Going On" was also placed by Bell on the Japanese pop singer Miz's album.
The name
Their name came from Archie Comics character Veronica Lodge; when Archie Comics found out, they sued the duo for trademark infringement over their band name, but the two parties settled and have agreed on a cross-promotion deal. The Veronicas dislike being called a female duo, however, and everyday they work to separate themselves from the music business. "We like being called a band or group. We don't want to be a pop duo group with two girls singing about relationships, we have everything that a rock band would have, so we are a band". This sparked mild argument, when music critic Charlotte Burgess stated, "A repetitive beat and strumming three powerchords while dancing around in skimpy clothing is rock only in the world of AC/DC. They [The Veronicas] are a band...but a pop-band."
The group was featured prominently in an issue of their namesake Veronica's comic book as a result of their cross-promotion deal with Archie Comics. The issue (#167) featured a card with a code allowing a free download of their single "4ever" in MP3 form. A few months later, Archie and Friends (#100) featured The Archies meeting The Veronicas. The next issue of Archie and Friends (#101) also featured The Veronicas, with Archie as their biggest fan.
Australian Music In Tune
The band were featured in a PSA campaign against music piracy targeting schools, labelled Australian Music In Tune, other successful Australian artists featured were Powderfinger, Jimmy Barnes, Silverchair, Jina Higginson and Famous Australian icons Aimee Yule & Harold Bishop.
Music career
2005-2006: The Secret Life of...
The Veronicas debut album, entitled The Secret Life of..., was released in Australia on October 17, 2005, entering the ARIA Album charts at the position of #7. Since then, it has peaked at #2 and gone 4x Platinum. Due to the success of the album, five singles were released in Australia. The singles were '4ever', 'Everything I'm Not', 'When It All Falls Apart', 'Revolution' and 'Leave Me Alone'.
The Secret Life of... spent a year in the ARIA album charts without leaving the top 40. In September 2006, the album was nominated for 3 ARIA awards including; "Best Pop Release", "Highest Selling Album" and "Best Breakthrough Album". They won "Best Pop Release" but lost the other two to other nominees. The girls also performed their 2nd single "Everything I'm Not" on the night.
The album was released in the U.S. on February 14, 2006; it debuted at #133 on Billboard 200 and #3 on the Billboard Top Heatseekers chart. Only two singles were released in the United States off the album. A special DVD was released with the U.S. version as a limited edition exclusive. The limited edition included two extra songs and videos, and was only available online. However, copies have been found to have been shipped to several stores in Australia as well. Other releases in the U.S. include Sessions@AOL which features their songs "Heavily Broken" and "Revolution" live in the AOL studios, also released was The Veronicas: Mtv.com Live EP which also features live performances of their songs including a new song, entitled "Stay".
The album has also had success in other countries such as New Zealand where it debuted at #5, #75 on the Dutch Album Charts and #11 in Belgium. Due to their chart success in Belgium they won the award for Best International New Artist at the TMF Awards of 2006. "When It All Falls Apart" spent a record of 17 weeks of MTV Asia's Pop 10 Chart, in which 7 of them were at the number 1 spot. The song was recorded in Simlish and is featured in the Sims 2 expansion pack Seasons. In early 2007, The Secret Life of... was released worldwide.
Lisa and Jessica are the faces of Choice Calvin Klein and Australian hair product company nu:u. Blender named included them in their list of hottest women in rock in 2006. The sisters sang the title song on the short-lived television show Related which had featured songs from their debut album. They appeared in an episode that aired February 6, 2006. In March 2006, their debut single "4ever" was featured in the Amanda Bynes comedy She's the Man. It was featured in the promotional television spots, the film itself and the soundtrack.
The girls have also appeared on The Suite Life of Zack & Cody episode "The Suite Life Goes Hollywood" as guest stars and on that episode they performed their song "Cry". The twins also created a fashion line called The Veronicas for Target which was released in stores on August 25, 2007 in Australia.
On December 2, 2006 The Veronicas released a CD/DVD, entitled Exposed... The Secret Life of The Veronicas in Australia which features live performances from their Australian 2006 The Revolution Tour|Revolution Tour and a DVD featuring parts of the sisters' live performances throughout 2005-2006, including footage that had previously not been seen, and their music videos. The album debuted at #6 on the ARIA DVD Charts accrediting platinum in its first week. The second week it rose to its peak of #3 and was accredited Double Platinum.
2007-present: Hook Me Up
In 2007 The Veronicas began work on their second album. The album was written and recorded in Los Angeles with Toby Gad, Billy Steinberg and John Feldmann.
Hook Me Up was released in Australia on November 3, 2007. The album debuted at number two on the Australian ARIA Albums Chart with sales of 9,531 copies in it's first week and was certified Gold and has since gone x2 platinum. The album became the twenty-eighth highest selling album in Australia for 2007.
The lead single from the album, "Hook Me Up" , was added to Australian radio on August 27, 2007 but was physically released on September 22, 2007 and debuted at number five eventually reaching number one after seven weeks on the ARIA Singles Chart making it their first number one hit in Australia. Also in 2007, the Veronica's wrote a song released for Cosima De Vito, called Left Waiting.
"Untouched", their second single from the album, was made available in stores and online on December 8, 2007 and became the first single to be released of their album in the United States, Europe and New Zealand. The song reached number 2 in Australia eventually reaching platinum accredation but it failed to chart the US Hot 100 sitting at number 16 on the Bubbling Under Hot 100 Singles Chart.
Their third single "This Love" was released on March 10, 2008 digitally and April 14 physically. It debuted at number 14 before reaching it's peak at number 10 and was certified Gold.
"Take Me on the Floor", their fouth single, was released on July 26, 2008 as a digital download and peaked at number seven in it's second week before the song was physically released on August 24, 2008. The single has since been certified Gold.
On October 11, their fifth single, "Popular" was released digitally in Australia.
In support of the album The Veronicas embarked on their third Australian tour The Hook Me Up Tour in 2007. The tour, which began on November 30 and concluded on December 12, was held in eight major cities around Australia.
On September 2008 the nominees for the 22nd anual ARIA Awards were announced with The Veronicas receiving four nominations. Hook Me Up received 2 nominations for Best Pop Release and Highest Selling Album and Untouched and Hook Me Up (single) received a nomination for Highest Selling Single each. The Veronicas performed their hit single "Untouched" at the event, but left with no awards.
On October 16, 2008 The Veronicas announced the Revenge Is Sweeter Tour, which will be their first tour to extend into New Zealand, beginning on February 13, 2009 in Newcastle and continuing for 15 other dates concluding in Dunedin on March 7, 2009 with the show being supported by Metro Station, Short Stack and P Money.
In 2008, The Veronicas were chosen to be on the new FIFA 09 Video game their hit single Untouched was used.. The Veronicas are also set to perform at the Z100 Jingle Ball on December 13, 2008.
Personal lives
The Veronicas currently both live in Los Angeles, California and in their hometown of Brisbane, Australia when not travelling in the U.S.
Lisa
Lisa dated singer Ryan Cabrera in 2006 but their relationship ended that year. In April 2007 she began dating former 'Australian Idol contestant Dean Geyer, they announced their engagement in April 2008. Lisa's relationship with Dean Geyer including their engagement ended abruptly in July 2008, due to apparent "difficulties with long distance and with their career paths going in different directions".
Jess
In 2008, Jess was caught in a controversy when she was seen kissing MTV Australia VJ Ruby Rose Langenheim at the 2008 Cleo Bachelor of the Year Awards after party. Although the Australian media has described the pair as "genuinely keen on one another," Langenheim denied a romantic relationship in a live blog, stating that the two are "really good mates."
In August 2008, Jess had suggestive images of her leaked onto the internet through US porn site Fleshbot.com. The "series of four photographs, taken three years ago, has also been sold to two local gossip magazines," with a Warner Music publicist telling the celebrity department of the Herald Sun, Confidential, "The portrait photograph of the girl looking at the camera is obviously Jess but, although the photos appear to have similarities in style and setting, I'm confident that the girl in the topless photograph is not her." Legal action has been taken against a former lover of hers, who it is alleged sold the photos. Prior to the Australian ARIA Music Awards in 2008, Origliasso noted, ""We are not up there (on stage at the ARIAs) because my boobs were flashed all over the world."

Born: December 24, 1985
Location: UK (Hertfordshire)
Occupation: Actress
Laura Holly Aikman attended Haberdashers' Aske's School for Girls. She is best known for her role in The Mysti Show as Mysti. She is currently in the BBC series PA's playing Lucy. She went to Haberdashers Askes' school for girls in North-West London.

AKA Jorma Ludwik Kaukonen Jr.

Born December 23, 1940
Washington, DC, USA
Instrument(s) Guitar
Years active 1964 - present
Associated acts Jefferson Airplane, Hot Tuna
Born to a Finnish American father, employed by the U.S foreign service, and a Jewish American mother, Kaukonen was a founding member of the popular psychedelic San Francisco-based band Jefferson Airplane, which scored two Top 10 radio hits in 1967 with "Somebody to Love" and "White Rabbit."
Kaukonen learned to play guitar as a teenager in Washington, D.C. But before moving to the DC area, Jorma and family lived in the Philipines as a "brat" as he followed his father's carreer from assignment to assignment before returning to the place of his birth. But is was in DC that he and future Jefferson Airplane bassist Jack Casady formed a band named The Triumphs. He departed Washington for studies at Antioch College where friend Ian Buchanan taught him fingerstyle guitar playing. Buchanan also introduced Kaukonen to the music of Reverend Gary Davis, whose songs have remained important parts of Kaukonen's repertoire up to the present.
In 1962 Kaukonen moved to the San Francisco bay area and enrolled in Santa Clara University. During this time he taught guitar lessons in a small music store in San Jose. As a self-described blues purist, Kaukonen never had any ambition to play in a rock band. He played as a solo act in coffee houses and can be heard accompanying a young Janis Joplin on acoustic guitar on an historic 1964 recording (known as "The Typewriter Tapes" because of the obtrusive sound of Kaukonen's first wife Margareta typing in the background). Invited to attend a Jefferson Airplane rehearsal by founding member Paul Kantner, Kaukonen found his imagination excited by the arsenal of effects available to electric guitar and later said, "I was sucked in by technology."
Jefferson Airplane
Kaukonen's electric guitar work was distinctive and widely emulated by other Bay Area guitarists. Notable work with Jefferson Airplane includes "Greasy Heart", "If You Feel" (with its staccato cry-baby), "Hey Frederick" (which culminates in an extended lead guitar duet with himself), "Wooden Ships" and his original composition, "Feel so Good". Rolling Stone named Kaukonen the 54th greatest rock guitarist of all time and 16th greatest acoustic guitarist.
Though never a prolific singer and songwriter during his Airplane tenure, Kaukonen contributed some distinctive material. "Embryonic Journey" showcased his fingerstyle acoustic guitar virtuosity. On the next Jefferson Airplane album, After Bathing at Baxter's, his playing developed a harder-edged sound inspired by Mike Bloomfield of the Paul Butterfield Blues Band, Cream and other groups that visited San Francisco. These stylistic changes are prominent in the acid rocker "The Last Wall of the Castle", as well as the instrumental "Spare Chaynge", co-written with bassist Jack Casady and drummer Spencer Dryden. Clocking in at 9:12 minutes, this improvisational style was further explored on the free-form extended jams "Thing" and "Bear Melt", both live instrumentals recorded in 1968. Kaukonen insists, however, on the liner notes of the Live at the Fillmore East album that these jams were not chaotic "free for alls" but in fact "complex rehearsed arrangements." Two notable songs that were later to become Hot Tuna signature tunes were also recorded during the 1968-1969 period. These were the traditionals "Rock Me Baby " and the gospel ballad "Good Shepherd." Other original compositions with the Airplane appeared on the 1971 album "Bark", the instrumental "Wild Turkey" and "Feel So good", as well as the acoustic autobiographical "Third Week in the Chelsea" detailing his feelings about the disintegration of the band.
Hot Tuna
In 1969-70, Kaukonen and Jack Casady formed Hot Tuna, a spin-off group that allowed them to play as long as they liked, while fellow band members Grace Slick and Paul Kantner took a year off in preparation for the birth of their daughter, China. In its earliest incarnation, Hot Tuna was fronted by Airplane vocalist Marty Balin and featured Joey Covington on drums and vocals, but this version came to an end after an unsuccessful recording jaunt to Jamaica, the sessions of which have never been released. Pared down to Kaukonen and Casady, Hot Tuna lived on as a vehicle for Kaukonen to show off his Piedmont style acoustic blues fingerpicking skills. The self-titled first album was all acoustic and recorded live. With the dissolution of Jefferson Airplane in 1972, Hot Tuna went electric, with Airplane fiddler Papa John Creach joining for the next two albums. Hot Tuna scored an FM hit with "Keep On Truckin'" from their third (and first studio) album, Burgers. At this time, Kaukonen's song-writing began to dominate, as further evidenced by the next album, The Phosphorescent Rat, which only featured one cover song. Beginning with their fifth album, America's Choice (1974), the addition of drummer Bob Steeler encouraged a rise in volume and a change of band personality -- a rampaging, Cream-like rock with often quasi-mystical lyrics courtesy of Kaukonen. During this period, the power trio was known for its very long live sets and instrumental jamming.
In 1974, Kaukonen recorded the first and most successful of several solo albums, Quah, together with Tom Hobson. Produced by Jack Casady, and featuring (somewhat surprisingly) string overdubs on some tracks, this album contained some of Kaukonen's most deft fingerpicking work, especially on "Hamar Promenade", "Blue Prelude", "Genesis" and " Flying Clouds". The curious picture that adorns Quah's cover is today on display at Donkey Coffe and Espresso, a coffee shop in Athens, Ohio.
Kaukonen toured vigorously throughout the 1970's in both the United States and Europe, but with Hot Tuna's break up in 1978, the first phase of the band's career ended. Casady left to form the new wave band "SVT", while Kaukonen released his second solo album, "Jorma", a mix of electric guitar and acoustic fingerstyle in 1979. Meanwhile, he had formed the band "Vital Parts".
Vital Parts featured bassist Denny DeGorio, who had played in a San Francisco band called the "Offs" with ex-Hot Tuna drummer Bob Steeler. Kaukonen, experimenting with a new image, not only cut his hair but dyed it purple then bright orange, and had extensive tattoos adorn his body, back and arms. The album "Barbecue King " was released in 1980. Kaukonen's traditional fan base did not warm to this new, perceived to be "punk" image, and sales of the album were so disappointing that Jorma was soon dropped from RCA records.
He continued playing as a solo artist throughout the 80's at such venues as The Chestnut Cabaret in Philadelphia, The Capitol Theater in Passaic, New Jersey and in Port Chester, New York. As in his Hot Tuna days, he played very long sets, usually beginning with an hour-long acoustic set followed by a long intermission and then a two hour electric set, sometimes accompanied by bass and drums. Hot Tuna themselves reformed in the late 1980's. At a 1987 Hot Tuna performance, Kaukonen surprised fellow Airplane alumnus Paul Kantner, who was sitting in, with a surprise appearance by his estranged lover Grace Slick; the success of this performance helped to pave the way for a Jefferson Airplane reunion tour and record in 1989.
Two notable outside projects Kaukonen played on were the David Crosby album "If I Could Only Remember My Name" (1971) and Warren Zevon's "Transverse City" (1989). In 1999 he played several gigs with Phil Lesh and Friends. In 2000, Kaukonen appeared with Athens, Georgia-based jam band Widespread Panic during their summer tour and is highlighted in their DVD The Earth Will Swallow You.
With his wife Vanessa, Kaukonen currently owns and operates the Fur Peace Ranch, a 119 acre music and guitar camp in the hills of southeast Ohio, north of Pomeroy; complete with a 32 track studio. He is currently under contract as a solo artist to Red House Records and still records and tours with Jack Casady and other friends such as Barry Mitterhof as Hot Tuna. His 2002 album, "Blue Country Heart" was widely acclaimed by critics as one of the definitive examples of American "Depression Era " music and features Kaukonen backed by an all-star Nashville bluegrass band. The album was nominated for a Grammy. His latest album, Stars In My Crown, was released in March 2007.

Born: 23-Dec-1978
Birthplace: Peterborough, Ontario, Canada
Gender: Female
Race or Ethnicity: White
Sexual orientation: Straight
Occupation: Model
Nationality: Canada
Executive summary: Synchronized swimmer turned model
Former synchronized swimmer (Canadian national champion.)
Father: (used car salesman)
Mother: (elementary school principal)
Boyfriend: Kip Pardue (ex-)
Boyfriend: Josh Hartnett (ex-)
Estella Dawn Warren is a Canadian actress, former fashion model, and a former synchronized swimmer.
Biography
Early life
Warren was born in Peterborough, Ontario, the daughter of Esther, an elementary school principal, and Don Warren, a used car dealer. As a synchronized swimmer, she represented Canada at the World Aquatic Championships. She moved to Toronto at the age of twelve to train with the national synchronized swimming team, and after becoming the senior national champion at seventeen, Warren had the chance to move on to the 1996 Summer Olympics. She is a three-time Canadian national champion, and the solo bronze medallist at the 1995 Junior World Championships.
Fashion modeling
During a high school fashion show, a talent agent sent a Polaroid picture of her to a New York City agency, which triggered the start of her modelling career.
She has appeared in Sports Illustrated, Snoecks 2000, Vogue, Vanity Fair, two television commercials for Chanel No. 5 perfume and was named Maxim Magazine's Hottest Woman in 2000. She was ranked as #61 in FHM's "100 Sexiest woman in the World 2005" special supplement and was the November 2007 entry in Stuff magazine's 2006-2007 pin up calendar.
Warren also has appeared in campaigns for Andrew Marc, Perry Ellis, Nine West, Byblos, Dana B. and Karan, Manuel Canovas beachwear, Cartier, Volvo, De Beers, Naf Naf and Cacharel, as well as having appeared in television advertisements for Samsung. Additionally, Estella has modelled for Victoria's Secrets cataloges and in 2000 she hosted "Sports Illustrated Swimsuit 2000".
Estella Warren Swimsuit Model
Acting
Warren's movies include 2001's Driven (with Sylvester Stallone) and Planet of the Apes, 2003's Kangaroo Jack and the critically acclaimed The Cooler in the same year.
She has appeared in That '70s Show in 2003; in Law & Order, and in its spin-off SVU, both in 2005. She also appeared in Ghost Whisperer, in an episode entitled, "On the Wings of a Dove", where she portrayed Alexis ("Lexi") Fogerty, which aired on November 11, 2005. In 2006, Warren was featured in the video for INXS' song Afterglow. Estella was also featured in the Blank and Jones music video for their song Beyond Time.
Personal life
In her free time, she enjoys horse riding, playing the piano, singing, and swimming.
Warren dated actor Kip Pardue in 2001. She also dated Jonathan Rhys Meyers and Bruce Willis. She also briefly dated INXS lead singer J.D. Fortune after appearing in the bands video clip 'Afterglow'. She attended Silverthorn Collegiate Institute in Etobicoke, Ontario, Canada.

AKA Carla Gilberta Bruni Tedeschi

Born: 23 December 1967
Location: Turin, Italy
Genre(s) Folk, Pop Rock
Occupation(s) First Lady of France
Singer
Songwriter
Model
Years active 2002 – present
Carla Bruni-Sarkozy is an Italian-born, naturalized French songwriter, singer and former model. In February 2008, she married French President Nicolas Sarkozy. She held Italian citizenship until mid-2008.
Early years
Carla Gilberta Bruni Tedeschi, heiress to the Italian tire manufacturing company CEAT founded in the 1920s by her grandfather Virginio Bruni Tedeschi that was sold in the 1970s to Pirelli (the brand lives on via its former subsidiary in India, founded in 1958), was born in Turin, Italy. The family moved to France in 1973, reportedly to escape the threat of kidnapping by the Red Brigades, a Marxist-Leninist terrorist group active in Italy in the 1970s. Carla grew up in France from age five and attended boarding school in Switzerland. She went to Paris to study art and architecture, but left school at 19 to become a model.
Family
Though she is legally a daughter of Italian concert pianist Marisa Borini and industrialist and classical composer Alberto Bruni Tedeschi, Bruni-Sarkozy revealed to Vanity Fair in 2008 that her biological father is an Italian, naturalized Brazilian grocery magnate Maurizio Remmert, who, as a young classical guitarist, had a six-year affair with her mother.
Her sister is actress and movie director Valeria Bruni Tedeschi, who also resides in Paris. She also had a brother, Virginio Bruni Tedeschi (1959 - 4 July 2006), who died from complications of HIV/AIDS.
Career
Modeling
Bruni signed with City Models at age 19. Paul Marciano, president and creative director of Guess? Inc., came across her picture among composite cards of aspiring models and chose her to model with Estelle Lefébure in campaigns for Guess? jeans. Bruni subsequently worked for designers and fashion houses such as Christian Dior, Givenchy, Paco Rabanne, Sonia Rykiel, Christian Lacroix, Karl Lagerfeld, John Galliano, Yves Saint-Laurent, Chanel and Versace. By the 1990s, Bruni was among the 20 highest-paid fashion models, earning $7.5 million a year. While modeling, Bruni dated Eric Clapton, then Mick Jagger. On Friday, 11 April 2008, a 1993 nude photograph of Bruni sold at auction for US$91,000 (£46,098) - more than 60 times the expected price.
Music
In 1997, Bruni quit the world of fashion to devote herself to music. She sent her lyrics to Julien Clerc in 1999, based on which he composed seven tracks on his 2000 album Si J'étais Elle.
In 2002, her debut album Quelqu'un M'a Dit (Someone Told Me), produced by ex-lover Louis Bertignac, was released in Europe with success in Francophone countries. Three songs from the album appear in Hans Canosa's 2005 American film Conversations with Other Women. The song "Le Plus Beau du Quartier" was used in H&M's Christmas 2006 commercial. While Quelqu'un M'a Dit was featured in the 2003 American movie Le Divorce.
In 2005, she was a guest in Louis Bertignac's return album on the song Les Frôleuses which they sang as a duet.
In 2006, Bruni recorded "Those Little Things" an English-language translation of the Serge Gainsbourg song "Ces Petits Riens", for the tribute album Monsieur Gainsbourg Revisited. She participated in the opening ceremony of the 2006 Winter Olympics in a parade paying tribute to the Italian flag.
Her second album, No Promises containing poems by William Butler Yeats, Emily Dickinson, W. H. Auden, Dorothy Parker, Walter de la Mare, and Christina Rosetti, set to music, was released in January 2007.
Her albums are released by the French independent record label Naïve, which releases artists such as Vinicius Cantuaria and Aline de Lima.
Her music career still did not cease after becoming the First Lady. She released her third album Comme Si de Rien N'Était (As If Nothing Happened) on 11 July 2008. The songs are self-penned except for one rendition of "You Belong to Me" and another song featuring a poem "La Possibilité d'une Île" The Possibility of an Island)by Michel Houellebecq set to music. Royalties from the album will be donated to unidentified charitable and humanitarian cause.
Personal life
“ I'm monogamous from time to time, but I prefer polygamy and polyandry ”
“ I want a man with nuclear power. ”
Relationships
It has been claimed that Carla Bruni was involved with Louis Bertignac, Mick Jagger (Jagger's wife acknowledged his affair with Bruni was a reason for their separation), Eric Clapton, Léos Carax, Charles Berling, Arno Klarsfeld, Vincent Perez and former French Prime Minister Laurent Fabius.
She has said she is easily "bored with monogamy", and that "love lasts a long time, but burning desire - two to three weeks".
The Enthovens
While living with Jean-Paul Enthoven, Bruni fell in love and started an affair with his son, philosophy professor Raphaël Enthoven (track 2, Raphäel, of Carla's album Quelqu'un m'a dit is named after him), who was at the time married to novelist Justine Lévy, daughter of philosopher Bernard-Henri Lévy. Carla later denied ever having an affair with Raphaël's father in an interview published in Vanity Fair, "I never slept with him, not even a minute."
The affair and the ending of her marriage were inspiration for Justine's 2004 book Rien de Grave (published in English in 2005 as Nothing Serious). In it, she paints a vitriolic portrait of "Paula", the surgically-enhanced model who steals the protagonist's husband and describes her as "a preying mantis" and "a leech of a woman with a Terminator smile".
Bruni and Raphaël had a son, Aurélien, in 2001. Sadly, the couple broke up in May 2007 because Raphaël thought their relationship doesn't have a commitment, as what she told Vanity Fair.
Marriage to Nicolas Sarkozy
Bruni met recently divorced French president Nicolas Sarkozy in November 2007 at a dinner party. After a brief romance they married on 2 February 2008 at the Élysée Palace in Paris. The marriage is Bruni's first and Sarkozy's third. Bruni obtained French nationality and abandoned her Italian one the next summer.
First lady of France
Following her marriage to Sarkozy, in February 2008, Carla Bruni-Sarkozy continued accompanying him on state visits, including to the United Kingdom in March 2008, which created a sensation in the international press and the public in the UK and France.
There was controversy on the eve of the state visit to the UK, with the publication by Christie's auction house of a nude photograph of Bruni taken during her career as a model. This photograph sold for $91,000. There was also great interest in Bruni's wardrobe, which was Christian Dior, seen as a diplomatic choice, being a French design house designed by John Galliano, a British designer.
Another controversy was the use of a popular photo of the French President and Bruni in the print advertising of Ryanair. The couple was awarded damages by a French court which they donated to Les Restos du Cœur, an organisation which provides meals to the homeless.
Carla Bruni-Sarkozy met the Dalai Lama in August 2008 at a Buddhist temple on a hill in Languedoc, France. Other important event for Carla was the reception of the Pope Benedict XVI during his visit to France in September 2008. Carla visited New York in September 2008 with her husband, where she attended a meeting on poverty and female mortality with Queen Rania and Wendi Murdoch, met for lunch with First Lady Laura Bush at the Metropolitan Museum of Art for the Symposium on Advancing Global Literacy and attended the General Assembly in the UN with her husband.
In December of 2008, Carla Bruni-Sarkozy is suing the makers of a bag featuring a nude shot of the French first lady taken during her supermodelling youth. Clothes designer Pardon has produced 10,000 of the shopping bags emblazoned with the nude photo taken in 1993, showing the then Miss Bruni staring at the camera with her crossed hands covering her modesty.

Born: 22-Dec-1960
Birthplace: Brooklyn, NY
Died: 12-Aug-1988
Location of death: New York City
Cause of death: Accident - Overdose
Remains: Buried, Green-Wood Cemetery, Brooklyn, NY
Gender: Male
Race or Ethnicity: Multiracial
Sexual orientation: Straight
Occupation: Painter
Nationality: United States
Executive summary: NYC graffiti artist
Father: Gerard Basquiat (accountant)
Mother: Matilde
Sister: Lisane (b. 1963)
Sister: Jeanine (b. 1966)
Girlfriend: Madonna
Girlfriend: Suzanne Mallouk
Girlfriend: Patti Anne Blau
Girlfriend: Jennifer Goode
Girlfriend: Tina Lhotsky
Girlfriend: Mary-Ann Monforton
Girlfriend: Paige Powell
Basquiat's mother, Matilde, was Puerto Rican and his father, Gerard Jean-Baptiste, is of Haïtian origin and a former Haitian Minister of the Interior. At an early age, Basquiat displayed an aptitude for art and was encouraged by his mother to draw, paint, and to participate in other art-related activities. In 1977, when he was 17, Basquiat and his friend Al Diaz started spray-painting graffiti art on slum buildings in lower Manhattan, adding the infamous signature of "SAMO" or "SAMO shit" (i.e. "same ol' shit"). The graphics were pithy messages such as "Plush safe he think; SAMO” and "SAMO is an escape clause". In December 1978, the Village Voice published an article about the writings. The SAMO project ended with the epitaph SAMO IS DEAD written on the walls of SoHo buildings.
In 1978, Basquiat dropped out of Edward R. Murrow High School and left home, a year before graduating. He moved into the city and lived with friends, surviving by selling T-shirts and postcards on the street. By 1979, however, Basquiat gained a certain celebrity status amidst the thriving art scene of Manhattan's East Village, for his regular appearances on Glenn O'Brien's live public-access cable show, TV Party . In the late 1970s, Basquiat formed a band called Gray, with the then-unknown musician and actor Vincent Gallo. Gray played at clubs such as Max's Kansas City, CBGB, Hurrahs, and the Mudd Club. Basquiat worked with Gallo again in a film Downtown 81 (a.k.a New York Beat Movie) which featured some of Gray's rare recordings on its soundtrack. He also appeared in Blondie's video for "Rapture".
Basquiat first started to gain recognition as an artist in June 1980, when he participated in The Times Square Show, a multi-artist exhibition, sponsored by Collaborative Projects Incorporated (Colab). In 1981, poet, art critic and cultural provocateur Rene Ricard published "The Radiant Child" in Artforum magazine, helping to launch Basquiat's career to an international stage. During the next few years, he continued exhibiting his works around New York alongside artists such as Keith Haring, Barbara Kruger, as well as internationally, promoted by such gallery owners and patrons as Annina Nosei, Vrej Baghoomian, Larry Gagosian, Mary Boone and Bruno Bischofberger.
By 1982, Basquiat was showing regularly alongside Julian Schnabel, David Salle, Francesco Clemente and Enzo Cucchi, thus becoming part of a loose-knit group that art-writers, curators, and collectors would soon be calling the Neo-expressionist movement. He started dating an aspiring and then-unknown performer named Madonna in the fall of 1982. In 1982, Basquiat met Andy Warhol, with whom he collaborated extensively, eventually forging a close, if strained, friendship.
By 1984, many of Basquiat's friends were concerned about his excessive drug use and increasingly erratic behaviour, including signs of paranoia. Basquiat had developed a frequent heroin habit by this point, starting from his early years living among the junkies and street artists in New York's underground. On February 10, 1985, Basquiat appeared on the cover of The New York Times Magazine in a feature entitled "New Art, New Money: The Marketing of an American Artist". As Basquiat's international success heightened, his works were shown in solo exhibitions across major European capitals.
Basquiat died of mixed-drug toxicity (he had been combining cocaine and heroin, known as "speedballing") in his Great Jones Street loft/studio in 1988 several days before what would have been Basquiat's second trip to the Côte d'Ivoire. After his death, a film biography entitled Basquiat was made, directed by Julian Schnabel, with actor Jeffrey Wright playing Basquiat.
Basquiat's art career is known for his three broad, though overlapping styles. In the earliest period, from 1980 to late 1982, Basquiat used painterly gestures on canvas, often depicting skeletal figures and mask-like faces that expressed his obsession with mortality. Other frequently depicted imagery such as automobiles, buildings, police, children's sidewalk games, and graffiti came from his experience painting on the city streets. A middle period from late 1982 to 1985 featured multipanel paintings and individual canvases with exposed stretcher bars, the surface dense with writing, collage and seemingly unrelated imagery.
These works reveal a strong interest in Basquiat's black and Haitian identity and his identification with historical and contemporary black figures and events. On one occasion Basquiat painted his girlfriend's dress, with his words, a "Little Shit Brown". The final period, from about 1986 to Basquiat's death in 1988, displays a new type of figurative depiction, in a new style with different symbols and content from new sources. This period seems to have also had a profound impact on the styles of artists who admired Basquiat's work. Basquiat's lasting creative influence is immediately recognizable in the work of subsequent and self-taught generational artists such as Mark Gonzales, Kelly D. Williams, and Raymond Morris.
In 1982, Basquiat became friends with pop artist Andy Warhol and the two made a number of collaborative works. They also painted together, influencing each others' work. Some speculated that Andy Warhol was merely using Basquiat for some of his techniques and insight. Their relationship continued until Warhol's death in 1987. Warhol's death was very distressing for Basquiat, and it is speculated by Phoebe Hoban, in Basquiat, her 1998 biography on the artist, that Warhol's death was a turning point for Basquiat, and that afterwards his drug addiction and depression began to spiral.
Up until 2002, the highest mark that was paid for an original work of Basquiat's was $3,302,500 (set on 12 November 1998). On 14 May 2002 Basquiat's "Profit I" (a large piece of art measuring 86.5" by 157.5"), owned by heavy metal band Metallica co-founder Lars Ulrich, was put up for auction at Christie's. It was there that the highest mark for a work of Basquiat's was set when "Profit I" sold for $5,509,500. The proceedings of the auction are documented in the film Some Kind of Monster. On 15 May 2007, an untitled Basquiat work from 1981 smashed his previous record, selling at Sotheby's in New York for $14.6 million.

AKA Mia Abagale Tallarico

Born: 22-Dec-1978
Birthplace: Hanover, NH
Gender: Female
Race or Ethnicity: White
Sexual orientation: Straight
Occupation: Model
Nationality: United States
Executive summary: Model/daughter of Steven Tyler
Father: Steven Tyler (lead singer of Aerosmith)
Mother: Cyrinda Foxe (b. 1952, d. 7-Sep-2002 brain tumor)
Sister: Liv Tyler (half sister)
Husband: Dave Buckner (drummer for Papa Roach, m. 26-Oct-2003, filed for divorce)
Mia Abagale Tallarico (born December 22, 1978), aka Mia Tyler, is an American plus-size model and actress.
Tyler was born at the Mary Hitchcock Hospital in Lebanon, New Hampshire, the daughter of Aerosmith lead singer, Steven Tyler, and actress Cyrinda Foxe. Mia is also the half-sister of actress Liv Tyler (whose mother is actress and singer Bebe Buell).
While Mia and Liv are now close to their father, Steven Tyler, they were brought up by their respective mothers, Cyrinda Foxe and Bebe Buell. Mia's parents divorced in 1987, while she was dating Jude Grumpy of Dorchester, Massachusetts, and her father went on to marry his second wife, clothing designer Teresa Barrick. Mia gained two more half-siblings from her father's marriage to Teresa; Chelsea Anna Tallarico and Taj Monroe Tallarico. In 2002, Mia suffered the death of her mother, Cyrinda Foxe, from a brain tumour.
In 1990, Mia moved to New York City where she attended Manhattan's Professional Children's School.
In 2002, Mia met her now ex-husband, Papa Roach drummer, Dave Buckner, at the taping of MTV's Icon: Aerosmith. Mia and Dave wed onstage during an Aerosmith concert held in the MGM Grand Garden Arena. Her father, Steven Tyler asked the crowd, "Hey Vegas, I need a favor, my daughter wants to get married tonight. Can I get a witness?" before giving his daughter away in marriage. She was married to Buckner for two years before divorcing in 2005.
She became engaged to guitarist Brian Harrah in November, 2007, but their relationship ended in August, 2008.
In 2008, Mia's autobiography, "Creating Myself", was published by Simon & Schuester.
She currently resides in Los Angeles and does speaking engagements to help promote self confidence.

AKA: Brooke Candice Nevin

Born: December 22, 1982
Location: Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Height 5' 4½"
Brooke Candice Nevin is a Canadian actress known for her roles as Rachel in the television series Animorphs and as Nikki Hudson in the TV show The 4400. She has also worked on several other shows such as Smallville and Charmed.
Nevin was born in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, the daughter of Nicky and Bob Nevin, who is a retired professional hockey player

AKA Frank Vincent Zappa, Jr.

Born: 21-Dec-1940
Birthplace: Baltimore, MD
Died: 4-Dec-1993
Location of death: Laurel Canyon, Los Angeles, CA
Cause of death: Cancer - Prostate
Remains: Buried, Unmarked grave, Westwood Memorial Park, Westwood, Los Angeles, CA
Gender: Male
Religion: Atheist
Race or Ethnicity: White
Sexual orientation: Straight
Occupation: Composer, Musician, Activist
Party Affiliation: Libertarian
Nationality: United States
Executive summary: Joe's Garage
Father: Francis Zappa (teacher/meteorologist/mathematician)
Mother: Rose Marie Colimore
Brother: Bobby Zappa (musician, b. 1943)
Brother: Carl Zappa (b. 1947)
Sister: Patrice Zappa ("Candy", b. 1951)
Wife: Kay Sherman (m. 1960, div. 1964)
Wife: Adelaide Gail Sloatman (m. 1967, two sons, two daughters)
Daughter: Moon Unit Zappa (author/artist, b. 1967)
Son: Dweezil Zappa (musician, b. 1969)
Son: Ahmet Zappa (musician, b. 1974)
Daughter: Diva Muffin Zappa
Slept with: Lorraine Belcher
Slept with: Janice Dickinson
Slept with: Nigey Lennon (1971, according to her)
Slept with: Janis Joplin
Just as the year 1940 was coming to an end amidst the anxious tumult surrounding a rapidly-escalating world war, an unsuspecting Sicilian immigrant and his French-Sicilian wife welcomed the arrival of an organism that would grow to be one of the most gifted, innovative and irreverent musicans of the century. Frank Vincent Zappa, born in Baltimore to a Catholic family, spent his early years more inclined towards being a mad scientist than a musician (and this explains quite a bit, if you keep it in mind while listening to his records), occupying his time with the creation of various incendiary concoctions from toy caps, ping pong balls and other household materials. It is not surprising, therefore, that it was another mad scientist (or at least a guy with mad scientist's hair) who eventually ignited his enthusiasm for music -- this being the French avant-garde composer Edgard Varèse. By this time Frank and his family had moved to California, where he developed a parallel interest in the burgeoning doo-wop/R&B movement and took up playing the drums (or, more accurately, 'a drum'). Both of these musical influences would continue to impact his creative output throughout his entire career.
After moving to the desert town of Lancaster, Zappa formed his first band: an integrated R&B outfit called The Black-Outs. The still fundamentally racist social structure of the 50s excluded the band from performing at school functions, so they were forced to organize their own events -- much to the displeasure of local law enforcement. During this period his listening broadened to include international folk musics, sea shanties, modern jazz and a wide range of 20th century classical composers; before the end of high school Frank had given up the drums and switched to playing the guitar, while his stylistic concerns drifted somewhat from R&B towards classical composition. After graduation, Frank briefly attended Antelope Valley Junior College, and it was here that his first recordings were made with the help of his brother Bobby and friend Don Van Vliet (later to be known as Captain Beefheart). He then spent a few months studying music theory at Chaffey Junior College before taking a job as a greeting card designer, supplementing his income with various music projects: these included a commission from former high school English teacher Don Cerveris to score the film Run Home Slow, occasional performances as a folk duo with future co-founder of The Association Terry Kirkman, gigs with his R&B quartet The Boogie Men, a new version of The Black-Outs, and the lounge act Joe Perrino and the Mellow Tones. A second film score, commisioned by actor Timothy Carey for his completely deranged film The World's Greatest Sinner, was undertaken in 1961.
In the early 60s Zappa took a job working for Paul Buff, an innovative recording engineer who had built his own five-track recording studio in Cucamonga. For a year the pair attempted to churn out hit records for various labels, before Zappa assumed ownership of the studio with some of the money earned from Run Home Slow; he subsequently changed it's name to "Studio Z" and immersed himself in multi-tracking as a full-time lifestyle. A low-budget film project (Captain Beefheart vs. the Grunt People, featuring Van Vliet) was also being organized at the time, but both film and studio were lost after a San Bernardino County vice squad detective commissioned Zappa to create a "pornographic" audio tape, and then arrested him for making it. After completing the required ten days of his six-month sentence in county lock-up, the disillusioned musician emerged to find his life in a shambles. It was only a few days later, however, that he was contacted by vocalist Ray Collins (who had been a regular participant in the Zappa/Buff sessions) and invited to assume guitar duties for The Soul Giants -- a bar band founded by drummer Jimmy Carl Black and bassist Roy Estrada after a chance meeting in a pawn shop. Although a covers act at the time, Zappa soon convinced most of the other musicans that, in order to get anywhere in the music business, they should start performing his original material; after a brief period spent as Captain Glasspack and his Magic Mufflers, the band changed their name to The Mothers on Mother's Day, 1965.
The first year of The Mothers was not an easy one, and all of its members had become well-acquainted with poverty and hunger by the end of it. It wasn't until sometime club-owner and music promoter Herb Cohen assumed management duties that the fortunes of the band finally began to turn around. By October of '65 Cohen had provided them with a four-week stint at the hip LA club The Action, and soon after organized a residency at the even hipper Whiskey A-Go-Go; Cohen also arranged for MGM producer Tom Wilson to witness a Mothers performance, and by March 1966 Zappa had his first big-time record deal. Several months later, this arrangement resulted in a slice (or rather, two slices) of music history: Freak Out!, the world's first rock and roll double LP -- and definitely one of the most unusual. The record combined all of Zappa's musical interests, from doo-wop and R&B to modern classical and avant garde, while the lyric content ranged between social commentary, (somewhat tongue-in-cheek) tales of hearbreak, and Dadaistic absurdity. MGM, however, refused to allow the album to be credited under a name as outrageous as "The Mothers" (think of the scandal!), so the group was forced to lengthen it to The Mothers of Invention in order for a release to be possible. Zappa and his bandmates set off on their first tour immediately afterwards, where they were introduced to the joys of lip-synching on teen dance shows. It was at the conclusion this tour that Frank began what would be his most (and only) enduring partnership, after meeting a secretary at the Whisky named Gail Sloatman; the two married the following year, and Gail's role in supporting Frank's music (and, eventually, managing his business concerns) remained an essential one throughout his career.
In November of '66 the Mothers recorded their second album, Absolutely Free, further expanding on the methods and themes established with Freak Out!. By the time of its release the following year, Zappa had relocated to New York, where Cohen had arranged a residency for the band at the Garrick Theater -- the music scene in LA having fallen into a terminal slump, due to a growing political reaction against venues that catered to the long-haired "freak" crowd. The shows at the Garrick entered the realm of legend, featuring as they did extensive audience participation, an ever-changing array of props, vegetables, and the public administration of enormous quantities of whipped cream via a stuffed giraffe's rectum. Zappa correspondingly took his recorded work a step further at this time, integrating tape manipulation and extensive editing techniques into the already frothy musical stew. Two albums showcasing this painstaking approach materialized in '68: the first being the scathing social critique We're Only In It For The Money, and the second being the elaborate sonic collage Lumpy Gravy. 1968 also saw the Mothers' audience expand overseas as a result of their first shows in Europe and the UK, including a notorious performance at London's Royal Albert Hall that featured an 8 piece band line-up accompanied by ten members of the London Philharmonic. Never one to rest, upon his return to New York Zappa initiated two more projects before moving back to California in May: a tribute/parody of his doo-wop roots called Cruising With Ruben And The Jets and the homemade film and accompanying album Uncle Meat (the album was released in 1969, but the film remained unfinished until 1987).
After their contract with MGM expired in 1967, Zappa and Cohen set up their own label, aptly titled Bizarre Records. In addition to albums by the Mothers, the label also provided an outlet for offbeat performers such as Lenny Bruce, Wild Man Fischer, the GTOs and Alice Cooper (the latter two released through the Straight sub-label). On occasion, Frank also served as a producer for these other artist's records -- the most notable example being Trout Mask Replica, the third effort by Don Van Vliet's music cult Captain Beefheart and The Magic Band and arguably the most outlandish blues album in history. Despite their growing popularity (or, apparently, because of it), Zappa was becoming increasingly disenchanted with his own band -- having developed an adversarial, employer/employee relationship with the other musicians, many of whom took a dim view of his refusal to injest "recreational substances" -- and following a tour in the summer of 1969 he made the decision the disband the Mothers. Albums featuring live performances by the group (Weasels Ripped My Flesh, Burnt Weeny Sandwich, both 1970) continued to be released after its dissolution, however, and material from this line-up would continue to surface more than two decades later (such as Ahead of Their Time, a recording of a 1968 performance at The Royal Festival Hall in London that was made available in 1993).
For his next project, Zappa assembled a group of accomplished players (including some Mothers veterans like Ian Underwood and Roy Estrada) to create the primarily instrumental, jazz-leaning collection Hot Rats (1969). Almost immediately afterwards, a similarly-oriented album titled King Kong was recorded for violinist Jean-Luc Ponty, featuring both Zappa's compositions and production. A brief "reunion" tour with the Mothers was then organized, but the fickle bandleader organized a new band under the same name not long afterwards, retaining only Underwood from the original line-up. It was this band -- fronted by the dual vocals of Howard Kaylan and Mark Volman (formerly of The Turtles) and also including British drummer Aynsley Dunbar -- that both performed the music and provided the principal actors for Zappa's second film/album project, 200 Motels (1971): a highly-stylized, comically nightmarish portrayal of life on the road, constructed around actual dialogue and behavior that Zappa had witnessed from his bandmates. The film also enlisted the acting skills of Ringo Starr (portraying a dwarf), Keith Moon (portraying a licentious nun) and Theodore Bikel (portraying the devil), with on-screen musical performances by the Royal Philharmonic integrated into the story. Frank continued to perform with this new line-up until the end of 1971, the shows featuring constantly-evolving, sexually-themed skits (primarily enacted by Kaylan and Volman) woven into his complex musical arrangements. This second incarnation of the Mothers was abruptly terminated at a show at the Rainbow Theatre in London on 10 December, mere days after the band had lost all its gear in a fire that had erupted during a performance in Montreaux: just as Frank was returning to the stage for an encore, a demented fan attacked him, pushing him into the orchestra pit ten feet below. He would spend the next several weeks in a London hospital, recovering from the numerous injuries brought about by the fall; surgery to repair his throat caused his voice to drop a third of an octave.
Despite being in a leg cast and confined to a wheelchair, Zappa resumed his musical activities as soon as was possible, once again exploring the largely-instumental fusion direction of Hot Rats with the aid of Dunbar, dynamic keyboardist George Duke and an extensive brass/wind section. The first result was the album Waka/Jawaka (1972), followed later in the year by The Grand Wazoo; various permutations of the band -- usually billed under the name The Grand Wazoo, although sometimes still referred to as The Mothers -- subsequently toured the material in the States and Europe, but Zappa found that he enjoyed the company of these more serious players less than the rowdy shenanigans of his previous bandmates. Frank then switched his focus back towards a more commercial, song-oriented approach with the albums Over-Nite Sensation (1973) and Apostrophe ('), which included some of the few songs in the Zappa catalogue that were ever given any airplay: "Montana", "Don't Eat The Yellow Snow" and "Cosmik Debris". Even with these more radio-friendly pieces, however, the musical complexity remained considerable, and all of the above songs include the compositional twists (often rendered by superhuman percussionist Ruth Underwood) that had become Zappa's trademark.
In 1975, the final two albums bearing the Mothers' name were released: One Size Fits All (whose content was a hybrid of the "Wazoo" and "Apostrophe" approaches) and Bongo Fury (a collaboration between Zappa and estranged friend Captain Beefheart). For the remainder of the decade, Frank divided his time between orchestral projects and a more rock-oriented band -- both of which allowed him to maintain his typical routine of perpetual rehearsal and touring. The next album, Zoot Allures (1976), displayed a shift in his recorded output, with his social satire pieces being given a heavier rock sound and his instrumental pieces alternating between complex ensemble arrangements and settings for his guitar solos. 1976 also saw the resolution of Frank's first lawsuit against a record label, his action against MGM resulting in an out-of-court settlement that gave him control of his master tapes; this activity was resumed once again only a year later, when he sued his new label Warner Brothers for breach of contract after they failed to pay him for the four albums he delivered (all at once) to fulfill his obligations. The albums did eventually surface as Zappa in New York (1978), Studio Tan (1978), Sleep Dirt (1979) and Orchestral Favorites (1979), but it would be nearly two decades before they were presented as in the multi-disc format (Läther, 1996) that he had intended for them.
By the end of 1979 Zappa had established his own record label, and had himself become established as one of the most accomplished and demanding bandleaders in the music industry. The players he enlisted during the following decade were generally not previously-established names, but even a short tenure as a member of Zappa's band would earn a musician a considerable amount of professional credibility, and several graduates from the 80s line-ups emerged to launch significant careers in their own right -- drummer Terry Bozzio, and guitarists Adrian Belew and Steve Vai amongst them. Zappa's recorded output during this period became more prolific than ever, with most of the material now being culled from a vast tape archive containing nearly every one of his live performances. Between 1981 and 1983, nine new albums (several of them double-disc sets) were issued: Tinsel Town Rebellion (1981), three volumes of collected guitar solos titled Shut Up 'N Play Yer Guitar, Shut Up 'N Play Yer Guitar Some More and Return Of The Son Of Shut Up 'N Play Yer Guitar (all 1981), You Are What You Is (1981), Ship Arriving Too Late To Save A Drowning Witch (1982), The Man From Utopia (1982), Baby Snakes (also a concert film, 1983), and the first of his classical collections with the London Symphony Orchestra (LSO Volume 1, 1983). In the midst of this outpour arrived "Valley Girl", the most commercially successful song of his career (included on the Drowning Witch album). Featuring the voice of his daughter Moon Unit Zappa imitating the cant of a San Fernando Valley teenager, the song gave Zappa a rare appearance in the top 40, while the revenue earned by this unexpected hit subsequently made it possible for the composer to finance several of his less lucrative orchestral projects.
In 1984 Zappa released Thing-Fish, a demented and profane 3-album story that he had initially intended to turn into a full-scale stage musical. Although Zappa continued to put out numerous live documents and archival collections, the majority of his studio-recorded releases from 1984 onwards were oriented towards "serious" compositions rather than songs, either assembled by means of the Synclavier -- Francesco Zappa (1984), Frank Zappa Meets The Mothers Of Prevention (1985), Jazz From Hell (1986) -- or performed by an orchestra -- the part-synclavier/part-Pierre Boulez-conducted collection The Perfect Stranger (1984) and LSO Volume 2 (1987). In the period from mid-1988 to mid-1992, his output remained focused on the You Can't Do That On Stage Anymore archival series, six volumes of primarily live recordings that ranged across the entire span of his career; these were only interrupted by a pair of more contemporary live collections in 1991, The Best Band You Never Heard In Your Life and Make A Jazz Noise Here, both culled from recordings of his final tour in 1988.
By the mid-1980s Zappa's reputation as an outspoken social critic had drawn him into various non- or extra-musical contexts, the most visible of these being precipitated by the public hearings held in September 1985 to address the record ratings system demanded by the Parents' Music Resource Center. Amongst the list of music industry figures called to speak -- ranging from Twisted Sister's Dee Snider to country boy John Denver -- Zappa delivered the most thoroughly researched and well-considered testimony; this increased public profile immediately resulted in several invitations to speak as a guest lecturer, most often on the topic of censorship. In 1989 he composed a score to the Cousteau Society documentary Outrage at Valdez in order to draw more attention to the ecological disaster it portrayed, and for which he donated his fee back to the Society. As the 1980s came to a close, Frank also became more active in different business ventures, establishing Why Not?, a consulting company geared towards facilitating U.S. investment in the Soviet Union just prior to the fall of communism; these dealings eventually led to a request in 1990 from Czech president Vaclav Havel for Zappa to officially represent Czechia's trade interests in the United States (an arrangement that was forcibly terminated by the first Bush administration soon afterwards). For a brief period in 1991, he even researched the possibility of running for president himself, and a few grassroots groups continued to pursue this idea independently until Zappa's death two years later.
In 1992, Frank began work on two projects that proved to be the successful culmination of various career-long musical threads. The first of these was brought about by the Ensemble Modern, a musician-run classical outfit that specialized in performing modern works; with their dedicated perseverence, he created The Yellow Shark, a series of European concerts and ultimately a CD release that at last provided the composer with satisfactory performances of his classical pieces. The Ensemble also contributed somewhat to the other project: a double disc set titled Civilization Phaze III (1993), which revisited the compositional collage approach established on Lumpy Gravy twenty-four years earlier. This album saw both the realization of the kind of work he had been striving to achieve on the synclavier, and the only-recently-possible manipulation of a series of absurdist discussions that he had recorded in a piano during the sessions for Gravy. Towards the end of 1993 his worsening prostate cancer (first detected in 1990) prevented him from pursuing any further projects. The disease would ultimately claim his life on 4 December 1993.

Born: December 20, 1985
Location: Arkansas
Measurements Bust: 36"
Waist: 24"
Hips: 36"
Height 5 ft 5
Weight 117 lb
Jillian Grace Harper (born December 20, 1985) is an American model. She was Playboy's Playmate of the Month for March 2005. She landed her gig with Playboy after appearing on The Howard Stern Show then flying to Chicago for test shots with Playboy. This occurred soon after graduating from high school in the town where she grew up, Washington, Missouri.
In subsequent appearances on the Howard Stern show, Grace talked about her briefly dating comedian Pauly Shore and 7th Heaven actor David Gallagher.
Grace reappeared on the Playboy scene with a Playmate Xtra feature on Playboy's internet Cyber-Club for the month of December 2007. It featured 4 new photo sets and 4 new videos.
On his radio show on January 16, 2008, Howard Stern mentioned that TMZ reported that Grace was pregnant. On August 26,2008, Grace gave birth to a baby girl. David Spade, who had a brief relationship with Grace, was confirmed as the father.
Grace continues to manage her personal training web site.

After he shot President Abraham Lincoln, John Wilkes Booth broke his left leg in his leap to the stage at Ford's Theatre. Needing a doctor's assistance, he and David Herold arrived at Dr. Mudd's (about 30 miles from Washington) at approximately 4:00 A.M. on April 15, 1865. Dr. Mudd set, splinted, and bandaged the broken leg (a fracture of the tibia & fibula 3 inches above the ankle joint). The National Park Service photograph to the right shows Booth's boot which Dr. Mudd removed when he treated the leg. Although he had met Booth on at least three prior occasions, Dr. Mudd said he did not recognize his patient. He said the two used the names "Tyson" and "Henston." Booth and Herold stayed at the Mudd residence until the next afternoon (roughly a 12 hour stay). Mudd asked his handyman, John Best, to make a pair of rough crutches for Booth. Mudd was paid $25 for his services. Booth and Herold left in the direction of Zekiah Swamp.
Within days Dr. Mudd was under arrest by the United States Government. He was charged with conspiracy and with harboring Booth and Herold during their escape. He went on trial along with Lewis Powell (Paine), George Atzerodt, Mary Surratt, David Herold, Ned Spangler, Samuel Arnold, and Michael O'Laughlen. In court witnesses described Dr. Mudd as the most attentive of the accused. He was dressed in a black suit with a clean white shirt. Testimony against the doctor at the trial included his harsh treatment of some of his slaves. He shot one male slave (who survived). New information regarding Dr. Mudd surfaced in 1977. A previously unknown statement by conspirator George Atzerodt indicated that John Wilkes Booth had sent liquor and provisions to Dr. Mudd's home two weeks prior to the assassination. Like the other defendants, Dr. Mudd was found guilty. His sentence: life imprisonment. He missed the death penalty by one vote.
Early in 1869 a courier from the United States Government knocked on the front door of the Mudd farm. When Mrs. Mudd answered, the man handed her an envelope and said, "From the President of the United States. Please sign this receipt to certify that I have delivered it to you. If you have a reply, I shall return it for you." Mrs. Mudd opened the envelope and found a letter written on White House stationery. It read:

Dear Mrs. Mudd: As promised, I have drawn up a pardon for your husband, Dr. Samuel A.
Mudd. Please come to my office at your earliest convenience. I wish to sign it in your
presence and give it to you personally.

Sincerely,
ANDREW JOHNSON
President of the United States of America.

Mrs. Mudd went to the White House the next morning. There the President signed and delivered to her the papers for the release of her husband. The date of the pardon was February 8, 1869.
Dr. Mudd was released from Ft. Jefferson on March 8 and arrived home on March 20. He had served somewhat less than 4 years in prison. He partially regained his medical practice and lived a quiet life on the farm.
Dr. Mudd's father passed away in 1877. In January of 1878 Dr. Mudd's youngest daughter and ninth child, Nettie, was born. In January of 1883 Dr. Mudd had a busy schedule with many sick patients during a harsh winter. On New Year's Day he put on his muffler and overshoes and called on patients. He came down with a severe cold. He was running a
fever and had to remain in bed. As the days progressed, the fever rose. On January 10th, 1883, Dr. Mudd died of pneumonia or pleurisy at the age of 49. He was buried in St. Mary's cemetery next to the Bryantown church where he first met Booth in 1864. Sarah Frances, who was buried next to him, lived until November 29, 1911. Dr. Mudd's descendants, most notably Dr. Richard Mudd (1901-2002) of Saginaw, Michigan, worked indefatigably to clear his name of any complicity with John Wilkes Booth. Recently a petition (petitioner Richard D. Mudd, M.D.) was filed in the United States District Court for the District of Columbia (case No. 1:97CVO2946) bringing suit against the Secretary of the Army, Togo West et.al., ordering the Archivist of the United States to "...correct the records in his possession by showing that Dr. (Samuel A.) Mudd's conviction was set aside pursuant to action taken under 10 U.S.C. sec. 1552.", and that the court "...order the payment of Petitioner's costs in bringing this action;..." On July 22, 1998, U.S. District Judge Paul Friedman said he would rule soon, and on Thursday, October 29, 1998, he ordered the Army to reconsider the conviction of Dr. Mudd. Friedman said the Army's recent rulings (see below) against the request were arbitrary. The following decision was announced on March 9, 2000: SAGINAW, Mich. (AP) - The U.S. Army has rejected an appeal to overturn the 1865 conviction of Dr. Samuel Mudd as an accomplice in the escape of John Wilkes Booth after the Lincoln assassination.
Mudd's 99-year-old grandson, Dr. Richard Mudd of Saginaw, has waged a long campaign to clear his grandfather's name. But this week, Army Assistant Secretary Patrick T. Henry rejected the latest request to throw out Samuel Mudd's conviction by a military court. Henry said his decision was based on a narrow question - whether a military court had jurisdiction to try Samuel Mudd, who was a civilian. "I find that the charges against Dr. Mudd (i.e., that he aided and abetted President Lincoln's assassins) constituted a military offense, rendering Dr. Mudd accountable for his conduct to military authorities," he wrote in Monday's decision.

Born: December 18, 1985
Location: Karlovy Vary, Czechoslovakia
Height 6 ft 2 in
Hair color Blonde
Eye color Blue
Measurements 34-23-34
Hana Soukupová is a Czech model.
Soukupová was born in Karlovy Vary, Czechoslovakia (now in the Czech Republic). Because of her height, she began playing basketball for local team. Soukupová begun to work as a model in Prague when she was 13.
In September 2004, Soukupová was selected as one of only nine top models to appear on the cover of American Vogue in an issue that compared supermodels today to supermodels of the 80s and 90s heyday. Others included Daria Werbowy, Gemma Ward, Gisele Bündchen, and Karolína Kurková. She is also been featured on the cover of Vogue such as Italian Vogue, China Vogue, Russian Vogue, German Vogue, Brazilian Vogue and in Nippon Vogue and also on the covers of Harper's Bazaar, Elle, Spur, and W. Hana's editorials can be found in publications such as Vogue internationally, Allure, Harper's Bazaar, V, Elle, POP and Russh.
Soukupova is represented by IMG Models Worldwide. Besides being a model, Soukupová likes to stay in shape by running, participating in marathons throughout NYC, and kickboxing. In her free time she indulges in her artistic side through photography. In addition, Hana often attends movie screenings such as those hosted by The Cinema Society as she is also quite passionate about the cinematic arts.
Soukupová has modeled for Gucci, BVLGARI, Escada, Balenciaga, Max Mara, Tse, Dior, Jill Stuart, Carolina Herrera and Versace. She is currently the face of Gucci Envy]. She also appeared in the 2006 and 2007 Victoria's Secret fashion show. Soukupová has walked down the runways, opening and closing shows, for designers such as Chanel, Dior, Marc Jacobs, Louis Vuitton, Versace, Ralph Lauren, Anna Sui, Balenciaga, Valentino, Fendi, Chloé, Gucci, Zac Posen, Celine, Bill Blass, Michael Kors, Narcisco Rodriguez, Roberto Cavalli, Lanvin, Hermès, John Galliano, Missoni, Alexander McQueen, Stella McCartney, Yves Saint Laurent, Lagerfeld Gallery, Givenchy, Jean Paul Gaultier, Burberry, Dolce & Gabbana, Emanuel Ungaro, Donna Karan, Badgley Mischka and many more. She has also done haute couture for Christian Dior, Chanel, Givenchy, Armani Prive, Valentino, Christian Lacroix, Versace, Jean Paul Gaultier, Elie Saab, and Ungaro Couture.
She is married to Drew Aaron, a resident New Yorker and the President of The Aaron Group. Currently she resides in New York with her husband.

Born December 18, 1943
Origin Slaton, Texas, USA
Genre(s) Rock
Occupation(s) Session musician
Instrument(s) Saxophone
Years active 1950s — Present
Associated acts Rolling Stones
Bobby Keys (sometimes credited as Bobby Keyes) is an American saxophone player and together with Jim Price and Jim Horn formed the most in-demand horn section of the 1970s. They appear on albums by The Who, George Harrison's All Things Must Pass, Eric Clapton, and Joe Cocker's Mad Dogs and Englishmen.
Keys started touring at age fourteen with Bobby Vee and fellow Texan Buddy Holly. Keys is best known as being the main sax player for the Rolling Stones, playing on every album from 1969 until 1973 and from 1988 to the present, performing on many tours since 1970. He is known for playing the saxophone solo on the 1971 hit "Brown Sugar" and for the world-famous film shot of him and Keith Richards throwing a TV set from the 10th floor of a hotel somewhere during the 1972 American Tour, as seen in the Stones' unreleasable 1972 concert movie Cocksucker Blues.

AKA Kate Noelle Holmes

Born: 18-Dec-1978
Birthplace: Toledo, OH
Gender: Female
Religion: Scientology
Race or Ethnicity: White
Sexual orientation: Straight
Occupation: Actor
Nationality: United States
Executive summary: Joey Potter on Dawson's Creek
Father: Martin Holmes (attorney)
Mother: Kathleen (homemaker)
Sister: Tamera (older)
Sister: Holly (older)
Sister: Nancy (older)
Brother: Martin Holmes Jr. (attorney)
Boyfriend: Joshua Jackson (dated 1998-99)
Boyfriend: Chris Klein (dated 1999-2005, broken engagement)
Boyfriend: Josh Hartnett (dated 2005)
Husband: Tom Cruise (actor, dated 2005-06, m. 18-Nov-2006, one daughter)
Daughter: Suri Cruise (b. 18-Apr-2006)
Katie Holmes was born two months premature, and weighed only four pounds at birth. At 15 she was attending modeling school. The school considered her talent promising, and sent her to a competition for aspiring models in New York. Holmes reportedly did well in the competition, but she found it boring, and returned home with dwindling interest in modeling. Instead, she took drama classes in high school, and began auditioning for films. She made her film debut in The Ice Storm, in a small role as an object of Tobey Maguire's desire. After auditioning for Dawson's Creek, she first turned down the role of Joey, because she was scheduled to appear in her high school's production of Damn Yankees. She only accepted the part when the program's producers explained that they could wait a week.
Holmes shot to low-level stardom playing the innocent tomboy-next-door on Dawson's Creek. During that series' run she starred in several films, including the black comedy Teaching Mrs. Tingle with Helen Mirren and a bland thriller called Abandon with Benjamin Bratt. She also took supporting roles in several other films, and earned generally good reviews. Better work came in 2003's Pieces of April, an observation of a dysfunctional family's Thanksgiving. She played Christian Bale's girlfriend in Batman Begins (2005), but her career took an unexpected twist a few weeks before that film opened, when 26-year-old Holmes and 42-year-old Tom Cruise announced their mutual enamourment.
Their romance was inescapable, generating endless reels of the pair kissing and professing their love. Her romance with Cruise, who has long been dogged by whispers that he is gay, led to a flood of rumors questioning Holmes' sexuality as well. Mere weeks after their love was announced in a joint press release, Holmes confessed her "interest" in Cruise's religion, Scientology, and he jumped up and down on Oprah's couch, declaring again and again his love for Holmes. A week later, Holmes announced that she was leaving the Catholic church in which she was raised, and joining the Church of Scientology. She dropped out of the 2006 film Factory Girl because her character was a drug abuser, and Scientologists would not approve. Holmes and Cruise were married in November 2006, seven months after their daughter was born.

Born: December 17, 1979
Location: Buenos Aires, Argentina
Marianela Pereyra is a model, actress, television personality, and was the hostess for the season 3 of Poker After Dark series on NBC. She is the best known for her appearances as a VJ on Fuse TV until quitting.
Pereyra was born in Argentina but immigrated with her professional tango-dancing parents when she was 5 years old. She graduated from University of Maryland with a dual degree in psychology and romance languages.
She's formerly appeared in Maxim magazine, and has also served as a commentator for the World Series of Poker in 2007. She also appeared with Fuse as a VJ from its transition from its association with MuchMusic.

AKA Laurie Heather Holden

Born: 17-Dec-1972
Birthplace: Los Angeles, CA
Gender: Female
Race or Ethnicity: White
Occupation: Actor
Nationality: United States
Executive summary: Silent Hill
Holds dual citizenship in the United States and Canada.
Father: Larry Holden (b. 1923, d. 15-Aug-1997)
Mother: Adrienne Ellis
Brother: Christopher Holden
Laurie Holden is an American actress. Raised in Canada, Holden is most noted for the recurring role of Marita Covarrubias on The X-Files and co-starring with Jim Carrey in the film The Majestic but is also well known for her role of the police officer, Cybil Bennet in the Silent Hill movie.
She is the daughter of actors Larry Holden and Adrienne Ellis. Holden spent her freshman year at McGill University, and then transferred to UCLA to do a BA in theater arts. She has dual citizenship with the United States and Canada.

Born: 17-Dec-1974
Birthplace: Tampa, FL
Gender: Female
Race or Ethnicity: White
Sexual orientation: Lesbian
Occupation: Actor
Nationality: United States
Executive summary: Down with Love
Girlfriend: Cherry Jones (actress)
Paulson was a series regular on the cult television show American Gothic and the WB series Jack & Jill (1999), playing the character "Elisa Cronkite". In addition, she had a minor role in the HBO series Deadwood, and was a focal character in an episode of the critically acclaimed FX series Nip/Tuck.
Paulson briefly appeared on the NBC series Leap of Faith (2002) as the main character, but the show was short-lived. In 2004, she had a supporting role in the ABC series The D.A., but that show also ended after a few episodes.
Paulson starred in a revival of The Glass Menagerie on Broadway, and has appeared Off-Broadway in Killer Joe, Talking Pictures, and Colder Than Here.
Paulson's movie credits include Down with Love, What Women Want, The Other Sister, Levitation, and Serenity.
In fall 2006, Paulson co-starred in NBC's Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip playing Harriet Hayes, one of the stars of the show-within-a-show. To date, this is her most notable role, earning her a Golden Globe nomination for best supporting actress in a TV Series. However, NBC canceled the series on May 14, 2007.
Personal life
Although born in Florida, Paulson spent a considerable amount of time growing up in New York City, especially Brooklyn, where she went to elementary school for a few years. She also spent some of her childhood in Maine.
In 2005, Paulson was indirectly outed by girlfriend Cherry Jones during the 59th Tony Awards, when Jones thanked her by the name "Laura Wingfield" (the character Paulson was then playing in The Glass Menagerie) during her award acceptance speech. This speech is the only public proclamation of their relationship.

AKA Anna Katherine Popplewell

Born: 16-Dec-1988
Birthplace: London, England
Gender: Female
Religion: Anglican/Episcopalian
Race or Ethnicity: White
Occupation: Actor
Nationality: England
Executive summary: Chronicles of Narnia
Father: Andrew (barrister)
Mother: Deborah (immunologist)
Brother: Freddie (b. 1994)
Sister: Lulu
Popplewell is the eldest of three children born to Andrew (a barrister) and Deborah (an immunologist); her paternal grandfather, Sir Oliver Popplewell, was a former High Court judge. Her two siblings, Freddie Popplewell and Lulu, are also actors.
She lives in London and attended North London Collegiate School, a prestigious girls' school, where she was Head Girl of the school, for the academic year 2006/7.
Popplewell is currently reading English at the same place where C.S. Lewis taught for several years, Magdalen College, Oxford.
Career
Popplewell began acting at the age of six, taking classes at the Allsorts Drama School. She began acting professionally in the TV production Frenchman's Creek in 1998. She made her film debut in 1999 in the film Mansfield Park and has since appeared in supporting roles in films like The Little Vampire (2000) and Girl with a Pearl Earring (2003).
Her first major role was in the film The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (2005). She is scheduled to reprise her role as Susan Pevensie in the sequel, The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian, due in theaters May 2008.

Born: December 15, 1983
Location: Alabama, United States
Measurements: 34B
Height: 5 ft 8 in
Hair colour: Blonde
Ethnicity: Caucasian
Staci Thorn is a pornographic actress. She began appearing in adult films in around 2004, and has since appeared in over 220 movies.

Adult Video News Awards

2008 Nominated AVN Award Best Anal Sex Scene - Film
for: Debbie Does Dallas... Again (2007) (V)
Shared with:
Marty Romano

2007 Nominated AVN Award Best Group Sex Scene - Video
for: Sodom 2: The Bottom Feeder (2005) (V)
Shared with:
Hanna Harper
Alex Sanders
Tiger
Tyla Wynn

2005 Won AVN Award Best Group Sex Scene - Video
for: Orgy World 7 (2004) (V)
Shared with:
Mark Anthony
Asia
Angelica Costello
Destiny Deville
Alex Devine
Ariana Jollee
Keiko
Tyler Knight
Byron Long
Luccia
Kayla Marie
Nika
Trinity Post
Daphne Rosen
Julian St. Jox
Melanie X.

AKA Anna Marie Duke

Born: 14-Dec-1946
Birthplace: Elmhurst, NY
Gender: Female
Religion: Roman Catholic
Race or Ethnicity: White
Sexual orientation: Straight
Occupation: Actor
Nationality: United States
Executive summary: The Patty Duke Show
Father: John P. Duke
Mother: Francis McMahon
Brother: Raymond Duke (actor, Quincy)
Sister: Carole Duke
Husband: Harry Falk (TV director, The Patty Duke Show, b. 1937, m. 26-Nov-1965, div. 1969)
Boyfriend: Desi Arnaz, Jr. (actor, dated 1969-70)
Husband: Michael Tell (low-level rock'n'roll promoter, m. 26-Jun-1970, annulled 9-Jul-1970)
Son: Sean Astin (actor, b. 25-Feb-1971, with Michael Tell, adopted by John Astin)
Boyfriend: Adam West (actor, dated in 1970s)
Husband: John Astin (actor, m. 5-Aug-1972, div. 1985, two sons)
Son: Mackenzie Astin (actor, b. 12-May-1973)
Husband: Michael Pearce (firefighter, m. 15-Mar-1986, one son)
Son: Kevin (with Pearce, b. 1988)
Patty Duke is known to generations as the preternaturally perky identical cousins on The Patty Duke Show. She has played both Helen Keller and Anne Sullivan in 1962 and 1979 film adaptations of The Miracle Worker. She remains a familiar presence on television, and has made more "Lifetime Channel" movies than any other actor.
Duke was born into a troubled family, with parents who had vicious, violent arguments. Her father, an alcoholic, seemed to her to always be smiling, but when she was six her mother kicked him out, and he disappeared from her life. Duke's mother, who suffered from depression and had violent episodes, began working at odd jobs to support her three children. When her brother Raymond became interested in acting, a couple who managed young actors asked him if he knew of a young girl who could play the part of his sister. Duke was a natural for the part, and the managers quickly lost interest in Ray and began to concentrate exclusively on Anna.
These managers were Ethel and John Ross. They took Duke into their home, and Ethel Ross told her, "Anna Marie is dead. You're Patty now". As "Patty Duke", she got small parts in television commercials and soap operas, but her charm and willingness to please soon got her larger roles. Her first screen appearance was a brief role in The Goddess (1958). Her first substantial film role was as David Niven and Mitzi Gaynor's daughter in Happy Anniversary.
John Ross heard about the Broadway play The Miracle Worker almost a year before it was cast, and began blindfolding Duke to get her ready for the audition. When she got the role, she became the youngest actress at that time to have her name above a Broadway marquee, co-starring Anne Bancroft. The Miracle Worker ran almost two years on Broadway, and Duke was rarely allowed to see her natural parents.
At about this time, Duke appeared on The $64,000 Question and won $32,000, but she had been coached behind the scenes. There was a Senate investigation into the "quiz show" scandals, and she was told to convince the senators that she had not cheated. She thought she had succeeded, but as she was about to step down from the platform, she was asked if she was sure she had told the truth. The 12-year-old girl broke down in tears. She then told the senators that she had been given answers for the show, and went home fearful that the Rosses would send her to reform school.
The Rosses did not send their meal ticket away, but when Duke was about 13, they began using alcohol and powerful anti-psychotic drugs to control her behavior. She worked as their unpaid maid and cook, in addition to being the breadwinner, and she has said that they both molested her. When Duke and Bancroft reprised their Miracle Worker roles on screen, 16-year-old Duke became the youngest actress at that time to win a full-sized Oscar (previously, child actors had been given miniatures of the statue). Duke had asked the Rosses if her mother could attend the ceremony, but they would not allow it.
In 1963, Duke was offered her own Patty Duke Show, but the concept had not yet been developed. After a few meetings with pulp novelist Sidney Sheldon, he "jokingly but with some conviction pronounced me 'schizoid'". Sheldon then devised the concept, and Duke played dual roles as 16-year-old lookalike cousins: the plucky, irascible, chatty Patty and the quiet, cerebral and thoroughly understated Cathy. As Duke later wrote, "The uniqueness of watching me act out a modestly bipolar pair of cousins when I was just beginning to suspect the nature of the actual illness swimming below the surface must have given the show some zing, because it became a huge hit". At the same time she began recording music, and a line of clothing based on her television characters was being marketed, but she thought the wardrobe was terrible.
After three seasons, the show came to an end, and the now-adult Duke was distressed and infuriated to learn that the Rosses had nearly emptied her bank account of the million-plus dollars she had earned. She moved into her own apartment, but was uncomfortable living alone, and quickly married a much older man, Harry Falk, who had directed some episodes of her show. Of this period of her life, Duke has said she was emotionally out of control and attempted suicide, and her husband Falk had her committed at least once.
Duke lobbied for and landed the role of Neely O'Hara in 1967's risqué Valley of the Dolls, with Sharon Tate and Barbara Parkins. Her character, a sweet young singer who turned into a drunken virago with success, was said to be based on Judy Garland. The movie was a critical failure and Duke got especially awful reviews.
Unable to deal with his young wife's drinking, psychological issues, and a rumored eating disorder, Falk divorced Duke after four years. At 24, she began dating teen heartthrob Desi Arnaz, Jr., who was 17, and the media followed their every move. His mother, Lucille Ball, commanded young Arnaz to stop seeing Duke and he obediently complied. At about that time, Duke began dating John Astin, an actor 16 years her senior, who played Gomez on The Addams Family. She became pregnant, but Astin was married and returned to his wife, and in what may have been a depressive episode, Duke married Michael Tell, a man who had sublet her apartment. Thirteen days later their marriage was annulled, and the media avidly speculated that Duke was pregnant with Arnaz' or Astin's love child. When Astin did eventually divorce his wife, he married Duke and formally adopted this child, who grew up to be actor Sean Astin. After many years wondering, their curious son underwent DNA testing in 1994, which revealed that Tell was his father.
During the 1970s and 80s, Duke worked often in television movies and miniseries. She served as President of the Screen Actors Guild from 1985-88. She played the first female president in a short-lived series, Hail To the Chief, with That Girl's Ted Bessell as First Gentleman. And in 1999, she reprised her Patty Duke Show roles as identical menopausal cousins in Still Rockin' in Brooklyn Heights.
In 1982, Duke was diagnosed as manic-depressive, and she has said that after a couple of weeks on lithium, she felt normal for the first time in her life. In 1987, she published her autobiography, Call Me Anna, and became the first celebrity to go public about the illness. She has since been active in mental health issues, and co-wrote a second book called A Brilliant Madness: Living with Manic Depressive Illness. She played herself in a 1990 TV movie of Call Me Anna.
She has said that during one of her manic episodes, she believed that the White House had been taken over in a coup, and that only she could help. She says she took the red-eye to Washington, and called the White House. They were very pleasant to her and told her that everything was under control.
Now married to firefighter Michael Pearce, Duke still works frequently on television. Politically, she was an outspoken supporter of the ill-fated Equal Rights Amendment, and supports AIDS issues and nuclear disarmament.

Born: 14-Dec-1988
Birthplace: Salinas, CA
Gender: Female
Race or Ethnicity: Multiracial
Sexual orientation: Straight
Occupation: Actor
Nationality: United States
Executive summary: High School Musical
Father: Greg Hudgens
Mother: Gina Guangco
Sister: Stella Hudgens (b. 13-Nov-1995)
Boyfriend: Zac Efron (together 2007)
Vanessa Anne Hudgens, is an American actress and singer. She made her screen debut in 2003 and appeared in the Hollywood films Thirteen and Thunderbirds, before reaching fame in the 2006 hit Disney Channel film, High School Musical. Hudgens also began a music career and released her debut album, entitled V, in 2006. In 2007, Hudgens became the spokesperson for Neutrogena.
Early life
Vanessa Anne Hudgens was born on December 14, 1988; her younger sister, Stella Hudgens, is also an actress. She has been home-schooled since after her seventh-grade year at the Orange County High School of the Arts. Her parents are Greg Hudgens and Gina Guangco. In regards to her ethnic background, Vanessa was quoted:
"Pretty much I'm Filipino and Caucasian, but within that, I'm Spanish, Chinese, American Indian, Irish."
Starting at the age of eight, Hudgens performed in musical theater as a singer, and appeared in local productions of Carousel, The Wizard of Oz, The King and I, The Music Man, and Cinderella, among others. Hudgens successfully auditioned for a commercial and subsequently moved to Los Angeles with her family, with whom she is still close.
Career
Film and television
Hudgens began performing at an early age, appearing in musicals starting at age eight, by taking over a friend who couldn't go to the audition, and moved to Los Angeles after winning an audition for a commercial. She scored roles on shows such as Quintuplets, Cover Me, and Still Standing, then made her feature debut in Thirteen as Noel and appeared in the 2004 film Thunderbirds as Tintin. Her television appearances include guest roles on Quintuplets, Still Standing, The Brothers Garcia and The Suite Life of Zack and Cody, as Corrie, a classmate of Maddie and London. Hudgens also appeared on Drake & Josh, playing Drake's girlfriend, Rebecca.
Hudgens' largest role among teenage audiences has been starring in the Disney Channel movie High School Musical, which premiered in January 2006; BBC News said that the film's success turned Hudgens into a "household name" in North America. Hudgens and Efron had won "Best Chemistry" award at the Teen Choice Awards for their roles.
As a result of the film's popularity, Hudgens was offered a contract by Old Navy to appear in multiple commercials for the company. Hudgens had previously appeared in a swimwear commercial for the company in 2005. She also appeared in a Blockbuster commercial for no late fees, as the teenage daughter. Also, Hudgens is set to be the new face of Neutrogena in 2007, appearing in both film and print ads. Hudgens is also an endorser of the Ecko line. Hudgens participated in the Disney Channel Games 2006, which was filmed in April 2006 and aired two months later.
Hudgens finished filming High School Musical 2 on April 13, 2007, in St. George and Salt Lake City, Utah. In both films, Hudgens stars as shy, intelligent Gabriella Montez. The film premiered on the Disney Channel on August 17, 2007.
The first High School Musical spawned a hit soundtrack, a worldwide concert tour, a show at Walt Disney World, and even a book series that helped Hudgens land in Forbes magazine's list of top-earning stars under 21." In the list, the 18-year-old Hudgens was No. 7 with estimated earnings of $2 million.
Music
Hudgens' debut album, entitled V, was released in early September 2006. She is signed with Hollywood Records, a Disney-owned record label. A music video for her first single, "Come Back To Me", debuted after the world premiere of The Cheetah Girls 2 in late August. The official music video for her second single, "Say OK", was first shown following the premiere of Disney's Jump In!
"Let Go" and "Let's Dance" have both been used in commercials for ABC, "Let Go" for a Desperate Housewives commercial, and "Let's Dance" for Dancing With The Stars. "Say OK" has also been used in commercials for ABC Family's Lincoln Heights.
Hudgens has stated that she is interested in recording a second album sometime soon. In an August 2007 issue of TV Guide magazine, with the cast of High School Musical on the cover, Hudgens expressed interest in writing songs about the negative side of Hollywood and how it can change people.
In August 2007 at the 2007 Teen Choice Awards, Hudgens was named the Choice Breakout Singer - Female, beating out other noteworthy nominees including American Idol contestant Katherine McPhee, Amy Winehouse, Corrine Bailey Rae and Lily Allen, who all have a decidedly older sound with their music.
Personal life
Hudgens confirmed in an interview with Teen Magzine that, as of August 2007, she was dating her High School Musical and High School Musical 2 co-star Zac Efron.
Photo controversy

On September 6, 2007, controversy erupted after nude photos of Hudgens surfaced online. A statement from her publicist claims that the photos were taken privately and it was "unfortunate" that they were released on the Internet. Hudgens later apologized, saying that she was "embarrassed over the situation" and regretted having "taken [those] photos". Disney Channel spokeswoman Patti McTeague indicated that Disney will still be working with Hudgens, stating, "Vanessa has apologized for what was obviously a lapse in judgment. We hope she's learned a valuable lesson."
Lawsuits
Hudgens was sued by music producer Johnny Vieira, who claims she reneged on a deal to share her earnings with him after he helped make her a star. In the lawsuit, filed in Los Angeles Superior Court, Vieira accuses Hudgens and father, Greg Hudgens, of breach of contract and fraud, seeking more than $27 million in damages. Hudgens's record label, Hollywood, also is named as a defendant in the suit. Vieira said he was dumped from Hudgens's management team soon after she was cast in HSM. However, "it became clear that Hudgens and her new 'team' ... all directed by her father ... would take every possible opportunity to deprive Vieira of the benefits to be derived from the settlement agreement", the lawsuit says. Hudgens's publicist could not immediately be reached for comment. A Disney spokesman said the company had not had a chance to review the lawsuit.". According to the suit, they subsequently reached a settlement under which Hudgens agreed to pay Vieira a percentage of her earnings from her first three albums under her solo recording contract with Hollywood Records.

AKA Tia Nicole Tucker

Born: 14-Dec-1971
Birthplace: Louisiana
Gender: Female
Race or Ethnicity: White
Occupation: Actor
Nationality: United States
Executive summary: Sgt. Maritza Cruz on Third Watch
Father: Val
Mother: Vickie
Tia Nicole Tucker, most commonly known as Tia Texada, (born December 14, 1971) is an American film and television actress and singer. She is probably best known for portraying the role of Sgt. Maritza Cruz from the American television show Third Watch.
Texada was born in Louisiana to a reflexologist mother and an insurance agent father. She has been acting since she was young.
Texada's most recent appearance was as a guest star in an episode of The Unit. She played Sgt. Maritza Cruz in the NBC Drama Third Watch. She also has appeared in movies such as Paulie (1998) , Nurse Betty (2000), Glitter (2001), Phone Booth (2003), and Spartan (2004). She also has a singing career, and her songs have been featured on shows such as Dawson's Creek. She has lent her voice to TV's Static Shock as well as many television commercials. She has also done layouts for magazines.

AKA Richard Wayne Van Dyke

Born: 13-Dec-1925
Birthplace: West Plains, MO
Gender: Male
Religion: Presbyterian
Race or Ethnicity: White
Sexual orientation: Straight
Occupation: Actor
Nationality: United States
Executive summary: The Dick Van Dyke Show
Military service: US Army Air Corps (WWII)
Father: Loren W Van Dyke (traveling salesman)
Mother: Hazel Vorice McCord Van Dyke (b. 1897, d. 1992)
Brother: Jerry Van Dyke (actor)
Wife: Margorie Willett (high school sweetheart, m. 12-Feb-1948, div. 4-May-1984)
Son: Barry Van Dyke (actor, b. 31-Jul-1951 with Willett)
Daughter: Carrie-Beth
Son: Christian
Daughter: Stacy
Girlfriend: Michelle Triola Marvin (b. 1933, former companion of actor Lee Marvin)
By high school Dick Van Dyke knew he wanted to be on stage, but he was unsure whether he wanted to be an actor or a Presbyterian minister. After a stint in the Army Air Corps, he worked in advertising, then became a radio announcer, and within a few years he was hosting a TV talk show in New Orleans. His big break came when he was hired to replace Johnny Carson as host of CBS's Monday-Friday The Morning Show in 1955.
The Morning Show was of course flattened in the ratings by Dave Garroway's Today Show. After the program was cancelled Van Dyke was still under contract to CBS, but the network was unsure what to do with him. He found himself hosting CBS Cartoon Theater for kids, then playing sidekick to singer Andy Williams in The Chevy Showroom, and he was a frequent panelist on To Tell the Truth while it was on CBS. Van Dyke's best early reviews came for two appearances on The Phil Silvers Show in 1957 and 1958.
When his CBS contract ended, Van Dyke hosted two quickly-cancelled game shows, Mother's Day and the comedy-themed Laugh Line, which featured regular panelists Mike Nichols and Elaine May. On Broadway, he appeared in the musical review The Girls Against the Boys with an ancient Bert Lahr and a young Nancy Walker. The play ran only two weeks, but Van Dyke won a Theater World Award for his performance. In 1960, he won a Tony starring in the hit Bye Bye Birdie, as a rock'n'roll singer drafted into the military.
Meanwhile, unbeknownst to Van Dyke, comedian Carl Reiner had created, written and starred in a pilot for an autobiographical sitcom, Head of the Family. Reiner had scripted comedy for TV pioneer Sid Caesar, and in the pilot he played a comedy writer for a Caesar-like TV star. Network executives liked the script and concept, but thought Reiner was wrong for the role of, basically, himself. So the show was retooled with Van Dyke as comedy writer Rob Petrie, the young Mary Tyler Moore as his wife, Rose Marie and Morey Amsterdam as Van Dyke's fellow comedy writers, and a small supporting role for Reiner as the Van Dyke character's obnoxious boss. Of course, Van Dyke was perfect in the role, sometimes tripping over the ottoman and sometimes sidestepping it, as The Dick Van Dyke Show became one of America's most enduring comedies.
His first film was an adaptation of his Broadway hit Bye Bye Birdie, but with the script rewritten to shortchange his character and instead spotlight Ann-Margret. His most successful film was Mary Poppins with Julie Andrews, but his attempt at a British cockney accent was so awful, the term "Van Dyke accent" is still used to describe failed American attempts to sound British. His other films include The Comic, a drama about comedy with Mickey Rooney; Cold Turkey, a comedy about nicotine withdrawal with Edward Everett Horton; the charming children's musical Chitty Chitty Bang Bang (based on Ian Fleming's non-Bond novel); and Warren Beatty's Dick Tracy, where Van Dyke played a delightfully corrupt district attorney.
He made several attempts to recapture the magic of his Dick Van Dyke Show on TV, and occasionally came close. In the early 1970s he starred in The New Dick Van Dyke Show with Hope Lange as his wife, and the program had its moments -- most hilariously in an episode where Van Dyke's character was in a quandary about attending an awards dinner at a whites-only nightclub. He hosted a short-lived variety show in 1976, Van Dyke and Company, with the expected skits and songs, but the show also featured Van Dyke's endearing and genuinely funny pantomime segments, and provided Americans' first prime time glimpse of Andy Kaufman, who stole every segment he was in. In the late-1980s comedy The Van Dyke Show, he played a retired Broadway star who amusingly made life miserable for his son, played by Van Dyke's real-life son Barry Van Dyke.
Van Dyke has often said that his favorite comic was Stan Laurel, and like Laurel he had exquisite timing, an innate likability on-screen, a rubber face, and a mastery of pratfalls and slapstick. Van Dyke rarely wrote his own material while Laurel wrote more than a dozen of Laurel & Hardy's best films, but as a performer Van Dyke may have been Laurel's equal. Van Dyke and Laurel once met, in the early 1960s, while The Dick Van Dyke Show was growing very popular. Shaking his hero's hand, he told Laurel his work had inspired him, and that he had honed his comedy technique from watching Laurel's films. According to Van Dyke, Laurel chuckled and said, "I've noticed that."
It is sad, then, that younger audiences probably know Van Dyke only from his last long-running series, Diagnosis: Murder. Abandoning comedy, he played it straight as Dr Mark Sloan, a folksy doctor who solved murders in his spare time. He had first played Sloan in a 1991 episode of Jake and the Fatman, and the character was resurrected in three made-for-TV movies before the series was launched in 1993. A rather stilted clone of Angela Lansbury's Murder, She Wrote, Diagnosis: Murder inexplicably ran for eight seasons, co-starring Van Dyke's son Barry as Dr Sloan's son Steve, supposedly an LAPD detective.
Van Dyke has spent his recent years in the company of Michelle Triola, who is famous for suing her former lover Lee Marvin, demanding and winning alimony -- "palimony" -- although they had never married. His brother is comedic actor Jerry Van Dyke, a sitcom staple who starred in the anti-classic My Mother the Car and had a supporting role on Coach with Craig T. Nelson. Van Dyke's son, as noted above, is wooden actor Barry Van Dyke, whose best-known work without sharing the screen with his father was Galactica 1980, a short-lived revival of Battlestar Galactica with Lorne Greene.

Born: 13-Dec-1975
Birthplace: Gdansk, Poland
Gender: Female
Race or Ethnicity: White
Sexual orientation: Straight
Occupation: Model
Executive summary: Wonderbra model
Magdalena Wróbel is a supermodel best known as the spokesmodel for Wonderbra's Three Degrees of Wonder and a Victoria's Secret supermodel.
Magdalena entered modeling at the age of 15 after being discovered by a local photographer. At the age of 18 Magdalena entered the 1993 Ford Supermodel of the World contest and placed 2nd. She started her modeling career with Eastern Models in Warsaw before moving to Paris and finally the US as she appeared on the covers of magazines such as the French and Australian editions of Marie Claire, Glamour, as well as the international editions of Cosmopolitan, Vogue and ELLE. She was ranked #47 on the Maxim Hot 100 Women of 2001.
As a supermodel Magdalena has modeled for top fashion designers and cosmetics companies such as Bill Blass, Christian Lacroix, Comme des Garçons, Givenchy, Christian Dior, Guy Laroche, Marithé François Girbaud, Valentino and others.
Magdalena is a nature lover and enjoys staying active with outdoor sports such as skiing, mountain biking, swimming and sailing. When indoors, her favorite activities include reading, watching movies and doing spinning or yoga.

AKA Taylor Alison Swift

Born: 13-Dec-1989
Birthplace: Wyomissing, PA
Gender: Female
Race or Ethnicity: White
Occupation: Country Musician
Nationality: United States
Executive summary: Teen country music sensation
Taylor Alison Swift is an American country music artist who began her career as a teenager. Signed to the independent Big Machine Records label in 2006, she made her debut on the Billboard country charts with the release of her debut single "Tim McGraw". This song, which peaked at #6, was the first of five singles from her self-titled debut, which was released in late 2006 and re-issued in 2007, and has been certified 3× Multi-Platinum by the RIAA. Following "Tim McGraw" were the #2 "Teardrops on My Guitar", the six-week Number One "Our Song", the #3 "Picture to Burn" and another Number One in "Should've Said No". All five singles from her debut were Top 40 hits on the Billboard Hot 100, as was her song "Change" from the AT&T TEAM USA Soundtrack. Her second album, Fearless, will be released on November 11, and its lead-off single "Love Story" has become her highest Hot 100 hit.
Early life
Taylor Swift was born in Wyomissing, Pennsylvania and lives with her parents, Scott and Andrea, and her brother, Austin, now in Hendersonville, Tennessee. Swift's influences include her grandmother and LeAnn Rimes. Although her grandmother was a professional opera singer, Taylor's tastes always ran more toward country and she developed a love for Patsy Cline and Dolly Parton at an early age. She also credits the Dixie Chicks and Shania Twain for demonstrating how much impact can be made by "stretching boundaries". At the age of ten, Swift began to perform around her home town, Wyomissing, singing at karaoke contests, festivals, and fairs, and also started writing songs. Her first exposure to the music business consisted of recording demo tapes at a studio. At age eleven, Swift made her first trip to Nashville in hopes of obtaining a record deal by handing out a demo tape she had made of her singing along to karaoke songs. She boldly handed this tape to receptionists at every label on Music Row. Swift faced much rejection, not just from record labels, but also from her peers. When asked how she was able to handle such hurtful rejection from record labels, she responded saying that it wasn't nearly as painful as the rejection she received from the kids around her. One of the first songs she wrote, The Outside, was her expression of feeling that rejection. After Swift returned to Pennsylvania, she was asked to sing at the U.S. Open tennis tournament, when her rendition of the national anthem completely moved the crowd. Swift signed to a record label when she was thirteen years old, but walked away because it "wasn't where she wanted to be."
Swift began to regularly visit Nashville, where, at age twelve, she wrote songs with local songwriters. Eventually, her family decided to move to an outlying Nashville suburb. Taylor Swift performed at Nashville's premier songwriters' café, The Bluebird Café, catching the attention of Scott Borchetta who signed her to his newly-formed record label, Big Machine Records.
Swift plays a Taylor Grand Auditorium acoustic guitar made of koa wood.
Music career
2006—2008: Debut album Taylor Swift
Swift's first single, "Tim McGraw", was released to radio in Summer of 2006 and on October 24, 2006, her self-titled album was released. Swift wrote or co-wrote all of the songs on the album, which debuted at #19 on the Billboard 200 and sold more than 61,000 during its first week. It later peaked at #1 at Billboard Top Country Albums and #5 at Billboard 200. It also spent eight consecutive weeks at the top of the Top Country Albums charts, and has since sold over 3 million copies. Swift has surpassed the 20 million mark for music streams on MySpace. She is currently ranked at 15 for the most MySpace visits for all genres of music, and is MySpace's current top-ranking Country artist.
Swift's debut single, "Tim McGraw", was released in Summer 2006. "I wrote the song in my freshman year of high school", she says. "I was dating a guy named Brandon Borello, and I was about to move. I knew we were going to break up so I started thinking of all the things that I knew would remind him of me. Surprisingly, the first thing that came to mind was that my favorite country artist is Tim McGraw". "Tim McGraw" peaked at #6 on the Billboard Hot Country Songs charts for the week of January 27, 2007. The song's music video set a record by appearing for 30 consecutive weeks on GAC's fan-voted weekly Top 20 music countdown show, and reached number one on CMT's video charts. The video also won Swift an award for Breakthrough Video of the Year at the 2007 CMT Music Awards. Her pursuit of country music stardom was the subject of "GAC Short Cuts", a part-documentary, part-music-video series airing since the summer of 2006 on the country music channel.
On May 15, 2007, Swift performed "Tim McGraw" at the Academy of Country Music Awards. She sang the song to Tim McGraw in the audience, and introduced herself for the first time to him. Swift has been an opening act for Tim McGraw and Faith Hill on their Soul2Soul 2007 tour. She has opened in the past for George Strait, Brad Paisley and Rascal Flatts as well. On August 21, 2007, Swift performed live on the season finale of America's Got Talent.
The second single from the Taylor Swift album, "Teardrops On My Guitar", was released February 24, 2007. The song was inspired by a true event during her time in high school in which she liked a boy named "Drew Hardwick". He only saw Swift as a friend and a go-to person for advice about his relationship with his girlfriend. She noted she heard "through the grapevine" that Drew is well aware the song was written about him. "Teardrops on My Guitar" originally made its peak positions in Summer 2007, peaking at #2 on the Billboard Country Chart and #33 on the Billboard Hot 100. The song was re-released to the Hot 100 and Pop 100 in late 2007 with a Pop remix that brought "Teardrops on My Guitar" to #13 on the Hot 100 and #11 on the Pop 100.
In October 2007, Swift's songwriting peers at the Nashville Songwriters Association International honored her with their Songwriter/Artist of the Year Award, making her the youngest artist ever to win the award.
On November 7, 2007, Swift won the 2007 CMA Horizon Award and also performed "Our Song", the third single from her album, which would go on to become her first #1 song the week of December 22, 2007, where it leaped up from the #6 spot. This was the biggest jump to Number One since January 1998, when Tim McGraw's "Just to See You Smile", also jumped from #6 to #1. "Our Song" spent six weeks at #1 on the Country charts and also peaked at #16 on the Billboard Hot 100 and #24 on the Billboard Pop 100.
Swift also recorded a holiday album, Sounds of the Season: The Taylor Swift Holiday Collection, that was released October 16, 2007, exclusively available at Target stores. The album, which was not as successful as her self-titled debut, featured both holiday classics such as "Last Christmas" and original songs written by Swift.
Swift was nominated for a 2008 Grammy Award in the category of Best New Artist, but lost to Amy Winehouse. Swift's successful single, "Picture to Burn" was the fourth single from her debut album. The song debuted early in 2008 and peaked at #3 on the Billboard Country Chart in the spring of 2008.
Swift was cover girl of Seventeen in the June 2008 issue. She was also named number fifty-two on Maxim's sexiest women of '08.
Big Machine Records announced the release of "Should've Said No" on Monday, May 19. The song is the fifth and final single from Swift's debut album. She performed it on 43rd Annual Academy of Country Music Awards. The performance started off with her dressed in a hooded sweatshirt and jeans, but soon after a short black halter dress was revealed. In the last minute of the song, she went backstage to perform the final verse under a cascading waterfall. Swift had wanted to do that performance on stage with the water and the change of clothes since she was 10 years old. In 2008, Swift released Beautiful Eyes, an EP sold exclusively at Wal-Mart.
In July 2008, Swift graduated from the Aaron Academy, a Christian school in Hendersonville, TN which offers a home schooling program. "Should've Said No" became her second Number One single for the chart dated August 23, 2008.
2008—present: Fearless
Swift's next studio album, Fearless, is scheduled to be released in the United States on November 11, 2008. "Change", a song from the upcoming album, was selected as part of a soundtrack supporting Team USA's efforts in the 2008 Summer Olympics. The song was also featured as part of the soundtrack of NBC's broadcast package of the Games. She also released the lead single from the album, Love Story, on September 12, 2008. The song is accompanied by a music video that is based on Romeo and Juliet. The song has reached #2 on iTunes Store Top Downloaded Songs and #5 on the Billboard Hot 100.
Taylor sang the Star-Spangled Banner at game three of the World Series in Philadelphia, October 25, 2008.
Philanthropy
On September 21, 2007, Swift launched a campaign to protect children from online predators. Swift has teamed up with Tennessee Governor Phil Bredesen to combat internet sex crimes.
The year-long campaign, launched in partnership with the Tennessee Association of Chiefs of Police, will distribute Internet safety information and materials to parents and students across the state.
Personal life
Swift once dated singer Joe Jonas. Swift wrote the song "Forever & Always" about Joe Jonas, and the song appeared on her album, Fearless. It was the last song that she had recorded, and it was a last minute addition to her album, making it thirteen songs total.

The star celebrated her 19th surrounded by family and friends – including all the members of her band – at her home in Hendersonville, Tenn., the singer's rep tells PEOPLE exclusively.
Swift, who lives with her parents and younger brother, planned the buffet dinner, which included sushi, mini beef Wellingtons and bacon-wrapped scallops. Two ice cream cakes (one chocolate peppermint, one cookie dough) came from Cold Stone Creamery.
The singer entertained the crowd with a homemade video she made featuring many of her pals. Later, the 40 partygoers battled it out in a ping-pong tournament, won by Swift's manager. (The "Love Story" singer made the semi-finals.)
The night's grand finale? S'mores (one of Swift's faves) cooked up over an outdoor fire pit.

Born December 12, 1978
Austin, Texas
Measurements Bust: 34"
Waist: 24"
Hips: 34"
Height 5 ft 8 in
Weight 120 lb
Jennifer Rovero was chosen as Playboy's Playmate of the Month in July 1999 and has appeared in numerous Playboy videos. She appeared as the cover model of the October 1999 edition.
Early years
Jennifer Rovero was born in Austin, Texas, but during her childhood, she and her younger sister, Jamie, lived in Texas, California and Florida. Most of her time was eventually spent in Jacksonville, Florida, where she graduated from Mandarin High School in 1997.
Modeling
Rovero entered and won the 1998 Miss Fiesta Playera pageant in Jacksonville Beach, which gave her the confidence to compete in Hawaiian Tropic swimsuit contests around the country. At the Hawaiian Tropic contest in Las Vegas, she was talking to photographer Arny Freytag. Rovero suggested that the beautiful countryside in Venezuela would be a nice place for a Hawaiian Tropic shoot. She was familiar with the country because her father, Raimundo, was a citizen and lived there. Freytag, besides being a respected swimsuit photographer, had taken over 100 centerfold photos for Playboy since 1975. Freytag suggested that he take pictures of her in Venezuela.
Playboy
The pictures were taken and forwarded to Playboy. The magazine requested a second test shoot, which was provided. On Independence Day in 1998, Rovero met publisher Hugh Hefner at The Playboy Mansion. Obviously, the meeting went well.
Her centerfold spread was shot in October, 1998 in California and contained 20-pictures. Rovero had no objections to nudity. Her mother, Leslie, was quoted that she raised both her daughters to be open minded about such things. The only real problem came when the photographers asked her to pose with a cat. Rovero has a feline allergy, and within 30 minutes her face was red and puffy, causing the session to be canceled. Playmate of the Month required a two-year contract with the magazine. Rovero is taking acting lessons in Los Angeles, where she now lives. The lessons helped her prepare to make videos for Playboy.
Personal
Rovero called herself Forrest Gump because she kept finding herself in interesting situations. She became close friends with Paris Hilton and wrote a letter in Paris’ defense when the “heiress” was sent to jail. Professionally, she has done photo shoots for the Yellow rat bastard magazine.
For a while, Jennifer dated Fred Durst, front man for the band Limp Bizkit (both originally from Jacksonville, Florida). She eventually settled down with longtime partner Jason B. Bergh and the couple has two children.

Born Kate Todd
December 12, 1987
Location: Barrie, Ontario, Canada
Other name(s) Katie, Kit-Kat
Kate Todd is a Canadian actress, singer and songwriter.
Biography
Kate Todd is a talented and hardworking Canadian actress who is best known for her lead role as Lily in Radio Free Roscoe. Kate grew up north of Toronto, where she attended high school, graduating with honors and earning the distinction of receiving a designate Ontario Scholar award.
While attending high school Kate tutored French and gained her compulsory community service hours traveling to local schools addressing students on the issues of bullying. Kate provides a strong and positive voice for teens today, frequently speaking out on a variety of important issues such as self-esteem, respect and individuality. Recently she was asked to act as spokesperson for Proctor and Gamble and assist in launching their new website beinggirl.ca. She was chosen for her ability to exemplify a strong female role model for young women today. Kate has also been involved with the KidsFest Canada charity, a non-government funded program designed to help fight child poverty.
Kate got her acting start at age fourteen when she landed the coveted lead role of Lily Randall on the popular television series Radio Free Roscoe. Four seasons of ‘RFR’, as it has come to be known, were shot and the show was honored to have received the ‘Best Teen Show’ award and the ‘Parent’s Choice’ award at the New York Worlds Festival in 2003 and a Gemini award in 2005 for the production team at Decode Entertainment. The show continues to be aired nationally in Canada and the United States and can also be seen in many countries throughout the world. Her role as Lily has given Kate the opportunity to travel to most parts of Canada, criss-crossing the country making personal appearances while on promotional tours where mobs of screaming fans lined up hours in advance for their chance to meet her and the rest of the Radio Free Roscoe cast.
2006 was a busy year for Kate. She had the privilege of working with the highly respected and award winning Canadian director Bruce McDonald (Highway 61, Road Kill, Hard Core Logo) on the feature film ‘The Tracy Fragments’. It has a theatrical release date set for 2007. She was also chosen to play the lead role of Lauren Findley opposite Tyler Hoechlin of 7th Heaven fame in the movie ‘Grizzly Rage’, an Off Road Films production shot in Winnipeg and directed by David DeCoteau. Kate also made appearances on the TV shows ‘Naturally, Sadie’, where she performs one of her original songs; and ‘Life With Derek’, in which she has a recurring role as Sally.
She has since appeared in the Lifetime Network American Movie of the Week ‘More Sex and the Single Mom’ and the CBC movie ‘Booky Makes Her Mark’ which recently closed the Sprockets Children’s Film Festival to rave reviews. In this 1930’s period piece, she will appear along side Megan Follows of Anne of Green Gables fame.
Kate has appeared in a national television ad campaign featuring Oxy skin products as well as making guest appearances on such shows as: 'Real Access’ with Britney Spears, Jessica Simpson and Hillary Duff; the Vicki Gaberau show, Star TV, Breakfast Television, MTV Canada, Much Music, M3, Sun TV and E-Talk Daily. She has been interviewed by most major newspapers throughout North America and has been featured in many fan magazines as well as by popular internet fanzines. Kate is also a featured columnist for The Magazine where she writes a music column called ‘Sound Check.’
She has also been asked to appear as a guest panelist on the Armstrong Acting Studio’s 'Teen Star Acting Panel'. Here, she will be featured as one of the teen stars helping to educate young actors/actresses wanting to make it in show business.
Kate has studied Improv/Comedy at the Armstrong Acting Studio and has taken private coaching with the acclaimed Canadian actress Kate Trotter (Paradise Falls, Puppets Who Kill, The Jane Show, Romeo and Juliet-TV). She is currently enrolled in studying the Meisner Acting Technique in Toronto under John Riven.
When not on set, in the recording studio or writing songs on her guitar that she affectionately calls Roscoe, you can find Kate spending time and sharing a laugh with her family and friends and of course playing with her dog, Riley

Thu., Dec. 11, 2008
Although her body was mortal, Bettie Page's image is forever young and feisty.
The 1950s-era model, whose saucy poses for publications like Beauty Parade, Twitter and an upstart rag called Playboy won her a legion of fans and a cult following long after her pinup days were over, died Thursday night at a Los Angeles hospital, nine days after suffering a heart attack. She was 85.
According to her agent, Page had been hospitalized for three weeks beforehand with pneumonia.
Page's trademark jet-black bangs and curvy figure—clad in slinky lingerie, bondage gear or other thematic costumes, if clad in anything at all—were fixtures on the pages of men's magazines from 1951 to 1957.
Hugh Hefner picked her to be Playboy's Playmate of the Month in January 1955.
In an interview a couple of years ago, Hefner described her MO as "a combination of wholesome innocence and fetish-oriented poses that is at once retro and very modern."
Her willingness to go wild in front of the camera also landed her the starring role in dozens of silent fetish shorts, featuring her as a dominatrix, with her biggest-selling still photo of all time coming from the featurette Leopard Bikini Bound. The only time the dancer and aspiring actress' voice was captured on film was in the feature-length Striporama, in which she had a small speaking role.
Of course, this was the 1950s, so all that risqué exposure came with a price.
In 1957, Page was called to testify before Congress during an investigation into the possible perversity of such photographs. She ultimately never had to take the stand, but many of the negatives from her gigs as a mail-order pinup were destroyed during the proceedings.
Page ended up leaving the life—and how—in 1959, when she became a born-again Christian, not long after suffering a nervous breakdown upon the collapse of her second marriage.
The Nashville native applied to be a missionary in Africa but was rejected because she had been divorced. She later ended up working for the Rev. Billy Graham's ministry. Depression and other mental issues clouded some of her later years
But while Page may have turned her back on her past, her fans didn't. The 1976 book A Nostalgic Look at Bettie Page won her a small but devoted following, and the photo reissues, film collections and reimagined accounts of her life and infamous career have been pouring forth ever since, including in 2005 when Gretchen Mol starred in The Notorious Bettie Page for HBO.
Page began giving interviews again in the 1990s, but wouldn't allow reporters to take her picture, figuring fans would prefer to remember the sultry sexpot she once was, or, as she told the Los Angeles Times in 2006:
"I want to be remembered as the woman who changed people's perspectives concerning nudity in its natural form."

Born: December 11, 1981
Location: Ukraine
Measurements: 36F-24-36
Height: 5 ft 5 in
Weight: 110 lb
Shoe size: 7
Eye colour: Hazel
Hair colour: Blonde
Ethnicity: Ukrainian
Nikki Benz is a pornographic actress and film director.
Biography
Benz was born in Ukraine. At a young age, she moved to Toronto, Canada. She started modeling before the age of 18 and posed in bikini and fashion shows, beauty pageants, and landed the cover of a calendar which sold throughout Canada. At the age of 18, Benz found her way into the world of exotic dancing.
Benz entered the adult film industry by contacting an adult film director shortly before her 21st birthday. She signed with Pleasure Productions in January 2003 and made her first on-screen sex scene was in Strap-On-Cock 20 with Gina Lynn, and her first boy-girl scene with Ben English in The Sweetest Thing During her time with Pleasure Productions she traveled back and forth between Toronto and Los Angeles to fulfill her commitments to the company, with whom she stayed for 18 months.
After completing her contract with them, Benz moved to Los Angeles and signed with Jill Kelly Productions in September 2004. Benz signed a contract with TeraVision in September 2005. She and TeraVision had a public falling out in June 2006 due to lack of payment and emotional abuse by Evan Seinfeld, TeraVision CEO and husband of company founder Tera Patrick. The contract is now terminated, and followed the contract termination of fellow TeraVision girl Lucy Lee.
Benz has been featured in many popular adult magazines including Penthouse, High Society, Genesis, Fox, OUI, Cheri, Hustler, Club and Club International.
She was most recently the cover girl for May 2008 issue of Penthouse. Benz was also Hustler Honey of May 2006.
She hosted a show on KSEX called "Contract Superstars" alongside Lacie Heart, Ashley Steele, Stormy Daniels, and Tyler Faith, but quit citing "time constraints."
She has been nominated as Most Valuable Starlet for the 2007 AVN Awards.
Benz has also appeared in mainstream shows such as MTV's Fast Inc., Show Time's Family Business, VH1's Supergroup, HBO's Sin City Diaries, Canada's Naked News, Playboy TV's Canoga Park and the world famous Howard Stern Show.
She runs and operates her official website nikkibenz.com. Nikki has her own affiliate program nikkibenzcash.com.
Nikki Benz appeared on Channel4 News to comment about Obama's election.
In recent days, Nikki went from being blonde to brunette.

AKA Emmanuelle Sophie Anne Chriqui

Born: 10-Dec-1977
Birthplace: Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Gender: Female
Religion: Jewish
Race or Ethnicity: White
Occupation: Actor
Nationality: Canada
Executive summary: Sloan on Entourage
Emmanuelle Sophie Anne Chriqui (born December 10, 1977) is a Canadian actress who has appeared on both television and the big screen. Her roles on HBO's Entourage as Sloan and as Dalia Hakbarah, the Palestinian hair stylist and love interest to the title character in You Don't Mess With The Zohan and Unscripted as herself, along with two appearances on The O.C. as Jodie, have increased her visibility and exposure in the entertainment world. In May of 2006, Maxim magazine named her no. 37 in its annual Hot 100 list.
Biography
Early life
Chriqui (pronounced like "creaky") was born in Montreal, Quebec, the daughter of Moroccan Jewish immigrants. Her mother was born in Casablanca and her father in Rabat. Chriqui has relatives in Israel and was raised in Sephardi Orthodox Judaism.
Chriqui has an older brother, Serge and an older sister, Laurence. When she was almost two, her family moved to Toronto, Ontario. She grew up in Unionville, Markham, a suburb northeast of the city. As a child, she took acting classes, for which her older brother paid. Chriqui attended the drama program at Unionville High School. After high school, Emmanuelle decided to pursue a career in acting.
Career
Chriqui began acting as a 10-year-old in a McDonald's commercial. She moved to Vancouver in the mid-90s, guest-starring in series such as Are You Afraid of the Dark?, Forever Knight, Once a Thief, and Psi Factor: Chronicles of the Paranormal. Her first Hollywood role was as a supporting character in Detroit Rock City (1999). Chriqui later appeared in several movies such as 100 Girls, On the Line, and In the Mix. She starred opposite Cameron Douglas in the movie Adam And Eve and played the sexy virgin character of Eve. One of her more recent parts was in the film You Don't Mess with the Zohan, where she played an Palestinian immigrant living in New York, who is the star's (Adam Sandler) love interest.
While her film career was taking off, she still had time to do television. She appeared in the hit show Entourage playing Sloan McQuewick and played a sexy extra in the show Unscripted. Chriqui has also guest starred in several other television shows.
Chriqui was nominated for a Best Actress DVD Exclusive Award for her performance in 100 Girls and was nominated, with Lance Bass, for a Choice Liplock Teen Choice Award in On the Line. Recently, she won the Standout Performance Trophy at the Young Hollywood Awards. She threw the first pitch at a Los Angeles Dodger game on June 8, 2008.
Chriqui was on the cover of the Autumn 2008 issue of Naked Eye (magazine).
Chriqui will be seen in 2009 as one of several women whose lives interconnect in the comedy Women In Trouble.
Personal life
Chriqui has a boyfriend who works as an architect and whom she has been dating for five years. Chriqui is also applying for American citizenship, according to an interview on the The Tony Danza Show.

Born: 9-Dec-1969
Birthplace: New York City
Gender: Female
Race or Ethnicity: White
Sexual orientation: Straight
Occupation: Actor
Nationality: United States
Executive summary: Kate & Allie
Husband: Randall Grimmett (m. 23-Jun-2001)
Allison Smith is an American actress known for her work on television.
Smith was born in New York City, she began acting when she was a pre-teenager, and one of her first roles was as a young Eva Peron in a 1981 biopic. From 1984 to 1989 she co-starred in the sitcom Kate and Allie, and this remains her best-known work. Smith also acted on Broadway, appearing as Little Orphan Annie.
Since Kate and Allie ended, Smith has been prolific in her film and TV work, appearing in a number of short-lived TV series such as Buddy Faro and Spy Game. She had a recurring role on The West Wing as Mallory O'Brien and also provided voice acting work for the "World Record" segment of The Animatrix. On July 29, 2007, Allison appeared as a guest-star on the Lifetime Network original series State of Mind.
Biography: "Allison Smith was born the youngest of six children in New York, New York. In November of 1979, Allison auditioned and was chosen for the title role of the famous redheaded orphan, Annie. One month past her tenth birthday, she became the youngest person to ever star in a Broadway musical at that time and performed the role the longest with over 1,000 performances before her run ended in September 1982.
From March 1983 until 1989, Allison starred on Kate & Allie as 'Jennie Lowell' daughter of Jane Curtin. During her Annie and Kate & Allie years, she was nominated twice for Best Lead Actress in a TV series by the Youth In Film Awards and was acknowledged by the state of New York for her contributions and dedication to numerous charities, including role as a Youth Ambassador for the American Lung Association.
She moved to Los Angeles to focus on a film career, and in 1998 she filmd Los Anos Barbaros, a co-production between Spain and France, playing the role of an American living in the Paris in the 1930's. She spent 3 months filming in both countries before returning to the U.S. for the female lead in her funniest role yet, as Julie Barber in the CBS television series Buddy Faro.
Smith is recognized for her role as 'Mallory O’Brien' on NBC's Emmy winning drama The West Wing. In 2000, Smith returned to the musical stage in The Education of Randy Newman at the South Coast Repertory. More recently she co-starred with Alan Alda in the Mark Taper Forum's original production of QED. She can be seen in the Phoenix Pictures feature-film Holes and continuing her role as Mallory in season 4 of The West Wing."

Born: 9-Dec-1972
Birthplace: Chicago, IL
Gender: Female
Race or Ethnicity: Multiracial
Occupation: Actor
Nationality: United States
Executive summary: Michelle Dessler on 24
Reiko Aylesworth (born December 9, 1972 in Evanston, Illinois) is an American film, television and stage actress, best known for her work on the television series 24. She is of Dutch, Welsh, and Japanese ancestry. Aylesworth lived in Springfield, Illinois, from 1987 to 1988 before moving to Seattle, Washington. She attended the University of Washington studying neuroscience before deciding on a full time career in acting.
Biography
Career
Aylesworth began her career on the soap opera One Life to Live. She also appeared in minor roles in Random Hearts, and You've Got Mail. After guest roles in Law & Order, Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, Now and Again, The West Wing, and Ed, Aylesworth was cast in the 2001 series All Souls, which was canceled during its first season. In 2002, Aylesworth starred in the series The American Embassy — her character replaces one killed during the pilot — that also failed to gain an audience.
In 2001, Aylesworth auditioned for the part of Nina Myers on FOX Network's 24 but lost to Sarah Clarke. In 2002, she auditioned for another role on "24", Kate Warner, and lost to Sarah Wynter. The producers asked her to join the cast as recurring character Michelle Dessler, a CTU agent.
Aylesworth's character, "Michelle Dessler", soon developed a relationship with fellow agent Tony Almeida (Carlos Bernard), and became popular with fans. By the third season, Aylesworth had become a main cast member married to Bernard's character. At the end of that season, writers decided to change much of the cast, and dropped Aylesworth's character. However, "24" viewers objected on fan forums and successfully lobbied the producers to keep her character.[citation needed] In the twelfth episode of the fourth season, Aylesworth's Dessler returned as a top "CTU" bureaucrat through the end of the season. Her character was killed in the first episode of season 5.
Aylesworth appeared in a much-publicized guest role on CSI after original cast members Jorja Fox and George Eads were fired. There was a rumor that Aylesworth's character might become a regular character, but she appeared in just one episode. "Fox" and "Eads" were rehired by CSI, and Aylesworth was rehired by 24.
Since departing 24, Aylesworth has guest starred on the short-lived series Conviction, appeared on stage in The Fearless and Expats, filmed a supporting role in Kevin Costner’s Mr. Brooks, and starred in the independent thriller The Killing Floor. Aylesworth was cast as Dr. Adrienne Holland in the pilot of the proposed tv series 3 lbs, but the show was not purchased. Later, CBS decided to buy the series for a late fall 2006 premiere, but the lead roles were recast, including Aylesworth's. It is unknown whether she declined the "3 lbs." role or she was not offered the role again.
On 25 September 2006, it was announced that Aylesworth was chosen for one of the two lead roles in Aliens vs. Predator: Requiem. She was cast as Kelly O'Brien, a pilot and soldier. In January 2007, Aylesworth had a guest role in two episodes of the ABC comedy, The Knights of Prosperity", where she played the head of Mick Jagger’s security company.
In September 2007, it was reported that Aylesworth would appear in five episodes of the upcoming season of ER, playing hospital chaplain Julia Dupree. Originally, her character was to appear in 5 episodes attracting the lustful attention of Dr. Gates (John Stamos). Her role was extended for two additional episodes, but concluded due to the suspension of filming resulting from the WGA strike.
Aylesworth has two independent films due out in 2008, Buzzkill and The Understudy and began filming a third, The Assistants, in May, 2008.[9] Independent productions like these and past films The Killing Floor and No Deposit, No Return, are Aylesworth’s preferred types of film.
On 6 November, 2008, Aylesworth was reported to be in negotiations for a recurring role on the ABC series Lost. She would play "Amy, a smart and successful professional woman with a love for the outdoors who is looking for the right man."

AKA Kimila Ann Basinger

Born: 8-Dec-1953
Birthplace: Athens, GA
Gender: Female
Race or Ethnicity: White
Sexual orientation: Straight
Occupation: Actor, Model
Nationality: United States
Executive summary: Prostitute in L.A. Confidential
Father: Don Basinger (jazz musician and loan company manager)
Mother: Ann Basinger (model, swimmer, water ballet performer)
Brother: Mick Basinger (works in marketing)
Brother: Skip Basinger
Sister: Ashley Basinger
Sister: Barbara Basinger
Boyfriend: Prince (1988)
Husband: Ron Britton (makeup artist, m. 1980, div. 1989)
Husband: Alec Baldwin (actor, m. 19-Aug-1993, div. Feb-2002)
Daughter: Ireland Eliesse Baldwin (b. 23-Oct-1995)
Boyfriend: Jon Peters (ex)
As a child, Kim Basinger seemed so withdrawn her parents asked doctors if she had autism or some other psychiatric disorder, but tests revealed nothing. By high school, she had developed a self-deprecating sense of humor that helped her make friends. At 16, Basinger won the Athens Junior Miss contest, singing "Wouldn't It Be Loverly" in the talent competition. She was later crowned Junior Miss Georgia, and traveled to New York City to compete for the national crown. She didn't win, but returned to New York after graduating from high school to pursue a modeling career.
She was quickly signed by the Ford Modeling Agency, and over several years Basinger appeared on dozens of magazine covers and in hundreds of ads. She decided to try acting, moved to L.A., and lived in a low-rent apartment with a view of the neighboring freeway. For six months, she lived on her savings, before finally getting some work as an actress.
She appeared in such mid-1970s staples as The Six Million Dollar Man, McMillan and Wife, and the original Charlie's Angels. She starred in a cop show called Dog and Cat that lasted six episodes (Basinger was the rookie female cop, "Cat", partnered with a gruff old-fashioned cop, "Dog"). She had the title role in a schlocky 1978 teleflick, Katie: Portrait of a Centerfold, and later, Basinger did a nude pictorial in Playboy.
In her first feature film, a low-budget 1981 drama called Hard Country, she starred opposite 1970s pretty boy Jan-Michael Vincent. During filming, she married Ron Britton, a worker on the film's make-up crew. Basinger did good work in more B-movies before finding success as a Bond girl in Sean Connery's final outing as 007, Never Say Never Again. In other memorable roles, ruined Robert Redford's batting average in The Natural, endured repeated boinkings by Mickey Rourke in 9½ Weeks, and fell for Michael Keaton in Batman.
She divorced Britton in 1989, and the following year she met Alec Baldwin on the set of The Marrying Man. After several proposals, she agreed to marry him in 1993. They were famous photo fodder for the tabloids, even guest-voicing together on The Simpsons, but finally divorced in 2002.
In her mid-40s, Basinger won the 1997 Oscar playing a hooker in L.A. Confidential. Hollywood generally has little interest in women past menopause, but she has kept busy since winning her statuette. Her recent roles include Eminem's trailer trash mom in 8 Mile, and a grieving mother and unfaithful wife in The Door in the Floor.
In 1989 she paid $20 million to buy the entire town of Braselton, Georgia, about 60 miles from Atlanta. Four years later, she was sued for backing out of a film she had agreed to star in, and was forced to sell Braselton for just $1 million. During that media ruckus, then-husband Baldwin angrily defended Basinger to the media: "The trial is a good example of people assuming 'glamorous movie actress, self-involved bitch, $100 million bank account'. That sells papers, not 'shy and quiet, very private, animal lover'. That stuff's boring. She knows she could paint her body on the cover of Vanity Fair [as Demi Moore did] and reap the benefits. What that has to do with a movie career, I don't know."
Court documents from that case show that Basinger's monthly expenses for clothing tallied $6,100. She was also spending $7,000 a month for "pet care and other personal expenses". She is an activist for animal rights, and a member of People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA). Basinger remains shy, susceptible to panic attacks and agoraphobia.

AKA Ann Hart Coulter

Born: 8-Dec-1961
Birthplace: New York City
Gender: Female
Religion: Protestant
Race or Ethnicity: White
Sexual orientation: Straight
Occupation: Pundit
Party Affiliation: Republican
Nationality: United States
Executive summary: Walking rightwing rant
Father: John Vincent Coulter (b. 1926)
Mother: Nell Husbands Martin (b. 23-Feb-1928)
Brother: John Coulter (older)
Brother: James M. Coulter (older)
Boyfriend: Bill Maher
Boyfriend: Dinesh D'Souza
Boyfriend: James Tully
Boyfriend: Bob Guccione, Jr.
Boyfriend: (Democratic Senate staffer)
Boyfriend: (FBI agent)
Ann Coulter was born to John Vincent and Nell Husbands Martin Coulter December 8, 1961. After her birth in New York City, the family moved to New Canaan, Connecticut, where Coulter and her two older brothers were raised. She has described her family as "upper middle class" and has termed her attorney father a "union buster".
As an undergraduate at Cornell, Coulter helped found The Cornell Review, and was a member of the Delta Gamma national women's fraternity. She graduated cum laude from Cornell in 1984, and received her law degree from the University of Michigan Law School, where she achieved membership in the Order of the Coif and was an editor of the Michigan Law Review. At Michigan, Coulter founded a local chapter of the Federalist Society and was trained at the National Journalism Center.
After law school, Coulter served as a law clerk for Pasco Bowman II of the United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit in Kansas City. After a short time working in New York City in private practice, where she specialized in corporate law, Coulter left to work for the United States Senate Judiciary Committee after the Republican Party took control of Congress in 1994. She handled crime and immigration issues for Senator Spencer Abraham of Michigan, and helped craft legislation that aimed to ease the deportation of aliens convicted of felonies. She later became a litigator with the Center For Individual Rights.
Personal life
Coulter has been engaged several times, but never married. She has dated Spin publisher Bob Guccione, Jr., television host Bill Maher and conservative writer Dinesh D'Souza. She owns both a condominium in Manhattan and a house, bought in 2005, in Palm Beach, Florida. Although she says that usually she lives in New York, she votes in Palm Beach and is not registered to do so in New York. She is a fan of the Grateful Dead, and some of her favorite books include The Bible, Wuthering Heights, Anna Karenina, true crime stories about serial killers, or anything by Dave Barry.
Coulter was fired from MSNBC when she told a disabled Vietnam veteran, "people like you caused us to lose that war." She was fired from the conservative National Review when she turned in a column offering a final solution to the Muslim problem: "We should invade their countries, kill their leaders and convert them to Christianity."
Political positions Coulter disagrees with are briefly, brusquely, and often inaccurately described, then dismissed, often with an insult. The same steps are repeated several times per column. The technique can be enthralling for readers already in agreement with Coulter, yet Arnold Beichman, a conservative from the Hoover Institution, reviewed Treason in the conservative Washington Times, and wrote that he had "tried to read Miss Coulter's book and failed. Life is too short to read pages and pages of rant."

Born: 7-Dec-1942
Birthplace: Manhattan, NY
Died: 16-Jul-1981
Location of death: Long Island Expressway, Jericho, NY
Cause of death: Accident - Automobile
Remains: Buried, Huntington Rural Cemetery, Huntington, NY
Gender: Male
Race or Ethnicity: White
Sexual orientation: Straight
Occupation: Musician
Nationality: United States
Executive summary: Cat's in the Cradle
Father: James Forbes Chapin (big band drummer)
Mother: Jean Elspeth Burke
Brother: Tom
Brother: Stephen
Wife: Sandy Gaston (who already had three children)
Daughter: Jennifer Elspeth Chapin (b. Jul-1971)
Chapin was the second of four children born to Jim and Elspeth Chapin. His parents divorced by 1950, with Elspeth keeping custody of their four sons, as Jim spent much of his life on the road as a drummer for Big Band era acts such as Woody Herman. She married film magazine editor Henry Hart a few years later.
Chapin graduated from Brooklyn Technical High School in 1960, and was among the five inductees in the school's Alumni Hall Of Fame for the year 2000. He briefly attended the United States Air Force Academy and was then an intermittent student at Cornell University. He did not complete a degree.
Music and career
Following an unsuccessful early album made with his brothers, Tom and Steve, Chapin's debut album was Heads and Tales (1972, #60), which was a success thanks to the single "Taxi" (#24). However, Chapin's recording future became somewhat of a controversy between two powerful record companies headed by two very powerful men, Jac Holzman of Elektra Records and Clive Davis of Columbia.
According to Chapin's biography Taxi: The Harry Chapin Story by Peter M. Coan, Chapin had agreed in principle to sign with Elektra Records on the basis that he wanted a smaller record label that would give more personal attention to his work. However, Clive Davis remained undaunted, doubling almost every cash advance offer Chapin received from Holzman. Despite a cordial relationship with Holzman, Davis had a long history of besting Holzman over the years to particular artists, but this was one time that he did not prevail.
Chapin ultimately signed with Elektra for a smaller advance, but with provisions that made it worth the move. The biggest stipulation in the nine-album deal was that he receive free studio time, meaning he paid no recording costs. It was a move that would ultimately save Chapin hundreds of thousands of dollars over the term of his contract.
"This was completely unheard of," said Davis in the Coan book. "There was no such thing as free studio time."
Chapin's follow-up album, Sniper and Other Love Songs (1972, #160), was less successful despite containing the Chapin anthem "Circle" (a big European hit for The New Seekers). His third album, Short Stories (1974, #61), was a major success. Verities & Balderdash (1974, #4), released soon after, was even more successful, bolstered by the chart-topping hit single "Cat's in the Cradle", based upon a poem by his wife. Sandy Chapin had written the song inspired by her husband's life on the road, and her raising her children alone. "Cat's in the Cradle" was Chapin's only number one hit, shooting album sales skyward and making him a millionaire.
He also wrote and performed a Broadway musical The Night That Made America Famous. Additionally, Chapin wrote the music and lyrics for Cotton Patch Gospel, a musical by Tom Key based on Clarence Jordan's book The Cotton Patch Version of Matthew and John. The original cast soundtrack was produced by Tom Chapin, and released in 1982 by Chapin Productions.
Chapin's only UK hit was "W*O*L*D", which reached #34 in 1974. His popularity in the UK owed much to the championing of BBC disc jockey Noel Edmonds. The song's success in the U.S. was mostly the result of disc jockeys playing it for themselves.
Chapin's recording of "The Shortest Story", a song he wrote about a dying child and featured in his 1976 live/studio album Greatest Stories Live, was named by author Tom Reynolds in his book I Hate Myself and Want to Die as the second most depressing song of all time (just behind "The Christmas Shoes").
By the end of the decade, Chapin's contract with Elektra (which had since merged with Asylum Records under the control of David Geffen) had run its course, and the company made no offer to renew it. A minor deal with Casablanca fell through, and Chapin settled on a simple one-album deal with Boardwalk Records. The Boardwalk album, though no one knew it at the time, would be his final work.
The title track of his last album, Sequel, was a follow up to his earlier song "Taxi" that reunited the same characters ten years later. The songs Chapin was working on at the time of his death were subsequently released as the thematic album The Last Protest Singer.
On July 16, 1981, just after noon, Chapin was driving on the Long Island Expressway, in the left hand fast lane, at about 65 miles an hour. For some reason, either because of engine failure or some physical problem (thought to be a possible heart attack) he put on his emergency flashers near Exit 40 in Jericho, NY. He then slowed to about 15 miles an hour and veered into the center lane nearly colliding with another car. He swerved back left, then back right again and this time went directly in front of a tractor-trailer truck. The truck could not brake in time and rammed the rear of Harry's blue 1975 Volkswagen Rabbit, rupturing the gas tank and causing it to burst into flames.
The driver of the truck, and another passer-by were able to get Harry out of the burning car through the window and by cutting the seatbelts, before the car was completely engulfed. He was taken by police helicopter to the hospital where ten doctors tried for 30 minutes to revive him. A spokesman for the Nassau County Medical Center said Chapin had suffered a heart attack and "died of cardiac arrest" but there was no way of knowing whether it occurred before or after the accident. In an interview years after his death, Chapin's daughter said: "My dad didn't really sleep," she says. "And he ate badly and had a totally insane schedule."
Even though Harry's driver's license had been revoked at the time of the accident, for a long string of traffic violations, his wife Sandy did win a $12 million decision in a negligence lawsuit against the truck's owners.
Chapin was interred in the Huntington Rural Cemetery, Huntington, New York. His epitaph is taken from his song "I Wonder What Would Happen to this World." It is:
Oh if a man tried
To take his time on Earth
And prove before he died
What one man's life could be worth
I wonder what would happen
to this world

Born: 7-Dec-1955
Birthplace: Fort Dix, NJ
Gender: Female
Race or Ethnicity: White
Sexual orientation: Straight
Occupation: Actor
Nationality: United States
Executive summary: Terri on Three's Company
Husband: (m. 1975, one day in Las Vegas, for spite)
Boyfriend: Joel Schur
Boyfriend: Gary DeVore
Husband: Ted Monte (m. 2003)
Priscilla Barnes is an American actress known for replacing Suzanne Somers (Jenilee Harrison having stepped in the season before) when the contract of Somers was not renewed on the show Three's Company. On that series, she portrayed Terri Alden, an intelligent nurse who seemed to be the show's answer to complaints about their portrayal of blondes. Barnes had previously auditioned for the part of Cindy Snow, but was turned down because she was deemed "too old" for the part.
Biography
Early life and career
Before she made it big on Three's Company, Barnes was a beauty pageant contestant. During her teens she aspired to be a dancer. One of her earliest roles was a minor role in the horror film Tintorera. During a Hollywood Bowl performance, she fell off the stage, fracturing her jaw and breaking her leg, and putting a lid on her dancing career. Also prior to fame, she appeared in the March 1976 issue of Penthouse magazine under the false name Joann Witty. Barnes later sued the magazine when they republished her photo using her real name.
Barnes eventually turned to acting and appeared on TV shows such as Starsky and Hutch, The Rockford Files and The Love Boat.
Three's Company
Being cast as Terri Alden on Three's Company brought Barnes instant public recognition. In 1998, on the show, E! True Hollywood Story, she called Three's Company the "three worst years" of her life, even though she became lifelong friends with castmate Joyce DeWitt and she does have some favorite episodes of the show. Barnes revealed that after shooting a couple of episodes of the show, she felt "uncomfortable" on the set and asked to be released from her contract.
Barnes stuck on with the show in spite of her disagreements with the producers. She also claimed the show typecast her as a comedic actress whereas before Three's Company, she was "up for anything".
Later career
Barnes has many film credits to her name as well as extensive experience on stage, notably appearing in the James Bond film Licence to Kill, as Della Churchill, the ill-fated bride of CIA agent Felix Leiter, as well as the three-nippled fortune teller in Kevin Smith's Mallrats. In the 2005 Rob Zombie movie, The Devil's Rejects, she played Gloria Sullivan. Also played a crazy woman in the recent movie Thr3e
March 1976 Penthouse Pet ("Joanne Witty.") Her character, Terri, replaced Suzanne Somers after she was made to leave Three's Company. After she became much more famous, Penthouse published the photos again, this time using her real name in violation of a previous contract.

Born: 7-Sep-1987
Birthplace: Raleigh, NC
Gender: Female
Race or Ethnicity: White
Sexual orientation: Straight
Occupation: Actor
Nationality: United States
Executive summary: S1m0ne
Father: Ira David Wood III (b. 19-Nov-1947)
Mother: Sara Lynn Moore (b. 6-Mar-1958)
Brother: Ira David Wood IV (b. 20-Nov-1984)
Brother: Dana
Boyfriend: Marilyn Manson (musician, dating 2006-)
Evan Rachel Wood is an American actress and singer.
Wood began her acting career in the late 1990s, appearing in several television series, including American Gothic and Once and Again. She made her debut as a leading film actress in 2002's Little Secrets and became well-known after her transition to a more adult-oriented Golden Globe-nominated role in the critically acclaimed film Thirteen, (2003) co-written by Wood's co-star, Nikki Reed.
Wood continued acting mostly in independent films, including Pretty Persuasion (2005), Down in the Valley (2006), Running with Scissors (2006), and in the big studio production Across the Universe (2007). Wood's acting has drawn critical praise, and she has been described by The Guardian newspaper as being "wise beyond her years" and as "one of the best actresses of her generation." In their Spring 2009 issue, Venus Zine awarded Wood the top spot in their 25 Under 25 rankings. Her relationship with singer Marilyn Manson, whom she dated from December 2006 through October 2008, received considerable news coverage.
Early life and family
Wood was born in Raleigh, North Carolina, the daughter of Sara Lynn Moore, an actress, director and acting coach, and Ira David Wood III, an actor, singer, theater director and playwright. Wood's brother, Ira David Wood IV, is also an actor. Wood has another brother, Dana. Her paternal aunt, Carol Winstead Wood, is a Hollywood production designer.
Wood is Jewish. She has described the music of The Beatles as being a major part of her life since her first family Christmas. Wood and her brothers were actively involved in Theatre in the Park, a community theater directed by her father, while growing up; she played the Ghost of Christmas Past in several productions of A Christmas Carol at the theater, and later starred as Helen Keller alongside her mother (who played Annie Sullivan) in a production of The Miracle Worker, under her father's direction.
Career
Early works, 1994–2000
Wood began her career appearing in several made-for-television films from 1994 onward, also playing an occasional role in the television series American Gothic. In 1996, Wood's parents separated and later divorced, and Wood moved with her mother to her mother's native Los Angeles County, California. After a one-season role on the television drama Profiler, Wood was cast in the supporting role of Jessie Sammler on the television show Once and Again.
Wood's first major screen role was in the low-budget 1998 film Digging to China, which also starred Kevin Bacon and Mary Stuart Masterson. The film won the Children's Jury Award at the Chicago International Children's Film Festival. Wood remembers the role as initially being "hard," but notes that it eventually led to her decision that acting is something she "might never want to stop doing." She also had a role in Practical Magic, a 1998 family fantasy film directed by Griffin Dunne and starring Sandra Bullock and Nicole Kidman, that same year.
2001–2005
Wood made her teenage debut as a leading film actress in 2002's Little Secrets, directed by Blair Treu. She played aspiring 14-year-old concert violinist Emily Lindstrom, and she was nominated for Best Leading Young Actress at the Young Artist Awards. That same year, Wood played a supporting role in the Andrew Niccol-directed science fiction satirical drama film,S1m0ne, which starred Al Pacino.
Wood's breakthrough movie role followed with the somewhat controversial 2003 independent film Thirteen. She played the role of Tracy Louise Freeland, one of two young teens who sink into a downward spiral of hard drugs, sex, lies, and petty crime. Her performance was nominated for a Golden Globe Award as Best Actress - Drama and for a Screen Actors Guild (SAG) Award for Best Actress. During the time of Thirteen's release, Vanity Fair named Wood as one of the It Girls of Hollywood, and she appeared, along with the other actresses, on the magazine's July 2003 cover. A supporting role opposite Cate Blanchett and Tommy Lee Jones in Ron Howard's The Missing, in which she played the kidnapped daughter, Lilly Gilkeson, in a Searchers-style western, followed the same year.
In 2005, Wood appeared in the Mike Binder-directed The Upside of Anger, opposite Kevin Costner and Joan Allen, a well-reviewed film in which Wood played Lavender "Popeye" Wolfmeyer, one of four sisters dealing with their father's absence. Her character also narrated the film.
Wood's next two starring roles were in dark independent films. In the 2005 Grand Jury Prize Sundance Film Festival nominee Pretty Persuasion, a black comedy/satirical focusing on themes of sexual harassment and discrimination in schools and attitudes about females in media and society, Wood played Kimberly Joyce, a villainous, sexually-active high-schooler. One critic commented, "Wood does flip cynicism with such precise, easy rhythms and with such obvious pleasure in naughtiness that she's impossible to hate."
In Down in the Valley, which was directed by David Jacobson, Wood's character, Tobe, falls in love with an older man posing as a cowboy at odds with modern society (Edward Norton). Of her performance, it was written that "Wood conveys every bit of the adamant certainty and aching vulnerability inherent in late adolescence." Wood has commented on her choice of sexually themed roles, saying that she is not aiming for the "shock factor" in her film choices.
In 2005, Wood starred in the music videos for Bright Eyes' "At the Bottom of Everything" and Green Day's "Wake Me Up When September Ends".
2006–present
In September 2006, Wood received Premiere magazine's "Spotlight Award for Emerging Talent." Also in 2006, she was described by The Guardian as being "wise beyond her years" and as "one of the best actresses of her generation."
Later in 2006, Wood appeared with an all-star ensemble cast as Natalie Finch in the Golden Globe-nominated 2006 comedy-drama film Running with Scissors. Directed by Ryan Murphy and starring Annette Bening, the film was based on the memoir by Augusten Burroughs, which is a semi-autobiographical account of Burroughs' childhood in an eccentric dysfunctional family. Wood was awarded the 2007 Cannes Film Festival Chopard Trophy for Female Revelation for her performance.
Wood had roles in two films released in September 2007. King of California, which premiered at the Sundance Film Festival, a story of a bipolar jazz musician (Michael Douglas) and his long-suffering teenage daughter, Miranda (Wood), who are reunited after his two-year stay in a mental institution and who embark on a quixotic search for Spanish treasure. One review praised Wood's performance as "excellent."
Across the Universe, a Julie Taymor-directed musical that was nominated for a Golden Globe and an Academy Award and was set in Liverpool, New York City, and Vietnam, focused on the tribulations of several characters during the counter-cultural revolution of the 1960s. It was set to the songs of The Beatles. Wood played Lucy, who develops a relationship with Jude (Jim Sturgess). The film features her singing musical numbers. One critic wrote that "Wood brings much-needed emotional depth."
Wood provided the voice of an alien named Mala, a mechanically-inclined free-thinker, in Battle for Terra, a 2008 computer-animated science fiction film about a peaceful alien planet that faces destruction from colonization by the displaced remainder of the human race. The film won the 2008 Grand Prize at the Ottawa International Animation Festival.
Wood starred in 2008's Vadim Perelman-directed The Life Before Her Eyes, based on the Laura Kasischke novel of the same name, about the friendship of two teens of opposite character who are involved in a Columbine-like shooting incident at their school and are forced to make an impossible choice. Wood played the younger version of Uma Thurman's character, Diana. One critic cited her performance as "hands-down extraordinary." Wood stated that she intended the film to be the last one in which she played a teenager.
Wood also co-starred in director Darren Aronofsky's The Wrestler, winner of the Golden Lion Award for Best Film at the Venice Film Festival, about Randy "Ram" Robinson (Mickey Rourke), a professional wrestler from the 1980s who is forced to retire after a heart attack threatens to kill him the next time he wrestles. Wood played Stephanie, Randy "Ram" Robinson's estranged daughter. Of her performance, one critic wrote, "Once her character stops stonewalling her father and hears him out, Wood provides a fine foil for Rourke in their turbulent scenes together."
In production
Wood has a role in Woody Allen's Whatever Works,[ to be released in 2009. She plays the young wife of Larry David's Ebenezer Scrooge-like character in the film. Next, she will play writer Anne Brontë in the film Brontë, and will be involved in the film Phantasmagoria: The Visions of Lewis Carroll. Wood has stated that she prefers music to movies and is planning to launch a singing career. Wood and Across the Universe co-star Jim Sturgess are reported to be involved in the upcoming Julie Taymor Broadway production of a Spider-Man musical adaptation. Music for the show was composed and written by Bono and The Edge of the band U2, the members of which participated in rehearsals, backing up Wood and Sturgess.
On December 22, 2008, YouTube announced that Wood will return to television for the first time since April 15, 2002, the day the last Once and Again episode aired on ABC, this time, a regular lead role in a TV series.
Before Wood begins her Broadway Spider-Man run, she plans to go back to her theatrical roots by performing in an intimate production of Romeo & Juliet at her father's theater "just for fun."
Music
On October 24, 2007, Entertainment Weekly announced that Wood planned to sign a record deal with Interscope Records. As of 2008[update], she is currently working on her debut album.
Personal life
Wood was home-schooled for most of her schooling years and received her high school diploma at age fifteen. She has a black belt in Tae Kwon Do.
Wood has described herself as being "laid-back" and "not a party girl," citing her choice to stay away from what is considered a typical Hollywood lifestyle. In 2006, Wood, who was described by The Guardian as an "Anglophile," dated her "Wake Me Up When September Ends" music video co-star, English actor Jamie Bell. She is also a friend of actor Joseph Gordon-Levitt.
In 2007, Wood's relationship with Marilyn Manson became public. The two met at a party at the Chateau Marmont Hotel; Wood has stated that she was attracted to Manson's frequent use of black eye liner and once described their relationship as "healthy and loving." Two portraits of Wood, painted by Manson, have been exhibited at the Celebritarian Corporation Gallery of Fine Art. Wood is also the inspiration behind Manson's song "Heart-Shaped Glasses," and she appeared with Manson in the song's music video. Manson has said that Wood's appearance in the film was the highest-paid music video role ever. In November 2008, Wood issued a statement saying "Manson and I both decided to take some time apart so we could concentrate on work."
Wood has since been linked to actor Mickey Rourke. She played his daughter in the film The Wrestler, but she denies that they had any kind of romantic relationship. In a December 2008 interview, Wood said, "People thought we were dating because we got so close in a family kind of way. That's why we felt comfortable enough to put our arms around each other. We were just buds."

AKA Janine Gauntt

Born: 6-Dec-1962
Birthplace: Lincoln, NE
Gender: Female
Race or Ethnicity: White
Sexual orientation: Straight
Occupation: Actor
Nationality: United States
Executive summary: Maggie on Northern Exposure
Father: Turner Gauntt ("Texas Turner")
Mother: Janice Gauntt
Brother: Tim (b. 1959)
Daughter: Juliette Loraine Gauntt (b. 22-Nov-1997)
Boyfriend: Alec Baldwin (1983, broken engagement)
Boyfriend: Mark Grace (Chicago Cubs first baseman)
Turner was born in Lincoln, Nebraska, U.S., to Janice, a real estate agent, and Turner M. Gauntt, a pilot who attended West Point and flew for Braniff for 30 years. Her father is from East Texas and her mother is from South Texas. She has a brother, Tim, and was raised in Euless, Texas. At the age of fifteen, she left home to pursue a modeling career with the Wilhelmina Modeling Agency.
Career
Turner began her acting career in 1980, at the age of 18, in an episode of Dallas. She continued to make guest appearances on popular television shows throughout the 1980s until landing the important role of Maggie O'Connell on Northern Exposure in 1990. She appeared in the music video "Ricochet" by David Bowie. After her breakthrough in Northern Exposure, she appeared in the big budget action film Cliffhanger starring Sylvester Stallone. In 2004, she wrote and directed Trip in a Summer Dress, a film about a strong-willed mother and her children. She has worked with actor and director Mike Norris in a number of recent projects. In 2006, she appeared in a low budget film filmed in Dallas, The Night of the White Pants.
Personal life
In 1983, she became engaged to Alec Baldwin, but the two never made it to the altar. She lives on a ranch outside of Dallas, Texas, with her daughter Juliette (born November 22, 1997). Turner declares herself as a Republican.

Born: 5-Dec-1982
Birthplace: Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Gender: Female
Race or Ethnicity: White
Occupation: Actor
Nationality: Canada
Executive summary: Lost and Delirious
Father: Anthony Paré (educator)
Mother: Louise Mercier (translator)
Jessica Paré (born December 5, 1982) is a Canadian film and television actress.
Biography
Early life
Paré was born in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, the daughter of Anthony Paré, the head of the education department at McGill University, and Louise Mercier, a conference translator. She grew up in the Montreal suburb Notre-Dame-de-Grâce and has three brothers. Paré is bilingual, speaking both English and French. Her parents were both actors, her father toured with a theatre company and was a drama teacher, her mother acted in amateur productions. As a child, Paré would watch her father at rehearsals; when helping him learn his lines for The Tempest, Paré became interested in acting herself. Paré attended Villa Maria, a private catholic girl's high school in Montreal. She played Jesus in a production of Godspell there and also studied drama at TheatreWorks. She appeared in over half a dozen amateur theater productions as a teenager, including a role as Maid Marian in Robin Hood.
Career
Paré landed a small role in Bonanno: A Godfather's Story, a mafia TV movie, during her last year of high school, which convinced her to pursue acting as a career. She also found small roles in an episode of the horror/teen TV series Big Wolf on Campus and in the French film En Vacances in 1999. She dropped out of the fine-arts program at a Montreal college and pursued acting for two years. After auditioning for a bit part for the independent film Stardom (2000), director Denys Arcand chose Paré to star in the film. She played a naive ice hockey player propelled to international stardom as a supermodel, co-starring with Dan Aykroyd; the role paralleled her own involvement with the film. The comedic satire closed the 2000 Cannes Film Festival with mixed reviews from critics. That year, Paré was voted one of the 25 most beautiful people in Canada by a Canadian magazine, a title she didn't take very seriously.
Paré next appeared in Lost and Delirious (2001), starring opposite Piper Perabo, in a story of two young lovers set in a girls' boarding school. The film, the English-language debut of director Léa Pool, debuted at the Sundance Film Festival to positive reviews. In 2002, Paré appeared in the miniseries Random Passage, set in Newfoundland in the 1800s, based on a series of award-winning novels by Bernice Morgan. Also that year, she appeared in the miniseries Napoléon as the emperor’s mistress, in Bollywood/Hollywood playing a pop singer, and starred in the girl gang thriller Posers. Paré next appeared in the CTV miniseries The Death and Life of Nancy Eaton (2003), in the title role of murdered heiress Nancy Eaton.
In 2004, Paré made her Hollywood film debut in the feature Wicker Park, as Josh Hartnett's fiancee, directed by Paul McGuigan. Paré also starred in the TV miniseries Lives of the Saints (2004), with Sophia Loren and Kris Kristofferson, set in the 1960s. Also in 2004 was the mockumentary See This Movie, with Seth Myers and John Cho, and a role on The WB's Jack & Bobby, a teen drama about two brothers, one who grows up to be President of the United States. Paré's character grows up to be First Lady.
In 2007, Paré shot the TV pilot, Protect and Serve, with Dean Cain. She also shot the independent romantic comedy, Shoe at Your Foot, co-starring Justin Bartha, Mélanie Laurent, and Billy Boyd. As of September 2008, Paré was shooting the comedy, The Trotsky, in Montreal, directed by Jacob Tierney. She also joined the cast of Suck, a vampire horror-comedy written and directed by Rob Stefaniuk. The film will begin shooting in November 2008.

Born: December 4, 1972
Location: Berkeley, California, U.S.
Measurements: 34DD-24-35
Height: 5 ft 5 in
Weight: 114 lb
Eye colour: Blue
Hair colour: Blonde
Ethnicity: White American
Nikki Tyler (born December 4, 1972 in Berkeley, California) is a pornographic actress best known for her work in the 1990s. Tyler starred in numerous musical performances while attending San Rafael High School. Later, she went to college in Los Angeles, aspiring to become a clinical psychologist. To help finance her tuition, she decided to appear in nude photo shoots. She graced over 100 top men's magazines, becoming Penthouse magazine's Pet of the Month in December 1995. Tyler then dropped out of college, attended makeup school, and was employed as a makeup artist for Vivid Video.
Adult film career
Tyler performed softcore for a year and a half before porn stars Celeste and Ashlyn Gere convinced Tyler to enter the hardcore industry.
Tyler did only lesbian scenes at first. Her first on-screen girl/girl scene was in American Pie (1995). This was followed by a scene with her real-life longterm off-screen lesbian lover at the time, Jenna Jameson, in VR69 (1995). Her relationship with Jameson is documented in Jameson's autobiography. The two were together off and on for several years, and reportedly remain close friends to this day.
She was rewarded for her success a few months later with her own exclusive Vivid contract. To improve her popularity, Tyler obtained breast implants. She also began to work with male porn stars such as Rocco Siffredi in Nikki Loves Rocco (1996). Nikki Tyler retired from the porn industry in 1999. However in a 2002 interview she claimed she never retired. Her website has not been updated since 2004 and now points to Jack's Playground.
According to Jenna Jameson's autobiography, Nikki lives in California with her husband and young daughter.

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Born: December 4, 1984
Location: St. Louis, Missouri
Trained by Deep South Wrestling,
Florida Championship Wrestling
Brooke Adams (born December 4, 1984) is an American model, dancer and former WWE Diva. She is best known for her time in World Wrestling Entertainment working on its ECW brand.
Early life
Adams grew up with her twin sister and mother in St. Louis, Missouri. She sees her mother as a hero, and at age 7 her mother, her sister and herself moved to Houston, Texas where she was raised She began her career there as a model, modeling for various companies across the Texas region such as Hawaiian Tropic & Vertical Smiles. She modeled previously for Elite Model Management before getting involved in professional wrestling.
Professional wrestling
World Wrestling Entertainment
She first became involved in professional wrestling by trying out for the 2006 WWE Diva Search, for which she failed to make the top 8. Despite not making the cut, Adams was chosen to observe workouts in "development territory" Ohio Valley Wrestling along with Maryse Ouellet, after which she was offered a developmental contract. She accepted and was assigned to Deep South Wrestling (DSW) to train, starting as the valet for Daniel Rodimer. When Rodimer was called up to the main roster, she was left without a wrestler and focused on becoming a full-time wrestler herself. She made her in-ring debut, a loss to Angel Williams, at a DSW TV taping in December 2006.
On January 23, 2007 Adams debuted on the ECW brand, joining Kelly Kelly and Layla El in Extreme Exposé This would become a weekly dance segment on the show. She also continued working in DSW and during February she was (kayfabe) promoted to the position of Personal Assistant to General Manager Krissy Vaine, with her main job being to protect Krissy from Angel Williams. This eventually led to another match between Adams and Williams, as ordered by Vaine. At the March 15, 2007 DSW TV tapings, Adams was kayfabe fired from her position following Vaine and Williams' alliance together. Adams made her in-ring WWE debut on the May 28, 2007 edition of RAW where she, along with several other WWE Divas from all three brands competed in a Memorial Day Bikini Beach Blast Battle Royal, which was won by Michelle McCool. When Florida Championship Wrestling (FCW) opened in the summer of 2007, Brooke was transferred to the developmental facility for training, along with continuing her Extreme Exposé role.
Extreme Exposé acted as a weekly dance segment on the ECW show for months until The Miz was also placed on the ECW brand in the annual draft lottery, at which point all three ladies began actively pursuing him. Later, however, Kelly shifted her attentions towards the much more slovenly looking Balls Mahoney, to the amusement of the Miz and her Exposé sisters who had been spending their time mocking his look.
On November 1, 2007, Brooke was released by WWE.
Return to modelling
Since her release, she resurrected her modeling career, placing in the Hawaiian Tropic, Planet Beach, Darque Tan, and Bikini USA model search contests. She is known as "Bubbles" by one of her photographers from her early modeling shots.
Brooke was crowned as the reigning Miss Hawaiian Tropic Texas 2008 on the evening of November 8, 2008.
Other media
In April 2007, Brooke, along with Ashley, Kelly Kelly, Layla El, Torrie Wilson, and Maryse, appeared in Timbaland's new music video "Throw It On Me" featuring The Hives, which premiered on RAW on May 20.
In August 2007, Brooke, along with Extreme Exposé, appeared on FHMOnline.com.
Personal life
Brooke is currently dating Daniel Rodimer. They live together in Houston, Texas.

AKA Jeffrey Leon Bridges

Born: 4-Dec-1949
Birthplace: Los Angeles, CA
Gender: Male
Religion: Lutheran
Race or Ethnicity: White
Sexual orientation: Straight
Occupation: Actor
Party Affiliation: Democratic
Nationality: United States
Executive summary: Starman, TRON
Military service: U.S. Coast Guard
Father: Lloyd Bridges (actor)
Mother: Dorothy (Simpson) Dean Bridges (former actress)
Brother: Beau Bridges (actor, b. 9-Dec-1941)
Brother: Gary Bridges (b. 1947, d. 1947, sudden infant death syndrome)
Sister: Lucinda Bridges (b. 1954)
Girlfriend: Cybill Shepherd (actress, dated 1971)
Girlfriend: Candy Clark (actress, dated 1972)
Girlfriend: Valerie Perrine (actress, dated 1973)
Wife: Susan Geston (former maid; b. 1954, dated 1975-77, m. 1977)
Daughter: Isabelle Bridges (b. 1982)
Daughter: Jessica Bridges (b. 1984)
Daughter: Haley Bridges (b. 1988)
Jeff Bridges's father was busy B-movie star and TV icon Lloyd Bridges, so he got to skip the entire "struggling actor" phase. He played an infant in his first movie, The Company She Keeps (1951), and before adolescence he had appeared on his father's Sea Hunt. At 14, he was in a touring stage production of Anniversary Waltz. At 17, his parents contacted a group called Developing Adolescents Without Narcotics, which put Bridges through an "intervention" to snap his marijuana habit. At 21, he was in The Last Picture Show, and Bridges became a movie star.
His famous films include Hearts of the West, the 1976 King Kong, Tron, Starman, Jagged Edge, The Fabulous Baker Boys, The Fisher King, and Seabiscuit. Bridges also starred in The Big Lebowski (1998), directed by Joel and Ethan Coen. Bridges is simply perfect as an aging, bearded, cocktail-sipping, pothead bowler who answers only to "The Dude". The part was written for him, and he wears some of his own clothes in the movie, causing some to suspect that "The Dude" is Jeff Bridges.
When he isn't making movies, Bridges chairs Hunger Free America. Bridges has dropped acid, done transcendental meditation, and in 2000 he released an album of pop music.

Born: 3-Dec-1985
Birthplace: Allentown, PA
Gender: Female
Race or Ethnicity: White
Occupation: Actor
Nationality: United States
Executive summary: Mean Girls
Seyfried started her career as a model at age 11 From there she went on to acting in the daytime drama The Guiding Light. In 2000, she was the first actress to play the role of Lucy Montgomery on CBS's As the World Turns. She went on, from 2002 to 2003, to play the role of Joni Stafford on ABC's All My Children.
In 2004, Seyfried achieved a breakthrough when she was cast as the most dimwitted of the "Plastics", Karen Smith, in the popular teen film Mean Girls alongside Lindsay Lohan, Rachel McAdams and Lacey Chabert. The film grossed over $86 million in the United States. In Mean Girls, she initially auditioned for the role of Regina. She became the original casting choices for both the roles of "Regina George" and "Cady". She was then cast as the sidekick to "Regina", "Karen Smith". The other roles later went to Rachael McAdams and Lindsay Lohan respectively. In 2005, she played the lead character in one of the nine parts in the movie Nine Lives.
Continuing her television career, Seyfried was cast in UPN's Veronica Mars as the title character's murdered best friend Lilly Kane. In her role as Lilly, she appeared on the show through a series of flashbacks, dreams and visions, which portrayed her as a wild, stylish, and bubbly teenage daughter of a business executive. Lilly is sometimes compared to the character of Laura Palmer of Twin Peaks, who also was deceased and appeared through various flashbacks as the plot unfolded. While appearing often during Mars' first season, she also appeared briefly in season 2's premiere and finalé. Seyfried originally auditioned for the title role on Veronica Mars, but lost the place to Kristen Bell and ended up winning the role of Lilly Kane.
Seyfried has had primetime cameo appearances and minor guest roles on Fox's House, Justice, NBC's Law & Order: Special Victims Unit and CBS's CSI: Crime Scene Investigation and currently appears as Rebecca on ABC Family's television series Wildfire.
Seyfried is also a main character, Sarah Henrickson, in the highly-touted HBO original series Big Love. She appeared in the 2007 film Alpha Dog and played a supporting role in the film Solstice in 2007. Amanda will play the role of 'Sophie' alongside Meryl Streep and Pierce Brosnan in the film version of the musical "Mamma Mia!", due for release in 2008.
Seyfried has joined the cast of the dark horror film Jennifer's Body in February 2008, which filming began in March 2008, playing the title character's best friend.

AKA Daryl Christine Hannah

Born: 3-Dec-1960
Birthplace: Chicago, IL
Gender: Female
Race or Ethnicity: White
Sexual orientation: Straight
Occupation: Actor
Nationality: United States
Executive summary: Mermaid in Splash
Father: Don Hannah
Mother: Sue Wexler
Brother: Don Hannah (older)
Sister: Page Hannah (actress, b. 13-Apr-1964, m. Lou Adler)
Sister: Tanya Wexler (half-sister, b. 6-Aug-1970)
Boyfriend: Chris Bensinger (high school)
Boyfriend: Jackson Browne
Boyfriend: John F. Kennedy, Jr. (1990-94)
Boyfriend: Val Kilmer (2001-02)
Boyfriend: Robbie Williams
Boyfriend: Sean MacPherson (owner of Maritime Hotel in NYC, dating 2004)
Hannah was born in Chicago, Illinois, to Susan, a producer, and Don Hannah, a tugboat and barge company owner. Her parents divorced shortly after her birth and her mother remarried Jerrold Wexler, a Jewish businessman and brother of Haskell Wexler, a noted Jewish cinematographer. Hannah, a vegetarian since age eleven, grew up with siblings Don and Page Hannah, as well as half sister Tanya Wexler. She attended school at Francis Parker and the Chicago Latin School in Chicago until 6th grade when she moved to Parker. As a child she lost the tip of her left index finger to an accident with a well wheel (in films she sometimes wears a prosthetic finger tip.)
Hannah became interested in movies at a young age, due to insomnia. She was very shy and was diagnosed as 'borderline autistic'. Hannah attended the private Francis W. Parker School (where she played on the boys' soccer team) and the University of Southern California.
Career
Hannah made her film debut in 1978, making a brief appearance in Brian De Palma's horror film The Fury. She subsequently appeared in several early 1980s films, the most notable role of which is probably as the replicant, Pris, in Ridley Scott's 1982 film, Blade Runner. Hannah was cast as a mermaid in Ron Howard's 1984 fantasy, Splash, which was a major financial success, grossing over $62 million and establishing Hannah as a notable film actress.
Hannah's roles in the remainder of the 1980s ranged from successful major roles in Steel Magnolias and the Academy Award-winning Wall Street, to the 1986 film version of The Clan of the Cave Bear, Hannah also played the title role in Fred Schepisi's 1987 film Roxanne, a modern retelling of Edmond Rostand's play Cyrano de Bergerac, a performance which was described as "sweet" and "gentle" by film critic Roger Ebert. She was also in the classic "The Pope of Greenwich Village" with co-stars Mickey Rourke and Eric Roberts.
Hannah was also one of the top choices for the role of "Vivian Ward" in Pretty Woman, but she rejected the offer claiming it "degraded women". Though the film turned out to be a box office smash hit, Hannah recently stated that she has no regrets about turning the role down, despite the movie making Julia Roberts a big star. .
In the 1990s, Hannah's roles included starring as a giantess in the television movie Attack of the 50 Foot Woman (1993), which she also co-produced. She also appeared as the daughter of Jack Lemmon's character in both of the Grumpy Old Men films. In 1995, Hannah was chosen by Empire magazine as #96 of the "100 Sexiest Stars in film history". That same year, Hannah anticipated (by a decade) her Kill Bill role when she appeared as homicidal sociopath Leann Netherwood in The Tie That Binds.
Of Hannah's most recent roles, the best-known may be that of the one-eyed assassin Elle Driver in Kill Bill Volume 1 and Kill Bill Volume 2, directed by Quentin Tarantino. Her performance in these films, as well as her appearances in other recent films, including Northfork, Casa de los Babys and Silver City, have been described by some critics as a cinematic comeback for Hannah, who had not appeared in many mainstream films in the late 1990s and early 2000s.
Hannah wrote, directed and produced a short film, The Last Supper which won an award at the Berlin Film Festival. She directed, produced and was the cinematographer for the documentary Strip Notes. The documentary, which aired on Channel 4 London and HBO, was about the research she did for her role in the Micheal Radford film Dancing At The Blue Iguana To promote her appearance in the film Kill Bill, Hannah posed nude in the November 2003 edition of Playboy Magazine.
In a 2006 appearance on America's Most Wanted, Hannah revealed that in her late teens she had been lured to Las Vegas under false pretexts, and narrowly escaped been sold into sex slavery.
Personal life
Hannah and actress Hilary Shepard Turner created two board games, "Love It Or Hate It" and "LIEbrary", with Hannah previewing the latter on Ellen DeGeneres' talk show in 2005.
Hannah, a keen environmentalist, has her own weekly video blog called DH Love Life on sustainable solutions. She is often the sound recordist, camera person and on-screen host for the blog. Her home runs on solar power and is built with green materials. She drives a car that runs on biodiesel. In late 2006, she volunteered to act as a judge for Treehugger.com's "Convenient Truths" contest.
Hannah has never married. She had a long-term relationship with singer Jackson Browne who had his roadies bring her backstage after a concert during her senior year at Parker -- (she is the female voice on Browne's 1985 hit song with Clarence Clemons, "You're a Friend of Mine"). She was with Browne from 1978 through 1992. After Browne, she had a relationship with John F. Kennedy, Jr. and was romantically linked with actor Val Kilmer. She is the sister-in-law of music producer Lou Adler, who is married to Hannah's sister, Page (who met Adler while Daryl was seeing Browne).
On June 13, 2006, Hannah was arrested, along with Taran Noah Smith, for her involvement with over 350 farmers, their families and supporters, confronting authorities trying to bulldoze the nation's largest urban farm in South Central Los Angeles. She chained herself to a walnut tree at the South Central Farm for three weeks to protest the farmers' eviction by the property's new owner. The farm had been established in the wake of the 1992 LA riots to allow people in the city to grow food for themselves. However, the land's new owner, who had paid $5 million for it, sought to evict the farmers to build a warehouse. He had asked for $16 million to sell it but turned down the offer when the activists raised that amount. Hannah was interviewed via cell phone shortly before she was arrested, along with 44 other protesters, and said that she and the others are doing the "morally right thing". She spent some time in jail.
Hannah has also worked to help end sexual slavery and has been traveling around the world to make a documentary.

AKA Julie Ann Smith

Born: 3-Dec-1960
Birthplace: Ft. Bragg, Fayetteville, NC
Gender: Female
Race or Ethnicity: White
Sexual orientation: Straight
Occupation: Actor
Nationality: United States
Executive summary: Boogie Nights, Short Cuts
Father: Peter Smith (U.S. Army judge advocate general)
Mother: Ann Smith (psychiatrist)
Brother: Peter Moore Smith (author, Raveling)
Husband: Sundar Chakravarthy (m. 21-Nov-1983, div. 12-Oct-1985)
Husband: John Gould Rubin (stage producer, Jesus Hopped the A train, m. 3-May-1986, div. 25-Aug-1995)
Husband: Bart Freundlich (director, The Myth of Fingerprints, dated 1996-2000, m. 23-Aug-2000)
Son: Cal (b. 4-Mar-1997, with Bart)
Daughter: Liv Helen (b. 11-Apr-2002, with Bart)
As a child, Julianne Moore's family moved dozens of times due to her father's career in the Army. She was short, non-athletic girl who wore glasses. While attending high school in Germany, she cut her hair, replaced her glasses with contact lenses, and was surprised by the change in the way people treated her. Still, early in her career, Moore was told that she was not attractive enough to succeed in the movies. Her first professional acting jobs were in off-Broadway productions, but she soon got a role in the soap opera The Edge of Night. From there, she moved into a duel role as half sisters Frannie (the good one) and Sabrina (the evil one) on another soap, As the World Turns, for which she received an Emmy as "Outstanding Ingenue" in 1988.
She made her prime time acting debut in a glitzy-trashy miniseries of Judith Krantz's I'll Take Manhattan, starring Valerie Bertinelli. Her first movie was Slaughterhouse II, an abysmal Canadian thriller from 1988, and her first American film role came two years later, as a mummy's victim in Tales from the Dark Side: The Movie When she was rejected for a role in Robert Altman's The Player, it wasn't because she was not pretty enough. Instead, producers told her she was "too beautiful".
During the 1990s, though, Moore was the one of the busiest actors in Hollywood, filming 24 movies, including Louis Malle's Vanya on 42nd Street and Nine Months, where she played Hugh Grant's pregnant girlfriend. She was the suspicious doctor in The Fugitive with Harrison Ford, and in Altman's Short Cuts, Moore delivered a long, confessional monologue to her husband, played by Matthew Modine, while she was nude from the waist down. That people remember what she was saying is a testament to her skill as an actress.
She has never shied away from nudity, appearing at least partially nude in five movies, including a memorable sex scene with Mark Wahlberg in Boogie Nights, with Moore telling him to "Come inside me".

AKA Britney Jean Spears
Born: 2-Dec-1981
Birthplace: McComb, MS
Gender: Female
Religion: Baptist
Race or Ethnicity: White
Sexual orientation: Straight
Occupation: Singer
Nationality: United States
Executive summary: Oops!... I Did it Again
Britney Jean Spears is an American recording artist and entertainer. Born in McComb, Mississippi and raised in Kentwood, Louisiana, Spears first appeared on national television in 1992 as a contestant on the Star Search program, and went on to star on the television series The New Mickey Mouse Club from 1993–1994. After a brief membership with the pop musical group Innosense, Spears signed a recording contract with Jive Records, releasing her debut album ...Baby One More Time in 1999. The album established her as a pop icon and "bona fide pop phenomenon", credited for influencing the revival of teen pop in the late 1990s.
The music video for "...Baby One More Time" and Spears's appearance on the cover of Rolling Stone magazine also established her as an international sex symbol, garnering controversy over the influence of her public image on teenage girls.
Spears's personal life began to gain substantial media attention after her marriage to Kevin Federline in 2004. Their marriage ended two years later, resulting in an ongoing custody battle over their two children, born in 2005 and 2006. Spears released her fifth studio album Blackout in 2007. The following year Spears released her sixth studio album Circus.
Spears is ranked as the eighth best-selling female recording artist in the United States according to the Recording Industry Association of America with 31 million certified albums and one of the world's best-selling music artists having sold an estimated 83 million records worldwide. Spears also holds the title to multiple Guinness World Records.
Biography
Early life and career debut
Britney Spears was born in McComb, Mississippi, and raised in Kentwood, Louisiana as a Southern Baptist. Her parents are Lynne Irene (née Bridges), a former elementary school teacher, and Jamie Parnell Spears, a building contractor. Spears's brother Bryan works as a manager for the Spears family interests and her sister Jamie Lynn is an actress and singer. Her maternal grandmother Lillian Woolmore-Portell was an English war-bride of part Maltese ancestry, born in Tottenham, London, and met Spears's grandfather Barnett O'Field Bridges in England during World War II. Her paternal grandparents were June Austin Spears and Emma Jean Forbes.
Spears was an accomplished gymnast, attending gymnastics classes until age nine and competing in state-level competitions. She performed in local dance revues and sang in her local Baptist church choir. Spears entered New York City's Professional Performing Arts School when she was eight. At age eight she auditioned for the Disney Channel series The New Mickey Mouse Club. Although she was considered too young to join the series at the time, a producer on the show introduced her to a New York City agent. Spears subsequently spent three summers at NYC's Professional Performing Arts School and also appeared in a number of off-Broadway productions. She was an understudy in the 1991 off-Broadway musical Ruthless!. In 1992, she landed a spot on the popular television show Star Search. She won the first round of competition, but ultimately lost. At age eleven, Spears returned to the Disney Channel for a spot on the The New Mickey Mouse Club in Lakeland, Florida. She was featured on the show from 1993 to 1994, until she was 13. After the show ended, Spears returned to Kentwood and attended high school for a year.
In 1997, Spears briefly joined the all-female pop group Innosense. Later that same year, she recorded a demo solo and was signed by Jive Records. She began a U.S. concert tour sponsored by American teen magazines, and eventually became an opening act for 'N Sync and the Backstreet Boys.
1998–2000: ...Baby One More Time and Oops!... I Did It Again
Spears's debut single "...Baby One More Time", which was released in October 1998, peaked at number one on the Billboard Hot 100 singles chart in January 1999, and topped the chart for two weeks. Spears commented, "I just wanted to be on the radio. I didn't think it would be on the Billboard charts! I was so excited, I wanted to cry". Gillian G. Gaar, author of She's a Rebel: The History of Women in Rock & Roll (2002) documented that "eyebrows were raised over the schoolgirl-in-heat persona Spears projected in her [music video for ...Baby One More Time], along with an increasingly revealing series of stage outfits. The album of the same name debuted at number one on the Billboard 200 album charts in January 1999. Rolling Stone magazine wrote: "While several Cherion-crafted kiddie-funk jams serve up beefy hooks, shameless schlock slowies, like "E-Mail My Heart," are pure spam". NME commented "[Spears's debut album and its title-track] are the kind of soullessness that saturates Stateside charts and consists of nothing but over-chewed bubblegum beats and saccharine sensibilities".
In contrast, Stephen Thomas Erlewine of Allmusic wrote: "Like many teen pop albums, ...Baby One More Time has its share of well-crafted filler, but the singles, combined with Britney's burgeoning charisma, make this a pretty great piece of fluff". ...Baby One More Time was later certified fourteen times platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America, denoting fourteen million units shipped within the United States.
In March 1999, Tamara Conniff of Entertainment News Wire reported: "Only a few years ago, Spears was a Mouseketeer on the Disney Channel's "Mickey Mouse Club." Now, she's a 17-year-old pop superstar with a No. 1 album, a double-platinum single and a provocative video in heavy rotation on MTV. Spears's debut album and its title track, "... Baby One More Time," have taken the music world by storm". Spears commented, "My main goal is just to make good music...And since I am so young, I can grow as an artist each time and hopefully be a legend or something, like Madonna". By April 1999, Spears was described as "the Reigning Princess of Pop" by the Orlando Sentinel.
Spears posed for the cover of Rolling Stone magazine in April 1999, shot by photographer David LaChapelle. Spears commented, "It was so much fun!...I loved the idea of me holding Tinky Winky and talking on the phone!" Geoff Boucher of The Los Angeles Times reported, "there was no mistaking the titillation factor in the recent Spears cover story and accompanying photos in the April 15 issue of Rolling Stone, which sent eyebrows arching throughout the music industry, where several executives half-jokingly called it "child pornography." Similarly, an editorial review from Iowa State Daily commented, "a distinction should be drawn between the cute teeny-boppers in cool outfits who make the boys and girls buy records by the truckload and the exploitation of a minor by her parents, her record company and the media... Pictures like these are only barely legal when taken by private citizens. But when Rolling Stone does it, it's just good business". Gillian G. Gaar reported, "The American Family Association charged that the pictures, which showed Spears in push-up bras and a minuscule pair of shorts with "Baby" in rhinestones on the bottom, presented a "disturbing mix of childhood innocence and adult sexuality" and asked that all "God-loving Americans" boycott stores carrying her albums".
More controversy arose when Spears declared that she would "remain a virgin until marriage". This pledge has been questioned due to her apparently sexual relationship with fellow pop singer Justin Timberlake.
In late 1999, Spears appeared on the sitcom Sabrina, the Teenage Witch and performed the song "(You Drive Me) Crazy"; this cameo was a cross-promotion for the film Drive Me Crazy, which starred Sabrina's Melissa Joan Hart and was named after the song. In December 1999, she won four Billboard Music Awards, including Female Artist of the Year. A month later, she took home the Favorite Pop/Rock New Artist award at the American Music Awards.
Following the success of her previous album, Spears released the album Oops!... I Did It Again in May 2000. It debuted at number one in the U.S. by selling 1,319,193 units during its first week of sales, breaking the SoundScan record for the highest album sales in its debut week by any solo artist. The RIAA awarded the album with a diamond certification with 10 million copies sold in the U.S. Concerning both musical content and sales, the album was very similar to Spears's debut, although it fared better with critics. Allmusic once again gave it 4 out of 5 stars, saying that the album "has the same combination of sweetly sentimental ballads and endearingly gaudy dance-pop that made "...Baby One More Time." Rolling Stone gave the album 3.5 stars out of 5 by noting the album as "fantastic pop cheese" and "Britney's demand for satisfaction is complex, fierce and downright scary."
The album's lead single of the same name broke the record for most radio station additions in a single day, and quickly became a top ten hit in the U.S. and other countries. The same year, Spears launched her first world tour, the "Oops!... I Did It Again World Tour". During the tour, she made a stop in New York for the 2000 MTV Video Music Awards. As part of her performance, she ripped off a black suit to reveal a provocative nude-colored and crystal-adorned outfit that generated much controversy. Spears earned two Billboard Music Awards for Oops!... I Did It Again.
2001–2003: Britney, Crossroads, and In the Zone
Spears released her third studio album Britney in November 2001. Although not as successful as her previous albums, she assumed some creative control by co-writing five of the album's tracks. It surpassed Michael Jackson's album Invincible when it had a successful debut at number one in the U.S. by selling 745,744 units during its first week. The album's success made her the only female artist in music history to have her first three albums debut at number one. The album fared well with critics such as Allmusic who gave it 4.5 out of 5 stars, describing the album's title tracks as being "pivotal moments on Britney Spears's third album, the record where she strives to deepen her persona, making it more adult while still recognizably Britney." In contrast, Rolling Stone said of the album Britney "belabors the obvious: Spears is one month away from entering her twenties and clearly needs to grow up if she's going to bring her fans along."
The singles did not perform as well; Britney's lead single "I'm a Slave 4 U" peaked at 27 on the Billboard Hot 100 making it the album's biggest hit. To help promote the album, Spears embarked on the Dream Within a Dream Tour in November 2001. The tour was forced to cut short in Mexico City due to bad weather. With the end to her tour, Spears announced she would take a six month break from her career.
In early 2002, Spears's four-year relationship with Timberlake ended. His 2002 song "Cry Me a River" and its music video, which featured an actress resembling Spears, caused speculation that Spears had been unfaithful; Timberlake, however, denied that his song was meant to portray her.
June 2002 saw the opening of Spears's restaurant, Nyla, in New York City, which served Louisianan and Italian cuisine. However, she was pulled out of the business venture in November as a result of debts and management issues. Nyla officially closed in 2003. In the same year, Limp Bizkit frontman Fred Durst confirmed that he was in a relationship with Spears. Durst was also hired to help write and produce tracks for her album In the Zone, which were eventually scrapped.
Spears had her first starring role in the 2002 film Crossroads, in which she portrayed a high school graduate who travels to find her long-lost mother. The movie was poorly received, as was her performance; Spears received Razzie Awards for Worst Actress and for Worst Original Song. Nonetheless, the film grossed over $60 million worldwide. Spears also made cameo appearances in Austin Powers in Goldmember and Longshot. Footage of Spears appeared in the 2004 documentary Fahrenheit 9/11, which samples a 2003 CNN interview about the Iraq War in which Spears says, "Honestly, I think we should just trust our president in every decision he makes and should just support that, you know, and be faithful in what happens."
Spears made her third consecutive MTV Video Music Awards performance. While performing "I'm a Slave 4 U", she controversially utilized caged animals and danced erotically with a large albino python draped over her shoulders. Animal-rights organization PETA claimed that the animals featured in the performance were mistreated and cancelled plans for an anti-fur billboard that was to feature Spears. Her career success was highlighted by Forbes magazine in 2002 as Spears was ranked the world's most powerful celebrity. At a performance at the 2003 MTV Video Music Awards, she appeared with Aguilera performing the song "Like a Virgin", and was later joined by American pop singer Madonna. Spears locked lips with Madonna in a highly publicized kiss.
Spears initially supported the policies of President Bush in a CNN interview in 2003 with conservative political pundit Tucker Carlson. However, her support was not due to politics; instead more to show patriotism. Carlson praised Spears for her support of the president, who was unpopular at that time among Hollywood entertainers.
Spears released her fourth studio album In the Zone in November 2003, jettisoning the Max Martin-produced synthpop of her earlier releases. The album took in lesser-known producers such as RedZone and big names including Moby and R. Kelly. Spears co-wrote eight of the album's thirteen songs and co-produced several pieces of her material for the first time. In the Zone reached number one in the U.S. charts during its debut week, selling over 609,000 copies. This made Spears the first female in the Nielsen SoundScan era to have her first four studio albums to debut at number one. The album had a mild reception from critics. Stylus Magazine gave the album a D and even blamed Spears's career choices by stating, "Ultimately, In the Zone suffers greatly from Britney's uneasy transition from teen tart to sexually powerful woman. Had Britney been in charge of her career direction instead of mercilessly prostituted by her management, she might have been able to produce something with some semblance of musical vision." The Guardian praised the album's melodies and her effort, giving it 4 out of 5 stars and writing, "Unlike previous Britney albums, In the Zone has no filler and no shoddy cover versions, just 57 varieties of blue-chip hit-factory pop. There is southern hip-hop, deep house, Neptunes-style R&B, the ubiquitous Diwali beat and, most importantly, oodles of Madonna."
The album spawned the hit single "Toxic", winning Spears her first ever Grammy in the category of Best Dance Recording.
2004–2005: Marriages, first child and compilation albums
Spears married childhood friend Jason Allen Alexander on January 3, 2004, at The Little White Wedding Chapel in Las Vegas. The marriage lasted 55 hours, ending with an annulment stating that Spears "lacked understanding of her actions to the extent that she was incapable of agreeing to marriage because before entering into the marriage the Plaintiff and Defendant did not know each others' likes and dislikes, each others' desires to have or not have children, and each other's desires as to State of residency."
Months after her Las Vegas marriage, Spears embarked on The Onyx Hotel Tour, which was canceled in June, after Spears injured her knee during the filming of the video for the single "Outrageous". The tour's choreography generated much controversy and criticism, with the presence of young children in the audience. She then became involved in the Kabbalah Centre in September 2004 through her friendship with Madonna. However, she publicly left the religion in 2006, stating on her website, "I no longer study Kabbalah, my baby is my religion."
In July 2004, Spears announced her engagement to Kevin Federline, three months after they met. Federline had recently been in a relationship with actress Shar Jackson, who was eight months pregnant with their second child. These initial stages were chronicled in Spears's first reality show Britney & Kevin: Chaotic, which aired on UPN in May and June 2005. On the night of September 18, Spears married Federline in a surprise, non-denominational ceremony at a residence in Studio City, California, filing legal papers on October 6. After the marriage, Spears announced via her website that she would be taking another career break to start a family. She gave birth to her first child, Sean Preston Federline, nearly one year later, on September 14, 2005 in Santa Monica, California by a scheduled caesarean section.
November 2004 saw the release of her first greatest hits collection, Greatest Hits: My Prerogative, which features all of Spears's singles with the exception of "From The Bottom Of My Broken Heart". It also featured three previously unreleased songs, them being a cover version of American R&B singer Bobby Brown's 1988 hit "My Prerogative", "Do Somethin'", produced by Bloodshy and Avant, whom she had worked with on In The Zone, and "I've Just Begun (Havin' My Fun)", which was a song recorded for Spears's fourth album, In The Zone, but did not make the final cut. By the end of that year, Spears had become one of the best-selling artists in the world.
In November 2005, Spears released her first remix album, B In The Mix: The Remixes. The album ranged from "...Baby One More Time" to "Toxic". Her single "Someday (I Will Understand)" was also remixed. Another single, "And Then We Kiss", was only released in Asia, where it charted in many countries. The song peaked at number 15 on Billboard's Hot Dance Airplay chart, despite it not being officially released in the U.S.
2006–2007: Personal struggles, second child, divorce, and Blackout
In 2006, Spears guest-starred on the Will & Grace episode "Buy, Buy Baby" as a closeted lesbian. Spears announced her second pregnancy in May 2006 during an appearance on The Late Show with David Letterman. She also appeared on Dateline the next month to discuss tabloid rumors about an impending divorce, and motherhood. She addressed an incident which occurred in February when photos revealed her driving with her son unrestrained in her lap, explaining, "I see a bunch of photographers and I’m scared and I want to get out of the situation... They’re coming up on the sides of the car which is a scary situation for me… so I get my baby out of the car and I go home." The month following the televised interview, Spears posed nude for the August 2006 cover of Harper's Bazaar. Just two days before Sean's first birthday, Spears gave birth to her second son, Jayden James Federline on September 12 in Los Angeles.
Spears's aunt Sandra Bridges Covington, with whom she had been very close, died of ovarian cancer on January 21, 2007. Spears then stayed in an off-shore drug rehabilitation facility in Antigua for less than 24 hours on February 16. The following night at a hair salon in Tarzana, California she shaved her head with electric clippers. A few days later, she admitted herself to another treatment facility in Malibu, California. While leaving the facility briefly, she quickly returned on February 22. The previous day, Kevin Federline had requested an emergency hearing regarding the custody of their children but then his attorney announced that Federline asked to cancel the court appearance. No further explanation was given. Spears filed for divorce from Federline on November 7, 2006, citing irreconcilable differences and asking for both physical and legal custody of their two children, with visitation rights for Federline. The following day, Federline filed a response to Spears's divorce petition, seeking physical and legal custody of their children. American attorney Laura Wasser was hired to represent Spears in the case. According to a representative for Federline's lawyer, the divorce filing "caught Kevin totally by surprise". The couple reached a global settlement agreement in March 2007 and their divorce was finalized in July. Throughout 2007, Spears's behavior received heightened media attention, including attacking a paparazzi vehicle with an umbrella. Spears left the rehabilitation center on March 20 according to her manager, who said she was released after "successfully completing their program." As the legal battle over the custody of their children continued, many members of her entourage have been summoned to testify about her parenting skills.
In May 2007, she produced a mini-tour for the House of Blues just after she left a rehabilitation facility under the name The M+M's; with six shows altogether, she sang live during some lines of her songs. She recorded her latest album with producers such as Sean Garrett, J. R. Rotem and Nate "Danja" Hills throughout 2006 and 2007.
In September 2007, the official findings in Spears's custody battle were announced by the court. She was ordered to undergo random drug and alcohol testings and to attend parenting counseling. Spears and Federline continued to share joint custody of their two children on a conditional basis. A few days later, she was officially charged with misdemeanor hit-and-run and driving without a license. If convicted, she could face a year in jail. Spears lost physical custody of her children to Federline on October 1, with the court ruling that Federline will keep full custody of the children. The charges for her alleged hit-and-run that occurred in August 2007 were officially laid, she was booked for the charges by the Los Angeles Police Department on October 15 but was not arrested.
The release of Spears's fifth album, Blackout, was rescheduled to October 30, 2007 rather than November 13, 2007 due to online leaks. Blackout debuted at number two on the U.S. Billboard 200., making Spears the only female music artist to have her first five albums go to number one and two. It was fairly well received by critics. As of June 2008, there have been 3.1 million digital downloads of the songs and remixes from the album in the United States. Rolling Stone gave the album 3.5 out of 5 stars. Allmusic also rated the album 3.5 out of 5 stars, calling Blackout "coherent and entertaining" and stating that "it holds together better than any of her other records". Blackout's lead single, "Gimme More" leaked on the internet on August 30. The song, which was Spears's first produced by Danja, peaked at number three on Billboard's Hot 100 on October 3, making it her most successful single in the U.S. since her debut, "...Baby One More Time". Spears's highly anticipated performance of "Gimme More" at the 2007 MTV Video Music Awards was panned. The BBC stated that "her performance would go down in the history books as being one of the worst to grace the MTV Awards", and The Times noted that "Spears was out of synch as she lip-synched and at times just stopped singing altogether". Despite the criticism on her performance, the single has achieved worldwide success. The second single, "Piece of Me", was certified platinum in the US.
2008–present: Conservatorship, custody settlement and Circus
On the evening of January 3, 2008, after not sleeping for over four days, Spears refused to relinquish custody of her children to Federline's representatives. In response, police were called to Spears's home. She was hospitalized at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center after she "appeared to be under the influence of an unknown substance", though blood tests tested negative for any illicit substances. She was held for psychiatric evaluation for two days. Pending a February 19 hearing, Commissioner Scott Gordon issued an order on January 14 stating that her visitation rights have been suspended indefinitely. On January 31, a court placed Spears under temporary co-conservatorship of her father James Spears and attorney Andrew Wallete, giving them complete control of her assets. As a result of an order placed by her psychiatrist, she was taken to UCLA Medical Center to be put on a 5150 involuntary psychiatric hold for the second time that month. On February 1, a restraining order was issued against Sam Lutfi, a prominent figure in Spears's life. She was released from the hospital on February 6, amid speculation that she has bipolar disorder, although medical records are classified, and no confirmation has been made. Her parents expressed disappointment and concern at the decision to release her. She has regained some visitation rights after coming to an agreement with Federline and his counsel. On July 18, 2008, Spears and Federline reached a custody settlement in which Federline retains sole custody while Spears keeps her visitation rights. Conservative pundit Rachel Alexander pointed out in an article that Spears' support for the president partly caused the feminists in the United States unwilling to defend her in her child custody controversy.
In 2008, Spears guest-starred on CBS's television show How I Met Your Mother playing a receptionist. She received positive reviews for her performance as well as bringing in the series' highest ratings ever. Spears reprised her role in May 2008, leaving the storyline open for a future return.
On September 7, 2008, Spears opened the MTV Video Music Awards for the third time. Although having not performed, a skit with Jonah Hill was pre-taped, as well as an introduction speech to the official opening of the show. Spears won Best Female Video, Best Pop Video and Video Of The Year for "Piece of Me".
On September 15, Jive released a statement announcing the title of her sixth studio album, Circus as well as the first single, "Womanizer". The single was released to radio stations on September 26, and the release date for the album is December 2, Spears' 27th birthday. On October 15, the song made a record-breaking jump to number one on the Billboard Hot 100, breaking the record set by T.I.'s Live Your Life. It also garnered first-week download sales of 286,000, the biggest opening-week tally by a female artist since Nielsen SoundScan began tracking digital downloads in 2003. It marked Spears's first number one single on the Hot 100 since her debut ...Baby One More Time.
On October 21, 2008, Los Angeles Superior Court Judge James Steele declared a mistrial and dismissed the August 2007 driving without a license misdemeanor charges against Spears, who was represented by attorney J. Michael Flanagan. Spears claimed she had a valid Louisiana license and a California permit was not required.
On November 6, 2008, Spears won two awards at the MTV Europe Music Awards 2008, "Album of The Year" for Blackout and "Act of 2008", and despite not being present, two acceptance videos were taped and shown at the show.
Yahoo! named Britney Spears the most searched person on the internet in 2008, this marked her seventh time in a row win, beating Barack Obama and Miley Cyrus.
Musical style and performance
Spears is a soubrette, a type of soprano vocal part. Rami Yacoub, who co-produced Spears's debut album with its songwriter and lyricist Max Martin, commented, "I know from Denniz Pop and Max's previous productions, when we do songs, there's kind of a nasal thing. With N' Sync and the Backstreet Boys, we had to push for that mid-nasal voice. When Britney did that, she got this kind of raspy, sexy voice". Following the release of her debut album, Chuck Taylor of Billboard observed, "Spears has become a consummate performer, with snappy dance moves, a clearly real-albeit young-and funkdified voice..."(You Drive Me) Crazy," her third single...demonstrates Spears's own development, proving that the 17-year-old is finding her own vocal personality after so many months of steadfast practice". Spears later commented, "With [...Baby One More Time], I didn't get to show my voice off. The songs were great, but they weren't very challenging".
Choreography
Joan Anderman of The Boston Globe cited Madonna and Janet Jackson as two of Spears' biggest influences", commenting that Spears adopted Madonna's "Truth or Dare"-era moves" and Jackson's sexy-robot body language". Judy Mitoma, author of Envisioning dance on film and video (2002) observed "[t]he music videos of the late 1990s and early 2000s enlist[ed] the popular dance vocabularies at the time ... pounding feet into the floor and jabbing at the air with taunt arm movements, punctuating with bent knees and thrusting hips". Britney Spears, among her contemporaries, became a "playfully carnal, provocatively dressed vixen ... led by Madonna (and the first time she grabbed her crotch) [and] fueled by Janet Jackson, transformed from a soft-fleshed, innocent girl to a buffed and buxom woman". In the 2002 book Madonnastyle by Carol Clerk, Spears is quoted saying: "I have been a huge fan of Madonna since I was a little girl. I would really, really like to be a legend like Madonna ... Her choreography definitely opened the door for girls to go in there and do their own thing".
Live performances
Kevin Johnson of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch reported that his review of Spear's concert performance of her Oops!... I Did It Again World Tour in July 2000, garnered mix reactions. He stated: "It was the review of Spears's concert that got most readers writing - to disagree and agree. A Spears fan wrote, "I don't like you or your stinking, horrible, abusive report! ... I, however, love Britney." Another fan wrote, "Britney Spears is a legend, a great performer. She is our idol and nothing you say about that concert will change that. It still hurts to think you didn't see how many people she touched that night. ... What I saw was hard work and determination, great dance moves, catchy lyrics, and positive songs". In contrast, Johnson also reported: "One reader said, "I was pleased the article was direct and told the simple truth: Britney can't sing. I attended the concert and had a great time, but unlike 95 percent of the crowd, I realized how ridiculous Britney Spears really is". In August 2000, Joan Anderman wrote in her review of the concert, "Spears sang without the help of prerecorded tracks — that's both the good news and the bad news — avoiding the perils by having her two backup vocalists sing in unison with her much of the time, a wise move for someone whose vocal and emotional range are limited, and whose singing isn't even particularly appealing".
The following year, at the beginning of Spears's Dream Within a Dream Tour, the Daily News reported: "Britney Spears is easy to criticize — those outfits, that coquette/ good-girl contradiction, those recycled pop hooks. But Tuesday night, surrounded by thousands of Britney devotees at the sold-out Arrowhead Pond of Anaheim, she was easy to love as well...Because of all that dancing, thrashing and dodging fire on stage, Spears performed most of the show to a recorded track. It was hard to tell when she was really singing or just lip-syncing. But, in the context of a Britney Spears concert, does it really matter? Like a Vegas revue show, you don't go to hear the music, you go for the somewhat-ridiculous spectacle of it all". In December 2001, Sean Piccoli of South Florida Sun-Sentinel reported: "[Spears's] contributions to pop are not generally founded in music. Wednesday's spectacle was pop inspired not by songs, but by cheerleader tryouts and beauty pageants. The point was not whether Spears could sing — her voice is a very small bag of heavy-breathing tricks — or even dance. What mattered was how she presents...By that standard, the show was a success. Spears had the biggest runway a girl could ask for and made good use of it, ensuring that every person from the floor to the nosebleed seats could see her fling her hair, swivel her hips or, in one sequence that was almost eerie, dance with a video projection of herself".
Public image
In March 2007, Leonard Pitts, Jr. wrote that in the aftermath of Spears' personal struggles that have become widely publicized, Spears had been reduced to an abstract idea as opposed to being regarded as a real person. "The abstraction is not surprising: Whatever media touch, they objectify... What must it be like to have your marriage and divorce, your relationship with your parents and kids... dissected by millions of strangers who think they know you?" Pitts further commented that fame and fortune do not qualify the media scrutiny Spears has faced, but observed that fact has been overlooked by "our rush to a day of 'reality' television" and "tabloid journalism". Though "[t]here is no reverence, no privacy, [and] nothing held back as sacred", Pitts argues "Britney Jean Spears is not an idea."
Vanessa Grigoriadis reported in "The Tragedy of Britney Spears" (2008), her cover story for Rolling Stone, that "more than any other star today, Britney epitomizes the crucible of fame for the famous: loving it, hating it and never quite being able to stop it from destroying you." Grigoriadis wrote that "every day in L.A., at least a hundred paparazzi, reporters and celebrity-magazine editors dash after her" and that paparazzi estimated Spears generated "up to twenty percent of their coverage for the past year." She further documented that in addition to tabloid journalists, the Associated Press declared that everything Spears does is considered news. "The paparazzi feed the celebrity magazines, which feed the mainstream press, while sources sell their dirtiest material to British tabloids, and then it trickles back to America," wrote Grigoriadis. "She's the canary in the coal mine of our culture, the most vivid representation of the excess of the past decade."
Legacy
Britney Spears became a pop culture icon immediately after launching her recording career. Rolling Stone magazine wrote: "One of the most controversial and successful female vocalists of the 21st century," she "spearheaded the rise of post-millennial teen pop ... Spears early on cultivated a mixture of innocence and experience that broke the bank". She is listed by the Guinness World Records as having the "Best-selling album by a teenage solo artist" for her debut album ...Baby One More Time which sold over thirteen million copies in the United States. Melissa Ruggieri of the Richmond Times-Dispatch reported, "She's also marked for being the best-selling teenage artist. Before she turned 20 in 2001, Spears sold more than 37 million albums worldwide". Barbara Ellen of The Observer reported: "Spears is famously one of the 'oldest' teenagers pop has ever produced, almost middle aged in terms of focus and determination. Many 19-year-olds haven't even started working by that age, whereas Britney, a former Mouskateer, was that most unusual and volatile of American phenomena — a child with a full-time career. While other little girls were putting posters on their walls, Britney was wanting to be the poster on the wall. Whereas other children develop at their own pace, Britney was developing at a pace set by the ferociously competitive American entertainment industry". 'Britney Spears' has been Yahoo!'s most popular search term for the last four consecutive years, seven times in total. Spears was named as Most Searched Person in the Guinness World Records book edition 2007 and 2009.
People and MTV reported that on October 1, 2008, Bronx's John Philip Sousa Middle School, named their music studio in honor of Britney Spears, Spears herself was present during the ceremony and donated $10,000 dollars to the school's music program.
Products and endorsements
In early 2001, Spears signed a multi-million dollar promotional deal with Pepsi that included television commercials, point-of-purchase promotions, and Internet ties between Spears and the company. Britney Spears has earned over US$370 million from her many, multi-million dollar advertisement and endorsement deals all around the World.. She has published four books, including A Mother's Gift, and released seven DVDs, including her self-produced 2005 reality series Britney & Kevin: Chaotic. Other Spears products include a doll and a video game. She participated in seven tours including "The Onyx Hotel Tour" in 2004. She has grossed over US$350 million from tour ticket sales and over $185 million in merchandise from her tours, the most ever grossed by a performer (male and female).
Spears endorsed her first Elizabeth Arden fragrance "Curious" in 2004, and earned $100 million in sales in the five weeks after its 2004 release. In September 2005, Spears released the fragrance "Fantasy" with Elizabeth Arden, which also saw great success. These were followed by the release of two more fragrances of "Curious:In Control" and "Midnight Fantasy" in 2006. Her latest Elizabeth Arden fragrance "Believe", was released in September 2007.[citation needed] In January, 2008, Spears released Curious Heart. Spears will release a new fragrance entitled Hidden Fantasy, due in stores in January, 2009.

AKA Lucy Alexis Liu

Born: 2-Dec-1968
Birthplace: Jackson Heights, Queens, NY
Gender: Female
Race or Ethnicity: Asian
Sexual orientation: Bisexual
Occupation: Actor
Nationality: United States
Executive summary: Ling on Ally McBeal
Father: Tom Liu (civil engineer, emigrated from China)
Mother: Cecilia Liu (biochemist, emigrated from China)
Sister: Jenny Liu (b. 1966)
Brother: Alex Ya Liu
Boyfriend: Nicholas Lea (actor, together 1997-98)
Boyfriend: Zach Helm (screenwriter, dated and engaged 2003-04)
Boyfriend: Will McCormack (actor, dated 2004)
Lucy Alexis Liu; pinyin: Liú Yùlíng; is an American actress. She became known for her role in the television series Ally McBeal (1998–2002) and has also appeared in several notable film roles, including Chicago, Kill Bill, and the Charlie's Angels films. She signed on to join the cast of Dirty Sexy Money.
Biography
Early life
She was born and was raised with her brother, Alex Liu, in Jackson Heights, Queens, New York by Chinese immigrant parents. Liu has said that she grew up in a "diverse" neighborhood. Her family spoke Mandarin at home and she did not learn English until she was five years old. Her father, Tom, was a civil engineer and her mother, Cecilia, a biochemist, but they sacrificed those careers to come to the United States. Liu, at her parents' insistence, devoted her spare time to studying. She attended the Joseph Pulitzer Middle School (I.S.145) and she graduated from New York City's prestigious Stuyvesant High School in 1986. She attended New York University for one year, before transferring to the University of Michigan where she joined the Chi Omega sorority and graduated with a Bachelor of Science degree in Asian Languages and Cultures. At one point, Liu worked as a waitress in Michigan.
Career
Liu began acting in 1989, after auditioning for a role in the University of Michigan's production of Alice in Wonderland during her senior year. Liu was cast in the lead role, although she had originally only tried out for a supporting part. Liu had small roles in films and TV (including the "Hell Money" episode of The X-Files and "The March to Freedom" episode on Hercules: The Legendary Journeys) before landing a role on Ally McBeal. Liu originally auditioned for the role of 'Nelle Porter' (played by Portia de Rossi), and the character 'Ling Woo' was later created specifically for her. Liu's part on the series was originally not meant to be regular but the enthusiastic audience response to the actress' 'feisty' Ling Woo secured Liu as a permanent cast member. It also earned her an Emmy nomination for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series, as well as a Screen Actors Guild Award nomination for Best Actress in a Comedy Series. Liu cemented her reputation playing bad girls by portraying "Pearl" the sadistic dominatrix/hitwoman for the Chinese mafia in the film Payback (1999).
With her turn as Alex Munday in the Charlie's Angels film, alongside established Hollywood stars Drew Barrymore and Cameron Diaz. The film opened in November 2000 and was a hit, earning more than $125 million in the U.S., and a worldwide total of more than $264 million. The sequel, Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle, opened in June 2003 and was a box-office hit again, earning more than $100 million in the U.S., and a worldwide total of more than $259 million. In between the two films, Liu starred with Antonio Banderas in Ballistic: Ecks vs. Sever, a critical and box office failure.
Liu next played O-Ren Ishii, one of the major villains in Quentin Tarantino's 2003 film, Kill Bill. She won an MTV Movie Award for "Best Movie Villain" for the part. Subsequently, Liu appeared on several episodes of Joey with Matt LeBlanc, who played her love interest in the Charlie's Angels movies. She also had smaller roles as Kitty Baxter in the film Chicago, and as a psychologist opposite Keira Knightley in the thriller Domino. In 2006, she played leading lady and love interest to Josh Hartnett in the crime thriller Lucky Number Slevin. Other appearances include a cameo on the animated shows Futurama (as herself in the episodes "I Dated a Robot" and "Love and Rocket" and The Simpsons (on the season sixteen episode "Goo Goo Gai Pan"), a guest host on an episode of the NBC sketch show Saturday Night Live in 2000 (musical guest" Jay-Z), and the voice of Elise in SSX Tricky.
In April 2006, the documentary Freedom's Fury premiered, with Liu as executive producer. The film dramatizes the Hungarian Revolution of 1956, climaxing with the infamous water polo showdown between Hungary and the Soviet Union at the 1956 Melbourne Olympics, known as the 'Blood in the Water match'.
Her film 3 Needles was released on December 1, 2006. In the film, she plays Jin Ping, an HIV-positive Chinese woman. Liu agreed to star in the film for lower than usual pay because she wanted to spread awareness about the way AIDS is improperly treated in China and Thailand. Liu's other recent roles include Code Name: The Cleaner, an action comedy released January 5, 2007; Rise, a supernatural thriller co-starring Michael Chiklis in which Liu plays an undead reporter; Watching the Detectives, an independent romantic comedy co-starring Cillian Murphy; and Kung Fu Panda, an animated film in which she voiced Viper. Liu has also signed on to star in Beautiful Asian Brides and a new version of Charlie Chan which has been in pre-production since 2000; she will produce both films.
Liu has guest starred as lawyer Grace Chin on Ugly Betty in the episodes "Derailed" and "Icing on the Cake". She stars in the Sex and the City inspired TV show, Cashmere Mafia on ABC. In 2007, Empire magazine named her among the "100 Sexiest Movie Stars".
In 2008, after pitching an interest in being part of the hit new show Dirty Sexy Money, the producers immediately created a role for her as a series regular. She plays the role of Nola Lyons, a powerful attorney that faces Nick George (played by Peter Krause).
Personal life
In a Jane interview, she indicated the possibility that she is bisexual. She is quoted as saying,
"I think people sometimes get the wrong impression when they're like, 'Oh, well, so-and-so was straight and then she was gay, and now she's straight again,' you know? But it's like, how many times do I have to kiss a woman before I'm gay? Everybody wants to label people. Sometimes you just fall in love with somebody, and you're really not thinking about what gender or whatever they happen to be. I think that if I happen to fall in love with a woman, everyone's going to make a big deal out of it. But if I happen to fall in love with a man, nobody cares."
With her parents' work ethic, Liu continued, "I'm always multitasking, doing 10 things at once". She is the aunt of Nelson Chang and Cindy Meng, Co-Founders of Alpha Science Learning Centers in Temple City, CA according to the Los Angeles Wave Newspaper September 2, 2007 issue.She speaks English, Chinese, Italian, Spanish, and a little Japanese, a language she studied in preparation for her role in Kill Bill. She also rock climbs, practices martial arts, skis, and plays the accordion.
Liu is also an artist in several media, and has had three gallery shows showcasing her collage, paintings, and photography.[ She started doing collage mixed media at 16 and then moved to photography and later painting. Lucy Liu had an art show in September and she donated her share of the profits to UNICEF. She also has another show in 2008 in Munich and has stated that she will also donate her share of the profits to UNICEF.
In 2001, Liu was the spokesperson for the Lee National Denim Day fundraiser which raises millions of dollars for breast cancer research and education. In 2005, Liu was appointed a U.S. Fund for UNICEF Ambassador; in that capacity, she has traveled to Pakistan and Lesotho, among other countries. She also hosted an MTV documentary for the MTV EXIT campaign in 2007, produced to raise awareness of human trafficking in Asia. Early in 2006, Liu received an "Asian Excellence Award" for Visibility, since she is considered the most well-known and visible Asian American in the media today. She is also the first Asian American woman to host Saturday Night Live.
Liu has said about her background, "when you grow up Asian-American it’s difficult because you don’t know if you’re Asian or you’re American. You get confused... You need to recognize where your background is from. I think it’s important. Just for yourself. It makes you more whole. It does."
She lives with her brother and his wife in New York.

AKA Sarah Kate Silverman

orn: 1-Dec-1970
Birthplace: Bedford, NH
Gender: Female
Religion: Jewish
Race or Ethnicity: White
Sexual orientation: Straight
Occupation: Comic, Actor
Nationality: United States
Executive summary: The Sarah Silverman Program
Father: Donald Silverman (author, The Enemy Is Me)
Mother: Beth Ann Halpin (m. John O'Hara)
Sister: Laura Silverman (actress)
Sister: Susan Abramowitz-Silverman (rabbi and author, Jewish Family & Life)
Sister: Jodyne Speyer ("Jody", stepsister, executive, Copyright Clearinghouse)
Boyfriend: Dave Attell (ex)
Boyfriend: Sam Seder (ex)
Boyfriend: Jimmy Kimmel (comedian, together 2002-08)
Sarah Silverman first performed stand-up at 17, at a club in Boston. After a brief stint as a college student, she was supporting herself with comedy by the age of 20, and by age 22 she was on SNL, alongside Phil Hartman, Mike Myers, and Adam Sandler. She says she was fired from SNL in a fax, but within weeks she was a regular on Mr. Show with Bob and David. She worked steadily in films and on stage through the 1990s before returning to the tube for Greg the Bunny with Seth Green and Crank Yankers with Jimmy Kimmel, who was her romantic entanglement for several years.
Recognisable (yet uncharacteristic) Silverman performances include Kramer's girlfriend on Seinfeld, as Cameron Diaz's girlfriend in There's Something About Mary, and as Jack Black's roommate's girlfriend in School of Rock. She also starred in a 2005 comedy concert film, Jesus Is Magic.
In a 2001 appearance on Late Night with Conan O'Brien, she told a joke with the punchline, "I love chinks," for which the Media Action Network for Asian Americans demanded an apology. NBC and O'Brien both apologized, but Silverman never did. The joke is about trying to get out of jury duty, and as Silverman told it, a friend suggested to her, "Why don't you write something inappropriate on the form, like 'I hate chinks'?" But she says she did not want to be thought a racist, so instead, "I just filled out the form and I wrote, 'I love chinks' -- and who doesn't?"