AKA Monica Louise Brokaw

Born: 30-Jun-1971
Birthplace: Cleveland, OH
Gender: Female
Religion: Roman Catholic
Race or Ethnicity: White
Sexual orientation: Straight
Occupation: Actor
Nationality: United States
Executive summary: Lori Colson on Boston Legal
Husband: Tom Potter (m. 1990, div., two sons)
Son: David
Son: Liam
Husband: Daniel Christopher Allison (orthopedic surgeon, m. 2005, one daughter)
Daughter: Molly Brigid Allison (b. 3-Aug-2005)

AKA Kellie Dawn Pickler

Born: June 28, 1986
Location: Albemarle, North Carolina, U.S.
Race or Ethnicity: White
Sexual orientation: Straight
Genre(s) Country pop
Occupation(s) Singer-songwriter
Father: Clyde Pickler, Jr. ("Bo")
Mother: Cynthia Morton
Brother: Eric
Boyfriend: Jordin Tootoo (NHL player)
Kellie Dawn Pickler (born June 28, 1986) is an American country music artist and television personality. She gained fame as a contestant on the fifth season of the FOX reality show American Idol, eventually finishing in sixth place. In 2006, she signed to BNA Records as a recording artist, releasing her debut album, Small Town Girl, late that year. The album, which was certified gold by the RIAA, produced three singles on the Billboard Hot Country Songs charts: "Red High Heels" at #15, "I Wonder" at #14, and "Things That Never Cross a Man's Mind" at #16. The first single from her self-titled second album is "Don't You Know You're Beautiful". It was released in mid-2008 and reached the Top 25. The second single from her self-titled album is "Best Days of Your Life" which she co-wrote with Taylor Swift.
Early life
Pickler was born at Stanly Memorial Hospital in Albemarle, North Carolina, to Cynthia Morton and Clyde "Bo" Raymond Pickler, Jr. When Pickler was two, Cynthia left Kellie, and her father, Clyde, has been in and out of jail her whole life.Therefore she lived with her grandparents. The major influences in her life are her grandfather,(retired) electrician Clyde Raymond Pickler, Sr., and grandmother Faye Pickler. She was raised in Palestine, a small town near Albemarle. She has a half brother named Eric, a half sister, Courtney, and a half brother, Michael, however, she has never met Michael. After her grandmother's death from lung cancer in January 2002,[3] she continued to reside with her grandfather and her younger sibling Eric until she became a contestant on Idol. Pickler graduated in 2004 from North Stanly High School in New London, North Carolina. She was a cheerleader and beauty queen. She sang "On the Side of Angels" by LeAnn Rimes at her high school graduation.
She worked as a waitress at a Sonic Drive In franchise and, in 2005, she made an appearance on WSOC-TV's Gimme the Mike! Charlotte contest. She finished in second place. She participated in the Miss America circuit and won the "Miss Stanly County" pageant at age 17 and subsequently competed for Miss North Carolina 2004. She dropped out and later focused on paralegal studies.
American Idol
Main article: American Idol (season 5)
The 19-year-old Pickler auditioned for American Idol in the fall of 2005 in Greensboro, North Carolina. She sang both Kelly Clarkson's "Since U Been Gone" and Martina McBride's "A Broken Wing". The judges sent her to Hollywood. Pickler advanced through the semi-final rounds in February. On March 9, she reached the Top 12.
Pickler was among one of judge Simon Cowell's favorites. He once predicted Pickler would be in the final three, and said he preferred her over the previous season's winner, Carrie Underwood. Recognized for her "quirky" personality and Southern charm, Pickler gained attention on the show by saying that she had hardly ever performed before real audiences, and by mispronouncing words. She was compared to Jessica Simpson in a March 27 story in US Weekly magazine entitled "Kellie: The Next Jessica Simpson", due to her "sweet Southern style and ditzy demeanor". Pickler has stated several times that she was not heavily exposed to modern pop culture.

AKA Khloe Alexandra Kardashian

Born: June 27, 1984
Location: Los Angeles, California
Nationality: American
Occupation: Entrepreneur, Television personality
Height 5 ft 10 in
Father: Robert Kardashian
Mother: Kris Jenner
Khloe Alexandra Kardashian is an American television personality, celebutante, socialite, and fashion entrepreneur. She is best known for her appearances on the reality show Keeping Up with the Kardashians.
Biography
Kardashian is of Armenian (father) and Scottish and Dutch (mother) descent. Kardashian was born in Los Angeles, California to attorney Robert Kardashian and Kris Jenner (née Houghton). Robert Kardashian died on September 30, 2003. Her mother, Kris, divorced Robert in 1989 and married Olympian Bruce Jenner in 1991. Kardashian has four sisters, Kourtney and Kim Kardashian and Kendall and Kylie Jenner. She has one younger brother, Rob Kardashian. Kardashian also has three step-brothers, Burt, Brandon, and Brody Jenner, and she has one step-sister, Casey Jenner.
Kardashian owns and operates DASH, a clothing boutique in Los Angeles, with her sisters, Kourtney and Kim.
Keeping Up with the Kardashians
In 2007, Kardashian was invited to co-star in E!'s Keeping Up with the Kardashians, a reality show centering on the lives of her and her sisters Kim, and Kourtney. Since the beginning of the series, she has become a significant character on the show and has developed her own fan base. She is known as "the voice of reason" and for her sarcastic remarks. She is considered the "free spirit" of the family.
DUI Incident
As documented on Keeping Up with the Kardashians on the November 12, 2007 episode entitled "Remembering Dad," Kardashian was arrested for driving under the influence. The show did not capture the actual incident, but was a reenactment. The show suggested that Kardashian's actions were the result of her difficulties coping with the anniversary of her father's death.
On July 18, 2008, Kardashian reported to jail to serve time for her DUI incident. She faced a sentence of up to 30 days and enrollment in an alcohol treatment program within three weeks of her release from prison. She was released from jail less than three hours later due to overcrowding.
The Celebrity Apprentice
Kardashian is confirmed to be one of the celebrities competing in the second series of Donald Trump's The Celebrity Apprentice. This season will air early 2009. Each celebrity will compete to raise money for their favorite charity; Kardashian's is the Brent Shapiro Foundation for Alcohol and Drug Awareness.
Personal Life
Is currently dating Minnesota Timberwolves guard Rashad McCants.

In Memory

AKA Linda Edna Cardellini

Born: 25-Jun-1975
Birthplace: Redwood City, CA
Gender: Female
Race or Ethnicity: White
Sexual orientation: Straight
Occupation: Actor
Nationality: United States
Executive summary: Scooby Doo 2: Monsters Unleashed
Father: Wayne Cardellini
Mother: Lorraine
Boyfriend: Jason Segal (actor, b. 18-Jan-1980, dating Mar-2001)
Cardellini was born in Redwood City, California to Wayne David Cardellini and Lorraine Hernan. She graduated from nearby Mountain View's St. Francis High School in 1993, and attended Loyola Marymount University's College of Communication and Fine Arts, graduating in 2001 with a degree in theatre.
Cardellini enjoys art, especially that of Meghan Keane. She takes martial arts classes. Cardellini dated her Freaks and Geeks co-star Jason Segel until February 2006.
Career
Cardellini appeared in 1993 as a contestant on The Price Is Right, where she won a fireplace. She was the lead in Bone Chillers (1996), an ABC children's show, and was also the voice of the heroine in the role-playing video game Gladius.
Cardellini may be best known for her roles as high school student Lindsay Weir on Freaks and Geeks and as nurse Samantha Taggart on ER. Her film work includes Dead Man on Campus, Legally Blonde and Brokeback Mountain. She also played Velma Dinkley in the two live-action Scooby-Doo movies: Scooby-Doo and Scooby-Doo 2: Monsters Unleashed. She also starred as Samantha in Adam Sandler's production of Grandma's Boy.
She currently is starring on ER.

AKA Adrienne Levine

Born: 24-Jun-1966
Birthplace: Queens, NY
Died: 1-Nov-2006
Location of death: Manhattan, NY
Cause of death: Murder
Gender: Female
Religion: Jewish
Race or Ethnicity: White
Sexual orientation: Straight
Occupation: Actor
Nationality: United States
Executive summary: Waitress
Killed by immigrant construction worker Diego Pillco (age 19), who punched the actress after her complaint that he was causing too much ruckus. She died instantly, and Pilco rigged her death to look like a bathroom suicide by hanging. Her death was initially thought to be suicide, but inexplicable evidence at the scene led the eventual confession of Pillco.
Father: Sheldon M. Levine (d.)
Mother: Elaine Langbaum
Husband: Andy Ostroy (executive, until her death, one child)
Daughter: Sophie (b. 2003)
Adrienne Shelly, sometimes credited as Adrienne Shelley, was an American actress, director, and screenwriter.
Biography
Early life
Of Russian Jewish descent, Shelly was born Adrienne Levine in Queens, New York, to Sheldon M. Levine and Elaine Langbaum. She had two brothers, Jeff and Mark, and was raised on Long Island. She began performing when she was about 10 at Stagedoor Manor Performing Arts Training Center. She made her professional debut in a summer stock production of the musical Annie while a student at Jericho High School in Jericho, New York. She went on to Boston University, majoring in film production, but dropped out after her junior year and moved to Manhattan.
Career
Shelly's career breakthrough came in her starring roles in independent filmmaker Hal Hartley's The Unbelievable Truth (1989) and Trust (1990), the latter of which was nominated for the Grand Jury Prize at the Sundance Film Festival, where Hartley's script tied for the Waldo Salt Screenwriting Award.
She appeared in a number of films during the 1990s, and as she segued toward a behind-the-camera career she wrote and directed others, including 1999's I'll Take You There, in which she appeared along with Ally Sheedy. She won a U.S. Comedy Arts Festival Film Discovery Jury Award in 2000 for direction of the film, and Prize of the City of Setúbal: Special Mention, at the Festróia (Tróia International Film Festival) held in Setúbal, Portugal for best director.
She also guest-starred in a number of television series including Law & Order, Oz, and Homicide: Life on the Street. She played major roles in over two dozen off-Broadway plays, often at Manhattan's Workhouse Theater. In 2005 she co-starred in the film Factotum with Matt Dillon. Her last known work was writing, directing and playing a supporting role in the film Waitress, starring Keri Russell and Nathan Fillion, which premiered at the 2007 Sundance Film Festival.
Personal life
Shelly, who took her professional surname after her late father's given name, was married to Andrew Ostroy, the chairman and CEO of the marketing firm Belardi/Ostroy ALC. They had a daughter, Sophie, who was two years old at the time of Shelly's death.
Murder
At about 5:45 p.m on November 1, 2006, Shelly's husband found her hanging by a bedsheet from a shower rod in the bathtub of the Abingdon Square apartment in Manhattan's West Village that Shelly used as an office. It initially appeared to be a suicide. Ostroy had dropped her off at 9:30 a.m. that day, and as the building's doorman told journalists, "He hadn't heard from her and he said it was odd not to hear from her, so he was nervous. And he asked me to go up to the apartment with him, so we went to the front door, and it was unlocked."
An autopsy was performed the following day. The New York City Police Department was suspicious of sneaker prints in the bathtub that did not match Shelly's shoes (she was found wearing only socks). Shelly's husband also indicated that there was money missing from Shelly's wallet. He denied allegations that she could have committed suicide.
Press reports on November 6, 2006 stated that police had arrested construction worker Diego Pillco, a 19-year-old Ecuadorian illegal immigrant who confessed to killing Shelly after she complained about the noise he was making in the apartment below hers. Pillco said that he "was having a bad day." Police said Pillco had made videos implicating himself in the murder, and as of November 7, 2006 was being held without bail for her murder.
Diego Pillco entered his guilty plea February 14, 2008. He said that, contrary to his original story, Shelly had not complained about noise, but rather had caught him stealing money from her purse after he slipped into the apartment. When she tried to call the police, he grabbed the phone and covered her mouth as she began to scream. After she fell, he tied a bedsheet around her neck and decided to choke her. Originally, Pillco claimed he didn't know Shelly was still alive when he hanged her, but in court he admitted to choking her with a sheet, tying it around her neck, and stringing her up to make it look like she committed suicide. The medical examiner determined that Shelly was still alive when hanged. Pillco received 25 years in prison without parole when he was sentenced on March 6, 2008.
At Pillco's sentencing on March 13, 2008, Shelly's husband, along with family members said that they would never forgive him. Andy Ostroy had said of Pillco "...you are nothing more than a coldblooded killer" and that he hoped he would "rot in jail."
In remembering Shelly, Ostroy said that "Adrienne was the kindest, warmest, most loving, generous person I knew. She was incredibly smart, funny and talented, a bright light with an infectious laugh and huge smile that radiated inner and outer beauty...she was my best friend, and the person with whom I was supposed to grow old."
Suing construction company
Shelly's husband is now suing the contractor, Bradford General Contractors, who had hired Pillco. He argued that Shelly would still be alive if the contracting firm had not hired Pillco. He also seeks to hold the owners and management of the building liable for her murder. The suit reads: "Pillco was an undocumented immigrant"... The newspaper article further added: "as were his co-workers. The story then went on to relate that "it was in Bradford General Contractors' interest not to have "police and immigration officials [called] to the job site" because that would have ground their work to a halt."
Legacy
Following his wife's death, Ostroy established the Adrienne Shelly Foundation, a non-profit organization that will award film school scholarships and grants to female filmmakers.
On February 16, 2007, the NBC crime drama series Law & Order broadcast an episode, "Melting Pot", that was a thinly-veiled dramatization of Shelly's murder. Shelly herself had guest-starred on the show in the 2000 episode "High & Low."
Shelly's film, Waitress, had been accepted into the 2007 Sundance Film Festival before her murder. The film, starring Keri Russell, Nathan Fillion, Cheryl Hines, Jeremy Sisto, Andy Griffith and Shelly herself, was bought during the festival by Fox Searchlight Pictures for the sum of an amount between $4 million and $5 million, as news accounts on the actual amount vary, with a final box-office draw of $18 million and an 89% "fresh" rating on Rotten Tomatoes.

Born: June 24, 1980
Location: North York, Ontario, Canada
Occupation: Actress
Liane Balaban is a Canadian actress. Her film debut was in New Waterford Girl (1999), playing Agnes-Marie "Moonie" Pottie, and has since appeared in the films Definitely, Maybe (2008), Last Chance Harvey (2009), and the independent drama One Week (2008).
Biography
Early life
Balaban was born in North York, Ontario, the daughter of a Catholic mother who worked as a medical secretary, and Leon Balaban, a Jewish immigrant from Uzbekistan who works in real estate.[2] She grew up in the Willowdale neighborhood of North York, now part of Toronto, and went to high school at Lawrence Park Collegiate Institute. Balaban majored in journalism at Ryerson University but left to concentrate on acting. She received a Bachelor of Arts degree in political science from Concordia University.
Career
Balaban made her film debut playing a 15-year-old misfit longing to escape the Cape Breton coal-mining town New Waterford in New Waterford Girl (1999), a film set in the 1970s and directed by Allan Moyle. Producer Julia Sereny, who had known Balaban through her aunt and uncle, asked her to audition for the film. Balaban hadn't intended to be an actor at that point. After seven auditions, Balaban landed the part that won a Special Jury Congratulation at the Toronto International Film Festival and a nomination for a Canadian Comedy Award.
Balaban made a successful follow-up with Saint Jude (2000), directed by John L'Ecuyer. She starred in the TV movie After the Harvest (2001), opposite Sam Shepard, and appeared in Happy Here and Now (2002), opposite David Arquette and Ally Sheedy. She also starred in the horror film Spliced (2002), co-starring Ron Silver. Balaban was a member of the garage/electro/pop band We are Molecules where she sang and played keyboards and drums, and has also written for arts newspapers.
While previously unsure of acting as a career, Balaban committed to seriously pursuing acting around 2007. She appeared in her first mainstream Hollywood feature film, Definitely, Maybe in 2008, a romantic comedy starring Ryan Reynolds. She next appeared in Last Chance Harvey, a romance starring Dustin Hoffman and Emma Thompson which had a wide release in January 2009. She plays the supporting role of Susan, the estranged and soon-to-be-married daughter of Hoffman's character. She described her time in London making the film as "going to the best acting school in the world" to The Globe and Mail.
Balaban stars in the independent drama One Week, directed by Michael McGowan. Balaban plays Samantha Pierce, whose fiancée, played by Joshua Jackson, is diagnosed with terminal cancer and takes a motorcycle trip across Canada. She also stars in the upcoming films Not Since You, a drama about a group of college friends, and You Might as Well Live, set to premiere at the Slamdance Film Festival. Other upcoming films include The Trotsky by Jacob Tierney, and Coach by Will Frears, starring Hugh Dancy. She also shot a CBC television pilot for Abroad, a series based on the love life of Leah McLaren, a Toronto columnist for The Globe and Mail. Balaban is also trying to write her own screenplay and doing improvisational theatre in Montreal.
Personal life
As of 2007, she lives in Mile End, Montreal. She described Montreal as "not a city that revolves around acting, so you stay very grounded here" to Hour magazine, and includes reading, writing, going to art galleries, and experiencing music as her leisure activities.[6] She is engaged to her long-time partner, journalist and author Adam Gollner. Balaban told Toronto's Now magazine in January 2009 that she is often mistaken for the actress Natalie Portman.

Born: June 24, 1980
Location: Los Angeles, California
Occupation: Actress
Minka Dumont Kelly is an American actress. She currently stars in the NBC series Friday Night Lights as Lyla Garrity.
Early life
Minka Kelly was born in Los Angeles, California. She is an only child and the daughter of former Aerosmith guitarist Rick Dufay and the late Maureen Kelly, a former Vegas Showgirl. According to Kelly, her childhood was "pretty rough", and she held a resentment for Dufay, as he had abandoned her and her mother. However, at seventeen, she decided to try and reconcile by inviting him out to New Mexico.
Career
After graduating from high school, Kelly returned to Los Angeles with her father to pursue acting as a hobby while she went to school to become a surgical technician. However, after her first acting class she got "hooked" and began pursuing acting as a career. Success came slowly, and she began her career with small roles in various movies and shows, including the film State's Evidence, and a recurring-guest role on the TV program What I Like About You.
In the spring she was cast as Lyla Garrity on the show Friday Night Lights. In preparation for the role, she trained with the Pflugerville High School cheerleading squad. Kelly has received praise for her acting on Friday Night Lights, with the New York Times calling her performance "heartbreaking".
She shot a cameo for The Kingdom, alongside Jamie Foxx. Peter Berg, the creator and pilot director of Friday Night Lights, directed the film. Minka Kelly is the lead actor on the CW's new pilot Body Politic.

AKA Virginie
Born: June 24, 1979
Location: Versailles, France
Height: 5 ft 4 in
Weight: 97 lb
Eye colour: Green
Hair colour: Blonde
Ethnicity: Italian, German
Virginie Gervais is a French model and porn star. She was born in Versailles, France to an Italian father and an German mother. In 2005, she was the winner of FHM France's "High Street Honeys" competition. It was later discovered that she made an adult film before being famous, which appeared soon on the Internet and quickly propelled her to fame.
In 2002, a German porn producer contacted Virginie. He proposed that she appear in his next film... X, Anmacherinnen 15: Enge Spalten. Recently, she started her own website, www.virginiecaprice.com, and appeared with the new model name Virginie Caprice, as her success continues and increases her appearances in TV commercials, music videos, films and magazines. Moreover, in 2007 she participated in another X-rated film, the recent Story of Virginie (2007), produced by Marc Dorcel.
In February 2008, she played the role of a stripper in Episode 10 of the French TV series, Paris enquêtes criminelles. The episode, Un cri dans la nuit (A scream in the night) was broadcast on TF1 in February 2008.
Virginie Caprice appears as an icon model for a series in fashion magazine Beauty Flow.

AKA Aimée Anne Duffy

Born: 23 June 1984
Location: Bangor, Gwynedd,
Wales, United Kingdom
Genre(s) Pop, soul
Occupation(s) Singer-songwriter
Voice type(s) Mezzo-Soprano
Duffy dropped the first half of her name at the age of 17, is a Welsh singer-songwriter. Her debut album Rockferry was released in March 2008 and entered the UK Album Chart at number one. It was the best selling album in the United Kingdom in 2008 and has sold over four million copies worldwide. In 2009, she won a Grammy Award for Best Pop Vocal Album for Rockferry, and she has also been nominated for two other Grammy awards. Duffy was the first Welsh female to achieve a number one pop single in twenty-five years with her second single "Mercy".
Life and career
Early life
Duffy was born in in Bangor, Gwynedd and raised in Nefyn on the Llŷn Peninsula in North Wales, with her twin sister, Katy Ann, and older sister Kelly. She grew up speaking Welsh as her mother tongue. Her parents divorced when she was ten and she moved to Pembrokeshire with her mother and sisters. She dropped her first name at the age of nineteen, calling herself Duffy professionally and personally.
Duffy's introduction to soul music and inspiration to get into the music industry occurred while watching Whoopi Goldberg's performance in the movie Sister Act. It is known that Duffy watched her father's videotapes of the 1960s television rock show Ready Steady Go! – she says she grew up without a record collection of her own. Duffy began singing at age six and carried around a notebook which she filled with scribbled lyrics. She was later asked to leave her school choir because her voice was "too big" and she "didn't fit in."
In 1998 (aged thirteen), Duffy was briefly put in a police safe house when authorities uncovered a plot by her stepfather's ex-wife to pay a hitman £3000 to kill her stepfather, identified as Philip Smith. Smith's ex-wife, Dawn Watson, was sentenced to a 3½ year jail term for soliciting to murder. "I was so terrified. I felt so ill", Duffy recounted in 2008, as reported by the NME magazine and The Sun. A 1998 article in the Daily Mirror, another British tabloid, quotes a man identified as Philip Smith describing similar circumstances, though the stepdaughter's name is spelled Aimy — not Aimée — and the surname Duffy is not mentioned. Duffy describes living in the safe house as a dog eat dog, claustrophobic and isolating existence. At age fifteen she ran away back to her father's house in Nefyn. Duffy said in retrospect, "It was a horrendous thing to do". Her mother and her sisters did not speak to her for about a year afterwards.
Duffy has admitted to smoking "not just cigarettes" during her teenage years, at a time when she was "quite mischievous" and always looking for trouble. She says that these activities with friends occurred as a result of boredom. Duffy cites the effects of her stepfather's ex-wife's alcoholism as well as her desire not to become a "celebrity" as reasons she does not use drugs or alcohol currently.
Early career
After finishing her GCSEs in Pembrokeshire, Duffy returned to Nefyn when she was fifteen, and started singing in various local bands.
Then Duffy spent a year working in Switzerland, collaborating with the writer-producer Soren Mounir under the name Soulego.
Duffy returned to Wales in 2003 and was invited to appear on Wawffactor, a Welsh television show on S4C, which has been compared to Pop Idol. She was expected to win, but came second to winner Lisa Pedrig. Duffy claims that she was conned into the appearance; she later called it "the unhappiest time in my life."
In her teens Duffy wanted (and expected) to be a world famous pop star, and as such felt that she let others use her "as a vehicle for their vision not mine." At age eighteen, thinking her dreams were not going to come true, she "became almost a quite withdrawn singer". After a re-evaluation she decided to just make music for no other purposes than her own fulfilment.
Duffy was elected president of the Students' union at Coleg Meirion-Dwyfor in Pwllheli, North Wales before transferring to the University of Chester in England. She was advised by a lecturer to "Go on the dole, love, and become a singer". She also built up a following at Alexander's, a local jazz and blues club, performing with guitarist David Burton from the band The Invisible Wires.
She recorded a three-song Welsh EP in 2004 written and produced by Paul Eastham of international celtic rock band "Coast" and also appeared on two tracks on the album See You in the Morning by Mint Royale while working as a waitress in a fishery. Owen Powell of Catatonia and Richard J. Parfitt of Newport band 60ft Dolls, introduced Duffy in August 2004 to Jeannette Lee, former Public Image Ltd. member turned music manager and part-owner of Rough Trade Records. Lee moved Duffy to Crouch End in London, and orchestrated a meeting between Duffy and Suede's ex-guitar player Bernard Butler.
After Butler had given Duffy a soul music "education" by downloading tracks on to her iPod that she could listen to while around London or travelling back to Wales, the pair co-wrote with her and helped create a new retro sound. The tracks included Al Green, Bettye Swann, Ann Peebles, Beyoncé, Doris Duke, Scott Walker, Phil Spector and Burt Bacharach.. Duffy was quoted as saying Bettye Swann "is one of my biggest inspirations" particularly her song Cover Me because "it marks the time I got interested in physical contact. I was 19, and here was a woman singing "Cover me, spread your precious love all over me". It's very tender, but it's also, hilariously, quite crude".
Breakthrough
Duffy was contracted to A&M Records on 23 November 2007. She performed on the BBC Two television show Later with Jools Holland, which resulted in a second appearance on the related New Year's Eve show Hootenanny, on which, among other things, she performed with soul legend Eddie Floyd. On 22 February 2008, she appeared on Later with Jools Holland for a third time and performed "Rockferry", "Mercy", and "Stepping Stone". She also appeared on the BBC Two television programme The Culture Show on 23 February 2008 and performed "Mercy".
In January 2008, she came second to Adele in the annual BBC News Online poll of industry experts Sound of 2008, for acts to emerge in the coming year. In Wales, she seems set to become the "pop" equivalent of mezzo-soprano Katherine Jenkins. A number of commentators have remarked on her unaffected personality and natural charm. In January 2008 she released a Welsh language EP entitled Aimée Duffy.
Rockferry
Butler and his musical partner David McAlmont, and a number of other musicians formed the backbone of Duffy's band for her debut album entitled Rockferry, which was released on Polydor Records on 3 March 2008. According to Duffy, "The album took nearly four years to make. We had to hire cheap, tiny studios and sometimes there would be three-week periods between writing and recording." Bernard Butler who was not initially paid, produced four songs for the album, including the single, Rockferry. The singles Mercy and Stepping Stone, were co-written & produced by Steve Booker, and the second single Warwick Avenue, by Jimmy Hogarth and Eg White. Duffy released the debut limited edition single "Rockferry" in November 2007 followed by the Steve Booker co-written & produced single, "Mercy", which went straight to number one. The single was physically released on 25 February 2008.
She has revealed that both "Mercy" and "Stepping Stone" are autobiographical; "Mercy" is about "sexual liberty" and "not doing something somebody else wants you to do", and "Stepping Stone" is about not expressing her feelings to a person she fell in love with. Warwick Avenue was the second single released from the album. The video for the song was filmed at Warwick Avenue underground station and Merrick Square, London.
By May, "Mercy" was a staple on VH1 and a hot Adult Contemporary radio hit and had been featured in the season finale of the American television medical drama Grey's Anatomy as well as the soundtrack album for Sex and the City: The Movie. A remix of "Mercy", featuring rap artist The Game, was released on 10 May. On 13 May Rockferry was released in the United States to positive reviews. Because of its cheap production values the album is reaping Duffy substantial financial benefits. Despite her album's success in the United States Duffy was quoted as saying “I don’t like how big American stars consider themselves an exception from humanity".
In November 2008, the single Rain On Your Parade was released. The song was co-written & produced by Steve Booker. The song was first released on download sales only on 10 November 2008 before being released physically on 17 November 2008. Duffy describes this song as "a big, disco-y dance song". The song entered the UK Singles Chart at number twenty-two before rising to a peak of fifteen the following week. The track was included on the deluxe edition of Rockferry.
Duffy won the 2008 Song of the Year MOJO Award for "Mercy" and was nominated also for Album of the Year and Breakthrough Act. These three nominations were the largest amount of nominations for any one act. She also received a 2008 Q Award in the category of Breakthrough Act, a nomination for the Q category of Best Track for "Mercy", a Music of Black Origin Award nomination for Best UK Female. At the MTV Europe Music Awards, she received three nominations in the categories of Album of the Year,Most Addictive Track, and New Act. She performed at the EMA show.
At the 51st Grammy Awards held on 8 February, 2009, Duffy won a Grammy Award in the category of Best Pop Vocal Album for Rockferry. Earlier she had been nominated for awards in the categories of Best New Artist and Best Female Pop Vocal Performance for her single "Mercy".
Duffy tied Coldplay with four 2009 Brit Awards Nominations. She was nominated in the categories of Best British Female, Best British Single, Best British Album, and Best British Breakthrough Act
Sales
In January 2008 Duffy's EP 'Aimée Duffy reached the number 1 spot on Siart C2.[citation needed] When the single "Mercy" hit the top of the charts in February 2008 Duffy became the first Welsh female to achieve a number one pop single in the past 25 years, and the only female from the Llŷn Peninsula to ever top the UK Singles Chart. It remained at number one for five weeks. The second single from the album, "Warwick Avenue" was at the number 3 position on the UK Singles Chart on 1 June. The title track "Rockferry" peaked at number 45. The single Rain on Your Parade debuted at number twenty-two on 10 November and rose to a peak of number fifteen the following week.
With a total of 1.685m physical and digital sales, Rockferry was the best selling album in the United Kingdom in 2008. "Mercy" was the third best selling single for the year with over 500,000 copies sold. As of 26 December, 2008 in its 43rd week on the charts Rockferry had risen to the number 6 position from number 10 the previous week.
In the United States, the album peaked at the number 4 on the Billboard 200. The singles "Mercy" and "Warwick Avenue" peaked at number 27 and 96 respectively. By November 2008 500,000 copies of Rockferry had been sold and had been certified Gold by the RIAA.
Rockferry topped the Pan-European Album Chart, and "Mercy" topped the Eurochart Hot 100 Singles chart on 21 April 2008. On 12 June the album topped the European albums charts with Mercy at number 2 on the European singles chart. By 21 August Rockferry had reached number one in 11 markets. On 30 October Rockferry had been in the top 100 on Billboards Euro Albums chart for 34 straight weeks and was residing at the number 10 position. Rockferry was the world's fourth bestselling album in 2008 selling 4.5m copies.
Comparisons with others
Under the sub-title, "The New Amys", Adam Thompson wrote in The Times on 30 December 2007 that "Duffy, Gabriella Cilmi and Adele lead the charge to be the next Winehouse. First sightings seem to indicate that they are all bright-eyed innocents with bags of talent — a familiar starting point, no?" Duffy herself dislikes being referred to as "the new Dusty Springfield". She said at first she did not understand the comparisons to Springfield and believes the comparisons with others or putting her in a movement is "a gimmick" and noted that "nobody is replaceable". Singer-songwriter Alison Goldfrapp said while Duffy has a great voice, she was trained to sound essentially like Amy Winehouse as part of a business plan, mistakenly believing that Duffy had attended the Brit School.
British hip hop singer Estelle criticized Duffy and Adele for misrepresenting genuine soul music. Duffy partially agreed with the criticism in that she is not trying to "define" soul music but disputed the assertion that race should be an issue. In North America, Duffy is seen as part of a recent wave of British singers or "British invaders" consisting of females with a unique take on writing and performing songs. Motown has been seen as an influence in this wave.Touring
Her first American performances took place at the SXSW conference, and the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival was her first festival gig. The Coachella performance started off with sound problems but she "delighted the crowd with 'Rockferry', 'Serious', 'Warwick Avenue' and 'Mercy'." To coincide with the release of Rockferry Duffy performed at the Apollo Theater in New York City Duffy commented "Every time I'm in America, I feel there's some atmosphere -- I can't put my finger on it -- but there's some excitement that exists nowhere else. And I think it's because soul music, black music, is basically what started pop music".
Duffy has played a number of festivals in Europe, including the Vieilles Charrues Festival in France, the Hove Festival in Norway the Accelerator Festival in Sweden, Glastonbury and Evolution Festival's in England, the Electric Picnic festival in Ireland, Connect Festival in Scotland on Sunday 31 August, Wakestock in her native Wales, the V Festival on 16 August and the Roskilde Festival in Denmark.
In North America she has performed at Lollapalooza on 1 August in Chicago and the All Points West Music and Arts Festival at Liberty State Park, on the 8 August. She played the Virgin Mobile Festival at Pimlico Race Course in Baltimore on 10 August. On 3 September Duffy played an intimate club gig and then answered questions at New York's China Club.
On television, Duffy performed on Late Night with Conan O'Brien, The Late Show With David Letterman, Saturday Night Live, and Austin City Limits. Her 45 minute concert at an East End of London church was aired on BBC1 on 12 October. During the show she performed a new song "Rain on Your Parade". On the 28 October Duffy sang "Stepping Stone" on The View. The singer became star struck when she was interviewed by co-host Whoopi Goldberg.
Duffy played a fourteen-city North American tour. Plans had called for her to open for Coldplay on six of the dates. A performance at the Quicken Loans Arena left The Cleveland Leader to wonder why Duffy was not the headlining act. Duffy is using the tour to test new songs including "Rain in Your Parade" and "Fool for You".
Duffy accidentally set her entire left side of her hair on fire in a Cleveland dressing room. The incident occurred when after blowing out a candle that was melting she bent down not realizing the candle was still lit. The incident caused her more embarrassment than harm. At New York's Webster Hall, Duffy apologized to the audience after briefly bursting in to tears. Duffy explained this happens in one out of every 15 of her shows when she feels exposed for reasons she does not understand.
Duffy toured the United Kingdom and Ireland during November and December 2008. She performed at the Live In London concert at the O2 Arena on 26 November. Duffy was quoted in a British tabloid as saying she is proud to represent the British Music Scene abroad and to explain that Great Britain encompasses more than London.
In December 2008, Duffy was among several singers who performed for Prince Charles, and his wife Camilla, The Duchess of Cornwall, at the London Palladium for the 80th anniversary Royal Variety Performance. On 20 December she performed on the final of the BBC television show Strictly Come Dancing and on the 2008 editions of Jools Holland's New Years Eve Show and the Top of The Pops Christmas special.
In February, 2009 Duffy performed on United States talk shows Rachael Ray and The Tonight Show With Jay Leno
Future projects
As of July 2008 Duffy has been constantly writing material for a second album, compiling "loads of books" of song ideas. Duffy said that she will not constantly reinvent herself for each album. Duffy with several other artists are working on the soundtrack to an upcoming independent film about the British northern soul scene of the early 1970s entitled Souled Out.
According to Duffy's website the singer will tour Australia where she will perform at the V Festival and Japan in 2009.
On 14 February Duffy is scheduled to perform on Austin City Limits followed by an 18 February performance at the 2009 Brit Awards.
Endorsements
In August 2008 it was reported that Duffy will appear in a advertisement in Fashion Rocks Magazine for Nivea endorsing their new line of skin care and body care products.
Duffy says that she does not mind people illegally downloading her music because she believes most people who do are kids who cannot afford the CDs and will buy them when they get older. Duffy's single "Mercy" is in EA Sports FIFA 09.
Duffy performed at a BBC sponsored Children in Need benefit concert, singing her new single Rain on your parade and Mercy.
Duffy has been named the "star" of a multi-million pound European Diet Coke advertising campaign, schedualed to be launched in early 2009. Duffy, who is a heavy drinker of the product, is scheduled to appear in a series of 30 and 60 second adverts with other young women.
Duffy has recorded a cover of Paul McCartney's James Bond theme song "Live and Let Die". It is going to be used on the War Child charity album entitled Heroes, which is due to be released on 16 February 2009. McCartney, who hand picked Duffy to do the cover in the Spring of 2008, said that Duffy's version "is great - I was really impressed". Ben Knowles, director of the project, described Duffy's cover as a "really stripped bare, northern soul version".
Johnny Rotten incident
Duffy claimed that at the Mojo Awards show in June 2008, Sex Pistols lead singer John Lydon (aka Johnny Rotten) heckled her. According to Duffy, when she went to make peace with him, "I walked past him, said 'Hi, you all right?', and next thing I was literally slammed against the wall, pinned by his arm at my throat. He called me a c***. The violence was awful". According to Lydon, "I was doing an interview and she came up behind me - I didn't see anything". He claimed she was a "young girl who made the mistake of trying to jump on my back". He said he hadn't realised who Duffy was, saying: "Oh, she got an award? I quite like her." Although she left upset, Duffy later blamed herself for what happened.
Dealing with fame
In September 2008, Duffy mentioned that she was "on the borderline of a nervous breakdown" because of the pressure that fame has brought her. She also said that she had considered becoming a recluse, but eventually decided against the idea for the sake of her fans. Although acknowledging that most people do mean well, she finds it "scary" when people recognize her in the street, and has been fearful of her image possibly changing the person she truly is.

Born: 22-Jun-1966
Birthplace: Paris, France
Gender: Female
Race or Ethnicity: White
Sexual orientation: Straight
Occupation: Model, Actor
Nationality: France
Executive summary: Frantic
Sister: Mathilde Seigner
Sister: Marie-Amélie Seigner
Husband: Roman Polanski (film director, m. 30-Aug-1989, one daughter, one son)
Daughter: Morgane (b. 1993)
Son: Elvis (b. 1998)
Emmanuelle Seigner is a César Award-nominated French actress and former fashion model, best known as the wife of Academy Award winning director Roman Polanski, and for her roles in La Vie En Rose, The Diving Bell and the Butterfly, and Frantic.
Seigner was born in Paris, France to a photographer father and a journalist mother. She is the granddaughter of the respected actor Louis Seigner (1903-1991) and sister of the actress Mathilde Seigner. She was educated at a Catholic convent school, and began modelling at the age of fourteen. Capitalizing on her beauty she achieved international status as a professional model. She married the Polish film director Roman Polanski in 1989. They have two children, Morgane and Elvis. He directed her in Frantic, opposite Harrison Ford and later in Bitter Moon, as well as The Ninth Gate co-starring Johnny Depp.
Seigner appears as the main character in the music video "Hands Around my Throat" by Death In Vegas. In 2006, she became lead singer of the pop rock band Ultra Orange, and the group's name was changed to Ultra Orange & Emmanuelle. Seigner lives with Polanski and their two children in Paris.

Born: June 21, 198
Location: Dallas, Texas
Measurements Bust: 36DD
Waist: 28
Hips: 36
Height 5 ft 6 in
Weight 127 lb
Amber Lynn Campisi (born June 21, 1981 in Dallas, Texas) is an American model of Italian descent. She was Playboy's Playmate of the Month for February 2005.
In 2007, her family appeared on E! show Wildest Party Parents, featuring her father Corky Campisi, who owns several restaurants in Dallas, including Campisi's Egyptian Restaurant.

AKA Alicia Allghetti, Alicia Allighotti, Alicia Alghatti, Alicia Allighetti, Alicia Alighotti

Born: June 21, 1984
Location: Easton, Pennsylvania, U.S.
Height: 5 ft 6 in
Measurements: 34C-26-3
Eye colour: Hazel
Hair colour: Brunette
Ethnicity: Scottish American
Alicia Alighatti (born June 21, 1984 in Easton, Pennsylvania) is an American pornographic actress. She fashioned her stage name after Dante Alighieri.
Alighatti was born in Easton, Pennsylvania, in the Lehigh Valley region of the state. After high school, she studied international relations and French at a junior college.

Awards
2006 AVN Award for Best Oral Sex Scene (Film) – Dark Side (with Hillary Scott & Randy Spears)
2006 AVN Award for Best Group Sex Scene (Film) – Dark Side (with Penny Flame, Dillan Lauren, Hillary Scott, Randy Spears & John West)

Born: 6-20-1986
Location: South Tampa, FL
Dreama Walker is a upcoming young actress who was born in Tampa, Florida in 1986. Starting at a young age she garnered the attention of her family by turning scallions into talking puppets while sitting in the grocery cart or breaking out in song at her sister's 12th birthday. As a teenager she joined the all girls pop group S*coolgirlz and she intended to form a career as a singer, but after a couple of auditions in New York she decided to pursue acting. She now lives in New York and found her big break as her role as Hazel on Gossip Girl, but she misses her family back in Tampa.

AKA Nicole Mary Kidman

Born: 20-Jun-1967
Birthplace: Honolulu, HI
Gender: Female
Religion: Roman Catholic
Race or Ethnicity: White
Sexual orientation: Straight
Occupation: Actor
Party Affiliation: Democratic
Nationality: United States
Executive summary: Moulin Rouge
Father: Anthony Kidman (biochemist)
Mother: Janelle MacNeille (nursing instructor)
Sister: Antonia Kidman-Hawley (younger)
Husband: Tom Cruise (actor, m. 24-Dec-1990, div. 8-Aug-2001, two children adopted)
Daughter: Isabella Jane Kidman Cruise (adopted, b. 22-Dec-1992)
Son: Connor Anthony Cruise (adopted, b. 17-Jan-1995)
Boyfriend: Q-Tip (dated, 2002-03)
Boyfriend: Lenny Kravitz (dated, 2003-04)
Boyfriend: Robbie Williams
Husband: Keith Urban (dated 2005-06, m. 25-Jun-2006, one daughter)
Daughter: Sunday Rose Kidman Urban (b. 7-Jul-2008)
Nicole Mary Kidman, AC is an Academy Award-winning Hawaiian-born Australian actress. She has also been a model, singer, and is currently also a UN Citizen of the World award-winning humanitarian and a UNIFEM and UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador. In 2006, Kidman was made a Companion of the Order of Australia, Australia's highest civilian honor. In 2006, she was also the highest-paid actress in the motion picture industry.
Kidman's breakthrough was in the 1989 thriller Dead Calm. Her performances in films such as Days Of Thunder, To Die For (1995), Moulin Rouge! (2001), and The Hours (2002) won her critical acclaim. In 2003, Kidman received her star on the Walk of Fame in Hollywood, California. She is also known for her marriage to Tom Cruise and her current marriage to country musician Keith Urban. As a result of being born to Australian parents in Hawaii, Kidman has dual citizenship of Australia and the United States.
Early life and family
Kidman was born in Honolulu, Hawaii. Her father, Dr Antony David Kidman, is a biochemist, clinical psychologist and author, with an office in Lane Cove, Sydney, Australia. Her mother, Janelle Ann (née Glenny), is a nursing instructor who edits her husband's books and was a member of the Women's Electoral Lobby. These days Kidman lives in Burwood where she owns a relatively small house. At the time of Kidman's birth, her father was a visiting fellow at the National Institute of Mental Health of the United States. The family returned to Australia when Kidman was four and her parents now live on Sydney's North Shore. Kidman has a younger sister, Antonia Kidman, a journalist. She has known actress Naomi Watts since they were in their teens and the two remain best friends today.
Kidman attended Lane Cove Public School and North Sydney Girls' High School. She studied at the Victorian College of the Arts in Melbourne, at the Phillip Street Theatre in Sydney, with Naomi Watts. This was followed by the Australian Theatre for Young People.
Career
Early career in Australia (1983–1989)
Kidman's first appearance in film came in 1983 at 15, in the Pat Wilson music video for the song "Bop Girl". By the end of the year she had a supporting role in the television series Five Mile Creek and four film roles, including BMX Bandits and Bush Christmas. During the 1980s, she appeared in several Australian productions, including the soap opera A Country Practice, the mini-series Vietnam (1986), Emerald City (1988), and Bangkok Hilton (1989).
Breakthrough (1989–1995)
In 1989, Kidman starred in Dead Calm as Rae Ingram, the wife of naval officer John Ingram (Sam Neill), held captive on a Pacific yacht trip by the psychotic Hughie Warriner (Billy Zane). The thriller garnered strong reviews; Variety.com commented: "Throughout the film, Kidman is excellent. She gives the character of Rae real tenacity and energy." Meanwhile, critic Roger Ebert noted the excellent chemistry between the leads, stating, "...Kidman and Zane do generate real, palpable hatred in their scenes together." In 1990, she appeared opposite Tom Cruise in Days of Thunder, a stock car racing movie. Kidman starred with Cruise in Ron Howard's Far and Away (1992). In 1995, Kidman featured in the ensemble cast of Batman Forever. On November 20 1993 she hosted Saturday Night Live.
International success (1995–present)
Kidman's second film in 1995, To Die For was a satirical comedy that earned her praise from critics. She won a Golden Globe Award, and five other best actress awards for her portrayal of the murderous newscaster Suzanne Stone Maretto. In 1998, she appeared in the film Practical Magic along side Sandra Bullock. In 1999 Kidman and Cruise portrayed a married couple in Eyes Wide Shut, Stanley Kubrick's final film. The film is memorable for featuring extensive nudity from Kidman, including dream sequences in which she appears topless, nude and having sex, and the opening montage of the film where the audience can watch Kidman slip out of her dress at the end of the night as well as watch her put on her bra in the morning. All of these scenes are notable because of Kidman's high profile and the arousing nature of her nudity.
Also in 1998, Kidman starred in the stage play The Blue Room, which opened in London. The play included Kidman's character briefly exposing her flesh to the audience.
In 2002 Kidman received an Academy Award nomination for her performance in the 2001 musical film Moulin Rouge!, in which she played the courtesan Satine opposite Ewan McGregor. Consequently, Kidman received her second Golden Globe Award for Best Actress in a Motion Picture Musical or Comedy. The same year she also had a well-received starring role in the horror film The Others. While in Australia filming Moulin Rouge!, Kidman injured her ribs; as a result, Jodie Foster replaced her as leading actress in the film Panic Room. In that film, Kidman's voice appears on the phone as the mistress of the husband of the lead character.
The following year, Kidman won critical praise for her portrayal of Virginia Woolf in The Hours, in which the prosthetics applied to her made her almost unrecognisable. She won the Academy Award for Best Actress for this role, along with a Golden Globe Award, a BAFTA, and numerous critics awards. Kidman became the first Australian actress to win an Academy Award. During her Academy Award acceptance speech, Kidman made a teary statement about the importance of art, even during times of war: "Why do you come to the Academy Awards when the world is in such turmoil? Because art is important. And because you believe in what you do and you want to honour that, and it is a tradition that needs to be upheld."
In the same year, Kidman starred in three very different films. The first film, Dogville, by Danish director Lars von Trier, was an experimental film set on a bare soundstage. In the second film, she co-starred with Anthony Hopkins in the film adaptation of Philip Roth's novel The Human Stain. The third film, Cold Mountain, a love story of two Southerners separated by the Civil War, garnered her a Golden Globe Award nomination.
Kidman's 2004 film Birth was nominated for the Golden Lion Award at the Venice Film Festival, and Kidman was nominated for another Golden Globe Award.
Kidman's two movies in 2005 were The Interpreter and Bewitched. The Interpreter, directed by Sydney Pollack, received mixed reviews, while Bewitched, co-starring Will Ferrell and based on the 1960s TV sitcom of the same name, was generally panned by critics. Neither film fared well domestically, their box office sales falling well short of the production costs, but both films fared well internationally.
In conjunction with her success in the film industry, Kidman became the face of the Chanel No. 5 perfume brand. She starred in a campaign of television and print ads with Rodrigo Santoro, directed by Moulin Rouge! director Baz Luhrmann to promote the fragrance during the holiday season in 2004, 2005, 2006, and 2008. The three-minute commercial produced for Chanel No. 5 perfume made Kidman the record holder for the most money paid per minute to an actor after she reportedly earned US$12million for the 3 minute advert. During this time, Kidman was also listed as the 45th Most Powerful Celebrity on the 2005 Forbes Celebrity 100 List. She made a reported US$14.5 million in 2004-2005. On People magazine's list of 2005's highest paid actresses, Kidman was second behind Julia Roberts with a US$16 million to US$17 million per-film price tag. She has since passed Roberts as the highest paid actress.
Recently, Kidman appeared in the Diane Arbus bio-pic Fur. She also lent her voice to the animated film Happy Feet, which quickly garnered critical and commercial success; the film grossed over US$384 million dollars worldwide. In 2007, she starred in the science fiction movie The Invasion directed by Oliver Hirschbiegel where it was reported that she received $26 million dollars for her performance; although it was a critical and commercial failure Kidman said that she has no control over the success of her films. She also played opposite Jennifer Jason Leigh and Jack Black in Noah Baumbach's comedy-drama Margot at the Wedding. She also starred in the film adaptation of the first part of the planned His Dark Materials trilogy of films, playing the villainous Marisa Coulter. However, The Golden Compass''s failure to meet expectations at the North American box office has reduced the likelihood of a sequel.
In 2008, she starred Baz Luhrmann's Australian period film titled Australia, which is set in the remote Northern Territory during the Japanese attack on Darwin during World War II. Kidman played opposite Hugh Jackman as an English woman feeling overwhelmed by the continent.
On June 25, 2007, Nintendo announced that Kidman would be the new face of Nintendo's advertising campaign for the Nintendo DS game More Brain Training in its European market.
Kidman was featured in a series of advertisements for Sky in Italy, speaking Italian during the spots.
Kidman was originally set to star in The Reader, a post-war Germany drama, but due to her pregnancy she had to back out of the film. Shortly after the news of Kidman's departure, it was announced that Kate Winslet would take over the role. Winslet went on to win the Oscar for Best Actress for the role - at the ceremony, Kidman was one of the five previous winners who presented her with the award.
On November 10, 2008, TV Guide reported that Kidman will star in the film adaptation of The Danish Girl alongside Charlize Theron. Kidman will play Elinar Wegener, the world's first post-op transsexual.
Singing
Not a singer before Moulin Rouge!, Kidman had well-received vocal performances in the film. Her collaboration with Ewan McGregor on "Come What May" peaked at 27 in the UK Singles Chart. Later she collaborated with Robbie Williams on "Somethin' Stupid", a cover of Williams' swing covers album Swing When You're Winning. It peaked at 8 in the Australian ARIAnet Singles Chart, and at 1 for three weeks in the UK. It was UK Christmas number 1 for 2001.
In 2006, she voiced the animated movie Happy Feet, along with vocals for Norma Jean's 'heartsong', a slightly altered version of "Kiss" by Prince. Kidman is to sing in Rob Marshall's next movie, musical Nine, along with Daniel Day-Lewis, Penélope Cruz, Judi Dench, Sophia Loren and Marion Cotillard.
Personal life
Kidman mentioned in an interview with Ellen Degeneres in 2005 that she is banned from doing one of her favourite hobbies - sky diving - whilst shooting a movie. In January 2005, Kidman won interim restraining orders against two Sydney paparazzi.
In the beginning of 2009, Kidman appeared in a series of special edition postage stamps featuring some of Australia's great actors. She, Geoffrey Rush, Russell Crowe, and Cate Blanchett each appear twice in the series: once as themselves and once as their Academy Award-winning character.
Relationships
Kidman has been married twice. She became romantically involved with actor Tom Cruise on the set of their 1990 movie, Days of Thunder. Kidman and Cruise were married on Christmas Eve 1990 in Telluride, Colorado. The couple adopted a daughter, Isabella Jane (born 1992), and a son, Connor Anthony (born 1995). They separated just after their 10th wedding anniversary. She was three months pregnant and had a miscarriage. Cruise filed for divorce in February 2001. The marriage was dissolved in 2001, Cruise citing irreconcilable differences. The reasons for dissolution have never been made public. In Marie Claire, Kidman said she had an ectopic pregnancy early in their marriage. In the June 2006 Ladies' Home Journal, she said she still loved Cruise: "He was huge; still is. To me, he was just Tom, but to everybody else, he is huge. But he was lovely to me. And I loved him. I still love him." In addition, she has expressed shock about their divorce.
The 2003 film Cold Mountain brought rumours that an affair between Kidman and co-star Jude Law was responsible for the break-up of his marriage. Both denied the allegations, and Kidman won an undisclosed sum from the British tabloids that published the story. She gave the money to a Romanian orphanage in the town where the movie was filmed. Robbie Williams confirmed they had a short romance on her yacht in summer 2004. Shortly after her Oscar, there were rumours of a relationship between her and Adrien Brody. She met musician Lenny Kravitz in 2003 and dated him into 2004.
Kidman met her second husband, country singer Keith Urban at G'Day LA, an event honouring Australians in January 2005. They married on June 25, 2006, at Cardinal Cerretti Memorial Chapel in the grounds of St Patrick's Estate, Manly in Sydney. They maintain homes in Sydney, Sutton Forest, Los Angeles and Nashville, Tennessee. In March 2008, they bought mansions in Los Angeles and Nashville within days.
After speculation by the press, it was confirmed on 8 January 2008 that Kidman was three months pregnant. The couple had their first child, Sunday Rose Kidman Urban, on 7 July 2008, in Nashville, Tennessee. Kidman's father said the daughter's middle name was after Urban's late grandmother, Rose.
Religion
Kidman is a practising Roman Catholic. She attended Mary Mackillop Chapel in North Sydney. During her marriage to Cruise, she had been an occasional practitioner of Scientology.
Politics
Kidman's name was in an advertisement in the Los Angeles Times (17 August 2006) that condemned Hamas and Hezbollah and supported Israel in the 2006 Israel-Lebanon conflict. Kidman has donated to U.S. Democratic party candidates and endorsed John Kerry in the 2004 presidential election.
Charitable work
Kidman has been a Goodwill Ambassador for UNICEF Australia since 1994. She has raised money for and drawn attention to the disadvantaged children around the world. In 2004, she was honored as a "Citizen of the World" by the United Nations.
On 26 January 2006 (Australia Day), Kidman received Australia's highest civilian honor when she was made a Companion of the Order of Australia. She was also nominated goodwill ambassador for UNIFEM.
Kidman joined the 'Little Tee Campaign' for breast cancer care to design T-shirts or vests to raise money for breast cancer. Kidman's mother had breast cancer in 1984.

Born: 19-Jun-1980
Birthplace: Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Gender: Female
Race or Ethnicity: White
Occupation: Actor
Nationality: Canada
Executive summary: Lara Perkins on The L Word
Husband: Erik Steingroever (photographer, m. 4-Apr-2009)
Lauren Lee Smith (born June 19, 1980) is a Canadian actress.
Early life
Smith was born in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. The stepdaughter of a documentary filmmaker, Lauren traveled around the world with her family. When she was 14, her family moved to Los Angeles, California. There, she began a modeling career.
Acting career
At the age of 19, she was cast in a featured role in the remake of Get Carter. Smith has also appeared in such works as Christy: Return to Cutter Gap, Christy: A Change of Seasons and Christy: A New Beginning and starred in the show Mutant X, where she played the character of Emma deLauro. She has also guest-starred in episodes of Dead Zone, The Twilight Zone, and Blade: The Series, among others. Smith was also a recurring character in the Showtime drama series The L Word, playing Sous-chef Lara Perkins. In 2005, Smith filmed the movie Lie with Me, where she played the character of Leila.
In 2006 she had a recurring part on the Canadian drama Intelligence. In early 2007, she starred in the CBC mini-series Dragon Boys.
In 2008, Lauren starred in the film Pathology, and became a series regular on the CBS show CSI: Crime Scene Investigation. She joined Grissom's team as Riley Adams, "a smart, flirtatious, and witty non-conformist who entered law enforcement to rebel against her judgmental psychiatrist father."
She married photographer Erik Steingroever on April 4, 2009.

Born: June 18, 1978
Location: Malta
Heig: 5 ft 10 in
Hair color: Brown
Eye color: Brown
Measurements: 33.5-23.5-35.5
Emma Heming (born. June 18, 1978) is a Malta-born, British model and actress. She was a spokesmodel for La Senza lingerie and walked for Victoria's Secret in 2001. In 2005, Maxim magazine placed Heming at number 86 in its "Top 100" list.
She married actor Bruce Willis in the Turks and Caicos islands on March 21, 2009. Guests included Willis' three children with ex-wife Demi Moore and her husband actor Ashton Kutcher.

Born: June 17, 1985
Location:Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Occupatio: Actress
Rachel Jessica Tan (born 17 June 1985 in Melbourne, Australia) is an Australian actress.
Tan began her acting career in 2004 and is best known for her role as Sarah on Australian film Hating Alison Ashley, starring alongside Saskia Burmeister and Delta Goodrem. She also played the role of Dorothy in Melbourne Fringe Festival 2008 show "We're Off To See Van Gogh".
Tan has appeared in several swimsuit calendars including the Australian Swimsuit Calendar 2006, Pumped Up Down Under 2007, Lynx Calendar 2007 and Lynx Calendar 2008 and magazines such as Zoo Weekly and Ralph.
In 2005 she took away the title of Miss Congeniality in the Ralph Miss University model competition (won by Erin McNaught).
Tan has just finished filming her role as Jade McKenzie on Australia's long running soap Neighbours.

AKA Laura Sisk

Born: 11-Sep-1970
Birthplace: Clinton, MD
Gender: Female
Race or Ethnicity: White
Sexual orientation: Straight
Occupation: Actor
Nationality: United States
Executive summary: General Hospital
Husband: John Wright (m. 7-Oct-1995, one daughter, one son)
Daughter: Lauren (b. 16-Nov-1998)
Son: John Michael (b. 20-Dec-2000)
Laura Wright (born Laura Sisk on September 11, 1970 in Clinton, Maryland) is an American actress best known for her work in daytime television.
In 1991 Wright was cast as Allison "Ally" Rescott Alden Bowman on Loving. At the end of the show's run in 1995, she reprised her role on its spin-off soap The City until its cancellation in 1997. Wright was subsequently offered the contract role of Cassie Layne Winslow, (half-sister to Kim Zimmer's Reva Shayne) on the CBS soap Guiding Light, a role she held until November 2005. Upon her departure from Guiding Light, Wright immediately stepped into her current role, that of Carly Corinthos on the ABC daytime drama General Hospital.
Television credits
General Hospital as Carly Corinthos Jacks (#4) (November 2005 to Present)
Guiding Light as Cassie Layne Winslow (#1) (1 August 1997-3 November 2005)
Loving/The City as Ally Rescott Bowman (1991-1997)
Awards and nominations
Daytime Emmys Pre-Nomination, Outstanding Supporting Actress (2003, 2004, 2005) for Guiding Light
Daytime Emmys Pre-Nomination, Outstanding Lead Actress (2009) for General Hospital
TV Guide Magazine Rising Star in Daytime (1997) for Guiding Light
Soap Opera Digest Awards Winner, Favorite New Character (1998) for Guiding Light
ABC Soaps in Depth Awards Winner, Gold Star (2009) for General Hospital
Soap Opera Weekly Soap Opera's 50 Most Beautiful People (March 3, 1998)
Personal life
Wright has been married to John Wright since 7 October 1995. They have two children, daughter Lauren (born 16 November 1998) and son John (born 20 December 2000).

AKA Melissa Peregrym

Born: 16-Jun-1982
Birthplace: Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Gender: Female
Race or Ethnicity: White
Occupation: Actor
Nationality: Canada
Executive summary: Candice Wilmer on Heroes
Melissa "Missy" Peregrym (born June 16, 1982) is a Canadian actress and former fashion model. She made her feature film debut in the 2006 gymnastics comedy drama Stick It. She played a recurring role as Candice Wilmer on the NBC television series Heroes, and stars in the CW television series Reaper.
Biography
Charity
Peregrym took part in the TOMS shoe drop in Argentina in 2006. Is dating Pittsburgh Steelers quarterback Ben Roethlisberger.
Awards and nominations
In 2008 she was nominated for a Leo at the Leo Awards for Best Lead Performance by a Female in a Dramatic Series for Reaper (2007) for episode Love, Bullets and Blacktop.

AKA Mary Ellen Cook

Born: 15-Jun-1980
Birthplace: Cleveland, OH
Gender: Female
Measurements: 36DD-24-36
Height: 5 ft 9 in
Eye colour: Brown
Hair colour: Blonde
Race or Ethnicity: White
Sexual orientation: Bisexual
Occupation: Pornstar
Nationality: United States
Executive summary: Porn star, ran for California Governor
Father: (mentally handicapped)
Mother: Judy (mentally handicapped)
Husband: (div.)
Mary Carey is an American pornographic actress and was a candidate for Governor of California in 2003.
Biography
Carey was born in 1980 to a schizophrenic mother and a father with cerebral palsy, and she was taken care of by her grandparents from the age of three months. After her parents divorced, her mother moved in with Carey and her grandparents. At seven years of age the family moved from Cleveland to Florida, and the next year Carey was legally adopted by her grandparents.
Carey studied ballet from the age of seven until she was 19 years old. She graduated in 1998 from the Pine Crest School, a Fort Lauderdale private preparatory school. At 19, she joined the dance team at Florida Atlantic University, where she was a student in the theater department. After her grandfather's death, her grandmother's health began to deteriorate, so Carey took a job as an exotic dancer to help the family financially. Upon noticing that the featured dancers made more money, she asked an agent how she could become featured as well, and the agent recommended that she star in adult films. Carey traveled to Los Angeles and made the rounds of the adult-film producers and studios, eventually landing a job with Playboy TV.
Recently, she was featured on VH1's reality series Celebrity Rehab, and has appeared in close to 100 adult films. She has a product line with Doc Johnson adult toy company, she has authored a book, and she is currently developing a TV series with GoGo Luckey. She has recently completed filming VH1's new series Sober House, premiering in January 2009.
Politics
During the 2003 California recall election, Carey signed a contract with Kick Ass Pictures, and as a publicity stunt they came up with the idea that Carey should run for governor. She was an independent candidate (though she identifies as a Republican), placing tenth in a field of 135 candidates. She ran on a eleven-point platform that included somewhat tongue-in-cheek promises of taxing breast implants, making lap dances tax-deductible, and creating a "Porn For Pistols" exchange program.
In June 2005, Carey announced her bid for Lieutenant Governor of California as an Independent in 2006. She has also said that she hopes to run for a major party nomination to be President of the United States upon her reaching the age of 35, per the minimum age requirement for United States presidents. The first election for which she would be eligible would be the 2016 presidential election.
During and immediately following her gubernatorial bid in 2003, Carey was occasionally featured as a guest on various political talk shows. Carey maintained on the FOX News Channel on March 16, 2006 that her pornographic films are not a negative to her political career, citing the political successes of Arnold Schwarzenegger and Ronald Reagan. She also dubiously maintained that, unlike the films in which Schwarzenegger and Reagan starred, her films are about "love."
Personal life
In April 2005, Carey was arrested in connection with a Lakewood, Washington, cabaret sting operation, for violating a city strip club ordinance that forbids dancers from touching themselves. She subsequently made a plea agreement and received a 19-month sentence, which was suspended on the condition that she was not charged with any other offense within one year.
In January/February 2008, Carey was featured on the VH1 reality TV series Celebrity Rehab receiving treatment for alcoholism. While on Celebrity Rehab, she stated that she would leave the porn industry and straighten out her life because of her mother, who had been hospitalized in Florida after she jumped off of a four-story building the previous month.. In the reunion episode of the show taped approximately 6 months after leaving rehab, she stated that she has not made an adult movie since becoming sober and intends to never make another one. However, she continues to "feature dance" in clubs, saying that she needs the money to care for her mother, but also hopes to stop doing this.

Born: 15-Jun-1970
Birthplace: Brooklyn, NY
Gender: Female
Religion: Scientology
Race or Ethnicity: White
Sexual orientation: Straight
Occupation: Actor
Nationality: United States
Executive summary: Old School
Father: (Italian)
Mother: (Monaco)
Husband: Angelo Pagan (actor, m. 19-Jul-2003)
Daughter: Sofia Bella (b. 16-Jun-2004)
Leah Remini is an American actress best known for her role as Carrie Heffernan on the CBS sitcom The King of Queens.
Acting career
In The Motherhood
Remini has starred in an online nine-episode MSNweb series, In The Motherhood, along with Chelsea Handler and Jenny McCarthy. The show was based on being a mother, and users could submit their stories to have it made into real webisodes.
Personal life
On July 19, 2003 she married actor Angelo Pagan who also appeared on The King of Queens as Rico. This was aired on the VH1 series Inside Out. On June 16, 2004, she gave birth to a daughter, Sofia Bella a day after her 34th birthday. This was chronicled on the VH1 documentary Inside Out: Leah Remini the Baby Special. Remini was also showcased on The Rachael Ray Show during a period of time she was trying to wean her child off pacifiers and drinking from a bottle.
Her weight has varied widely after the birth of her daughter, she was heard to lament on an episode of Fat Actress. Viewers of the King of Queens might note that Remini gained weight when she got pregnant during the middle seasons of the show, and failed to lose the weight until the final season of the show. Despite the end of The King of Queens, Remini still stays in touch with Kevin James.
Remini is a member of The Church of Scientology. In December 2005, she helped promote the gala opening of Church of Scientology's "Psychiatry: An Industry of Death" Museum. Responding to criticism of Scientology during an interview on CNN, Remini stated:
If somebody is going to get turned off about something because of what they read or heard, then that person's not smart enough to even enter a church. If you're really against something, then know what you're against.

Born: 13-Jun-1986
Birthplace: Sherman Oaks, CA
Gender: Female
Religion: Anglican/Episcopalian
Race or Ethnicity: White
Sexual orientation: Straight
Occupation: Actor
Nationality: United States
Executive summary: Olsen Twin
They are fraternal not identical twins, but Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen (which see) lived virtually identical lives for their first eighteen years.
In June 2004, Mary-Kate -- sans Ashley -- entered a treatment facility "to seek professional help for a health-related issue" -- anorexia. In 2007, she joined the cast of Showtime's dark comedy Weeds, playing a very Christian woman who falls for the son of drug-dealer Mary-Louise Parker. It was arguably her first adult role, and at age 20, her first job without her sister beside her.
She was dating Heath Ledger at the time of his death, and the masseuse who found Ledger's body in his New York apartment reportedly called Olsen long-distance in California -- twice -- before dialing 9-1-1.
Father: David Olsen (mortgage banker; b. 1953)
Mother: Jarnette Olsen ("Jarnie", ballet dancer; b. 1954; div. Feb-1996)
Mother: Martha Mackenzie Olsen (stepmother, m. 10-Mar-1996)
Brother: Trent Olsen (actor, b. 6-May-1984)
Sister: Ashley Olsen (twin)
Sister: Elizabeth Olsen ("Lizzie", b. 16-Feb-1989)
Sister: Taylor Olsen (stepsister, b. 1996)
Brother: Jake Olsen (stepbrother, b. 1997)
Boyfriend: Max Winkler (son of Henry Winkler, dated 2002, ex-)
Boyfriend: David Katzenberg (dating 2004)
Boyfriend: Heath Ledger (actor, dated 2007-08)
Mary-Kate Olsen (born June 13, 1986) is a Daytime Emmy Award-nominated American actress, producer, fashion model and fashion designer. She has had a successful acting career beginning at a very young age, in roles with her twin sister Ashley Olsen.
Since 2006, she has appeared in movie roles independently of her twin sister.
Career
Working as a twin
Mary-Kate Olsen began her career in 1987 at the age of nine months when she and her twin sister Ashley were hired for the role of Michelle Tanner on the popular television series Full House. To comply with strict labor laws regarding child actors, they alternated in the role during the taping of the show. They were credited as "Mary Kate Ashley Olsen" in an attempt to keep audiences from realizing that the role was played by two children.
In 1995, following Full House, Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen released a string of successful straight-to-video movies and became popular figures in the preteen market during the late 1990s and early 2000s. Their names became a cottage industry, with their likeness seen in clothes, books, fragrances, magazines, movies and posters. There were even fashion dolls made by Mattel from 2000–2005.
They starred in the video series The Adventures of Mary-Kate & Ashley, the ABC show Two of a Kind, and ABC Family's So Little Time, for which Mary-Kate received a nomination for Outstanding Performer in a Children's Series at the 2002 Daytime Emmy Awards. They were ranked number three on the VH1 program 100 Greatest Child Stars.
In 2004, Ashley appeared alongside her twin sister in the theatrical light-hearted romantic hybrid comedy, New York Minute, also starring Eugene Levy.
Both Mary-Kate and Ashley work on their fashion line called Elizabeth and James, which is named after their brother and sister.
In 2008, Mary-Kate and Ashley released a book titled "Influence", which contained interviews with many creative and influential people including Karl Lagerfeld, Terry Richardson, George Condo and many more. The book received positive reviews not only from fans of the twins, but also from critics.
Independently
Seeking to establish independent identities for herself and her sister, Mary-Kate has asked the public and the media to refer to them not as "the Olsen twins" but as Mary-Kate Olsen and Ashley Olsen respectively.
Subsequently, Mary-Kate's first solo acting appearance was in the movie Factory Girl, released in December 2006. The short scene was ultimately cut from theatrical release, but made part of the DVD. In addition, she has had a recurring role on Showtime's Weeds as Tara Lindman. She appears in the 2008 film The Wackness as Union. At the Sundance Film Festival, co-star and Academy Award-winner Sir Ben Kingsley praised her by saying "Mary-Kate's portrayal of this girl is perfect — she's hysterical. She's a pro. It makes sense. She's been in this business a lot longer than I have."
Mary-Kate made a one-episode appearance on the ABC comedy Samantha Who?. On November 10, 2008 during the second season of the show, Mary-Kate played Natalie in episode 5, a self-destructive, bad girl whom Samantha tries to help while doing community service.
CEO
Main article: Dualstar
In 2004, both Ashley and Mary-Kate Olsen became CEO of their company Dualstar (created in 1993 following the success on Full House), the brand currently selling in over 3,000 stores in America and 5,300 stores world-wide. Their success has been marked on Forbes The Celebrity 100 list since 2002, and in 2007 Forbes ranked the twins as the eleventh-richest women in entertainment, with an estimated net worth of $100 million.
Fashion designer
Following a high volume of public interest in the sisters' fashion choices, both worked in collaboration on a string of fashion lines available to the public.
Starting as young girls, they have a clothing line in Wal-Mart stores across America for girls ages 4–14 as well as a beauty line called "Mary-Kate and Ashley: Real fashion for real girls". In 2004, they made news by signing a pledge to allow all the workers that sew their line of clothing in Bangladesh full maternity leave. The National Labor Committee, which organized the pledge, later praised the twins for their commitment to worker rights. The director of the organization, Charles Kernaghan, is quoted as saying:
“ The Olsen twins have done the right thing. Now it is up to Wal-Mart to either support Mary-Kate and Ashley’s commitment to women’s rights, or tragically to shut them down.”
In 2006, the sisters appeared together in an ad campaign for an upscale fashion line Badgley Mischka Mary-Kate and her sister have released The Row, a high-end fashion line inspired by London's Savile Row, the line a direct reflection of their own popular personal style. The line features shirts and tank tops selling for hundreds of dollars each, a stark contrast to their previous line for young girls. The clothing is sold at high-end retailers such as Barneys, Maxfield, Harvey Nichols, Brown's, and others around the world.
Ashley and Mary-Kate continued their expansion in the fashion industry with the Fall '07 launch of Elizabeth and James, their contemporary collection inspired by many of their unique vintage finds and pieces in their personal wardrobes.
Her latest project is a line in collaboration with celebrity stylists Jane Magnitude and Fred Holston, who have worked with designers such as Marc Jacobs, Balenciaga, and Christian Louboutin in the past. The exact details have not been announced, but much buzz has been surrounding the trio's up coming line.
Public image
Though her fashion choices have become somewhat popular, Olsen has not been without criticism for her wearing and promotion of fur.
Personal life
In 2005, Mary-Kate Olsen ended her romance with Greek shipping heir Stavros Niarchos III. Mary-Kate said that the breakup was one of the main factors in her leave of absence from New York University. "I miss him and I adore him," Olsen said, "It's a hurtful and a painful subject." When asked if there was a specific reason for her leaving NYU, she replied, "I think we can all guess." The breakup and Niarchos's pairing with Paris Hilton led to a rift between Hilton and Mary-Kate. "[Paris and I] always only had nice things to say about each other," Olsen said. "Now I guess you can tell we're not talking."
Mary-Kate was a close friend of late actor Heath Ledger around the time of his January 22, 2008 death. Responding to a claim by an anonymous law enforcement official that she would not speak to federal investigators without a promise of legal immunity, Olsen's attorney Michael C. Miller said:
“ We have provided the government with relevant information including facts in the chronology of events surrounding Mr. Ledger's death and the fact that Ms. Olsen does not know the source of the drugs Mr. Ledger consumed.”
Mary-Kate is currently dating New York based artist Nate Lowman. In late 2008, it was widely rumoured that Olsen was expecting her first child with Lowman. The rumours began when Olsen, who once battled an eating disorder, appeared fuller and healthier than she has in years. It was also speculated that Olsen was encouraged to pursue parenthood due to a conversation she had with Ledger. However, rumours were rubbished in a statement made by Olsen's rep.
Nate Lowman is close friends with fellow New York based artist Dash Snow, who is the older brother of Mary-Kate's former boyfriend Maxwell Snow. Olsen dated Snow from September 2006 until the summer of 2007.
Mary-Kate was also romantically involved with Max Winkler, the son of actor Henry Winkler, while she was attending high school. The pair dated for a year and a half. It was through Max that Mary-Kate introduced her sister Ashley to Matt Kaplan.
In 2003, Mary-Kate began a relationship with David Katzenberg, the son of Dreamworks co-founder Jeffrey Katzenberg. The pair dated for a year, even maintaining their relation through Mary-Kate's stint in a treatment facility. The pair broke up during Olsens first semester at NYU. However there was rumours of a reconciliation between the pair in late 2005 when they were photographed out and about together regularly. It was also widely rumoured that Katzenberg was eager to propose. It is claimed that David is Mary-Kates first love.
Health issues
In mid-2004, following a period filled with speculation, shock and concern regarding her weight loss, Olsen announced she had entered treatment for an eating disorder, anorexia nervosa. On November 20, 2007 she was hospitalized for a reported kidney infection.
Mary-Kate also stated in a 2003 interview that she suffers from attention deficit disorder. The actress said at the time "I get extra time to take the SAT because of my ADD. Everybody's brain works differently and I just need longer for things to register"

AKA Ashley Fuller Olsen

Born: 13-Jun-1986
Birthplace: Sherman Oaks, CA
Gender: Female
Religion: Anglican/Episcopalian
Race or Ethnicity: White
Sexual orientation: Straight
Occupation: Actor
Nationality: United States
Executive summary: Olsen Twin
Father: David Olsen (mortgage banker, b. 1953)
Mother: Jarnette Olsen ("Jarnie", ballet dancer; b. 1954, div. Feb-1996)
Mother: Martha Mackenzie Olsen (stepmother, m. 10-Mar-1996)
Brother: Trent Olsen (actor, b. 6-May-1984)
Sister: Mary-Kate Olsen (twin)
Sister: Elizabeth Olsen ("Lizzie", b. 16-Feb-1989)
Sister: Taylor Olsen (stepsister, b. 1996)
Brother: Jake Olsen (stepbrother, b. 1997)
Boyfriend: Matt Kaplan (quarterback at Campbell Hall, ex-, took her virginity, dated 2004)
Slept with: Jared Leto (actor, dated 2005 for one week)
Boyfriend: Lance Armstrong (cyclist, together 2007)
Ashley Olsen is an American fashion designer, entrepreneur, and actress. Ashley founded her luxury brand, The Row in 2006, and co-designs Elizabeth and James with Mary-Kate Olsen, her twin sister.
Career
Working as a twin
Ashley Olsen began her career at the age of nine months, when she and her sister Mary-Kate were hired to share the role of Michelle Tanner on the popular television series Full House in 1987. To comply with strict child labor laws regarding child actors, Ashley and Mary-Kate took turns during taping of the show. Both girls were credited as "Mary Kate Ashley Olsen" in an attempt to keep audiences from realizing that two children played the role.
Following Full House, Ashley released a string of successful straight-to-video movies and became a popular figure in the preteen market during the late '90s and early 2000s. Her name became a household item, with her likeness seen in clothes, books, fragrances, magazines, movies and posters. There were even fashion dolls of her made by Mattel from 2000-2005.
She starred in the video series The Adventures of Mary-Kate & Ashley, the ABC show Two of a Kind, and Fox Family's So Little Time. They were ranked number three on the VH1 program 100 Greatest Child Stars.
In 2004, Ashley appeared alongside her twin sister in the theatrical light-hearted romantic comedy, New York Minute, also starring Eugene Levy.
Both Mary-Kate and Ashley work on their fashion line called Elizabeth and James, which is named after their brother and sister.
In 2008, Mary-Kate and Ashley released a book titled "Influence", which contained interviews with many creative and influential people including Karl Lagerfeld, Terry Richardson, Diane von Furstenberg and many more. The book received positive reviews not only by critics but also by fans of the twins.
CEO
Main article: Dualstar
In 2004, both Ashley and Mary-Kate became CEO of their company Dualstar (created in 1993 following the success on Full House), the brand currently selling in over 3,000 stores in America and 5,300 stores world-wide. Their success has been marked on Forbes The Celebrity 100 list since 2002, and in 2007 Forbes ranked the twins as the eleventh-richest women in entertainment, with an estimated net worth of $100 million.
Fashion designer
Following a high volume of public interest in their fashion choices, both work in collaboration on a string of fashion lines available to the public.
Starting as young girls, they have a clothing line in Wal-Mart stores across America for girls ages 4-14 as well as a beauty line called "Mary-Kate and Ashley: Real fashion for real girls". In 2004 they made news by signing a pledge to allow all the workers that sew their line of clothing in Bangladesh full maternity leave. The National Labor Committee, which organized the pledge, later praised the twins for their commitment to worker rights. The director of the organization, Charles Kernaghan, is quoted as saying:
“ The Olsen twins have done the right thing. Now it is up to Wal-Mart to either support Mary-Kate and Ashley’s commitment to women’s rights, or tragically to shut them down.”
In 2006, in an attempt to gain credibility in the fashion industry after their association with Wal-Mart tarnished their reputations, they were tapped as the faces of the upscale fashion line Badgley Mischka
In a more mature fashion project, Ashley and her sister have released The Row, a high-end fashion line inspired by London's Savile Row. The line is a direct reflection of their own popular personal style and features shirts and tank tops selling for hundreds of dollars each. The clothing is sold at high-end retailers such as Barneys, Maxfield, Harvey Nichols, Brown's, and others around the world. Ashley and Mary-Kate continued their expansion in the fashion industry with the Fall '07 launch of Elizabeth & James, their contemporary collection inspired by many of their unique vintage finds and pieces in their personal wardrobes. In February 2009 it was announced that The Row and Elizabeth and James are expanding to menswear by Fall '09.
Public image
Though her fashion choices have become somewhat popular, Olsen has not been without criticism for her wearing and promotion of fur. In 2006, she was included on PETA's 2006 Worst Dressed list for wearing fur and is often a target of their anti-fur campaigning.
Personal life
Seeking to establish independent identities for herself and her twin sister, Ashley has asked the public and the media to refer to them not as "the Olsen twins" but instead as Mary-Kate Olsen and Ashley Olsen.
Ashley's first serious relationship began in 2001 with high school senior Matt Kaplan. The pair met through Mary-Kate's ex Max Winkler. They began dating in 2001, however they broke up in 2004 because of the long distance between them created by the fact Matt was in college on the east coast. Rumours circulated that the real reason they broke up was because Matt was overbearing and jealous of the male attention Ashley received. These reports were denied. In 2004, during her freshman year at NYU Ashley was romantically linked to restaurateur Scott Sartiano. It is believed the pair were introduced by Ashley's Full House co-star John Stamos, who asked Sartiano to take care of Mary-Kate and Ashley during their first year living in New York. The relationship only lasted nine months, with the breakdown being blamed on Sartiano's playboy lifestyle.
After this Ashley had a very brief fling with 30 Seconds To Mars frontman Jared Leto which was highly publicized. Ashley's next serious relationship was with former Ksubi Jeans CEO Greg Chait. The pair began dating in late 2005 and were regularly photographed together all over LA and New York, as well as on vacation. The pair broke up in early 2007. The reason is believed to be Greg's resistance to commit long term. The reports were never confirmed or denied.
It was rumoured in 2007 that Ashley was dating seven time Tour de France winner Lance Armstrong. There were several eyewitness reports but the relationship was never confirmed.
As of May 2008, Ashley has been in a relationship with National Treasure actor Justin Bartha. The pair are regularly seen on dates and around both LA and New York together, however neither has commented on the relationship with the media. The intensely private couple made their first official public appearance as a unit at the Metropolitan Ball this year (2009).
Libel Lawsuit
In 2005, Ashley filed a $40 million lawsuit against tabloid magazine National Enquirer for printing a headline reading "Ashley Olsen Caught In Drug Scandal," and the associated story.

AKA Brande Nicole Roderick

Born: 13-Jun-1974
Birthplace: Novato, CA
Gender: Female
Measurements Bust: 35"D
Waist: 24"
Hips: 34"
Height 5 ft 7 in
Weight 117 lb
Race or Ethnicity: White
Sexual orientation: Straight
Occupation: Model, Actor
Nationality: United States
Executive summary: Playboy 2001 Playmate of the Year
Boyfriend: Hugh Hefner (one of several simultaneous girlfriends)
Husband: Glenn Cadrez (NFL player, m. 2006)
Brande Nicole Roderick is an American model and actress. She is perhaps best known for her appearances in Baywatch and Playboy.
Biography
Career
From 1998 to 1999, Roderick appeared in four erotic movies. In 2000, Roderick starred as "Leigh Dyer" in Baywatch. In April 2000, she appeared in Playboy magazine as Playmate of the Month. In 2001, Roderick became the Playmate of the Year, the first Baywatch cast member to be so honored. In 2003, she starred in the Bollywood movie Out of Control as the American wife of an Indian man who, on a visit to India, gets pressured by his family into marrying an Indian girl. That role had been originally intended for Pamela Anderson.
Other recent film credits include Starsky & Hutch, Snoop Dogg's Hood of Horror, and The Nanny Diaries. In addition, she has guest-starred in Joey, The Parkers, Just Shoot Me!,Fear Factor, and Beverly Hills 90210.
Roderick is also a "Girl of RPS" for the USA Rock Paper Scissors League. In 2006, Roderick was one of six celebrity contestants on the CBS summer series Gameshow Marathon. She was the runner-up to Kathy Najimy. In 2009, she will appear in the second season of Celebrity Apprentice. Throughout the season, each celebrity will be raising money for a charity of their choice; Roderick has selected the California Police Youth Charities.
Personal life
She was born in Novato, California. Roderick lives in Los Angeles and plans to move to Hawaii. She formerly dated Hugh Hefner. In August 2006, she became engaged to Glenn Cadrez, a former NFL linebacker who played for the New York Jets, Denver Broncos and Kansas City Chiefs.

AKA Katherine Litwack
Born: June 13, 1986
Location: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S.
Occupation: Actress
Katherine V Litwack (born June 13, 1986), better known by the stage name Kat Dennings, is an American actress. Emerging with a role in an episode of the television series Sex and the City, she has been in the films Big Momma's House 2 (2006), Charlie Bartlett, and Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist (2008).
Biography
Early life
Dennings was born and raised in the Bryn Mawr area near Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Her mother, Ellie Judith Litwack, is a poet and speech therapist, her father, Gerald J. Litwack, a molecular pharmacologist and former Associate Dean for Scientific Affairs at Thomas Jefferson University. Dennings is the youngest of five children, including an older brother, Geoffrey S. Litwack, and an older sister Deborah. Her family is Jewish. She adopted the name Dennings as her professional name when she was younger. Dennings was home schooled; her only enrollment at a traditional school was for a half-day at Friends' Central School. She graduated from school early, at the age of 14. She moved with her family to Los Angeles, California around 2002 so that she could act full time. Her parents initially considered her idea of pursuing an acting career which, according to Dennings, was "the worst idea ever,"; she stated this in Interview magazine in 2007.
Career
Dennings began her career as a child in commercials, her first job was an advertisement for potato chips. She appeared on the HBO cable television series Sex and the City in 2000, where she played a 13-year-old girl who hires the character Samantha to handle publicity for her bat mitzvah in the episode "Hot Child in the City". Dennings was then cast as Bob Saget's daughter on the short-lived TV series, Raising Dad (2001–2002). Since then, she has appeared in a number of television shows and movies, including the Hilary Duff film, Raise Your Voice (2004), and The 40-Year-Old Virgin (2005), playing Catherine Keener's daughter. Dennings also appeared as the character "Zoe" on several episodes of ER in 2005 and 2006, and was a guest star on CSI:NY, playing Sarah Endecott in the 2005 episode "Manhattan Manhunt". Dennings also appeared in the film Big Momma's House 2 (2006), starring Martin Lawrence.
In 2008, Dennings starred in Charlie Bartlett, the story of a wealthy teenager, played by Anton Yelchin, who acts as a psychiatrist for his new public high school. Dennings played Susan Gardner, Bartlett's love interest, and the daughter of the school's principal, played by Robert Downey, Jr.. Dennings also appeared in The House Bunny, playing Mona, a pierced, caustic feminist misfit sorority girl Dennings stars with Michael Cera, of Superbad and Juno, in the 2008 teen romance film Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist. Dennings plays Norah Silverberg, the daughter of a famous record producer. She was nominated for the Satellite Award for Best Actress in a Motion Picture Musical or Comedy, an annual award from the International Press Academy, for her performance.
In 2009, Dennings will appear in Shorts, a dark children's film directed by Robert Rodriguez, and Arlen Faber, a story about a celebrity author whose manifestos become a sort of new Bible. She will also appear in the superhero film Defendor, starring Woody Harrelson and Sandra Oh, where she will play a crack-addicted prostitute. Dennings hopes to make End Zone, a film based on the novel of the same name by Don DeLillo. Although actors Sam Rockwell and Josh Hartnett are involved, the project as of September 2008 had yet to be greenlit because of its controversial subject matter of nuclear war.
Personal life
Dennings has been blogging since January 2001, and has since also transitioned into video blogging on YouTube. She is a self-proclaimed lover of baby animals, Shôjo manga, and cheese. She is an avid reader and is friends with author Andrea Seigel. Dennings stated to the The Jewish Journal of Greater Los Angeles that Judaism "is an important part of my history, but, as a whole, religion is not a part of my life." In December 2008, Dennings told BlackBook magazine, "I don’t drink and I don’t smoke and I don’t like being around people who do."
In 2005, Dennings dated Ira David Wood IV (brother of Evan Rachel Wood), whom she brought to the world premiere of The 40-Year-Old Virgin. In 2007, she began seeing Criminal Minds star Matthew Gray Gubler. In an interview with The Times in January 2009, Dennings stated, “I don’t have a boyfriend. I have friends, girl friends, great friends. We just hang out in other’s places and have one-on-one bonding time.” Currently Kat resides in Toluca Lake, a district in the San Fernando Valley Region of Los Angeles, California.

AKA Adriana Francesca Lima

Born: 12-Jun-1981
Birthplace: Salvador, Brazil
Gender: Female
Race or Ethnicity: Multiracial
Sexual orientation: Straight
Occupation: Model
Nationality: Brazil
Executive summary: Brazilian supermodel
Boyfriend: Marko Jaric (NBA player)
Born: 12-Jun-1981
Birthplace: Salvador, Brazil
Gender: Female
Race or Ethnicity: Multiracial
Occupation: Model
Nationality: Brazil
Executive summary: Brazilian supermodel
Lima was born in the northeastern coastal town of Salvador, Bahia, Brazil on June 12, 1981 and is an only child to parents Nelson Torres and Maria da Graça Lima, a social worker. She has stated that she is of African, Indian and Swiss descent.
When she was 6 months old, her father walked out on her and her mother. She has since been distanced from him. However, recently, she has been making attempts to reconcile with her estranged father.
Modeling career
Lima was discovered while shopping at a local mall at the age of 13. When Lima was 15 years old, she entered and finished in first place in Brazil's Ford Supermodel of the World Search. She subsequently entered the 1996 Ford Supermodel of the World contest and finished second place. Three years later, she moved to New York City, and signed with Elite Model Management. Lima’s modeling portfolio began to expand exponentially, appearing in numerous international editions of Vogue and Marie Claire. As for fashion shows, she has walked the catwalks for big-name designers such as Vera Wang, Christian Lacroix, Emanuel Ungaro, Giorgio Armani, Fendi, Ralph Lauren, Valentino, among others. Lima then became a GUESS? girl appearing on GUESS?' Fall 2000 ad campaign. She also appeared in the book 'A second decade of Guess? Images'.
In 2001, Lima starred in BMW short film, The Follow alongside actors Mickey Rourke, Clive Owen, and Forest Whitaker. The film was directed by Hong Kong film director and internationally renowned auteur Wong Kar-Wai.
Lima continued to build upon her entry, doing more print work for Maybelline, bebe, Mossimo, BCBG and gracing the cover and editorials of more high fashion magazines such as Harper's Bazaar, ELLE, Vogue, GQ, to name a few. Her April 2006 GQ cover was the highest-selling issue of the year. Her other notable works include the well-famed Pirelli Calendar 2005 and the face of Italy’s big cell phone carrier Telecom Italia Mobile where she became known as the "Catherine Zeta-Jones of Italy."
Lima is probably best known for her work with Victoria's Secret. She first graced the Victoria’s Secret Fashion Show in 1999 and has appeared on subsequent shows ever since. Her most notable walk down the runway was in 2003, where she was the show opener. Lima had appeared on several television ads for the brand but her most memorable one, was appearing alongside the legendary rock musician Bob Dylan in 2003 Victoria's Secret Angel in Venice commercial which received both praise and criticism. She is currently a contract 'Angel' and spokesperson for the brand.
Lima is also a spokesperson for cosmetic giant Maybelline New York. She is the world's fourth highest paid supermodel as of 2007.
Personal life
Lima is fluent in three languages—Portuguese, Spanish and English. In her free time, she loves reading a novel by her favorite author, Gabriel Garcia Marquez. Lima has admitted that she was shy around boys when she was younger. She got her first kiss at 17 years old. In an interview with GQ April 2006 issue, Lima told the magazine that she is a virgin. “Sex is for after marriage," she says. "They have to respect that this is my choice. If there's no respect, that means they don't want me."
Despite reports, Lima denied ever being engaged to rocker Lenny Kravitz and said that she and Kravitz are just friends. She has also been romantically linked to other celebrities in the past, including New York Yankees superstar, Derek Jeter and Prince Wenzeslaus of Liechtenstein.
Lima in the media
Since her rise to fame, Lima is often cited by popular media as one of the world's sexiest women. She ranked 7th on FHM 100 Sexiest Women 2007 and was chosen as one of People Magazine's annual 100 Most Beautiful People in the World, in May 2007. On June 13, 2007, she was awarded as "Hottest Girl on the Planet" at the first Spike TV Guys' Choice Awards but the category was not mentioned in the actual show. Lima was also voted on the Maxim Hot 100 2007 as number 53. She was voted as the Most Desirable Woman in 2005 by visitors of the largest men's lifestyle website, Askmen.com (she placed 4th in 2006 and also 4th in 2007).

AKA Kendra Leigh Wilkinson

Born: 12-Jun-1985
Birthplace: San Diego, CA
Gender: Female
Measurements: 34D"-24"-32"
Height: 5 ft 4 in
Weight: 120 lb
Eye colour: Blue
Hair colour: Blonde
Race or Ethnicity: White
Sexual orientation: Straight
Occupation: TV Personality
Nationality: United States
Executive summary: The Girls Next Door
Father: (deserted family in 1989)
Mother: Patti
Boyfriend: Hugh Hefner (Playboy founder, together 2004-08)
Kendra Leigh Wilkinson is an American television personality and glamour model. She is best known for her role on the E! reality series The Girls Next Door as Hugh Hefner's third girlfriend after Holly Madison and Bridget Marquardt. Although Marquardt has modeled for Playboy, as well as having been part of a Playmate search, she has never technically been a Playmate.
Biography
Kendra Wilkinson is the eldest of two children. Her mother, Patti, was originally from Cherry Hill, New Jersey, and had been a cheerleader for the Philadelphia Eagles. Her father, Eric, left her family when she was four. Wilkinson grew up in Clairemont, a middle-class community in central San Diego, and attended Clairemont High School, from which she graduated in 2003. She played softball for six years with the Clairemont Bobby Sox. When she left high school she began working as a glamour model, and also briefly worked as an office assistant for a dentist.
Career
Wilkinson met Hugh Hefner at his 78th birthday party in April 2004, where she was hired to be one of the "painted girls" (women who are nude except for painted-on accessories). Hefner had apparently seen her picture, shot by photographer Kim Riley, on a fax machine at the Playboy Mansion and wanted to know who she was. Shortly after they met, Hefner asked Wilkinson to be one of his girlfriends and he moved her into the Playboy Mansion. Wilkinson has made several cameos on different programs such as Las Vegas and Entourage. She also appeared in Akon's music video "Smack That". While on the set of the video, Eminem poured a bottle of water on her head, sparking an altercation. The incident was discussed on The Girls Next Door. She also showed her creative side as a rapper on MTV's Celebrity Rap Superstar which debuted on August 30, 2007. Wilkinson rapped to Ludacris’ "Fantasy", in response to the question asked by the show's host, "Can Kendra move her mouth as fast as she moves her booty?". She went on to take second place, losing to Shar Jackson.
Wilkinson's stated career goal is to become a massage therapist or sports announcer. In December 2005, she became a regular "blogger" columnist at the website of the Philadelphia Eagles, a team for which her mother had been a professional cheerleader.
She's featured on the E! reality television series The Girls Next Door, which follows the lives of Hefner's current girlfriends. Wilkinson lives in her own room in Hefner's mansion with her dogs, Raskal and Martini. In 2006, she appeared in the Playboy Special Editions Sexy 100.
In 2007, she appeared in Nickelback's music video of "Rockstar", along with Girls Next Door co-stars, Holly Madison and Bridget Marquardt.
Personal life
Wilkinson owns two dogs, a Pembroke Welsh Corgi named Raskal and a Jack Russell named Martini. On August 13, 2008, the Wall Street Journal front page reported that Wilkinson was the Italian restaurant chain Olive Garden's "Biggest Celebrity Fan". She, it was noted, has described Olive Garden's cuisine as "my soul food". The newspaper emphasized that her repeated enthusiastic public endorsements of the family restaurant are genuine, personal and are not tied to any payment from Olive Garden. In fact, the company was reported as viewing Wilkinson's endorsements with "mixed feelings" which it was reluctant to comment on.
On September 22, 2008, the International Business Times reported that Wilkinson was engaged to Philadelphia Eagles wide receiver Hank Baskett. Wilkinson denied being engaged in a blog entry on her official MySpace page,[8] but on October 7, 2008, in an interview on Chelsea Lately, admitted she was in a relationship with Baskett. On November 6, 2008, E! Online announced Wilkinson and Baskett were engaged, after he proposed the previous Saturday at the Space Needle in Seattle, Washington. Although it was initially announced that Hugh Hefner will give the bride away in a wedding ceremony to be celebrated at the Playboy Mansion on June 27, 2009, Wilkinson has since stated that she is having second thoughts about having Hefner walk her down the aisle.

AKA Danielle | Renne Le Vellers | Diane Rachael | Danielle Rodgers | Daniele Rogers | Daniel Rogers | Danille Rogers | Dannielle Rogers
Born: 11 June 1967
Location: Denver, Colorado, USA
Height:175 cm
Nickname:Victoria Lindow
Porn Star Danielle Rogers is a tall, quite pretty Southern California blonde beach bunny who burst onto the sex scene in 1990 and has enjoyed a couple of sensually successful stints in the industry since. Supremely stacked, with soft, cover-girl looks and a knack for bringing out the best in her co-stars, Danielle Rogers quickly shot to the top of the business in the early 90s. Originally from Denver, Colorado, Danielle Rogers was quite an athletic young woman. She split her time as a youth between sports and modeling, which she got into at the age of ten.
By the time Danielle Rogers had blossomed into a sultry young woman, Danielle Rogers' sexual side was starting to take over. She decided to take the plunge into porn, making her debut in 1990's 'Introducing Danielle.' Her down-to-earth nature and girl-next-door good looks landed her plenty of roles as coeds and young women being introduced to the wanton wonders of sex. A great example of Danielle Rogers in her prime can be found in 1991's 'Steamy Windows,' where she takes on Rocco Siffredi in a frenetic fling.
Danielle Rogers soon hooked up with porn stud Randy Spears, and the two enjoyed a lusty on- and off-screen relationship. Among their best vids was 'The Wild One,' where Danielle Rogers enjoyed an athletic tag-team tussle with Randy Spears and Eric Price in adjoining bedrooms. Spears and Rogers were married in 1991, and by 1993 Danielle Rogers has left the porn scene to concentrate on raising a family.
Danielle Rogers spent her time away from the business well, rearing her children and investing in a series of businesses. She bought and sold a Philadelphia-area fitness club, among other monetary ventures, but somehow the siren song of sexvids kept calling to her.
Danielle Rogers reentered the business in 1998, having separated from Spears. She brought a new-found sexual dynamism to her post-hiatus career, having become more comfortable with herself and her carnal needs during the time spent away. Her post-1998 flicks show Danielle Rogers to be much more in control, and more sure of herself on camera. Although she's split with Randy Spears, they still occasionally shoot a scene together. For example, their segment together in 'Gutter Mouths 7' shows that they can still get up a head of steam when the mood is right.
Danielle Rogers has developed her own line of sexvids since her return, while also shooting the occasional flick for outside companies. She lists a handful of recent scenes as among her favorites, including a blistering romp with Sean Michaels in 'We Go Deep 2.' Danielle Rogers' opened up her own web site, and in every way has transformed herself into the very model of the modern major porn starlet. She continues to churn out white-hot sex scenes, which prove that it's not age that matters when it comes to eroticism, but a knowledge of one's self and the willingness to follow your most delirious dreams.

AKA Liliane Rudabet Gloria Elsveta Sobieski

Born: 10-Jun-1983
Birthplace: New York City
Gender: Female
Race or Ethnicity: White
Occupation: Actor
Nationality: United States
Executive summary: Eyes Wide Shut
Personal life
Sobieski was born Liliane Rudabet Gloria Elsveta Sobieski in New York City, the daughter of Elizabeth (née Salomon), an American novelist and screenwriter who also works as Sobieski's manager, and Jean Sobieski, a French painter and artist who appeared in French and Italian spaghetti Westerns during his youth, as well as dated actress Jean Seberg. Sobieski's first name, "Liliane", was the name of her paternal grandmother. Sobieski has a younger brother, Robert, who attends Princeton University. Sobieski's late maternal grandfather, United States Navy captain Robert Salomon, was Jewish and Sobieski grew up exposed to the Jewish religion. She has noted that her "great, great, great, great uncle" was John III Sobieski, one of the elected kings of Poland. Sobieski speaks fluent French, although she does not speak Polish. Her father currently lives in France.
Sobieski has described her upbringing as "bohemian", having often attended Shakespeare in the Park and art galleries in SoHo during her childhood. During this time, she spent her summers in her paternal grandfather's ranch in the Camargue. Sobieski attended Brown University but dropped out after two and a half years. She is an ardent fan of Nina Simone and has a half Yorkshire Terrier, half Pomeranian dog named after her.
Career
Sobieski rose to fame in her mid-teens with her appearance in the movie Deep Impact (1998) and went on to play a modern Lolita in Stanley Kubrick's Eyes Wide Shut (released in 1999, although she was not even fifteen when her nymphet-like scenes were shot), which led to the forming of a firm friendship with the director. The title role in the TV movie Joan of Arc (1999) earned her an Emmy nomination and a Golden Globe nomination and a second nomination followed her portrayal of Tosia Altman in the TV movie Uprising (2001).
Sobieski's fluency in French landed her roles in the Merchant Ivory Film A Soldier's Daughter Never Cries (1998), L'Idole (2002) and the miniseries Les Liaisons dangereuses (2003) with Catherine Deneuve and Rupert Everett, an adaptation of Laclos's classic novel of sexual intrigue. Other movies she has starred in include Jungle 2 Jungle (1997), Never Been Kissed (1999), Here on Earth (2000), My First Mister (2001), The Glass House (2001), Uprising (2001), Joy Ride (2001), Max (2002), Hercules (NBC, 2005), and alongside Nicolas Cage in the 2006 remake of The Wicker Man directed by Neil LaBute.
One of her upcoming film roles is alongside Al Pacino in Jon Avnet's 88 Minutes. In 2007, Sobieski, starred in the Canadian film Walk All Over Me, which debuted at the Toronto International Film Festival on September 11 of that year.
Cultural references
Is widely ridiculed for a poem she wrote about 9/11. The actress read the poem - entitled "This Day and all the Rest" - on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno. The audio of this performance is frequently played to derisive laughter on The Howard Stern Show.
Because of her resemblance to actress Helen Hunt, the two were pitted against each other on the 59th episode of the satirical claymation television series, Celebrity Deathmatch.
Nine Days released a song "Leelee" in tribute to Sobieski. In the song "Wonder (If She'll Get It)" by Superchic[k], Sobieski and one of her movies, Here on Earth, were mentioned.

Born: 10-Jun-1962
Birthplace: Los Angeles, CA
Gender: Female
Religion: Jewish
Race or Ethnicity: White
Sexual orientation: Straight
Occupation: Actor
Nationality: United States
Executive summary: Showgirls
Father: Stan Gershon (businessman)
Mother: Mickey Koppel (interior decorator)
Sister: Tracy Gershon (Nashville Star judge)
Boyfriend: Owen Wilson (actor, together 2000, ex)
Boyfriend: Sean McPherson (ex)
Boyfriend: Jay Penske (ex)
Boyfriend: John Cusack (actor, ex)
Gershon was born in Los Angeles, California to Stan Gershon, who worked in import/export business and sales, and Mickey Koppel, an interior decorator. Gershon is Jewish, and has a brother, Dann, and a sister, Tracy. She attended Beverly Hills High School with Lenny Kravitz. She then went on to attend Emerson College with the likes of comedians Denis Leary and Mario Cantone. Gershon has dated hotel owner Sean McPherson, wealthy entrepreneur Jay Penske, and actors John Cusack and Owen Wilson.
Career
Gershon is regarded as a gay icon due to her roles in movies such as Bound (in which she played a butch lesbian) and Showgirls (which is regarded as a camp classic). She was ranked #51 on the Maxim Hot 100 Women of 2004.
Gershon played Jew's harp on "I Can't Decide", a song on the Scissor Sisters 2006 release Ta-Dah. On television, she has recurring roles on Rescue Me and the U.S. dramedy series Ugly Betty (as Italian cosmetics mogul Fabia, the rival of Wilhelmina Slater).

Borm June 9, 1984
Location: Phoenix, Arizona, U.S.A.
Spouse(s): Pat Myne
Height: 5 ft 6 in
Weight: 110 lb
Eye color: Green
Hair color: Black
Alektra Blue is an American pornographic actress who began working in the porn industry in 2004.
Biography
Alektra Blue was born in Phoenix, Arizona, but grew up in the Dallas, Texas area.
She began working in the adult industry in January 2005. Along with Brandy Talore, she won the 2006 F.A.M.E. "Favorite Rookie Starlet of the Year" award sponsored by, among others, AVN magazine.
In an interview for XRentDVD.com she said that the person that got her into porn was her best friend, Taryn Thomas, and that she is married to performer and director Pat Myne.
In April 2008, Blue was the Penthouse Pet of the Month. That same month, she signed an exclusive performance contract with Wicked Pictures

Born: June 8, 1978
Location: Medford, Massachusetts
Height: 5 ft 8 in
Title(s): Miss Massachusetts Teen USA 1996
Major Competition(s): Miss Teen USA 1996
Maria Menounos (Ìáñßá Ìåíïýíïò in Greek; born June 8, 1978) is an American actress, journalist, and television presenter known at home for her appearances as a correspondent for The Today Show and Access Hollywood, and abroad for co-hosting the Eurovision Song Contest 2006 in Athens, Greece.
Early life and beauty pageants
Menounos, a Greek American, was born in Medford, Massachusetts, and is fluent in the Greek language. At age 17, she was an employee of Dunkin' Donuts with aspirations to be something more. Menounos attended the Holy Trinity Greek Orthodox Church. In 1995, Menounos began to compete in beauty pageants. The following year, she won the title of Miss Massachusetts Teen USA and competed at Miss Teen USA where she failed to place in the top 10. Menounos did however place in the top 15, receiving an honorary mention, during the preliminary competition; Menounos placed 13th in preliminaries. The pageant was won by Christie Lee Woods. Maria competed for the title of Miss Massachusetts USA 2000; she was the 1st runner up.
Film and television career
Later Menounos attended Boston's Emerson College where she participated in the now award winning organization, Emerson Independent Video. During her senior year, she was hired as a reporter for Channel One News. Her work for Channel One's 10-minute segments included traveling to El Salvador to report on the earthquake of 2001 and interviewing former President George W. Bush.
Entertainment Tonight hired Menounos as a correspondent in 2002, where she reported on movies, music and fashion. ET executives offered her a hosting gig for ET on MTV & VH1; she left the program in 2005 to focus on her acting career, though she would eventually join rival program Access Hollywood later that Fall as a special correspondent. She went on to co-host a few episodes of the Today Show in the late summer and fall of 2006 as well as in April 2007.
In 2003, Menounos appeared on the November 30 episode of Punk'd where she was one of many celebrities caught in the awkward and embarrassing "Red Carpet Interviews".
In the summer of 2005, she appeared in the comic book film Fantastic Four, where she played a nurse who is romanced by the "Human Torch", played by Chris Evans. Her likeness and voice was featured in the 2005 Electronic Arts video game, From Russia with Love as Eva Adara, Red Grant's henchwoman, which stars Sean Connery as James Bond. She is also the spokesperson for Pantene hair products.
Menounos presented the 2006 Eurovision Song Contest (along with Greek singer Sakis Rouvas) that took place in Athens.
Menounos is a correspondent for The Today Show as well as Access Hollywood in an overall deal with NBC Universal to act in films and television shows. She also has recurring roles on CBS' Without a Trace and as Jules in the second season of The CW's One Tree Hill (during its run on The WB).
Menounos also appeared on the Scrubs episode "My Extra Mile", which aired in May 2006 where she is attracted to John Dorian because she likes his hair.
In 2006, Menounos appeared in the music video for "A Public Affair" by Jessica Simpson. In April 27, 2007, Maria starred in Kickin' It Old Skool. In 2007, Menounos continued in her run as international spokesperson doing print and television commercials for Pantene hair products as well as print ads for New York & Company.
From December 17 to December 20, 2007, Menounos hosted the reality game show miniseries Clash of the Choirs.
In 2008, she became the host of "Hollywood Green" on the "Planet Green" network. "Maria Menounos brings glamour to green living as the hostess of Hollywood Green. Both as the special correspondent for daily entertainment newsmagazine "Access Hollywood," and on Hollywood Green, Maria provides TV viewers with comprehensive coverage of entertainment and news personalities."
In 2008, she also had a very memorable role in the movie Tropic Thunder.
In 2008, she became the first journalist to interview the entire Obama family as a whole. She is represented by Creative Artists Agency.
In May 2008, played in the AVP Cuervo Gold Crown Huntington Beach Open, but was eliminated in the qualifying round. On July 13, 2008, Menounos starred in the celebrity softball game at Yankee Stadium in New York.
In November 2008, when Richard Belzer fell ill, she filled in as host for the North Shore Animal League’s Dogcatemy Celebrity Gala, which takes place at NYC’s Capitale.
Production
At the age of 17, Menounos produced In the Land of Merry Misfits, an independent film fairy tale. The 35 mm feature film was produced by Menounos while attending Emerson College with director Keven Undergaro, then head writer for MTV's Singled Out. The negative of the film was stolen and the film was never completed but her work on the film, and the film's director, helped her land her reporting job at Channel One News and at MTV (ET on MTV). Menounos, however, never forgot the film or the film's director. In 2005, Menounos personally funded the recovery and restoration of the film, which was narrated by John Waters and starred an eclectic group in the Waters vein - including former WWE champion Bob Backlund, actress Josie Davis from the TV show "Charles in Charge" and B-movie icon Randal Malone. The film premiered at the 2007 Tribeca Film Festival.
Menounos also directed Longtime Listener starring Wilmer Valderrama. The film was an official selection of the Tribeca Film Festival 2006.
Popular awards
Menounos appeared in FHM magazine and in People magazine in 2004 as one of the "50 Most Beautiful People." In another poll conducted by askmen.com, Menounos was voted one of the top five girls a guy would most want to marry, along with Angelina Jolie, Charlize Theron and Jessica Alba. She has also beaten Jessica Alba and Charlize Theron for "Cyber Vixen of the Year" on Spike TV's video game awards.
Charity work
Menounos founded the charity "Take Action Hollywood!" after her trip to South Africa. Reporting on the devastating effects of the AIDS crisis she was inspired to create TAH!, a charity that utilizes the power of the entertainment industry and the medium of film to affect for positive social change. Maria also created the Cosmo Girl Cup, a national, annual competition and award given to the group of teens who do the most in their communities to affect for positive social change.

AKA Dana, Stacy Lovecock, Dana M., Dana A., Julie, Sasha, Staci Silver

Born June 7, 1981
Location: Czech Republic
Measurements: 36D-26-35
Height: 5 ft 6 in
Weight: 130 lb
Eye colour: Blue
Hair colour: Blonde
Ethnicity: Czech
Stacy Silver is a Czech pornographic actress and nude model. She began her career in the adult industry in 1999 by debuting in Odyssey Group’s video, “Pick up Lines 44”. She has performed in more than a hundred pornographic movies, mainly produced by Private Media Group. Much of her work includes rough anal sex and double penetration. In 2004, Private released a compilation of Stacy’s best performances entitled “The Private Life of Stacy Silver” as a tribute to her. She has been occasionally directing adult movies since 2004 as well. Stacy retired from doing boy-girl scenes in late 2006.
She has a tribal design tattoo on right biceps and her navel and tongue are pierced.
Awards
2003 AVN Award nomination – Best Sex Scene in a Foreign-Shot Production – Killer Pussy 9 with Maryka, Tarzzan and Nacho Vidal
2003 FICEB Ninfa nomination – Best Starlet – Santitas y Diablos
2004 AVN Award nomination – Female Foreign Performer of the Year
2004 FICEB Ninfa nomination – Best Actress – Hot Property
2005 AVN Award nominition – Best Sex Scene in a Foreign-Shot Production – Millionaire with Simony and George Uhl
2006 AVN Award nomination – Female Foreign Performer of the Year
2007 AVN Award nomination – Best Sex Scene in a Foreign-Shot Production – Sonya & Priscila with Priscila Sol, JPX, Claudio Melone, Neeo and Charlie

Born: June 7, 1981
Location: Moscow, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union
Height 5 ft 7+1/2 in
Weight 120 lb
Anna Sergeyevna Kournikova is a semi-retired Russian professional tennis player and model. Her celebrity status made her one of the best known tennis players worldwide. At the peak of her fame, fans looking for images of Kournikova made her name one of the most common search strings on the Internet search engine Google.
Although also successful in singles, reaching #8 in the world in 2000, Kournikova's specialty has been doubles, where she has at times been the world's number one-ranked player. With Martina Hingis as her partner, she won Grand Slam titles in Australia in 1999 and 2002. Kournikova's major-league tennis career has been curtailed for the past several years, and possibly ended, by serious back and spinal problems.
Kournikova was born in Moscow in the former Soviet Union to Alla and Sergei Kournikov; she and her mother later emigrated to the United States. Currently, she resides in Miami Beach, Florida, and plays in occasional exhibitions and in doubles for the St. Louis Aces of World Team Tennis.
Early life
Anna was born in Moscow, Russia (Soviet Union then) on June 7, 1981. Her father, Sergei Kournikov was 20 at the time. Sergei, a former Greco-Roman wrestling champion, had earned a Ph.D and was a professor at the University of Physical Culture and Sport in Moscow. As of 2001, he was still a part-time martial arts instructor there. Her mother Alla, a sturdily built blonde who was 18 when Anna was born, had been a 400-meter runner.
Sergei said: "We were young and we liked the clean, physical life, so Anna was in a good environment for sport from the beginning." The family name is spelled in Russian without an "o", so a direct translation would be "Kurnikova", and it is sometimes written that way. But it is pronounced "Kournikova", so the family chose that as their English spelling.
Anna received her first tennis racquet as a Christmas gift in 1986 at age 5. Anna says: "I played two times a week from age five. It was a children's program. And it was just for fun; my parents didn't know I was going to play professionally, they just wanted me to do something because I had lots of energy. It was only when I started playing well at seven that I went to a professional academy. I would go to school, and then my parents would take me to the club, and I'd spend the rest of the day there just having fun with the kids."
Tennis career
Early career
In 1986, Anna became a member of the prestigious Spartak Tennis Club, coached by Larissa Preobraschenskaja. In 1989, at the tender age of eight, Anna began appearing in junior tournaments, and by the following year, was attracting attention from tennis scouts across the world. Anna signed a management deal at age ten and went to Bradenton, Florida to train at Nick Bollettieri's celebrated tennis academy.
Following her arrival in the United States, Anna exploded onto the tennis scene, making her the internationally recognized tennis star she is today. At the age of 14, she went on to win the European Championships and the Italian Open Junior tournament. Anna also beat out the competition to win the prestigious Junior Orange Bowl, becoming the youngest player ever to win the 18 and under division at that tournament. By the end of the year, Anna was crowned the ITF Junior World Champion U-18 and Junior European Champion U-18.
1994–1996
In 1994, Anna Kournikova received a wild card into ITF tournament in Moscow qualifications, but lost to the third seed Sabine Appelmans.
Kournikova debuted in professional tennis at age 14 in the Fed Cup for Russia, the youngest player ever to participate and win. In 1995, she turned pro, and won two ITF titles, in Midland, Michigan and Rockford, Illinois. At age 15, she made her grand slam debut, when she reached the fourth round of the 1996 U.S. Open, only to be stopped by then-top ranked player, Steffi Graf, eventual champion. After this tournament, her ranking jumped from No. 144 to debut in Top 100 at No. 69.
Kournikova was a member of the Russian delegation to the 1996 Olympic Games in Atlanta, Georgia. In 1996, she was named WTA Newcomer of the Year, and she was ranked No. 57 in the end of the season.
1997
At the Australian Open, Anna Kournikova lost in the first round to World No. 12 Amanda Coetzer, 6–2, 6–2. She also reached the second round of the Pacific Life Open, when she was defeated by World No.3 Anke Huber in three sets (3–6, 6–2, 6–2). She played the fourth round of the Miami Open, when she lost to Jana Novotná in straight sets (6–3, 6–4). Novotná was the third seed at this tournament.
She also lost to Coetzer in the second round of the Italian Open in three sets (6–2, 4–6, 6–1). Kournikova reached the quarterfinals of the WTA German Open to Mary Joe Fernandez in two sets, 6–1, 6–4. She then played at the French Open. She lost in the third round to the first seed Martina Hingis 6–1, 6–3.
In 1997, Anna Kournikova became the second woman in the open era to reach the semifinals (her first on WTA Tour) in her Wimbledon debut (Chris Evert in 1972 was first). As a 16-year-old, she reached the semi-finals of Wimbledon, where she lost to the eventual champion, Martina Hingis by a score of 6–3, 6–2. En her route to the semifinals, she defeated the World No. 5 Iva Majoli, No. 10 Anke Huber and Barbara Rittner.
She then lost in the first round of the Los Angeles Open to Anke Huber, and in the second round of the US Open to the 11th seed Irina Spîrlea. Her last 1997 tournament was Filderstadt, when she lost to Amanda Coetzer in the second round.
Kournikova also played doubles. Her best results were the semifinals of the Italian Open (partnering Elena Likhovtseva) and the Los Angeles Open (partnering Ai Sugiyama).
On May 19, she broke into the top 50, when she was ranked No. 48. At the end of the season, she was ranked No. 32 in singles and No. 41 in doubles.
1998
1998 was her breakthrough year, when she broke into the WTA's top 20 rankings for the first time, when she was ranked No. 16. She also scored impressive victories over Martina Hingis, Lindsay Davenport, Steffi Graf and Monica Seles.
Kournikova played at the Medibank International in Sydney, when she lost to Lindsay Davenport in the second round. She then reached the third round of the Australian Open where she lost to Martina Hingis in three sets (6–4, 4–6, 6–4). She lost in the second round of the Paris Open to World No.5 Anke Huber.
Kournikova reached the semifinals in Hannover. She lost to Jana Novotná in two sets 6–3, 6–3. She again lost to Novotná in the quarterfinals in Linz, and to Conchita Martínez in the fourth round in Indian Wells. Kournikova reached her first WTA Tour final in Miami, where she lost to Venus Williams in three sets, even though she won the first set (2–6, 6–4, 6–1).
She then played at Amelia Island, when she reached the quarter finals (lost to Lindsay Davenport). She then lost in the quarter finals of the Italian Open to Martina Hingis. She played the semifinals of the Italian Open, when she lost to Conchita Martínez. During this tournament, she defeated Arantxa Sánchez Vicario and Martina Hingis.
Kournikova then played at the French Open. She lost to Jana Novotná in the fourth round. She then played in the semifinals at Eastbourne (lost to Sánchez Vicario). She then lost in the first, second, third and fourth rounds of the tournaments. Her last tournament was the WTA Championships, where she lost in the first round to Monica Seles.
In 1998, Kournikova reached her first doubles final, partnering with Larisa Neiland. That was the final of the Paris Open, where they lost to Sabine Appelmans and Miriam Oremans in three sets 1–6, 6–3, 7–6. They also lost to Nathalie Tauziat and Alexandra Fusai in the final in Linz. Partnering Monica Seles, she won the Tokyo title. They defeated Mary Joe Fernandez and Arantxa Sánchez Vicario 6–4, 6–4. With Arantxa Sánchez Vicario, she lost to Lindsay Davenport and Natasha Zvereva in the finals at Filderstadt. At the end of the season, she was ranked #10 in doubles.
1999
At the end of the season, Anna Kournikova was ranked #12 in singles and #1 in doubles. Also at times during 1999, she was the most searched athlete in the world on Yahoo!, the premier search engine of the day.
On January 31, Anna Kournikova and Martina Hingis won a grand slam title in women's doubles. They defeated Lindsay Davenport and Natasha Zvereva at the finals of the Australian Open.
Kournikova played the finals at Hilton Head, where she lost to Hingis. She also played the semifinals in Oklahoma City (lost to Amanda Coetzer), Amelia Island (lost to Ruxandra Dragomir) and Eastbourne (lost to Nathalie Tauziat).
She was more successful in doubles. Partnering Martina Hingis, she won the titles in Indian Wells, the Rome, Eastbourne and the WTA Championships, and played the finals of the French Open and Stanford (partnering with Elena Likhovtseva). At the end of the year, Anna Kournikova and Martina Hingis were presented with the WTA Award for Doubles Team of the Year. She lost in the final of the mixed doubles at Wimbledon, partnering Jonas Björkman.
2000
In 2000, Anna Kournikova broke into the top 10, reaching No. 8 in singles. She was also ranked #4 in doubles at the end of the season.
In singles she reached the finals of the Kremlin Cup, where she lost to Martina Hingis. She also reached eight semifinals and seven quarter finals. She was again more successful in doubles. She played the finals of the mixed doubles at the US Open, partnering with Max Mirnyi.
With Julie Halard-Decugis, she won the tournament in Gold Coast, Australia. Partnering with Barbara Schett, she reached the semifinals of the Australian Open. With Natasha Zvereva, she lost in the finals at Indian Wells. They also won at Hamburg. She lost in the finals at San Diego, partnering with Lindsay Davenport. With Martina Hingis, she won at Zürich, the Kremlin Cup, and at Philadelphia and the WTA Championships.
2001
This season was dominated by injury, including a left foot stress fracture which forced her withdrawal from twelve tournaments, including the French Open and Wimbledon. She underwent surgery in April. She reached her second career grand slam quarter finals, at the Australian Open. Kournikova then withdrew from several events due to continuing problems with her left foot and did not return until Leipzig.
With Barbara Schett, she won the doubles title in Sydney. She then lost in the finals in Tokyo, partnering with Iroda Tulyaganova, and at San Diego, partnering with Martina Hingis. Hingis and Kournikova also won the Kremlin Cup.
At the end of the 2001 season, she was ranked #74 in singles and #26 in doubles.
2002
In this season, Anna Kournikova was quite successful. She reached the semifinals of Auckland, Tokyo, Acapulco and San Diego, and the finals of Shanghai. She lost to Anna Smashnova. This was Kournikova's last singles finals and the last chance to win a single title.
With Martina Hingis, Anna Kournikova lost in the finals of Sydney, but they won their second grand slam title together, Australian Open in women's doubles. They also lost in the quarterfinals of U.S. Open. With Chanda Rubin, Anna Kournikova played the semifinals of Wimbledon, but they lost to Serena and Venus Williams. Partnering Janet Lee, she won the Shangai title.
At the end of 2002 season, she was ranked #35 in singles and #11 in doubles.
2003
In 2003, Anna Kournikova collected first grand slam match victory in two years at Australian Open. She defeated Henrieta Nagyová in the 1st round, and then lost to Justine Henin-Hardenne in the 2nd round. She withdrew from Tokyo due to sprained back suffered at Australian Open and did not return to Tour until Miami. Kournikova retired in the 1st round of Charleston due to left adductor strain.
She reached the semifinals at ITF tournament in Sea Island, before withdrawing from match versus Maria Sharapova due to adductor injury. She lost in the 1st round of ITF tournament in Charlottesville. She did not compete for rest of season due to continuing back injury
At the end of 2003 season and her professional career, she was ranked #305 in singles and #176 in doubles.
Career summary
Kournikova's two Grand Slam doubles titles came in 1999 and 2002, both at the Australian Open in the Women's Doubles event with partner Martina Hingis, with whom she played frequently starting in 1999. Kournikova proved a successful doubles player on the professional circuit, winning 16 tournament doubles titles, including two Australian Opens and being a finalist in mixed doubles at the U.S. Open and at Wimbledon, and reaching the No.1 ranking in doubles in the Women's Tennis Association tour rankings. Her pro career doubles record was 200–71. However, her singles career plateaued after 1999. For the most part, she managed to retain her ranking between 10 and 15 (her career high singles ranking was No.8), but her expected finals breakthrough failed to occur; she only reached four finals out of 130 singles tournaments, never in a Grand Slam event, and never won one.
Her singles record is 209–129. Her final playing years were marred by a string of injuries, especially back injuries, which caused her ranking to erode gradually.
Present
Kournikova has not played on the WTA Tour since 2003, but still plays exhibition matches for charitable causes. In late 2004, she participated in three events organized by Elton John and by fellow tennis players Serena Williams and Andy Roddick. In January 2005, she played in a doubles charity event for the Indian Ocean tsunami with John McEnroe, Roddick, and Chris Evert. In November 2005, she teamed up with Martina Hingis, playing against Lisa Raymond and Samantha Stosur in the WTT finals for charity. Kournikova is also a member of the St. Louis Aces in the World Team Tennis (WTT), playing doubles only.
In September 2008, Kournikova showed up for the 2008 Nautica Malibu Triathlon held at Zuma Beach in Malibu, California. The Race raised funds for children's Hospital Los Angeles. She won that race for women's K-Swiss team. On September 27, 2008, Kournikova played exhibition matches in Charlotte, North Carolina; she played two mixed doubles matches. She partnered Tim Wilkison and Karel Novacek.[8] Kournikova and Wilkinson defeated Jimmy Arias and Chanda Rubin, and then Kournikova and Novacek defeated Chanda Rubin and Tim Wilkison.
On October 12, 2008, Anna Kournikova played one exibitional match for the annual charity event, hosted by Billie Jean King and Sir Elton John, raised more than $400,000 for the Elton John AIDS Foundation and Atlanta AIDS Partnership Fund. She played doubles with Andy Roddick (they were coached by Sir Elton John) versus Martina Navratilova and Jesse Levine (coached by Billie Jean King); Kournikova and Roddick won 5–4.
Kournikova competed alongside John McEnroe, Tracy Austin and Jim Courier at the Legendary Night, which was held on May 2, 2009, at the Turning Stone Event Center, Verona, NY. CNY. The legendary night of tennis consisted of a grudge match between McEnroe and Courier in singles followed by a mixed doubles match of McEnroe and Austin against Courier and Kournikova.
She is the current K-Swiss spokesperson. In a feature for ELLE magazine's July 2005 issue, Kournikova stated that if she were 100% fit, she would like to come back and compete again.
Playing style
As a player, Kournikova was noted for her footspeed and aggressive baseline play, and excellent angles and dropshots; however, her relatively flat, high-risk groundstrokes tended to produce frequent errors, and her serve was sometimes unreliable in singles.
Kournikova holds her racket in her right hand but uses both hands when she plays backhand shots. She is a good player at the net. She can hit forceful groundstrokes and also drop shots.
Her playing style fits the profile for a doubles player, and is complemented by her height. She has been compared to such doubles specialists as Pam Shriver and Peter Fleming.
Personal life
Kournikova's marital status has been an issue on several occasions. There were conflicting rumors about whether she was engaged to ice hockey player Pavel Bure. There were reports that she married NHL ice hockey star Sergei Fedorov in 2001. Kournikova's representatives have denied this, but Fedorov stated in 2003 that the couple had married and since divorced.
Kournikova started dating pop star Enrique Iglesias in late 2001, (in whose video, "Escape", she appeared), and rumors that the couple had secretly married appeared in 2003 and again in 2005. Kournikova herself has consistently refused to directly confirm or deny rumors about the status of her personal relationships. But, in May 2007, Enrique Iglesias was (mistakenly, as he would clarify later) quoted in the New York Sun that he had no intention to marry Anna and settle down because they had split up. The singer would later deny these rumors of "divorce" or simply separation. In June 2008, Iglesias told the Daily Star that he had married Kournikova the previous year and that they are currently separated. Enrique has stated in interviews after that that it was simply a joke, and they are still very much together.
Media publicity
Most of Kournikova's fame has come from the publicity surrounding her personal life, as well as numerous modeling shoots. During Kournikova's debut at the 1996 U.S. Open at the age of 15, the world noticed her beauty, and soon pictures of her appeared in numerous magazines worldwide.
In 2000, Kournikova became the new face for Berlei's shock absorber sports bras, and appeared in the highly successful "only the ball should bounce" billboard campaign. Photographs of her scantily-clad form have appeared in various men's magazines, including one in the much-publicized 2004 Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue, where she posed in bikinis and swimsuits, and in other popular men's publications such as FHM and Maxim. Kournikova was named one of People's 50 Most Beautiful People in 1998, 2000, 2002, and 2003 and was voted "hottest female athlete" and "hottest couple" (with Iglesias) on ESPN.com. In 2002 she also placed first in FHM's 100 Sexiest Women in the World in U.S. and UK editions. By contrast, ESPN—citing the degree of hype as compared to actual accomplishments as a singles player—ranked Kournikova 18th in its "25 Biggest Sports Flops of the Past 25 Years". Kournikova was also ranked #1 in the ESPN Classic series "Who's number 1?" when the series featured sport's most overrated athletes.
Anna's popularity has transcended Texas Hold 'em lingo, where the hole cards Ace-King are often referred to as an "Anna Kournikova," not only because the hand shares the AK initials with the tennis star, but also because the hand has the reputation of not playing well. It's often said that a Kournikova hand "looks really good, but rarely wins."

AKA Becky, Gianna Rossi


Born: June 6, 1983
Location: Seattle, Washington, U.S.
Measurements: 36DD-28-38
Height: 5 ft 11 in
Weight: 145 lb
Eye color: Blue
Hair color: Brown
Skin color: White
Gianna Michaels is an American pornographic actress.
Career
Michaels's first job was at a hamburger restaurant in Seattle called Dick's. In 2001, she moved to California and started working as a receptionist. Over time, people approached her about modeling, and she eventually tried it, figuring that if she didn't like it, she could stop. Her modeling eventually led to nude photo shoots and then porn. She has also filmed porn under the aliases Becky and Gianna Rossi.
As of May 2009, Michaels's filmography includes more than 293 DVD credits.
Michaels has been compared to large-breasted porn actress Christy Canyon.
The Pornogrind band Rotten Crotch pay homage to her in their song Cumming On Gianna Michaels.

AKA Roxy Gissel, Jezel

Born: June 5, 1982 (1982-06-05) (age 26)
Location: London, England, United Kingdom
Height: 5 ft 0 in
Weight: 47.6 kg
Measurements: 32B-24-32
Eye colour: Brown
Hair colour: Brown
Ethnicity: English and Thai
Roxy Jezel is a British pornographic actress.
Biography
Jezel, whose mother is English and her father Thai, lived in East London. In an interview, she described where she lived as a "kind of ghetto".
Before beginning her career in adult film, she was an exotic dancer in Australia who started her own website. She was then contacted by LA Direct Models, who brought her to Los Angeles, California. Upon coming to America in 2003, she was immediately recruited by Red Light District and began her career -- her first scene was with Lexington Steele and Erik Everhard in the movie Me Luv U Long Time 4.
On July 28, 2006, she became the first place winner of the second season of the Jenna Jameson's Playboy TV show Jenna's American Sex Star. As the recipient of an exclusive contract with Club Jenna, Jezel is the company's first non-caucasian contract star.
Roxy made a cameo appearance in the Season 3 finale of the HBO series Entourage.

Born: 4-Jun-1985
Birthplace: Hod HaSharon, Israel
Gender: Female
Religion: Jewish
Race or Ethnicity: White
Sexual orientation: Straight
Occupation: Model
Nationality: Israel
Executive summary: Israeli model, dating DiCaprio
Mother: Tsipi Refaeli
Boyfriend: David Charvet (actor, ex)
Boyfriend: Leonardo DiCaprio (actor, ex)
Bar Refaeli is an Israeli model, known for her modeling work and for her relationship with American actor Leonardo DiCaprio.
Early life
Bar Refaeli was born in 1985 in Hod HaSharon, Israel, where her parents, Tsipi and Rafael own a horse ranch. She began a modeling career at the age of eight months, appearing in commercials. She had to wear braces in her early years, postponing her modeling. At age 15, Refaeli returned to modeling where she was represented by Irene Marie Models.
Career
Modeling career
Refaeli began her modeling career before she was a year old. By age 15, she was featured in campaigns for the fashion brands Castro and Pilpel, also starring in a commercial for Milki. Refaeli won the title "Model of The Year" in a beauty contest in 2000 and 2001. She was also chosen to be the home model of Renuar fashion network and appeared in their summer 2002 and winter 2003 catalogues.
Refaeli appeared in the French ELLE magazine, as well as becoming the first Israeli model to be featured in Sports Illustrated. The same picture was later published on the cover of Maxim. She appeared on the cover of the March 2006 issue of GQ Italy among many others. She appeared in the 2007 Sports Illustrated swimsuit issue for which she posed with Aerosmith.
She has been the spokesperson for fashion brand Luisa Cerano. She has modeled for Subaru, Accessorize, Brazilian clothing line, Besni, and Italian jewelry line Marco Bicego. She is signed to Storm Model Management in London, and 1/One Management in New York City. Refaeli will be the co-host of a Bravo special program Tommy Hilfiger Presents Ironic Iconic America which will premiere in early October. The program is based on book Ironic Iconic America written by George Lois.
In 2008, Refaeli has become the face of clothing line Hurley, and the new Diddy cologne, "I Am King.
Acting career
Bar Refaeli has co-starred in Israeli TV series Pick Up, in 2005.
In 2009, Rafaeli will star in an English language film Session directed by Israeli Haim Bouzaglo. The film is a psychological thriller that tells the story of a manipulative psychiatrist, Josh Tellman, who becomes obsessed with a new young patient named "Jibbs."
Philanthropy
Refaeli volunteers for Project Sunshine, a non-profit organization providing free services and programs for children facing life-threatening illnesses. She has also volunteered for organization Ahava, which has been caring for pets abandoned in Northern Israel during the 2006 Israel-Lebanon conflict.
Bar Rafaeli and film director Shahar Segal have agreed to do a gratis campaign under the slogan "One Bag Less" to reduce the use of plastic bags.
Personal life
Previously linked to Baywatch actor David Charvet and Uri El-Natan, Rafaeli began a relationship with American actor Leonardo DiCaprio in November 2005 after meeting him at a Las Vegas party thrown for members of U2. In the course of their trip to Israel in March 2007, the couple met with Israeli president Shimon Peres and visited Refaeli's hometown Hod HaSharon.
In 2007, Refaeli became a source of controversy when it became known that she had evaded military service, mandatory for Israeli citizens over 18-years-old, by marrying a family acquaintance and divorcing him soon after. Refaeli stated in an interview with Yedioth Ahronoth, "I really wanted to serve in the IDF, but I don't regret not enlisting, because it paid off big-time," further adding, "Why is it good to die for our country? What, isn't it better to live in New York?" Refaeli has since said the interview didn't accurately reflect her statements and threatened to file a lawsuit for libel. Consequently, the Israeli Forum for the Promotion of Equal Share in the Burden threatened to boycott the fashion chain Fox if they hired Refaeli, but the two sides reached a compromise in which the model would visit injured IDF soldiers on visits to Israel and encourage enlistment in the army.
She also smokes cigarettes.

AKA Angelina Jolie Voight

Born: 4-Jun-1975
Birthplace: Los Angeles, CA
Gender: Female
Religion: Buddhist
Race or Ethnicity: White
Sexual orientation: Bisexual
Occupation: Actor, Activist
Party Affiliation: Independent
Nationality: United States
Executive summary: Tomb Raider
Father: Jon Voight (actor)
Mother: Marcheline Bertrand (model-actress, Jolie's manager, b. 1950, d. 2007)
Brother: James Haven (actor, b. 11-May-1973)
Husband: Jonny Lee Miller (actor, dated 1995-96, m. Mar-1996, div. 3-Feb-1999, dated 2003)
Husband: Billy Bob Thornton (actor/director; m. 5-May-2000, div. 27-May-2003)
Girlfriend: Jenny Shimizu (model-actress, dated 1994-95, 1999-2000)
Boyfriend: Timothy Hutton (dated 1998-99)
Boyfriend: Val Kilmer (actor, dated 2003-04)
Boyfriend: Brad Pitt (dating since 2005, two sons, two daughters)
Son: Maddox Chivan Jolie-Pitt (Cambodian orphan, b. 5-Aug-2001, adopted Mar-2002)
Daughter: Zahara Marley Jolie-Pitt (Ethiopian orphan, b. 2005, adopted 2005)
Daughter: Shiloh Nouvel Jolie-Pitt (b. 27-May-2006 with Pitt)
Son: Pax Thien Jolie-Pitt (Vietnamese orphan, adopted 2007)
Son: Knox Leon Jolie-Pitt (twin b. 12-Jul-2008 with Pitt)
Daughter: Vivienne Marcheline Jolie-Pitt (twin b. 12-Jul-2008 with Pitt)
Angelina Jolie (born Angelina Jolie Voight on June 4, 1975) is an American film actor and a Goodwill Ambassador for the UN Refugee Agency. She has been cited as one of the world's most beautiful women and her off-screen life is widely reported. Jolie has received three Golden Globe Awards, two Screen Actors Guild Awards, and an Academy Award.
Though she made her screen debut as a child alongside her father Jon Voight in the 1982 film Lookin' to Get Out, Jolie's acting career began in earnest a decade later with the low-budget production Cyborg 2 (1993). Her first leading role in a major film was in Hackers (1995). She starred in the critically acclaimed biographical films George Wallace (1997) and Gia (1998), and won an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her performance in the drama Girl, Interrupted (1999). Jolie achieved international fame as a result of her portrayal of video game heroine Lara Croft in Lara Croft: Tomb Raider (2001), and since then has established herself as one of the best-known and highest-paid actresses in Hollywood. She has had her biggest commercial successes with the action-comedy Mr. & Mrs. Smith (2005) and the animated film Kung Fu Panda (2008).
Divorced from actors Jonny Lee Miller and Billy Bob Thornton, Jolie currently lives with actor Brad Pitt, in a relationship that has attracted worldwide media attention. Jolie and Pitt have three adopted children, Maddox, Pax, and Zahara, as well as three biological children, Shiloh, Knox, and Vivienne. Jolie has promoted humanitarian causes throughout the world, and is noted for her work with refugees through UNHCR.
Early life and family
Born in Los Angeles, California, Jolie is the daughter of actors Jon Voight and Marcheline Bertrand. She is the niece of Chip Taylor, sister of James Haven and the god-daughter of Jacqueline Bisset and Maximilian Schell. On her father's side, Jolie is of Slovak and German descent, and on her mother's side she is French Canadian and is said to be part Iroquois. However, Voight has claimed Bertrand was "not seriously Iroquois," and they merely said it to enhance his ex-wife's exotic background.
After her parents' separation in 1976, Jolie and her brother were raised by their mother, who abandoned her acting ambitions and moved with them to Palisades, New York. As a child Jolie regularly saw movies with her mother and later explained that this had inspired her interest in acting; she had not been influenced by her father. When she was eleven years old, the family moved back to Los Angeles and Jolie decided she wanted to act and enrolled at the Lee Strasberg Theatre Institute, where she trained for two years and appeared in several stage productions. She later recalled her time as a student at Beverly Hills High School (later Moreno High School), and her feeling of isolation among the children of some of the area's more affluent families. Jolie's mother survived on a more modest income, and Jolie often wore second-hand clothes. She was teased by other students who also targeted her for her distinctive features, for being extremely thin, and for wearing glasses and braces. Her self-esteem was further diminished when her initial attempts at modeling proved unsuccessful. She started to cut herself; later commenting, "I collected knives and always had certain things around. For some reason, the ritual of having cut myself and feeling the pain, maybe feeling alive, feeling some kind of release, it was somehow therapeutic to me.
At the age of 14, she dropped out of her acting classes and dreamed of becoming a funeral director. During this period, she wore black, dyed her hair purple and went out moshing with her live-in boyfriend. Two years later, after the relationship had ended, she rented an apartment above a garage a few blocks from her mother's home. She returned to theatre studies and graduated from high school, though in recent times she has referred to this period with the observation, "I am still at heart—and always will be—just a punk kid with tattoos".
Jolie has been long estranged from her father, though a reconciliation was attempted, and he appeared with her in Lara Croft: Tomb Raider (2001). In July 2002, Jolie filed a request to legally change her name to "Angelina Jolie", dropping Voight as her surname; the name change was made official on September 12, 2002. In August of the same year, Voight claimed that his daughter had "serious emotional problems" on Access Hollywood. Jolie later indicated that she no longer wished to pursue a relationship with her father, and said, "My father and I don't speak. I don't hold any anger toward him. I don't believe that somebody's family becomes their blood. Because my son's adopted, and families are earned." She stated that she did not want to publicize her reasons for her estrangement from her father, but because she had adopted her son, she did not think it was healthy for her to associate with Voight.
Early work, 1993–1997
Jolie began working as a fashion model when she was 14 years old. She was signed with Finesse Model Management and modeled in both the United States and Europe, working mainly in Los Angeles, New York and London. At that time she also appeared in numerous music videos, including those of Meat Loaf ("Rock & Roll Dreams Come Through"), Antonello Venditti ("Alta Marea"), Lenny Kravitz ("Stand by My Woman"), and The Lemonheads ("It's About Time"). At the age of 16, Jolie returned to theatre and played her first role as a German dominatrix. She began to learn from her father, as she noticed his method of observing people to become like them. Their relationship during this time was less strained, with Jolie realizing that they were both "drama queens".
Jolie appeared in five of her brother's student films, made while he attended the USC School of Cinematic Arts, but her professional movie career began in 1993, when she played her first leading role in the low-budget film Cyborg 2, as Casella "Cash" Reese, a near-human robot, designed to seduce her way into a rival manufacturer's headquarters and then self-detonate. Following a supporting role in the independent film Without Evidence, Jolie starred as Kate "Acid Burn" Libby in her first Hollywood picture, Hackers (1995), where she met her first husband Jonny Lee Miller. The New York Times wrote, "Kate (Angelina Jolie) stands out. That's because she scowls even more sourly than [her co-stars] and is that rare female hacker who sits intently at her keyboard in a see-through top. Despite her sullen posturing, which is all this role requires, Ms. Jolie has the sweetly cherubic looks of her father, Jon Voight." The movie failed to make a profit at the box-office, but developed a cult following after its video release.
She appeared as Gina Malacici in the 1996 comedy Love Is All There Is, a modern-day loose adaptation of Romeo and Juliet set among two rival Italian family restaurant owners in the Bronx, New York. In the road movie Mojave Moon (1996) she was a youngster, named Eleanor Rigby, who falls for Danny Aiello, while he takes a shine to her mother, Anne Archer. In 1996, she also played Margret "Legs" Sadovsky, one of five teenage girls who form an unlikely bond in the film Foxfire after they beat up a teacher who has sexually harassed them. The Los Angeles Times wrote about Jolie's performance, "It took a lot of hogwash to develop this character, but Jolie, Jon Voight's knockout daughter, has the presence to overcome the stereotype. Though the story is narrated by Maddy, Legs is the subject and the catalyst."
In 1997, Jolie starred with David Duchovny in the thriller Playing God, a film portraying a surgeon who is stripped of his medical license and is lured deep into the criminal world where he meets Jolie's character, Claire. The movie was not received well by critics and Roger Ebert noted that "Angelina Jolie finds a certain warmth in a kind of role that is usually hard and aggressive; she seems too nice to be [a criminal's] girlfriend, and maybe she is." She then appeared in the TV movie True Women, a historical romantic drama set in the American West, and based on the book by Janice Woods Windle. That year she also appeared in the music video for "Anybody Seen My Baby?" by the Rolling Stones.
Breakthrough, 1997–2000
Jolie's career prospects began to improve after her performance as Cornelia Wallace in the 1997 biographical film George Wallace for which she won a Golden Globe Award and was nominated for an Emmy. Gary Sinise starred as Alabama Governor George C. Wallace, Jr. The film was praised by critics and, among other awards, received the Golden Globe for Best Miniseries/Motion Picture made for TV. She played the second wife of the former segregationist governor who was shot and paralyzed while running in 1972 for U.S. President. The film was directed by John Frankenheimer.
In 1998, Jolie starred in HBO's Gia, portraying supermodel Gia Carangi. The film depicted a world of sex, drugs and emotional drama, and chronicled the destruction of Carangi's life and career as a result of her drug addiction, and her decline and death from AIDS. Vanessa Vance from Reel.com noted, "Angelina Jolie gained wide recognition for her role as the titular Gia, and it's easy to see why. Jolie is fierce in her portrayal—filling the part with nerve, charm, and desperation—and her role in this film is quite possibly the most beautiful train wreck ever filmed." For the second consecutive year, Jolie won a Golden Globe and was nominated for an Emmy. She also won her first Screen Actors Guild Award. In accordance with Lee Strasberg's method acting Jolie reportedly preferred to stay in character in between scenes during many of her early films, and as a result had gained a reputation for being difficult to deal with. While shooting Gia, she told her then-husband Jonny Lee Miller that she would not be able to phone him: "I'd tell him: 'I'm alone; I'm dying; I'm gay; I'm not going to see you for weeks.'"
Following Gia, Jolie moved to New York and stopped acting for a short period of time, because she felt that she had "nothing else to give". She enrolled at New York University to study filmmaking and attended writing classes. She described it as "just good for me to collect myself" on Inside the Actors Studio.
Jolie returned to film as Gloria McNeary in the 1998 gangster movie Hell's Kitchen, and later that year appeared in Playing by Heart, part of an ensemble cast that included Sean Connery, Gillian Anderson, Ryan Phillippe and Jon Stewart. The film received predominantly positive reviews and Jolie was praised in particular. The San Francisco Chronicle wrote, "Jolie, working through an overwritten part, is a sensation as the desperate club crawler learning truths about what she's willing to gamble." Jolie won the Breakthrough Performance Award by the National Board of Review.
In 1999, she starred in Mike Newell's comedy-drama Pushing Tin, co-starring John Cusack, Billy Bob Thornton, and Cate Blanchett. Jolie played Thornton's seductive wife. The film received a lukewarm reception from critics and Jolie's character was particularly criticized. The Washington Post wrote, "Mary (Angelina Jolie), a completely ludicrous writer's creation of a free-spirited woman who weeps over hibiscus plants that die, wears lots of turquoise rings and gets real lonely when Russell spends entire nights away from home." She then worked with Denzel Washington in The Bone Collector (1999), an adapted crime novel written by Jeffery Deaver. Jolie played Amelia Donaghy, a police officer haunted by her cop father's suicide, who reluctantly helps Washington track down a serial killer. The movie grossed $151 million worldwide, but was a critical failure. The Detroit Free Press concluded, "Jolie, while always delicious to look at, is simply and woefully miscast."
Jolie next took the supporting role of the sociopathic Lisa Rowe in Girl, Interrupted (1999), a film that tells the story of mental patient Susanna Kaysen, and which was adapted from Kaysen's original memoir Girl, Interrupted. While Winona Ryder played the main character in what was hoped to be a comeback for her, the film instead marked Jolie's final breakthrough in Hollywood. She won her third Golden Globe, her second Screen Actors Guild Award and an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress. Variety noted, "Jolie is excellent as the flamboyant, irresponsible girl who turns out to be far more instrumental than the doctors in Susanna's rehabilitation".
In 2000, Jolie appeared in her first summer blockbuster, Gone In 60 Seconds, in which she played Sarah "Sway" Wayland, ex-girlfriend of car-thief Nicolas Cage. The role was small, and the Washington Post criticized that "all she does in this movie is stand around, cooling down, modeling those fleshy, pulsating muscle-tubes that nest so provocatively around her teeth." She later explained that the film was a welcome relief after the heavy role of Lisa Rowe, and it became her highest grossing movie up until then, earning $237 million internationally.
International success, 2001–present
Although highly regarded for her acting abilities, Jolie's films to date had often not appealed to a wide audience, but Lara Croft: Tomb Raider (2001) made her an international superstar. An adaptation of the popular Tomb Raider videogame, Jolie was required to master a British accent and undergo extensive martial arts training to play the title role of Lara Croft. She was generally praised for her physical performance, but the movie generated mostly negative reviews. Slant Magazine commented, "Angelina Jolie was born to play Lara Croft but [director] Simon West makes her journey into a game of Frogger." The movie was a huge international success nonetheless, earning $275 million worldwide, and launched her global reputation as a female action star.
Jolie then starred alongside Antonio Banderas as the mail-order bride Julia Russell in Original Sin (2001), a thriller based on the novel Waltz into Darkness by Cornell Woolrich. The film was a major critical failure, with The New York Times noting, "The story plunges more precipitously than Ms. Jolie's neckline." In 2002, she played Lanie Kerrigan in Life or Something Like It, a film about an ambitious TV reporter who is told that she will die in a week. The film was poorly received by critics, though Jolie's performance received positive reviews. CNN's Paul Clinton wrote, "Jolie is excellent in her role. Despite some of the ludicrous plot points in the middle of the film, this Academy Award-winning actress is exceedingly believable in her journey towards self-discovery and the true meaning of fulfilling life."
Jolie reprised her role as Lara Croft in Lara Croft Tomb Raider: The Cradle of Life in 2003. The sequel, while not as lucrative as the original, earned $156 million at the international box-office. Later that year Jolie starred in Beyond Borders, a film about aid workers in Africa. Although reflecting Jolie's real-life interest in promoting humanitarian relief, the film was critically and financially unsuccessful. The Los Angeles Times wrote, "Jolie, as she did in her Oscar-winning role in Girl, Interrupted, can bring electricity and believability to roles that have a reality she can understand. She can also, witness the Lara Croft films, do acknowledged cartoons. But the limbo of a hybrid character, a badly written cardboard person in a fly-infested, blood-and-guts world, completely defeats her."
In 2004, Jolie starred alongside Ethan Hawke in the thriller Taking Lives. She portrayed Illeana Scott, an FBI profiler summoned to help Montreal law enforcement hunt down a serial killer. The movie received mixed reviews and The Hollywood Reporter concluded, "Angelina Jolie plays a role that definitely feels like something she has already done, but she does add an unmistakable dash of excitement and glamour." She also provided the voice of Lola, an angelfish in the animated DreamWorks movie Shark Tale. Also in 2004, Jolie had a brief appearance in Kerry Conran's Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow, a science fiction adventure film shot with actors entirely in front of a bluescreen. Jolie then played Olympias in Alexander (2004), Oliver Stone's biographical film about the life of Alexander the Great. The film failed domestically, with Stone attributing its poor reception to disapproval of the depiction of Alexander's bisexuality, but it succeeded internationally, with revenue of $139 million outside the United States.
Jolie's only movie in 2005 was the action-comedy Mr. & Mrs. Smith. The film, directed by Doug Liman, tells the story of a bored married couple who find out that they are both secret assassins. Jolie starred as Jane Smith alongside Brad Pitt. The film was well received and was generally lauded for the chemistry between the two leads. The Star Tribune noted, "While the story feels haphazard, the movie gets by on gregarious charm, galloping energy and the stars' thermonuclear screen chemistry." The movie earned $478 million worldwide, one of the biggest hits of 2005.
Jolie next appeared in Robert De Niro's The Good Shepherd (2006), a film about the early history of the CIA, as seen through the eyes of Edward Wilson, played by Matt Damon. Jolie played the supporting role of Margaret Russell, Wilson's neglected wife. According to the Chicago Tribune, "Jolie ages convincingly throughout, and is blithely unconcerned with how her brittle character is coming off in terms of audience sympathy."
In 2007, Jolie made her directorial debut with the documentary A Place in Time, which captures the life in 27 locations around the globe during a single week and features fellow actors such as Jude Law, Hilary Swank, Colin Farrell and Jonny Lee Miller. The film is intended to be distributed through the National Education Association, mainly in high schools.[39] Jolie starred as Mariane Pearl in Michael Winterbottom's documentary-style drama A Mighty Heart (2007), about the kidnap and murder of Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl in Pakistan. The picture is based on Mariane Pearl's memoirs A Mighty Heart and had its premiere at the Cannes Film Festival. The Hollywood Reporter described Jolie's performance as "well-measured and moving", played "with respect and a firm grasp on a difficult accent." The film earned her a fourth Golden Globe and a third Screen Actors Guild Award nomination. Jolie also played Grendel's mother in Robert Zemeckis' animated epic Beowulf (2007) which was created through the motion capture technique.
Jolie then appeared alongside James McAvoy and Morgan Freeman in the action movie Wanted (2008), an adaptation of a graphic novel by Mark Millar. The film received favorable reviews and proved to be an international success, earning $342 million worldwide. In 2008, she also provided the voice of Master Tigress in the DreamWorks animated movie Kung Fu Panda; with revenue of $632 million worldwide it became her highest grossing film to date. The same year, Jolie played Christine Collins, the lead in Clint Eastwood's drama Changeling, which had its premiere at the Cannes Film Festival.
Humanitarian work
Jolie first became personally aware of worldwide humanitarian crises while filming Tomb Raider in Cambodia. She eventually turned to UNHCR for more information on international trouble spots. In the following months she visited refugee camps around the world to learn more about the situation and the conditions in these areas. In February 2001, Jolie went on her first field visit, an 18-day mission to Sierra Leone and Tanzania; she later expressed her shock at what she had witnessed. In the coming months she returned to Cambodia for two weeks and later met with Afghan refugees in Pakistan where she donated $1 million for Afghan refugees in response to an international UNHCR emergency appeal. She insisted on covering all costs related to her missions and shared the same rudimentary working and living conditions as UNHCR field staff on all of her visits. Jolie was named a UNHCR Goodwill Ambassador on August 27, 2001 at UNHCR headquarters in Geneva.
Jolie has been on field missions around the world and met with refugees and internally displaced persons in more than 20 countries. Asked what she hoped to accomplish, she stated, "Awareness of the plight of these people. I think they should be commended for what they have survived, not looked down upon." In 2002, Jolie visited the Tham Hin refugee camp in Thailand and Colombian refugees in Ecuador. Jolie later went to various UNHCR facilities in Kosovo and paid a visit to Kakuma refugee camp in Kenya with refugees mainly from Sudan. She also met with Angolan refugees while filming Beyond Borders in Namibia.
In 2003, Jolie embarked on a six-day mission to Tanzania where she traveled to western border camps, hosting Congolese refugees and she paid a week-long visit to Sri Lanka. She later concluded a four-day mission to Russia as she traveled to North Caucasus. Concurrently with the release of her movie Beyond Borders she published Notes from My Travels, a collection of journal entries that chronicle her early field missions (2001–2002). During a private stay in Jordan in December 2003 she asked to visit Iraqi refugees in Jordan's eastern desert and later that month she went to Egypt to meet Sudanese refugees.
On her first U.N. trip within the United States, Jolie went to Arizona in 2004, visiting detained asylum seekers at three facilities and the Southwest Key Program, a facility for unaccompanied children in Phoenix. She flew to Chad in June 2004, paying a visit to border sites and camps for refugees who had fled fighting in western Sudan's Darfur region. Four months later she returned to the region, this time going directly into West Darfur. Also in 2004, Jolie met with Afghan refugees in Thailand and on a private stay to Lebanon during the Christmas holidays, she visited UNHCR's regional office in Beirut, as well as some young refugees and cancer patients in the Lebanese capital.
In 2005, Jolie visited Pakistani camps containing Afghani refugees, and she also met with Pakistan's President Pervez Musharraf and Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz; she returned to Pakistan with Brad Pitt during the Thanksgiving weekend in November to see the impact of the 2005 Kashmir earthquake. In 2006, Jolie and Pitt flew to Haiti and visited a school supported by Yéle Haïti, a charity founded by Haitian-born hip hop musician Wyclef Jean. While filming A Mighty Heart in India, Jolie met with Afghan and Burmese refugees in New Delhi. She spent Christmas Day 2006 with Colombian refugees in San José, Costa Rica where she handed out presents. In 2007, Jolie returned to Chad for a two-day mission to assess the deteriorating security situation for refugees from Darfur; Jolie and Pitt subsequently donated $1 million to three relief organizations in Chad and Darfur. Jolie also made her first visit to Syria and twice went to Iraq, where she met with Iraqi refugees as well as multi-national forces and U.S. troops.
Over time, Jolie became more involved in promoting humanitarian causes on a political level. She has regularly attended World Refugee Day in Washington, D.C., and she was an invited speaker at the World Economic Forum in Davos in 2005 and 2006. Jolie also began lobbying humanitarian interests in the U.S. capital, where she met with members of Congress at least 20 times from 2003. She explained in Forbes: "As much as I would love to never have to visit Washington, that's the way to move the ball."
In 2005, Jolie took part at a National Press Club luncheon, where she announced the founding of the National Center for Refugee and Immigrant Children, an organization that provides free legal-aid to asylum-seeking children with no legal representation which Jolie personally funded with a donation of $500,000 for its first two years. Jolie also pushed for several bills to aid refugees and vulnerable children in the Third World. In addition to her political involvement, Jolie began using her public profile to promote humanitarian causes through the mass media. She filmed an MTV special, The Diary Of Angelina Jolie & Dr. Jeffrey Sachs in Africa, portraying her and noted economist Dr. Jeffrey Sachs on a trip to a remote group of villages in Western Kenya. In 2006, Jolie announced the founding of the Jolie/Pitt Foundation which made initial donations to Global Action for Children and Doctors Without Borders of $1 million each. Jolie also co-chairs the Education Partnership for Children of Conflict, founded at the Clinton Global Initiative in 2006, which helps fund education programs for children affected by conflict.
Jolie has received wide recognition for her humanitarian work. In 2003, she was the first recipient of the newly created Citizen of the World Award by the United Nations Correspondents Association, and in 2005, she was awarded the Global Humanitarian Award by the UNA-USA. Cambodia's King Norodom Sihamoni awarded Jolie Cambodian citizenship for her conservation work in the country on August 12, 2005; she has pledged $5 million to set up a wildlife sanctuary in the north-western province of Battambang and owns property there. In 2007, Jolie became a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, and she received the Freedom Award by the International Rescue Committee.
Relationships
On March 28, 1996, Jolie married British actor Jonny Lee Miller, her co-star in the film Hackers (1995). She attended her wedding in black leather pants and a white shirt, upon which she had written the groom's name in her blood. Jolie and Miller separated the following year and subsequently divorced on February 3, 1999. They remained on good terms and Jolie later explained, "It comes down to timing. I think he's the greatest husband a girl could ask for. I'll always love him, we were simply too young."
She then married American actor Billy Bob Thornton, whom she had met on the set of Pushing Tin (1999), on May 5, 2000. As a result of their frequent public declarations of passion and gestures of love—most famously wearing one another's blood in vials around their necks—their relationship became a favorite topic of the entertainment media. Jolie and Thornton divorced on May 27, 2003. Asked about the sudden dissolution of their marriage, Jolie stated, "It took me by surprise, too, because overnight, we totally changed. I think one day we had just nothing in common. And it's scary but... I think it can happen when you get involved and you don't know yourself yet."
Jolie has said in interviews that she is bisexual and has long acknowledged that she had a sexual relationship with her Foxfire (1996) co-star Jenny Shimizu, "I would probably have married Jenny if I hadn't married my husband. I fell in love with her the first second I saw her." In 2003, asked if she was bisexual, Jolie responded, "Of course. If I fell in love with a woman tomorrow, would I feel that it's okay to want to kiss and touch her? If I fell in love with her? Absolutely! Yes!"
In early 2005, Jolie was involved in a well-publicized Hollywood scandal when she was accused of being the reason for the divorce of actors Brad Pitt and Jennifer Aniston. The allegation was that she and Pitt had started an affair during filming of Mr. & Mrs. Smith (2005). She denied this on several occasions, but admitted that they "fell in love" on the set. In an interview in 2005, she explained, "To be intimate with a married man, when my own father cheated on my mother, is not something I could forgive. I could not look at myself in the morning if I did that. I wouldn't be attracted to a man who would cheat on his wife."
While Jolie and Pitt never publicly commented on the nature of their relationship, speculations continued throughout 2005. The first intimate paparazzi photos emerged in April, one month after Aniston had filed for divorce; they showed Pitt, Jolie and her son Maddox at a beach in Kenya. During the summer Jolie and Pitt were seen together with increasing frequency and most of the entertainment media considered them a couple, dubbing them "Brangelina". On January 11, 2006, Jolie confirmed to People that she was pregnant with Pitt's child and thereby confirmed their relationship for the first time in public.
Children
On March 10, 2002, Jolie adopted her first child, seven-month-old Maddox Chivan Jolie-Pitt (originally Maddox Chivan Thornton Jolie). He was born on August 5, 2001 as Rath Vibol in Cambodia, and he initially lived in a local orphanage in Battambang. Jolie decided to apply for adoption after she had visited Cambodia twice, while filming Tomb Raider and on a UNHCR field trip in 2001. After her divorce from her second husband, Billy Bob Thornton, Jolie received sole custody of Maddox. Like Jolie's other children, Maddox has gained considerable celebrity and appears regularly in the tabloid media.
Jolie adopted a six-month-old girl from Ethiopia, Zahara Marley Jolie-Pitt (originally Zahara Marley Jolie), on July 6, 2005. Zahara was born on January 8, 2005. She was originally named Yemsrach by her mother, and was later given the legal name Tena Adam at an orphanage. Jolie adopted her from Wide Horizons For Children orphanage in Addis Ababa. Shortly after they returned to the United States, Zahara was hospitalized for dehydration and malnutrition. In 2007, media outlets reported Zahara's biological mother, Mentewabe Dawit, was still alive and wanted her daughter back, but she later denied these reports, saying she thought Zahara was "very fortunate" to be adopted by Jolie.
Brad Pitt was reportedly present when Jolie signed the adoption papers and collected her daughter; later Jolie indicated that she and Pitt made the decision to adopt Zahara together. On January 19, 2006, a judge in California approved Pitt's request to legally adopt Jolie's two children. Their surnames were formally changed to "Jolie-Pitt".
Jolie gave birth to a daughter, Shiloh Nouvel Jolie-Pitt, in Swakopmund, Namibia, by a scheduled caesarean section, on May 27, 2006. Pitt confirmed that their newly-born daughter would have a Namibian passport, and Jolie decided to sell the first pictures of Shiloh through the distributor Getty Images herself, rather than allowing paparazzi to make these valuable photographs. People paid more than $4.1 million for the North American rights, while British magazine Hello! obtained the international rights for roughly $3.5 million. All profits were donated to an undisclosed charity by Jolie and Pitt. Madame Tussauds in New York unveiled a wax figure of two-month-old Shiloh; it was the first infant re-created in wax by Madame Tussauds.
On March 15, 2007, Jolie adopted a three-year-old boy from Vietnam, Pax Thien Jolie-Pitt (originally Pax Thien Jolie), who was born on November 29, 2003 and abandoned at birth at a local hospital, where he was initially named Pham Quang Sang. Jolie adopted the boy from the Tam Binh orphanage in Ho Chi Minh City. She revealed that his first name, Pax, was suggested by her mother before her death.
Following months of tabloid speculation, Jolie confirmed she was expecting twins at the 2008 Cannes Film Festival. She gave birth to a boy, Knox Léon Jolie-Pitt, and a girl, Vivienne Marcheline Jolie-Pitt, by caesarean section at the Lenval hospital in Nice, France, on July 12, 2008. The rights for the first images of Knox and Vivienne were jointly sold to People and Hello! for $14 million—the most expensive celebrity pictures ever taken. The money went to the Jolie/Pitt Foundation.
In the media
Jolie appeared in the media from an early age due to her famous father Jon Voight. At seven she had a small part in Lookin' to Get Out, a movie co-written by and starring her father, and in 1986 and 1988 she attended the Academy Awards as a teenager with him. However, when she started her acting career, Jolie decided not to use "Voight" as a stage name, because she wished to establish her own identity as an actress. Jolie was never shy about controversy and integrated her teenage "wild girl" image into her public persona in the first years of her career. During her acceptance speech at the 2000 Academy Awards, Jolie declared, "I'm so in love with my brother right now", which, combined with her affectionate behavior towards him that night, sparked speculation in the tabloid media of an incestuous relationship with her brother James Haven. She has denied those rumors vehemently, and Jolie and Haven later explained in interviews that after their parents' divorce they relied on one another and because of that they hold on to each other as a means of emotional support.
Jolie does not employ a publicist or an agent. She quickly became a tabloid's favorite, since she presented herself as very outspoken in interviews, discussing her love life and her interest in BDSM openly, and once claiming to be "most likely to sleep with a female fan". As one of her most distinctive physical features, Jolie's lips have attracted notable media attention and she has been described as "the current gold standard of beauty in the West" among women seeking cosmetic surgery. She also created headlines with her much publicized marriage to Billy Bob Thornton and her subsequent change into an advocate for global humanitarian problems. As she took on the role of UNHCR Goodwill Ambassador she started to use her celebrity to highlight humanitarian causes worldwide. Jolie has been taking flying lessons since 2004 and she has a private pilot license (with an instrument rating) and owns a Cirrus SR22 airplane. The media speculated that Jolie is a Buddhist, but she said that she teaches Buddhism to her son Maddox because she considers it part of his culture. Jolie has not stated definitively whether or not she believes in God. When asked in 2000 if there was a God, she said, "For the people who believe in it, I hope so. There doesn't need to be a God for me."
Starting in 2005, her relationship with Brad Pitt became one of the most reported celebrity stories worldwide. After Jolie confirmed her pregnancy in early 2006, the unprecedented media hype surrounding them "reached the point of insanity" as Reuters described it in their story "The Brangelina fever" Trying to avoid the media attention, the couple went to Namibia for the birth of Shiloh, "the most anticipated baby since Jesus Christ", as it had been described. Two years later, Jolie's second pregnancy again fueled a media frenzy. For the two weeks she spent in a seaside hospital in Nice, reporters and photographers camped outside on the promenade to report on the birth.
Today, Jolie is one of the best known celebrities around the world. According to the Q Score, in 2000, subsequent to her Oscar win, 31 % of respondents in the United States said Jolie was familiar to them, by 2006 she was familiar to 81 % of Americans. In a 2006 global industry survey by ACNielsen in 42 international markets Jolie, together with Brad Pitt, was found to be the favorite celebrity endorser for brands and products worldwide. Jolie was among the Time 100, a list of the 100 most influential people in the world, in 2006 and 2008. She was described as the world's most beautiful woman in the 2006 "100 Most Beautiful" issue of People, and she was voted the greatest sex symbol of all time in the British Channel 4 television show The 100 Greatest Sex Symbols in 2007. On Forbes' annual Celebrity 100 list, Jolie was ranked at No. 35 in 2006, No. 14 in 2007,[88] and she was the highest listed actor at No. 3 in 2008. She was also described as the world's most powerful actress in the 2009 edition of Guinness World Records.
Tattoos
Jolie's numerous tattoos have been the subject of much media attention and have often been addressed by interviewers. Jolie stated that, while she is not opposed to film nudity, the large number of tattoos on her body has forced filmmakers to become more creative when planning nude or love scenes. Make-up has been used to cover up the tattoos in many of her productions. Jolie currently has thirteen known tattoos, among them the Tennessee Williams quote "A prayer for the wild at heart, kept in cages", which she got together with her mother, the Arabic language phrase "العزيمة" (strength of will), the Latin proverb "quod me nutrit me destruit" (what nourishes me destroys me), and a Yantra prayer written in the ancient Khmer script for her son Maddox. She also has six sets of geographical coordinates on her upper left arm indicating the birthplaces of her children. Over time she covered or lasered several of her tattoos, including "Billy Bob", the name of her former husband Billy Bob Thornton, a Chinese character for death (死), and a window on her lower back; she explained that she removed the window, because, while she used to spend all of her time looking out through windows wishing to be outside, she now lives there all of the time.

Born: 3 June 1983
Location: Berlin, Germany
Measurements Bust: 36"C
Waist: 26"
Hips: 36"
Height 5 ft 6 in
Weight 122 lb
Janine Carmen Habeck is a German model. Her father is German and her mother is Italian.
Habeck was the Playmate of the Month (PMOM) for February 2004 and Playmate of the Year in 2005 (2004 by German Playboy notation) for the German edition of Playboy. She was later the September PMOM in 2006 for the United States edition of the magazine.
In November 2005, Habeck was awarded the title Miss Centerfold by readers of the German edition of Playboy, celebrating the 400th issue of the magazine.

AKA Ana Cristina Alvarez

Born: June 2, 1985
Location Miami, Florida, United States
Origin American
Genre(s) Pop, dance, Latin pop, R&B, hip hop
Born in the tropical cosmopolitan city of Miami, Florida on June 2, 1985, Ana Cristina represents the American and Hispanic bicultural influences where she grew up. Since a very early age, the Cuban-American singer’s prodigious 5 octave vocal range has opened the doors for her to sing in hundreds of television shows and events. By the time she was 6 years old to the time she was 13, Ana Cristina was asked to appear frequently on shows like Sabado Gigante and The Cristina Show. At the age of 15, Ana Cristina’s big voice and talent caught the attention of executives at Sony International’s Sony Discos label who signed her on the spot, to which she then completed her first Spanish Language self-titled debut “Ana Cristina.” She worked with Latin music’s biggest producers like, Rudy Perez(Christina Aguilera, Michael Bolton) Emilio Estefan (Gloria Estefan, Shakira), Kike Santander ( Christian Castro, Jennifer Lopez), Estefano ( Paulina Rubio,Thalia) , Manny Benito (Chayanne, Olga Tanon)….and more. Her first single, the ballad, “A Un Paso De Mi Amor”, drew attention not only from fans all over, but from the critics alike, who non-arguably agree that Ana Cristina has one of the most gifted voices and talents that the Latin music industry has ever seen. She later sang theme songs for the Telemundo soap opera “Vale Todo” and Televisa and Univision’s soap opera “Vivan los Ninos”, to which she recorded the theme songs and landed in the soundtrack. Ana Cristina’s version of Schubert’s classic “Ave Maria”, produced by Bebu Silvetti, was part of Sony’s Christmas compilation CD which included Jon Secada, Celia Cruz, and others called “Nuestra Navidad.” Her unique and ample voice was especially recognized nationally in the U.S. when the she was chosen out of a star-studded list of some of the most respected performers in the nation to sing “The Star Spangled Banner” for the presidential inauguration on January 20, 2005. It was a grand honor for Ana Cristina to be a part of such a historical event. She sang an incredibly powerful and crystalline rendition of the country’s anthem before president George W. Bush and thousands of international dignitaries that led to a dramatic standing ovation and garnered media attention worldwide. In 2006, Ana Cristina was chosen by the Univision Network to sing the promotional theme song for Univision Sports’ 2006 World Cup Germany entitled, “You Can Change the World.” On October 6, 2006, Ana Cristina was invited to sing in the White House for a private show produced by Emilio Estefan and the organizers at the White House. Also present, besides the President of the United States, was the crowned prince of Spain, Felipe, and other ambassadors to various nations. Ana Cristina was introduced by the President himself before her performance and was set to perform two songs, until the President requested an encore that led to a total of 3 songs. Ana Cristina’s creative and artistic growth has been completed with her skillfully combined development to compose her own songs with the guitar and piano. The outcome of her ability to manipulate words and improvisational melodies so easily has resulted in her capability to churn out well-crafted dynamic songs that go hand in hand with her commanding stage presence. Whether it is through the mediums of live performance or in her writing, Ana Cristina is constantly innovating ideas that have evolved into an original musical style that only she can call her own. Her green-eyed gaze seems to exhibit an intense sense of purpose and worldly inspiration for such a young lady. Ana Cristina has always felt that she was predestined to communicate with people through her beloved art form. Her zealous dedication to her music is sharply evident and one of the many distinct qualities that make her a natural born star. Remember the name, because you’ll never forget the voice…

AKA Viola Lynn Collins

Born: June 1, 1979
Location: Texas, U.S.
Occupation Actress
Years active 1999–present
Spouse(s) Steven Strait
Viola Lynn Collins, better known as Lynn Collins, is an American actress.
Life and career
She has had some experience on both stage and screen in Shakespearean roles. In 2004, she played the role of Portia in the critically well-received film The Merchant of Venice, based on Shakespeare's play, starring opposite Al Pacino, Joseph Fiennes and Jeremy Irons. She is best known for her role as Kayla Silverfox in the live-action film X-Men Origins: Wolverine.