31 Dec 2011

Holly Madison Biography


Birth Name : Holly Cullen 
Date of Birth : 23 December 1979, Astoria, Oregon, USA 
Height : 5' 7" (1.70 m) 
Profession: Reality cast member; model

Born on December 23, 1979, in Astoria, Oregon, Holly Madison moved at a young age to Prince of Wales Island in Alaska. It was there that she developed her love for nature, spending endless hours observing animals and playing in the woods. However, the move wasn't permanent and Holly and her family returned to Oregon during her early teens. Reflecting upon those awkward years, Holly recalls, "I look back on my middle/high school days and see an Alaskan fish out of water who wasn't good at socializing or fitting in."

Fortunately, this "Alaskan fish" survived her formative years, and upon graduation, Holly enrolled at Portland State University, where she chose to study theater and psychology. Holly stayed there for two years before bolting for the sunnier climes of L.A.'s Loyola Marymount University.

Was working as a "Hawaiian Tropic" model when one of Hugh M. Hefner's friends saw her and put her on the Mansion's party list. The Midsummer Night's Dream party was her first Mansion experience. She saw lots of celebrities and centerfolds and was most excited to meet Hef, Seth Green from the "Austin Powers" movies and Heather Kozar, one of her favorite Playmates. Feeling overwhelmed, she and her girlfriends left early (but not after feeding the squirrel monkeys). After about a year of coming to the Mansion parties, She finally got a chance to really talk to the elusive Mr. Hefner. She knew they would have a lot in common and hit it off immediately. He invited her out with him on a Wednesday, and she moved in that Friday.

Holly Hunter Biography


Birth Name : Holly P. Hunter 
Date of Birth : 20 March 1958, Conyers, Georgia, USA 
Height : 5' 2" (1.57 m) 
Occupation : Actress / Producer

Holly Hunter was born in Conyers, Georgia on March 20th, 1958, the daughter of Charles Edwin Hunter, a part-time sporting goods manufacturer's representative and part-time farmer with 250 acres, and Opal Marguerite Catledge, a homemaker. The youngest of seven children, Holly was encouraged by her parents to pursue her acting talent at an early age, and she landed her first gig as Helen Keller in a fifth-grade play. 

In 1976 she went to Pittsburgh to pursue a degree in drama from Carnegie Mellon University. After graduating in 1980, she went to New York City, where she met playwright Beth Henley in a stalled elevator. Hunter went on to get roles in a number of Henley's southern gothic plays, including Crimes of the Heart and The Miss Firecracker Contest. In 1982 the actress went to Los Angeles. She landed her first starring role in the movies in the Coen brothers' Raising Arizona (1987), a part that is said to have been written with her in mind. She gained stardom in 1987 when she played the driven TV news producer Jane Craig in James L. Brooks' Broadcast News (1987). In 1993 she earned an Academy Award and worldwide acclaim with her performance as a mute bride to a New Zealand planter in The Piano (1993).

One word: Crash. In his controversial 1996 film, David Cronenberg cast Holly as a doctor for people who view automobile accidents as an erotic stimulant. If you can separate the situational weirdness -- and no, most people can't -- from the raw sexual energy she lets loose in that film, you know just how hot it can get around the Holly bush.


Hilary Swank Biography


Name: Hilary Swank
Born: 30 July 1974 (Age: 37)
Where: Lincoln, Nebraska, USA
Height: 5' 7"
Occupation: Actress, producer
Awards: Won 2 Oscars, 2 Golden Globes, nominated for 1 BAFTA

Hilary Ann Swank was born on the 30th of July, 1974 in . . . well, therein lies a question. Reports have been severely confused by the audition process for Boys Don't Cry. In order to win the confidence of director Kimberly Peirce, Swank told her that, like the real Teena Brandon, she was 21 and had been born in Lincoln, Nebraska. In fact, she claimed, she'd be born in the same hospital. Later, Peirce would discover that Swank had lied and confronted her, with Swank cheekily (and quite correctly) replying that that's exactly what Brandon would have done. The part was hers, but the lies caused problems for biographers. Swank was certainly not 21, she was 24. As for her birthplace, her management maintained that she was indeed born in Lincoln. Swank herself would often refer to herself as a mid-Western girl, and state that one of her grandfathers was born and raised in Iowa, just two hours drive from Falls City, Nebraska, the small town where Teena Brandon disastrously went to start a new life.

Hilary Swank has twice won the Academy Award as best actress: for playing a boxer in Clint Eastwood's 2004 drama Million Dollar Baby, and for her gender-bending turn in Boys Don't Cry (1999, with Chloë Sevigny). Swank got her start in the early 1990s with small roles in movies and TV shows. Her first big break came with the movie The Next Karate Kid (1994), in a leading role that made good use of her background in swimming and gymnastics. In Boys Don't Cry she gave a stunning performance as a young woman who lived as a young man; Swank's Oscar for best actress led to bigger roles and bigger paychecks. (She reportedly was paid a mere $3,000 -- $75 per day -- for Boys Don't Cry.) Even so, what followed was less than impressive: small roles in The Gift (2000, with Keanu Reeves) and Insomnia (2002, starring Al Pacino), and a part in the big-budget flop The Core (2003). For Million Dollar Baby, Swank trained rigorously, put 20 extra pounds on her lean frame and turned in a performance that earned her a second Oscar.


Hilary Rhoda Biography


Name : Hilary Rhoda
Date of Birth: April 6, 1987
Birth Place: Chevy Chase, Maryland
Occupation : American model

Born and raised in Maryland, Hilary Rhoda harbored dreams of working as a model since she was just a little girl even though she was also known as a bit of a tomboy in her youth. Adept at lacrosse and swimming, Hilary’s adolescence was about as normal as one could imagine. It wasn’t until she hit her teen years that she began to seriously pursue a career as a model. Following her graduation from high school. 

Although she always aspired to be a model, she also had a huge interest in participating in various team sports. Her passions were field hockey, lacrosse and swimming. While still in high school, she entered into a model convention, signed with an agency and modeled part time.

Her very first job was for a clothing company working with none other than world-renowned photographer, Bruce Weber. After completing school, she moved to New York to pursue a full time modeling career.

In January 2007, Rhoda signed an exclusive contract with Estée Lauder as their newest face. In July of that same year, earning at an estimated total of $2 million in the past 12 months, Forbes named her twelfth in their list of The World's 15 Top-Earning Supermodels. She is the current face of St. John Knits, ERES Beachwear, and the Neiman Marcus spring/summer 2009 campaigns. 2009 also marks Rhoda's debut in Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Edition.


Helena Christensen Biography


Name : Helena Christensen 
Date of Birth : 25 December 1968, Copenhagen, Denmark 
Height : 5' 10" (1.78 m) 
Occupation : Model  

Helena Christensen was born in Copenhagen, Denmark, on December 25 1968 to a Danish father and Peruvian mother. She grew up in Denmark, where her childhood interests included music and photography.

Model Helena Christiansen is probably still best known for playing the mysterious lover on the sand in the 1991 Chris Isaak music video "Wicked Game." Christiansen's modeling career took off in the 1990s, when she appeared on catwalks and magazine covers around the world -- a leggy, slender brunette with distant ice-blue eyes. She has made many appearances for Victoria's Secret, both in their catalog and as one of the "angels" in their television ads.

As a child Helena Christensen was more interested in becoming a musician, but as fate would have it began modeling at the age of 9. After leaving school, she moved to Paris, France to model for the french magazine 'Elle', and in 1986 she competed in the Miss Universe contest as Miss Denmark, but unfortunately did not receive a placing. Her big break came in June of 1989 when she was discovered by photographer Friedemann Hauss, who instinctively knew that Helena was a 'natural' in terms of modeling ability. Since then her career has taken off, and she is now one of the top international catwalk queens. Helena has since taken on the movie industry, starring in a British TV movie Inferno (1980) and following it up with a cameo role in Robert Altman's Prêt-à-Porter (1994).

Helena Bonham Carter Biography


Name: Helena Bonham Carter
Born: 26 May 1966 (Age: 45)
Where: London, England
Height: 5' 3"
Awards: Nominated for 1 Oscar, 2 BAFTAs, 4 Golden Globes
Occupation : Actress, voice actress, singer

She may not be royalty but, born in Golders Green, north London, on May 26th, 1966, Helena does come from classy stock. Her great-grandfather was Lord Asquith, liberal Prime Minister between 1908 and 1916. Her grandmother was Violet Bonham Carter, a renowned politician, orator and member of the House Of Lords (an excellent female role model), while her grand-uncle was Anthony Asquith, legendary English director of such classics as Carrington VC and The Importance Of Being Earnest. Yet, despite this exceptionally English bloodline, Helena's corpuscles are a heady mix, her father, Raymond Bonham Carter, a merchant banker by trade, having married Elena, predominantly French and Spanish - with a smattering of Jewish, Russian and Viennese for good measure.

Though typecast as aristocratic heroines in solemn period films in the early part of her career, London-born actress Helena Bonham Carter struggled to prove her range and break free of her corseted mold. She gained notoriety as the leading ingénue in a few Merchant-Ivory productions, including "A Room with a View" (1986) and "Howards End" (1992), and quickly developed into the quintessential Edwardian heroine. Wanting to avoid being pigeonholed, Bonham Carter began appearing in more mainstream work, hooking up with commercially viable, but artistically respected filmmakers like Tim Burton and Woody Allen. Far from a Victorian prude off-screen, Bonham Carter made headlines for her tumultuous personal life after being romantically linked with Kenneth Branagh, Rufus Sewell and Steve Martin. She finally settled down and became involved with Burton, whom she met while working on "Planet of the Apes" (2001), enjoying a relationship that helped ground her both personally and professionally. From there, she appeared in several of Burton's films, including "Big Fish" (2003), "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory" (2005) and "Sweeny Todd" (2007), while outside the Burton universe she played the mad witch Bellatrix in "Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix" (2007), a role she reprised in the final two installments of the popular film franchise. Whether performing in period dramas or special effects driven fantasy, Bonham Carter always elevated any project in which she appeared.



Heidi Range Biography


Birth Name : Heidi India Range 
Date of Birth : 23 May 1983, Walton, Liverpool, Merseyside, England, UK 
Height : 5' 2" (1.57 m)
Occupations : Singer-songwriter

Heidi India Range (born May 23, 1983) is a British singer-songwriter and the longest-serving current member of girl group Sugababes which she joined in August 2001. Prior to becoming a Sugababe, Range was a member of the original line-up of now-defunct girl group, Atomic Kitten.

In August 2001, Range replaced Siobhán Donaghy of the Sugababes, who left the band in 2001. Her first album with the group, Angels With Dirty Faces, peaked at number two on the UK Albums Chart, achieving triple platinum status, and is the group's to date highest selling album. The album produced UK chart-toppers “Freak Like Me” and “Round Round”, both certified silver by the BPI. Three, the Sugababes' third album, was released in October 2003. It reached number three in the UK and produced four singles, all of which reached the top ten. The group's fourth album Taller in More Ways was released in October 2005. The album reached reached number one and went double platinum in the UK. Shortly following the album's release, Buena left the group due to personal reasons, and was replaced by Amelle Berrabah. The group's fifth album Change was released in October 2007. The album, composed of pop and dance songs, reached number one and went platinum in the UK. Change produced three top twenty singles, including "Change", "Denial", and the UK number one "About You Now", signalling the second occasion in which the band were simultaneously number one on the UK album, single, download and airplay charts. The groups' sixth studio album, Catfights and Spotlights was released in 2008, charting in the top ten of the UK Albums Chart, despite becoming a commercial failure, and producing only two singles, "Girls" and "No Can Do", the former peaking at number three on the UK Singles Charts. The album also features a version of "She's Like a Star", with Taio Cruz, which was released prior to the album and charted inside the top twenty in the UK.


30 Dec 2011

Heidi Montag Biography



Full name: Heidi Montag  
Date of Birth : 15 September 1986, Crested Butte, Colorado, USA Nickname : Speidi 
Height : 5' 2" (1.57 m)
Occupation : Reality television personality, recording artist, fashion designer

Heidi Montag was born on September 15, 1986, in Crested Butte, Colorado. She enrolled in the Academy of Art University and met Lauren Conrad. Both of them shifted to Los Angeles and entered the Fashion Institute of Design & Merchandising. But she left the FIDM and got a job with Bolthouse Productions as an event planner.

During freshman orientation, Montag met Lauren Conrad, who at the time was a featured cast member on the MTV reality series Laguna Beach: The Real Orange County. After the two transferred to Fashion Institute of Design & Merchandising in Los Angeles, Conrad received her own spin-off series The Hills, which premiered on May 31, 2006. Montag eventually left the Fashion Institute in fall of 2005 when she was hired at Bolthouse Productions. According to Montag, she dropped out because she "did not find the school challenging." Within two years, she was promoted to event planner at Bolthouse.  

Thanks to a nose and a boob job, this blond, 5’3” former reality TV star is looking especially Barbie-perfect. If that's your bag, then Heidi Montag is your girl. Unfortunately, Heidi Montag is somebody else's wife. Her wannabe Hollywood power-broker husband, Spencer Pratt, makes us a little sick to our stomach, and her marriage to him definitely cuts into her sex appeal, no matter how plastic it may be. Nevertheless, she seems to do her best work when she can’t be heard, like in her recent cover shoot for Playboy's September 2009 issue.   



Heather Morris Biography


Birth Name : Heather Elizabeth Morris 
Date of Birth : 1 February 1987, Thousand Oaks, California, USA 
Nickname : HeMo 
Height : 5' 8" (1.73 m) 
Occupation: Dancer/Actress

Heather Morris was born in California, but spent most of her younger years in Arizona. At a young age she discovered her talent for dance, and in 2006 she auditioned with her best friend for the hit reality TV show So You Think You Can Dance. Although she didn’t make it into the top 20, the show was a stepping-stone for her career in dance.

Morris’s first significant appearance was in 2006 on So You Think You Can Dance Season 2 where she made the “green mile” but failed to make the final 20 by a vote of 3-2. Not discouraged, Morris decided to move to LA and actively pursue a career in dancing. Her big break came in 2007 via Beyoncé. Morris was one of Beyonce’s backup dancers on The Beyoncé Experience world tour and, following that, worked again with Beyonce on a mini “Single Ladies” promotional tour that included 2008 performances on the American Music Awards, Saturday Night Live, The Ellen DeGeneres Show, The Today Show, and MTV’s Total Request Live Finale. She also danced backup for Beyonce and Tina Turner at the 50th Grammy Awards in 2008.


Heather Mills Biography


Birth Name: Heather Anne Mills
Date of Birth : January 12, 1968
Birth Place : Washington, Tyne and Wear, England
Occupation : Businesswoman, media personality, former model 

Heather Mills, born on January 12, 1968, in Washington, Tyne and Wear, England, is no stranger to adversity. Her father, Mark, a former paratrooper, was abusive toward Heather and her family. When Heather's mother managed to escape, 9-year-old Heather Mills was left to care for her younger brother and sister whilst living with their father. 

When Heather Mills was 13, her father was imprisoned for fraud, and she went to live with her mother and her mother's new boyfriend, with whom the young teenager didn't get along. Headstrong Heather Mills soon ran away to live on the street. Later, she was arrested for stealing jewelry from the London store where she worked, and she was put on probation.

Back in London to raise further funds for the project, Heather found her life changed forever when, in August 1993, she was hit by a speeding police motorcycle as she stepped off a curb. The accident cost her the lower half of her left leg. 

Suddenly, as an amputee, she found herself in a similar situation to the war refugees on whose behalf she had so tirelessly campaigned. Despite her own private distress, she continued to work with the disabled, organising a programme to send discarded prosthetic limbs abroad. 

Heather was presenting at a charitable awards ceremony at London's Dorchester in May 1999 when she met the man who would change her life - former Beatle Paul McCartney. Clearly affected by the blonde activist's presentation the musician later got in touch. 

Their shared passion for charity work led to romance - much to Heather's surprise. "I thought he was very cute but it didn't enter my head that he fancied me," she said later. The couple became engaged during a visit to the Lake District and tied the knot in front of 300 guests at a church in the grounds of Ireland's 17th-century Castle Leslie on June 11, 2002. A daughter, Beatrice Milly McCartney, was born the following year on October 28, 2003. 

In July 2006, McCartney filed the divorce papers against Mills claiming unreasonable behaviour. In October 2007, Mills broke her silence and began a round of interviews on UK and American television, back lashing at the hype over her impending divorce. She hit the headlines after an emotionally charged interview on British breakfast programme GMTV, when she accused a “certain corner” of feeding spin to the media to smear her.






Heather Locklear Biography


Birth Name : Heather Deen Locklear 
Date of Birth : 25 September 1961, Westwood, California, USA 
Height : 5' 5" (1.65 m) 
Occupation : Actress

Actress. Born September 25, 1961, in Los Angeles, California. Frequently referred to by the media as "The Queen of Mean," Locklear is popular for portraying some of the most notable television villains of the 1980s and 1990s.

Locklear was born and raised in the Los Angeles suburb of Thousand Oaks. Her father is the director of the registrar's office at UCLA and her mother worked as an administrative assistant in the offices of the Walt Disney Company in the early 1990s.

Unforgettable for bringing sex and sass to such Aaron Spelling-helmed nighttime melodramas as "Dynasty" (ABC, 1981-89) and "Melrose Place" (Fox, 1992-99), Heather Locklear's prolific acting career adeptly embraced both the sublime and the ridiculous. While her onscreen characters were often outrageously catty über-bitches who mined our deepest, worst personality traits, off screen, the actress displayed an evolved sense of humor and ability not to take herself too seriously, making her equally attractive to both male and female fans. In fact, the classic California girl seemed the polar opposite of her Type-A characters, with her only extravagant habit seemingly having been a penchant for hard-partying rock musicians - two of whom she would go on to marry.

In 2002, Locklear decided to end her run with the sitcom that earned her two Golden Globe nominations. Before making her way back to the big screen, she guest starred in three episodes of the NBC hit comedy "Scrubs" (NBC, 2001-08) as a drug sales rep who raises Dr. Cox's (John C. McGinley) temperature. In one of her more successful film roles, she co-starred in the dramedy "Uptown Girls" (2003) as precocious Dakota Fanning's upwardly mobile but neglectful mother. The following year, she returned to television as a producer and star of the one-hour airport drama "LAX" (NBC, 2004-05), but even Locklear's appeal was not enough to snag viewers and the show was cancelled after only 13 episodes. It was her first real failure as lead in television. Undeterred, she was cast in another big screen mother-daughter comedy, "The Perfect Man" (2005), as the hapless, peripatetic mom of a teen girl (Hilary Duff) who tries to play matchmaker. Not surprisingly, the film suffered at the hands of merciless critics inundated with tween stars like Duff, Lindsay Lohan and Amanda Bynes schlocky teen angst now playing out on the big screen.


Heather Graham Biography


Full name: Heather Joan Graham
Birth date: 1970-01-29
Birth place: Milwaukee, WI
Height: 5' 8
Occupation : Actress, producer, writer, fashion model

She was born Heather Joan Graham on the 29th of January, 1970, in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Her father, Jim, worked for the FBI, specialising in anti-terrorism techniques, while her mother, Joan, was a successful children's author. Both were staunch Catholics. There'd be a younger sister, Aimee, who'd also turn to acting, appearing in the likes of From Dusk Till Dawn and Jackie Brown.

At school, young Heather was not one of the popular crew. As said, she was mocked for her lack of breasts (they would come later. And keep coming), ignored by the boys and labelled a geek. More specifically, she was known as a "theatre geek". That acting bug had struck again. Heather's mother later recalled often finding her daughter behind the furniture, play-acting with her dollies. Heather herself remembers seeing Raiders Of The Lost Ark and being intrigued by a love scene between Harrison Ford and Karen Allen. That, she says, was when she "fell in love with the movies and the opposite sex".

Graham was cast in a number of parts as a supporting actress including the part of Nadine in the 1989 film Drugstore Cowboy. In 1991, she appeared in the TV series Twin Peaks as Annie Blackburn, Dale Cooper's second-season love interest. Many became familiar with her for these two roles.[6] She appeared in a brief but important role in the 1997 hit Swingers. Her breakthrough role proved to be that of the porn starlet "Roller Girl" in 1997's Boogie Nights, in which she appeared in scenes with frontal nudity and received several award nominations. Since then, Graham has been known as a Hollywood sex symbol. She has been part of two ensemble casts that have earned Screen Actors Guild Awards nominations for Outstanding Performance by a Cast. 

Her first starring role was in 1999 as Felicity Shagwell in Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me. She appeared in the music video for Lenny Kravitz's cover of "American Woman". Also in 1999, she appeared in the movie Bowfinger.
Graham has taken roles in mainstream films, including Mary Kelly in the 2001 film From Hell, based on the story of Jack the Ripper, and Judy Robinson in 1998's film Lost In Space, and she has also been cast in a number of independent films. Some of those films, like 2006's Bobby, have brought her critical praise. She also starred in the erotic thriller Killing Me Softly.


Haylie Duff Biography


Birth Name : Haylie Katherine Duff 
Date of Birth : 19 February 1985, Houston, Texas, USA 
Height : 5' 2½" (1.59 m) 
Occupation : Actress, singer, songwriter

Haylie Katherine Duff was born on February 19, 1985, in Houston, Texas, to parents Bob and Susan Duff. Sister Hilary came into the family two and a half years later, in September 1987. The girls took up ballet at a very young age, and toured with the Cechetti Ballet during the mid-'90s. Haylie's outgoing personality led to her interest in acting and music, which she began pursuing around the age of 10. 

Following in her little sister Hilary's sizeable footsteps, actress Haylie Duff began her acting career as an offshoot of her early dance training. Growing up in Texas, Duff began ballet at an early age. By age ten, Duff landed a role in the Houston Metropolitan Dance Company's production of "The Nutcracker". Within a year, Duff had moved on to roles in television. Starting with a small, uncredited part in the 1997 mini-series "True Women", Duff followed up a supporting role in the made-for-TV movie, "Hope", helmed by first-time director Goldie Hawn. Both films were shot in Texas, which allowed Duff to, at least initially, maintain a balance between her home life and early career.

Moving to Los Angeles to pursue acting full-time later that year, Duff promptly landed a role in the direct-to-video sequel "Addams Family Values" directed by Dave Payne. The sub-par film was savaged by the few critics who bothered to see it. Nevertheless, it served as Duff's entry into Hollywood proper. Fortunately, Duff's next two projects were better received by reviewers (albeit, equally ignored by audiences). In the critically lauded "Dreams in the Attic" (2000), Duff played Jessica, the lonely niece of an eccentric costume shop proprietor (portrayed by Shelley Duvall) who discovers a chest full of magical dreams and fantasies hidden away in a dusty old attic. Duff next popped up in the comedy short "The Newman Shower" (2001), a coming-of-age teen escapade set in the late 1980's at a summer camp.





Hayley Hasselhoff Biography



Full name: Hayley Amber Hasselhoff
Birth date: 1992-08-26
Birth place: Los Angeles, California
Height: 5'1"
Occupation : Actress 

Hayley first broke out in ABC Family's short-lived, yet beloved, TV series Huge. Since the show's premiere, Hayley's popularity sky rocketed, placing her in national teen magazine spreads like Seventeen and Teen Vogue, on talk shows such as Good Morning America, The View and Wendy Williams, and securing fashion endorsement deals. These days, Hayley has been the face of UK's curvy girl fashion line Style369.com, and gracing the pages of fashion and entertainment magazines globally.

Hayley Hasselhoff is the daughter David Hasselhoff and Pamela Bach-Hasselhoff. One of the rising teen stars on television, she first realized her dreams of becoming an actress when she visited the set of her father’s hit TV series, Baywatch and soon after, prepared herself by enrolling in various acting classes.

At the age of 14, Hayley Hasselhoff signed with Ford modeling agency as a plus size teen model. Consequently, she became the spokesmodel for the popular teen clothing line Torrid and participated at the 2007, 2008, and 2009 Celebrity Catwalk for Charity in addition to walking in the 2008 Visionaries fashion show.

After establishing a rewarding career in modeling, Hayley decided to focus her attention on her true passion, acting. In between auditions, Hayley, a trained singer since the age of 10, started developing a band called Bella Vida with her sister Taylor. Last summer, Bella Vida toured Europe hitting DOME 55 among music stars such as Jason Derulo. Now, they have their first single set to hit British airwaves. Look for the album in late 2011.

Hayden Panettiere Biography


Birth Name : Hayden Leslie Panettiere 
Date of Birth : 21 August 1989, Palisades, New York, USA 
Height : 5' 2" (1.57 m) 
Occupation : Actress, singer, model

Actress. Born August 21, 1989, in Palisades, New York. Hayden Panettiere's father, Skip Panettiere, was a lieutenant in the local fire department, and her mother, Lesley Panettiere, was a soap opera actress. Before her first birthday, Panettiere had already begun modeling and acting. She started her career by modeling baby clothes at 8 months old, and appeared in her first TV commercial, for Playskool toy trains, just three months later. Panettiere went on to appear in dozens of commercials as an infant and toddler, including spots for McDonalds, Hershey's and Nix Lice Shampoo.

Perky, petite and equally at home in earnest drama and mainstream comedy, Hayden Panettiere began her career as a child model and soap opera actress. As a preteen, she worked steadily as a voice-over actor in family films like "A Bug's Life" (1998) and "Dinosaur" (2000) before a recurring role as the long-lost daughter of "Ally McBeal" (Fox, 1997-2002) raised the actress' profile. Her energy and spunky can-do persona made her well cast for competitive teen features like "Ice Princess" (2005) and "Bring it On: All or Nothing" (2006), both of which helped lead to her major career breakthrough as a high school cheerleader endowed with superpowers in the primetime phenomenon, "Her s" (NBC, 2006-10). The show brought Panettiere to the attention of worshipful fanboys who had never met a cheerleader they did not like, giving the still young actress the tricky challenge of balancing both the sexy and the innocent as she moved into adulthood. With her first mainstream starring film role in the high school romantic comedy "I Love You Beth Cooper" (2009), Panettiere proved that mining her All-American girl persona was her ticket to big screen success

Halle Berry Biography

Birth Name : Halle Maria Berry 
Date of Birth : 14 August 1966, Cleveland, Ohio, USA 
Height : 5' 6" (1.68 m) 
Occupation : Actress

Halle Berry was born on August 14, 1966 in Cleveland, Ohio, USA to African American father Jerome Berry, a former hospital attendant, and Caucasian mother Judith Berry, a retired psychiatric nurse. Halle also has an older sister named Heidi Berry. Halle first came into the spotlight at 17 years old when she won the Miss Teen All-American Pageant, representing the state of Ohio in 1985 and, a year later in 1986, when she was the first runner-up in the Miss USA Pageant. 

As a former beauty queen and fashion model, Halle Berry surprised many naysayers when she emerged as a multi-talented actress capable of turning in award-worthy performances. After getting her start as a regular on the short-lived sitcom "Living Dolls" (ABC, 1989), Berry made herself known in a small, but noticeable role as a crackhead opposite Samuel L. Jackson in Spike Lee's "Jungle Fever" (1991). Though underused in subsequent roles in movies like "The Last Boy Scout" (1991) and "Boomerang" (1992), she turned in a finely crafted dramatic performance as a drug-addicted mother trying to regain custody of her son in "Losing Isaiah" (1995). Though her performance as a surprisingly gutsy flight attendant in the action thriller "Executive Decision" (1996) garnered positive reviews, Berry received unwanted public scrutiny for her divorce from husband, baseball hero David Justice and later, from singer Eric Benet as well. Returning to form with a strong supporting role in "Bulworth" (1998), Berry established her dramatic chops and won an Emmy Award for playing the titular role in "Introducing Dorothy Dandridge" (HBO, 1999), a role she had longed to perform. But it was her groundbreaking performance in "Monster's Ball" (2001) that truly established her acting bona fides, while she became the first African-American to win an Oscar for Best Leading Actress. Though Berry's take on the comic book heroine Storm in the "X-Men" franchise earned her blockbuster status, her prancing around as "Catwoman" (2004) earned her certain notoriety and a not-so-coveted Golden Raspberry Award. Nonetheless, Berry had the rare ability to excel in both major tent pole movies and small indie dramas, making her one of the more respected and sought-after actresses and most revered beauties working in Hollywood.

Haley Webb Biography


Name: Haley Webb 
Sex: Female 
Date of Birth: 25 Nov 1985 
Place of Birth: Woodbridge, Virginia 
Occupation : Actress

Born and raised in Northern Virginia, Haley Webb moved to San Diego with her family while still a teenager and began pursuing acting full time. While still in high school, Haley would take the train to Los Angeles for auditions, until she finally moved there 4 years later. After performing in theater productions of Bye Bye Birdie, Rumors by Neil Simon and various others, where she won many regional awards for her work (including Best Actress and Best Supporting Actress), she quickly made the transition into film. She graduated high school early, at 16, and shortly thereafter studied at Howard Fine's studio for a year. Although, it wasn't until she enrolled at the Meisner-based acting school The Joanne Baron/D.W. Brown Studio that she found her artistic home. She graduated at the top of her class, as well as starred in D.W. Brown's film On the Inside opposite Nick Stahl and Olivia Wilde. She continues to reside in Los Angeles.

Haley Webb was born in Woodbridge, Virginia. She has five siblings: two younger brothers; a younger sister; and two older sisters. In 2001 she moved, with some of her family, to San Diego, California where she attended La Costa Canyon High School.

While at LCCHS she was active in the theater department winning various awards for acting and dance. In 2003, while competing in the Talent America Competition, she was "discovered" by long time casting director/manager Gary Shaffer.

Hailee Steinfeld Biography


Name : Hailee Steinfeld
Date of Birth11 December 1996, California, USA 
Height : 5' 7" (1.70 m)
Occupation : Actress

Hailee Steinfeld was born on December 11, 1996, in Twin Oaks, California. She’s got a dad who’s a fitness trainer, a mom who’s an interior designer and an older brother named Griffin. Hailee started acting when she was only 8 years old, after she saw a close family friend in a school play.

Her parents got her an agent and she started taking acting lessons. Her first roles were in TV commercials for companies like Kmart. Soon, Hailee started landing bigger and bigger roles on TV shows and movies, including a TV movie called Summer Camp Pilot for Nickelodeon and some sit-coms.

Hailee Steinfeld was only 13 when she played obstinate 19th-century teen Mattie Ross in the western True Grit. It was her first major role, and it won her an nomination as best supporting actress in that year's Oscars and Screen Actors Guild awards. Hailee Steinfeld was born in California, and "at eight years of age, Hailee revealed to her family that she had a strong desire to pursue acting," says her bio on the True Grit website. She had bit parts in the TV series Back To You (2007, with Kelsey Grammer) and Sons of Tucson (2010), and also appeared in a national Kmart TV ad, before beating out a reported 15,000 other auditioners for the role in True Grit. In long brown pigtails and a gray felt hat, Steinfeld played an Arkansas teen who sets out to avenge the death of her father, and was praised by critics for holding her own with her veteran Oscar-winning co-stars Jeff Bridges and Matt Damon.






Gwyneth Paltrow Biography



NAME: Gwyneth Kate Paltrow
OCCUPATION: Film Actress, Theater Actress, Television Actress
BIRTH DATE: September 27, 1972 (Age: 39)
EDUCATION: University of California, Santa Barbara
PLACE OF BIRTH: Los Angeles

Actress. Born on September 28, 1972, in Los Angeles, California. The daughter of Tony Award-winning actress Blythe Danner and television producer Bruce Paltrow, Gwyneth Paltrow grew up no stranger to the world of Hollywood. After living in Los Angeles, Paltrow moved with her family to New York at age eleven. The precocious young blonde made her stage debut at just five years old in a theater in Massachusetts's Berkshire Mountains, where her mother performed in summer stock.

As she grew up, Paltrow's burgeoning beauty and developing acting talent began to win her small film roles, beginning with Shout and Hook in 1991. After a well-received spot opposite her mother in the television mini-series Cruel Doubt (1992), Paltrow decided to abandon her art history studies at the University of California at Santa Barbara to pursue acting full time.

Oscar- and Golden Globe-winning actress Gwyneth Paltrow distinguished herself from the pack of rising young stars in the 1990s with surprisingly mature performances in "Se7en" (1995) and "Shakespeare in Love" (1998), for which she received well-deserved critical praise. With her sharp intelligence and her fair, patrician looks, Paltrow earned comparisons to Grace Kelly as she carved out a steady niche in British period dramas like "Emma" (1996), but kept audiences guessing with occasional comedies like "Shallow Hal" (2001) and richly drawn portraits of complex women, including the fur-wearing eccentric sister in Wes Anderson's "Royal Tenenbaums" (2001). Though she excelled in films like "Proof" (2005), in which she reprised her acclaimed West End role as the troubled daughter of a late mathematics genius, Paltrow also made time for big budget studio films, including the comic book-based "Iron Man" (2008). 

Gwen Stefani Biography



NAME: Gwen Stefani
OCCUPATION: Fashion Designer, Songwriter, Singer
BIRTH DATE: October 03, 1969 (Age: 42)
PLACE OF BIRTH: Anaheim, California
ZODIAC SIGN: Libra

Singer, songwriter, designer. Born on October 3, 1969, in Anaheim, California. After rising to stardom as the lead singer of No Doubt, Gwen Stefani has become a popular and powerful figure in the world of music and fashion.

Learning to sew from her mother, Stefani developed an interest in fashion early on. Her love of music was influenced by her older brother Eric who played a lot of recordings by such ska revival bands as Madness. With friend John Spence as the lead singer, Eric started the group No Doubt, and Gwen soon joined as their second vocalist. Stefani started dating fellow bandmate Tony Kanal around this time.

In early 1987 Gwen's brother Eric and John Spence founded what is now No Doubt. In the beginning Eric asked Gwen to share vocal duties with John. Sadly, not long after No Doubt's incarnation, John Spence committed suicide which left Gwen to rock the mic.The show must go on, and it did, as No Doubt continued to perform in local gigs. In the meantime, Gwen had graduated high school, and followed up her studies at Cal State Fullerton College.

Gwen was forced to juggle the band, her studies, as well as what turned out to be a 7-year long romance with fellow band member, Tony Kanal. In 1989, two new members joined the No Doubt team, guitarist Tom Dumont and drummer Adrian Young. After No Doubt was really attracting a fan base (thanks mostly to their energetic live performances), Flea, the bassist of the Red Hot Chili Peppers recorded a demo for the band in 1990, which led to their signing with Interscope Records.

In 1992, the band released their self-titled debut, but despite the substantial following the band had garnered, the album was far from a commercial success. Their record company was losing faith in their potential, but No Doubt's persistence did not waver.

The group went back into the studio with their own money, and recorded a collection of "extra" songs they had written. Their sophomore effort, The Beacon Street Collection, was released in 1995, and not only struck a cord with their devout fans, but also re-sparked Interscope's confidence in the band.

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Giuliana Rancic Biography


Birth Name : Giuliana DePandi 
Date of Birth : 17 August 1975, Naples, Italy  
Height ; 5' 8" (1.73 m) 
Occupation : Journalist, Television personality

Giuliana DePandi was born in Naples, Italy in 1975. Her family moved to the United States, namely Washington D.C., during her childhood. Fluent only in Italian, Giuliana prides herself on the fact that she taught herself English by watching day-time soaps and other television shows. After high school, Giuliana enrolled into the University of Maryland and received a B.A. in journalism and, later, a Masters degree in the same subject from the American University in D.C.

Giuliana is a force both on-camera and off. She has been anchor and managing editor of E! News since January 2005. Since that time, E! News viewership has risen over 50 percent across the board. She joined E! News as a correspondent in 2002, handling a variety of stories and events.

On December 15, 2006, Bill Rancic and Giuliana announced their engagement. The two were married on September 1, 2007 in a ceremony on Capri at Santa Sophia Church in Anacapri.

The two have publicly discussed their fertility issues on television talk shows, having tried to conceive since approximately the beginning of 2009. The couple began in vitro fertilization (IVF) in March 2010, and got pregnant in the spring of 2010; however, Rancic suffered a miscarriage at eight weeks. Rancic had an IVF transfer for a second time in November 2010, however the procedure did not result in a pregnancy.




Gisele Bundchen Biography


Name : Alias's: Gisele Bundchen
Birthday: July 20, 1980
Hometown: Horizontina, Rio Grande de Sul, Brazil
Marital Status: Single
Weight: N/A
Height: 5 feet 11 inches
Occupation : Model 

As a school girl, she was taunted with the nickname Olive Oil, the waif thin girl friend of Popeye the Sailor in cartoons. Her career as a model started when Gisele was on a school trip to Sao Paulo in 1995 when she was only 15 years old. While grabbing a Big Mac in a shopping mall, she was seen by a modeling agent who approached her and asked if she had any interest in becoming a model. Despite her father's lack of approval of the career choice, he allowed her to move to Sao Paulo and she entered the Elite Look Modeling Competition, and her career took off.

Gisele has modeled for all the major fashion houses such as Ralph Lauren, Versace, Valentino and Chloe. She also has appeared on several magazine covers such as Vogue, Marie Claire, Harper's Bazaar and Rolling Stone.

The last few years of the 1990s saw Gisele really burst into the fashion arena and her debut on the cover on the July 1999 issue of Vogue was supposedly seen as “The Return of the Sexy Model”. The accompanying editorial suggested that her success heralded an end to the ‘heroin chic’ image of models that had pervaded the catwalks of the 1990s. She won the joint VH1-Vogue award for Model of the Year in 1999 and a cover on the January 2000 issue of Vogue allowed her the rare achievement of three consecutive Vogue covers. She has since graced the covers of numerous publications multiple times, including ELLE, Vogue, Esquire and Marie Claire. Moreover, she has also been seen in publications that reach a broader platform outside of fashion and glamour, including Time and Newsweek. Gisele frequently works with famous photographers such as Mario Testino, Annie Leibovitz and Karl Lagerfeld and rivals the late Princess Diana for the largest number of magazine cover features in the world.

Other business ventures include Gisele’s own line of flip-flops, Ipanema Gisele Bündchen, which can sell for as much as $230 for one pair. The model also owns the Palladium Executive, a hotel in Southern Brazil. Forbes magazine names her as the world’s top earning model in the World’s Top Earning 15 Supermodels list in 2007.     




Ginnifer Goodwin Biography



Birth Name : Jennifer Michelle Goodwin 
Date of Birth : 22 May 1978, Memphis, Tennessee, USA 
Height : 5' 6" (1.68 m) 
Profession : Actress  

Ginnifer Michelle Goodwin was born on 22nd May 1978, in Memphis, Tennessee. Bright and talented, Ginnifer carried her love for theater and acting through her high school years. She graduated from Lausanne Collegiate School in 1996 and spent a year at Hanover before going to Boston University where she received her BFA in Acting. She went on to receive accolades in London, including receiving a Certificate from the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art and trained with the Royal Shakespeare Company. She lived briefly in New York before moving to California where she currently lives. She made her television debut on the series "Law & Order" (1990) but had her first recurring television role on "Ed" (2000) in 2001. Her first movie role was Maya in the first Comedy Central original movie Porn 'n Chicken (2002) (TV). She then went on to shine as Connie Baker in the major motion picture hit Mona Lisa Smile (2003).

A Shakespearean-trained actress, Ginnifer Goodwin made a name for herself on some of television's more unusual and creative hour-long series. She was barely out of her teens when she landed a supporting role as a wry, intellectual high school student in the quirky small town comedy, "Ed" (NBC, 2000-04). She appeared on film in a number of supporting comic roles and played the spurned first wife of Johnny Cash in "Walk the Line" (2005) before scoring a lead on HBO's highly acclaimed series "Big Love" (HBO, 2006- ), starring as one of three wives in a polygamist family. Her real big screen breakthrough came in the form of 2009's romantic comedy "He's Just Not That Into You," which showcased the actress' appealing blend of brains and indie-girl cuteness. Goodwin's casting in that film alongside popular comediennes Drew Barrymore and Jennifer Aniston heralded the arrival of a young new contender in Hollywood.

In 2008 MaxMara honored Goodwin with a "Face of the Future" award, an award recognizing up and coming women in film. Also, Goodwin was one of the celebrities featured in Gap's Fall 2008 ad campaign.

In 2011 Goodwin plays Mary Margaret Blanchard, a teacher in Storybrooke, Maine, as well as fairy tale heroine Snow White, in the revisionist fantasy adventure television program, Once Upon a Time, which debuted on ABC. That same year, she played Rachel in Something Borrowed.


Geri Halliwell Biography


Birth Name : Geraldine Estelle Halliwell Hidalgo 
Date of Birth : 6 August 1972, Watford, Hertfordshire, England, UK 
Nickname : Ginger Spice 
Genres : Pop, dance pop, pop rock
Occupations : Singer-songwriter, author, actress

The former Ginger Spice, pop singer Geri Halliwell was born August 6, 1972 in London; a onetime topless model and Turkish game show hostess, in March of 1994 she answered an advertisement for an all-girl vocal group, and with fellow applicants Victoria Adams, Melanie Brown and Melanie Chisholm formed the nucleus of what later (with the addition of fifth member Emma Bunton) became the Spice Girls. The biggest pop phenomenon of the late 1990s, the Spice Girls enjoyed a series of chart-topping singles like "Wannabe," "Say You'll Be There" and "2 Become 1; " the group's unofficial leader, Halliwell was commonly known in the press as Ginger Spice, notorious for her garishly provocative costumes, thick make-up and saucy behavior. As the Spice Girls' star continued to skyrocket, they even starred in a film, 1997's Spiceworld; however, after weeks of speculation, Halliwell officially left their ranks in mid-1998 amidst rumors of considerable in-fighting.

In 2002, Halliwell was featured alongside Pete Waterman and Louis Walsh as a judge on the television series Popstars: The rivals which created Girls Aloud. The following year, she released her second autobiography, Just for the Record, detailing her rise to fame and her turbulent celebrity lifestyle. She has also released two Yoga DVDs with her yoga teacher Katy Appleton, Geri Yoga and Geri Body Yoga. In the United States, Halliwell appeared as a judge on the reality programme All American Girl and as a guest reporter on celebrity-based series Extra. She has also made appearances in the television series Sex and the City and in the 2004 film Fat Slags, based on characters from Viz Magazine. In 2004, Halliwell appeared on channel Five as one of the hosts of the Party in the Park event for The Prince's Trust, the presenter and main performer of the Tickled Pink Girls' night in Live! event and an appearance in a documentary There's Something About Geri.





Georgia May Jagger Biography



Birth Name : Georgia May Ayeesha Jagger 
Date of Birth : 12 January 1992 
Occupation : Supermodel

Georgia May Jagger is the youngest daughter of Rolling Stones rocker Mick Jagger and supermodel Jerry Hall. At the tender age of 16 she signed with Independent Models, following her mum and elder sister Lizzie into the fashion industry thanks to her famously full lips, wavy blonde locks and standout gap-toothed style. 

Georgia certainly grew up with the potential of being a star. With a rock star dad, a top model for a mum, model-turned-actress sister Lizzie Jagger and designer half-sister Jade Jagger, it is almost no surprise that Georgia has emerged on the celebrity scene. With her gorgeous figure, angel face and gap teeth, the beautiful blonde has certainly made her impression on the modelling community.

The public already knew big sisters Jade and Lizzie, and have now been introduced to Georgia since early 2009. The aspiring model landed her first magazine cover for i-D earlier this year. Things took off from there, and magazines were soon begging Georgia to grace their covers with her fresh, modern and baby doll yet glamorous looks. No one can resist Georgia. From the Russian, Parisian, Italian and British versions of Vogue to advertising campaigns for Hudson Jeans in Spring/Summer 2009 and Rimmel in October 2009, we better start getting used to her pretty face. 


Gemma Ward Biography


Birth Name : Gemma Louise Ward 
Date of Birth : 3 November 1987, Perth, Western Australia, Australia 
Nickname : Gem 
Height : 5' 9" (1.75 m) 
Occupation : Actress  

Gemma Ward was born November 3, 1987, in Perth, Australia. Despite her ravishing looks, the golden-haired green-eyed beauty never set out to be a fashion model. In fact, she was discovered by accident when she attended a taping of the Australian television show, Search for a Supermodel in 2002. As she recalls, “I came to watch my friends. I was sitting there in the crowd when the agent from Perth came over. I didn't even want to enter, it was a bit of chance. I was so shocked when I got my first job.”

At only sixteen, Ward was the youngest model to be listed by American Vogue as one of the nine "It Girls" in the modeling world. She has been in shows for designers such as Versace, Gucci, Chanel, Valentino, Alexander McQueen, and many more. Ward has also graced magazine covers such as Vogue, W, and TIME Magazine's Style and Design issue. In September 2004, at the age of 16, Ward became the youngest fashion model on the cover of the American edition of Vogue and was the first model to appear on the cover of Teen Vogue magazine. She is the first model since Kate Moss to be the face for Calvin Klein's perfume "Obsession Night for Men" along with Philadelphia male model, Drew Keilt.

Ward's career imparted her with a multimillion-dollar fortune well before her 20th birthday and made her face an iconic one, so it was perhaps inevitable (and unsurprising) that she then made the leap from the catwalk into feature films. She took one of her first bows with a lead in the 2007 Aussie feature The_Black_Balloon (as the newfound girlfriend of a teenager who is struggling to care for his mentally ill brother). She then undertook a dramatic change of pace as one of three masked criminals who invade a home and terrorize a family in Bryan_Bertino's thriller The_Strangers. 




Gemma Arterton Biography


Birth Name : Gemma Christina Arterton 
Date of Birth : 12 January 1986, Gravesend, Kent, England, UK 
Height : 5' 7" (1.70 m) 
Nationality : British
Occupation : Actress

Gemma Arterton was born in 1986. Her birthplace is in Gravesend, Kent, England, United Kingdom. She was born to a welder and a cleaning woman. Her birth name is Gemma Christina Arterton. She is 5’7” in height and she is a natural brunette. This British beauty has brown eyes and has a natural London accent. So, that is it for the physical description department. You can always search her pictures over the Internet and see her beautiful features. Gemma also has a little sister. Her name is Hannah and she is currently focused on her solo career.

In the space of just one year, English actress Gemma Arterton rose from fresh-faced newcomer to an experienced film and television actress with serious credits to her name, including a sizable role in the 22nd James Bond film, "Quantum of Solace" (2008). An accomplished and award-winning stage actress by the age of 18, Arterton earned her big break with a lead role in "St. Trinian's" (2007), the latest in a long line of British films based on cartoonist Ronald Searle's books about rowdy schoolgirls. More starring roles in British features followed, including Guy Ritchie's "Rocknrolla" (2008) and acclaimed television efforts like "Lost in Austen" (2008) and "Tess of the d'Urbevilles" (2008), which cast her in the title role. The flurry of work was immediately overshadowed by her supporting turn in "Quantum of Solace" as Agent Fields, a M16 operative who works with Bond during his adventures in South America. She was soon announced as the female lead opposite Jake Gyllenhaal and Ben Kingsley in the film version of "Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time," (2009), which helped to solidify her status as an international star in the working.

Geena Davis Biography


Birth Name : Virginia Elizabeth Davis 
Date of Birth : January 1956, Wareham, Massachusetts, USA 
Height : 6' (1.83 m) 
Occupation : Actress, producer, writer, athlete, model

Davis was born in Wareham, Massachusetts. Her mother, Lucille (née Cook), was a teacher's assistant, and her father, William F. Davis, was a civil engineer and church deacon; her parents had both been from small towns in Vermont. She has a brother named Danforth ("Dan"). At an early age, she became interested in music. She learned piano and flute and played organ well enough as a teenager to serve as an organist at her Congregationalist church in Wareham. Davis attended Wareham High School and was an exchange student in Sandviken, Sweden, becoming fluent in Swedish. Enrolling at New England College, she eventually graduated with a bachelor's degree in drama from Boston University in 1979.       

Her career consisted of sales clerk and waitress. She worked at Ann Taylor, where she eventually rose to Saturday window mannequin while trying to get a job with a modeling agency. Eventually signed by the Zoli Agency, she wound up as a model in the Victoria Secret's Catalogue. Ever vigilant, Sydney Pollack was looking for new talent in the catalogue when he spotted Geena and cast her in Tootsie (1982). With good reviews, Geena moved to Los Angeles where she was cast as Wendy in the short-lived but critically acclaimed television series "Buffalo Bill" (1983). Her next appearance on television was in her own show "Sara" (1985), which was also good, but soon canceled. She then returned to the big screen in the below-average Transylvania 6-5000 (1985) followed by the successful Chevy Chase movie Fletch (1985). From there on, she was on a roll with second husband Jeff Goldblum in the horror remake of The Fly (1986). More successful were Tim Burton's dark comedy Beetlejuice (1988) and The Accidental Tourist (1988). For the last film, she was the surprise winner of the Oscar for Best Supporting Actress. More fun movies followed with the flying-saucer-in-the-pool Earth Girls Are Easy (1988) and everyone-loves-a-clown Quick Change (1990) with Bill Murray. The very successful Thelma & Louise (1991), directed by Ridley Scott, again garnered nominations for the Academy Award and Golden Globe. A League of Their Own (1992), with Tom Hanks and directed by Penny Marshall, was the turning point as her next film, Hero (1992/I), was only average. Then she married director Renny Harlin and they set up a production and development company called "The Forge." Their first film was Speechless (1994), which flopped at the box office. Undeterred, Renny decided to film the big-budget Cutthroat Island (1995), starring pirate Geena, which also flopped. Geena has since starred in the thriller, The Long Kiss Goodnight (1996) and played Eleanor Little in Stuart Little (1999) and Stuart Little 2 (2002). In 2008, after being missed from the big screen for some years, she ventured to Sydney, Australia, playing the foul-mouthed mom of Harry Cook and Harrison Gilbertson to shoot the dark comedy Accidents Happen (2009).





Gabriella Cilmi Biography


Birth Name : Gabriella Lucia Cilmi 
Date of Birth : October 1991, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia 
Occupations : Singer-songwriter, record producer

Cilmi was born on October 10, 1991 in the Melbourne suburb of Dandenong. Of Italian descent, she lives with her parents Paula and Joe (whose origins are in Calabria) and her brother Joseph. She attended Sacred Heart Girls’ College, but now continues her education via correspondence. Her cousin, Stefano Mazzeo attends Wesley College, he is also Actor he has appeared in various television shows in Australia.

Cilmi shares a manager (Cassandra Gracey), writer/producers (Xenomania) and UK record label (Island) with the Sugababes, and supported former Sugababe Mutya Buena at the Jazz Café in London in 2007. She made her UK TV debut on 14 December 2007 when she sang her new single “Sweet About Me” on Later with Jools Holland. In December 2007 Cilmi’s song “Sanctuary” featured in the film St Trinian’s and on its soundtrack.

Gabriella Cilmi was catapulted to global fame by her worldwide mega hit, ‘Sweet About Me’, which sold over 2 million copies, was top ten in 16 countries, viewed over 20 million times on you tube, spent 37 consecutive weeks in the UK singles chart in 2008 and was recently PRS certified the most played record of the 2009. Gabriella’s debut album ‘Lessons to be Learned’ went top 10 in over 10 countries, notching up close to a million sales. The combination of commercial punch and genuine musical spirit in one so young - Gabriella signed her first record contract at 13 years old - quickly earned Cilmi critical admiration. She won 6 Aria awards in her native Australia (including Best Female, Best Album and Single Of The Year) and was nominated for a host of illustrious awards, including a BRIT, Q, MTV Europe, Ivor Novello and Echo award. Gabriella toured the world extensively, interspersing arena dates with festival appearances, including a Pyramid Stage slot at Glastonbury 2009.

Gabriela Irimia Biography


Name : Gabriela Irimia 
Date of Birth : 31 October 1982, Cluj-Napoca, Transylvania, Romania 
Nickname : Gabby
Occupation: Singers, British Reality TV stars

Singer Gabriela Irimia of the Cheeky Girls was cautioned by the police, after the singer tried to shoplift in a supermarket. According to sources, the singer was researching for a role in a gangster movie. A spokesman said, “26-year-old woman from Essex was detained on suspicion of theft. The woman was interviewed by police as part of the investigation into the circumstances of the incident and subsequently given a caution for theft.

In 2002, Garbriela moved to Britain with her mother Margit and her sister. The twins garnered fame after appearing on British reality television shows “Popstars: The Rivals” and “Model Bahaviour”. They released their first song in 2004, “The Cheeky Song (Touch My Bum)” in 2004, which hit number 2 on the British charts. The same album was voted worst pop record of all time by London’s Channel 4. 

Unfortunately for the girls, their label, Telstar, collapsed in 2007, and sent the girls into bankruptcy fears. To come back, The Cheeky Girls released a download album with their 6-year-old niece, Lory. 

Gabriela is currently engaged to be married to the Liberal Democratic frontrunner, Lembit Opik. The relationship is rumored to have helped Gabriela avoid deportation from Britain in 2006 long enough to allow Romania’s entry into the European Union. It was even more controversial considering the politician had only recently broken up with his longtime girlfriend, weather girl Sian Lloyd. 

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Frida Giannini Biography


Name : Frida Giannini 
Date of Birth : 1972
Birth Place : Rome, Italy
Occupation :  Fashion designer 

Frida Giannini was born in 1972, in Rome, Italy. The only child of her architect father and her history professor mother, she credits her parents for instilling her hardworking habits that later became a driving force in her career. After completing her education at the Fashion Academy in her home city, Giannini did an apprenticeship through a ready-to-wear fashion house and worked for the legendary designer Karl Lagerfeld for six years.

In 1997, Frida Giannini joined Fendi as a designer for ready-to-wear clothing, but she was soon asked to create leather goods. As part of the Fendi team, Giannini's ideas were tied to the success of the label's popular Baguette handbag.

In September 2002, she joined Gucci as Handbag Design Director. Two years later, she was appointed to the unprecedented role of Creative Director of Accessories in charge of bags, shoes, luggage, small leathergoods, silks, fine jewellery, gifts, watches and eyewear. She took on the position with her trademark confidence and conviction, and has brought a powerful point-of-view to the house's accessories. 

In March 2005, she was named Creative Director of Gucci Women's ready-to-wear, in addition to her responsibilities for all accessories. In January 2006, she also became in charge of men's wear, thus becoming the sole Creative Director of the label.

Giannini continues to design from heritage. For example, the 2010 Winter Men's line was noted for influences from Gucci's equestrian history. However, Giannini says, "I don't think it is a nostalgic collection, but heritage is good for me — going back to the archives, but looking forward to the future."


Freida Pinto Biography


Name : Freida Pinto
Date of Birth : 18 October 1984, Bombay, Maharashtra, India
Nickname : Fro 
Height : 5' 6" (1.68 m) 
Occupation : Model and actress 

Freida Pinto was born on October 18, 1984, in Mumbai, India. Her early interest in acting (she remembers it starting at age 5) was a direct contrast to the occupations and interests of the rest of the family: Her mother, Sylvia, worked as a principal, while dad Frederick served as a bank manager and sister Sharon became a television news producer.  

While attending St. Xavier's College in Mumbai, Freida Pinto's course load included studies in film and literature, which piqued her interest in show business all the more and solidified her intent to work in entertainment. A few amateur theater productions followed, but Freida Pinto found that entering the Bollywood film industry was difficult. She had no family members or close friends employed there already, so another approach was needed.

Freida Pinto graduated from St Xavier's College in her hometown of Mumbai with a BA in English in 2005. She was signed up to the Elite Model Agency in India where she was selected for numerous campaigns for brands such as De Beers, Visa, MTV, Chanel, eBay and Airtel.
She has appeared on several TV shows including Wendell Rodricks for Lakme Fashion Week 2006. She went on to anchor Full Circle on Zee International Asia Pacific, successfully completing 52 episodes where she presented a unique report on Afghanistan and explored the vibrant cultures and traditions of Fiji, Malaysia and Singapore among others.
Freida Pinto traversed the modeling circuit in Mumbai [represented by Elite Model Management India] for two years before gaining her big break when director Danny Boyle picked her out in the audition process to play the female lead, Latika, for his project Slumdog Millionaire (2008). In a promo interview, Boyle likened spotting her to his discovery of Kelly Macdonald for Trainspotting.

She was nominated for a BAFTA Film Award for her feature film debut as Latika in Slumdog Millionaire (2009) and shared a Screen Actors Guild award with the rest of the cast. Since then, she has had starring roles in Woody Allen's You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger (2010) and Julian Schnabel's Miral (2010).