Alex Pettyfer Biography

BirthName : Alexander Richard Pettyfer

Date of Birth :10 April 1990, Stevenage, Hertfordshire, England, UK

Height : 5' 11" (1.80 m)

Occupation : Actor, Model

Specifically, Alex Pettyfer was born on April 10, 1990 in Stevendage, Hertfordshire in the United Kingdom. He attened Millifield School for a short while and then entered the boarding school Shiplake College. All the while, he was attending the Sylvia Young Theater School. After graduation from Shiplake, Pettyfer went on to attend the Drama College.

At age 7, Alex started modeling for Gap's children range. He also appeared in TV commercials for other brands. When he was older, he modeled for Burberry to fund his traveling adventures.

During this time, Pettyfer was doing child modeling for various advertisements. Perhaps his biggest break came at the age of 15 when he was cast in the lead role as "Tom Brown" in the British television series "Tom Brown's Schooldays". Soon afterwards he was cast for the role of "Alex Rider" in the film Stormbreaker, his breakthrough on the silver screen.

Alex appeared in school plays, including Willy Wonka, as a kid before taking a school field trip to the I-TV television studios in London when he was 13, where he auditioned for the title role in the TV movie Tom Brown’s School Days. After the filming of Tom Brown, he moved to Los Angeles and got himself an American agent. Not long after, Alex was cast as Alex Rider, the main character in Alex Rider: Stormbreaker (2006), based off of the popular book series. Alex was nominated for a Young Artist Award and an Empire Award for his role. He appeared as the main love interest in Wild Child (2008) opposite Emma Roberts and Georgia King, playing the son of the headmistress, Freddie Kingsley, and not long after, he played a popular jerk named Bradley in a prep school in the British teen horror flick Tormented (2009).

Alex decided to take a break from acting and travel Europe. To finance the trips, he booked a few jobs modeling for Burberry. When Alex returned to the states, he immediately landed the role of Kyle Kingston in Beastly (2011) based on the novel by Alex Flinn, opposite Vanessa Hudgens, Mary-Kate Olsen and Neil Patrick Harris. Not long after wrapping Beastly, Alex began filming I Am Number Four (2011), a sci-fi action flick opposite Glee star Dianna Agron and Timothy Olyphant.

Alex wanted to try something different for his next role, In Time (2011), a drama based on a future world in which humans stop aging at 25, then use time as a currency to extend their lives, he plays a villain. He based the madness of his character on Charles Manson, but made him clean-cut. “I like classically twisted, so he’s in a Tom Ford suit, his hair is slicked back, and he’s supremely intelligent.” The movie also stars Justin Timberlake, Olivia Wilde and Amanda Seyfried.

Alex O'Loughlin Biography

Birth Name: Alexander O'Lachlan

Birth Place: Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia

Date of Birth / Zodiac Sign: 08/24/1976, Virgo

Profession: Actor

Alex on the "Hawaii Five-0" panel at the TCA Summer Press Tour, July 28, 2010.

Alex O’Loughlin (35) was born in the Australian capital of Canberra on Tuesday, August 24, 1976 as Alexander O’Lachlan. He is a Virgo, born in the Year of the Dragon.

He enjoys the outdoors and loves mountain climbing, hiking, running, and riding his motorcycle (a customized Harley-Davidson Evolution Sportster, a.k.a. an “Evo Sporty”, and he also owns a Triumph Thruxton). Since living in Hawaii, surfing has become a passion for him. “I have a bunch of boards – all of which I ride badly.” A claim that is contradicted by long-time surfer and Hawaii Five-0 co-star Scott Caan, who says that Alex’s surfing skills are improving “on a very advanced level.”

Acting held the biggest appeal and O'Loughlin was already working in short film and fringe theater as a teenager in Sydney. One of the first acting jobs he recalls is being an extra in a commercial, playing a marine. After graduating from NIDA, he began his career in Australian television and film productions and some of his TV credits include roles in BlackJack: Sweet Science, Love Bytes and White Collar Blue.

His film career started off in 2004 when he landed his first lead role in Oyster Farmer. Continuing his career O'Loughlin appeared in Man-Thing, Feed, and in the Australian mini-series The Incredible Journey of Mary Bryant for which he received a nomination as the Best Lead Actor in Television from the Australian Film Institute Awards in 2005 and as Most Outstanding Actor in a Drama Series from the Logie Awards in 2006. O'Loughlin joined the cast of The Shield in 2007 as Detective Kevin Hiatt, the newest member of the strike team.

In 2005, he screen-tested for the movie role of James Bond. As he told one interviewer: "I met with Martin Campbell here in Los Angeles at his office on the Sony [Pictures] lot and he asked me to fly to London and test and we tested at Pinewood [Studios]. It was the biggest screen test I've ever done. It was very comprehensive. I had tuxedos and suits cut for it and hair cuts." Alex also performed alongside actor Justin Chatwin in the 2007 film The Invisible. He portrayed Marcus, the boyfriend and partner in crime of Annie Newton, boosting and stealing cars.

He left The Shield after he won the lead role on the CBS series Moonlight, where he played private investigator and vampire Mick St. John. The filming of Moonlight was interrupted by the Hollywood writers strike. There was speculation that the series would be dropped but fan pressure prevailed and the show was given four additional episodes to try to regain its audience share. Despite being the highest rated show in its Friday evening slot (consistently achieving over 7 million viewers), CBS did not commission a second season. After its cancellation, a fan-based charity campaign to win a second-season renewal for Moonlight by holding blood drives proved unsuccessful.

In August 2008, it was announced that CBS had signed a talent development deal with O'Loughlin as the star of a TV series to be developed by writer Mark Gordon, but it never materialised. However, he was subsequently cast in the lead role of the new CBS hospital drama Three Rivers, developed by producer Carol Barbee, which aired Sunday evenings in the 2009–2010 season. In April 2009, he guest-starred in an episode of Criminal Minds as a serial killer who asks the BAU for help. In December 2009 CBS pulled Three Rivers from its schedule. O'Loughlin recently starred alongside Jennifer Lopez in the 2010 romantic comedy film The Back-up Plan.

In February 2010, it was announced that O'Loughlin was cast in the CBS remake of Hawaii Five-0 portraying Lieutenant Commander (LCDR) Steve McGarrett, which premièred on 20 September 2010, and has been one of CBS's most successful new shows of the 2010–2011 season. Hawaii Five-0 won "Favorite New TV Drama" at the 2010–11 People's Choice Awards.

Alessandra Torresani Biography

Birth Name: Alessandra Olivia Toreson

Birth Place: Palo Alto, CA

Date of Birth / Zodiac Sign: 05/29/1987, Gemini

Profession: Actress

Alessandra Olivia Toreson was born May 29, 1987 in Palo Alto, California. She is an only child. She studied dancing, singing and acting since she was two years old. As a child, she performed nationally in dance competitions and won many national titles and is a world dance champion in jazz and tap. In addition to the arts, Alessandra is also a black belt in Tae-Kwon-Do and achieved this feat by the age of nine.

In her career, Alessandra Torresani’s television debut was at age nine when Alessandra Torresani hosted the “Kids’ WB Club” for San Francisco’s KBWB (Channel 20). Alessandra Torresani co-starred in the Disney Channel Original Movie “Going to the Mat” (“Going to the Mat” is a 2004 Disney Channel Original Movie. It debuted on Disney Channel on March 24, 2004.). Alessandra Torresani’s other television credits include guest appearances, among others on “ER” (The Emergency Room) – (1998 TV series) role as Kate, “Even Stevens” (2000) role as Mimi Nagurski, “Malcolm In The Middle” (2001 to 2003) role as Sara Coleman/Kirsten, “Arrested Development” (2004) role as Ann Veal, “JAG” (The American military acronym for Judge Advocate General.) – (2004 TV series) role as Susan Smithfield, “The War at Home” (2005 TV series) role as Alison, “Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles” (2008) role as Jordan Cowan, and “CSI: Crime Scene Investigation” (2009) Bree Lindale.

Alessandra Torresani on May 2008 was cast as Zoe Graystone in Syfy’s “Caprica” (“Caprica” is a science fiction drama television series. It is a spin-off prequel of the re-imagined “Battlestar Galactica” (“Battlestar Galactica” (also called BSG or Battlestar) is an American military science fiction television series, and part of the “Battlestar Galactica” franchise.), taking place about 58 years prior to the events of “Battlestar Galactica”.), which debuted on January 2010. Alessandra Torresani on 2009 was cast to play Lita Ford in the biopic “The Runaways” (“The Runaways” is a 2010 American biographical film). However, the role was later given to Scout Taylor-Compton.

She has also had lead roles in various motion pictures which include Going to the Mat for Disney and Mad Song for USA, etc. Her film credits include, Warner Brothers' Lost & Found opposite David Spade. She recently landed a lead role in the ABC Family comedy "Happy Campers" in the role of "Joni" a sexy, trashy, self-involved new step-sister.

Alessandra Ambrosio Biography

Birth Name : Alessandra Corine Ambrósio

Date of Birth : April 11, 1981

Birth Place : Erechim, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil

Nickname : Alé

Height : 5' 10" (1.78 m)

Best known as: Navel-pierced Guess clothing model

Alessandra Ambrosio (born April 11, 1981), is a Brazilian supermodel. She was described as "The future of the modeling world", by retired supermodel Tyra Banks. Her last name is spelled Ambrósio, but the diacritic mark is omitted in her modeling work.

When Ambrosio was 12 years old, she enrolled in modeling classes then, began modeling for Dilson Stein at age 15. Winning Brazil's Elite Model Look started her modeling career. Her first big modeling job was the cover of the Brazilian Elle magazine. Elite passed along some of her Polaroids to Guess which led her to do the Millennium Guess? campaign along with her friend and fellow Brazilian supermodel Ana Beatriz Barros. She has since been in huge demand, working with big-name brands and appearing in well famous international magazine covers.

Alessandra Ambrosio is one of several Brazilian models that became known in the late 1990s along with Gisele Bundchen, Adriana Lima and Ana Beatriz Barros. Born in Erexim, a small town in southern Brazil, Ambrosio enrolled in a modeling class as a teen. She subsequently entered the Elite modeling agency's 1996 "Look of the Year" modeling competition. Though she did not win, one year later she was offered an Elite modeling contract.

Her first big modeling job was the cover of the Brazilian Elle magazine, and then Ambrosio followed with other "editorial" work. It was not long after that the Guess? company signed her for their fall 2000 campaign. Ambrosio's print career began as a Guess? model and continued with Revlon and Victoria's Secret. She modeled on the Victoria's Secret runway for the first time in 2000, and she continued to be a participant in the subsequent shows. In 2004 Ambrosio was selected as the first spokesmodel for Victoria's Secret Pink line.

Ambrosio has made several television appearances, notably a cameo as herself on HBO's Entourage along with Izabel Goulart; The Late Late Show with Craig Kilborn; Late Night with Conan O’Brien; as guest judge on Project Runway season 2: Team Lingerie and The Tyra Banks Show where she was a guest twice. She appeared alongside TV personality, Regis Philbin in a worldwide commercial for Hummer H2. In 2006, she had a cameo on the box-office hit movie, Casino Royale appearing briefly as tennis girl #1.

Since 2000, Alessandra has been best known for her work with Victoria’s Secret as the first spokes-model for the PINK line and as one of the Victoria’s Secret Angels. This recognition has earned her such distinction as People’s “100 Most Beautiful People in the World” in 2007 and number 2 of the “Top 99 Most Desirable Women for 2008” by AskMen.com.

Alec Baldwin Biography

NAME: Alexander Rae Baldwin III

OCCUPATION: Animal Rights Activist, Film Actor, Theater Actor, Television Actor

BIRTH DATE: April 03, 1958 (Age: 53)

EDUCATION: George Washington University, New York University

PLACE OF BIRTH: Amityville, New York

Actor. Born Alexander Rae Baldwin III, on April 3, 1958, in Amityville, New York, the second of six children of a football coach and a social studies teacher. He grew up in Massapequa a suburb of Long Island, New York. His brothers Daniel, William, and Stephen are also actors.

Baldwin majored in political science at George Washington University, intending to go to law school. However, his childhood love for acting resurfaced in college, resulting in a move to Manhattan. He then enrolled in New York University's drama department under the tutelage of the venerable acting coach Lee.

Alec burst onto the TV scene in the early 1980s with appearances in several series, including "The Doctors" (1963) and "Knots Landing" (1979), before scoring several decent feature film roles in Forever, Lulu (1987), Beetlejuice (1988), Married to the Mob (1988) and Talk Radio (1988). In 1990 Baldwin appeared in the first on-screen adaption of the Jack Ryan character created by mega-selling espionage author Tom Clancy. The film, The Hunt for Red October (1990), was a tremendous success, with Baldwin appearing alongside icy Sean Connery (the world's first Russian sub commander with a thick Scots accent!), Unfortunately, Baldwin fell out with Paramount Studios over future scripts for Jack Ryan, and subsequent Ryan roles went to Harrison Ford. It was a minor blip on Baldwin's horizon, and he then contributed interesting performances as a lowlife thief pursued by dogged cop Fred Ward in Miami Blues (1990), in the Neil Simon comedy The Marrying Man (1991) and an absolutely dynamite ten-minute cameo as a hard-nosed real estate executive laying down the law to Ed Harris, Jack Lemmon and Alan Arkin in the punishing Glengarry Glen Ross (1992).

Further demand for Baldwin's talents saw more strong scripts swiftly come his way, and he starred alongside his then wife Kim Basinger in a remake of the Steve McQueen action flick The Getaway (1994), brought to life the famous comic strip character The Shadow (1994) and was superb as an assistant district attorney in the civil rights drama Ghosts of Mississippi (1996). Baldwin's distinctive vocal talents then saw him voice US-aired episodes of the highly popular UK children's show "Thomas the Tank Engine & Friends" (1984), plus later voice-only contributions to other animated/children's shows including "Clerks" (2000), Cats & Dogs (2001), Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within (2001) and The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie (2004).

Fresh off these continues successes, Baldwin returned to the New York stage for a well-received revival of the 1930s comedy "Twentieth Century" before performing "South Pacific" at Carnegie Hall. He only appeared in the first scene of Cameron Crowe's romantic comedy "Elizabethtown" (2005), but his performance as the flummoxed athletic sh tycoon Phil DeVoss, who would lose billions on the failed design of his golden boy designer (Orlando Bloom), was a deadpan comedic delight. In fact, even a Baldwin cameo was good for a guaranteed laugh and both filmmakers and fans began to look at Baldwin in a whole new light.

In 2006, Baldwin was again tapped by Scorsese to join Leonardo DiCaprio, Matt Damon, Mark Wahlberg and Jack Nicholson in the ensemble mob thriller, "The Departed." The powerhouse actor gave an excited and often hilarious performance as a sweaty South Boston police captain whose department has one of its officers deep undercover inside a criminal syndicate. Baldwin gained further big screen kudos in "Running with Scissors" (2006), playing the alcoholic father of a young man who puts him into the care of a psychologist running a house full of loons. The same year he appeared in the Robert De Niro-helmed "The Good Shepherd" (2006), about an idealistic Yale student (Matt Damon) who joins a secretive spy agency during World War II, only to help form the CIA after the war.

Baldwin's hot streak continued when he was nominated for his seventh Golden Globe - this time receiving his award for Best Actor in the television comedy category - which he won in early 2009. Hot on the heels of his Globe win, Baldwin received a Screen Actors Guild award for Outstanding Performance by an Actor in a Comedy. Meanwhile, he sought to repeat his Emmy feat from the year before when he was again nominated for the coveted award in the lead actor category in mid-2009. Not surprisingly, he won. Just as prestigious, it was announced in November that he and Steve Martin would co-host the 82nd Academy Awards in 2010. After playing the redemptive ex-husband of a well-adjusted divorcee (Meryl Streep) in "It's Complicated" (2009), Baldwin found himself in contention for Golden Globe and Screen Actors Guild awards once again when he was nominated that year for playing the humorously arrogant Jack Donaghy. As expected, the beloved actor took home yet another Golden Globe and SAG award in early 2010 and repeated the SAG win in 2011.

Albert Hammond Biography

Birth name : Albert Louis Hammond

Born : 18 May 1944 (age 67) London, England

Origin : Gibraltar

Genres : Popular music

Occupations : Singer, musician, songwriter, record producer

Pop and rock singer, songwriter and guitarist Albert Louis Hammond was born on May 18, 1944 in London, England. He was the second of three children. His father was a firefighter. Hammond grew up in Gibralter and learned how to fluently speak both English and Spanish. Albert sang in the church as a kid and was a choir boy. In 1958 Hammond and his friend Richard Cartwright began performing as a duo in both Spain and Gibralter. In 1960 Albert joined the band The Diamond Boys, who performed at nightclubs in Madrid. Hammond subsequently dropped out of school to pursue a career in music. In 1966 Albert co-founded the British vocal group Family Dogg, who had a Top 10 UK radio hit with "A Way of Life" in 1966. It was during this time that Hammond met fellow musician and future songwriting collaborator Mike Hazelwood. In 1972 Albert scored a massive international smash with the fine and touching song "It Never Rains in Southern California;" the song peaked at #5 on the US pop charts and sold a million copies worldwide.

In the 1980’s and 1990’s, Albert wrote several other highly successful songs including Oscar, Golden Globe and Grammy-nominated “Nothings Gonna Stop Us Now” (Starship), “I Don’t Want to Live Without Your Love” (Chicago), “Through the Storm” (Aretha Franklin & Elton John), “Don’t Turn Around” (Aswad, Neil Diamond and Ace of Base), “I Don’t Wanna Lose” and “The Way of the World” (Tina Turner), “Give A Little Love” (Ziggy Marley & The Melodymakers), “It Isn’t, It Wasn’t, It Ain’t Never Gonna Be” (Whitney Houston & Aretha Franklin), “Don’t You Love Me Anymore?” (Joe Cocker), and “When You Tell Me That You Love Me” (Diana Ross).

In 1988, Albert wrote the theme song for the Olympic Games in Seoul, Korea, “One Moment in Time” performed and recorded by Whitney Houston, which won him his first Emmy. During this period, other artists that recorded his songs were Rod Stewart, Barry Manilow, Dolly Parton, Celine Dion, Roy Orbison, Simply Red, Dionne Warwick, Bonnie Tyler, Hank Williams, Jr., Aur Supply, Agnetha Faltskog (of ABBA), Phil Everly, Bill Medley & kd lang, Nancy Sinatra, Cliff Richard, Westlife, Jose Carreras and Josh Groban.

Albert achieved early success as an artist with his song “It Never Rains in Southern California,” and he has since built a multi-faceted career as an artist, songwriter and producer in both English-speaking and Latin markets. What sets Albert Hammond apart as a songwriter, earning him induction into the Songwriters’ Hall of Fame in 2008, is that Albert doesn’t just write hits—he writes classics. He is one of very few songwriters of our time whose songs not only have the mass appeal to make them pop hits, but whose very same songs also have the timelessness and depth that over time turns them into standards. Few writers can successfully walk this line and deliver hits for the 60’s, 70’s, 80’s, 90’s and today. Albert’s songs are the kind of songs that turn one-hit wonders into career artists and keep records selling and spinning on radio decades after their first release.

Albert’s songs have repeatedly topped the international pop, R&B, country, adult contemporary and Latin charts, sometimes simultaneously. Included among these are the #1 hits “When I Need You,” “Nothing’s Gonna Stop Us Now” (nominated for an Oscar, Golden Globe and Grammy), “One Moment in Time,” and “To All the Girls I’ve Loved Before.” Anthems like “One Moment in Time,” which was written as the theme song for the 1988 Olympic games and won Albert his first Emmy, and “Cantare, Cantaras,” the Spanish-market equivalent of “We Are the World,” which Albert co-wrote and produced, are just two examples of Albert’s ability to create lasting theme songs that live on in our collective consciousness.

Hammond released his debut solo album on October 9th in the UK. Entitled "Yours to Keep," the album features musical guests such as Sean Lennon, Ben Kweller, and even The Strokes' manager Ryan Gentles and lead singer Julian Casablancas. Bassist Josh Lattanzi and drummer Matt Romano serve as the backing band, with Albert the main singer and guitarist. It was produced by former Thin Lizard Dawn vocalist Greg Lattimer at the Electric Ladyland Studios.

Hammond played his first solo dates at the end of October in a few cities including New York City and Philadelphia. He is set to tour the UK and Europe in November and December 2006, and provides support to Incubus on their forthcoming US tour of January/February 2007.

In 2008, Albert was inducted into the Songwriter’s Hall of Fame and has also received the OBE (Order of the British Empire) from Queen Elizabeth II. His home country of Gibraltar will be honoring Albert with a commemorative postage stamp series which will feature his image and highlight his biggest international hits.

Alanis Morissette Biography

Birth name : Alanis Nadine Morissette

Born : June 1, 1974 (age 37)

Origin : Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

Occupations : Singer, songwriter, actress, record producer

Alanis Nadine Morissette was born in Ottawa, Canada, on June 1st 1974. Alanis' Greek name is a feminine version of her father's name, Alan. Her mother's name's Georgia and she has two brothers: Chad and Wade (Alanis' Twin). She learned to play the piano at age 6 and the guitar at age 21. In 1986 Alanis made a single called Fate Stay With Me (b-side: Find The Right Man). She recorded two albums as a dance-pop singer in Canada: Alanis (1991) and Now Is The Time (1992). At age 18, she moved to Toronto and worked with several musicians and songwriters, but the collaborations didn't work. In 1994, she finally found the right partner: producer and songwriter Glen Ballard, who had already worked with many artists, including Aretha Franklin, Michael Jackson and Barbra Streisand. Then she moved to LA at age 19. On June 13th 1995 "Jagged Little Pill" was released by Madonna's Maverick Records.

Morissette's success with Jagged Little Pill was credited with leading to the introduction of female singers such as Shakira, Tracy Bonham, Meredith Brooks, Patti Rothberg and, in the early 2000s, Pink and fellow Canadian Avril Lavigne. She was criticised for collaborating with producer and supposed image-maker Ballard, and her previous albums also proved a hindrance for her respectability. Morissette and the album won six Juno Awards in 1996: Album of the Year, Single of the Year ("You Oughta Know"), Female Vocalist of the Year, Songwriter of the Year and Best Rock Album. At the 1996 Grammy Awards, she won Best Female Rock Vocal Performance, Best Rock Song (both for "You Oughta Know"), Best Rock Album and Album of the Year.

Morissette contributed vocals to "Mercy" and "Innocence", two tracks on Jonathan Elias's project The Prayer Cycle, which was released in 1999. The same year, she released the live acoustic album Alanis Unplugged, which was recorded during her appearance on the television show MTV Unplugged. It featured tracks from her previous two albums alongside four new songs, including "King of Pain" (a cover of The Police song) and "No Pressure over Cappuccino", which Morissette wrote with her main guitar player, Nick Lashley. The recording of the Supposed Former Infatuation Junkie track "That I Would Be Good", released as a single, became a minor hit on hot adult contemporary radio in America. Also in 1999, Morissette released a live version of her song "Are You Still Mad" on the charity album Live in the X Lounge II. For her live rendition of "So Pure" at Woodstock '99, she was nominated for Best Female Rock Vocal Performance at the 2001 Grammy Awards. During summer 1999, Alanis toured with singer, songwriter Tori Amos on the 5 And A Half Weeks Tour in support of Amos' album To Venus And Back.

Morissette hosted the Juno Awards of 2004 dressed in a bathrobe, which she took off to reveal a flesh-coloured bodysuit, a response to the era of censorship in the U.S. caused by Janet Jackson's breast-reveal incident during the Super Bowl XXXVIII halftime show. Morissette released her sixth studio album, So-Called Chaos, in May 2004. She wrote the songs on her own again, and co-produced the album with Tim Thorney and pop music producer John Shanks. The album debuted at number five on the Billboard 200 chart to generally mixed critical reviews, and it became Morissette's lowest seller in the U.S. The lead single, "Everything", achieved major success on adult top 40 radio in America and was moderately popular elsewhere, particularly in Canada, although it failed to reach the top forty on the U.S. Hot 100. Because the first line of the song includes the word asshole, American radio stations refused to play it, and the single version was changed to include the word nightmare instead. Two other singles, "Out Is Through" and "Eight Easy Steps", fared considerably worse commercially than "Everything", although a dance mix of "Eight Easy Steps" was a U.S. club hit.

In 2005, Morissette released an acoustic version of ‘Jagged Little Pill’ to commemorate the album’s tenth anniversary. In the autumn of 2005, she opened for The Rolling Stones on tour, and also released a greatest hits album, ‘Alanis Morissette: The Collection’ (2005). She contributed the song ‘Wunderkind’ to the soundtrack of the film ‘The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe’ (2005).

In 2007, she recorded a tongue-in-cheek cover of the raunchy and provocative Black Eyed Peas song ‘My Humps’, which she reworked into a piano driven, mournful number. In 2008, she released ‘Flavors of Entanglement’ (2008), where she collaborated with producer Guy Sigsworth (Madonna and Björk). Allmusic.com called her lyrics “a mangled web of garbled syntax, overheated metaphors, and mystifying verbal contortions”, while Rolling Stone saw the music as possessing a “vaguely New Age grandeur”. ‘Flavors of Entanglement’ was called a “classic breakup record” by Allmusic.com, referring to Morissette’s high publicity split with actor Ryan Reynolds and his subsequent defection to actress and bona fide bombshell Scarlett Johansson.

The Legendary Singer Alan Dale Biography

Birth name : Aldo Sigismondi

Born : July 9, 1925

Origin : New work City, New York

Died : April 20, 2002 (aged 76)

Genres : Traditional pop music, rock and roll

Occupations :Singer

Alan Dale Awards:

2007 Screen Actors Guild Awards: Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Comedy Series - Nominee

2006 Screen Actors Guild Awards: Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Comedy Series - Nominee

Born the son of an Italian comedian in 1925, Dale began his career at the tender age of nine when the eager youngster bolted on-stage on an open invitation from the audience. Later graduating from Brooklyn's Lafayette High School, the singer was merely 20 years old when his popular television series debuted on the Dumont Television Network in 1948.

Alan Dale was a baritone crooner from the 1940s who later flirted with rock 'n' roll. The son of an Italian-American theater comedian, his first professional gig was with the Carmen Cavallaro Orchestra in 1944. In 1947, with encouragement from producer Bob Thiele, he began recording under his own name for the Signature label. The following year he became one of the first familiar faces on American TV when "The Alan Dale Show" debuted on the Dumont Television Network. During the early '50s he put in stints with Columbia and Decca before arriving at Coral Records, where he scored a # 10 hit with "Heart Of My Heart" (with Don Cornell and Johnny Desmond). Under the direction once again of Bob Thiele, he started aiming himself at a younger audience by covering the Louis Prima favourites "Oh Marie" and "Robin Hood". More hits followed in 1955: a vocal version of "Cherry Pink and Apple Blossom White" (# 14) and "Sweet and Gentle" (# 10, an adaptation of a Cuban song). Thanks to a relationship he had built up with Alan Freed, Dale was given a starring role as vocalist Arnie Haines in the teen flick "Don't Knock The Rock" (1956). Appearing alongside Bill Haley and the Comets, Little Richard and the Treniers, he got to perform the title song which became his next single (his audacious follow-up was a cover of "The Girl Can't Help It"). Departing from Coral in 1957, he then paid cursory visits to ABC, MGM and United Artists. In May 1958, Dale was attacked in a New York nightclub, supposedly by Mafia hit men who had been trying to take over his management. At the tail end of the 1950s he found himself mysteriously blackballed by prominent figures such as Ed Sullivan and his career subsequently went into decline. The publication in 1965 of his autobiography.

Alan Dale, best known for his 8 year role as Jim Robinson in the long running Australian TV show "Neighbours", played Caleb in the hit FOX series "The OC" (2003), featured on "Lost" (2004) and has a long list of recurring roles. These include "24" (2001), "Navy:NCIS" (2003), "West Wing, The" (1999), "ER" (1994) and "The X Files". His film credits include After The Sunset (2004), Hollywood Homicide (2003) and Star Trek: Nemesis (2002). Alan has extensive theatre credits, has hosted his own radio shows and is a successful voice-over artist in both Australia, the UK and the U.S.

"The Spider and the Marionettes", hardly helped his cause as it laid bare the names and deeds of many showbusiness types he considered to have prevented his progress. Alan Dale died last year after a long illness.