Bill Kaulitz Biography

Birth Name : Bill Kaulitz-Trümper

Date of Birth : 1 September 1989, Leipzig, German Democratic Republic

Nickname : Meckie

Height : 6' 2" (1.88 m)

Occupations : Singer-songwriter, model, voice actor, designer

Bill Kaulitz was born on September 1, 1989 in Leipzig, Germany ten minutes after his identical twin brother Tom. His parents, Simone and Ji¶rg Kaulitz, divorced when he was seven and eventually his mother began dating again. After being in a relationship with him for 12 years, Simone married Gordon Tri¼mper, a guitarist from the German rock band Fatun, on August 1, 2009.

At the age of ten the brothers began performing live in Magdeburg, near their hometown of Loitsche, under the pseudonym Black Question Mark. They played small shows and while their audiences enjoyed them, they were largely unknown. The band lacked a drummer and bass player and the twins relied on a keyboard to fill in other instrumental sounds.

The year the brothers turned twelve, they met Georg Listing (then 14) and Gustav Schäfer (then 13), in the audience of one of their shows. Listing and Schäfer were friends and after the show, having liked what they heard and saw, made an offer to join. The band was promptly re-named "Devilish" due to an article published at the time that referred to their "devilishly great" sound. The four continued to perform, but aside from being featured on a small-time German news program somewhere between late 2002 and early 2003, Devilish were not going anywhere until Kaulitz auditioned on the reality TV talent show "Star Search."

More trouble came for Kaulitz when in late 2008/early 2009 several female stalkers pursued the band relentlessly, even following his twin brother Tom Kaulitz to his parents' home in Germany and attacked the twins' mother. The issue seemed to end after his twin brother Tom allegedly hit one of the stalkers at a gas station in April 2009 and drove off. However, a recent article in Bild stated that the issue had resurfaced and that Tom Kaulitz may stand trial for assault. In late December 2009, the charges against Tom were lifted and he is pressing charges himself — against the girl he allegedly hit — on grounds of stalking.

Bill Clinton Biography

NAME: Bill Clinton

OCCUPATION: U.S. President, U.S. Governor

BIRTH DATE: August 19, 1946 (Age: 65)

EDUCATION: Georgetown University, University of Oxford, Yale University Law School

PLACE OF BIRTH: Hope, Arkansas

President of the United States of America. William Jefferson Clinton was born on August 19, 1946, in Hope, Arkansas, a small town with a population of about 8,000. His father, William Jefferson Blythe, died in a car crash several months before Clinton was born, leaving him in the care of his mother, Virginia Cassidy Blythe. In order to provide for her son, Virginia moved to New Orleans, Louisiana, to complete two years of nursing school, while Clinton stayed with his grandparents, Eldridge and Edith Cassidy. Clinton's grandparents were strict disciplinarians who instilled in him the importance of a good education. "My grandparents had a lot to do with my early commitment to learning," he later recalled. "They taught me to count and read. I was reading little books when I was three."

Clinton's mother returned to Arkansas with a degree in nursing in 1950, and later that year she married an automobile salesman named Roger Clinton. Two years later, the family moved from Hope to Hot Springs, Arkansas. Although neither his parents nor his grandparents were religious, Clinton became a devoted Baptist from a very young age. On Sunday mornings, he woke himself up, put on his best dress clothes and walked half a mile to Park Place Baptist Church to attend services alone. Clinton was especially drawn to the gospel music performed at his church. He began playing the jazz saxophone, and by the time he graduated from high school many considered him the best saxophonist in the city. Throughout his childhood, Clinton grew increasingly disturbed by his stepfather's drinking and abusive behavior toward his mother and younger half-brother. At the age of 14, already standing more than 6 feet tall, Clinton finally snapped. He told his stepfather, "If you want them, you'll have to go through me." The abuse stopped, but Roger Clinton's drinking did not, and Clinton's mother divorced him in 1962.

He graduated in 1968 and won a Rhodes Scholarship, which he used to study government at Oxford University. Clinton graduated from Yale Law School in 1973. He then taught law in Arkansas, and ran for political office. He was elected Arkansas Attorney General in 1976, then Governor in 1978. He won re-election in 1982, and served until he won the US Presidency in 1992, becoming the 42nd President of the United States, and winning re-election in 1996.

Underwent emergency quadruple heart bypass surgery in September 2004 after experiencing an episode of angina. The former President had not suffered a coronary infarction, but some of his arteries were more than 90% clogged up. He later underwent corrective surgery for a partially collapsed lung in March 2005. In 2006, he earned between $9-10 million on the lecture circuit. He gave 352 speeches, only 20% for personal income. His speaking fee, is approximately $150,000 per speech unless it is for one of the many Clinton causes or organizations, in which case he speaks for free.

Prior to the 2008 election, he is the youngest of the four living US presidents, born 44 days after current president George W. Bush. First president from the "Baby Boom" generation. Made the cover of Time magazine's double issue - The 100 Most Influential People in the World - alongside Lady Gaga and Didier Drogba. [May 10, 2010].

Bijou Phillips Biography

Birth Name : Bijou Lilly Phillips

Date of Birth : 1 April 1980, Greenwich, Connecticut, USA

Nickname : Bij, B

Height : 5' 6" (1.68 m)

Occupation : Actress, model, singer

An actress and singer-songwriter with a frequently changing look most often topped with blonde close-cropped hair, Phillips got her start as a model, and counted among her credits a stint at age 13 in a controversial Calvin Klein advertising campaign. This daughter of The Mamas and the Papas founder John Phillips and South African model/actress/artist Genevieve Waite had an odd childhood, shifting from one drug-addled environment to another. By age 15, she was well-known among big city partygoers for her daring, attention-grabbing stunts and had a brief but much publicized affair with much-older rocker Evan Dando when only 16. Phillips had earned quite a reputation, and was known before long as the girl most likely to shock.

At 17, she acquired a record deal and began work on her album "I'd Rather Eat Glass" produced by Talking Heads' Jerry Harrison. She was later cast in Black and White (1999/I) by director James Toback and garnered nothing but glowing praise from critics for her performance. Larry Clark cast her in Bully (2001) which led "The Hollywood Reporter" to name her one of 2002's "Shooting Stars of Tomorrow". Bijou continues to make great films with last year's role opposite 'Jeff Bridges' and Kim Basinger in The Door in the Floor (2004), a film adaptation of John Irving's novel, "A Widow For One Year". She most recently completed a leading role opposite Anne Hathaway in Oscar-winning writer, Stephen Gaghan's Havoc (2005), directed by Oscar-winning documentary filmmaker, Barbara Kopple. This is only the beginning for her, with several projects on the horizon, including her portrayal of "Lorna Doom" opposite Shane West in a feature film, about late 70s seminal-punk band The Germs, called What We Do Is Secret (2007), Venom (2005) (aka "Backwater"), produced by Scream (1996/I)'s Kevin Williamson, she is in the new film Choke (2008), with Anjelica Huston and Sam Rockwell. As well as starring in a comedy called Made for Each Other (2009) with Christopher Masterson, she just played "Nancy Spungen", as in "Sid and Nancy", in a bio-pic about the Chealsea Hotel, Chelsea on the Rocks (2008), directed by Abel Ferrara.

Bianca Jagger Biography

Birth Name : Bianca Pérez-Mora Macías

Date of Birth : 2 May 1945, Managua, Nicaragua

Occupation : Human Rights Advocate

Jagger was born in Managua, Nicaragua. Her father was a successful import-export merchant and her mother a housewife. They divorced when Bianca was ten and she stayed with her mother, who had to take care of three children on a small income. She received a scholarship to study political science in France at the Paris Institute of Political Studies. She has also been influenced by Gandhi's non-violent success and the eastern philosophy at large. She traveled extensively in India.

Jagger's very arrival in 1971 was a major international media event. She was born in Paris, France, that October, just a few months after her father wed Nicaraguan beauty Bianca Perez Moreno de Macias. The Stones were at the peak of their fame at the time, and the couple was reportedly already suffering.

Bianca Jagger founded the Bianca Jagger Human Rights Foundation, which she chairs. She returned to Nicaragua to look for her parents after the 1972 Nicaragua earthquake, which destroyed Managua, the capital, leaving a toll of more than 10,000 deaths and tens of thousands homeless.

In early 1979, Jagger visited Nicaragua with an International Red Cross delegation and was shocked by the brutality and oppression that the Somoza regime carried out there. This persuaded her to commit herself to the issues of justice and human rights.

In the 1980s, she worked to oppose US government intervention in Nicaragua after the Sandinista revolution. She has also opposed the death penalty and defended the rights of women and of indigenous peoples in Latin America, notably the Yanomami tribe in Brazil against the invasion of gold miners. She spoke up for victims of the conflicts in Bosnia and Serbia. Her writings were published in several newspapers (including the New York Times and the Sunday Express). From the late 1970s she collaborated with many humanitarian organisations including Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch.

She was also a member of the Twentieth Century Task Force to Apprehend War Criminals, and a trustee of the Amazon Charitable Trust. She gave a reading at the start of the memorial service in London's Westminster Cathedral, which was timed to coincide with the funeral in Brazil of Brazilian Jean Charles de Menezes, who was shot eight times on a tube-train after being mistaken for a suicide bomber in London. In March 2007 she became involved with Sarah Teather and the campaign to close Guantanamo Bay.

In March 2002, Jagger travelled to Afghanistan with a delegation of fourteen women, organised by Global Exchange to support Afghan women’s projects. On December 16, 2003 Jagger was nominated Council of Europe Goodwill Ambassador.

From 2007 to 2009 she was Chair of the World Future Council. On July 7, 2007, Jagger presented at the German leg of Live Earth in Hamburg. In July 2008, she was a signatory to a petition to the Catholic bishops of England and Wales to allow the wider celebration of the traditional Latin Mass. In January 2009, Jagger addressed some 12,000 people who rallied in Trafalgar Square in protest against an Israeli offensive in the Gaza several days earlier.

On October 8, 2010 she spoke at the Association for the Study of Peak Oil and Gas (ASPO) 2010 world conference on moving beyond petroleum and "Crimes against Present and Future Generations".

Bianca Gascoigne celebrity

Name : Bianca Gascoigne

Date of Birth : 1986, UK

Occupation : Glamour model

Bianca Gascoigne is a British glamour model and television personality born on 28 October 1986. She is the daughter Sheryl Failes, the former wife of the famous English footballer Paul Gascoigne, who adopted Sheryl's two children from her first marriage. Besides her brother, Mason, Bianca Gascoigne also has a half-brother, Regan Paul Gascoigne.

Bianca first came to the public attention in 2006 when she graced our screens all summer in her bikini as a contestant on ITV’s Love Island. Up against some of the hottest celebs around, Bianca went on to win over the nation’s hearts and win the show.

Returning from Fiji, the then 19 year old was inundated with job offers with everyone wanting Bianca on the cover of their magazines or promoting their brands. Overnight she became a household name and media favourite.

The 21 year old has learnt a number of hard lessons in the last few years but has gone on to change her ways for the better. Cutting back on the drinking and partying, Bianca is hoping to give talks to schools about alcohol and the damage it can do and become a role model to teenagers across the country.

In July 2008, in a celebrity special of the television show Gladiators, Bianca Gascoigne competed against fellow glamour model, Danielle Lloyd. Bianca Gascoigne emerged triumphant in event held in support of a charity for domestic violence. That year, between 15 to 18 July, she also presented Big Brother's Big Mouth, a show, in which fans and celebrity guests talk about the latest events happened in the Big Brother House.

She is also moving forward with her two key passions in life; music and fitness. She is now a trained Dj and is hoping to hit the clubs abroad this summer and is also hoping to do more work on the fitness side now she has become comfortable in her own skin.

Beverley Mitchell Biography

Birth Name : Beverley Ann/e Mitchell

Date of Birth : 22 January 1981, Arcadia, California, USA

Nickname : Bev

Height : 5' 2" (1.57 m)

Occupation : Actress

Born on January 22, 1981, in Arcadia, CA, Mitchell launched her career in front of the cameras at age four, as an Oscar Mayer spokesgirl. Bit parts on the syndicated sitcom Big Brother Jake (as Cassie) and the (very) short-lived, sports-oriented situation comedy Phenom (starring Judith Light and Angela Goethals) followed, as did stints in such forgettable telemovies as Children of the Bride (1990), Baby of the Bride (1991).

In 1993, Mitchell guested on the reality-based anthology series "FBI: The Untold Stories" (ABC) and appeared from 1993-94 in three episodes of "Phenom" (also ABC), playing a classmate of the titular school-aged tennis champion. After making her film debut in the direct-to-video release "A Killing Obsession" (1994), the youngster landed a guest spot on Fox's "Melrose Place" and the next year, appeared again on that network in the sci-fi TV-movie "White Dwarf." 1996 proved a milestone year for the young actress: It was then that she landed the role of Lucy Camden on "7th Heaven" and played a supporting role in her first big screen outing, the supernatural sequel "The Crow: City of Angels."

City of Angels, and continued intermittent film appearances (such as a supporting role in 2005's slasher movie Saw II), she made no secret of her real passion: performing country music as a guitarist and vocalist. As the 11th season of 7th Heaven wrapped, in early 2007, Mitchell delivered her first live set in Nashville before an enthusiastic audience. She issued her premier (self-titled) album, on the Daywind label, in January of that year; it featured songs penned by Greg Becker, Jim Weatherley, D. Scott Miller, and others.

Betsey Russell Biography

Birth Name : Elizabeth Russell

Date of Birth : 6 September 1963, San Diego, California, USA

Height : 5' 5" (1.65 m)

Occupation : Actress

Betsy Russell (born Elizabet Russell; September 6, 1963) is an American actress who is best known for her role in Private School, and as Jill Tuck, the ex-wife of the Jigsaw Killer in the Saw film series.

Russell landed her first television role on a series called "The Powers of Matthew Star" (1982) with one line. Television roles began to pour in, until she landed an audition for a film that would change her career, the 1983 sex-comedy, cult classic film Private School (1983). She booked the role on the spot, being cast as "Jordon Leigh-Jensen," playing opposite her idol Phoebe Cates. The film launched Russell into Hollywood stardom, and she quickly became known as the "it-girl," known for her ability to play a sexy bitch, with innocence. Her scene riding a horse topless in slow motion would change the lives of young boys forever, touted as one of the sexiest scenes in movie history and making Russell an 80's icon. She continued to work steadily in film, starring in movies such as Tomboy (1985), Avenging Angel (1985), Cheerleader Camp (1988), and made cameos in top television series including "The A-Team" (1983), "T.J. Hooker" (1982) and "Family Ties" (1982). In the height of her career, she met actor and tennis star Vincent Van Patten at The Playboy Mansion, where she visited frequently as her grandfather was a close friend of Hugh M. Hefner. Van Patten and Russell married in 1989, and had two beautiful boys. Russell decided to take a hiatus from acting, to focus on her family, and raising her children.

Van Patten and Russell divorced in 2001, and Russell decided to move to Malibu, California, to continue raising her family. Soon after her divorce, she received a call from Saw producer Mark Burg about an upcoming role in the franchise. Russell jumped at the opportunity to work with one of the biggest horror franchises in the history of film, and returned to the silver screen starring as "Jill Tuck" in Lionsgate and Twisted Picture's Saw III (2006), Saw IV (2007), Saw V (2008), Saw VI (2009), and now, the highly anticipated Saw 3D: The Final Chapter (2010), which will be released internationally in 3-D in fall 2010.

Beth Grant Biography

Name : Beth Grant

Date of Birth : 18 September 1949, Gadsden, Alabama, USA

Height : 5' 6" (1.68 m)

Occupation : Actress

A successful character actress most adept at playing matronly types, Beth Grant took her onscreen bow in the late '80s and began tackling innumerable roles in Hollywood features, usually bit parts as housewives, female doctors, or down-home small-town women. Grant received her first feature assignment as a harried mother at a farmhouse in Barry Levinson's Rain Man (1988). She subsequently divided her time between film and television roles, guest-acting on dozens of series and occasionally taking on more extensive small-screen roles, such as on Coach and Jericho. Grant's many big-screen credits include the films Don't Tell Her It's Me (1990), Speed (1994).

Grant has appeared in over thirty plays from Los Angeles to New York including two productions at The Ahmanson, William Inge's "Picnic" (with Jennifer Jason Leigh) and Tennessee Williams' "Summer and Smoke" (with Christopher Reeve) under the direction of Circle Rep's Marshall W. Mason. She has created roles in the world premieres of "Holy Ghosts" by Romulus Linney, "On A Southern Journey" by Maya Angelou, "The Day Emily Married" by Horton Foote, "Sordid Lives" and "The Trials and Tribualtions of a Trailer TrashHousewife" by Del Shores.

Grant is a recipient of The Los Angeles Drama Critics Award and The L.A. Stage Alliance Award and The Backstage West Garlan Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role for Del Shores' "The Trials and Tribulations of a Trailer Trash Housewife".

On television, Grant was a favorite on the "Six Feet Under" (2001) episode, "Six Feet Under: In Case of Rapture (#4.2)" (2004). This season, she married then cheated on Jason Lee on "My Name Is Earl" (2005). She has been a regular or recurred on many television shows including "Malcolm in the Middle" (2000), "King of the Hill" (1997), "Yes, Dear" (2000), "Everwood" (2002), "Delta" (1992) and "Wonderfalls" (2004).

Beth Ditto Celebrity

Name: Beth Ditto

Born: 19/02/1981 (Age: 30)

From: USA

Famous for: She's the large girl with the large voice

Beth Ditto was born on February 12, 1981. She grew up in Searcy, Arkansas, which apparently inspired the Kevin Bacon musical Footloose. Beth's upbringing was difficult because there wasn't a lot of money to go around and as a lesbian, she felt like an outsider. She would make friends only to feel conflicted by being attracted to them and unable to act on it.

Even with these difficulties, Beth's upbringing did introduce her to soul music and the sounds of Gladys Knight, one of her early inspirations. Age 17, Beth moved to Olympia, Washington with friends Nathan Howdeswell and Kathy Mendonca, which would later inspire her to bring music into all of their lives.

After being named "the coolest person in rock" by NME, one of three publications she posed nude for (alongside erotica magazine On Our Backs and London style bible Love), the band broke through to the mainstream with their third album's title track, "Standing In the Way of Control," written by Ditto as a response to the U.S. government's ban on gay marriage. Ditto's larger than life, uncompromising image turned her into an unlikely fashion icon, a development which resulted in her opening Jean Paul Gaultier's Spring Collection at the 2010 Paris Fashion Week, and creating her own collection for U.K. retailer Evans. After providing guest vocals on records by Calvin Johnson ( "Lightning Rod for Jesus" ), Simian Mobile Disco ("Cruel Intentions") and Jarvis Cocker (a duet cover version of Heaven 17's "Temptation"), she released her own solo debut self-titled EP in 2011.

She's been nominated for 'Sexiest Female' at the NME Awards (yes, we're not entirely sure why either) but was pipped at the post by Kate Moss. Another highlight (!) was posing nude for the lesbian magazine On Our Backs. Most recently you probably choked on your chewing gum when you spotted Beth, naked once again, on the cover of fancy new magazine 'Love'.

Bernie Mac Biography

NAME: Bernie Mac

OCCUPATION: Actor, Comedian

BIRTH DATE: October 05, 1957

DEATH DATE: August 09, 2008

PLACE OF BIRTH: Chicago, Illinois

Actor and comedian Bernie Mac was born Bernard Jeffrey McCullough on October 5, 1957, in Chicago, Illinois. Growing up in a large family on Chicago's South Side, his grandfather was the deacon of a Baptist church. Mac performed his first standup routine at the age of eight, impersonating his grandparents at the dinner table for the church congregation.

After losing his mother to cancer (his brother, father and grandmother died not long after), Mac realized the healing power of laughter. He began telling jokes for spare change in the Chicago subway. While working various odd jobs, he eventually established his own weekly variety show at Chicago's Regal Theatre and joined the comedy club circuit in 1977.

Finally, in 1990, Mac started seeing rewards for all of his hard work when he won the Miller Lite Comedy Search. The honor led to unimaginable opportunities, like opening for headliners Dionne Warwick, Redd Foxx and Natalie Cole. He made his feature debut as a club doorman in "Mo' Money" (1992), and guested on the HBO specials, "Rosie Perez Presents Society's Ride" (1993) and "Russell Simmons' Def Comedy Jam" (HBO 1992-97; 2006- ). In 1994, he snared a bit as the ribald Uncle Vester in "House Party 3" and also put together his own "Who Ya Wit Tour," which included a 10-piece band and the five "Mac-A-Roni Dancers." The following year, HBO thought Mac's in-your-face persona lent itself to late night programming, but after a month of the network taming down his material, "Midnight Mac" (1995) was cancelled. He knew he wanted to return to TV with a series of his own someday, but he turned his attention back to film work, bulking up his acting resume with appearances as a preacher in "Friday" (1995) and one of the funnier members of the ensemble cast of Spike Lee's "Get on the Bus" (1996). A recurring role in the popular UPN series "Moesha" (UPN, 1996-2001) earned him even more mainstream recognition.

Stand-up comic and actor Bernie Mac exploded onto the screen with "The Original Kings of Comedy" (2001) after years of working comedy stages in his native Chicago. His edgy and largely autobiographical material about his background and African-American culture fell in step with a new wave of high-profile black comedians like fellow "Kings," D.L. Hughley and Steve Harvey. And like his "Comedy Kings" co-stars, his hilariously frank material led to Mac's own successful sitcom, "The Bernie Mac Show" (Fox, 2001-06). An increasing presence on the big screen as well, Mac's sometimes gruff but always memorable character roles began to give way to more challenging dramatic work. With the feature film, "Pride" (2007).

Benny Andersson Biography

NAME: Göran Bror Benny Andersson

OCCUPATION: Songwriter, Pianist

BIRTH DATE: December 16, 1946 (Age: 64)

PLACE OF BIRTH: Stockholm, Sweden

ZODIAC SIGN: Sagittarius

Born Göran Bror Benny Andersson on December 16, 1946, in Stockholm, Sweden, to a musical family. Andersson's father and grandfather both loved to play music, and at the age of 6 the future ABBA star was introduced to the accordion. Like he would with almost every other instrument he'd pick up later in life, Andersson took to it without much effort.

Following his time in high school, Andersson signed on as the keyboardist for The Hep Stars, a successful pop band in the 1960s that was affectionately known as "The Swedish Beatles." While touring, Andersson met Björn Ulvaeus, a songwriter and member of the folk band The Hootenanny Singers. ABBA's foundation was slowly being laid. Not only did Andersson and Ulvaeus quickly become friends, but Ulvaeus' group had signed with the recoding label Polar Music, whose owner, Stig Anderson, would eventually become ABBA's manager.

During the next eight years, Benny & Björn wrote music to and produced eight studio albums for ABBA. Benny was engaged to Frida for about nine years. They married in October 1978 but divorced in 1981. He married Swedish TV presenter Mona Nörklit in November 1981, and had a son, Ludvig (born January 1982). Ludvig has since followed in his father's footsteps in forming his own band, Ella Rouge, and released a successful solo album in Sweden.

In 1990, he scored a Swedish #1 hit with "Lassie", sung by female cabaret group, the Ainbusk Singers, for whom he also wrote the Svensktoppen hits "Älska Mig" and "Drömmarnas Golv". He decided to produce an album with Josefin Nilsson from this quartet, resulting in the 1993 English-language album Shapes, featuring ten new Andersson/Ulvaeus compositions.

In 2002, Andersson was given an honorary professorship by the Swedish Government for his "ability to create high-class music reaching people around the world".

For the 2004 semi-final of the Eurovision Song Contest, staged in Istanbul thirty years after ABBA had won the contest in Brighton, Benny appeared briefly in a special comedy video made for the interval act, entitled "Our Last Video". Each of the four members of the group appeared briefly in cameo roles, it was billed as the first time the four had worked together since the group split. In fact, they each filmed their appearances separately.

In April/May 2007, Benny worked on the film soundtrack for a film version of Mamma Mia!, re-recording the old ABBA songs with musicians from the old ABBA recording sessions. Mamma Mia the movie premiered on 18 July 2008 and has now become the most successful movie musical of all time and has been named the number one box office smash of 2008, and the biggest-selling DVD ever in the UK.

Benji Madden Biography

Birth name : Benjamin Levi Combs

Born : March 11, 1979 (age 32)[1]

Origin : Waldorf, Maryland, U.S.

Genres : Pop rock, alternative rock

Occupation : Musician

Benji was born in March of 1979 in Maryland. His father left the family when he was 16 and never saw his father after that, so he changed his last name from "Combs" to his mother's maiden name, "Madden". When his father left, this left only Benji's mother to care for the four children. Obviously that caused a lot of financial problems leading to the eviction from their home. Benji first started playing the guitar at 16. Before that, though, he and his younger twin brother went to a Beastie Boys concert and decided that they wanted to start a band. When they graduated in 1997, his mother gave him and Joel a pair of airline tickets to California to go to a club where all the good punk rock bands actually started. When they got back, they were more determined than ever. They teamed up with two school friends and Billy - and Good Charlotte was born.

In the 2001 film Not Another Teen Movie, Benji, Adam Ly and the other Good Charlotte members made a cameo as the band at the school's prom. Madden made another appearance in the 2006 film Material Girls with his brother Joel. Madden started a clothing line called MADE Clothing along with his brothers Joel and Josh. "MADE" stands for the will to fight and die for those who you love. The line is now defunct. In early 2006, MADE Clothing became DCMA Collective. The line is owned by himself, his brothers Joel Madden, Josh Madden, and friend Tal Cooperman. A DCMA Collective store was opened in Los Angeles, California, on March 15, 2008.

On April 3, 2010, Benji partook in a boxing match against MTV and VH1 host Riki Rachtman at Ellismania 5: Get These Brawls. The event was hosted by Jason Ellis at The Joint in the Hard Rock Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas. Rachtman made several public statements against Benji and Good Charlotte prior to the fight, presumably to enrage Benji and cause him to exhaust himself early in the fight. Benji beat Rachtman by knockout 1 minute and 42 seconds into the first round.

On november 11, 2011 he and his brother Joel Madden released a free mixtape named "The Madden Brothers: Before Volume 1" It contains new artists the brothers were personally interested in. Their brother Josh Madden helped to produce the mixtape.

Benjamin Millepied Celebrity

Birth Name : Benjamin L. Millepied

Date of Birth : 15 June 1977, Bordeaux, France

Height : 5' 10" (1.78 m)

Occupation : Dancer

Benjamin Millepied was born June 10, 1977 in Bordeaux, France and at age 8 began training for dance, under the instruction of his mother, a former ballerina. When Millepied turned 13, he began studying at the revered Conservatoire National in Lyon.

In the summer of 1992, Millepied made his first appearance in New York City, for a summer program at the School of American Ballet, the official school of New York City Ballet. The following year, he became a full-time student at the school, having received the “Bourse Lavoisier,” a scholarship award from the French Ministry of Culture.

In the 1994 School of American Ballet Spring Workshop, Millepied originated a principal role in Jerome Robbins’ 2 & 3 Part Inventions set to music by J.S Bach. That same year, he was awarded the “Prix de Lausanne.” In his last year at SAB, Millepied received the Mae L. Wien Award for Outstanding Promise and was invited to become a member of New York City Ballet. In the Spring of 2001, he was promoted to the rank of Principal Dancer. In 2004 and 2005, Millepied directed the Morriss Center Dance Workshop in Bridgehampton, New York. From 2006 to 2007, he was choreographer-in-residence at the Baryshnikov Arts Center in New York. In 2007, Millepied received the United States Artists Wynn Fellowship. In 2010, he was made Chevalier in the Order of Arts and Letters by the French Ministry of Culture.

Millepied lives with his girlfriend, Danish-born NYCB ballerina Saskia Beskow, in New York's trendy East Village neighborhood. He could not imagine living anywhere other than New York, he asserted in the interview with Vogue. "This is the place where Balanchine and Jerry made their ballets," he told Kourlas. "This is the place where there are people who really get the kind of work that I believe in."

Benjamin McKenzie Biography

Name : Ben McKenzie

Date of Birth : 12 September 1978, Austin, Texas, USA

Birth Name : Benjamin McKenzie Schenkkan

Height : 5' 9" (1.75 m)

Occupation : Actor, producer

Benjamin McKenzie (Schenkkan) was born in Austin, Texas on September 12, 1978. He attended Austin High School, and played wide receiver and defensive back for the school's football team. From 1997-2001, he attended the University of Virginia, where he majored in Foreign Affairs and Economics.

McKenzie got into acting during his first few years at the University of Virginia, where he appeared in "Measure for Measure" and "Zoo Story." After graduation he moved to New York and appeared off-Broadway in "Life is a Dream" at the SoHo Rep. Additionally, he performed in numerous productions at the Williamstown Theatre Festival, including "Street Scene" and "The Blue Bird." He relocated to Los Angeles in late 2001. His early TV appearances included roles on The District, JAG and Mad TV.

Although Hollywood attempted to embrace him as a disposable teen heartthrob, Benjamin McKenzie chose to follow the path of a serious actor instead, and his intense persona set him apart from his flashier peers. With only a handful of theater and minor television credits, McKenzie hit the Hollywood jackpot by landing the star-making role of bad-boy-with-a-heart-of-gold Ryan Atwood on the ultimate 21st-century glossy teen drama, "The O.C." (FOX, 2003-07). Instead of milking his teen appeal with lucrative and lightweight projects, McKenzie took a supporting role in the Southern family drama "Junebug" (2005). He jumped at the chance to work with his idol, Al Pacino, in the real-time thriller "88 Minutes" (2007) and tackled the ultra-demanding "live on stage, on film" solo piece "Johnny Got His Gun" (2008), where, completely alone, he believably channeled the spirit of a World War I soldier too physically damaged to communicate with the outside world, but whose mind remained poignantly vital. Interested more in honing his craft than in winning the fame game, McKenzie continued to make choices based on the work rather than on prestige, playing a rookie cop on the sprawling, challenging LAPD drama "Southland" (NBC, 2009; TNT, 2010- ) and appearing onstage in a 2010 revival of Tennessee Williams' classic "The Glass Menagerie." Although the career path McKenzie chose was more difficult and less glamorous than that of many of his peers, his was perhaps ultimately more rewarding.

Benicio Del Toro Biography

NAME: Benicio Del Toro

OCCUPATION: Film Actor

BIRTH DATE: February 19, 1967 (Age: 44)

EDUCATION: University of California San Diego, Square Professional Theater School

PLACE OF BIRTH: Santurce, Puerto Rico

Actor. Born February 19, 1967, in Santurce, Puerto Rico. Del Toro's mother died when he was nine years old, and his family moved to a farm in Pennsylvania four years later. Del Toro enrolled at the University of California at San Diego after high school with the intention of becoming a lawyer. Instead, his love of acting (developed in freshman drama classes) led him to pursue serious theater training. He moved to New York City, where he attended the Circle in the Square Professional Theater School before winning a scholarship to the renowned Stella Adler Conservatory.

After appearing in guest spots on such television shows as Miami Vice, Del Toro landed his first feature film role, portraying a circus performer called Duke the Dog-Faced Boy in Big Top Pee-wee (1988), a forgettable big screen vehicle for Paul Reubens' manic TV alter ego, Pee-Wee Herman. Del Toro subsequently had small roles in the Timothy Dalton James Bond film License to Kill (1989), as well as The Indian Runner (1991), the acclaimed actor Sean Penn's first directorial effort.

Academy Award-winning actor Benicio Del Toro emerged from the fertile world of 1990s independent film as one of its most acclaimed and compelling performers, known for playing brooding, tortured souls. His memorable characterization in Bryan Singer's enigmatic ensemble crime drama "The Usual Suspects" (1995) first earned the Latino actor critical praise. He continued to impress with the depth and subtle detail he brought to supporting roles in Stephen Soderbergh's celebrated "Traffic" (2000), and "21 Grams" (2003) from director Alejandro González Iñárritu. Del Toro occasionally balanced his emotionally intense roles with lighter fare like Guy Ritchie's "Snatch" (2000) and the Robert Rodriguez/Quentin Tarantino collaboration, "Sin City" (2005), but Del Toro's rise to leading man status in the epic biopic "Che" (2008) welcomed him into Hollywood's upper ranks, where he maintained his focus on carefully chosen works that were more substance than style.

Ben Stiller Biography

Name: Ben Stiller

Born: 30 November 1965 (Age: 46)

Where: New York City, New York, USA

Height: 5'8"

Awards: Won 1 Emmy

Occupation: Actor, comedian, director, producer, screenwriter

Born in New York City on November 30, 1965, Stiller began to shoot his own comic films from the age of ten. After high-school graduation, Stiller attended UCLA and landed bit parts in several features, notably the Steven Spielberg-directed, Tom Stoppard and Menno Meyjes-scripted, late 1987 opus Empire of the Sun.

Meanwhile, Stiller continued to turn out comedy shorts, including the 30-minute Elvis Stories (1989), a spoof of obsessive Elvis fans featuring an already-established John Cusack. One of Stiller's shorts, a Tom Cruise parody called The Hustler of Money, won him a spot as a writer and player on Saturday Night Live in 1989. His stint on the show was short-lived, but led to his own eponymous series, The Ben Stiller Show, first on MTV (1990) and later on Fox (1992-1993). The program failed to draw a substantial audience, and folded within a couple of months on each network, but Stiller netted an Emmy for comedy writing in 1993.

In 1996, Stiller enjoyed a solid art-house success with "Flirting with Disaster," playing a married man who goes on a road trip with a leggy psychology student (Tea Leoni) in order to meet his biological parents (Alan Alda and Lily Tomlin). He brought manic energy to his portrayal of a conceptual artist with designs on a New York psychotherapist (Sarah Jessica Parker) in the unsuccessful romantic comedy "If Lucy Fell" (1996), which he followed with a brief uncredited turn as a smarmy nursing home operator in "Happy Gilmore" (1996). But Stiller had his breakout year in 1998 with several strong performances, beginning with an understated turn as the partner of a reclusive investigator (Bill Pullman) in "Zero Effect" (1998).

After cameo appearances in "Orange County" (2002) and "Run Ronnie Run" (2002), Stiller co-starred with Drew Barrymore in the flop "The Duplex" (2003), a black comedy directed about Danny De Vito about the lengths one will go to in order to rent the perfect apartment in New York City. He rebounded again with mildly amusing and modest hit, "Along Came Polly" (2004). Turning to animation, Stiller then lent his distinctive voice to "Madagascar" (2005), Disney's animated adventure about four zoo animals who escape and inadvertently find themselves in Africa, where the city slickers struggle to survive in the wild. His next project was "A Night at the Museum" (2006), a family comedy about a night security guard in the Museum of Natural History who unwittingly unleashes a curse that brings to life the bugs and animals on display. Following that box office success, Stiller teamed up again with the Farrelly Brothers for "The Heartbreak Kid" (2007). The following year, Stiller impressed with his turn as a neurotic 40-year-old who returns home after years of stagnancy in the indie dramedy, "Greenburg" (2010).

Ben Harper Biography

Birth name : Benjamin Chase Harper

Born : October 28, 1969 (age 42) Claremont, California, United States

Genres : Folk rock, blues rock, alternative rock, soul, funk rock, gospel

Occupations : Musician, Singer-songwriter, Humanitarian

Benjamin Chase "Ben" Harper (born October 28, 1969) is an American singer-songwriter and musician. Harper plays an eclectic mix of blues, folk, soul, reggae and rock music and is known for his guitar-playing skills, vocals, live performances and activism. Harper's fan base spans several continents. His albums have been commercially successful in North America, Europe and Oceania.

Singer-songwriter. Performed on tour with Taj Mahal, 1992; collaborated with Mahal on soundtrack for The Drinking Gourd, a biography of Harriet Tubman; toured United States as both solo and warm-up act with his band The Innocent Criminals, 1994-95; toured United States, Europe, and New Zealand, 1995-97; recording artist for Virgin Records, 1994-01; headlined at HORDE Festival and Montreux Jazz Festival; founded own record label, Inland Emperor Records, 2001.

In October 2004, Harper participated in the Vote for Change concert tour organised to benefit Moveon.org and encourage people in the swing states to vote during the 2004 U.S. presidential election. Also in October, Harper contributed a live recording of the song "Oppression" to For The Lady, a benefit album for jailed Nobel Peace Prize winner and Burmese pro-democracy advocate Aung San Suu Kyi.

Over the summer of 2005, when the Zooma tour scheduled with Trey Anastasio and various side stage performers was canceled, Harper engaged in a tour of more private clubs/venues such as the Avalon Ballroom in Boston, the Tabernacle in Atlanta, and a full-band acoustic performance at the historic Ryman Auditorium in Nashville. This series of concerts saw the debut of a number of new songs, such as "Get It Like You Like It" and "Why Must You Always Dress in Black."

In 2006, Harper released the double album Both Sides of the Gun which debuted at #7 on the Billboard charts.

Ben Gibbard Celebrity

Name : Ben Gibbard

Born : August 11, 1976 (age 35) Bremerton, Washington

Genres : Indie Rock

Occupations : Singer-songwriter, guitarist

Instruments : Guitar, vocals, piano, drums, bass

Ben Gibbard (born August 11, 1976 in Bremerton, Washington) is an American musician and songwriter who has formed several indie bands. He is most notable as the lead singer of Death Cab for Cutie; his other projects include The Postal Service and All-Time Quarterback. He has also created music under his name and under the band Pinwheel.

During the time of the grunge musical explosion in the early 1990s. He graduated from Olympic High School in 1994. Growing up he was influenced by Elliott Smith, Nirvana, The Stone Roses, Superchunk, Built to Spill, Teenage Fanclub, Pixies, Pavement, Daniel Johnston, Fugazi and Hall & Oates. He also cites Jack Kerouac as a major influence. He studied engineering at Western Washington University.

Gibbard appeared as a guest on Jimmy Tamborello’s (his Postal Service collaborator) Dntel album entitled Life is Full of Possibilities (2001) - Specifically, he contributed vocals to the song “(This Is) The Dream of Evan and Chan.”. In addition, played bass for the band Pedro the Lion on their 2000 tour, and he played drums on the song ‘Carparts’ for The Long Winters’ 2002 album, “The Worst You Can Do Is Harm.” He has also released a split EP with Andrew Kenny (of American Analog Set) in the Home Series on the Post-Parlo record label on March 30, 2004. Styrofoam’s 2004 album Nothing’s Lost features Gibbard’s vocals on the track “Couches in Alleys.” Additionally, Ben contributed vocals to a song (Handle With Care) on Rilo Kiley frontwoman Jenny Lewis’s side project Jenny Lewis with the Watson Twins’s album, Rabbit Fur Coat.

Ben Affleck Biography

Name: Ben Affleck

Born: 15 August 1972 (Age: 39)

Where: Berkeley, California, USA

Height: 6' 2"

Occupation: Actor, director, screenwriter, producer

Awards: Won 1 Oscar and 1 Golden Globe

Benjamin Geza Affleck was born on the 15th of August, 1972, in Berkeley, California, the family very soon moving to Cambridge, Massachusetts, a rich area of Boston, near the prestigious Harvard college. He has one brother, Casey, also an actor. His father, Tim, was an actor and director who'd worked and partied with such luminaries as Dustin Hoffman, and joined the Theatre Company Of Boston. His mother, Chris, was a schoolteacher, and would be the dominant parental figure in his life (she was his guest when he picked up his Oscar). But it was his dad's influence and connections that got him started in TV, VERY early in his life. He appeared in ads for Burger King before hitting double-figures and, by 12, had appeared as CT Granville in the cute and educative mini-series The Voyage Of The Mimi. At the age of 12 though, he suffered an emotional setback with the divorce of his parents. Tim had "a severe, chronic problem with alcoholism" which eventually broke the couple up. He left for the Recovery Centre in Palm Springs, got back on his feet, and now works counselling others in Rehab.

Actor, writer and director Ben Affleck hit the Hollywood radar in 1997 as the co-writer and co-star of "Good Will Hunting," earning an Oscar for Best Original Screenplay along with childhood best friend Matt Damon. In fact, the seemingly overnight ascent to stardom in tandem with Damon became one of the great "Hollywood" stories" of all time - rivaling Lana Turner being discovered at Schwab's Drugstore. Flying past the more understated Damon in terms of initial popularity and box office, the handsome, chiseled Affleck went on to achieve box office gold in uneven blockbusters like "Armageddon" (1998), "Pearl Harbor" (2001) and "Daredevil" (2003), as well as quirky Kevin Smith comedies "Chasing Amy" (1997) and "Dogma" (1999). But it was his extracurricular activities - dating famous actresses and ending up in rehab - that made him a magnet for media attention. His overexposed romance with actress-singer Jennifer Lopez - collectively known as "Bennifer" - and a string of flops threatened to banish Affleck to B-film status until concerted efforts to reclaim his private life and his celebrated directorial debut "Gone Baby Gone" (2007) and his sophomore effort "The Town" (2010) proved that perhaps Affleck's most underused talent was his ability to write his own happy ending.

Behati Prinsloo Celebrity

Name : Behati Prinsloo

Date of Birth : May 16, 1989

Birth Place : Grootfontein, Namibia

Occupatoin : Model

Behati Prinsloo was born in Grootfontein, Namibia but was discovered while vacationing in her mother’s native South Africa when she was just 15. After a photographer approached the preacher’s daughter in a supermarket and asked if she was a model, Prinsloo felt compelled to visit a modeling agency and shoot some Polaroids. Storm Model Agency boss Sarah Doukas was so impressed by the round-faced youngster that she signed her up on the spot, and Prinsloo was modeling in Paris and London before the year was up.

She has appeared on the cover of Italy's Muse magazine and the British Telegraph Magazine. Also, more recently she was on the cover of Russian Vogue in February 2007, and the American Velvet magazine in June 2007. Her ad campaigns include Adore, Aquascutum, Chanel, H&M, Hugo Boss, Kurt Geiger, Marc by Marc Jacobs, Max Studio, and Nina Ricci. She has walked in fashion shows for Prada, Paul Smith, Shiatzy Chen, Vera Wang, Marc Jacobs, Proenza Schouler, Versace, Chanel, Missoni, and DKNY.

Also on her resume are appearances in the Victoria's Secret Fashion Show in 2007, 2008, and 2009; she has also been doing print work for the company as the spokesmodel for the sub-brand Pink. She plays the rich girl in the "Rich Girls" music video by The Virgins. She also appears in the first episode of MTV'S reality show, The City.

Before she began her career as a model, Prinsloo planned on becoming a marine biologist. Her father is a minister in Namibia. She is close friends with Canadian model Coco Rocha, whose blog she is often featured in. She lives with and is in a long term relationship with fellow model Jamie Strachan.

Becki Newton Biography

Birth Name : Rebecca Sara Newton

Date of Birth : 4 July 1978, New Haven, Connecticut, USA

Height : 5' 2" (1.57 m)

Occupation : Actress

Becki Newton 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

The hot and sexy American actress Becki Newton was born on July 4, 1978, in New Haven, Connecticut. She can speak many languages: Spanish, English, Greek, and German. She has a brother named Matt Newton. Becki Newton attended the Guilford High School, and went on to study European History at the University of Pennsylvania. When she was younger, the hot Becki Newton showed an early interest in Hollywood films and acting by being active in school productions and plays.

After graduation, her brother Matt helped the hot Hollywood actress Becki Newton to move to New York where she could focus on pursuing a career as actress. It was not difficult to see that the fresh faced Becki Newton was a charmer on screen, and had talent. She at first landed a few commercials and minor roles for television, and then she soon landed a hosting job for Movie Junky. She had talent for writing one woman shows, and she was able to write and host Movie Junky for quite a while. Becki Newton’s first appearance on the small screen was for Cold Case’s pilot episode. This was followed by other small screen jobs for the hot actress.

Newton portrayed the character Amanda Tanen in the comedy-drama series Ugly Betty from 2006 to 2010. With co-star Michael Urie, Newton co-hosted the Official Ugly Betty Podcast. She also appeared in ABC.com's Mode After Hours webisode series. Ugly Betty was canceled in 2010 after four successful seasons allowing the show to receive a proper series finale.

In late 2009, Newton performed at a New York City Center Encores! presentation of the Gershwin musical Girl Crazy, which was directed by Jerry Zaks. She portrayed Molly Gray and performed opposite real-life husband Chris Diamantopoulos.

Newton starred in the television series Love Bites. The hour-long romantic comedy was created by executive producer Cindy Chupack, who worked on Sex and the City. NBC announced the pick up of the series in May 2010. However, with Newton announcing her pregnancy, co-star Jordana Spiro contractually obligated to stay with her other show My Boys (which was later cancelled) and Chupack's desire to leave the show, Love Bites was pushed back to midseason. Love Bites aired on summer 2011 on NBC and it was cancelled after eight episodes. In November 2011, Newton was cast as Quinn on CBS's How I Met Your Mother. She will be playing a new love interest for Neil Patrick Harris's character Barney Stinson.

Barron Hilton Biography

Name: Barron Hilton

Variant Name: William Barron Hilto

Birth Date: October 23, 1927

Place of Birth: Dallas, Texas, United States of America

Nationality: American

Gender: Male

Occupations: businessman

Barron Hilton (born 1927), son of the founder of Hilton Hotels, became head of the company in 1966. Disparaged by some as the lucky son of Conrad Hilton, he led the company into the gaming industry and was one of the first in the hotel industry to use management leaseback deals.

Career :

In 1954, Hilton was elected vice-president of Hilton Hotels, of which his father was president. The announcement was made on November 16, 1954, by Robert P. Williford, Executive Vice President. Barron also became president of the Carte Blanche credit card firm, was owner of an orange juice company, head of a business leasing jets and an investor in a Texas oil company. In 1966 Hilton assumed the presidency of the Hilton Hotel chain.

Hilton family fortune :

In 1979, Barron Hilton's father, Conrad Hilton died, leaving $500,000 USD each to two of his surviving siblings and $10,000 USD to each of his nieces and nephews and his daughter Francesca. The bulk of his estate was left to the Conrad N. Hilton Foundation, which he established in 1944. Although Barron Hilton inherited Hilton Hotels Corporation, the company his father had created, and was in charge of it as President, Chief Executive Officer, and Chairman of the Board of Directors at the time of his father's death, Barron contested his father's will. A settlement was reached of the 13.5 million shares of company stock owned by Conrad Hilton that constituted the bulk of the Hilton family fortune, Barron Hilton would receive 4 million shares, the Conrad N. Hilton Foundation would receive 3.5 million shares, and the remaining 6 million shares would be placed in the W. Barron Hilton Charitable Remainder Unitrust, of which Barron is the executor. Upon Barron Hilton's death, the Unitrust assets will be transferred to the Conrad N. Hilton Foundation.[citation needed] Barron sits on the Board of Directors of the Foundation as Chairman and his son, Steven M. Hilton, is the President and Chief Executive Officer.

On December 25, 2007, Hilton announced that, in addition to donating the funds found in the W. Barron Hilton Charitable Remainder Unitrust, upon his death, he will follow his father's footsteps by leaving about 97% of his estate, estimated in 2007 at $2.3 billion, to the Conrad N. Hilton Foundation. Included was an immediate pledge of $1.2 billion, the proceeds of the sale of Hilton Hotels Corporation and Harrah's Entertainment Inc., which was placed in a Charitable Remainder Unitrust that will be donated to the Foundation upon Hilton's death at whatever value the trust is worth at that time. The remainder of the funds that constitute Hilton's pledge to donate 97% of his estate will come from his $1.1 billion in personal assets. By leaving the majority of his estate to the Foundation, Barron is donating not only the fortune he has amassed on his own as well as the proceeds of the sale of the company that created the Hilton family fortune, Hilton Hotels Corporation; but he is also returning the Hilton family fortune amassed by his father, Conrad, to the Conrad N. Hilton Foundation, where it would have gone over 30 years ago had Barron not contested his father's will. Barron said he is proud to follow his father's example and his son Steven expressed a similar sentiment.

Barbra Streisand Biography

NAME: Barbra Streisand

OCCUPATION: Actress, Singer

BIRTH DATE: April 24, 1942 (Age: 69)

EDUCATION: Bais Yakov School, Erasmus Hall High School

PLACE OF BIRTH: Brooklyn, New York

Born Barbra Joan Streisand on April 24, 1942 in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, to Diana Rosen and Emanuel Streisand. Streisand's father was a high school English teacher who died from complications of an epileptic seizure when Barbra was only 15 months old. Her mother raised Barbra and her older brother, Sheldon, by working as a secretary in the New York City public school system. Her mother remarried in the late 1940s to Louis Kind, a used-car salesman, while Streisand was away at camp. Streisand was unaware of the second marriage, or that her mother was pregnant. Streisand's half-sister, Rosalind, was born in 1952.

Streisand has described her childhood as painful. She was shy as a child, and often felt rejected by other children because her looks were unusual. Additionally, she saw her stepfather as emotionally abusive. She also found no support from her mother, who thought her too unattractive to pursue her dreams of show business.

As a child, Streisand attended Bais Yakov School, where she sang in the school choir. Following elementary school, Streisand was a student at Erasmus Hall High School where she met future collaborator, Neil Diamond. Even before Barbra graduated from high school, she was traveling to New York City to study acting. At the age of 15, she met Anita and Alan Miller at the Cherry Lane Theater in Greenwich Village. Streisand negotiated a deal with the couple; she would babysit for their children in exchange for a scholarship to Alan's acting school. It was one of two she simultaneously attended. She graduated from Erasmus High in 1959 at the age of 16. She was fourth in her class. For her first motion picture, "Funny Girl," she won the 1968 Academy Award for Best Actress, the first of two Oscars.

With “Yentl” (1983,”) her first film as a director, she became the first woman ever to produce, direct, write and star in a major motion picture. “Yentl,” earned five Oscar nominations and also brought her Golden Globes for both Best Director and Best Picture.

She won the DGA award (Best Director Music/Variety Television Program) in 1994 for her television special, “Barbra Streisand: The Concert,” which she co-directed with Dwight Hemion.

She is the first female composer ever to win an Academy Award, this for her song, "Evergreen," the love theme from her 1976 hit film, "A Star Is Born." She was nominated again in 1997 as co-composer of "I Finally Found Someone," based on her love theme for her 1996 film as director/producer/star, "The Mirror Has Two Faces." The film achieved two Oscar nominations and the Best Supporting Actress Golden Globe for Lauren Bacall.

Her first television special, “My Name Is Barbra” (1965,) received five Emmy Awards, including one for her for best performance,. as well as the distinguished Peabody Award, the first of two. . This achievement was repeated 30 years later by "Barbra Streisand: The Concert" which won two additional Emmy awards for Ms. Streisand among the five for the production. That show also was accorded the Peabody Award, the Directors Guild of America award and three CableACE awards and it became the highest-rated musical event in HBO’s history. Her 2001 television concert special, “Barbra Streisand: Timeless. Live in Concert,” also co-directed by its star, won four more Emmys, including one for Ms. Streisand’s performance.

DVD releases of her concerts have achieved notable recent firsts. In 2009 her three-disc offering, “Streisand The Concerts,” reigned in the #1 position on the Music DVD Billboard charts for three weeks. A year later, “One Night Only,” capturing her heralded performance at the Village Vanguard before an audience of one hundred lottery-picked fans and some of her notable friends, opened at #1 as well.

Barbara Walters Biography

NAME: Barbara Walters

OCCUPATION: News Anchor, Television Producer, Journalist

BIRTH DATE: September 25, 1929 (Age: 82)

EDUCATION: Sarah Lawrence College

PLACE OF BIRTH: Boston, Massachusetts

Journalist, writer. Born Barbara Jill Walters on September 25, 1929, in Boston, Massachusetts. She was the daughter of Dena Seletsky Walters and nightclub impresario Lou Walters. She had two siblings: older sister Jacqueline, who was born developmentally disabled and died in 1985, and brother Burton, who died of pneumonia in 1932. Walters was born Jewish, though her parents weren't practicing Jews.

In 1937, Lou Walters opened a chain of nightclubs that expanded his business from Boston, Massachusetts, to Miami Beach, Florida. As a result, Barbara attended Fieldston and Birch Wathen private schools in New York City, and graduated from Miami Beach High School in 1947. Barbara was surrounded by celebrities from an early age, which has been said to account for her relaxed manner when interviewing famous people.

A co-host and co-creator of daytime TV's The View, Barbara Walters is a veteran broadcaster who made her name in the 1970s with interviews of world leaders and A-list celebrities. Walters's long career in national television began in the late 1950s. She spent fifteen years (1961-76) with NBC as a correspondent and co-host for The Today Show, then jumped to ABC News in 1976 to become the first woman to co-anchor a nightly news show (her on-air partner was veteran newsman Harry Reasoner).

In 1979, Barbara Walters became a part-time correspondent for the ABC news show, 20/20. She scored an exclusive interview with former President Richard Nixon in 1980—his first TV interview since his resignation in 1974. By the fall of 1981, she was a regular contributor to the program. She, along with former Today show partner Hugh Downs, was elevated to co-host in 1984. Downs retired in 1999, and Walters continued to co-host the show with John Miller and later John Stossel. In September 2000, Walters renewed her contract with ABC News for five more years. Her reported $12 million yearly salary made her the highest-paid news host in history. In September 2004, at the age of 73, Walters stepped down as co-host of 20/20. Her final regular appearance on the program featured a 25-year retrospective of her interviews with heads of state, entertainment personalities, the famous, and the infamous.

Barack Obama Celebrity

NAME: Barack Hussein Obama, Jr.

OCCUPATION: Lawyer, U.S. President, U.S. Representative

BIRTH DATE: August 04, 1961 (Age: 50)

EDUCATION: Punahou Academy, Occidental College, Columbia University, Harvard Law School

PLACE OF BIRTH: Honolulu, Hawaii

President of the United States. Born Barack Hussein Obama on August 4, 1961, in Honolulu, Hawaii. Obama's mother, Ann Dunham, grew up in Wichita, Kansas, where her father worked on oil rigs during the Depression. After the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, Dunham's father, Stanley, enlisted in the service and marched across Europe in Patton's army. Dunham's mother, Madelyn, went to work on a bomber assembly line. After the war, the couple studied on the G.I. Bill, bought a house through the Federal Housing Program and, after several moves, landed in Hawaii.

While living with his grandparents, Obama enrolled in the esteemed Punahou Academy, excelling in basketball and graduating with academic honors in 1979. As one of only three black students at the school, Obama became conscious of racism and what it meant to be African-American. He later described how he struggled to reconcile social perceptions of his multiracial heritage with his own sense of self. "I began to notice there was nobody like me in the Sears, Roebuck Christmas catalog...and that Santa was a white man," he said. "I went to the bathroom and stood in front of the mirror with all my senses and limbs seemingly intact, looking the way I had always looked, and wondered if something was wrong with me.

Obama attended Columbia University, but found New York's racial tension inescapable. He became a community organizer for a small Chicago church-based group for three years, helping poor South Side residents cope with a wave of plant closings. He then attended Harvard Law School, and in 1990 became the first African-American editor of the Harvard Law Review. He turned down a prestigious judicial clerkship, choosing instead to practice civil-rights law back in Chicago, representing victims of housing and employment discrimination and working on voting-rights legislation. He also began teaching at the University of Chicago Law School, and married Michelle Robinson, a fellow attorney. Eventually he was elected to the Illinois state senate, where his district included both Hyde Park and some of the poorest ghettos on the South Side.

In 2004 Obama was elected to the U.S. Senate as a Democrat, representing Illinois, and he gained national attention by giving a rousing and well-received keynote speech at the Democratic National Convention in Boston. In 2008 he ran for President, and despite having only four years of national political experience, he won. In January 2009, he was sworn in as the 44th President of the United States, and the first African-American ever elected to that position.

Bar Refaeli Celebrity

Name : Bar Refaeli

Date of Birth : 4 June 1985, Israel

Height : 5' 8½" (1.74 m)

Occupation : Model, actress

Bar Refaeli was born in Israel on June 4, 1985. When she was eight months old, she appeared in various small commercials, and was raised with a love of being photographed and filmed. While getting occasional work in commercials, she grew up on a horse ranch out in the country. When she was fourteen she started working as a fashion model. In the years 2000 and 2001 she won "Model of the year" in local beauty contests. As her career in Israel flourished, building ongoing contracts with fashion companies such as Renuar and Dim, she started making moves into the international photographic fashion shoot industry. Since then she has appeared and continues to appear in magazines such as Maxim, GQ and Sports Illustrated. As of early 2007, the fashion agencies that she currently works for include Ford New York, City Paris, Irene Marie Miami and Riccardo Gay Milan.

Bar Refaeli is the Israeli supermodel who was on the cover of the 2009 Sports Illustrated swimsuit issue. A dark honey blonde with a practical blue-eyed gaze, Bar Refaeli is a rarity: a global supermodel from the Middle East. She had her first modeling job at age 8 months, according to a 2008 interview in Sports Illustrated, and began posing more seriously at age 15. By age 20 she had gone international, appearing on the covers of magazines like Elle and Cosmopolitan. She began dating actor Leonardo Dicaprio in 2006, when she was 20 and he was 31, and their on-again, off-again romance continued until 2011, when sources said they had broken up. Bar Refaeli also has modeled for Victoria's Secret. Refaeli appeared in the 2007-2010 editions of the Sports Illustrated swimsuit issue, and was chosen for the issue's cover in 2009.