Keke Palmer Biography

Birth Name : Lauren Keyana Palmer

Date of Birth : 26 August 1993, Harvey, Illinois, USA

Height : 5' 6" (1.68 m

Occupation : Actress, singer, songwriter, dancer

Lauren Keyana "Keke" Palmer (born August 26, 1993) is an American actress and singer who rose to fame for her performance in the 2006 film Akeelah and the Bee. She currently stars as the title character in the Nickelodeon sitcom True Jackson, VP.

Palmer was born in Robbins, Illinois. Her father, Larry, works for a polyurethane company[citation needed], and her mother, Sharon, is a high school teacher who works with children with mental disabilities.

Keke later went on to star in an Emmy-nominated made-for-TV movie titled The Wool Cap (2004) (TV), where she worked alongside one of her favorite actors, William H. Macy. Her amazing performance was so remarkable that it earned her an NAACP Image Award nomination for Best Actress in a Movie Made for Television, as well as a Screen Actors Guild Nomination in the Best Leading Actress category.

In less than two years, Keke appeared in several national commercials, made-for-TV movies; television guest-starring appearances; shot a pilot for her own show on Disney Channel titled Keke & Jamal (2005) (TV); and two Lions Gate family movies, Madea's Family Reunion (2006), starring Tyler Perry, Blair Underwood, Lynn Whitfield, Cicely Tyson, Maya Angelou, which was released February 24, 2006; and Akeelah and the Bee (2006), starring Laurence Fishburne and Angela Bassett, which opened April 28, 2006. Keke is also an accomplished singer-songwriter and signed a major recording contract with Atlantic Records.

Keira Knightley Biography

Name: Keira Knightley

Born: 22 March 1985 (Age: 26)

Where: London, England

Height: 5' 7"

Occupation : Actress, model

She was born Kiera Knightley on the 22nd of March, 1985, in Teddington, south-west London. Her name would become Keira as her Hollywood career took off, the change shamelessly breaking the golden rule of “I before E except after C” but making the name more easily pronounceable on a worldwide basis. Her father was stage actor Will Knightley, who’d make the occasional foray into television, such as starring as Mr Glegg in the BBC’s 1997 production of The Mill On The Floss.

Thanks to her standout performance in the surprising hit "Bend It Like Beckham" (2002), unknown actress Keira Knightley vaulted to the attention of moviegoers outside her native England. Prior to her playing a young semi-pro soccer player who befriends an Indian girl more interested in joining the team than following her parents' traditional ways, Knightley had already amassed a long list of film, television and theater credits, including a famed - albeit brief - appearance in "Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace" (1999) as Sabe, Natalie Portman's decoy queen. But it was the juggernaut pirate adventure "Pirates of the Caribbean: Curse of the Black Pearl" (2003) and its two sequels, "Dead Man's Chest" (2005) and "At World's End (2007), that cemented Knightley as a truly international star, able to hold her own with the likes of Johnny Depp and Orlando Bloom. Not one to be pigeonholed, however, she broadened her range in 2005, starring as the headstrong Elizabeth Bennet in "Pride and Prejudice," a role that earned Knightley her first Oscar nomination and demonstrated that she was more than just a pretty face in the midst of testosterone-fueled action movies.

Keiko Agena Biography

Birth Name : Christine Keiko Agena

Date of Birth : 3 October 1973, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA

Height : 5' 1" (1.55 m)

Ovvupation : Actress

Agena was born and raised in Honolulu, where she lived until she was 17. She made her acting debut at the age of 10 with a small part in the play The Best Christmas Pageant Ever. She enjoyed the experience so much that she decided to continue performing. Her parents were very supportive, with her mother taking her to auditions and helping her memorize lines for roles in community theater productions.

After high school, Agena studied drama at Whitman College in Washington State. She came to Los Angeles during the summer break after her first year and has been working steadily in theater, television and film ever since. Her very first professional audition resulted in a guest spot on the television series Renegade.

During the early 1990s, Keiko Agena landed roles in shows like Renegade and Sister, Sister, and was seen on an episode of ER and Beverly Hills, 90210. She was also given a part in Terror In the Shadows and Hundred Percent, before her rise to fame. In 2000, she was seen as Lane Kim on the CW series Gilmore Girls. Her character was the Korean-American best friend of Rory Gilmore, played by Alexis Bledel. Agena later appeared in the series Felicity, and became the recipient of an Ammy Award for Best Female Actor in a Television Series in 2007. Her other appearances include those in Strong Medicine, Without a Trace, The Nightmare Room and Private Practice. She has also voiced the character Yori in four episodes of the Disney animated series, Kim Possible. Agena’s film credits are Chances Are, Hair Show, The Perfect Party, Western Avenue, Red Thread, Cats and Mice, and Tomatoes and Eggs. She is also a member of the Meisner-based ITC ensemble and the acting company called “hereandnow” which tours around the country staging original pieces. In May 2007, she was chosen as one of People magazine’s 100 Most Beautiful People in the World. In 2008, she landed the role of Private Hamamori in Major Movie Star.

Keeley Hazell Biography

Birth Name : Keeley Rebecca M. Hazell

Date of Birth : 18 September 1986, Lewisham, London, England, UK

Height : 5' 6¼" (1.68 m)

Occupatin : Glamour model.

Keeley Rebecca Hazell was born on September 18, 1986, in Lewisham, a suburb southeast of London, England. Raised in another nearby London suburb, Bromley, Keeley attended Bromley’s Ravensbourne School. When Keeley was 16, she left school to become an apprentice hairdresser, but she was already looking beyond beauty parlors and nursing ambitions to become a model.

At the age of 17, Keeley Hazell decided to join The Daily Star’s contest “Search for a Beach Babe” and won. By then she was already nursing bigger dreams, setting her sights on fashion modeling. Keeley decided to go to college at Lewisham College to study fashion. At 5’6” and short by international fashion standards, it was clear that it would take more than a college education to land her gigs in the fashion industry. When she turned 18, friends persuaded her to join The Sun’s Page 3 Idol. She was hesitant at first but decided that the Page 3 contest was going to open many doors for her and was an opportunity too hard to pass up. Keeley Hazell promptly submitted sexy photos taken by her boyfriend to The Sun and in December of 2004, she was chosen as the Page 3 idol of the weekly newspaper. True enough, more than the L10,000 worth of clothes and the one-year exclusive contract with The Sun, the contest gave Keeley numerous rewards. With a modeling career and now projects for movies, the young woman, raised in Grove Park, has really gone far.

Keeley who admits to being dyslexic, did well in English and Math in high school, but over-all she was not exactly excelling in her Academics. She was often truant and spent most of her time with friends. She says puberty was a “confusing” time and the separation of her parents when she was 13 may have compounded her confusion. She admits to being a naughty and handful teenager but the challenges she faced could only have made the woman more grounded, and more focused.

Keana Texeira Biography

Birth Name : Keana Alexis Texeira

Date of Birth : 24 September 1994, California, USA

Height : 5' 4" (1.63 m)

Occupation : Actress

Born Keana Alexis Texeira on September 24, 1994, in California. Keana is the oldest of five children and resides in Los Angeles, CA. Brother Jonah, 13, is a top rated junior golfer and member of Tiger Woods' National Golf Team. Sisters Christa and Sophie and youngest brother Seth are all actors and actresses.

With Keana's imaginative mind, she created the world of Soulstice and released her first published fiction novel "Luna's Dream" an action-packed, teen romance thriller reinventing the vampire and werewolf genre, co-written with screenwriter, Lance Dow. This first novel is the riveting beginning to the Soulstice Saga based upon the screenplay for the original motion picture currently in development, which Keana is set to star as Luna Tremaine. Keana says, "writing is a liberating experience, there are no limitations." The book has received rave worldwide reviews since its June 2010 launch. The Examiner's Nikki Tiani writes, "Keana adds her own genuine vocabulary and flair to the novel, creating a believable world for the reader."

Kayla Ewell Biography

Birth Name : Kayla Noelle Ewell

Date of Birth : 27 August 1985, Long Beach, California, USA

Occupation : Actress

Kayla was born and raised in Southern California. She first discovered her love of acting when she participated in the children’s chorus for the National Broadway Tour of Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat.

She came to the recurring role on the critically acclaimed NBC television drama Freaks and Geeks. In addition she has made appearances on television shows including The Profiler and Boston Public. Her appearance in the national Coca-Cola campaign featuring the Counting Crows as the “girl on the beach” garnered her national attention.

In 2004, she joined the daytime soap The Bold and the Beautiful, leaving a year after. In between she has appeared as a guest in shows such as Veronica Mars and Boston Public, and also appeared in films such as Material Girls and Just My Luck.

Ewell co-starred in The CW television series The Vampire Diaries for the first seven episodes in 2009. Ewell described her character, Vicki Donovan, to Star magazine as "a really slutty high school student", and "a troublemaker". Vicki was the first human on the series turned into a vampire. Ewell was killed off the show when her character was staked in the heart by Stefan in order to save Elena in the Halloween-themed episode "Haunted". Ewell hinted in November 2009 that she was still under contract for the role and might return to the show. Series creator Kevin Williamson stated in November 2009 that there were no plans to bring her back, but her character returned in the second season finale, and at the start of season 3.

Katie Holmes Biography

Birth Name : Kate Noelle Holmes

Date of Birth : 18 December 1978, Toledo, Ohio, USA

Height : 5' 9" (1.75 m)

Occupation : Actress

She was born Katherine Noelle Holmes on the 18th of December, 1978, in Toledo, Ohio, a large-ish town on the Maumee River, right by Lake Erie and some 40 miles south of Detroit. Her father, Martin, was a lawyer, doing well enough for his wife Kathleen to work as homemaker for their five children, of whom Katie was the youngest - following sisters Tamera, Holly and Nancy, and brother Martin. Dad was tall, very tall, an ex college basketball player, and Kathleen was far above average height, too, a reserved and lady-like beauty. Young Katie would inherit some of this height (eventually reaching 5 foot 9), her concomitant skinniness making her a gawky kid. This did not help as she attempted to follow in the family tradition of sporting excellence, an attempt part-thwarted when, in 7th Grade, a schoolmate accidentally hit her in the left eye, messing up her vision. When tired she would now see double from it, requiring corrective glasses. Thus sport was not to be her field of expertise.

With "Dawson's Creek" (1998) coming to a close after six years in May of 2003, it was a bittersweet thing for all the cast. Accustomed to being in North Carolina filming ten months out of a year, the cast members now had the opportunity to make more movies. Katie demonstrated this in October, when she had two new movies, Pieces of April (2003) and The Singing Detective (2003), coming out in that month alone. Pieces of April (2003) is a charming Thanksgiving movie about April (Holmes), the black sheep of her family, who wants to give her family the perfect dinner before her mother passes on. The Singing Detective (2003) is a dark musical where the main character (Robert Downey Jr.) is a writer in a hospital for skin conditions who writes a dark world of seduction and murder in his mind. Katie Holmes plays the kind Nurse Mills who tends to his every need. She also gets to lip-sing and dance in this movie. Her 2004 movie schedule included the upcoming romantic movie First Daughter (2004), in which she plays the President's (Michael Keaton) daughter, Samantha, who wants to go to college without any Secret Service tagging along. Currently filming for release in 2005 is Batman Begins (2005), a new Batman movie where Katie plays Rachel Dawes, a childhood sweetheart and love interest to Batman/Bruce Wayne.

Katie Cassidy Biography

Birth Name : Katherine Evelyn Anita Cassidy

Date of Birth : 25 November 1986, Los Angeles, California, USA

Height : 5' 7" (1.70 m)

Occupation : Actress

Katie Cassidy was born Katherine Evelyn Cassidy on November 25, 1986, in Los Angeles, California. Her father, David Cassidy, was a pop star in the 1970s. Her mother, Sherry Williams, was a high fashion model in the early 1970's. Sherry left her career to concentrate on raising her 3 daughters, with husband, Richard Benedon M.D., Katie's step-dad. Her famous relatives include uncles Shaun Cassidy, Patrick Cassidy and Ryan Cassidy, and grandparents Jack Cassidy, Evelyn Ward and Shirley Jones. As a child, Katie took gymnastics, studied piano, guitar and singing, then took dancing and acting lessons and eventually became a cheerleader for the California Flyers. She attended Calabasas High School in her neighborhood, where she also cheered as a freshman. Her mother insisted that she complete college prep classes in high school before she embarked on her acting career.

She turned to modeling for companies such as Abercrombie and Fitch in 2003 and made her television acting debut with a guest shot on The Division that same year. Additional roles followed in television and films, such as Listen Up (2005), The Lost (2005), and 7th Heaven (all 2005), where she played a recurring role as Martin's classmate, Zoe.

Her first role in a major motion picture was in Columbia Pictures' thriller When a Stranger Calls (2006). Work in other feature films quickly came her way, including playing Adam Sandler's daughter in Click (2006), as well as supporting roles in films such as Taken (2009) and A Nightmare on Elm Street (2010).

Kathy Griffin Biography

Birth Name : Kathleen Mary Griffin

Date of Birth : 4 November 1960, Chicago, Illinois, USA

Height : 5' 4" (1.63 m)

Nationality : American

Occupation : Actress

Kathy Griffin, a native of near-west Chicago suburbs, is the youngest of five children. She has three older brothers and an older sister. When her parents retired to California, Kathy moved west with them after graduating from Oak Park River Forest High School and began trying to break into show business. She performed with the Groundlings and then paid her dues doing stand-up at various clubs until she was discovered.

Known for her sharp-tongued, no-holds-barred critique of celebrities, comedienne Kathy Griffin built a career out of clawing her way onto Hollywood's A-list, while simultaneously making fun of every aspect of showbiz. Her catty observations and fearless targeting of celebrities, politicians and newsmakers brought the redhead more than her share of controversy, but she evolved into one of the top ratings-grabbers at Bravo - home to her Emmy Award-winning reality series, "Kathy Griffin: My Life on the D-List" (Bravo, 2005- ). Prior to establishing herself as a snarky gossip, gay rights champion and all-around vivacious "personality," Griffin made her mark playing Vickie Groener Rubenstein, Brooke Shields' acerbic co-worker on the NBC sitcom, "Suddenly Susan" (1996-2000). Even as Griffin's own level of fame grew to the point that she was eventually working alongside the celebrities she skewered, she never lost the self-deprecating persona that was the second key component of her act, calling attention to her many plastic surgeries and campily embracing the inherent D-status of the reality TV world, even as this "nobody" had the power to rankle Steven Spielberg and Barbara Walters.

Kathryn Morris Biography

Full name: Kathryn Morris

Birth date: 1969-01-28

Birth place: Cincinnati, Ohio

Height: 5' 7"

Occupation : Actress

Morris was born in Cincinnati, Ohio. She lived in both Texas and Connecticut as a child with her parents and five siblings. As a child, Morris and her family travelled the southern 'Bible Belt' as a gospel group called 'The Morris Code.' The group was mainly made up of Kathryn's father and three of her siblings. She attended two colleges in the Philadelphia area, Northeastern Christian College and Temple University.

Before she was cast in her career-making role as Detective Lilly Rush - the cool, tough-talking cop on "Cold Case" (NBC, 2003- ) - actress Kathryn Morris spent more than a decade climbing the rungs of episodic television while appearing in as many B-grade horror flicks as possible. Though her official performing career began as a member of Morris Code, the family gospel group formed by her parents, Morris broke through with key feature roles, thanks to her productive working relationship with director Rod Lurie, who cast the actress in her first film, "Deterrence" (2000). Lurie immediately cast her in his second feature, "The Contender" (2000), which allowed Morris to be discovered by Steven Spielberg. It was the famed director who helped propel her career forward by casting her in the blockbuster sci-fi hit, "Minority Report" (2002). But all was prologue to "Cold Case," which became a top-rated hit for the procedural-heavy CBS and turned Morris into a household name.

Katherine Moennig Biography

Birth Name : Katherine Sian Moennig

Date of Birth : 29 December 1977, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA

Height : 5' 8" (1.73 m)

Occupation : Actress

Katherine Sian Moennig was born on December 29, 1976. She grew up in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, with her father, a violin maker, and her mother, a Broadway dancer. Katherine was born into an extended family of industry professionals. She is first cousins with Gwyneth Paltrow and Blythe Danner is her aunt. Katherine grew up surrounded by the entertainment industry and pursued acting from an early age.

Her first acting role came at age 10 in a Children's Theatre Workshop presentation of Winnie the Pooh. The experience led Katherine and a friend to write an improvised production of the story and perform it at the Free Library in Philadelphia. While in high school, Katherine kept the desire to pursue acting on the backburner until her studies were complete.

Lean, strikingly featured, and appealing to both male and female audiences, actress Katherine Moennig did not shy away from characters with strong sexual identities over the course of her career. Her first notices came while playing a young woman who masquerades as a boy in order to attend an all-male school in the short-lived WB series "Young Americans" (2000); three years later, she found more substantial fame as the self-destructive Shane McCutcheon on "The L Word" (Showtime, 2003- ). Her androgynous looks and choices of roles led many in the press to speculate about Moennig's own sexuality. That she skirted the issue in interviews seemed to indicate that Moennig had something to hide, but in reality, it only added to her appeal with viewers.