Mallika Sherawat Biography

Birth Name : Reema Lambha

Date of Birth : 24 October 1981, Rohtak, Haryana, India

Nickname : Bollywood's Kissing Queen

Height : 5' 6½" (1.69 m

Occupation : Actress

Mallika Sherawat was born Reema Lamba on October 24, 1981, in Haryana, India. Raised by conservative parents, Reema spent her childhood harboring secret dreams of someday making a living as a model and actress. Much to the opposition of a father who never made any secret of his disdain for his daughter’s ambitions, Reema left her small village as soon as she was able to and she made her way to India’s most populous city, Mumbai..

Before entering films, Sherawat appeared in television commercials with Amitabh Bachchan for BPL and Shahrukh Khan for Santro. She also appeared in Nirmal Pandey's Maar Dala and Surjit Bindrakhia's Lak Tunoo music video. She debuted in films with a small role in Jeena Sirf Merre Liye where she was credited as Reema Lamba. Sherawat attracted notice with her appearance in the 2003 film, Khwahish. In 2004, she starred in Murder, a film inspired by Hollywood's Unfaithful. She received a nomination for Best Actress at the Zee Cine Awards for her performance in Murder. The film went on to become one of the biggest hits of the year. Since then, Sherawat has been known for expressing her opinions in public, as well for the reaction to some of her statements. In 2005, Sherawat acted in The Myth, a Chinese film, co-starring with Jackie Chan. She played the role of an Indian princess who falls in love and is rescued by Jackie. The Myth was her first International film. Her appearance at the Cannes Film Festival to promote the film grabbed a lot of attention with Time Magazine's Richard Corliss calling her "the next big thing". Her performance in the 2006 film Pyaar Ke Side Effects, co-starring Rahul Bose, won her praise from around the industry, and the film also did moderately well at the box office.

Sherawat also finished shooting for another Hollywood film. Love, Barack aka "Poltics of Love", directed by William Dear. She plays Aretha Gupta, a devoted local Obama volunteer coordinator. The film is a romantic comedy set during Barack Obama's campaign for the US Presidency. First look of Love, Barack was unveiled by Sherawat at Cannes 2010.

Maggie Q Biography

Birth Name : Margaret Denise Quigley

Date of Birth : 22 May 1979, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA

Height : 5' 6" (1.68 m)

Occupation : Actress

Born and raised in Hawaii, Maggie Denise Quigley's parents met during the Vietnam War. Her father is Irish American and her mother is Vietnamese. After Maggie graduated from high school, she began modeling and traveled through Asia before winding up in the Hong Kong movie business. Unable to speak Cantonese, she had to learn her lines phonetically. After being cast in a bit role in Rush Hour 2 starring Jackie Chan and Chris Tucker, she began to make a name for herself in Asia, and the media shortened her last name to Q because the Chinese found her full name difficult to pronounce.

Q began her acting career in the highly acclaimed Asian television drama “House of the Dragon,” which opened the door to feature films. She starred along side Paul Rudd in the movie “Gen-Y Cops” (2000), a film produced by Jackie Chan, who was so impressed by her acting in his movie, that he cast her in the award-winning film “Manhattan Midnight” (2001). In addition to starring in numerous Chinese films, including the popular “Naked Weapon” (2002), Q also starred in several European films such as Italy’s Rai Entertainment film “The Counting House” (2006) and the Germany/Singapore two-part television movie, “House of Harmony” (2005).

After recovering from her first US press rounds for "MI:3," Q will star opposite Dan Fogler, George Lopez and Christopher Walken in Spyglass Entertainment/Rogue Pictures' “Balls of Fury" (lensed 2006), a comedy about an ex-ping pong champion who enters the secret world of ping pong to find the man who killed his father.

Maggie Grace Biography

Birth Name : Margaret Grace Denig

Date of Birth : 21 September 1983, Columbus, Ohio, USA

Height : 5' 9" (1.75 m)

Occupation : Actress

Born on September 21, 1983 in Columbus, Ohio, Maggie made her film debut as Rachel Reed in the 2001 flick Rachel's Room. The following year, she played Martha Moxley in the made-for-TV movie Murder in Greenwich. In 2004, Maggie had a recurring role as Elke on the FOX television series Oliver Beene.

Shortly after that, she landed the biggest role of her career. She plays rich girl Shannon on ABC's series Lost, which centers around a group of plane crash survivors living together on a remote island.

For the next couple of years, she made a living with guest appearances on numerous shows such as CSI: Miami, Like Family, Oliver Beene (seven appearances in the recurring role of Elke), Cold Case and Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, in addition to playing the Goth-influenced estranged daughter of Wendy Crewson and Tom Selleck in the TV movie 12 Mile Road (2003). Just before her 22nd birthday, Grace landed the role of a lifetime, playing spoiled rich girl Shannon Rutherford on the new series Lost, which became a huge hit immediately after it debuted in September 2004. Since returning to the big screen in the remake of the horror flick The Fog (2005), opposite Tom Welling she's appeared in a number of major motion pictures, including Taken (2009) with Liam Neeson and Knight and Day (2010) with Tom Cruise.

Madeline Zima Biography

Birth Name : Madeline Rose Zima

Date of Birth : 16 September 1985, New Haven, Connecticut, USA

Height : 5' 8" (1.73 m)

Occupation : Actress

American actress Madeline Rose Zima was born on September 16, 1985 in New Haven, Connecticut. The sister of actresses Yvonne Zima and Vanessa Zima, she has appeared in a number of films and TV series. She grew up in Pennsylvania, and early on in her career, she worked with a New York agent who enabled her to do modeling and commercials. Skilled at comedy, improv, and drama, Madeline Zima and her sister, Vanessa, were discovered by Woody Allen. They were soon cast in his movie, Alice. Madeline was actually acting at a very young age, since at 23 months, she was chosen to appear on a national commercial for Downy fabric softener.

Madeline followed that dramatic thriller with a short film that Daryl Hannah directed that was a favorite at Sundance called The Last Supper (1995), where Madeline, as a tiny wily child, scared away her mother's abusive boyfriend by convincing him that she and her mother were cannibals. She followed that with the comedies, Mr. Nanny (1993), Our Song, a pilot with George Hamilton, and finally "The Nanny" (1993). On "The Nanny" (1993), where writing changed daily, Madeline honed her comic timing on the six-year CBS comic hit that is now a linchpin of the Lifetime daily programming. By this time, the pilot of "The Nanny" (1993) was picked up and Madeline moved from the East Coast to L.A., when "The Nanny" (1993) became a hit show.

Madeline had has a string of independent films added to her resume. She stars in Dimples (2008), a horror film. In Looking for Sunday (2006), a coming-of-age drama, she plays the likable yoga instructor girlfriend of Michael Weston. She recently wrapped the black comedy Legacy (2008) (V), about three sorority sister murder suspects, where Madeline is one of the suspects. In the pilot, "3 lbs." (2006), produced by Peter Ocko, she plays a violinist again, this time with a brain tumor. Reviews in Entertainment Weekly said her performance was the only reason to watch the show. In a return to television, she agreed to play the mysterious and interesting character "Mia" on the new Showtime series.

M.I.A. Biography

Birth Name : Mathangi "Maya" Arulpragasam

Famous as : Singer, producer, songwriter

Birth Date : July 17, 1977

Birth Place : Hounslow, London, England

M.I.A. was born on July 18, 1977by the name Mathangi "Maya" Arulpragasam. The first eight years of her life in Sri Lanka was a frightening one. There was civil war in the country back then and her contact with her father was strictly limited as he went to the battle field. As the environment became unsafe, she and the rest of the family moved to India with sporadic visits from her father. In 1986, she was moved again, this time around to London as a refugee along with her family. During this period of time, she started learning English and then enrolled to Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design, with a degree in fine art, film, and video.

Maya was a talented and creative student, eventually winning a place at London's Central Saint Martins Art School, where she studied fine art, film and video. Here, for the first time, she began to piece together some of the different strands of her life experience. In an early incarnation of what was later to become M.I.A., she learnt how to play off her different cultural personae against each other; layering rap iconography with the warfare pictures from her youth, Asian Britain with American new-wave film making style and St. Martin's fashion sense with refugee outlooks.

Her debut album, Arular , is set for release in February 2005. Titled in acknowledgment of her father's past, it follows the same philosophy that unites all strands of the M.I.A. project - cut and paste. The mix of production credits on the album all feature forays into new territory for the collaborators, with ex-Pulp member Steve Mackey doing dancehall and pop-maestro Richard X working with Sri Lankan nursery rhymes; and from her hand-sprayed artwork on the record sleeves, lyrics that mix Tamil, cockney and American slang to her tracksuits and hoodies specially sewn from the brightest, boldest African print fabrics, or Mowgli dance moves for ragga beats - M.I.A. creates culture clashes that work. - Courtesy of XL/Beggars.

Lyndsy Fonseca Biography

Birth Name : Lyndsy Marie Fonseca

Date of Birth : 7 January 1987, Oakland, California, USA

Height : 5' 5" (1.65 m)

Occupation : Actress

Fonseca is of half-Portuguese descent. Born in Oakland, California, she was raised first in Alameda and then Moraga. She was discovered there by a manager and agent and immediately moved to Los Angeles for her first pilot season at age 13 in the middle of the school year. The following year she booked her breakthrough role, playing Colleen Carlton on The Young and the Restless with a three-year contract. With that, her parents moved the whole family to Los Angeles. Since the end of her contract, she has booked many television guest spots, television movies, two pilots and an independent feature film.

Actress Lyndsy Fonseca may have started her career in family-friendly Disney shows and romantic comedies, but it was her undeniable dramatic bent that made her a true star. She first gained acclaim as a troubled teen on the long-running daytime soap opera, "The Young and the Restless" (CBS, 1973- ). The role opened up new doors and more projects for the talented actress, including recurring spots on the top-rated CBS sitcom "How I Met Your Mother" (2005- ) and on the popular ABC series "Desperate Housewives" (2004- ) as a member of a secretive family. Fonseca's turns as a superhero's girlfriend in the teen flick "Kick-Ass" (2010), John Cusack's love interest in the comedy feature "Hot Tub Time Machine" (2010), and a lead role as an assassin-in-training on the remake of the film and series "Nikita" (The CW, 2010- ) provided her instant sex symbol status.

Lydia Hearst Biography

Birth Name : Lydia Marie Hearst-Shaw

Date of Birth : 19 September 1984, Wilton, Connecticut, USA

Height : 5' 7" (1.70 m)

Occupation : American actress, fashion model

Lydia Marie Hearst-Shaw was born on September 19, 1984, in New Haven, Connecticut. Lydia is the daughter of kidnapping victim Patty Hearst and her former bodyguard, Bernard Shaw. Lydia is heir to William Randolph Hearst’s media empire, which reports $5 billion a year in annual revenue. Lydia, along with her cousin Amanda, is a Ford model who has appeared on the cover of Vogue on multiple occasions. She has appeared in ads for Prada and Louis Vuitton, and has been a part of campaigns for Clinique, MAC Cosmetics and L’Oreal.

Always inspired by fashion, photography and the arts she was discovered by famed photographer Stephen Meisel who shot her first magazine cover for Vogue Italia in April 2004. She has worked with the greatest photographers in the world including Steven Meisel, Patrick DeMarchelier, Ellen Von Unwerth, Mario Testino, Paulo Roversi, Inez van Lamsweerde & Vinoodh Matadin, Bettina Rheims, Mark Abrams, Peter Lindbergh and Terry Richardson.

Lydia will next be seen playing Alexis in Two Jacks, directed by Bernard Rose - Starring Danny Huston, Sienna Miller, Jack Huston and Jacqueline Bisset. And Micaela in the independent feature film Amnesia directed by William Birrell where she costars with Luke Bracey and Reed Thompson. She is also set to play Desiree in Catwalk to be directed by Anthony Hickox in the summer of 2011.

Lucy Punch Biography

Name : Lucy Punch

Date of Birth : 30 December 1977, London, England, UK

Height : 5' 8" (1.73 m)

Occupation : Actress

Lucy Punch grew up in London and was a member of the National Youth Theatre in her late teens before going to University College London to read History. While she was there she auditioned for TV roles and eventually dropped out to concentrate on acting.

She learned a lot, she says, from working on the short-lived TV series "Let Them Eat Cake" (1999) with Jennifer Saunders and Dawn French and although she has played many serious roles on TV and in film since, it's her comic skills that have shone.

Lucy Punch embodied the confidence of a rising star and the dedication of a seasoned performer every time she stepped foot in front of a camera. The British actress first impressed on a number of made-for-television movies before being cast as a regular on the comedy series "Doc Martin" (ITV, 2004- ) as an eccentric receptionist, and on the sitcom, "The Class" (CBS, 2006-07), as a TV reporter who struggled with coming face-to-face with a former flame. Punch stayed mostly out of the Hollywood limelight for many years and becoming accustomed to parts that required her to play someone's ditzy, pretty sidekick. But it was not long before she (deservedly) shared top billing with A-list movie stars like Steve Carrell in the comedy, "Dinner for Schmucks" (2010), and Anthony Hopkins in the drama, "You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger" (2010), where her turn as a free-spirited call girl marrying one of her clients paved the way for many more challenging roles throughout her long career.

Luciana Barroso Biography

Birth Name : Luciana Bozan Barroso

Date of Birth : 1976, Salta, Argentina

Occupation : Model

Luciana Barroso whose full name is Luciana Bozan Barroso was born in the year 1976 in the country Argentina. She is married to Matt Damon, the famous actor from Hollywood and also is an interior designer by profession. In her times when she was a Miami Beach bartender, she was an aspiring Interior designer and was looking for a break to get into the business. The couple met on a sunny and beautiful day while she was working and it was love at first sight. He couldn't resist her charm and fell head over heels in love with the beautiful and charming damsel. The relationship started a as a love affair but continued to blossom into a beautiful relationship and resulted in the bond of marriage.

From there, he delivered a brief, but acclaimed performance as the titular soldier in "Saving Private Ryan" (1998), followed by a more devious part as a social-climbing killer in "The Talented Mr. Ripley" (1999). Though he stalled a bit with "The Legend of Bagger Vance" (2000) and "All the Pretty Horses" (2000), Damon became a bona fide star by aptly trading one-liners with the likes of George Clooney and Brad Pitt in the stylish action comedy, "Ocean's Eleven" (2001) and its sequels. But Damon became his own man with "The Bourne Identity" (2002), which allowed him to solo drive a successful action franchise that earned big box office dollars and critical acclaim across the board. By the time he landed a meaty leading role in Martin Scorsese's Oscar-winning thriller, "The Departed" (2006), Damon was one of the biggest stars working in Hollywood.

Liv Tyler Biography

Birth Name : Liv Rundgren Tyler

Date of Birth : 1 July 1977, New York City, New York, USA

Height : 5' 10" (1.78 m)

Occupation : Actress

Liv Tyler was born on July 1, 1977, in Portland, Maine. Her mother, Bebe Buell, a model and former Playboy playmate, allowed her daughter to believe her father was Todd Rundgren. She spent the first twelve years of her life as Liv Rundgren. When her biological father, Steven Tyler, began coming around with his daughter Mia, Liv Tyler noticed that they looked almost identical and her mother told her the truth. She changed her last name from Rundgren to Tyler.At the age of fourteen, Liv Tyler tried her hand at modeling, but soon turned her sights to acting. In 1994 she was cast with Alicia Silverstone in the video for Aerosmith's song Crazy and the provocative video helped to popularize the song and get Liv Tyler noticed.Shortly thereafter, Tyler was cast in two films, Silent Fall in 1994 and Heavy in 1995.

Liv Tyler's career began with fashion modeling and press curiosity over the fact that she was the daughter of legendary rock band Aerosmith's front man Steven Tyler. But she quickly transcended her rock royalty status and proved to be a considerable talent on the big screen, lending a beguiling luminous beauty and a calming kindness to independent films like Bernardo Bertolucci's "Stealing Beauty" (1996). Hollywood was at somewhat of a loss over Tyler's unusual onscreen presence, which was too mature and ethereal for standard teen films. She was underused in blockbusters like "Armageddon" (1998) but steadily created empathetic and introspective characters for independent directors like Robert Altman and James Mangold. Her highest profile films were Peter Jackson's "Lord of the Rings" trilogy, which deftly melded Tyler's otherworldly serenity with a hugely popular fantasy franchise. After she hit the age of 30, the actress yearned to stretch her range and reached larger audiences with the thriller "The Strangers" (2008) and the comic adaptation "The Incredible Hulk" (2008).

Lisa Snowdon Biography

Name : Lisa Snowdon

Date of Birth : 23 January 1971, Welwyn Garden City, England, UK

Height : 5' 10" (1.78 m)

Occupation : Model

Lisa Snowdon was born in 1971 in Welwyn Garden City, England. The eldest of three sisters, she moved to London where she worked briefly as a waitress. A graduate of the Italia Conti School of Performing Arts, Lisa was spotted by a model agency at age 19 while in a London nightclub. Since then, she has appeared in fashion publications such as Vogue, Marie Claire and Cosmopolitan, as well as numerous men's magazines including Maxim, FHM, Esquire, and GQ. Lisa's also starred in television commercials for Special K, Lynx Deodorant, and Faberge's "Addiction," among others.

A television career was a natural progression and she currently hosts Britain's Next Top Model on Living. She's also had loads of mini presenting roles on shows like Something for the Weekend and Richard & Judy. She was a massive hit when she took on the Richard & Judy main presenting role with her friend, comedian David Walliams for a short stint.

As if modelling and television presenting wasn't enough (no wonder there aren't any decent jobs left for us!) Lisa stood in as guest co-host on the Capital Radio breakfast show alongside Johnny Vaughan. Although Denise Van Outen was the main host, she eventually threw in the towel and Lisa was announced as the new, permanent co-host. The 2008 series of Strictly Come Dancing kicked off with Lisa taking part alongside her dance partner Brendan Cole. Before you ask, she didn't win. But she was invited back to do a little boogie on the 2009 final.

Lisa Marie Presley Biography

Name : Lisa Marie Presley

Date of Birth : 1 February 1968, Memphis, Tennessee, USA

Height : 5' 3" (1.60 m)

Occupation : Singer-songwriter

Lisa Marie Presley was born at Baptist Memorial Hospital in Memphis, Tennessee, exactly nine months after her parents' wedding. She lived at Graceland, Elvis' Memphis estate, until her parents separated in 1972. Following their separation and subsequent divorce, she divided her time between living at Graceland with her father and in Beverly Hills with her mother. This arrangement continued until her father died on August 16, 1977, after which she lived exclusively in Beverly Hills.

In 1988, she married musician Danny Keough and had two children. The marriage lasted five and a half years. During the early 1990s, Presley was in the public eye for establishing or attending many Elvis-related events. Twenty days after her split with Keough, Presley married Michael Jackson. Their marriage became the focal point of tabloids throughout its short life. Though she swore that she was at one point madly in love with him, Presley filed for divorce in January 1996.

Still in the limelight, Presley appeared on the cover of Vogue and was also in the news after establishing 'Elvis Presley's Memphis', a now successful restaurant and nightclub. She was also a presenter at MTV and VH1 awards shows, and established her own Scientology centre in Memphis. When she turned thirty and became hugely wealthy, she was still the subject of media rumour. Her engagement and subsequent break-up with John Oszajca and then romance, and brief marriage, to Nicolas Cage in 2002 were popular news stories.

Lindsay Price Biography

Birth Name : Lindsay Jalyn Price

Date of Birth : 6 December 1976, Arcadia, California, USA

Height : 5' 7" (1.70 m)

Occupation : Actress

Lindsay Jaylyn Price (born December 6, 1976) is an American television actress, best known for her roles as Janet Sosna on Beverly Hills, 90210 and as Victory Ford on Lipstick Jungle. She also is known for her work on soap operas such as All My Children and The Bold and the Beautiful.

After her stint on “All My Children”, Price landed another recurring gig as Michael Lai, the successful career girl on the CBS daytime soap, “The Bold and the Beautiful” (1995-97). Price then made the leap from daytime to a prime time soap with her regular role Janet Sosna on the long-running “Beverly Hills 90210” (1998-2000). Though her role started during the show’s last two seasons, Price made an immediate impact with audiences. More appearances on popular prime time shows followed: as Emily on the WB’s short-lived “Jack & Jill” (2000-01); as Sharon Weizak the USA Network’s “The Dead Zone” (where she met fiancée, producer Shawn Piller); and a three episode stint as Amanda on CBS’s “Becker” (2001-03).

Price didn’t limit herself to television. Though her feature debut was in the kid’s flick, “Purple People Eater” (1988), the actress didn’t appear in another film until “One Hundred Percent” (1998), an indie never-was directed by Eric Koyanagi. After a small part in the Gwyneth Paltrow comedy, “View From the Top” (2003), Price had a prominent role in the barely released “No Turning Back” (2003), the story of an illegal immigrant who accidentally runs over a child and goes on the run with his daughter.

Lily Donaldson Biography

Name : Lily Donaldson

Date of Birth : January 27, 1987

Birth Place : London, England

Occupation : Model

Born in London, England, on January 27, 1987, Lily may have been destined to become a model from the outset -- her father, Matthew, is a professional photographer. Lily grew up in London always posing for the camera, and though she never really planned on being a model, her upbringing jolted her eventual career.

Lily’s modeling career began unexpectedly when she was 13. While shopping with her parents in Camden Town, England, scouts from Select Model Agency immediately noticed her beauty and signed her to a contract.

Donaldson was born in London, and educated at the Camden School for Girls, living in Kentish Town with her parents. Since being scouted by Select Model Management in 2003 at the age of 16 while shopping in Camden, Donaldson has landed campaigns for fashion houses such as Dior, Jil Sander, and Dolce & Gabbana and is the face of British luxury goods house Burberry.

In the May 2007 issue of American Vogue, she was featured on the cover with fellow models Doutzen Kroes, Caroline Trentini, Raquel Zimmermann, Sasha Pivovarova, Agyness Deyn, Coco Rocha, Hilary Rhoda, Chanel Iman, and Jessica Stam as the “World’s Next Top Models.” Later, in the September 2007 issue of British Vogue, she was named a "Head Girl", a model to watch out for in the upcoming season.

Lily Aldridge Biography

Name : Lily Aldridge

Date of Birth : 15 November 1985, Los Angeles, California, USA

Height : 5' 8½" (1.74 m)

Occupation : Model

In her early life and family, Lily Aldridge was born November 15, 1985 with birth name is Lily Maud Aldridge at St. Joseph’s Hospital in City of Santa Monica (western Los Angeles (LA) County), California (CA), United State of America (USA). Lily Aldridge hails from a fashion-oriented family. Lily Aldridge is the daughter of British (United Kingdom (UK)) artist Alan Aldridge and beautiful American female model Laura Lyons. Lily Aldridge’s siblings include half-sister, Saffron Aldridge, who was a multiyear face of Ralph Lauren in the ‘90s; her half-brother, Miles Aldridge, who is a fashion photographer married to ‘90s model Kristen McMenamy; and her sister, Ruby Aldridge, who was the face of Marc by Marc Jacobs.

Lily Aldridge is a brunette model best known for her work with Victoria's Secret and for her 2006 TV commercial for Levi's Jeans. Lily Aldridge is dark-haired, with broad cheekbones and smile, olive skin, and a fetching gap in her front teeth. Her father, Alan Aldridge, is the psychedelic British illustrator known for his collaboration with Andy Warhol and, among other things, for doing the cover of The Who's second album, A Quick One (1966), and sleeve art for Elton John's 1975 album Captain Fantastic and the Brown Dirt Cowboy. Alan Aldridge moved to Los Angeles in 1980 and Lily Aldridge was born there in 1985. Lily Aldridge began modeling in the early 2000s, appearing on the cover of Spanish Vogue in 2003. Her 2006 "I Walk the Line" commercial for Levi's Jeans brought her fresh attention. In 2009, Lily Aldridge gained a little more fame when she hit the runway for the annual holiday Victoria's Secret Fashion Show. She appeared in the video for the 2008 Kings of Leon single "Use Somebody," after which she began dating the band's front man, Caleb Followill; the two were married on 12 May 2011.

Lil Kim Biography

Birth Name : Kimberly Denise Jones

Date of Birth : 11 July 1974, Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn, New York City

Height : 4' 11" (1.50 m)

Occupations : Rapper, actress, model

Kimberly Denise Jones, was born on July 11, 1974, to parents Linwood Jones and Ruby Mae. She is of Native American and African American descent. Standing just 4 feet 11 inches tall Kimberly Jones seems much less than being just your average girl in the hood, but when "Lil' Kim" was introduced to the world she became known for her provocative over-the-top outfits, glamorous blonde hair-dos, pornographic attitude, sexy man-crazed looks, and a groundbreaking triumph that eventually secured her place as one of the few female rappers in a male-dominated industry. A native of Brooklyn, New York, Kimberly was born into a broken home, by age 9 her parents had filed for divorce, leaving her and older brother Christopher under the custody of their father. A rebellious child living under the strict rules of her dad, Kimberly and her father had constant fights, and eventually she ran away from home. As a teenager she lived with friends, drug-dealing boyfriends, and, occasionally, on the streets.

Two years later Kim was in court defending herself against a perjury charge. She was eventually convicted of lying to a federal grand jury about her knowledge of a 2001 shooting outside of New York's influential radio station Hot 97 FM. Kim had claimed she wasn't aware that her manager and a friend were present, but surveillance cameras proved the two were there. In September of that year, the new album The Naked Truth appeared while its "Lighters Up" single was dominating urban radio. Documenting the rapper's preparations for incarceration, the BET reality show Lil' Kim: Countdown to Lockdown first aired in March 2006 and became the most watched series debut in the network's history. On July 3, 2006, she was released on good behavior after serving ten months of her 12-month sentence. Kim exited the prison in a silver Rolls Royce. ~ Stephen Thomas Erlewine, All Music Guide.

Leona Lewis Biography

Birth Name : Leona Louise Lewis
Date of Birth : 3 April 1985, Islington, London, England, UK
Height : 5' 7" (1.70 m)
Occupations : Singer-songwriter, recording artist
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Leona Lewis was born in Islington, London in 1985 to Joe and Marie. She is the middle child of three, with two brothers, Kyle and Bradley. They grew up in Highbury and went to school at Ambler Primary School in Finsbury Park. Leona wrote her first song at the age of 12, and at the age of 13, she won the Lady D under-18 talent show at the Hackney Empire. She attended the Sylvia Young Stage School and the Brit academy. Although her big passion is singing, she is also a keen dancer and actor. Before auditioning for The X Factor, Lewis recorded an album of her own songs called Twilight, but the album was never released.

Leona Lewis rightfully deserves to be dubbed the next Amy Winehouse for the British singer is getting closer to breaking the States market. Her single "Bleeding Love" has become popular in the U.S. and claimed the 21st spot on Billboard Hot Singles chart in only four weeks after its release. "Spirit", her album that had gained novelty success in her home country, is slated to take impact in the States on April 8 with Americanizing approach taken through the assistance of Akon. The renown R'n'B singer has revealed that he produces the track "Forgive Me" for Lewis. With sterling cast behind the set, Lewis is giving the music industry the re-shakeup its been dying for. Furthermore, behind all the glamor and the success, Lewis spent a piece of her time to give back to the community by lending her single "Footprints on the Sand" as the official theme song for the 2008 Sports Relief.

Leisha Hailey Biography

Birth Name : Leisha Gardner Hailey

Gender : Female

Born : 7-11-1971

Birthplace : Okinawa, Japan

Occupation : Actress, musician

Leisha was born on July 11, 1971 in Okinawa, Japan to Robert and Jane Hailey. She grew up in Bellevue Nebraska and attended Bellevue West High School where she played the leading male role of "Oliver" in her school play. Her grandparents are Lillian and the late Carlos Hailey, she has one sister named Kaydra and a dog named Bandit. She is a 5'6" (1.68 m) vegetarian and currently dates fashion designer Nina Garduno.

With her Academy classmate Heather Grody, she formed the pop duo The Murmurs in 1991. In the 1990s, they released several albums and toured on the Lilith Fair. In 2001, Hailey and Grody changed their name to Gush. The band split when Hailey began working for The L Word. In 2005, Hailey founded Marfa Records.

Hailey's first major role was in the 1997 movie All Over Me, and around this time, she played a struggling musician on an episode of Boy Meets World. Since 2003, she has starred as Alice Pieszecki, a bisexual journalist, on The L Word.

In September 2008, Showtime announced Hailey would star in a "pilot presentation spinoff" The Farm of The L Word, to be written and produced by Ilene Chaiken, creator and executive producer of The L Word. It was announced in April 2009 that the show would not be picked up by Showtime.Hailey's award winning indie film La Cucina premiered on Showtime in December 2009, where she plays a straight pregnant newlywed.