Yasmin Le Bon Biography

Birth Name : Yasmin Parvaneh

Date of Birth : 29 October 1964, Oxfordshire, England, UK

Height : 5' 9" (1.75 m)

Occupation : Model

Yasmin Le Bon was born Yasmin Parvaneh on October 29, 1964, in Oxford, England. She was the second child, after daughter Nadreh, of Iradj and Patricia Parvaneh. Growing up, Yasmin was very shy, but strong-willed; as a result, she was considered rather aloof by her peers. A fan of soccer and auto racing, Yasmin didn't date much as a teenager. "Boys were terrified of her," her mother later recalled. Still, Yasmin did well in school.

In 1981, Yasmin was discovered by a local modeling agency while working a part-time sales job. Over the next year or so, she competed in local beauty contests, appeared in a few fashion shows, and did a lot of hand modeling. Concerned about her apparent lack of direction, friends and family encouraged Yasmin to take up modeling full-time.

Yasmin Le Bon took a train to London in 1983, to visit the Models 1 Agency. Although she arrived drenched from a London downpour, she was signed on a trial basis -something "quite radical. Although she found difficulty getting magazine covers (especially in America), she consistently impressed clients with her professionalism, and her reputation blossomed accordingly.

After a brief hiatus from modeling in early 1986, Yasmin Le Bon continued with more success than ever, and appeared alongside Estelle Halliday in a Guess ad campaign in 1987. By 1989, she was one of the highest-paid models in the world.

Despite her busy personal life, she is still working. In the spring of 2001, Yasmin Le Bon, by then a 36-year-old mother of three, modeled bikinis for Marks & Spencer. In 2003, she signed an exclusive deal with designer Matthew Williamson and his sponsor, Ariel Essential. Yasmin Le Bon insists, and it's clear that she'll continue to push the boundaries of the fashion world.

Wynonna Judd Biography

Birth Name : Christina Claire Ciminella

Date of Birth : 30 May 1964, Ashland, Kentucky, USA

Height : 5' 5½" (1.66 m)

Occupations : Singer

Judd was born Christina Ciminella in Ashland, KY, on May 30, 1964. Her mother, Naomi (then known by her birth name, Diana), was still in high school at the time, and her biological father abandoned the family almost immediately; Naomi married another man, Michael Ciminella, to create a traditional family unit. In 1968, they moved to Los Angeles, but the marriage disintegrated in 1972. Wynonna spent parts of the next few years living on welfare and returned to Kentucky with her mother in 1976.

In 1979, Wynonna, Naomi and younger half-sister Ashley Judd settled in Franklin, Tennessee and began searching for a record deal in nearby Nashville. In 1983, an unprecedented sit-down audition with RCA Nashville was successful, and indicated great things to come for country's newest duo The Judds. Several years and awards later, Naomi announced that she had contracted Hepatitis C during her nursing career from a needle stick. Their final concert on December 4, 1991 indicated an end to country music's most influential duo, and a beginning for someone who would break new records within the industry. Wynonna's first solo album, 'Wynonna', sold over 5 million copies, a first in the industry. Today, Wynonna continues her successful recording career along with raising children Elijah Judd and Grace Pauline from her first marriage to Nashville's Arch Kelley.

Winona Ryder Biography

NAME: Winona Ryder

OCCUPATION: Film Actress

BIRTH DATE: October 29, 1971 (Age: 40)

EDUCATION: American Conservatory Theater

PLACE OF BIRTH: Winona, Michigan

Winona Ryder was born Winona Horowitz and named after the town in which she was born, Winona, Minnesota. She grew up in a ranch commune in Northern California which had no electricity. She is the goddaughter of Timothy Leary.

Her parents were friends of Beat poet Allen Ginsberg and once edited a book called "Shaman Woman Mainline Lady," an anthology of writings on the drug experience in literature, which included one piece by Louisa May Alcott. Winona Ryder was later to star as Jo in this author's Little Women (1994).

Ryder found herself under intense public scrutiny in December 2001 after she was charged with shoplifting more than $5,000 worth of merchandise from Saks Fifth Avenue in Beverly Hills, California. Several types of prescription medication were found in her possession at the time of the arrest. Every step of Ryder's journey through the judicial process made the news. Despite pleading not guilty, she was convicted of vandalism and grand theft in November 2002. Ryder was sentenced to 480 hours of community service and three years' probation. She was also ordered to pay several fines and undergo counseling.

Since then, Ryder has kept a relatively low profile and appeared in only a handful of films. In 2006, she had a leading role in A Scanner Darkly, the animated adaptation of a Philip K. Dick novel. The futuristic story explores the impact of Substance D, a mysterious, addictive drug, on its main characters. That year, Ryder also had a lead role in the independent film The Darwin Awards, which was shown at the Sundance Film Festival.

Willa Holland Biography

Birth Name : Willa Joanna Chance Holland

Date of Birth : 18 June 1991, Los Angeles, California, USA

Height : 5' 7" (1.70 m)

Occupation : Actress, model

Willa Joanna Chance Holland[1] (born June 18, 1991) is an American actress and fashion model. She is best known for her role as Kaitlin Cooper, Marissa Cooper's devious younger sister, on the television series The O.C.. She also appeared as Agnes Andrews on The CW series Gossip Girl. She most recently provided the voice for Aqua in Kingdom Hearts Birth by Sleep.

Her first screen acting role was in the small budget film Ordinary Madness, on which her father worked as a cinematographer. Since then, Willa has appeared in projects with many established actors. In 2008, Willa played Susan Sarandon's daughter in director John Stockwell's Middle of Nowhere, which premiered at the 2008 Toronto Film Festival. Also in 2008, Willa starred alongside Colin Firth in Genova, which tells the story of a father who, after the tragic death of his wife, takes his two daughters in search of new beginnings. Having never played the piano, Willa learned to play a Chopin piece for this film.

Willa also played a role in the blockbuster Legion, starring Paul Bettany, and has wrapped production on Straw Dogs, alongside Alexander Skarsgard and James Marsden. Her other credits include a recurring role on CW's Gossip Girl.

Whitney Port Biography

Birth Name: Whitney Eve Port

Date of Birth : 4 March 1985, Los Angeles, California, USA

Height : 5' 10" (1.78 m)

Occupation : Television personality, Fashion designer

Port was born and raised in Los Ang, California. She is the daughter of Jeffery and Vicki Lyn Port. She has an older brother, Ryan, an older sister, Ashley, and two younger sisters, Paige and Jade. Her father, Jeff, is the owner of a fashion company called Swarm. She comes from a Jewish family. Whitney Port attended Warner Avenue Elementary School. She then went to Crossroads School for the Arts and Sciences for middle school and high school. In 2007, Port graduated from the University of Southern California (USC) with a degree in gender studies.

In episode six of the first season, Port had her first experience as a runway model. She walked in a DKNY Jeans show at Los Angeles Fashion Week. Whitney again plays the role of model in episode eleven, when she appears on a "Good Morning America" segment with André Leon Talley the editor-at-large of "Vogue" magazine. When modeling Hilary Swank's dress from the 2005 Academy Awards, Whitney tripped and fell during the live televised segment, but composed herself after the slip. Lisa Love, a "Teen Vogue" editor and Whitney's supervisor, praised her for handling the incident with class and grace under fire.

In December 2008 Whitney’s own spin-off, “The City” launched on MTV. She moved across the country and the cameras followed as she begin working for Diane Von Furstenberg. In Season 2 of “The City,” Whitney was working at People’s Revolution and on her fashion line, Whitney Eve.

Vivica A. Fox Biography

NAME: Vivica Anjanetta Fox

OCCUPATION: Film Actress, Television Actress, Reality Television Star, Television Producer

BIRTH DATE: July 30, 1964 (Age: 47)

EDUCATION: Arlington High School, Indianapollis

PLACE OF BIRTH: South Bend, Indiana

Vivica A. Fox was born in South Bend, Indiana July 30, 1964, and is the daughter of Everlyena, a pharmaceutical technician, and William Fox, a private school administrator. She is of Native American and African American descent and is proud of her heritage. She is a graduate of Arlington High School in Indianapolis, Indiana, and, after graduating, moved to California to attend college. Vivica went to Golden West College and graduated with an Associate Art degree in Social Sciences. While in California, she started acting professionally, first on soap operas such as "Generations" (1989), "Days of Our Lives" (1965) and "The Young and the Restless" (1973). In another early role, she played Patti LaBelle's fashion designer daughter, Charisse Chamberlain, on the NBC TV series "Out All Night" (1992).

Fox returned back to the big screen and was immediately cast alongside Halle Berry and Lela Rochon in "Why Do Fools Fall In Love" (1998), a feature film about the life and death of Frankie Lymon. She continued her work on the big screen and on television before picking up another television project. "City Of Angels" (2000), a television series that co-starred Fox as Dr. Lillian Price. In 2001, Fox was cast in "Little Secrets" and the following year she portrayed a WNBA star in the cross-dressing comedy "Juwanna Mann" (2002). After a role opposite Cuba Gooding, Jr., in the dismal comedy "Boat Trip" (2002), Fox was cast in one of best and most visible roles to date, playing the hard-hitting Vernita Green, one of the cadre of assassins marked for retribution by The Bride (Uma Thurman) in writer-director Quentin Tarantino's "Kill Bill, Vol. 1" (2003).

Victoria Silvstedt Biography

Birth Name : Karen Victoria Silverstedt

Date of Birth : 19 September 1974, Skelleftehamn, Västerbottens län, Sweden

Height : 5' 10½" (1.79 m)

Occupation : Model, actress, singer, television personality

Karen Victoria Silvstedt (born 19 sep. 1974 (38 years ago), in Skellefteå, Västerbotten County) is a Swedish model, Playboy Playmate of the Year, actress and singer. She is also a radio and TV hostess, a published singer, and a former national-level skier in Sweden. At the age of 16 Silvstedt competed in a "Best Fake Orgasm" contest at a local bar. The contestants were Silvstedt and 10 men. She won a brand-new TV. When she came home, she told her mother she won it at a game of bingo.

After the stunning beauty became a Finalist at the 1993 Miss World Pageant, Victoria was discovered by a Parisian modeling agent and began a career in high fashion working for highly selective fashion giants such as Chanel, Christian Dior, Loris Azzaro, Givenchy, Valentino and Giorgio Armani.

It was in the fall of 1996 when Victoria’s career path took another unexpected turn. Hugh Hefner offered Victoria an opportunity to do a “quick photo shoot” for Playboy. Since Playboy Magazine is not distributed in Sweden and the European equivalents have far less visibility than in the US, Victoria had no idea what she was about to do.

As with everything that she does, Victoria persevered. Within a year, Victoria not only dropped the playmate stigma, but elevated herself as a world-class, high-fashion model by landing one of the most sought-after modeling contracts in the world – the GUESS? Print Ad and Spokesmodel campaign for 1998.

V.V Brown Biography

Birth name : Vanessa Brown

Born : 24 October 1983 (age 28) Northampton, Northamptonshire, England

Occupations : Singer, songwriter, model, producer

Vanessa Brown (born October 24, 1983), also known as VV Brown, is an English singer, songwriter, model, and producer signed to Universal Records in the United Kingdom and to EMI’s Capitol Records in the United States. She attended Overstone Park school near Northampton, which her parents own and work at. Brown learned to play the piano, developed her vocals and took classical and jazz piano lessons at a musical arts school which she attended at the weekend. Growing up, Brown listened to early 20th-century jazz artists like Aretha Franklin, Ella Fitzgerald and Dizzy Gillespie. Brown gained four "A" grades at her A levels, studying at Kingsthorpe Upper School (now Kingsthorpe Community College) a year early and was offered places at five top UK universities including Oxford, King's College London, LSE and York. She declined the offers to follow a career in music.

Brown moved back to London and began performing in bars and clubs around London. She was rediscovered by executive Darcus Beese and signed to Island Records. Traveling Like the Light was then recorded in 2007-2008. Brown said that most of the lyrics on the album (such as those from the singles: “Crying Blood,” “Leave!” and “Shark In the Water”) are about a failed affair Brown endured. The album seen the release of four singles Crying Blood, Leave!, Shark in the Water and Game Over. Shark in the Water charted in both UK, French and USA charts. It received gold status in America and France in 2009.

On September 14, 2011, Brown announced that the first single off her yet untitled sophomore album would be called ‘Children’ featuring Chiddy of Chiddy Bang. The song hit US iTunes on September 20, 2011. On 4 October 2011, Brown confirmed the title of her second album as Lollipops & Politics as well as releasing the full tracklist.

Trista Sutter Biography

Name : Trista Sutter

Born : October 28, 1972 (age 39) Indianapolis, Indiana, USA

Occupation : Actress

Trista Rehn Sutter was born on October 28, 1972 in Indianapolis, Indiana. She became somewhat of a celebrity when she participated in the modern-day matchmaking reality shows, The Bachelor and The Bachelorette. Before she went on to meet her one true love through a televised courtship, Rehn was a student of Parkway Central High School in Chesterfield, Missouri, afterwhich she pursued her tertiary education at Indiana University and the University of Miami, where she obtained a degree in physical therapy. As a resident of Miami, she worked two jobs, one as a physical therapist and the other as a dancer for Miami Heat.

Though she lost that season to winner Amanda Marsh (finishing as the runner-up), she generated such popularity among viewers that ABC created a 2003 spin-off, The Bachelorette, and devoted the first season squarely to her, beginning in January of the said year. Over the course of the following 12 months, Rehn met, fell in love with, and married firefighter Ryan Sutter, and ABC promptly televised the couple's lavish December wedding, to spectacular ratings.

In February 2007, the Sutters told People magazine that they were expecting their first child in summer of 2007. During her seventh month of pregnancy, Trista was diagnosed with gestational diabetes. In July 2007, Maxwell Alston was born four weeks early stemming from pregnancy complications via c-section after a failed induction/stalled labor. Maxwell was first revealed to the public on the cover of Us Weekly magazine and made his first on-camera appearance in a video diary series Trista recorded for Momlogic.com.

Trinny Woodall Biography

Name: Trinny Woodall

Born: 8/02/1964 (Age: 47)

From: London, UK

Occupation : Fashion guru, television presenter, author

Relationship status: Married

Trinny Woodall (born Sarah-Jane Woodall; 8 February 1964 in Marylebone, London) is an English fashion advisor and designer, television presenter and author. She was raised in a wealthy family and was privately educated. After ten years working in marketing – and battling alcoholism – Woodall met Susannah Constantine in 1994, whom she joined to write a weekly fashion column for The Daily Telegraph. This led to the launch of their own internet fashion-advice business and the release of their first fashion-advice book, both of which ventures ended in failure.

They obviously looked alright on TV and managed not to say 't**s' very often so were signed up for the show 'What Not To Wear' on BBC Two. They became household names for their rather posh, frank views on what women were wearing and, from what we remember, their bra sizes.

What normally happens with things like this is people get a little too big for their boots. Trinny (and Susannah) being no exception. They switched to ITV in a big-money deal, just at the point when most of the public seemed to find them more annoying than ever before. Suffice to say, their shows there didn't do as well as the original, being shunted around the schedules more than often than you could say bra.

Tori Spelling Biography

Birth Name : Victoria Davey Spelling

Date of Birth : 16 May 1973, Los Angeles, California, USA

Height : 5' 6" (1.68 m)

Occupation : Actress

Actress, author. Born Victoria Davey "Tori" Spelling on May 16, 1973, in Los Angeles, California, as the oldest of two children. Her mother, Candy Spelling, is best known for her work as an author. Spelling's father, Aaron Spelling, was a Hollywood director known for producing the TV hits Charlie's Angels, Dynasty and Fantasy Island. As a result of her father's success, Tori was raised in the lap of luxury; her family lived in the largest single-family home in the state of California, a mansion featuring more than 100 rooms including a gift-wrapping room, doll museum and bowling alley.

Although Spelling's reality show had performed relatively well, her stint as a bed and breakfast proprietor proved to be less successful. For the third season of "Inn Love," the name of the show was officially changed in 2008 to "Tori & Dean: Home Sweet Hollywood" when the couple abandoned Chateau La Rue and returned to the familiar surroundings of Beverly Hills. Amidst the upheaval in her relentlessly televised private life, Spelling managed to make two appearances in a pair of gay/bisexual-themed independent films - the H.P. Lovecraft-inspired horror feature, "Cthulhu" (2008), and the romantic comedy with a twist, "Kiss the Bride" (2008). Much to the delight of fans, she reprised her role as Donna Martin in a pair of 2009 episodes on the revamped "90210" (The CW, 2008- ). Buoyed by the continued success of "Home Sweet Hollywood," Spelling and her new home network launched the spin-off "Tori & Dean: sTORIbook Weddings" (Oxygen, 2011- ), where the titular couple regularly assisted one lucky bride-to-be in making her upcoming nuptials an event to remember.

Toni Collette Biography

Birth Name : Antonia Collette

Date of Birth : 1 November 1972, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

Height : 5' 8" (1.73 m)

Occupation : Actress, musician

She was born on November 1, 1972, in Blacktown, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. She is the first of three children born to Bob Collette, a truck driver, and Judy Collette, a customer service representative. From age 6 she was brought up in suburban Sydney. At the age of 11 she showed her phenomenal acting skills when she faked appendicitis out of boredom and longing for attention; her act was so convincing that doctors had to remove her appendix, even though the test showed nothing wrong with it.

The 2002 comedy "About a Boy," based on Nick Hornby's best-selling novel - which gave Collette her largest profile role since "Sixth Sense" - provided her to opportunity to knock it out of the park as a chronically depressed and single earth-mother struggling to raise a precocious but geeky son (Nicholas Hoult). She went on receive glowing reviews and an Australia Film Institute Award for Best Leading Actress for playing a geologist who becomes entangled with an Asian businessman in the Aussie indie, "Japanese Story" (2003), and was a welcome presence in the underappreciated comedy "The Last Shot" (2004), playing opposite Matthew Broderick and Alec Baldwin. Nia Vardalos' "Connie & Carla" (2004) was a comedic misfire, but Collette fared much better when paired with co-star Cameron Diaz in director Curtis Hanson's dramedy, "In Her Shoes" (2005), which cast the actresses as tight-knit but polar opposite sisters.

The Black Balloon" (2008) and "Hey Hey It's Esther Blueburger" (2008). Later that year, the Showtime original comedy series "The United States of Tara," about a woman with multiple personalities, proved to be the perfect small screen vehicle for a woman known for inhabiting wildly diverse characters.

Tinsley Mortimer Biography

Birth Name : Tinsley Randolph Mercer

Date of Birth : 11 August 1976, Richmond, Virginia, USA

Nationality : American

Known for : Reality show High Society

Mortimer was born in Virginia. and grew up in Richmond, VA. Her father is George Riley Mercer Jr., a real-estate investor, and her mother is Dale Mercer, an interior designer. Her paternal grandfather, George Riley Mercer Sr., founded Mercer Rug Cleansing in 1936. Mortimer is reportedly a descendant of Thomas Jefferson and relatives of Patrick Henry and James Madison. She grew up with one sister, Dabney Mercer. Mortimer attended the Lawrenceville School, where she was a member of the Kirby House. She went to University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, before transferring to Columbia University, where she was a member of St. Anthony Hall. She graduated from Columbia with a BA in art history.

Her husband's family is considered one of New York's oldest. They are descended from the colonial leader Robert Livingston; John Jay, the first chief justice of the Supreme Court; and Henry Morgan Tilford, a former president of Standard Oil of California.

Tinsley is considered the most visible and photographed socialite in New York. Her handbag line, Samantha Thavasa by Tinsley Mortimer, debuted in winter 2006 with its American flagship store on the Upper East Side. In summer 2007, she became the beauty ambassador of Christian Dior. In fall 2007, she introduced her first clothing collection, Riccimie by Tinsley Mortimer, sold exclusively in Japan.