Rose McGowan Biography

Name : Rose McGowan

Birth date : September 5, 1973 

Birth place : Florence, Italy 

Height : 5' 3'' 

Nationality : Italian 

Profession : Actress, model

Rose McGowan was born in Florence, Italy in 1975 and was raised in Italy on a commune of the Children of God cult. Her parents moved back to the United States when Rose was ten. They didn't want anything to do with American culture, however, and Rose had never spoken English until then. She had never seen a movie before either, and she wasn't even aware that movies and television existed. Her education was limited to "little schools where the kids laid around listening to Kurt Vonnegut." All the traditional education she recieved was from her mother. In spite of the atmosphere she grew up in, even from early on Rose was very un-hippie and never bought into that lifestyle. Rose left the commune when she was fifteen. She then worked in a variety of jobs, and often had to lie about her age to get them. She worked as a waitress, sales clerk, ticket taker and other minimum wage jobs. She was even forced to live on the streets for a while. 

Her first acting opportunity was in 1992's Encino Man. After that, she waited another three years before being in another movie. Her next film was Gregg Araki's Doom Generation. Araki had met her outside a gym while she was in LA to attend arts school, and he decided to cast her in his Sundance entry. Although much of Rose's fame has come from her more commercial films like Biodome and Scream, most of her roles have been in independant films. While McGowan enjoys making movies, her first love is traditional art. Rather than creatin art (like her father), she would rather be a curator and revive museums. She feels that museums have become unfriendly to younger people, and dreams of opening them up so that the average person can connect with them.

Sarah Jessica Parker Biography

Name : Sarah Jessica Parker

Birthdate : 25 March 1965 

Birthplace : Nelsonville, Ohio 

Height : 5' 4'' 

Education : American Ballet Theatre
Professional Children's School, New York 

Nationality : American 

Occupation : Actress 

Best Known As : The star of TV's Sex and the City 

Spouse(s) : Matthew Broderick (1997–present)

Sarah Jessica was born in Nelsonville, Ohio on March 25th, 1965. Her parents divorced when she was one and her mother later remarried. A born entertainer, she appeared in her first television special, The Little Match Girl, when she was eight years old. Parker studied ballet with the Cincinnati Ballet and American Ballet Theater, and worked on her singing with the Metropolitan Opera. At age 8, she saw an ad in the local newspaper announcing an audition for a production of HC Andersen's "The Little Match Girl". Sarah convinced her mother to allow her to try-out, and she got the part. Sarah, who grew up in a family with limited money, welcomed the opportunity to make some money of her own. 

When Sarah Jessica was 11, her stepfather decided to move the family to New York and start a trucking business of his own. Sarah and her brother, Timothy Britten Parker, soon began to win parts in various on and off Broadway productions. Sarah found herself playing Broadway's third Annie, and soon began taking classes in order to save her voice. Growing up, Sarah danced with the National American Ballet Theater and sang with the Metropolitan Opera. In 1979, Sarah got a role in the feature film "Rich Kids", opposite John Lithgow. Three years later, she gained national recognition, starring in the short lived sitcom "Square Pegs". A few motion pictures followed throughout the 80's, as well as a couple of TV films and series. The 1984 Musical Drama "Footloose", co-starring Kevin Bacon and Lori Singer, brought Sarah a "Young Artist Award" for Best Young Actress. 

Sarah's major breakthrough was in 1991, when she starred in Steve Martin's major comedy "L.A. Story". Her hilarious performance as the gum popping valley girl, had critics standing and cheering everywhere. The 1992 hit comedy "Honeymoon in Vegas" brought Sarah a one year relationship with co-star Nicolas Cage. Some time later, Sarah had a brief fling with the late John F. Kennedy Jr. and became an attractive tabloid newsmaker. In November 1991, Sarah met Matthew Broderick, who, at the time, was directing her brother Timothy in a play. Three months later, they had their first date, and the couple moved in together in 1992. Five years later, Sarah announced her desire to marry Broderick, live on the David Letterman show. Directly after the show, Matthew proposed to Sarah, and three months later, on May 19, 1997, they married. Sarah and Mat currently live in Soho, New York, with their border collie, Sally. 

With her sexy AND funny image in tow, Sarah Jessica kept herself BUSY on the big screen, working with Nicolas Cage and James Caan in Honeymoon in Vegas, Bette Midler in Hocus Pocus, Bruce Willis in Striking Distance, Ed Wood with Johnny Depp, Miami Rhapsody with Antonio Banderas, The First Wives Club, Extreme Measures (with Hugh Grant and Gene Hackman) and Mars Attacks!. Not content to work solely on the big screen, Sarah Jessica squeezed in several Broadway and Off-Broadway productions as well as starting her sexy HBO series Sex and the City in 1998. She won a Golden Globe for that role in 2000. Sex and the City's successful run came to an end on February 22nd, 2004, amid much media hoopla. She still managed to get some more film work done, appearing opposite Brendan Fraser in Dudley Do-Right and Alec Baldwin in State and Main.

It was confirmed by their representatives on April 28, 2009 that Parker and husband Matthew Broderick are expecting twin girls through surrogacy this summer of 2009.

   

Sarah Michelle Gellar Biography

Name : Sarah Michelle Gellar

Birth Date : April 14th, 1977 

Birth Place : New York City 

Height : 5'2 

Eyes : Green 

Hair Color : Dark Brown 

Education : Professional Children's School in New York (graduated two years early with a 4.0 GPA)

Nationality : American 

Profession : Model, Actress 

Claim to fame : as Buffy Anne Summers on TV Series Buffy The Vampire Slayer (1997)

Actress. Born Sarah Anne Michelle Gellar on April 14, 1977 in New York City. Gellar attended the Professional Children's School in New York City where high school classmates included actors Tara Reid, Jerry O'Connell and Macaulay Culkin. She was a competitive figure skater for three years and was ranked 3rd in New York Sate's regional competition. In 1983, Gellar made her first TV movie, An Invasion of Privacy. The movie was followed by small TV roles and commercials, as well as theater, including The Widow Claire with Matthew Broderick and Eric Stoltz. Her breakthrough role came in 1992 as Sydney Rutledge in the teen soap opera Swans Crossing. In 1993, Gellar began work on the set of All My Children, earning an Emmy in 1995 in the Younger Leading Actress category. During 1997, she appeared on the big screen in two films, I Know What You Did Last Summer and Scream 2. That same year, Gellar landed what was to become her star-making role in the critically acclaimed WB TV series Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Gellar had auditioned first for the role of Buffy, but the producers thought she was better suited to play Cordelia. She continued to pursue the role of Buffy and ultimately won it. In February 2003, after six seasons helming the acclaimed series, Gellar announced that she will be leaving the show to pursue a film career. In 1999, Gellar signed a contract with Maybelline to become the company's first celebrity spokeswoman since Linda Carter in the late '70s. Gellar married actor Freddie Prinze Jr. on September 1, 2002.

Sela Ward Biography

Name : Sela Ward

Birth Date : July 11, 1956 

Birth Place : Meridian, Mississippi 

Birth Name : Sela Ann Ward 

Height : 5' 7'' 

Education : University of Alabama (majored in Arts and Advertising) 

Nationality : American 

Profession : Actress

Sela Ward was born July 11, 1956, in Meridian, Mississippi. The oldest of 4 children -- with a sister and 2 brothers -- Sela (pronounced See-lah, it's an abbreviated form of Hallelujah) is the daughter of an electrical engineer and a homemaker. Her childhood was nothing short of ordinary for a beautiful girl growing up in the South. While a student at the University of Alabama, where Sela Ward studied art and advertising, Sela was also a cheerleader for the football team, a sorority sister, and was elected homecoming queen. With her Bachelor of Fine Arts, Sela Ward headed to New York to pursue a career in advertising, but after the striking, statuesque brunette was encouraged to become a model, she decided to try her hand at modeling. Now on the other side of the advertising spectrum as a Wilhelmina Model, Sela appeared in television commercials, for products such as Pepsi and Maybelline. After gaining experience in more than 20 commercials, Sela dropped advertising and moved to Los Angeles to become an actress -- and lengthen her screen time. 

Sela Ward made her debut in the 1983 television series Emerald Point N.A.S., and that year, she landed a role opposite Burt Reynolds in The Man Who Loved Women, which helped her star to gradually rise. Sela was doing the TV rounds in shows like L.A. Law, Night Court and Cameo By Night, as well as films such as Nothing In Common, Steele Justice and Hello Again. Sela's big break finally arrived in 1991, when Sela Ward was cast as one of 4 sisters in the NBC comedy/drama, Sisters. As alcoholic mother and fashion designer Teddy Reed, Sela became a household name among the show's many viewers. Sela also took home the Emmy for Best Lead Actress in a Drama Series in 1994. Sela Ward did double duty while starring as Teddy; she appeared in the made-for-TV movies Double Jeopardy, Killer Rules, and starred as the title character in Almost Golden: The Jessica Savitch Story, for which she took home the Cable Ace Award for Best Actress in a Movie or Miniseries. She also appeared as Harrison Ford's wife in the 1993 blockbuster, The Fugitive. 

After her 6-year stint in Sisters, Sela co-starred with Ryan Phillippe and Salma Hayek in 54, and had a bit part in the Julia Roberts romantic comedy, Runaway Bride. Sela auditioned to be a Bond Girl, but was deemed too old for the part no matter, Sela had other opportunities in the pipeline. It was back to the television series for Sela Ward which seems to be her forte, when she was cast as Lily Manning Sammler in the dramatic series, Once and Again. Sela has already picked up an Emmy for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series in 2000 and a Golden Globe for Best Actress in a Drama in 2001, and the show is still seeing high ratings on ABC. You probably also recognize her as the classy woman in the Sprint commercials. Sela Ward has been a girlfriend once and again; she dated MacGyver's Richard Dean Anderson from 1983 until 1986; was engaged to actor Peter Weller until 1990; and is currently married to real-estate executive Howard Sherman, since 1992. She recently starred in the much anticipated sequel to Dirty Dancing, Dirty Dancing: Havana Nights. Ward has also released her first book, Homesick, which appeared on The New York Times bestseller list. Part inspirational story, part memoir, the book tells Ward's quest for a balance of the comforts of her small-town childhood and her big-city way of life.

Teri Hatcher Biography

Name : Teri Hatcher

Birth Name : Teri Lynn Hatcher 

Date of Birth : 8 December 1964 

Place of Birth : Sunnyvale, California, USA 

Height : 5' 6'' 

Nationality : American 

Profession : Actor 

Nickname : Hatch

Teri Hatcher, actually Teri Lynn Hatcher, was born in Sunnyvale, California, USA on December 8, 1964 as the only child of Owen and Esther Hatcher. Her father is a nuclear physicist and her mother is a computer programmer. Teri Hatcher spent her childhood dancing and fishing with her father. While at Fremont High School, she was captain of the Featherettes, a dance team which had the look of regular cheerleaders, with the exception of the large head dresses they would wear. She was voted "Most Likely to Become a Solid Gold Dancer" by her graduating class in 1982. Teri Hatcher studied acting at the American Conservatory Theater in San Francisco while taking a degree course in mathematics and engineering at De Anza College in Cupertino, California. 

Teri Hatcher became a member of the 1984 Gold Rush, the name of the professional cheerleading squad of the American football San Francisco 49ers. Teri Hatcher went to Hollywood to lend moral support to a friend during a open casting call. She, however, auditoned and won the role of the singing and dancing mermaid for the televison series, "The Love Boat" (1977). She went on to play Penny Parker, a ditzy but sweet-hearted struggling actress in "MacGyver" (1985). When that show ended, Teri Hatcher auditioned for and won the role of smart and savvy Lois in "Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman" (1993), saying that she didn't want to be stuck with the pretty airhead image she had acquired as Penny. 

Teri Hatcher married actor Jon Tenney in May 1994. She gave birth to daughter Emerson Rose Tenney on November 10, 1997. Later, Teri Hatcher signed to play Sally Bowles in the road tour of Cabaret. The tour debuted in Los Angeles on March 2, 1999. Teri Hatcher final show was on September 4, 1999. She stayed out of the industry for a little bit before nabbing a role on the darkly, comedic soap opera "Desperate Housewives", which could have been a huge mistake. The show turned out to be a mega hit, which skyrocketed Hatcher to the A-list. Teri Hatcher's divorced mother Susan Mayer was consistantly named as America's favorite Desperate Housewife. Teri Hatcher won both a Golden Globe for Lead Actress in a Comedy Series and the SAG Award for Female Actor in a Comedy Series before the show's first season was even over.

Tia Carrere Biography

Name : Tia Carrere

Birth Date : January 2, 1967 

Birth Place : Honolulu, Hawaii, USA 

Birth name : Althea Rae Duhinio Janairo 

Height : 5' 8 

Nationality : American 

Profession : actress, musician 

Claim to fame : as Nurse Jade Soong Chung in General Hispital (1985)

Tia Carrere was born on January, 2nd 1967. She was discovered in true Hollywood fashion. While shopping in a grocery store, she was approached by an elderly couple whose son was about to start shooting a coming-of-age film called "Aloha summer" and needed a young actress for the starring role. Tia landed that role, put the money in her pocket, and headed for Los Angeles. While there, she began to develop a modeling career, while several bit parts came her way. She appeared in popular television shows such as The A-Team, MacGyver, but hit it big when she was cast in the recurring role of nurse Jade Soong Chung, in the daytime soap, General Hospital in 1985. Tia then made the leap to the silver screen with film roles in Showdown in Little Tokyo (where she had a body double appear nude for her) and Harley Davidson and the Marlboro Man, both in 1991. But it was after she co-starred with Mike Myers and Dana Carvey in the comedy Wayne's World in 1992 (a role she chose over Baywatch), that American audiences really took notice of the Hawaiian beauty. As Wayne's dream girl, aspiring rock star Cassandra, Tia made it clear that she's worthy of a schwing or two. Tia then joined Sean Connery and Wesley Snipes to star in Rising Sun, and reprise her role of Cassandra in the 1993 sequel to the hugely successful Wayne's World. In 1994, Tia appeared as Juno Skinner in the Schwarzenegger hit True Lies, and appeared in the films Treacherous and Hostile Intentions that same year. Tia can presently be seen as Sydney Fox in the action television series Relic Hunter, and starring in the film Shi (a.k.a. Shi: The Way of the Warrior). When she's not filming, Tia enjoys a successful music career. She started up as a singer in a local band that played Black Sabbath and AC/DC covers and in a jazz orchestra. Later she sang on the Wayne's world 1 album, and after that she released the album DREAM that sold to platinum in the Philippines.

Tiffani Amber Thiessen Biography

Name : Tiffani Amber Thiessen

Birth Date : January 23, 1974 

Birth Place : Long Beach, California, USA 

Height : 5' 5 

Education : Valley Professional High School in Long Beach, CA 

Nationality : American 

Profession : Actress, model 

Claim to fame : as Kelly Kapowski in TV Series Saved by the Bell (1988 - 1993)

Tiffani-Amber Thiessen rose to fan-magazine fame for her portrayal of Kelly Kapowski on the teen-soap Saved by the Bell(1989). Two years before she landed the job she won Miss Junior America, after a childhood of competing in several pageants. Born to Frank, a park designer, and to Robyn, a homemaker, on January 24, 1974. Tiffani got her start in acting at an early age, and even earlier she modeled her way through the country. After hitting it big with her Miss Junior America accomplishment, she turned to acting. Two years later she had herself a job. Saved by the Bell(1989) lasted 4 years, after portraying a squeaky teen, Tiffani was in for a different character. In 1994 a much new Tiffani, including a different look (shorter hairstyle, breast implants) went on to play Valerie Malone on the hit teen-drama Beverly Hills, 90210(1990). Instead of playing a wholesome teen, she played a blackmailing, conniving vixen, who ended up sleeping with every male on the show, and becoming rivals with every female. During this time, she went through a slew of television movies, and also a small role alongside Pauly Shore in the comedy Son in Law(1993). Trying her utmost to surpass her former role as wholesome Kelly Kapowski, Tiffani posed nude several times in both 'Veronica' and 'New Look' magazines'. In 1998 she left her role on 90210, to pursue a career in movies. Speedway Junkie(1999) and Love Stinks(1999) both independent, followed. A small break came in late 1999, when her boyfriend David Strickland committed suicide. His body was found in a Las Vegas motel room hanging from a bed sheet. In 2000 she tried her comedy side out, starring in both The Ladies Man(2000) and Shriek if You Know What I Did Last Summer(2000). With 2 new films coming out, it looks as though she'll definitely be able to surpass the label child-actress and grow to become more successful then she is already.

Meg Ryan Biography

Name : Meg Ryan

Born On : 19 November 1961 

Birth Location : Fairfield, Connecticut, USA
 

Known as ''The Queen of Romantic Comedies,'' Meg Ryan has carved out an extremely successful career in the genre of cinema. She graduated from high school in 1979 and attended New York University where she majored in journalism. For extra money she began to act, and eventually she landed a supporting role on the movie Top Gun. After that Meg starred in Steven Spielberg's Innerspace, and in 1989 she starred in the blockbuster hit When Harry Met Sally. Since then she has appeared in a string of popular movies including Sleepless in Seattle, Courage Under Fire, and You Got Mail.

Lucy Liu Biography

Name : Lucy Liu

Birth Date : December 2, 1968 

Birth Place : Queens, New York 

Birth Name : Lucy Alexis Liu 

Height : 5' 2'' 

Education : High school at Stuyvesant H.S.
New York University (dropped out within a year)
University of Michigan at Ann Arbour (a degree in Asian languages 

Nationality : American 

Profession : Actress 

Best Known As : Ling Woo on TV's Ally McBeal

Lucy was born December 2, 1967, in Queens, New York. She is a sexy, accomplished actress, and most recently played Shanghai Noon in "Charlie's Angels", co-starring Drew Barrymore and Cameron Diaz. Lucy was raised in the Italian neighborhood of Queens, New York, by her parents, immigrants from China. They raised her in the American way, yet she couldn't help but feel culturally alienated because of her Asian background. Lucy graduated in 1986 from Stuyvesant High School and went on to attend New York University, where she only stayed for one year. Lucy transferred to the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor, and graduated with a degree in Asian languages and cultures while also studying acting, dancing and singing. 

Her career took off when she auditioned for a supporting role in Andre Gregory's adaptation of "Alice in Wonderland", where she actually landed the lead role. Lucy's success was partly due to her fluency in Mandarin, and also because of her practice of Kali-Eskrima-Silat, an Indonesian martial art. Lucy's big break came on Fox's Ally McBeal in the Episode "They Eat Horses Don't They". She took on the icy role of Ling Woo, who was suing a shock jock radio station for sexual harassment. Lucy become really famous in an Ally McBeal episode where she executed a deadly kiss with co-star Greg Germann. This piece of television history is what got her signed as a regular cast member. 

Lucy has had many more notable screen appearances, including "City of Industry", Tupac's "Gridlock'd", and "Jerry Maguire". She also had roles on syndicated shows such as Hercules-TJL, X-Files, Beverly Hills 90210, Nash Bridges, LA Law, Home Improvement, ER, NYPD Blues, and John Quest. Lucy is also a gifted artist. Her work first appeared at the Cast Iron Gallery in SoHo in the early eighties. In 1993, she received an art grant to study art in China. Lucy has also exhibited a mix of photography, ceramics, paints, and other art-works in Venice, CA. Lucy is also very athletic, and she enjoys rock climbing, skiing, horseback riding, snowboarding, and is an accomplished accordion player.

Liv Tyler Biography

Name : Liv Tyler

Birth Date : July 1, 1977 

Birth Place : Portland, Maine, USA 

Birth Name : Liv Lundgren 

Height : 5' 10 

Education : High School 

Nationality : American 

Profession : Actress, model 

Claim to fame : as Grace Stamper in Armageddon (1998) 

Spouse(s) : Royston Langdon (2003–2008)

Liv was born on July 1, 1977, in Portland, Maine. She is the daughter of Steven Tyler, the famous front man of the band Aerosmith. At the age of fourteen, Liv moved to New York to begin a modeling career and decided after a year to become an actress. At just over five-foot-ten, endowed with blazing blue eyes and flawless porcelain skin, Liv has a unique natural sultry sophistication about her. Within a few months of the photos, Liv began decorating such fashion magazines as Seventeen and Mirabella. 

While shooting a commercial on location in the stifling Amazon the following year, Liv decided she wanted to pursue acting. Ironically, a cinema agent read about the intriguing Liv in an article by The New York Times concerning children of the rich and famous, and officially "discovered" her. Liv's first feature role was as the older sister of an autistic boy in the Bruce Beresford straight-to-video drama "Silent Fall". Liv was the hit of the 1996 Cannes Film Festival, where "Stealing Beauty" was entered in competition, and French critics ooh-la-laed over the young actress. In 1997, Liv was chosen by People magazine as one of the 50 Most Beautiful People in the World. With this extravagant exposure, Liv became an instant sex symbol video vixen. 

Liv's next acting triumphs came in Tom Hanks's directorial debut, That Thing You Do!, in which she played the groupie-girlfriend of a small-town band circa 1964, and in Pat (Circle of Friends) O'Connor's Inventing the Abbotts, in which she played another small-town sweetheart. She gamely entered the big-budget arena in 1998, co-starring with Bruce Willis and Ben Affleck in Disney's Armageddon. 1999 brought roles in Robert Altman's Cookie's Fortune, in which she engaged in small-town slapstick romance with Chris O'Donnell, and in Plunkett & MaCleane, which positioned her as the aristocratic inamorata of a highwayman. She finished out the year on a more serious note, playing opposite typically and terrifically brooding romantic Ralph Fiennes in the Alexander Pushkin adaptation Onegin. The year 2000 brought a role in the Robert Altman film Dr. T and the Women. Also starring as Arwen in the mega-box-office hit "Lord of

Kirsten Dunst Biography

Name : Kirsten Dunst

Birth Date : April 30, 1982 

Birth Place : Point Pleasant, New Jersey, USA 

Birth Name : Kirsten Caroline Dunst 

Height : 5' 5�" 

Education : Notre Dame High School, a private Catholic high school, in Los Angeles (graduated in May 2000) 

Nationality : American 

Profession : Actress 

Claim to fame : as Claudia in Interview with the Vampire: The Vampire Chronicles (1994)

Kirsten was born Kirsten Caroline Dunst on the 30th of April, 1982, at Point Pleasant, New Jersey. And the name's pronounced Keersten, not Kursten. Her father, Klaus, was a medical services executive. Her mother, Inez, was an artist and former gallery owner. Klaus didn't think much would come of it, but Inez began to put young Kirsten forward as a model, such that she was working by the age of 3. By 4, she was signed up to Elite and the Ford Agency. She made her TV debut in an ad for dollies that really wet themselves - she would appear in over 70 ads in all - and her debut proper, aged 6, on Saturday Night Live, playing the grandchild of Dana Carvey's President Bush. All the while, she attended Ranney School at Tinton Falls, New Jersey. Kirsten graduated from Notre Dame High School in Los Angeles. 

Although Kirsten is a young actress, she is an accomplished professional, and is living proof that age is not a measure of one's talent or success. Kirsten made her feature film debut in a segment of Woody Allen's film "New York Stories". Kirsten made her breakthrough performance in "Interview with the Vampire: The Vampire Chronicles" along side stars Brad Pitt and Tom Cruise. Her performance earned her a Golden Globe nomination, the MTV Award for Best Breakthrough Performance and the Saturn award for Best Young Actress. In 1995, she was named one of People Magazine's 50 Most Beautiful People. Kirsten recently has had an outstanding performance as Lux Lisbon in Sofia Coppola's directorial debut, "The Virgin Suicides", about the sexually curious and rebellious daughter of overprotective parents, played by Kathleen Turner and James Woods. 

She also has been in her recurring role of Hedril in Star Trek: The Next Generation, and unfortunately never got the chance to perform opposite Jeri Ryan who is part of the Star Trek Voyager series. Kristen provided her voice for the animated film "Anastasia", and has also landed a role in "Little Women", with Winona Ryder, and the comedy "Greedy", with Kirk Douglas. Kirsten presently lives in Burbank, California, with her mother, brother Christian, her two cats, and the family dog Beauty. When not acting, Kristen enjoys playing the piano, listening to music, especially Jewel, and playing softball.

Jeri Ryan Biography

Name : Jeri Ryan

Birth Date : February 22, 1968 

Birth Place : Munich, German 

Birth Name : Jeri Lynn Zimmerman 

Height : 5' 8 

Education : Lone Oak High School in Paducah, Kentucky (graduated in 1986 with a GPA of 3.69) 

Profession : Actress 

Nationality : Germany 

Husband : Jack Ryan (investment banker; born in 1960; married in 1991; separated; divorced in 1999) 

Son : Alex Ryan (born in 1994) 

Claim to fame : as Seven of Nine in Star Trek Voyager 

Fan Mail : Jeri Ryan C/O Star Trek: Voyager
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Hollywood, CA 90038
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Jeri Ryan was born February 22, 1968, in Munich, Germany. Jeri is an actress with a heavenly stellar body. She was born the daughter of a career Army master sergeant father and a social worker mother. Jeri's family moved back to the United States while she was still a child. As an "Army brat", she lived in Kansas, Maryland, Hawaii, Georgia and Texas, all by age eleven. Jeri graduated from Lone Oak High School in Paducah, KY, in 1986, then attended Northwestern University, where she earned her B.A. in Theater in 1990. While in college, she won the sixth annual Miss Northwestern Alpha Delta Phi Pageant in 1989. If you think she's all looks and no brains, Jeri was also a National Merit Scholar. Jeri was Miss Illinois 1989 and competed in the 1990 Miss America pageant, where she won the swimsuit competition and placed third runner-up. 

After Jeri graduated from Northwestern, she set out on a career as an actress, winning roles in numerous television movies and series including "Melrose Place", "The Flash", "Time Trax" and "Matlock". Jeri performed film roles in two independent features, "Men Cry Bullets", and "The Last Man". Then came "Star Trek Voyager", and Jeri joined the cast at the beginning of its fourth season, with the episode "Scorpion, Part II". Jeri is Seven of Nine, which is short for Seven of Nine Tertiary Adjunct of Unimatrix Zero-One. Seven, as she is usually referred too, is a sensual creature, neither fully Borg nor fully human. Jeri has no problem with being sold as the sex symbol of Voyager. 

After completing four seasons as Seven of Nine, Jeri is now transitioning to a more contemporary role in the high school drama "Boston Public". Her character, Ronnie Cooke, is a disgruntled former corporate lawyer who leaves her practice to become a teacher at the troubled urban high school. Episodes featuring Jeri began airing in October 2001. Although an accomplished actress, Jeri considers her greatest role to be that of mother to her son, Alex. In her spare time, she enjoys snow skiing as well as cooking and baking.

Jennifer Garner Biography

Name : Jennifer Garner

Profession : Actress 

Born : Jennifer Anne Garner
April 17, 1972 (1972-04-17) (age 36)
Houston, Texas, USA

Spouse(s) : Scott Foley (2000-2004)
Ben Affleck (2005-present)

Jennifer Anne Garner (born April 17, 1972) is an Emmy-nominated and Golden Globe- and SAG Award-winning American actress. She is best known for her role as CIA agent Sydney Bristow on TV's Alias, as well as for her roles in the films Juno, Pearl Harbor, Dude, Where's My Car?, 13 Going on 30, Catch Me if You Can, Daredevil, Elektra, Catch and Release, and The Kingdom. 

Garner was born in Houston, Texas, the daughter of Patricia Ann (née English), an English teacher from Oklahoma, and William John Garner, a chemical engineer who worked for Union Carbide in Texas. She is the middle child between two sisters, Melissa Garner Wylie (born 1969, resides in Boston, Massachusetts) and Susannah Kay Garner Carpenter (born January 24, 1975 in Texas, resides in Charleston, West Virginia). Her family is Methodist. At three years old, Garner began taking ballet lessons which she continued throughout her youth. Although she admitted that she loved dancing, she never had ambitions to become a classical ballerina. When she was four years old, her father's job with Union Carbide relocated her family to Princeton, West Virginia, then to Charleston, West Virginia, where Garner resided until her college years. 

In 1990, Garner graduated from George Washington High School in Charleston, where she played the saxophone. She then enrolled at Denison University to study chemistry. Upon realizing that she enjoyed stage acting more than science, Garner changed her major to drama. While at Denison, Garner was initiated into the sorority Pi Beta Phi. Garner graduated from Denison in 1994 and continued her drama education at the National Theater Institute in Waterford, Connecticut where she was trained by fight choreographer David Chandler, and told she was a natural in stage combat. Keen for immediate experience, she visited her friend, Clayton Kirlew, in New York City in 1995 and decided to take her chances in New York theatre. 

In New York City, Garner earned $150 a week as an understudy in the play, A Month in the Country, for Roundabout Theatre Company in 1995. She was then cast in her first television role, a part in the made-for-television movie, Zoya, based on the Danielle Steel novel. Her next acting jobs were in two short-lived television series, Significant Others and Time of Your Life, and a recurring role in the series Felicity. Garner appeared in the comedy Dude, Where's My Car?, playing Ashton Kutcher's girlfriend. In 2001, she appeared as a nurse in the big-budget epic Pearl Harbor, co-starring with Kate Beckinsale and Garner's future husband Ben Affleck.

Jennifer Connelly Biography

Name : Jennifer Connelly

Birthdate : 12 December 1970 

Birthplace : Catskill Mountains, New York, U.S. 

Best Known As : Oscar-winning co-star of A Beautiful Mind 

Age : 38 

Spouse(s) : Paul Bettany (2003-Present)(1 son b 03) 

Domestic partner(s) : David Dugan (1 son b 97)
Billy Campbell (1991-1996)

Born December 12, 1970, in the Catskill Mountains of New York State, Jennifer is an accomplished star actress. Jennifer grew up in Brooklyn Heights, except for the four years her family spent in Woodstock, New York. Her father, Gerard Connelly, is a clothing manufacturer, and her mother, Eileen Connelly, is a massage therapist and former antiques dealer. She attended Saint Ann's school in Brooklyn, enrolled at Yale, then transferred two years later to Stanford. Her academic studies included interests in Quantum Physics and philosophy. Jennifer is trained in classical theater and improvisation, having studied with the late drama coach Roy London and with Howard Fine and Harold Guskin. She speaks fluent Italian, French and is semi fluent in Japanese. 

When Jennifer was 10, a family friend who was an advertising executive suggested that her parents take her to a modeling audition. She began doing modeling work through the Ford Agency, appearing in magazine ads for Seventeen magazine and soon moved on to TV commercials. She also appeared in a Miller Beer commercial. A casting director saw Jennifer and introduced her to Sergio Leone, who was seeking a young girl to dance in his gangster epic "Once Upon a Time in America". Jennifer got the part, and this was her first movie appearance, and the big break that launched her career. 

Jennifer enjoys physical activities such as swimming, gymnastics, bike riding, and roller skating. She is very much the outdoors person, being into camping, hiking and walking. What attracts many people to Jennifer, is not so much the kind of characters or roles she plays but her alluring style and charm which connects her to the audience. Jennifer seems able to bring this talent into all her roles. Being one of the most attractive women ever to grace the screen also helps considerably! Jennifer has matured into one of the most versatile actresses on the screen.

Jenna Elfman Biography

Name : Jenna Elfman

Birth Date : September 30, 1971 

Birth Place : Los Angeles, California, USA 

Birth Name : Jennifer Mary Butala 

Height : 5' 10 

Education : Los Angeles High School (majored in Arts)
California State University in Northridge (dropped out) 

Nationality : American 

Occupation : Actress 

Spouse : Bodhi Elfman (actor; born on July 19, 1969; married in 1995) 

Claim to fame : as Dharma Freedom Finkelstein Montgomery on TV Series Dharma & Greg

Jenna Elfman was raised in Los Angeles and thought she wanted to become a nun. She was very noisy in class and that is when she discovered she wanted to be an entertainer. She was trained in classical dance since she was in first grade and that helped her become a ZZ Top's Legs Girl in 1994. After she got back from touring she was discovered while dancing at the Sunset Boulevard House of Blues by ABC. She was first in a series called Townies and the day after that show was canceled both ABC and FOX wanted her for their networks. She chose to stay with ABC and started the show Dharma & Greg. In addition to her work on "Dharma & Greg," Elfman will be seen this coming year starring in the feature film comedy, "Krippendorf's Tribe," with Richard Dreyfuss and Lily Tomlin. In the film about an anthropologist who convinces his family to portray a primitive tribe, Elfman plays a bright and ambitious professor who believes the fraud. 

Elfman earned raves for her scene-stealing performance in the ABC series, "Townies." She was also seen in the feature film, "Grosse Point Blank," starring John Cusack and Minnie Driver. She has guest-starred on such television programs as "Roseanne," "Murder One," "NYPD Blue" and "Almost Perfect." In 1996, she played a drug counselor in the critically acclaimed made-for-television movie, "Her Last Chance," with Patti LuPone and Kellie Martin. 

A native of Los Angeles, Elfman began her career in commercials, landing roles in dozens of national television ads for a variety of well-known companies. She later expanded her horizons by studying with renowned acting teacher Milton Katselas, from whom she still takes classes. Among her many other talents, Jenna is a classically trained ballerina. She currently resides in Los Angeles with her husband.

Jaime Pressly Biography

Name : Jaime Pressly

Profession : Model/Actress 

Birth Details : born July 30, 1977 

Birth name : Jaime Lynn Pressly 

Height : 5' 5" (1.65 m) 

Personal quotes : "Defintely gymnastics, because I was a gymnast for 11 years. That's my thing. My girlfriend Betty Okino was in the 1992 Olympics and won a bronze 

 

Jaime Lynn Pressly (born July 30, 1977) is an American model and actress. 

Pressly was born in Kinston, North Carolina, USA to James Liston Pressly and Brenda Sue Smith (a classical dance instructor); she has a sister, Jessie. Pressly spent 11 years studying gymnastics and dancing. By the time she was 14, she was already the spokesperson for her modeling agency, "International Cover Model Search" and had begun to gain recognition for modeling in the United States, as well as in Italy and Japan. Pressly attended "Costa Mesa High School" in California, where she lived with her mother while her parents were in the process of a divorce. She subsequently had herself legally emancipated from her parents at the age of 15. 

Pressly worked as actress Drew Barrymore's body double in the film Poison Ivy. She starred in the 1997 sequel, Poison Ivy: The New Seduction. In 1999, Pressly was cast as the promiscuous dancer "Audrey" on the television show, Jack and Jill. Pressly starred in the independent film Poor White Trash, playing scheming gold-digger Sandy Lake. She subsequently appeared in a number of widely released films, including Not Another Teen Movie (playing a stereotypical high school cheerleader) and Torque, as a crazed motorcycle-riding criminal. In 2001 she was made the new spokesmodel for Liz Claiborne Cosmetics and its fragrance Lucky You. Pressly has posed nude for the March 1998 and February 2004 issues of Playboy and has performed with The Pussycat Dolls; In 2002, she was ranked #8 in Stuff magazine's "102 Sexiest Women in the World". Pressly is currently part of the cast of the NBC sitcom My Name is Earl.

Holly Marie Combs Biography

Name : Holly Marie Combs

Birth Date : December 3, 1973 

Birth Place : San Diego, California, USA 

Height : 5' 3 

Education : Professional Children's School in New York, New York (coached by the great Ernie Martin) 

Nationality : American 

Profession : Actress 

Claim to fame : as Kimberly Brock on Picket Fences

Holly Marie Combs was born December 3, 1973 in San Diego, California. Holly's mother, Lauralei Combs, was only fourteen when she became pregnant with Holly. Although Holly's parents married, they divorced after only two years. Despite this inpropitious beginning, Laralei took good care of Holly. Lauralei and Holly moved to New York City when Holly was eight. Holly studied acting at the Professional Children's School, where her teachers included Ernie Martin. Meanwhile, Lauralei pursued a career as a singer and actress. Holly's career started in television commercials and print ads when she was ten. Holly obtained her SAG card when she appeared in Walls of Glass aka Flanagan (1985), a film in which Lauralei also had a role. When she was thirteen, Holly landed a small role in the movie Sweet Hearts Dance (1988), which starred Don Johnson and Susan Sarandon. Later, she played a small part in Oliver Stone's Born on the Fourth of July (1989), and she worked on the soap operas The Guiding Light and As The World Turns. She also made a cameo appearance in the movie New York Stories (1989) and appeared in a pilot for CBS, entitled Rockenwagner. 

Holly's big break came when she landed the role of Kimberly Brock on Picket Fences, which won fourteen emmys in its four year run on CBS. Numerous critics praised Holly's performance as Kimberly . Holly has appeared in several theatrical movies, including Simple Men (1992), Dr. Giggles (1992), Chain of Desire (1992), and A Reason to Believe (1995), as well as four television movies, A Perfect Stranger (1994), Sins of Silence (1996), Love's Deadly Triangle: The Texas Cadet Murder (1997), and Our Mother's Murder (1997), and a short independent film Vector (1996). She also made a guest appearance on Relativity (1997). Holly currently stars in the WB supernatural drama Charmed. Holly is divorced from actor Bryan Smith. She lives in Los Angeles, and her hobbies include gardening and horseback riding.

Helen Hunt Biography

Name : Helen Hunt

Birth Name : Helen Elizabeth Hunt 

Date of Birth : June 15, 1963 

Place of Birth : The Memorial Hospital of Southern California in Los Angeles, California, USA 

Height : 5' 8'' 

Education : Providence High School in Burbank CA (from September 1978 to June 1981); 
University of California in L A (left after 2 months). 

Nationality : American 

Profession : actor 

Claim to Fame : as Jamie Buchman on TV Series: Mad About You (1992)

Helen Hunt began studying acting at the age of eight with her father, respected director and acting coach Gordon Hunt. A year later she made her professional debut and afterwards worked steadily in films, theatre and television.

Debra Messing Biography

Name : Debra Messing

Birth Date : August 15, 1968 

Birth Place : Brooklyn, New York, USA 

Birth Name : Debra Moessing 

Height : 5' 8'' 

Education : Brandeis University in Waltham, Massachusetts (majored in Theater Arts; B.A.) 
Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in London, England 
New York Unive 

Nationality : American 

Occupation : Actress 

Husband : Daniel Zelman (actor; born in 1967; started dating 1992; engaged in 1998; married on September 3, 2000) 

Claim to fame : as Grace Elizabeth Adler on TV Series Will & Grace (1998)

Born in Brooklyn, Messing and her older brother were raised in a quiet community outside Providence, Rhode Island. She received her liberal arts education at Brandeis University where she majored in theater arts. She spent half of her junior year studying in London�s prestigious B.E.S.G.L. program, which featured dramatic arts teachers recruited from various distinguished institutions such as the Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts, the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Arts, Cambridge University and Oxford University. Upon graduating summa cum laude from Brandeis, Messing was accepted into New York University�s elite Graduate Acting Program and received her master of fine arts degree. 

On the New York stage, Messing garnered praise for her performance as Harper Pitt in the pre-Broadway workshop of Tony Kushner�s Tony Award-winning play �Angels in America: Perestroika.� She appeared as Cecily in a Seattle production of �The Importance of Being Earnest.� Upon returning to New York, she was cast as the understudy to Mary-Louise Parker and Polly Draper in the off-Broadway premiere of John Patrick Shanley�s �Four Dogs and a Bone.� She also co-starred in Paul Rudnick�s �The Naked Truth� and co-starred with Maria Tucci in the acclaimed two-woman production of Donald Margulies� �Collected Stories,� which was chosen as a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. 

On television, Messing starred for two seasons in the comedy �Ned & Stacey� opposite Thomas Haden Church. She had a recurring role on �NYPD Blue� as Gail O�Grady�s conniving sister, Dana Abandando. On �Seinfeld� she played Jerry�s ideal, but elusive, love, Dr. Beth Lookner. She also starred as the young bio-anthropologist Sloan Parker in the drama series �Prey� and appeared as Mary Magdalene in the critically acclaimed 2000 miniseries �Jesus.� Messing lives with her husband and young child in Los Angeles. During her free time, she supports charities such as the Human Rights Campaign (HRC), Project Angel Food and various breast cancer charities.

Calista Flockhart Biography

Name : Calista Flockhart

Date Of Birth : November 11, 1965 

Place Of Birth : Freeport, Illinois 

Height : 5' 5 1/2 

Education : Shawnee High School, Medford, New Jersey 
Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey (majored in Theater) 

Relationship : Ben Stiller (Actor, Director - dated in 1999, Broke up), Sam Mendes (Director)

After graduating from Rutgers University, New Jersey, in 1987 with a Fine Arts degree, the twenty-three year old actress put her school and community theater experience to use to become a full-time actress. She took on bit parts in day-time television dramas and role in the TV series Darrow, and the HBO special The Secret Life of Mary Margaret: Portrait of a Bulimic, but it was stage work on and off Broadway and in Chicago and Williamstown theaters that kept her busy and for which she won her first formal acclamations. Her credits include The Loop, All For One, Sophistry, Wrong Turn At Lungfish, Beside Herself, Bovver Boys, The Three Sisters, Our Town and Death Takes A Holiday. One of People Magazine�s 50 Most Beautiful People (1998) at 36, this frail and pretty actress is a professional heavyweight in the industry, with a solid background and a promising future.

Christina Applegate Biography

Name : Christina Applegate

Date Of Birth : November 25, 1971 

Place Of Birth : Los Angeles, California USA 

Sign : Sun in Sagittarius, Moon in Leo 

Height : 5'5'' 

Hair : Blonde 

Eyes : Brown 

Occupation : Actress 

Father : Bobby Applegate 

Mother : Nancy Priddy Actress 

Spouse(s) : Johnathon Schaech (2001 – 2007)divorced 

Fan Mail : Christina Applegate 
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Age : 37

Christina Applegate was born on Thanksgiving Day, November 25th 1971 in Los Angeles, California. Her mother is Nancy Priddy and her Father is Robert Applegate. Christina is the only child from this marriage. Nancy is a former Actress/Singer and has been a driving influence in Christina's life. Her father, Robert is a former Recording Company Executive.Christina's parents divorced when she was very young and Christina lived with her mother during her formative years. As Christina once said in an interview, she has been an actress since ''she popped out''. Indeed this is true.Christina made her acting debut in her mothers arms at three months of age while Nancy played her regular role in the Soap Opera ''Days of our Lives''. From that moment on, Christina's future in acting was sealed. After performing in several commercials for the retail giant ''KMart'' Christina became a success at the young age of seven. Her success has continued ever since. 

Christina appeared in several movies and TV shows until she was fifteen. At the age of fifteen, Christina landed her best known role as Kelly Bundy in the successful sitcom ''Married... With Children''. This role brought Christina the attention of not only the American public but also the international community. There is no doubt the role of ''Kelly Bundy'' has been a Godsend to Christina, but like many artists, Christina still struggles with her attachment to her most popularized role. In Christina's case, the ''Kelly'' role is totally opposite the real life Christina.Unfortunately the inevitable final curtain fell on ''Married with... Children'' in 1997 after a near record breaking eleven seasons. Although Christina was obviously disappointed in leaving her TV family, she now looks forward to leaving behind the schedule limitations that working a weekly sitcom cast upon her. Christina is now free to pursue other acting opportunities (especially in movies) and looks forward to it.

In addition to her acting career, Christina owns a restaurant in Los Angeles and also freely donates her time to causes that are closest to her heart. These causes include the fight against AIDS and animal rights causes. Christina currently resides in the Hollywood Hills section of Los Angeles with her menagerie of pets (Natasha and Kanaloa, and German Shepherd, Sybil.). Along with pursuing her career in movies, she maintains her hobbies of dance, travel, reading and writing poetry. An accomplished dancer, Christina has studied numerous varieties of jazz dance and, when not working, dances between 15 and 20 hours per week.Her ideal boyfriend is a totally artistic man who can bring harmony into her life. To settle down with and raise animals on a ranch.Her ideal boyfriend is a totally artistic man who can bring harmony into her life. To settle down with and raise animals on a ranch.

Brittany Murphy Biography

Name : Brittany Murphy

Birth Date : November 10, 1977 

Birth Place : Atlanta, Georgia, USA 

Birthname : Sharon Murphy 

Height : 5' 3 

Education : Verne Fowler School of Dance in Colonia, New Jersey
Herbert Hoover School in Edison, New Jersey 
Valley Professional School in Los Angeles, Ca

Brittany was born on November 10, 1977 in Atlanta, Georgia and her parents were divorced when she was very young. She moved to New Jersey at a young age to persue acting across the river in New York. She did theatre productions off Broadway to make enough money to move to California and attempt to get into big production films. When she arrived in Hollywood she began acting in short-run television shows and got her big break in the film "Clueless". She has also been in a whole slew of films in the last few years but it is her work in Mike Judge's King of the Hill as the character Luanne Platter that has gotten her the most consecutive work and attention. Brittany is the type of women most teenage women identify with, just the average cute lovable teen.


Along with Brittany Murphy, Paul Oakenfold released the single "Faster Kill Pussycat" in 2006, with the album A Lively Mind which was released on June 6 in the United States. The song has become a club hit, and hit number one on Billboard magazine's Hot Dance Club Play chart. It also hit number seven in the UK singles chart in June 2006. She dabbled in music again with the release of her movie Happy Feet, in which she covered Queen's classic "Somebody to Love" and Earth, Wind & Fire's "Boogie Wonderland".

Brittany is currently working on her debut album, which is inspired by synth-pop sound. She is working with various producers and DJs including with Paul Oakenfold, Chris Cox, Max Martin and Timbaland. The album will be released in 2009.

In 2006, she was voted 36th in FHM's 100 Sexiest Women List, 29th in Celebrity Sleuth magazine's 25 Sexiest List and in May of the same year, Maxim named Murphy #49 on its annual Hot 100 List.

Bridget Fonda Biography

Name : Bridget Fonda

Date of Birth : January 27, 1964 

Place of Birth : Los Angeles, Calif., USA 

Sign : Aquarius 

Education : New York University 

Occupation : Actress 

Father : Peter Fonda (actor) 

Mother : Susan Brewer 

Companion : Dwight Yoakam

Bridget Fonda was born in Los Angeles on January 27th, 1964 to actor Peter Fonda and Susan (Brewer) Fonda. She is the older of two children. She was named after Bridget Hayward, who her father was in love with at one time. She is a descendant of notable actors, her grandfather (Henry Fonda), her aunt (Jane Fonda), and her father (Peter Fonda).In 1972 Peter and Susan divorced and their mother in the Coldwater Canyon section of Los Angeles reared Bridget and her brother, Justin. During this time the children had little contact with their father or any of the Fonda family for that matter. Bridget recalls in an interview that �When I was a kid, the most important thing for me was my home�.People would come and go, and things would change, but that place wouldn�t. I loved it. I want to have that for the rest of my life. I want to have a place.� 

Although she came from a long line of actors, Bridget resented the implication that acting was in her blood. She not only refused to solicit acting tips and advice from her famous relatives, she worked hard to learn her craft. She studied method acting at New York University�s celebrated Lee Strasberg Theatre institute for four years. During her first two years at the theatre, she suffered from a severe case of stage fright and self-consciousness that were exacerbated by the extra scrutiny she experienced because of her name. �When you�ve got all eyes on you, people saying, �She�s not so hot,� you sort of with you were a nobody,� she told a reporter for People in 1990. However, in her third year, she learned to subordinate her concern for others� opinions to her desire to do what she thought was best. She recalls �Once I was able to make myself look like a fool, I was no longer scared.�After gaining work on a few theater productions and a small time opera anthology �Aria� (1987) she landed a role in Michael Caton-Jone�s acclaimed �Scandle� in 1989. A review in the New Yorker proclaimed she had ��a provocative, taunting assertiveness� and Rolling Stone said that Fonda was �a comic delight.�Fonda quickly found work that same year and pumped out two other movies, �Shag� and �Strapless�. She also stared in three television sequences: Fox�s 21 Jump Street, HBO�s The Edge, and PBS�s Wonder Works tale �Jacob Have I Loved�. 

The next few years had Bridget doing more films but were of little consequence. In 1992 she was cast in the lead for Barbet Schroeder�s �Single White Female�. Critics proclaimed Bridgets performance as her most expressive performance to date.She has become one of Hollywood�s busiest actresses. Bridget has turned out a fist full of movies over the past several years and has played each character with uncanny believability. In 1993�s �Point of No Return�, she convincingly essayed the virtually unplayable part of an evening-gowned political assassin effortlessly. She has also displayed the Fonda family predilection for razor-sharp comic timing in such films as �Singles� (1992), �It Could Happen to You� (1994), �and �The Road to Wellville� (1994).Her father, Peter Fonda, believes his daughter is the most talented member of their family including his father, whose skill Bridget has said she aspires to attain. �I�m never completely happy with what I do on screen,� she admitted to the New York Times. �What comes out is never as good as I think it�ll be, or hope it�ll be.� She also explains that �You can�t count on fame or popularity.� �There are people who work their whole lives because they pace themselves, and that�s the way I want to be.� With an attitude like that it appears that we will be seeing more of Bridget Fonda in the months and years ahead.

Ashley Judd Biography

Name : Ashley Judd

Real Name : Ashley Tyler Judd 

Date Of Birth : April 19, 1968 

Place of Birth : Los Angeles, CA, USA 

Sign : Aries 

Height : 5' 7 

Hair : Brown 

Eyes : Green 

Education : University of Kentucky (1990) (graduated Phil Beta Kappa) 

Occupation : Actress 

Father : Michael Ciminella (marketing specialist) 

Mother : Naomi Judd (singer) 

Sister : Wynonna Judd (singer) 

Spouse(s) : Dario Franchitti (2001–present)

Ashley Judd grew up dirt poor in Kentucky and is the daughter and sister of country music stars Naomi and Wynonna Judd respectively. Widely known in Hollywood as being extremely intelligent, Ashley has carefully managed her career to become a critics darling. Appearing in movies such as Heat, Smoke, Natural Born Killers, Double Jeopardy, Eye of the Beholder, Simon Birch, and Kiss the Girls, Ashley Judd has established herself as one of the best known and loved actresses making movies

Renee Zellweger Biography

Name : Renee Zellweger

Birth Date : April 25, 1969 

Birth place : Katy, Texas 

Birth Name : Renee Kathleen Zellweger 

Height : 5' 5 

Education : Katy High School ; University of Texas (journalism) 

Profession : actress 

Claim to fame : as Dorothy Boyd in 'Jerry Maguire' (1996)

Renee Kathleen Zellweger was born on April 25, 1969, in Katy, Texas, a small town outside Houston. The daughter of European parents (her father was Swiss and her mother Norwegian), Renee had an older brother that she greatly admired. After graduating from Katy High School in 1987, where Renee was a cheerleader, gymnast and participated in the drama club, she went off to the University of Texas at Austin, where she majored in English. An excellent student (she made the Dean's List several times), Renee took a drama class only because she needed a fine arts credit to complete her degree. Her participation in drama while in college turned out to be much more than a requirement, as it reminded her of how much she loved acting. Not even having planned on becoming an actress earlier, Renee knew by the time that she graduated from college that she wanted to pursue a career in acting. She immediately began auditioning for commercials and films that were being shot in Texas, and it didn't her take long to get her first film role. Although the roles she landed were bit-parts, the films did well and co-starred respectable actors such as Winona Ryder, Ethan Hawke and Matthew McConaughey. 

Her uncredited role in 1993's Dazed and Confused as a high school senior was her first film role, and was followed up by a role in The Return of the Texas Chainsaw Massacre (released in 1997). It was on the set of Chainsaw that Renee heard about another film that was in the midst of casting actors, which as luck would have it, Renee auditioned for and got the lead. The film was Love and a .45, a film for which Renee received an Independent Spirit Award nomination for Best Debut Performance. In the meantime, Renee appeared in other films such as The Low Life, 8 Seconds, Reality Bites, and Empire Records, but it was her starring role in The Whole Wide World which not only won her praise at the 1996 Sundance Film Festival, but also led to her breakthrough role in Cameron Crowe's hit Jerry Maguire. Cameron Crowe was so impressed with her work in The Whole Wide World that he knew Renee would be the perfect choice to play the girlfriend of sports agent Tom Cruise, after being dumped by Kelly Preston. She even beat out already known actresses Bridget Fonda, Cameron Diaz and Mira Sorvino for the part. Her role in Jerry Maguire earned her many awards and a lot of recognition, including a Screen Actor's Guild Nomination for Best Supporting Actress, as well as being named Entertainment Weekly's Best New Movie Actress. 

After Jerry Maguire, Renee starred in the smaller films Deceiver and A Price Above Rubies, in which she played a Hasidic Jew. In 1998, she moved onto a more mainstream film, One True Thing, a tearjerker also starring Oscar winners Meryl Streep and William Hurt. The following year, Renee joined Chris O'Donnell in The Bachelor. Next up for Renee is the summer comedy Me, Myself and Irene, featured in our Top Summer Movie Picks. Renee fell for co-star Jim Carrey while on the set of filming the Farrelly Brothers' film, and the two are still going strong. Renee also landed the title role in the film Bridget Jones' Diary, beating out popular British actresses to play the role of a single British woman in her 30s.

Uma Thurman Biography

Name : Uma Thurman

Date Of Birth : April 29, 1970 

Birth Place : Boston, Massachusetts 

Birth Name : Uma Karuna Thurman 

Education : Northfield Mount Herman School in Northfield, MA
Amherst Regional Junior High School in Amherst, MA. 
Professional Children's High School in New 

Occupation : Actress & Model 

Nationality : American 

Claim to fame : As Cecile De Volanges in Dangerous Liaisons (1988) 

Fan Mail : 9057 Nemo Street 
Los Angeles, Ca 90069 
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Uma Thurman had to break from her family’s core values to join the high school cheerleading squad. Her offbeat bohemian Buddhist upbringing in India and all over the United States made her a bit of an outcast among her all-American teen peers, and the cheerleading helped bridge the gap. School plays, though, were her favorite way to fit in, and she ultimately left her Massachusetts boarding school at age 15 for a New York acting career. The independent teen spent a year washing dishes and modeling to pay the rent, until hired for a role in Kiss Daddy Goodnight (1987). Critics liked Thurman far better than the movie, and casting directors took note. Her exotic good looks served her well the next year for the part of a goddess in The Adventures of Baron Munchausen, and for the steamy Dangerous Liaisons. 

At 18, Thurman moved to England to escape Hollywood typecasting -- the actor was more interested in a serious career than sex-symbol fame and her growing over-obsessive fan base. In 1990, at age 20, Thurman married fellow actor Gary Oldman. The couple divorced two years later. In 1990, too, she was cast in Where The Heart Is, and the intelligent (but steamy) Henry and June. She came solidly back to mainstream Hollywood, with a few independents thrown in, with Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves (TV - 1991), Final Analysis (1992), Jennifer 8 (1992), Mad Dog and Glory (1993), and Even Cowgirls Get The Blues (1994). A role in the risky Pulp Fiction (1994) turned out to be a smart career choice, for Thurman earned an Oscar nomination, a Golden Globe nomination and an MTV movie award for her stellar performance. 

She continued to mix sure commercial successes with less-sure art films, going on to star in A Month By The Lake (1995), Beautiful Girls (1996), The Truth About Cats and Dogs (1996), Batman and Robin (1997), Gattaca (1997), Les Miserables (1998), and The Avengers (1998 - “winning” a Razzie Worst Actress nomination and disappointing critics). She was busy off-camera in 1998 first marrying actor Ethan Hawke then giving birth to daughter, Maya Ray. Thurman went off-Broadway the next year with The Misanthrope, and then back to film with Sweet and Lowdown.

Natalie Portman Biography

Name : Natalie Portman

Date of Birth : 9 June 1981 

Place of Birth : Jerusalem 

Birth name : Natalie Hershlag 

Height : 5' 3 

Profession : Actress 

Fan Mail : Natalie Portman
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Pretty, petite and doe-eyed, the Jerusalem-born daughter of a fertility doctor and an artist is now studying psychology at prestigious Harvard University in Boston (she turned down a place at Yale) � and it doesn't seem to have damaged her career in the least. Born on June 9, 1981, Natalie has long been on the serious side, deciding to become a vegetarian at the ripe old age of eight, taking time to learn three additional languages (French, Hebrew and Japanese) and making her Broadway debut while earning near-perfect marks as a full-time high school student. 

Portman moved to New York when she was three. Raised on Long Island, she was discovered by a modeling agent who signed her on the spot. Her modeling stint led to an audition for Luc Besson's Leon. Due to her age (she was 12 when the film was cast), Portman was initially turned down for the lead role of Mathilda, a girl who asks a hit man (Jean Reno) to train her as an assassin to avenge her brother's death and falls in love with him in the process. However, she ultimately won the part and her 1994 film debut earned a number of positive notices. Portman then took on the role of Al Pacino's step-daughter in another demanding film, Michael Mann's Heat (1995). She followed this up with lighter fare as Jack Nicholson's daughter in Mars Attacks! (1996). Going on the same year to make Woody Allen's musical comedy Everyone Says I Love You, and continued to ride high with the success of her third film of 1996, Beautiful Girls. Portman took on another title role with her 1997 Broadway debut in The Diary of Anne Frank. She stayed with the show until May 1998, during which time she received positive notices for her performance. After lending her voice to The Prince of Egypt (1998), Portman took on her most talked-about role to date, that of Queen Amidala in The Phantom Menace (1999). 

Natalie has also gone her own route in her film career � in fact, one can learn almost as much about her from the films she has turned down as from the ones she's accepted. She passed on Baz Luhrmann's Romeo And Juliet because, at 15, she wasn't comfortable with the on-screen love affair with 22-year-old Leonardo DiCaprio. She also rejected two other sexy film offers: the steamy teen seductress in Lolita and Christina Ricci's sexually-charged part in The Ice Storm because it was "too dark". Though she's found a level of success which many aspiring actresses can only dream of, it's clear Natalie won't settle for just being a beautiful Hollywood starlet.

Julia Roberts Biography

Name : Julia Roberts

Real Name : Julie Fiona Roberts 

Date Of Birth : October 28, 1967 

Place of Birth : Smyrna, Georgia (USA) 

Sign : Scorpio 

Hair : Chatain Clair 

Eyes : Brown 

Education : High school 

Occupation : Actress 

Father : Walter 

Mother : Betty 

Sister : Lisa 

Ex-Husband : Lyle Lovett 

Nickname : Jules 

Height : 5' 9'' 

Fan Mail : Julia Roberts
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Julia Roberts, the winsome beauty with a large, incandescent smile and a mane of hair, was one of the few bankable female stars of the 1990s whose love affair with the public and world's press continued into the next century. Critics have long speculated on the secret of her undeniable appeal, but it remained one of those enigmas of contemporary pop culture. Julia Roberts lacked the technical polish of some of her contemporaries, but was able to command the screen like no one else, even while surrounded by heavy hitters like Sally Field, Denzel Washington and Susan Sarandon. Her public life was also key to her longevity. From the trail of broken-hearted beaus she left in her wake to her self-imposed post-"Pretty Woman" exile to getting pregnant with twins � the public ate it all up with a spoon. 

Born October 28, 1967 in Smyrna, GA, Roberts originally planned to be a veterinarian, but later studied journalism instead. She was introduced to performing at an early age by her theatrical parents, who ran the Atlanta-based Actors and Writers Workshop out of their home. She made her screen debut opposite her brother Eric in "Blood Red," although the 1986 film went unreleased for three years. Noticing that her old brother was scoring some success in Hollywood, Julia Roberts decided to try acting as a career. She first gained notice starring in two youth-oriented movies in 1988 � "Mystic Pizza" and "Satisfaction" (1988). In the former, Julia Roberts played a memorably fiery Portuguese waitress. Only a year or two into her new career, the young actress earned a Best Supporting Actress Oscar nomination as the doomed diabetic heroine, Shelby, of "Steel Magnolias" (1989).

With her performance as a warm-hearted prostitute who transforms cold executive Richard Gere in Garry Marshall's saccharine but immensely successful rags-to-riches saga, "Pretty Woman" (1990), Julia Roberts became one of Hollywood's most popular and bankable stars � certainly its top female � and earned a surprise Best Actress Academy Award nomination. The iconic role would forever label her America's "pretty woman" � even over a decade later. While her contribution made the routine thrillers "Flatliners" (1990) and "Sleeping with the Enemy" (1991) popular successes, she faltered a bit at the box office in late 1991 with the weepie romance "Dying Young." She finished the year with the supporting role of Tinkerbell in Steven Spielberg's lavish but disappointing update of the Peter Pan myth, "Hook." Roberts' toothsome portrayal of the feisty fairy revealed no insights into the tiny winged character, and she struggled gamely with the physical and artistic rigors of doing most of her scenes alone on a special effects soundstage. Rumors of bad blood between Roberts and Spielberg cast a pall on the project, sending the increasingly reclusive star into a self-imposed exile, which only fueled the press more.

It was at the peak of her early '90s fame that Julia Roberts took an unannounced break from acting to get her highly publicized personal life in order. Romances with co-stars Liam Neeson, Dylan McDermott and most notably Kiefer Sutherland � whom she reportedly left for his best friend Robert Patrick only days before the wedding � all petered out, though her romance with the odd-looking actor/singer Lyle Lovett ended in a brief bare-footed marriage in 1993. Julia Roberts made a cameo appearance as herself in Robert Altman's "The Player" (1992) before making her much ballyhooed return to the screen after two years, reasserting her commercial magic opposite Denzel Washington in the political thriller, "The Pelican Brief" (1993), but lost a bit of ground opposite Nick Nolte in the middling romantic comedy, "I Love Trouble" (1994). Her next few film roles proved spotty: she was passable as a journalist in Robert Altman's high-fashion comedy "Ready to Wear/Pret-a-Porter" (1994), spunky as a woman coping with marital problems in the romantic comedy "Something to Talk About" (1995), and dour in the period horror film "Mary Reilly" (1996), all of which failed to find much audience favor. As Woody Allen's leading lady in his musical comedy "Everyone Says I Love You" (1996), she fared slightly better (and displayed a pleasant if not spectacular singing voice). Cast opposite old beau Neeson as his love interest in Neil Jordan's biopic of Irish revolutionary "Michael Collins" (also 1996), Julia Roberts gave a gallant try but was hampered by a wavering Irish accent.

1997 saw the actress reassert her position as both America's sweetheart and a box-office performer with her starring role in the hit comedy, "My Best Friend's Wedding." Cast as a scheming restaurant critic who sets out to break up the wedding of the man she thinks she loves, Roberts turned what could have become an unsympathetic character into an audience favorite through the sheer force of her natural charm and vibrancy. She was abetted by Rupert Everett's scene-stealing supporting turn as her editor and a subtle script by Ron Bass that inverted many of the clich�s of screwball comedy. Julia Roberts' much-anticipated teaming with Mel Gibson in Richard Donner's "Conspiracy Theory" (also 1997), however, proved to be somewhat disappointing thanks to a muddled script. Ron Bass was one of several writers who worked on the script of "Stepmom" (1998), a comedy-drama that cast Julia Roberts as the much younger girlfriend of a divorced man coping with his two children and his saintly ex-wife. Most critics dismissed the film as pap but audiences lapped it up and made it a modest box-office success. She followed with a turn as a world-famous movie star who falls in love with a bumbling British bookseller (Hugh Grant) in "Notting Hill", an uneven romantic comedy, which nevertheless, did well at the box office. The much ballyhooed reteaming with Gere under Garry Marshall's guidance in "Runaway Bride" (both 1999) brought out the crowds, but the film could in no way compete with the "Pretty Woman" legacy that came before. Together these films earned over $300 million domestically, justifying the actress' standing as the highest paid female actor.

Just as critics thought she was all charm and no real acting chops, Julia Roberts took on the role of her life, essaying the real-life legal secretary who assisted in turning a water poisoning case into one of the largest class-action lawsuits in U.S. history, in "Erin Brockovich" (2000). Her stellar work under the direction of Stephen Soderbergh, earned her just about every accolade in 2001, including the Best Actress Oscar.

After such a heavy project, Julia Roberts returned to comedy, playing the frustrated girlfriend of a low-level, somewhat bumbling gangster (Brad Pitt) in the "The Mexican" (2001). Although she and Pitt were not on screen together for very long, the pair shared a nice easy chemistry � but the actress had better rapport with James Gandolfini, as the hitman who kidnaps her as insurance. Despite fielding many offers and after already playing a movie star on screen, Roberts opted this time to play the personal assistant to the movie star (Catherine Zeta-Jones) in the disastrous, critically reviled comedy, "America's Sweethearts" (2001). To recover from that disaster, Julia Roberts re-teamed with Soderbergh for a small role in his remake of "Ocean's Eleven" (2001). Playing Tess Ocean, George Clooney's perpetually disappointed wife, Roberts did her best to keep up with the hunky boys, including Brad Pitt, Matt Damon and Andy Garcia. Robert's next project was also with Soderbergh, in the non-narrative sequel to his 1989 film "Sex, Lies and Videotape" � "Full Frontal" (2002). Julia Roberts' character, wearing an extremely unattractive hairdo, was shockingly uninteresting and unimportant to the story, such as it was. Worse was her limp turn in new buddy George Clooney's directorial debut, "Confessions of a Dangerous Mind" (2002), the supposed life story of game show producer/host-turned-government agent Chuck Barris, in which she played a spy femme fatale in a performance so purposefully arch as to defy belief.

Julia Roberts fared better in her next project, the harmless "Mona Lisa Smile" (2003), playing Katherine Watson, a liberal-minded educator who takes a feminist position at Wellesley in the 1950s and quickly comes under fire for teaching her female students to aspire to something other than marriage and kids. While the film's premise and storyline � a female spin on the familiar "Dead Poets' Society" model � was predictable, Julia Roberts' delivered a mature and engaging performance that, in ways different from her previous efforts, had audiences once again rooting for her.

Just as Julia Roberts began filming the anticipated sequel "Ocean's Twelve" (2004), the actress, who was by then onto her second marriage to cameraman Danny Moder, announced to the world that she was pregnant with twins. Perhaps due to the impending birth, Julia Roberts appeared to be having more fun than in the first "Oceans," gamely playing off of her pregnancy and � in a harder-to-swallow plot spin � her character's uncanny resemblance to movie star Julia Roberts. Just prior to the release of that film, Roberts made international headlines when she gave birth to a boy and a girl, Phinnaeus and Hazel, in November, 2004. Hot on the heels of that arrival was the debut of the Mike Nichols-directed drama "Closer" (2004), in which she played an American photographer in London caught up in the heated, sometimes erotic, often cruel love/sex gender war amid two shifting sets of couples (Jude Law and Natalie Portman; Julia Roberts and Clive Owen). The highly literate film received excellent reviews and brought Roberts' her best notice since "Erin Brockovich."

After taking time off to enjoy her twins and family time on her Taos, NM ranch, Julia Roberts returned to work � this time, surprising many by accepting a role on Broadway. In April of 2006, Julia Roberts headlined the Richard Greenberg drama, "Three Days of Rain," co-starring Paul Rudd and Bradley Cooper. Although her reviews were lukewarm, the play sold out its 12-week run, proving Julia Roberts' appeal extended beyond the big screen and various magazine covers.