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Anna Friel

2009-06-23T15:50:00.000-07:00

Anna Friel

Anna Friel

Anna Friel

A staple of British soap operas before she was even out of her teens, Anna Friel experienced the type of fame encouraged by tabloids and Internet shrines before getting a chance to prove her talents on the stage and screen. Born in Rochdale, Lancashire on July 12, 1976, Friel began acting as a teenager, performing with theatres across Britain. In 1990, she made her television debut with a role on the BBC series In Their Shoes, and was soon appearing in a number of popular TV series, including Coronation Street and Emmerdale. She received her greatest amount of notice to date when she was cast on the soap opera Brookside in 1993; the resulting popularity of her role on the show made the waifish, saucer-eyed actress something of a celebrity in her native country.

In 1997--two years after leaving Brookside--Friel made her film debut in The Land Girls. A World War II drama, it featured Friel, Rachel Weisz and Catherine McCormack as its titular heroines. Although the film was virtually unheard of outside the UK, it received generally favorable reviews. The following year, Friel appeared in two more films, The Stringer and Rogue Trader, the latter of which had her starring opposite Ewan McGregor. That same year, she won great acclaim on the London stage for her performance in Patrick Marber's -Closer. A trenchant commentary on love and sex, it featured the young actress as an enigmatic stripper, and allowed her to work alongside such performers as Natasha Richardson, Ciaran Hinds and Rupert Graves. The play proved to be so successful that it moved to Broadway the next year, where it continued to win accolade after accolade. Friel herself won a Drama Desk award for Best Supporting Actress for her work. That same year, she continued to broaden her resume and fan base with starring roles in A Midsummer Night's Dream and Sunset Strip, the former of which featured her as Hermia, and the latter of which saw her experiencing the ups and downs of life in 1972 Los Angeles. Following roles in The War Bride and Me Without You (both 2001) Friel continued to develop her onscreen persona, and with Richard Donner's time travel adventure Timeline (2003) the actress remained poised for the role that would provide her with her widest exposure to date.

In 2005, Friel appeared in the sports drama Goal!, about a Los Angeles teenager with dreams of becoming a professional soccer player. She also appeared alongside Kevin Pollak in the drama Niagra Motel, which found a group of seemingly disparate strangers connecting when they pass through the same motel. Then in 2007, Friel joined the cast of the new series Pushing Daisies, about a man who falls in love with a deceased woman after he discovers he can communicate with the dead. Rebecca Flint Marx, All Movie Guide

Rihanna

2009-05-17T22:21:00.000-07:00

Rihanna

Rihanna

Rihanna

Rihanna

Rihanna

Rihanna established herself big-time in summer 2005 with her debut smash hit, "Pon de Replay," and continued to demonstrate her smash hit potential in subsequent years (e.g., "S.O.S.," 2006; "Umbrella," 2007). By the time of her third album, Good Girl Gone Bad (2007), she was a full-fledged international pop star with a regular presence atop the charts, from Germany to Japan. Born Robyn Rihanna Fenty on February 20, 1988, in Saint Michael, Barbados, she always exhibited a special quality, winning beauty and talent contests as a schoolchild. But because she lived on the fairly remote island of Barbados in the West Indies, she never foresaw the sort of stardom that would later befall her.

That stardom came courtesy of a fateful meeting with a man named Evan Rogers. The New Yorker was vacationing in Barbados with his wife, a native of the island, when someone turned him on to Rihanna. Since Rogers had spent years producing pop artists -- including superstars like *NSYNC, Christina Aguilera, Jessica Simpson, Kelly Clarkson, Laura Pausini, and Rod Stewart -- he offered her the opportunity to record some music after he recognized her talent and potential. Along with Rogers' production partner, Carl Sturken (the other half of Syndicated Rhythm Productions), Rihanna recorded some demos that sparked the interest of the Carter Administration -- that is, newly appointed Def Jam president Shawn "Jay-Z" Carter. This led to an audition and, in turn, an on-the-spot offer to sign with Def Jam, which Rihanna indeed inked on the spot.

Rihanna's third album, Good Girl Gone Bad (2007), continued her success and, more notably, signaled a change of direction. Whereas her past two albums had been been imbalanced -- often weighed down by faceless balladry and canned Caribbean-isms -- Good Girl Gone Bad was a first-rate dance-pop album. Moreover, it was surprisingly solid, stacked with potential singles and easily enjoyable from beginning to end. Collaborators included Jay-Z, Ne-Yo, Timbaland, and StarGate. The lead single, "Umbrella," shot to number one and, for the third year in a row, was a potential "song of the summer." By this point it was clear that Rihanna had become one of the biggest singles artists of the mid-2000s. ~ Jason Birchmeier

Marisa Miller

2009-02-11T14:54:00.000-08:00

Marisa Miller

Marisa Miller

Marisa Miller

Marisa Miller

Marisa Miller

Marisa Miller is a strawberry blonde surfer-turned-model. According to Sports Illustrated, she was discovered in 2001 by fashion photographer Mario Testino, who took pictures of her riding the waves in California. The next year she appeared in the Sports Illustrated swimsuit issue and has since appeared on the covers of Vogue, Fitness and Shape, among other high-profile magazines. Her athletic West Coast look was at first reminiscent of another SI model, Christie Brinkley, but Miller later opted for a more typically skinny supermodel look. She also has modelled for the ad campaigns of Tommy Hilfiger and has made frequent appearances in the Victoria's Secret lingerie catalogs. She appeared on the cover of the 2008 edition of the Sports Illustrated swimsuit issue.
Extra credit: According to her official site, Miller is 5'8" tall and weighs 110 pounds... Miller took a spin at Daytona Speedway with Nascar driver Dale Earnhardt, Jr. for a 2003 Sports Illustrated feature... Miller is no relation to singer Marissa Lee Miller or to the actress Marisa Miller who appeared in the 2002 film A Walk to Remember.

Eva Mendez

2009-02-11T14:48:00.000-08:00

Eva Mendez

Eva Mendez

Eva Mendez

Eva Mendez

Eva Mendez

Eva Mendes, also given credit as Eva Mendez was born in Houston, Texas on March 5, 1978. He parents are both Cubans, and contributed to an interesting childhood that saw Eva move to Miami and then Los Angeles, when she was still a young girl. A fiercely independent actress who refuses to be pressed into a conventional mode or typecast, Eva Mendez was studying marketing in the late '90s when an agent stumbled across her photo while perusing Mendez's neighbor's portfolio. Eva Mendes kicked off her acting career in an Aerosmith video. The 25-year-old resident of Los Angeles hadn't considered acting as a career until two and a half years ago, and has never taken an acting class. As the classic Hollywood story goes, she was discovered because her neighbour, a photographer, had her photo in his portfolio and it caught the eye of an agent. Dropping out of school soon after being randomly discovered by an agent, Mendez appeared in a few made-for-television productions and hammed it up with Will Ferrell and Chris Kattan in A Night at the Roxbury before being cast in a prominent role in Urban Legends: Final Cut. She was thrilled about the opportunity to play a lesbian Latina, but she is still seeking the role that will challenge her as well as her viewers. After spending the last part of the 1990s in TV roles, music videos and small parts in movies such as A Night at Roxbury and Exit Wounds (both 1998), Eva Mendes had a career breakthrough co-starring with Denzel Washington in Training Day (2001, with Ethan Hawke). Since then she's been one busy, sexy actor in half a dozen movies, including 2 Fast 2 Furious (2003, starring Paul Walker), Once Upon a Time in Mexico (2003, with Antonio Banderas and Johnny Depp) and Out of Time (2003, also with Denzel Washington) and Stuck on You (2003, with Matt Damon). Recently Eva played an FBI agent in Once Upon a Time in Mexico (2003). She is writing a children's book, "Crazy Leggs Beshee." Inspired by her nieces and nephews, she wants to introduce vocabulary, art, history and values through a medium kids understand.

Jaime King

2009-02-11T14:41:00.000-08:00

Jaime King

Jaime King

Jaime King

Jaime King

James (now Jaime) King was a famously troubled teen supermodel of the 1990s; she was "discovered" at 14, a success at 15 and a heroin user at 16. After well-publicized battles with drugs and alcohol King turned sober and continued her successes in modelling; her male-sounding name, once a novelty, became her calling card. On TV she has served as occasional co-host of the MTV show House of Style and appeared in the short-lived TV series Kitchen Confidential (2005, starring Bradley Cooper). She has also had several small roles in feature films, including Blow (2001, starring Johnny Depp), Pearl Harbor (2001, with Ben Affleck) and the film version of Frank Miller's Sin City (2005).

Jennifer Garner

2009-02-06T10:46:00.000-08:00

Jennifer Garner

Jennifer Garner

Jennifer Garner

Jennifer Garner

Jennifer Garner

Jennifer Garner, who has catapulted into stardom with her lead role on the series "Alias" (2001), has come a long way from her birthplace of Houston, Texas. Raised in Charleston, West Virginia by her mother Pat, a retired English teacher, and her father, Bill, a former chemical engineer, Jennifer was the middle sibling of three girls. She spent nine years of her adolescence studying ballet and describes her years in dance as ones characterized by determination rather than talent, being driven mostly by a love of the stage.

Jennifer took this determination with her when she enrolled at Denison University as a chemistry major, a decision that was later changed to a drama major when she found that her passions for the stage were stronger than her love of science. New York attracted the young actress after college where she worked as a hostess while pursuing a career in film and television. Her most recent move has been to Los Angeles, a decision that led to a role on the show "Felicity" (1998), where she met her future husband Scott Foley. The couple divorced in 2004.

She appears on television as Agent Sydney Bristow, who works for the CIA. For her work, Garner has received four consecutive Emmy nominations for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series. She has also received four Golden Globe nominations and won once, as well as received two Screen Actors Guild Award nominations, and won once.

She has appeared in numerous other television production as well as such films as Elektra (2005), 13 Going on 30 (2004), Daredevil (2003), Pearl Harbor (2001) and Dude, Where's My Car? (2000). Aside from filming "Alias" (2001), Jennifer enjoys cooking, gardening, hiking, and inspired by her character on the show, kickboxing.

Lauren Conrad

2009-01-29T15:18:00.000-08:00

Lauren Conrad

Lauren Conrad

Lauren Conrad

Lauren Conrad

Laruen Conrad

Lauren Conrad and Heidi Montag

Lauren was born on February 1st, 1986 to Jim and Kathy Conrad in Laguna Beach, California in the United States. Lauren is the eldest of 3 children and has a younger sister named Breanna and a younger brother. Lauren's father is an architect and her mother runs her father's business.

Lauren has been immersed in the wealth of Laguna Beach. Whilst in High School, she and her friends spent their time tanning, shopping, and searching for attractive boys. She signed onto a role on MTV's Laguna Beach: The Real Orange County in her last year of High School and starred in Season 1 and 2.

Lauren enjoys designing fashion and attended the Academy of Art University in San Francisco for one semester before transferring to the Fashion Institute of Design and Merchandising in Los Angeles.

Since moving to Los Angeles from Laguna Beach, she has her own spin-off series called The Hills which also airs on MTV. Lauren is now an intern at Teen Vogue Magazine in Los Angeles.

As of 2007, Lauren resides in West Hollywood with her friend, Audrina.

Ashley Tisdale

2009-01-28T17:23:00.000-08:00

Ashley Tisdale

Ashley Tisdale

Ashley Tisdale

Ashley Tisdale

Ashley Tisdale

Ashley Michelle Tisdale was born in Monmouth, New Jersey on July 2, 1985, to Mike and Lisa Tisdale. Ashley's career began at the age of three, when she was discovered by her manager, Bill Perlman, at a local mall. Ashley has appeared in more than 100 national commercials, after she landed a job on her first audition. She became an actress on Broadway at the age of eight, when she booked the leading role on the musical "Les Miserables". She then appeared in the musical "Annie", for which she toured internationally. Ashley has appeared on the TV series with a regular role in "Nathan's Choice" and "The Howie Mandel Pilot". She had recurring roles on "George Lopez", "The Hughleys", and "Still Standing". She had guest star roles on "7th Heaven", "Grounded for Life", "Boston Public", and "Strong Medicine". Ashley Tisdale also appeared on the Disney Channel Original Movie "High School Musical" playing the role Sharpay.
Ashley's career also included singing at the White House, when she was just twelve years old. She also has done films in her career as well.

Amber Heard

2009-01-28T17:10:00.001-08:00

Amber Heard

Amber Heard

Amber Heard

Amber Heard

Amber Heard, born on April 22, 1986 in Austin Texas, is an American film and TV actress known for her appearances in movies such as Alpha Dog, All the Boys Love Mandy Lane, and Never Back Down.

Amber attended St. Michael's Catholic Academy but left the school to pursue an acting career in Hollywood. At 18, she landed roles on television and film. In 2005, she appeared in Drop Dead Sexy and the award-winning North Country starring Charlize Theron. On television, she has had guest appearances on The O.C., Californication, and Criminal Minds.

Amber loves to swim, rock climb, ride horses, dive and play golf. She speaks Spanish and knows sign language and she is a certified lifeguard.

Taylor Swift

2009-01-28T17:01:00.000-08:00

Taylor Swift

Taylor Swift

Taylor Swift

Taylor Swift

Taylor Swift

Taylor Swift

Taylor Swift became one of country-pop's brightest (and youngest) faces in 2006, when the 16-year-old vocalist released her first album. Although new to the American public, Swift had been performing since early childhood, taking inspiration and encouragement from her opera-singing grandmother. She sang "The Star-Spangled Banner" before a Philadelphia 76ers game at the age of 11; the following year, she began practicing her guitar skills for several hours each day, only stopping when her fingers began to bleed. Swift's parents realized their child's dedication and began making regular visits to Nashville, TN, where Swift would perform casually and meet with songwriters in the area. The family then decided to move from their native Pennsylvania to an outlying Nashville suburb, which accelerated Swift's career.

While performing at the intimate Bluebird Cafe in Nashville, Swift caught the eye of music industry veteran Scott Borchetta, who signed her to his newly formed label. Swift joined the roster at Big Machine Records and released her debut single, "Tim McGraw," in August 2006. The song drew upon her experience as a lovelorn high-school student, a theme that Swift revisited throughout her self-titled debut album. Released in late 2008, Taylor Swift catapulted the young songwriter to stardom, spawning a handful of hits (five consecutive Top Ten singles, a new record for a female solo artist) while earning multi-platinum sales. Swift also received a Grammy nomination for Best New Artist, an award she ultimately lost to Amy Winehouse. Two subsequent EPs -- Sounds of the Season: The Taylor Swift Holiday Collection and Beautiful Eyes -- helped maintain Swift's popularity while whetting public demand for her sophomore release, Fearless, which arrived in November 2008. ~ Andrew Leahey & Megan Frye, All Music Guide

Megan Fox

2009-01-28T16:53:00.000-08:00

Megan Fox

Megan Fox

Megan Fox

Megan Fox

Megan Fox

Megan Fox

Megan Fox was born May 16, 1986 in Tennessee. She has one older sister. Megan began her training in drama and dance at the age of 5 and, at the age of 10, moved to Florida where she continued her training and finished school. She now lives in Los Angeles. Megan began acting and modeling at the age of 13 after winning several awards at the 1999 American Modeling and Talent Convention in Hilton Head, South Carolina. Megan made her film debut as "Brianna Wallace" in the Mary-Kate Olsen and Ashley Olsen movie, Holiday in the Sun (2001) (V).

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Trivia

Named #68 in FHM magazine's "100 Sexiest Women in the World 2006" supplement. (2006).

Ranked #18 on the Maxim magazine Hot 100 of 2007 list.

She has Irish, Italian, French and Cherokee ancestry.

Is friends with Jennifer Blanc, Kellan Rhude, Amanda Seyfried, and Michael Biehn.

Ranked #17 on interview magazines Hollywood faces to watch "Future Stars of Tomorrow".

She was voted #1 sexiest woman by FHM readers for 2008.

Ranked #16 on the Maxim magazine Hot 100 of 2008 list.

Is both a fan of comic books and video games. Her favorite artist is the recently deceased Michael Turner.

Is a huge fan of animals and has owned dogs, cats, birds, squirrels and a pig.Names Shia LaBeouf as one of her favorite people ever.

Was ranked #1 on Moviefone's 'The 25 Hottest Actors Under 25'(2008).

Vanessa Hudgens

2009-01-28T16:42:00.000-08:00

Vanessa Hudges

Vanessa Hudgens

Vanessa Hudges

Vanessa Hudges

Vanessa Hudgens

Vanessa Hudgens

Birth Place: Salinas, CA
Date of Birth / Zodiac Sign: 12/14/1988, Sagittarius
Profession: Actor; singer
Blessed with exotic looks and oodles of charisma, this over-achieving triple threat sang and danced her way to fame as a brainy beauty in Disney's smash 2006 TV-movie High School Musical. Although the multiethnic Hudgens only had a handful of TV guest spots and film appearances under her belt, she was already a veteran hoofer, having performed in myriad stage musicals since childhood. Under Disney's tutelage, Hudgens became a formidable starlet, guest-starring on the station's popular teen series (Drake & Josh, The Suite Life of Zack and Cody) and headlining HSM. After the film's success, she released her own album, V, which promptly landed in the top 30 on the Billboard 200 album chart.

Mila Kunis

2009-01-28T16:31:00.000-08:00

Mila Kunis

Mila Kunis

Mila Kunis

Mila Kunis

Mila Kunis

Mila Kunis

Mila Kunis

She was born in Kiev in the Ukraine, the same city as Milla Jovovich. Her father was an engineer and her mother was a physics teacher. In 1990 the Ukraine split from the USSR and Mia and her family moved to Los Angeles in the hopes of a better life. When she first started learning english she watched Saved by The Bell and The Price is Right and learned her english from the people on these shows, most specifically, Bob Barker. She even had a desire to be one of Barkers' beauties at one point but that all changed when she got on that seventies show.

She learned to act at a Beverly Hills Studio. She started acting in television commercials and the soap opera, Days of Our Lives. Although she has had great success with that seventies show, she continues to attend high school at Fairfax Senior High School. She graduated from Fairfax in 2001 and has been persuing her film and television career full time. Only time will tell where her career will end up in the future. But that seventies show may leave her typecast.

Paz Vega

2009-01-28T16:16:00.000-08:00

Paz Vega

Paz Vega

Paz Vega

Paz Vega

Paz Vega

Paz Vega studied at the Centro Andaluz de Teatro stage school before getting her first break on the Spanish TV series Menudo es Mi Padre. Her screen presence and acting ability were just as apparent as her beauty, and she soon appeared on the series Más Que Amigos, as well as in the films Perdón, Perdón and Zapping. Vega arrived on the scene as a recognizable name and face in 1999 with a role on the domestic sitcom 7 Vidas, also known as the "Spanish Friends." At the age of 23, Vega had become a star, and director Mateo Gil took such notice of her that he gave her a substantial role in his slick thriller Nadie Conoce a Nadie. She soon afterward made waves with a provocative title role in the erotic drama Lucía y el Sexo -- winning her a Goya award (the Spanish equivalent of an Oscar) and effectively making her a sex symbol overnight. Vegatackled several high-quality and high-profile roles in the following few years, including a battered wife in Sólo Mía and scientist in the award-winning Hable con Ella. Her arrival in Hollywood came in 2004, however, with a role in the Adam Sandler dramatic comedy Spanglish. The film had only a modest run at the box office, but U.S. audiences were taken with the Spanish beauty. She was soon afterward offered a role in Oliver Parker's old-Hollywood thriller Fade to Black, playing Italian actress Lea Padovani. Cammila Albertson, All Movie Guide

Ali Larter

2009-01-28T15:47:00.000-08:00

Ali Larter

Ali Larter

Ali Larter

Ali Larter

Ali Larter

Ali Larter was born February 28, 1976, in Cherry Hill, New Jersey. She is a model and a budding celebrity star actress. People were stunned by the beauty that was possessed by this mystery girl that they had never heard of. She began her career as a model for Esquire Magazine in the November '96 issue as the super sexy "Allegra Coleman". Ali was then cast into a new film from MTV Films, in which she would co-star with one of today's hottest stars, James Van Der Beek.

With Ali's appearances in "Dawson's Creek", people were flocking to theaters to see her heat up the screen. Ali dazzled audiences in "Varsity Blues" as a truly scrumptious morsel clad in a whipped-cream-bikini. Ali next graced the screen with red-hair and a snappy attitude opposite Melissa Joan Hart in "Drive Me Crazy". Ali, taking to a new trend, became a player in a remake of the old horror film "House on Haunted Hill" opposite Taye Diggs, Famke Janssen, and Chris Kattan. She continued in the horror footsteps, this time co-starring with Devon Sawa and Kerr Smith. Ali took the part of Clear Rivers in New Line's "Final Destination".

Ali has set audiences on fire with her extreme acting ability, finally taking a very central role in defining herself. Recently, after she turned 25, Ali appeared as a cover girl for Maxim Magazine for Men, sparking up even more interest and whipping up an even stronger fan base. This summer, Ali will be starred in several new movies, "American Outlaws" and "Legally Blonde". She will also be seen in "Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back", the final installment of Kevin Smith's film series, and "Final Destination 2", the sequel to the 2000 blockbuster horror hit.