Evan Rachel Wood

Evan Rachel Wood (born September 7, 1987) is an American actress and singer.

Wood began her acting career in the late 1990s, appearing in several television series, including American Gothic and Once and Again. She made her debut as a leading film actress in 2002's Little Secrets and became well-known after her transition to a more adult-oriented Golden Globe–nominated role in the critically-acclaimed film Thirteen (2003).

Wood continued acting mostly in independent films, including Pretty Persuasion (2005), Down in the Valley (2006), Running With Scissors (2006), and in the big studio production Across the Universe (2007). Wood's acting has drawn critical praise, and she has been described by The Guardian newspaper as being "wise beyond her years" and as "one of the best actresses of her generation." Her relationship with singer Marilyn Manson, whom she dated from December 2006 through October 2008, received considerable news coverage

Eva Mendes

Eva Mendes (born March 5, 1974) is an American actress. She began acting in the late 1990s, and became known after a series of roles in several major Hollywood films, including 2 Fast 2 Furious, Hitch, Training Day, Ghost Rider and We Own the Night.

One day Mendes caught the eye of an agent who convinced her to pursue acting more steadily. She worked her way up through commercials to music videos, including an appearance in Will Smith's video "Miami" and the Pet Shop Boys music video for "Se a vida é (That’s the way life is)" in 1996 and Aerosmith's video "Hole in My Soul" in 1997, to guest roles in soap operas and supporting film roles. Her first film appearance was in the direct-to-video Children of the Corn V: Fields of Terror.

Mendes received her first big-screen break when she appeared in the award-winning and critically-acclaimed Training Day. That performance led to roles in Stuck on You, Once Upon a Time in Mexico, and as the female lead in the comedy Hitch opposite Will Smith. Her role in Once Upon a Time in Mexico also gave her a nomination at the Teen Choice Awards. Mendes has also been in commercials for Gushers, Revlon, and Levi's. Mendes costarred in Ghost Rider with Nicolas Cage, and most recently starred alongside Joaquin Phoenix, Mark Wahlberg, and Robert Duvall in the film We Own the Night.

Along with acting, Mendes is employed by Revlon Cosmetics as an international spokeswoman. She joins such elite actresses and models as Julianne Moore, Halle Berry and Cindy Crawford, who appear in Revlon's television and print ads. She is also a passionate supporter and active participant in Revlon's fight against breast cancer.

"Maxim" ranked Mendes #7 in its 2007 Hot 100 issue. She also made her second Maxim cover in the November 2007 issue.

Eva Longoria

Eva Jacqueline Longoria Parker (born March 15, 1975) is an American Golden Globe-nominated and Screen Actors Guild Award-winning film and television actress. She rose to fame by playing Isabella Braña Williams on the CBS soap opera The Young and the Restless. She now plays Gabrielle Solis in the ABC television series Desperate Housewives. She has also become a nationally recognized model after appearing in several high-profile advertising campaigns and numerous men's magazines, reaching #14 in the FHM "Sexiest Women 2008" poll. Longoria is also known for her relationship with NBA guard Tony Parker, whom she married in 2007.

Longoria landed her first television role in 2000, guest-starring in an episode of Beverly Hills, 90210. Another guest appearance in General Hospital the same year brought her big break on the popular American soap opera The Young and the Restless, in which she played psychotic Isabella Braña Williams from 2001 to 2003. People en Español listed her among its "Most Beautiful People" for 2003. After leaving The Young and the Restless, she was seen on the now-cancelled Dick Wolf revival of Dragnet. Although it lasted only two seasons, the show gave Longoria another leading star credit to her name. Following Dragnet, she starred in two ill-fated productions - Señorita Justice, a poorly received direct-to-video film, and a television film titled The Dead Will Tell. In 2004, Longoria landed a role that elevated her to the A-List. She starred as adulteress Gabrielle Solis in the worldwide break-out ABC hit Desperate Housewives. As the show became an overnight sensation, Longoria's career was well and truly launched. But she has never considered her career to have jumped off so suddenly: "I think it’s funny when people say I’m an overnight sensation, because I’ve been working at it for 10 years

Estella Warren

Warren was born in Peterborough, Ontario, the daughter of Esther, an elementary school principal, and Don Warren, a used car dealer. As a synchronized swimmer, she represented Canada at the World Aquatic Championships. She moved to Toronto at the age of twelve to train with the national synchronized swimming team, and after becoming the senior national champion at seventeen, Warren had the chance to move on to the 1996 Summer Olympics. She is a three-time Canadian national champion, and the solo bronze medallist at the 1995 Junior World Championships.

Warren's movies include 2001's Driven and Planet of the Apes, 2003's Kangaroo Jack and the critically acclaimed The Cooler in the same year.

She has appeared in That '70s Show in 2003; in Law & Order, and in its spin-off Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, both in 2005. She also appeared in Ghost Whisperer, in an episode entitled, "On the Wings of a Dove", where she portrayed Alexis ("Lexi") Fogerty, which aired on November 11, 2005. In 2006, Warren was featured in the video for INXS' song "Afterglow", and played Jessica in the National Lampoon film, Pucked. She was also featured in the Blank and Jones music video for their song "Beyond Time".

Emma Watson

Emma Charlotte Duerre Watson was born in Oxford, Oxfordshire, England on April 15, 1990. At school, she took the lead role in several plays including "Arthur: The Young Years" and "The Happy Prince". Along with plays, Emma participated in many other school productions including the "Daisy Pratt Poetry Competition", in which she won first place for her year at age seven. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone (2001) was her debut into the world of professional acting. Competing against many other girls for the role of Hermione Granger, she didn't expect to get the part.

Away from the cinematic world, Emma enjoys playing hockey most of all and she also likes debating. Although her hair is brown in the movie, she's naturally a blonde. She once dressed up as a witch for Halloween, but she had no idea that years later, she would be playing one in the Harry Potter movie. Her lawyers parents, Jacqueline and Chris, are divorced. Emma lives with her mother and younger brother Alex. Her role models are Julia Roberts, Goldie Hawn, John Cleese and Sandra Bullock.

Ellen Pompeo

Pompeo was born in Everett, Massachusetts. She is Irish on her mother's side of the family and Italian on her father's, Joseph Pompeo. Pompeo is a Catholic. Her grandfather was born in Gesualdo, a village in Province of Avellino, Italy. Her mother, Kathleen passed away when she was four years old, her father remarried soon after her mother's death. She was nicknamed the pencil and Straciatella (which translated from Italian to "little rags" or "strings") for her thin frame.

For more than two years, she served cocktails in Miami where she met then-boyfriend, fashion photographer Andrew Rosenthal. In 1996, she was bartending at the SoHo Bar & Grill in New York City's Upper West Side when an agent approached her to appear in commercials. Subsequently, she appeared in commercials for Citibank and L'Oreal. She began her career with minor roles on television shows like Strangers with Candy and Law & Order and a handful of films. You can currently catch her on the hit ABC TV show "Grey's Anatomy".

Elle Macpherson

Born as Eleanor Nancy Gow in New South Wales, Australia in 1964, Elle MacPhearson is one of the world's leading supermodels. Growing up Elle had four siblings, of which she was the oldest. When she was fourteen her parents got divorced and Elle later changed her name when her mom remarried Neil MacPherson.

Modeling was not a career that Elle chased over, but rather one that chased after her as she was discovered when she was on vacation in Tasmania. She was signed with Chick Model Management. Her worldwide fame, however, would be found through ELLE magazine, appearing in every issue for six consecutive years. Though she would be most well-known for her cover spots in the annual swimsuit edition of Sports Illustrated, an honor she achieved a total of four times, three of those years being back to back.

Her popularity was even acknowledged by Time Magazine when they ran a cover, "The Big Elle" in 1986. Eight years later in 1994 Elle jumped from modeling to appear in her first film, Sirens. For the role Elle reportedly gained twenty pounds and appeared in several nude scenes. Later that year Elle appeared nude in Playboy Magazine. However, she decided not to allow the pictures to be published in Australia, fearing that her fans there might be offended.

Elizabeth Hurley

An English actress born in Basingstoke, Hampshire, in 1965, Elizabeth Hurley has managed to make a name for herself in both England and the United States. Hurley originally wanted to become a dancer and at the age of twelve she attended a private boarding school for dancing, but later decided to leave the school. Later Hurley won a scholarship to the London Studio Centre and took several courses in dance and theater.

Hurley's break actually did not come from film or dance, but rather from a local newspaper in Winchester, England where she won a "Face of the Year" competition. As the winner she received a one-year modeling contract with a London firm. In 1988 Hurley starred in a BBC movie, Christabel, as the title character, Cristabel Bielenberg. She starred in several other small movies before landing a role on the Wesley Snipes blockbuster Passenger 57 in 1992, which served to not only further her career, but also to introduce her to American audiences.

Elizabeth Berkley

Born in 1972, film star Elizabeth Berkley was five when her parents first enrolled her at Detroit Dance Company, and it wasn't long before she began to take part in several ballets. This line up included the impressive "Swan Lake" when she was only eleven years old, and she even starred in some musicals that required her to learn Italian.

With that kind of early dedication and devotion to her love of the dramatic, it was probably no surprise to those in Berkley's life when she was cast in a television movie a few years later or when she began receiving reoccurring roles in television series. Eventually she got the role of Jesse Spano in the television series Saved by the Bell. Berkley was only sixteen when she got the role and before she knew what was going on she found herself caught up in the unexpected whirlwind of the series' success.

After four seasons on Saved by the Bell, Berkley decided to leave the popular sitcom in order to pursue other screen opportunities as well as attend college. However, it was the 1995 release of the movie, Showgirls that eventually garnered her international attention for the racy role of Nomi Malone in the NC-17 rated film. Unfortunately it was not the type of attention she wanted, as the movie was a box office bomb that was panned by critics everywhere.

Eliza Dushku

Born to parents of Albanian and Danish descent in Massachusetts in December of 1980, her parents later divorced when she was still very young. In 1990 Dushku went to an audition for a commercial where she accidentally fell. The minor spill resulted in a nosebleed that Dushku played up so well that she impressed the judges with her flair for the dramatic. After that Dushku began starring in films and television as early as 1992 when she was discovered after a participating in a nationwide search for her role in the movie, That Night.

However, Dushku claims that it was actually the movie, This Boy's Life, in which she co-starred with Leonardo DiCaprio and Robert De Niro, that opened a lot of doors for her. In fact, the next year, 1994, Dushku found herself working with Jamie Lee Curtis, Arnold Schwarzenegger, and James Belushi, in the action-packed movie, True Lies.

Elisha Cuthbert

Elisha Cuthbert was born in Alberta, Canada in 1982. When she was only seven, Cuthbert began modeling for children's clothing and footwear. In 1996, at the age of fourteen she managed to get a small role on the television series Are You Afraid of the Dark?. The character was only named as "young girl", but Cuthbert had succeeded in garnering enough attention to later get her a reoccurring role on the series as well as another role in the dramatic family movie Dancing on the Moon.

That same year, 1997, she began hosting the show, Popular Mechanics for Kids, and continued to do so until 2000. She often acted as a foreign correspondent for the show, flying around the world to get interviews and report of foreign affairs. Hillary Clinton noticed her reporting and later invited her to visit the White House.

Elena Dementieva

The Russian pro tennis player, Elena Vyacheslavovna Dementieva, was born in Moscow in 1981. Elena's rise to a professional athlete started at the tender age of thirteen when she entered and won her first international tournament in France. Four years later she became a professional tennis player in 1998, and took a spot in the top 100 players in 1999. It was during 1999 when she represented her home country of Russia against Venus Williams in the Fed Cup.

However, Elena would face Venus again at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Australia. She ultimately lost the gold medal to Venus, but brought home the silver medal. Also in that year, Elena was named the Women's Tennis Association's Most Improved Player after ranking in their top twenty. The next year she once again made the top twenty ranking, beating Anna Kournikova out of her four-year position as the top ranked Russian tennis player. Shortly after achieving this ranking Elena injured her shoulder while in Australia, forcing her to change her serve in order to be able to continue playing.

Drew Barrymore

Drew Barrymore is one of the most popular American actresses today, and she is also a film producer and owner of Flower Films. Barrymore began her career as a child actress, has dealt with various drug and alcohol problems, and has posed naked for Playboy in addition to making a number of films in multiple genres.

Barrymore was born on February 22, 1975, in Culver City California. Both of her parents were actors, as is her half brother John Blyth Barrymore and many of her ancestors. Her first job came at the age of eleven months when she appeared in a dog food commercial. She got her first real role at age five in "Altered States," and a year later, she hit it big with her role in "E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial." In 1984, at the age of nine, she was nominated for the Best Supporting Actress Golden Globe for "Irreconcilable Differences."

Denise Richards

Born on February 17, 1971, Denise is an American actress and former fashion model. She became famous in the late 1990s, after a string of films that highlighted her sex appeal, including Starship Troopers, Wild Things, and The World Is Not Enough. She also has her own reality TV show, Denise Richards: It's Complicated which airs on E!.

In 2002, she married actor Charlie Sheen, with whom she appeared in Scary Movie 3, in which she played his character's wife who was pinned to a tree in a car accident. They have two daughters, Sam J and Lola Rose Sheen.

In March 2005, Richards filed for divorce from Sheen. The couple briefly reconciled and were seeking marriage counseling to mend their relationship. However, on January 4, 2006, Richards' representative announced that she was continuing with the divorce, and she later sought a restraining order against Sheen, citing his alleged death threats against her. Richards briefly dated Bon Jovi guitarist Richie Sambora shortly after their respective separations from Sheen and Heather Locklear, ending what Locklear had considered to be a close friendship. Richards once dated actor Patrick Muldoon; she has also been linked to actor John Stamos, whom she dated during her teenage years.

On April 19, 2006, Richards filed formal legal papers asking for divorce from Sheen under the laws of the state of California. In her court filing, Richards alleged that Sheen's behavior was increasingly erratic, making their marriage impossible, and that she feared for her safety and the safety of their daughters.

Richards claimed that Sheen was physically and verbally abusive and threatened to kill her or have her killed, and that despite having accidentally shot his previous fiancée, Kelly Preston, he wanted to place firearms under their coffee table to protect them. Richards claimed that Sheen had become paranoid and obsessive, citing his belief in 9/11 conspiracy theories, a belief that baby formula caused brain damage, a desire to purchase gas masks, and an "abnormal fascination" with Nicole Simpson's death.

Danielle Fishel

Born May 5, 1981 in Mesa, Arizona) is a Maltese-American actress who is best known for her role as Topanga Lawrence on the 1990s TV sitcom Boy Meets World. She later appeared in National Lampoon's Dorm Daze and its sequel, and was a spokesperson for NutriSystem. She currently hosts The Dish.

In real life, Fishel dated her Boy Meets World co-star, Ben Savage. Her most visible relationship was with Lance Bass, who revealed that he was gay in 2006.Of Bass's sexuality, Fishel said, "It wasn't a shock for me. I found out probably a year or two after we broke up. People magazine was not my first time knowing Lance was gay! He is an awesome guy, he was an awesome boyfriend and he is still a very good friend of mine." Fishel was seen in the audience after Bass performed his week 7 dance on the seventh season of Dancing with the Stars on November 3, 2008.

Daisy Fuentes

Daisy Fuentes is a Cuban-American model and was one of the most visible MTV stars of the mid-1990s. She once again shot to fame by appearing in infomercials for Winsor Pilates.

Daisy Fuentes was born on November 17, 1966 in Havana, Cuba to a real estate broker Amado Fuentes and Maria Fuentes. When Daisy was three years old, the Fuentes family

Daisy Fuentes studied communications and journalism at Bergen Community College, and was selected as "weather girl" on WXTV. Daisy Fuentes soon became a news anchor and reporter for the evening news.

She married Timothy Adams in 1990, who is an established actor. He was a high school sweetheart and they divorced in 1994. Presently she is with Luis Miguel who is a singer, whom she met in 1991. As is the custom of Hollywood marriages, it soon ended and Daisy Fuentes is now dating Matt Goss.

Dakota Fanning

Dakota Fanning was born in Conyers, Georgia, to Steven and Joy Fanning. Steven Fanning was a former baseball captain with the Conyers baseball team. Dakota is accompanied by her younger sister Elle, who is also a well known actress. Dakota Fanning belongs to half German descent and half Irish origin. Dakota and her family are Baptists, members of the Southern Baptist Convention.
To Dakota Fanning, acting was a passion since the age of five, when she started giving stage shows. She got her first break at the age of seven when she appeared with distinguished musician Ray Charles in a television commercial for the Georgia State Lottery. After this, she was also chosen for a Tide commercial which launched her into the television world. Her first major acting job was a guest-starring role in the NBC prime-time drama, ER, which remains one of her favorite roles in which she played a car accident victim who has leukemia.

Courteney Cox

Courtney Cox was born on 16th of June 1964, in an affluent American family. Her father was Richard L. Cox and mother Bass/Courtney. Her parents divorced and she grew up with her stepfather. Her mother was a housewife. She has two real sister and one real brother and nine half-brothers and half-sisters. She was born in the city of Birmingham, Alabama.

Courtney Cox's schooling was with her stepfather in a school called Mountain Brook, she wanted to study architecture, therefore she attended the Mount Vernon College for Women. She decided to pursue her career as a model when she was chosen by the Ford Modeling agency. She decided to drop out of the college. She knew swimming and was a tennis player at her school. After several relationships with other stars and actors she finally got married to David Arquette and has a daughter by the name of Coco Riley Arquette. Her best friend Jennifer Aniston happens to be her daughter's godmother.

She started her career in films and television from the advertisement for Tampax. She also acted in films like Master of the Universe, Cocoon: The Return, Ace Venture: Pet Detective. Her early television jobs were the serials like the Misfits of Science, Family Ties, Seinfeld, etc.

Cori Nadine

Cori Nadine was born on 11th June 1969 in Pasadena, California. She is ethnic origin goes Philippino, Irish and Navajo Indian. Cori Nadine's first appearance was in 1990s. At the time she was a fitness model on the Internet. Her muscular and feminine body soon made her famous.

Marital status and child status of Cori Nadine is not known. She however, has featured on several well known magazines. She has appeared in the Playboy magazine several number of times in different seasons. Cori Nadine is known to appear highly feminine in all her pictures whether they are while she flexes her muscles or she generally shows off her curvy figure.

She has been aspiring to enter the Hollywood as an actress but did not prove to be successful at it. Her sole role in a Hollywood movie was Miami Hustle. She has also appeared in a number of videos like the Garage Girls and Ironman's Sexy Swinsuit Special.

After her break in late nineties there were speculations of her marriage and children, however when she returned she was looking equally stunning, however lookers did not spot as many muscles.

Currently, she appears as a nude or is posing nude for several websites on the internet. There are several sites dedicated to Cori Nadine including her own official website. She is not known of involving herself with any other activities. However, her fit figure and great body has made her a favorite among several people worldwide.

Claire Danes

Claire Danes first entered the consciousness of American TV viewers in 1994, when she played Angela Chase in the TV drama My So-Called Life. This role landed her a Golden Globe, as well as an Emmy nomination. To date, the part of Angela Chase is still considered the memorable role that Claire Danes had in her entire career.

Claire Catherine Danes was born in Manhattan on April 12, 1979. She grew up in Los Angeles, California and attended an exclusive private school, Le Lycee Francaise De Los Angeles. She later went to Yale to study psychology in 1998, but she dropped out after two years so she could focus on her acting career.

Aside from playing Angela Chase, Claire Danes also appeared as the fragile Beth in Little Women alongside Winona Ryder, Kirsten Dunst and Susan Sarandon on 1994. In 1996, she played Juliet in the critically acclaimed Baz Luhrmann film Romeo + Juliet with Leonardo DiCaprio. She also lent her voice to San in the English dub of Princess Mononoke, a Studio Ghibli animated film that Disney distributed in the United States on 1999.

Cindy Margolis

Born on October 1, 1965 in Los Angeles, California, Cindy Margolis is a model and a product endorser for companies such as Reebok, Coors, Sunkist, Hanes and Vidal Sassoon. She became part of the long-running game show The Price Is Right in 1995 as one of Bob Barker's Beauties. On 2000, she hosted her own late-night TV program, The Cindy Margolis Show. Cindy Margolis is also an avid poker player, and her prowess in the game made Tropical Poker enlist her to become one of its official spokespersons and represent it in various poker tournaments and related appearances, including the World Series of Poker Tour.

Cindy Margolis did not come across fame by accident or through waiting for her chance. She created her own shot at fame as a college student in California State University by taking a project she did for a business class to a different level. The project involved greeting cards, and so she took it upon herself to sell greeting cards containing pictures of her wearing lingerie. These greeting cards also had her phone number, so when they came to the hands of talent agents, the talent agents came to her.

Cindy Crawford

Cynthia Ann Crawford was born in DeKalb, Illinois on February 20, 1966. Her entry into the world of fashion was purely accidental; a local photojournalist was passing by the place where she was working on her summer job and took a picture of her pollinating corn. She was only 16 years old then. The photograph became a sensation and gave her the courage to join the Look of the Year contest in 1982, where she placed runner up.

Cindy Crawford is a beauty with brains. She graduated high school as the class valedictorian and earned an academic scholarship to Northwestern University, where she studied chemical engineering. However, she dropped out of college after one short quarter in order to pursue modeling full-time. She then became a staple of runways and fashion shoots, becoming one of the most popular supermodels in the 80s and the 90s. Cindy Crawford became one of the first celebrities that became synonymous with the Pepsi Stuff marketing campaign, and was also the first supermodel to pose nude for Playboy.

Ciara

Ciara is one of the newest promising talents of the music scene today. She first saw the glimmerings of stardom with the launch of her debut album Goodies on September 28, 2004. This debut album of hers featured songs that she wrote on her own, and it spawned three Top Three singles and sold 2.6 million copies in the United States alone.

In 2005, Ciara immediately followed up her debut album with Ciara: The Evolution, an album relating her personal growth during the first two years of her stay in the limelight. This sophomore album turned out to be a bigger hit than her first. Ciara: The Evolution shot up to the number one spot on Billboard 200 soon after its launch. It has sold 338,000 copies in the United States so far, and is already a certified platinum album.

Christy Turlington

Born on January 2, 1969, Christy Turlington is undoubtedly one of the most beautiful faces in the world today. Belonging to the first batch of supermodels alongside Naomi Campbell, Linda Evangelista, Elle MacPherson, Tatjana Patitz, Stephanie Seymour and Cindy Crawford, Christy Turlington has been a long-time spokesperson for Giorgio Armani, Calvin Klein, Chanel and Maybelline. Her face has graced the cover of more than 500 magazines throughout her career, and her image was also featured in the collections of various photographers, such as Peter Lindbergh, Herb Ritts and Karl Lagerfeld.

Although she has definitely earned and is entitled to the address "supermodel," Christy Turlington is known to shun being called such. Rare in the world of divas, she is known as being one of the most professional as well as the friendliest personalities around in the fashion industry.

Christine Taylor

American televiewers and viewers of syndicated television shows all over the world are likely to have more than a passing familiarity with Christine Taylor's body of work. Her acting appearances are concentrated mostly on television, starring roles as Melody Hanson in the Nickelodeon Network's Hey Dude, which ran from 1989 to 1991; and as Mary in Party Girl in 1996. She also had many guest appearances in various hit sitcoms like Seinfeld, Friends, Curb Your Enthusiasm and Arrested Development.

Movie goers would also remember Christine Taylor for her part in the hit comedy The Wedding Singer (1998). In that movie, she played Holly Sullivan, the best friend of Drew Barrymore's Julia Sullivan who was always dressed like Madonna used to in the 1980s.

Fans of the comedic actor Ben Stiller would know Christine Taylor as Mrs. Ben Stiller. The two got married on May 13, 2000, and together they have a daughter, Ella Olivia Stiller, and a son, Quinlin Dempsey Stiller. The two met while they were filming Heat Vision and Jack in 1999, and Christine Taylor has since then appeared as the female lead in a number of Ben Stiller films, notably Zoolander in 2001 and Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story in 2004.

Christina Ricci

Christina Ricci is considered to be one of the very few people in Hollywood who have successfully made the transition from being a child star to a more mature and serious actress. Though she has seen the peak of her popularity through a string of hit movies in the 1990s, what gave her her first break was her role in a school play called The Twelve Days of Christmas, which she did when she was eight years old. Her film debut was in Mermaids (1990), which starred Cher and Winona Ryder.

Christina Ricci's ticket to fame came through the role of Wednesday Addams, the morbid little girl in The Addams Family (1991), a role that she reprised in The Addams Family Values two years later. Not only did this part set Christina Ricci for her predominantly dark and disturbed roles in her future movies, but it also opened for her the doors to instant recognition. She became a widely sought preteen actress, which led to starring roles in hit movies like Casper (1995) and Now and Then (1995)

Christina Milian

Christina Flores, better known to the rest of the world as Christina Milian, is a Cuban-American songwriter, singer and actress. She was born in Jersey City, New Jersey on September 26, 1981.

Christina Milian had her first big break into the music industry when she lent her voice as guest vocals in a single off Ja Rule's album Rule 3:36. The track was called Between Me and You, and it peaked at number one on the Billboard 200. Later on, she wrote the song Play, initially intended as promotional club song for her first solo album Christina Milian. The song, however, was passed on to Jennifer Lopez for her album J.Lo.

Christina Milian's first single from Christina Milian, AM to PM, became an instant hit worldwide. It heralded the international release of the album itself, and the album hit the Top 40 mark in Billboard 200. However, the release of the album in the United States was delayed.

Christina Applegate

Born on November 25, 1971, Christina Applegate entered the world of show business at the age of three months when her mother, the actress Nancy Priddy, appeared in the soap opera The Days of Our Lives carrying the baby Christina in her arms. Since then, Christina Applegate became a child star and one of the most easily recognizable faces on American television.

Christina Applegate has a list of television roles to her name, including appearances in Quincy, Charles in Charge, Washingtoon and Heart of the City. However, she is best known for her role as the promiscuous teenager Kelly Bundy in the sitcom Married with Children, a part she played for nearly eleven years. Her other works include the 1983 TV biopic Grace Kelly, where she played the legendary actress turned Princess of Monaco as a child, the 2002 film The Sweetest Thing, where she played best friend to Cameron Diaz's character, and in the 2004 comedy Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy, where her smart blonde newscaster played foil to Will Ferrell. She was also in the crazy and star-studded sci-fi comedy Mars Attacks! by Tim Burton.

Christina Aguilera

Christina Aguilera is a top-selling vocal artist. Her debut album, Christina Aguilera (1999), sold over 14 million copies worldwide. The albums that followed this first one did just as well, with the Spanish-language Mi Reflejo and My Kind of Christmas, both released in 2000, selling 2.1 million and 1.3 million copies worldwide respectively. Ten million was the mark reached by her 2004 album Stripped, and her latest album, Back to Basics, released in 2006, is currently doing well at three million and rising. All albums have already been certified as platinums.

Christina Aguilera is a multi-award winner. She has been lauded by many award-giving bodies in music. She notably has four Grammy awards, one for Best New Artist in 2000, one for her collaboration in the remake of Lady Marmalade for the Moulin Rouge! Soundtrack in 2002, one for the single Beautiful in 2004, and one for another single, Ain't No Other Man, in 2007. She also won one Latin Grammy Award and one World Music Award for Mi Reflejo in 2001. Let us not mention the handful of awards she got from MTV.

Charlize Theron

Born on August 7, 1975 in Benoi, South Africa, Theron (pronounced, in her own words, as "thrown") of French/German descent, she started modeling at the age of 16, after having won a modeling contract in Milan. When the contract expired, she was in New York, and decided to stay there to pursue a dancing career. She enrolled in the Joffrey Ballet School but unfortunately an injury at the age of 18 put paid to her dancing aspirations.

Since she was unable to dance, she tried her luck at acting and moved to Los Angeles. She was first cast in a non-speaking role eight months later in an indie movie. She then her career has skyrocketed and she has been cast in Hollywood blockbusters such as The Cider House Rules, The Devil's Advocate, and Mighty Joe Young.

Charisma Carpenter

Charisma Lee Carpenter is an American actress born on July 23, 1970 at Las Vegas, Nevada. She is widely known for the role of Cordelia Chase, in the TV series of "Buffy the Vampire Slayer". She attended Bishop Gorman High School, located also in her homeland. But at the age of 15, her family relocated to Rosario B.C. in Mexico and after that to Chula Vista, San Diego. After her graduation in San Diego in year 1991, she went joined cheering squad before pursuing a Hollywood career. She is also fond of sky diving. Even as she a child, Charisma was always interested in the art of acting and classical ballet.

Charisma was scouted by a commercial agent during one of her part time jobs as a waitress in Mirabelle Restaurant. From here on she was featured in several roles in television advertisements. She also appeared in "Baywatch", "Angel", "Charmed", "Veronica Mars", and "Miss Match" as a guest actress. Although, Charisma showed interest in the acting field, she didn't grow up being an aspiring actress. Her initial plan was to save money for her college and become an English teacher.

Celine Dion

Céline Marie Claudette Dion, was born on March 30, 1968. Born in a large but financially impoverished family Charlemagne, Quebec, all young Celiene had was her golden voice.

She had always dreamt of becoming a singing star, and this burning desire in her was recognized by her manager and would be husband, Ren� Angélil. He mortgaged his own house to finance her first music record which became an instant hit. Her voice became famous outside her native Canada and her popularity grew in Europe and Asia after she bagged the 1982 Yamaha World Popular Song Festival award and then went on to win the 1988 Eurovision Song Contest. In 1990 her hit music album Unison was released, and this helped her capture the Anglophone music market. Her educated vocal chords had enraptured millions of music lovers but the best was yet to come. Things really started moving in the 1990s and she gave hits after hits of which two of her most successful songs were Falling into You (1996) and who can forget the melody that captured an entire nation in a single moment. "My Heart Will Go On" was the theme song for the 1997 blockbuster "Titanic". In 1999 she was grief stricken with news that her husband was suffering from throat cancer and immediately announced a sabbatical from the entertainment business to focus on his health.

Catherine Zeta-Jones

She is no ice maiden. She looks nothing like the anorexic models we keep getting bombarded with on T.V and ever since the world saw her on the trailers of The Mask Of Zorro, Catherine has enraptured the minds of all North American males. She is a vision of beauty startlingly and yet refreshingly different from the rest of the blonde brigade. Her classical beauty does justice to the roles played by her. She has proved that as an actress she is second to none, and no matter what the role - action, drama, comedy she can do them all.

The dusky actress hails from a tiny fishing village called Mumbles, Wales. Catherine was born in September 25, 1969. Her middle name "Zeta" was also the name of the ship that her grandfather sailed in. Although Catherine Zeta Jones was still a relatively unknown name in the United States, till the release of The Mask of Zorro, she was already famous in her native country of U.K. She had acted as a child star and had appeared as the female lead in the musical-comedy Annie at the age of just 11.

Cate Blanchett

Cate Blanchett, enraptured millions of movie buffs with sterling performances in several award winning films like Elizabeth, Bandits and Lord of the rings. An actress who oozes drama and passion from every pore of her being, Cate simply rocks. Blessed as she is with the quintessential Midas touch, turns each role she plays into an unforgettable experience for all her loyal fans. Her versatility has, has made her an audience favorite, someone; moviegoers can always count on to enrapture them with one sizzling performance after another.

Catherine Blanchett was born on 14th May 1969, in Melbourne, Australia to a Texan father and an Australian mother. She was exposed to a curious intermingling of cultures at a very young age. Cate's father passed away when she was merely ten years old, and it was left to the mother to bring up not only Cate but also an older brother and a younger sister. After completing her initial schooling from Melbourne, she attended Methodist Girls College where she perused her passion for acting. When she was 18, she played her first part as a non descript extra, where she had to cheer for an American boxer who was loosing to his Egyptian rival.

Carrie Underwood

Watching American Idol is always so much fun and when Carrie Underwood performed in 2005 to win the coveted title, it became a real treat to the eyes and ears! Her looks and her talent surely made her a real idol - perhaps all over the world! Carrie is a beautiful vegetarian and exudes amicability all over, apart from having that certain sensuality around her. They say that Oklahoma girls are the friendliest lot in the United States and Carrie could be carrying this notion to the very top! Carrie Underwood is truly an Oklahoma Idol and not only an American Idol. Her two singles won her added acclaim following the title and we cannot forget 'Inside your heaven' and 'Independence Day'.

Carrie Underwood continues to fascinate fans with her musical career graph always taking the upward trend. From 'Some hearts' to 'The Breakthrough' this versatile singer has reached great heights and excels also in guitar and piano. She remains in the news not only for her musical talents but also promoting several products in the media industry. Check out her quips in the jingles for Hershey's chocolates! In a short span of only two years Carrie Underwood has won many awards following the title of American Idol. Teen Choice award, Billboard Music award, American Music award, recent Grammy and People's Choice awards are amongst the other pinnacles of success she has reached.

Carmen Electra

Tara Leigh Patrick was born on 20 April 1972 at Sharonville, Ohio. It was a suburb in Cincinnati. Her mother was Patricia, a vocalist, and her father's name was Harry Patrick, and he was a guitar player. In her childhood she attended the School For Creative And Performing Arts and Princeton High School, and also Walnut Hills High School for a brief period.

Later Tara shifted to California, where she met a singer from Minneapolis, called Prince, who persuaded her to change her name to Carmen Electra. She signed a recording contract with Prince's company Paisley Park Records. Unfortunately, Carmen's singing career was short-lived, and died with the release of her very first album. She received offers for various television programs from 1995.

In 1996, in the May issue of Playboy magazine, she appeared nude. Appearances in high-profile television shows like Baywatch followed. She remained a member of the cast from 1997 to 1998. Next she was featured in Singled Out, a show on MTV.

Cameron Diaz

Cameron Diaz is a model turned actress born in the city of San Diego, California on August 30, 1972. Her parent's names were Emilio Garcia and Billie Early. Emilio Garcia is a Cuban American second generation, worked as a pit superintendent in an oil company. While Billie Early who has combined races of English, German and Cherokee Native American, worked as a consigned agent. The different races that run in Cameron's blood will clearly explain her unique beauty. She has an older sister named Chimene. Cameron was brought up by her parents in a house, which is located in Long Beach which regarded as one of America's largest shipping ports. But her parents had a "laizzez-faire" attitude. Her parents brought her and her sibling to friends' gatherings and parties. Because of this, Cameron and her older sister matured rapidly.

At 16, Cameron grew up into a tall and mature young lady. There were times when she went to a variety of Hollywood and high-class gatherings even without adults to accompany her. While attending all those gatherings, she is often offered modeling assignments which she refused to take up. That was until the right offer turned up which eventually did. Jeff Dunas, a certified top-rated photographer and with absolute celebrity networks in the industry made her a handsome offer. Her first modeling stint was her in a Teen Magazine and that was where she earned her first paycheck.

Calista Flockhart

Calista Kay Flockhart was born on November 11, 1965, in Freeport, Illinois. A Fine Arts degree holder from the Rutgers University, she was destined to conquer the world of glitz and glamour with her impeccable acting skills and determination to own a portion of the very elusive arena in the entertainment industry.

Her long range of TV, Films, and Theater stints described the long way that she had hurdled to finally make her dreams come true. She debuted on her acting career when she got the bit role as a college student in 1994, in the Robert Redford's "Quiz Show". A year after that, she was able to have the opportunity to portray a bigger role in the "Drunks" but her performance was not strong enough to overshadow the high powered antics of Faye Dunaway and Parker Posey. It was with the portrayal as Laura, that she was able to triumph in the Broadway arena. She was starred opposite Julie Harries in the 1994 revival of the "Glass Menagerie". Although, Flockhart has had several TV roles to her credit, famous of which is her is her titular role in "The Secret Life of Mary Margaret:

Brooke Hogan

Both Brooke and her brother Nick the dork were home-schooled. While in high school, she took dance classes, voice lessons, gymnastics, and cheerleading. She joined the squad of her St. Petersburg school, Admiral Farragut Academy, in her freshman year. Brooke graduated from high school at the age of sixteen.

When Brooke Hogan was thirteen, her parents arranged for her to meet with record executive Lou Pearlman. Pearlman, who had worked with such artists as Britney Spears, the Backstreet Boys and 'N Sync, was impressed by the thirteen-year-old singer, but thought she could use a few years to mature and improve. In early 2002, she returned to Lou Pearlman, and proceeded to sing for him again and perform a piano medley. Pearlman was impressed, and Hogan was immediately signed as a Trans Continental Records artist. At one time she was handled by the management services of Larry Rudolph, well-known for representing famous clients like Britney Spears and Nick Lachey. Her first song in the United States singles charts was "Everything to Me". Hogan was the first artist signed to Scott Storch's record label, initially called Storchaveli Records but later named Storch Music Company. Hogan's video premiered on the season two finale of Hogan Knows Best.

Brooke Burns

This Southern girl was born on the 16th of March 1978 in Dallas Texas. Her parents have reared her together with her other 2 siblings with encouragement to reach their goals. Young Brooke Burns always wanted to become a ballet dancer. She had shown very much interest with dancing ballet but unfortunately, she needs to set aside that dream when she had a ski accident when she was 14.

At sixteen, she was walking on the runway as a model. She even appeared in European and American fashion publications. She was also seen in numerous television advertisements such as Matrix, Carrows Restaurants and Mug Root Beer. She had been part of the series Out of the Blue.

She decided to move to Los Angeles after the series of Out of the Blue. She auditioned for Baywatch but unfortunately, she did not make it for the role. But her natural beauty and talent did not slip the producer of the show. He called Brooke to audition for the role of Jessie. That was the big break for this athletic girl. When she was 22, she got pregnant and that made her decide to quit Baywatch. She then married the father of the kid, Julian McMahon.

Brittany Snow

Brittany Anne Snow was born on March 9, 1986. Her parents are John and Cinda Snow. At the time, Tampa Florida was their home town. At the age of 3, she posed for a Burdines print advertisement, and this began her career as a model. According to her father, John Snow, “She just took to it like a fish to water.” At the age of 6, her mother started taking Brittany to auditions for commercials taped in Orlando, in which she received several roles. She has lent her voice, and appeared in ads for McDonalds , Nabisco Thin Crisps, Disney, Kmart, and Busch Gardens. To date, Brittany has appeared in a total of 15 commercials. Also during the same time, she has become a talented dancer. She has been a member of Broadway Dance, LA Dance Force, Underground, and The Pizzaz Competitive Dance Group. Brittany has also appeared in many plays.

Brittany Murphy

She was born as Sharon Murphy on the 10th of November 1977 in Atlanta, Georgia. At the age of 9, she was already seen in local theater productions. She also appeared in different commercials before she got a role in the sitcom Blossoms at the age of 12. She also landed the role of Brenda Drexell in the sitcom Drexell's Class.

Brittany Murphy got more attention from the people when she portrayed the role of Tai, an airhead friend of Alicia Silverstone in Clueless in 1995. She has proven that she is a determined performer who had acting in her system since childhood. She became busy as three consecutive projects were given to her up to 1999. She had Freeway in 1996, David and Lisa in 1998, playing the role of a lesbian and Girl, Interrupted in 1999 as a resident in a mental institution.

Brittany Daniel

Brittany Ann Daniel was born on March 17, 1976 in Gainesville, Florida. She was not born alone though. She has a twin sister, Cynthia. This blonde, fresh looking actress started as a teen model. She started modeling at the age of 11, appearing in fashion magazines for teens such as Seventeen and YM. When she stopped growing at 5'7", she decided to try acting.

In 1987, Brittany and Cynthia landed the role of a two-headed dragon in The New Leave It to Beaver. She also appeared in the daytime soap, Swans Crossing, which starred Sarah Michelle Gellar. After the doing the Doublemint commercial, she and her twin had their debut in television in Sweet Valley High in 1994. Brittany played the role of Jessica, the opportunistic and outgoing sister of the serious Elizabeth, played by Cynthia. They have been the Wakefield twins from 1994 to 1998.

Britney Spears

Britney Jean Spears was born on the 2nd of December 1981 in Kentwood, Louisina. She was born to Jamie Spears, a building contractor and Lynne Spears, a grade school teacher. Bryan, her brother is one of Britney's managers. When she was young, she was engaged with gymnastics and performed in local dance revues and been active as a choir member in the church.

When she was 8, she auditioned in The New Mickey Mouse Club but was she was too young and she was not allowed to join the series. She auditioned again when she was 11 and this time, she was included in The New Mickey Mouse Club in the Disney's Channel where she joined Justin Timberlake, Christina Aguilera, Joshua Chasez and Ryan Gosling.

Britney joined Innosense, a all-female teen pop group. But later on, she decided on going solo. She signed a contract under Jive Records and begun touring America for series of concerts.

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