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SIENNA MILLER

2009-02-25T01:32:00.000-08:00

Birth Name Sienna Rose Miller
Birth Date December 28, 1981
Birth Place New York City, NY
Occupation Actress
Relationship Status Single

Sienna Miller's early career as an actress was both aided and overshadowed by the fame she attained in 2005 as movie star Jude Law's fianceé. She met Law while the two were co-starring in the 2004 film Alfie; their relationship kept tabloid writers busy, especially after Law confessed to an affair with the nanny of his children from a previous marriage. Meanwhile, Miller had gone from a short-lived TV series (2003-04's Keen Eddie) to roles in the films Layer Cake (2004, starring Daniel Craig) and Casanova (2005, starring Heath Ledger). Law and Miller announced a break-up in July of 2005, got back together within a year, then broke up again in late 2006. By 2007 Miller had moved into bigger movie parts, including a starring roles in Factory Girl (as Andy Warhol colleague and model Edie Sedgwick) and Interview (co-starring and directed by Steve Buscemi).

American-born, Miller was raised in both the U.S. and England.
With a mother who ran London's famed Lee Strasberg drama school -- and being the sort of knockout blonde beauty adored by the cameras -- it was not surprising that Sienna Miller eventually gravitated to an acting career. Born in New York to an American banker father and a mother who was always associated with the arts, young Miller received her primary education at the Heathfield School in Ascot, Surrey, before pursuing acting at New York's Lee Strasberg Institute. Her feature debut in the 2002 drama Joy Rider found the emerging actress caught in the middle of a heated love triangle, and after essaying a role in a BBC television drama Bedtime in 2001, Miller crossed the pond to appear on the stateside series Keen Eddie. Trading zingers with the series' lead Mark Valley, Miller played her character with just the sort of chemistry needed to make an action comedy series work. If subsequent roles in the films Layer Cake and Alfie weren't enough to get people talking about Miller, her relationship with the latter film's star Jude Law certainly helped keep gossip columnists in business. A mere week after Law and longtime wife Sadie Frost divorced, the handsome actor and the rising starlet were rumored to have purchased an apartment together in a more secluded area of New York. But Miller's greatest coup was yet to come, for she soon netted her first lead in a major American feature: that of Katya, a twentysomething member of the glitterati who engages a member of the paparazzi (Steve Buscemi) in some seriously devious mind games when he sets out to interview her, in Buscemi's directorial outing Interview. Meanwhile, Miller joined Robert de Niro, Michelle Pfeiffer and others for a supporting role in the Princess Bride-like fantasy Stardust (2007), and evoked poet Dylan Thomas's wife, Caitlin MacNamara, in the period drama The Best Time of Our Lives (2008). ~ Jason Buchanan, All Movie Guide

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2009-02-12T02:56:00.000-08:00

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TARA REID

2009-02-12T01:27:00.000-08:00

Name Tara Reid
Date Of Birth November 8, 1975
Place Of Birth Wyckoff, New Jersey, USA
Height 5'5"
Occupation Actress
Father Tom Reid
Mother Donna Reid
Sister Colleen Reid
Brother Patrick Reid

"Slasher movies are fun. You watch yourself get chopped to pieces, yet you're still alive. You see the blood on the ax and think, Holy sh*t, this is sick, but you kind of get over your fear of death."

Tara Reid was born on November 8, 1975, in Wyckoff, New Jersey. The daughter of Tom and Donna, teachers who run a pair of day care centers, Tara was immersed into acting early on. Of Irish, Italian, French, Hungarian, and English descent, Tara may have an All-American look, but her look has always been unique enough to get her acting roles, even as a child.

Tara Reid made her debut in a children's television game show, Child's Play, in 1982, and then appeared in commercials for products like Crayola, Jell-O and McDonald's. Joining a class consisting of fellow child actors such as Macaulay Culkin, Jerry O'Connell, Sarah Michelle Gellar, and Holly Marie Combs, Tara attended the Professional Children's School in New York, New York.

Now more of a recognizable star, 1999 was Tara's breakthrough year. She appeared in the made-for-TV movie What We Did That Night, and had a small role in the teen-oriented, sensuous film, Cruel Intentions. In the same year she was seen in Body Shots, and in the star-studded flop, Dr. T & the Women; not even Helen Hunt or Kate Hudson could save that disaster. 2001 was a big movie year for Tara, with roles in Just Visiting and Josie and the Pussycats (based on the Archie Comics), as a third of a female rock group consisting of Rachael Leigh Cook and Rosario Dawson. In the same year she also appeared in American Pie 2. After taming the savage party animal in the lowbrow comedy National Lampoon's Van Wilder, 2002 , Reid gave screen heartthrob Ashton Kutcher the runaround in the romantic comedy My Boss's Daughter, 2003. Tara was also engaged to MTV Host Carson Daly, who had a small cameo in Josie and The Pussycats up until 2001. They both found the stress of the media's false stories too much and were unhappy rowing over nothing, so the engagement was called off. Although the two found their break-up extremely hard to deal with, they both moved on and remain friends. Tara also has her own production company, named Hi Happy Films.

CAMERON DIAZ

2009-02-11T23:54:00.000-08:00

Name Cameron Michelle Diaz
Born August 30, 1972
Hometown San Diego, California
is an American actress and former fashion model.

Early life
Her Cuban-American [1] father Emilio Diaz worked as a foreman for an oil company, and her mother Billie Early (whose ancestry includes Italian, German, and Native American) worked as an exporting agent. Cameron attended Long Beach Polytechnic High School.

Career
At age 16, she began her career as a fashion model. Diaz signed with top modeling agency, Elite Model Management. After graduating high school, she went to work in Japan and met video director Carlo de la Torre. On her return to America, she moved in with him. For the next few years, her modeling took her around the world, working for contracts with major companies.

At the age of 21, Diaz auditioned for Jim Carrey's The Mask. To her own surprise, and with no previous acting experience, she was cast as the female lead. Immediately after getting the part, she signed up for acting lessons.

Over the next three years, she won roles in low-budget, independent films, such as The Last Supper, Feeling Minnesota, and She's The One.

She then regained mainstream success with My Best Friend's Wedding and There's Something About Mary, and won critical acclaim for Being John Malkovich, which earned her Best Supporting Actress nominations at the Golden Globes, the BAFTA Awards and the SAG Awards.

Diaz has also starred in the hit adaptation of Charlie's Angels and its sequel, and she voiced a lead character in Shrek and its sequel, for which she earned $10 million. In 2001, she won nominations for Best Supporting Actress at the Golden Globes, the SAG Awards and the AFI Awards for Vanilla Sky. For Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle, she became the second actress (after Julia Roberts) to earn $20 million for a role; the film under-performed at the box office.

Future work for Diaz include roles in Nancy Meyers' The Holiday in 2006 and Shrek The Third in 2007.

Personal life

Cameron Diaz has been dating singer and former *NSYNC's Justin Timberlake since they met around 3 1/2 years ago at the Kids' Choice Awards. In October 2004, they were in an altercation with a tabloid photographer outside a hotel. When the photographer and another man tried to photograph the couple, the celebrities snatched the camera. Pictures of the incident appeared in Us Weekly. Representatives for the couple claimed that they were "ambushed" and acting out of self-defense.

BRITNEY SPEARS

2009-02-10T07:12:00.000-08:00

Born: 2 December 1981

Birthplace: Kentwood, Louisiana
Best Known As: Pop superstar singer of ...Baby One More Time
Name at birth: Britney Jean Spears

Britney Spears was only 17 when she reached #1 on the U.S. pop music charts with her 1999 debut album ...Baby One More Time. Her catchy tunes and hubba-hubba physique made Spears one of America's biggest pop stars, and she became a near-constant presence on MTV, radio broadcasts and magazine covers around the world. Spears's second album, Oops!...I Did It Again, was released in May of 2000 and went gold in its first week. In 2003 she released In the Zone, but by then her personal life got more press than her singing career. On 3 January 2004 she married childhood friend Jason Alexander (not the Jason Alexander of Seinfeld), then had the marriage annulled the same day. Later in the year she married Kevin Federline, a professional dancer whose claim to fame was fathering two children with Moesha star Shar Jackson. Spears and Federline had two sons, Sean (b. 14 September 2005) and Jayden (b. 12 September 2006), but Spears filed for divorce in November of 2006 (their divorce became final on 30 July 2007). During 2007 Spears was in the gossip columns on a weekly basis and made headlines by shaving her head, entering rehab and, after repeated missteps with the courts, losing custody of her children to Federline. With very little publicity, she released Blackout, her fifth studio album, in November 2007, and followed it with the more successful Circus in 2008.

Spears was in the cast of the Disney Channel's The Mickey Mouse Club during its 1993 and 1994 seasons. Future pop stars Christina Aguilera, Justin Timberlake and J.C. Chasez of the band 'N Sync got their starts on the same show (Spears and Timberlake were romantically linked on and off from 2000-2003)... She starred in the 2002 teen road-trip film Crossroads. In that film the younger version of her character, Lucy, was played by her sister, Jamie Lynn Spears, star of the cable TV comedy Zoey 101... The wedding ceremony for Spears and Federline was held on 18 September 2004, but papers formalizing the wedding weren't filed until October 7th... After Spears filed for divorce, Federline was nicknamed "Fed-Ex" by the press... Spears's middle name is often incorrectly reported to be "Jeau" rather than "Jean."

CHRISTINA AGUILERA

2009-02-05T18:24:00.000-08:00

Born: 18 December 1980
Birthplace: Staten Island, New York
Best Known As: The crooner of "Genie In a Bottle" and "Beautiful"

Christina Aguilera won a Grammy Award as best new artist in 1999, when she was a midriff-baring teen singer in the Britney Spears mold. Aguilera and Spears were both in the cast of TV's The Mickey Mouse Club in the early 1990s, and Aguilera got her first big break singing the song "Reflection" for the soundtrack of the 1998 Disney movie Mulan. But her self-titled 1999 album spawned the sultry single "Genie In A Bottle" and her not-so-Disneylike preference for tight shorts, naughty innuendo and platinum curls gave her career a controversial cachet. She won a second Grammy in 2001 for her cover (in collaboration with fellow stars Mya, Pink and Lil Kim) of Labelle's "Lady Marmalade" for the soundtrack to the movie Moulin Rouge. Her other albums include the Spanish-language album Mi Reflejo (2000), Stripped (2002, featuring the hit singles "Beautiful" and "Dirrty"), and Back to Basics (2006).

Born in the U.S., Aguilera nas Ecuadoran and Irish ancestors... She married music executive Jordan Bratman on 19 November 2005 in Napa Valley, California. Their first child, a son, was born on 11 January 2008... Aguilera shared a much-hyped stage kiss with singer Madonna at the 2003 MTV Video Music Awards; Madonna also smooched Britney Spears during the same sequence.

SALMA HAYEK

2009-02-05T10:29:00.000-08:00

Born: 2 September 1966
Birthplace: Coatzacoalcos, Veracruz, Mexico
Best Known As: Star of the movie Frida

Dark, petite and sexy, Salma Hayek got her start in Mexican television productions in the late 1980s before moving to Los Angeles to work in the movies. She had small but memorable roles in Mi Vida Loca (1993) and From Dusk Till Dawn (1996, with George Clooney and Quentin Tarantino), and she played the love interest opposite Antonio Banderas in Desperado (1995). Although most of her early films played up her voluptuousness and sex appeal, she also produced and starred in the film Frida (2002, with Geoffrey Rush), a drama based on the life of Mexican artist Frida Kahlo. Her other films include Once Upon a Time in Mexico (2003, again with Banderas), Ask the Dust (2006, with Colin Farrell), and Lonely Hearts (2007, with Hayek as notorious serial killer Martha Beck).

Hayek is of Lebanese and Spanish descent... She was the voice of Esmerelda in the Spanish-dubbed version of Disney's The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1996).

LIV TYLER

2009-02-04T04:04:00.000-08:00

Born: 1 July 1977
Birthplace: Portland, Maine
Best Known As: Elf princess Arwen in the film trilogy The Lord of the Rings

A former teen model, Liv Tyler made her acting debut in 1994's Silent Fall. By the end of the 1990s Tyler had a dozen movies to her credit, including Stealing Beauty (1996), Armageddon (1998, with Ben Affleck and Bruce Willis) and Cookie's Fortune (1999). Beginning in 2001 she co-starred with Viggo Mortensen in Peter Jackson's three-films-in-three-years movie series The Lord of the Rings, playing the elf princess Arwen Evenstar.

Tyler is the daughter of model Bebe Buell and singer Steven Tyler of the rock band Aerosmith, but was raised believing her father was pop star Todd Rundgren, with whom Buell was living... Tyler appeared with Alicia Silverstone in the Aerosmith music video "Crazy."... Tyler married Royston Langdon, singer for the band Spacehog, on 25 March 2003.

KATHERINE HEIGL

2009-02-03T00:47:00.001-08:00

Born: 24 November 1978
Birthplace: Washington, D.C.
Best Known As: Star of Grey's Anatomy and Knocked Up

Actress Katherine Heigl is known for her dramatic role on TV's Grey's Anatomy and her comic role in the feature film Knocked Up (2007, opposite Seth Rogen). A model and actress since childhood, she's worked steadily since her breakout role as the precocious daughter in My Father the Hero (1994). Experienced in a variety of genres, Heigl's notable film roles include Under Siege 2: Dark Territory (1995), Bride of Chucky (1998, starring Jennifer Tilly) and The Ringer (2005), and she's known to TV viewers for the movies Love Comes Softly (2003) and Love's Enduring Promise (2004), and for her three seasons as a teenage alien in Roswell (1999-2002). She joined Patrick Dempsey and Isaiah Washington in the cast of Grey's Anatomy in 2005 and makes movies when not filming the series.

Heigl married scruffy singer/songwriter Josh Kelley on 23 December 2007; the pair met when Heigl appeared in Kelley's 2005 music video for the song "Only You."

JENNIFER LOPEZ (J LO)

2009-02-02T23:48:00.000-08:00

Born: 24 July 1969
Birthplace: New York, New York
Best Known As: The star of Selena and Maid in Manhattan

Jennifer Lopez was a dancer (or "fly girl") on TV's comedy sketch show In Living Color before landing the title role in a 1997 biopic of the singer Selena. Appearances in the films Blood and Wine (with Jack Nicholson, 1997) and Out of Sight (with George Clooney, 1998) made her a bona fide movie star and the highest-paid Latin actress in Hollywood. In 2000 she appeared in a famously skimpy peacock-colored dress at the music industry's Grammy Awards, and began a much-discussed romance with rapper P. Diddy (aka "Puffy" Combs). Lopez also launched a music career with the albums On the Six (1999) and J.Lo (2001), but she has generally had more success in the movies and as a regular in the gossip sheets. Her engagement to actor Ben Affleck in 2002 resulted in the of-the-moment combined moniker "Bennifer." The pair never married, and ended their relationship in January 2004. A few months later, on 5 June 2004, Lopez married singer Marc Anthony. Her movies include Anaconda (1997, with Ice Cube); the animated feature Antz (1998, with the voice of Woody Allen); The Wedding Planner (2001, with Matthew McConaughey); Angel Eyes (2001, co-starring Jim Caviezel); Maid in Manhattan (2002); and Gigli (2003, co-starring Affleck).

Lopez and Anthony had twins, a boy named Max and a girl named Emme, on 22 February 2008... Lopez's popular nickname is "J. Lo"... Her marriage to Anthony is her third: she was married to waiter Ojani Noa from 1997-98 and to dancer Cris Judd from 2001-02... Some sources give her birth year as 1970, but in a 2001 criminal trial for Sean Combs, a police report gave Lopez's birth year as 1969.

GEMMA ATKINSON

2009-02-02T04:45:00.000-08:00

Gemma Louise Atkinson (born 16 November 1984 in Bury, Greater Manchester) is an English glamour model, and is also an actress.Originally from Manchester, Atkinson took her GCSE's at Castlebrook High School before becoming a commercial and photographic model.

Gemma Atkinson rose to fame playing Lisa Hunter on the teenage soap opera Hollyoaks. She and Marcus Patric (Ben Davies in Hollyoaks) subsequently appeared in a spin-off series called Hollyoaks: Let Loose, in which their characters start a new life living together in Chester. This has been followed up with Hollyoaks: In the City, in which their characters return home and set up again in Liverpool. Atkinson played Goldie Lookin Chain's love interest in the music video for the single R'n'B and featured the releases cover.

She has appeared as a contestant on Celebrity Weakest Link with Marcus Patric in December 2006, ITV1's Soapstar Superstar, reaching the last four stage and Celebrity Masterchef.In early 2006, Atkinson underwent breast enlargement surgery, which took her bra size to a 34D. She said in an interview that she lost weight due to a fitness regime but her bust slowly declined. The surgery then gave them the original shape they once were." She is also a UK dress size 10, which means her waist is in the region of 27 inches. Since launching her parallel career as a glamour model, Atkinson has appeared in provocative photoshoots in lingerie and swimwear, including non-nude topless shots, for men's magazines such as Arena, FHM, Loaded, Maxim, Zoo Weekly and Nuts. In October 2006 she appeared in three of the aforementioned magazines in one month, becoming one of the most prolific celebrity glamour models in the UK. In November 2006, it was announced by Zoo Weekly that Atkinson had agreed to lend her name to their regular "sex and relationships column."

In May 2007, Atkinson was announced as the "glamourous new face" of the British Grand Prix and the official "mascot" of the "hi-octane" championship at Silverstone on July 8. She was the face of the 2007 Tour de France. She has most recently been seen as the new face of the Lingerie chain La Senza, but recently has been replaced by Czech model Petra Nemcova. Her 2008 calendar was shot in Thailand, and will be released on November 1st 2007. Gemma has stated she is proud of the more natural look of this calendar, as opposed to the glamarously stylised look of the 2007 product. In October 2007, Atkinson was elected the new face of Ultimo's D-G range.Gemma split with Manchester United footballer Cristiano Ronaldo in July 2007. Gemma has remarked that her new boyfriend "Is semi-famous".Gemma's previous relationships include former Emmerdale actor Cleveland Campbell and Wigan Athletic footballer Marcus Bent.Gemma has also been linked with Home and Away Actor Mark Furze and Newcastle United

GISELE BUNDCHEN

2009-02-01T05:38:00.000-08:00

Born: 20 July 1980
Birthplace: Horizontina, Brazil
Best Known As: Breakout Brazilian model of the 21st century

Gisele Bündchen appeared four times on the cover of Vogue in 1999, becoming one of the year's most celebrated models in the process. The next year Rolling Stone magazine labelled her "The Most Beautiful Girl in the World" and she had become a superstar. Bündchen has since been featured in high-profile campaigns for Christian Dior, Guess, Victoria's Secret, Pantene, Apple computers, and dozens of other products. Forbes magazine called her the highest-paid model in the business in 2006, 2007 and 2008, and put her at the top of a list of a new breed of entrepreneur/supermodels. In 2007 she began dating pro football star Tom Brady, pushing her notoriety to a whole new level. She has also dabbled in acting, with roles in the films Taxi (2004, with Queen Latifah) and The Devil Wears Prada (2006, with Meryl Streep).

Bündchen has a twin sister, Patricia; Gisele is older by five minutes... She was allegedly discovered by talent scouts in Brazil while eating at a McDonald's restaurant in 1994... She is also known for her past romance with actor Leonardo DiCaprio (2001-05).

JESSICA BIEL

2009-01-31T02:07:00.000-08:00

Born: 3 March 1982
Birthplace: Ely, Minnesota
Best Known As: Mary Camden of TV's 7th Heaven

Jessica Biel was a teen model before becoming a TV star in 1996 as minister's daughter Mary Camden on WB's family drama 7th Heaven. She made a further splash as the strong-willed granddaughter in the 1997 feature film Ulee's Gold (starring Peter Fonda). A tall brunette with a made-for-beachwear body, she was named one of People magazine's "50 Most Beautiful People" in 1999, and continued making movies between seasons of 7th Heaven. After a slow start with The Rules of Attraction (2002) and The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (2003), Biel landed higher profile roles in Blade: Trinity (2004, starring Wesley Snipes), Stealth (2005, with Jamie Foxx), Elizabethtown (2005, with Kirsten Dunst and The Illusionist (2006, with Paul Giamatti).

She played Adam Sandler's unwitting love interest in the 2007 comedy I Now Pronounce You Chuck and Larry.
Biel's name rhymes with reel... Her stint as a full-time regular on 7th Heaven ended in 2001, but she continued to make occasional appearances on the show in later seasons.

MONICA BELLUCCI

2009-01-31T01:15:00.000-08:00

Born: 30 September 1968
Birthplace: Citta di Castello, Italy
Best Known As: The star of the movie Malena

Long a star in Italy, where she has drawn comparisons to Sophia Loren, Monica Bellucci turned heads worldwide as a hip-swinging war widow in the 2000 Italian hit Malena. A former model, Bellucci began her film career in 1990; she made her U.S. feature debut in Francis Ford Coppola's Dracula (1992) and proved herself as a leading lady in L'Appartement (1996).

She appeared with Morgan Freeman in Under Suspicion (2000) and with Keanu Reeves and Laurence Fishburne in 2003's The Matrix Reloaded. In 2004 she played Mary Magdalene to Jim Caviezel's Jesus of Nazareth in the film The Passion of the Christ.

EVA MENDEZ

2009-01-31T00:52:00.000-08:00

Born: 5 March 1974
Birthplace: Miami, Florida
Best Known As: Sexy Cuban-American co-star of Training Day and Hitch

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). Since then she's been one busy, sexy actor in half a dozen movies, including the car chase sequel 2 Fast 2 Furious (2003, starring Paul Walker), Once Upon a Time in Mexico (2003, with Antonio Banderas and Johnny Depp), Out of Time (2003, also with Denzel Washington), the slapstick comedy Stuck on You (2003, with Matt Damon), the romantic comedy Hitch (2005, with Will Smith) and the relationship flick Trust the Man (2006, with David Duchovny). She is sometimes compared with her fellow Latinas Jennifer Lopez and Salma Hayek.

BRITNEY SPEARS

2009-01-30T03:47:00.000-08:00

Born: 2 December 1981

Birthplace: Kentwood, Louisiana
Best Known As: Pop superstar singer of ...Baby One More Time
Name at birth: Britney Jean Spears

EVA MENDES

2009-01-30T01:51:00.000-08:00

Born: 5 March 1974
Birthplace: Miami, Florida
Best Known As: Sexy Cuban-American co-star of Training Day and Hitch

BEYONCE KNOWLES

2009-01-30T01:00:00.000-08:00

Born: 4 September 1981
Birthplace: Houston, Texas
Best Known As: Singer of "Crazy in Love" and "Irreplaceable"
Name at birth: Beyoncé Knowles

Beyoncé's 2003 solo debut album, Dangerously in Love, won her five Grammy Awards, including best contemporary R&B album and best female R&B performance. Only 21 when the album was released, Beyoncé already was a pop music veteran: she had spent years with the all-female R&B group Destiny's Child, which won its own Grammys with hits like "No No No" and "Say My Name." Destiny's Child was formed and managed by Beyoncé's father, Mathew Knowles, and Beyoncé gradually became first among equals in the manner of Diana Ross and the Supremes.

Destiny's Child went on hiatus in 2002 and Beyoncé went solo, appearing as sexy secret agent Foxxy Cleopatra in the Austin Powers sequel Goldmember and adding a hit single, "Work It Out," to the movie's soundtrack. In 2003 she had another hit with the single "Crazy in Love" (featuring rapper Jay-Z). Knowles also continued her screen career in 2003, co-starring with Cuba Gooding, Jr. in The Fighting Temptations. Destiny's Child reunited in 2004 to record the album Destiny Fulfilled, but then formally split up amid much fanfare at the end of 2005. Beyoncé in 2006 had a number one hit with "Irreplaceable" and appeared in the movie Dreamgirls (co-starring Eddie Murphy), then spent most of 2007 picking up awards and touring the world. Her romance with Jay-Z topped headlines until they were finally married in April of 2008, and in November of that year she released a new album, I Am... Sasha Fierce.

Originally billed as Beyoncé Knowles, she now prefers to be known by the single name Beyoncé, in the manner of Prince and Sting... She was named ASCAP's Songwriter of the Year in 2001, the first African-American woman ever to win that award... She and Stevie Wonder won a Grammy award in 2006 their duet "So Amazing."

KATIE HOLMES

2009-01-29T03:26:00.000-08:00

Born: 18 December 1978
Birthplace: Toledo, Ohio
Best Known As: The Dawson's Creek actress who married Tom Cruise

Katie Holmes became a TV star as Josephine "Joey" Potter on the coming-of-age TV series Dawson's Creek (1998-2003, starring James Van Der Beek). She parlayed her TV fame into movie roles, graduating from schoolgirl roles in movies like The Ice Storm (1997, with Tobey Maguire) and Wonder Boys (2000, with Michael Douglas), to leading parts in Pieces of April (2003, with Patricia Clarkson and First Daughter (2004, with Michael Keaton). Her exposure in the press exploded in 2005.

She appeared in the Hollywood blockbuster Batman Begins (with Christian Bale) as well as the well-received independent comedy Thank You for Smoking (2005), and she became engaged to actor Tom Cruise after a much-publicized courtship and a proposal from Cruise at the Eiffel Tower. The press took to calling the couple "TomKat" and reported on their every move. Since their wedding in Italy on 18 November 2006, Holmes has been a tabloid favorite as Mrs. Cruise and the mother of their daughter, Suri (born 18 April 2006).

KIM KARDASHIAN

2009-01-29T02:44:00.000-08:00

Born: 21 October 1980
Birthplace: Los Angeles, California
Best Known As: Socialite daughter of American lawyer Robert Kardashian
Kimberly Kardashian is a Los Angeles area boutique owner whose friendship with socialite Paris Hilton has made her a gossip-column favorite. Described by the press as a "stylist," Kim is the daughter of attorney Robert Kardashian (1944-2003), who became famous in 1994 when his friend and client O.J. Simpson was arrested and tried for murder.

Kim became one of Paris Hilton's party pals and was little known outside gossip circles until she announced in early 2007 that she was taking legal action to prevent the distribution of a naughty home video she had made with then-boyfriend Ray J (born William Ray Norwood, Jr., the brother of singer Brandy). Until Kardashian's announcement, the public at large was unaware of the tape's existence. The tape was widely distributed on the internet, despite Kardashian's attempts to quash it and she was launched into Hilton-like celebrity.

Married at one time to music producer Damon Thomas (2000-04), she has been romantically linked to a number of male celebrities, including Jessica Simpson's ex-husband Nick Lachey and Heisman Trophy winner Reggie Bush. She and two of her sisters own a dress boutique in Calabasas, California called Dash, and her family is the focus of a TV reality series first aired in 2007, Keeping Up With the Kardashians. Kardashian is the stepdaughter of Olympian Bruce Jenner.

Ashlee Simpson

2009-01-29T02:08:00.001-08:00

Date of Birth: 10/03/1984
Birth Place: Dallas, Texas, USA
Famous For: Her role on the television seies 7th Heaven
Best Known As: Jessica Simpson's sister and singer of "Pieces of Me"

Ashlee Simpson is the husky-voiced singer of the pop single "Pieces of Me," but she's just as famous as the younger sister of singer Jessica Simpson. Ashlee studied dance as a child and got her start in show business backing up her sister on stage. By 2002 Ashlee was a semi-celebrity in her own right, appearing as a regular cast member on the television series 7th Heaven and making her film debut in the 2002 comedy The Hot Chick. In 2004 she appeared on the MTV reality show The Ashlee Simpson Show as a prelude to releasing her first pop album, Autobiography. She's since made appearances on screen and stage and has released two more records, I Am Me (2005) and Bittersweet World (2008), both of which sold modestly and got little love from the critics.

Simpson married bassist Pete Wentz on 17 May 2008; he plays for the band Fall Out Boy... Their son, Bronx Mowgli Simpson, was born on 20 November 2008. Mowgli is a character in the Jungle Book stories of Rudyard Kipling... To separate herself from her sister's image, Ashlee often dyes her blonde hair brown... "Pieces of Me" was co-written by American Idol judge Kara DioGuardi.

PENELOPE CRUZ

2009-01-28T03:10:00.000-08:00

Born: 28 April 1974
Birthplace: Madrid, Spain
Best Known As: Sultry Spanish star of the film Woman On Top

A sultry and sometimes playful Spanish actress, Penelope Cruz became famous internationally when she played the motion-sick heroine in the 2000 film Woman on Top. She was already a star in Spain: she had a major role in the Oscar-winning 1992 film Belle Epoque, then began a long association with Spanish director Pedro Almodovar. Her films with Almodovar include Live Flesh (1997), All About My Mother (1999) and Volver (2006). In Hollywood her most prominent roles have been in the westerns The Hi-Lo Country (1998) and All the Pretty Horses (with Matt Damon, 2000), the druglord drama Blow (with Johnny Depp, 2001), Vanilla Sky (2001), in which she co-starred with her real-life boyfriend at the time, Tom Cruise and Vicky Cristina Barcelona (2008, starring Javier Bardem).

Cruz donated her salary from The Hi-Lo Country to Mother Teresa's charity... Cruz and Cruise dated from 2001 through 2004, when they announced through publicists that they were no longer a couple... Cruz is occasionally confused with the Mexican actress Salma Hayek.

MISCHA BARTON

2009-01-26T22:22:00.000-08:00

Born: 24 January 1986
Birthplace: London, England
Best Known As: Marissa Cooper on TV's The O.C.

Actress and model Mischa Barton played poor-little-rich-girl Marissa Cooper in the popular television series The O.C.. Barton was born in the United Kingdom, moved to New York as a child and began acting and modelling before she was in her teens. In the late '90s she began getting TV and movie roles, including a small role (as the poisoned girl) in M. Night Shyamalan's The Sixth Sense (1999, starring Bruce Willis). She had the lead role in the adolescent love story Lost and Delirious (2001) and appeared in several episodes of TV's Once and Again, but it was The O.C. that made her a star. Between 2003 and 2006 she worked on the series and as a model for clothing and cosmetics companies. Barton's character, Marissa, was killed in a car accident at the end of the third season -- a plot point the actress inadvertently revealed prior to the episode's airing. Since leaving the series, she has focused on modelling and a career in films.

ANNA KOURNIKOVA

2009-01-26T21:12:00.000-08:00

Born: 7 June 1981
Birthplace: Moscow, Russia
Best Known As: Famously blonde tennis star of the early 2000's

Anna Kournikova played in the Federation Cup at age 14 and won her first professional title at 15. Her good looks and signature braided blonde ponytail made her a fan favorite and eventually an off-court star; People magazine named her one of the "50 Most Beautiful People" of 1998. In 1999 she won her first Grand Slam title, a doubles victory with Martina Hingis at the Australian Open. In 2000 the Web portal Lycos named her the Internet's most-searched athlete. In December 2004 it was widely reported, but not confirmed, that Kournikova had married pop singer Enrique Iglesias in Mexico.

Kournikova has been compared to an up-an-coming U.S. tennis player, Ashley Harkleroad... Other tennis stars on Who2 include Jennifer Capriati, Martina Hingis, Serena and Venus Williams, and Amanda Coetzer.

Avril Lavigne

2009-01-26T20:44:00.000-08:00

Born: 27 September 1984
Birthplace: Napanee, Ontario, Canada
Best Known As: 'Skater punk' singer of "Complicated"

Originally packaged as a hard-edged Britney Spears for the skateboard set, Avril Lavigne was once described on her own website as "a skater-punk, a dynamic spirit, a true wild child." Lavigne was born in a small town in Ontario and grew up singing in church. At age 16 she caught the eye of record producers, who had plans to make her a pop star in the mold of fellow Canadian Shania Twain. Instead Lavigne teamed with songwriters and came up with hit tunes such as "Sk8er Boi" and "Complicated," the latter of which was featured on the show Dawson's Creek. Lavigne was only 17 when her debut album Let Go was released (2002); the album netted her five Grammy nominations. Her next album. Under My Skin, was released in 2004 and reached #1 on the Billboard album charts. In 2006 she announced a deal with the powerhouse Ford Models agency, and told Harpers Bazaar magazine she was hoping "to do those really beautiful ads with high-end products." Throwing her 'punk' tag even further out the window, she released the single "Girlfriend," a bouncy teen-pop ditty from her 2007 album The Best Damn Thing.

Lavigne married Deryck Whibley, frontman for the band Sum 41 and a fellow Canadian, on 15 July 2006.

ANNE HATHAWAY

2009-01-26T20:05:00.000-08:00

Birth name: Anne Jacqueline Hathaway
Born on November 12, 1982 in brookyln, New York
Height: 5 feet 7 1/4 (171 cm)
Zodiac Sign: scorpio.

Anne was named after the wife of playwright William Shakespeare. Hathaway started acting in 1999 in the television series Get Real for one season. Her first prominent role was in Disney’s family comedy The Princess Diaries in 2001 in which she played the lead role of Mia Thermopolis . Hathaway wanted to break the “G-rated” image, and consequently, in 2005 she co-starred in the adult-themed Havoc and Brokeback Mountain, both requiring her to do nude scenes. Her highest-grossing film was in 2006 in The Devil Wears Prada, in which she starred opposite Meryl Streep.

Hathaway enjoys interior design and reading as pastimes. In 2007, Hathaway spoke of her experiences with depression during her teenage years, and said that she eventually overcame the disorder without medication.

Anne cites Audrey Hepburn as her favorite actress and Meryl Streep as her idol. People magazine named her one of 2001’s breakthrough stars and in 2006 she was listed as one of the world’s 50 Most Beautiful People.

CHRISTINA AGUILERA

2009-01-25T21:23:00.000-08:00

MILEY CIRUS

2009-01-25T20:24:00.000-08:00

Born: 23 November 1992
Birthplace: Franklin, Tennessee
Best Known As: Star of the Disney Channel show Hannah Montana
Name at birth: Destiny Hope Cyrus

Miley Cyrus became a TV star at the age of 13 as the title character in the Disney Channel series Hannah Montana. Cyrus is the oldest daughter of country music star Billy Ray Cyrus, who topped the charts in 1992 with "Achy Breaky Heart." Miley began performing at an early age, and by the age of 9 was embarking on a professional career. Prior to Hannah Montana, she had a mere handful of jobs, most notably a small part in Tim Burton's Big Fish (2003, starring Ewan McGregor).

After a series of auditions that began when she was 11, Cyrus landed the lead role of Hannah Montana, a teen pop star who leads a double life as an average schoolgirl. Her dad, Billy Ray, was then chosen to play her widowed father in the TV series, and the entire Cyrus family moved from Nashville, Tennessee to southern California to encourage Miley's career. The instant success of her television series led to a record deal for Cyrus, whose husky singing voice is often featured in the show.

In October of 2006 the soundtrack to Hannah Montana, featuring eight songs by Miley and a duet with her father, debuted at number one on Billboard's Top 200 chart. The album Hannah Montana 2: Meet Miley Cyrus was released in 2007, and Cyrus toured the country in a successful Hannah Montana concert series. Her nickname "Miley" is a shortened form of her other nickname, "Smiley Miley"... Cyrus officially changed her name to Miley Ray Cyrus in January of 2008... Her half-brother Trace Cyrus is the guitarist and singer for the band Metro Station.

KELLY BROOK

2009-01-24T21:11:00.000-08:00

Born: 23 November 1979

Birthplace: Rochester, Kent, England
Best Known As: Model-turned-actor from The Big Breakfast and Smallville
Name at birth: Kelly Anne Parsons

Kelly Brook is a model and television personality from the United Kingdom whose brief 1999 stint on the morning TV show The Big Breakfast propelled her into the world of celebrity.

Brook began her professional career as a teen model. On television she has had gigs on The Big Breakfast (1999) and MTV Select, and her physical attributes have made her a favorite in men's magazines ("lad's mags"). Her budding acting career has included a regular role on TV's Smallville and appearances in the feature films Absolon (2003, with Ron Perlman) and The Italian Job (2003, with Mark Wahlberg).

MEGAN FOX

2009-01-24T20:43:00.000-08:00

Born: 16 May 1986
Birthplace: Rockwood, Tennessee
Best Known As: The love interest in the movie Transformers

A slender, olive-skinned actress whose elegant beauty is somewhat offset by a collection of vivid tattoos (including a portrait of Marilyn Monroe on her right forearm and the King Lear quote "We all laugh at gilded butterflies" on her right shoulder blade), Megan Fox knew she wanted to be an actress from age three, and never once considered another line of work. A native of Memphis, TN, Fox began taking dance lessons when she was five years old and continued perfecting her graceful movements even after her family relocated to Florida five years later. At 13, the aspiring starlet enrolled in modeling and acting classes. It didn't take long for all of Fox's hard work to pay off, with a role in the 2001 Olsen twins comedy Holiday in the Sun marking the ambitious actress' official screen debut.

Over the course of the next few years, Fox became a frequent fixture on television thanks to roles on What I Like About You, Two and a Half Men, and Hope & Faith. In 2004, Fox would torment a fledgling Lindsay Lohan in Confessions of a Teenage Drama Queen, though it was Fox's performance as a human caught in the middle of an epic robot battle that would truly prove her calling card to Hollywood. Cast as the love interest of Shia LaBeouf in Michael Bay's 2007 blockbuster Transformers, Fox turned more than a few heads while fighting for the future of the human race. In 2008, Fox could be spotted opposite Kirsten Dunst, Simon Pegg, Jeff Bridges, and Gillian Anderson in the Robert B. Weide-directed comedy How to Lose Friends and Alienate People. ~ Jason Buchanan, All Movie Guide

CARMEN ELECTRA

2009-01-24T20:08:00.000-08:00

Born: 20 April 1972
Birthplace: Ohio
Best Known As: Buxom actress from Baywatch
Name at birth: Tara Patrick

Carmen Electra turned a role on the swimsuit series Baywatch into a career as a general-purpose voluptuous celebrity. She got her start as a musician, performing under the tutelage of Prince; her album Carmen Electra was released in 1992. She moved into acting, taking a role on Baywatch (the show which also launched Pamela Anderson's career), and then replacing Jenny McCarthy as the host of MTV's dating game show Singled Out.

She appeared in the films Goodburger (1997), Scary Movie (2000, with Shannon Elizabeth, and also in the 2006 sequel Scary Movie 4), Starsky and Hutch (2004, with Ben Stiller) and Cheaper by the Dozen 2 (with Steve Martin). Electra married eccentric basketball star Dennis Rodman in 1998; after some much-publicized squabbles, they divorced the next year. In 2003 she married rock guitarist Dave Navarro, and the pair starred in the MTV series 'Til Death Do Us Part: Carmen & Dave. In July of 2006 they announced the end of their marriage. Other stars who got a boost from Baywatch include Yasmine Bleeth, Gena Lee Nolin and Brooke Burns.

EVA LONGORIA

2009-01-24T01:23:00.000-08:00

Born: 15 March 1975
Birthplace: Corpus Christi, Texas
Best Known As:

Gabrielle on TV's Desperate Housewives

Eva Longoria is known to TV viewers as Gabrielle Solis, the perpetually unsatisfied sexpot from the series Desperate Housewives (also starring Teri Hatcher and Felicity Huffman). Longoria's acting career started in 2000, with guest roles on daytime and primetime soap operas, including Beverly Hills, 90210.

From 2001-2003 she was a regular cast member of TV's The Young and the Restless, and in 2003 she starred in the short-lived series Dragnet. The success of Desperate Housewives catapulted Longoria to mainstream celebrity status and led to a multitude of magazine covers and TV appearances, as well as to Longoria being cast in the feature films Harsh Times (with Christian Bale) and The Sentinel (with Michael Douglas).

Longoria became a spokeswoman for L'Oreal beauty products in 2005... She married Tony Parker, a guard for the NBA's San Antonio Spurs, on 6 July 2007 in a civil ceremony in Paris (a church service was held the following day).

MARIA SHARAPOVA

2009-01-24T00:33:00.000-08:00

Date of Birth: April 19, 1987
Birthplace: Nyagan, Russia (Siberian Region)
Residence: Bradenton, Florida, USA
WTA Ranking: 4
Nationality: Russian
Height: 6'2
Weight: 130 lbs. (59 kg)
Plays: Right-handed
Clothing: Nike
Racquet: Prince
Endorsements: Speedminton, Motorola, Parlux Fragrances, Canon, TAG Heuer, Honda Japan & Colgate-Palmolive
Favorite Movie: Pearl Harbor
Favorite Food: Russian
Favorite Book: Sherlock Holmes and Pippi Longstocking series
Loves fashion, singing, jazz dancing and watching movies.

On April 19, 1987, Maria Sharapova was born to parents Yuri and Yelena Sharapova, in western Siberia. When Maria was two years old, her family moved from her birthplace in Nyagan and settled in Sochi—this was yet another move for her parents, who had moved to Ngygen from Belarus the year before Maria was born in order to escape radiation from Chernobyl. Sochi was home to Russian tennis great Yevgeny Kafelnikov at the time—and would soon be the home of another tennis star.

When Sharapova was four years old, she began to develop an interest in tennis; Kafelnikov’s father, who was a friend of the family, gave young Maria one of his son’s old tennis racquets, and she began to fall in love with the game. She was naturally drawn to the fundamentals of tennis even as a child, and possessed a desire to be the best. Every day, she practiced her tennis skills by hitting tennis balls against the side of the house.

JENNIFER LOVE HEWITT

2009-01-23T00:58:00.000-08:00

Born: 21 February 1979
Birthplace: Waco, Texas
Best Known As: Sarah on TV's Party of Five

Jennifer Love Hewitt's fame is due mainly to her role in the popular TV show Party of Five (1994, with Neve Campbell), with a firm assist from the hit horror movies I Know What You Did Last Summer (1997, with Sarah Michelle Gellar) and I Still Know What You Did Last Summer (1998, with Freddie Prinze, Jr.).

Since then she has done series television, TV movies (including one as legendary screen star Audrey Hepburn) and feature films. In September 2005 she launched Ghost Whisperer a supernatural-themed series on TV. Her other feature films include The Devil and Daniel Webster (2001, starring Anthony Hopkins), The Tuxedo (2002, starring Jackie Chan) and Garfield: The Movie (2004, with the voice of Bill Murray).

Hewitt also sings; her pop albums include Let's Go Bang (1995) and Jennifer Love Hewitt (1996).

JENNY MCCARTHY

2009-01-23T00:29:00.001-08:00

Born: 1 November 1972
Birthplace: Chicago, Illinois
Best Known As: The hostess of MTV's Singled Out

A buxom blonde with a wicked jaw and a goofball bearing, Jenny McCarthy was briefly hyped in the 1990s as some kind of Lucille Ball-Marilyn Monroe hybrid. She posed nude for Playboy magazine in 1993 and ended up being the magazine's Playmate of the Year. McCarthy parlayed that fame into a breakthrough role hosting the MTV dating show Singled Out. That led to her own sketch comedy show on MTV, The Jenny McCarthy Show, and then the 1997 NBC sitcom Jenny.

Her movie credits include BASEketball (1998), Scream 3 (2000) , Scary Movie 3 (2003, with Pamela Anderson Lee) and John Tucker Must Die (2006).
McCarthy is said to be romantically linked with comedian Jim Carrey.

HALLE BERRY

2009-01-22T23:55:00.000-08:00

Born: 14 August 1966
Birthplace: Cleveland, Ohio
Best Known As: Oscar-winning star of Monster's Ball

Halle Berry is the first African-American ever to win an Oscar as best actress. She won the award on 24 March 2002 for her starring role in the drama Monster's Ball (2001, co-starring Billy Bob Thornton). Berry went from the world of beauty pageants in the mid-1980s to a television series, Living Dolls in 1989. In 1991 she began performing in feature films, including Spike Lee's Jungle Fever. She continued to appear in small roles on TV and on the big screen, notably with Warren Beatty in Bulworth (1998) and as actress Dorothy Dandridge in Introducing Dorothy Dandridge (1999). She played Storm in the X-Men movies (2000, 2003 and 2006, with Hugh Jackman) and the lead in 2004's Catwoman. Her other films include Swordfish (2001, with Jackman and John Travolta) and the James Bond thriller, Die Another Day (2002, with Pierce Brosnan).Denzel Washington was named best actor in 2002, making it the first time that African-Americans won the best actor and actress Oscars in the same year... In February of 2000 Berry was involved in an auto accident that made the tabloids. With a serious head injury, Berry left the scene of the accident and was later charged. She eventually pled no contest to a misdemeanor charge... Berry was married to baseball star David Justice from 1992 to 1996, and to R&B musician Eric Benét from 2001 to 2005.

KEIRA KNIGHTLEY

2009-01-22T23:34:00.000-08:00

Born: 26 March 1985
Birthplace: London, England
Best Known As: Star of the 2005 film Pride and Prejudice

Keira Knightley caught the notice of moviegoers in 2003 with major roles in the small-budget charmer Bend it Like Beckham and the big-budget extravaganza Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl (opposite Johnny Depp and Orlando Bloom). Knightley began acting as a child and appeared in films and on television in the U.K. before being cast in George Lucas's Star Wars: The Phantom Menace (1999). Hired for her porcelain-skinned resemblance to Natalie Portman, Knightley played Sabé, Queen Amidala's decoy and bodyguard. She was almost too beautiful as an object of desire in Love Actually (2003, as Chiwetel Ejiofor's bride) and got great reviews for Pride and Prejudice (2005, based on the Jane Austen novel), but she also had the misfortune of appearing in the box office duds King Arthur (2004, starring Clive Owen), The Jacket (2005, with Adrien Brody) and Domino (2005). Knightley rejoined Depp and Bloom for the lucrative sequels Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest (2006) and Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End (2007), and was the star of the 2007 drama Atonement.

JESSICA SIMPSON

2009-01-22T23:06:00.000-08:00

Born: 10 July 1980
Birthplace: Dallas, Texas
Best Known As: Pop singer and star of the MTV show Newlyweds

Jessica Simpson got her start singing on the Christian youth conference circuit, then became a mainstream hit with the 1999 pop album Sweet Kisses. That album featured her first hit single, "I Wanna Love You Forever." At the time Simpson was often compared (or confused) with fellow singing teen heartthrobs Britney Spears, Christina Aguilera and Mandy Moore. In 2003 she starred in her own MTV reality show, Newlyweds: Nick and Jessica, which documented her first year of marriage to fellow pop star Nick Lachey. In 2005 she played the voluptuous Daisy Duke in a feature film remake of the 1970s TV series The Dukes of Hazzard. Her younger sister, Ashlee Simpson, is also a singer who appeared in her own reality show on MTV.Simpson and Lachey were married on 26 October 2002; the couple announced their separation in November 2005. She has since been romantically linked with pro football player Tony Romo... Lachey became a star with the pop group 98 Degrees... Besides Sweet Kisses, Simpson's other albums include Irresistible (2001) and In This Skin (2003).

JESSICA ALBA

2009-01-22T22:11:00.000-08:00

Birth Name: Jessica Marie Alba
Birth Place: Pomona, CA
Date of Birth / Zodiac Sign: 04/28/1981, Taurus
Profession: Actress

Although this pouty-lipped vixen oozes sex appeal, she started out as a much more innocent-looking teen actress in numerous TV guest appearances as well as a regular role as a dolphin's best friend on the small-screen series Flipper. Alba segued to the big screen while still a minor, with supporting parts in Never Been Kissed and Idle Hands, both in 1999. The next year she became an instant star as a genetically enhanced messenger in the cult sci-fi series Dark Angel. With her perfect body and stunning face, Alba really did seem to possess designer DNA, and while the show only lasted two seasons, it was long enough for her to become a men's-magazine favorite and get engaged to costar Michael Weatherly.
In 2003 Alba made the lackluster dance movie Honey and ended her relationship. But she reemerged triumphantly in 2005 with a new beau, Cash Warren, and two leads in blockbuster features — Sin City and Fantastic Four — which showcased her physical assets more than her talent.

LINDSAY LOHAN

2009-01-22T01:12:00.000-08:00

Date of Birth: 07/02/1986
Birth Place: New York, New York, USA
Famous For: Mean Girls Movie

Lindsay Morgan Lohan (born July 2, 1986) is an American actress and singer. Lohan was born in New York City and raised in Cold Spring Harbor. By 2004, her primary home was in Beverly Hills. Lindsay Lohan began her career as a model for the Ford Academy at the age of three and has appeared in more than sixty television commercials. Faring better as a child actress, she was a regular on soap operas such as The Guiding Light and As The World Turns, then spent several months as Allison Fowler on Another World, only to give up the show for her first motion picture role.Lohan also appeared on Healthy Kids, a children's health show, along with Dina Lohan, her mother and business manager. As a teen, Lohan starred in two Disney Channel original movies, Life-Size and Get a Clue. She also played Bette Midler's daughter in the first episode of the short-lived series Bette before bowing out when the production moved from her native New York to Los Angeles.

Lindsay starred on the big screen in 1998, reprising Hayley Mills' role in The Walt Disney Company's remake of the 1961 movie The Parent Trap. Lindsay as had Mills, played twin sisters who conspire to reunite their estranged parents. The film, co-starring Dennis Quaid and Natasha Richardson, introduced Lohan to a wider audience. The next feature film of hers was another remake, but of the 1976 classic Freaky Friday, would come five years later in the summer of 2003. She received second billing, playing Anna Coleman, daughter of Tess Coleman, played by Jamie Lee Curtis. In 2004, Lohan was given her first leading role in two films, Disney's Confessions of a Teenage Drama Queen and Paramount's Mean Girls. To this day Mean Girls is considered Linsay's breakout film role. Lindsay's latest movie is Herbie: Fully Loaded, co-starring Michael Keaton, Matt Dillon and Breckin Meyer. Her next film, Just My Luck, is set for release in 2005. She is currently working on A Prairie Home Companion (due out in 2006). Fashionistas and a project with Nick Cannon also are in development. Then, she will begin modeling for Vogue and release a new CD. In addition to her film career, Lohan has also ventured into the world of pop music. In 2002, she signed a five-album production deal with Emilio Estefan, one of the most respected producers in the music industry. For the 2003 Freaky Friday soundtrack, she performed the theme song Ultimate. The next year, she followed this up with the recording of four songs for the Confessions of a Teenage Drama Queen soundtrack. In 2004, Lohan signed a recording contract with Casablanca Records, a label headed by well-known "star maker" Tommy Mottola. Her debut album, Speak, was out on December 7, 2004, and reached #4 on the US Billboard 200, as well as the top ten of the Canadian album chart. By early 2005, it was certified platinum.

RIHANNA

2009-01-22T00:26:00.001-08:00

STAR'S NAME: Rihanna
TRUE NAME: Robyn Rihanna Fenty

BIRTHDAY: February 20, 1988
PLACE: Saint-Michael (Barbade)
BEGINNING OF CAREER: 16 years old

Rihanna is a North American R&B/Soul singer. Most of the worldly population would also classify her as a tradtional dancehall singer; who has splurged onto the entertainment scene unexpectedly.

Rihanna was born on the Caribbean island of Barbados in 1988. Through the years, particularly during her pre-teen and teenage years, she would sing to friends and family only for amusement purposes. One day, a mutual friend of Rihanna introduced her to music producer Evan Rogers, whose home base is in New York.

He asked Rihanna to perform whatever song that came to mind for her. Rogers was obviously suprised on what great talent Rihanna had. Immediately, both Rogers and Rihanna made demos containing close to twelve tracks including the 2005 smash hit Pon De Replay and mailed the demos out to various recording comanies including Def Jam Recordings where Rihanna would eventually be signed onto.

Shawn Carter, also known as simply 'Jay Z' in the urban community, who was recently crowned as the CEO of Def Jam, was enticed by the mature sounds of the talented singer, and immediately started recording for her upcoming LP disc.

Of course Rihanna completed the recording of her LP disc entitled Music Of The Sun. She amazingly did not just sing the notes to the songs that can be heard on the album, she also co-written a majority of them. She has gone to various radio stations around the United States promoting her vivacious single, "Pon De Replay," and her album, which will be released on August 30, 2005.

Rihanna says she is inspired by such artists like Alicia Keys, Beyoncé Knowles and Mariah Carey. She also states that on her album, you'll not only listen to reggae, but you'll hear ballads and other R&B fused tracks.

BRITNEY SPEARS

2009-01-21T23:23:00.000-08:00

Birth Name: Britney Jean Spears
Birth Place: Kentwood, LA
Date of Birth / Zodiac Sign: 12/02/1981, Sagittarius
Profession: Singer; actor

A multitasking megastar, Spears was neither the best looking nor most talented of the crop of teen pop artists unleashed on MTV in the late '90s. Yet she bested her competitors with her knack for staying the center of attention and changing her image as often as she changed her outfits. While her catchy singles and sexy videos (which had a barely legal appeal) initially made her a household name, Spears quickly added acting to her résumé as the star of the tepid 2002 coming-of-age flick Crossroads.
Busy as she was, the bubbly blonde found the time to open a restaurant, launch a fragrance, write books (with assistance) and carry on a much-scrutinized love life: a long-term romance with 'N Sync front man (and fellow Mickey Mouse Club costar) Justin Timberlake; rumored dalliances with Colin Farrell and Limp Bizkit's Fred Durst; an annulled, two-day Las Vegas marriage to a childhood friend in 2004; and finally, her "real" marriage later that year to dancer and aspiring rap star Kevin "K-Fed" Federline (whose second child with actress Shar Jackson was born less than two months before the nuptials). As the '00s wore on, Spears seemed more famous for her personal than her professional life, although she picked up her first Grammy for the song "Toxic" in 2004. But with a little-watched 2005 reality show (Britney and Kevin: Chaotic), two babies, questionable parenting skills, a pending divorce and no showbiz projects on the horizon, Britney-mania seemed to be subsiding. In February 2007, after months of nonstop, often pantyless partying, Spears seemed to completely lose her mind. Within one drama-filled week, she shaved her head, got two tattoos, and checked in and out of rehab twice. It seemed her lifestyle had become completely "Toxic."

SCARLETT JOHANSSON

2009-01-21T21:48:00.000-08:00

Born: 22 November 1984
Where: New York City, New York, USA
Awards: Won 1 BAFTA, Nominated for 2 Golden Globes
Height: 5' 4"

She was born on the 22nd of November, 1984, in New York City. Her father, of Danish extraction, was a building contractor in Manhattan, while her mother, Melanie, looked after kids Adrian, Vanessa, Scarlett and Hunter, Hunter being Scarlett's twin, younger than her by three minutes ("the most important three minutes of my life", she's said). As Hunter would grow to 6' 3", with dark eyes and hair, Scarlett would later comment that they were as much like real twins as Arnold Schwarzenegger and Danny DeVito. There was also a half-brother, living with his mother in Denmark. Scarlett's name was, in a new family tradition, taken from Gone With The Wind, mother Melanie, of course, sharing the name of Scarlett O'Hara's friend and benefactor Melanie Hamilton. Often a young actress will deliver a performance so strong, so mature she is feted as the Next Big Thing. But the description is usually used more in hope than expectation. We all know that many years and many films can pass before she'll live up to her early promise, if indeed she ever does. Early 2004, though, saw the arrival of a young talent who seemed near fully-formed, despite being still in her teens. As said, many youngsters break through with one outstanding performance, yet here was Scarlett Johansson, double-nominated at the Golden Globes and BAFTAs for the parts she played in Lost In Translation and Girl With A Pearl Earring. A double-nominee - this showed a consistent level of excellence ordinarily only reached by the likes of Meryl Streep, Julianne Moore and Holly Hunter. And this was an 18-year-old. Surely, there could this time be no doubt that this was the Next Big Thing. Actually, close observers had been saying this about Johansson for some considerable time. Way back in 1996 she'd been nominated for an Independent Spirit award for Manny And Lo, then received worldwide plaudits for her part in Robert Redford's The Horse Whisperer. Striking roles in gritty teen flick Ghost World and the Coen brothers' The Man Who Wasn't There pushed her claim still further. Given that kind of CV, her 2004 burst-out seems less sensational than overdue.

ANGELINA JOLIE

2009-01-21T11:05:00.001-08:00

Born: 4 June 1975

Where: Los Angeles, California, USA
Awards: Won 1 Oscar and 3 Golden Globes
Height: 5' 7"
Famous For: Lara Croft: Tomb Raider, Girl Interrupted, and other movies.

Angelina Jolie is the daughter of Academy Award winner Jon Voight and French actress Marcheline Bertrand, who divorced when she was very young. Angelina lived in Palisades, New York, with her mother and brother James until she was ten, when they relocated to Los Angeles. At sixteen, Angelina moved across the street from her mother and immersed herself in theatre. Angelina trained and performed at the Lee Strasberg Theatre Institute, and studied under Jan Tarrant in New York, and Silvana Gallardo in L.A.. For a time she did modelling work in London, New York and Los Angeles, and has appeared in several music videos.

After playing the title role in HBO's Gia, Angelina gave up acting and moved to New York City, where she registered at NYU's film school. Acting however, was in her blood, and she returned to Hollywood just a year later. She made a huge impact on fans and critics with her compelling performance in Girl Interrupted, which went on to win her an Oscar. As if her fanbase wasn't large enough, Angelina's popularity skyrocketted when she sported shorts, guns and a awesome long ponytail to play Lara Croft in Tomb Raider, based on the mega-popular PlayStation game of the same title. Angelina likes tattoos, skydiving, and has an extensive dagger collection.

HILLARY DUFF

2009-01-21T10:00:00.000-08:00

Birthdate : September 28, 1987
Where : Houston, Texas

Hilary Duff - Dancing Shoes Hilary Duff started her career dancing with the Ballet Met Columbus. After landing a TV commercial, she was bitten by the acting bug and started to focus on that, instead of dancing. Hilary Duff snagged the role of Ellie in the 1999 TV movie, The Soul Collector. Her performance won Hilary an Artist Award for Best Supporting Actress and also helped her land more TV appearances, like a stint on the hospital drama, Chicago Hope.

Hilary Duff - Landing Lizzie Hilary Duff's breakthrough role was the part of Lizzie McGuire on the Disney Channel's hit show, Lizzie McGuire. Hilary landed the role in 2001 and the show was so popular on both Nickelodeon and ABC that they made it into a feature film. The Lizzie McGuire Movie hit theaters in May 2003 and was an instant success. Unfortunately, Hilary Duff and Disney couldn't agree on her salary or other contact issues, so Hilary left Disney to do other things. The Lizzie McGuire Show can still be seen in reruns.