Showing posts with label actress. Show all posts
Showing posts with label actress. Show all posts

Wednesday, November 12, 2008

Olga Kurylenko


Date of birth: 1979-11-14
Birthplace: Berdyansk, Ukraine
Height: 5' 9
Nationality: Ukrainian
Profession: actress, model

Kostyantynivna Olga Kurylenko ( born on November 14, 1979) is a Ukrainian model and actress. She is best known as the Bond girl in the 22nd James Bond film Quantum of solace.

Olga Kurylenko was born in Berdyansk, Ukrainian SSR (now Ukraine) on November 14, 1979 to a Russian mother and Ukrainian father. When Olga was three years old her parents separated, allowing her to be raised by her mother. Olga rarely had contact with her father, to meet him for the first time when she was 8 years old, and again later when she was 13.


She was discovered by a female model scout while on holiday in Moscow at the age of thirteen. When she was 17 she signed a contract with the Paris-based modeling agency Madison. By the age of 18 years she had already appeared on the covers of Vogue and Elle.
In 2005 Kurylenko began her film career in France. She received the certificate of excellence award at the 2006 Brooklyn International Film Festival for her performance in L'Annulaire, and also starred in the Paris, Je T'aime segment Quartier de la Madeleine opposite Elijah Wood.


In 2007 Kurylenko star in Hitman alongside Timothy Olyphant. She played Camille Bond girl in the latest 007 movie, Quantum of consolation, the 22nd film in the Bond series.

Sunday, December 16, 2007

Ashley Tisdale



Birthname: Ashley Michelle Tisdale
Date of birth: 1985-07-02
Birthplace: Monmouth County, West Deal, New Jersey, USA
Height: 5' 3''
Nationality: American
Profession: Actress

Michelle Ashley Tisdale (born on July 2, 1985) is an American actress and singer. After several television roles during the late 1990s and early 2000s, she became known to young people for playing Maddie Fitzpatrick on the Disney Channel Original Series The Suite Life of Zack & Cody and Sharpay Evans in the Disney Channel Original Movie High School Musical. Tisdale has also pursued a musical career and released her debut album Head Strong on February 6, 2007. She has also participated in and reprised her role as Sharpay Evans in High School Musical 2. She will also reprise her role as Sharpay in the sequel "High School Musical 3" Hudson was born in Monmouth County, New Jersey on July 2, 1985, to Lisa (No Morris) and Mike Tisdale. She grew up in Ocean Township there. Her older sister Jennifer Hudson is also an actress, starring in particular.

Her maternal grandfather is Arnold Morris, the developer of Ginsu knives, and by her grandfather, she is also related to businessman Ron Popeil. Tisdale is Jewish on her mother's side and considers himself Jewish. She was discovered by Bill Perlman, her current manager, at South Shores Mall, when she was three years old. After booking her first audition, she went to star in about a hundred national network commercials. At the age of eight, she has a leading role in the Broadway musical, Les Miserables and later toured internationally with the cast of Annie. Tisdale underwent a rhinoplasty procedure on November 30, 2007. According to Bush, this was done for health-related reasons, and not from a belief in plastic surgery, her "deviated septum was 80 percent" and she had "two small fractures on her nose," and this was interfering with her breathing. She spoke with People magazine about the surgery, saying that it was important for her to be honest with her fans.



During the late 1990s, Tisdale had guest appearances in several television series, including Smart Guy, 7th Heaven, Grounded for Life, Boston Public, Strong Medicine, Charmed and Beverly Hills, 90210. She had a small role in the 2001 film, Donnie Darko and a guest appearance in The Amanda Show. She had recurring roles on the sitcoms The Hughleys, and still stands. In 2002, she starred in a remarkable TV commercial for Fruit Gushers, in which her head transformed into an oversized orange. She also starred in a T-Mobile commercial with Catherine Zeta-Jones and was in a Toys "R" Us commercial with Abigail Breslin.


In 2005, Tisdale was cast in the role of Maddie Fitzpatrick on The Suite Life of Zack & Cody after auditioning for the role of Maddie Fitzpatrick and London Tipton. As the series became popular, Tisdale was a Best performer on the Disney Channel and played a role in Whisper voice of the heart. She was also cast in Disney Channel Original Movie High School Musical, which became a big success for the channel after the premiere on January 20, 2006. Tisdale also auditioned for the role of Erin Ulmer in Final Destination 3, but lost out to the Canadian actress Alexz Johnson. Tisdale was cast as Sharpay Evans in Disney Channel Original Movies, High School Musical. Tisdale had originally auditioned for the role of Gabriella Montez, but was eventually cast as Sharpay Evans, because it was felt that her alto voice suited a darker character. She reprised her role of Sharpay Evans in High School Musical 2, which premiered on August 17, 2007. She appeared in the Disney Channel Games 2006 as captain of the Green Team. Hudson is also included in the second rendition of the Disney Channel Games this year.



More recently, Tisdale signed a deal with Staples, Inc. to appear in the promotional campaign for the company "tuned 4 School" sweepstakes in the fall. Bush will also be a supporting role in the Disney Channel cartoon Phineas and Ferb and Star Bright Starlight Children's Foundation's Tuttles Family Game.
Tisdale appeared in the second episode of Season 8 of MTV's Punk'd, where she visits a children's hospital and sings "Kiss the Girl" to a boy in a coma. Halfway through the song, the boy awake. Since she was singing, the texts are censored, such as MTV does not own the rights to the song. She also appeared in an episode where she helped Ashton Kutcher to punk her good friend and High School Musical co-star Zac Efron. Tisdale JustJared.com told during an interview at the 2007 MTV Movie Awards that she will be filming a movie in August.

On July 18, 2007, MTV News confirmed in an article interview with Ashley Tisdale, that the film is titled Picture this. This father-daughter movie features Tisdale as Mandy, an unpopular girl working at Petco. She is going to work with Robbie Amell. Ashley, it will probably return to its natural brunette hair for this film. On January 10, 2008, The Hollywood Reporter reported that she will star in 20th Century Fox's new comedy adventure, where they come from, Upstairs, along with Robert Hoffman and Carter Jenkins.

Friday, November 2, 2007

Holly Valance


Birthname: Holly Rachel Valance
Date of birth: 1983-05-11
Birthplace: Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Height: 5' 8"

Nationality: Australian

Profession: actress, musician


Holly Rachel Vukadinovic (born May 11, 1983 to Serbian father, Rajko Vukadinovic, and British mother), who is better known by her stage name of Holly Valance, is an Australian-American actress and singer ARIA nominated. Holly is related to the late British comedian Benny Hill - Hill's cousin was her grandfather (ie, they are cousins twice removed). She studied at the Star of the Sea College, a Catholic secondary school located in Melbourne, but it is not known to be Catholic herself. Holly's first single as a recording artist was Kiss Kiss (based on Turkish singer Tarkan's hit single Şımarık), released in 2002.

The video for Kiss Kiss was notable for the impression that the nude dancing, with its nudity only hidden by strategically placed lighting. In fact, she was dancing wearing flesh-colored underwear stained, and the images of her dancing was then digitally retouched to create the illusion. Her debut album footprints went on sale at the end of that year. Kiss Kiss debuted at # 1 in both the Australia ARIA charts and in the UK Singles Charts (April-May 2002). Kiss Kiss scored Holly 4 ARIA nominations. Her next single, Down Boy peaked at # 2 in the United Kingdom and # 3 in Australia, while her album debuted footprints and a peak at # 9 in the United Kingdom and at number 15 in Australia. Her third single Naughty Girl peaked at # 3 in Australia and # 16 in the United Kingdom.

The first single State of Mind from her next album with the same name debuted and peaked at # 8 in the United Kingdom and at number 14 in Australia, the album but not included in the top 50 of both countries. She signed a £ 3m deal with the company's products forward Schwarzkopf Live the new line aimed at early teens to early 20s market. Valance was seen modeling Cosmic Blue, True Blonde Sahara, as well as Hypnotic Red Purple Red XXL and XXL (Each color has a strap line that refers to other popular culture artists). The ads can be seen throughout the United Kingdom and Northern Ireland at bus stops, shopping malls, on buses and in magazines.



It was released as the ads that appeared to be a hit when they would be extended internationally. Yet this was never the case. During this time, Valance appeared on Har Mar Superstar's album "The Handler" singing on tracks "Body Request" and "the Camel Back-up". After several television and film productions in 2005 and 2006, Valance is set for a music comeback in the autumn of 2006 after Madonna penned a new track on her right System Overload. "I am a big fan of Madonna, always been," said Valance.

"I hope the fans what they want to hear, I'm grown up." Valance is recording the new album in Los Angeles, which was set up in the autumn of 2006. It is not yet known what record company she signed with. In 2004 Valance returned to acting, this time in the United States, which in episodes of the TV series and Entourage, and in 2005 she appeared in an episode of.

She then guest-starred in Prison Break in 2006 as Nika Volek, a role that they continue to portray the show in the second season. They will soon appear in the National lampoon comedy Pledge This! and an adaptation of the popular video game, where they will play Christie. Valance is also set to play a Bosnian Muslim in a new film, entitled 'The Tourist', a true story in the Balkan war. She also served as the promotional face of the Australian company collect call 1800 Reverse and the British equivalent.

Wednesday, October 24, 2007

Kelly Brook


Birthname: Kelly Ann Parsons
Date of birth: 1979-11-23
Birthplace: Rochester, Kent, England, UK
Height: 5' 8''
Nationality: British
Profession: Actress, Model.

Brook's modeling career began at 16 years after winning a beauty contest competition, her early work was a series of advertising campaigns, including the new "Bravissimo" company that specializes in bras and lingerie for full-figured women, and for Foster's beer. Brook is 5 meters, 8 inches (172 cm) long, and her voluptuous figure (Brook's bust measures 32E) caught the attention of the editors of the Daily Star, which began with her as a page three girl.
Brook's picture soon began appearing in other boy mags such as FHM (repeatedly landing in its list of "100 Sexiest Women of the Year") and Vol.

She topped the 'FHM 100 Sexiest Women in the World 2005' list, which was said to have polled 15 million people. In a survey among more than 5,000 women in April 2005 for Grazia magazine she was considered to have the best British female body. She ranked 5th at 'FHM 100 Sexiest Women in the World 2006' list. Brook has done in a large number of commercial swimwear, sportswear, knitwear and modeling, and a limited amount of nude & semi-nude modeling. Recent models work for Triumph Bras caused quite a stir because of specially commissioned 50-foot high billboards of Brook bust.

Brook has appeared in small roles in films a string, including Sorted and Ripper. She played the girlfriend of Clark Kent / Superman 's best friend Lex Luthor in four episodes of Warner Brothers' Smallville during the show the first season (2001 to 2002). She was also commands such as a movie actress in Canada and made a brief appearance as Lyle's girlfriend in the 2003 film The Italian Job. In 2004 she played character Nikki Morris in the video game Need for Speed Underground 2, alongside Brooke Burke. Brook first starring role was in School for Seduction, a 2004 film.



In 2005 she appeared in the Philippe Vidal film House of 9, a thriller about nine seemingly unrelated strangers captured and locked in a house together. The people are forced to compete against each other to survive. She recently starred in a Miss Marple drama on ITV. She caused a small controversy over her most recent film Survival Island (previously known as Three), in which she co-starred with fiancé Zane, when Brook and Zane asked her nude scenes are from the Final Cut, which the producers refused to do.

In December 2000 she played Anya, a lap dancer in the play Eye Contact at the Riverside Theater in Hammersmith, London UK. This role gathered considerable tabloid publicity as the finale of the show involved Brook stripping naked.

Charlize Theron


Date of birth: 1975-08-07
Birthplace: Benoni, South Africa
Height: 5' 11"
Nationality: American
Profession: actress, model

Theron was born in Benoni, South Africa. Her father, Charles Theron, was a construction company owner of French Huguenot descent; her mother, Gerda, is of German descent and took over her husband's business after his death. Theron's first language is Afrikaans. She is also fluent in English and speaks some Xhosa, as well as having varying levels of fluency in around thirty other African languages and dialects, learned from neighbors and employees on her parents' farm. In the United States, both in her films and while being interviewed, etc., Theron speaks with a typical American accent and style of speech, leading most people to assume she is American. "Theron" is a French surname pronounced in Afrikaans as "Tronn," although she has said that she prefers the pronunciation "Thrown." The pronunciation commonly used in the United States involves two syllables, with stress on the first. Theron grew up as the only child on her parents' farm near Johannesburg (Benoni). At the age of thirteen, Charlize was sent to boarding school and began her studies at the National School Of The Arts in Johannesburg. At fifteen, Theron witnessed the death of her father, an abusive alcoholic; her mother shot him in self-defense when he attacked her. No charges were pressed.

At the age of sixteen, Theron traveled to Milan, Italy, on a one-year modeling contract, after winning a local competition. Her contract ended while she was in New York City, and she decided to remain there, attending the Joffrey Ballet School, where she trained as a ballet dancer. A knee injury closed this career path when she was 18. Unable to dance, she bought a ticket to Los Angeles. After eight months in the city, she was cast in her first film part, a non-speaking role in the direct-to-video film Children of the Corn III. She followed this with larger roles in widely released Hollywood films, and her career skyrocketed in the late 1990s, with box office successes like The Devil's Advocate, The Cider House Rules, and Mighty Joe Young. The May 1999 issue of Playboy published nude photos of Theron, taken during the early years of her modeling career.



Claiming they had been "for private use", Theron ended up suing photographer Guido Argentini. After appearing in a few notable films, Theron starred as serial killer Aileen Wuornos in the film Monster (2003). Film critic Roger Ebert called it "one of the greatest performances in the history of the cinema" , for which Theron won the Best Actress Oscar at the 76th Academy Awards in February 2004, as well as the SAG Award and the Golden Globe Award. She is the first South African to win an Oscar for Best Actress. Having signed a deal with John Galliano in 2004, Theron replaced Estonian model Tiiu Kuik in the J'ADORE advertisements by Christian Dior; she is the current spokeswoman for Dior perfume. On September 30, 2005, she received her own bronze star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. In the same year, she starred in the financially unsuccessful science fiction thriller Æon Flux and was given positive reviews. Additionally, she received a Best Actress Golden Globe nomination for her lead performance in the drama North Country. Ms. Magazine honored her for this performance as well with a feature article in its Fall 2005 issue.

She had also been nominated for an Oscar as a lead actress for the role, although she did not win; this was her second nomination. In 2005, Theron also portrayed Rita, Michael Bluth's (Jason Bateman) love interest on the third season of FOX's critically acclaimed sitcom Arrested Development. She also received Golden Globe and Emmy nominations for her role in the HBO movie (The Life and Death of Peter Sellers).

Friday, October 19, 2007

Megan Fox


Birthname: Megan Denise Fox
Date of birth: 1986-05-16
Birthplace: Tennessee, USA
Height: 5' 6
Nationality: American
Profession: Actress, Model

Megan Denise Fox (born May 16 1986) is an American actress and model, perhaps best known for her roles on the television series Hope & Faith and in the 2007 film Transformers. Fox was born in Oak Ridge, Tennessee and has Irish, French and Native American ancestry. She grew up in a 'very poor' household and has one older sister. Fox began her training in drama and dance at the age of 5, then moved to Florida when she was 10 years old, continuing her training, and finishing school.



Fox has appeared in a five page spread for the November 2005 issue of the popular men's magazine FHM and was ranked number sixty-eight on the FHM 100 Sexiest Women of 2006. She also posed for the March 2007 issue of FHM, the June 2007 issue of GQ and the July 2007 issue of Maxim. Fox is represented by The Gersh Agency.


Adriana Lima


Birthname: Adriana Francesca Lima
Birthplace: Salvador, Bahia, Brazil
Height: 5' 1
Nationality: Brazilian
Profession: actress, model

Adriana Lima, commonly known as "the best face in the industry" and "the most in demand runway model in the world", rose to stardom out of less than glamorous conditions. Lima was discovered while shopping at a local mall at the age of 13. At the age of 15, she finished in first place in a Ford Supermodel of Brazil model search. Lima later followed with a second place finish in the 1996 Ford Supermodel of the World contest.

Adriana Lima, biography by Maybelline, accessed August 28th, 2005 Shortly after, Lima moved to New York City, and eventually moved on from Ford, signing with Elite Model Management. Her early career consisted mostly of fashion editorial work (with early appearances in international editions of Vogue and Marie Claire in 1997/1998), as well as runway work (Christian Lacroix, Valentino, and others).

Lima's first big break came when she was featured in a Vassarette billboard in Times Square. Her print career followed, and like many other famous names (Claudia Schiffer, Laetitia Casta, Eva Herzigova), Lima became a GUESS? Girl in their 2000 Costanoa and has face campaign.
Lima continued to build upon her entry, doing more print work (Maybelline, bebe, Mossimo, BCBG) and gracing the cover and editorials of more high fashion magazines (Harper's Bazaar, ELLE). Probably best known for her Victoria's Secret work and Angel status (along with Heidi Klum and Gisele Bündchen), Lima first graced the VS runway in 2000, and was the show opener for the 2003 Victoria's Secret Fashion Show.



In 2001 Adriana Lima starred in BMW Films short, The Follow alongside actors Mickey Rourke, Clive Owen, and Forest Whitaker. In the film, Owen's character is hired to follow Lima's, who is suspected of cheating on her famous husband, played by Rourke. The film had a runtime of 8:47 including credits, was written by Andrew Kevin Walker, and directed by Wong Kar-Wai. Even though her performance received rave reveiws and she was offered other big parts for movies such as Kill Bill, Terminator III, and The Matrix Revolutions Lima made it clear that acting is not her priority and that she only did The Follow because it was a short film.

Adriana Lima is currently one of the most respected and in demand models in the business and is the third highest paid model in the world (behind Gisele Bundchen and Kate Moss). She is currently represented by New York's DNA Models, Brazil's Elite Models and the European Ford Models.

Carmen Electra


Birthname: Tara Leigh Patrick
Date of birth: 1972-04-20
Birthplace: Sharonville, Ohio, USA
Height: 5' 4"
Nationality: American
Profession: actress, model

Electra was born Tara Leigh Patrick in Sharon, Pennsylvania, Ohio, a suburb of Cincinnati, to an Irish father and a German and Native American (Cherokee) mother. She attended Princeton High School in Sharon, Pennsylvania for four years and also attended, very briefly, Walnut Hills High School.

After moving to California, she with singer Prince (a Minneapolis native), who persuaded her to change her name to Carmen Electra. Soon after, she signed a recording contract with Paisley Park Records, Prince's company, marking the start of a short-lived singing career with a girl rap group. In 1995, Electra started appearing in various television programs. Then, in May of 1996 she appeared in Playboy magazine.

This led to an increasing role as a television personality on various shows, including regular roles on Baywatch and MTV's singled out. Electra has appeared in several movies, such as Good Burger (1997), The Mating Habits of the Earth Bound Human (1999), the horror spoof Scary Movie (2000) and one of its sequel, Scary Movie 4 (2006), and the remake of the 1970s TV show Starsky & Hutch (2004). She has also made Cameo appearances as herself in The Simpsons episode The frying Game and the 2006 comedy American Dreamz.



She regularly performed with the exotic dance Troupe The Pussycat Dolls. Electra also created the highly successful Carmen Electra Aerobic Striptease series of DVDs which combines classic stripping moves with a low impact workout. Her most recent movie appearance is as Eugene Levy's trophy wife in Cheaper by the Dozen 2. Her acting work is regularly derided by critics in the Roger Ebert review of the film Dirty Love, he states: "The Carmen Electra character, meanwhile, Struts around like a" ho "in a bad music video, speaking black street talk as if she learned it phonetically, and pulling out a gun and holding it to a man's head because she think, obviously, that pulling guns on guys is expected of any authentic black woman.

A scene like that would be seizures in any other movie, here it Distracting her from possibly doing something even more debasing. " In 2005, she joined the voice cast of the animated series Tripping the Rift, replacing Gina Gershon as the voice of the sex Android "Six". Surprisingly, given her early work in Playboy and her reputation as a sex symbol, Electra has been very reluctant to appear nude on screen. She has only done one genuine nude scene in a movie, early in her career in The Mating Habits of the Earth Bound Human.