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).

Rihanna

Birthname: Robyn Rihanna Fenty
Date of birth: 1988-02-20
Birthplace: St. Michael, Barbados, West Indies
Height: 6'
Nationality: Barbadian
Profession: Singer

Rihanna was born on the Caribbean island of Barbados nation as the first of three children to Ronald Fenty, A Barbadian of Irish background, and Monica Fenty, A Guyanese descent of Barbados. She has two younger brothers named Rorrey and Rajad.

Rihanna did her primary education at Charles F. Broome Memorial School and her secondary education at one of Barbados' top secondary schools, the prestigious Combermere School, where they formed a musical trio with two of her classmates.

She won the Miss Combermere Pageant in 2004! However, starting in 2006, its most prominent pursuit is sung. In November 2004 she performed Colors of the Combermere School show, where she sang Mariah Carey's "Hero".

Rihanna received her big breakthrough at the age of fifteen when one of her friends introduced her to music producer Evan Rogers while he was on holiday in Barbados Barbados with his wife Jackie. Rogers, along with his partner Carl Sturken, helped Rihanna record material in the U.S. that was sent to several record companies including Rihanna did audition for CEO Jay-Z and is signed.

Nicole Scherzinger

Birthname: Nicole Elikolani Prescovia Scherzinger
Date of birth: 1978-06-29
Birthplace: Honolulu, Hawaii, USA
Height: 5' 5
Nationality: American
Profession: Singer

Scherzinger was born in Honolulu, Hawaii to a Filipino father and a Hawaiian / Russian mother. Her mother Rosemary was 18 at the time of Nicole's birth and lived in an inner city neighborhood, and separated from her father when Nicole was a baby. Then they moved to Louisville, Kentucky with her sister Ke'ala and German-American step father Gary Scherzinger, who adopted the children. She has described her upbringing as "conservative Catholic".

She began her life as a performer in Louisville, attending the Youth Performing Arts School at DuPont Manual High School and performing with Actors Theater of Louisville. Scherzinger majored in theater arts at Wright State University, but put her studies on hold in 1999 to sing backing vocals for the rock band Days of the New. Scherzinger appeared on the second album by Days of the New, released in 1999. She also recorded two songs with Barry Drake's FOB, which were released in 2001 In 2001, Scherzinger competed in the season premiere of The WB's television show Popstar, on which she earned a spot in the all-girl pop group Eden's Crush. She became one of the main Vocalists for the group. The group's 2001 single "Get Over Yourself" peaked at number one in sales at the top and hit on Billboard Hot 100.

"Love This Way" was chosen the second single from the album Popstar, however, their record company, London-Sire Records, Folded and the group eventually disbanded. Songwriter Kara DioGuardi Contributed one track to the album, and later went on to co-write with Scherzinger for PCD and Her Name is Nicole. In November 2007, Scherzinger talked of her time in Eden's Crush After the disbanding of Eden's Crush, Scherzinger made a few promotional solo appearances under the stage name or Nicole Kea, including covering "Breakfast in Bed" for the soundtrack to 50 First Dates in 2003. Scherzinger worked with Yoshiki or Japanese rock band X Japan on in his Violet UK project. She sang the English version of "I'll Be Your Love" live with the Tokyo Symphonic Orchestra. The track also appeared on the 2003 album Various Artists Exposition of Global Harmony.

In May 2003, Scherzinger joined the Pussycat Dolls burlesque Troupe, who were being re-cast as recording artists. She had first seen them performing on The Late Show with David Letterman in November 2002, where Carmen Electra sang "Big Spender" from the Bob Fosse musical Sweet Charity. In 2006, Scherzinger said "It caught my eye because I'd played Velma Kelly in [Fosse's] Chicago in college." The Pussycat Dolls now have world-wide status as a popular singing group, with "Do not Cha", "Buttons" and "Stickwitu" as top five hits in the U.S.. The album PCD went double-platinum in 2006. Scherzinger nearly all sang lead vocals on the album, with Carmit Bachar and Melody Thornton also contributing.



Scherzinger is the only group member with songwriting credits on PCD, she co-wrote "I Do not Need a Man" with Kara DioGuardi and producer Rich Harrison, and co-wrote "Buttons" with producer Sean Garrett. Another collaboration with Dioguardi, "Flirt", became a B-side to "Stickwitu" and a bonus track on PCD. In 2006, Scherzinger toured with the Pussycat Dolls for their album promotion. It was revealed in 2006 that the Dolls are sala Ried employees or Interscope Records, giving the label a high level of control over the group's finances and business decisions. She was ranked at number twenty-two on Maxim's Hot 100 in 2006. Following the popularity of "Do not Cha" and the continuing rise of the Pussycat Dolls, Scherzinger recorded a series of Duets or "guest appearances", predominantly male with Vocalists.

In 2005, she appeared on recordings by Shaggy, Vittorio Grigolo, and Will Smith. The following year she sang on Avant's single "Lie About Us" and P. Diddy's hit "Come to Me" (which she also co-wrote). She has also recently been on a track by will.i.am along with many other musicians called "Yes We Can". Other appearances are listed in her discography. Scherzinger worked on her debut album from 2006-2008 with record producers including will.i.am, Timbaland, Kara DioGuardi, and Bryan-Michael Cox. Scherzinger announced in a March 17, 2007 interview in Winnipeg, Manitoba, that the album would be called Her Name is Nicole; It was originally slated for a 2007 release but is currently without an official release date.

The first single, "Whatever You Like" featuring rapper TI, was released in July 2007. The song was a commercial and critical bomb however, and it was soon announced that "Baby Love" (released September 2007) would replace "Whatever You Like" as the "lead single" from the album. Media reports commented on the fact that both Interscope's and Scherzinger's official websites started in September 2007 to refer to "Baby Love" as her first single.

After both these singles flopped in North America ( "Baby Love" charted well in Europe however), a poll was placed on Scherzinger's website, asking fans to vote for the third single. Choices include: "Supervillian", "Happily Never After", "Who's Gonna Love You" and "Power's Out". However on November 28, the poll was updated and the songs "Power's Out" and "Supervillian" were removed and replaced with "Puakenikeni" and "Physical." It was announced via the website on December 10 that "Puakenikeni" was to be the next official single to be taken from the album, however it has yet to be fully released internationally.

To date, both Interscope and Scherzinger have not made any announcement on the official release date, however a recent interview with Robin Antin confirmed that the second Pussycat Dolls album will be released first, followed by a revised solo album from Scherzinger.