Alicia Silverstone Biography

• Birth Name

  Alicia Silverstone

• Birth Date

  10/04/1976

• Birthplace

  San Francisco, California

• Family

  Husband: Chris Jarecki
  married June 11, 2005 in Lake Tahoe; dated eight years prior to being married

  Father: Monty Silverstone
  British-born; Jewish; acted in a San Mateo County community-theater production "The Real Inspector Hound" (c.1996); reportedly appeared in an installment of NBC's "Unsolved Mysteries" (c. 1997)

  Half-Brother: David Silverstone
  born November 1971; from father Monty's previous marriage

  Half-Sister: Kezi Silverstone
  from father Monty's previous marriage

  Mother: Didi Silverstone
  Scottish-born; converted to husband's Jewish faith; born c. 1942

  Sibling:
  has two

• Notes

  "Alicia makes this idea make sense to me,'' Star tells Variety. "You believe her as someone who believes in other people's happiness. She has a very empathetic quality and innate sweetness and loveability to her. There's this grown-up, adult persona that I don't think people are quite as familiar with."---Darren Star talking about her role in "Miss Match" to EWonline, September 2003.
  "For close to two years I've been vegan, and it's turned my whole life around. I can sleep better, I have more energy, my skin is really clear, and my body's in the shape it needs to be in. And being vegan, I love food more, because animal products numb your taste buds. It's not a joke that a lot of people are lactose intolerant. They open them up and there are blocks of cheese inside them that they can't digest. I mean, have you seen how they make milk? Ugh!"---Silverstone to Entertainment Weekly, June 1, 2000.
  "I mean, a lot of times I won

  der, What drugs are these people taking that allow them to stay alive? My perception of [Hollywood] is that it is very cold and very dry and very dark. But the people, they always have a smile on their face, though I always wonder, How deep in that smile is the knife? I just don't understand how jobs could ru

  le people's lives. I don't really understand how you could think, I'm going to backstab, cheat, harm, just to get ahead in a business. I mean, I guess in caveman world it happened, but it happened to survive!"---Alicia Silverstone in VANITY FAIR, September 1996.
  "My lifestyle really allows me to feel healthy as I'm being pulled left and right and up and down and my brain's falling out. I feel like as long as you can get to yoga, eat really goo

  d, feel healthy and have love in your life, it's all good."---Silverstone quoted in Moveline's Hollywood Life, May 2004.
  In response to the people in Hollywood who take exception to Silverstone's closeness to her agent-turned-manager Carolyn Kessler: "My relationship with Carolyn is a marriage. I'm going to have her as a friend forever. Carolyn supported me being who I am. She'd rather I be happy than successful as an actress. Th

  

  at's been really helpful. I don't trust anybody here [in Hollywood]. People are greedy and insensitive and eager to be successful in a really nasty way, almost where everybody's a mini-Hitler."---Silverstone quoted in PREMIERE, August 1997.
  On her role of Batgirl in the ill-fated "Batman & Robin" (1997), Silverstone told the Web site Mr. Showbiz (mrshowbiz.go.com): "I knew the day I started shooting it wasn't going to be a good movie. I d

  on't regret it; it's just a silly, huge movie. This movie was a huge machine; it was bigger than any actor in it. But you can't have a film without a story, and that was my problem with it. I thought I'd be really cool, like Catwomanish, not the same character, but important and interesting and complex, and have idiosyncrasies. [Instead] I was like this big fashion show-type machine. It worked out really well though; George Clooney was really nice and that was cool."
  She is a passionate animal rights activist, affiliated with PETA in New York and Last Chance for Animals in California.
  Silverstone has participated in The Forum, a so-called "self-improvement" organization akin to est.
  

• Milestones

  (2002) Appeared in crime comedy "Scorched" with Woody Harrelson; screened at Cannes
  (2005) Appeared in the comedy "Beauty Shop" opposite Queen Latifah
  (1993-1994) Appeared in three videos of the rock band Aerosmith ("Cryin'", "Amazing" and

  

  "Crazy")
  (1995) Attended Shakespeare & Company, a month-long classics "boot camp" at Edith Wharton's home, the Mount, in the Massachusetts' Berkshires
  (1990) Attended her first acting workshop at 13 (date approximate)
  (1989) Bat mitzvahed at age 13 (date approximate)
  (1984) Began modeling at the age of 8 (date approximate)
  (2006) Cast in "Alex Rider: Operation Stormbreaker" based on Stormbreaker, the first novel in the Alex Rider series
  (1999) Co-starred opposite Brendan Fraser in "Blast From the Past"
  (2001) Executive produced and voiced the character of Sharon Spitz in the Fox Family Channel animated series "Braceface"
  (1993) Feature acting debut, "The Crush"
  (1997) First offering from French Kiss Productions, "Excess Baggage", fizzled at box office
  Her father found her a print agent
  (1993) Legally emancipated from her parents at age 15 (date approximate)
  (2002) Made Broadway debut as Elaine Robinson in the stage adaptation of "The Graduate"
  (1997) Played Batgirl in Joel Schumacher's "Batman & Robin"
  Played a suicidal lesbian coke addict in L.A. stage production of "Carol's Eve'"
  Raised in Hillsborough, California, an affluent suburb of San Francisco; spent summers in England
  (1980) Saw her first plays in London at age three with her father and older brother (date approximate)
  (1995) Signed a deal worth between $7 and 10 million to produce and star in two movies for Columbia Pictures; also snared a three-year non-exclusive "first-look" pact with the studio for her production company, First Kiss Productions
  (1995) Starred as Cher in "Clueless", Amy Heckerling's updated version of Jane Austin's "Emma"
  (2003) Starred in the Darren Star series "Miss Match"; received a golden globe nomination for best actress in a musical or comedy (2003)
  (1995) Started her production company, First Kiss Productions
  Studied ballet as a child
  (1992) TV acting debut, guest shot on ABC's "The Wonder Years"
  TV commercial debut, an ad for Domino's Pizza
  (1993) TV-movie debut, "Judith Krantz's Torch Song" (ABC)
  (2000) Undertook first Shakespearean screen role, the Princess of France, in "Love's Labour's Lost", Kenneth Branagh's musical reworking of the Bard's comedy
  Won fourth-place prize at a county fair for performing a routine to the theme song from "Flashdance"

Angelina Jolie Biography

• Birth Name

  Angelina Jolie

  

• Birth Date

  06/04/1975

• Birthplace

  Los Angeles, California

• Credits

  0 Movies, 3 TV appearances, 12 awards
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• Family

  Brother: James Haven
  born c. 1973; studied filmmaking at USC; directed sister in five student films

  Daughter: Shiloh Nouvel Jolie-Pitt

  born May 27, 2006 in Namibia; father is Brad Pitt. First pictures of baby Shiloh were sold to People Magazine for a reported sum of $4.1 million.

  Daughter: Zahara Marley Jolie-Pitt
  

  born January 8, 2005; adopted July 2005, from an Ethiopian orphanage at

  

  six months; mother died of AIDS and father is unknown; legally adopted by Brad Pitt in 2006

  Father: Jon Voight
  separated from Jolie's mother when Angelina was one-year-old; estranged from father

  Mother: Marcheline Bertrand
  born c. 1950; part-Iroquois; separated from Jolie's father when Angelina wa

  s one-year-old; died of cancer in 2007

  Son: Maddox Chivan Jolie-Pitt adopted at seven months from a Cambodian orphanage in 2002; legally adopted by Brad Pitt in 2006

  Son: Pax Thien Jolie-Pitt
  adopted at three years old from a Vietnamese orphanage in 2007; Jolie adopted the boy as a single parent because Vietnam's adoption regulations don't allow un

  married couples to co-adopt; name was legally changed to Jolie-Pitt three months after his adoption

  Husband: Jonny Lee Miller
  British; met during filming of "Hackers"; married in March 1996; separated in 1997; divorced in February 1999; rumored to have dated with Billy Bob Thornton, but after that married with Brad Pitt, meet while filming "Mr. and Mrs. Smith"; rumored to be romantically involved throughout filming, but this was denied by both parties; began being photographed together as a couple in spring 2005

• Notes

  "... my daughter [Angelina Jolie] just has an incredible talent. The camera loves her. Of course I've always loved looking at Angie's face; that's the best scenery I can be around. That's my happiness and now it's the happiness of other people as well. Just look at that beautiful face and all the intelligence that it has and all the passio

  n. It's quite extraordinary"---Jon Voight quo

  ted in Time Out New York, January 14-21, 1999.
  "I don't live two lives," she says. "I have the great good fortune of being able to have a fun job. It's a job that allows me to travel and that allows me, somtimes, to get out of myself. So that's my job. But it's not at all my life."---Jolie to Esquire July 2007.
  "I was distressed when this desperate situation was brought to my attention. I hope to encourage other people to make themselves

  aware of this crisis facing the Western Saharan refugees and do what they can to help."---Jolie after donating $100k to the Western Saharan Refugees statement.
  "If I ever have a relationship again, I don't think he'll be an actor. It'll be somebody who can teach me, somebody who's already been inspired in their life to do a lot of things that I haven't even thought of yet, who can make me better as a person."---Jolie quoted to theage.com, April 16, 2004.

  "In March Ms. Jolie married the English actor Jonny Lee Miller ("Trainspotting"), whom she met on the set of 'Hackers'. The wedding, a small civil ceremony attended only by her mother and Mr. Miller's best friend, was a testament to Ms. Jolie's offbeat approach to life. Mr. Miller wore black leather, while the bride donned black rubber pants and a white shirt with the groom's name written in her blood across the back. Why, you ask? 'It's your husband,' she answers with a sly grin. 'You're about to marry him. You can sacrifice a little to make it really special.' [She drew the blood herself, 'very carefully,' she says 'with a clean surgical needle.']"---From The New York Times, August 25, 1996.
  "Mr. Voight and Angelina's mother, Marcheline Bertrand, deliberately gave their two children middle names that would work as last names so they could choose anonymity. 'It's kind of hard for the children of leading actors,' Mr. Voight says. 'If they say, 'Oh, you're Jon Voight's daughter,' then there are some expectations."---From "Following, Ambivalently, in Mom or Dad's Footsteps" by Alexandra Bandon, The New York Times, August 25, 1996.
  "My life belongs to him," Jolie says now. "That thing I used to have when something would go wrong, that place of self-destruction or addiction or craziness, when you have a child you can't afford that and you just don't. When your world falls apart or you're feeling really depressed, you pick yourself up and smile so they don't worry."---Jolie talking about her adopted son Maddox Rolling Stones Magazine July 24, 2003

  "She looks the most beautiful when she's in the field -natural, no makeup, nothing....It doesn't get any better than that."---Wyclef Jean on Jolie, to People magazine, May 8, 2006.
  "There was a time when I was really going to give up on acting, right after 'Foxfire'. I was trying to find characters with a certain strength and things going on, but I was always disappointed. '[George] Wallace' was the first thing I did where I felt their ideas were better than mine."---Jolie quoted in GQ, December 1998.
  "When people talk about me they talk about my intensity. Angie has that same intensity."---Jon Voight quoted in Premiere, January 1999
  "You're young, you're drunk, you're in bed, you have knives, shit happens."---Jolie
  Angelina legally changed her last name from Voight to Jolie on September 12, 2002.
  Jolie was named "World's Most Beautiful" by People magazine and with her family (Pitt, Maddox and Zahara) was named "World's Most Beautiful family"
  Jolie was named one of People Magazine's 50 Most Beautiful People for 2004
  

• Milestones

  (2005) Starred opposite Brad Pitt, as a bored married couple that is surprised to learn that they are assassins hired to kill each other in "Mr. and Mrs. Smith"
  (2003) Starred opposite Clive Owen in "Beyond Borders"
  (2004) Voiced Lola in the animated feature "Shark Tale "
  Will voice Grendel's Mother in Robert Zemeckis' big-budget film version of the epic poem "Beowulf" (lensed 2005) Worked briefly as a professional model
  Acted in five student films directed by her brother, James Haven Voight
  (2000) Acted opposite Nicolas Cage in "Gone in 60 Seconds"
  Appeared in music videos by Meat Loaf, The Lemonheads, Rolling Stones and others
  (2005) Appeared in the MTV special "The Diary of Angelina Jolie & Dr. Jeffrey Sachs in Africa," which will follow their trip to Sauri, a remote group of villages in western Kenya
  (2002) Appointed Goodwill Ambassador for the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees
  As part of the Met Theater group in Los Angeles, worked with such veteran actors as Holly Hunter, Ed Harris and Amy Madigan

• (1986) At age 11, began studying acting at the Lee Strasberg Theater Institute in NYC (date approximate)
  (1999) Cast as a tough detective assisting a quadriplegic colleague (Denzel Washington) in tracking a serial killer in "The Bone Collector"
  (2007) Cast in "A Mighty Heart," as Marianne Pearl, the wife of Wall Street Journal reporter, Daniel Pearl, who was kidnapped and killed in 2002 while reporting in Pakistan; produced by her partner Brad Pitt
  (1993) Co-starred in "Cyborg II: Glass Shadows", a direct-to-video sci-fi actioner
  (1999) Co-starred in "Girl, Interrupted", a drama based on the memoirs of a woman's two-year stay in a psychiatric hospital
  

  

  (2004) Co-starred with Colin Farrell in Oliver Stone's "Alexander" playing Olympias, the mother of Alexander the Great
  (1998) Earned raves for her starring performance as Gia Carangi, a drug addicted, bisexual model who died of complications from AIDS, in the HBO biopic "Gia"; received 1998 Emmy nomination as Best Actress
  

  (1980) Feature film debut, bit role in Hal Ashby's "Lookin' to Get Out", co-produced and co-written by her father, credited as Angelina Jolie Voight; film not released until 1982
  (1995) First lead in a theatrical release, "Hackers"; co-starred with future husband, British actor Jonny Lee Miller
  (1998) Had supporting role as a club kid in the ensemble comedy-drama "Playing By Heart"
  (2001) Had title role in "Lara Croft: Tomb Raider"
  (2007) Made directorial debut with the documentary "A Place in Time"
  Made stage debut playing a German dominatrix in "Room Service"
  (1976) Moved to Palisades, New York with mother and brother (date approximate)
  (2006) Played a CIA agent's (Matt Damon) long-suffering wife in Robert De Niro's "The Good Shepherd"
  (2004) Portrayed Captain Franky Cook in the Sci-fi thriller "Sky Captain and the

  World of Tomorrow" starring Jude Law and Gwyneth Paltrow

• (2002) Portrayed a TV reporter forced to question her choices in "Life or Something Like It"
  

  (1997) Portrayed the politician's first wife Cornelia Wallace in the TNT miniseries "George Wallace"; received 1998 Emmy nomination as Best Supporting Actress
  (1999) Portrayed the wife of an air traffic controller (Billy Bob Thornton) in "Pushing Tin", directed by Mike Newell
  Reportedly planned to become a funeral director
  (2003) Returned to her starring role for the sequel "Lara Croft and the Cradle of Life: Tomb Raider 2 "
  (2004) Starred as Special Agent Illeana Scott in the thriller "Taking Lives" also starred Ethan Hawke and Kiefer Sutherland
  (1996) Starred in the feature "Foxfire"
  (2001) Starred opposite Antonio Banderas in "Original Sin"

Jennifer Garner Biography

• • Jennifer Garner

  • Birth Date

    

    04/17/1972

  • Birthplace

    Houston, Texas

  • Credits

    14 Movies, 13 TV appearances, 4 awards

  Family

  Husband: Ben Affleck
  met in 2003, while working together on "Daredevil"; began dating in 2004; engaged April 2005; married Wednesday June 28, 2005, at the Parrot Cay resort in

  the Caribbean islands of Turks and Caicos

  

  Daughter: Violet Affleck
  born December 1, 2005 in Los Angeles, California; father, Ben Affleck

  Father: Bill Garner
  

  Mother: Pat Garner
  taught English

  Sister: Melissa Garner
  

  older

  Sister: Susannah Garner
  younger

• Hookups

  Companion: Michael Vartan
  met while working together on "Alias"; began dating May 2003; ended relationship July 2004

• Notes

  "I feel uncomfortable with people reading too much about my pregnancy or my relationship. It grosses me out. It's too sweet to read about or dissect or talk about."---Jennifer Garner, to InStyle, September 2005.
  "I think people understood that we were just two normal people who really loved each other. You know, we got quietly married in our backyard after being together for a couple of years," she says. "We never gave our wedding pictures out to be published. I think they got that we're both pretty brokenhearted about it."---Garner to W magazine, November 2003.
  "I was an understudy in a play, earning $150 a week. I would roll up pennies to take the subway to work in Times Square. I was broke, but I was happy."---Garner on her first gig, to US Weekly, September 16, 2002.
  "If you talk to anyone from my high school or college, they'd tell you I was always in sweats and basically a disaster at all times!"---Garner US April 19, 2004
  "Nobody else was involved, Jennifer became a huge celebrity. She became a huge star, and she deserved everything she got. There was no other relationship, there was no infidelity, nothing. People get divorced, you know?"---Scott Foley, on the separation with wife Jennifer Garner, to TV Guide, October 15, 2003.
  "You can never be too positive with a show. The important thing is to keep working. You never know when it is another 'Felicity,' something that seems like nothing that changes your life."---Garner on "Alias" to the West Virginia newspaper Charleston Daily Mail, May 23, 2001.
  Garner was named one of People Magazine's 50 Most Beautiful People for 2004
  Jennifer Garner on the challenges of "Pearl Harbor": "None of us women has really done an action film before and Michael [Bay] had never done an action film with women, so there were a lot of tears shed and a lot of pressure."---quoted in Movieline, April 2001.

• Milestones

  (1996) Acted in the "Hallmark Hall of Fame" TV-movie presentation "Harvest of Fire" (CBS)
  (1996) Appeared in "Larry McMurtry's Dead Man's Walk", an ABC miniseries marking the fourth installment of the "Lonesome Dove" saga
  (1997) Appeared in the comedy "Mister Magoo"
  Cast in regular role opposite Jennifer Love Hewitt in the "Party of Five" spin-off series "The Time of Your Life"
  

  (1997) Featured in Agnieszka Holland's adaptation of Henry James' 19th-century New York-set classic "Washington Square"
  (2001) Featured in the World War II epic "Pearl Harbor" as an uptight nurse (1999) Featured in the two-part CBS TV-movie thriller "Aftershock: Earthquake in

  

  New York"
  (1996) Guested on an episode of the UPN police series "Swift Justice"
  (1997) Had a cameo in Woody Allen's "Deconstructing Harry"
  (2002) Had a small but memorable role as a provacative model in director Steven Spielberg's "Catch Me If You Can" (1995) Had early TV credit in the NBC miniseries "Danielle Steele's 'Zoya'"
  (1998-1999) Had recurring role on "Felicity", playing the girlfriend of Noel, the resident advisor played by her future husband Scott Foley
  (2000) Played Ashton Kutcher's girlfriend in "Dude, Where's My Car?"

• (2004) Played a thirteen year old who wishes to be older and wakes up a thirty year old in the comedy "13 going on 30"
  (2003) Played the exotic and deadly Elektra opposite Ben Affleck in "Daredevil"
  (2007) Portrayed a woman mourning her fiance's death in Susannah Grant's directorial debut "Catch and Release"
  Raised in West Virginia
  (2003) Received Golden Globe and Emmy nominations for Best Actress in a Drama Series for her role on "Alias"
  (2004) Received SAG, Emmy and Golden Globe nominations for Best Actress in a Drama Series for her role on "Alias"
  (2005) Received an Emmy nomination for Best Actress in a Drama Series for her role on "Alias"
  (2005) Reprised her role from the 2003 film "Daredevil" to star in "Elektra"
  (1997) Starred as the grown incarnation of the abandoned baby adopted by a gang of NYC street kids who head west in the turn-of-the-century-set CBS TV-movie "Rose Hill", another presentation of the "Hallmark Hall of Fame"
  (1998) Was a regular on the short-lived Fox series "Significant Others"
  (1996) Was an understudy for the Broadway revival of "A Month in the Country", starring Helen Mirren
  Will co-star in Peter Berg's "The Kingdom"
  Will play the object of Kevin Kline's affection in the Broadway production of Edmond Rostand's "Cyrano de Bergerac"
  (2001-Present) Breakout role starring as student-turned-secret agent Sydney Bristow in the ABC spy series "Alias"

Salma Hayek Biography

• Birth Name

  Salma Hayek

• Birth Date

  09/02/1968

• Birthplace

  Coastzacoalcos, Veracruz, Mexico

• Claim to Fame (or Shame)

• Family

  Brother: Sami Hayek
  younger

  Father: Sami Hayek Dominguez
  Lebanese; ran for mayor of Coatzacoalcos, Mexico in 1997

  Mother: Diana Hayek
  Mexican

• Hookups

  Companion: Josh Lucas
  dating as of August 2003; split Septeber 2004

  Companion: Francois-Henry Pinault
  Began dating quietly and surprised everyone when it was announced in March 2007 that they were engaged and expecting a baby.

• Notes

  " ... why, asks her mom, is she still single? 'I'll get married when

  I find a man who has more COJONES [balls] than I do.'"---Hayek to Paul Young in Buzz, August 1995.
  

  

  "I aim for a lifetime full of movies. I want to work for a long, long time and keep growing in my work, and if I am very lucky and very blessed, maybe somewhere along the line there will be one movie in there that becomes a classic."---Salma Hayek in Interview, February 1997.
  "I have gotten a lot more attention than some of the other women that I find incredibly beautiful. And this has happened to me ever since I was a girl, when I was flat, had no teeth, was skinny and small as I could be. I always got more attention than anyone else. If I hadn't, I would have made sure I did. But there is also a relationship some people can establish with the camera that others can't. It's got nothing to do with talent. It's nothing you've earned. I learned in Mexico that the lens likes me, but I kept thinking, 'I'm famous, but am I good?' It wasn't enough for me to be famous. Now, I'm trying more and more to be good at what I do."---Hayek in Movieline, January 1997.
  "I'm going to do the kinds of roles I want to be doing and give up the sexier parts. People may not want me as much in those kinds of roles. I may not be as popular, but that's the price you pay, and, right now, I'm willing to pay the price. Of course, I'm still young, and I could find what I really want is to be popular and to just keep wearing dresses slit up to there, you know?"---Hayek quoted in Movieline, January 1997.
  

  

  "If I wasn't the way I am I would have stopped working a long time ago ... It's the difference between sitting down and complaining about things or getting up and d

  oing something about them."---Hayek on how she takes charge of her career, to Empire magazine, July 2006.
  "It's gotten better because I generate my own parts. I do get more things offered. But it's not like Hollywood is thinking more broadly about casting Latins. It's because of the money you [Latins] represent internationally. It's not out of any respect for your [Latin] culture."---Hayek quoted to Premiere
  "Men who are too vain turn me off. They're posing and trying so hard to impress you that you don't feel like you are ever with them. I can't speak for all women, but what I want from a man is honesty and partnership."---Hayek to InStyle, September 2003.
  "To dream big doesn't necessarily mean to imagine becoming the biggest movie star in the world. Dreaming big is about taking the simplest thing in life and enjoying it, and seeing it as the biggest thing that can possibly exist."---Hayek quoted to O Magazine, September 2003.
  "When I got here I was told I needed an agent, so I got the number for William Morris..." [She picks up an invisible phone and pretends to be dailing. Then, in mock receptionist-ese] William Morris agency. 'I'd like to speak to Mr. Morris. Hello? Can I please speak to Mr. Morris?' He's dead. 'I hang up. I call again... Hello can I speak to Mr. Morris's son?' Because in Mexico, when someone dies their son always takes

  

  over. They hang up on me. I call again and say, 'Who's in charge?' And she's about to hang up, I yell, 'Bitch!' And ultimately, I ended up at William Morris. But that was much later."---Hayek quoted to Premiere, Septeber 2002.
  

• Milestones

  (2007) Signed a two-year overall production deal with ABC in which she and partner Jose Tamez will develop new projects for the studio through their company, Ventanarosa Productions
  (1999) Signed agreement with Sony to create TV programs in both Spanish (for Telemundo) and English (for Columbia TriStar TV)
  (1997) Signed contract to act as spokesperson for Revlon cosmetics
  (2004) Signed on to be the spokes woman for Avon's makeup and fragrance lines
  (1991-1992) Stopped acting for a year-and-a-half to study English (date approximate)
  (1994) US TV-movie debut, co-starred in "Roadracers", a segment of Showtime's "Rebel Highway" series; first collaboration with filmmaker Robert Rodriguez
  (1993) US feature debut, Alison Anders' "Mi Vida Loca/My Crazy Life"
  

  

  (1989) Won stardom as "Teresa" in the hugely popular Mexican primetime serial
  (1992) Appeared in "Cherry Street, South of Main", an unsold pilot produced by Tom and Roseanne Arnold
  (1980) At age 12, told her father she would "go on strike" and fail all her classes if he did not allow her to go to school in the USA (date approximate)
  (1995) Breakthrough Hollywood feature role, co-starring opposite Antonio Banderas in Rodriguez's "Desperado"
  (2003) Cast as the female lead in "Once Upon A Time In Mexico"
  (2006) Co-starred with Colin Farrell in the Robert Towne-directed adaptation of John Fante's Depression Era novel, "Ask the Dust"
  (2006) Co-starred with Penelope Cruz as two bank robbers in "Bandidas"
  (2004) Co-starred with Pierce Brosnan and Woody Harrelson in "After the Sunset"
  (2001) Executive produced and starred in the Showtime original "In the Time of the Butterflies"
  (1992) First US TV guest shots included "Nurses", "Jack's Place" and "Dream On"
  Formed Ventanarosa Prods.
  (2007) Formed the production company Ventanazul in partnership with Hollywood studio Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer; company aims to promote films with Latino themes and talent
  (1998) Had featured role as a coat-check girl with aspirations to be a singer in "54"
  (1999) Had female lead in Barry Sonnenfeld's "Wild Wild West"
  (1991) Left Mexico at the height of her popularity and moved to Los Angeles
  (2000) Made cameo appearance in "Traffic"
  (1989) Mexican TV series debut, "Nuevo Amancer"
  (1993) Played a recurring role on "The Sinbad Show", a Fox family sitcom
  (2000) Played featured role in "Timecode", director Mike Figgis' four-screen digital feature
  (2002) Produced and played the title role in "Frida", a biopic of artist Frida Kahlo, directed by Julie Taymor; received nominations for a Golden Globe, a BAFTA, a SAG and an Oscar for her leading role performance
  (2006) Produced the ABC comedy, "Ugly Betty"; also guest starred in several episodes; earned an Emmy nomination for Outstanding Guest Actress in a Comedy Series Raised in Coatzacaolcos, Mexico
  (2001) Reteamed with Figgis for "Hotel"
  (1995) Returned to Mexico to play a lead in "Midaq Alley/El Callejon de los Milagros"
  Sent to a Catholic school in Texas; studied for two years before being expelled

Gwyneth Paltrow Biography

• Birth Name

  Gwyneth Paltrow

• Birth Date

  09/27/1972

• Birthplace

  Los Angeles, California

• Credits

  24 Movies, 2 TV appearances, 8 awards
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• Family

  Husband: Chris Martin
  

  dating as of November 2002; engaged as of Fall 2003; married in a very small, private ceremony in a California hotel suite on December 5, 2003; expecting their second child together

  Brother: Jake Paltrow
  

  born on September 26, 1975

  Cousin: Hillary Danner
  

• Hookups

  Companion: Aaron Eckhart
  b. 1968; met while filming "Possesion"; dated briefly in 2002

  Companion: Ben Affleck
  began dating as of December 1997; both appeared in "Shakespeare in Love"; reportedly separated in December 1998; co-starred together in "Bounce" (2000), fueling speculation they had reconciled

  Companion: Brad Pitt
  

  met in 1994 on set of "Seven" in which they played a married couple; became engaged in November 1996; separated in June 1997

  

  Companion: Donovan Leitch
  briefly engaged in the early 1990s; no longer together

  Companion: James Purefoy
  b. 1964; dated briefly in 2002

  Companion: Luke Wilson
  began dating as of spring 2001; met during filming of "The Royal Tenenbaums"; no longer together

  Companion: Robert Sean Leonard
  no longer together

• Notes

  "All the movies I've done have been so wildly eclectic," she says, "even if the

  y've been failures. I'm not a box office star. I'm not drawn to the kind of movies that turn you into a person who gets $20 million a picture. I don't think there's pressure on me that

  way to deliver. I just feel like directors put me in films because they want what I

  can give them as an artist."---Paltrow to Entertainment Weekly, September 17, 2004.
  

  "Everything I wanted to achieve, I achieved," she says. "I'm not one of those people who keeps raising the bar. Am I supposed to say I'm going to become the biggest mov

  ie star that ever lived? I don't want to."---Paltrow to Time, September 5, 2005.
  "Fame sucks. I know that might sound negative. People will say 'Well, why does she want to be in movies and date famous guys if she doesn't like it?' The truth is that I'm just this young girl trying to do good work and have some fun. That girl in those stories seems like another person. I know two things about myself: I have a good work ethic and I love my family. That's about all I need to know."---Paltrow to the Daily News, January 31, 1999.
  

  "Gwyneth isn't afraid to do anything ... She is totally not afraid to be unglamo

  rous or despicable or sad or funny or stupid."---"Hard Eight" director Paul Thomas Anderson quoted in The New York Times, July 28, 1996.
  "Gwyneth really has a gift for understanding the quiet, unblinking nature of the camera. Furthermore, she's respectful of that gift. Despite how big she is she never rests on

  her laurels, and she continues to pick interesting, challenging work. God, I should be her publicist!"---"Possession" director Neil LaBute on Paltrow to Talk, December 2001-January 2002.
  

  "I always hear that people's perception of me is that I'm cool or aloof or standoffish and I always think, 'Who are they talking about?' That's totally opposite to me. I used to be far more open, but obviously the life that I live and the level of scrutiny make me
  

  

  kind of slower to really open myself up. But I still don't think I'm a chilly person at all."---Paltrow to The Daily Telegraph, November 10, 2000.
  "I didn't think I was going to live," she says. "It was the weirdest feeling. I was just really surprised that I kept waking up."---Paltrow talking about the passing of her father Entertainment Weekly November 28, 2003.
  "I don't absorb anything about my career and take it to heart. I listen, but I certainly don't expect [fame] to happen. I'm very young, and I'm learning how to go about

  things."---Paltrow quoted in Daily News, November 9, 1993.
  "I don't really understand the concept of having a career, or what an agent means when they say they're building one for you. I just do things I think will be interesting and that have integrity. I hate those tacky, pointless, big, fluffy, unimportant movies."---Gwyneth Paltrow to Jennifer Beals in Interview, September 1995.
  "I've never placed too much stock in Hollywood or in what people think of me b

  ecause it's all so fleeting. If I just stay the way I am, the way my parents raised me to be, then I'll be able to sail through. I guess they showed me by example."---Paltrow to Biography, Spring 2004.
  "In this day and age, if you sit up straight, chew with your mouth closed and have good manners, you're a snob."---Gwyneth Paltrow quoted in Harper's Bazaar, November 2001.
  

  

  "It was really important to my mother that we have an East Coast education and sensibility. She took us to the opera, which I hated at the time but appreciate now. She was always dragging us to see underground dance troupes and to bizarre theater performances in converted churches in the Village. She wanted to showus the world and its possibilities. She wanted us enriched, and I love her for it."---Paltrow to Dotson Rader in Parade, January 17, 1999.
  "My father was the center of my life. As a kid, I could go to him with any question, whether it was the square root of something or who was king in what year. He can change tires or build a treehouse or do algebra. He knows all the words in the dictionary. I love him so much."

  "When I was 10, we went to England. My mother was shooting a miniseries there... My dad took me to Paris for the weekend. We had the most amazing time. On the plane back to London, he asked me, 'Do you know why I took you to Paris, only you and me?' And I said, 'Why?' And he said, 'Because I wanted you to see Paris for the first time with a man who would always love you."---Paltrow quoted in Parade, January 17, 1998.
  "She's strong. If you cast her, you're really making a choice. There's nothing generic about Gwynny."---Steve Kloves, who directed Paltrow in "Flesh and Bone" told the

  

  Los Angeles Times, July 21, 1996.
  "There is something about the British psyche that appeals to me. I feel comfortable playing British. Maybe it's the British reserve that I like. They've got fire underneath, but on the outside, they're reserved. I like that."---Paltrow to Dallas Morning News

  , December 26, 1998.
  "There was a palpable difference in energy when I was a boy. The guys on the set treated me more as an equal than when I was this pale, frail blonde girl. There was a lot of back-slapping as a boy."---Paltrow on posing as a male for scenes in "Shakespeare in Love" to Chicago Sun-Times, December 21, 1998.
  "What are you gonna do? It's life. I can think of worse things that can happen. I would take lots of nude photos if I could change certain things about the world. I'd rather my cousin Keith still be alive [he died of cancer eight years ago this month]. And if I could bring back Harrison Kravis [a close friend who died in a car accident], I'd do my own Tomm

  y Lee-Pamela Anderson video, you know? It's a matter of perspective. It's all about how you weigh what's really important."---Paltrow on the infamous nude photos of her taken by paparazzi, to Time Out New York, April 23-30, 1998.
  "You want to be an actor. You don't want to be in [the] tabloids. To me, those worlds seem mutually exclusive. And I fully understand that for whatever reason I'm one of those people where there's an interest, if you will, in my personal life. But I do think people are kind of bored. I've got a couple kids, a husband; I've just been at home."---Paltrow to EW, February 2, 2007.
  In April 2000, Paltrow was sued for damages by siblings allegedly injured in an April 1999 automobile accident.
  

• Milestones

  (2001) Acted in the Farrelly brothers' comedy, "Shallow Hal", playing both a 300-pound woman and the version of her seen by her boyfriend
  (1997) Announced as star of "Duets" to co-star then-fiance Brad Pitt and to be directed by her father Bruce; project put in turnaround when she and Pitt broke up
  (1991) Appeared in "Picnic" with her mother at Williamstown Theatre Festival
  (1990) Appeared in the Williamstown Theatre Festival production of "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn"
  (1996) Cast as a hard-bitten prostitute in "Sydney/Hard Eight"; premiered at film festivals before being retitled and released theatrically in 1997
  (2004) Cast as reporter Polly Perkins opposite Jude Law in "Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow" written and directed by Kerry Conran
  

  

  (1991) Cast by family friend Steven Spielberg as the young Wendy in "Hook"
  

  (2007) Cast in the Sundance screened, "The Good Night," directed by youn

  ger brother Jake Paltrow
  (2000) Directed by father in "Duets", with Scott Speedman assuming role originally intended for Pitt
  (1998) Displayed a cool reserve as Estrella in Alfonso Cuaron's contempora

  ry updating of Dickens' "Great Expectations"
  (1991) Feature acting debut in supporting role in "Shout"
  (1993) First feature in a substantial role, "Flesh and Bone"; cast as the young girlfriend of an unpredictable James Caan
  

  (1996) Had breakthrough leading role as title character in Douglas McGrath's adaptation of Jane Austen's "Emma"
  (2001) Had co-starring role as a depressed playwright in "The Royal Tenenbaums"
  (2000) Had hit single in Australia with "Cruisin'", a duet with Huey Lewis from the soundtrack of "Duets"
  (1998) Inherited the Grace Kelly role in "A Perfect Murder", a loose remake of Hitchcock's "Dial M for Murder"
  (2002) Made London stage debut in "Proof" at the Donmar Warehouse under the direction of John Madden
  (2006) Made her directing debut, co-directing a 10-minute short called ''Dealbreakers,'' a comic montage about a woman's series of bad first dates; also penned the script
  Moved to L.A. to pursue career
  Moved with family to NYC
  (1995) Played Patsy, the daughter of the future US President, in the Merchant-Ivory production "Jefferson in Paris"
  (2006) Plays a spinster-type woman who lives at home with her crazy psychiatrist dad (Brian Cox) in "Running with Scissors"
  (1995) Portrayed the wife of a detective (Brad Pitt) tracking a serial killer in "Seven" Raised in California until about age 11
  

  (1998) Received raves and a Best Actress Academy Award for her performance as Viola, who serves as the muse for the playwright, in "Shakespeare in Love", helmed by John Madden
  (2005) Reunited with director John Madden to reprise her role in "Proof," based on the David Auburn play in which she also starred in the London production; earned a Golden Globe nomination for Best Actress
  (2006) Reunites with director Doug McGrath for the Truman Capote biopic "Infamous"
  (2005) Signed a multiyear contract with Estee Lauder to appear in a new global print and TV ad campaign for Pleasures fragrance
  Spent summers with her mother, actress Blythe Danner, at the Williamstown
  

  

  Theatre Festival
  (2003) Starred as the American poet Sylvia Plath in "Sylvia"; also featured her mother Blythe Danner
  (2003) Starred in the comedy "A View From The Top"
  (1996) Starred opposite David Schwimmer in the romantic comedy "The Pallbearer"
  

  (1999) Starred opposite Matt Damon in "The Talented Mr. Ripley"
  (1992) TV miniseries debut, "Cruel Doubt" (NBC); portrayed daughter of character played by Blythe Danner
  (2000) Teamed on screen with former off-screen beau Ben Affleck in "Bounce"
  (2002) Teamed with Aaron Eckhart in "Possession", helmed by Neil LaBute
  Will portray Pepper Potts, Starks' loyal secretary in the marvel comcis' "Iron Man" (lensed 2007)

Paris Hilton Biography

• Birth Name

  Paris Hilton

• Birth Date

  02/17/1981

• Hookups

  Companion: Derek Whibley
  lead singer of "Sum 41"; dated summer of 2003

  Companion: Edward Furlong
  reportedly dated

  Companion: Jason Shaw
  dated for three years; briefly engaged; no longer together

  Companion: Josh Henderson
  began dating March 2007

  Companion: Leonardo DiCaprio
  reportedly dated

  Companion: Nick Carter
  member of boy band "Backstreet Boys"; began dating January 2004, announced break-up July 2004

  Companion: Oscar De La Hoya
  reportedly dated

  Companion: Paris Latsis
  Greek shipping heir; began dating January 2005; engaged May 25, 2005; called off engagement October 2005

  Companion: Rick Soloman
  dated in 2000, ex-husband of Shannon Doherty; appeared with Hilton in the infamous sex video

  Companion: Simon Rex
  briefly dated while filming "National Lampoon's Pledge This!" in 2004

• Notes

  "I don't really read anything on the Internet except my AOL mail. I don't like people who sit on computers all day long and write about people they don't know anything about."---Hilton quoted to Cnn.com, May 5, 2005.
  "I don't want to be known as the granddaughter of the Hiltons. I want to be known as Paris."---Hilton AskMen.com
  "I have always had a voice and always known I could sing, but I was too shy to let it come out. ... When I finally let go and did it, I realized it is what I am most talented at and what I love to do the most."---Paris Hilton, whose first single, "Stars Are Blind," was released summer 2006. People, May 2006.
  "I think people like me because I am very real myself and I lead an exciting life. There is no one like me. I am unique."---Paris Hilton, to Reuters, April 2006.
  "Since the show came out, I can't really have fun anymore because people (are) coming up every minute and are like, 'Oh, can I have a picture?'"---Paris Hilton People March 23, 2004
  "Walmart, what's that, do they like, make walls there"---Hilton on "The Simple Life" December 2, 2003
  ''My dad and mom always tell me to be humble and treat people like they want to be treated, even if they're being mean. If you're nice to them, they feel bad for having said something bad about you.''---Hilton EntertainmentWeekly December 5, 2003
  In June 2007 British reggae band UB40 started legal action against Hilton and Warner Chappell Music for plagiarism due to similarities between the song "Stars Are Blind" and their 1990 song "Kingston Town".
  In March 2007, the Los Angeles City's Attorney's Office claimed that Hilton violated the terms of her DUI probation, asking for 45 days in jail. According to the prosecutors' motion, Hilton violated at least three conditions of her probation; she was pulled over driving at 70 mph without her headlights on in a 35 mph zone, she was found driving with a suspended license, and she violated the terms of her probation by failing to enroll in a court-ordered alcohol education program within 21 days of her January probation.
  It's not about the fame, really," says Hilton. "Years from now, I would just want people to say, 'She was young. She was a crazy girl for a while or whatever, but then she married and had a great big family. She was good to people and did a lot for the world. And that she was a nice person."---Hilton quoted in Movieline's Hollywood Life June 2004
  On May 4, 2007 Hilton was sentenced to 45 days in jail for violating her probation, and was required to begin her jail term June 5, 2007 or risk a doubling of her sentence. On June 3, 2007, after attending the 2007 MTV Movie Awards, Hilton checked herself into an all female jail in Lynwood, California. Hilton was scheduled to serve only 23 days of her 45 day sentence pending good behavior.

  On June 7, 2007 Hilton was outfitted with a ankle monitoring bracelet and released from jail to serve 40 days of house arrest due to unspecified medical reasons.

  On the morning of June 8, 2007, Los Angeles City Attorney Rocky Delgadillo and Judge Michael Sauer ordered Hilton back to court. She was sent back to jail to serve the remainder of her sentence, and was taken out of the courtroom crying and screaming.
  Paris Hilton was arrested in Hollywood early September 7, 2006 on suspicion of drunk driving. She was later charged with two misdemeanors - driving under the influence and driving with a blood-alcohol level of .08 or higher; She pled no contest to a alcohol-related reckless driving charge. She was placed on 36 months' probation and ordered to pay fines of about $1,500.
  

• Milestones

  (2002) Appeared as a strung-out supermodel in the film short "QIK2JDG"
  (2003) Appeared in a leaked video tape that showed her graphically having sex with Shannen Doherty's ex-husband Rick Soloman; sued Solomon for marketing the homemade sex video as a 45-minute tape called "One Night in Paris"; settlement included $400,000, plus a percentage of the profits, which Hilton donated to charity
  (2003) Cast in "Wonderland", a drama which starred Val Kilmer as the legendary John Holmes
  (2003) Featured as a club-goer in "The Cat in the Hat", starring Mike Myers
  (2004) Guest starred on the NBC drama "Las Vegas," playing the pampered fiancee of a high roller
  (2001) Had a cameo appearance in the film "Zoolander," Ben Stiller's fashion spoof
  (2004) Had a small role in the Gary Marshall comedy "Raising Helen" starring Kate Hudson
  (2005) Hosted "Saturday Night Live" on NBC (aired in February)
  (2005) Once again reunited with pal Nicole Richie for a third season of the Fox reality series "The Simple Life: Interns" following the girls intern at varies job while traveling by bus
  (2004) Reunited with pal Nicole Richie for a second season of the hit reality show "The Simple Life" (Fox) where the duo embarked on a cross-country trip in a Winnebago, traveling from town to town and family to family
  (2005) Starred as a sorority president in "National Lampoon's Pledge This!"
  (2005) Starred in the horror remake of "House of Wax" produced by Joel Silver
  (---) Starred modeling for designers Marc Bouwer, Tommy Hilfiger and Catherine Malandrino
  (2003) Starred with childhood pal Nicole Richie in the Fox reality series "The Simple Life", where they leave behind the comforts of their lavish life to live and work on a farm
  Will star with Jason Mewes in the independent feature "Bottoms Up," a 'Swingers'-like dramatic comedy (lensed 2005)
  (2004) featured as the new face for Guess in the Fall 2004 ads
  (2003) Made a cameo appearance on SNL's weekend update with Jimmy Fallon

Julia Roberts Biography

• Birth name : Julia Roberts

• Birth Date

  10/28/1967

• Birthplace

  Smyrna, Georgia

• Credits

  22 Movies, 8 TV appearances, 22 awards
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• Family

  Brother: Eric Roberts

  born April 18, 1956; older; stayed with father in Atlanta after parents' divorce; estranged from sisters

  Daughter: Hazel Patricia Moder
  

  born November 28, 2004; twin of Phinnaeus Walter; father, Daniel Moder

  Father: Walter Roberts
  born in February 1930; wed Betty Motes in 1955 after touring military bases in a production of "George Washington Slept Here", directed by Ron Howard's father, Rance; co-founded Atlanta Actors and Writers Workshop with wife in 1963; divorced from Roberts' mother in 1971; died of cancer in March 1977

  Half-Sister: Nancy Motes
  born c. 1976

  Mother: Betty Motes
  divorced from Roberts' father in 1971

  Sister: Lisa Roberts
  born c. 1965; moved with her sister and

  mother to Smyrna, Georgia after her parents' divorce

  Son: Henry Daniel Moder
  born June 18, 2007; father, Daniel Moder

  Son: Phinnaeus Walter Moder
  

  born November 28, 2004; twin of Hazel Patricia; father, Daniel Moder

• Notes

  "... there's no mistaking the tough core of

  intelligence and wit in her work, not just a willingness to take chances but a growing delight in doing so. Here's to future gambles in the still-surprising career of Julia Roberts. Risk looks good on her."---Peter Travers writing in US, August 1997.
  "Both 'Runaway Bride' and 'Notting Hill' are tailored to the public perception of Roberts herself, the actress who surges from one high profile romance to another. It is therefore easy to accept the fiction

  of the standard Roberts character as an adorable, slightly daffy commitment-phobe whose biggest problem is making up her mind. When we think of classic indecision, we think Hamlet. When we think of indecision Julia-style, we think of a frightened kitten being lured down from the tree by a kindly fireman."---From "The Trouble With Julia" by Jami Bernard, Daily News, August 8, 1999.
  

  "I don't think I'll ever really understand the fascination with [my private life]. And I comprehend less the idea that when there is nothing to report, something has

  to be manufactured."---Roberts to USA Today, June 20. 1997.
  "I work when I want to work, and I work with people that I want to work with. I travel hither and yon to fabulous places. I'm surrounded by wonderful, interesting people. I live a privileged life, HUGELY privileged. It's an EXCELLENT life. I'm rich. I'm happy. I have a great job. It would be absurd to pretend that it's anything different. I'm like a pig in shit."---Roberts quoted in Vanity Fair, June 1999.
  

  "I'll tell you something, not long after 'Pretty Woman' came out, suddenly everyone who ever passed through Smyrna's city limits went to high school with me and was my best friend. I was suddenly reading accounts of my would-be life, based on people I had barely known in school. I find it more amusing than anything else ... every day of my life is just the greatest revenge, isn't it?"---Julia Roberts to the London Times, January 3, 1999.
  

  "I've never discussed this before, but as a child I used to bite my toenails off ins

  tead of clipping them. I was very limber."---Roberts to Movieline November 2002.
  "If only, somehow, Julia Roberts could be as complicated on-screen as the feelings she prompts in one who looks carefully at her career. If that were possible, she might become a real actress, instead of remaining just a great beauty who gives off an uncanny sense of being flawed or damaged, and needing to be rescued. The flirt's secret message to her viewers is, after all, exactly that: RESCUE ME. But the serious actress must learn that that task is hers alone."---From "In Defense of Julia Roberts" by David Thomson, Movieline, April 1997.
  

  "If people are going to support me, or pretend to support me, my belief is that they must support my desire to be a good actor, and in order to be a good actor it is my

  

  obligation to my desire to try different things. If I did the same thing all the time, how quickly would people get bored? They would be like, 'She's smiling again; oh G

  od, that smile.'"---Roberts quoted in the London Times, April 29, 1999.
  "It's nuts that the average person probably knows more about me than they do about their friends and families."---Roberts quoted in Chicago Sun-Times, May 23, 1999.
  

  "Julia's smile is like a thousand-watt bulb. Everybody falls for it, but there's nothing like it when she smiles and laughs. You can't help but be drawn into it."---Dermot Mulroney, Roberts' co-star in "My Best Friend's Wedding" quoted to People, July 7, 1997.
  "My agent hates it when I say this, but if someone was making a real good movie and they had a nickel they could spare to get me to do the job, I'

  d do it. But when someone's making a no-budget independent film, going off to Nebraska to shoot a 105-page movie in 18 days, I don't think I'm the first name that springs to their mind. And that's unfortunate, because I would think it would be a gas."---From US, August 1999.
  "The first time I felt famous was when I went to the movies with my mom. I h

  ad gone to the loo, and someone in the bathroom said in a very loud voice, 'Girl

  

  in stall No. 1, were you in Mystic Pizza?' I paused and said, 'Yeah, that was me.'"---Roberts to People August 22, 1999.
  "The thing that I'm able to do now is put words to the feelings as opposed to once upon a time when, if someone approached me in a certain way, I might look at them and inside I'm thinking, please go away. Please stop looking at me. Please, please, please. I don't know how to deal with you. I don't know what to do."

  "But it was a challenge that obviously I had to have in my life, and I think I wa

  s able to draw a lot of things from it. And I regret not a moment of it. Not even at its worst moment of really being apoplectic with ignorance, because my life is now so, I just live my life now. And each little steppingstone leads to the next thing, and it sounds corny, but to remove one element of it is to collapse the whole house of cards."---Roberts quoted in US, August 1999.
  "What changes with fame, I think, are perceptions of an individual, more than the individual."---Julia Roberts to Stephen Schaefer in Boston Herald, May 28, 199

  9.
  In 1993, Roberts became the highest-paid actress to date, reportedly receiving $8.5 million per film. For "Mary Reilly" in 1996, she reportedly earned $10 million while a year later, she was paid $12 million for "Conspiracy Theory". In 1999, Roberts cracked the $20 million mark, making her once again the highest-paid female actor in Hollywood.
  On her rocky relationship with the press: "Everybody has a job to do, I appreciate that. But at the same time, my job is to act, not to clear things up, not to fill in the dotted lines of the ifs, ands, buts, whys and hows of my life. I have too often succumbed to the pressure of feeling that's my responsibility. I have been fleeced enough times, lied about

  enough times, raked over the coals, misrepresented, misunderstood and misconceived enough."---Julia Roberts quoted in Rolling Stone, July 14, 1999.
  On her role in "Notting Hill": "It's not Julia Roberts. It's Anna Scott. For someone to think that I'm so fascinated with myself that I deserve to be the main character in a movie, they're out of their mind. A, my life is not to be documented in that way and B, I'm not that narcissistic. SO for people to think I'm playing myself is selling me way short.

  

  I worked way too hard on that movie. I work hard to look that natural. I can't prevent people from saying that. I'm not trying to change people's minds about me; never tried to, not interested in it. If they think Anna Scott is me playing myself, that's fine. But I didn't write the script. I didn't know the man who wrote it."---From Chicago Sun-Times, July 14, 1999.
  On starring in a movie about a woman with commitment problems given her own checkered romantic past, Roberts told US (August 1999): "Look, 'Runaway Bride' is a great title, incredibly evocative, but it doesn't attach to my life at all."
  

• Milestones

  (1992) Appeared as herself (in a movie-within-the-movie) in Robert Altman's "The Player"
  (1998) Appeared as herself in an episode of the CBS sitcom "Murphy Brown"
  (1988) Appeared in first TV-movie, "Baja Oklahoma" (HBO)
  (1990) Breakthrough screen performance, the title role in "Pretty Woman"; garnered Best Actress Academy Award nomination; first screen pairing with Richard Gere under the direction of Garry Marshall
  (2001) Co-starred with Brad Pitt in "The Mexican"
  (1988) First released film, "Satisfaction"
  Formed Shoelace Productions
  (1992) Formed a two year semi-exclusive production deal between her own YMA Productions and Joe Roth's Caravan Pictures
  

  

  (1995) Guest-starred in an episode of the hit NBC sitcom "Friends"
  (1997) Had box-office hit with the comedy "My Best Friend's Wedding"
  (1994) Had rare box office disappointment teamed with Nick Nolte in "I Love Trouble"
  (2000) Had title role of "Erin Brokovich", a based on fact tale of a legal secretary who championed a case of water poisoning into a class action lawsuit; received a Best Actress Academy Award
  (1986) Made film acting debut in "Blood Red", co-starring brother Eric (released regionally in USA March 1989)
  (2006) Made her stage debut in the Broadway revival of Richard Greenberg's play, "Three Days of Rain"
  (1999) Made rare TV dramatic guest appearance on an episode of "Law & Order"; garnered an Emmy nomination
  Moved to NYC immediately after high school graduation; lived with sister Lisa; worked briefly as a Click model
  (1989) Received a Best Supporting Actress Oscar nomination as Shelby, the doomed diabetic bride in "Steel Magnolias"
  (1998) Narrated and appeared in the PBS' special "In the Wild: Orangutans With Julia Roberts"
  (1991) Played Tinkerbell in Steven Spielberg's "Hook"
  (2003) Played a free-spirited teacher at a women-only college in "Mona Lisa Smile"
  (2001) Played a personal assistant to a movie star in "America's Sweethearts"
  (1988) Played first leading film role in "Mystic Pizza"
  (1996) Portrayed Kitty Kiernan, erstwhile lover to "Michael Collins" in Neil Jordan's biopic of the Irish patriot
  (1998) Producing debut, "Stepmom"; played the title role of Ed Harris' young girlfriend competing with his ex-wife (Susan Sarandon)
  Raised in Smyrna, Georgia
  (1999) Reteamed with Garry Marshall and Richard Gere for "Runaway Bride"
  (2004) Returned with the original cast for "Ocean's Twelve" directed by Steven Soderbergh
  (2002) Reunited with Clooney for "Confessions of a Dangerous Mind" which he also directed
  (1991) Starred as an abused wife on the run from her husband in the surprise hit "Sleeping With the Enemy"
  (1993) Starred opposite Denzel Washington in "The Pelican Brief"
  (1999) Starred opposite Hugh Grant in the romantic comedy "Notting Hill"
  (1996) Starred opposite Woody Allen in the musical comedy "Everyone Says I Love You"; warbled "All My Life" on the soundtrack
  (2002) Starred with Blair Underwood in the Steven Soderbergh directed "Full Frontal"
  (2004) Starred with Jude Law in Mike Nichols' "Closer" an adaption of the broadway play
  (1987) TV debut in "The Survivor" episode of NBC's "Crime Story"
  (1996) Took on a dramatic role as the British maid to Dr. Jekyll in "Mary Reilly"
  (2006) Voiced the title character in live-action/computer-animated feature film "Charlotte's Web," based on the book by E.B. White
  (2001) Was featured in Steven Soderbergh's remake of "Ocean's Eleven"; Pitt also in the cast
  (---) Will serve as executive producer for the made-for-TV movie, "Samantha: An American Girl Holiday" (WB); Set in 1904, the period film is based on the popular American Girl dolls and books (lensed 2004)

Sarah Michelle Gellar

• Birth Name

  Sarah Michelle Gellar

  

• Birth Date

  04/14/1977

• Birthplace

  New York, New York

• Credits

  16 Movies, 7 TV appearances, 4 awards
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• Family

  Father: Arthur Gellar
  

  Jewish; born c. 1941; divorced from Gellar's mother c. 1984; found dead in his apartment on October 9, 2001

  Mother: Rosellen
  divorced from Gellar's father c. 1984

• Notes

  "I was thinking to myself: 'I can't do this....I can't do it.' I was worried about it the night before, wondering if I'd ever be able to go ahead. It was no better on the day itself."

  "As for the scene being sexy, I was so nervous I thought I was going to throw up! We had to film in the open in New York's Central Park and it seemed that half the city was watching."---Gellar on her kiss with Selma Blair in "Cruel Intentions" Now Magazine January 2004
  "It was always a financial struggle," she recalls. "A private education in New York is one of the best you can get in the world, but we were barely able to make rent payments on our apartment. I'm not going to pretend it was easy at school either. There were a lot of rich kids who made my life hell. They soon got to know that I was there on a

  part scholarship and could hardly afford to make up the fees. They constantl

  

  y reminded me of the fact, too, so I've always thought of high school as being a breeding ground for evil. It made me more determined than ever to make something of my life."---Gellar on growing up with no money and financing her own education with TV commercials Now Magazine January 2004
  "What Sarah bring to the part is her intelligence. At the same time, she's got that hormonal, idiosyncratic goofiness that makes Buffy not just the Terminator." --series creator Joss Whedon quoted in TV GUIDE, August 2, 1997
  "You know that when you hire her to do a job she's not going to be in the trailer, complaining about everything. She's going to be right out there at three in the morning, barefoot, in the freezing cold, giving you the 10th take." --screenwriter Kevin Williamson quoted in TV GUIDE, August 2, 1997
  In the 1999 online voting for the initial presentation of the TV GUIDE Awards, Gellar was cited for Best Woman's Hair-Do and as both the Sexiest Female and Best-Dressed Female.
  

• Milestones

  (1981) Began career in commercials for Burger King at age four (date approximate)
  (1986) Co-starred opposite Matthew Broderick (and later Eric Stoltz) in Horton

  

  Foote's play "The Widow Claire"
  (1999) Co-starred with Ryan Phillippe in "Cruel Intentions", a contemporary version of "Les Liaisons Dangereuses"
  (1997) Had first screen lead in "I Know What You Did Last Summer"
  (1992) Had regular role on syndicated serial "Swan's Crossing"
  (1984) Had small role in feature film "Over the Brooklyn Bridge"
  (2003) Left the cult classic series "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" to pursue a full time film career
  (2004) Once again played Daphne in "Scooby Doo 2: Monsters Unleashed"
  (2002) Played Daphne in the live-action version of "Scooby Doo"
  (1993-1996) Played Kendall Hart on "All My Children" (ABC); won Daytime Emmy
  (1997) Played supporting role as a sorority sister in "Scream 2"
  (1991) Played the young Jacqueline Bouvier in "A Woman Named Jackie" (NBC)
  Set to star in an arthouse film based on the stories from Melissa Bank's book, "A Girl's Guide to Hunting and Fishing" (lensed 2005)
  (2001) Starred in "Harvard Man", directed by James Toback
  (2006) Starred in "The Grudge 2" a sequel to the 2004 American horror film remake; again directed by Takashi Shimizu
  (2004) Starred in Takashi Shimizu's thriller "The Grudge"
  (1983) TV acting debut in the CBS TV-movie "An Invasion of Privacy"
  (1992) Was in pre-Broadway cast of Neil Simon's "Jake's Women"
  Will co-star with Seann William Scott in Richard Kelly's "Southland Tales" (lensed 2005)
  (1997-2003) Starred in title role of the series "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" (The WB, 1997-2001; UPN, 2001-2003)

Rebecca Romijn Biography

• Birth Name

  Rebecca Romijn

• Birth Date

  11/06/1972

• Birthplace

  Berkeley, California

• Credits

  11 Movies, 9 TV appearances, 1 awards

• Family

  Husband: Jerry O'Connell
  met in the fall of 2004 when Romijn was scouting for her documentary "Wet Dreams"; they became engaged September 2005; wed July 14, 2007 in an intimate ceremony in Los Angeles

  Husband: John Stamos
  born August 1963; engaged December 24, 1997; married on September 20, 1998; separated April 2004, after five years of marriage; divorce final March 2005

  Father: Jaap Romijn
  Dutch; divorced from Rebecca's mother

  Mother: Elizabeth Kuizenga
  second generation Dutch American; divorced from Rebecca's father

  Sister: Tamara Romijn
  born April 1975

• Notes

  "I don't mind doing sort of sexy, raunchy pictures if there's a sense of humor about it." --Rebecca Romijn-Stamos to Detour, September 1998.
  "I grew up in this hippie environment in Berkeley, where they don't really care if you're good-looking . . . It's a very anti-vain place where it's cool to own a progressive bookstore or to work with abused children, but not to want to be in the spotlight or even to pay much attention to your looks. I honestly never even put makeup on or had my hair done until I started modeling in 1991. Neither my sister nor I ever really thought about the way we looked growing up. In our teens, we didn't know or care about makeup or designers or anything like that. We both lucked out in the genes department. In fact, my first agent wanted to hire my mom as a supermodel-making machine. It was like, 'I'll pay you to make more babies'." --From Movieline, February 2000.
  

  "In some ways, coming from the modeling background that she did, she probably has to work harder to break these preconceived notions...and she worked really hard on this role, but never in a way that looked affected. She has a really strong, natural ability that makes an impact without feeling forced."---Greg Kinnear on working with Romijn-Stamos in "Godsend" Premiere Magazine April 2004
  "Sometimes I find myself having to try extra hard to be goofy and disarming to prove to people that, yeah, I pick my nose just like you do." --Romijn-Stamos to Movieline, February 2000.
  "The makeup was the most excruciating part of the shoot. Only somebody with modeling experience could have done it."---About her role as Mystique in "X-Men", Romijn-Stamos told Josh Chetwynd of USA Today July 6, 2000
  "When I have structure, ai get so much more done. If I have nothing to do, I won't do anything. I will sit at home and watch TV all day."---Romijn to Emmy, issue 1, 2006.
  On filmmakers' desire to cast her as a sex object: "There are plenty of gay filmmakers out there that aren't interested in you for your sex ... I have no problem with being a talented moviemaker's fag hag." --From Movieline, February 2000.
  

• Milestones

  (1999) Again named one of People magazine's "50 Most Beautiful People"
  

  (2003) Again played Mystique in "X2"
  (2006) Appeared in the documentary, "Wet Dreams" about her attempt to choreograph one of the Bellagio's famous water fountain routines; premiered at the CineVegas Film Festival in Las Vegas
  (1991) Began modeling career after being recruited by a Parisian model scout
  (2002) Cast in female lead of the remake of "Rollerball"
  (2000) Donned blue body paint to play the evil mutant Mystique in the big-screen version of "X-Men"
  (1999) Had a cameo in the blockbuster comedy "Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me"
  (2002) Had a small role as an actress doubling for the computer generated female lead of "Simone"
  (1999) Had recurring role as David Spade's model wife on the NBC comedy "Just Shoot Me"
  (1998) Had small but unforgettable part as a drunken, bearded lady in Norm Macdonald's big-screen comedy "Dirty Work"
  

  

  (2007) Joined the cast of ABC's "Ugly Betty" as a series regular
  (1998) Made TV acting debut on an episode of NBC's "Friends"; played a messy girlfriend of David Schwimmer's Ross
  (2006) Makes series lead debut as a reporter in the WB's "Pepper Dennis"
  (1997) Named one of People magazine's "50 Most Beautiful People"
  (1999) Played Hugh Hefner's daughter Kimberly in the TV-movie "Hefner: Unauthorized" (USA Network)
  Raised in Berkeley, California
  (2006) Reprised the role of Mystique in the third installment of the "X-Men" series, "X-Men: The Last Stand"
  (1992-1995) Spent three years in Paris modeling for magazines like Elle, Sports Illustrated, Marie Claire, etc.
  (2002) Starred as Laure Ash, a con woman trying to get straight, in Brian De Palma's erotic thriller "Femme Fatale"
  (2004) Starred opposite Greg kinnear, as parents who clone their son after he was killed in an accident in the thriller "Godsend"
  (2004) Starred opposite Thomas Jane and John Travolta in "The Punisher"
  (1997) Succeeded Daisy Fuentes as host of MTV's "House of Style" (December); was replaced in 1998 by James King
  Was featured in the annual Sports Illustrated swimsuit edition
  (1995) Moved to NYC and divided time between USA and Europe

Keira Knightley Biography

• Birth Name

  

  Keira Knightley

• Birth Date

  03/26/1985

• Birthplace

  Teddington, London, England

• Credits

  13 Movies, 1 TV appearances, 3 awards

• Family

  Brother: Caleb Knightley
  born c. 1979

  Father: Will Knightley
  

  Mother: Sharman McDonald
  

• Hookups

  Companion: Jamie Dornan
  model; met at a Manhattan photo shoot in August 2003; began dating in 2004; announced split August 10, 2005.

  Companion: Rupert Friend
  

  met while co-starring in "Pride & Prejudice"; began dating December 2005

  Companion: Del Synnott
  actor; met in 2001, while working together on "Princess Of Thieves"; split November 2003

• Notes

  "I first stared asking for an agent when I was three. I thought it was really unfair that I didn't have one. I got my first part when I was seven. I basically just stood in the background, smiled... and looked very cute... I didn't really do very much."---Knightley to Vanity Fair, February 2003.
  

  

  "Sex scenes are easy," she laughs. "I don't have a problem with them. I'm an actress. I have certain tools - one of them is my body. I don't mind stripping off occasionally."---Knightley in the Mirror, May 14, 2007.
  "There are a lot of beautiful girls around the world, but the problem is, they can't turn off who they are when the camera turns on. Keira is very natural in front of the camera-when she becomes the character, you don't see any of the acting wheels turning"---Jerry Bruckeimer, producer of "Pirates of the Caribbean" Vanity Fair April 2004
  "To take this character who's so infamous and completely change her is one of the reasons that you do this job, to keep on changing and surprising people,"---Knightley on playing Guinevere in "King Arthur" to People, July 09, 2004.
  Knightley was diagnosed with dyslexia as a small child
  Producer Jerry Bruckheimer predicts that in 10 years, Knightley will be: "a major star. She is a terrific kid. Not to mention her enormous talent. In the end, it all comes down to her screen persona. I mean, you like what you see onscreen; she becomes the character. She is the real thing." People July 7, 2004
  

• Milestones

  (2005) Cast as Elizabeth Bennet, the eldest of five sisters in "Pride and Prejudice," an adaptation of the Jane Austen classic, directed by Joe Wright; earned Oscar and Golden Globe nominations for Best Actress
  (2004) Cast as Guinevere opposite Clive Owen in "King Arthur" a demystified take on the tale of King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table.
  Cast as a French silkworm merchant's wife in the period drama "Silk" (lensed 2006)
  (1996) Cast as the princess in the television feature "Treasure Seekers"
  Cast in "Atonement," a drama based on the World War II-era novel by Ian McEwan (lensed 2006)
  (2003) Co-starred in Richard Curtis' directorial debut "Love Actually"
  (2001) Co-starred in the independent thriller "The Hole"
  (2003) Co-starred in the sleeper hit "Bend it Like Beckham"
  (2003) Joined Johnny Depp for the action summer feature "Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl"
  (1989) Obtained her first agent by the age of six
  (1994) Obtained her first role in Moira Armstong's "A Villiage Affair"
  (2005) Portrayed Domino Harvey, a model-turned-bounty hunter and daughter of actor Laurence Harvey in Tony Scott's "Domino"
  (1999) Portrayed the character Sabe who acted as a decoy to Natalie Portman's character in "Star Wars Episode 1"
  (2006) Re-teamed with Johnny Depp and Orlando Bloom in Gore Verbinski's "Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest"
  (2007) Reprised role of Elizabeth Swann in "Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End"

Jennifer Connely Biography

• Birth Name

  Jennifer Connelly

• Birth Date

  12/12/1970

• Birthplace

  New York, New York

• Credits

  15 Movies, 1 TV appearances, 7 awards
  

• Family

  Father: Gerard Connelly
  married once before

  Mother: Eileen Connelly
  

  Son: Kai Dugan
  born in July 1997; father, David Dugan

  Son: Stellan Bettany
  born August 5, 2003; named after Swedish actor Stellan Skarsgaard

• Notes

  "I don't want that leap (into comedy) with the wrong film and have people say, 'See? We told you. She's only good at playing neuroic, suicidal people. Put her back into drama, quick!'"---Connelly on wanting to pursue other types of roles, to VLife, June/July 2005.
  "I like doing things that intimidate me."---Jennifer Connelly in Vanity Fair, February 1996.
  "I wasn't a kid who wanted to be an actress. I suddenly found myself making movies, and eventually I had to stop, take acting apart, and then choose it again on my own terms."---Connelly quoted in Movieline, October 2000.
  On her childhood interest... "I had no aspirations, I had no movie posters in my room, I wasn't a movie buff. I liked Evel Knievel and animals and I kind of liked science."---Connelly US Weekly Sepetmber 2, 2002.
  

• Milestones

  (1984) Acted in first feature, "Once Upon a Time in America"; portrayed Elizabeth McGovern's character as a child
  

  (2000) Appeared as the painter's young mistress in "Pollock", Ed Harris' biopic of Jackson Pollock; screened at Venice, Toronto and New York Film Festivals
  Began modeling and doing commercials at age ten; continued working as a model until her teens
  (2006) Cast in Todd Field's "Little Children" alongside Kate Winslet
  (1991) Cast in the female lead of "The Rockateer"
  (2003) Cast opposite Eric Bana in "The Hulk", directed by Ang Lee
  (1998) Co-starred as Rufus Sewell's estranged spouse in "Dark City"
  (2001) Co-starred opposite Russell Crowe in the biopic of schizophrenic Nobel Prize winner John Forbes Nash Jr in "A Beautiful Mind"; received Best Supporting Actress Oscar
  (2006) Co-starred with Leonardo DiCaprio in Edward Zwick's "Blood Diamond"
  (2000) Had featured role in the fall drama series "The $treet" (Fox)
  (1996) Played Nick Nolte's mistress whose death is at the center of a mystery in "Mulholland Falls"
  (2000) Played a drug addicted fashion designer in "Requiem for a Dream"; premiered at Cannes (not in competition)
  (1986) Played a girl trying to rescue her baby brother from Goblin King David Bowie in "Labyrinth"
  (2003) Plays a recovering addict trying to save her home in "House of Sand a

  

  nd Fog"; an adaption of the novel written by Andre Dubus III
  (1995) Portrayed a lesbian college student in "Higher Learning"
  (1997) Portrayed one of three alluring sisters in the feature "Inventing the Abbotts"; first onscreen teaming with Billy Crudup
  Raised in Brooklyn Heights, New York
  (2000) Reteamed with Crudup in the romantic drama "Waking the Dead"; screened at Sundance
  (1986) Starred in "Seven Minutes in Heaven"
  (2005) Starred in the thriller "Dark Water," directed by Walter Salles
  (1993) TV-movie debut, "The Heart of Justice" (TNT)
  Will co-star with Philip Seymour Hoffman for a new adaptation of "Macbeth," (lensed 2005)