Claudia Schiffer Biography

Claudia Schiffer was born in Rheinberg, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, which is a small town just outside Düsseldorf. She was born to Gudrun Schiffer and her lawyer father Heinz Schiffer. She has two brothers, Stefan and Andreas, and one sister called Ann Carolin.

During her school life, Schiffer commented that she was quite popular but felt socially overshadowed by the other girls in her year, who all acted like stars and were very dominant. She has revealed that because she was so tall, she became very shy and did not want to be noticed. She was also subjected to jealousy by others as she came from a wealthy family that were well-known locally in the area. Schiffer became fluent in French and English as well as in her home language of German.

Schiffer originally wanted to become a lawyer and work in her father's law firm. She later dropped these aspirations when she was spotted in a nightclub in Düsseldorf by Michel Levaton in October 1987 at seventeen, the boss of Metropolitan Model Agency who signed her up to become a model.

After she was spotted as a potential model in a disco at the age of just seventeen, she completed her education by her mother's wishes and then began to work as a model. She flew out to Paris for a trial photo shoot and soon after she appeared in the cover of French ELLE after being well received in Paris. After several other magazine appearances she quickly achieved supermodel status when she was selected by Karl Lagerfeld to become the new face of Chanel. Schiffer continued to become a world-famous supermodel, becoming instantly recognizable with her blue eyes, blond hair and tall figure.

Schiffer has also been the face of Mango, a chain of Spanish clothes stores and Accessorize, where she had her ears pierced especially for her Autumn/Winter 2006 Accessorize advertising campaign in 2006. Schiffer still holds a contract with L'Oreal and Ebel watches, and her billboard picture for Kenar has also hung over millions of tourists at Time Square. Since 1990, she has created a swimsuit calendar each year which she stars in and designs herself.

Her career continued to develop when she secured contracts with Pepsi appearing in advertisements promoting the brand, and has also danced with a cartoon version of Mickey Mouse in advertisements promoting Fanta for an estimated $2 million. She appeared nude in a 1998 Citroën advertisement, securing her a reputed £3 million. However from behind the car only her feet and shoulders upward could be seen and she did not know how to drive at the time. Karl Lagerfeld recently filmed her for a Dom Perignon campaign, some ten years after her first appearances in Chanel adverts.

Schiffer has appeared in a number of films and music videos. Her first appearance in film was in the children's movie Richie Rich in 1994 and then starred opposite Dennis Hopper and Matthew Modine in Blackout. She went on to appear in Friends & Lovers and Black and White in 1999, In Pursuit and Life Without Dick in 2001, and then Love Actually in a semi-cameo role. Schiffer has made several other cameo appearances in film which include, Ben Stiller's Zoolander in 2001. However, she never became as successful as an actress as she did by modelling.

As well as many film appearances, Schiffer has appeared on several chat and television shows such as Larry King Live, The Tonight Show, The Late Show with David Letterman, Late Night with Conan O'Brien, Dharma & Greg and Arrested Development. She was also in boyband Westlife's music video of Billy Joel's "Uptown Girl," as the iconic uptown girl and had a cameo in Bon Jovi's video "Thank You for Loving Me".

During her modelling career, she has also released four exercise videos, entitled Claudia Schiffer's Perfectly Fit, which were successful and reached the bestsellers list. Schiffer has hosted the French Fashion Awards and the World Music Awards in Monaco.

With fellow supermodels Christy Turlington, Naomi Campbell, and Elle Macpherson, Schiffer was joint owner of a chain of fashionable restaurants called the Fashion Café in 1995. Schiffer remains a prominent figure in German society and helped present and carry the trophy with Pele during opening ceremonies at the 2006 World Cup. She also presented Prince William with a polo trophy in 2002.

Schiffer was engaged to the magician David Copperfield for about six years until 1999. They first met at one of Copperfield's stage shows, where he invited her on stage to take part in his 'Flying' illusion, and he then subsequently sawed her in half during a joint appearance on German television. Following the end of her engagement to Copperfield, she met and had a relationship with Tim Jefferies.

Schiffer has had two significant problems with harassment in the past. In 2002, an Italian kitchen porter, known as Agostino Pomata, was arrested after making nine visits to Schiffer's £5 million Suffolk mansion near Bury St Edmunds, attempting to see her. Charges against Agostino Pomata were dropped however, as he was sectioned under the Mental Health Act. He had believed that the Pope had told him to marry Schiffer. Then later in 2004, Louis Brisette a Canadian man, was accused of harassing Schiffer, again at her mansion in Suffolk. He reportedly called at her mansion three times in total in the hope of seeing Schiffer. He also repeatedly left letters at her home.

Courtney Cox Biography

Born June 15, 1964
Height 5' 5"
born Courteney Bass Cox on June 15, 1964, Birmingham, Alabama, United States

Courteney Bass Cox Arquette is an American actress & former fashion model, known for her role as Monica Geller in the long-running television series Friends. She now plays Lucy Spiller on the popular drama Dirt, on FX Networks, an executive editor of two tabloid magazines.
Cox was born in Birmingham, Alabama to an affluent Southern family: her late father, Richard L. Cox, was a businessman & her mother, also named Courteney (née Bass), was a housewife. Cox has two older sisters (Dottie Pickett & Virginia Cox), one older brother (Richard, Jr.) & nine half-brothers & half-sisters. Her parents divorced in 1974, & her father eventually wound up in Panama City, Florida where he would open a company called Cox Pools, while Cox grew up with her mother & her stepfather, New York businessman Hunter Copeland.

Cox was raised in an exclusive society town, Mountain Brook, Alabama. She attended Mountain Brook High School, where she was a cheerleader, tennis player & swimmer. Upon graduation, Cox went to study architecture & interior design at Mount Vernon College for Women. She dropped out after one year to pursue a modeling career, after being signed by the Ford modeling agency in New York City. While modeling, she also took acting classes, & acquired a Northern accent.

Cox first came to prominence in the 1984 music video for Bruce Springsteen's "Dancing in the Dark" (in which she was the pulled-on-stage-girl who danced onstage with Springsteen). Cox is also notable for being the first person to use the word "period" on U.S. television in its physiological sense, in a 1985 advertising campaign for Tampax brand tampons. Her early film roles include Masters of the Universe (1987) & Cocoon: The Return (1988). Cox's early television work include a starring role in the short-lived television series Misfits of Science (1985), & later a recurring role (1987 - 1989) on the television series Family Ties as the last girlfriend of Alex P. Keaton (Michael J. Fox). Cox also appeared as Meryl, Jerry's girlfriend/pretend wife on the hit TV sitcom Seinfeld in 1994.

After appearing in the Jim Carrey comedy Ace Ventura: Pet Detective (1994), Cox found fame playing Monica Geller on the hit TV series Friends (1994-2004). This was the role for which she would become most famous. The six principal cast members, including Cox, became household names due to the mass popularity & success of the show. However, she was the only principal member of the show's cast not to be nominated for an Emmy Award.

During her time on Friends, Cox appeared in the highly successful & high-profile Hollywood films Scream (1996), Scream 2 (1997), & Scream 3 (2000). It is whilst filming the first of this trilogy that she would meet her husband David Arquette. Although she starred in several other films during her time on Friends none achieved the same level of success as the show. Such films include The Runner, 3000 Miles to Graceland & The Shrink is In. In late 2003, Cox produced the television series Mix It Up. The lifestyle show received low ratings & was not renewed for a second season.

After her Friends role, producer Marc Cherry was Cox's first choice to offer her a starring role as Susan Mayer on Desperate Housewives. But due to the actress's pregnancy, she was unavailable for the part, therefore, giving the role to Teri Hatcher. A couple of years later, Cox signed a deal for Touchstone Television, to star in her own series.

Since Friends, Cox has primarily concentrated on her family but has starred in the independent film November (2005), which had only a limited theatrical release, co-starred with Tim Allen in the critically derided Zoom & cameoed in the big budget remake of The Longest Yard, as the girlfriend of Adam Sandler. She has recently supplied her voice for the animated film Barnyard.

As of 2007, Cox plays Lucy Spiller, a tabloid editor, in Dirt, a television drama for the FX Networks. Cox & her husband, David Arquette, are the executive producers of the series.

Cox's previous relationships include the late Ian Copeland & a long term relationship with actor Michael Keaton. Cox also dated Counting Crows singer Adam Duritz, & appeared in their music video for song A Long December in 1997. Duritz has also dated Cox's "Friends" co-star, Jennifer Aniston.

She met actor David Arquette on the set of Scream; the couple married on June 12, 1999 in an Episcopalian ceremony held at the Grace Cathedral in San Francisco, CA. Both Arquette & Cox had the sentence A deal's a deal inscribed on their wedding rings.While Cox has occasionally used her full married name, "Courteney Cox Arquette", professionally, she continues to be generally known simply as "Courteney Cox."

On June 13, 2004, she gave birth to their first child, daughter Coco Riley Arquette. The child was originally to be named after her mother as Courteney Cox Arquette (naming the eldest daughter after her mother is a common tradition in upper-class Southern families), however her husband's family objected to this on the grounds that naming a child after a living relative goes against Jewish tradition. Coco is a nickname Cox's friends gave her mother when she was a child. Cox's "Friends" co-star, Jennifer Aniston, is the baby's godmother & close friend of Courteney's.

Filmography Down Twisted (1987) Masters of the Universe (1987) Cocoon: The Return (1988) Mr. Destiny (1990) Blue Desert (1991) Shaking the Tree (1992)
Ace Ventura: Pet Detective (1994) Scream (1996) Commandments (1997) Scream 2 (1997) The Runner (1999) Scream 3 (2000) 3000 Miles to Graceland (2001) The Shrink Is In (2001) Get Well Soon (2001) Alien Love Triangle (2002) November (2004) The Longest Yard (2005) Barnyard (2006) (voice)
Zoom (2006) Upcoming: The Tripper (2007)

Television work
As the World Turns (cast member in 1984) Code Name: Foxfire (1985) Misfits of Science (1985-1986) Murder, She Wrote (guest star: "Death Stalks the Big Top" Parts 1&2 (1986)) Sylvan in Paradise (1986) If It's Tuesday, It Still Must Be Belgium (1987) Family Ties (cast member from 1987-1989)
Seinfeld (guest star on March 17, 1994) Friends (cast member from 1994-2004) Dirt (2007-present)

Claire Forlani Biography

Claire Forlani was born on July 1, 1972 in London, England to a British mother and an Italian father who made his living managing a music producer. At age 11, Claire enrolled in London's Arts Educational School, where she studied dance and drama for the next six years. Her early theater credits include The Nutcracker Ballet at the Covent Garden and Orpheus in the Underworld at the Coliseum. In 1991, Claire ventured into the realm of UK television. She made two appearances on the series Press Gang (playing the part of Judy Wellman) and appeared on the program Shrinks. In 1992, Claire spent 11 weeks in war-torn Zagreb, Croatia, to appear in her first feature film Gypsy Eyes (released on video in the United States as C.I.A. Trackdown).

Claire and her parents relocated to San Francisco in 1993. Months later, she made her American debut in the ABC mini-series JFK: Reckless Youth, in the minor role of Ann Cannon, a tempting young lass who shares a sensuous dance with a young JFK. Claire next appeared in the 1994 sequel Police Academy 7: Mission to Moscow. Later that year, she played a small role in the 30-minute Showtime feature The Gift, which featured the likes of Isabella Rosellini and Mary Steenburgen and marked the directorial debut of Laura Dern. In 1995, Claire landed a role in Mallrats, the eagerly anticipated sophomore effort from Clerks writer-director Kevin Smith Though Smith had auditioned over 600 hopefuls before he saw Claire, he was immediately taken with her spot-on impersonation of a callow American youth, and promptly offered her a role; only after they'd sealed the deal did he learn that Claire whose mannerisms and delivery had so impressed him was British. Mallrats gave Claire the exposure to help her land rolls in The Rock and Basquiat, in which she was touchingly effective as the sweet-natured waitress who wins the heart of artist Jean-Michel Basquiat. Also in 1996, she made her debut starring role in the independent short film Garage Sale, in which she played an earthy sort who strikes back at her faithless, fashion-model boyfriend by selling his wardrobe to pay her rent.

Claire made just one film in 1997 (due to the passing of her mother), the decidedly downbeat, semi-autobiographical The Last Time I Committed Suicide. Her performance as the deeply disturbed girlfriend of beat poet Neal Cassady won her further critical praise. Given the insurance of a strong critical reputation, she showed no hesitation in walking off the set of the undersea thriller Deep Rising following a creative dispute with director Stephen Sommers. That movie failed at the box office in early 1998, and Claire ended up on the cover of Vanity Fair -- as one of a dozen rising stars. Months later, she incited the envy of women everywhere when Meet Joe Black arrived in theaters. She also appeared in Basil, which was screened at a few festivals before airing on the Romance Classics cable channel and released on video shortly thereafter.

In 1999, Claire appeared in the summer action flick Mystery Men, with the likes of Hank Azaria Janeane Garofalo, Paul Reubens, Ben Stiller, and William H. Macy. Claire will be featured in a romantic drama Elements, with Rob Morrow She has finished her work in the indie comedy film Magicians, with Alan Arkin She is currently filming her next role in Boys And Girls, which co-stars Freddie Prinze, Jr., Jason Biggs, Alyson Hannigan and Heather Donahue. She will also star in the low-budget vampire picture Johnny Domino. Claire is currently single, though she has been in a relationship with John Cusack.

Coco Lee Biography

CoCo Lee, n¨¦e Ferren Lee, was born in Hong Kong on the 17th of January 1975. Although she was born in Hong Kong, CoCo was raised in San Francisco where she grew up with her mother, stepfather and two older sisters (her father passed away when she was young). She shared her singing talent with her two older sisters and her mother, who was a doctor. Although the mother of the Lee sisters wanted her daughters to pursue more practical careers, the youngest CoCo knew at a young age that she would become a singer.

During her free time, CoCo would practice her singing abilities by singing material from her favorite pop artists, such as Madonna, Whitney Houston, George Michael and Debbie Gibson.

Despite their mother's former disapproval, the elder Lee sisters put their musical talent to the test by entering local singing competitions, which proved to be successful. Being the youngest sibling, Lee followed in her sisters' footsteps and entered singing competitions as well, since she looked up to them. Her winning performances at the local singing contests are what eventually paved the way to her musical career.

Her success at singing competitions was not the only thing that fueled her desire to pursue a singing career: She performed for her class in junior high and received a standing ovation, and sang at a local karaoke place at Fisherman's Wharf. Her karaoke singing was what really proved to Lee how well she can sing, after her friend started playing the tape of Lee's karaoke performances in the restaurant she worked at and people wanted to buy the tape.

After CoCo graduated from high school, she went on a vacation to Hong Kong and enterred an annual singing contest, which is where most of the country's stars got their breaks in the industry. CoCo entered the contest just for fun but ended up winning second place with her version of "Run To You" by Whitney Houston.

The next day, a local record company approached CoCo, asking her to sign with their label. Not only was she the only performer to sing in English at the competition, but the record company noticed that her voice stood out compared to the rest of the Asian contestants.

In 1995, CoCo released her album entitled Brave Enough To Love English as well as Woman In Love, an album in Mandarin. She was also named one of Taiwan's best artists. One year later, CoCo signed a contract with Sony Music Taiwan. Her CoCo Lee (Former Day's Love) Mandarin album was also released in 1996, as was her English album CoCo's Party. The Channel (V) Chinese Top 20 and the Golden Dragon Chart Awards in Taiwan both awarded CoCo's hit single "Former Love".

In 1997, CoCo released her third Mandarin album entitled Each Time I Think Of You as well as a Cantonese album called Be Careful Next Time. She was again awarded Best Female Artist by the Best 10 Artists Awards.

1998 was an even bigger year for her. Her Mandarin albums DiDaDi and SunnyDay: Feeling Good were released. It was also the year CoCo's DiDaDi won the MTV Asia Music Award for Best Album and Best Music Video.

In August of the same year, she performed in Taiwan to a concert audience of more than 30,000 fans, the second largest concert audience in Taiwan (a feat that only Michael Jackson has claimed in the past). CoCo was the voice behind Mulan, the title role of the Mandarin version of Disney animated feature, co-starring Jackie Chan. She also sang the Mandarin theme song of the film.

After having enjoyed huge success in Asia, CoCo's newest album release is the English album Just No Other Way, under the record label 550 Music. Released this year, the album has already spawned hits such as "Do You Want My Love" and "Can't Get Over You" and features R&B sensation Kelly Price. With the combination of CoCo's unique voice and R&B tinged music, it's clear that her Asian and American fans will not be getting over the former Miss Chinese America any time soon.

Birthday : 17, Jan 1976 ( Saturday )

Zodiac Sign : Capricorn

Blood Type : O

Height : 162cm

Weight : 47kg

Measurement : B35" : W22.5" H:35"