Amy Smart Biography

Amy Smart was born in 1976 in Topanga Canyon, California. As a young girl, she gained a reputation as a tomboy and was the only girl on her Little League baseball team.

She started to model at age thirteen and moved into acting after landing a role in the 1994 MTV Rock The Vote campaign. She broke into show business with small roles in television movies before making her feature debut in the 1997 independent film, The Last Time I Committed Suicide.

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Smart later gained a small part in the Paul Verhoeven science fiction vehicle Starship Troopers. In How to Make the Cruelest Month, Smart played a seductress who betrays her sister. The horror film Campfire Tales followed in 1998, along with the Internet stalker thriller, Dee Snider's StrangeLand, written, produced and starring the front man of Twisted Sister.

Smart reached her widest audience, however, with a starring role opposite James Van Der Beek in the 1999 sleeper teen hit, Varsity Blues. The actress played Jules Harbor, a girl who dreams of escaping the football-obsessed culture of her town yet is linked to it as the sister of the high-school quarterback and as the sweetheart of his replacement, played by Van Der Beek.

Her portrayal of the intelligent Jules drew inevitable comparisons to Katie Holmes, co-star to Van Der Beek on the popular Dawson's Creek.

a jewel in the rough

Smart would next be featured as a supporting love interest in the touching comedy, Outside Providence, starring Alec Baldwin. Those who enjoyed her performance got to see more of her, when she was cast as Ruby, Noel's girlfriend on the WB's Felicity, from the 1999 to the 2001 season.

In 2000, Amy starred in the disappointing NBC miniseries, The '70s, before her appearance in the gross-out teen flick, Road Trip. She can now be seen on the current video hit, Rat Race, with Cuba Gooding Jr. and Whoopi Goldberg, and you can catch her next in a small role in the upcoming film, Interstate 60.

In addition to her acting career, Smart is a spokesperson for an environmental group devoted to cleaning up the Santa Monica Bay.

Alyssa Milano Biography

Born in Brooklyn, New York on December 19, 1972, Alyssa Jayne Milano is the daughter of Thomas, a film music editor, and Lin, a fashion designer.

After seeing the Broadway play Annie at the age of 7, Alyssa knew she wanted to become an actress. One year later, she made her acting debut as July in the same musical and toured for 18 months. After that time, Alyssa left Annie to star in off-Broadway productions and TV commercials.

alyssa milano joins who's the boss?

Alyssa Milano made her television debut in 1984 with her role as Tony Danza's daughter on the popular sitcom Who's the Boss?, which ran for eight years. And only one year into the sitcom's run, Alyssa nabbed a small role playing Arnold Schwarzenegger's daughter in 1985's Commando.

While her role on Who's The Boss? continued to garner her millions of fans and allowed her to create a best-selling exercise video in 1988 called Teen Steam, Alyssa also starred in a bunch of forgettable TV movies, including The Canterville Ghost (1986), Crash Course (1988) and Voices That Care (1991).

In 1989, a picture of Alyssa served as the inspiration behind Disney's The Little Mermaid and was used to create the image of Ariel in the classic movie.

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The '90s were a time when Alyssa wanted to shed her little-girl image and prove that she was a sexy adult woman. She did so by starring in Casualties of Love: The Long Island Lolita Story (1993) and the sexually charged Embrace of the Vampire (1994) and Poison Ivy II (1996). It worked, as popular men's mag FHM voted her onto its 100 Sexiest Women in the World list four times.

But Alyssa didn't stop at TV and movies. In fact, she also released seven albums including Alyssa (1989), Look In My Heart (1989), Best In The World (1990), Locked In a Dream (1991), and Do You See Me? (1992) -- in Japan.

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On the big screen, one of Alyssa Milano's most important roles came in 1996 when she starred alongside Reese Witherspoon and Mark Wahlberg in the surprise hit Fear (1996). Also in 1996, she appeared in To Brave Alaska, a made-for-TV flick about a couple fighting for their lives while abandoned in Alaska.

In 1997, Milano returned to television full time as troublemaker Jennifer Mancini in the primetime Aaron Spelling soap Melrose Place. She was cast as a regular for one season and became the enemy of fellow beauty Amanda, played by Heather Locklear.

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While her role on Melrose Place was hot in 1997, Alyssa Milano attended the Sundance Film Festival, where her new movie, Hugo Pool, also starring Robert Downey Jr., Sean Penn and Patrick Dempsey, premiered. At the festival, Alyssa was given the Spirit Award for women.

In 1998, Milano began portraying a witch on the WB's Charmed, alongside fellow witches Rose McGowan and Holly Marie Combs (Shannen Doherty quit in 2001 and was replaced by McGowan). She stayed on the show for eight seasons, leaving only when the show came to an end in 2006.

In January 1999, on New Year's Day, Alyssa wed musician Cinjun Tate (lead singer for the rock group Remy Zero), but she divorced him that same year in November.

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Alyssa's major role in Charmed didn't stop her from appearing in big-screen projects. In 2003, Alyssa starred alongside David Spade in Dickie Roberts: Former Child Star, and the following year, she did voice work for Dinotopia: Curse of the Ruby Sunstone.

Alyssa also continued doing TV commercials; she was well-known as the spokesperson for 1-800-Collect and for her very provocative commercials and print ads for Candie's perfume.

In addition, Alyssa got seriously involved in humanitarian work; in fact, she is a National Ambassador for UNICEF and she works with PETA.

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In 2007, Alyssa appears alongside Rachel Miner in the big-screen drama The Blue Hour. She also stars in Pathology.

In November of 2007 Alyssa Milano also began appearing regularly on the hit TV show My Name Is Earl.

Ali Larter Biography

Alison Gertrude Larter was born February 28, 1976, in Cherry Hill, New Jersey. She and her sister Kristen both enjoyed a stable upbringing, and there was little to distinguish the young Ali from other children her age, beyond her remarkable beauty.

budding beauty

By age 13, Ali embarked on what would evolve into a fairly successful modeling career under the tutelage of the world-renowned Ford Modeling Agency. It was thus that a portion of Ali's teenage years came to be spent in various locales, being whisked from one photo shoot to another. At 17, Ali's profession brought her to Japan, where she settled temporarily.

Ali's homecoming to New Jersey proved a transient one, and at 19 she was on the road again, accompanying a boyfriend in his move to Los Angeles. While the boyfriend wouldn't last long, Ali's new home would, and, after taking a brief sojourn in Australia (to put some time and space between her and her ex), she set up camp on the West Coast. On the advice of a friend, Ali began taking acting classes, and was soon appearing in stage productions of Fine Line and Key Exchange.

life imitates art

While building a background in stage work certainly may have helped Ali toward breaking into film, luck had a hand in launching her into the entertainment spotlight in a rather unlikely fashion. In November of 1996, Esquire magazine published a satirical stab at the Hollywood publicity machine in the form of a hoax profile of an "Allegra Coleman," touted in the feature as "Hollywood's Next Dream Girl." Ali was chosen as the model to portray this fictional persona and immediately following the magazine's release, Esquire's offices were flooded with calls from agencies seeking to represent the purported hot "new star."

Even after the hoax had been revealed, its effects seemed to linger, and in a final ironic twist, Ali found that she was still the object of agencies' wooing. With her career having been accelerated through widespread exposure, Ali left the stage behind her and began auditioning for film and television.

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Ali's first professional role was in a 1997 guest spot on the television series, Chicago Sons, which was followed by a number of other brief appearances on Dawson's Creek, Chicago Hope and Just Shoot Me. Her first feature film role came in the 1999 independent comedy Casanova Falling, a movie which, although critically well-received and the recipient of that year's Palm Springs Film Festival Award for Best Romantic Comedy, failed to capture a wide audience.

Ali's next project alongside James Van Der Beek (whom she had worked with on the set of Dawson's Creek) in Varsity Blues proved much more fruitful. In addition to the film's success at the box office, Ali's appearance in it, at one point wearing nothing more than a few mounds of whipped cream, earned her an instant fan base. Her "Allegra Coleman" alias had provided Ali with passage into the entertainment industry, but it was her role in Varsity Blues that secured her a place in it.

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Ali's next two roles, as a co-star to Melissa Joan Hart in Drive Me Crazy and in the horror remake House on Haunted Hill, solidified her standing as one of Hollywood's hot young faces. Her following part, in the teenie thriller Final Destination, established her as one of the more talented among them. The movie turned out to be the sleeper hit of 2000, and Ali's performance in it as the pensive loner Clear Rivers was the object of much critical acclaim, in addition to winning her a Young Hollywood Award for Best Breakthrough Performance by a Female.

She went on to make three more films in 2001, as Jesse James' wife in the ill-fated American Outlaws, a fitness guru on trial for murder in Legally Blonde, a lesbian jewel thief in Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back. In 2003 she starred in Final Destination 2. A Lot Like Love came out two years later.

Ali has made it clear in interviews that she has no interest in returning to television work and, given the progression of her career thus far, it would seem that she has no need to. But in 2006 she was offered a role on the new NBC drama Heroes where she plays a former internet stripper from Las Vegas who exhibits superhuman strength. We think they should try and integrate a whipped cream scene on that show as well.

Amelia Vega Biography

Amelia Vega Polanco (born November 7, 1984), known simply as Amelia Vega, is a Dominican woman who won the Miss Universe contest held in Panama City, Panama on June 3, 2003, becoming the first Dominican woman ever to win the Miss Universe title. She had been mentioned by various media outlets as one of the favorite candidates to win the crown before the contest took place. Vega proved herself to be one of the contest's loudest candidates, when she went and screamed in front of a camera during a filming of a contest practice. Several press agencies and websites covering the pageant, particularly GlobalBeauties.com, reported that Amelia was not very well-liked and that her attitude was quite controversial, and her victory was met with apparent indifference among the other delegates who seemed to favor eventual 1st runner-up Mariángel Ruiz of Venezuela over her. Despite backstage controversy, her victory was a clear-cut one and she has since become one of the most marketed faces to come out of the Miss Universe pageant.

Amelia Vega Trivia

• Lived in New York City for a while. Her father still resides there where he works as a doctor.
• Niece of singer Juan Luis Guerra
• Her mother, Patricia Polanco, was a former beauty pageant contestant for the Dominican Republic in the 1980 Miss World pageant.
• Speaks Spanish and English

Jennie Garth Biography

• Birth Name

  Jennie Garth

• Birth Date

  04/03/1972

• Birthplace

  Champaign, Illinois

• Credits

  2 Movies, 12 TV appearances, 0 awards
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• Family

  Daughter: Fiona Eve Facinelli
  born September 30, 2006; father, Peter Facinelli

  Daughter: Lola Ray Facinelli
  born December 6, 2002; father, Peter Facinelli

  Daughter: Luca Bella Facinelli
  born June 29, 1997; father, Peter Facinelli

  Father: John Garth
  

  Half-Brother: Chuck
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  Half-Brother: John
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  Half-Sister: Cammie
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  Half-Sister: Lisa
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  Half-Sister: Lynn
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  Half-Sister: Wendy
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• Notes

  "I wouldn't be caught dead in Beverly Hills! I love the [San Fernando] Valley. It's so normal." --Jennie Garth to INSTYLE, January 2000
  "She can sashay across the set with all the sophistication of an older woman, but when you sit down and talk with her, she's got this youthful exuberance" --"Beverly Hills, 90210" co-star Ian Ziering on Garth, quoted in PEOPLE, May 11, 1992
  After buying a new home for herself in Sherman Oaks, California, Garth supplied her parents with the down payment for their new home.
  Raised on an Midwestern horse ranch far from the Beverly Hills lifestyle, Jennie Garth explains her inspiration for Kelly Taylor, her character on "Beverly Hills, 90210": I went to school with snotty people. I knew people with that attitude, I had fun with it. It's fun for me to crawl into somebody else's shoes and act that way, fabricate it. I made it up as I went." --quoted in a TV GUIDE cover story, December 12-18, 1992
  There is an official website at www.jenniegarth.com
  

• Milestones

  (1991) After showing signs of stress, collapsed on the set of "Beverly Hills, 90210" in mid-June; quickly released from hospital
  Began working as a model
  (1989-1990) Cast in the short-lived NBC sitcom "A Brand New Life"
  (1998) Co-starred with James Brolin in "My Brother's War"
  (1994) Developed and produced the TV-movie "Without Consent" (NBC)
  Discovered by a talent scout at age 15 in the Cinderella Scholarship Pageant
  Grew up on a horse ranch outside of Urbana, Illinois
  (1989) Guest starred on an episode of the popular ABC sitcom "Growing Pains"
  (1992) Guested on episodes of the "90210" spinoff "Melrose Place" (Fox)
  (1990-2000) Had breakthrough TV role as Kelly Taylor on Fox's "Beverly Hills, 90210"
  (2007) Joined the fifth season of ABC's "Dancing with the Stars"
  (1999) Made TV directorial debut with episode of "Beverly Hills, 90210"
  (1998) Made cameo appearance in "Telling You"
  (1996) Met future husband, Peter Facinelli while filming the TV-movie "An Unfinished Affair"
  Moved to L.A. with her mother after leaving high school in her junior year
  (1985) Moved with family to Phoenix, Arizona when she was 13 (date approximate)
  (2007) Played the lead in the Lifetime movie, "Girl, Positive"
  (1992) Released the workout video "Jennie Garth's Body in Progress"
  (2000) Returned to series TV in recurring role on "The $treet" (Fox)
  (1993) Starred in the NBC TV-movie "Danielle Steel's 'Star'"
  (2002-2006) Starred in the WB sitcom "What I Like About You"