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

Monday, November 8, 2010

Francia Raisa Almendárez

Francia Raisa Almendárez (born July 26, 1988), is an American actress. She is sometimes credited as Francia Almendárez. Raisa is most notable for her character in Bring It On: All or Nothing, where she plays a tough Latina cheerleader named Leti, The Secret Life of the American Teenager as Adrian Lee and on The Cutting Edge 3: Chasing the Dream.


Raisa was born and raised in Southern California. Her mother, Virginia Almendárez, was born in Mexico, and her father, Maximo Renán Almendárez Coello el Negron, was born in Honduras, he worked to give Raisa and her two sisters, Italia and Irlanda, a wholesome life in the high-paced Los Angeles. A few years after Raisa was born her father came up with the Latin radio character "El Cucuy". She attended Bishop Alemany High School for a while. At the early age of five, Raisa began taking dance lessons excelling in tap, jazz, acrobatics, hip hop, and polynesian dance. She also explored karate and ice skating.

Monday, November 1, 2010

About Lindsay Lohan

Lindsay Lohan (born July 2, 1986) is an American actress, pop singer and model. She began her career as a child fashion model before making her motion picture debut in the Disney's 1998 remake of The Parent Trap at the age of 11. Lohan gained further fame between 2003 and 2005 with the leading roles in the film's Freaky Friday, Mean Girls and Herbie: Fully Loaded, subsequently appearing in independent films including Robert Altman's A Prairie Home Companion and Emilio Estevez's Bobby.

Her career was interrupted in the 2007 as two driving under the influence (DUI) incidents and three visits to drug the rehabilitation facilities led to several lost movie deals. Resuming her career, she guest starred in the TV series Ugly Betty in the 2008, starred in the 2009 comedy Labor Pains, and appeared in Robert Rodriguez's Machete in 2010. Lohan launched a second career in pop music in 2004 with the album Speak and followed up with A Little More Personal (Raw) in 2005. She has attracted significant publicity, particularly surrounding her personal life.

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Early life and education

Lohan was born on July 2, 1986, in the New York City and grew up in Merrick and Cold Spring Harbor on Long Island, New York. She is the eldest child of Donata "Dina" (née Sullivan) and Michael Lohan. Lindsay has three younger siblings, all of whom have been models or actors: Michael Jr. (who appeared with Lindsay in The Parent Trap), Aliana ("Ali"), and Dakota ("Cody"), the youngest Lohan child. Lohan is of Irish and Italian heritage and was raised as a Catholic. Her maternal family were "well known Irish Catholic stalwarts" and her great-grandfather, John L. Sullivan, was a co-founder of the Pro-life Party in the Long Island. Lohan attended Cold Spring Harbor High School, where she did well in science and mathematics until grade 11 when she started homeschooling.

Lohan's parents have a turbulent history. They married in the 1985, separated when she was three, and later reunited. They separated again in 2005 and finalized their divorce in the 2007. Her father, Michael, is a former Wall Street trader and businessman who inherited his father's pasta business and has been in trouble with the law on several occasions, while her mother, Dina, is a former singer and dancer.

Tuesday, October 26, 2010

Kirsten Caroline Dunst

Kirsten Caroline Dunst (born April 30, 1982) is an American actress, model, and singer. She ready her film debut in Oedipus Wrecks, a short film directed by Woody Allen for the anthology New York Stories (1989). At the age of 12, Dunst gained widespread credit playing the role of vampire Claudia in Interview with the Vampire (1994), a performance for which she was selected for a Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress.
 

Dunst achieved international celebrity as a result of her portrayal of Mary Jane Watson in the Spider-Man trilogy (2002–07). Since then her films have included the romantic comedy Wimbledon (2004), the romantic sci-fi Eternal Sunshine of the clean Mind (2004) and Cameron Crowe's tragicomedy Elizabethtown (2005). She played the title role in Sofia Coppola's Marie Antoinette (2006).In 2001, Dunst made her singing debut in the film Get Over It, in which she performed two songs. She also sang the tap song "After You've Gone" for the end credits of the film The Cat's Meow (2001). In early 2008, Dunst confirmed she was suffering from depression, checking into a treatment center before discharging herself in March and resuming her career.

Thursday, October 21, 2010

Kristen Stewart

Kristen Jaymes Stewart (born April 9, 1990) is an American actress. She is best known for playing Bella strut in The Twilight Saga. She has also starred in films such as Panic Room (2002), Zathura (2005), In the Land of Women (2007), The Messengers (2007), Adventureland (2009) and The Runaways (2010).Kristen Stewart was born and raised in Los Angeles. Her father, John Stewart, is a stage manager and television producer who has worked for Fox. 

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Her mother, Jules Mann-Stewart, is a script manager originally from Maroochydore, Queensland, Australia. She has an older brother, Cameron Stewart. Stewart attended school until the seventh grade, and then continued her education by correspondence. She has while completed high school. Her whole family all worked behind the camera, and Stewart thought she would become a writer/director, but never considered being an actor. "I never wanted to be the center of attention — I wasn't that 'I want to be famous, I want to be an actor' kid. I never sought out acting, but I always practiced my autograph because I love pens.

Friday, October 15, 2010

Alyson Lee Hannigan

Alyson Lee Hannigan (born March 24, 1974) is an American actress. She is best known for her roles as Willow Rosenberg on the television sequence Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Michelle Flaherty in three American Pie films and Lily Aldrin on the CBS sitcom How I Met Your Mother.

Hannigan was born in Washington, D.C., the daughter of Emilie Posner, a real estate manager, and Al Hannigan, a truck driver, Hannigan is of Irish descent on her father's side and Jewish on her mother's Her parents divorced a year after her birth and she was raised mostly by her mother in AtlantaHannigan has dated Ginger Fish of Marilyn Manson. She married actor Alexis Denisof (who played Wesley Wyndam-Pryce in the Buffy/Angel franchise) at Two Bunch Palms Resort in Desert Hot Springs, California on October 11, 2003. They bought a house together in Santa Monica, California. Their daughter, Satyana Marie Denisof, was born six years later at home on Hannigan's 35th birthday, on March 24, 2009.

Tuesday, October 12, 2010

Mena Alexandra Suvari

Mena Alexandra Suvari (born February 13, 1979) is an American actress, fashion designer, and model. She best known for her role as Angela Hayes in American Beauty (1999), as well as the comedies American Pie (1999), Loser (2000), and Sugar & Spice (2001). She has also appeared in the HBO's drama series Six Feet Under.
 
Suvari made appearances in television shows such as Boy Meets World and ER at the age of fifteen and sixteen respectively. In 1999, she starred in the Oscar-winning American Beauty and the popular teen comedy American Pie. Suvari was nominated for a BAFTA for Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role, for her role in American Beauty, and a Blockbuster Entertainment Award for "Favorite Actress - Newcomer" in 2000 for American Pie. She followed these movies with roles in Loser (2000), The Musketeer (2001), and Spun (2002). Suvari also starred in the music video for the Wheatus song "Teenage Dirtbag" in 2001, with her Loser co-star Jason Biggs.

Hilary Erhard Duff


Hilary Erhard Duff (born September 28, 1987) is an American actress and singer. After working in local theater plays and television commercials in her babyhood, Duff gained celebrity for playing the title role in the Disney Channel television series Lizzie McGuire. Duff subsequently ventured into feature films, with many successful movies to her credit including The Lizzie McGuire Movie, Cheaper by the Dozen, A Cinderella Story and Cheaper by the Dozen 2. She has most recently appeared in According to Greta and Stay Cool. As of October 2010, her upcoming films include, Bloodworth and The Story of Bonnie and Clyde.
Duff has since expanded her repertoire into pop music with the release of three RIAA-certified platinum albums and over thirteen million records sell worldwide as of February 2007. Her first studio album, Metamorphosis, was certified triple platinum and supplemented it with two more platinum albums, Hilary Duff and Most Wanted. Duff released her third studio album, Dignity, which was certified gold in August 2007 and released two singles, "With Love", her highest charting US single to date and "Stranger". In November 2008, she released a compilation of her greatest hit, Best of Hilary Duff, whose single "Reach Out" became her third #1 on the Billboard Hot Dance Club Play.

Monday, October 11, 2010

Laura Jeanne Reese Witherspoon

Laura Jeanne Reese Witherspoon (born March 22, 1976), better known as Reese Witherspoon, is an American actress and film producer. Witherspoon landed her first feature role as the female lead in the movie The Man in the Moon in 1991; later that year she made her television acting debut, in the cable movie Wildflower. In 1996, Witherspoon appeared in Freeway and followed that appearance with roles in three major 1998 movies:
2001 marked her career's turning point with the breakout role as "Elle Woods" in the box office hit Legally Blonde, and in 2002 she starred in Sweet Home Alabama, which became her biggest commercial film success to date. 2003 saw her return as lead actress and executive producer of Legally Blonde 2.
 
Witherspoon married actor and Cruel Intentions co-star Ryan Phillippe in 1999; they have two children, Ava and Deacon. The couple separated at the end of 2006 and divorced in October 2007. Witherspoon owns a production company, Type A Films, and she is actively involved in children's and women's advocacy organizations. She serves on the board of the Children's Defense Fund (CDF), and was named Global Ambassador of Avon Products in 2007, serving as honorary chair of the charitable Avon Foundation.

Monday, September 20, 2010

Marilyn Monroe

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Marilyn Monroe born Norma Jeane Mortenson, but baptized Norma Jeane Baker, is a American actress, singer and model. After spend much of her childhood in foster's homes, Monroe began a career as a model, which led to a film contract in 1946. Her early film appearances were minor, but her performances in The tarmac Jungle and All About Eve have serious acclaimed. In a few years, Monroe reached stardom and was cast as the foremost lady in such films as Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, How to Marry a Millionaire, The Seven Year Itch, and Some Like Hot. The typecasting of Monroe's "dumb blonde" persona controled her career forecast, so she broadened her range. She studied at the Actors Studio and shaped Marilyn Monroe Productions. Her dramatic presentation in Bus Stop was hail by critics, and she won a Golden Globe Award for Some Like it Hot.

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