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GEORGE CLOONEY has gone from television actor to motion picture actor to producer, executive producer, and writer and director in both mediums.
Clooney is partnered with Steven Soderbergh in the film and television production company Section Eight. The company most recently produced Good Night, and Good Luck. Clooney co-wrote, directed and co-stars in Good Night, and Good Luck, a feature about the renowned broadcaster Edward R. Murrow’s legendary on-air confrontations with Senator Joseph McCarthy – confrontations that helped bring down the infamous politician.
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One of the most recognizable characters in modern-day R&B, Beyoncé first rose to fame as the siren-voiced centerpiece of Destiny’s Child before embarking on a multi-platinum solo career in 2001. Booming record sales, Grammy awards, movie roles, and a romance with rapper/CEO Jay-Z combined to heighten her profile in the 2000s, making the singer a virtual mainstay in the entertainment world. While some media outlets derisively championed Paris Hilton as “the next Marilyn Monroe,” Beyoncé was a much better contender for the role, her glittering pop culture persona only matched by her success onscreen and on record.
Born in Houston in September 1981, Beyoncé Giselle Knowles began performing at age seven, winning upwards of 30 local competitions for her dancing and vocal abilities. She also joined her cousin Kelly Rowland and classmates LaTavia Roberson and LeToya Luckett in forming an adolescent vocal group. Mathew Knowles, Beyoncé’s father and Rowland’s legal guardian, signed on to be the girls’ manager, eventually quitting his full-time job to focus on their efforts. This situation would ultimately lead to the creation of one of the most popular female R&B groups of all time — Destiny’s Child. (more…)
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Born: 14 May 1969
Where: Melbourne, Australia
Awards: Won 1 Oscar, 2 BAFTAs and 2 Golden Globes
Height: 5′ 8″
Actress. Born in Melbourne, Australia. Blanchett began making a name for herself in the theater world soon after graduating from Australia’s National Institute of Dramatic Art in 1992. She quickly won roles in the Sydney Theater Company’s productions of Top Girls and Kafka Dances and won the Sydney Theatre Critics Circle Newcomer Award for the latter in 1993. Blanchett also received critical acclaim for roles in theater productions of Hamlet, The Tempest, and The Seagull.
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Mariah Carey was born on March 27, 1970, in Huntington, New York, to parents Patricia and Alfred. Unfortunately, her parents divorced when she was only 3 years old. As a result of her Irish, Venezuelan and black descent, Mariah Carey encountered some racial discrimination while growing up.
Mariah Carey was raised in a poverty-stricken home, and her mother was forced to work multiple jobs to make ends meet. Conveniently enough, it was Mariah Carey’s mom who noticed her daughter’s vocal talents.
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One day, when Patricia was rehearsing her role of Maddalena in Verdi’s opera Rigoletto, she heard Mariah Carey imitating her singing. Even though she was only 3 at the time, Mariah’s mom began teaching her how to develop her vocal skills.
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One of the hottest teen idols of the mid- to late ’90s, talented dramatic actor Brad Renfro has also garnered adult fans for building an impressive filmography that includes performances opposite some of Hollywood’s most respected actors. A native of Knoxville, TN, Renfro was raised by his grandmother following his parents’ divorce. He broke into movies at age ten, when he impressed an audience member during a D.A.R.E. (a national anti-drug organization promoted by local police departments) skit (he was playing a drug dealer). This unknown person recommended Renfro to a talent scout who was holding a national open casting call for a young man to play a traumatized boy who finds himself in the midst of a deadly homicide case in Joel Schumacher’s The Client (1994).
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Cameron Diaz (full name Cameron Michelle Diaz) was born on August 30, 1972. She is an American actress and former fashion model. Cameron Diaz Height : 5′9″/175 cm.
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Cameron Diaz grew up in the typical fashion of any all-American girl. Except of course, she was an exceptional beauty. Cameron Diaz’s dad, Emilio, a Cuban American, was a foreman at a California Oil Company. Her mom, Billie, who’s German, English, and Native American, was an import-export broker.
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Serena Williams was born on September 26, 1981 in Saginaw, Michigan. She is the youngest of five sisters: Lyndrea, Isha, Yetunde, and Venus Williams. She is a professional tennis player.
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Her parents, Richard and Oracene, later relocated to Los Angeles, and the girls grew up in Compton, a rough L.A. suburb.
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Calista Kay Flockhart (born November 11, 1964 in Freeport, Illinois) is an American actress.
She is most well-known for her starring role as the temperamental lawyer in the 1997-2002 television show, Ally McBeal.
Calista Flockhart was born in Freeport, Illinois, to Kraft Food executive Ronald Flockhart, his English-teaching wife, Kay Calista and as a sibling to her older brother Gary Flockhart. Reversing her own first and second names, her mother named her Calista Kay. The name Calista means most beautiful in Greek.
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* Birth Name: Jessica Claire Biel
* Birth Place: Ely, Minnesota
* Date of Birth / Zodiac Sign: 03/03/1982, Pisces
* Profession: Actor; model
Like many young actresses who grow up in front of the cameras, Biel had to fight to transition from wholesome teen to adult screen siren. This former model hit it big with her very first TV role as a minister’s adolescent daughter on 7th Heaven, but she disliked the character’s goody-goody image. After creating a stir by posing seminude for a men’s magazine, the underage beauty started to win more mature film roles, although usually she was called on to show off more skin than acting chops. Off screen, Biel was romantically linked with two of her costars, Cellular’s Chris Evans and 7th Heaven’s Adam LaVorgna.
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GEORGE CLOONEY has gone from television actor to motion picture actor to producer, executive producer, and writer and director in both mediums.
