Jessica Biel

Jessica Biel

Jessica Claire Biel (born March 3, 1982 in Ely, Minnesota), is an American actress, best known as Mary Camden on the television drama 7th Heaven from 1996 to 2002.

 

Biography

Jessica was born in Minnesota to Jonathon Edward Biel and Kimberly Conroe; the family is of German, French, English and Choctaw Native American descent. Biel was raised in Boulder, Colorado, where her family had moved to when she was very young. She initially trained to become a vocalist with the hope of performing in musical theater and appeared in several musicals at an early age including The Sound of Music, Annie, Beauty and the Beast, and Anything Goes.

 

Early Life

It wasn’t until she attended the International Modeling & Talent Association Convention in Los Angeles in 1994 when her career started to take off as a teen print model. However, her big break came when at 14 years old when she landed the role of Mary Camden on the WB TV Series 7th Heaven. The family drama from Aaron Spelling and Brenda Hampton became the most popular (and remains the longest running) series on the fledgling network. Jessica’s film career also began at age 14 when she played alongside Peter Fonda in his Golden Globe winning performance in Ulee’s Gold (1997).

 

Acting appearances

After her departure from 7th Heaven she accepted projects mainly geared to teens and young adults including Summer Catch (2001), The Rules of Attraction (2002) and Texas Chainsaw Massacre (2003). The movies were met with mild reaction from the box office and panned by many critics. It was believed that Jessica’s career may have suffered damage from mistakes in her youth including posing for Gear magazine and her ranting against 7th Heaven creator Brenda Hampton. Nevertheless, she is currently a sought after young Hollywood actress which is apparent by her roles in Blade: Trinity (2004) and Stealth 2005.

 

Commericals

Aside from acting, Jessica became a spokesmodel for L’Oreal cosmetics in 2002.

 

Career

In 2000, Jessica enrolled in undergraduate study at Tufts University in Medford, Massachusetts. She left before completing a degree program in order to pursue her acting career. Jessica returned to 7th Heaven full time for the 2001-2002 season and then focused the attention on her movie career and has made minimal TV appearances since then.

 

Personal life

Her hobbies include ballet, soccer, running, yoga and hiking. Jessica currently resides in Los Angeles.

 

Controversy

In 2000, Jessica posed topless in a layout of Gear magazine. It was controversial because she was only 17 at the time of the shoot. Her frustration and fear about being typecast was one of the reasons that led to her decision. She blamed her saintly image on 7th Heaven for limiting her film career, including losing a lead role in American Beauty which eventually went to Thora Birch. Jessica also hoped that by posing she would get out of her 7th Heaven contract, which she accomplished. She later said she regretted posing for the magazine and regards it as a learning experience.

 

Trivia

Has one younger brother, Justin.
Is a vegan and active in PETA.

Awards

1998: Young Artist Award – Best Performance in a Feature Film – Supporting Young Actress in Ulee’s Gold

Other

Esquire magazine named her the "Sexiest Woman Alive" in a six-part series with each month, revealing a different body part and clue of the woman. The clue most obvious to her identification is that her last name rhymes with what sigillographers are interested in (document seals).
Ranked #98 on VH1’s 100 Hottest Hotties
Ranked #99 in Stuff magazine’s "102 Sexiest Women In The World" (2002).

Filmography

2006 The Illusionist Princess Sophie Post-production
2005 London London Post-production
2005 Elizabethtown Ellen Kishmore
2005 Stealth Kara Wade
2004 Blade: Trinity Abigail Whistler
2004 Cellular Frankie Vitello
2004 It’s a Digital World voice
2003 The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (2003 film) Erin
2002 The Rules of Attraction Lara Holleran
2001 Summer Catch Tenley Parrish
1998 I’ll Be Home for Christmas Allie
1997 Ulee’s Gold Casey Jackson
1996 7th Heaven Mary Camden Television series

Heather Locklear

Heather Locklear

Heather Deen Locklear (born September 25, 1961 in Westwood, California, United States) is an American actress. Heather is the daughter of Bill and Diane Locklear. She is the youngest of four children. She has two sisters, Laurie and Colleen, and a brother, Mark. Her father was a dean of the School of Engineering at UCLA. Heather attended UCLA until she quit to pursue acting. She has African and Lumbee Native American roots on her father’s side, but her ancestry is mostly Scottish.

 

Career

While attending UCLA, Heather Locklear began modeling and working in commercials for the school store. In 1979, Locklear landed her first TV role in a TV movie and then on an episode of CHiPs a year later. She landed a few more bit parts in shows like Eight Is Enough and The Fall Guy, before Aaron Spelling cast her in his new TV series Dynasty. When the series premiered in 1981, Locklear was a hit. Spelling immediately cast her opposite William Shatner in the cop show T.J. Hooker. The show’s 1982 premiere sent Locklear into the Hollywood stratosphere. Throughout the 1980’s she continued to work on these two shows and in numerous movies and television specials. In the 1990’s (after a failed comedy sitcom Going Places), Locklear won the role that is probably her best known: the vixen Amanda Woodward on the series Melrose Place from 1993 to 1999. Locklear also won First Americans in the Arts: Best Actress in a TV series for her role on Melrose Place. After her run on the show, she was immediately on another TV sitcom, Spin City, opposite Michael J. Fox. Locklear also served for 6 years as the spokesperson for the Health and Tennis Corporation of America. Locklear starred in the Airport drama LAX, which ran from 2004 to 2005.

 

Home Life

Heather was married to Mötley Crüe drummer Tommy Lee from 1986-1993. After Lee and Locklear’s divorce, she married Bon Jovi guitarist Richie Sambora on December 17, 1994 in Paris. On October 4, 1997 she gave birth to her first child Ava Elizabeth.

 

Filmography

Firestarter (1984)
The Return of Swamp Thing (1989)
The Big Slice (1991)
Wayne’s World 2 (1993) (Cameo)
The First Wives Club (1996) (Cameo)
Money Talks (1997)
Double Tap (1997)
Uptown Girls (2003)
Looney Tunes: Back in Action (2003)
The Perfect Man (2005)

 

Television Work

Heather Locklear on the cover of Marie ClaireTales of the Unexepected (1979)
The Return of the Beverly Hillbillies (1981)
Twirl (1981)
Dynasty (1981-1989)
T.J. Hooker (1982-1986)
City Killer (1984)
T.J. Hooker: Blood Sport (1986)
Rock ‘n’ Roll Mom (1988)
Jury Duty: The Comedy (1990)
Rich Men, Single Women (1990)
Going Places (1990-1991)
Her Wicked Ways (1991)
Dynasty: The Reunion (1991)
Illusions (1992)
Highway Heartbreaker (1992)
Melrose Place (cast member from 1993-1999) (also co-producer)
Body Language (1992)
Fade to Black (1993)
Texas Justice (1995)
Shattered Mind (1996)
Spin City (cast member from 1999-2002)
Once Around the Park (2003)
Scrubs (2003)
LAX (2004-2005) (also producer)

Halle Berry

Halle Berry

Halle Maria Berry (born August 14, 1966 in Cleveland, Ohio) is an Academy Award-winning actress and model.

 

Biography

Early life and career

Halle on the Dec 2002 cover of VogueHalle Berry was named after Halle’s Department Store, a local landmark in Cleveland, Ohio. She is the daughter of Judith Ann Hawkins, a caucasian of English ancestry, and Jerome J. Berry, who is African-American. Berry’s maternal grandmother, Nellie Dicken, was born in Sawley, Derbyshire, England, while her maternal grandfather, Earl Ellsworth Hawkins, was born in Ohio. Berry’s parents divorced when she was 4 years old and she subsequently was raised by her mother, a psychiatric-ward nurse. She also has an older sister, Heidi.

Berry was a popular student at Bedford High School and was a cheerleader, honor society member, editor of the school newspaper, class president and prom queen. She worked in the children’s department at Higbee’s Department Store. Her personality, as described by a co-worker, was expressed in these terms…"I can hardly believe how sweet and nice she had been to everyone. People who weren’t half as beautiful as she did not display the kind of inner beauty she exhibited." She subsequently attended Cuyahoga Community College.

Before becoming an actress, she entered several beauty contests, including Miss Ohio USA, Miss Teen All American, Miss USA (first runner-up in 1986) and Miss World.

 

Hollywood career

In the late 1980s, she went to Chicago to pursue a modeling career as well as acting. One of her first acting projects was a television series for local cable by Gordon Lake Productions called "Chicago Force."

Berry auditioned for a role in an updated Charlie’s Angels television series by producer Aaron Spelling. At the time, Spelling wanted one of the "Angels" to be a African American woman. She did not get the role (because the project never materialized) but she impressed Spelling with her skills, encouraging her to continue perfecting her craft.

In 1989, Berry landed the role of brainy Emily Franklin in the short-lived ABC television series Living Dolls (which was a spin-off of Who’s the Boss?). Her breakthrough feature film role was in Spike Lee’s Jungle Fever where she played a drug addict named Vivian. Her first co-starring role was in the film Strictly Business. Another one of her early roles was in a supporting capacity in the Flintstones movie where she played "Sharon Stone" (a part rumored to have been intended for Sharon Stone). The year before, Berry really caught the public’s attention with her portrayal as a female slave in the TV adaption of Queen: The Story of an American Family.

Berry is also known by most comic book fans for her portrayal of Storm in the movie adaptation of the successful comic book X-Men (2000) and its successful sequel X2: X-Men United (2003). Berry will reprise her role again in the third installment X-Men 3 scheduled for a May 2006 release. In late 2003 Berry starred in the thriller Gothika, which was the first film that she "carried," i.e., her role was the most important one in the film.

 

Marriages

Berry has been married twice. Her first marriage in 1992 to baseball player David Justice ended in a 1996 divorce due to infidelity. Her second marriage in 2001 to musician Eric Benét has resulted in a 2004 separation (and 2005 divorce) reportedly due to Benét’s infidelity. She has said that she will never marry again. Although she does not have any children herself, she is close to her step-daughter India from her marriage to Benét and is also rumored that she is pregnant by her current boyfriend (Michael Ealy). Berry does have two Maltese dogs: Miss Polly and Little Willie.

Halle Berry meet hot-shot attorney at a prestigious entertainment law firm, Kevin Hill a star on the rise. He commands attention in the courtroom and at the hottest clubs in New York City. Then she realize that life woudlnt be complete without dating Kevin R. Hill. They meet in the Four Season Hotel in Maui. Their love has continue to carry on. They later married in 2002, in a romantic ceremony in the Hamptons. Kevin Hill and Halle Berry had three childern Mercedes 7, Porsche 3, and Alexus 2. Since then they have lived happily ever after Mailbu, California.

 

Film Awards

Halle Berry at the Academy AwardsBerry won the best actress Oscar in 2002 for Monster’s Ball, becoming the first African American woman to win this award.
Berry won an Emmy in 1999 for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Miniseries or a Movie for her portayal of Dorothy Dandridge in the HBO movie Introducing Dorothy Dandridge. Interestingly, Dorothy Dandridge was the first African American woman to be nominated for a best actress Academy Award. Another similarity the two women shared was being born in the same hospital.
Berry won a Razzie for her starring role in 2004’s Catwoman. She made headlines by accepting her award in person, an unusual gesture that was last performed by Tom Green in 2001. Berry accepted her award with dignity, saying, "When I was a kid, my mother told me that if you could not be a good loser, then there’s no way you could be a good winner" but adding "I hope to God I never see these people again!" shortly afterward. At the podium, she appeared with her Razzie in one hand, and her 2002 Oscar in the other.
Halle Berry meethot-shot attorney at a prestigious entertainment law firm, Kevin Hill a star on the rise. He commands attention in the courtroom and at the hottest clubs in New York City. Then she realize that life woudlnt be complete without dating Kevin R. Hill. They meet in the Four Season Hotel in Maui. Their love has continue to carry on. They later married in 2002, in a romantic ceremony in the Hamptons. Kevin Hill and Halle Berry had three childern Mercedes 7, Porsche 3, and Alexus 2. Since then they have lived happily ever after Mailbu, California.

 

Controversy

In February 2000, she was involved in a car accident when she struck another vehicle after running a red light and left the scene before the police arrived. Berry, who had sustained a head injury, later stated she had no recollection of the accident and pleaded no contest to a misdemeanor charge. She paid a fine, made restitution to the other driver, performed community services, and was placed on three years’ probation.
Having long refused to do any nude scenes, much was made of her first topless scene in the film Swordfish, a thirty-second scene for which she allegedly was paid an additional US$500,000. She followed this with a more extended nude love scene in Monster’s Ball. Her appearance in this film won her the Academy Award for Best Actress in 2002. As Bond Girl Jinx in 2002’s Die Another Day she famously re-created the scene from Dr. No, bursting from the surf – scantily clad – to be greeted by James Bond, as Ursula Andress did 40 years earlier.

Trivia

In 2003, Berry was named in FHM’s 100 Sexiest Women in the World poll.
Also in 2003, Berry was on Punk’d, MTV’s celebrity prank show.
She has diabetes and acquired unilateral hearing loss (80% hearing loss in one ear) after being severely beaten by a former boyfriend. Accounts differ as to whether the abusive boyfriend was Wesley Snipes or Christopher Williams.
She is currently living with her boyfriend Michael Ealy of Barbershop fame.

Filmography

Jungle Fever (1991)
Strictly Business (1991)
The Last Boy Scout (1991)
Boomerang (1992)
CB4 (1993) (Cameo)
Father Hood (1993)
The Program (1993)
The Flintstones (1994)
Losing Isaiah (1995)
Executive Decision (1996)
Race the Sun (1996)
Girl 6 (1996) (Cameo)
The Rich Man’s Wife (1996)
B*A*P*S (1997)
Bulworth (1998)
Why Do Fools Fall In Love (1998)
X-Men (2000)
Welcome to Hollywood (2000) (documentary)
Swordfish (2001)
Monster’s Ball (2001)
Die Another Day (2002)
X2 (2003)
Gothika (2003)
Catwoman (2004)
Robots (2005) (voice)
X-Men 3 (2006) (currently filming)
Perfect Stranger (2006) (currently announced start of production)

TV work

Living Dolls (1989) (canceled after 13 episodes)
Knots Landing (cast member in 1991)
Queen: The Story of an American Family (1993) (miniseries)
Solomon & Sheba (1995)
The Wedding (1998)
Introducing Dorothy Dandridge (1999) (also executive producer)
Their Eyes Were Watching God (2005)
robots 2005
x-men 32006

Jessica Alba

Jessica Alba

Jessica Marie Alba(born April 28, 1981 in Pomona, California, USA) is an American actress. She is known for her roles in movies such as Idle Hands, and her starring role in the TV series Dark Angel. She got her first starring movie role in Honey, and went on to appear in prominent roles in Sin City and Fantastic Four.

 

Early life

Alba was born to Mark Alba (a Mexican mestizo of Spanish and Native Mexican descent) and Cathy Jensen (whose father was Danish and whose Canadian mother was of French, Italian and English descent). Alba was raised in a military family, living with her parents, her brother Joshua, and her grandparents until she was sixteen. She grew up a sports fanatic and terrorized teachers and grandparents alike with her rebellious behavior. Her father’s navy career took the family to Biloxi, Mississippi, and Del Rio, Texas, before they settled back in California when she was nine. Alba’s early life was marked by a multitude of physical maladies, as she suffered collapsed lungs twice, had pneumonia 4-5 times a year, and suffered a burst appendix, a cyst on her tonsils, asthma, anorexia, and a kidney infection. This served to isolate her from other children at school because, as she claims, she was in the hospital so often that no one knew her well enough to befriend her. She also revealed on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno that she suffered from Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder as a child. Her health improved, however, when her family moved to California.

 

Acting career

Jessica Alba on The Tonight Show with Jay LenoAlba had expressed interest in becoming an actress since the age of five, took her first acting class at age twelve, and was signed by an agent nine months later.

Alba’s first appearance in film was a small role in the 1994 feature Camp Nowhere, as Gail. She was originally hired for two weeks but her role soon turned into a two month job when the actress in one of the more prominent roles in the film dropped out, and Alba was picked to replace her because her hair matched that of the original actress.

Alba appeared in two national TV commercials for Nintendo and J.C. Penney, and later was featured in several independent films. She branched out into TV in 1994 with a recurring role as insufferable young snob Jessica in three episodes of the popular Nickelodeon comedy series The Secret World of Alex Mack. She then won the role of Maya in the first two seasons of the TV series Flipper. Under the tutelage of her lifeguard mother, Alba had learned to swim before she could walk, and was a PADI-certified scuba diver, skills which were put to good use on the show, which was filmed in Australia. In 1995 she appeared in the film Venus Rising as Young Eve.

After graduating from high school at age sixteen, Alba studied acting with William H. Macy and his wife, Felicity Huffman, at the Atlantic Theater Company, which was developed by Macy and Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright and film director David Mamet.

In 1998 she appeared as Melissa Hauer in a first-season episode of the Steven Bochco crime-drama Brooklyn South, as Leanne in two episodes of Beverly Hills 90210, and as Layla in an episode of The Love Boat: The Next Wave. In 1999 she appeared in the Randy Quaid comedy feature P.U.N.K.S..

Alba rose to greater prominence in Hollywood in 1999 after appearing as a member of a snobby high school clique in the Drew Barrymore romantic comedy Never Been Kissed, and as the female lead in the 1999 comedy-horror film Idle Hands, opposite Devon Sawa. Her big break may have been as the star of the popular Fox sci-fi TV series Dark Angel, which was co-created by writer/director James Cameron, who picked Alba from a pool of 1,200 candidates for the role of genetically-engineered super soldier Max Guevera. The show ran for two seasons before being cancelled in 2002. Since then her most notable roles have been as an aspiring dancer/choreographer in Honey, the stripper Nancy Callahan in Sin City, and as the classic Marvel Comics character Invisible Woman in Fantastic Four.

Alba’s most serious award nomination to date is that of a Golden Globe for "Lead Actress in a Drama Series" during the first season of Dark Angel. She did not win.

She has stated that despite being an extremely ambitious actress who desires the level of fame enjoyed by stars like Tom Cruise, she once told James Cameron during filming on Dark Angel that she did not want to direct because it appeared to be too difficult an undertaking, but that he responded with the prediction that she would end up directing sooner than she expected.

 

Personal life

Alba was engaged to her Dark Angel co-star Michael Weatherly for a year. In January 2005 she began dating Cash Warren, a director’s assistant on Fantastic Four, whom she met when filming that movie.

Regarding children, Jessica has stated:

I’m really girly when it comes to kids. I’ve been surrounded by kids my whole life because I’m the oldest of 15 cousins – I’ve been changing diapers since I was six. I want to have a couple, for sure.

She announced on the UK teen site "Teen Today" in 2005, prior to the birth of her brother’s child, that she was beginning a children’s clothing line:

"About four of my girlfriends have babies so they have no time for me. I figure if I can do baby clothes maybe they’ll have more time to hang out!"

She is a self-professed animal lover (although she dislikes reptiles and rodents) who owns two pugs named Sid and Nancy.

 

Religion

During an interview with GQ magazine, Alba said that in her teen years she became a born-again Christian in rebellion against her parents, but later abandoned this. She explained:

One of the reasons why I chose not to be (a devout Christian) is because a lot of people gave me a lot of grief for just being a woman and made me feel ashamed for having a body because it tempted men. I didn’t understand what that meant because I was like, ‘God created this…’ That was a hard time in my life.

As the daughter of conservative parents, Alba, whose grandparents did not even allow her to wear a bathing suit around the house, maintains a no-nudity clause in her contract, though she has claimed she had been willing to be nude in Sin City. She remarked of a GQ shoot in which she was scantily-clad:

"They didn’t want me to wear the granny panties but I said, ‘If I’m gonna be topless I need to wear granny panties."

 

Trivia

Her brother Joshua appeared with her in "And Jesus Brought a Casserole," the first season finale of Dark Angel, in which he played Krit, one of her X-5 brothers who wanted to help destroy Manticore.
She has a tattoo of a daisy with a ladybug on it on the back of her neck, and one of a butterfly just above her anal cleft. [3]
According to an interview with Rolling Stone magazine, her measurements are 34-24-34. [4]
Jessica Alba revealed that she envisions a much older man as her ideal partner, having stated, "Morgan Freeman, Sean Connery, Robert Redford, Michael Caine I have this thing for older men. They’ve been around and know so much." [5]
Jessica is presently Tiger Beer’s new face in commercials.

Filmography

Camp Nowhere (1994)
Venus Rising (1995)
Flipper (cast member from 1995-1996) (TV series)
Too Soon for Jeff (1996) (TV series)
P.U.N.K.S. (1999)
Never Been Kissed (1999)
Idle Hands (1999)
Paranoid (2000)
Dark Angel (2000-2002) (TV series)
The Sleeping Dictionary (2003)
Honey (2003)
Sin City (2005)
Fantastic Four (2005)
Into the Blue (2005)
A Dream of Color in Black and White (2005) (currently in post-production)
Sonic (2006) (currently announced start of production) (also executive producer)

Jeri Ryan

Jeri Ryan

Jeri Lynn Ryan (born February 22, 1968) is an American actress known for playing the shapely Borg Seven of Nine on Star Trek: Voyager and for her relationship with Jack Ryan.

Childhood

Ryan was born as Jeri Lynn Zimmerman in Munich, Germany to American parents. She has one younger brother, Mark. Her father was in the United States Army and raised the family on military bases all over the country including Kansas, Maryland, Georgia and Texas. Finally, at the age of 11, her family settled down in Paducah, Kentucky when Ryan was 11. After Ryan graduated high school in 1986 as a National Merit Scholar, she attended Northwestern University, where she was a member of Alpha Phi sorority. While in college, she enrolled in beauty pageants and swimsuit competitions to pay for tuition. In 1989, Ryan became Miss Illinois and won the Miss America swimsuit competition, while coming in fourth for the Miss America title in 1990. Ryan graduated college in 1990. She stands 5 ft 8 in tall.

 

Career

Jeri Ryan.After college, Ryan decided to pursue her dream of an acting career. Her husband encouraged her and even gave her a plane ticket to Los Angeles. She moved there and made her first acting debut as an extra in Planes, Trains & Automobiles, but was cut out of the final version. She continued to act in commercials and eventually TV shows like Melrose Place, Matlock, and The Sentinel as well as TV movies like Co-Ed Call Girl. Her big break came when she won a regular role as an extraterrestrial investigator named Juliet Stuart on the TV show Dark Skies. The show was cancelled after one season, but the role drew the attention of the science-fiction community.

In 1997, Ryan was cast to play Seven of Nine, a Borg drone freed from the collective on the science fiction series Star Trek: Voyager. The role drew her instant fame and her wardrobe made her a sex symbol among some science-fiction fans. It also drew criticism from some fans who felt that character was created to add sexuality to the show, and who felt that a disproportionate number of episodes that followed her addition to the cast focused on her character to the exclusion of others. However, her appearance also coincided with higher ratings and more positive critical reviews of Voyager, which were partly attributed to better screenwriting and partly due to her character being both intrinsically interesting and well-acted.

After Voyager ended in 2001, Ryan joined the cast of Boston Public in the role of Ronnie Cooke, a frustrated lawyer who quits to become a high school teacher. The show’s producer, David E. Kelley, wrote the role specifically for her. The show was cancelled in 2004.

Ryan has recently appeared in movies such as Down With Love.

 

Personal life

In 1990, while dealing blackjack at a charity event, Ryan met investment banker and future political candidate Jack Ryan. The couple married in 1991 and had a son, Alex, in 1994. Throughout their marriage, Ryan and her husband took turns commuting between Los Angeles and Chicago for their careers, but finally divorced in 1999. Ryan had mentioned in an interview for Star Trek that the frequent separation between Chicago and Los Angeles had been difficult for their marriage. The reasons behind their divorce were kept sealed.

In 2004, details of her divorce proceedings with Jack Ryan were unsealed by a California judge despite appeals by both parties to keep them sealed, claiming that the information could be harmful to their son if released. It was revealed that, six years before, she had accused Ryan of attempting to coerce her into sexual acts with him in public, and in adult clubs in New York, New Orleans, and Paris. This information led Jack Ryan to withdraw his Republican candidacy for an open United States Senate seat in Illinois. Ryan had previously enjoyed a strong showing in the polls, and the Republican party was left without a strong replacement candidate, so the unsealing of the Ryan’s divorce records may have made the difference in enabling Barack Obama to win the election.

After her marriage ended, Ryan began a relationship with Star Trek: Voyager and Star Trek: Enterprise executive producer Brannon Braga. Her most recent TV appearances have been as a recurring character, Charlotte, on the hit show, The O.C..

In February of 2005, Ryan announced the opening of her restaurant, Ortolan. Located on Third Street in Los Angeles, California, the restaurant serves French food with a modern interpretation. Ryan opened the restaurant with her boyfriend, Chef Christophe Eme.

 

Filmography

Movies

Down With Love (2003)
The Last Man (2002)
Wes Craven Presents: Dracula 2000 (2000)
Disney’s The Kid (2000)
Men Cry Bullets (1999)

Television

The O.C. (2005)
Boston Public (2001-2004)
Star Trek: Voyager (1997-2001)
Dark Skies (1996)
Pier 66 (1996)
Co-ed Call Girl (1996)
Matlock: The Fatal Seduction (1993)
In the Line of Duty: Ambush in Waco (1993)
Just Deserts (1992) (TV)
Nightmare in Columbia County (1991) (TV)

Computer games

Star Trek: Voyager Elite Force (2000)

Jennifer Lopez

Jennifer Lopez

Jennifer Lopez, also known as J. Lo, (born July 24, 1969[1]) is a well-known Puerto Rican-American actress, Latin Pop and hip-hop singer, fashion designer, dancer and all-around cultural icon.

Lopez started in television as a ‘fly girl’ (dancer) on the television comedy program In Living Color in 1990. She moved to Los Angeles to film the show but initially hated it. When her boyfriend, David Cruz Jr., moved to L.A. to be with her, she learned to accept her new environment. She is now married with Marc Anthony.

She also played a small role in a short-lived television program South Central. She later starred in Second Chances and Hotel Malibu.

 

Music

Lopez’s debut album, On the 6, a reference to the subway line she used to take growing up in Castle Hill, was released on June 1, 1999 and reached the top ten of the Billboard 200. The album featured the multi-week #1 lead single, "If You Had My Love", as well as the top ten hit "Waiting for Tonight". It also contained the Spanish language, Latin-flavored duet "No me Ames" with Marc Anthony, which was an international DAN hit, though the song was never released as a single in the US. Despite this, the video received moderate airplay on the US music channels VH1 and The Box as a novelty. The album also spawned another international hit in "Feelin’ So Good", a hip-hop track which contained guest raps by Big Pun and Fat Joe; despite the cross-genre technique pioneered by Mariah Carey being used on this particular song, it was a relative flop in the US, as it failed to make the top 50 of the Billboard Hot 100. "Let’s Get Loud" was also released as a single, and became a minor dance hit.

Her sophomore effort, J. Lo, was released in January 2001 and debuted at #1 on the Billboard 200. The lead single, "Love Don’t Cost a Thing" was her first UK number one single, and, along with its follow-up, "Play" (which was written by rising teen star, Christina Milian) it became a top five hit during the year the album was released. The album’s next two singles, "I’m Real" and "Ain’t it Funny", ended up becoming her biggest ever hits, with both spending several weeks at #1. However, to capitalize on this, Lopez asked Murder Inc. to remix both songs, completely changing the lyrics and melodies and adding raps from Ja Rule in both songs, and from Caddillac Tah to "Ain’t it Funny (Remix)". The "I’m Real" and "Ain’t It Funny" remixes were two of the biggest pop and rap hits in late 2001 and early 2002, respectively, and their more hip-hop sound gave J. Lo street credibility and brought her music to a whole new group of fans. She re-released the CD on her 32nd birthday, July 24, 2001, including Ja Rule’s remixed version of "I’m Real".

Following the successes of the remix (again, a technique pioneered by Mariah Carey), Lopez decided to devote an entire album to the effort; the result, J to tha L-O: The Remixes, appeared on February 5, 2002. This album, too, debuted at #1 on the Billboard 200, marking the first remix album in history to debut (or even reach) #1 on the chart. This time around, she got 50 Cent and Nas to write rhymes for two remixes of her next single, "I’m Gonna Be Alright", which ended up becoming another top ten hit. The album also included rarer dance and hip-hop remixes of her past singles, and a new song, a ballad called "Alive", which was included in Lopez’s movie Enough.

On November 26, 2002, Lopez released her third studio album, This Is Me… Then, which reached #2 on the Billboard 200 and spawned three very popular singles; the top 5 "Jenny from the Block", (sampling the track from the song "Watch Out Now" by the Beatnuts, and including raps from Jadakiss and Styles P), the multi-week #1 "All I Have" duet with LL Cool J and the top 10 "Baby I Love You!" (which also was the musical theme to Gigli). Another single, "I’m Glad", was also released, but only managed to go top forty, a rather low result considering Lopez’s usual chart success. The last single released from the album, "The One", failed to make any impact on charts whatsoever. Another song from the album was a cover of Carly Simon’s "You Belong to Me."

In 2004, Lopez once again participated in duets with Marc Anthony, this time on his albums Amar Sin Mentiras and Valio La Pena.

After a considerable amount of time away from the music scene, Lopez finally released her fourth studio album, Rebirth, on March 1, 2005. Debuting at #2 on the Billboard 200 to initially decent sales success, the album quickly fell off the charts and remains to be Lopez’s biggest commercial (not to mention critical) failure yet. Despite this, the album has so-far spawned one hit in "Get Right", which reached the top twenty; still, compared to her previous high-charting singles, even this can be seen as somewhat of a flop. Even so, "Get Right" was her second UK number one, and also topped the charts in Italy and Ireland. The second single, "Hold You Down", which featured Fat Joe, only barely made it into the top 75, peaking at #64. It has recently been confirmed that J. Lo’s next single will be "Cherry Pie" which will hopefully be released around the end of September 2005.

The single "Cherry Pie" release was cancelled by Sony Records, although it did debut in charts around the world due to radio air-play.

Jennifer Lopez has now confirmed that she will be releasing her first ever full spanish album in January 2006. The first single will likely be heard on radios in December 2005. It has also been confirmed that she will be releasing an English album during the summer of 2006.

 

Fashion

Lopez owns a clothing line called "J. Lo by Jennifer Lopez". Her line is the most successful of any artists’ in history and includes many different types of clothing for young women, including jeans, tees, coats, belts, purses, and many other products. Furthermore, she is planning to launch a jewelry line, hats, gloves and a scarves line. She also has a perfume line out called "Glow", and she was in question before, because the name came from another patented perfume.

In October 2003, Lopez introduced a perfume called "Still". During November of the same year, she launched a new clothing line called "Sweetface".

Lopez’s frequent use of fur in her clothing lines and personal wardrobe has brought the scorn of people concerned with animal rights. More than one hundred protestors from People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals held a demonstration at the Los Angeles premiere of Monster-in-Law. For her part, Jennifer told a radio DJ she was open to being educated on the topic-and the DJ promptly told her animals are routinely skinned alive to make trendy furs.

She has also done a photoshoot to represent the Louis Vuitton Winter 2003 campaign, in which the pictures would be seen all over the world through TV commercials, billboards, ads, newspapers, magazines and more.

Other merchandise includes a clothing and cologne line for men due for release either in late 2005 or sometime in 2006.

 

J. Lo Inc.

Lopez owns a production company, Nuyorican Productions, in which she is expected to produce some of her upcoming movies. Some of the projects for the company include Carmen, Dirty Girls Social Club(featuring Jeffrey Wilkinson as Dirty Girl # 4) and The Hector Lavoe Project. This company was founded together with her former manager, Benny Medina, whom she filed a lawsuit against because of alleged fraud in July 2003.

The company produced the commercially-successful movies The Cell, The Wedding Planner and Maid in Manhattan. These three movies put together made more than $350 million at the box office worldwide.

 

Relationships

Lopez has been in two short-lived marriages. The first one, to Ojani Noa, on October 28, 1996 in San Antonio, Noa grabbed a microphone and proposed to her in the middle of the dance floor, presenting her with a large marquis-cut diamond ring. She said, "Yes." They were married on February 22, 1997. He was later named the manager of Jennifer’s restaurant, Madre’s. Her second marriage, during 2001 and 2002, was to Chris Judd, her former backup dancer. She met Judd while filming the music video for her single "Love Don’t Cost A Thing". The two were married in a small ceremony (about 170 guests) at a home in a Los Angeles suburb officiated by attorney Barry Hirsch. The marriage also ended in divorce

Between marriages, from 1999 to 2001, she dated singer and producer Diddy [real name: Sean Combs], breaking up after a shooting incident in a New York night club. Both were arrested in connection with a nightclub shooting in December 1999. Police found them with a stolen gun. The charges against Lopez were dropped, but the charges against Combs stayed. He was eventually tried and acquitted. Their breakup was announced on February 14, 2001.

Lopez became engaged to Ben Affleck and confirmed this in November 2002, after Affleck gave her a reported $3.5 million ring. But the marriage planned for September 14, 2003 in Santa Barbara, California was called off a few days before the event. Stated in interviews during her engagement to Affleck that once married, she would go by the name Jennifer Affleck both privately and professionally. This never came to be as she and Affleck broke off their engagement and split for good in January 2004.

Lopez married singer Marc Anthony in a secret wedding on June 5, 2004, less than a week after his divorce was finalized from former Miss Universe Dayanara Torres. All the guests were invited to a "afternoon party", and they were never told that they were going to a wedding. Years before they married (or even became a couple), she and Marc Anthony sang a song together called "No Me Ames" which appeared on her album "On the 6."

Almost immediately after the wedding, rumors began swirling that the wedding was of the "shotgun" variety and that Lopez was pregnant. A devoted Roman Catholic, Lopez has said in the past that she would never have a baby without being married. Complicating the situation is Anthony’s refusal to confirm his marriage to Lopez and the fact that his divorce took place in the Dominican Republic less than a week before his reported marriage to Lopez, making it potentially invalid in the United States.

 

Derriere

No discussion of Jennifer Lopez could be considered complete without discussion of her famously large and shapely rear end. Example: [2]

It has been the subject of much attention and many jokes, as when Chris Rock wisecracked at the MTV Video Music Awards that Lopez in her speech after winning an award "should have thanked her butt".

The size of her butt was actually one of the key components in helping her win the title role in the 1997 film Selena about real-life singer Selena Quintanilla-Pérez who also was famous for having a large posterior.

Even Channel 4 in the UK got in on the act, commissioning documentary maker Jaine Green to make ‘Behind-the Behind’, which famously asked hispanic ex-husband Ojani Noa, "Does she have a big arse?" – his reply, which leapt across the language barrier and was subsequently aired around the world was, "a big house? Yes very big".

Lopez herself joked that it’s so large and upstanding that it could be used as a tray to serve drinks at parties. (This is a variant on an old joke. Groucho Marx once remarked that the one sister in his otherwise all-brother family had "a rear end that stuck a-way out… you could play pinochle on her rear end!")

In a skit at the MTV Video Music Awards, Triumph, the Comic Insult Dog begged Lopez to let him sniff her rear end, claiming that it was the equivalent of climbing Mount Everest for a dog.

Her infamous butt won her the title of Best Female Body in the UK magazine Celebrity Bodies poll in 2001 and #1 in FHM magazine’s 2000 and 2001 poll of Sexiest Girls.

On a Hollywood television gossip show in 2004, an interviewer asked her, "How do you feel about your butt?" Her answer was given as "I can’t believe you’re asking me a question like that."

 

Claims to fame

Professional accomplishments

Became the first Latina actress to get paid $1 million (for her role in Selena).
By 2003, Lopez had become the highest-paid Latina actress in Hollywood. She still holds the record, earning $15,000,000 for her performance in Monster-in-Law (2005).
Lopez is the first actress and singer to have a movie (The Wedding Planner) and an album (J. Lo) at #1 in the same week.
Lopez’s album J to tha L-O! The Remixes was the first album of remixes to hit #1.
Lopez’s perfume "Glow" made history in 2001, by being the #1 perfume in more than nine countries in more than four months.
Lopez is the only woman who has been #1 three years in a row in FHM magazine’s list of the 100 Sexiest Females in the World.
Lopez made the 2004 Fortune list of the wealthiest entertainers under the age of 40. Her wealth is estimated at $255 million.
Lopez made the highest debut of 2003 on the US charts with "All I Have" debuting at #25.
Lopez has sold nearly 40 million records worldwide.

Discography

Albums

1999: On the 6 #8 US, US Certification: 3x Platinum (WW sales: 9 million)
2001: J. Lo #1 (Debut) US (1 week), #2 UK, #12 ITA, US Certification: 4x Platinum (WW sales: 8 million)
2002: J to tha L-O!: The Remixes #1 (Debut) US (2 weeks), #3 UK, US Certification: Platinum (WW sales: 2 million)
2002: This Is Me… Then #2 US, #14 UK, #11 ITA, US Certification: 2x Platinum (WW sales: 5.5 million)
2005: Rebirth #2 US, #8 UK, #6 ITA, #10 AUS, US Certification: Platinum (WW sales: 2 million)
Total album sales: 26.5 million

 

Singles

From On the 6:

1999: "If You Had My Love" #1 US (5 weeks), #4 UK, #1 AUS, US Certification: Platinum
1999: "No Me Ames" #1 Latin
1999: "Waiting for Tonight" #8 US, #5 UK
2000: "Feelin’ So Good" (feat. Big Pun and Fat Joe) #51 US, #15 UK
2000: "Let’s Get Loud"
From J. Lo:

2001: "Love Don’t Cost a Thing" #3 US, #1 UK, #4 AUS
2001: "Play" #18 US, #3 UK, #5 AUS, #7 ITA
2001: "Ain’t it Funny" #3 UK, #9 AUS
2001: "I’m Real" (with "I’m Real (Murder Remix)") #4 UK, #3 AUS
From J to tha L-O!: The Remixes:

2001: "I’m Real (Murder Remix)" (with "I’m Real" – feat. Ja Rule) #1 US (5 weeks), 4 UK, #3 AUS
2002: "Ain’t it Funny (Murder Remix)" (feat. Ja Rule and Caddillac Tah) #1 US (6 weeks), #4 UK, #1 AUS
2002: "I’m Gonna Be Alright (Track Masters Remix)" #10 US, #3 UK
From This Is Me… Then:

2002: "Jenny from the Block" (feat. Jadakiss and Styles P) #3 US, #3 UK, #5 AUS, #2 ITA
2003: "All I Have" (feat. LL Cool J) #1 US (4 weeks), #2 UK, #2 AUS
2003: "I’m Glad" #32 US, #11 UK, #10 AUS, #31 ITA
2004: "Baby I Love You!" #72 US, #3 UK, #21 ITA
From Rebirth:

2005: "Get Right" #12 US, #1 UK, #3 AUS, #1 ITA, US Certification: Platinum, WW Cert.: 2x Platinum
2005: "Hold You Down" (feat. Fat Joe) #64 US, #6 UK, #19 ITA
2005: "Cherry Pie" Radio single
Total singles sales: 11.5 million (13,000,540 source)

Total album and single sales: 39.1 million

 

DVDs

1999: Feelin’ So Good US Certification: Gold
2001: Let’s Get Loud US Certification: Gold
2003: The Reel Me #69 US, US Certification: 3x Platinum

Awards & nominations

1995

1995 Independent Spirit Awards: nomination for Best Supporting Actress ("My Family")

1997

1997 Saturn Awards: nomination for Best Actress ("Anaconda")

1998

1998 MTV Movie Awards: 2 nominations, Best Kiss – shared nomination with George Clooney ("Out Of Sight"), Best Female Performance ("Out of Sight")
1998 Empire Awards: nomination for Best Actress ("Out of Sight")

1999

1999 MTV Video Music Awards: 4 nominations for ("If You Had My Love"), Female Video of the Year, Dance Video of the Year, New Artist Video of the Year, Pop Video of the Year
1999 American Music Awards: 2 nominations, Favorite Artist – Latin Music, Favorite New Artist – Pop / Rock
1999 Soul Train Award: nomination for Best R&B/Soul Album – Female ("On the 6")

2000

2000 MTV Video Music Award: nomination for ("Waiting For Tonight"), Best Choreography, win for Dance Video of the Year ("Waiting For Tonight")
2000 MTV Movie Awards: nomination for Best Female Performance ("The Cell"), win for Best Dressed in a Movie ("The Cell")
2000 Grammy Award: nomination for Best Dance Recording ("Let’s Get Loud")
2000 Saturn Awards: nomination for Best Actress ("The Cell")

2001

2001 American Music Award: nomination for Favorite Female Artist – Pop or Rock
2001 MTV Video Music Awards: 2 nominations for ("Love Don’t Cost A Thing"), Best Dance Video, Best Dance Video
2001 People’s Choice Awards: 2 nominations, Favorite Actress, Favorite Female Musical Performer
2001 Hastings Bad Cinema Society Stinkers Awards: nomination for Worst Actress, win for Most Annoying Fake Accent – Female ("Angel Eyes")
2001 Alma Awards: win for Outstanding Music Video – People’s Choice Award ("Love Don’t Cost A Thing")
2001 Alma Awards: 4 nominations, Outstanding Female Performer, Album of the Year ("J.Lo"), Outstanding Performance – Music, Variety or Comedy Special ("Jennifer Lopez in Concert: Let’s Get Loud"), Outstanding Actress – Motion Picture ("Angel Eyes")

2002

2002 American Music Award: nomination for Favorite Female Artist – Hip-Hop/R&B
2002 MTV Video Music Awards: win for Best Hip-Hop Video ("I’m Real") – shared with Ja Rule
2002 NAACP Image Award: nomination for Outstanding Actress – Motion Picture ("Maid in Manhattan")
2002 Hastings Bad Cinema Society Stinkers Awards: nomination for Worst Actress ("Enough")

2003

2003 American Music Award: win for Favorite Female Artist – Pop / Rock
2003 MTV Video Music Awards: 4 nominations for ("I’m Glad"), Best Female Video, Best Dance Video, Best Choreography in a Video, Best Art Direction in a Video
2003 Hastings Bad Cinema Society Stinker Awards: 3 wins, Worst Actress ("Gigli"), Worst On-Screen Couple (Ben Aflleck, Jennifer Lopez – Gigli), Worst Fake Accent – Female ("Gigli")
2003 Golden Raspberry Awards: 2 wins, Worst Actress, Worst Screen Couple ("Gigli")

2004

2004 Golden Raspberry Awards: 2 nominations, Worst Screen Couple, Worst Supporting Actress for ("Jersey Girl")
2004 People’s Choice Awards: nomination for Best Smile

2005

2005 MTV Video Music Awards: 4 nominations for ("Get Right"), Best Editing in a Video, Best Direction in a Video, Best Dance Video, Best Choreography in a Video

Nicknames

J.Lo or "Jaylo"
Jen
Jenny
Jenny-Lo
Jenny from The Block
Bella ("beautiful" in spanish)
"La Guitarra" ("the guitar" in Spanish –because of the shape of her body)
La Lopez

Filmography

My Little Girl (1986)
Lambada (1990)
My Family (1995)
Money Train (1995)
Jack (1996)
Blood and Wine (1996)
Selena (1997)
Anaconda (1997)
U Turn (1997)
Out of Sight (1998)
Antz (1998) (voice)
The Cell (2000)
The Wedding Planner (2001)
Angel Eyes (2001)
Enough (2002)
Maid in Manhattan (2002)
Gigli (2003)
Jersey Girl (2004)
Shall We Dance (2004)
Monster-in-Law (2005)
An Unfinished Life (2005)
Bordertown (2006) (currently filming) (also producer)
El Cantante (TBA) (currently in pre production)(also producer)

Jennifer Love Hewitt

Jennifer Love Hewitt

Jennifer Love Hewitt (born February 21, 1979 in Waco, Texas) is an American actress and singer.

Biography

Hewitt grew up in Killeen, Texas with parents Herbert Daniel Hewitt and Patricia Mae Shipp (who were mostly of English descent). At the suggestion of talent scouts, she moved to Los Angeles with her mother at the age of 10, to pursue a career in both acting and singing.

Her first break came soon thereafter as a child actor on the Disney Channel variety show Kids Incorporated (1989-1991). She became a household name after landing the role of Sarah Reeves on the popular Fox Television show Party of Five (1995-1999). She continued this role in the short-lived Party of Five spinoff, Time of Your Life (1999) co-starring Jennifer Garner.

She is perhaps most famous for the role of Julie James in the horror films I Know What You Did Last Summer (1997) and its sequel I Still Know What You Did Last Summer (1998).

In other notable film roles, she was a centerpiece of the chaotic high school comedy Can’t Hardly Wait (1998). She starred with Sigourney Weaver in the movie Heartbreakers (2001), which also featured Gene Hackman and Ray Liotta. Even more recently she was paired with Jackie Chan in the action comedy The Tuxedo (2002).

To date she has released four albums with some success, most notably outside the United States in places like Europe and Japan.

In 2003 Jennifer (with Bo Derek) visited troops who are recovering from their 2003 Iraq war injuries at Washington, D.C.’s Bethesda Naval Medical Center and Walter Reed Army Medical Center. She described it as "an amazing experience".

She is featured on the cover of the March 2005 issue of Maxim, and on the final regular-sized issue of the TV Guide.

She stars in the television series Ghost Whisperer on CBS in the U.S. ,CTV in Canada, FOX in Mexico. It premiered in September 2005.

From 1997-1999 she dated Carson Daly and from 1999-2001 she dated Rich Cronin. She is currently dating Lance Mohesky.

Filmography

Jennifer Love Hewitt as Page Conners in Heartbreakers.The Truth About Love (2005)
Garfield: The Movie (2004)
If Only (2004)
The Tuxedo (2002)
The Devil and Daniel Webster (2002)
Heartbreakers (2001)
The Suburbans (1999)
Can’t Hardly Wait (1998)
I Still Know What You Did Last Summer (1998)
Telling You (1998)
I Know What You Did Last Summer (1997)
Trojan War (1997)
House Arrest (1996)
Sister Act 2 (1993)

Television

Ghost Whisperer (2005)
Confessions of a Sociopathic Social Climber (movie) (2005)
Family Guy (2002) (voice)…herself
The Audrey Hepburn Story (movie) (2000)
Time of Your Life (1999)
Oh Yeah! Cartoons (1998)
Party of Five (1995-1999)
Byrds of Paradise (1994)
Kids Incorporated (1989-1991)

Discography

Love Songs (1992) released in Japan only
Let’s Go Bang (1995)
Jennifer Love Hewitt (1996)
BareNaked (2002)

Jennifer Garner

Jennifer Garner

Jennifer Anne Garner (born April 17, 1972 in Houston, Texas) is an American film and television actress.

 

Biography

Garner was born to Patricia Ann English (a teacher) and Billy Jack Garner, an engineer whose job with Union Carbide forced the family to relocate to Charleston, West Virginia when Jennifer was three years old, where she remained until college. Jennifer studied ballet for nine years before enrolling at Denison University to study chemical engineering. Upon the realization that she loved the stage more than engineering she changed her major to drama.

She currently stars as the character Sydney Bristow on the TV show Alias.

Garner enjoys cooking, gardening, hiking and kickboxing (a hobby inspired by her character on Alias). She is a graduate of George Washington High School in Charleston, West Virginia (1990).

In 2005, Garner entered the Forbes Power 100 List of celebrities. Garner ranked as the 5th best paid actress in Hollywood, accumulating an estimated US$14 million over the year 2004/05. She came 8th behind Cameron Diaz in the power rankings.

Garner is known for performing her own stunts, and in January 2005 she was forced to bow out of some publicity duties for her film Elektra due to what was first thought to have been a viral infection. Media reports indicated that she was in fact suffering the effects of nerve damage to her back, caused by a stunt during the filming of Alias.

In addition to action films Garner has also starred in the comedy 13 Going on 30 and the upcoming drama from Susannah Grant (writer of Erin Brockovich) named Catch and Release.

Her production company, Vandalia Films will produce its first film in 2007; a remake of a Japanese Mystery Romance titled "Ima, ai ni yukimasu" roughly translated to "Be With You". She will produce alongside American Beauty producers Dan Jinks and Bruce Cohen. Garner is set to star in the remake.

In March 2005, Garner directed the episode "In Dreams" for her series, Alias, which aired in May.

For the fifth season of the show she has been promoted to writer/producer level.

She has received four consecutive Emmy (the most prestigous American television acting award) nominations for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series. During her first nomination in 2002, she was expected by many people to win but lost out to "The West Wing"’s Allison Janney. The year of her second nomination, she lost to Edie Falco for her powerful performance in "The Sopranos." For Garner’s third nomination, she again lost out to Janney. The most recent nomination in 2005 was not met with a win as "Medium"’s Patricia Arquette won.

She has received four consecutive Golden Globe nominations for Best Actress in a Television Series Drama, and won once. She won on her first nomination, which was in January of 2002. "Alias" had just begun a few months ago, meaning Garner beat the other nominees even though only half the season (roughly 11 or twelve episodes) had aired.

She won the Actor Award from the Screen Actors Guild in 2005. The category had only five nominees and is composed of all actresses in any dramatic roles, both lead and supporting.

 

Relationships

Interestingly, all of Garner’s relationships are with her on-screen love interests, with whom she played. In 2000, Garner married Scott Foley, who played with her on the television show Felicity. The two later separated and subsequently filed for divorce in 2003. She then dated her Alias co-star Michael Vartan until mid-2004, when she started dating her Daredevil co-star Ben Affleck. Nevertheless, Garner and Vartan remained close friends.

Garner has since been together with Affleck, a relationship which has garnered significant media attention. On May 7, 2005 E! News reported that multiple sources close to Garner confirmed that she was pregnant. On June 30, 2005 publicists for both Affleck and Garner confirmed that the couple married the day before at the Parrot Cay resort in the Turks and Caicos Islands in the Caribbean, and that Garner is pregnant with her first child, a girl due in November. On September 27, 2005, on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno, Garner "accidently" referred to her unborn child as "she," acknowledging that she and her husband are expecting a girl. Although there has been rumors that she may has gaven birth already on Thanksgiving or on Black Friday.

Her pregnancy has been incorporated into her hit ABC show Alias. Garner is expected to be absent from several episodes that will be produced around and after the birth; as a result, the series added a new, Sydney Bristow-like character to the series that will take up the reins while Garner is indisposed.

 

Filmography

 

Acting Filmography

Be With You (2006)
Charlotte’s Web (2006) (voice)
Catch and Release (2005) Grey
Elektra (2005) Elektra
13 Going on 30 (2004) Jenna Rink
Alias: The Video Game (2004) Sydney Bristow (voice)
The Simpsons (2003) Herself (voice)
Ep.: Treehouse of Horror XIV
Daredevil (2003) Elektra
Catch Me If You Can (2002) Cheryl Ann
Alias (2001-present) Sydney Bristow
Rennie’s Landing (2001) Kiley Bradshaw
Pearl Harbor (2001) Nurse Sandra
Dude, Where’s My Car? (2000) Wanda
Aftershock: Earthquake in New York (1999) Diane Agostini
Time of Your Life (1999) Romy Sullivan
The Pretender (1999) Billie H. Vaughn/DuPree
Significant Others (1998) Nell Glennon
1999 (1998) Annabell
Felicity (1998-2002) Hannah Bibb
Fantasy Island (1998) Sally
Deconstructing Harry (1997) Woman in elevator
Washington Square (1997) Marian Almond
Mr. Magoo (1997) Stacey Sampanahoditra
In Harm’s Way (1997) Kelly
Harvest of Fire (1996) Sarah Troyer
Zoya (1995) Sasha

Jennie Garth

Jennie Garth

Jennie Garth (born April 3, 1972) is an American actress. Born Jennifer Eve Garth in Urbana, Illinois, she is best known for her role as the beleaguered Kelly Taylor on the television series Beverly Hills 90210. At various points in the series, Garth’s character was involved in a love triangle, became a diet pill abuser, was trapped in a fire, became involved in a cult, used cocaine, was date-raped and had a miscarriage. She is now starring in the sitcom What I Like About You.

She is married to actor Peter Facinelli, with whom she has two daughters, Luca Bella (born 1997) and Lola Ray (born 2002).

 

Filmography

Power 98 (1996)
My Brother’s War (1997)

Television series and movies

A Brand New Life (1989)
Just Perfect (1989)
Teen Angel (1989)
Beverly Hills 90210 (1989–97)
Teen Angel Returns (1990)
Star (1993)
Lies of the Heart: The Story of Laurie Kellogg (1994)
Without Consent (1994)
Falling for You (1995)
A Loss of Innocence (1996)
An Unfinished Affair (1996)
What I Like About You (2002–)
The Last Cowboy (2003)

Jennifer Connelly

Jennifer Connelly

Jennifer Lynn Connelly (born December 12, 1970 in the Catskill Mountains, New York) is an American film actress. Although she has been working in the film industry since she was a teenager, she has only recently received critical acclaim for her work, most notably for Requiem for a Dream (2000) and A Beautiful Mind (2001), for which she won an Academy Award as Best Supporting Actress.

 

Early life

Connelly was born to Gerard Connelly (an Irish Catholic immigrant and clothing manufacturer) and Eileen (a New York-bred Jewish mother who was an antiques dealer and a masseuse at Esalen). Jennifer was raised in Brooklyn Heights, Brooklyn near the Brooklyn Bridge, attending St. Ann’s School, except for four years the family spent living in Woodstock, New York. One of her father’s friends through the garmet trade was an advertising executive.

The executive friend suggested Jennifer audition at a modelling agency. At the age of 10, her career started in newspaper and magazine ads, then moved to television commercials.

Her first film role was in the 1984 film Once Upon a Time in America, where she had a small part as "young Deborah Gelly" in Sergio Leone’s gangster epic. She next starred in cult Italian horror director Dario Argento’s Phenomena (1985).

 

Early film career

Connelly became a star on her next picture, the fantasy Labyrinth (1986). Connelly played Sarah, a teenager who wishes her baby brother into the world of goblins ruled by goblin king Jareth (played by rock superstar David Bowie). Through a series of adventures reminiscent of Alice In Wonderland, The Muppets and Monty Python, Sarah does indeed manage to rescue her brother. A product of the talents of Jim Henson, George Lucas, ex-Monty Python member Terry Jones and designer Brian Froud, the film was a solid hit and enjoys a cult reputation today.

Connelly seemed stuck as to how to follow up on this success. She made a Japanese pop record and starred in several obscure films – Etoile (1988) and Some Girls (1988). The Dennis Hopper directed The Hot Spot (1990) was underwhelming, both critical and commercially. Another film, Career Opportunities, was more successful and is considered a teen cult classic though it, and Hot Spot threatened to typecast her in the "sexpot" stereotype.

She began studying English at Yale, but transferred two years later to Stanford. She did not graduate from either institution.

The big-budget Disney film The Rocketeer (1991) similarly failed to restart Connelly’s career.

The moody indie film Far Harbor (1996), showed her playing against type and hinted at a much broader range than she had previously shown. Connelly began to appear in smaller but well regarded films such as Inventing the Abbotts (1997) and Waking the Dead (2000). The film Dark City (1998) afforded her the chance to work with such top-flight actors as Rufus Sewell, William Hurt, Ian Richardson and Kiefer Sutherland. Connelly revisited her ingenue image again (although in a more understated way) for the film Pollock (2000).

 

Comeback

Connelly’s big breakthrough finally came in the 2000 film Requiem for a Dream. The edgy, experimental film started Connelly and Jared Leto as drug users on the edge of a breakdown. The film, which was a big critical success, firmly established Jennifer Connelly as a serious, talented actress. Connelly’s star was on the rise and she next starred in Ron Howard’s film A Beautiful Mind (2001).

Connelly essayed the role of Alicia Nash, the long-suffering wife of a brilliant mathematician John Nash, (played by Russell Crowe) who struggles with mental illness. The film, based on real life events, was a critical and commercial success and earned Connelly an Academy Award nomination for best supporting actress – which she won. Clearly established in film, Connelly could work with the best and brightest talent in both commercial and independent film.

Connelly starred in two films in 2003: The Hulk and House of Sand and Fog. The Hulk was something of a box office disappointment, but afforded Connelly the chance to work with noted director Ang Lee. House of Sand and Fog, based on the novel by Andre Dubus, was reminiscent of much of her independent film work of the late 1990s.

Connelly’s most recent film is Dark Water (2005). Dark Water, based on a Japanese film, was a foray into subtle horror that failed to win over either critics or audiences.

 

Personal life

Connelly is married to the British actor Paul Bettany, whom she met while working on A Beautiful Mind; the couple’s son, Stellan (named after Stellan Skarsgård), was born August 5, 2003. She has also a five-year-old son, Kai, from a previous relationship.

 

Selected Filmography

Jennifer Connelly in the 1991 film The RocketeerHulk 2 (2007)
The Blood Diamond (2007)
The Berkeley Connection (2006)
Little Children (2006)
Dark Water (2005)
House of Sand and Fog (2003)
Hulk (2003)
A Beautiful Mind (2001)
The $treet (2000) (TV series)
Pollock (2000)
Requiem for a Dream (2000)
Waking the Dead (2000)
Dark City (1998)
Higher Learning (1995)
The Rocketeer (1991)
The Hot Spot (1990)
Labyrinth (1986)
Once Upon a Time in America (1984)