Evangeline Lilly Biography

Nicole Evangeline Lilly (born August 3, 1979) is a Canadian actress, known best for her role as Kate Austen in the ABC drama, Lost.

Early Days

Lilly was born in Fort Saskatchewan, Alberta, Canada, to a devoutly Evangelical Christian family, though her mother's side has been described as "intellectual atheists". Her father is a home economics teacher, and her mother is a beauty consultant. Lilly also has two sisters. Her youngest sister, Andrea, has been described by Evangeline as "the actor in the family" During her childhood, the family did not have a television.

List of Movies

2003 The Lizzie McGuire Movie
2003 Stealing Sinatra
2005 The Long Weekend
2008 Afterwards 2009 The Hurt Locker

But perhaps best known for her role in Lost (2004–2010) as Kate Austen

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Eva Mendes Biography

Eva Mendes (born March 5, 1974) is an American actress. She began acting in the late 1990s, and became known after a series of roles in several major Hollywood films, including 2 Fast 2 Furious, Hitch and Training Day.

Early Days

Mendes was born in Miami, Florida, to Cuban parents and was raised in Los Angeles by her mother after her parents' divorce; Mendes has said that her mother "suffered so much to make my life OK" during her early years. Her father was a car salesman and her mother, also named Eva, is now an elementary school principal. She is the youngest of four children (she has two sisters and a brother). She was raised Roman Catholic and aspired to be a nun. As a child, Mendes was teased about her "buck teeth".

List of Movies

1998 Children of the Corn V: Fields of Terror
1998 A Night at the Roxbury
1999 My Brother the Pig
2000 The Disciples
2000 Urban Legends: Final Cut
2001 Exit Wounds
2001 Training Day
2001 All About the Benjamins
2003 2 Fast 2 Furious
2003 Once Upon a Time in Mexico
2003 Out of Time
2003 Stuck on You
2005 Hitch
2005 The Wendell Baker Story
2005 3 & 3
2006 Trust the Man
2007 Ghost Rider
2007 Knocked Up
2007 We Own the Night
2007 Live!
2007 Cleaner
2008 The Women
2008 The Spirit
2009 Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans
2009 Last Night
2009 Queen of the South

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Eva Longoria Biography

Eva Jacqueline Longoria Parker (born March 15, 1975) is an American film and television actress. She portrayed Isabella Braña Williams on the CBS soap opera The Young and the Restless. She currently plays Gabrielle Solis in the ABC television series Desperate Housewives

Early Days

Eva Jacqueline Longoria was born in Corpus Christi, Nueces County, Texas, the daughter of Mexican American parents, Enrique Longoria, Jr. and Ella Eva Mireles.

Longoria is the youngest of four daughters, her sisters being Elizabeth Judina, Emily Jeannette and Esmeralda Josephina. The family lived and worked on farmland that had been handed down to them from past generations.

List of Movies

2003 Hot Tamales Live: Spicy, Hot and Hilarious
2003 Snitch'd
2004 Carlita's Secret
2004 The Dead Will Tell
2004 Señorita Justice
2006 The Sentinel
2006 Harsh Times
2007 The Heartbreak Kid
2008 Over Her Dead Body
2008 Lower Learning
2009 Foodfight!

Also stars in the hugely successful television show Desperate Housewives as Gabrielle Solis

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Emma Watson Biography

Emma Charlotte Duerre Watson (born 15 April 1990) is a British actress who rose to prominence playing Hermione Granger, one of three starring roles in the Harry Potter film series.

Early Days

Emma Watson was born in Paris, the daughter of British lawyers Jacqueline Luesby and Chris Watson. Watson has one French grandmother, and lived in Paris until the age of five. She moved with her mother and younger brother, Alex, to Oxfordshire, following her parents' divorce.

List of Movies

2001 Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone
2002 Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
2004 Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
2005 Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
2007 Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
2007 Ballet Shoes
2008 The Tale of Despereaux
2009 Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
2010 Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1
2011 Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2

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Eliza Dushku Biography

Eliza Patricia Dushku (born December 30, 1980) is an American actress.

Early Days

Dushku was born in Watertown, Massachusetts, the daughter of Philip R. Dushku, an administrator and teacher in the Boston Public Schools, and ex-wife Judith "Judy" (née Rasmussen), a political science professor at Suffolk University in Boston. Dushku's father is Albanian American and her mother is Danish American through both of her grandfathers and English American through both of her grandmothers. Dushku attended Beaver Country Day School in Chestnut Hill, and graduated from Watertown High School.

List of Movies

1992 That Night
1993 This Boy's Life
1994 Fishing with George
1994 True Lies
1995 Bye Bye Love
1995 Journey
1996 Race the Sun
2000 Bring It On
2001 Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back
2001 Soul Survivors
2002 The New Guy
2002 City by the Sea
2003 Wrong Turn
2003 The Kiss
2006 The Last Supper
2006 On Broadway
2007 Nobel Son
2007 Sex and Breakfast
2008 Bottle Shock
2008 The Alphabet Killer
2008 The Thacker Case
2009 Open Graves
2009 Noah's Ark: The New Beginning
2010 Valediction

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Billie Joe Armstrong Biography

Billie Joe Armstrong (born February 17, 1972) is the lead vocalist, main lyricist and guitarist for the punk rock band Green Day. He is also a guitarist and vocalist for the punk rock band Pinhead Gunpowder and sings for garage rock band Foxboro Hot Tubs.

Early Days

Billie Joe Armstrong was born in Oakland, California and was raised in Rodeo, California, (a town 24 miles north of Oakland), as the youngest of six children. His father, Andy Armstrong, worked as a drummer and truck driver for Safeway to support the family.

List of Green Day Albums

1990 1,039/Smoothed Out Slappy Hours
1992 Kerplunk!
1994 Dookie
1995 Insomniac
1997 Nimrod
2000 Warning
2001 International Superhits!
2002 Shenanigans
2004 American Idiot
2009 21st Century Breakdown

List of Pinhead Gunpowder Albums

1995 Jump Salty
1995 Carry the Banner
1997 Goodbye Ellston Avenue
1999 Shoot the Moon
2003 Compulsive Disclosure
2008 West Side Highway 7" EP

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Drew Barrymore Biography

Drew Blyth Barrymore (born February 22, 1975) is an American actress and film producer. She is the youngest member of the Barrymore family of American actors. She first appeared in a film when she was eleven months old. Barrymore made her screen debut in Altered States in 1980. Later, she starred in her breakout role in E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial.

Early Days

Barrymore was born in Culver City, California, the daughter of American actor John Drew Barrymore and Ildikó Jaid Barrymore (née Makó), an aspiring actress born in a Displaced Persons camp in Brannenburg, West Germany to Hungarian World War II refugees. She is of Irish descent on her father's side through an ancestor, actor Maurice Costello. Her parents divorced after she was born.[1] She has a half-brother John Blyth Barrymore, also an actor, and two half-sisters, Blyth Dolores Barrymore and Brahma (Jessica) Blyth Barrymore.

List of Movies

1980 Altered States
1982 E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial
1984 Firestarter
1984 Irreconcilable Differences
1985 Cat's Eye
1986 Babes in Toyland
1989 See You In The Morning
1989 Far From Home
1991 Motorama
1992 Waxwork II: Lost in Time
1992 Poison Ivy
1992 Guncrazy
1993 The Amy Fisher Story
1993 No Place to Hide
1993 Doppelganger
1993 Wayne's World 2
1994 Inside the Goldmine
1994 Bad Girls
1995 Boys on the Side
1995 Mad Love
1995 Batman Forever
1996 Everyone Says I Love You
1996 Scream
1997 Wishful Thinking
1997 Best Men
1998 The Wedding Singer
1998 Ever After
1998 Home Fries
1999 Never Been Kissed
1999 Olive, the Other Reindeer
2000 Skipped Parts
2000 Titan A.E.
2000 Charlie's Angels
2001 Donnie Darko
2001 Freddy Got Fingered
2001 Riding in Cars with Boys
2002 Confessions of a Dangerous Mind
2003 Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle
2003 Duplex
2004 50 First Dates
2004 My Date With Drew
2005 Fever Pitch
2006 Curious George
2007 Music and Lyrics
2007 Lucky You
2008 Beverly Hills Chihuahua
2009 He's Just Not That Into You
2009 Grey Gardens
2009 Everybody's Fine
2009 Whip It!

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Daniel Radcliffe Biography

Daniel Jacob Radcliffe (born 23 July 1989) is a British actor, best known for playing Harry Potter in the feature film series based on the popular book series. Radcliffe has also made appearances in stage productions and a number of TV shows and films

Early Days

Daniel Jacob Radcliffe was born in Queen Charlotte's Hospital, West London, England, the only child of Alan George Radcliffe, a literary agent, and Marcia Jeannine

List of Movies

2001 The Tailor of Panama
2001 Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
2002 Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
2004 Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
2005 Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
2007 Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
2007 December Boys
2009 Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
2010 Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part I
2011 Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part II

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Christina Aguilera Biography

Christina María Aguilera (born December 18, 1980) is an American pop singer and songwriter. Aguilera first appeared on national television in 1990 as a contestant on the Star Search program, and went on to star in Disney Channel's television series The New Mickey Mouse Club from 1993–1994.

Early Days

Aguilera was born in Staten Island, New York, to Fausto Wagner Xavier Aguilera, a Sergeant in the U.S. Army at the time and Shelly Loraine Fidler, a teacher of the Spanish language. Aguilera's father was born in Guayaquil, Ecuador (Christina's maternal grandmother emigrated from County Clare, Ireland.) Her father, Fausto, was stationed at Earnest Harmon Air Force Base in Stephenville, Newfoundland and Japan. Aguilera lived with her father and mother until she was seven years old. Aguilera grew up hearing Spanish and thus understands the language, although she is more fluent in English.

List of Albums

1999 Christina Aguilera
2002 Stripped
2006 Back to Basics
2009 4th Studio album

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Cheryl Cole Biography

Cheryl Ann Cole (born 30 June 1983) is a British singer and member of the band Girls Aloud. As part of Girls Aloud and as a featuring artist, Cole has had 21 UK Top Ten singles. In 2008, Cole became a judge on the British reality TV show The X Factor. She is married to the Chelsea and England football player Ashley Cole.

Early Days

Cole was born in Newcastle upon Tyne, England and lived in an inner city district called Heaton. She is one of five children - one younger brother, Garry, and two half-brothers - Andrew and Joseph, and one half-sister Gillian.

List of Album

2003 Sound of the Underground
2004 What Will the Neighbours Say?
2005 Chemistry
2007 Tangled Up
2008 Out of Control

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Charlize Theron Biography

Charlize Theron (born August 7, 1975) is a South African-American actress, film producer, and former fashion model.

She rose to fame in the late 1990s following her roles in 2 Days in the Valley, Mighty Joe Young, The Devil's Advocate, and The Cider House Rules.

Early Days

At the age of 16, Theron traveled to Milan, Italy, on a one-year modeling contract, after winning a local competition. She went to New York with Pauline's Model Management. She decided to remain after her contract ended, attending the Joffrey Ballet School, where she trained as a ballet dancer. A knee injury closed this career path when Theron was 19.

List of Movies

1995 Children of the Corn III: Urban Harvest
1996 2 Days in the Valley
1996 That Thing You Do!
1997 Trial and Error
1997 The Devil's Advocate
1998 Celebrity
1998 Mighty Joe Young
1999 The Astronaut's Wife
1999 The Cider House Rules
2000 Reindeer Games
2000 The Yards
2000 The Legend of Bagger Vance
2000 Men of Honor
2001 Sweet November
2001 The Curse of the Jade Scorpion
2001 15 Minutes
2002 Trapped
2002 Waking Up in Reno
2002 The Italian Job
2003 Monster
2004 The Life and Death of Peter Sellers
2004 Head in the Clouds
2005 North Country
2005 Æon Flux
2007 In the Valley of Elah
2008 Sleepwalking
2008 Hancock
2008 Battle in Seattle
2008 The Burning Plain
2009 The Road

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Cameron Diaz Biography

Cameron Michelle Diaz (born August 30, 1972) is an American actress and former model. She broke out in the 1990s with her roles in The Mask, My Best Friend's Wedding and There's Something About Mary

Early Days

Diaz was born in San Diego, California, the daughter of Billie (née Early), an import-export agent, and Emilio Diaz (1949–2008), who worked for the California oil company UNOCAL for twenty plus years, as a Field Gauger, and in the pipeline department, until he retired in 1998.

List of Movies

1994 The Mask
1995 The Last Supper
1996 She's the One
1996 Feeling Minnesota
1996 Head Above Water
1997 Keys to Tulsa
1997 My Best Friend's Wedding
1997 A Life Less Ordinary
1998 Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
1998 There's Something About Mary
1998 Very Bad Things
1999 Being John Malkovich
1999 Any Given Sunday
2000 Things You Can Tell Just by Looking at Her
2000 Charlie's Angels
2001 The Invisible Circus
2001 Shrek
2001 Vanilla Sky
2002 The Sweetest Thing
2002 My Father's House
2002 Minority Report
2002 Gangs of New York
2003 Shrek 4-D
2003 Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle
2004 Shrek 2
2005 In Her Shoes
2006 The Holiday
2007 Shrek the Third
2007 Shrek the Halls
2008 What Happens in Vegas
2009 My Sister's Keeper
2009 The Box
2010 Shrek Forever After
2010 Peaceable Kingdom

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Britney Spears Biography

Britney Jean Spears (born December 2, 1981) is an American singer and entertainer. Born in Mississippi and raised in Louisiana, Spears first appeared on national television in 1992 as a contestant on the Star Search program, and went on to star in Disney Channel's television series The New Mickey Mouse Club from 1993 to 1994. In 1997, Spears signed a recording contract with Jive, releasing her debut album ...Baby One More Time in 1999.

Early Days

Britney Spears was born in McComb, Mississippi and raised in Kentwood, Louisiana as a Southern Baptist. Her parents are Lynne Irene (née Bridges), a former elementary school teacher, and Jamie Parnell Spears, a former building contractor and chef. Spears has two siblings, Bryan and Jamie Lynn. Bryan Spears is married to Jamie-Lynn's manager, Graciella Rivera.

List of Albums

1999 ...Baby One More Time
2000 Oops!... I Did It Again
2001 Britney
2003 In the Zone
2007 Blackout
2008 Circus

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Beyoncé Knowles Biography

Beyoncé Giselle Knowles (born September 4, 1981), best known mononymously as Beyoncé, is an American R&B singer, songwriter, record producer, actress and model. At a young age she enrolled in various performing arts schools, and was first exposed to singing and dancing competitions as a child.

Early Days

Knowles was born in Houston, Texas, the daughter of Mathew Knowles, a successful record manager, and Tina Beyincé, a costume designer and hair stylist. Knowles' father is African American and her mother is of Creole (African American, Native American, and French) descent. Knowles was baptized after her mother's maiden name, as a tribute to her mother and to prevent the name from becoming obsolete, since only a few of the Beyincé males carry the name.

List of Albums

2003 Dangerously in Love
2006 B'Day
2008 I Am... Sasha Fierce

List of Movies

2001 Carmen: A Hip Hopera
2002 Austin Powers in Goldmember
2003 The Fighting Temptations
2004 Fade to Black
2006 The Pink Panther
2006 Dreamgirls
2008 Cadillac Records
2009 Obsessed

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Ashley Tisdale Biography

Ashley Michelle Tisdale (born July 2, 1985) is an American actress, singer-songwriter and television producer.

Early Days

Tisdale was born in Monmouth County, New Jersey on July 2, 1985, to Lisa (née Morris) and Mike Tisdale, who run a construction company. She grew up in Ocean Township. While her elder sister, Jennifer Tisdale, is also an actress and model, her maternal grandfather, Arnold Morris, developed the Ginsu Knives; through her grandfather, she is also related to businessman Ron Popeil. Tisdale is Jewish.

List of Movies

1998 A Bug's Life
2001 Donnie Darko
2001 Nathan's Choice
2002 The Mayor of Oyster Bay
2006 High School Musical
2006 Whisper of the Heart
2007 High School Musical 2
2007 Bring It On: In It to Win It
2008 Picture This
2008 High School Musical 3: Senior Year
2009 Aliens in the Attic
2010 Teen Witch

List of Albums

2007 Headstrong
2009 Guilty Pleasure

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Angelina Jolie Biography

Angelina Jolie (born Angelina Jolie Voight on June 4, 1975) is an American actress and Goodwill Ambassador for the UN Refugee Agency. She has received three Golden Globe Awards, two Screen Actors Guild Awards, and an Academy Award.

Early Days

Born in Los Angeles, California, Jolie is the daughter of actors Jon Voight and Marcheline Bertrand. She is the niece of Chip Taylor, sister of James Haven and the god-daughter of Jacqueline Bisset and Maximilian Schell. On her father's side, Jolie is of Czechoslovakian and German descent, and on her mother's side she is French Canadian and is said to be part Iroquois. However, Voight has claimed Bertrand was "not seriously Iroquois", and they merely said it to enhance his ex-wife's exotic background.

List of Movies

1982 Lookin' to Get Out
1993 Cyborg 2
1995 Without Evidence
1995 Hackers
1996 Mojave Moon
1996 Love Is All There Is
1996 Foxfire
1997 True Women
1997 George Wallace
1997 Playing God
1998 Gia
1998 Hell's Kitchen
1998 Playing by Heart
1998 Pushing Tin
1999 The Bone Collector
1999 Girl, Interrupted
2000 Gone in Sixty Seconds
2001 Lara Croft: Tomb Raider
2001 Original Sin
2002 Life or Something Like It
2003 Lara Croft Tomb Raider: The Cradle of Life
2003 Beyond Borders
2004 Taking Lives
2004 Shark Tale
2004 Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow
2004 The Fever
2004 Alexander
2005 Mr. & Mrs. Smith
2006 The Good Shepherd
2007 A Mighty Heart
2007 Beowulf
2008 Kung Fu Panda
2008 Wanted
2008 Changeling
2010 Salt

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Adriana Lima Biography

Adriana Francesca Lima (born June 12, 1981) is a Brazilian model best known as a Victoria's Secret Angel since 2000 and a spokesmodel for Maybelline cosmetics from 2003 to 2009

Since her rise to fame, Lima is often cited by popular media as one of the world's sexiest women. Lima was listed in the 2005 Forbes' edition of The World's Best-Paid Celebrities Under 25. Also, she ranked No.99th in the 2006 Forbes' edition of The Celebrity 100 (Forbes' Highest Paid and Powerful Celebrities in the World).

Early Days

In addition to her native Portuguese, Lima speaks English, French, and a bit of Italian. Lima was shy around boys when she was younger, not receiving her first kiss until she was 17 years old.

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Vanessa Hudgens Biography

Vanessa Anne Hudgens (born December 14, 1988) is an American actress and singer. She is best known for her role as Gabriella Montez in the High School Musical film series

Early Days

Hudgens was born in Salinas, California, and lived all over the West Coast – from Oregon to Southern California. with her parents, Gina (née Guangco) and Gregory Hudgens and a sister, Stella Hudgens.

List of Movies

2003 Thirteen
2004 Thunderbirds
2006 High School Musical
2007 High School Musical 2
2008 High School Musical 3: Senior Year
2009 Bandslam
2010 Beastly
2011 Sucker Punch!

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