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INSERT INTO `bios` VALUES ('a', 'Angie Harmon', 'Angie_Harmon.jpg', '<p><strong>Angie Harmon </strong></p>\r\n<p>Angie Harmon or Angie Sehorn, formerly Angela Michelle Harmon (born August 10, 1972), is an American television and movie actress and fashion model who rose to fame as Abbie Carmichael on the television drama Law &amp; Order, a role she played from 1998 to 2001. <br>\r\nA native of Highland Park, Texas, Harmon''s parents were professional fashion models Larry and Daphne Harmon. Harmon is currently married to professional football player Jason Sehorn with whom she had been engaged since a March 13, 2000 marriage proposal on the Tonight Show with Jay Leno, a popular television talk show program. Harmon and Sehorn were married on June 9, 2001.</p>\r\n<p>On October 14, 2003, at 10:55 a.m. she and husband Jason Sehorn welcomed their first child, a daughter, Finley Faith Sehorn in Dallas, Texas. They are expecting their 2nd child in the summer of 2005.</p>\r\n<p><strong>Filmography</strong><br>\r\n  The Deal (2004/I) <br>\r\n  Agent Cody Banks (2003) <br>\r\n  Video Voyeur: The Susan Wilson Story (2002) <br>\r\n  Good Advice (2001) <br>\r\n  Batman Beyond: Return of the Joker (2000/I) <br>\r\n&quot;Law &amp; Order&quot; (1990) TV Series .... Asst .Dist. Atty. Abbie Carmichael (1998-2001) <br>\r\n  Lawn Dogs (1997) <br>\r\n&quot;C-16: FBI&quot; (1997) <br>\r\n&quot;Baywatch Nights&quot; (1995) </p>\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>');
INSERT INTO `bios` VALUES ('a', 'Aimee Jo Johnson', 'Amy_Jo_Johnson.jpg', '<p><strong>Aimee Jo Johnson </strong></p>\r\n<p>Amy Jo Johnson (born October 6, 1970) is an actress and entertainer. She was born in Cape Cod, Massachusetts, USA and her most notable roles have been those of Kimberly Ann Hart on the television series Mighty Morphin Power Rangers and of Julie Emrick on the college drama series Felicity.</p>\r\n<p><strong>Biography</strong><br>\r\nIn her early life, Johnson became interested in gymnastics and, after training for years, decided to aim for the Olympics. She eventually reached Class One - the highest status in gymnastics - and participated in competitions hosted both in the United States and in Europe, but was forced to abandon her career as a professional gymnast due to a severe injury.</p>\r\n<p>At the age of 18, she left her home town, Cape Cod, and moved to New York, in order to pursue her acting career. She attended the Lee Strasberg Theatre Institute (see Lee Strasberg) and the American Musical and Acting Academy. When Johnson felt comfortable with her skills, she left for Los Angeles to audition for her first part.</p>\r\n<p>Her gymnastics background was a clear advantage for her in being chosen for the role of Kimberly Ann Hart in the Power Rangers series (Mighty Morphin Power Rangers), in its first 3 seasons 1993-1995. The series achieved unexpected success and Johnson had a fair share of media exposure, both as the character of Kimberly Hart and as herself. After her character left the series, she went on to star in the indie film Susie Q in 1996. In 1997 she participated in the NBC''s adaptation of Lois Duncan''s novel Killing Mr. Griffin, and also played a bulimic gymnast in the movie Perfect Body. She also reprised her role as Kimberly Hart for perhaps the last time in Turbo: A Power Rangers Movie, as her character was turned evil after being sacrified to Divatox''s fiancee, Maligore.</p>\r\n<p>In 1998, she played the part of a vampire in the cult indie movie Cold Hearts. Soon after, she was invited to play the second most notable role of her acting career: Julie Emrick, a college freshman who becomes the best friend of the lead actress of the Warner Brothers series Felicity. She was in the series for two and a half years.</p>\r\n<p>Her character in the series was originally cast as a dancer, but Johnson managed to convince the producers to turn the role into that of a singer and guitarist, which eventually lead her to being able to play a song of her own composition, entitled Puddle of Grace. The song was added to the show''s official soundtrack. Her talent in music also lead her to star in the movie Sweetwater: A True Rock Story, a biography about the life of Nansi Nevins, lead singer from the band that opened the Woodstock festival, Sweetwater.</p>\r\n<p>Johnson then took roles in a number of indie movies, namely Interstate 60, Pursuit of Happiness (in her sole nude scene) and Hard Ground. She also had a role in the final season of the television crime drama The Division.</p>\r\n<p>As of 2001, she has dedicated herself mostly to music (after her fellow MMPR co-star Thuy Trang''s untimely death), releasing her debut album, titled The Trans-American Treatment and performing live in the Los Angeles area alongside The Amy Jo Johnson Band. She later dropped the band, and limited the instrumental presence in her shows to her acoustic guitar and her voice. She has released another album titled Imperfect released on 1-Mar-05.</p>\r\n<p>In 2002 she played a bit role in the film Interstate 60 as a seducturess on the mythical Interstate 60.</p>\r\n<p>She currently resides in Los Angeles, California.</p>\r\n<p>She is currently filming in Outward Blonde with Hilary Duff.<br>\r\n</p>\r\n');
INSERT INTO `bios` VALUES ('a', 'Alicia Silverstone', 'Alicia_Silverstone.jpg', '<p><strong>Alicia Silverstone</strong></p>\r\n<p>Alicia Silverstone (born October 4, 1976) is an American actress. She first came to widespread attention in the music video for Aerosmith''s Cryin and later starred in &quot;crazy&quot; and several Hollywood motion pictures. According to critics, she has demonstrated a versatile acting talent in a range of parts, from femme fatale in The Crush to quirky comedy in Clueless. She is also noted for her strong views on animal welfare and is a committed vegan. In 2004, Silverstone was voted sexiest female vegetarian.</p>\r\n<p> <br>\r\n  Alicia SilverstoneSilverstone has continued to make a wide range of movie and television appearances, appearing mostly in comedy and action roles (she is still widely known for her role in Clueless), although proving herself versatile enough to tackle the major Shakespeare production Love''s Labour''s Lost. Recently, she has extended her repertoire by working as both a television and film producer.</p>\r\n<p>Silverstone reportedly refuses to appear nude in any of her movies. Because of this, she requires a body double in her place for nude scenes. When she starred in the stage version of The Graduate, she insisted on wearing underwear for the famous nude-scene. The producers were forced to let her do this because, otherwise, she would have resigned from the show.</p>\r\n<p>Silverstone was born in San Francisco, California, to English Jewish parents Monty Silverstone, real-estate investor, and Didi Radford, a Scottish-born former flight attendant. She was raised in Hillsborough, California. Alicia is the youngest of Monty and Didi''s three children but she also has a half-sister, Kezi Silverstone, who''s a rock singer in London from Monty''s previous marriage and a half-brother, David Silverstone. When Alicia was six, Monty took some photos of his young daughter. The photos allowed her to get some modeling gigs which then led to television commercials (the first being for Domino''s Pizza).</p>\r\n<p>Alicia later attended San Mateo High School in San Mateo, California where she was a cheerleader. During this time she acquired some early modelling and advertising work and eventually got the part of the ''dream girl'' on American TV series The Wonder Years. She won a leading part in the 1993 movie The Crush, playing a girl who sets out to ruin an older man after her teenage crush is spurned, for which she won two awards at the 1994 MTV Movie Awards. Silverstone actually became legally emancipated at the age of 15 in order to work the hours required for the shooting schedule of The Crush.</p>\r\n<p>She went on to star in three Aerosmith music videos, entitled Cryin, Crazy, and Amazing which were hugely successful both for the band and Silverstone, making her a household name. Around this period, Silverstone was offered the role of Valerie Malone, on Beverly Hills 90210. After she turned it down, the role went to Tiffani Thiessen.</p>\r\n<p>After Clueless became a huge sleeper hit and critical darling during the summer of 1995, Silverstone was hailed as the woman of the hour, and branded the spokeswoman for an emerging young generation. As a result, she was able to sign a deal with Columbia-TriStar worth $10 million. As part of the package, she got a three-year first-look deal for her own production company, &quot;First Kiss Productions.&quot;</p>\r\n<p>The first movie to be released by &quot;First Kiss Productions&quot; was a 1997 black comedy called Excess Baggage. Excess Baggage, a movie in which Silverstone played a chain smoking, underage drinking, rich brat, who fakes her own kidnapping in order to get her father''s attention was not as criticially or commercially embraced as Clueless. Silverstone also came under fire (especially by E!) for receiving such a lucrative production deal so early in her career. Excess Baggage was such a disappointment, that after just one film, Columbia-TriStar quietly let their production deal with Silverstone expire.</p>\r\n<p>Around the time she was featured as Batgirl in Batman and Robin, Silverstone was lambasted by tabloid media and mainstream press alike for putting on weight. Though hardly obese by any standard, Silverstone had obviously put on more weight than the public was used to seeing her carry, and this started a whirlwind of rumours which affected her personal life. Ironically, she was turned down for the lead in 1994''s My Father the Hero because the producers said that she was too heavy for the part. The role ultimately went to Katherine Heigl instead. It didn''t help Silverstone''s cause that Batman and Robin was an even bigger critical and commercial failure than her other movie from 1997, Excess Baggage.</p>\r\n<p>For some time, Silverstone, despite her young age, gained the reputation of being a &quot;has-been&quot;, who reached her peak with the Aerosmith videos and Clueless. She effectively removed herself from the public eye for many years, resurfacing in the critically acclaimed television show Miss Match, which was cancelled after thirteen episodes. Silverstone later acknowledged that she hates the trappings of fame, insisting that being a celebrity is a horrific ordeal that she wouldn''t want her worst enemy to suffer. According to Silverstone &quot;Fame is not anything I wish on anyone. You start acting because you love it. Then success arrives, and suddenly you''re on show.&quot;[1]</p>\r\n<p>Silverstone married her longtime boyfriend Christopher Jarecki, lead singer of the band S.T.U.N., at a beach front ceremony at Lake Tahoe on June 11, 2005. The pair dated for eight years before the wedding.</p>\r\n');
INSERT INTO `bios` VALUES ('a', 'Alyssa Milano', 'Alyssa_Milano.jpg', '<p><strong>Alyssa Milano </strong></p>\r\n<p>Alyssa Jayne Milano (born December 19, 1972 in New York City) is an American actress. She currently appears in The WB program Charmed. Milano was born to Italian parents Tom and Lin Milano and has a younger brother, Cory (born 1982), who is also an actor. One of her first acting roles was in the television program Who''s the Boss? with Tony Danza, Judith Light and Katherine Helmond.</p>\r\n<p>For the majority of her career Milano was known for her role on Who''s the Boss?, something which she tried to shed by appearing in many very adult film roles. Many of these included nudity or very graphic (simulated) sex scenes. Many actresses do not manage to escape the stigma of such a career turn, but Milano redeemed herself with her success on Melrose Place and especially Charmed.</p>\r\n<p>Milano is also an accomplished singer and recording artist, though not in her home country of the United States. She has released 5 albums that have all reached sales of over 1 million copies in Japan. She even appeared in the blink-182 video for the song &quot;Josie&quot;.</p>\r\n<p>In 1989 her image was used for the character development of Ariel in the Disney movie, The Little Mermaid.</p>\r\n<p>Milano is an avid fan of tattoos and has several of them. She is dating Los Angeles Dodgers pitcher Brad Penny. She was briefly married to Remy Zero lead singer Cinjun Tate.<br>\r\n</p>\r\n<p><strong>Filmography</strong><br>\r\n  Dinotopia: Quest for the Ruby Sunstone (2005) <br>\r\n  Win, Lose and Kaboom (2004) <br>\r\n  Dickie Roberts: Former Child Star (2003) <br>\r\n  Lady and The Tramp II: Scamp''s Adventure (2001) <br>\r\n  Diamond Hunters (2001) <br>\r\n  Buying the Cow (2001) <br>\r\n  Goldrush: A Real-Life Alaskan Adventure (1998) <br>\r\n  Alyssa Milano in a scene from Embrace of the VampireHugo Pool (1997) <br>\r\n  Poison Ivy II: Lily (1996) <br>\r\n  Body Count (1996) <br>\r\n  Fear (1996) <br>\r\n  Glory Daze (1996) <br>\r\n  To Brave Alaska (1996) <br>\r\n  Deadly Sins (1995) <br>\r\n  Public Enemies (1995) <br>\r\n  Public Enemy No. 1 (1995) <br>\r\n  The Surrogate (1995) <br>\r\n  Embrace of the Vampire (1994) <br>\r\n  Double Dragon (1994) <br>\r\n  Confessions of a Sorority Girl (1994) <br>\r\n  Casualties of Love: The Long Island Lolita Story (1993) <br>\r\n  Conflict of Interest (1993) <br>\r\n  Candles in the Dark (1993) <br>\r\n  Where the Day Takes You (1992) <br>\r\n  Little Sister (1992) <br>\r\n  Teen Steam (1988) <br>\r\n  Dance ''Til Dawn (1988) <br>\r\n  Crash Course (1988) <br>\r\n  The Canterville Ghost (1986) <br>\r\n  Commando (1985) <br>\r\n</p>\r\n');
INSERT INTO `bios` VALUES ('a', 'Alyson Hannigan', 'Alyson_Hannigan.jpg', '<p><strong>Alyson Hannigan </strong></p>\r\n<p>Alyson Hannigan (born Allison Lee Hannigan March 24, 1974) is an American actress best known for playing Willow Rosenberg in the TV series Buffy the Vampire Slayer. She also appeared in films including, as Michelle Flaherty, American Pie (1999), American Pie 2 (2001) and American Wedding (2003).</p>\r\n<p>Born in Washington, DC to an Irish-American father and a Jewish-American mother, her first film role was in My Stepmother is an Alien (1988). Before that she had done a little television work, mostly commercials, and she went on to do a good deal more including Almost Home, Picket Fences, Roseanne and Touched by an Angel before being chosen for Buffy in 1997. By the final season she was earning $250,000 an episode.</p>\r\n<p>It was announced in October 2003 that she had signed a deal with NBC to appear in a comedy, expected to debut in fall 2004. Reports indicated that it was likely to be titled Americana, but the pilot was not part of NBC''s 2004 fall lineup.</p>\r\n<p>In early 2004, Hannigan made her West End debut starring in a stage adaptation of When Harry Met Sally at the Theatre Royal Haymarket, opposite Luke Perry.</p>\r\n<p>She owns a home in Sacramento, California and married actor Alexis Denisof (who played Wesley Wyndam-Pryce in the Buffy franchise) on October 11, 2003. Previous relationships include actor Steven Sutphen and Marilyn Manson drummer Ginger Fish.</p>\r\n<p>In 2005, Hannigan is one of several Buffy cast returning to television - others being David Boreanaz, Nicholas Brendon, Charisma Carpenter and James Marsters - as part of the cast of the new TV series &quot;How I Met Your Mother&quot;, as well as a recurring guest role on Veronica Mars.</p>\r\n<p>Hannigan''s somewhat unstereotypical looks and specific acting style have led her, for the most part, to choose somewhat quirky characters. Her best known roles in BtVS and the American Pie series are clear examples of this.<br>\r\n</p>\r\n<p><strong>Filmography</strong><br>\r\n  Date Movie (2006) <br>\r\n  How I Met Your Mother (2005) (TV series)... Lily <br>\r\n  Veronica Mars (2005) (TV series)... Trina Echolls <br>\r\n  American Wedding (2003)... Michelle Flaherty <br>\r\n  Beyond the City Limits (2001)... Lexi <br>\r\n  American Pie 2 (2001)... Michelle Flaherty <br>\r\n  Boys and Girls (2000)... Betty <br>\r\n  American Pie (1999)... Michelle Flaherty <br>\r\n  Hayley Wagner, Star (1999) (TV)... Jenna Jakes <br>\r\n  Dead Man on Campus (1998)... Lucy <br>\r\n  Buffy the Vampire Slayer (1997) (TV series)... Willow Rosenberg <br>\r\n  For My Daughter''s Honor (1996) (TV)... Kelly <br>\r\n  A Case for Life (1996) (TV)... Iris <br>\r\n  The Stranger Beside Me (1995) (TV)... Dana <br>\r\n  Switched at Birth (1991) (TV)... Gina Twigg <br>\r\n  Free Spirit (1989) (TV series)... Jessie Harper <br>\r\n  My Stepmother Is an Alien (1988)... Jessie Mills <br>\r\n  Impure Thoughts (1985)... Patty Stubbs <br>\r\n</p>\r\n');
INSERT INTO `bios` VALUES ('a', 'Ali Larter', 'Ali_Larter.jpg', '<p><strong>Ali Larter </strong></p>\r\n<p>Alison Elizabeth Larter (born February 28, 1976) is an American model and actress. She has starred in the movies Varsity Blues, Legally Blonde, and Final Destination.</p>\r\n<p>Larter began modeling at age 13 with the world-renowned Ford modeling agency and traveled the world. At 17, Ali settled temporarily in Japan. In 1995, she accompanied her boyfriend in his move to Los Angeles. Soon after on the advice of a friend, she began taking acting classes.</p>\r\n<p>In November 1996, she &quot;played&quot; the hoax Allegra Coleman in Esquire Magazine. Even after the hoax had been revealed, its effects lingered, and she was wooed by various agencies. Larter landed her first professional role in 1997 in the television series Chicago Sons, which was followed by a number of other brief appearances on Dawson''s Creek, Chicago Hope and Just Shoot Me. She is set to appear in Southland Tales in late 2005.<br>\r\n</p>\r\n<p><strong>Facts &amp; Stats</strong><br>\r\n  Height: 5'' 8&quot; (172 cm) <br>\r\n  Measurements: 34-24-34 (86-60-86 cm) <br>\r\n  Eyes: Hazel <br>\r\n  Hair: Blonde <br>\r\n  Starsign: Pisces <br>\r\n</p>\r\n<p><strong>Quotes</strong><br>\r\n&quot;I hate pretty looking boys. I''d rather have a guy with a potbelly than one who''s in the gym all the time and watches what he eats.&quot; <br>\r\n&quot;I keep seeing the Backstreet Boys on TV and all their fans and I''m thinking, I was one of those girls when I was little. Ohmigod.&quot; <br>\r\n</p>\r\n<p><strong>Partial Filmography</strong><br>\r\n  Final Destination 2 (2003) <br>\r\n  Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back (2001) <br>\r\n  American Outlaws (2001) <br>\r\n  Legally Blonde (2001) <br>\r\n  Final Destination (2000) <br>\r\n  House on Haunted Hill (1999) <br>\r\n  Varsity Blues (1999) <br>\r\n  Drive Me Crazy (1999) <br>\r\n</p>\r\n');
INSERT INTO `bios` VALUES ('a', 'Ali Landry', 'Ali_Landry.jpg', '<p><strong>Ali Landry </strong></p>\r\n<p>Ali Landry (born July 21, 1973) is an actress best known as a spokesperson for Doritos, for whom she appeared in celebrated commercials aired during the 1998 and 1999 Super Bowls. A trained gymnast, she still required hours of takes to get the seconds of footage doing acrobatic stunts for the commercials. She got national fame after winning the 1996 Miss USA pageant, as the contestant from Louisiana. In later years she has hosted the pageant.</p>\r\n<p>Ali Landry grew up in Breaux Bridge, Louisiana and is of Cajun descent.</p>\r\n<p>She has participated in the show Fear Factor, and was runner up. An avid athlete, she also participated in the Boston Marathon.</p>\r\n<p>Starting in 2003 she played in the UPN sitcom Eve.</p>\r\n<p>She married longtime boyfriend Mario Lopez in 2004, and two weeks after marriage, filed for divorce because she claims that he cheated on her during his bachelor party.</p>\r\n<p>Engaged to director Alejandro Monteverde on Memorial Day, 2005.<br>\r\n</p>\r\n<p><strong>Facts &amp; Stats</strong><br>\r\n  Full Name: Ali Landry <br>\r\n  Height: 5'' 8&quot; <br>\r\n  Measurements: 36C-24-34 <br>\r\n  Hair: Brown <br>\r\n  Eyes: Brown <br>\r\n  Miss Louisiana Teen USA (1990) <br>\r\n  Miss Teen USA Semi-finalist (1990) <br>\r\n  Miss Louisiana USA (1996) <br>\r\n  Miss USA (1996) <br>\r\n  Miss Universe Top 6 Finalist (1996) <br>\r\n  Named by &quot;People&quot; magazine as one of 50 most beautiful people in the world (1998) <br>\r\n  She is from the southwestern region of Louisiana, also referred to as &quot;Acadiana,&quot; the heart of Cajun country <br>\r\n</p>\r\n<p><strong>Quotes</strong><br>\r\n&quot;Sex outdoors is great. I''m not an exhibitionist, but I love the possibility that people might be able to see.&quot;</p>\r\n<p>&quot;I didn''t know what my goal was, but I knew I had to get out and do something exciting.&quot;</p>\r\n<p>&quot;I don''t date guys that I just meet randomly. I don''t feel comfortable meeting strangers.&quot;<br>\r\n</p>\r\n<p><strong>Filmography</strong><br>\r\n  Eve (2003) (TV series) <br>\r\n  Who''s Your Daddy? (2003) (V) <br>\r\n  Will You Marry Me? (2003) (TV) <br>\r\n  Spy TV (2001) (TV series) (2002) <br>\r\n  Outta Time (2002) <br>\r\n  Repli-Kate (2002) <br>\r\n  Soulkeeper (2001) <br>\r\n  Farmclub.com (2001) (TV series) <br>\r\n  Beautiful (2000) <br>\r\n  America''s Greatest Pets (1998) (TV series) <br>\r\n  Sunset Beach (1997) (TV series) <br>\r\n</p>');
INSERT INTO `bios` VALUES ('a', 'Angelina Jolie', 'Angelina_Jolie.jpg', '<p><strong>Angelina Jolie </strong></p>\r\n<p>Angelina Jolie (who was born Angelina Jolie Voight on June 4, 1975 in Los Angeles, California) is an American actress and humanitarian. She is renowned for her award winning acting talent and known for her exotic looks, full lips, wild child image, numerous tattoos and her humanitarian work with refugees. She has received three Golden Globes as well as an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her performance as Lisa Rowe in the movie Girl, Interrupted.</p>\r\n<p>In July 2005, Jolie became the third actress to join the coveted &quot;$20 Million Club&quot; of actresses commanding fees of $20 million per movie. She joined Cameron Diaz and Julia Roberts when she signed to do Mr. &amp; Mrs. Smith for that amount. Jolie became a citizen of Cambodia by decree of its King Norodom Sihamoni on August 11, 2005; the citizenship was awarded to her in honor of her environmental work in the country, but has no effect on her U.S. citizenship.<br>\r\n</p>\r\n<p><strong>Biography</strong><br>\r\n  Jolie is the daughter of divorced actors Jon Voight and American born Marcheline Bertrand. She is the niece of Chip Taylor and the goddaughter of Jacqueline Bisset and Maximilian Schell. In an article in Vogue (2004) she stated that her mother is from Chicago. At the Premiere Magazine &quot;Women in Hollywood&quot; Awards she said her mom was born in a bowling alley. She has stated that because of her name people often assume that her mother is French. Jolie''s grandparents were French Canadian. Her mother also studied with Lee Strasberg himself. She is of Czech, French-Canadian, English, and Iroquois descent. As a child she dreamed of becoming a funeral director. She attended the Lee Strasberg Theatre Institute from the age of 11, later attending Beverly Hills High School. Though she enrolled at the film school at New York University after finishing Gia, she did not complete her studies.</p>\r\n<p>On March 28, 1996 she married British actor Jonny Lee Miller, with whom she had co-starred in the movie Hackers. Jolie attended her wedding in black leather trousers and a white shirt, which had her husband''s name painted in her blood on the back. Jolie and Miller divorced on February 3, 1999. Jolie then married American actor Billy Bob Thornton on May 5, 2000, and together they adopted a son from Cambodia, Maddox Chivan Thornton Jolie, who was born on August 5, 2001. Jolie and Thornton divorced on May 27, 2003, and Jolie now has custody of Maddox.</p>\r\n<p>Jolie has been long estranged from her father, though a reconciliation was attempted by his appearing with her in Lara Croft: Tomb Raider. In the October 2004 issue of Premiere Magazine, Jolie indicated that she was no longer interested in pursuing a relationship with her father, but that she did not hate him but that she realized that &quot;...we only have so much energy in this life.&quot; Soon after, he claimed that she has &quot;serious emotional problems&quot; on Access Hollywood, and she legally dropped Voight as her last name, taking Angelina Jolie as her legal name.</p>\r\n<p> <br>\r\n  In 2003, Jolie published a collection of journals made during missions for the UNHCR. Her proceeds from the book went to the UNHCR.Jolie has been a Goodwill Ambassador for the United Nations High Commission for Refugees since 2001, and frequently travels to remote countries to draw attention to the plight of people in Third World nations. In 2003, she published Notes from My Travels, a collection of journal entries chronicling her early work with the U.N.. In a January 2005 interview with Reuters, Jolie criticized fellow actors for not being committed enough in helping others, and stated that she gives one-third of her income to charitable organizations.</p>\r\n<p>Jolie was also one of the first celebrities to accept an invitation to be one of the bearers of the Olympic Torch during the 2004 Olympic Games, though she was ultimately unable to participate due to filming commitments.</p>\r\n<p>In the fall of 2004, it was reported that Jolie has started proceedings to adopt another child, this time from Russia. However, no adoption ever took place. On March 8th, Jolie took part in a Washington Press club luncheon. [1] It was there that she announced the founding of the National Center for Refugee and Immigrant Children in Washington, D.C. It''s an organization that provides free legal aid to children who prior to this had no legal representation. Jolie donated $500,000 to the center which will help keep it afloat for the first two years of its operation. At that same conference she stated that she never intended to adopt a Russian orphan boy. Jolie expressed a deep sadness at the media''s exploitation of the child. Jolie stated that she was on business through the United Nations and not looking for a child to adopt. She also mentioned that her son wanted an &quot;African brother&quot; because of his love of Africa and the work he knows she does in that region.</p>\r\n<p>Around the same time, Lauryn Galindo, the Hawaii-based adoption facilitator whose services Jolie had used to adopt Maddox, was sentenced to 18 months in prison after pleading guilty to visa fraud and money laundering charges. She had been falsifying records of children to be adopted in visa applications to the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, and several of the children she placed had not been abandoned at all but were enticed away or bought from their birth families. There is no evidence that Maddox was among them, although the investigation is continuing. Maddox Jolie, as he is legally named, was naturalized as a United States citizen some time ago, and there is no indication that that will be rescinded.</p>\r\n<p>Besides her acting and humanitarian endeavors, Jolie also worked as a professional model in London, New York and Los Angeles and appeared in numerous music videos including those of Meat Loaf, Lenny Kravitz, and The Rolling Stones.</p>\r\n<p>For several years prior to mid 2005, Jolie did not have a hit movie. Several of her movies, such as Alexander, Sky Captain, and Tomb Raider: The Cradle of Life were major box office disappointments although Jolie usually received good notices. She did provide the voice of Lola in the successful animated film, Shark Tale. Nonetheless she remains one of Hollywood''s most &quot;in-demand&quot; actresses.</p>\r\n<p>In early 2005, Jolie found herself at the center of a well-publicized Hollywood scandal when she was accused of being the &quot;other woman&quot; in the marital break-up of Brad Pitt and Jennifer Aniston. The allegation was that she and Pitt had started an affair during filming of the spy comedy Mr. &amp; Mrs. Smith, something she denies. In several interviews she has denied starting an affair with Pitt. In an interview with Marie Claire magazine recently she stated that she could never have a relationship with a married man because she has seen what relationships like that did to her mother. Her father has acknowledged that he cheated on Jolie''s mom when they were married. Jolie stated she &quot;could not, could not look herself in the mirror&quot; if she had an affair with a married man.</p>\r\n<p>Thanks to a mixture of generally good reviews and advance publicity due to all the rumors, Mr. &amp; Mrs. Smith opened in the No. 1 position at the box office after it was released in early June 2005, providing Jolie with her first box-office success in several years. In March 2005, Jolie was named the third sexiest woman in the world by FHM magazine, from fifteen million votes worldwide.</p>\r\n<p> <br>\r\n  Angelina on the cover of Men StyleSince taking on her goodwill ambassador duties, Jolie has on numerous occasions made public statements that she wants to quit acting and concentrate on her UN work (for example, see Ireland On-Line in June 2005 [2]). However, she has also stated that her work provides the income necessary for her to continue travelling the world on behalf of the UN.</p>\r\n<p>Jolie continues to balance the demands of being a movie star with that of being a humanitarian, despite an apparently grueling schedule. On June 7, 2005, the Associated Press wire service reported on Jolie giving a presentation in Islamabad, Pakistan. That very same day, she attended the premiere of Mr. &amp; Mrs. Smith in Los Angeles. She now lives full-time in Buckinghamshire, England, and owns property in Cambodia,which she had to have demined. Angelina Jolie spent the new year of 2005 by going abroad to film a documentary called &quot;A Moment in the World.&quot; She called on several actors and actresses to film in various locations around the world at the same time for three minutes. This was done in order to capture random moments that are happening across the world at the same time. Some confusion has arisen between this project and the independent endeavor A Moment on Earth, in which 60 filmmakers around the world captured two separate moments on August 5th and 6th, 2004. No release dates for either project are known at this time.</p>\r\n<p>In late June 2005, the New York Post reported a claim that Jolie is pregnant, a report republished on June 30 by Britain''s Sky TV, Sun Media Corporation in Canada, and the Asian Hindustan Times, among others. Her publicists presently deny this report. On July 5, 2005, People magazine reported that Jolie was in the final stages of adopting a baby girl, who was orphaned by AIDS, from Ethiopia, through the agency Wide Horizons for Children. Jolie has named her daughter Zahara Marley Jolie. A woman in London has been claiming she is Zahara''s birth mother since August of 2005. There has been no legal development regarding this claim. Ms. Jolie has contacted a lawyer in London to look into the matter. Earlier in the summer another woman came foward claiming to be the grandmother of Zahara. That claim too proved to be false. On September 28th 2005 while making an appearance to discuse American''s financial involvment with fighting AIDS globally on CNN''s &quot;The Situation Room&quot; with Wolf Blitzer Jolie stated that her daughter is a &quot;AIDS orphan.&quot; By that she means her birth mother died from the disease but her daughter does not have the disease. The birth father of Zahara is not known. Her statement made it clear that the birth mother is indeed dead. In late October of 2005 a Ethiopian judge ruled that there is no evidence to suggest that Ms. Jolie would have to file for re-adoption of her daughter Zahara Marley Jolie. The judge ruled that the woman claiming to be her mother is not the birth mother.</p>\r\n<p>In September of 2005 Angelina Jolie was named the new spokesperson for the clothing line St. John Knits starting in the Spring/Fall 0f 2006. The deal with the clothing company includes the startup of a charity headed by Ms. Jolie. The charity will focus on children''s issues and causes. It has been reported but not comfired that Angelina Jolie will also sit on the board of directors and have stock in the company. The deal is also believed to be the biggest celebrity clothing endorsement with the actress receiving 10-15 million dollars. Other celebrities such as Gwyneth Paltrow receive something in the neighborhood of 5 million dollars to promote luxury clothing and accessories. On October 24 Angelina Jolie attended the First Annual Benefit Gala for the Worldwide Orpahns Foundation. While there she pleadged to partner with WWO to treat children in Ethiopia who have been orphaned by AIDS and are HIV positive. &quot;AIDS is chronic and manageable, and does NOT have to kill any longer,&quot; said Ms. Jolie. Ms. Jolie announced her plan to support WWO''s Pediatric HIV/AIDS Clinic in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia and pledged an initial grant. The gala helped the organization raise $800,000. Dr. Jane Aronson, the organization''s founder, and Ms. Jolie first met through the adoption of her daughter Zahara and Jolie credits the doctor with helping save her daughter''s life.<br>\r\n</p>\r\n<p>The American magazine US Weekly, in reporting Jolie''s second adoption, indicated erroneously that Jolie and Pitt had adopted the girl together. When the magazine realized its error, the presses were stopped and an apology issued to Jolie and Pitt; printing of the issue resumed with the correction made, though a number of copies with the error were still released to the public. Reportedly, however, Pitt was present when Jolie signed the adoption papers. The agency later said Brad Pitt was not present when Angelina Jolie picked up her daughter. [3]</p>\r\n<p>In August 2005, Cambodia''s King Norodom Sihamoni awarded Jolie a Cambodian citizenship for her conservation work in the country.</p>\r\n<p>Speculation over the nature of Jolie and Pitt''s relationship continued throughout the summer of 2005. On August 22, the Calgary Herald ran a front-page story with a photo of Jolie taken during a surprise visit she made to Calgary, Alberta a couple of days earlier, accompanied by Zahara. Brad Pitt was at that time filming a movie in Calgary, as was her father, Jon Voight. It was later reported that Jolie and Pitt visited the Royal Tyrrell Museum of Palaeontology in Drumheller, Alberta together, and CNN and the Calgary Sun reported on September 22, 2005 that they visited West Edmonton Mall together.[4] On September 30, the Calgary Sun reported that Pitt and Jolie had rented a house together in the city of Spruce Grove, Alberta, west of Edmonton where Pitt was filming more scenes for his movie; the same issue printed a photograph of the two actors (dubbed &quot;Brangelina&quot;) leaving an Edmonton grocery store.<br>\r\n</p>\r\n<p><strong>Tattoos</strong><br>\r\n    <br>\r\n    Angelina Jolie showing off her largest tattoo, a large tiger on her backJolie''s inventory of tattoos has become the subject of much media attention, and she infrequently adds or even changes existing tattoos. She has said that all the tattoos she possesses have a special meaning. Her tattoos include:</p>\r\n<p>the letter H (for her brother James Haven) on the inside of her left wrist. <br>\r\n&quot;A prayer for the wild at heart, kept in cages&quot; (Tennessee Williams) on her left forearm. <br>\r\n  a large prayer for her son Maddox on her left shoulder which covers up the Chinese/Japanese &quot;death&quot; tattoo. <br>\r\n  two pointy black tribals on the lower parts of her back. <br>\r\n  Quod me nutrit me destruit (Latin for &quot;What nourishes me destroys me&quot;) several inches below her navel. <br>\r\n  a tilted Latin cross on the lower left of her abdomen. <br>\r\n  a large Asian tiger on her back. <br>\r\n  a dragon under the tiger. <br>\r\n  XIII (number 13 in Roman numerals) on her left forearm. <br>\r\n  Arabic for &quot;strength of will.&quot; (&#1575;&#1604;&#1593;&#1586;&#1610;&#1605;&#1577;) on her right forearm. <br>\r\n&quot;know your rights&quot; just under her neck between her shoulders. </p>\r\n<p><strong>Lasered/Covered:</strong></p>\r\n<p>the dragon on her left arm (she has been lasering it for some months now but we can still see some of it). <br>\r\n&quot;Billy Bob&quot;, the name of her former husband Billy Bob Thornton, on her left arm. <br>\r\n  a Chinese/Japanese character for courage now covered by the Tennessee Williams quote. <br>\r\n  a Chinese/Japanese character for death (&#27515;) now covered by a prayer for Maddox. <br>\r\n  a tattoo both Billy Bob Thornton and Angelina had a copy of. It was on her right forearm, now covered by the &quot;strength of will&quot; tattoo. <br>\r\n  a dragon she got in Amsterdam while drunk, now covered by the latin cross. <br>\r\n  a window on her lower back. On Inside the Actors Studio, she explained that she covered this tattoo, because, while she used to spend all of her time staring through windows wishing to be outside, she now lives there all of the time. <br>\r\n  Jolie has gone on record as saying that a positive effect resulting from the large number of tattoos on her body is that, while she is not opposed to film nudity, filmmakers have been forced to become more creative when plotting any nude or love scenes involving her. Make-up has been used to cover up the tattoos in productions such as the Tomb Raider movies, Alexander, and Mr. &amp; Mrs. Smith.</p>\r\n<p> </p>\r\n<p><strong>Other trivia</strong><br>\r\n  She has said that she is bisexual and once claimed to have been in love with fashion model Jenny Shimizu, her co-star in the film Foxfire. <br>\r\n  She is left-handed. <br>\r\n  Jolie once described herself as &quot;most likely to sleep with a female fan&quot;. <br>\r\n  She speaks French. <br>\r\n  The name Angelina actually means &quot;Pretty Little Angel Eyes&quot;. Jolie in French means &quot;pretty&quot; or &quot;lovely.&quot; <br>\r\n  She drives a black Ford truck. <br>\r\n  She knows how to Tango. <br>\r\n  She has a pilot''s license. <br>\r\n  She collects knives and has interest in mortuary science. <br>\r\n  She was born at 9:09 a.m. in Los Angeles. <br>\r\n  She used to own a pet rat snake--therefore, she had no problem shooting the snake scene in Alexander. <br>\r\n  She claims to have a fondness for Liverpool Football Club, having revealed that her baby son, Maddox, &quot;only wants to play for Liverpool&quot; after he was admitted to Alder Hey Hospital in Liverpool for treatment. <br>\r\n  She has continually denied rumors of an incestuous relationship with her brother, James Haven. During her acceptance speech for winning the Best Actress in a Supporting Role award for Girl Interrupted during the 2000 Academy Awards, Jolie stated &quot;I''m so in love with my brother&quot; which, combined with her affectionate behavior towards her brother that night, sparked the rumors. On Inside the Actor''s Studio she stated that she never had an incestuous relationship with her brother, stating that &quot;the world is a lot sicker than I thought,&quot; in reference to the conclusion everyone jumped to. Also in an interview with People Magazine she and her brother stated that being children of divorce they relied on each other and because of that they hold on to each other, as a means of emotional support. Jolie has starred in five student movies, all of which were directed by her brother. <br>\r\n  In October 2005, The Sun tabloid in Britain, as well as several American entertainment news programs, reported that Jolie is in the running to appear with her Lara Croft: Tomb Raider co-star Daniel Craig in the next James Bond film, Casino Royale. <br>\r\n</p>\r\n<p><strong>Filmography</strong><br>\r\n    <br>\r\n    Esquire, November 2004Lookin'' to Get Out (1982) <br>\r\n    Cyborg 2 (1993) <br>\r\n    Angela &amp; Viril (1993) (short subject) <br>\r\n    Alice &amp; Viril (1993) (short subject) <br>\r\n    Without Evidence (1995) <br>\r\n    Hackers (1995) <br>\r\n    Mojave Moon (1996) <br>\r\n    Love Is All There Is (1996) <br>\r\n    Foxfire (1996) <br>\r\n    Playing God (1997) <br>\r\n    Gia (1998) <br>\r\n    Hell''s Kitchen (1998) <br>\r\n    Playing by Heart (1998) <br>\r\n    Pushing Tin (1998) <br>\r\n    The Bone Collector (1999) <br>\r\n    Girl, Interrupted (1999) <br>\r\n    Gone in Sixty Seconds (2000) <br>\r\n    Lara Croft: Tomb Raider (2001) <br>\r\n    Original Sin (2001) <br>\r\n    Life or Something Like It (2002) <br>\r\n    Trading Women (2003) (documentary) (narrator) <br>\r\n    Lara Croft Tomb Raider: The Cradle of Life (2003) <br>\r\n    Beyond Borders (2003) <br>\r\n    Taking Lives (2004) <br>\r\n    Shark Tale (2004) (voice) <br>\r\n    Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow (2004) <br>\r\n    The Fever (2004) <br>\r\n    Alexander (2004) <br>\r\n    Mr. &amp; Mrs. Smith (2005) <br>\r\n    The Good Shepherd (2006) <br>\r\n    Beowulf (2007) (voice) <br>\r\n</p>\r\n');
INSERT INTO `bios` VALUES ('a', 'Anna Kournikova', 'Anna_Kournikova.jpg', '<p><strong>Anna Kournikova </strong></p>\r\n<p>Anna Sergeyevna Kournikova (Russian: &#1040;&#1085;&#1085;&#1072; &#1057;&#1077;&#1088;&#1075;&#1077;&#1077;&#1074;&#1085;&#1072; &#1050;&#1091;&#1088;&#1085;&#1080;&#1082;&#1086;&#1074;&#1072;, &Aacute;nna Serg&eacute;yevna K&uacute;rnikova; born June 7, 1981) is a tennis player. She is one of the best known tennis players, especially among those who do not follow the game. Anna was born in Moscow, Russia to Alla and Sergei Kournikov; her family later emigrated to the United States, and she currently resides in Miami, Florida.<br>\r\n</p>\r\n<p><strong>Tennis career</strong></p>\r\n<p>Anna dazzled the world at age 13 and 14 in international junior tennis, winning several tournaments including the 1995 Italian Open. Anna Kournikova was 14 years old when she ended 1995 as Junior European Champion U(nder)18 and Junior World Champion U18.</p>\r\n<p>Kournikova debuted in professional tennis at age 14 in the Fed Cup for Russia, the youngest player ever to participate and win. At age 15, she reached the fourth round of the 1996 U.S. Open, only to be stopped by then-top ranked player Steffi Graf.</p>\r\n<p>Anna was a member of the Russian delegation to the 1996 Olympic Games in Atlanta, Georgia. As a 16-year old, she reached the semi-finals of Wimbledon. Kournikova''s first of two Grand Slam doubles titles came in 1999 at the Australian Open in the Women''s Doubles event with partner Martina Hingis, with whom she played frequently.</p>\r\n<p>Kournikova proved a successful doubles player on the senior circuit, winning sixteen doubles titles, including two Australian Opens and being a finalist in mixed doubles at the US Open and Wimbledon, and reaching #1 in doubles in the Women''s Tennis Association tour rankings. Her career doubles record was 200-71. However, while she was ranked as high as #8 as a singles player at one point, she only reached a WTA singles final four times in 130 tournaments, never won one, and spent the bulk of her career ranked out of the top thirty. She had a record of 209-129 as a singles player.</p>\r\n<p>Although, her final years marred by injuries, Kournikova has not played on the WTA tour since 2003, she still plays exhibition matches for charitable causes. In late 2004 she participated in three events organized by Elton John and by fellow tennis stars and good friends Serena Williams and Andy Roddick. She played for Tsunami relief January 2005 with John McEnroe, Andy Roddick and Chris Evert.</p>\r\n<p>Anna was also a member of Newport Beachbreakers in the World Team Tennis (WTT) competition in July and November 2005, playing doubles only. In November 2005 she teamed up with Martina Hingis, reviving the &quot;Spice girls of tennis&quot;, playing against Lisa Raymond and Samantha Stosur in the WTT finals for charity. In her ''Elle'' column July 2005 Kournikova stated that if she were 100% fit she would like to come back and compete again.<br>\r\n</p>\r\n<p><strong>Media publicity</strong><br>\r\n    <br>\r\nAnna Kournikova on the cover of Maxim magazine in 2004.Much of Anna''s fame -- more, many have argued, than she ever gained in her tennis career --has come from publicity surrounding her personal life as well as numerous modelling shoots. A number of her relationships with other celebrities, including romantic involvement with pop star Enrique Iglesias (in whose video, Escape, she appeared) and with hockey star Sergei Fedorov, have featured prominently in the tabloid press. Photographs of her scantily-clad form have appeared in various men''s magazines, including a much-publicized Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue and other popular publications such as FHM and Maxim. Kournikova was named one of People''s 50 Most Beautiful People in 1998, 2000, 2002, and 2003. She has also been voted &quot;hottest athlete&quot; on espn.com and &quot;sexiest woman in the world&quot; by FHM readers. By contrast, ESPN -- citing the degree of hype as compared to actual accomplishments as a singles player -- ranked Anna 18th in its &quot;25 Biggest Sports Flops of the Past 25 Years&quot;.</p>\r\n<p>Kournikova had a small role (as a motel manager) in the 2000 film Me, Myself and Irene, starring Jim Carrey.<br>\r\n</p>\r\n<p><strong>Books</strong></p>\r\n<p>Anna Kournikova by Susan Holden (2001) <br>\r\n  Anna Kournikova (Women Who Win) by Connie Berman <br>\r\n</p>\r\n');
INSERT INTO `bios` VALUES ('a', 'Amanda Peet', 'Amanda_Peet.jpg', '<p><strong>Amanda Peet </strong></p>\r\n<p>Amanda Peet (January 11, 1972-) is an American motion picture actress.</p>\r\n<p>Born in New York to a Quaker father and Jewish mother, Peet attended Friends Seminary with Liev Schreiber and studied history at Columbia University, where she auditioned for acting teacher Uta Hagen. During her 4-year period of study with Hagen, Peet appeared in the off-Broadway revival of Clifford Odets'' Awake and Sing.</p>\r\n<p>Her first screen performance was a television commercial for Skittles. Her early roles included a guest starring role on Law &amp; Order, and she made her film debut in 1995, in Animal Room. Peet maintained a steady acting career in relatively obscure indie movies.</p>\r\n<p>Her first major role was as &quot;Jack&quot; in the 1999 TV series Jack &amp; Jill which aired for two seasons. Her first wide-release feature film came in 2000, with The Whole Nine Yards, opposite Bruce Willis, elevating her status from supporting actress to lead.</p>\r\n<p>In 2000, she was voted one of the 50 Most Beautiful People by People Magazine.</p>\r\n<p>She is currently engaged to actor/writer David Benioff. (July 22, 2005)</p>\r\n<p><strong>Filmography</strong></p>\r\n<p>Animal Room (1995) <br>\r\n  Central Park West (1996) (TV series) <br>\r\n  Winterlude (1996) <br>\r\n  Virginity (1996) <br>\r\n  She''s the One (1996) <br>\r\n  Sax and Violins (1997) <br>\r\n  Grind (1997) <br>\r\n  Touch Me (1997) <br>\r\n  Ellen Foster (1997) <br>\r\n  Origin of the Species (1998) <br>\r\n  1999 (1998) <br>\r\n  Southie (1998) <br>\r\n  Body Shots (1999) <br>\r\n  Jack &amp; Jill (1999) (TV Series) <br>\r\n  Two Ninas (1999) <br>\r\n  Jump (1999) <br>\r\n  Simply Irresistible (1999) <br>\r\n  Playing by Heart (1999) <br>\r\n  Partners (1999) (TV Series) <br>\r\n  Isn''t She Great (2000) <br>\r\n  The Whole Nine Yards (2000) <br>\r\n  Whipped (2000) <br>\r\n  Saving Silverman (2001) <br>\r\n  High Crimes (2002) <br>\r\n  Igby Goes Down (2002) <br>\r\n  Changing Lanes (2002) <br>\r\n  Identity (2003) <br>\r\n  Something''s Gotta Give (2003) <br>\r\n  The Whole Ten Yards (2004) <br>\r\n  Melinda and Melinda (2004) <br>\r\n  A Lot Like Love (2005) <br>\r\n  Syriana (2005) <br>\r\n  The Martian Child (2005) <br>\r\n  Griffin and Phoenix (2006) <br>\r\n  Fast Track (2006) <br>\r\n  Snow Angels (2006) <br>\r\n</p>\r\n');
INSERT INTO `bios` VALUES ('a', 'Amy Smart ', 'Amy_Smart.jpg', '<p><strong>Amy Smart </strong></p>\r\n<p>Amy L. Smart (born March 26, 1976 to John Smart and Judy Carrington) is an American film actress. She has starred in films including Rat Race (2001), The Butterfly Effect (2004), Road Trip (2000) and Bigger Than the Sky (2005).</p>\r\n<p>Born in Topanga Canyon, California, this 5''4&quot;, blue eyed actress first caught attention with her role in Varsity Blues. In 2004, she was nominated for Best Kiss at the MTV Movie Awards for Starsky &amp; Hutch.<br>\r\n</p>\r\n<p><strong>Filmography</strong></p>\r\n<p>Peaceful Warrior (2006) (filming) - Joy <br>\r\n  The Best Man (2006) (post-production) - Sarah Barker <br>\r\n  Just Friends (2005) (completed) - Jamie <br>\r\n  Bigger Than the Sky (2005) - Grace Hargrove/Roxanne <br>\r\n  Starsky &amp; Hutch (2004) - Holly <br>\r\n  Willowbee (2004) - Burgler <br>\r\n  Win a Date with Tad Hamilton! (2004) - Nurse <br>\r\n  The Butterfly Effect (2004) - Kayleigh Miller <br>\r\n  Blind Horizon (2003) - Liz Culpepper <br>\r\n  The Battle of Shaker Heights (2003) - Tabby <br>\r\n  National Lampoon''s Barely Legal (2003) - Naomi Feldman <br>\r\n  Interstate 60 (2002) - Lynn Linden <br>\r\n  Rat Race (2001) - Tracy Faucet <br>\r\n  Scotland, Pa. (2001) - Stacy (Hippie #1) <br>\r\n  Road Trip (2000) - Beth Wagner <br>\r\n  The ''70s (2000) (mini) TV Series - Christie Shales <br>\r\n  Outside Providence (1999) - Jane Weston <br>\r\n  Varsity Blues (1999) - Jules Harbor <br>\r\n  Brookfield (1999) (TV) - Daly Roberts (Series Regular) <br>\r\n  Strangeland (1998) - Angela Stravelli <br>\r\n  Starstruck (1998) - Tracey Beck <br>\r\n  Circles (1998) <br>\r\n  How to Make the Cruelest Month (1998) - Dot Bryant <br>\r\n  Starship Troopers (1997) - Cadet Lumbreiser <br>\r\n  The Last Time I Committed Suicide (1997) - Jeananne <br>\r\n  Campfire Tales (1997) - Jenny (segment &quot;The Hook&quot;) <br>\r\n  High Voltage (1997) - Molly <br>\r\n  Her Costly Affair (1996) (TV) - Dee <br>\r\n  Seduced by Madness: The Diane Borchardt Story (1996) (TV) - Girl #1 <br>\r\n  A &amp; P (1996) - Queenie <br>\r\n</p>');
INSERT INTO `bios` VALUES ('a', 'Ashley Judd', 'Ashley_Judd.jpg', '<p><strong>Ashley Judd </strong></p>\r\n<p>Ashley Judd (born April 19, 1968 in Granada Hills, California) is an American actress. Her father is Michael Ciminella and her mother and sister are country singers, Naomi Judd and Wynonna Judd, respectively. Her birth name is Ashley Tyler Ciminella.<br>\r\n</p>\r\n<p><strong>Early years</strong></p>\r\n<p>Her early years were without the comforts of what can be considered the bare necessities, such as running water, electricity, or a telephone.</p>\r\n<p>She attended 12 schools in 13 years before college. She Left the University of Kentucky a semester short of a bachelor''s degree in French in 1990.<br>\r\n</p>\r\n<p><strong>Actress</strong></p>\r\n<p>Her television appearances include the role of Lieutenant Robin Lefler, a Starfleet officer, in two 1991 episodes of Star Trek: The Next Generation and the part of Swoosie Kurtz''s daughter on the first season of the NBC drama Sisters.</p>\r\n<p>Her film debut was a small part in Kuffs (1992) and her first major role was in Ruby in Paradise (1993), a hit independent drama. She had a role in Oliver Stone''s Natural Born Killers, but all the scenes she played in were cut from the final version of the film.</p>\r\n<p>She found further critical acclaim in Smoke (1995) and publicity in Heat (1995).</p>\r\n<p>By the end of the 1990s she managed to achieve significant fame and success as an actress. As a respected actor, she began to be offered leading roles in films that were bound to be successful at the box office, but still required acting skills, like Double Jeopardy (1999) and Someone Like You (2001).<br>\r\n</p>\r\n<p><strong>Personal life</strong></p>\r\n<p>Whenever her schedule allows, she regularly attends UK basketball games, frequently sitting next to Donna Smith (wife of UK Coach Tubby Smith), or in the student section. She allowed her alma mater to release a calendar of her photos to help raise money for the sports programs. She is frequently sought out for celebrity camera shots during televised games (much like Jack Nicholson with the Los Angeles Lakers or Spike Lee with the New York Knicks).</p>\r\n<p>She married Scottish Indy Racing League driver Dario Franchitti at Skibo Castle near Dornoch, Scotland in 2001.<br>\r\n</p>\r\n<p><strong>Filmography</strong></p>\r\n<p>Bug (2006) <br>\r\n  The Women (2006) <br>\r\n  Norma Jean &amp; Marilyn by HBO. She played Norma Jean. <br>\r\n  De-Lovely (2004) <br>\r\n  The Heart of America Tour (2004) (short subject) <br>\r\n  Twisted (2004) <br>\r\n  Frida (2002) <br>\r\n  Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood (2002) <br>\r\n  High Crimes (2002) <br>\r\n  Someone Like You... (2001) <br>\r\n  Where the Heart Is (2000) <br>\r\n  Double Jeopardy (1999) <br>\r\n  Eye of the Beholder (1999) <br>\r\n  Junket Whore (1998) (documentary) <br>\r\n  Simon Birch (1998) <br>\r\n  Kiss the Girls (1997) <br>\r\n  The Locusts (1997) <br>\r\n  Normal Life (1996) <br>\r\n  A Time to Kill (1996) <br>\r\n  Heat (1995) <br>\r\n  Smoke (1995) <br>\r\n  The Passion of Darkly Noon (1995) <br>\r\n  Natural Born Killers (1994) (scenes deleted) <br>\r\n  Ruby in Paradise (1993) <br>\r\n  Kuffs (1992) <br>\r\n</p>');
INSERT INTO `bios` VALUES ('a', 'Ashlee Simpson', 'Ashlee_Simpson.jpg', '<p><strong>Ashlee Simpson </strong></p>\r\n<p>Ashlee Nicole Simpson (born October 3, 1984) is an American pop rock singer and an actress. Originally known for being the younger sister of pop singer Jessica Simpson, Simpson eventually rose to prominence in her own right in mid-2004 through her chart-topping debut album Autobiography and the accompanying MTV reality series The Ashlee Simpson Show. Simpson received negative attention when she used a pre-recorded vocal track on the sketch comedy show Saturday Night Live (SNL) in October 2004. This led to accusations that she had lip synched during the performance (according to Simpson, she needed a backing track due to an illness known as acid reflux), which continued to follow her throughout the promotion of her first album. Simpson''s second number-one album, I Am Me, was released in October 2005.<br>\r\n</p>\r\n<p><strong>Biography</strong></p>\r\n<p><strong>Early history</strong><br>\r\n  Born and raised in Texas, Ashlee is the daughter of Joe Truett Simpson (a former Baptist youth minister who is now her manager) and Tina Ann Drew (a former Sunday School teacher who homeschooled Ashlee). An accomplished dancer, Simpson began studying classical ballet at the age of three, and was admitted to the School of American Ballet in New York City at the age of eleven. After Simpson''s sister Jessica signed a record deal, their family decided to move to Los Angeles, California, where Simpson began appearing in television commercials. When Jessica achieved fame through her first album, Simpson became a backup dancer for Jessica''s concerts. Later, she began appearing in films and television series, including an episode of the TV sitcom Malcolm in the Middle in 2001, a minor role in the 2002 film The Hot Chick and a recurring role in the series 7th Heaven. In 2003, Simpson recorded a song called &quot;Just Let Me Cry&quot; for the soundtrack to the film Freaky Friday. Eventually, Simpson signed a record deal with Geffen Records.</p>\r\n<p><strong>Autobiography: Early music career and reality TV</strong></p>\r\n<p>Simpson''s first album, Autobiography, was released in the U.S. on July 20, 2004 and debuted at number one on the Billboard 200 chart with sales in the first week numbering about 400,000 copies. The album was certified triple platinum on September 2004. Critical reviews were mixed, with the online review collection site Metacritic giving the album fifty-five out of one-hundred points. Rolling Stone magazine''s Peter Relic described Autobiography as a &quot;mundane melange of Avril-ish brat pop and Sheryl Crow cod rock&quot; while &quot;E! Online&quot; wrote &quot;Even if it doesn''t wow you, Autobiography may surprise you.&quot; The single &quot;Pieces of Me&quot; that preceded the album was one of the most widely-played songs in the U.S. in mid-2004 and sold well internationally, but the next single, &quot;Shadow&quot;, was less successful and not released in the U.K. However, the &quot;La La&quot; single was released in the UK in 2005.</p>\r\n<p>When appearing for live performances, Simpson performs live with a backing band that consists of Ray Brady (guitar), Braxton Olita (guitar), Joey Kaimana (bass guitar&mdash;from 2004 to 2005 Zach Kennedy filled this role), Chris James (keyboards and vocals&mdash;from late 2004 to 2005 Lucy Walsh filled this role), and Chris Fox (drums). In September 2004, Simpson announced on her website that the band would be named &quot;Ashlee Simpson and Submission,&quot; taking the name from the fact that they had received so many submissions of proposals for the name.</p>\r\n<p> <br>\r\n  Screenshot from episode two in season one of the MTV reality series The Ashlee Simpson Show. This shows Simpson''s natural blonde hair before it was dyed dark brown to promote her first album, Autobiography.Simpson also occasionally appeared on Newlyweds, a reality show about the married life of Jessica and her husband Nick Lachey; eventually, she got her own MTV reality show entitled The Ashlee Simpson Show, which aired in a time slot subsequent time to Newlyweds. It ran in the U.S. for eight weekly episodes over the summer of 2004, and a second season of ten episodes aired from January to March 2005. The show dealt with the process of writing, recording, and performing Simpson''s music, and also dealt with aspects of her personal life.</p>\r\n<p>In addition to her own first album, Simpson sang &quot;Christmas Past, Present, and Future&quot; on the 2004 holiday album Radio Disney Jingle Jams and a duet of the Christmas song &quot;Little Drummer Boy&quot; with her sister Jessica for the album Rejoyce, which they sung together during the ABC variety hour special &quot;Nick &amp; Jessica''s Family Christmas&quot;. Simpson also co-hosted Dick Clark''s New Year''s Rockin Eve along with Regis Philbin (in Dick Clark''s absence) at the end of the year, hosting the West Coast portion of the show and performing three songs.<br>\r\n</p>\r\n<p><strong>Saturday Night Live incident</strong><br>\r\n    <br>\r\n    Simpson walking away after rehearsing for a Saturday Night Live performance. She is seen in distress here due to her vocal difficulties she had during the rehearsal.Simpson appeared on Saturday Night Live as a musical guest on October 24, 2004, and as is customary for the show''s format, she was scheduled to perform two songs. The first song she performed, &quot;Pieces of Me&quot;, went off without a hitch. However, when she began her second song, &quot;Autobiography&quot;, a recording of &quot;Pieces of Me&quot; was heard before she had raised the microphone to her mouth. Simpson began to dance nervously (later calling it a &quot;hoe-down&quot;) and then left the stage. The show then cut to an emergency commercial break. During the closing of the show Simpson appeared with the guest host Jude Law stating that her band performed the wrong song in the opening on the performance. Others, however, criticized her for what they saw as evidence that she was lip syncing.</p>\r\n<p>On October 25, Simpson called in to the music video show Total Request Live and explained that due to complications arising from a &quot;severe&quot; variation of acid reflux (which had previously been seen in The Ashlee Simpson Show) she had completely lost her voice and that her doctor advised her not to sing. She continued that because of the acid reflux, her father required her to use a guide track for the performance. She said of the incident: &quot;I made a complete fool of myself.&quot; According to her, the drummer hit the wrong button, which caused the wrong track to be played. During the October 25 Radio Music Awards broadcast, Simpson pretended, as a joke, to make the same mistake as she did in the SNL incident, but then began to perform &quot;Autobiography&quot;, without using a pre-recorded vocal track as she had done during the prior SNL performance. On October 31, the CBS news program 60 Minutes aired footage from Simpson''s rehearsals before the SNL performance, in which she was portrayed as having trouble with her voice and seemed visibly upset.</p>\r\n<p>Almost a year later, Simpson was invited back as a guest performer, with a scheduled appearance on the October 8, 2005 episode of SNL. For her first of two songs, she performed the ballad &quot;Catch Me When I Fall&quot;, which was written about her previous SNL experience. Her second and more energetic song of the show was the first single from I Am Me, &quot;Boyfriend&quot;. The audience''s enthusiastic reaction to this performance seemed more positive than its reaction to the first, and Simpson glowed, thanking the crowd before the broadcast went to commercial.<br>\r\n</p>\r\n<p><strong>Awards and more controversy</strong></p>\r\n<p>In 2004 Simpson received the &quot;Song of the Summer&quot; Teen Choice Award for &quot;Pieces of Me,&quot; as well as the &quot;Fresh Face&quot; award. In addition, she also won a Billboard Award for New Female Artist of the Year in December and was later named Entertainment Weeklys &quot;Breakout Star of 2004&quot; in January 2005. On January 4, 2005, Simpson performed &quot;La La&quot; at the halftime show for the Orange Bowl in Miami, Florida; when her performance finished, many of the 72,000-plus spectators booed. Representatives for the Orange Bowl stated that they were pleased with her performance and felt that it was a belated reaction to the SNL incident, while others have speculated that it may have been because the audience of the Orange Bowl was outside of Simpson''s target age bracket. Still others disagree, however, and assert that her performance was poor and off-key. <br>\r\n</p>\r\n<p><strong>Foray into film</strong></p>\r\n<p>Simpson had a supporting role as an aspiring actress and short-haired &quot;tomboy&quot; named Clea in the romantic comedy film Undiscovered (originally titled Wannabe), an independent film that was released in theaters on August 26, 2005. Simpson, who filmed her scenes in late 2004, said that for her first significant film role she decided to play a secondary character rather than taking on a leading role so soon. Film critic Michael Rechtstaffen of the Hollywood Reporter said Simpson''s performance was &quot;subdued&quot; and &quot;unadorned&quot;, and Robert K. Elder felt that Simpson was &quot;aware of her own overexposure and underplaying her part fittingly&quot;. The film itself met with mostly negative reviews, and placed outside of the top ten, earning $676,048 in its opening weekend.<br>\r\n</p>\r\n<p><strong>Early 2005</strong></p>\r\n<p>In January 2005, following her Orange Bowl performance, an Internet petition at PetitionOnline.com complaining about Simpson''s singing was among the most active of the site''s petitions. Simpson later said, &quot;that''s cool. You don''t always have to be a fan of everybody''s music,&quot; also citing the support she had received from her fans. Around the time of the petition, Cosmopolitan magazine chose Simpson to be on the cover of the February 2005 issue, naming her the &quot;Fun Fearless Female of the Year&quot;.</p>\r\n<p>Simpson''s first U.S. headlining tour (with two dates in Canada as well) ran from mid-February to late April 2005. The opening acts for the tour were Pepper''s Ghost and The Click Five. In addition to her usual Autobiography songs, Simpson also performed three cover songs; The Pretenders'' &quot;Brass in Pocket&quot;, Blondie''s &quot;Call Me&quot;, and Madonna''s &quot;Burning Up&quot; along with Simpson''s own unreleased song &quot;Hollywood&quot;. She said that the tour would be &quot;stripped down&quot;, without pyrotechnics, and that &quot;it''s going to be me and my band getting out there and having fun.&quot; In March 2005, Simpson stated that she would like to incorporate the feel of music from the 1980s on her second album, and that the album would focus less on relationships and more on herself. She also said that she wanted to do another television show, but that The Ashlee Simpson Show would conclude at the end of its second season, the last episode of which aired at the end of March.<br>\r\n</p>\r\n<p><strong>Current activities</strong></p>\r\n<p>Simpson''s second album, I Am Me, was released on October 18, 2005 in the U.S. and debuted at number one; [25] the first single, &quot;Boyfriend&quot;, hit radio in early September 2005. Simpson began touring on September 21 in Portland, Oregon, to promote the new album and single (with the main tour beginning in November), and she has appeared on several television programs to promote the album. Most notably, Simpson returned to SNL on October 8/9, performing two new songs, &quot;Catch Me When I Fall&quot; and &quot;Boyfriend&quot;. &quot;Catch Me When I Fall&quot; was written by Simpson after her unsuccessful first appearance, a fact she noted before starting the song. In contrast to her SNL debut in October of 2004, her second appearance on the show went on without any problems. On October 14, MTV aired a show about Simpson''s 21st birthday earlier in the month, Ashlee Simpson Live and Legal.</p>\r\n<p>Simpson plans to continue touring into 2006, and the second single from I Am Me is expected to be &quot;L.O.V.E.&quot; She appeared on the cover of Teen People with her sister Jessica for the December 2005/January 2006 issue, and she will also be on the cover of Blender for the December 2005 issue. In early November, the Canadian entertainment news programme eTalk Daily broadcast a video of a late night visit made by Simpson to a McDonald''s fast food restaurant in Toronto, in which Simpson appeared to be drunk, refusing to pose for a picture and arguing with an employee. <br>\r\n</p>\r\n<p><strong>Image and personal life</strong><br>\r\n    <br>\r\nCover of the August 2005 edition of Cosmo Girl featuring a photo of Ashlee Simpson with blonde hair, to which she returned in May 2005.Simpson has a decidedly different image from that of her sister. Previously blonde like Jessica, she dyed her hair dark during the recording of the MTV reality show after she finished filming for the 7th Heaven television series, although after a year with dark hair she returned to blonde in 2005. Simpson''s songs also have rock elements absent from her sister''s music, and Simpson often wears shirts with &quot;punk&quot;-style designs, sometimes displaying band names, and typically has her fingernails and toenails painted black. She has three tattoos: a star on one wrist, two cherries on her ankle, and the word &quot;love&quot; on her other wrist.</p>\r\n<p>Her vocals, while generally not thought to equal her sister''s range, have been praised by some as fitting the style of her music, and are sometimes described as raspy. Simpson and her sister Jessica were tied for third on oft-quoted celebrity-fashion critic Mr. Blackwell''s list of the worst-dressed celebrities of 2004. Blackwell wrote that &quot;from gaudy to grim to downright frenetic these two prove that bad taste is positively genetic.&quot;</p>\r\n<p>She has refused to discuss her sex life, in contrast with her sister Jessica, who openly stated her intention to practice sexual abstinence until marriage. &quot;I decided that I didn''t want to talk about that because it''s super personal,&quot; she said of the situation. Simpson''s relationship with Josh Henderson lasted about two years and ended during the first episode of The Ashlee Simpson Show. Soon she began her relationship with musician Ryan Cabrera, a relationship that was also featured in the reality show, and Simpson appeared as Cabrera''s love interest in the music video for Cabrera''s song &quot;On the Way Down&quot;. The two were reported to have split up in August 2004 due to their busy schedules, but they were sometimes seen together in the months that followed.</p>\r\n<p>At the beginning of the second season of The Ashlee Simpson Show Simpson indicated that they had resumed their relationship, although the two broke up again in early 2005. Simpson says the single &quot;Boyfriend&quot; from her upcoming album I Am Me &quot;is about [how] every girl out there sometimes thinks you stole her boyfriend. It''s just making fun of that&quot;; she says it is not about Lindsay Lohan and Wilmer Valderrama, although there have been rumors that Simpson stole Valderrama from Lohan.<br>\r\n</p>\r\n<p><strong>Criticism</strong></p>\r\n<p>There have been arguments that Simpson is a &quot;manufactured&quot; artist and mediocre singer, and that her appearances on her MTV reality show were &quot;phony&quot; and aimed at promoting her album. Such critics cite incidents like the SNL episode and the Orange Bowl performance as proof of their claims, while others consider Simpson''s carefully crafted image instead of her music to be the reason for her continued success.</p>\r\n<p>Much of the media speculate that Simpson was pushed to fame through the aggressive management style and contacts of her father, Joe Simpson, who is her manager and was the executive producer of her reality show. Some think that Simpson has lip-synced on occasions other than the SNL episode, comparing the impact of the SNL incident to the incident Milli Vanilli had in 1990 in a live MTV performance in which the guide track skipped, revealing that they had lip-synced. However, Simpson''s successful tour of February&ndash;April 2005 and the number one debut of I Am Me in October 2005 seemed to contradict predictions that the incident would have a disastrous impact on her career.</p>\r\n<p>In early 2005, Simpson''s marketing campaign was accused of astroturfing by users on several websites. A post on Metafilter claimed that the marketing company posted the same text, which contained the text, &quot;I just read about Ashlee in us weekly. Those guys at the football game were total jerks.&quot; (the &quot;football game&quot; referring to the Orange Bowl incident) under the user name &quot;mandyc19&quot; on over three hundred different music-related forums in order to further promote Simpson and paint her in a positive light. This (and possibly other instances) led to a new term, &quot;Ashleeturfing&quot;, to describe faux fan raves such as this.<br>\r\n</p>\r\n<p><strong>Filmography</strong></p>\r\n<p>Year Title Role Other notes <br>\r\n  2005 Undiscovered Clea <br>\r\n  2002 7th Heaven Cecilia Smith Television series; through 2004 <br>\r\n  2002 The Hot Chick Monique Minor role <br>\r\n</p>\r\n');
INSERT INTO `bios` VALUES ('b', 'Brad Pitt', 'Brad_Pitt.jpg', '<p><strong>Brad Pitt </strong></p>\r\n<p>Brad Pitt (born William Bradley Pitt on December 18, 1963), is an American film actor, and one of the most widely recognized people in the world.</p>\r\n<p>He was born in Shawnee, Oklahoma to strictly Southern Baptist parents of mainly British and Irish descent and was raised in Springfield, Missouri.</p>\r\n<p>In high school, Pitt was involved in sports, debating, student government, and school musicals. He attended the University of Missouri School of Journalism where he was a member of the Sigma Chi Fraternity. He was two credits shy of graduating with a journalism degree, before trying his luck in Hollywood.</p>\r\n<p>Before he became successful at acting, Pitt supported himself as a chauffer, by working as a furniture mover, and as a costumed mascot for the restaurant chain El Pollo Loco. In the late 1980s, Pitt started landing acting gigs on prime-time series such as Dallas, thirtysomething, 21 Jump Street, Another World, Growing Pains, and Head of the Class. In 1988, he finally landed his first starring role in The Dark Side of the Sun. But as the film was being edited, civil war tore apart Yugoslavia, where location shooting was taking place. Most of the footage remained lost until 1997, when the film was finally released.</p>\r\n<p>In 1991, Pitt finally got his big break in one of that year''s biggest hits: Thelma &amp; Louise as J.D., Thelma (Geena Davis)''s one-night stand who gives her tips on robbing 7-11 stores. He followed up that success with A River Runs Through It and Se7en.</p>\r\n<p>In 1995, he was chosen by Empire magazine as one of the 25 sexiest stars in film history. Pitt has also twice been named the &quot;Sexiest Man Alive&quot; by People magazine, the only person to ever receive this honor more than once, and is consistently rated as the world''s sexiest man in womens'' polls worldwide.</p>\r\n<p>Pitt was involved in a long-term relationship with actress Gwyneth Paltrow. They became engaged in December 1996, but it didn''t last long and the two split up in June 1997. Extensive tabloid coverage surrounded the relationship. Nude photographs of the couple &mdash; taken by paparazzi without permission &mdash; controversially appeared in magazines.</p>\r\n<p>Also in 1997, the film Seven Years in Tibet was released. This film, which chronicled China''s invasion of Tibet, was hailed by Tibetian nationalists and resulted in Brad Pitt, along with his co-star David Thewlis being banned from entering China for life.</p>\r\n<p>He married actress Jennifer Aniston on July 29, 2000. Their separation was announced on January 7, 2005, and Aniston filed for a divorce on March 25 the same year. There has been speculation that the marriage ended due to Aniston''s refusal to have children with Pitt, which he greatly desired.</p>\r\n<p>After seperation from Aniston, Pitt began dating actress Angelina Jolie. Pitt accompanied Jolie to Ethiopia in July 2005 to pick up her adopted daughter Zahara from an orphanage in that country. After returning, Pitt was diagnosed with a mild case of viral meningitis. He checked himself into Cedars-Sinai hospital in Los Angeles but was released a few days later. Though reluctant to embrace celebrity status, the philanthropic Pitt has been an active supporter of research into diseases, such as AIDS. Unlike many Hollywood celebrities he has remained largely bipartisan, working with members of both parties to help fight poverty, disease and improve global environmental conditions. Along with U2 frontman Bono, and TV evangelist Pat Robertson, Pitt has used his celebrity to campaign for assistance to Africa, and is the marquee spokesman for the ONE Campaign. Pitt has also traveled oversees to visit and entertain U.S. and allied troops.</p>\r\n<p>He was nominated for an Academy Award as Best Supporting Actor for his performance in the 1995 film Twelve Monkeys.</p>\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n<p><strong>Trivia</strong></p>\r\n<p>Like many A-List stars, Pitt does not normally perform in American commercials. Instead, he does commercials that are seen in Asia only, most notably for Edwin Jeans, the Toyota Altis, and Japanese canned coffee, ROOTS. The one exception to this is the Heineken commercial which aired during the 2005 Super Bowl, it was directed by David Fincher who he worked with on Seven and Fight Club. </p>\r\n<p>He was previously engaged to Gwyneth Paltrow, and dated actresses Juliette Lewis, Robin Givens, Alice Wilkinson and Geena Davis. Paltrow confessed in an interview that she regretted breaking up with him. </p>\r\n<p>He tore his Achilles tendon during the production of Troy, in which he plays, coincidentally, Achilles. </p>\r\n<p>He sued Damiani International, the company which made the wedding ring he gave Jennifer Aniston, for selling replica &quot;Brad and Jennifer&quot; rings. According to Pitt, the ring was his design and was to be exclusive. Under the settlement reached in January 2002, Pitt will design jewelry for Damiani that Aniston will model in ads, and the company will stop selling the copies. </p>\r\n<p>On August 6, 2005, a man was arrested for trespassing on Pitt''s property. Reportedly, the tresspasser was a photographer for People Magazine, who was there to take pictures of a possible birthday party for Angelina Jolie''s adopted son Maddox. <br>\r\n  He is a vegetarian. </p>\r\n<p>He was taught to ride a horse by Albertan John Scott, a rancher/stunt co-ordinator who also taught numerous other Hollywood stars the same skill. </p>\r\n<p>Together with Paramount Pictures head Brad Grey and Jennifer Aniston, he is the co-founder of the production company Plan B. Aniston is no longer a partner in the company, although she is still attached to many projects that were set up before her divorce. The company produced the Johnny Depp starring blockbuster Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. </p>\r\n<p>Has been awarded a Blue Peter badge. </p>\r\n<p>Despite being one of the most popular actors, he hasn''t achieved major box office success like Tom Cruise or Arnold Schwarzenneger. His biggest hit was Troy, which was considered a flop by many because of its budget. The 2005 film Mr. and Mrs. Smith defied all expectations and took in over $300 million at the international box office &mdash; still less than what Tom Cruise''s War of the Worlds took in. <br>\r\n  He owns a house in the picturesque town of Carmel-by-the-Sea, California. <br>\r\n</p>\r\n<p><strong>Filmography</strong></p>\r\n<p>No Man''s Land (1987) <br>\r\n  Less Than Zero (1987) <br>\r\n  Happy Together (1989) <br>\r\n  Cutting Class (1989) <br>\r\n  Across the Tracks (1991) <br>\r\n  Thelma &amp; Louise (1991) <br>\r\n  Johnny Suede (1991) <br>\r\n  Contact (1992) (short subject) <br>\r\n  Cool World (1992) <br>\r\n  A River Runs Through It (1992) <br>\r\n  Kalifornia (1993) <br>\r\n  True Romance (1993) <br>\r\n  The Favor (1994) <br>\r\n  Interview with the Vampire (1994) <br>\r\n  Legends of the Fall (1994) <br>\r\n  Se7en (1995) <br>\r\n  Twelve Monkeys (1995) <br>\r\n  Sleepers (1996) <br>\r\n  The Devil''s Own (1997) <br>\r\n  Seven Years in Tibet (1997) <br>\r\n  The Dark Side of the Sun (1997) (filmed in 1988) <br>\r\n  Meet Joe Black (1998) <br>\r\n  Being John Malkovich (1999) (Cameo) <br>\r\n  Fight Club (1999) <br>\r\n  Snatch (2000) <br>\r\n  The Mexican (2001) <br>\r\n  Spy Game (2001) <br>\r\n  Ocean''s Eleven (2001) <br>\r\n  Full Frontal (2002) (Cameo) <br>\r\n  Confessions of a Dangerous Mind (2002) (Cameo) <br>\r\n  Sinbad: Legend of the Seven Seas (2003) (voice) <br>\r\n  Abby Singer (2003) (Cameo) <br>\r\n  Troy (2004) <br>\r\n  Ocean''s Twelve (2004) <br>\r\n  Special Thanks to Roy London (2005) (documentary) <br>\r\n  Mr. &amp; Mrs. Smith (2005) </p>\r\n<p><strong>Upcoming:</strong></p>\r\n<p>The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford (2006) <br>\r\n  Chad Schmidt (2006) <br>\r\n  Benjamin Button (2007) </p>');
INSERT INTO `bios` VALUES ('b', 'Britney Spears', 'Britney_Spears.jpg', '<p><strong>Britney Spears </strong></p>\r\n<p>Britney Jean Spears (born December 2, 1981) is an iconic American pop singer, songwriter and dancer. Her career encompasses chart-topping records, high-profile advertising, and forays into acting and reality television. She remains very popular throughout the world despite some controversy surrounding the perceived sexual nature of her music and image.<br>\r\n</p>\r\n<p><strong>Biography</strong><br>\r\n</p>\r\n<p><strong>Childhood and discovery</strong></p>\r\n<p>Born to Jamie Spears, a building contractor, and Lynne Bridges, a grade school teacher, in McComb, Mississippi, USA and raised in Kentwood, Louisiana, Spears performed in local dance revues and church choirs as a young girl, and was auditioning for the Disney Channel''s New Mickey Mouse Club by the age of eight years old. Although she was too young to join the series at that time, a producer on the show introduced her to a New York agent; she subsequently spent three summers at the Professional Performing Arts School Center and also appeared in a number of off-Broadway productions, including 1991''s pop hit Ruthless!along with actress Natalie Portman. In 1992 she landed a spot on Star Search and though she won the first round, she was beaten by another contestant in the second.</p>\r\n<p>Spears then returned to the Disney Channel for a spot on the New Mickey Mouse Club and was accepted. She was featured for two years between the ages of eleven and thirteen during the 1993 and 1994 seasons. Her castmates on the show included Justin Timberlake and Joshua Chasez (who later became members of the pop group *NSYNC), Keri Russell (star of the TV show Felicity), fellow pop singer Christina Aguilera, and actor Ryan Gosling.</p>\r\n<p>Before long, Spears had recorded a demo tape, which eventually landed in the hands of a Jive Records executive. She was quickly signed to their label and began touring American venues for a series of concerts sponsored by U.S. teen magazines before joining *NSYNC and becoming their opening act. It was at this time that Spears became romantically involved with Timberlake.</p>\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n<p><strong>1998-2001: Early commercial success</strong><br>\r\n    <br>\r\n    ...Baby One More Time is Spears'' most commercially successful album both in the U.S. and internationally.By late 1998, Spears'' debut single &quot;...Baby One More Time&quot; was beginning to impact radio stations and MTV. Led by a music video that featured the 5''4&quot; brown-eyed bottle blonde dressed as a racy schoolgirl, among other belly-baring outfits that would soon become her trademark, the song became an international success, earning Platinum sales and going to number one in the U.S., as well as the United Kingdom, Canada and Australia, among many other countries.</p>\r\n<p>Her debut album of the same name, ...Baby One More Time, topped the LP charts in Canada and the U.S. for six non-consecutive weeks. Within a year of the record''s release, the album had become the best-selling LP by a teenager in history, spawned two U.S. top ten hits (in &quot;...Baby&quot; and &quot;(You Drive Me) Crazy&quot;) and shipped over ten million copies in the U.S. alone; it would go on to ship another four million copies on top of this.</p>\r\n<p>In April of 1999, she was featured on the cover of Rolling Stone magazine. The sexually suggestive Lolita-themed photo spread began a whirlwind of rumors that the still-seventeen-year-old had gotten breast implants. These claims were denied by Spears'' camp, and seemed to have little impact on the young starlet''s rising popularity.</p>\r\n<p>That summer, she kicked off her first headlining tour, titled the ...Baby One More Time Tour. By late 1999, Britney Spears had become one of the year''s biggest stars, a claim backed-up in the amount of award nominations she received that season. In December, she took home four Billboard Music Awards, including Female Artist of the Year, and the next month won for Favorite Pop/Rock New Artist at the American Music Awards.</p>\r\n<p>At the Grammys held in February 2000, Spears received two nominations, including one for Best New Artist. She performed her signature song &quot;...Baby One More Time&quot; and her then-current single, the top twenty hit &quot;From the Bottom of My Broken Heart&quot; at the show, but went home empty-handed, losing the aforementioned award to fellow ex-mouseketeer Christina Aguilera.</p>\r\n<p>After the short-lived Crazy 2K Tour and just two months after her debut began to die down in steam, Spears was ready to release the lead single off her sophomore effort. &quot;Oops!... I Did It Again&quot; broke a record for most radio station adds in a single day and quickly became a U.S. top ten hit and number one single in other countries, including the U.K. and Australia.</p>\r\n<p> <br>\r\n  Oops!... I Did It Again became a massive commercial success upon its 2000 release.Released in May 2000, Oops!... I Did It Again also debuted at number one in the U.S. and Canada, and was a similarly huge hit like her debut. It sold over 1.3 million units during its first week in the U.S., making it the fastest-selling album by a female artist in history. Within a year of release, it had shipped over nine million copies in the U.S. alone (and would go on to ship another million on top of that).</p>\r\n<p>That summer was another busy one for Spears, as she kicked off her first world tour (titled the Oops!... I Did It Again World Tour) and also became an author after co-writing the novel Britney Spears'' Heart-to-Heart with her mother Lynne. At the annual MTV Video Music Awards, she gave a lip-synched performance of &quot;Oops!... I Did It Again&quot; and The Rolling Stones'' classic hit, &quot;(I Can''t Get No) Satisfaction.&quot; During her performance, she ripped off a black suit to reveal a provocative nude-colored and crystal-adorned stage costume that caused quite a bit of controversy, seeing as the singer was only eighteen at the time.</p>\r\n<p>Through the year, the top thirty &quot;Lucky&quot; and top twenty &quot;Stronger&quot; kept Britney on the charts. In late 2000, she won two Billboard Music Awards (one of which honored her for breaking the record for one week album sales by a female artist). Then, in early 2001, she hosted the American Music Awards, performed &quot;Stronger&quot; at the ceremony and was also nominated twice. At the Grammys, one of her two nominations was for Oops!... I Did It Again in the category of Best Pop Vocal Album. Again, however, she did not win.</p>\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n<p><strong>2001-2004: Artistic development</strong></p>\r\n<p>In early 2001, she struck a $7-8 million USD promotional deal with the soft drink giant Pepsi; her first commercial for them premiered during the 2001 Academy Awards. She then released the follow-up novel to Britney Spears'' Heart-to-Heart, with this one being entitled A Mother''s Gift.</p>\r\n<p> <br>\r\n  Britney was viewed as a developmental milestone in Spears'' music.In September 2001, Britney again performed at the MTV Video Music Awards. This time around, she was dressed in one of her usual revealing outfits, drenched in ''sweat'' and on a jungle stage environment. She lip-synched her new single &quot;I''m a Slave 4 U&quot; and danced around the stage with an albino snake. Along with another blitz of media attention, she was also criticized by the PETA organization for her use of animals (both the snake and four cheetahs) as a part of her performance.</p>\r\n<p>In November 2001, she released her third album, Britney. It debuted at number one on both the U.S. and Canadian charts, selling over 745,000 units during its first week in the U.S. This made her the only female artist in SoundScan history to have her first three albums debut at number one. Over four million copies of the record have been sold in the U.S. alone , and while this is by no means low, these figures can not compare to the sales of her first two albums. Britney also failed to spawn any U.S. top ten hits; in fact, the only successful single released from the album was &quot;I''m a Slave 4 U,&quot; which became a top thirty hit. This album is also notable for being the first of which Spears really began to take some creative control; she co-wrote five of the album''s tracks. At the same time the album was released, Spears set off on her next world tour: the Dream Within a Dream Tour.</p>\r\n<p>In 2002, Spears starred in a movie, Crossroads, which reached number two in its first week at the box-office charts, but quickly dropped from sight. Songs from the album Britney appeared in the film. Spears'' performance was very badly received by critics, and she netted herself a Razzie Award for Worst Actress, tied with Madonna. One of the tracks from Britney, &quot;I''m Not a Girl, Not Yet a Woman,&quot; also won the Worst Original Song award, and in 2005 Spears was again ''honored'' by the Golden Raspberry judges when she was proclaimed Worst Supporting Actress for her cameo role in the documentary Fahrenheit 9/11, which showed her response to a CNN interview question by Tucker Carlson, regarding her political views during the then-impending 2003 invasion of Iraq.</p>\r\n<p>On another sour note, Spears'' five-year relationship with Justin Timberlake ended at this time. The break-up became a very publicized event on the news and in the tabloids, with Britney rumored to have been unfaithful.</p>\r\n<p>In June 2002, Spears branched out as a restaurateur with the opening of a New York City eatery, NYLA; but the venture was not a success, and the restaurant closed in 2003. A couple of months later, she took a break from the spotlight, and in 2003 many music industry critics speculated her career was in decline. That same year, Spears was nominated for two Grammys yet again, including Best Pop Vocal Album for Britney.</p>\r\n<p>It would not be until August 2003 that Britney truly resurfaced on the music scene. That month, she appeared in perhaps her most controversial performance to date with her idol Madonna, pop contemporary Christina Aguilera and rapper Missy Elliott. Spears and Aguilera performed Madonna''s classic hit &quot;Like a Virgin,&quot; danced suggestively and then each locked lips with the pop icon. In particuliar, the kiss between Madonna and Britney launched a huge media coverage that would last for months.</p>\r\n<p> <br>\r\n  In the Zone is generally perceived as Spears'' most overtly sexual album to-date.In November 2003, In the Zone was released. Jettisoning the Max Martin-produced synth-pop of her earlier releases, the album took in lesser-known producers such as RedZone, as well as such big names as Moby and R. Kelly. Spears co-wrote eight of the album''s thirteen songs and also helped with producing for the first time. Zone rose straight to the top of the U.S. charts in its debut week, making Spears the only female in music history to have her first four albums debut at number one. The record has sold close to three million copies in the U.S. and spawned the international number one and U.S. top ten hit &quot;Toxic.&quot; The single struck gold not only commercially, but also critically as it helped Spears win her first Grammy in the category of Best Dance Recording.</p>\r\n<p>On January 3, 2004, Spears married her childhood friend Jason Allen Alexander at The Little White Wedding Chapel on the Las Vegas Strip in Las Vegas, Nevada. An annulment was promptly arranged and was granted on January 5, ending their fifty-five hour marriage.</p>\r\n<p>In March, Spears embarked on her fourth world tour, The Onyx Hotel Tour, which grossed over $34 million USD and was seen by over 600,000 fans in North America and Europe. In June, she cancelled the remaining dates of her tour after reportedly injuring her knee during the filming of the video for her single &quot;Outrageous.&quot; That same month, Spears, 22, announced her engagement to dancer Kevin Federline, 26. Federline was formerly in a relationship with actress Shar Jackson, with whom he has two children.</p>\r\n<p>On the night of September 18, 2004, Spears married Federline before twenty-seven guests in a private, non-denominational ceremony at a residence in Studio City, California. Spears wore a strapless, white silk gown by Monique Lhuillier and Federline wore a black tux by Jeff Fox at Scott Hill. The wedding party famously donned sweatsuits after the ceremony and ventured out to an L.A. nightclub for an afterparty of drinking, dancing and full-on partying until after 2 a.m. The legitimacy of the marriage was initially questioned, but on November 18, 2004 a representative of the Los Angeles County registrar''s office confirmed Spears and Federline had successfully filed their marriage license with the county within ten days of their ceremony and were therefore legally married.<br>\r\n</p>\r\n<p><strong>2004 - present: &quot;Career hiatus&quot;</strong><br>\r\n    <br>\r\n  &quot;Curious&quot; perfume promotion, at the Toronto Eaton Centre.During the latter half of 2004, Spears announced she would be taking another career break in order to start a family. Though she stopped making many public appearances, the ''Britney Spears industry'' seemed to continue running itself.</p>\r\n<p>In September 2004, she released her first fragrance, &quot;Curious&quot; (a floral scent with vanilla and musk), for which she earned a reported $12 million USD. The fragrance had the biggest debut in sales in history from Elizabeth Arden, breaking the record for first-week gross for a perfume; after one year of sales, the product has netted more than $100 million USD. In addition, the perfume ended up as the number one fragrance of 2004 in department stores, and in 2005, &quot;Curious&quot; was honored by the Fragrance Foundation, naming it Best Women''s Fragrance. Following the success of &quot;Curious,&quot; Spears released her next Elizabeth Arden fragrance, &quot;Fantasy&quot; (a fruity scent with flowers and cupcake), in September 2005.</p>\r\n<p> <br>\r\n  Greatest Hits: My Prerogative.On November 9, 2004, Spears released her first hits collection: Greatest Hits: My Prerogative. The album debuted at number four on the U.S. charts (becoming Spears'' first album to not debut at number one domestically), selling over 255,000 copies in its first week of release; since hitting shelves, the set has sold over a million copies in the States. The collection includes all of her biggest hits, such as &quot;...Baby One More Time,&quot; &quot;Oops!... I Did It Again,&quot; and &quot;Toxic,&quot; as well as two new songs and a cover of Bobby Brown''s &quot;My Prerogative,&quot; which was featured as the lead single. A second single entitled &quot;Do Somethin''&quot; was released in early 2005.</p>\r\n<p>On May 17, 2005 Spears'' reality show with husband Kevin Federline, entitled Britney and Kevin: Chaotic, premiered on UPN. In total, the series included five episodes that debuted weekly every Tuesday at 9PM ET/PT up until the hour-long finale on June 14, 2005. Both Spears and Federline were credited as executive producers. The series was panned by most critics, and ratings were not as high as expected.</p>\r\n<p>On September 14, 2005, the 6lb. 11oz. baby boy Sean Preston Federline was born in the Santa Monica UCLA Medical Center in Santa Monica, California by an elective caesarean section. On November 22, Britney released a remix album entitled B in the Mix, The Remixes.</p>\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n<p><strong>Controversy</strong></p>\r\n<p>Spears'' success has rested on a mixed fanbase. Some parents of young daughters have ambivalent or even negative feelings towards Britney Spears. To many critics, the singer has combined a very raunchy public image with a major marketing &quot;play&quot; for the hearts, minds and pockets of prepubescent girls, often as young as seven or eight. The sexualization of such girls is arguably a trend that is visible elsewhere in popular culture, for example in the film and fashion industries.</p>\r\n<p>This has raised the question of how fast girls or young teens should move from childhood towards an early emotional adolescence. Some parents may worry that Britney Spears provides an unsuitable role model for their daughters'' lives and career plans.</p>\r\n<p>In October 2003, Maryland First Lady Kendel Ehrlich, the wife of Governor Robert Ehrlich, was criticized for saying she would like to &quot;shoot Britney Spears&quot; in an address to a domestic violence conference. After her comments made national headlines, she was compelled to apologize.</p>\r\n<p>The sexualized public image of Britney Spears once again became a topic of debate as a result of her 2003 semi-nude photo spread for the men''s magazine, Esquire. Prompted by this, Playboy reportedly offered the star over a million USD to pose nude for their magazine. Spears has publicly declined the offer. </p>\r\n<p>One of the more common criticisms linked with Spears is that of lip-synching; she is often seen doing such at her concert tours and award show performances. Most critics and musicians (at least in public) express a negative view on this way of performing, arguing that live entertainment should literally be what it suggests, singing included. Some argue that Britney, like other performers, can''t practically sing while being engaged in complicated and demanding dance moves. Also, some see it as little different than lip-synching in music videos, which is standard. Also, defenders will distinguish between lip-synching to one''s own pre-recorded music (which is widely conceded) and lip-synching to music sung entirely by others (which is denied and disputed). </p>\r\n<p>The 2004 Onyx Hotel Tour brought new criticism. While Spears and her on-stage dancers performed her songs &quot;Touch of My Hand&quot; and &quot;Breathe on Me,&quot; they were seemingly nude and were performing explicit routines simulating gay sex, orgies and masturbation. Given that some underage fans were in the audience, there was some outrage at the lack of subtlety of the performances, and there were reports of adult chaperones angrily storming out with children they brought to the concert.</p>\r\n<p>While young girls seldom address this debate in the same terms as their parents, many are divided on whether they consider Britney Spears appealing, especially in the light of more recent developments in her career. For her part, Spears has responded to their concerns by stating she is &quot;not their babysitter. It''s the parents'' responsibility. If you don''t like it, turn the T.V. off. The only person I want to be a role model is to my sister, Jamie Lynn.&quot; (From ABC''s Primetime interview with Diane Sawyer).</p>\r\n<p>The criticisms leveled against Spears are similar to those Madonna received at the start of her career. Indeed, Madonna''s early fans belonged to a similar demographic to Spears'' current fanbase. Spears'' show-stealing kiss with Madonna at the 2003 MTV Video Music Awards received much media attention, as have her recent marriages. Her provocative image and, ironically, seemingly down-to-earth personality have both equally contributed to her success. Many have compared Spears to a young Madonna.</p>\r\n<p>In common with a number of other popular female figures in show business, Britney Spears'' private life has attracted considerable media attention. Indeed, some people feel she has courted it by cultivating, in her early years at least, a chaste, God-fearing and &quot;wholesome&quot; image somewhat at odds, not only with the traditional pressures, temptations and opportunities of &quot;pop ''n'' roll&quot;, but with the increasingly sexualized content of her own songs. Regardless of where the responsibility for the gossip industry surrounding the pop star lies, Spears'' public response has been to repeatedly express regret and resentment at the intrusive media coverage.<br>\r\n</p>\r\n<p><strong>Career achievements</strong></p>\r\n<p>According to the VH1 special &quot;The Fabulous Life Of... Britney &amp; Kevin&quot; and TIME, Spears has sold over seventy-six million records worldwide. </p>\r\n<p>Having thirty-one million RIAA-certified albums in the U.S., Spears ranks as the eighth best-selling female artist in American Music history. </p>\r\n<p>Only female artist in SoundScan history to have her first three albums debut at number one on the Billboard 200 chart. She then broke her own record when her fourth album debuted at number one. </p>\r\n<p>In the U.S., Spears, Madonna, C&eacute;line Dion, Mariah Carey, Whitney Houston, Shania Twain and the Dixie Chicks are the only female artists with multiple diamond (shipped over ten million copies) albums (Spears has two: ...Baby One More Time and Oops!... I Did It Again). <br>\r\n  Artist with the most retired videos on TRL U.S. with a total of fifteen. </p>\r\n<p>Broke the record for youngest artist (at age seventeen) to have his or her first single (&quot;...Baby One More Time&quot;) reach number one on the Billboard Hot 100. </p>\r\n<p>Broke the record for youngest artist (at age seventeen) to have his or her first single (&quot;...Baby One More Time&quot;) and first album (...Baby One More Time) simultaneously reach number one on the Billboard charts. </p>\r\n<p>...Baby One More Time is the best-selling album by a teenager in history. </p>\r\n<p>&quot;...Baby One More Time&quot; is the twenty-fourth best-selling single of all time in the U.K. <br>\r\n  Holds the record for biggest first-week album sales by a female artist in history (1.3 million copies) for Oops!... I Did It Again. </p>\r\n<p>Broke the record in the U.K. for biggest first-week sales for a greatest hits compilation by a female artist (115,341 copies) with Greatest Hits: My Prerogative. </p>\r\n<p>Has grossed over $145 million USD from tour ticket sales. </p>\r\n<p>Broke the record for first-week gross for a fragrance with &quot;Curious.&quot; &quot;Curious&quot; also went on to become the biggest-selling fragrance of 2004. To-date, &quot;Curious&quot; has grossed over $100 million USD worldwide. </p>\r\n<p>Has grossed over $30 million USD in merchandise from her tours. <br>\r\n</p>\r\n<p><strong>Trivia</strong></p>\r\n<p>Britney''s younger sister, Jamie Lynn Spears, is currently starting a career as an entertainer in the Nickelodeon shows All That and Zoey 101; Britney herself wrote the theme song &quot;Follow Me&quot; for Zoey 101, though it is sung by Jamie Lynn. Zoey 101 drew record numbers with the premiere of the show which gave the kids channel 1.6 million viewers age 9-14 &mdash; its biggest viewership in that demographic for a premiere in eight years. Her older brother, Bryan Spears, is one of her co-managers. Britney''s parents, Jamie and Lynne, have divorced. </p>\r\n<p>One of Spears'' best friends, Jenny, was in the unsuccessful girl-group Innosense. Spears was also a member of the group, but she left and debuted as a solo artist before the band released their first record. One of Britney''s closest friends is Felicia Culotta, her assistant. </p>\r\n<p>Is an accomplished gymnast (she did a backflip for the &quot;...Baby One More Time&quot; video and several for the New Mickey Mouse Club). </p>\r\n<p>In 2001, her supposed death in a car crash was announced on the radio by two Texas DJs as a joke; the radio station was subsequently sued. </p>\r\n<p>Spears publicly declared that she was a virgin early in her career and would like to remain one until marriage, but after her split from Justin Timberlake he revealed that this was no longer true. Spears has been quoted as saying, &quot;I thought he was the one&quot;.<br>\r\n    <br>\r\n    In 2002, Forbes named Spears the most powerful celebrity in the world. </p>\r\n<p>For the movie Chicago, producer Harvey Weinstein wanted Spears for the role that eventually went to Lucy Liu. Britney was also offered a role in Scary Movie but was forced to turn it down, due to concert scheduling. She was considered for the part of Allie Hamilton in The Notebook, but was beat out by Rachel McAdams. </p>\r\n<p>Is a good friend of Sarah Michelle Gellar and was asked to appear in the Buffy the Vampire Slayer episode I Was Made to Love You. She could not appear due to scheduling conflicts and the role eventually went to Shonda Farr who also did a voice in the Britney''s Dance Beat video game. </p>\r\n<p>Topped FHM magazine''s 2004 U.S. and world polls for sexiest woman. </p>\r\n<p>In May 2004 Spears had a Hebrew tattoo (&#1502;&#1492;&#1513;) inked into the nape of her neck. She was under the impression that it meant &quot;new era&quot;, while a more scholarly reading would be &quot;protection&quot;. A source said, &quot;She''s taken Kabbalah pretty seriously and this was a big deal for her.&quot; This echoes a similar incident in 2003 when Spears was informed by her friend, actress Taryn Manning, that her hip tattoo (the Japanese Kanji character &#22855;) read &quot;strange&quot; rather than &quot;mysterious&quot; (see Wiktionary). </p>\r\n<p>Her numerous other tattoos include pink dies on her forearm and kevin has tattood blue dice.She also has a butterfly tattoo.</p>\r\n<p>In September 2004, Forbes estimated Spears'' net worth at $275 million USD. <br>\r\n  Cites Marilyn Monroe as one of her idols. <br>\r\n  Has hosted Saturday Night Live twice and been a musical guest three times. Spears also had a notable guest appearance with former cast member, Will Ferrell, in 2003. <br>\r\n  <br>\r\n</p>\r\n<p><strong>Filmography</strong></p>\r\n<p><br>\r\n  1990s Ruthless! Off-Broadway <br>\r\n  1993/1994 The New Mickey Mouse Club Herself <br>\r\n  1999 Longshot Flight Attendant Cameo <br>\r\n  2002 Crossroads Lucy Wagner <br>\r\n  2002 Austin Powers in Goldmember Herself Cameo <br>\r\n  2007 In the Pink Drew Heart Pre-production <br>\r\n</p>\r\n<p><strong>Miscellaneous</strong><br>\r\n</p>\r\n<p><strong>Books</strong></p>\r\n<p><br>\r\n  2000 Britney Spears'' Heart-to-Heart <br>\r\n  2001 A Mother''s Gift <br>\r\n  2002 Stages <br>\r\n  2003 Britney Spears'' Crossroads Diary <br>\r\n</p>\r\n<p><strong>DVDs</strong></p>\r\n<p><br>\r\n  1999 Time Out with Britney Spears 3x Platinum <br>\r\n  2001 Britney Spears - Live and More! 4 3x Platinum <br>\r\n  2001 Britney - The Videos 1 (Debut/2 weeks) 2x Platinum <br>\r\n  2002 Live from Las Vegas 1 (Debut/6 weeks) 2x Platinum <br>\r\n  2004 In the Zone 1 (Debut/1 week) Platinum <br>\r\n  2004 Greatest Hits: My Prerogative 1 (Debut/3 weeks) 2x Platinum <br>\r\n</p>\r\n<p><strong>Select merchandise</strong></p>\r\n<p>In 1999, Play Along Toys released the Britney Spears Doll. It became one of the biggest-selling dolls of all time. <br>\r\n  Britney''s Dance Beat is a dance game featuring five of her songs, for the PlayStation 2 and Game Boy Advance. <br>\r\n</p>\r\n<p><strong>Tours</strong></p>\r\n<p><br>\r\n  1998 Hair Zone Mall Tour <br>\r\n  1998 Opened for *NSYNC <br>\r\n  1999 ...Baby One More Time Tour <br>\r\n  2000 Crazy 2K Tour <br>\r\n  2000 Oops!... I Did It Again World Tour <br>\r\n  2001/2002 Dream Within a Dream Tour <br>\r\n  2004 The Onyx Hotel Tour <br>\r\n</p>');
INSERT INTO `bios` VALUES ('b', 'Bridgette Wilson', 'Bridgette_Wilson.jpg', '<p><strong>Bridgette Wilson </strong></p>\r\n<p>Bridgette Leann Wilson (born September 25, 1973), better known plainly as Bridgette Wilson, is an American actress. She was born in Gold Beach, Oregon. She was crowned Miss Teen USA in 1990 in Biloxi, Mississippi, and was the second contender from Oregon to win the crown. She went on to become an actress after her reign as Miss Teen USA, and appeared in Last Action Hero, Billy Madison, Mortal Kombat (playing Sonya Blade), I Know What You Did Last Summer and The Wedding Planner, among others. She married tennis champion Pete Sampras in 2000, and is the mother of Christian Charles Sampras, who was born in 2002. Her second son, Ryan Nikolaos Sampras, was born in 2005.</p>\r\n<p>Wilson''s sister, Tracy Wilson, is also an actress.</p>\r\n<p>She is also sometimes credited as Bridgette Wilson Sampras, Bridgette L. Wilson, Bridget Wilson, Bridgitte Wilson, and Bridgette Wilson-Sampras</p>\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n<p><strong>Filmography</strong></p>\r\n<p>Shopgirl (2005) <br>\r\n  Extreme Ops (2002) - Chloe <br>\r\n  Buying the Cow (2002) - Sarah <br>\r\n  Just Visiting (2001) - Amber <br>\r\n  The Wedding Planner (2001) - Francine Donolly <br>\r\n&quot;The $treet&quot; (2000) TV Series - Bridget Deshiel <br>\r\n  Beautiful (2000) - Lorna Larkin, Miss Texas <br>\r\n  House on Haunted Hill (1999) - Melissa Margaret Marr <br>\r\n  Love Stinks (1999) - Chelsea Turner <br>\r\n  The Suburbans (1999) - Lara <br>\r\n  Starstruck (1998) - Sandra <br>\r\n  Host (1998) (TV) - Julit Spring <br>\r\n  I Know What You Did Last Summer (1997) - Elsa Shivers <br>\r\n  The Real Blonde (1997) - Sahara <br>\r\n  The Stepsister (1997) (TV) - Melinda Harrison <br>\r\n  Nevada (1997) - June <br>\r\n  Marina (1997) <br>\r\n  Unhook the Stars (1996) - Jeannie Hawks <br>\r\n  Final Vendetta (1996) - Jennifer Clark <br>\r\n  Nixon (1995) - Sandy <br>\r\n  Mortal Kombat (1995) - Sonya Blade <br>\r\n  Billy Madison (1995) - Veronica Vaughn <br>\r\n  Higher Learning (1995) - Nicole <br>\r\n  Last Action Hero (1993) - Whitney/Meredith <br>\r\n&quot;Santa Barbara&quot; (1984) TV Series - Lisa Fenimore Castillo #2 (1992-1993) <br>\r\n&quot;Saved by the Bell&quot; (1989) TV Series - Ginger (1992) </p>');
INSERT INTO `bios` VALUES ('b', 'Brooke Burns', 'Brook_Burns.jpg', '<p><strong>Bridgette Wilson </strong></p>\r\n<p>Bridgette Leann Wilson (born September 25, 1973), better known plainly as Bridgette Wilson, is an American actress. She was born in Gold Beach, Oregon. She was crowned Miss Teen USA in 1990 in Biloxi, Mississippi, and was the second contender from Oregon to win the crown. She went on to become an actress after her reign as Miss Teen USA, and appeared in Last Action Hero, Billy Madison, Mortal Kombat (playing Sonya Blade), I Know What You Did Last Summer and The Wedding Planner, among others. She married tennis champion Pete Sampras in 2000, and is the mother of Christian Charles Sampras, who was born in 2002. Her second son, Ryan Nikolaos Sampras, was born in 2005.</p>\r\n<p>Wilson''s sister, Tracy Wilson, is also an actress.</p>\r\n<p>She is also sometimes credited as Bridgette Wilson Sampras, Bridgette L. Wilson, Bridget Wilson, Bridgitte Wilson, and Bridgette Wilson-Sampras</p>\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n<p><strong>Filmography</strong></p>\r\n<p>Shopgirl (2005) <br>\r\n  Extreme Ops (2002) - Chloe <br>\r\n  Buying the Cow (2002) - Sarah <br>\r\n  Just Visiting (2001) - Amber <br>\r\n  The Wedding Planner (2001) - Francine Donolly <br>\r\n&quot;The $treet&quot; (2000) TV Series - Bridget Deshiel <br>\r\n  Beautiful (2000) - Lorna Larkin, Miss Texas <br>\r\n  House on Haunted Hill (1999) - Melissa Margaret Marr <br>\r\n  Love Stinks (1999) - Chelsea Turner <br>\r\n  The Suburbans (1999) - Lara <br>\r\n  Starstruck (1998) - Sandra <br>\r\n  Host (1998) (TV) - Julit Spring <br>\r\n  I Know What You Did Last Summer (1997) - Elsa Shivers <br>\r\n  The Real Blonde (1997) - Sahara <br>\r\n  The Stepsister (1997) (TV) - Melinda Harrison <br>\r\n  Nevada (1997) - June <br>\r\n  Marina (1997) <br>\r\n  Unhook the Stars (1996) - Jeannie Hawks <br>\r\n  Final Vendetta (1996) - Jennifer Clark <br>\r\n  Nixon (1995) - Sandy <br>\r\n  Mortal Kombat (1995) - Sonya Blade <br>\r\n  Billy Madison (1995) - Veronica Vaughn <br>\r\n  Higher Learning (1995) - Nicole <br>\r\n  Last Action Hero (1993) - Whitney/Meredith <br>\r\n&quot;Santa Barbara&quot; (1984) TV Series - Lisa Fenimore Castillo #2 (1992-1993) <br>\r\n&quot;Saved by the Bell&quot; (1989) TV Series - Ginger (1992) </p>');
INSERT INTO `bios` VALUES ('c', 'Carrie Anne Moss', 'Carrie_Ann_Moss.jpg', '<p><strong>Carrie Anne Moss </strong></p>\r\n<p>Carrie-Anne Moss, born August 21, 1967 in Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada, is an actress who achieved worldwide fame following her appearances in The Matrix trilogy.</p>\r\n<p>In the late 1980s she moved to Spain to pursue a career in modelling. Her first television appearance was in the drama series Dark Justice. She moved to Los Angeles, California with the series in 1992. Her big breakthrough came when she was chosen to play the leather-clad hacker Trinity in the 1999 box office success The Matrix. She reprised the role of Trinity in two sequels as well as providing voice-overs for video game and animated spin-offs of the film. She also appeared as Natalie in the critically-acclaimed Memento in 2000 as well as in a supporting role with Juliette Binoche in the Academy Award nominated film, Chocolat starring Johnny Depp.</p>\r\n<p>Moss married fellow actor Steven Roy in 1999. They had a child together in the summer of 2003. As of November 2003, Moss, very keen to protect her and her family''s privacy, had revealed almost nothing about her son.<br>\r\n</p>\r\n<p><strong>Filmography</strong></p>\r\n<p>Fido (2006) <br>\r\n  Snow Cake (2005)... Maggie <br>\r\n  Mini''s First Time (2005)... Diane <br>\r\n  The Chumscrubber (2005)... Jerri Falls <br>\r\n  Sledge: The Untold Story (2005)... Girlfriend <br>\r\n  Suspect Zero (2004)... Fran Kulok <br>\r\n  The Matrix Revolutions (2003)... Trinity <br>\r\n  Kid''s Story (2003)... Trinity (voice) <br>\r\n  The Matrix Reloaded (2003)... Trinity <br>\r\n  A Detective Story (2003)... Trinity (voice) <br>\r\n  The Animatrix (2003) (V)... Trinity <br>\r\n  Chocolat (2000)... Caroline Clairmont <br>\r\n  Red Planet (2000)... Cmdr. Kate Bowman <br>\r\n  Memento (2000)... Natalie <br>\r\n  The Crew (2000)... Detective Olivia Neal <br>\r\n  The Matrix (1999)... Trinity <br>\r\n  New Blood (1999)... Leigh <br>\r\n  Lethal Tender (1997)... Melissa Wilkins <br>\r\n  The Secret Life of Algernon (1997)... Madge Clerisy <br>\r\n  F/X: The Series (1996) (TV series)... Lucinda Scott (1996-1997) <br>\r\n  Sabotage (1996)... Louise Castle (uncredited) <br>\r\n  Terrified (1996)... Tracy <br>\r\n  364 Girls a Year (1996) <br>\r\n  Models Inc. (1994) (TV series)... Carrie Spencer <br>\r\n  Tits to Please the Nig (1994)... Keri Terrace <br>\r\n  The Soft Kill (1994)... Jane Tanner <br>\r\n  Matrix (1993) (TV series)... Liz Teel <br>\r\n  Doorways (1993) (TV) <br>\r\n  Flashfire (1993)... Meredith Neal <br>\r\n  Dark Justice (1991) (TV series)... Tara McDonald <br>\r\n</p>');
INSERT INTO `bios` VALUES ('c', 'Catherine Zeta Jones', 'Catherine_Zeta_Jones.jpg', '<p><strong>Catherine Zeta Jones </strong></p>\r\n<p>Catherine Zeta-Jones (born September 25, 1969) is an Oscar-winning Welsh actress. Born Catherine Jones in Swansea, West Glamorgan, Wales, her name stems from those of her grandmothers; one named Catherine, and the other Zeta, named after a ship which her great-grandfather had sailed on. She was one of three children born to Patrick Jones, a Welsh candy factory worker and Dia Fair, who was of Irish Catholic extraction; Catherine was raised a Catholic. Besides English she speaks Welsh, Spanish and French fluently. As a child, she had a tracheotomy which left a scar.</p>\r\n<p>Zeta-Jones'' stage career began in childhood. She sang and danced her way to local stardom as a part of a Catholic congregation''s performing troupe before she was 10, and by 1987 she was starring in Forty-Second Street as Peggy Saywer in the West End. Once the show closed, Zeta-Jones travelled to France, where she received the lead role in French director Phillippe De Broca''s 1001 Nights (a.k.a. Sheherazade), her feature film debut.</p>\r\n<p>Her exotic beauty, along with her singing and dancing ability, suggested a promising future, but it was in a straight acting role, as Mariette in the successful television adaptation of H. E. Bates'' The Darling Buds of May (1991), that she made her name. She became famous outside Britain after leading roles in two movies, The Mask of Zorro (1998) with Antonio Banderas and Entrapment (1999) with Sean Connery. It is said that she gained the role in Zorro after Steven Spielberg saw her performance in the Lifetime Television event of Titanic, also starring Tim Curry and Peter Gallagher.</p>\r\n<p>She won an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for the movie Chicago in 2003. On October 22, 2005, she parodied this fact as guest host on the TV show Saturday Night Live, surrounded by four male dancers, mimicking the Bob Fosse-inspired Chicago-style dancing, suggesting in song that, no matter how bad she might be that night, &quot;They Can''t Take My Oscar Away.&quot;</p>\r\n<p>Apart from her acting career, Zeta-Jones is also an advertising spokeswoman for the mobile phone company T-Mobile. She is currently the global spokeswoman for cosmetics giant, Elizabeth Arden.</p>\r\n<p>Zeta-Jones is married to actor Michael Douglas, with whom she has two children. Her son, Dylan Michael Douglas was born August 8, 2000. (Her American admirers like to think that he is named after Bob Dylan - a favourite of Douglas - while her British admirers like to think that Dylan Thomas, also born in Swansea, was the inspiration, although Dylan is a reasonably common Welsh firstname). Her daughter, Carys Zeta Douglas was born April 20, 2003. Zeta-Jones has determined that her children grow up aware of their Welsh heritage and has built a seaside dream home in her hometown of Swansea.</p>\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n<p><strong>Selected filmography</strong></p>\r\n<p>The Legend of Zorro (2005) <br>\r\n  Ocean''s Twelve (2004) <br>\r\n  The Terminal (2004) <br>\r\n  Intolerable Cruelty (2003) <br>\r\n  Sinbad: Legend of the Seven Seas (2003) (voice) <br>\r\n  Chicago (2002) <br>\r\n  America''s Sweethearts (2001) <br>\r\n  Traffic (2000) <br>\r\n  High Fidelity (2000) <br>\r\n  The Haunting (1999) <br>\r\n  Entrapment (1999) <br>\r\n  The Mask of Zorro (1998) <br>\r\n  Titanic (1996) (miniseries) <br>\r\n  The Phantom (1996) <br>\r\n  Splitting Heirs (1993) <br>\r\n  The Darling Buds of May (1991) (TV series) <br>\r\n</p>\r\n<p><br>\r\n  <strong>Trivia</strong></p>\r\n<p><br>\r\n  Has the same birthday as husband Michael Douglas. Douglas is 25 years her senior. <br>\r\n  For her role in Chicago, she specifically requested a 1920s-style short bob haircut, so her face could be seen and fans wouldn''t doubt she did all her dancing herself. <br>\r\n</p>');
INSERT INTO `bios` VALUES ('c', 'Cameron Diaz', 'Cameron_Diaz.jpg', '<p><strong>Cameron Diaz </strong></p>\r\n<p>Cameron Michelle D&iacute;az (born August 30, 1972) is an American film actress.</p>\r\n<p>Diaz was born and raised in San Diego, California, the daughter of Emilio D&iacute;az, a Cuban-American father who worked as a foreman for an oil company, and mother Billie Early, an exporting agent whose ancestry includes English, German, and Native American. She attended Long Beach Polytechnic High School.</p>\r\n<p>At age 16 she landed a contract with the prestigious Elle modelling agency. After graduating from High School she went to work in Japan, there meeting video director Carlo de la Torre. On her return to America she moved in with him. For the next few years her modelling took her ''round the world, working for contracts with major companies.</p>\r\n<p>At the age of 21 she auditioned for a part in the Jim Carrey movie The Mask. To her own surprise, and with no previous acting experience, she was cast as the female lead. Immediately on getting the part she signed up for acting lessons.</p>\r\n<p>Over the next three years she honed her acting skills in low budget, independent films such as The Last Supper (1995), Feeling Minnesota (1996), and She''s The One (1996).</p>\r\n<p>She returned to mainstream as &quot;perfect&quot; fianc&eacute;e in the romantic comedy in My Best Friend''s Wedding (1997) with Julia Roberts. Her lead role in the massive crude comedy hit There''s Something About Mary (1998). The film grossed $369.8 million worldwide and brought her genuine star status.</p>\r\n<p>D&iacute;az then returned to independent film with the quirky Being John Malkovich (1999), which earned her Best Supporting Actress nominations at the Golden Globes, the BAFTA Awards and the SAG Awards. That year she also appeared in Oliver Stone''s Any Given Sunday. Both films enjoyed critical and commercial success and critics heralded D&iacute;az''s performances.</p>\r\n<p>She then went on her biggest box-office tear. In 2000 she starred in the TV-to-film adaptation of Charlie''s Angels that made $264.1 million worldwide and voiced a character in Shrek which made $484.4 million worldwide. In 2001 she starred in Cameron Crowe''s Vanilla Sky which made $203.3 worldwide and saw her nominated for Support Actress honors at the Golden Globes, the SAG Awards and the AFI Awards. She won Best Supporting Actress honors for the role at the Chicago Film Critics Association Awards and the Boston Society of Film Critics Awards. In January 2002, she became only the 2nd actress to ever be paid $20 million for a role (Julia Roberts was the first). when she signed to be paid that much for Charlie''s Angels: Full Throttle.</p>\r\n<p>Yet things began to sour for Diaz after joining the $20 million club. In 2002 she saw her chick-flick The Sweetest Thing tank at the box office. She then appeared in Gangs of New York. Despite of having the honor of appearing in a film directed by Martin Scorsese and appearing in a film that was nominated for many Academy Awards, her performance wasn''t considered a highlight of the film. In 2003 the sequel Charlie''s Angels: Full Throttle underperformed at the box office. Things looked up a bit as she was paid $10 million for a little over a weeks worth of voice work on Shrek 2, which smashed box-office records, grossing $920.6 million worldwide in total.</p>\r\n<p>Diaz continues to struggle to appear in a successful film in which she makes a live action apperance. After having avoided smaller films in the past couple of years, she starred in Curtis Hanson''s In Her Shoes, based on the Jennifer Weiner novel. While the film may have restored her good graces with some critics, it quickly fizzled out at the box office.</p>\r\n<p>She will star in Nancy Meyers'' Holiday in 2006 and Shrek 3 in 2007.<br>\r\n</p>\r\n<p><strong>Covers and Featured in Magazines</strong></p>\r\n<p>Entertainment Weekly (October 14, 2005, Issue 844/845) -- Cameron Diaz made the cover and was featured. <br>\r\n  Rolling Stone (April 25, 2002, Issue No. 894) -- Cover with Cameron Diaz, Christina Applegate &amp; Selma Blair. <br>\r\n  Rolling Stone (August 22, 1996, Issue No. 741) -- Cover and feature article on Diaz. <br>\r\n</p>\r\n<p><strong>Selected Filmography</strong></p>\r\n<p>Holiday (2006) <br>\r\n  In Her Shoes (2005) <br>\r\n  Trippin'' (2005) (TV series) <br>\r\n  Shrek 2 (2004) (voice) <br>\r\n  Charlie''s Angels: Full Throttle (2003) <br>\r\n  The Invisible Circus (2001) <br>\r\n  Shrek (2001) (voice) <br>\r\n  Vanilla Sky (2001) <br>\r\n  Charlie''s Angels (2000) <br>\r\n  Any Given Sunday (1999) <br>\r\n  There''s Something About Mary (1998) <br>\r\n  Very Bad Things (1998) <br>\r\n  The Mask (1994) <br>\r\n</p>');
INSERT INTO `bios` VALUES ('c', 'Charisma Carpenter', 'Charisma_Carpenter.jpg', '<p><strong>Charisma Carpenter </strong></p>\r\n<p>Charisma Lee Carpenter (born July 23, 1970) is an American actress of Mexican and Cherokee descent. She is best known for playing the character Cordelia Chase in the television series Buffy the Vampire Slayer and its spin-off Angel.</p>\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n<p><strong>Personal life</strong></p>\r\n<p>Carpenter was born in Las Vegas, Nevada, where she attended Bishop Gorman Catholic High School before moving with her family to Chula Vista, California, where she attended Chula Vista High School. After graduation, she was a San Diego Chargers cheerleader before beginning her Hollywood career. In 2002 she got married to Damian Hardy and on March 24, 2003 she gave birth to a boy, Donovan Charles Hardy.</p>\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n<p><strong>Career</strong><br>\r\n    <br>\r\nOn the cover of Playboy, June 2004Carpenter was discovered by a commercial agent when she was a waitress, leading to several roles on TV advertisements. She has made guest appearances in Baywatch, Miss Match and has had a role in Malibu Shores. She also a recurring role in the popular witch drama Charmed, appearing in three episodes.</p>\r\n<p>In 2004, Carpenter posed nude for the June 2004 issue of Playboy magazine.</p>\r\n<p>As of 2005, Carpenter has a recurring role as Kendall Casablancas on Veronica Mars. Her role in the season''s overall mystery has not yet been revealed.</p>\r\n');
INSERT INTO `bios` VALUES ('c', 'Christina Applegate', 'Christina_Applegate.jpg', '<p><strong>Christina Applegate </strong></p>\r\n<p>Christina Applegate (born November 25, 1971) is an American actress, best known for her role as Kelly Bundy on the sitcom Married... with Children.</p>\r\n<p>Born in Hollywood, California, her father, Robert Applegate, was a record producer. Her mother, Nancy Lee Priddy, was an actress-singer who survived breast cancer. Her parents split up after she was born and her father remarried.</p>\r\n<p>Applegate quit school at age 17 to pursue acting. She still studies jazz and dance. She is friends with actresses Nicole Eggert and Gwyneth Paltrow. On October 20, 2001, she married longtime boyfriend Johnathon Schaech, in a small mixed-religion Palm Springs ceremony attended by family and close friends. She is a supporter of PETA.</p>\r\n<p>From 1987 to 1997, she played Kelly Bundy on Married... with Children. From 1998 to 2000, she starred in her own sitcom called Jesse.</p>\r\n<p>In the 1980s and early 1990s, she was nominated four times in the annual Youth in Film Awards, two of which she won.</p>\r\n<p>While playing the title role in a revival of Sweet Charity, she injured her ankle, and it was announced that the musical would close in previews. She persuaded the producers to rescind their descision, and on May 4, 2005 she made her Broadway debut to moderately good reviews.<br>\r\n</p>\r\n<p><strong>Filmography (actress)</strong></p>\r\n<p>Pretty Persuasion (2005) <br>\r\n  Surviving Christmas (2004) <br>\r\n  Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy (2004) <br>\r\n  Employee of the Month (2004) <br>\r\n  Grand Theft Parsons (2003) <br>\r\n  Wonderland (2003) <br>\r\n  View from the Top (2003) <br>\r\n  Heroes (2003) <br>\r\n  The Sweetest Thing (2002) <br>\r\n  Sol Goode (2001) (uncredited) <br>\r\n  Just Visiting (2001) <br>\r\n  The Giving Tree (2000) <br>\r\n  Out in Fifty (1999) <br>\r\n  Jane Austen''s Mafia! (1998) <br>\r\n  The Big Hit (1998) <br>\r\n  Claudine''s Return (1998) <br>\r\n  Nowhere (1997) <br>\r\n  Mars Attacks! (1996) <br>\r\n  Vibrations (1995) <br>\r\n  Wild Bill (1995) <br>\r\n  Across the Moon (1995) <br>\r\n  Don''t Tell Mom the Babysitter''s Dead (1991) <br>\r\n  Streets (1990) <br>\r\n  Beatlemania (1981) <br>\r\n  Jaws of Satan (1981) <br>\r\n</p>\r\n');
INSERT INTO `bios` VALUES ('c', 'Christina Aguilera', 'Christina_Aguilera.jpg', '<p><strong>Christina Aguilera </strong></p>\r\n<p>Christina Maria Aguilera (born December 18, 1980 in Staten Island, New York), colloquially known as Xtina, is an American-born pop singer-songwriter of Ecuadorian and Irish descent. She is most often recognized by her notable vocal abilities and unorthodox fashion sense. Her vocal skills have been compared to those of singers such as Mariah Carey and Whitney Houston, and she is one of the most prominent recording artists of her generation. She has achieved four number-one singles on the Billboard Hot 100 chart, as well as two top five albums and 4 Grammy Awards in the United States.</p>\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n<p><strong>Early Years</strong></p>\r\n<p>Christina Aguilera grew up mainly in the Pittsburgh suburb of Wexford, Pennsylvania, after living in various places around the world. Her father, Fausto Aguilera, is a U.S. Army sergeant of Ecuadorian descent, and her mother, Shelly Loraine Fidler (now known as Shelly Kearns), is a Spanish translator from Newfoundland, Canada, and of remote Irish descent. Aguilera''s parents met while Fausto was serving at Earnest Harmon Air Force Base in Stephenville, Newfoundland and Labrador.</p>\r\n<p>Since Aguilera was able to talk, she set a goal to become a professional singer. As a child she performed at block parties and in talent competitions &mdash; defeating opponents with little effort. Aguilera soon gained media attention, and was known to some as &quot;the little girl with the big voice&quot;.</p>\r\n<p>On March 15, 1990, she appeared on Star Search singing Ella Fitzgerald''s &quot;Sunday Kind of Love&quot;, but failed to win. Soon after losing on Star Search, she returned home and appeared on Pittsburgh''s KDKA-TV''s &quot;Wake Up with Larry Richert&quot; to perform the same song again. Later on, she would sing &quot;Vision of Love&quot;, Mariah Carey''s first single, and astonished everybody in attendance by hitting every riff and note, including Carey''s trademark whistle register note. People remarked that the then-ten year old &quot;sounded twenty&quot;.</p>\r\n<p>Throughout her youth in Pittsburgh, Aguilera sang &quot;The Star-Spangled Banner&quot; before Pittsburgh Steelers football and Pittsburgh Pirates baseball games. Her first major role in entertainment came in 1993 when she joined the Disney Channel''s variety show The New Mickey Mouse Club. Her co-stars included Britney Spears, as well as Justin Timberlake, JC Chasez (who went on to join *NSYNC) and Keri Russell (who would go on to become the star of Felicity).</p>\r\n<p>Aguilera''s first hit single was &quot;All I Wanna Do&quot;, which was a collaborative effort recorded in Japan with Japanese pop sensation Keizo Nakanishi. In 1997, Aguilera competed in an international singing contest at the Golden Stag Festival in Transylvania, Romania, where she shared the stage with Sheryl Crow and Diana Ross. In 1998, after proving herself as a singer with a high, powerful chest voice, singing the High &quot;E&quot; note an octave above middle &quot;C&quot; on a cover of Whitney Houston''s &quot;Run to You&quot; which she recorded with an old tape recorder in her bathroom, she was selected to perform the song &quot;Reflection&quot; for the Disney animated production of Mulan (1998). The music video promoting the film featured a young Aguilera with bobbed hair. It was her first music video. &quot;Reflection&quot; peaked at number fifteen on the Adult Contemporary Singles Chart. The song was nominated for a Golden Globe Award for Best Original Song for a Motion Picture in 1998.</p>\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n<p><strong>Christina Aguilera: Debut</strong></p>\r\n<p><br>\r\n  Aguilera on the cover of her 1999 debut album, Christina Aguilera.Under the exclusive representation of Steve Kurtz, her self-titled album, Christina Aguilera, was released on August 24, 1999. It reached the top of the Billboard 200 and Canadian album charts, selling over eight million copies in the United States alone. It was released the same week as Puff Daddy''s long-awaited second album Forever, and showed Aguilera''s instant rise to fame by beating him to the number one spot. &quot;Genie in a Bottle&quot;, &quot;What a Girl Wants&quot;, and &quot;Come on Over (All I Want is You)&quot; all reached the top of the Billboard Hot 100 during 1999 and 2000, and &quot;I Turn to You&quot; peaked at number three. However, Aguilera did not only enjoy commercial success; it became obvious that the industry thought she had talent when she won for Best New Artist at the 2000 Grammy Awards. She was also nominated for Best Female Pop Vocal Performance for &quot;Genie in a Bottle&quot;. &quot;Obvious&quot;, the final track of the album was one of the original demo tracks that was sent to Ron Fair before Christina was signed with Aguilera''s record label, RCA.</p>\r\n<p>In 2000, Aguilera first emphasized her Latino heritage, following the Latin Pop trend of the time, by releasing her first Spanish-language album, Mi Reflejo. This album contained Spanish-language versions of songs from her English debut as well as new Spanish tracks. It reached twenty-seven on the Billboard 200 and number one on the Latin album charts. In 2001, the album won Christina a Latin Grammy Award for Best Female Pop Vocal Album. The single &quot;Falsas Esperanzas&quot; from the album reached the top forty in Argentina in 2001. Ricky Martin asked her to duet with him on the track &quot;Nobody Wants to be Lonely&quot; from his album Sound Loaded; the song was released as the second single from the album in 2001, reaching the top five in the United Kingdom and Germany, top twenty in the U.S., and top forty in Canada, Switzerland, and Australia.</p>\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n<p><strong>Just Be Free: unauthorized material</strong><br>\r\n<br>\r\n  Aguilera on the cover of Just Be Free at the age of 15.In 2000, a single emerged into record stores called &quot;Just Be Free&quot;, one of the demos Aguilera recorded when she was about 15 years old. When RCA Records discovered the single, they officially advised fans not to purchase it and had German authorities pull the single off shelves as well. Months later, Warlock Records was set to release Just Be Free; an album which contains the demo tracks.</p>\r\n<p>Aguilera filed a breach of contract and unfair-competition suit against Warlock and the album''s producers to block the release. Instead, the two parties came to a settlement to release the album. Aguilera lent out her name, likeness and image for an unspecified amount of damages. Many of the details of the lawsuit remain confidential. When the album was released on August 21, 2001, it had a photograph of Christina when she was fifteen years old.</p>\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n<p><strong>Change in Management</strong></p>\r\n<p>Although Aguilera''s album was very well received, she was dissatisfied with the music and image her management had created for her. At the time, Aguilera was marketed as a bubblegum pop artist, because of the genre''s upward financial trend. However, she publicly mentioned plans of her next album to have much more depth, both musically and lyrically. Steve Kurtz''s influence in matters of the singer''s creative direction, the role of being her exclusive personal manager and overscheduling has in part caused her to seek legal means of terminating their management contract.</p>\r\n<p>On October 13, 2000 Aguilera filed a Breach of Fiduciary Duty lawsuit against Kurtz for improper, undue and inappropriate influence over her professional activities, as well as fraud. According to legal documents, Kurtz did not protect her rights and interests. Instead, he took action that was for his own interest, at the cost of hers. The lawsuit came about when Aguilera discovered Kurtz used more of her commissionable income than what he was allotted, and had paid other managers to assist him. She also petitioned the California State Labor Commission to nullify the contract.</p>\r\n<p>When she terminated Kurtz''s services, Irving Azoff was hired as her new manager. The change in management marked a new change in how Aguilera was marketed, as well as what music she would do in the future.</p>\r\n<p>Kurtz countersued on October 27 for breach of contract, claiming that the singer violated the same agreement she had sued to void. In the lawsuit, he included others close to Aguilera, alleging their intent to sabotage his business relationship with Aguilera. He also singled out Azoff for being in violation of the terms of Kurtz''s contract.</p>\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n<p><strong>Stripped: Career Development</strong><br>\r\n<br>\r\n  Aguilera on the cover of StrippedOn October 29, 2002, after much delay, Aguilera''s second full-length English album, Stripped, was released in the U.S. The album was not received as well as her debut by most critics. The majority of Stripped was co-written by Aguilera, was about eighty minutes long, and influenced by many different subjects and music styles. &quot;Impossible&quot;, a collaboration with Alicia Keys, is a jazz-inspired song about someone who is trying to get through to one who is quiet and withdrawn. &quot;Soar&quot; is a gospel-inspired song about becoming self-reliant. &quot;Make Over&quot; is a pop rock song about becoming an individual and people trying to change her. Aguilera''s most emotionally challenging song on the album could possibly be &quot;I''m OK&quot;. This track chronicles in detail how Aguilera was abused as a young child by her father, and she thanks her mother for her love through that time in her life.</p>\r\n<p>However, Aguilera''s vocals were much overlooked as she began to cultivate a more sexually provocative image. After the release of the album, she took part in photo shoots for magazines such as Maxim, Rolling Stone and Cosmo Girl. Many of these photographs featured her nude or semi-nude. She denied that this change was a matter of publicity, claiming that the image better reflected her true personality than did the image she cultivated back in 1999.</p>\r\n<p>Initially, the raunchy image had a negative effect on Aguilera in the U.S. While the video for &quot;Dirrty&quot; became a huge hit on MTV, it stalled at a disappointing forty-eight on the Hot 100 and quickly fell off the singles chart. However, the song was a huge hit worldwide, reaching number one in several countries and on the World Chart. The album entered the U.K. and U.S. album charts at number two, and at number three in Canada, where they all ultimately peaked. Despite going double-platinum in the U.S. after only eight weeks on the chart, the album began to drop quickly with nothing but Aguilera''s star power to back it up. The second single, &quot;Beautiful&quot;, was quickly released in the U.S. in late 2002. It instantly became a huge radio hit and allowed three more hits to be released from the album in the following two years: &quot;Fighter&quot;, &quot;Can''t Hold Us Down&quot;, and &quot;The Voice Within&quot;. The success of subsequent singles off the album gave Stripped massive staying power, as it stayed on the album charts well into 2004. This staying power was demonstrated most effectively in the UK, where the album remained consistently in the top twenty album charts between late 2002 and late 2004. Stripped went on to ship four million copies in the U.S. and ended up at number ten on Billboard''s Year-End Album Chart. The album also went quadruple platinum in Australia despite only reaching a peak of number seven, again a reflection of its consistency between late 2002 and 2004. Kelly Clarkson''s first single ''Miss Independent'' was cowritten by Aguilera, and was originally supposed to be a song on Stripped. Aguilera was the number-one Billboard Female Artist (albums and singles) of 2003; however, she did not attend the event, and the award was given to Beyonc&eacute;, who was the number-two female artist of that year. This caused much controversy amongst fans.</p>\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n<p><strong>The Stripped Tours</strong></p>\r\n<p>In early 2003, Aguilera aroused much commentary when she gained a noticeable amount of weight. Unflattering photographs of her flabby midsection spilling out of her conventionally skimpy costumes were circulated. She was quoted as saying, &quot;I couldn''t care less about stupid diets. Eating is sensual and fun. I''m not going to let it be spoiled by calorie-counting.&quot; Later, she gave the reason for her weight gain as preparation for her upcoming Summer tour.</p>\r\n<p>On June 4, Aguilera joined Justin Timberlake on the final leg of his international &quot;Justified&quot; tour, held in the U.S. This portion of the tour became a co-headliner called the &quot;Justified &amp; Stripped&quot; tour. On August 9, an overhead lighting grid collapsed from the ceiling of the Boardwalk Hall in Atlantic City, New Jersey, causing major damage to the sound and video equipment below. Since the collapse occurred hours before the performance, only a few stagehands were injured. As a result, a few shows were cancelled or postponed. In the fourth quarter of that year, Aguilera continued to tour internationally without Timberlake, and changed the name of the tour to simply the &quot;Stripped&quot; tour. Meanwhile, she dyed her hair black. The tour was one of the top-grossing tours of that year, as it sold out most of its venues. It also was named by Rolling Stone readers as the best tour of the year.</p>\r\n<p>In light of the tour''s success, another U.S. tour was scheduled to begin in mid-2004 with a new theme and featuring Chingy as an opening act. The tour was scrapped due to Aguilera''s vocal chord injuries suffered shortly before its opening date. It was later reported by The Sun tabloid that low ticket sales and lack of new material were actually the major factors in the tour''s cancellation. Aguilera has since denied the report.</p>\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n<p><strong>Post-Stripped Events</strong><br>\r\n    <br>\r\nAguilera and Madonna during a performance at the 2003 MTV Video Music AwardsIn a tribute to Madonna''s performance at the inaugural MTV Video Music Awards'' ceremony, Aguilera performed a much-publicized lesbian kiss with the singer-actress at the 2003 edition of the ceremony on August 28. The incident occurred during the opening performance of Madonna''s songs &quot;Like a Virgin&quot; and &quot;Hollywood&quot;; however, it was heavily overshadowed by the kiss between Madonna and Britney Spears during the same performance.</p>\r\n<p>A January 2004, ZOO Magazine (a Danish men''s magazine) article reported that Aguilera is possibly bisexual. The article quotes her stating in an interview: &quot;I find it hornier looking at women than men. Sorry, I love experimenting with my sexuality. If that means girls, then so be it.&quot; The article also reports that Christina enjoys casual sex. &quot;I have casual sex, I love casual sex. But that doesn''t mean I''m incapable of keeping my legs together,&quot; Aguilera is quoted as saying. Because of the tabloid nature of articles in ZOO, the factual accuracy of the article is dubious.</p>\r\n<p>Aguilera hosted Saturday Night Live on February 21, 2004, and participated in various parody skits such as &quot;Do You Know Who My Father Is?&quot; which lampoons Win Ben Stein''s Money, and a skit parodying the movie You Got Served. Her dead-on impersonation of Kim Cattrall''s Sex and the City character, Samantha, was also praised.</p>\r\n<p>Aguilera later decided to embrace a more mature image; this move was met with more praise than criticism, with articles using punch lines such as &quot;From Crass to Class&quot;. She eventually dyed her hair cherry-blonde and recorded a jingle, &quot;Hello&quot;, for a Mercedes-Benz ad, becoming the new face of Mercedes-Benz. Shortly after, she dyed her hair blonde and cut it short, and took on a Marilyn Monroe look; she is believed by many of her fans to be one of the main proponents (along with Gwen Stefani and Ashley Judd) in bringing back the 1930s-1940s Hollywood glamour look.</p>\r\n<p> <br>\r\n  Image used in the Declare Yourself billboard campaign. Photograph by David LaChapelleIn the run-up to the 2004 United States presidential election, Aguilera was featured on billboards for the &quot;Only You Can Silence Yourself&quot; online voter registration drive run by the nonpartisan, nonprofit campaign &quot;Declare Yourself&quot;. In these political advertisements, Aguilera is shown with her mouth sewn shut, to symbolize the effects of not voting.</p>\r\n<p>In late Summer 2004, Aguilera released, almost consecutively, two singles. The first, &quot;Car Wash&quot;, was taken from the soundtrack of the hit movie Shark Tale. It is a collaboration with popular rapper Missy Elliott, and is a cover version of Rose Royce''s disco hit. The second song is also a collaboration, but this time as a second single from one of Nelly''s double-release albums, Sweat, titled &quot;Tilt Ya'' Head Back&quot;. Aguilera appeared at the MTV Video Music Awards to perform it with him; it was a visually striking and effective performance in which Aguilera, a la Judy Garland, started her belting perched atop a grand piano. Aguilera copied another legendary look for the video: Marilyn Monroe''s. Both singles flopped commercially in the U.S., but did considerably better in other parts of the world; &quot;Tilt&quot; reached number one in a few countries, including the Philippines. &quot;Tilt Ya'' Head Back&quot;, formerly rumored to be &quot;Tilt Cha'' Head Back&quot;, was well received in the U.S. at first, but sales quickly deteriorated mainly due to its lack of radio appeal and promotion. In spite of its promotion, &quot;Tilt&quot; recently went platinum in Australia for selling over 40,000 copies, while, &quot;Car Wash&quot; was certified gold for sales of over 25,000 copies. &quot;Tilt&quot; was later certified gold in the U.S. by the RIAA in 2005.</p>\r\n<p>After much delay, Aguilera''s first DVD live-recording from a concert tour, Stripped Live in the UK, was released in November 2004, excluding her performance of &quot;Make Over&quot;, due to its similarity with the song &quot;Overload&quot; by the Sugababes. In late December, she officially released a fragrance, Xpose, which has only been available in a few European countries.</p>\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n<p><strong>Recent Events</strong></p>\r\n<p>After failed relationships with Latin dancer Jorge Santos (chronicled in her song &quot;Infatuation&quot; from her second album Stripped) and an unnamed producer, she began dating music executive Jordan Bratman. After dating him for almost three years, their engagement was announced in February 2005. In an interview with MTV at an Oscar party, she announced she would like to have her wedding in the Winter of 2005. Their wedding was conducted in Napa Valley, California on November 19, 2005.</p>\r\n<p>The VH1 program The Fabulous Life Of... Christina Aguilera estimated that the singer has a net worth of between thirty and forty million United States dollars.</p>\r\n<p> <br>\r\n  Herbie Hancock''s album cover, &quot;Possibilities&quot;Aguilera collaborated with Herbie Hancock on his new album &quot;Possibilities&quot;. The album was released in stores on August 30, 2005 and debuted at number twenty-two on the Billboard charts. Her track is a cover of Leon Russell''s &quot;A Song for You&quot;. Since then, Christina Aguilera has appeared on The Ellen DeGeneres Show and The Tonight Show.</p>\r\n');
INSERT INTO `bios` VALUES ('c', 'Claudia Schiffer', 'Claudia_Schiffer.jpg', '<p><strong>Claudia Schiffer </strong></p>\r\n<p>Claudia Schiffer (born August 25, 1970 in Rheinberg, North Rhine-Westphalia) is a German model who reached supermodel status during the 1990s.</p>\r\n<p>Schiffer began modelling in 1987, after being spotted in a nightclub in D&uuml;sseldorf. Weeks later she appeared in Elle magazine. Within a short time she modelled for Chanel. In the early 1990s she starred in Guess? jeans ads in North America. She has appeared in around ten motion pictures.</p>\r\n<p>Schiffer was long engaged to, but never married, the magician David Copperfield. On May 25, 2002 she married film producer Matthew de Vere Drummond, n&eacute; Matthew Vaughn, son of George Albert Harley Drummond (also known as George de Vere Drummond).</p>\r\n<p>It was widely reported at the time of Claudia Schiffer''s marriage that one day she could become the Countess of Oxford because her father-in-law was in line of succession to the Earldom of Oxford and Mortimer. She is disqualified on two counts: Matthew''s illegitimacy would bar him from any succession and George Harley Drummond is not in line for succession as he is not descended from the male line.</p>\r\n<p>Claudia and Matthew have two children: a son, Caspar Matthew De Vere Drummond, born in London on January 30, 2003 and a daughter, Clementine, born in London on November 11, 2004.</p>\r\n<p>Height: 5 ft 11 in (1.80 m) <br>\r\n  Weight: 124 lbs (56 kg) <br>\r\n  Measurements: 36C-24-35 (US); 90-61-88 (EU) <br>\r\n  Dress Size: 8 (US); 38 (EU) <br>\r\n  Shoe Size: 9 (US); 41 (EU) <br>\r\n  Eyes: Blue <br>\r\n  Hair: Blonde <br>\r\n  Ethnicity: German <br>\r\n  Nationality: German <br>\r\n</p>\r\n<p><strong>Filmography</strong></p>\r\n<p><strong>Acting:</strong></p>\r\n<p>Love Actually (2003) .... Carol <br>\r\n  In Pursuit (2001) .... Catherine Wells <br>\r\n  Life Without Dick (2001) .... Mary <br>\r\n  Black and White (1999) .... Greta <br>\r\n  Friends &amp; Lovers (1999) .... Carla <br>\r\n  Desperate But Not Serious (1999) .... Gigi <br>\r\n  The Blackout (1997) .... Susan <br>\r\n  Ri&cent;hie Ri&cent;h (1994) .... Claudia, the Aerobics Instructor </p>\r\n<p><br>\r\n  <strong>Playing Herself:</strong></p>\r\n<p>&Iacute; sk&oacute;m drekans (2002) .... Herself (presenter) <br>\r\n  666 - Traue keinem, mit dem Du schl&auml;fst! (2002) .... Herself <br>\r\n  Zoolander (2001) .... Herself <br>\r\n  The Sound of Claudia Schiffer (2000) .... Herself <br>\r\n  Beautopia (1998) .... Herself <br>\r\n  1997 VH1 Fashion Awards (1997) (TV) .... Herself <br>\r\n  An Audience with Elton John (1997) (TV) (uncredited) .... Herself <br>\r\n  Happy Birthday Elizabeth: A Celebration of Life (1997) (TV) .... Herself <br>\r\n  The 68th Annual Academy Awards (1996) (TV) .... Herself - Co-Presenter: Best Costume Design <br>\r\n  Catwalk (1996) .... Herself <br>\r\n  Perfectly Fit (1996) (V) .... Herself <br>\r\n  Around Claudia Schiffer (1995) (TV) .... Herself/Interviewer <br>\r\n  Sch&ouml;nsten Frauen der Welt - Claudia Schiffer, Die (1995) (TV) .... Herself <br>\r\n  Pr&ecirc;t-&agrave;-Porter (1994) (uncredited) .... Herself <br>\r\n  The Magic of David Copperfield: 15 Years of Magic (1994) (TV) .... Herself <br>\r\n  Noche de tu vida, La (1993) (TV) .... Herself - Hostess </p>\r\n<p><br>\r\n  <strong>Notable TV Guest Appearances:</strong></p>\r\n<p>Coraz&oacute;n de... 19 July 2005 .... Herself <br>\r\n  Wetten, dass..? episode: &quot;Wetten, dass..? aus Klagenfurt&quot; (episode # 1.147) 28 February 2004 .... Herself <br>\r\n  Arrested Development (uncredited) in episode: &quot;Charity Drive&quot; (episode # 1.5) 30 November 2003 .... Balboa Towers Security <br>\r\n  Dharma &amp; Greg episode: &quot;This Diamond Ring&quot; (episode # 5.19) 2 April 2002 .... Gretchen <br>\r\n  Dharma &amp; Greg episode: &quot;I Think, Therefore I Am in Trouble&quot; (episode # 5.16) 19 March 2002 .... Gretchen <br>\r\n  Wetten, dass..? episode: &quot;Wetten, dass..? aus Braunschweig&quot; (episode # 1.133) 26 January 2002 .... Herself <br>\r\n  The Howard Stern Radio Show 7 October 2000 .... Herself <br>\r\n  Russell Gilbert Live (episode # 1.11) 17 June 2000 .... Herself <br>\r\n  Late Night with Conan O''Brien 13 April 2000 .... Herself <br>\r\n  Futurama (voice) in episode: &quot;A Head in the Polls&quot; (episode # 2.7) 12 December 1999 .... Herself <br>\r\n  Caiga quien caiga 19 October 1997 .... Herself <br>\r\n  Mad TV (episode # 1.17) 6 April 1996 .... Herself <br>\r\n  De t&uacute; a t&uacute; 18 February 1993 <br>\r\n  Wetten, dass..? episode: &quot;Wetten, dass..? aus Basel&quot; (episode # 1.70) 2 November 1991 .... Herself <br>\r\n</p>');
INSERT INTO `bios` VALUES ('c', 'Colleen Haskell', 'Colleen_Haskell.jpg', '<p><strong>Colleen Haskell </strong></p>\r\n<p>Colleen Marie Haskell was a contestant on the first season of the American reality show Survivor. She was born December 6, 1976 in Bethesda, Maryland to John and Patricia Haskell. Haskell was a graduate of the University of Georgia.</p>\r\n<p>Haskell was a castaway on the Pagong tribe. She finished in 6th place as the last member of her tribe remaining in the game. Bryant Gumbel tagged her as &quot;America''s Sweetheart&quot; due to her fair play, witty observations and girl next door appearance. She was arguably the most popular castaway from the first season and is still a fan favorite.</p>\r\n<p>In 2001 she starred in the comedic film The Animal, playing Rob Schneider''s love interest. In 2003, she worked as an assistant producer on The Michael Essamy Show.</p>\r\n<p>Haskell''s final words after being voted off were &quot;Play fair, be nice&quot;.</p>\r\n');
INSERT INTO `bios` VALUES ('c', 'Courteney Cox', 'Courteney_Cox.jpg', '<p><strong>Courteney Cox </strong></p>\r\n<p>Courteney Cox Arquette (born Courteney Bass Cox on June 15, 1964 in Birmingham, Alabama) is an American actress, best known for her role in the long-running television series Friends. (While she has occasionally used her full married name professionally, she continues to be generally known simply as Courteney Cox.)</p>\r\n<p>Cox was born to Richard Cox and Courteney Copeland, members of an affluent Southern family. She was raised in Mountain Brook, Alabama. She attended Mountain Brook High School, where she was a cheerleader, tennis player and swimmer. Upon graduation, Cox went to study architecture and interior design at Mount Vernon College. She dropped out after one year to a pursue a modelling career after being signed by the Ford modeling agency in New York City. While modelling, she also took acting classes, and lost her Southern accent.</p>\r\n<p>Cox was the first person to use the word &quot;period&quot; on US TV in its physiological sense, in a 1980s advertising campaign. After coming to prominence in the 1984 music video for Bruce Springsteen''s &quot;Dancing in the Dark&quot; (in which she danced onstage with Springsteen), she appeared in several movies including Masters of the Universe (1987), Cocoon: The Return (1988) and Blue Desert (1991).</p>\r\n<p>Cox had a starring role in the short-lived TV series, Misfits of Science (1985) and later had a recurring role (1987 - 1989) on the television series Family Ties (1982 - 1989).</p>\r\n<p>Cox is best known for playing Monica Geller Bing on the hit TV series Friends (1994 - 2004). She became the only principal member of the show''s cast not to be nominated for an Emmy Award.</p>\r\n<p>Cox has also appeared in many Hollywood films including Ace Ventura: Pet Detective (1994), Scream (1996), Scream 2 (1997), Scream 3 (2000) and 3000 Miles to Graceland (2001). She met actor David Arquette on the set of Scream and the couple married on June 12, 1999. In June 2004 she gave birth to a baby girl, Coco Riley Arquette. Prior to her relationship with Arquette, she had had a relationship with actor Michael Keaton.</p>\r\n');
INSERT INTO `bios` VALUES ('d', 'Denise Richards', 'Denise_Richards.jpg', '<p><strong>Denise Richards </strong></p>\r\n<p>Denise Lee Richards (born February 17, 1971) is an American film actress.</p>\r\n<p>Richards was born in Downers Grove, Illinois, a suburb of Chicago, to a Welsh father and a Croatian mother. She later moved to California, and graduated from El Camino High School in Oceanside, California.</p>\r\n<p>She is most famous for her appearance as Bond Girl Christmas Jones in the James Bond film The World Is Not Enough (1999), as well as her appearances in films such as Wild Things (1998), Starship Troopers (1997), and the slasher flick Valentine (2001) alongside David Boreanaz and Katherine Heigl. In addition to her film work, Richards has made regular appearances in the situation comedy Spin City and in 1993 (at the age of 21 years) played a 15 year old girl who distracts George Costanza with her cleavage in an episode of Seinfeld. In December 2004, she posed in a nude pictorial for Playboy magazine. Richards has been named as the Sexiest Mom of 2005 by In Touch magazine.</p>\r\n<p>Richards married actor Charlie Sheen in 2002, but filed for divorce in March of 2005, but have reportedly reconciled and seeking marriage counciling to further mend their relationship. The couple have two daughters: Sam Katherine, who was born on March 9, 2004 and weighed 7lbs. 3oz., and Lola Rose, who was born on June 1, 2005 and weighed 6lbs. 10oz.<br>\r\n</p>\r\n<p><strong>Selected filmography</strong></p>\r\n<p>A Private War (2005) <br>\r\n  Sex, Love &amp; Secrets (2005) <br>\r\n  Elvis Has Left the Building (2004) <br>\r\n  Whore (2004) <br>\r\n  Scary Movie 3 (2003) <br>\r\n  Love Actually (2003) <br>\r\n  You Stupid Man (2002) <br>\r\n  The Third Wheel (2002) <br>\r\n  Undercover Brother (2002) <br>\r\n  Empire (2002) <br>\r\n  Good Advice (2001) <br>\r\n  Valentine (2001) <br>\r\n  Tail Lights Fade (1999) <br>\r\n  The World Is Not Enough (1999) <br>\r\n  Drop Dead Gorgeous (1999) <br>\r\n  Lookin'' Italian (1998) <br>\r\n  Wild Things (1998) <br>\r\n  Starship Troopers (1997) <br>\r\n  Nowhere (1997) <br>\r\n  P.C.H. (1995) <br>\r\n  Tammy and the T-Rex (1994) <br>\r\n  Loaded Weapon 1 (1993) <br>\r\n</p>\r\n');
INSERT INTO `bios` VALUES ('d', 'Demi Moore', 'Demi_Moore.jpg', '<p><strong>Demi Moore </strong></p>\r\n<p>Demi Moore (born Demetria Guynes on November 11, 1962 in Roswell, New Mexico) is an American actress with a trademark husky voice. She is of mixed ancestry including French, Welsh, and Cherokee (Native American) heritage.</p>\r\n<p>Although Moore was born in New Mexico, she spent much of her childhood and teenage years in the suburbs of Pittsburgh. As a child, Moore had a difficult and unstable home life. Her father Charles Harmon, an unemployed gambling addict, left her mother, Victoria, before she was born. Because of this, Moore did not share his last name on her birth certificate. Her stepfather, Danny Guynes, did not add much stability to her life, either. He frequently changed jobs and made the family move a total of 40 times. Her parents also drank, and often fought and beat each other. To make matters worse, operations on her left eye during childhood caused her to wear a patch.</p>\r\n<p>When she was 16, Moore''s then-friend, Nastassja Kinski, persuaded her to drop out of Hollywood''s Fairfax High School to become an actress. After quitting school, Moore went to work as a pin-up girl, modelled in Europe, and worked at a collection agency.</p>\r\n<p>In 1980 Moore''s step-father Danny committed suicide. That same year she married rock musician Freddy Moore, whose last name she adopted; the marriage lasted only 4 years.</p>\r\n<p>In the early 1980s she posed for a series of soft-core photographs featuring full frontal nudity. These photos went unnoticed until after she became a star, eventually being published in a German magazine and then later in North America. They are widely available now on the internet.</p>\r\n<p>Moore''s big break came playing the part of Jackie Templeton on the ABC soap opera, General Hospital, a role she played from 1982 to 1983. Her character was frequently romantically paired with actors twice her age.</p>\r\n<p>Moore used her General Hospital salaries for partying and snorting cocaine. Her drug abuse lasted more than three years, until 1985, when director Joel Schumacher fired her from the set of St. Elmo''s Fire when she arrived on the set intoxicated. She soon received withdrawal treatment and returned clean after a week and stayed clean. (Incidentally, Moore''s character in St. Elmo''s Fire, Jules, was also a cocaine addict.) Moore had to sign a contract stipulating that she would stop her own alcohol and drug abuse, an agreement that caused her life to turn around. In the 1980s, she appeared in several youth oriented films, and was listed among the &quot;Brat Pack.&quot; She was engaged to fellow Brat-Packer Emilio Estevez for three years.</p>\r\n<p>In November, 1987, Moore married actor Bruce Willis, after a highly publicized whirlwind romance. They had three daughters together, Rumer Glenn, Scout LaRue, and Tallulah Belle, but divorced in 1998.</p>\r\n<p> <br>\r\n  Vanity Fair (September, 1991)In August, 1991, Moore again appeared nude on the cover of Vanity Fair magazine while seven-months pregnant with her daughter Scout LaRue, with enormous attendant publicity. The image was endlessly parodied (including by Spy magazine, which placed her then-husband Bruce Willis''s head on her body), but also spawned honest imitators as other pregnant celebrities posed nude. Moore again appeared on the cover of Vanity Fair in August 1992, wearing only a body painted &quot;suit&quot;.</p>\r\n<p>For a time during the 1990s, Moore was the highest paid actress in Hollywood; she was the first actress to reach the USD$10 million mark for salary. Moore was coming off of the heels of a string of box office hits such as Ghost, A Few Good Men, and Indecent Proposal. Not all of the attention she received during this period was positive, however; for example she was spoofed with a cartoon version (called &quot;Dewmi Moore&quot;) in the popular video game Leisure Suit Larry, and had numerous other parodies played on her name and likeness. Moore''s career suffered though when starring vehicles like The Scarlet Letter, The Juror, Striptease, and G.I. Jane (a movie in which Moore went as far as shaving her head) failed at the box office and mostly garnered poor reviews.</p>\r\n<p>After a break from her acting career, Moore returned to the screen as a former member of Charlie''s Angels in the film Charlie''s Angels 2: Full Throttle. As the film was about to be released, media attention focused on how the 40 year old mother of three repeatedly had plastic surgery to remove fat on her hips, abdomen and buttocks, as well as breast enlargement.</p>\r\n<p>In addition, Moore became the subject of much tabloid fodder thanks to her romantic relationship with actor Ashton Kutcher, who is 15 years Moore''s junior. Both would eventually spoof the public''s fascination with their age difference during the monologue on the March 19, 2005 episode of Saturday Night Live. Kutcher, who served as guest host, brought Moore on stage while Moore was made up to appear like a very elderly woman, who constantly babied Kutcher. Moore and Kutcher were married on Saturday, September 24, 2005 in a lavish private ceremony attended by about 100 close friends and family.</p>\r\n<p>Her primary residence is currently in Hailey, Idaho, near the famous Sun Valley resort, although she spends a lot of time in the L.A. area with Kutcher.</p>\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n<p><strong>Trivia</strong></p>\r\n<p>According to an article in the now defunct Buzz magazine, she was so demanding when it came to perks and fringe benefits, her nickname around Hollywood studio executives was &quot;Gimme Moore.&quot; <br>\r\n  Her birthplace of Roswell, New Mexico is near the alleged 1947 UFO crash site. <br>\r\n  It is rumored that she will appear nude again on the cover of a major magazine in early 2006. <br>\r\n</p>\r\n<p><strong>Filmography</strong><br>\r\n    <br>\r\n    Demi Moore with Patrick Swayze in Ghost (1990) <br>\r\n    Moore as Hester Prynne in The Scarlet Letter (1995)Choices (1981) <br>\r\n    Parasite (1982) <br>\r\n    Young Doctors in Love (1982) <br>\r\n    Blame It on Rio (1984) <br>\r\n    No Small Affair (1984) <br>\r\n    St. Elmo''s Fire (1985) <br>\r\n    About Last Night... (1986) <br>\r\n    One Crazy Summer (1986) <br>\r\n    Wisdom (1986) <br>\r\n    The Seventh Sign (1988) <br>\r\n    We''re No Angels (1989) <br>\r\n    Ghost (1990) <br>\r\n    Nothing But Trouble (1991) <br>\r\n    Mortal Thoughts (1991) (also co-producer) <br>\r\n    The Butcher''s Wife (1991) <br>\r\n    A Few Good Men (1992) <br>\r\n    Indecent Proposal (1993) <br>\r\n    A Century of Cinema (1994) (documentary) <br>\r\n    Disclosure (1994) <br>\r\n    Your Studio and You (1995) (short subject) <br>\r\n    The Scarlet Letter (1995) <br>\r\n    Now and Then (1995) (also producer) <br>\r\n    The Juror (1996) <br>\r\n    The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1996) (voice) <br>\r\n    Striptease (1996) <br>\r\n    Beavis and Butt-Head Do America (1996) (voice) <br>\r\n    G.I. Jane (1997) <br>\r\n    Deconstructing Harry (1997) <br>\r\n    I Think I Cannes (1997) (Cameo) <br>\r\n    Passion of Mind (2000) <br>\r\n    Charlie''s Angels: Full Throttle (2003) <br>\r\n    Half Light (2005) <br>\r\n    Bobby (2006) (announced start of production) <br>\r\n</p>');
INSERT INTO `bios` VALUES ('d', 'Drea De Matteo', 'Drea_De_Matteo.jpg', '<p><strong>Drea De Matteo </strong></p>\r\n<p>Andrea Donna de Matteo (born January 19, 1972) is an Emmy-winning Italian-American actress, most famous for her roles as Adriana La Cerva on the HBO TV series The Sopranos and as Joey Tribbiani''s sister Gina on the NBC sitcom, Joey.</p>\r\n<p>She studied at New York University''s Tisch School of the Arts, originally hoping to become a director, not an actress. Her role in The Sopranos was one of her earliest, helping to launch her career. She has also appeared in several films including Swordfish, Deuces Wild, and the John Carpenter remake of Assault on Precinct 13.</p>\r\n<p>She has moved from dramatic roles to portray Joey Tribbiani''s sister Gina in the Friends spin-off Joey.</p>\r\n<p>In 2004, de Matteo won an Emmy for Best Supporting Actress (Drama) for her role as ill-fated Adriana on The Sopranos. She was also nominated for a Golden Globe that same year for the same role.</p>\r\n<p>She currently lives in New York City, where she also co-owns Filth Mart, a chic East Village clothing store with best friend and ex-boyfriend Michael Sportes. She is currently dating Shooter Jennings, son of country music legend Waylon Jennings.</p>\r\n');
INSERT INTO `bios` VALUES ('d', 'Drew Barrymore', 'Drew_Barrymore.jpg', '<p><strong>Drew Barrymore </strong></p>\r\n<p>Drew Blythe Barrymore (born February 22, 1975 in Culver City, California) is an American film and television actress and producer.</p>\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n<p><strong>Her family</strong></p>\r\n<p>She is the granddaughter of stage actor John Barrymore, and the great-niece of Lionel Barrymore and Ethel Barrymore. Her father, John Drew Barrymore, and half-brother, John Blyth, are also actors (although they haven''t experienced the critical or commercial success the other Barrymores have enjoyed). &quot;Drew&quot; was the maiden name of her great-grandmother, Georgiana; &quot;Blythe&quot; was the original surname of the dynasty founded by her great-grandfather, Maurice. Drew''s mother is Hungarian-born actress and model, Ildiko Jaid Mako (b. 1944).</p>\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n<p><strong>Career</strong></p>\r\n<p>Barrymore''s career began at the age of 11 months, when she appeared in a dog food commercial. When she was bitten by her canine co-star, the producers feared litigation, though Barrymore merely laughed the incident off. She shot to fame as a child actor when she co-starred in the 1982 Steven Spielberg film E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial. At the age of 7, on November 20, 1982, Barrymore became the youngest ever guest host of the weekly TV program Saturday Night Live. She performed in a skit where she revealed that she had killed E.T.</p>\r\n<p> <br>\r\n  Drew Barrymore on the cover of Playboy, January 1995</p>\r\n<p><strong>Biography</strong></p>\r\n<p>In the wake of this sudden stardom, she endured a notoriously troubled childhood, drinking alcoholic beverages by the time she was 9, smoking marijuana at 10, and snorting cocaine at 12. Barrymore later described this early period of her life in her 1990 autobiography, Little Girl Lost. Though overcoming her substance abuse problems by the time she entered adulthood, Barrymore maintained her &quot;bad girl&quot; image, and in fact leveraged her new found role as a sex symbol to stage a career comeback in the 1990s, playing a teenage seductress in Poison Ivy, and posing nude for the January 1995 issue of U.S. magazine Playboy. Steven Spielberg, Barrymore''s godfather, gave her a quilt for her 20th birthday with a note that read &quot;Cover yourself up&quot;. Enclosed was a copy of her Playboy appearance, with the pictures altered by his art department so that she appeared fully clothed. At that time she had also appeared nude in her last five movies. During a 1995 appearance on The Late Show with David Letterman, Barrymore shocked the normally unflappable host by climbing onto his desk and flashing her breasts at him (but with her back to the camera), as part of a dance for his birthday. She also modelled in a series of Guess? jeans advertisements during this time.</p>\r\n<p> <br>\r\n  Drew Barrymore on The Late Show with David Letterman in 1995, immediately after notoriously flashing the host on-air for his birthday.Barrymore has continued to be a highly bankable movie actress. Though her playful sex appeal has undoubtedly helped her remain in the media spotlight, she has also established a substantial career behind the scenes, despite never finishing high school. She has produced several films, including the highly successful Charlie''s Angels movie adaptation and its sequel. In addition to the light-hearted romantic comedies that she has typically starred in, she has also recently explored more dramatic roles in movies such as Confessions of a Dangerous Mind, and the cult favorite Donnie Darko, of which she was also the executive producer. Barrymore has started to receive more notice both as a serious actress and a savvy Hollywood &quot;player&quot;, though without losing her reputation as a sex symbol and (occasional) hellraiser.</p>\r\n<p>Barrymore''s career makes for colorful copy. In the words of Yahoo! Movies:</p>\r\n<p>Heir to a Hollywood dynasty, child star, prepubescent drug and alcohol abuser, teenage sexpot, and resurrected vessel of celluloid purity, Drew Barrymore is nothing if not the embodiment of the rise and fall of Hollywood fortunes, self-reinvention, and the healing powers of good PR. <br>\r\n  On February 3, 2004, she received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.</p>\r\n<p>Barrymore was married to Welsh bartender turned bar owner, Jeremy Thomas, from March 20 to April 28, 1994, and to comedian Tom Green from July 7, 2001 to October 15, 2002 (Green filed for divorce in December 2001). She is currently dating drummer Fabrizio Moretti of The Strokes. Barrymore has also publicly declared herself to be bisexual, revealing that she had slept with many women as a teenager and is still very interested in women sexually.</p>\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n<p><strong>Trivia</strong></p>\r\n<p>Barrymore was delivered by Dr. Paul Fleiss, father of Heidi Fleiss (interview on The Tonight Show, January 22, 2003). <br>\r\n  She is the godmother of Frances Bean Cobain, the daughter of musicians Kurt Cobain and Courtney Love. <br>\r\n  She has 6 tattoos: a crescent moon on her big toe, a cross with ivy on her lower leg, a butterfly on her stomach, a daisy on her hip, and 2 angels on her lower back (one has a banner with her mother''s name, Jaid, and the other has the name James--a tribute to her then-boyfriend Jamie Walters). <br>\r\n</p>\r\n<p><strong>Selected filmography by date</strong><br>\r\n    <br>\r\n    Barrymore (right) with Lucy Liu and Cameron Diaz in Charlie''s Angels (2000)Altered States (1980) <br>\r\n    E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (1982) <br>\r\n    Firestarter (1984) <br>\r\n    Cat''s Eye (1985) <br>\r\n    Poison Ivy (1992) <br>\r\n    Wayne''s World 2 (1993) (Cameo) <br>\r\n    Bad Girls (1994) <br>\r\n    Boys on the Side (1995) <br>\r\n    Mad Love (1995) <br>\r\n    Batman Forever (1995) <br>\r\n    Everyone Says I Love You (1996) <br>\r\n    Scream (1996) <br>\r\n    Wishful Thinking (1997) <br>\r\n    The Wedding Singer (1998) <br>\r\n    Ever After (1998) <br>\r\n    Home Fries (1998) <br>\r\n    Never Been Kissed (1999) (also producer) <br>\r\n    Titan A.E. (2000) (voice) <br>\r\n    Charlie''s Angels (2000) (also producer) <br>\r\n    Donnie Darko (2001) (also executive producer) <br>\r\n    Freddy Got Fingered (2001) (Cameo) <br>\r\n    Riding in Cars with Boys (2001) <br>\r\n    Confessions of a Dangerous Mind (2002) <br>\r\n    Charlie''s Angels: Full Throttle (2003) (also producer) <br>\r\n    Duplex (2003) (also producer) <br>\r\n    50 First Dates (2004) <br>\r\n    Fever Pitch (2005) (also producer) <br>\r\n    Curious George (2006) (voice) (currently filming) <br>\r\n    Lucky You (2006) <br>\r\n</p>\r\n<p><strong>Selected filmography alpabetically</strong></p>\r\n<p>50 First Dates -2004 <br>\r\n  Altered States -1980 <br>\r\n  Bad Girls -1994 <br>\r\n  Batman Forever -1995 <br>\r\n  Boys on the Side -1995 <br>\r\n  Cat''s Eye -1985 <br>\r\n  Charlie''s Angels -2000 (also producer) <br>\r\n  Charlie''s Angels: Full Throttle -2003 (also producer) <br>\r\n  Confessions of a Dangerous Mind -2002 <br>\r\n  Curious George -2006 (voice) <br>\r\n  Donnie Darko -2001 (also executive producer) <br>\r\n  Duplex -2003 (also producer) <br>\r\n  E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial -1982 <br>\r\n  Ever After -1998 <br>\r\n  Everyone Says I Love You -1996 <br>\r\n  Fever Pitch -2005 (also producer) <br>\r\n  Firestarter -1984 <br>\r\n  Freddy Got Fingered -2001 (Cameo) <br>\r\n  Home Fries -1998 <br>\r\n  Lucky You -2006 <br>\r\n  Mad Love -1995 <br>\r\n  Never Been Kissed -1999 (also producer) <br>\r\n  Poison Ivy -1992 <br>\r\n  Riding in Cars with Boys -2001 <br>\r\n  Scream -1996 <br>\r\n  The Wedding Singer -1998 <br>\r\n  Titan A.E. -2000 (voice) <br>\r\n  Wayne''s World 2 -1993 (Cameo) <br>\r\n  Wishful Thinking -1997 <br>\r\n</p>');
INSERT INTO `bios` VALUES ('e', 'Eliza Dushku', 'Eliza_Dushku.jpg', '<p><strong>Eliza Dushku </strong></p>\r\n<p>Eliza Patricia Dushku (born December 30, 1980 in Watertown, Massachusetts) is an American actress who has appeared in several Hollywood movies such as Bring It On and Wrong Turn. She is also well known for her acting on television, such as her recurring appearances on Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Angel as Faith, as well as the main character in the series Tru Calling.</p>\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n<p><strong>Personal life</strong></p>\r\n<p>Eliza was born in Watertown, Massachusetts, to an Albanian father and Danish mother, and raised in the LDS Church, the faith of her mother (though she is not actively practicing). She has three older brothers, Aaron, Ben, and Nate, the latter of whom is also an actor. Dushku lives in the Los Angeles area with Nate, the youngest of her three brothers, whom she calls her &quot;partner in crime.&quot;</p>\r\n<p> <br>\r\n  A young Eliza appears in the 1994 Arnold Schwarzenegger film, True Lies.</p>\r\n<p><strong>Early career</strong></p>\r\n<p>Eliza came to the attention of casting agents when she was 10. Along with her brother, she went to a commercial audition where she tripped on the stairs, bloodied her nose, and became an instant drama queen. She was chosen at the end of a five month search throughout the United States for the lead role of Alice, opposite Juliette Lewis in the film That Night. In 1993, Dushku landed a role as Pearl alongside Robert De Niro and Leonardo DiCaprio in This Boy''s Life, a role that she said opened a lot of doors. Dushku says that Dicaprio taught her how to deal with bullies and other high school dangers, for which she is grateful.</p>\r\n<p>The following year, she played the teenage daughter of Arnold Schwarzenegger and Jamie Lee Curtis in True Lies. She would also have parts as Paul Reiser''s daughter in Bye Bye, Love, as Cindy Johnson with Halle Berry and Jim Belushi in Race the Sun, as well as roles in a television movie and a short film.</p>\r\n<p>Dushku took some time off from acting to finish her junior and senior years of high school. She was accepted to the George Washington and Suffolk Universities in Boston.</p>\r\n<p> <br>\r\n  Eliza Dushku in a promotional poster for the 2003 horror movie, Wrong Turn.</p>\r\n<p><strong>Later roles</strong></p>\r\n<p>After completing high school, Eliza returned to acting with the role of Faith, a Slayer much more troubled than the main character Buffy. Though initially planned as a five episode role, the character became so popular that she stayed on for the entirety of the third season. She has also made guest appearances in Buffy''s spin-off, Angel.</p>\r\n<p>Because of her convincing role as a sociopath, she became an icon to many criminals. She was inundated with piles of fan mail from legions of prisoners. She said that:</p>\r\n<p>I''ve been getting fan mail from maximum security penitentiaries and death row. What are the authorities thinking of in playing a show with young teenage girls to Death Row inmates? They write everything &mdash; disgusting things that you don''t even want to know about. And they send me pictures &mdash; ''Oh, here''s a picture of me before I was incarcerated!'' &mdash; and there''s some guy sat on the sofa with a bottle of beer and a moustache, and a big gut. It''s so creepy. Way more creepy than Buffy.</p>\r\n<p>In 2000, she starred with Kirsten Dunst in the cheerleader comedy Bring It On, which was a surprising success at the box office that spawned a sequel. Kevin Smith invited Dushku to be a part of his final adventure for his two characters, Jay and Silent Bob, in Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back, where Eliza co-starred with Shannon Elizabeth, Ali Larter, Ben Affleck, and others. After this, Dushku starred in Soul Survivors, opposite Ben Affleck''s brother Casey, followed by a role in The New Guy.</p>\r\n<p> <br>\r\n  Eliza in a guest appearance on That ''70s Show, alongside actors Topher Grace and Ashton Kutcher.Eliza then returned to work with Robert De Niro and director Michael Caton-Jones in City by the Sea, playing James Franco''s junkie girlfriend and mother of his child. The film garnered attention from a wider adult audience and several good reviews.</p>\r\n<p>2003 saw the release of Wrong Turn, a horror film in which Eliza had the starring role, and The Kiss, an independent comedy-drama. Starting that same year, she also starred in a new Fox TV series, Tru Calling, where she played the main character, Tru Davies, a medical student whose grant is pulled out from under her, forcing her to take a job at a local morgue. There, she discovers that she has the power to &quot;re-live&quot; the previous day over again, an ability she used to right wrongful deaths. She also attempts to help her troubled family - a drug-addicted sister and a gambling-addicted brother.</p>\r\n<p>On October 1, 2005, she announced at Wizard World Boston that shooting had begun for Nobel Son (to be released in 2006), in which she will star with Alan Rickman, Danny DeVito, Bill Pullman, and Peter Boyle. Eliza also announced that she would appear in a Broadway production entitled &quot;Dog Sees God&quot; in December of 2005.</p>\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n<p><strong>Eliza Dushku Foundation</strong></p>\r\n<p>Dushku has started a new project with her father to help Camp Hale, a summer camp for inner-city Boston boys open since 1900, where the Dushku family are closely involved: the Eliza Dushku Foundation. Through the sale of props and fan memorabilia, the Dushkus hope to generate increased contributions in order to pay for the maintenance of Camp Hale for generations to come.</p>\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n<p><strong>Filmography</strong><br>\r\n    <br>\r\n    Dushku''s character tries on swimsuits in The New Guy.True Lies 2 (2007) - Dana Tasker <br>\r\n    Nobel Son (2006) - City Hall <br>\r\n    That 70''s Show (2005 guest appearance, TV Series) - Sarah <br>\r\n    Reading Rainbow (2005 guest appearance, TV Series) - Narrator <br>\r\n    Tru Calling (2003-2005, TV Series) - Tru Davies <br>\r\n    The Kiss (2003) - Megan <br>\r\n    Punk''d (2003) - Herself <br>\r\n    Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Chaos Bleeds (2003, Video Game) - Faith <br>\r\n    Wrong Turn (2003) - Jessie Burlingame <br>\r\n    City By the Sea (2002) - Gina <br>\r\n    The New Guy (2002) - Danielle <br>\r\n    Soul Survivors (2001) - Annabel <br>\r\n    Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back (2001) - Sissy <br>\r\n    Bring It On (2000) - Missy Pantone <br>\r\n    Angel (2000, 2003 guest appearances, TV Series) - Faith <br>\r\n    Buffy the Vampire Slayer (1998-2000, 2003 guest appearances, TV Series) - Faith <br>\r\n    Race the Sun (1996) - Cindy Johnson <br>\r\n    Journey (1995, TV) - Cat <br>\r\n    Bye Bye, Love (1995) - Emma Carlson <br>\r\n    True Lies (1994) - Dana Tasker <br>\r\n    Fishing With George (1994) <br>\r\n    This Boy''s Life (1993) - Pearl <br>\r\n    That Night (1992) - Alice Bloom <br>\r\n</p>\r\n');
INSERT INTO `bios` VALUES ('e', 'Elizabeth Hurley', 'Elizabeth_Hurley.jpg', '<p><strong>Elizabeth Hurley </strong></p>\r\n<p>Elizabeth Jane Hurley (born June 10, 1965) is an English model, actress, producer and designer, born in Basingstoke, Hampshire. Her mother is an English Protestant while her late father was a lapsed Catholic of Irish descent. Her height is 1.73m.</p>\r\n<p>Elizabeth has an older sister, Kate, and a younger brother, Michael. She took ballet classes as a child and got a scholarship at a boarding school at the age of 12 but was expelled for poor grades. She first came to public attention following her wearing of a form-fitting black Versace gown barely held together with safety pins (referred to as ''that'' dress in the British press), at the premiere of Four Weddings and a Funeral (1994), a film that starred her then-companion Hugh Grant.</p>\r\n<p>Her notable Hollywood films include, two Austin Powers movies (1997 &amp; 1999) and Bedazzled (2000). She has also produced two films starring Grant, Extreme Measures (1996) and Mickey Blue Eyes (1999), under their jointly owned Simian production company. Additionally, in 2004 she was an executive producer on the film Method. She dated Grant from 1987 until 2001 and they seem to remain good friends.</p>\r\n<p>She is the face of Est&eacute;e Lauder''s ReNutriv Skin Care Line. In addition, she has a lipstick named after her, Elizabeth Pink, the profits of which go to the Breast Cancer Foundation.</p>\r\n<p>Since her breakup with Grant, she has been linked with multi-millionaire American film producer Stephen Bing and American millionaire Ted Forstmann. She is engaged to half-Indian, half-German Arun Nayar, the playboy son of a Bombay textile millionaire, whom she has been seeing since 2003 and who obtained a divorce from his Italian wife, Valentina Pedroni, in early 2005. On April 4, 2002, she gave birth to a son, Damian Charles Hurley, fathered by Bing, who initially denied paternity. DNA tests confirmed that he was the father. Damian was baptized a Roman Catholic, as Elizabeth Hurley has been contemplating converting to Catholicism for more than a decade but has not yet officially done so; having a child out of wedlock is frowned on by Catholics.</p>\r\n<p>She has homes in London; in Ampney Crucis, a village in Gloucestershire, England; and in Beverly Hills, California. The Daily Mail 2004 Rich List put her fortune at an estimated &pound;17 million. She said she gets her &quot;hot date&quot; look by eating a lot of Watercress Soup. Elizabeth''s dress size is (US) 6 (UK 8 EU 38)</p>\r\n<p>In April of 2005 her beachwear line Elizabeth Hurley Beach debuted in select Saks Fifth Avenue stores in the United States, Harrod''s in the UK and in various other locations worldwide.</p>\r\n<p>Elizabeth Hurley is apparently a favorite of director David Yates to play Bellatrix Lestrange in the upcoming film adaptation of Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix in 2007 .</p>\r\n<p>Another interesting fact is that Hurley has twelve piercings in her ears and a pierced nose. She says the Est&eacute;e Lauder people do a good job of covering them.<br>\r\n</p>\r\n<p><strong>Filmography<br>\r\n</strong></p>\r\n<p>The Weight of Water, 2000Method (film) (2004) [1] <br>\r\n  Serving Sara (2002) <br>\r\n  Double Whammy (2001) [2] <br>\r\n  Bedazzled (2000) <br>\r\n  The Weight of Water (2000) <br>\r\n  Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me (1999) <br>\r\n  Edtv (1999) <br>\r\n  My Favorite Martian (1999) <br>\r\n  Permanent Midnight (1998) <br>\r\n  Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery (1997) <br>\r\n  Dangerous Ground (1997) [3] <br>\r\n  Mad Dogs and Englishmen (film) (1995) [4] <br>\r\n  Beyond Bedlam (1993) [5] <br>\r\n  Passenger 57 (1992) <br>\r\n  The Long Winter (1992) [6] <br>\r\n  Skipper, Der (1990) [7] <br>\r\n  Rowing In the Wind (1988) [8] <br>\r\n  Aria (film) (1987) [9] <br>\r\n</p>');
INSERT INTO `bios` VALUES ('e', 'Eva Longoria', 'Eva_Longoria.jpg', '<p><strong>Eva Longoria </strong></p>\r\n<p>Eva Jacqueline Longoria (born March 15, 1975) is a Mexican-American actress and model.</p>\r\n<p>Longoria was born in Corpus Christi, Texas. She was teased about being ugly when she was a teenager.</p>\r\n<p>Her rise to fame began when she starred as psychotic Isabella Brana Williams on The Young and the Restless from 2001 to 2003. After leaving Y&amp;R, she was seen on the now-canceled L.A. Dragnet, after which she landed the role of model-unhappily-married-to-money Gabrielle Solis on the popular drama Desperate Housewives in 2004.</p>\r\n<p>Longoria is a former Miss Corpus Christi, was one of People en Espa&ntilde;ol&rsquo;s &quot;Most Beautiful People&quot; for 2003, and was #1 in Maxim Magazine''s hottest female stars of 2005.</p>\r\n<p>Longoria was married to General Hospital star Tyler Christopher from 2002 to 2004, and as such, was also credited as Eva Longoria Christopher. Longoria has been romantically linked to Screen Actors Guild president Sid Laura Horowitz, successful writer Milan Gracanin, ex-*NSYNC member JC Chasez, and basketball star Tony Parker of the NBA''s San Antonio Spurs.</p>\r\n<p>Longoria spoke candidly about her affection for vibrators in an interview that Rolling Stone magazine published December 15 2004. As a result readers started sending sextoys to Longoria. Her employer ABC asked Longoria to stop mentioning the word vibrator in interviews.</p>\r\n<p>Longoria caused a stir at the 2005 MTV Video Music Awards when she appeared in a one-piece bathing suit to introduce Mariah Carey''s equally head-turning performance, and joked that she &ldquo;wasn&rsquo;t going to let a little hurricane keep me from wearing a bathing suit.&rdquo; At the 2005 Emmy Awards, wherein she had been passed over for nomination, she satirized Housewives internal drama by being interviewed by host Ellen DeGeneres from her supposedly-relegated-to worst seats in the house.<br>\r\n</p>\r\n<p><strong>Selected Filmography</strong></p>\r\n<p>Punk''d (2004, one episode) (TV Series, see Jesse Metcalfe) <br>\r\n  Desperate Housewives (2004-present) (TV Series) <br>\r\n  L.A. Dragnet (2003) (TV Series) <br>\r\n  The Young and the Restless (2001-2003) (TV Series) <br>\r\n</p>');
INSERT INTO `bios` VALUES ('f', 'Faith Hill', 'Faith_Hill.jpg', '<p><strong>Faith Hill </strong></p>\r\n<p>Audrey Faith Perry, later known as Faith Hill (born September 21, 1967 in Jackson, Mississippi), is an American country singer, known for her commercial success as well as her much-publicized marriage to country singer Tim McGraw.</p>\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n<p><strong>Early life</strong></p>\r\n<p>Hill was raised in Star, Mississippi and began singing at a very early age. After graduating high school, Hill went to college briefly before dropping out and moving to Nashville in an attempt at starting a singing career.</p>\r\n<p>Hill is adopted and met her biological mother in the early 1990s. She was married to a music executive named Dan Hill from 1988 to 1994. Working as a secretary in a music publishing company, Hill''s singing was noticed as she sang to herself one day. She soon signed to Warner Brothers Records.</p>\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n<p><strong>Country success</strong></p>\r\n<p>Hill''s debut album was Take Me As I Am (1993); sales were strong, buoyed by the chart success of &quot;Wild One&quot;. A version of Janis Joplin''s &quot;Piece of My Heart&quot;, also went to the top of the country charts. She was delayed in the recording of her second album by surgery on her vocal cords. It Matters to Me finally appeared in 1995 and was another success, with the title track becoming her fourth #1 country single.</p>\r\n<p>Hill began seeing country singer Tim McGraw. When he proposed marriage to her in one of his tour trailers, he had to go perform right then, so she took a permanent marker and wrote her answer on the mirror. Hill began touring with McGraw and married him on October 6, 1996. The couple has three children together: Gracie Katherine, Maggie Elizabeth and Audrey Caroline.</p>\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n<p><strong>Pop crossover</strong><br>\r\n    <br>\r\n    Faith Hill''s Album BreatheHill''s 1998 album, Faith, moved her closer towards a mainstream, pop-oriented sound, which lost her many of her long-time fans. &quot;This Kiss&quot; became a #1 country hit, and went to #7 on the pop charts.</p>\r\n<p>Hill''s fame grew rapidly as she signed an endorsement deal with CoverGirl makeup and released Breathe, an even more successful pop hit that became one of the biggest albums of 2000. The title track &quot;Breathe&quot; was the #1 pop airplay song that year and has become Hill''s signature song; especially notable is the power and control she shows in her lower register during the song. &quot;The Way You Love Me&quot; hit the top ten as well (#7), and becoming one of the longest running singles in the history of the Billboard Hot 100 (57 weeks). The album won Hill three Grammy Awards including Best Country Album.</p>\r\n<p>By the holidays she had contributed &quot;Where Are You Christmas?&quot; to the movie How the Grinch Stole Christmas and the following summer she recorded the Diane Warren penned &quot;There You''ll Be&quot; for the Pearl Harbor soundtrack.</p>\r\n<p>In 2002, Hill released Cry. Though the album debuted at #1 on Billboard magazine''s pop and country album charts, its singles (including the title track, written and originally performed by Angie Aparo) received much less radio airplay than her previous smashes. In fact, country radio pretty much ignored the songs, considering them &quot;too pop&quot;. The album did win one Grammy Award.</p>\r\n<p>In the summer of 2004, Hill co-starred with Nicole Kidman and Matthew Broderick in director Frank Oz''s remake of the 1975 thriller The Stepford Wives.</p>\r\n<p>She references this sojourn in Hollywood as well as the chilly reception of Cry in the 2005 country release &quot;Mississippi Girl&quot;, the first single from her back-to-roots album Fireflies. It worked, as the song restored her to the top of the country charts. She performed this song along with &quot;Breathe&quot; and &quot;Piece of My Heart&quot; at the Live 8 concert in Rome on July 2, 2005, where McGraw also performed.</p>\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n<p><strong>Discography<br>\r\n</strong></p>\r\n<p><strong>Albums</strong></p>\r\n<p>Fireflies (2005) #1 US (Platinum) <br>\r\n  Cry (2002) #1 US (2X Platinum), #29 UK <br>\r\n  Breathe (1999) #1 US (8X Platinum), #19 UK <br>\r\n  Faith (1998) #7 US (6X Platinum) <br>\r\n  It Matters to Me (1995) #29 US (4X Platinum) <br>\r\n  Take Me As I Am (1993) #59 US (3X Platinum) <br>\r\n</p>');
INSERT INTO `bios` VALUES ('g', 'Gillian Anderson', 'Gillian_Anderson.jpg', '<p><strong>Gillian Anderson </strong></p>\r\n<p>Gillian Leigh Anderson (born August 9, 1968) is an American actress, best known for her role as FBI Agent Dana Scully in the American TV series The X-Files.</p>\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n<p><strong>Life and career</strong></p>\r\n<p>She was born in Chicago to Edward and Rosemary Anderson; soon after her birth her family moved to Puerto Rico for fifteen months and then to Crouch End in London. When she was eleven, her family moved again, this time to Grand Rapids, Michigan, where she attended City Middle/High School, a program for gifted students with a strong emphasis on the humanities. With her English accent and background, she felt out of place in the American Midwest, and developed a reputation as a strong-willed and rebellious teenager. She had her nose pierced in the early 1980s, dyed her hair various colors, and was once arrested for gluing the locks of the school closed.</p>\r\n<p>She found an outlet for her talents when she began acting in high school and community theater productions. She attended Goodman Theater School of Drama at DePaul University in Chicago, where she earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts in 1990.</p>\r\n<p>Following some professional stage work, she &quot;broke into&quot; television. In 1993, she had a guest appearance on the collegiate drama Class of ''96 on the fledgling Fox Network, and auditioned for the role of Dana Scully on The X-Files. There she met assistant art director Clyde Klotz, whom she married and with whom she had a daughter, Piper Maru, in 1994. (An alien-abduction storyline explained her brief absence from the series for delivery.) Anderson and Klotz later divorced. She had roles in a handful of films during the run of The X-Files and starred in The House of Mirth, an adaptation of the Edith Wharton novel of the same name.</p>\r\n<p>Since The X-Files ended, she has performed in several stage productions and worked on various film projects. She has also done narrative work for documentaries on scientific topics, in which the voice listeners recognize as &quot;Agent Scully&quot; lends an air of credible authority to the material. In 2005 she appeared as Lady Dedlock in a BBC television adaptation of Charles Dickens'' novel Bleak House and she recently completed work on a film version of the novel Tristram Shandy, due to be released later in the year. In December 2004, Anderson married longtime partner Julian Ozanne, a documentary filmmaker, on Lamu''s island of Shella, off the coast of Africa.<br>\r\n</p>\r\n<p><strong>Filmography</strong><br>\r\n    <br>\r\n    Anderson as &quot;Lily Bart&quot; in The House of Mirth (2000)The Last King of Scotland (Filming; to be released 2006), as &quot;Sara Zach&quot; <br>\r\n    Straightheads (Announced - unknown release date) <br>\r\n    Gellhorn: A Twentieth-Century Life (Announced - unknown release date) <br>\r\n    Bleak House as &quot;Lady Honoria Dedlock&quot; <br>\r\n    Tristram Shandy: A Cock and Bull Story (2005) <br>\r\n    The Mighty Celt (2005), as &quot;Kate&quot; <br>\r\n    The House of Mirth (2000), as &quot;Lily Bart&quot; <br>\r\n    Mononoke Hime (1997), aka Princess Mononoke (English language version, 1999), voice, as &quot;Moro&quot; <br>\r\n    Playing by Heart (1998), as &quot;Meredith&quot; <br>\r\n    The X-Files: Fight the Future (1998), as &quot;Dana Scully&quot; <br>\r\n    The Mighty (1998), as &quot;Loretta Lee&quot; <br>\r\n    Chicago Cab, aka Hellcab (1998), as &quot;Southside Girl&quot; (or &quot;Brenda&quot;) <br>\r\n    The Turning (1992), as &quot;April Cavanaugh&quot; <br>\r\n    A Matter of Choice (1988), B&amp;W student production <br>\r\n    Three at Once (1986), B&amp;W student production, as &quot;Woman 1&quot; <br>\r\n</p>\r\n<p><strong>List of Stage Appearances</strong></p>\r\n<p>This list is incomplete; you can help by expanding it.<br>\r\n  The Sweetest Swing in Baseball (2004). World premiere at the Royal Court Theatre, Sloane Square, London. <br>\r\n  What The Night Is For (2002-11-07 to 2003-02-09). This play ran at the Comedy Theatre in London, and was Anderson''s West End debut. <br>\r\n  The Vagina Monologues (1999)-(2000) <br>\r\n  The Philanthropist (1992). <br>\r\n  Absent Friends (1991). Long Wharf Theater. Won a Theatre World Award for Best Performance. <br>\r\n  A Zoo Story (1986) <br>\r\n  Arsenic and Old Lace (1983). City High School, Grand Rapids, Michigan, two performances, as &quot;Officer Brophy&quot;.<br>\r\n</p>\r\n<p><strong>Trivia</strong></p>\r\n<p>There exist over 180 fake nude and pornographic images of her; only one of which (a nipple-slip at an awards ceremony) has been proven genuine. She has been quoted as saying she doesn''t mind: &quot;It''s just people getting their rocks off.&quot; <br>\r\n  Performed nude alongside co-star David Duchovny in the X-Files episode &quot;One Son&quot;. <br>\r\n  The X-Files episode &quot;Piper Maru&quot; is named after her child, Piper. <br>\r\n  X-Files director, creator, writer and actor Chris Carter is godfather to her child. <br>\r\n  Her favourite X-Files episodes are &quot;Triangle&quot; and &quot;Bad Blood.&quot; <br>\r\n  She wrote and directed the X-Files episode &quot;all things.&quot; <br>\r\n  Her eyes are blue-green, and her original hair color is ash-blonde. <br>\r\n  Favourite movie is said to be &quot;Wallace and Gromit: The Wrong Trousers&quot; <br>\r\n  Tattoos include a Tahitian tribal symbol on the inside of her right ankle, the words &quot;every day&quot; in Sanskrit on her right wrist, and a &quot;P&quot; on her left hip (presumably for daughter Piper) <br>\r\n  As stated in an X-Files commentary, she is allergic to cats. <br>\r\n  She compiled a collection of Electronica music inspired by Future Fantastic, entitled Future: A Journey Through The Electronic Underground. She even contributed vocals to one track, Extremis, with music by HAL. <br>\r\n</p>');
INSERT INTO `bios` VALUES ('g', 'Goldie Hawn', 'Goldie_Hawn.jpg', '<p><strong>Goldie Hawn </strong></p>\r\n<p>Goldie Jeanne Hawn (born Goldie Jean Studlendgehawn on November 21, 1945 in Washington, D.C.) is a Jewish&ndash;American actress who began her career as one of the regular cast members on the 1960s sketch comedy show Laugh-In. Noted equally for her chipper attitude and her bikini and painted body, she personified a 1960s It girl. On the show she would often break out into high-pitched giggles in the middle of a joke, yet in the next moment deliver a very polished performance. Hawn won an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her work in the 1969 film Cactus Flower, which co-starred the now-deceased acting legends, Walter Matthau and Ingrid Bergman.</p>\r\n<p>Into the 1970s and 1980s Hawn remained a popular figure in entertainment, appearing in various films (generally comedies), and moving into film production, as well. She gathered great respect as a comedy actress, and was outspoken in her liberal political views. Her career died down a bit until 1992 when she revitalized it opposite Bruce Willis and Meryl Streep in the film Death Becomes Her. She also played an aging actress in the late 1990s film The First Wives Club opposite Bette Midler and Diane Keaton. Through the late 1990s and beyond, she has remained popular (in part thanks to the success of her now adult daughter, actress Kate Hudson, whose father is the musician Bill Hudson). She appeared in The Banger Sisters opposite Susan Sarandon in 2002. Her son Oliver Hudson is also an actor, appearing on the short-lived 2004-2005 (WB) television series The Mountain (television series).</p>\r\n<p>She has been in a relationship with Kurt Russell since 1983, and they have a son together, Wyatt Russell, who is now in Vancouver, British Columbia learning and playing hockey. Hawn became a grandmother on 7 January 2004 when her daughter Kate Hudson gave birth to son Ryder Russell Robinson.</p>\r\n<p>Hawn''s father, whose family had been in the U.S. for several hundred years, was a Presbyterian; her mother was the daughter of Jewish immigrants from Hungary and Hawn was raised Jewish. Nowadays, Hawn is a practising Buddhist, but still considers herself Jewish, and has raised her children, including actress Kate Hudson, in both the Jewish and Buddhist beliefs.</p>\r\n<p>Her father, Edward Rutledge Studlendgehawn, was a descendant of Edward Rutledge, one of the signers of the Declaration of Independence (United States).</p>\r\n<p>Hawn has proved her singing talent with a cover version of the Beatles'' song &quot;A Hard Day''s Night&quot; on George Martin''s album In My Life (1998) and, along with Diane Keaton and Bette Midler, in covering the Lesley Gore hit &quot;You Don''t Own Me&quot; for The First Wives Club in 1996.</p>\r\n<p>She has written an autobiography called A Lotus Grows in the Mud (2005) which Hawn claims is not a Hollywood tell-all, but rather a memoir and record of what she has learned in her life so far.</p>\r\n<p> <br>\r\n  On the cover of Playboy, January 1985<br>\r\n</p>\r\n<p><strong>Filmography</strong></p>\r\n<p>The One and Only, Genuine, Original Family Band Disney, (1968) <br>\r\n  Five the Hard Way Crown, (1969) (role unconfirmed) <br>\r\n  Cactus Flower Columbia, (1969) <br>\r\n  There''s a Girl in My Soup Columbia, (1970) <br>\r\n  $ Columbia, (1971) <br>\r\n  Butterflies Are Free Columbia, (1972) <br>\r\n  The Girl from Petrokova Universal, (1974) <br>\r\n  The Sugarland Express Universal, (1974) <br>\r\n  Shampoo Columbia, (1975) <br>\r\n  The Duchess and the Dirtwater Fox 20th Century-Fox, (1976) <br>\r\n  Foul Play Paramount, (1978) <br>\r\n  Lovers and Liars Levitt-Pickman, (1979) <br>\r\n  Private Benjamin Warner Bros., (1980) <br>\r\n  Seems Like Old Times Columbia, (1980) <br>\r\n  Best Friends Warner Bros., (1982) <br>\r\n  Swing Shift Warner Bros., (1984) <br>\r\n  Protocol Warner Bros., (1984) <br>\r\n  Wildcats Warner Bros., (1986) <br>\r\n  Overboard MGM, (1987) <br>\r\n  Bird on a Wire Universal, (1990) <br>\r\n  Deceived Touchstone, (1991) <br>\r\n  CrissCross MGM, (1992) <br>\r\n  HouseSitter Universal, (1992) <br>\r\n  Death Becomes Her Universal, (1992) <br>\r\n  The First Wives Club Paramount, (1996) <br>\r\n  Everyone Says I Love You Miramax, (1996) <br>\r\n  The Out-of-Towners Paramount, (1999) <br>\r\n  Town &amp; Country New Line, (2001) <br>\r\n  The Banger Sisters Fox Searchlight, (2002) <br>\r\n</p>');
INSERT INTO `bios` VALUES ('g', 'Gwyneth Paltrow', 'Gweneth_Paltrow.jpg', '<p><strong>Gwyneth Paltrow </strong></p>\r\n<p>Gwyneth Kate Paltrow (born September 28, 1972) is an Oscar-winning American actress.</p>\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n<p><strong>Personal life</strong></p>\r\n<p>Paltrow was born in Los Angeles to the late Bruce Paltrow (a Jewish American film director) and Blythe Danner (a well known Quaker character actress of part Pennsylvania Dutch descent). Raised in Santa Monica, she attended Spence School, a selective private girls'' school in New York City, and briefly studied Art History at the University of California, Santa Barbara, before dropping out and committing herself to acting. Paltrow has a younger brother named Jake and is a cousin of actress Katherine Moennig.</p>\r\n<p>In May of 2005 she publicly announced that she suffered from depression after the untimely death of her father Bruce Paltrow.</p>\r\n<p>She is a vegetarian and a good friend of both Madonna and Christina Applegate, but she earned the enmity of Sharon Stone due to her performance as Stone in a Saturday Night Live skit that poked fun at Stone and her then-husband, Phil Bronstein.</p>\r\n<p>She had a much-publicized romance with Brad Pitt and was also once linked romantically to Ben Affleck.</p>\r\n<p>On December 5, 2003, she married Chris Martin of the rock group Coldplay in secret. Paltrow gave birth to their first child, Apple Blythe Alison Martin, on May 14, 2004. She has been quoted as saying she chose the name Apple because it was &quot;the sweetest, loveliest name.&quot; In October 2005, her mother hinted that Gwyneth may be pregnant with the couple''s second child; however, neither Gwyneth nor her husband have so far commented on this.</p>\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n<p><strong>Acting career</strong></p>\r\n<p>Her debut film was Shout (1991), and later the same year she played in family friend Steven Spielberg''s Hook (1991). She later starred in Se7en (1995), dating her co-star Brad Pitt.</p>\r\n<p>Her performance in Emma (1996) received its share of praise. She was awarded the Academy Award for Best Actress two years later for her performance in Shakespeare in Love (1998), in which Affleck appeared. She has since had a steady film career, with a few notable film roles, including Proof (2005) and The Royal Tenenbaums (2001).</p>\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n<p><strong>Other work</strong></p>\r\n<p>In May 2005, Paltrow was announced as the new face of Est&eacute;e Lauder.</p>\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n<p><strong>Partial filmography</strong></p>\r\n<p>Running with Scissors (2006) <br>\r\n  Proof (2005) <br>\r\n  Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow (2004) <br>\r\n  Sylvia (2003) <br>\r\n  View from the Top (2003) <br>\r\n  Austin Powers in Goldmember (2002) (cameo) <br>\r\n  Possession (2002) <br>\r\n  Shallow Hal (2001) <br>\r\n  The Royal Tenenbaums (2001) <br>\r\n  The Anniversary Party (2001) <br>\r\n  Bounce (2000) <br>\r\n  Duets (2000) <br>\r\n  The Intern (2000) (cameo) <br>\r\n  The Talented Mr. Ripley (1999) <br>\r\n  Shakespeare in Love (1998) <br>\r\n  A Perfect Murder (1998) <br>\r\n  Hush (1998) <br>\r\n  Great Expectations (1998) <br>\r\n  Sliding Doors (1998) <br>\r\n  Emma (1996) <br>\r\n  The Pallbearer (1996) <br>\r\n  Hard Eight (1996) <br>\r\n  Se7en (1995) <br>\r\n  Jefferson in Paris (1995) <br>\r\n  Mrs. Parker and the Vicious Circle (1994) <br>\r\n  Flesh and Bone (1993) <br>\r\n  Malice (1993) <br>\r\n  Hook (1991) <br>\r\n  Shout (1991) <br>\r\n</p>');
INSERT INTO `bios` VALUES ('h', 'Halle Berry', 'Halle_Berry.jpg', '<p><strong> Halle Berry </strong></p>\r\n<p>Halle Maria Berry (born August 14, 1966 in Cleveland, Ohio) is an Academy Award-winning actress and model.</p>\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n<p><strong>Biography<br>\r\n</strong></p>\r\n<p><strong>Early life and career</strong><br>\r\n    <br>\r\n    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.</p>\r\n<p>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...&quot;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.&quot; She subsequently attended Cuyahoga Community College.</p>\r\n<p>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.</p>\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n<p><strong>Hollywood career</strong></p>\r\n<p>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 &quot;Chicago Force.&quot;</p>\r\n<p>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 &quot;Angels&quot; 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.</p>\r\n<p>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 &quot;Sharon Stone&quot; (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.</p>\r\n<p>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 &quot;carried,&quot; i.e., her role was the most important one in the film.</p>\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n<p><strong>Marriages</strong></p>\r\n<p>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 Ben&eacute;t has resulted in a 2004 separation (and 2005 divorce) reportedly due to Ben&eacute;t''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 Ben&eacute;t 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.</p>\r\n<p>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.</p>\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n<p><strong>Film Awards</strong><br>\r\n    <br>\r\n    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. <br>\r\n    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. <br>\r\n    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, &quot;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&quot; but adding &quot;I hope to God I never see these people again!&quot; shortly afterward. At the podium, she appeared with her Razzie in one hand, and her 2002 Oscar in the other. <br>\r\nHalle 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.</p>\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n<p><strong>Controversy</strong></p>\r\n<p>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&rsquo; probation. <br>\r\n  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. <br>\r\n</p>\r\n<p><strong>Trivia</strong></p>\r\n<p>In 2003, Berry was named in FHM''s 100 Sexiest Women in the World poll. <br>\r\n  Also in 2003, Berry was on Punk''d, MTV''s celebrity prank show. <br>\r\n  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. <br>\r\n  She is currently living with her boyfriend Michael Ealy of Barbershop fame. <br>\r\n</p>\r\n<p><strong>Filmography</strong></p>\r\n<p>Jungle Fever (1991) <br>\r\n  Strictly Business (1991) <br>\r\n  The Last Boy Scout (1991) <br>\r\n  Boomerang (1992) <br>\r\n  CB4 (1993) (Cameo) <br>\r\n  Father Hood (1993) <br>\r\n  The Program (1993) <br>\r\n  The Flintstones (1994) <br>\r\n  Losing Isaiah (1995) <br>\r\n  Executive Decision (1996) <br>\r\n  Race the Sun (1996) <br>\r\n  Girl 6 (1996) (Cameo) <br>\r\n  The Rich Man''s Wife (1996) <br>\r\n  B*A*P*S (1997) <br>\r\n  Bulworth (1998) <br>\r\n  Why Do Fools Fall In Love (1998) <br>\r\n  X-Men (2000) <br>\r\n  Welcome to Hollywood (2000) (documentary) <br>\r\n  Swordfish (2001) <br>\r\n  Monster''s Ball (2001) <br>\r\n  Die Another Day (2002) <br>\r\n  X2 (2003) <br>\r\n  Gothika (2003) <br>\r\n  Catwoman (2004) <br>\r\n  Robots (2005) (voice) <br>\r\n  X-Men 3 (2006) (currently filming) <br>\r\n  Perfect Stranger (2006) (currently announced start of production) <br>\r\n</p>\r\n<p><strong>TV work</strong></p>\r\n<p>Living Dolls (1989) (canceled after 13 episodes) <br>\r\n  Knots Landing (cast member in 1991) <br>\r\n  Queen: The Story of an American Family (1993) (miniseries) <br>\r\n  Solomon &amp; Sheba (1995) <br>\r\n  The Wedding (1998) <br>\r\n  Introducing Dorothy Dandridge (1999) (also executive producer) <br>\r\n  Their Eyes Were Watching God (2005) <br>\r\n  robots 2005 <br>\r\n  x-men 32006 <br>\r\n</p>');
INSERT INTO `bios` VALUES ('h', 'Heather Locklear', 'Heather_Locklear.jpg', '<p><strong>Heather Locklear </strong></p>\r\n<p>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.</p>\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n<p><strong>Career</strong></p>\r\n<p>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.</p>\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n<p><strong>Home Life</strong></p>\r\n<p>Heather was married to M&ouml;tley Cr&uuml;e 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.</p>\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n<p><strong>Filmography</strong></p>\r\n<p>Firestarter (1984) <br>\r\n  The Return of Swamp Thing (1989) <br>\r\n  The Big Slice (1991) <br>\r\n  Wayne''s World 2 (1993) (Cameo) <br>\r\n  The First Wives Club (1996) (Cameo) <br>\r\n  Money Talks (1997) <br>\r\n  Double Tap (1997) <br>\r\n  Uptown Girls (2003) <br>\r\n  Looney Tunes: Back in Action (2003) <br>\r\n  The Perfect Man (2005) </p>\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n<p><strong>Television Work</strong><br>\r\n    <br>\r\n    Heather Locklear on the cover of Marie ClaireTales of the Unexepected (1979) <br>\r\n    The Return of the Beverly Hillbillies (1981) <br>\r\n    Twirl (1981) <br>\r\n    Dynasty (1981-1989) <br>\r\n    T.J. Hooker (1982-1986) <br>\r\n    City Killer (1984) <br>\r\n    T.J. Hooker: Blood Sport (1986) <br>\r\n    Rock ''n'' Roll Mom (1988) <br>\r\n    Jury Duty: The Comedy (1990) <br>\r\n    Rich Men, Single Women (1990) <br>\r\n    Going Places (1990-1991) <br>\r\n    Her Wicked Ways (1991) <br>\r\n    Dynasty: The Reunion (1991) <br>\r\n    Illusions (1992) <br>\r\n    Highway Heartbreaker (1992) <br>\r\n    Melrose Place (cast member from 1993-1999) (also co-producer) <br>\r\n    Body Language (1992) <br>\r\n    Fade to Black (1993) <br>\r\n    Texas Justice (1995) <br>\r\n    Shattered Mind (1996) <br>\r\n    Spin City (cast member from 1999-2002) <br>\r\n    Once Around the Park (2003) <br>\r\n    Scrubs (2003) <br>\r\n    LAX (2004-2005) (also producer) <br>\r\n</p>');
INSERT INTO `bios` VALUES ('h', 'Heather Graham', 'Heather_Graham.jpg', '<p><strong>Heather Graham </strong></p>\r\n<p>Heather Joan Graham (born January 29, 1970) is an American actress, born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Heather Graham''s father, Jim, is a retired FBI agent and her mother, Joan, is a noted author of children''s books. Graham has a younger sister Aimee Graham, who is also an aspiring actress and writer.</p>\r\n<p>Graham was brought up in a traditional Catholic family of Irish descent. Growing up in Virginia where her father worked as an FBI agent, she attended Sumac Elementary School. Her family then moved to the Conejo Valley in California where she attended Lindero Canyon Middle School, and finally, Agoura High School.</p>\r\n<p>Initially, Graham''s parents were very supportive of her budding acting career, with her mom driving her to her auditions. Later, her father and mother were insistent that she should not appear in any movie featuring sex. This difference of opinion may have cost her the lead role in Heathers in 1989, the dark high school comedy that made an instant star of Winona Ryder. Graham is currently estranged from her parents, though they are hopeful for a reconciliation. She has publicly discussed her conversion to a new-age eastern-based religion and philosophy.</p>\r\n<p>After high school, Graham enrolled in the University of California at Los Angeles. While pursuing a drama degree at UCLA, Graham met James Woods. Their subsequent romantic involvement led to Graham being cast in Diggstown (1992), which starred Woods. After two years had passed, Graham dropped out of UCLA to pursue acting full time, over her parents'' objections. She moved to Hollywood where she worked different jobs while continuing to establish herself as a starlet, for a time romantically involved and living with once famous New Romantic glam-rocker Adam Ant.</p>\r\n<p>Though earlier Graham had a number of critically noted acting parts including Nadine in Drugstore Cowboy 1989, her breakthrough role was that of Roller Girl in Boogie Nights (1997), for which she received several award nominations. She achieved international stardom in 1999 with her lead role as Felicity Shagwell in Mike Myers'' second Austin Powers comedy: The Spy Who Shagged Me. More recently, she starred as Mary Kelly in the film From Hell (2001), based on the story of Jack the Ripper.</p>\r\n<p>She was named by People Magazine as one of the &quot;50 Most Beautiful People in the World 2001&quot;. In addition to her relationship with James Woods, she also has been romantically involved with actor Edward Burns, producer-director Chris Weitz, actor Josh Lucas, actor Heath Ledger, actor Elias Koteas, actor Kyle MacLachlan, and director Stephen Hopkins.</p>\r\n<p>Graham enjoyed special guest-star status on several episodes of NBC-TV''s Scrubs during its fourth season (2004-2005).</p>\r\n<p>In 2005, Graham became the spokeswoman and TV model for Garnier brand of hair care products. Graham''s print ad for Skyy vodka, which was photographed in 1993 (titled &quot;#3, Entourage&quot;) is still appearing in national magazines today as well. ABC-TV announced that production has begun on &quot;Emily''s Reasons Why Not,&quot; with Graham slated to be its star.</p>\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n<p><strong>Filmography</strong></p>\r\n<p>Gray Matters (2005) <br>\r\n  Cake (2005) <br>\r\n  Mary (2005) <br>\r\n  Blessed (2004) <br>\r\n  Hope Springs (2003) <br>\r\n  Anger Management (2003) <br>\r\n  Alien Love Triangle (2002) <br>\r\n  The Guru (2002) <br>\r\n  Killing Me Softly (2002) <br>\r\n  From Hell (2001) <br>\r\n  Sidewalks of New York (2001) <br>\r\n  Say It Isn''t So (2001) <br>\r\n  Committed (2000) <br>\r\n  Bowfinger (1999) <br>\r\n  Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me (1999) <br>\r\n  Lost in Space (1998) <br>\r\n  Scream 2 (1997) <br>\r\n  Boogie Nights (1997) <br>\r\n  Two Girls and a Guy (1997) <br>\r\n  Nowhere (1997) <br>\r\n  Entertaining Angels: The Dorothy Day Story (1996) <br>\r\n  Swingers (1996) <br>\r\n  Terrified (1996) <br>\r\n  Kiss &amp; Tell (1996) <br>\r\n  Desert Winds (1995) <br>\r\n  Run for Cover (1995) <br>\r\n  Let It Be Me (1995) <br>\r\n  Don''t Do It (1994) <br>\r\n  Mrs. Parker and the Vicious Circle (1994) <br>\r\n  Six Degrees of Separation (1993) <br>\r\n  Even Cowgirls Get the Blues (1993) <br>\r\n  The Ballad of Little Jo (1993) <br>\r\n  Diggstown (1992) <br>\r\n  Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me (1992) <br>\r\n  Shout (1991) <br>\r\n  Guilty as Charged (1991) <br>\r\n  I Love You to Death (1990) <br>\r\n  Drugstore Cowboy (1989) <br>\r\n  Twins (1988) <br>\r\n  License to Drive (1988) <br>\r\n  Student Exchange (1987) <br>\r\n  Mrs. Soffel (1984) <br>\r\n</p>');
INSERT INTO `bios` VALUES ('h', 'Heidi Klum', 'Heidi_Klum.jpg', '<p><strong>Heidi Klum </strong></p>\r\n<p>Heidi Klum (born June 1, 1973) is a German supermodel, actress, fashion designer and artist.</p>\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n<p><strong>Bio and Career</strong></p>\r\n<p>She was born in Bergisch Gladbach, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany.</p>\r\n<p>She is most widely known for her appearances in the Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue and Victoria''s Secret catalog. In addition to modeling, she has appeared in several TV shows, including Spin City and Sex and the City. She had a role as an ill-tempered hair model in the movie Blow Dry, played a giantess in the movie version of Ella Enchanted and was cast as Ursula Andress in The Life and Death of Peter Sellers.</p>\r\n<p>In December of 2004, she became the host of a reality show called Project Runway on the U.S. TV station Bravo, in which contestants compete for a contract to design clothes for Banana Republic. Her own fashion designs are featured in the German mail-order catalog &quot;Otto&quot;. She also has designed shoes for Birkenstock, jewelery for Mouawad, and swimsuits -featured in the 2002 Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue - that were available for sale through her personal website.</p>\r\n<p>She is an avid painter and has had several of her paintings appear in various art magazines in the U.S.</p>\r\n<p>After being married to hairdresser Ric Pipino from September 1997 to November 2002, she had relationships with more famous men, including singer Anthony Kiedis and Formula-1 racing team manager Flavio Briatore. The relationship with Briatore was broken off during her pregnancy with daughter Leni. Klum announced her engagement to the British soul singer Seal on January 4, 2005, and they married on May 10, 2005.</p>\r\n<p>Heidi Klum''s daughter, named Leni (after Heidi''s grandmother), was born on May 4, 2004 and weighed 7lbs. 14oz. The father is Flavio Briatore, but Seal is helping her raise the child. In the earlier stages of their relationship, Heidi said Seal treats Leni as if she were his own child.</p>\r\n<p>On March 17, 2005, Heidi and Seal announced that they were expecting a child. Heidi gave birth to an 8lb. 9oz. baby boy, named Henry G&uuml;nther Ademola Dashtu, in Los Angeles on September 12, 2005. On April 16, 2005, Heidi raised eyebrows among media types and mothers alike when she commented that caring for newborns was a simple chore since, &quot;babies take care of themselves&mdash;they know how to poop on their own.&quot;</p>\r\n');
INSERT INTO `bios` VALUES ('h', 'Helen Hunt', 'Helen_Hunt.jpg', '<p><strong>Helen Hunt </strong></p>\r\n<p>Helen Elizabeth Hunt (born 15 June 1963) is an American actress.</p>\r\n<p>Hunt was born in Culver City, California to Gordon Hunt, a half-Jewish film director, and Jane Novis, a Methodist photographer. The daughter of an acting coach, she showed interest in acting as a child. In the 1970s and 1980s, she appeared in a number of made-for-TV movies.</p>\r\n<p>In the 1990s, Hunt became well-known to television audiences as co-star of sitcom Mad About You, winning Emmy Awards for her performance in 1996, 1997, 1998, and 1999. By the end of the show in 1997, Hunt was the highest paid TV actress in history, earning $1 million per episode.</p>\r\n<p>Hunt has also had a successful film career and has been in Hollywood movies such as Cast Away and the 1996 blockbuster Twister, which made her a household name. After winning an Academy Award for Best Actress in 1998 for her performance in As Good as It Gets, she took time off from movie work to play Viola in Shakespeare''s Twelfth Night at the Lincoln Center in New York City. In 1998, Hunt was the first actress to win both an Emmy and an Academy Award in the same year.</p>\r\n<p>In 2000, Hunt returned to the screen in four films: Dr. T &amp; the Women with Richard Gere, Pay It Forward with Kevin Spacey &amp; Haley Joel Osment, What Women Want with Mel Gibson, and Cast Away with Tom Hanks.</p>\r\n<p>In 2003, she returned to Broadway in Yasmina Reza''s Life x 3.</p>\r\n<p>Hunt was married to actor Hank Azaria from 1999 to 2000. She has a daughter, Makena''lei Gordon Carnahan (b. 2004), with Matthew Carnahan.</p>\r\n<p>She currently owns a production company with Connie Tavel, Hunt/Tavel Productions under Sony.</p>\r\n<p>Hunt also holds many awards records; She is the only actress to win a Golden Globe Award, an Academy Award and an Emmy Award in the same year, the only actress to win four consecutive Emmys, and the only actress to win four Blockbuster Entertainment Awards.</p>\r\n<p>Hunt is a staunch Democrat and an activist for many like minded causes.</p>\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n<p><strong>Filmography</strong></p>\r\n<p>Then She Found Me (2007) <br>\r\n  Empire Falls (Made for TV) (2005) <br>\r\n  A Good Woman (2005) <br>\r\n  The Curse of the Jade Scorpion (2001) <br>\r\n  Timepiece (2001) <br>\r\n  Cast Away (2000) <br>\r\n  Pay It Forward (2000) <br>\r\n  What Women Want (2000) <br>\r\n  Dr. T &amp; the Women (2000) <br>\r\n  Twelfth Night (Made for TV) (1998) <br>\r\n  Twister: Ride it Out (1998) <br>\r\n  As Good as It Gets (1997) <br>\r\n  Twister (1996) <br>\r\n  Kiss of Death (1995) <br>\r\n  In the Company of Darkness (Made for TV) (1993) <br>\r\n  Sexual Healing (1993) <br>\r\n  Trancers III (1992) <br>\r\n  Bob Roberts (1992) <br>\r\n  Mr. Saturday Night (1992) <br>\r\n  Only You (1992) <br>\r\n  The Waterdance (1992) <br>\r\n  Into the Badlands (Made for TV) (1991) <br>\r\n  Trancers II (1991) <br>\r\n  Murder in New Hampshire: The Pamela Wojas Smart Story (Made for TV) (1991) <br>\r\n  Next of Kin (1989) <br>\r\n  Incident at Dark River (Made for TV) (1989) <br>\r\n  The Frog Prince (1988) <br>\r\n  Stealing Home (1988) <br>\r\n  Miles from Home (1988) <br>\r\n  Shooter (Made for TV) (1988) <br>\r\n  Project X (1987) <br>\r\n  Peggy Sue Got Married (1986) <br>\r\n  The Nativity (1986) <br>\r\n  Girls Just Want To Have Fun (1985) <br>\r\n  Waiting to Act (1985) <br>\r\n  Trancers (1985) <br>\r\n  Sweet Revenge (Made for TV) (1984) <br>\r\n  Choices of the Heart (Made for TV) (1983) <br>\r\n  Quarterback Princess (Made for TV) (1983) <br>\r\n  Bill: On His Own (Made for TV) (1983) <br>\r\n  Desperate Lives (Made for TV) (1982) <br>\r\n  The Miracle of Kathy Miller (Made for TV) (1981) <br>\r\n  Angel Dusted (Made for TV) (1981) <br>\r\n  The Best Little Girl in the World (Made for TV) (1981) <br>\r\n  I Think I''m Having a Baby (Made for TV) (1981) <br>\r\n  Child Bride of Short Creek (Made for TV) (1981) <br>\r\n  Transplant (Made for TV) (1979) <br>\r\n  Rollercoaster (1977) <br>\r\n  The Spell (Made for TV) (1977) <br>\r\n  Having Babies (Made for TV) (1976) <br>\r\n  The Swiss Family Robinson (Made for TV) (1975) <br>\r\n  All Together Now (Made for TV) (1975) <br>\r\n  Death Scream (Made for TV) (1975) <br>\r\n  Pioneer Woman (Made for TV) (1973) <br>\r\n</p>\r\n<p><strong>Awards Won</strong></p>\r\n<p><strong>Academy Award</strong><br>\r\n</p>\r\n<p>1998 Best Actress in As Good as It Gets <br>\r\nEmmy Award</p>\r\n<p>1999 Outstanding Lead Actress in Mad About You</p>\r\n<p>1998 Outstanding Lead Actress in Mad About You</p>\r\n<p>1997 Outstanding Lead Actress in Mad About You</p>\r\n<p>1996 Outstanding Lead Actress in Mad About You <br>\r\nGolden Globe Award</p>\r\n<p>1998 Best Performance by an Actress in As Good as It Gets</p>\r\n<p>1997 Best Performance by an Actress in Mad About You</p>\r\n<p>1995 Best Performance by an Actress in Mad About You</p>\r\n<p>1994 Best Performance by an Actress in Mad About You <br>\r\nScreen Actors Guild Award</p>\r\n<p>1998 Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in As Good as It Gets</p>\r\n<p>1995 Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in Mad About You <br>\r\n</p>\r\n<p><strong>Trivia</strong></p>\r\n<p>She donated $100,000 to help the SAG cause. <br>\r\n  Over 25 million people tuned in to see her performance in an episode of Mad About You titled, ''The Birth''. <br>\r\n  Murphy Brown''s Candice Bergen praised Hunt as her &quot;hero&quot; in her Emmy acceptance speech. <br>\r\n  Hunt was approached by a publisher about writing a book, however, content was not discussed. <br>\r\n  Steven Spielberg wrote Helen a fan letter after seeing Quarterback Princess and Hunt wrote Spielberg a fan letter too after seeing Saving Private Ryan. <br>\r\n</p>');
INSERT INTO `bios` VALUES ('h', 'Hilary Duff', 'Hilary_Duff.jpg', '<p><strong>Hilary Duff </strong></p>\r\n<p>Hilary Erhard Duff (born September 28, 1987) is an American actress and pop music singer. After gaining prominence in the television show Lizzie McGuire, she has since gone onto a film career, with roles in mainstream pictures such as Cheaper by the Dozen and independent films such as Material Girls and The Perfect Man. Duff has also launched a successful music career that has yielded two number one albums in the U.S.<br>\r\n</p>\r\n<p><strong>Biography<br>\r\n</strong></p>\r\n<p><strong>Early life and career</strong></p>\r\n<p>Duff was born in Houston, Texas as the second child of Robert Erhard Duff, owner of a chain of convenience stores, and his wife Susan Colleen Cobb, a homemaker. Duff''s unusual middle name of &quot;Erhard&quot; was the maiden name of her part German American paternal grandmother, Mary Erhard; Duff also has German ancestry on the part of her maternal grandmother, Amy Beulah Schlemmer. After Hilary''s mother encouraged her to take an acting class alongside her older sister, Haylie Duff, both girls won parts in various local theatre productions. At the age of six, the Duffs participated in the ballet The Nutcracker Suite with Columbus Ballet Met in San Antonio. The siblings became more and more enthusiastic about the idea of acting professionally, and they eventually relocated to California with their mother. Bob Duff stayed at the family home in Houston to maintain their business. Through years of auditions and meetings, both sisters managed to clinch appearances in several television commercials.<br>\r\n</p>\r\n<p><strong>Television and film</strong></p>\r\n<p>Most of Duff''s first few acting roles were small, starting off with an uncredited appearance in Hallmark Entertainment''s western miniseries True Women (1997), an adaptation of the novel by Janice Woods Windle. She also served as an extra, again uncredited, in writer and director Willard Carroll''s comedy drama Playing by Heart (1998), whose ensemble cast included Dennis Quaid, Sean Connery and Angelina Jolie, star of True Women from the previous year.</p>\r\n<p>Her first major part was as the star of the 1998 film Casper Meets Wendy, playing the young witch Wendy who encounters the animated character Casper. Like Casper: A Spirited Beginning (1997), the first sequel to the hugely successful Casper (1995), the film went direct-to-video with generally unenthusiastic reviews.</p>\r\n<p>Duff later appeared in a supporting role in the television movie The Soul Collector in 1999, which was based on a Kathleen Kane novel, and starred Bruce Greenwood as an angel who helps out a female farmer (Melissa Gilbert) whose husband has recently died. Duff ended up winning a Young Artist Award for Best Performance in a TV Movie or Pilot (Supporting Young Actress).</p>\r\n<p>Duff''s first serious shot at fame came when she was cast as one of the children in the pilot episode of the NBC sitcom Daddio (2000). Said Michael Chiklis, star of Daddio, &quot;After working with her the first day, I remember saying to my wife, ''This young girl is going to be a movie star.'' She was completely at ease with herself and comfortable in her own skin.&quot; However, before the show had even aired, Duff was dropped from its cast lineup, an unfortunate turn of events which made the twelve-year-old reluctant to continue her acting career. But her manager and mother, Susan Duff, spurred her on, and she successfully auditioned for the family comedy show Lizzie McGuire just a week later.<br>\r\n</p>\r\n<p><strong>Lizzie McGuire</strong></p>\r\n<p>Lizzie McGuire, which first aired on the Disney Channel in January 2001, was a ratings hit, drawing in 2.3 million viewers per episode, and became the career breakthrough Duff had been waiting for. Her performance in this role as a typical teenager led to appearances on the covers of many teen magazines, and she became highly popular among children between the ages of seven and fourteen, with Richard Huff of the New York Daily News calling her &quot;a 2002 version of Annette Funicello&quot;. After fulfilling her entire sixty-five episode contract, as well as participating in a film spin-off entitled The Lizzie McGuire Movie (2003), Disney toyed with the idea of continuing the franchise in further movies and a prime-time television series to be broadcast on ABC, but Duff refused the proposal. There was a dispute over the amount of pay Duff would receive; reportedly, she had been receiving US$15,000 per episode, but she and her representatives, including her mother, wanted that figure to be raised to $100,000. Disney offered to raise it up to $35,000 but Duff would not relent and all plans of continuing the series were abandoned.</p>\r\n<p>Duff''s second role in a theatrical motion picture was in Human Nature, an independent film released in most countries in 2002 following a good reception at the Cannes and Sundance film festivals. Written by Charlie Kaufman and directed by Michel Gondry, the film follows a female naturalist, played by Patricia Arquette, who has body hair growing all over her body. Tim Robbins and Rhys Ifans co-starred. Duff played the younger version of Arquette''s character.</p>\r\n<p>She starred in the Disney Channel television movie Cadet Kelly (2002) with Christy Carlson Romano and Gary Cole, which became the network''s most watched program in its nineteen-year history. Her first major role in a feature film was in Agent Cody Banks with Frankie Muniz in 2003. It was successful enough to spawn a sequel, proving that Duff''s popularity was not limited to the small screen. Duff then reprised the role of Lizzie McGuire in The Lizzie McGuire Movie, which was her first million-dollar movie role. She played the part of Lorraine Baker in the Twentieth Century Fox film Cheaper by the Dozen with Steve Martin and Bonnie Hunt.</p>\r\n<p> <br>\r\n  Duff in A Cinderella Story (2004).In 2004, she appeared in the romantic comedy A Cinderella Story, a twenty-first century update of Charles Perrault''s fairy tale Cinderella. Comedienne Jennifer Coolidge played the wicked stepmother of the picture, which was directed by Mark Rosman, a veteran of Duff''s Lizzie McGuire. The film became a modest sleeper hit, and many critics were impressed by Duff''s performance, as well as her chemistry with co-star Chad Michael Murray, another actor popular with teens, who plays Duff''s love interest in the film.</p>\r\n<p>Later that year, she starred in the romance film Raise Your Voice, which marked the third collaboration between Duff and director Sean McNamara (after Casper Meets Wendy and episodes of Lizzie McGuire). While some critics praised Duff for appearing in a more dramatic role than she had previously been seen in, the film was heavily panned, with many slating in particular the striking similarities to the musical film Fame (1980). Reviews were, by and large, negative to Duff''s vocals (several critics have pointed out what appears to be her digitally enhanced voice and indifferent towards her acting performance, although she did receive a Razzie award nomination for &quot;Worst Actress&quot; (in addition to her work in A Cinderella Story). The film also received a muted reception at the box office, where it became Duff''s least commercially successful film to date.</p>\r\n<p>In Duff''s latest film, The Perfect Man, she plays the eldest daughter of a divorced woman, played by Heather Locklear, who moves to New York City as she desperately searches for a good man to settle down with. The movie saw Duff once again united with director Mark Rosman. Reviews were mostly negative.</p>\r\n<p> <br>\r\n  Hilary Duff at the premiere of The Perfect ManDuff has recently filmed the satirical comedy Material Girls. The Martha Coolidge-directed film, co-produced by Madonna''s independent film production company Maverick Entertainment, stars Hilary and her real-life sister Haylie Duff as wealthy siblings who must fight to reclaim their fortune following a scandal. The Duff sisters are also due to lend their vocal talents to the computer animated comedy Foodfight!, to be distributed by Lions Gate Films in the fall of 2006. The film''s director, Larry Kasanoff, said that he is &quot;absolutely thrilled to have Hilary and Haylie Duff as part of the cast.&quot; In late October 2005, reports emerged that Duff is likely to star in the third sequel to the supernatural horror film Poltergeist (1982), in a role originated by the late Heather O''Rourke. </p>\r\n<p>Duff recently announced on MTV that she has put her film Outward Blonde on hold for &quot;a little while&quot;.</p>\r\n<p>In a recent interview with the Puerto Rican press. Duff has confirmed an April release date for &quot;Material Girls&quot;<br>\r\n</p>\r\n<p><strong>Music career</strong></p>\r\n<p>After seeing her sister perform in a band, Duff decided that she wanted to be the next &quot;Pop princess&quot;. Her first recorded singing performance was on the song &quot;I Can''t Wait&quot;, which appeared on the original television soundtrack for Lizzie McGuire in August 2002. The following month, the first Disneymania compilation album was released, featuring Duff in the song &quot;The Tiki, Tiki, Tiki Room&quot;. Her first album was the collection of Christmas songs entitled Santa Claus Lane (2002), which included duets with Lil'' Romeo and Christina Milian. Released in October, it made the lower reaches of the Billboard 200 album chart and number three on the kids'' music chart, and eventually achieved gold certification. The title track was also included on the soundtrack to The Santa Clause 2.</p>\r\n<p>Duff also sang on several tracks on the soundtrack to The Lizzie McGuire Movie. One of these tracks, &quot;Why Not&quot;, which is performed by Duff in the film, was released as a single, and reached the top twenty on singles charts in countries including Australia, New Zealand and the Netherlands. That year, she recorded her first non-holiday album, entitled Metamorphosis (2003), went to number one on the U.S. and Canadian charts in that year. Songwriting team The Matrix, who had worked with singers such as Avril Lavigne and Liz Phair, provided three songs on the album. One of these songs, &quot;So Yesterday&quot;, was released as the first single, reaching number one in Canada, the top forty in Australia and just outside the top forty of the Billboard Hot 100 in the U.S. &quot;Little Voice&quot; was released as a single overseas in 2004, while &quot;The Math (Live)&quot; was also released overseas and on the internet.</p>\r\n<p>Metamorphosis became the eighth-highest selling album of the year, with over 2.4 million copies purchased in its first four months of release in the US alone; it has since gone to sell over 3.7 million copies. Metamorphosis was also nominated in Canada''s Juno Awards for International Album of the Year in 2004. In January 2004, the second Disneymania disc was released, and contained Duff''s last recording for Disney, &quot;The Siamese Cat Song&quot;, recorded with her sister Haylie. Another song, &quot;Circle of Life&quot;, included Duff and other Disney Channel Stars. Duff and her sister also recorded a cover of The Go-Gos'' &quot;Our Lips Are Sealed&quot; for the soundtrack to A Cinderella Story.</p>\r\n<p>On September 28, 2004 (her seventeenth birthday), she released her second album, the self-titled Hilary Duff; it debuted at number two on the Billboard 200 and number one in Canada. When describing the album to her fans, Duff noted that she felt it has an edgier, rock feel to it. The album''s first single was &quot;Fly&quot;, and it also includes &quot;Haters&quot;, the lyrics of which were once rumoured to be about Lindsay Lohan, who is often considered by the media to be Duff''s rival.[16] The album has sold over 1.5 million copies in the U.S. to date, but &quot;Fly&quot; performed below expectations on the charts.</p>\r\n<p>Duff''s third official album, Most Wanted (2005), consisted of her personal favorite songs alongside three new tracks. Duff enlisted help from boyfriend Joel Madden to make her three new tracks edgier and more rock, and listened to music by artists such as The Killers and Muse for inspiration. Lead single &quot;Wake Up&quot; became her highest debut on the Billboard Hot 100 and her highest peaking single in the U.S. The album itself debuted at number one on the Billboard 200, selling near 220,000 copies in its first week of release. Most Wanted also became her third number one debut in Canada.</p>\r\n<p>Duff has recorded Madonna''s signature song &quot;Material Girl&quot; for her film Material Girls, and the music video is due in January. Duff has also mentioned in an interview that &quot;Material Girl&quot; will be included on her next album, which she is planning to start recording in early 2006.</p>\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n<p><strong>Personal life and trivia</strong></p>\r\n<p>Duff has dated singer Aaron Carter, brother of Backstreet Boys member Nick Carter. There were reports that she had tried to have fellow teen actress Lindsay Lohan banned from the preview of Cheaper by the Dozen because Lohan had allegedly been dating Carter at the same time as Duff in late 2003, as well as other reports about a fistfight that supposedly took place between the two actresses. Duff had a disagreement with pop punk singer Avril Lavigne over criticisms of Duff copying Lavigne''s style.</p>\r\n<p> <br>\r\n  Stuff By Duff backpackDuff is involved with many charities, is an animal rights enthusiast, and a member of &quot;Kids With a Cause&quot;. On September 5, 2005, it was reported that Duff donated US$250,000 to help the victims of Hurricane Katrina.</p>\r\n<p>Her hair is naturally light brown, but she''s been dying it blonde since she was eleven years old. She also has six dogs: Lola, Macy, and Chiquita are her dogs and the rest are her sister''s. Duff launched a clothing line, &quot;Stuff By Duff&quot; on March 12, 2004 with clothes distributed through Target in the United States and Australia and Zellers in Canada. Playmates Toys also released a doll of Hilary that year. [17]</p>\r\n<p>Her sister, Haylie Duff, has been trying to become a professional singer, as well. Hilary has helped her with duet songs including &quot;Our Lips Are Sealed&quot; which have been successful in the United States and in other countries, including Mexico and Colombia. Her mother, Susan Duff, is a producer, and manages Hilary''s career. Susan also co-produced A Cinderella Story and her father, Bob Duff is a Bussiness owner.</p>\r\n<p>Duff is currently dating Good Charlotte singer Joel Madden. She finally cleared up all the rumors in June 2005 by admitting they were dating, and had been seeing each other since she was only sixteen. Their first public appearance was at the MTV Video Music Awards in August 2005.</p>\r\n<p>In late 2005, Duff took a month off from work as a belated eighteenth birthday present. She said that after releasing Most Wanted and writing three new songs for it, shooting three films, and embarking on her U.S. &quot;Still Most Wanted Tour&quot;, she wanted to take a short break. Her forthcoming film Outward Blonde was then put on hold for &quot;a little while&quot;, but Duff planned to commence promotion for the films Cheaper by the Dozen 2 and Material Girls after her month off, as well as continuing her &quot;Still Most Wanted Tour&quot; in Canada and other countries.</p>\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n<p><strong>Filmography<br>\r\n</strong></p>\r\n<p><strong>Films</strong></p>\r\n<p>Year Film Role Other notes <br>\r\n  2006 Outward Blonde Marie Announced <br>\r\n  2006 The New Girl Pre-production <br>\r\n  2006 Foodfight! Sunshine Goodness Animating <br>\r\n  2006 Material Girls Tanzie Marchetta Post-production; due for release in April <br>\r\n  2005 Cheaper by the Dozen 2 Lorraine Baker Completed; due for release in December <br>\r\n  2005 The Perfect Man Holly Hamilton <br>\r\n  2004 In Search of Santa Crystal Animation; direct-to-video <br>\r\n  2004 Raise Your Voice Terri Fletcher <br>\r\n  2004 A Cinderella Story Sam Montgomery <br>\r\n  2003 Cheaper by the Dozen Lorraine Baker <br>\r\n  2003 The Lizzie McGuire Movie Lizzie McGuire/Isabella Parigi <br>\r\n  2003 Agent Cody Banks Natalie Connors <br>\r\n  2001 Human Nature Young Lila Jute Theatrical release in 2002 <br>\r\n  1998 Playing by Heart Bit part; uncredited <br>\r\n  1998 Casper Meets Wendy Wendy Direct-to-video release <br>\r\n</p>\r\n<p><strong>Music DVD''s</strong></p>\r\n<p>Year Title <br>\r\n  2003 All Access Pass <br>\r\n  2004 The Girl Can Rock <br>\r\n  2004 Learning To Fly <br>\r\n  2005 Most Wanted (Japan Release) <br>\r\n</p>\r\n<p><strong>Television work</strong></p>\r\n<p>True Women (1997) <br>\r\n  The Soul Collector (1999) <br>\r\n  Lizzie McGuire (2001-2004) <br>\r\n  Cadet Kelly (2002) <br>\r\n</p>\r\n<p><strong>Guest appearances</strong></p>\r\n<p>Duff has made numerous guest appearances in television shows, her first as a sick child in the medical drama Chicago Hope in March 2000. In a 2003 episode of George Lopez, she had a role as a makeup salesperson, and would later appear in the show in 2005 as a feminist poet friend of Carmen (Masiela Lusha). She acted opposite her sister Haylie as the ''60s pop group The Shangri-Las in American Dreams in 2003, played a classmate and idoliser of the title character in Joan of Arcadia in the winter of 2005, and served as guest co-host on the talk show The View in the first week of April 2005. She has also appeared and performed on various TV shows including The Tonight Show with Jay Leno on August 15, 2005.<br>\r\n</p>\r\n<p><strong>Discography</strong></p>\r\n<p>Album information <br>\r\n  Santa Claus Lane <br>\r\n  Released: October 15, 2002 (U.S.) <br>\r\n  Singles: <br>\r\n&quot;Tell Me a Story&quot; <br>\r\n&quot;Santa Claus Lane&quot; <br>\r\n  <br>\r\n  Metamorphosis <br>\r\n  Released: August 26, 2003 (U.S.) <br>\r\n  Singles: <br>\r\n&quot;So Yesterday&quot; (July 2003) <br>\r\n&quot;Come Clean&quot; (January 2004) <br>\r\n&quot;Little Voice&quot; (April 2004) <br>\r\n  <br>\r\n  Hilary Duff <br>\r\n  Released: September 28, 2004 (U.S.) <br>\r\n  Singles: <br>\r\n&quot;Fly&quot; (August 2004) <br>\r\n&quot;I Am&quot; (2004) radio release <br>\r\n&quot;The Getaway&quot; (2004) radio release <br>\r\n&quot;Someone''s Watching Over Me&quot; (January 2005) <br>\r\n&quot;Weird&quot; (2005) (Radio Release through the U.K. only) <br>\r\n  <br>\r\n  Most Wanted <br>\r\n  Released: August 16, 2005 (U.S.) <br>\r\n  Singles: <br>\r\n&quot;Wake Up&quot; (June 2005) <br>\r\n&quot;Beat of My Heart&quot; (November 2005) <br>\r\n&quot;Supergirl&quot; (Jan/Feb 2006) <br>\r\n</p>\r\n<p>In addition to her albums, Duff has also recorded songs for some soundtracks and compilations:</p>\r\n<p>Lizzie McGuire discography<br>  \r\n  I Can''t Wait&quot; <br>\r\n&quot;Why Not&quot; <br>\r\n  A Cinderella Story soundtrack <br>\r\n&quot;Our Lips Are Sealed&quot; feat. Haylie Duff <br>\r\nShe has also been featured on Disneymania Vol. 1 (2002) and Vol. 2 (2004), Radio Disney Jingle Jams (2004) and Marlo Thomas &amp; Friends: Thanks &amp; Giving All Year Long (2004).</p>\r\n');
INSERT INTO `bios` VALUES ('j', 'Jaime Pressly', 'Jamie_Pressly.jpg', '<p><strong>Jaime Pressly </strong></p>\r\n<p>Jaime Elizabeth Pressly (born July 30, 1977) is an American model and actress.</p>\r\n<p>Pressly was born in Kinston, North Carolina, USA to James Liston Pressly and Brenda Sue Smith. Her mother was a classical dance instructor which lead to Pressly''s studying of gymnastics and dancing in her youth which continued for 11 years. By the time she was 14, she was already the spokesperson for her modeling agency, International Cover Model Search and had begun to gain recognition for modeling both in the United States as well as in Italy and Japan. Pressly had herself legally emancipated from her parents at the age of 15.</p>\r\n<p>Pressly worked as Drew Barrymore''s body double in the film Poison Ivy. As a result, she was offered the lead in the 1997 sequel, Poison Ivy: The New Seduction.</p>\r\n<p>Pressly''s first real taste of success came in 1999, when she was cast as the promiscuous dancer Audrey on the television show, Jack and Jill.</p>\r\n<p>In 2001 she was made the new spokesmodel for Liz Claiborne Cosmetics and its fragrance Lucky You.</p>\r\n<p>Pressly also starred in Poor White Trash playing scheming gold-digger Sandy Lake. Poor White Trash was written by Michael Addis and Tony Urban and plays frequently on Comedy Central. It was named one of the top 10 overlooked films of 2001 by Reel.com.</p>\r\n<p>Pressly is currently part of the cast of the NBC sitcom My Name is Earl.</p>\r\n<p>Outside of acting, Pressly has posed nude for the March 1998 and February 2004 issues of Playboy and performed with The Pussycat Dolls.</p>\r\n<p>One persistent rumor is that Pressly married a man named Brodie Mitchell in 1998. Pressly, who has never married, has stated she has heard of Mitchell but does not know him. Mitchell apparently has made enough claims about being married to Pressly that some sources have reported it as fact.</p>\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n<p><strong>Quotes</strong></p>\r\n<p>&quot;I don''t want to be the Hollywood girl... I''m Southern and old-fashioned.&quot; <br>\r\n</p>\r\n<p><strong>Selected filmography</strong></p>\r\n<p>Poison Ivy: The New Seduction (1997) <br>\r\n  The Journey: Absolution (1997) <br>\r\n  Against the Law (1997) <br>\r\n  Mercenary (1997) (TV movie) <br>\r\n  Push (1998) (TV series) <br>\r\n  Can''t Hardly Wait (1998) <br>\r\n  Ringmaster (1998) <br>\r\n  Trash (1999) <br>\r\n  Coyote Moon (1999) (Direct to Video) <br>\r\n  Jack and Jill (1999) (TV series) <br>\r\n  100 Girls (2000) <br>\r\n  Poor White Trash (2000) <br>\r\n  Best Actress (2000) (TV movie) <br>\r\n  Joe Dirt (2001) <br>\r\n  Not Another Teen Movie (2001) <br>\r\n  Ticker (2001) <br>\r\n  Tomcats (2001) <br>\r\n  Footprints (2002) <br>\r\n  Demon Island (2002) <br>\r\n  Johnny Chronicles (2002) (TV movie) <br>\r\n  Torque (2004) <br>\r\n  Evel Knievel (2004) (TV movie) <br>\r\n  The Karate Dog (2004) <br>\r\n  Death to the Supermodels (2005) <br>\r\n  My Name Is Earl (2005) (TV series) <br>\r\n  Venus &amp; Vegas (2006) <br>\r\n  DOA: Dead or Alive (2006) <br>\r\n</p>\r\n<p><strong>Her appearances in Playboy Special Editions</strong></p>\r\n<p>Playboy''s Book of Lingerie Vol. 58 November 1997 - Michael Bisco, pages 56-59. <br>\r\n  Playboy''s Book of Lingerie Vol. 62 July 1998 - pages 32-33. <br>\r\n  Playboy''s Nudes December 1998 - pages 16-17. <br>\r\n  Playboy''s Sexy 100 February 2003. <br>\r\n</p>\r\n');
INSERT INTO `bios` VALUES ('j', 'Jennifer Aniston', 'Jennifer_Aniston.jpg', '<p><strong>Jennifer Aniston </strong></p>\r\n<p>Jennifer Joanne Aniston (born February 11, 1969 in Sherman Oaks, California, USA) is an American-born actress of Greek, Scottish, English and Italian descent, perhaps best-known for playing Rachel Green on the television sitcom Friends, and her much-publisized marriage to Brad Pitt.</p>\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n<p><strong>Personal Life</strong></p>\r\n<p>Aniston is the daughter of John Aniston (originally Yannis Anastasakis) and his wife Nancy Dow. Her father, who was born in Greece (he Americanized his last name to &quot;Aniston&quot; before Jennifer''s birth), is an actor best known for his role on the soap opera Days of Our Lives. Jennifer Aniston''s godfather is actor Telly Savalas, John Aniston''s best friend. Jennifer Aniston spent much of her childhood in New York, where her father won a role in the soap opera Love of Life and later Search for Tomorrow. In 1985, the family moved to Los Angeles when John Aniston started on Days of Our Lives. Aniston''s mother, from whom she is now estranged, is an actress of half Scottish, as well as English and Italian descent; through her, Jennifer is a direct descendant of the royal House of Stuart of Scotland.</p>\r\n<p>Aniston previously dated Adam Duritz and Tate Donovan in low-profile relationships. Her pairing with actor Brad Pitt was very high-profile in the media. She married Pitt on July 29, 2000, in a Malibu wedding. They separated on January 7, 2005, and Aniston officially filed for divorce on March 25, 2005.</p>\r\n<p>On August 25, 2005, David Hesterbey was arrested for trespassing after allegedly entering Aniston''s Malibu home.</p>\r\n<p>In November 2005, Aniston was named GQ Magazine''s Woman of the Year.</p>\r\n<p>She is currently dating actor Vince Vaughn.</p>\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n<p><strong>Acting Career</strong><br>\r\n    <br>\r\n    Aniston on the cover of Rolling Stone <br>\r\n    Aniston as &quot;Woman of the Year&quot;, on the cover of GQ MagazineAttending Fiorello H. LaGuardia High School of Music &amp; Art and Performing Arts during 1987, Aniston was a member of the drama club. Her desire to become an actress grew as she worked in off-Broadway productions such as For Dear Life and Dancing on Checker''s Grave. She moved to Hollywood and appeared in her first television roles in 1990, starring as a regular on the short-lived series Molloy and in the TV movie Camp Cucamonga. She also co-starred in the short-lived Ferris Bueller the same year, a television adaptation of the 1986 teen movie Ferris Bueller''s Day Off (it barely lasted a season). Aniston then starred in two more failed sitcoms, The Edge and Muddling Through and guest-starring on shows such as Quantum Leap, Herman''s Head, and Burke''s Law. After this string of flops, especially her appearance in the critically-derided horror movie Leprechaun, Aniston seriously considered giving up acting, until a script for a new sitcom on NBC''s 1994-1995 fall line-up came her way.</p>\r\n<p>In 1994, the producers of the new NBC show called Friends originally wanted Aniston to audition for the role of Monica Geller, but she persuaded them that the role of Rachel Green was more suited to her character. She played the character until the show ended in 2004.</p>\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n<p><strong>TV Work</strong></p>\r\n<p>Camp Cucamonga (1990) <br>\r\n  Molloy (1990) (cancelled after a few weeks) <br>\r\n  Ferris Bueller (1990-1991) <br>\r\n  The Edge (1992-1993) <br>\r\n  Sunday Funnies (1993) <br>\r\n  Muddling Through (1994) (canceled after a few episodes) <br>\r\n  South Park (1999) (as a special guest) <br>\r\n  Friends (1994-2004) <br>\r\n</p>\r\n<p><strong>Filmography</strong><br>\r\n    <br>\r\n    Jennifer Aniston in Rock StarLeprechaun (1993) <br>\r\n    Dream of an Insomniac (1996) <br>\r\n    She''s the One (1996) <br>\r\n    Picture Perfect (1996) <br>\r\n    ''Til There Was You (1997) <br>\r\n    Waiting for Woody (1998) (short subject) <br>\r\n    The Object of My Affection (1998) <br>\r\n    Office Space (1999) <br>\r\n    The Iron Giant (1999) (voice) <br>\r\n    Rock Star (2001) <br>\r\n    The Good Girl (2002) <br>\r\n    Bruce Almighty (2003) <br>\r\n    Abby Singer (2003) (Cameo) <br>\r\n    Along Came Polly (2004) <br>\r\n    Rumor Has It (2005) <br>\r\n    Derailed (2005) <br>\r\n    Friends with Money (2006) (currently in post-production) <br>\r\n    The Break Up (2006) (currently filming) <br>\r\n    Running with Scissors (2006) (currently filming) (also producer) <br>\r\n    Diary (2006) (currently announced start of production) <br>\r\n    The Senator''s Wife (2006) (currently announced start of production) (also producer) <br>\r\n    Wanted (2007) (currently announced start of production) <br>\r\n</p>\r\n<p><strong>Awards</strong></p>\r\n<p>1995: Screen Actors Guild Award: Outstanding Ensemble Performance in a Comedy Series, Friends <br>\r\n  2002: Emmy Award: Best Actress in a Comedy Series, Friends <br>\r\n  2003: Golden Globe Award: Best Actress in a Comedy Series, Friends <br>\r\n</p>');
INSERT INTO `bios` VALUES ('j', 'Jennifer Connelly', 'Jennifer_Connelly.jpg', '<p><strong>Jennifer Connelly </strong></p>\r\n<p>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.</p>\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n<p><strong>Early life</strong></p>\r\n<p>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.</p>\r\n<p>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.</p>\r\n<p>Her first film role was in the 1984 film Once Upon a Time in America, where she had a small part as &quot;young Deborah Gelly&quot; in Sergio Leone''s gangster epic. She next starred in cult Italian horror director Dario Argento''s Phenomena (1985).</p>\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n<p><strong>Early film career</strong></p>\r\n<p>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.</p>\r\n<p>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 &quot;sexpot&quot; stereotype.</p>\r\n<p>She began studying English at Yale, but transferred two years later to Stanford. She did not graduate from either institution.</p>\r\n<p>The big-budget Disney film The Rocketeer (1991) similarly failed to restart Connelly''s career.</p>\r\n<p>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).</p>\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n<p><strong>Comeback</strong></p>\r\n<p>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).</p>\r\n<p>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.</p>\r\n<p>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.</p>\r\n<p>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.</p>\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n<p><strong>Personal life</strong></p>\r\n<p>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 Skarsg&aring;rd), was born August 5, 2003. She has also a five-year-old son, Kai, from a previous relationship.</p>\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n<p><strong>Selected Filmography</strong><br>\r\n    <br>\r\n    Jennifer Connelly in the 1991 film The RocketeerHulk 2 (2007) <br>\r\n    The Blood Diamond (2007) <br>\r\n    The Berkeley Connection (2006) <br>\r\n    Little Children (2006) <br>\r\n    Dark Water (2005) <br>\r\n    House of Sand and Fog (2003) <br>\r\n    Hulk (2003) <br>\r\n    A Beautiful Mind (2001) <br>\r\n    The $treet (2000) (TV series) <br>\r\n    Pollock (2000) <br>\r\n    Requiem for a Dream (2000) <br>\r\n    Waking the Dead (2000) <br>\r\n    Dark City (1998) <br>\r\n    Higher Learning (1995) <br>\r\n    The Rocketeer (1991) <br>\r\n    The Hot Spot (1990) <br>\r\n    Labyrinth (1986) <br>\r\n    Once Upon a Time in America (1984) <br>\r\n</p>');
INSERT INTO `bios` VALUES ('j', 'Jennie Garth', 'Jennie_Garth.jpg', '<p><strong>Jennie Garth </strong></p>\r\n<p>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.</p>\r\n<p>She is married to actor Peter Facinelli, with whom she has two daughters, Luca Bella (born 1997) and Lola Ray (born 2002).</p>\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n<p><strong>Filmography</strong></p>\r\n<p>Power 98 (1996) <br>\r\n  My Brother''s War (1997) <br>\r\n</p>\r\n<p><strong>Television series and movies</strong></p>\r\n<p>A Brand New Life (1989) <br>\r\n  Just Perfect (1989) <br>\r\n  Teen Angel (1989) <br>\r\n  Beverly Hills 90210 (1989&ndash;97) <br>\r\n  Teen Angel Returns (1990) <br>\r\n  Star (1993) <br>\r\n  Lies of the Heart: The Story of Laurie Kellogg (1994) <br>\r\n  Without Consent (1994) <br>\r\n  Falling for You (1995) <br>\r\n  A Loss of Innocence (1996) <br>\r\n  An Unfinished Affair (1996) <br>\r\n  What I Like About You (2002&ndash;) <br>\r\n  The Last Cowboy (2003) <br>\r\n</p>');
INSERT INTO `bios` VALUES ('j', 'Jennifer Garner', 'Jennifer_Garner.jpg', '<p><strong>Jennifer Garner </strong></p>\r\n<p>Jennifer Anne Garner (born April 17, 1972 in Houston, Texas) is an American film and television actress.</p>\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n<p><strong>Biography</strong></p>\r\n<p>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.</p>\r\n<p>She currently stars as the character Sydney Bristow on the TV show Alias.</p>\r\n<p>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).</p>\r\n<p>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.</p>\r\n<p>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.</p>\r\n<p>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.</p>\r\n<p>Her production company, Vandalia Films will produce its first film in 2007; a remake of a Japanese Mystery Romance titled &quot;Ima, ai ni yukimasu&quot; roughly translated to &quot;Be With You&quot;. She will produce alongside American Beauty producers Dan Jinks and Bruce Cohen. Garner is set to star in the remake.</p>\r\n<p>In March 2005, Garner directed the episode &quot;In Dreams&quot; for her series, Alias, which aired in May.</p>\r\n<p>For the fifth season of the show she has been promoted to writer/producer level.</p>\r\n<p>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 &quot;The West Wing&quot;''s Allison Janney. The year of her second nomination, she lost to Edie Falco for her powerful performance in &quot;The Sopranos.&quot; For Garner''s third nomination, she again lost out to Janney. The most recent nomination in 2005 was not met with a win as &quot;Medium&quot;''s Patricia Arquette won.</p>\r\n<p>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. &quot;Alias&quot; 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.</p>\r\n<p>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.</p>\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n<p><strong>Relationships</strong></p>\r\n<p>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.</p>\r\n<p>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 &quot;accidently&quot; referred to her unborn child as &quot;she,&quot; 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.</p>\r\n<p>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.</p>\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n<p><strong>Filmography</strong></p>\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n<p><strong>Acting Filmography </strong></p>\r\n<p>Be With You (2006) <br>\r\n  Charlotte''s Web (2006) (voice) <br>\r\n  Catch and Release (2005) Grey <br>\r\n  Elektra (2005) Elektra <br>\r\n  13 Going on 30 (2004) Jenna Rink <br>\r\n  Alias: The Video Game (2004) Sydney Bristow (voice) <br>\r\n  The Simpsons (2003) Herself (voice)<br>\r\n  Ep.: Treehouse of Horror XIV <br>\r\n  Daredevil (2003) Elektra <br>\r\n  Catch Me If You Can (2002) Cheryl Ann <br>\r\n  Alias (2001-present) Sydney Bristow <br>\r\n  Rennie''s Landing (2001) Kiley Bradshaw <br>\r\n  Pearl Harbor (2001) Nurse Sandra <br>\r\n  Dude, Where''s My Car? (2000) Wanda <br>\r\n  Aftershock: Earthquake in New York (1999) Diane Agostini <br>\r\n  Time of Your Life (1999) Romy Sullivan <br>\r\n  The Pretender (1999) Billie H. Vaughn/DuPree <br>\r\n  Significant Others (1998) Nell Glennon <br>\r\n  1999 (1998) Annabell <br>\r\n  Felicity (1998-2002) Hannah Bibb <br>\r\n  Fantasy Island (1998) Sally <br>\r\n  Deconstructing Harry (1997) Woman in elevator <br>\r\n  Washington Square (1997) Marian Almond <br>\r\n  Mr. Magoo (1997) Stacey Sampanahoditra <br>\r\n  In Harm''s Way (1997) Kelly <br>\r\n  Harvest of Fire (1996) Sarah Troyer <br>\r\n  Zoya (1995) Sasha <br>\r\n</p>');
INSERT INTO `bios` VALUES ('j', 'Jennifer Love Hewitt', 'Jennifer_Love_Hewit.jpg', '<p><strong>Jennifer Love Hewitt </strong></p>\r\n<p>Jennifer Love Hewitt (born February 21, 1979 in Waco, Texas) is an American actress and singer.<br>\r\n</p>\r\n<p><strong>Biography</strong></p>\r\n<p>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.</p>\r\n<p>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.</p>\r\n<p>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).</p>\r\n<p>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).</p>\r\n<p>To date she has released four albums with some success, most notably outside the United States in places like Europe and Japan.</p>\r\n<p>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 &quot;an amazing experience&quot;.</p>\r\n<p>She is featured on the cover of the March 2005 issue of Maxim, and on the final regular-sized issue of the TV Guide.</p>\r\n<p>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.</p>\r\n<p>From 1997-1999 she dated Carson Daly and from 1999-2001 she dated Rich Cronin. She is currently dating Lance Mohesky.<br>\r\n</p>\r\n<p><strong>Filmography</strong><br>\r\n    <br>\r\n    Jennifer Love Hewitt as Page Conners in Heartbreakers.The Truth About Love (2005) <br>\r\n    Garfield: The Movie (2004) <br>\r\n    If Only (2004) <br>\r\n    The Tuxedo (2002) <br>\r\n    The Devil and Daniel Webster (2002) <br>\r\n    Heartbreakers (2001) <br>\r\n    The Suburbans (1999) <br>\r\n    Can''t Hardly Wait (1998) <br>\r\n    I Still Know What You Did Last Summer (1998) <br>\r\n    Telling You (1998) <br>\r\n    I Know What You Did Last Summer (1997) <br>\r\n    Trojan War (1997) <br>\r\n    House Arrest (1996) <br>\r\n    Sister Act 2 (1993) <br>\r\n</p>\r\n<p><strong>Television</strong></p>\r\n<p>Ghost Whisperer (2005) <br>\r\n  Confessions of a Sociopathic Social Climber (movie) (2005) <br>\r\n  Family Guy (2002) (voice)...herself <br>\r\n  The Audrey Hepburn Story (movie) (2000) <br>\r\n  Time of Your Life (1999) <br>\r\n  Oh Yeah! Cartoons (1998) <br>\r\n  Party of Five (1995-1999) <br>\r\n  Byrds of Paradise (1994) <br>\r\n  Kids Incorporated (1989-1991) <br>\r\n</p>\r\n<p><strong>Discography</strong></p>\r\n<p>Love Songs (1992) released in Japan only <br>\r\n  Let''s Go Bang (1995) <br>\r\n  Jennifer Love Hewitt (1996) <br>\r\n  BareNaked (2002) <br>\r\n</p>');
INSERT INTO `bios` VALUES ('j', 'Jennifer Lopez', 'Jennifer_Lopez.jpg', '<p><strong>Jennifer Lopez </strong></p>\r\n<p>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.</p>\r\n<p>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.</p>\r\n<p>She also played a small role in a short-lived television program South Central. She later starred in Second Chances and Hotel Malibu.</p>\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n<p><strong>Music</strong><br>\r\n    <br>\r\n    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, &quot;If You Had My Love&quot;, as well as the top ten hit &quot;Waiting for Tonight&quot;. It also contained the Spanish language, Latin-flavored duet &quot;No me Ames&quot; 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 &quot;Feelin'' So Good&quot;, 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. &quot;Let''s Get Loud&quot; was also released as a single, and became a minor dance hit.</p>\r\n<p>Her sophomore effort, J. Lo, was released in January 2001 and debuted at #1 on the Billboard 200. The lead single, &quot;Love Don''t Cost a Thing&quot; was her first UK number one single, and, along with its follow-up, &quot;Play&quot; (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, &quot;I''m Real&quot; and &quot;Ain''t it Funny&quot;, 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 &quot;Ain''t it Funny (Remix)&quot;. The &quot;I''m Real&quot; and &quot;Ain''t It Funny&quot; 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 &quot;I''m Real&quot;.</p>\r\n<p>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, &quot;I''m Gonna Be Alright&quot;, 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 &quot;Alive&quot;, which was included in Lopez''s movie Enough.</p>\r\n<p>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 &quot;Jenny from the Block&quot;, (sampling the track from the song &quot;Watch Out Now&quot; by the Beatnuts, and including raps from Jadakiss and Styles P), the multi-week #1 &quot;All I Have&quot; duet with LL Cool J and the top 10 &quot;Baby I Love You!&quot; (which also was the musical theme to Gigli). Another single, &quot;I''m Glad&quot;, 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, &quot;The One&quot;, failed to make any impact on charts whatsoever. Another song from the album was a cover of Carly Simon''s &quot;You Belong to Me.&quot;</p>\r\n<p>In 2004, Lopez once again participated in duets with Marc Anthony, this time on his albums Amar Sin Mentiras and Valio La Pena.</p>\r\n<p>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 &quot;Get Right&quot;, 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, &quot;Get Right&quot; was her second UK number one, and also topped the charts in Italy and Ireland. The second single, &quot;Hold You Down&quot;, 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 &quot;Cherry Pie&quot; which will hopefully be released around the end of September 2005.</p>\r\n<p>The single &quot;Cherry Pie&quot; release was cancelled by Sony Records, although it did debut in charts around the world due to radio air-play.</p>\r\n<p>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.</p>\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n<p><strong>Fashion</strong></p>\r\n<p>Lopez owns a clothing line called &quot;J. Lo by Jennifer Lopez&quot;. 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 &quot;Glow&quot;, and she was in question before, because the name came from another patented perfume.</p>\r\n<p>In October 2003, Lopez introduced a perfume called &quot;Still&quot;. During November of the same year, she launched a new clothing line called &quot;Sweetface&quot;.</p>\r\n<p>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.</p>\r\n<p>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.</p>\r\n<p>Other merchandise includes a clothing and cologne line for men due for release either in late 2005 or sometime in 2006.</p>\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n<p><strong>J. Lo Inc.</strong></p>\r\n<p>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.</p>\r\n<p>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.</p>\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n<p><strong>Relationships</strong></p>\r\n<p>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, &quot;Yes.&quot; 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 &quot;Love Don''t Cost A Thing&quot;. 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</p>\r\n<p>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.</p>\r\n<p>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.</p>\r\n<p>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 &quot;afternoon party&quot;, 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 &quot;No Me Ames&quot; which appeared on her album &quot;On the 6.&quot;</p>\r\n<p>Almost immediately after the wedding, rumors began swirling that the wedding was of the &quot;shotgun&quot; 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.</p>\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n<p><strong>Derriere</strong></p>\r\n<p>No discussion of Jennifer Lopez could be considered complete without discussion of her famously large and shapely rear end. Example: [2]</p>\r\n<p>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 &quot;should have thanked her butt&quot;.</p>\r\n<p>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-P&eacute;rez who also was famous for having a large posterior.</p>\r\n<p>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, &quot;Does she have a big arse?&quot; - his reply, which leapt across the language barrier and was subsequently aired around the world was, &quot;a big house? Yes very big&quot;.</p>\r\n<p>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 &quot;a rear end that stuck a-way out... you could play pinochle on her rear end!&quot;)</p>\r\n<p>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.</p>\r\n<p>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.</p>\r\n<p>On a Hollywood television gossip show in 2004, an interviewer asked her, &quot;How do you feel about your butt?&quot; Her answer was given as &quot;I can''t believe you''re asking me a question like that.&quot;</p>\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n<p><strong>Claims to fame<br>\r\n</strong></p>\r\n<p><strong>Professional accomplishments</strong></p>\r\n<p><br>\r\n  Became the first Latina actress to get paid $1 million (for her role in Selena). <br>\r\n  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). <br>\r\n  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. <br>\r\n  Lopez''s album J to tha L-O! The Remixes was the first album of remixes to hit #1. <br>\r\n  Lopez''s perfume &quot;Glow&quot; made history in 2001, by being the #1 perfume in more than nine countries in more than four months. <br>\r\n  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. <br>\r\n  Lopez made the 2004 Fortune list of the wealthiest entertainers under the age of 40. Her wealth is estimated at $255 million. <br>\r\n  Lopez made the highest debut of 2003 on the US charts with &quot;All I Have&quot; debuting at #25. <br>\r\n  Lopez has sold nearly 40 million records worldwide. <br>\r\n</p>\r\n<p><strong>Discography<br>\r\n</strong></p>\r\n<p><strong>Albums</strong></p>\r\n<p>1999: On the 6 #8 US, US Certification: 3x Platinum (WW sales: 9 million) <br>\r\n  2001: J. Lo #1 (Debut) US (1 week), #2 UK, #12 ITA, US Certification: 4x Platinum (WW sales: 8 million) <br>\r\n  2002: J to tha L-O!: The Remixes #1 (Debut) US (2 weeks), #3 UK, US Certification: Platinum (WW sales: 2 million) <br>\r\n  2002: This Is Me... Then #2 US, #14 UK, #11 ITA, US Certification: 2x Platinum (WW sales: 5.5 million) <br>\r\n  2005: Rebirth #2 US, #8 UK, #6 ITA, #10 AUS, US Certification: Platinum (WW sales: 2 million) <br>\r\n  Total album sales: 26.5 million</p>\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n<p><strong>Singles</strong></p>\r\n<p>From On the 6:</p>\r\n<p>1999: &quot;If You Had My Love&quot; #1 US (5 weeks), #4 UK, #1 AUS, US Certification: Platinum <br>\r\n  1999: &quot;No Me Ames&quot; #1 Latin <br>\r\n  1999: &quot;Waiting for Tonight&quot; #8 US, #5 UK <br>\r\n  2000: &quot;Feelin'' So Good&quot; (feat. Big Pun and Fat Joe) #51 US, #15 UK <br>\r\n  2000: &quot;Let''s Get Loud&quot; <br>\r\n  From J. Lo:</p>\r\n<p>2001: &quot;Love Don''t Cost a Thing&quot; #3 US, #1 UK, #4 AUS <br>\r\n  2001: &quot;Play&quot; #18 US, #3 UK, #5 AUS, #7 ITA <br>\r\n  2001: &quot;Ain''t it Funny&quot; #3 UK, #9 AUS <br>\r\n  2001: &quot;I''m Real&quot; (with &quot;I''m Real (Murder Remix)&quot;) #4 UK, #3 AUS <br>\r\n  From J to tha L-O!: The Remixes:</p>\r\n<p>2001: &quot;I''m Real (Murder Remix)&quot; (with &quot;I''m Real&quot; - feat. Ja Rule) #1 US (5 weeks), 4 UK, #3 AUS <br>\r\n  2002: &quot;Ain''t it Funny (Murder Remix)&quot; (feat. Ja Rule and Caddillac Tah) #1 US (6 weeks), #4 UK, #1 AUS <br>\r\n  2002: &quot;I''m Gonna Be Alright (Track Masters Remix)&quot; #10 US, #3 UK <br>\r\n  From This Is Me... Then:</p>\r\n<p>2002: &quot;Jenny from the Block&quot; (feat. Jadakiss and Styles P) #3 US, #3 UK, #5 AUS, #2 ITA <br>\r\n  2003: &quot;All I Have&quot; (feat. LL Cool J) #1 US (4 weeks), #2 UK, #2 AUS <br>\r\n  2003: &quot;I''m Glad&quot; #32 US, #11 UK, #10 AUS, #31 ITA <br>\r\n  2004: &quot;Baby I Love You!&quot; #72 US, #3 UK, #21 ITA <br>\r\n  From Rebirth:</p>\r\n<p>2005: &quot;Get Right&quot; #12 US, #1 UK, #3 AUS, #1 ITA, US Certification: Platinum, WW Cert.: 2x Platinum <br>\r\n  2005: &quot;Hold You Down&quot; (feat. Fat Joe) #64 US, #6 UK, #19 ITA <br>\r\n  2005: &quot;Cherry Pie&quot; Radio single <br>\r\n  Total singles sales: 11.5 million (13,000,540 source)</p>\r\n<p>Total album and single sales: 39.1 million</p>\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n<p><strong>DVDs</strong></p>\r\n<p>1999: Feelin'' So Good US Certification: Gold <br>\r\n  2001: Let''s Get Loud US Certification: Gold <br>\r\n  2003: The Reel Me #69 US, US Certification: 3x Platinum <br>\r\n</p>\r\n<p><strong>Awards &amp; nominations<br>\r\n</strong></p>\r\n<p><strong>1995</strong></p>\r\n<p>1995 Independent Spirit Awards: nomination for Best Supporting Actress (&quot;My Family&quot;) <br>\r\n</p>\r\n<p><strong>1997</strong></p>\r\n<p>1997 Saturn Awards: nomination for Best Actress (&quot;Anaconda&quot;) <br>\r\n</p>\r\n<p><strong>1998</strong></p>\r\n<p>1998 MTV Movie Awards: 2 nominations, Best Kiss - shared nomination with George Clooney (&quot;Out Of Sight&quot;), Best Female Performance (&quot;Out of Sight&quot;) <br>\r\n  1998 Empire Awards: nomination for Best Actress (&quot;Out of Sight&quot;) <br>\r\n</p>\r\n<p><strong>1999</strong></p>\r\n<p>1999 MTV Video Music Awards: 4 nominations for (&quot;If You Had My Love&quot;), Female Video of the Year, Dance Video of the Year, New Artist Video of the Year, Pop Video of the Year <br>\r\n  1999 American Music Awards: 2 nominations, Favorite Artist - Latin Music, Favorite New Artist - Pop / Rock <br>\r\n  1999 Soul Train Award: nomination for Best R&amp;B/Soul Album - Female (&quot;On the 6&quot;) <br>\r\n</p>\r\n<p><strong>2000</strong></p>\r\n<p>2000 MTV Video Music Award: nomination for (&quot;Waiting For Tonight&quot;), Best Choreography, win for Dance Video of the Year (&quot;Waiting For Tonight&quot;) <br>\r\n  2000 MTV Movie Awards: nomination for Best Female Performance (&quot;The Cell&quot;), win for Best Dressed in a Movie (&quot;The Cell&quot;) <br>\r\n  2000 Grammy Award: nomination for Best Dance Recording (&quot;Let''s Get Loud&quot;) <br>\r\n  2000 Saturn Awards: nomination for Best Actress (&quot;The Cell&quot;) <br>\r\n</p>\r\n<p><strong>2001</strong></p>\r\n<p>2001 American Music Award: nomination for Favorite Female Artist - Pop or Rock <br>\r\n  2001 MTV Video Music Awards: 2 nominations for (&quot;Love Don''t Cost A Thing&quot;), Best Dance Video, Best Dance Video <br>\r\n  2001 People''s Choice Awards: 2 nominations, Favorite Actress, Favorite Female Musical Performer <br>\r\n  2001 Hastings Bad Cinema Society Stinkers Awards: nomination for Worst Actress, win for Most Annoying Fake Accent - Female (&quot;Angel Eyes&quot;) <br>\r\n  2001 Alma Awards: win for Outstanding Music Video - People''s Choice Award (&quot;Love Don''t Cost A Thing&quot;) <br>\r\n  2001 Alma Awards: 4 nominations, Outstanding Female Performer, Album of the Year (&quot;J.Lo&quot;), Outstanding Performance - Music, Variety or Comedy Special (&quot;Jennifer Lopez in Concert: Let''s Get Loud&quot;), Outstanding Actress - Motion Picture (&quot;Angel Eyes&quot;) <br>\r\n</p>\r\n<p><strong>2002</strong></p>\r\n<p>2002 American Music Award: nomination for Favorite Female Artist - Hip-Hop/R&amp;B <br>\r\n  2002 MTV Video Music Awards: win for Best Hip-Hop Video (&quot;I''m Real&quot;) - shared with Ja Rule <br>\r\n  2002 NAACP Image Award: nomination for Outstanding Actress - Motion Picture (&quot;Maid in Manhattan&quot;) <br>\r\n  2002 Hastings Bad Cinema Society Stinkers Awards: nomination for Worst Actress (&quot;Enough&quot;) <br>\r\n</p>\r\n<p><strong>2003</strong></p>\r\n<p>2003 American Music Award: win for Favorite Female Artist - Pop / Rock <br>\r\n  2003 MTV Video Music Awards: 4 nominations for (&quot;I''m Glad&quot;), Best Female Video, Best Dance Video, Best Choreography in a Video, Best Art Direction in a Video <br>\r\n  2003 Hastings Bad Cinema Society Stinker Awards: 3 wins, Worst Actress (&quot;Gigli&quot;), Worst On-Screen Couple (Ben Aflleck, Jennifer Lopez - Gigli), Worst Fake Accent - Female (&quot;Gigli&quot;) <br>\r\n  2003 Golden Raspberry Awards: 2 wins, Worst Actress, Worst Screen Couple (&quot;Gigli&quot;) <br>\r\n</p>\r\n<p><strong>2004</strong></p>\r\n<p>2004 Golden Raspberry Awards: 2 nominations, Worst Screen Couple, Worst Supporting Actress for (&quot;Jersey Girl&quot;) <br>\r\n  2004 People''s Choice Awards: nomination for Best Smile <br>\r\n</p>\r\n<p><strong>2005</strong></p>\r\n<p>2005 MTV Video Music Awards: 4 nominations for (&quot;Get Right&quot;), Best Editing in a Video, Best Direction in a Video, Best Dance Video, Best Choreography in a Video <br>\r\n</p>\r\n<p><strong>Nicknames</strong></p>\r\n<p>J.Lo or &quot;Jaylo&quot; <br>\r\n  Jen <br>\r\n  Jenny <br>\r\n  Jenny-Lo <br>\r\n  Jenny from The Block <br>\r\n  Bella (&quot;beautiful&quot; in spanish) <br>\r\n&quot;La Guitarra&quot; (&quot;the guitar&quot; in Spanish --because of the shape of her body) <br>\r\n  La Lopez <br>\r\n</p>\r\n<p><strong>Filmography</strong></p>\r\n<p>My Little Girl (1986) <br>\r\n  Lambada (1990) <br>\r\n  My Family (1995) <br>\r\n  Money Train (1995) <br>\r\n  Jack (1996) <br>\r\n  Blood and Wine (1996) <br>\r\n  Selena (1997) <br>\r\n  Anaconda (1997) <br>\r\n  U Turn (1997) <br>\r\n  Out of Sight (1998) <br>\r\n  Antz (1998) (voice) <br>\r\n  The Cell (2000) <br>\r\n  The Wedding Planner (2001) <br>\r\n  Angel Eyes (2001) <br>\r\n  Enough (2002) <br>\r\n  Maid in Manhattan (2002) <br>\r\n  Gigli (2003) <br>\r\n  Jersey Girl (2004) <br>\r\n  Shall We Dance (2004) <br>\r\n  Monster-in-Law (2005) <br>\r\n  An Unfinished Life (2005) <br>\r\n  Bordertown (2006) (currently filming) (also producer) <br>\r\n  El Cantante (TBA) (currently in pre production)(also producer) <br>\r\n</p>\r\n');
INSERT INTO `bios` VALUES ('j', 'Jeri Ryan', 'Jeri_Ryan.jpg', '<p><strong>Jeri Ryan </strong></p>\r\n<p>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.<br>\r\n</p>\r\n<p><strong>Childhood</strong></p>\r\n<p>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.</p>\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n<p><strong>Career</strong><br>\r\n    <br>\r\n    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 &amp; 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.</p>\r\n<p>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.</p>\r\n<p>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.</p>\r\n<p>Ryan has recently appeared in movies such as Down With Love.</p>\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n<p><strong>Personal life</strong></p>\r\n<p>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.</p>\r\n<p>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.</p>\r\n<p>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..</p>\r\n<p>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.</p>\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n<p><strong>Filmography<br>\r\n</strong></p>\r\n<p><strong>Movies</strong></p>\r\n<p>Down With Love (2003) <br>\r\n  The Last Man (2002) <br>\r\n  Wes Craven Presents: Dracula 2000 (2000) <br>\r\n  Disney''s The Kid (2000) <br>\r\n  Men Cry Bullets (1999) <br>\r\n</p>\r\n<p><strong>Television</strong></p>\r\n<p>The O.C. (2005) <br>\r\n  Boston Public (2001-2004) <br>\r\n  Star Trek: Voyager (1997-2001) <br>\r\n  Dark Skies (1996) <br>\r\n  Pier 66 (1996) <br>\r\n  Co-ed Call Girl (1996) <br>\r\n  Matlock: The Fatal Seduction (1993) <br>\r\n  In the Line of Duty: Ambush in Waco (1993) <br>\r\n  Just Deserts (1992) (TV) <br>\r\n  Nightmare in Columbia County (1991) (TV) <br>\r\n  </p>\r\n<p><strong>Computer games</strong></p>\r\n<p>Star Trek: Voyager Elite Force (2000) <br>\r\n</p>\r\n');
INSERT INTO `bios` VALUES ('j', 'Jessica Alba', 'Jessica_Alba.jpg', '<p><strong>Jessica Alba </strong></p>\r\n<p>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.</p>\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n<p><strong>Early life</strong></p>\r\n<p>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.</p>\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n<p><strong>Acting career</strong><br>\r\n    <br>\r\nJessica 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.</p>\r\n<p>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.</p>\r\n<p>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.</p>\r\n<p>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.</p>\r\n<p>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..</p>\r\n<p>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.</p>\r\n<p>Alba''s most serious award nomination to date is that of a Golden Globe for &quot;Lead Actress in a Drama Series&quot; during the first season of Dark Angel. She did not win.</p>\r\n<p>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.</p>\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n<p><strong>Personal life</strong></p>\r\n<p>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.</p>\r\n<p>Regarding children, Jessica has stated:</p>\r\n<p>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.</p>\r\n<p>She announced on the UK teen site &quot;Teen Today&quot; in 2005, prior to the birth of her brother''s child, that she was beginning a children''s clothing line:</p>\r\n<p>&quot;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!&quot; </p>\r\n<p>She is a self-professed animal lover (although she dislikes reptiles and rodents) who owns two pugs named Sid and Nancy.</p>\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n<p><strong>Religion</strong></p>\r\n<p>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:</p>\r\n<p>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.</p>\r\n<p>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:</p>\r\n<p>&quot;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.&quot;</p>\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n<p><strong>Trivia</strong></p>\r\n<p>Her brother Joshua appeared with her in &quot;And Jesus Brought a Casserole,&quot; the first season finale of Dark Angel, in which he played Krit, one of her X-5 brothers who wanted to help destroy Manticore. <br>\r\n  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] <br>\r\n  According to an interview with Rolling Stone magazine, her measurements are 34-24-34. [4] <br>\r\n  Jessica Alba revealed that she envisions a much older man as her ideal partner, having stated, &quot;Morgan Freeman, Sean Connery, Robert Redford, Michael Caine I have this thing for older men. They''ve been around and know so much.&quot; [5] <br>\r\n  Jessica is presently Tiger Beer''s new face in commercials.<br>\r\n</p>\r\n<p><strong>Filmography</strong></p>\r\n<p>Camp Nowhere (1994) <br>\r\n  Venus Rising (1995) <br>\r\n  Flipper (cast member from 1995-1996) (TV series) <br>\r\n  Too Soon for Jeff (1996) (TV series) <br>\r\n  P.U.N.K.S. (1999) <br>\r\n  Never Been Kissed (1999) <br>\r\n  Idle Hands (1999) <br>\r\n  Paranoid (2000) <br>\r\n  Dark Angel (2000-2002) (TV series) <br>\r\n  The Sleeping Dictionary (2003) <br>\r\n  Honey (2003) <br>\r\n  Sin City (2005) <br>\r\n  Fantastic Four (2005) <br>\r\n  Into the Blue (2005) <br>\r\n  A Dream of Color in Black and White (2005) (currently in post-production) <br>\r\n  Sonic (2006) (currently announced start of production) (also executive producer) <br>\r\n</p>');
INSERT INTO `bios` VALUES ('j', 'Jessica Biel', 'Jessica_Biel.jpg', '<p><strong>Jessica Biel </strong></p>\r\n<p>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.</p>\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n<p><strong>Biography</strong></p>\r\n<p>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.</p>\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n<p><strong>Early Life</strong></p>\r\n<p>It wasn''t until she attended the International Modeling &amp; 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).</p>\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n<p><strong>Acting appearances</strong></p>\r\n<p>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.</p>\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n<p><strong>Commericals</strong></p>\r\n<p>Aside from acting, Jessica became a spokesmodel for L''Oreal cosmetics in 2002.</p>\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n<p><strong>Career</strong></p>\r\n<p>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.</p>\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n<p><strong>Personal life</strong></p>\r\n<p>Her hobbies include ballet, soccer, running, yoga and hiking. Jessica currently resides in Los Angeles.</p>\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n<p><strong>Controversy</strong></p>\r\n<p>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.</p>\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n<p><strong>Trivia</strong></p>\r\n<p>Has one younger brother, Justin. <br>\r\n  Is a vegan and active in PETA. <br>\r\n</p>\r\n<p><strong>Awards</strong></p>\r\n<p>1998: Young Artist Award - Best Performance in a Feature Film - Supporting Young Actress in Ulee''s Gold <br>\r\n</p>\r\n<p><strong>Other</strong></p>\r\n<p>Esquire magazine named her the &quot;Sexiest Woman Alive&quot; 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). <br>\r\n  Ranked #98 on VH1''s 100 Hottest Hotties <br>\r\n  Ranked #99 in Stuff magazine''s &quot;102 Sexiest Women In The World&quot; (2002). <br>\r\n</p>\r\n<p><strong>Filmography</strong></p>\r\n<p><br>\r\n  2006 The Illusionist Princess Sophie Post-production <br>\r\n  2005 London London Post-production <br>\r\n  2005 Elizabethtown Ellen Kishmore <br>\r\n  2005 Stealth Kara Wade <br>\r\n  2004 Blade: Trinity Abigail Whistler <br>\r\n  2004 Cellular Frankie Vitello <br>\r\n  2004 It''s a Digital World voice <br>\r\n  2003 The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (2003 film) Erin <br>\r\n  2002 The Rules of Attraction Lara Holleran <br>\r\n  2001 Summer Catch Tenley Parrish <br>\r\n  1998 I''ll Be Home for Christmas Allie <br>\r\n  1997 Ulee''s Gold Casey Jackson <br>\r\n  1996 7th Heaven Mary Camden Television series <br>\r\n</p>\r\n');
INSERT INTO `bios` VALUES ('j', 'Jessica Simpson', 'Jessica_Simpson.jpg', '<p><strong>Jessica Simpson </strong></p>\r\n<p>Jessica Ann Simpson (born July 10, 1980) is an American Pop singer who rose to fame during the late 1990s. She starred with Nick Lachey in the MTV reality show Newlyweds, released her own line of beauty products called Dessert, and started a career as an actress with appearances in the TV series That ''70s Show and in the film The Dukes of Hazzard.</p>\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n<p><strong>Beginning</strong></p>\r\n<p>Simpson was born in Abilene, Texas and raised in Richardson, a suburb of Dallas, Texas. She is the daughter of Joe Truett Simpson (a former Baptist youth minister) and Tina Ann Drew (a former Sunday School teacher). She has a younger sister, Ashlee, who launched her own music career in mid-2004. Jessica started singing at the age of twelve as a part of her Baptist church choir. At the same age, she made an unsuccessful application for The New Mickey Mouse Club, which starred fellow pop singers Christina Aguilera, Britney Spears and Justin Timberlake, among other future stars.</p>\r\n<p>Jessica attended J.J. Pearce High School in Richardson, Texas. Simpson was discovered singing at a church camp by a head of a small contemporary Christian record label and recorded an album over the next three years; however, the label folded before the record could be released. She dropped out in her senior year in order to tour and promote her demo album, which was funded by her grandmother, Joyce (thus the reason for the name of her 2004 holiday album, Rejoyce: The Christmas Album); she later earned her GED. During this time, she toured with the Christian Youth Conference circuit performing with Kirk Franklin, God''s Property and CeCe Winans. She and her father sold copies of the album after her performances.</p>\r\n<p>Tommy Mottola of Columbia Records obtained a copy of the album and, thinking she had potential as a pop singer, signed her as such. Christian influences can still be found in much of her music.<br>\r\n</p>\r\n<p><strong>Music career<br>\r\n</strong></p>\r\n<p><strong>Sweet Kisses</strong></p>\r\n<p>On November 23, 1999, Jessica released her debut pop album Sweet Kisses, which reached a peak of number twenty-five on the U.S. Billboard 200 chart and also made the top forty of the U.K. charts. The album proved to be a success, selling two million copies in the U.S. Her first single, the Platinum-selling &quot;I Wanna Love You Forever,&quot; reached the top five of the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 singles chart and the top ten in Canada and the U.K. in late 1999. Her second single, a duet with then-boyfriend, now-husband Nick Lachey of 98 Degrees, &quot;Where You Are,&quot; was a modest radio hit. The last single from the album, the John Mellencamp-sampled &quot;I Think I''m in Love with You,&quot; was a top forty hit in the U.S. and a top twenty hit in Canada and the U.K. In 2000, Simpson won two Teen Choice Awards for Choice Breakout Artist and Love Song of the Year (&quot;Where You Are&quot;).<br>\r\n</p>\r\n<p><strong>Irresistible</strong></p>\r\n<p>Simpson''s second album, Irresistible, released on June 5, 2001, reached the top ten of the Billboard 200 and top twenty of the Canadian album charts. Despite this improvement, the album''s sales were less than satisfactory; to date, it has only managed to be certified Gold in the U.S. for selling over 500,000 copies. The title track lead single, &quot;Irresistible,&quot; reached the top twenty in the U.S., Canada, and the U.K., as well as the top forty in Australia and Switzerland. A follow-up single entitled &quot;A Little Bit&quot; was also released, but failed to achieve much success apart from reaching the top twenty in Portugal.</p>\r\n<p>Between her second and third albums, Simpson released a collection of remixes entitled This Is the Remix on July 2, 2002. However, the collection failed to even chart on the Billboard 200.</p>\r\n<p> </p>\r\n<p><strong>In This Skin</strong></p>\r\n<p>Coinciding with Newlyweds, her third album, In This Skin, was released on August 19, 2003. On a whole, the record featured a much more mature sound compared to her earlier releases. Though the album initially was not a huge success, it got its chance to rebound on the charts when a special collector''s edition was released on March 2, 2004. This helped Skin to reach a peak of number two on the Billboard 200 and the top forty of the U.K. charts, due largely in part to the success of Newlyweds. The album eventually proved to be her most successful, selling three million copies in the U.S. and allowing her teetering music career a second chance. The first single from the album was a cover of Diane Warren''s &quot;Sweetest Sin&quot;; the song was not very successful, however, and caused a setback in sales of Skin early on. The follow-up single, the Gold-selling &quot;With You,&quot; enjoyed much more success, and has gone on to become her signature song and arguably most successful single. The song reached the top ten in the U.K. and the top twenty in the U.S. and Australia, as well as on world adult charts. The third single, a cover of Berlin''s &quot;Take My Breath Away,&quot; also reached the top twenty in the U.S. A cover version of Robbie Williams'' &quot;Angels&quot; was released as the fourth and final single from the album.</p>\r\n<p>After the double success of her reality show and In This Skin, Simpson began to bank on her new-found popularity by releasing a line of edible beauty products called Dessert Beauty and Dessert Treats. She has also unleashed her own clothing line called JS, which is named after her own initials.<br>\r\n</p>\r\n<p><strong>And the Band Played On</strong></p>\r\n<p>Jessica''s next album, And the Band Played On, is set to be released sometime in 2006. It has been described as having &quot;a little bit of everything in it,&quot; and it will sound like &quot;Billie Holiday, Patsy Cline, Stevie Nicks &mdash; it''s all over the place. But then there''s songs for us girls to dance to in the club,&quot; according to Simpson. Information has it that the lead single off the album will be &quot;Fired Up,&quot; a song written by Simpson and Scott Storch, who described the song as Jessica''s &quot;Dirrty.&quot; It has been rumored that the track is to be produced by Lil'' Jon. For the first time, Simpson has participated for much of the process of the creation of the album; she has registered a number of new songs on ASCAP.com and is also the executive producer of the album.<br>\r\n</p>\r\n<p><strong>Reality Show</strong><br>\r\n    <br>\r\n    Jessica and Nick Lachey.On October 26, 2002 Simpson married Nick Lachey. Simpson famously announced that she remained a virgin until her wedding night, making Lachey the only man she had been with. During the summer of 2003, Simpson and husband Lachey''s reality show Newlyweds began airing on MTV. Though Simpson was moderately famous before the series began, the show is considered responsible for transforming her into a star. However, on November 23, 2005, Simpson and Lachey officially announced their separation in a joint statement.</p>\r\n<p>Throughout the run of three seasons, she often appeared as a stereotype of a dumb blonde, notably when she asked whether the Chicken of the Sea tuna she was eating was chicken or fish, and when she thought that buffalo wings were made from actual buffalo. Her apparent stupidity made the show a huge hit, making the average rating for each episode about 1.4 million viewers. When introduced to Interior Secretary Gale Norton, Simpson responded: &quot;You''ve done a nice job decorating the White House.&quot;</p>\r\n<p>Banking on the success of her new popularity, she appeared on a variety show with Lachey on the ABC called the Nick and Jessica Variety Hour on April 11, 2004. A pilot for a sitcom on ABC was also planned, but was rejected by network executives in May 2004. During that summer, Simpson won three Teen Choice Awards for Female Fashion Icon, Hottie Female, and Female Reality/Variety TV Star, further proving that Newlyweds had greatly strengthened her overall popularity. In 2005, the series won a People''s Choice Award for Favorite Reality Show. Shortly after, Newlyweds wrapped.<br>\r\n</p>\r\n<p><strong>Movie Career</strong><br>\r\n    <br>\r\nJessica in The Dukes Of Hazzard.During the summer of 2005, Simpson made her her big screen debut as Daisy Duke in The Dukes of Hazzard. The film debuted at number one in the box office charts, grossing more than thirty million USD. One of the tracks off the soundtrack for the film, &quot;These Boots Are Made for Walkin'',&quot; was sung by none other than Simpson. It peaked within in the top twenty in the U.S., but made it well into the top ten in other countries such as the U.K. and Australia, making it arguably Simpson''s biggest international hit. The provocative music video for the single also earned itself quite a bit of media attention.</p>\r\n<p>In the aftermath of Dukes, Simpson''s fans noticed her buttocks flattening. Speculation abounded as to the cause of her disappearing behind. The general consensus is that it resulted from a change in diet and exercise regimen.</p>\r\n<p>Jessica Simpson is also rumoured to become the next Bond Girl in the upcoming James Bond film, Casino Royale starring Daniel Craig as James Bond.</p>\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n<p><strong>Separation</strong></p>\r\n<p>In November 2005, after months of speculation, Simpson and Lachey officially announced that they had separated, though reports stopped short of the couple indicating a divorce. However, later that month it was confirmed that they will indeed get a divorce. Nick and Jessica did not sign a prenuptial agreement, thus leaving Nick free to receive half of her net worth under California law. Last year alone she grossed $35 million dollars. Joint Statement</p>\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n<p><strong>Discography</strong></p>\r\n<p><br>\r\n  <strong>Sweet Kisses </strong><br>\r\n  Released: November 23, 1999 (U.S.) <br>\r\n  Chart Positions: #25 U.S., #36 U.K. <br>\r\n  U.S. Sales: 2.1 Million <br>\r\nRIAA Certification: 2x Platinum </p>\r\n<p><br>\r\n  <strong>Singles: </strong><br>\r\n  1999: &quot;I Wanna Love You Forever&quot; &mdash; #3 U.S., #7 U.K., #9 CAN <br>\r\n  2000: &quot;Where You Are&quot; (featuring Nick Lachey) &mdash; #62 U.S. <br>\r\n  2000: &quot;I Think I''m in Love With You&quot; &mdash; #21 U.S., #15 U.K., #1 CAN <br>\r\n  <br>\r\n  <strong>Irresistible</strong> <br>\r\n  Released: June 5, 2001 (U.S.) <br>\r\n  Chart Positions: #6 U.S., #13 CAN <br>\r\n  U.S. Sales: 800,000 <br>\r\n  RIAA Certification: Gold<br>\r\n  <br>\r\n  <strong>Singles: </strong><br>\r\n  2001: &quot;Irresistible&quot; &mdash; #15 U.S., #11 U.K., #16 CAN <br>\r\n  2001: &quot;A Little Bit&quot; <br>\r\n  <br>\r\n  <strong>This Is the Remix </strong><br>\r\n  Released: July 2, 2002 (U.S.) <br>\r\n  Chart Positions: <br>\r\n  U.S. Sales: N/A <br>\r\n  RIAA Certification: Uncertified <br>\r\n  <br>\r\n  <strong>In This Skin </strong><br>\r\n  Released: August 19, 2003 (U.S.) (Original)/ April 2, 2004 (U.S.) (Re-release) <br>\r\n  Chart Positions: #2 U.S., #36 U.K. <br>\r\n  U.S. Sales: 2.9 Million <br>\r\n  RIAA Certification: 3x Platinum <br>\r\n  <br>\r\n  <strong>Singles: </strong><br>\r\n  2003: &quot;Sweetest Sin&quot; <br>\r\n  2004: &quot;With You&quot; &mdash; #14 U.S., #7 U.K., #4 AUS <br>\r\n  2004: &quot;Take My Breath Away&quot; &mdash; #20 U.S., #7 U.K., #4 AUS <br>\r\n  2004: &quot;Angels&quot; &mdash; #106 U.S., #27 AUS <br>\r\n  <br>\r\n  <strong>Rejoyce: The Christmas Album </strong><br>\r\n  Released: November 23, 2004 (U.S.) <br>\r\n  Chart Positions: #14 U.S. <br>\r\n  U.S. Sales: 540,000 <br>\r\n  RIAA Certification: Gold<br>\r\n  <br>\r\n  <strong>Singles: </strong><br>\r\n  2004: &quot;Let It Snow, Let It Snow, Let It Snow&quot; <br>\r\n  2004: &quot;What Christmas Means to Me&quot; <br>\r\n  <strong><br>\r\n  And The Band Played On </strong><br>\r\n  Released: TBA (U.S.) <br>\r\n  Chart Positions: TBD <br>\r\n  U.S. Sales: TBD <br>\r\n  RIAA Certification: TBD <br>\r\n  <br>\r\n  <strong>Singles: </strong><br>\r\n  2005: &quot;These Boots Are Made for Walkin''&quot; #14 U.S., #4 U.K., #2 AUS <br>\r\n  <br>\r\n</p>\r\n<p><strong>Filmography</strong></p>\r\n<p>2005: The Dukes of Hazzard <br>\r\n</p>');
INSERT INTO `bios` VALUES ('j', 'Jordana Brewster', 'Jordana_Brewster.jpg', '<p><strong>Jordana Brewster </strong></p>\r\n<p>Jordana Brewster (born April 26, 1980) is an American actress. Born in Panama City, Panama, to an investment banker and a former Sports Illustrated Swimsuit model from Brazil, Brewster studied at the Sacred Heart School in New York and later at Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut, graduating in 2004. Her grandfather Kingman Brewster, Jr. is a former president of Yale.</p>\r\n<p>She made her debut on the daytime soap opera, All My Children, in a one-time appearance playing Anita Santos. Brewster returned back to daytime on As the World Turns as Nikki Munson from 1995 to 1998. It was her role as Mia Toretto in The Fast and the Furious that has been her most popular role to date.</p>\r\n<p>She dated Mark Wahlberg from 2000 to June 2001 and has also recently dated Derek Jeter and Jay Penske. In 2002 Stuff Magazine named her the 96th hottest women in their &quot;102 Sexiest Women in the World&quot;.</p>\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n<p><strong>Filmography</strong></p>\r\n<p>Annapolis (2006) - Ali <br>\r\n  Chasing Fate (2005) (filming) <br>\r\n  Nearing Grace (2005) - Grace <br>\r\n  D.E.B.S. (2004) - Lucy Diamond <br>\r\n  The Fast and the Furious (2001) - Mia Toretto <br>\r\n  The Invisible Circus (2001) - Phoebe <br>\r\n  The Faculty (1998) - Delilah Profitt <br>\r\n</p>\r\n<p><strong>Television</strong></p>\r\n<p>The ''60s (1999) - Sarah Weinstock <br>\r\n  As the World Turns (1995-1998) - Nikki Munson <br>\r\n  All My Children (1995) - Anita Santos <br>\r\n</p>');
INSERT INTO `bios` VALUES ('j', 'Julia Roberts', 'Julia_Roberts.jpg', '<p><strong>Julia Roberts </strong></p>\r\n<p>Julia Roberts (born Julie Fiona Roberts on October 28, 1967, in Smyrna, Georgia, USA) is an Academy Award-winning American actress.</p>\r\n<p>She shot to fame during the early 1990s after starring in the romantic comedy Pretty Woman opposite Richard Gere. Since then, Roberts has gone on to become the highest-paid actress in the world with an asking price of over 20 million dollars. Her impressive film career has also given her the title of most bankable actress in Hollywood, with box office receipts well over two billion dollars on the strength of numerous blockbusters such as Pretty Woman, Runaway Bride, and Ocean''s Eleven. She won the Best Actress Academy Award in 2000 for her critically praised turn as the title character in Erin Brockovich after two previous nominations during the 1990s. She was also placed at the pinnacle of the Ulmer Scale, a comprehensive guide to the global star power of actors and directors in independent and studio films created by James Ulmer, ahead of such other luminaries as Tom Cruise and Tom Hanks. This was partly due to her ability to open a film based solely on her name above the title without the support of a male costar, something few other actresses are able to do.</p>\r\n<p>Roberts is the first of three actresses (as of July 2005, the others are Cameron Diaz and Angelina Jolie) to join the coveted &quot;$20 Million Club&quot;, when she signed to do Erin Brockovich for that amount.<br>\r\n</p>\r\n<p><strong>Family background</strong></p>\r\n<p>Roberts'' father, Walter Grady Roberts, was a vacuum cleaner salesman, actor and writer of Irish, Scottish, Welsh extraction on behalf of his father, Walter Thomas Roberts, and English-Scottish descent on the part of his mother, Beatrice Beal. Julia''s mother, Betty Lou Bredemus, a church secretary and actress, was born in Minneapolis in 1934, daughter of football player Wendell John Bredemus (whose mother Eleanor Johnson was born in Sweden) and Elizabeth Ellen Billingsley. Her parents divorced when she was five, and her mother remarried. Her father died of cancer when Roberts was nine. Her elder brother Eric Roberts, from whom she is estranged, is also an actor. So is her niece, Emma Roberts, whom she would often take along on sets when she was younger.</p>\r\n<p>Roberts wanted to be a veterinarian as a child, but soon after graduating from Smyrna''s Campbell High School, she headed to New York to join her sister and pursue a career in acting. Once there she signed with Clicks modeling agency and enrolled in acting classes.</p>\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n<p><strong>Films</strong></p>\r\n<p>Julia Roberts made her film debut playing a supporting role opposite her brother, Eric, in Blood Red, which although completed in 1986 was not released until 1989. Rail-thin, long-legged, and sporting a thick, curly mane of auburn hair, she looked more coltish than elegant in the movie. Here, her large hazel eyes and huge mouth are capable of much expression, sometimes radiance, when she cuts loose with her trademark megawatt smile and a braying laugh.</p>\r\n<p>Roberts first caught the attention of moviegoers with her performance in the film Mystic Pizza in 1988. The following year she was featured in Steel Magnolias as a young bride battling diabetes, garnering her first Oscar nomination (as Best Supporting Actress) for her performance. She catapulted to worldwide fame when she co-starred with Richard Gere in the Cinderella story Pretty Woman in 1990. The role also earned her a second Oscar nod, this time as Best Actress. Her next box office success was the thriller Sleeping with the Enemy, playing a battered wife who escapes her demented husband and starts a new life in Iowa. She played Tinkerbell in Steven Spielberg''s Hook in 1991, which was followed by a two-year period of no acting roles other than a cameo appearance in Robert Altman''s The Player (1992). In early 1993, she was the subject of a People magazine cover story asking, &quot;What Happened to Julia Roberts?&quot;</p>\r\n<p>Later that year, she co-starred with Denzel Washington in the successful The Pelican Brief, based on the John Grisham novel. For the next few years, she starred in a series of films that were critical and commercial failures, primarily because she was cast in roles that strayed too far from her film persona. She broke her losing streak with the hugely popular comedy My Best Friend''s Wedding (1997), and eventually regained her earlier reputation as an actress who could open a movie and guarantee box office success.She also starred with Hugh Grant as Anna Scott, a film actress in the hugely popular 1999 film &quot; Notting Hill &quot;. In 2001, she won critical acclaim and finally received a Best Actress Oscar for her portrayal of Erin Brockovich, who helped wage a successful lawsuit against energy giant Pacific Gas &amp; Electric. Julia will appear in a broadway play starting in March 2006. The play is called &quot;Three Days of Rain&quot;.</p>\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n<p><strong>Personal life</strong></p>\r\n<p>Roberts'' personal life has often been in the spotlight, a fact that served as the basis of her (1999) film Notting Hill, a romantic comedy about a famous actress falling for an ordinary guy played by Hugh Grant. Her character, Anna Scott, was said to be closely modeled on Roberts herself. (When asked in one scene how much she was paid to appear in a movie, Scott replies &quot;fifteen million dollars&quot;&mdash;precisely the amount Roberts had received to appear in Notting Hill.)</p>\r\n<p>Roberts was engaged to actor Kiefer Sutherland in 1991 but ended the relationship just days before the wedding. Julia ran off to Europe with Jason Patric, and the two were eventually a couple after she and Kiefer broke up. She later eloped with country and western singer Lyle Lovett shortly after meeting him. The ceremony was noted by her being barefoot. They divorced in 1995, ostensibly due to their respective career demands keeping them apart, but they still remain friends. Julia also briefly dated Friends star Matthew Perry and Daniel Day-Lewis. For a time she lived with actor Liam Neeson and dated Benjamin Bratt from 1998 to 2001.</p>\r\n<p>Roberts met her husband, cameraman Danny Moder, on the set of her movie The Mexican in 2000. He was already married to Vera Steimberg Moder, but they eventually divorced. Julia and Danny were married on July 4, 2002, in Taos, New Mexico. They became the parents of oddly-named twins, Hazel Patricia Moder and Phinnaeus Walter Moder on November 28, 2004.</p>\r\n<p>Roberts bought a penthouse in Manhattan''s Gramercy Park neighborhood. She reportedly loves to shop anonymously, buying her own organic greens on weekends at the market in nearby Union Square. She splits her time between her homes in New York, New York, Venice, California, Malibu, California, and a 50-acre (202,000 m&sup2;) retreat in Taos, New Mexico.</p>\r\n<p>She is reportedly a fan of the long-running soap opera Days of our Lives.</p>\r\n<p>Roberts has a production company called Red Om Films (&quot;Moder&quot; spelled backwards; formerly &quot;Shoelace Productions&quot;) and has given of her time and resources to UNICEF as well as to other charitable organizations. She has made trips to Haiti, India, and other countries promoting peace, goodwill, and help for others in need.</p>\r\n<p>She has been named one of People magazine''s &quot;50 Most Beautiful People in the World&quot; a record-setting eight times.</p>\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n<p><strong>Filmography</strong></p>\r\n<p>Ocean''s Twelve (2004) <br>\r\n  Closer (2004) <br>\r\n  Mona Lisa Smile (2003) <br>\r\n  Confessions of a Dangerous Mind (2002) <br>\r\n  Full Frontal (2002) <br>\r\n  Ocean''s Eleven (2001) <br>\r\n  America''s Sweethearts (2001) <br>\r\n  The Mexican (2001) <br>\r\n  Erin Brockovich (2000) <br>\r\n  Runaway Bride (1999) <br>\r\n  Notting Hill (1999) <br>\r\n  Stepmom (1998) <br>\r\n  Conspiracy Theory (1997) <br>\r\n  My Best Friend''s Wedding (1997) <br>\r\n  Everyone Says I Love You (1996) <br>\r\n  Michael Collins (1996) <br>\r\n  Mary Reilly (1996) <br>\r\n  Something to Talk About (1995) <br>\r\n  Pr&ecirc;t-&agrave;-Porter (aka Ready to Wear) (1994) <br>\r\n  I Love Trouble (1994) <br>\r\n  The Pelican Brief (1993) <br>\r\n  The Player (1992) <br>\r\n  Hook (1991) <br>\r\n  Dying Young (1991) <br>\r\n  Sleeping with the Enemy (1991) <br>\r\n  Flatliners (1990) <br>\r\n  Pretty Woman (1990) <br>\r\n  Steel Magnolias (1989) <br>\r\n  Blood Red (1988) <br>\r\n  Mystic Pizza (1988) <br>\r\n  Baja Oklahoma (Made for TV) (1988) <br>\r\n  Satisfaction (aka Girls of Summer) (1988) <br>\r\n  Firehouse (1987) <br>\r\n</p>\r\n<p><strong>Awards won<br>\r\n</strong></p>\r\n<p><strong>Best Supporting Actress</strong></p>\r\n<p>1990: Golden Globe for Steel Magnolias <br>\r\n</p>\r\n<p><strong>Best Actress</strong></p>\r\n<p>1991: Golden Globe for Pretty Woman <br>\r\n  2000: Academy Award for Erin Brockovich <br>\r\n  2000: British Academy Awards for Erin Brockovich <br>\r\n  2000: Golden Globe for Erin Brockovich (2000) <br>\r\n  2000: National Board of Review for Erin Brockovich <br>\r\n  2000: Screen Actors Guild for Erin Brockovich <br>\r\n</p>\r\n<p><strong>Awards nominated</strong><br>\r\n</p>\r\n<p><strong>Best Supporting Actress</strong></p>\r\n<p>1989: Academy Award for Steel Magnolias <br>\r\n</p>\r\n<p><strong>Best Actress</strong></p>\r\n<p>1990: Academy Award for Pretty Woman <br>\r\n  1990: British Academy Awards for Pretty Woman <br>\r\n  1997: Golden Globe for My Best Friend''s Wedding <br>\r\n  1999: Golden Globe for Notting Hill <br>\r\n</p>');
INSERT INTO `bios` VALUES ('j', 'Julia Stiles', 'Julia_Stiles.jpg', '<p><strong>Julia Stiles </strong></p>\r\n<p>Julia O''Hara Stiles (born March 28, 1981 in New York City) is an American stage and screen actress. After beginning her theater career in small parts, she has moved on to leading roles in plays by writers as diverse as William Shakespeare and David Mamet; her film career has been both a commercial and critical success, ranging from teen romantic comedies such as 10 Things I Hate About You (1999) to dark art house pictures such as The Business of Strangers (2001). When Stiles isn''t working, she actively supports a variety of progressive and liberal issues.<br>\r\n</p>\r\n<p><strong>Personal</strong></p>\r\n<p>Julia Stiles was born the eldest of the three children (two daughters and a son) of John O''Hara, a teacher and businessman of Irish descent, and Judith Stiles, a potter of English and Italian ancestry. She attended Friends Seminary, Quaker school in Manhattan, and was an English major at Columbia University in New York City, though she had several times interrupted her studies to pursue her film career. She graduated in May 2005, five years after entering college. Stiles is a Democrat who supported John Kerry''s candidacy for President of the United States , and her official site, which her mother helps to maintain, provides a link to Moveon.org.</p>\r\n<p>Stiles has also worked for Habitat for Humanity, building housing in Costa Rica , and has worked with Amnesty International to try and raise awareness of the harsh conditions of immigration detention of unaccompanied juveniles; Marie Claire magazine, in January 2004, featured Stiles'' trip to see conditions at the Berks County Youth Center in Leesport, Pennsylvania ]. Additionally, Stiles serves on the Board of Directors of Amend.org, a New York-based nonprofit that implements childhood injury prevention programs in Africa.</p>\r\n<p>Stiles is also an ex-vegan. When interviewed by Conan O''Brien, she said the word &quot;orgasm&quot; came to mind when she had her first cheeseburger after giving up veganism.</p>\r\n<p>The actress has described herself as a feminist and wrote on the subject in The Guardian :</p>\r\n<p>Ironically, the F word [Feminism] is now pejorative in the mainstream because it is seen to represent a woman''s renunciation of her femininity. It''s an issue many women struggle with today &mdash; including female studio executives. After Betty Friedan and Gloria Steinem, women of my generation have not employed self-censorship, but rather we challenge the notion that being a feminist is in opposition to being feminine. <br>\r\n  </p>\r\n<p><br>\r\n  <strong>Stage career</strong></p>\r\n<p><br>\r\n  Stiles started acting at age eleven, performing with New York''s La MaMa Theatre Company, securing work by submitting photographs of herself in costume to the company and asking that she be kept in mind for juvenile roles [7]. She graduated to adult roles by performing in Eve Ensler''s The Vagina Monologues and, in the summer of 2002, appeared as Viola, the lead role in Shakespeare in the Park''s production of Twelfth Night with Jimmy Smits. Reviewing the production, Ben Brantley of The New York Times saluted Stiles as &quot;the thinking teenagers'' movie goddess&quot; who put him in mind of a &quot;young Jane Fonda&quot;. In the spring of 2004, she made her London stage debut opposite Aaron Eckhart in a revival of David Mamet''s play Oleanna at the Garrick Theatre.</p>\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n<p><strong>Film career</strong><br>\r\n    <br>\r\n    Stiles'' first lead role was in Wicked (1998)Stiles'' first film was a non-speaking part in I Love You, I Love You Not (1996) with Claire Danes and Jude Law. She also had small roles as Harrison Ford''s daughter in Alan J. Pakula''s The Devil''s Own (1997) and in M. Night Shyamalan''s Wide Awake. Her first lead was in Wicked (1998), playing a teenage girl who murders her mother so she can have her father all to herself. Joe Balthai wrote she was &quot;the darling of the 1998 Sundance Film Festival&quot; and Internet movie writer Harry Knowles said she was the &quot;discovery of the fest,&quot; but the film was not commercially released in the U.S. and went direct-to-video.</p>\r\n<p>The role that made her a star was Kat Stratford, opposite Heath Ledger, in Gil Junger''s 10 Things I Hate About You (1999), an adaptation of The Taming of the Shrew set in a Seattle high school. She won an MTV Movie Award for &quot;Breakthrough Female Performance&quot; for the role, and the Chicago Film Critics voted her the most promising new actress of the year. Foreign critics applauded her work as well. Adina Hoffman praised her as &quot;a young, serious looking Diane Lane&quot; and Martin Hoyle said Stiles played Kat &quot;with bloody-minded independent charm from the beginning with hints of wistfulness beneath the determination.&quot;</p>\r\n<p>Her next starring role was in Down to You, which was heavily panned by critics but was a financial success, and earned Stiles and her co-star Freddie Prinze, Jr. a Teen Choice Award nomination for their on-screen chemistry.</p>\r\n<p>She subsequently appeared in two more Shakespearean adaptations. The first was playing the Desdemona role, opposite Mekhi Phifer in the title role, in Tim Blake Nelson''s O (2001), Othello set in a high school. The second was playing Ophelia in Michael Almerayda''s Hamlet (2000), with Ethan Hawke in the lead. Neither was a great success; O had been subjected to many delays and a change of distributors and Hamlet was an art house film shot on a minimal budget.</p>\r\n<p>Her next commercial success was in Save the Last Dance (2001), as an aspiring ballerina forced to leave her small town in downstate Illinois to live with her struggling musician father in Chicago after her mother is killed. At her new, nearly all-black school, she falls in love with the character played by Sean Patrick Thomas, who teaches her hip-hop dance steps that get her into The Juilliard School. The role won her two more MTV awards for &quot;Best Kiss&quot; and &quot;Best Female Performance&quot;, and a Teen Choice Award for best fight scene for her battle with Bianca Lawson. Rolling Stone pronounced her &quot;the coolest co-ed&quot;, putting her on the cover of its April 12, 2001 issue. She told Rolling Stone that despite rumors, she did all her own dancing in the film, though the way the film was shot and edited made it appear otherwise.</p>\r\n<p> <br>\r\n  With Matt Damon in The Bourne Supremacy (2004)In David Mamet''s State and Main (2000), about a film shooting on location in a small town in Vermont, she played a teenage girl who seduces a film actor (Alec Baldwin) with a weakness for young girls. Stiles also played opposite Stockard Channing in the dark art house film The Business of Strangers (2001) as a conniving underling who exacts revenge on her cold boss. Channing was impressed by her co-star: &quot;In addition to her talent, she has a quality that is almost feral, something that can make people uneasy. She has an effect on people,&quot; said Channing. Stiles also had small roles as a CIA operative in The Bourne Identity (2002) and its sequel The Bourne Supremacy (2004). Aimee Agresti quoted producer Lynda Obst as saying Stiles was turning into the next Meryl Streep.</p>\r\n<p>Her next leading role was in Mona Lisa Smile (2003) as Joan, a student at Wellesley College in 1953, whose art professor (Julia Roberts) encourages her to pursue a career in law rather than becoming a wife and mother. Stephen Holden referred to her as one of the cinema''s &quot;brightest young stars,&quot; but the film met with generally unfavorable reviews.</p>\r\n<p>Stiles played a Wisconsin co-ed, with dreams of becoming a doctor, who is swept off her feet by a Danish prince in The Prince and Me (2004), directed by Martha Coolidge. Stiles told Leslie Goober that she was very similar to the character, Paige Morgan, but critic Scott Foundas said while she was, as always, &quot;irrepressibly engaging&quot; the film was a &quot;strange career choice for Stiles.&quot; This echoed criticism in reviews of A Guy Thing (2003), a romantic comedy with Jason Lee and Selma Blair; Dennis Harvey wrote that Stiles was &quot;wasted,&quot; and Stephen Holden called her &quot;a serious actress from whom comedy does not seem to flow naturally.&quot;</p>\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n<p><strong>Television</strong></p>\r\n<p>Stiles'' work on television has been more limited. After two appearances as the computer punk Erica on the PBS series Ghostwriter in 1993 and 1994, she appeared as a guest star on the medical drama Chicago Hope. She has been seen in two made-for-TV movies. In Before Women Had Wings (1997) on CBS, she played opposite Ellen Burstyn and Oprah Winfrey in an adaptation of the novel by Connie May Fowler. Marcia Ross, the film''s casting director, told Jeffrey Ressner &quot;she projects an intelligent depth, she''s not girlish, and she''ll easily grow into adult roles.&quot;</p>\r\n<p>Stiles also played a teenage girl who finds herself pregnant and runs away from her unforgiving father (Bill Smitrovich) in NBC''s miniseries The ''60''s (1999), a film Caryn James dismissed as &quot;conspicuously idiotic.&quot; Stiles was the public face of the film, with NBC using her face, painted with a peace sign and the American flag, both in its advertising and on the cover of the soundtrack album.</p>\r\n<p>On March 17, 2001, Stiles hosted Saturday Night Live and eight days later introduced a music nominee at the 73rd Academy Awards. She returned to Saturday Night Live on May 5 in a cameo as President George W. Bush''s daughter Jenna. MTV profiled her in its Diary series in 2003, and she was &quot;Punk''d&quot; by Ashton Kutcher at a museum in the spring of 2004.</p>\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n<p><strong>Filmography</strong><br>\r\n</p>\r\n<p>2006 Burns Jean Armour Pre-production <br>\r\n  2005 Edmond Glenna Post-production, due December 20, 2005 <br>\r\n  2005 Going Down Announced <br>\r\n  2005 A Little Trip to Heaven Isold Post-production <br>\r\n  2004 The Bourne Supremacy Nicky <br>\r\n  2004 The Prince and Me Paige Morgan <br>\r\n  2003 Mona Lisa Smile Joan Bandwyn <br>\r\n  2003 Carolina Carolina Direct-to-video release in 2005 <br>\r\n  2003 A Guy Thing Becky <br>\r\n  2002 The Bourne Identity Nicky <br>\r\n  2001 O Desi Brable <br>\r\n  2001 The Business of Strangers Paula Murphy <br>\r\n  2001 Save the Last Dance Sara Johnson <br>\r\n  2000 State and Main Carla <br>\r\n  2000 Hamlet Ophelia <br>\r\n  2000 Down to You Imogen <br>\r\n  1999 10 Things I Hate About You Katarina &quot;Kat&quot; Stratford <br>\r\n  1998 Wide Awake Neena Beal <br>\r\n  1998 Wicked Ellie Christianson Direct-to-video <br>\r\n  1997 The Devil''s Own Bridget O''Meara <br>\r\n  1996 I Love You, I Love You Not Young Nana''s Friend Silent role <br>\r\n</p>');
INSERT INTO `bios` VALUES ('k', 'Kate Beckinsale ', 'Kate_Beckinsale.jpg', '<p><strong>Kate Beckinsale </strong></p>\r\n<p>Kate Beckinsale (born July 26, 1973 in London, England) is an English actress.<br>\r\n</p>\r\n<p><strong>Early life</strong></p>\r\n<p>She is the daughter of Judy Loe (a stage actress) and the late Richard Beckinsale, a well-known television actor who died in 1979, at the age of 31. Kate''s paternal great-grandfather was Burmese.</p>\r\n<p>Beckinsale she won first prizes in several young writing competitions. After finishing school in London, she followed in the footsteps of her parents and began her acting career. Her first role was in One Against the Wind, a television film about World War II that was first aired in 1991. Beckinsale then began studying German, French and Russian at New College, Oxford University, though she did not complete her studies. She felt that a general university background would be better for her than attending a school of performing arts.</p>\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n<p><strong>Film career</strong></p>\r\n<p>During her first year at Oxford, Beckinsale was offered a part in Kenneth Branagh''s big-screen film, Much Ado About Nothing, adapted from the Shakespeare play. She spent her last year of studies in Paris, after which she decided to quit university and concentrate on her acting career. She subsequently appeared in a few notable but low-profile films, including Cold Comfort Farm (1995) and The Last Days of Disco (1998). She also appeared in television films and in stage roles.</p>\r\n<p>Her first major American film, Brokedown Palace (1999), was a not a commercial success. Soon after, Beckinsale was cast in the 2001 film Pearl Habor, which was one of the highest grossing films of its year. In the years following, she appeared in a series of American films that were high-profile but were given a poor critical reception, including Serendipity (2001), Underworld (2003) and Van Helsing (2004).</p>\r\n<p>Beckinsale was selected by Hello Magazine as England''s #1 Beauty of 2002.</p>\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n<p><strong>Private life</strong></p>\r\n<p>Beckinsale and Welsh actor Michael Sheen have a daughter, Lily, but they are no longer together. In June 2003, she became engaged to the director of Underworld, Len Wiseman, and the two were wed in May 2004 in Bel-Air, California.</p>\r\n<p>Beckinsale speaks Russian.</p>\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n<p><strong>Selected Filmography</strong><br>\r\n    <br>\r\n    Beckinsale in UnderworldClick (2006) <br>\r\n    Underworld: Evolution (2006) <br>\r\n    The Aviator (2004) <br>\r\n    Van Helsing (2004) <br>\r\n    Underworld (2003) <br>\r\n    Laurel Canyon (2003) <br>\r\n    Serendipity (2001) <br>\r\n    Pearl Harbor (2001) <br>\r\n    The Golden Bowl (2001) <br>\r\n    Brokedown Palace (1999) <br>\r\n    The Last Days of Disco (1998) <br>\r\n    Shooting Fish (1998) <br>\r\n    Cold Comfort Farm (1995) <br>\r\n    Much Ado About Nothing (1993) <br>\r\n</p>');
INSERT INTO `bios` VALUES ('k', 'Katherine Heigl ', 'Katherine_Heigl.jpg', '<p><strong>Katherine Heigl </strong></p>\r\n<p>Katherine Marie Heigl (b. November 24, 1978) is an American actress, best known for her roles on the TV series Roswell and Grey''s Anatomy.</p>\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n<p>Early life</p>\r\n<p>Heigl was born in Washington, D.C. to parents Nancy and Paul, of Irish and German descent; she was raised a Mormon. The family moved to New Canaan, Connecticut a short time later. Tragedy struck her family when her older brother Jason died in 1986 of brain injuries suffered in a car accident. He had been thrown from the back of a pickup truck, and doctors determined Jason was brain-dead. Despite their grief, the family decided to donate his organs. This has motivated Katherine to become a strong proponent of organ donation.</p>\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n<p>Career</p>\r\n<p>When she was nine years old, an aunt visiting the family decided to take a number of photographs of the young Heigl. After returning to her home in New York, the aunt sent the photos to a number of modelling agencies, all with the permission of Katherine''s parents. Within a few weeks, Heigl had been signed as a child model.</p>\r\n<p>Almost immediately, a client slated her for use in a magazine advertisement. Television jobs soon followed, the first in a national spot for Cheerios breakfast cereal. It was not long until she landed her first big-screen debut in the 1992 movie That Night. After meeting such fast success and enjoying her new-found career, she realized that acting was her passion.</p>\r\n<p>Heigl then appeared as Christina Sebastian in Steven Soderbergh''s Depression-era drama King of the Hill before landing her first leading role as Nicole in the 1994 comedy My Father The Hero. During this time, Heigl continued to attend New Canaan High School, balancing her film and modeling work with her academic studies.</p>\r\n<p>She then played opposite Steven Seagal in the role of Sarah Ryback in in 1995 action thriller Under Siege 2: Dark Territory. Despite an increased focus on acting, she still modeled extensively, appearing regularly in magazines such as Seventeen. She took the lead role in Disney''s Wish Upon a Star in 1996. It was also in 1996 that Heigl''s parents divorced. After her high school graduation in 1997, she and her mother moved into a 4-bedroom house in Malibu Canyon, Los Angeles. Heigl''s mother then became her manager.</p>\r\n<p>In 1998 she co-starred with Peter Fonda in a re-working of the classic Shakespearian play The Tempest, set during the American Civil War. Later in 1998 Heigl was featured in the 1998 films Bug Buster and Bride of Chucky. In 1999, Heigl turned her attention to television when she accepted the role of Isabel Evans on the science fiction TV drama Roswell, a modest role that was expanded in the show''s second and third seasons.</p>\r\n<p>To publicize her role on Roswell, she appeared on the covers of magazines such as TV Guide, Maxim, and Teen as well as appearing in FHM. She later appeared in the FHM and Maxim calendars and FHM''s annual 100 sexiest women in the world. While Roswell was in production, Heigl worked on several films, including, 100 Girls, an independent 2001 film in which she played competitive tomboy Arlene, and Valentine, a horror film starring David Boreanaz and Denise Richards in which she played medical student Shelley Fisher.</p>\r\n<p>In the spring of 2001, Heigl accepted a role in Ground Zero, a television thriller scheduled to be telecast that fall, which was based on the bestselling novel, The Seventh Power, by James Mills. She co-starred as a brilliant and politically-concerned college student who helps to build a nuclear device to illustrate the need for a change in national priorities, but which ends up in the hands of a terrorist following betrayal by a fellow student. After September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks, however, the film was shelved when its plot was considered too inappropriate, and it re-emerged in 2003 under the title Critical Assembly. After the terrorist attacks, Heigl recorded a passionate public service announcement for the American Red Cross in an effort to help raise money for victims.</p>\r\n<p>In early 2003, Heigl returned to the horror genre with Evil Never Dies, a modern-day variation on the Frankenstein story co-starring Thomas Gibson. She played the role of Eve, the professor''s assistant whose intentions are unclear. Love Comes Softly, a telefilm for Hallmark Entertainment in 2003, found Heigl starring in the role of Marty Claridge, a young, pregnant newlywed travelling west. In October 2003, Heigl was cast opposite Johnny Knoxville, as the leading lady in The Ringer, a Farrelly brothers comedy that was later released in December 2005. Heigl was then cast as Isabella Linton in MTV''s modern revamp of Emily Bront&euml;''s classic novel Wuthering Heights.</p>\r\n<p>Heigl was cast in the role of Romy in the 2005 movie Romy and Michele: In The Beginning, a prequel to the 1997 movie, Romy and Michele''s High School Reunion. Heigl is currently starring in Grey''s Anatomy, a medical drama on ABC.</p>\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n<p>Personal life</p>\r\n<p>Heigl had dated her former Roswell co-star, Jason Behr, for several years. However, in interviews such as in the November 2004 FHM, she indicated that the relationship had come to an end. She also told FHM she did not lose her virginity until she was 22.</p>\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n<p>Credits</p>\r\n<p>Grey''s Anatomy (TV) 2005 <br>\r\n  Romy &amp; Michele: In The Beginning (TV) 2005 <br>\r\n  Love''s Enduring Promise (TV) 2004 <br>\r\n  Wuthering Heights (TV) 2003 <br>\r\n  Evil Never Dies (TV) 2003 <br>\r\n  Descendant 2003 <br>\r\n  Love Comes Softly (TV) 2003 <br>\r\n  The Twilight Zone (TV) 2002 <br>\r\n  Critical Assembly (Ground Zero) (TV) 2001 <br>\r\n  Valentine 2001 <br>\r\n  100 Girls 2000 <br>\r\n  Roswell (TV) 1999 <br>\r\n  The Tempest (TV) 1998 <br>\r\n  Bride Of Chucky 1998 <br>\r\n  Bug Buster 1998 <br>\r\n  Stand-Ins 1997 <br>\r\n  Prince Valiant 1997 <br>\r\n  Wish Upon A Star 1996 <br>\r\n  Under Siege 2: Dark Territory 1995 <br>\r\n  My Father The Hero 1994 <br>\r\n  King Of The Hill 1993 <br>\r\n  That Night 1992 <br>\r\n</p>');
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<p>Kate Noelle &quot;Katie&quot; Holmes (born December 18, 1978) is an American actress from Ohio best known for her role as Joey Potter, the tomboy down the titular waterway on The WB television drama Dawson''s Creek. Only her second role, Dawson''s Creek made Holmes a star, praised by critics and adored by fans. Holmes'' movie roles have ranged from art house films such as Pieces of April to thrillers such as Abandon, but she has not found the same success in films as she did on television.</p>
<p>In June 2005, she became engaged to the actor Tom Cruise, which made her the center of international press attention, much of it negative, claiming firstly the relationship was a publicity stunt and later speculating Cruise had brainwashed the actress into marriage and joining the Church of Scientology.<br>
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<p><strong>Early life and career</strong></p>
<p>Holmes, born in Toledo, Ohio, is the youngest of the five children (four daughters, one son) of Martin J. Holmes, Sr., an attorney, and Kathleen Holmes. She lived in Sylvania Township and attended Catholic schools in Toledo, attending high school at the all-female Notre Dame Academy. While in high school, she went with her mother to Los Angeles to audition for pilots for television shows. She did not land a television role, but was cast as the character Libbets Casey in the film The Ice Storm (1997), directed by Ang Lee and starring Kevin Kline and Sigourney Weaver.</p>
<p>She returned to Toledo but her audition tapes continued to circulate. One reached the producers of a new show created by Kevin Williamson for Columbia Tri-Star Television: Dawson''s Creek. Her appointment to read for it was unknowingly set by the producers for the same day as her high school production of Damn Yankees (she was playing Lola), but they permitted her to send a videotape rather than make her miss the show. Holmes read for the part of Joey, the tomboyish best friend of the title character, while her mother read Dawson''s lines, including dialogue about sex and masturbation. Holmes won the part. Williamson said &quot;She had those eyes, those eyes just stained with loneliness.&quot;<br>
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<p><strong>Dawson''s Creek</strong><br>
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    Katie Holmes as Joey Potter in the TV series Dawsons Creek.&quot;Im a lot like Joey,&quot; she said. &quot;I think they saw that. I come from a small town. I was a tomboy. Joey tries to be articulate and deny that she doesnt have a lot of experience in life. Her life parallels mine, which is all about new everything--relationships, personnel, perceptions&mdash;and about being guarded.&quot; Dawsons Creek filmed its first season in the spring and summer of 1997. Holmes moved to Wilmington, North Carolina, where the show filmed, and for a time lived with creator Williamson.</p>
<p>At 59&quot; (some sources say 57&quot;), the tall brunette enchanted the press. &quot;The Audrey Hepburn of her generation,&quot; was one typical comment. Variety, reviewing the pilot, said Holmes &quot;is a confident young performer who delivers her lines with slyness and conviction.&quot; So good was Holmes that The New York Times Magazine would claim everyone in Hollywood was looking for the &quot;Katie Holmes type&quot; when casting shows. &quot;The Katie Holmes type,&quot; the reporter claimed, &quot;is a throwback to the 1950s: she is a smart girl next door (as opposed to the babe-o-rama blondes)&quot;--the sort represented by her Dawsons Creek co-star Michelle Williams. But her &quot;type&quot; was no less attractive, Arena magazine declaring her &quot;the most coquettishly sexy woman on television. Anywhere.&quot;</p>
<p>Dawsons Creek ran from 1998 to 2003 and Holmes was the only actor to appear in all 128 episodes. &quot;It was very difficult for me to leave Wilmington, to have my little glass bubble burst and move on. I hate change. On the other hand it was refreshing to play someone else,&quot; she said in 2004. Holmes confirmed that, as is often the case on soaps, the character is a caricature of the actor:</p>
<p>I miss her spirit, and her spunk, and I miss her anxiety. She always had these long speeches about her fears and her future and love. It was a great tool for me personally because I got to get it all out. I was able to psychoanalyze all of it everyday with her and then I wouldnt have to do it on my own. So much of me is in Joey and it really felt like I grew up on television. <br>
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<p><strong>Film career</strong></p>
<p>Holmes in 2005 characterized her film career as being a string of &quot;bombs&quot;. &quot;Usually Im not even in the top ten,&quot; she said, the highest grossing film of her career at that time being Phone Booth.</p>
<p>Her big break came when she had a role in the movie The Ice Storm (1997) she starred in a part opposite Tobey Maguire. Her first leading role came in Disturbing Behavior (1998), a Stepford Wives-goes-to-high school thriller where she was a loner from the wrong side of the tracks. Holmes won a MTV Movie Award for Best Breakthrough Performance for the role, though Holmes said the film was &quot;just horrible&quot;. Next she was a disaffected supermarket clerk in Doug Limans stylish ensemble piece Go (1999). She had an uncredited cameo with Dawsons Creek co-star Joshua Jackson in Muppets From Space (1999), which was also filmed in Wilmington. Kevin Williamsons disaffection for his own high school days spawned Teaching Mrs. Tingle (1999), which he wrote and directed. Holmes played a straight-A student whose vindictive teacher (Helen Mirren) threatens to keep her from a desperately needed scholarship.</p>
<p> <br>
  Katie Holmes on the Pieces of April DVD cover.In the academic world of Wonder Boys (2000), the witty and intelligent film version of the Michael Chabon novel, she had only a small role (six and one-half minutes of screen time). Even so, she attracted the attention of numerous film critics with her performance as Hannah Green, the talented creative writing student of pot-puffing Pittsburgh professor and one-hit novelist Grady Tripp (Michael Douglas). Hannah, who is smitten with Grady, is a boarder in his house. In a memorable scene, she offers a critique of his huge, unwieldy 2,611-page second novel, commenting, &quot;Even though your book is really beautiful, its... very detailed. You know, with the genealogies of everyones horses, and the dental records, and so on. I could be wrong, but it sort of reads in places like you didnt make any choices.&quot; For Holmes, this role was the right choice, since it became a turning point in her career, demonstrating she could create a film character with depth and dimension when given a sophisticated screenplay.</p>
<p>In The Gift (2000), a Southern Gothic story directed by Sam Raimi and starring Cate Blanchett, she played the antithesis of Joey Potter: a slutty rich girl carrying on with everyone in town, from a white trash wife-beater (Keanu Reeves) to the district attorney (Gary Cole), and who winds up dead for her trouble. Holmes did her first nude scene for the film, baring her breasts in a scene where her character was about to be murdered. Of the scene, she said, &quot;I just hope there arent a lot of pauses on DVD players.&quot; Her appearance deshabille was lamented by Varietys Steven Kloter: &quot;It seems the only time we see a naked woman on screen is when someone like Katie Holmes needs to break with her sanitized WB past and march brazenly into a new future.&quot;</p>
<p>In Abandon (2002), written by Oscar winner Stephen Gaghan, Holmes was a delusional and homicidal college student named &quot;Katie.&quot; Roger Ebert of the Chicago Sun-Times commended Holmes performance and the films intelligence, but other critics and audiences savaged it[1]. Holmes was the mistress of the public relations flack played by Colin Farrell in Phone Booth (2002) and Robert Downey, Jr.s nurse in The Singing Detective (2003). Her next starring role was in Pieces of April (2003), a gritty comedy about a dysfunctional family on Thanksgiving. Variety said it was &quot;one of her best film performances.&quot;</p>
<p>Holmes played the Presidents daughter in First Daughter, which was originally to be released in January 2004 on the same day as Chasing Liberty, the Mandy Moore film about a presidential daughter, but was ultimately released in September 2004 to dismal reviews and ticket sales. First Daughter, directed by Forest Whitaker, also starred Michael Keaton as Holmes father and Marc Blucas as her love interest. The Hollywood Reporters Kirk Honeycutt called Holmes character, Samantha Mackenzie, &quot;a startling example of how a studio film can dumb down and neutralize the comic abilities of a lively young star.&quot; </p>
<p>In 2005, Holmes played Rachel Dawes, the love interest of the title character in Batman Begins.</p>
<p>&nbsp;</p>
<p><strong>Forthcoming roles</strong></p>
<p>Entertainment Weekly reported in its December 17, 2004 issue that Holmes was to play the murdered wife of Spade Cooley in a biopic written and directed by Dennis Quaid, who is to play Cooley. Also forthcoming is an adaptation of Christopher Buckleys satirical novel Thank You For Smoking about a tobacco lobbyist played by Aaron Eckhart. The film is directed by Jason Reitman and Holmes plays a Washington reporter who seduces Eckhart.</p>
<p>&nbsp;</p>
<p><strong>Guest appearances and endorsements</strong><br>
    <br>
    Katie Holmes in an advertisement for The Gap.Holmes hosted Saturday Night Live on February 24, 2001, participating in a send-up of Dawsons Creek where she falls madly in love with Chris Kattans Mr. Peepers character and singing &quot;Hey, Big Spender&quot; from Sweet Charity. Holmes was annually named by FHM magazine as one of the sexiest women in the world from 1999 forward and was named one of Peoples &quot;50 Most Beautiful People&quot; in its May 12, 2003 issue. Teen People declared her one of the &quot;25 Hottest Stars Under 25&quot; in its June/July 2003 issue. She has appeared in advertisements for Garnier Lumia shampoos and The Gap.</p>
<p>&nbsp;</p>
<p><strong>Personal life</strong></p>
<p>Holmes dated her Dawsons Creek co-star Joshua Jackson for several months, the relationship ending amicably. Holmes met actor Chris Klein in 2000. A Midwesterner like Holmes, Klein and Holmes were engaged in 2004, but in early 2005 Holmes and Klein broke off their engagement. Press accounts cited the distance imposed by their careers as a factor. In April 2005, about two months after her relationship with Klein ended, Holmes began dating actor Tom Cruise. They revealed their relationship at the Venice Film Festival. Holmes, a Catholic, joined the Church of Scientology as a result of Cruise, a longtime and vocal member. After weeks of dating, Cruise proposed to Holmes in the early morning of June 17, 2005 atop Pariss Eiffel Tower and she accepted. Holmess father has been quoted in the press saying favorable things about Cruise while admitting he had not met the actor.</p>
<p>Speculation was rampant in the press that the very public affair and engagement were merely designed to promote their upcoming movies, War of the Worlds and Batman Begins. A poll in People found that 62 per cent of readers believed the Cruise-Holmes affair was merely a publicity stunt. Even the staid New York Times expressed doubts, publishing an article headlined &quot;I Love You With All My Hype.&quot; Articles doubting the actors sincerity noted that Cruise has been extremely private about his personal life and the flaunting of his new relationship was a marked contrast from his past behavior. The weak box office performance of Cruises most recent films and the series of &quot;bombs&quot; (her word) Holmes has appeared in was also cited.</p>
<p>Concern has also been voiced about Holmes and her relationship to Scientology. Roger Friedman of the Fox News Channel claimed that Katie Holmes disappeared for sixteen days in April when even her own family did not know where she was. Allegedly, the last time she had been seen, Holmes had flown to meet with Tom Cruise for a possible role in Mission Impossible 3. When she re-appeared, Holmes stated she was in love with Tom Cruise and studying Scientology. The actress then fired her long-time manager and agent and acquired a new &quot;best friend,&quot; Jessica Feshbach, a prominent member of the Church of Scientology described as part of its &quot;royalty&quot;. Feshbach has been referred to as Holmes Scientology &quot;minder&quot; as she follows the actress everywhere (including the bathroom) and openly tells Holmes what to say during interviews . The reports have led to claims Holmes has been coerced or brainwashed into marrying Cruise and promoting Scientology. Fans of the actress have established a web-site, Free Katie, promoting this theory, the site claiming to be &quot;devoted to rescuing sweet Katie from the clutches of the mad scientologist Tom Cruise!&quot;</p>
<p>On October 5, 2005, People magazine broke the news Holmes is pregnant, quoting Cruises sister and publicist. The child will be Holmess first and Cruises first biological child. (He has two adopted children, Connor, 10, and Isabella, 12, from his marriage to Nicole Kidman.) Holmes had previously claimed she would remain a virgin until she wed. <br>
</p>
<p><strong>Filmography</strong><br>
</p>
<p>2005 Thank You For Smoking Heather Holloway Awaiting release <br>
  2005 Batman Begins Rachel Dawes <br>
  2004 First Daughter Samantha Mackenzie <br>
  2003 Pieces of April April Burns <br>
  2003 The Singing Detective Nurse Mills <br>
  2003 Phone Booth Pamela McFadden <br>
  2002 Abandon Katie Burke <br>
  2000 The Gift Jessica King <br>
  2000 Wonder Boys Hannah Green <br>
  1999 Teaching Mrs. Tingle Leigh Ann Watson First starring role <br>
  1999 Muppets From Space Joey Potter Uncredited cameo <br>
  1999 Go Claire Montgomery <br>
  1998 Disturbing Behavior Rachel Wagner <br>
  1997 The Ice Storm Libbets Casey First professional role <br>
</p>');
INSERT INTO `bios` VALUES ('k', 'Kate Hudson ', 'Kate_Hudson', '<p><strong>Kate Hudson </strong></p>
<p>Kate Garry Hudson (born April 19, 1979) is an American actress. Born in Los Angeles, California of Italian and Jewish descent, she is the daughter of actress Goldie Hawn and musician Bill Hudson, and sister of actor Oliver Hudson. Her breakthrough role was as Penny Lane in Cameron Crowes Almost Famous (2000), for which she was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress.</p>
<p>She is married to Black Crowes frontman Chris Robinson. On January 7, 2004, she gave birth to their son, Ryder Russell Robinson. Kate is left handed.</p>
<p>&nbsp;</p>
<p><strong>Selected Filmography</strong></p>
<p>Can You Keep a Secret? (2006) <br>
  Sleight of Mind (2006) <br>
  You, Me and Dupree (2006) <br>
  The Skeleton Key (2005) <br>
  Raising Helen (2004) <br>
  Le Divorce (2003) <br>
  Alex and Emma <br>
  How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days (2003) <br>
  The Four Feathers (2002) <br>
  Almost Famous (2000) <br>
  About Adam (2000) <br>
  200 Cigarettes (1999) <br>
</p>');
INSERT INTO `bios` VALUES ('k', 'Kate Winslet ', 'Kate_Winslet.jpg', '<p><strong>Kate Winslet </strong></p>
<p>Kate Elizabeth Winslet (born October 5, 1975 in Reading, Berkshire, England) is an English actress most famous for her role as Rose DeWitt Bukater in the 1997 blockbuster film Titanic.</p>
<p>Her career began on television, with a co-starring role in the BBC children''s science-fiction serial Dark Season in 1991, followed by an appearance in an episode of the medical drama Casualty in 1993, also for the BBC.</p>
<p>Winslet''s film career took off in 1994 when she performed her first leading role as Juliet Hulme in Peter Jackson''s criticly acclaimed Heavenly Creatures. Since then she has acted in several films, such as Sense and Sensibility, Titanic, Iris, Finding Neverland, and Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, earning her four Oscar nominations and four Golden Globes.</p>
<p>Kate Winslet has also enjoyed a brief taste of success as a singer, with her single &quot;What If&quot; from the Christmas Carol: The Movie soundtrack. More recently her musical talents have been shown in her duet with &quot;Weird Al&quot; Yankovic on the Sandra Boynton CD &quot;Dog Train.&quot;</p>
<p>On November 22, 1998 Winslet married director Jim Threapleton with whom she has a daughter named Mia Honey. After her divorce in 2001, she began a relationship with director Sam Mendes. Winslet married Mendes on May 24, 2003 on the island of Anguilla in the West Indies and their son Joe Alfie Winslet-Mendes was born on December 22, 2003.</p>
<p>On January 25, 2005 Winslet was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actress in Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind. She eventually lost to Hilary Swank. This tied her for the record for most Academy Award nominations for an actress before the age of 30. This nomination was preceded by nominations for Best Supporting Actress in Sense and Sensibility and Iris. Winslet was also nominated for Best Actress in Titanic, but lost to Helen Hunt. She was also nominated for a BAFTA for Best Actress in that film and in Finding Neverland, but lost to Imelda Staunton.</p>
<p>Her home town of Reading has named a street - Winslet Place - in her honour, built on the site of a demolished cinema.</p>
<p>Winslet is famous for her curvaceous figure, and the media, in England in particular, have enthusiastically documented her weight fluctuations over the years. Winslet, a former anorexic, has been outspoken about her refusal to lose weight in order to conform to the Hollywood &quot;ideal&quot;. In February 2003, the British edition of GQ magazine published photographs of Winslet which had been airbrushed to make her look dramatically thinner than she really was; Winslet issued a statement saying that the alterations were made without her consent.</p>
<p>&nbsp;</p>
<p><strong>Selected Filmography</strong><br>
</p>
<p>2006 Holiday <br>
  2006 Flushed Away Rita (voice) <br>
  2006 Little Children Sarah Pierce <br>
  2006 All the King''s Men Anne Stanton <br>
  2005 Romance &amp; Cigarettes Tula <br>
  2004 Finding Neverland Sylvia Llewelyn Davies <br>
  2004 Pride (TV) Suki (voice) <br>
  2004 Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind Clementine Kruczynski <br>
  2003 The Life of David Gale Bitsey Bloom <br>
  2001 Iris Young Iris Murdoch <br>
  2001 Christmas Carol: The Movie Belle (voice) <br>
  2001 Enigma Hester Wallace <br>
  2000 Quills Madeleine ''Maddy'' LeClerc <br>
  1999 Holy Smoke Ruth Barron <br>
  1999 Faeries Brigid (voice) <br>
  1998 Hideous Kinky Julia <br>
  1997 Titanic Rose DeWitt Bukater <br>
  1996 Hamlet Ophelia <br>
  1996 Jude Sue Bridehead <br>
  1995 Sense and Sensibility Marianne Dashwood <br>
  1995 A Kid in King Arthur''s Court Princess Sarah <br>
  1994 Heavenly Creatures Juliet Hulme <br>
  1991 Dark Season (TV series) Reet <br>
</p>');
INSERT INTO `bios` VALUES ('k', 'Keira Knightley ', 'Keira_Knightley.jpg', '<p><strong>Keira Knightley </strong></p>
<p>Keira Knightley (born March 26, 1985 in Teddington, London, England) is an English actress. She is the daughter of Sharman Macdonald, a Scottish playwright, and Will Knightley, an English actor. Knightley has lived most of her life in Richmond upon Thames.<br>
</p>
<p><strong>Career</strong></p>
<p>She started to follow in her parents'' footsteps at an early stage, making her film debut at the age of nine in A Village Affair (1994). Her first major theatrical appearance was as Sab&eacute;, Padm&eacute; Amidala''s decoy in the 1999 release Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace. Knightley was cast because of her close resemblance to Natalie Portman, who played Padm&eacute;. Her first major starring role was as the daughter of Robin Hood in a made-for-TV Walt Disney Productions feature, Princess of Thieves, first telecast in 2001.</p>
<p>Knightley is best known for her breakthrough roles in Bend It Like Beckham and Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl. Bend It Like Beckham was especially physically demanding for Knightley in terms of the intense football training she underwent but opened the way for her into Hollywood. Her role in the blockbuster Pirates cemented her up-and-coming position in international cinema.</p>
<p>In 2004 Knightley appeared in the blockbuster King Arthur, which, although criticised for its numerous historical inaccuracies, was praised by critic Roger Ebert for &quot;the considerable production qualities and the charisma of the actors, who bring more interest to the characters than they deserve&quot;, Knightley being described as looking &quot;simultaneously sexy and muddy&quot; fitting in with the current vogue for strong female action heroes (something which Knightley repeated in a modern setting in the 2005 film Domino).</p>
<p> <br>
  Keira Knightley in King Arthur (2004).Knightley''s dedication to developing herself as an actress rather than a movie star was noted by Time magazine in a 2004 feature. In July 2004, Knightley was voted by readers of Hello! magazine as the movie industry''s most promising teen star. Additionally, Knightley was voted the sexiest movie star of all time by the readers of Empire magazine, leaving behind other stars such as Angelina Jolie, Halle Berry, Charlize Theron, Julia Roberts, Marilyn Monroe and Brigitte Bardot.</p>
<p>In 2005 Knightley starred in the title role of Tony Scott''s film Domino inspired by the life of his friend Domino Harvey, a British born model-turned- L.A. bounty hunter who died in July 2005 of an overdose aged 35. Ebert commented that, although the movie is &quot;fractured and maddening&quot; it is also &quot;alive&quot;, praising Knightley for her ability to play a diversity of roles. In contrast to Knightley''s role in the same year of the regency englishwoman Elizabeth Bennett in a film adaption of Jane Austen''s Pride and Prejudice with Donald Sutherland and Matthew Macfadyen. Recently opening at No.1 in the UK box office, it is her sixth film to do so in her career.</p>
<p>She is currently filming the sequels to the immensely popular Pirates of the Caribbean series, due for release in the summers of 2006 and 2007 respectively. She recently ended her relationship with Irish model Jamie Dornan. She has been awarded Personality Of The Year 2005 by Variety UK, and is widely tipped for either a Golden Globe or Academy Award nomination in 2006 for her portrayal of Elizabeth Bennet in Pride &amp; Prejudice. Beside acting, Knightley is currently modelling for Asprey, a British luxury items company.</p>
<p>&nbsp;</p>
<p><strong>Filmography</strong><br>
</p>
<p>2007 Pirates of the Caribbean 3 Elizabeth Swann Filming <br>
  2006 Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man''s Chest Elizabeth Swann Filming <br>
  2005 Kingdom Hearts 2 Elizabeth Swann (voice) Video Game <br>
  2005 Pride and Prejudice Elizabeth Bennet Completed <br>
  2005 Domino Domino Harvey <br>
  2005 The Jacket Jackie <br>
  2004 King Arthur Guinevere <br>
  2003 Love Actually Juliet <br>
  2003 Gaijin Kate Short film, animated <br>
  2003 Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl Elizabeth Swann <br>
  2002 The Seasons Alter Helena Short film <br>
  2002 Doctor Zhivago Lara Antipova (n&eacute;e Guishar) Miniseries <br>
  2002 Pure Louise <br>
  2002 Thunderpants Music School Student <br>
  2002 Bend It Like Beckham Juliette ''Jules'' Paxton <br>
  2002 New Year''s Eve Leah Short film <br>
  2001 Deflation Jogger Short film <br>
  2001 The Hole Frances ''Frankie'' Almond-Smith <br>
  2001 Princess of Thieves Gwyn Hood Television movie <br>
  1999 Oliver Twist Rose Fleming Miniseries <br>
  1999 Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace Sab&eacute; <br>
  1998 Coming Home Young Judith Dunbar Television movie <br>
  1996 Treasure Seekers The Princess Television movie <br>
  1995 Innocent Lies Young Celia <br>
  1994 A Village Affair Natasha Jordan <br>
  1993 Royal Celebration Little Girl Television movie <br>
</p>');
INSERT INTO `bios` VALUES ('k', 'Kelly Preston ', 'Kelly_Preston.jpg', '<p><strong>Kelly Preston </strong></p>
<p>Kelly Kamalelehua Palzis (born October 13, 1962 in Honolulu, Hawaii) is an American actress.</p>
<p>Preston had a modeling career when she was a teenager. At 16, she was discovered by a fashion photographer who helped her get acting work in commercials and other small parts, which eventually developed into a successful movie career.</p>
<p>Preston has been married to John Travolta since 1991. Preston put her career on hold after the wedding, opting to be a wife and mother when Travolta''s career took off again in the 1990s. The couple have two children, a son and a daughter; she also has a son by her first marriage to actor Kevin Gage. Kelly does not use the surname &quot;Travolta&quot; professionally.</p>
<p>Both Preston and Travolta are Scientologists, and Preston appeared in the film Battlefield Earth (produced by John Travolta, based on the novel by Scientology founder L. Ron Hubbard). Her role is sometimes incorrectly described as &quot;starring&quot; even though she only appears in one scene. She plays a Psychlo female encountered in a bar (possibly a prostitute) whose primary talent is implied to be fellatio.</p>
<p>Recently, she has taken up the issue of overmedication and children. In keeping with Scientology precepts, Preston believes that schools are forcing or pressuring students and their families to medicate them for ADD unnecessarily. She has testified before the Florida state legislature encouraging the passage of a bill to ban such practice. While there is already a federal law to that effect, only schools receiving federal funding are subject to its terms.</p>
<p>She also devotes much of her time as a board member of the Children''s Health Environmental Coalition (CHEC), a non-profit organization dedicated to educating parents about environmental toxins and potential health hazards for children with illnesses. She joined after their son Jett was diagnosed with Kawasaki syndrome, an illness that mostly affects children and results in severe allergies and asthma attacks.</p>
<p>&nbsp;</p>
<p><strong>Trivia</strong></p>
<p>Preston''s former boyfriends include George Clooney and Charlie Sheen. After living with Sheen for one year (and receiving a very large diamond ring from him), Preston ended the relationship in 1990 shortly after an incident in which Sheen accidentally shot her in the arm.</p>
<p>John Travolta married Kelly Preston twice. Their first wedding (September 5, 1991) was performed by a French Scientologist minister, but it was later declared illegal. They married again within the month.</p>
<p>In 2004, Kelly Preston was featured in the chart-topping Maroon 5 music video, &quot;She Will Be Loved&quot;. The video features a dangerous love triangle and some steamy romantic scenes between Preston and Maroon 5 frontman Adam Levine.<br>
</p>
<p><strong>Partial Filmography</strong></p>
<p>Sky High (2005) <br>
  Eulogy (2004) <br>
  The Cat in the Hat (2003) <br>
  What a Girl Wants (2003) <br>
  View from the Top (2003) <br>
  Battlefield Earth (2000) <br>
  Addicted to Love (1997) <br>
  Jerry Maguire (1996) <br>
  Curdled (1996) <br>
  From Dusk Till Dawn (1996) <br>
  Citizen Ruth (1996) <br>
  Waiting to Exhale (1995) (uncredited) <br>
  Only You (1992) <br>
  Twins (1988) <br>
  Amazon Women on the Moon (1987) <br>
  SpaceCamp (1986) <br>
  Secret Admirer (1985) <br>
  Christine (1983) <br>
  Capitol (1982) (TV series) <br>
</p>');
INSERT INTO `bios` VALUES ('k', 'Keri Russell ', 'Keri_Russell.jpg', '<p><strong>Keri Russell </strong></p>
<p>Keri Lynn Russell (born March 23, 1976) is an American actress and dancer, most known for playing the title role on the television series Felicity. She was born in Fountain Valley, California to David Russell and Stephanie Stephens, and grew up in Mesa, Arizona and Denver, Colorado.<br>
</p>
<p><strong>Early career</strong></p>
<p>Russell first found her way onto television as a cast member of the New Mickey Mouse Club variety show on the Disney Channel. She was on the show from 1991 to 1993, with her final year seeing the introduction of soon-to-be pop singers Christina Aguilera, Britney Spears, and Justin Timberlake.</p>
<p>&nbsp;</p>
<p><strong>Appearances</strong></p>
<p>Several appearances on film and TV followed, with one of her most significant pre-Felicity roles coming in the 1996''s The Babysitter''s Seduction. However, it was a fairly stereotypical TV movie, with melodramatic overtones. She had a role in the shortlived soap opera series Malibu Shores the same year. Russell also had an appearance on Jon Bon Jovi''s music video &quot;Always&quot; with Jack Noseworthy.</p>
<p>&nbsp;</p>
<p><strong>Television</strong></p>
<p>A major attraction for many fans of the actress is her (usually) long and curly hair. A drastic hairstyle change at the beginning of Felicity''s second season was considered to be the cause of a significant drop in the show''s ratings. This reportedly led to a new policy at The WB where major changes in appearance by on-screen talent must be approved by the network.</p>
<p>&nbsp;</p>
<p><strong>Major roles</strong></p>
<p>The filming of Felicity had left Russell somewhat drained, so she went on hiatus when the series ended and considered quitting acting. Her next role was as part of the Mel Gibson-led bio-pic We Were Soldiers in 2002, where she played the wife of an American serviceman who became involved in the first major battle between U.S. and Viet Cong forces in the Vietnam War. After that, she moved to New York City and took about two years to avoid the business of Hollywood, spending time with friends.<br>
</p>
<p><strong>Broadway</strong></p>
<p>The actress made her Broadway stage debut in 2004, appearing with Jeremy Piven, Andrew McCarthy, and Ashlie Atkinson in Neil LaBute''s Fat Pig. In 2005 she returned to television and film, first with an appearance in the Hallmark Hall of Fame TV movie Magic of Ordinary Days. In theatrical release was The Upside of Anger, where she appeared alongside Kevin Costner and Joan Allen. She will be in the mid-year miniseries Into the West.</p>
<p>&nbsp;</p>
<p><strong>Felicity co-stars</strong></p>
<p>A number of her Felicity co-stars went on to appear in J.J. Abrams''s next TV series, Alias, but Russell has declined invitations to be part of the show. In a seminar at the Museum of Television and Radio, Abrams said, &quot;I''ve asked Keri if she would ever do it [Alias], and I usually get this, sort of like, giggle&mdash;and then she hangs up.&quot; In 2005, he asked her to join the cast of Mission: Impossible III, and she accepted. The film is due for release in 2006.</p>
<p>&nbsp;</p>
<p><strong>Personal life</strong></p>
<p>She currently resides in Manhattan.</p>
<p>&nbsp;</p>
<p><strong>Partial filmography</strong></p>
<p>Mission: Impossible III (2006) (filming) <br>
  Butterfly, a Grimm Love Story (2005) (post-production) <br>
  Into the West (2005) &ndash; Naomi Wheeler <br>
  The Magic of Ordinary Days (2005) &ndash; Livy <br>
  The Upside of Anger (2005) &ndash; Emily Wolfmeyer <br>
  We Were Soldiers (2002) &ndash; Barbara Geoghegan <br>
  Mad About Mambo (2000) &ndash; Lucy McLoughlin <br>
  Cinderelmo (1999) &ndash; Princess <br>
  Felicity (1998) &ndash; Felicity Porter <br>
  Dead Man''s Curve (1998) &ndash; Emma <br>
  When Innocence Is Lost (1997) &ndash; Erica French <br>
  Eight Days a Week (1997) &ndash; Erica <br>
  Malibu Shores (1996) &ndash; Chloe Walker <br>
  The Lottery (1996) &ndash; Felice Dunbar <br>
  The Babysitter''s Seduction (1996) &ndash; Michelle Winston <br>
  Clerks. (TV series) (1995) &ndash; Sandra <br>
  Daddy''s Girls (1994) &ndash; Phoebe <br>
  Emerald Cove (1993) &ndash; Andrea McKinsey <br>
  Honey I Blew Up the Kid (1992) &ndash; Mandy Park <br>
</p>');
INSERT INTO `bios` VALUES ('k', 'Kiley Dean ', 'Kiley_Dean.jpg', '<p><strong>Kiley Dean </strong></p>
<p>Kiley Dean Bowlin (born July 12, 1982 in Alma, Arkansas), known professionaly as Kiley Dean, is an American female R&amp;B singer.</p>
<p>Growing up in Orlando, Florida, Kiley made early footsetps into music business. In 1998 she landed an audition for Britney Spears and was hired as background singer. After touring all over the world, she was justly signed to Timbaland''s Beat Club Records. With the assistance of R&amp;B/Soul producer Robert Smith both created a whole new album called &quot;Simple Girl&quot;, resting upon her southern roots and jazzy R&amp;B tracks.<br>
</p>
<p>But, as with all fairy tales there is a glitch - the solo album Simple Girl was never released. Kiley Dean sat on the label for two years while everyone tried making her something she wasn&rsquo;t. But in retrospect, the experience was a blessing for Kiley. &ldquo;I thank God for everything that has happened to me,&rdquo; she declares, speaking of the heartache, pain, and insecurities this business has given her over the last two years. &ldquo;I feel so lucky because as hard as it&rsquo;s been, it made me dig real deep and find out who I am.&rdquo;</p>
<p>Now, Kiley has a new management team and a new album deal with Bungalo/Universal that will allow her the creative freedom she is looking for. &ldquo;The new record is so special to me. There was so much going on in my head and every song just captures the moment.&rdquo; Brimming with sensual grooves, edgy rock guitars and laced with a sexy, sassy stance, CHANGES is an explosion of passionate singing, hot beats, incredible melodies and meaningful lyrics that will make you want to push the repeat button over and over again. Boasting songs co-written by Kiley and production by Bryan Michael Cox (Usher) and Big Bert (J-Lo), CHANGES shimmers with an honest vibrancy that&rsquo;s hard to resist. &ldquo;I just think that this album is so real and personal. Over the last few years I&rsquo;ve experienced so much in my life. I was able to let it out on this record. It talks about the things everyone can relate to.&rdquo;</p>
<p>&nbsp;</p>
<p><strong>Discography<br>
</strong></p>
<p><strong>Albums</strong></p>
<p>Simple Girl (2003 (unreleased / digital only) <br>
  Changes (2005) <br>
</p>
<p><strong>Singles</strong></p>
<p>From Simple Girl:</p>
<p>&quot;Make Me A Song&quot; (2003) <br>
&quot;Who Will I Run To / Kiss Me Like That&quot; (2004) <br>
  From Changes:</p>
<p>&quot;Looking 4 Love&quot; (2005) <br>
</p>
<p><strong>Misc.</strong></p>
<p><br>
  From Deliverance:</p>
<p>&quot;Nowhere&quot; (with Bubba Sparxxx) (2004) <br>
  From Unity:</p>
<p>&quot;By Your Side&quot; (with Utada) (2004) <br>
</p>');
INSERT INTO `bios` VALUES ('k', 'Kirsten Dunst ', 'Kirsten_Dunst.jpg', '<p><strong>Kirsten Dunst </strong></p>
<p>Kirsten Caroline Dunst (born April 30, 1982, in Point Pleasant, New Jersey, to Klaus and Inez Dunst) is an American actress of German and Swedish descent. Her first name is pronounced &quot;KEER-sten.&quot;</p>
<p>&nbsp;</p>
<p><strong>Career</strong></p>
<p>Dunst began acting at the age of three in television commercials. In a 1988 episode of Saturday Night Live, she played the role of President George H.W. Bush''s granddaughter, in a sketch in which Dana Carvey acted as President Bush. Years later, Dunst hosted Saturday Night Live as an adult and brought this to light.</p>
<p>In 1993, Dunst also had a small cameo appereance in Star Trek: The Next Generation as Hedril/Kestra (Troi''s sister).</p>
<p>Dunst made the transition to the big screen in New York Stories in 1989. Soon after, she landed a small part playing the daughter of Tom Hanks''s character in The Bonfire of the Vanities.</p>
<p>Dunst''s breakthrough role was in Interview with the Vampire, a 1994 film based on Anne Rice''s novel of the same name and directed by Neil Jordan. This movie features a somewhat controversial scene in which Dunst, then aged eleven, had to kiss Brad Pitt, who was 29. Her most well-known performances to date have been in The Virgin Suicides, the cult hit Bring It On, and as Mary Jane Watson in Spider-Man and Spider-Man 2.</p>
<p>Dunst won the 2002 Best Actress Silver Omb&uacute; at the Mar de Plata Film Festival for her performance as Marion Davies in Peter Bogdanovich''s The Cat''s Meow.</p>
<p>Dunst made her singing debut in the 2001 film, Get Over It, performing two songs written by Marc Shaiman. She also lent her musical voice to the end credits of The Cat''s Meow by singing the old standard, &quot;After You''ve Gone.&quot;</p>
<p>More recently, Dunst has played the role of doomed 18th-century royal, Queen Marie Antoinette. The forthcoming motion picture, titled Marie-Antoinette, is scheduled for release in Autumn 2006. It is the third film directed by Sofia Coppola and is based on British historian Lady Antonia Fraser''s biography of Marie-Antoinette.</p>
<p>&nbsp;</p>
<p><strong>Filmography</strong><br>
    <br>
    Marie Antoinette (2006) (filming) <br>
    Elizabethtown (2005) <br>
    Wimbledon (2004) <br>
    Spider-Man 2 (2004) <br>
    Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004) <br>
    Mona Lisa Smile (2003) <br>
    Kaena: The Prophecy (2003) (voice) <br>
    Levity (2003) <br>
    Spider-Man (2002) <br>
    The Cat''s Meow (2001) <br>
    Crazy/Beautiful (2001) <br>
    Get Over It (2001) <br>
    Deeply (2000) <br>
    Bring It On (2000) <br>
    Luckytown (2000) <br>
    The Crow: Salvation (2000) <br>
    All Forgotten (2000) <br>
    Dick (1999) <br>
    Drop Dead Gorgeous (1999) <br>
    The Virgin Suicides (1999) <br>
    The Devil''s Arithmetic (1999) <br>
    Fifteen and Pregnant (1998) <br>
    The Hairy Bird (1998) <br>
    Small Soldiers (1998) <br>
    Wag the Dog (1997) <br>
    Anastasia (1997) (voice) <br>
    Tower of Terror (1997) <br>
    True Heart (1997) <br>
    Mother Night (1996) <br>
    Jumanji (1995) <br>
    Little Women (1994) <br>
    Interview with the Vampire (1994) <br>
    Greedy (1994) <br>
    High Strung (1994) <br>
    The Bonfire of the Vanities (1990) <br>
    Kiki''s Delivery Service (1989) (voice in 1998 English dubbed version) <br>
    New York Stories (1989) <br>
</p>
<p><strong>Personal Life</strong></p>
<p>Kirsten''s parents separated several years ago. Her father, Klaus Dunst, a German medical services executive, stayed in New Jersey. Her mother, Inez Dunst, a Swedish former art gallery owner, moved to California. Kirsten has a younger brother, Christian, born in 1986.</p>
<p>Kirsten graduated from Notre Dame High School, a private Catholic high school in Los Angeles, in 2000. She is currently working on her own production company with her mother, called Wooden Spoon Productions.</p>
<p>Kirsten started dating fellow actor Jake Gyllenhaal in September 2002, after meeting him through his sister, Maggie Gyllenhaal (her co-star in Mona Lisa Smile.) They broke up in July 2004, but there are rumours that they''re back together.</p>
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INSERT INTO `bios` VALUES ('k', 'Kristanna Loken ', 'Kristanna_Loken.jpg', '<p><strong>Kristanna Loken</strong></p>
<p>Kristanna Sommer L&oslash;ken (born October 8, 1979) is an American actress and model.<br>
</p>
<p><strong>Early life</strong></p>
<p>She was born in Hudson, New York to Chris Loken (a Norwegian American writer) and Rande Porath (a model). She grew up on her parents'' fruit farm in Upstate New York.</p>
<p>&nbsp;</p>
<p><strong>Film career</strong></p>
<p>Loken started her acting career in 1996, when she appeared in several television shows and films. She is probably best known for her performance as the android T-X (Terminatrix) in the 2003 movie Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines. Subsequently, she starred as the leading character in the 2006 film version of the video game BloodRayne.</p>
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INSERT INTO `bios` VALUES ('l', 'Laura Linney ', 'Laura_Linney.jpg', '<p><strong>Laura Linney </strong></p>
<p>Laura Linney (born February 5, 1964 in New York City) is an American actress.</p>
<p>She was nominated for a Academy Award for Best Actress in 2000 for her role in You Can Count on Me, and again in 2004 for Best Supporting Actress for her role in Kinsey. Other films she appeared in include Mystic River, The Truman Show, and Primal Fear.</p>
<p>Her important television roles include &quot;Mary Ann Singleton&quot; in the television adaptations of Armistead Maupin''s Tales of the City books. She won an Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actress in a Comedy Series in 2004 for her recurring role as the final love interest of Frasier Crane in Frasier.</p>
<p>Her extensive stage credits on Broadway and elsewhere include Hedda Gabler, Holiday (based on the movie starring Katharine Hepburn), and The Crucible.</p>
<p>Linney was educated at the Northfield Mount Hermon School and Brown University, where she graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in 1986. She also trained at the Juilliard School and the Moscow Art Theatre. Her father is the playwright Romulus Linney and her mother was a nurse.</p>
<p>&nbsp;</p>
<p><strong>Selected Filmography</strong></p>
<p>Driving Lessons (2006) as Laura <br>
  The Exorcism of Emily Rose (2005) as Erin Bruner <br>
  The Squid and the Whale (2005) as Joan Berkman <br>
  P.S. (2004) as Louise Harrington <br>
  Kinsey (2004) as Clara McMillen <br>
  Love Actually (2003) as Sarah <br>
  Mystic River (2003) as Annabeth Markum <br>
  The Life of David Gale (2003) as Constance Harraway <br>
  The Mothman Prophecies (2002) as Connie Mills <br>
  The Laramie Project (2002) as Sherry Johnson <br>
  The House of Mirth (2000) as Bertha Dorset <br>
  You Can Count on Me (2000) as Samantha ''Sammy'' Prescott <br>
  The Truman Show (1998) as Hanna Gill as Meryl Burbank <br>
  Absolute Power (1997) as Kate Whitney <br>
  Primal Fear (1996) as Janet Venable <br>
  Congo (1995) as Dr. Karen Ross <br>
  Searching for Bobby Fischer (1993) as School Teacher <br>
  Dave (1993) as Randi <br>
  Lorenzo''s Oil (1992) as Young Teacher </p>');
INSERT INTO `bios` VALUES ('l', 'Lucy Liu ', NULL, '<p><strong>Lucy Liu </strong></p>
<p>Lucy Alexis Liu (born December 2, 1968 in New York City, New York) is a Chinese American actress, who starred in the TV series Ally McBeal and in the 2000 film Charlie''s Angels. Her Chinese name is Li&uacute; Y&ugrave;l&iacute;ng (&#21129;&#29577;&#29618;).</p>
<p>She was raised in Queens, New York by Chinese immigrant parents, and attended New York City''s famous Stuyvesant High School. She attended New York University for one year, transferred to University of Michigan at Ann Arbor, and graduated with a degree in Asian languages and cultures.</p>
<p>Liu is widely considered the most prominent Asian-American actress in American media. She had small stints in films and TV roles before landing a break on Ally McBeal. Liu''s role on the series was originally not meant to be a regular, but the enthusiastic audience response to the actress'' feisty Ling Woo secured Lucy as a prominent cast member. She became more famous with her turn as Alex in the Charlie''s Angels movie, starring alongside more established modern Hollywood icons Drew Barrymore and Cameron Diaz. The sequel to the film, however, opened to poor reviews and box office receipts. Lucy was also paid sixteen million dollars less for her work in Charlie''s Angels than co-star Cameron Diaz.</p>
<p>Liu starred with Antonio Banderas in Ballistic: Ecks vs. Sever, a critical and box-office failure that was remarkable only in its casting of two minorities as the lead roles. Liu had a hit as Princess Pei-Pei in Shanghai Noon.</p>
<p>Lucy is perhaps most famous for her role as O-Ren Ishii in director Quentin Tarantino''s Kill Bill films. The first installment of the Kill Bill films, Volume 1, exposed Lucy as a more serious and physically adept actress than had been evident from her previous roles. She won an MTV Movie Award, further solidifying her fame with young, hip audiences, for &quot;Best Movie Villain&quot;.</p>
<p>Lucy recently appeared on several episodes of &quot;Joey&quot; with Matt LeBlanc, who played her love interest in the Charlie''s Angels movies. She also had a small role opposite Keira Knightley in the thriller Domino. Liu is currently in talks to recreate the Charlie Chan series for modern audiences.</p>
<p>Although Liu is not married, rumors in the past have linked her with George Clooney. Recently, there was news that she is engaged to a New York playwright, Zach Helm.<br>
</p>
<p><strong>Filmography</strong></p>
<p>Domino (2005) <br>
  Kill Bill: Volume 2 (2004) <br>
  Kill Bill: Volume 1 (2003) <br>
  Charlie''s Angels: Full Throttle (2003) <br>
  Chicago (2002) <br>
  Cypher (2002) <br>
  Ballistic: Ecks vs. Sever (2002) <br>
  Futurama (Guest Appearance) (2001) <br>
  Charlie''s Angels (2000) <br>
  Shanghai Noon (2000) <br>
  Play It to the Bone (1999) <br>
  The Mating Habits of the Earthbound Human (1999) <br>
  Molly (movie) (1999) <br>
  True Crime (1999) <br>
  Payback (1999) <br>
  Love Kills (1998) <br>
  Flypaper (1997) <br>
  City of Industry (1997) <br>
  Gridlock''d (1997) <br>
  Guy (1996) <br>
  Jerry Maguire (1996) <br>
  Bang (1995) <br>
  Protozoa (1993) <br>
</p>
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INSERT INTO `bios` VALUES ('l', 'Lucy Lawless ', 'Lucy_Lawless.jpg', '<p><strong>Lucy Lawless</strong></p>
<p>Lucy Lawless (born Lucille Frances Ryan on March 29, 1968 in Auckland, New Zealand), is a Kiwi actress and singer best known for her role as Xena on the television series Xena: Warrior Princess from 1995 to 2001.</p>
<p>Lucy was born the fifth child of Frank and Julie Ryan. She discovered an enjoyment of acting in high school. At Auckland University, she studied foreign languages for a year. She then left for Europe with her boyfriend to travel around Germany and Switzerland. They went back and landed a job with a mining company in Australia. In 1988, Lucy and Garth Lawless were married. They returned to New Zealand and had a daughter, Daisy.</p>
<p>She had a guest role in 1990 on New Zealand TV series Shark in the Park, around the same time compatriot Karl Urban appeared.</p>
<p>Vanessa Angel was supposed to play a new character, the villainess Xena, in an en episode of Hercules: The Legendary Journeys, but became sick and was unable to travel to New Zealand. Lucy had previously played two different characters in Hercules, so the directors chose her as a replacement (though Lucy''s hair had to be dyed to distinquish her from the previous, unrelated characters). Under the 5''10 1/2&quot; Lucy, Xena''s character became popular, so she started to redeem herself and got her own her series, Xena: Warrior Princess. The show was a hit, lasting six seasons.</p>
<p>A testament to the popularity of Xena: Warrior Princess is that Lawless is a universally recognized celebrity even though she has not had a single great success outside of it. She was even immortalized as a character on The Simpsons (playing a super-powered, flying version of herself).</p>
<p>She would later be named one of the 50 Most Beautiful People in the World by People magazine in 1997.</p>
<p>She has since appeared in the Vagina Monologues, on the first two episodes of the ninth season of The X-Files, and in the short-lived (eight episodes) television series Tarzan. She has had brief appearances in the movies Eurotrip, Spider-Man, and the horror film Boogeyman. Her next role was on TV battling bugs in her new TV-movie Locusts!.</p>
<p> <br>
  Lucy Lawless as fleet reporter D''anna Biers on Battlestar Galactica.Recently, Lawless has taken on a recurring role on the Battlestar Galactica television series. She plays a D''anna Biers, a reporter with a secret agenda who works on a critical documentary about the crew of the Galactica (and who in secret is actually a Cylon humanoid robot that has infiltrated the ship to help bring about its destruction).</p>
<p>Lucy and Garth were divorced in 1995. She married the executive producer of Xena, Robert G. Tapert, in 1998. The couple had a son in 1999 named Julius Robert Bay Tapert. Lucy gave birth to her son in New Zealand. Her third child, and second with Robert Tapert, was born 2002 in New Zealand, and named Judah Miro Tapert.</p>
<p>Due to her character Xena''s ambiguous sexuality, Lucy Lawless gained a large cult following in the lesbian community. A new term, dykon, was coined to describe her status as a gay icon. Although she is heterosexual, Lucy Lawless has enhanced this reputation by appearing at gay pride events such as the Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras.</p>
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INSERT INTO `bios` VALUES ('m', 'Mandy Moore ', 'Mandy_Moore.jpg', '<p><strong>Mandy Moore </strong></p>
<p>Amanda Leigh &quot;Mandy&quot; Moore (born April 10, 1984) is an American pop music singer and actress. She was born in Nashua, New Hampshire, but grew up in Seminole County, Florida, outside of Orlando. In between releasing albums, she attended Lake Brantley High School in Altamonte Springs. She is of English, Irish and Cherokee Indian descent.</p>
<p>&nbsp;</p>
<p><strong>Biography<br>
</strong></p>
<p><strong>Music career</strong><br>
    <br>
    So Real album coverOn December 7, 1999, fifteen-year old Moore released her debut album So Real on Sony''s Epic Records, reaching a peak of #31 on the US Billboard 200 album chart. At the time when she burst out onto the music scene, Moore was considered only as the latest installment in a quickly-growing line of heavily-marketed ''pop princesses'' that included Britney Spears, Christina Aguilera and Jessica Simpson. As the last (and youngest) of the four to reach mainstream radio, her success didn''t match that of her peers. Still, So Real managed to be certified platinum in the US by early 2000, while her debut single, the gold-selling &quot;Candy&quot; just missed the top 10 of the US Billboard Hot 100 singles chart, peaking at #19. A follow-up single entitled &quot;Walk Me Home&quot; was later released, though it failed to achieve much success.</p>
<p>Moore released a re-worked version of her debut album entitled I Wanna Be With You on May 9, 2000, only six months after So Real hit stores. The album included several new songs, along with tracks from So Real, as well as a couple of remixed songs. I Wanna Be With You reached a peak of #21 on the Billboard 200 and was later certified gold in the US for selling over 500,000 copies. The title track was featured as the lead single, reaching a peak of #17 on the Hot 100 and becoming Moore''s biggest hit to date. The song was also featured in the movie Center Stage.</p>
<p>After the endeavors of her first two albums, Moore confessed that the music style and dance routines that had so heavily affected her success were ''not hers'', and that she no longer felt comfortable performing them. So, in an attempt to become more artistically ''in control'' of her music and image, Moore released the self-titled Mandy Moore on June 19, 2001. Critics hailed the album as an &quot;attempt to stake her own space&quot;, and remarked that it was one of the most real and fulfilling pop albums on the market at the time. However, this critical success unfortunately did not lead to commercial success, as the LP debuted at a disappointing #35 on the Billboard 200. It has since went on to be certified gold in the US. The lead single, &quot;In My Pocket&quot;, was tinged with a unique Middle-Eastern sound, along with a stunning, colorful video; it failed to make a dent in the charts, however, missing the Billboard Hot 100 completely. The follow-up single, &quot;Crush&quot;, suffered the same fate, although it received considerable airtime on MTV. The final single, &quot;Cry&quot;, was released in early 2002 and tied-in with Moore''s movie A Walk to Remember. It also failed to perform well on the charts. The album sold well in Eastern Asia, however, and the songs &quot;17&quot; and &quot;Saturate Me&quot; were both released as singles overseas.</p>
<p> <br>
  Coverage album coverOn October 21, 2003, Moore released her fourth album, Coverage. The record consisted entirely of cover songs from the 1970s and ''80s that Moore was influenced by as a child, as well as songs she recently discovered. The album peaked at #14 on the Billboard 200 (her highest ranking to date), though the only released single entitled &quot;Have A Little Faith In Me&quot; failed to perform well on the charts. A video was made for the song &quot;Drop The Pilot&quot;, though it was not released as a single in the US.</p>
<p>In early 2004, after Moore was dropped from Sony''s Epic Records, she signed with Warner Brothers Records. However, before she was done with Sony, they released the album Best Of on November 16, 2004, which included all of Moore''s biggest hits from the past five years. However, due to absolutely no promotion, the album peaked at an abysmal #148 on the Billboard 200.</p>
<p>It has been reported that Moore has been working on a new album since June 2005, and that recording will finally end in November 2005.<br>
</p>
<p><strong>Film career</strong></p>
<p>In 2001, Moore ventured into Hollywood when she appeared in a small part as the mean, blonde, popular cheerleader Lana Thomas opposite Anne Hathaway and Julie Andrews in the film The Princess Diaries. In the movie, Moore performs with friends Anna and Fontana. The song &quot;Stupid Cupid&quot; can also be found on the movie''s soundtrack. Up until this point, her acting had only included the straight-to-video children''s movie Magic Al and the Mind Factory and a voiceover role in Dr. Dolittle 2. In 2001, Mandy also had a small part in the Good Charlotte music video for &quot;Little Things&quot; in which she played a snobby mean girl, much like the character she played in The Princess Diaries.</p>
<p>In 2002, Moore portrayed Jamie Sullivan in her first starring role opposite Shane West in A Walk to Remember. The movie, based on the novel by Nicholas Sparks, revolves around the developing romance between social outcast and devout Christian, Jamie, and West as bad boy Landon Carter. The movie was considered a moderate success, bringing in $41 million and cementing Moore''s status as a genuine actress. That same year, she played the role of Aeris in the Playstation 2 role-playing game, Kingdom Hearts.</p>
<p> <br>
  Moore and her A Walk to Remember co-star, Shane WestThe soundtrack featured four songs by Moore (&quot;Cry&quot;, &quot;Someday We''ll Know&quot;, &quot;It''s Gonna Be Love&quot; and &quot;Only Hope&quot;). Awards also began rolling in for Moore, as she took home Breakthrough Female Performance at that Summer''s MTV Movie Awards, as well as Choice Female Breakout Performance and Choice Chemistry (with Shane West) at the Teen Choice Awards.</p>
<p>In 2003, Moore starred as Halley Martin in How to Deal. Allison Janney, Peter Gallagher, Alexandra Holden, and Trent Ford also starred. Halley is a troubled teen who decides to abandon love after witnessing her parents'' (Janney and Gallagher as Lydia and Len) divorce, her best friend''s (Holden as Scarlett) unexpected incident, and her sister''s rocky engagement. Macon (Ford) comes along and restores Halley''s faith in finding happiness when in love. The movie failed to draw in the teenage crowds in the US, and grossed a total of just $14 million.</p>
<p>Later in 2003, Moore appeared on Punk''d, after being tricked by Ashton Kutcher for destroying someone else''s home.</p>
<p>Moore''s next attempt at a box-office hit was 2004''s Chasing Liberty, which only grossed a disappointing $12 million. Later that summer, she co-starred in a supporting role in the low-budget, religious satire Saved! as Hilary Faye, the popular &quot;good girl&quot; at a Christian school. Although the film never received wide-release, it was critically successful and she received many positive reviews for her role.</p>
<p>In 2005, Moore lent her voice to the movie Racing Stripes. Upcoming films include Romance &amp; Cigarettes, which is slated for an August 2005 release, as well as Personal Shopping.</p>
<p>She is gearing up for a supporting role with Dennis Quaid, William Dafoe, Hugh Grant, Seth Meyers, Jennifer Coolidge, Chris Klein and recently-added Oscar winner Marcia Gay Harden for American Dreamz. Shooting completed recently, and Mandy Moore is already back to work with a supporting role in Southland Tales. Mandy has also guest-starred on Entourage in a fictional role of herself quite a few times this season. She is portrayed in the HBO series as a co-star with Vincent Chase in the film adaptation of Aquaman, which in the series is fictionally directed by guest-star James Cameron, who portrays himself.</p>
<p>She will also star in boyfriend Zach Braff''s comedy Scrubs later this year (2005).</p>
<p>She also has been cast to play Diane Keaton''s daughter in Because I Said So. Keaton will portray a meddling mother who tries to keep her daughter (Moore) from following in her own footsteps. One tactic she uses is to try to set her up with the perfect man. Karen Leigh Hopkins and Jessie Nelson wrote the script.</p>
<p>&nbsp;</p>
<p><strong>Embarassing Moment</strong></p>
<p>Mandy Moore was at the 2002 MTV Video music Awards fo Asia. Apparently Mandy was suffering from throat problems. When it was time to perform her single Cry (single) Mandy voice kept cracking. Luckily her back up singer aided her through the performance.</p>
<p>&nbsp;</p>
<p><strong>Personal Life</strong><br>
    <br>
    Mandy Moore with brown hairMandy''s father is an airline pilot, her mother is an former radio journalist. She has two brothers. <br>
    Moore has had a relationship with Scrubs actor Zach Braff since February 2005. They met at a fundraising event for the Democratic party during election time November 2004. <br>
    Moore dated actor Wilmer Valderrama (That ''70s Show) for almost two years (2000-2002). Soon after she broke up with Wilmer, Mandy started dating tennisstar Andy Roddick. Andy and Mandy were together for only 16 months, Roddick ended the relationship March 2004. <br>
    During Moore''s stint as an opening act for the Backstreet Boys in their 1999 tour, many female fans in attendance booed and jeered impolitely, due to the rumors that she was dating BSB member Nick Carter (in truth, he was dating supermodel/tv host/pop singer Willa Ford, who was also nicknamed &quot;Mandy&quot;). <br>
</p>
<p><strong>Discography<br>
</strong></p>
<p><strong>Albums</strong></p>
<p>1999: So Real #31 US (Platinum) <br>
  2000: I Wanna Be With You #21 US (Platinum) <br>
  2001: Mandy Moore #35 US (Platinum) <br>
  2003: Coverage #14 US (Gold) <br>
  2004: Best Of #148 US <br>
  2006: Once Moore (Post-Production) <br>
</p>
<p><strong>Singles</strong></p>
<p>From So Real <br>
  1999: Candy; #41 US, #6 UK, #2 AU <br>
  2000: So Real; #21 AU <br>
  2000: Walk Me Home <br>
  From I Wanna Be With You <br>
  2000: I Wanna Be With You (single); #17 US, #21 UK, #13 AU <br>
  From Mandy Moore <br>
  2001: In My Pocket; #11 AU <br>
  2001: Crush (single); #25 AU <br>
  2002: Cry (single) <br>
  From Coverage <br>
  2003: &quot;Have A Little Faith In Me&quot; <br>
  Other songs <br>
  2000: &quot;Feel Me&quot; <br>
  2001: &quot;On The Line&quot; featuring Backstreet Boys, Mandy Moore and others <br>
  2002: &quot;Only Hope&quot; from soundtrack ''A Walk to Remember'' <br>
  2004: &quot;God Only Knows&quot; duet with Michael Stipe <br>
  2004: &quot;Hey!&quot; demo written by James Randle (Sire Records) <br>
</p>
<p><strong>Filmography</strong></p>
<p>2001: Magic Al and the Mind Factory <br>
  2001: Dr. Dolittle 2 (voice) <br>
  2001: The Princess Diaries <br>
  2002: A Walk to Remember <br>
  2002: Kingdom Hearts (voice) <br>
  2002: Try Seventeen (a.k.a. All I Want) <br>
  2003: How to Deal (filmed in Toronto, June-July-August 2002, released July 2003) <br>
  2004: Chasing Liberty (filmed in LA and Europe, May-June-July 2003, released January 2004) <br>
  2004: Saved! (filmed in August-September 2003, released April 2004) <br>
  2005: Racing Stripes (voice) <br>
  2005: Romance &amp; Cigarettes (supporting role, filmed in New York area March-April-May 2004, completed June 2004, currently unreleased) <br>
  2006: American Dreamz (supporting role, filmed in June-August 2005, post-production) <br>
  2006: Southland Tales (supporting role, filmed in September 2005, post-production) <br>
  2006: Brother Bear 2(Voice) (filming) <br>
  2006: Personal Shopping (pre-production) <br>
  2006: Because I Said So (filming begins November 2005) <br>
</p>
<p><strong>Trivia</strong></p>
<p>Her favorite actress is Bette Midler. <br>
  Her favorite movie is Beaches. <br>
  Her favorite artists are Elton John, Janet Jackson, Madonna and Bette Midler. <br>
  Her favorite ice cream flavor is vanilla with Reese''s Peanut Butter Cup. <br>
  In 2000, Play Along Toys released a Mandy Moore Doll. <br>
  In March 2002, Moore was featured in Elton John''s video for &quot;Original Sin&quot;. She was criticized for wearing a bikini top and hot pants in the video. <br>
  She recorded Elton''s song &quot;Mona Lisas and Mad Hatters&quot; for Coverage. <br>
  In 2002 she gave a voice to beloved Final Fantasy VII character Aerith Gainsborough in the Square Enix-Disney crossover video game Kingdom Hearts. Coincidentally, Maaya Sakamoto, Aerith''s seiyuu in the original Japanese version of the game is also a singer. <br>
  In 2003, Moore frequently appeared in episodes of the MTV reality show The Osbournes as she became friends of short duration with Jack Osbourne. Jack accompanied her to a tattoo shop where Moore got a tattoo on her toe. <br>
  She hosted a short-lived MTV talk show. <br>
  She''s made a list with things to do or achieve before she turns 30. Number 10: learning how to cook. <br>
  Early in her career, it was reported in British newspapers that she was a relative of the British actor Ian Lavender, who played Private Pike in the sitcom Dad''s Army. <br>
  Moore was a Neutrogena spokesperson, appearing in commercials as well as print ads for the product. <br>
  In 2005, Moore designed a few tee-shirts with Mblem for charity. <br>
  Models for Coach handbags in Japan. <br>
  Models for clothing brand Penshoppe in the Philippines. <br>
  In August 2005, she dyed her hair blonde and got hair extensions for her roles in both American Dreamz and Southland Tales. <br>
</p>');
INSERT INTO `bios` VALUES ('m', 'Mariah Carey ', 'Mariah_Carey.jpg', '<p><strong>Mariah Carey </strong></p>
<p>Mariah Carey (born March 27, 1970 in Huntington, New York) is an American pop and R&amp;B singer, songwriter, record producer, and actress. Making her debut in 1990, she became the most successful and best-selling artist of the decade, according to Billboard magazine and the World Music Awards. In 2000, the World Music Awards show named her the best-selling female recording artist of all time.</p>
<p>Noted for her distinctive singing style, Carey possesses a five-octave vocal range, and her vocals make frequent use of melismas and other ornamentation. During the 1990s, she released fifteen U.S. number-one hits on Columbia Records, run by then-husband Tommy Mottola, several of which broke chart records. By the turn of the millennium, Carey''s popularity with critics and the public had entered decline, and she was dropped from her new record label following a highly-publicised physical breakdown and an unsuccessful foray into film. In 2005, Carey returned to the forefront of R&amp;B music with her multi-platinum album The Emancipation of Mimi, which spawned her sixteenth number-one single, &quot;We Belong Together&quot;.</p>
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<p><strong>Biography and music career<br>
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<p><strong>Early life and discovery</strong></p>
<p>Carey is the third and youngest child of Patricia Hickey, an opera singer and voice coach of Irish-American-Catholic ethnicity, and Alfred Roy Carey (n&eacute; N&uacute;&ntilde;ez), an aeronautical engineer of Afro-Venezuelan descent. She was named after the song &quot;And They Call the Wind Maria&quot;, from the musical Paint Your Wagon. Carey''s maternal grandparents disowned Mariah''s mother for having married a non-white man. Mariah''s siblings include her older sister Alison, and her older brother Morgan. As a multiracial family, the Carey household was met with racial slurs, hostility, and sometimes violence, causing the family to move frequently around the New York area. The strain on the family led to the divorce of Carey''s parents when she was three years old. Carey had little contact with her father, and her mother worked several jobs to support the family.</p>
<p>Spending much of her time at home alone, Carey turned to music as an outlet. She began singing at the age of four, and first performed in public at the age of six. She began writing songs while in grade school, and her mother and the members of her opera company were impressed with her talents when Carey hit a cue note that her mother had missed. Carey attended and graduated from Oldfield Middle School and Harborfields High School in Greenlawn, New York, although she was frequently absent due to efforts to break into the music business. After moving to New York City, she eventually landed a role as a backup singer for singer Brenda K. Starr.</p>
<p>In 1988, Carey met Columbia Records executive Tommy Mottola at a party, where Starr gave him a demo tape. Mottola played the tape while leaving the party and was very impressed by what he heard. He returned to the party to find Carey, but she was already gone. Nevertheless, Mottola tracked her down and signed her to a recording contract. This Cinderella-like story became part of the standard publicity surrounding Carey''s entrance into the industry.</p>
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<p><strong>1990&ndash;1992: Early commercial success</strong></p>
<p>Carey''s professional music career began with the release of her eponymous debut album, Mariah Carey, in 1990. Carey co-wrote all of the compositions on her debut album with songwriter-producers such as Ric Wake and Rhett Lawrence, and would continue to co-write nearly all of her material for the rest of her career. The album debuted low on the U.S. Billboard 200 chart, but ascended to number one a year after its release, where it remained for eleven weeks. It produced four number-one singles, making Carey a star in the United States. The album''s international success, however, was limited. In 1991, Carey won two Grammy Awards for Best New Artist and Best Female Pop Vocal Performance for her debut single &quot;Vision of Love&quot;.</p>
<p> <br>
  Carey performing on MTV Unplugged, her first widely-seen concert appearance.Emotions, Carey''s second album, was released in the fall of 1991 to critical and commercial success. Its first single, the title track &quot;Emotions&quot;, was another U.S. number-one hit giving Carey the distinction of being the only recording act in history to have their first five singles reach number-one on the Hot 100 chart. Carey had been fighting for the ability to produce her own songs, and beginning with Emotions, would co-produce most of her material. She would also begin writing and producing for other artists, such as Trey Lorenz and Daryl Hall, within the coming year.</p>
<p>For the first two years of her career, Carey did not embark on any major public tours. Her first widely-seen concert performance was her appearance on MTV Unplugged in May 1992, and her performance proved that her vocal abilities were not, as some believed, simulated using studio techniques. Carey premiered a cover of The Jackson 5''s &quot;I''ll Be There&quot;, performed as a duet with Trey Lorenz, on the special; released as a single, it became Carey''s sixth number-one hit in the U.S. Carey''s critically acclaimed performance was later released by Columbia on album as the MTV Unplugged EP.</p>
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<p><strong>1993&ndash;1996: Worldwide success</strong></p>
<p>Carey, then 23, and Tommy Mottola, 43, had become romantically involved, and in June 1993 they were married in an Episcopalian ceremony in Manhattan. Her next studio album, Music Box, was released later that year, and became her most successful album worldwide. Lead single &quot;Dreamlover&quot; was her longest stayer yet at the number-one spot (eight weeks), &quot;Hero&quot; became her first Christmas number-one single in the U.S., and &quot;Without You&quot; (a remake of the Harry Nillson song) went to number-one in the UK. However, Carey''s attempt at a mellower work than her previous efforts raised eyebrows with some critics; Ron Wynn said Carey &quot;blended into the background and let the tracks guide her, instead of pushing and exploding through them&quot;, and Stephen Holden criticised &quot;Carey''s lyrics, which are made up entirely of pop and soul clich&eacute;s&quot;.</p>
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  Carey and Boyz II Men recording &quot;One Sweet Day&quot; (1995), one of Carey''s most successful singles.Following a popular duet with Luther Vandross of Diana Ross'' &quot;Endless Love&quot;, Carey released the album Merry Christmas in late 1994. In addition to covers of traditional Christmas songs, it contained a very successful original holiday song, &quot;All I Want for Christmas Is You&quot;, which became her first number-one single in Japan and was described as &quot;a well-crafted Phil Spector tribute&quot; by Roch Parisien, who dismissed the album as an &quot;otherwise vanilla set&quot;.</p>
<p>In 1995, Carey released Daydream, which combined the pop sensibilities of her previous album with modern R&amp;B/hip-hop influences, and became her largest-selling LP in the U.S., receiving Diamond RIAA status. Its singles achieved similar success: &quot;Fantasy&quot; became only the second single to debut at number-one, &quot;One Sweet Day&quot; (a duet with Boyz II Men) spent a still-record sixteen weeks at number-one, and &quot;Always Be My Baby&quot; topped the Hot 100 year-end airplay charts in 1996. Critics such as Stephen Thomas Erlewine and Bill Lamb embraced Daydream as her finest album yet at the time, and it was named one of the best albums of the year by publications such as the New York Times and TIME magazine. Carey was the recipient of several awards following the success of the album, including a World Music Award for World''s Best-Selling Pop Artist of the Year, and she also received six Grammy nominations, but lost in all categories.</p>
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<p><strong>1997&ndash;2000: Independence and a new image</strong></p>
<p>Carey and Mottola separated in 1997; although she had often projected the image of a happy marriage to the public, in reality she had felt emotionally and psychologically abused by Mottola, whom she often described as possessive. Their divorce became final the following year.</p>
<p> <br>
  The album Butterfly (1997) and its lead single &quot;Honey&quot; (above) presented a more overtly sexual image of Carey than had been previously seen.Carey''s 1997 album, Butterfly, saw her continuing to move in an R&amp;B/hip-hop direction, while lead single &quot;Honey&quot; displayed a much more sexual Carey than before in both its lyrics and music video. &quot;My All&quot;, another single from the album, became her thirteenth number-one hit, an unprecedented feat for a female artist. J.R. Reynolds said Butterfly &quot;pushes the envelope&quot;, a move that he thought &quot;may prove disconcerting to more conservative fans&quot;, but Reynolds still praised the album as &quot;a welcome change&quot;. Another reviewer felt Butterfly illustrated &quot;that Carey is continuing to improve and refine her music, which makes her a rarity among her ''90s peers&quot;. 1997 also marked the year that Carey became a major songwriter and producer for other artists, contributing to the debut albums of Allure, 7 Mile and Blaque. She also wrote songs for the soundtracks to the films Men in Black (1997) and How the Grinch Stole Christmas (2000), and began to develop her own film/soundtrack project, All That Glitters. Towards the turn of the millenium, Carey became a prominent figure in hip-hop music, and collaborated with both new and established rappers, including Jay-Z.</p>
<p>During 1998, Carey had a romance with New York Yankees baseball player Derek Jeter, who was also biracial. She would state later that while the timing was not right for their relationship, it did teach her that multiracial families could function well. That year, the album #1''s, a collection of her U.S. number-one singles up to that point, was released. It included four new songs, one of which was &quot;When You Believe&quot;, a duet with Whitney Houston recorded for the soundtrack to The Prince of Egypt that won an Academy Award for Best Song. The album sold well, but critic Amy Linden said &quot;while these may be the tracks that sold the most and charted the highest, these aren''t necessarily Mariah''s best songs&quot;. Also that year, she appeared on the first televised VH1 Divas program, a joint benefit concert appearance with singers such as Aretha Franklin and Shania Twain, though Carey''s alleged prima donna behavior had already led many to consider her a diva. By the following year, she had begun a relationship with singer Luis Miguel.</p>
<p>Rainbow, Carey''s sixth studio album, was released in 1999. Like Butterfly, it was comprised of pop and more R&amp;B/hip hop oriented songs; Carey intended them to express her feelings about her divorce two years previously. Lead single &quot;Heartbreaker&quot; (featuring Jay-Z) was another number-one success for Carey, but despite several other collaborations with artists such as Joe, 98 Degrees and Snoop Dogg, the album was her lowest seller up to that point. There were also complaints in reviews that Carey was suffering a case of repetition; words such as &quot;formulaic&quot; and &quot;predictable&quot; came up from several critics. Although the recipient of several awards in recognition of her decade-spanning career, including Billboard''s Artist of the Decade Award and the World Music Award for the world''s Best-Selling Female Artist of the Millennium, a further sign of decline appeared when her final release from Rainbow, the double A-side &quot;Crybaby&quot;/&quot;Can''t Take That Away (Mariah''s Theme)&quot;, became her first song not to make the U.S. top twenty. Carey (via her website) publicly accused Sony of mishandling the release of the single.<br>
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<p><strong>2001&ndash;2004: Personal and career struggles</strong></p>
<p>Following a successful decade in music, Carey finally ended her contract with Sony and signed a five-album contract with EMI''s Virgin Records worth a reported US$80 million; however, things took a sudden downward turn for her. Just a few months later, in July 2001, it was widely reported that Carey had suffered a physical and emotional breakdown. She had left voicemail messages on her website (which were quickly removed) to her fans complaining of being overworked, and her relationship with Luis Miguel was ending. Carey made a notorious appearance on MTV''s Total Request Live, where she handed out popsicles to the teen-aged audience and began a strip tease. By the month''s end, Carey had checked into a psychiatric hospital, and her publicist announced that she would be taking a break from public appearances.</p>
<p> <br>
  A scene from Carey''s poorly-received star vehicle Glitter (2001).Her delayed semi-autobiographical film Glitter was panned by most critics upon its release and became a box office failure (see below). Carey was unable to do much promotion for the soundtrack album Glitter due to her ill health; it peaked in the U.S. at number-seven (her weakest showing to date). Rob Sheffield of Rolling Stone noted that while the album was &quot;a big step forward in terms of maturity&quot;, it had &quot;zero melodic or emotional punch&quot;, while E! thought that even the most serious tracks on the album were &quot;as glossy as her latest publicity shot&quot;. Lead single &quot;Loverboy&quot; reached number two on the Hot 100 thanks to a price cut, but the album''s follow-up singles all failed to chart.</p>
<p>Shortly after the disastrous release of Glitter, Sony released a second compilation album, the 2-CD Greatest Hits, just before Christmas. In early 2002, EMI decided to part ways with Carey and they bought out her contract for $28 million, as an addition to the $21 million paid the previous year when singing, giving her another round of bad publicity. Later that year, she signed a three-album contract with Island Records'' Def Jam. To add further to Carey''s emotional burdens, her father died of cancer that same year.</p>
<p>Following a well-received supporting role in the independent film WiseGirls (see below), Carey released a new album, Charmbracelet, in which she expressed an interest in writing music that is more profoundly meaningful to her and her fans. Charmbracelet sold poorly, and the quality of Carey''s vocals, which had previously been perceived as the singer''s strong point, came under severe criticism. &quot;Mariah''s voice is shot, sounding in tatters&quot; declared one review, &quot;and there''s not a moment where it sounds strong or inviting&quot;. &quot;Carey''s once glorious voice is all over the place&quot; said another, while Barry Walters commented, &quot;Carey''s lead vocals blend into choruses of overdubbed Mariahs cooing overlapping phrases&quot;. Singles such as &quot;Through the Rain&quot; failed both on the charts and with pop radio, whose playlists had become less open to maturing &quot;diva&quot; stylists such as Carey, Whitney Houston and C&eacute;line Dion.</p>
<p>Her 2003 duet with Busta Rhymes, &quot;I Know What You Want&quot;, fared considerably better, reaching the top five in the U.S.; Columbia Records later included it on the double CD The Remixes. That year, Carey was awarded the &quot;Diamond Award&quot; by the World Music Awards show in honour of selling over 150 million albums worldwide. She was featured on rapper Jadakiss'' single &quot;U Make Me Wanna&quot; in 2004, which reached the top ten on Billboard''s R&amp;B/Hip-Hop Singles chart and the top thirty of the Hot 100.</p>
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<p><strong>2005&ndash;the present: Return of the Voice</strong></p>
<p>Carey''s fourteenth album, The Emancipation of Mimi, was released in 2005, and was advertised as &quot;The Return of the Voice&quot;, though Carey maintained that the voice has always been there. Todd Burns called Mimi &quot;easily the strongest album that she&rsquo;s made in this millennium&quot;, and Caroline Sullivan said the album contained &quot;the first Mariah Carey tunes in years I wouldn''t have to be paid to listen to again&quot;. It debuted at number one in the U.S. with the highest first week sales of Carey''s career, and remained in the top five of the Billboard 200 album chart for twenty-one weeks. The single &quot;It''s Like That&quot;, which preceded the album, reached the top twenty, while &quot;We Belong Together&quot; (Carey''s first U.S. number-one single in five years) became her biggest hit, reaching number one in several countries and being named the world''s most-played single of the year by the World Music Awards. Another single, &quot;Shake It Off&quot;, reached the U.S. top five, and &quot;Don''t Forget About Us&quot; the top twenty.</p>
<p>Carey continues to collaborate with hip-hop artists, and is a featured artist on singles by Damizza, N.O.R.E. and Da Brat.</p>
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<p><strong>Acting career</strong></p>
<p>Carey, who had participated in theatre workshops as a child, made her big screen debut as an opera singer and one of the ex-girlfriends of Jimmie (Chris O''Donnell) in The Bachelor (1999), a romantic comedy starring O''Donnell and Ren&eacute;e Zellweger. Critical response to Carey''s cameo appearance, which reportedly took over thirty takes to film, was lukewarm: Paul Tatara from CNN derisively said Carey''s casting as a talentless diva was &quot;letter-perfect&quot;, and Tony Lee simply stated &quot;no, she can''t act&quot;.</p>
<p>Carey''s first starring role was in Glitter, a 2001 film that had been in development as a vehicle for Carey since 1997. In it, she played Billie Frank, a struggling singer and songwriter who breaks into the music industry after she meets DJ Julian Dice (Max Beesley). Reviews were scathing; while Roger Ebert gave mild praise for Carey''s performance, saying, &quot;Her acting ranges from dutiful flirtatiousness to intense sincerity&quot;, most other critics panned it: Stephanie Zacharek called Carey &quot;numbingly bland&quot; in her role, and Michael Atkinson observed, &quot;when she tries for an emotion&mdash;any emotion&mdash;she looks as if she''s lost her car keys&quot;. Glitter was a box office failure, and Carey, who &quot;won&quot; a Worst Actress Razzie Award for her role, has since referred to the film as &quot;a diva moment&quot;.</p>
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  Carey, with Melora Walters and Mira Sorvino, in WiseGirls (2002).Carey next appeared co-starring with Mira Sorvino and Melora Walters as a tough-talking waitress in the independent film WiseGirls, which premiered at the Sundance Film Festival in 2002. Critics who saw the film lauded Carey for her efforts: Kirk Honeycutt of the Hollywood Reporter predicted &quot;Those scathing notices for Glitter will be a forgotten memory for the singer once people warm up to Raychel&quot;, and Roger Freidman, referring to her as &quot;a Thelma Ritter for the new millennium&quot;, said &quot;her line delivery is sharp and she manages to get the right laughs&quot;. WiseGirls producer Anthony Esposito cast Carey in another film, The Sweet Science, about an unknown but talented boxer who is recruited by a determined female boxing manager. However, the project later fell into development hell, while WiseGirls was not given a theatrical release and went straight-to-cable in the United States. Subsequent cameo appearances in the Damon Dash films Death of a Dynasty (2003) and State Property 2 (2005) went largely unnoticed by the ticket-buying public.</p>
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<p><strong>Other activities</strong></p>
<p>Carey is a philanthropist who has donated both time and millions of dollars to organizations such as the Make-A-Wish Foundation, the National Adoption Center, VH1''s Save the Music Foundation, and the Fresh Air Fund among many others. Carey is well-known nationally for her work with the Make-A-Wish Foundation in granting the wishes of the terminally ill Caleb Boulter, who called her &quot;a very real person who overflows with compassion and love for others&quot;. As part of her involvement with the Fresh Air Fund, she is the co-founder of a camp located in Fishkill, New York that enables inner-city youth to embrace the arts, be introduced to career opportunities, and build self-esteem. The camp was named Camp Mariah in honour of Carey''s work with the Fresh Air Fund, and she received a Congressional Award titled the Horizon Award for her charity work on behalf of children.</p>
<p>Carey performed as part of the America: A Tribute to Heroes nationally televised fundraiser in the aftermath of the September 11, 2001 attacks, and in December 2001 she performed before U.S. peacekeeping troops in Kosovo. She hosted the CBS television special At Home for the Holidays with Mariah Carey, which documented real-life stories of adopted children and foster families. In July 2005, Carey performed for Live 8 at the Live 8 concert, London with the African Children''s Choir. She was also a participant in relief efforts following Hurricane Katrina''s damage to the U.S. Gulf Coast later that year, performing on the Shelter from the Storm telethon and collaborating with Michael Jackson and other artists on an upcoming hurricane-relief single titled &quot;From the Bottom of My Heart&quot;.</p>
<p>Carey, who considered writing her autobiography with David Ritz, has instead chosen to fictionalize her life story and adapt it into a series of illustrated children''s books titled Automatic Princess, about an orphaned young girl who is biracial. Also forthcoming is a clothing and accessories line known as Automatic Princess, as well as a lingerie line, Kiss Kiss, which will be available for women in all sizes. However, Carey''s fashion sense has itself often been criticized for being overly exposing or just poorly put together. </p>
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<p><strong>Voice</strong></p>
<p>Carey is credited as having a five-octave vocal range; she can cover all the notes from the alto range leading to those of a coloratura soprano , and her vocal trademark is her ability to sing in the whistle register. She has often been incorrectly credited as having a six or even seven-octave vocal range. It has been suggested that Carey''s publicists falsely claimed this at the start of her career, although it may also be a misstatement of the fact that Carey frequently accesses the notes situated in the seventh octave, her highest so far being a G#7, hit in two live performances of &quot;Emotions&quot; in 1991.</p>
<p>Carey''s voice has come under minor scrutiny from some critics who believe that she does not effectively communicate the message of her songs. Rolling Stone, in a negative review of the album Emotions, wrote &quot;Carey has a remarkable vocal gift, but to date, unfortunately, her singing has been far more impressive than expressive...at full speed her range is so superhuman that each excessive note erodes the believability of the lyric she is singing&quot; , while others have referred to her high notes as &quot;dog whistles&quot;. In comparison, criticisms were levelled at what Carey herself described as &quot;breathy&quot; vocals in some of her later songs on albums such as Charmbracelet. Said Carey, &quot;Some people are of the opinion that if you have a big voice you should use it all the time...[but] I don''t want to hear someone scream at me all the time&quot;.</p>
<p>Carey''s voice, which is a continual subject of both positive and negative debate, was voted as the greatest voice in music in MTV and Blender Magazine''s countdown of &quot;The 22 Greatest Voices In Music&quot;, and is believed to have influenced singers such as Christina Aguilera and Kelly Clarkson. In Cove Magazine''s poll of the &quot;100 Outstanding Pop Vocalists&quot;, she placed second behind Aguilera. </p>
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<p><strong>Discography<br>
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<p><strong>Albums<br>
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  Mariah Carey (1990) &middot; Emotions (1991) &middot; MTV Unplugged (1992) &middot; Music Box (1993) &middot; Merry Christmas (1994) &middot; Daydream (1995) &middot; Butterfly (1997) &middot; #1''s (1998) &middot; Rainbow (1999) &middot; Glitter (2001) &middot; Greatest Hits (2001) &middot; Charmbracelet (2002) &middot; The Remixes (2003) &middot; The Emancipation of Mimi (2005)<br>
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<p><strong>Number-one singles</strong><br>
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<p>&quot;Vision of Love&quot; (1990) <br>
&quot;Love Takes Time&quot; (1990) <br>
&quot;Someday&quot; (1991) <br>
&quot;I Don''t Wanna Cry&quot; (1991) <br>
&quot;Emotions&quot; (1991) <br>
&quot;I''ll Be There&quot; (1992)<br>
  (featuring Trey Lorenz) <br>
&quot;Dreamlover&quot; (1993) <br>
&quot;Hero&quot; (1993) <br>
&quot;Without You&quot; (1994) <br>
&quot;Fantasy&quot; (1995) <br>
&quot;One Sweet Day&quot; (1995)<br>
  (Mariah Carey &amp; Boyz II Men) <br>
&quot;Always Be My Baby&quot; (1996) <br>
&quot;Honey&quot; (1997) <br>
&quot;My All&quot; (1998) <br>
&quot;Heartbreaker&quot; (1999)<br>
  (featuring Jay-Z) <br>
&quot;Thank God I Found You&quot; (2000)<br>
  (featuring Joe and 98 Degrees) <br>
&quot;Against All Odds (Take a Look at Me Now)&quot; (2000)<br>
  (Mariah Carey &amp; Westlife) <br>
&quot;We Belong Together&quot; (2005)<br>
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INSERT INTO `bios` VALUES ('m', 'Meg Ryan ', 'Meg_Ryan.jpg', '<p><strong>Meg Ryan </strong></p>
<p>Meg Ryan (n&eacute;e Margaret Mary Emily Anne Hyra, November 19, 1961 in Fairfield, Connecticut) is an American actress who specializes in romantic comedies, but has worked in other film genres as well.</p>
<p>Ryan studied journalism at New York University. She went into acting to earn extra money while in school. After her first role in a feature film, Ryan (now using her screen name) played Betsy on the daytime drama As the World Turns from 1982 to 1984. Directors for this show especially liked working with her because she could cry on cue.</p>
<p>After several TV film and smaller movie roles, her first full blown hit in a leading role was the romantic comedy When Harry Met Sally. The movie was favorably received and typecast Ryan as a bubbly, charming, feisty but incurable romantic. She made several attempts to break away from this stereotype, and garnered some critical acclaim for her work in When a Man Loves a Woman (where she played an alcoholic) and Courage Under Fire (where she played a military officer killed in combat). Many of her films of the 1990s were hits not only in North America, but also abroad. She had a very popular onscreen pairing with Tom Hanks; some compared their chemistry to Katharine Hepburn and Spencer Tracy. They costarred in three films together, and their last (1998''s You''ve Got Mail) was Ryan''s last major box office success for some years to come.</p>
<p>Ryan married actor Dennis Quaid on Valentine''s Day in 1991 after co-starring in two films with him. Quaid and Ryan had one child together, Jack Henry, born April 24, 1992; Meg has been estranged from her own mother, Susan Jordan, for many years. The couple divorced on July 16, 2001 after she had an indiscreet affair with actor Russell Crowe, with whom she was working on a movie. When the film (Proof of Life) failed, director Taylor Hackford blamed Crowe and Ryan''s affair and the ensuing negative publicity it garnered. Some believed this affair, along with Ryan ageing beyond the &quot;cute&quot; persona of her onscreen characters, hurt her popularity with the American public. She has not had a major box office success since knowledge of the affair became public.</p>
<p>In 2003, she broke away from her usual roles, and starred in In the Cut, an erotic crime/thriller/mystery which was popular with neither critics nor the public.</p>
<p>Asteroid 8353 Megryan was named in her honor.</p>
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<p><strong>Filmography</strong></p>
<p>Rich and Famous (1981) <br>
  Amityville 3-D (1983) <br>
  Top Gun (1986) <br>
  Armed and Dangerous (1986) <br>
  Promised Land (1987) <br>
  Innerspace (1987) <br>
  D.O.A. (1988) <br>
  The Presidio (1988) <br>
  When Harry Met Sally... (1989) <br>
  Joe Versus the Volcano (1990) <br>
  The Doors (1991) <br>
  Prelude to a Kiss (1992) <br>
  Sleepless in Seattle (1993) <br>
  Flesh and Bone (1993) <br>
  A Century of Cinema (1994) (documentary) <br>
  When a Man Loves a Woman (1994) <br>
  I.Q. (1994) <br>
  French Kiss (1995) (also producer) <br>
  Restoration (1995) <br>
  Courage Under Fire (1996) <br>
  Addicted to Love (1997) <br>
  Anastasia (1997) (voice) <br>
  City of Angels (1998) <br>
  Hurlyburly (1998) <br>
  You''ve Got Mail (1998) <br>
  Hanging Up (2000) <br>
  Proof of Life (2000) <br>
  Kate &amp; Leopold (2001) <br>
  Searching for Debra Winger (2002) (documentary) <br>
  In the Cut (2003) <br>
  Against the Ropes (2004) <br>
  In the Land of Women (2006) (in post-production) <br>
  The Women (2006) (in pre-production) <br>
  The Tortilla Curtain (2006) (in pre-production) <br>
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INSERT INTO `bios` VALUES ('m', 'Melissa Hart ', 'Melissa_Hart.jpg', '<p><strong>Melissa Hart </strong></p>
<p>Melissa Joan Hart (born April 18, 1976) is an American actress who is best known for playing the title roles in two successful television series, Clarissa Explains It All and Sabrina, the Teenage Witch.</p>
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<p><strong>Personal history and family</strong></p>
<p>Hart was born in Smithtown, New York, on Long Island, and grew up in Sayville, New York. Her full name is Melissa Joan Catherine Hart, Catherine being the name she chose for her confirmation in eighth grade.</p>
<p>Her immediate Irish-American family includes father William Hart and mother Paula Hart. Her stepfather is television executive Leslie Gilliams. She has eight sisters, three of whom are stepsisters, and one brother. Most of her siblings have acted, among them Elizabeth Hart, Brian Hart, Emily Hart, and Alexandra Hart-Gilliams. Sister Trisha Hart has worked as a producer.</p>
<p>In 2003, Hart married musician Mark Wilkerson, a member of the band Course of Nature. The preparations for the ceremony, which took place in Florence, Italy, were documented in a TV miniseries entitled Tying the Knot, produced by Hart''s production company, Hartbreak Films.</p>
<p>In June 2005, Hart announced that she and her husband are expecting their first child in January 2006.</p>
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<p><strong>Career</strong></p>
<p>Hart''s career began early on. When she was still a baby, she made her first TV commercial for a bathtub toy called Splashy. From then on, she appeared regularly in commercials, making 25 of them before the age of five. Other early TV work included a small role in the miniseries Kane &amp; Abel in 1985, a guest-starring role in an episode of The Equalizer in 1986, and a starring role alongside Katherine Helmond in the Emmy Award-winning TV movie Christmas Snow, also in 1986.</p>
<p>In 1989, she auditioned for a Broadway production of The Crucible starring Martin Sheen, becoming an understudy to three of the young girls in the play. This paved the way for her to land the title role in the TV show Clarissa Explains It All. The Nickelodeon series, a comedy about a teen girl in everyday situations, became a big hit and aired for five seasons. The show brought her four consecutive Young Artist Award nominations, of which she won three, and made her a household name among American teenagers.</p>
<p>Hart also recorded an album as Clarissa entitled This is What ''Na Na'' Means. It was mostly a novelty product and did not sell well, receive critical attention, or place in any charts.</p>
<p>After the series was canceled, she attended New York University. She did not complete her degree as she resumed her acting career in 1994 when she got the lead role for the TV movie Sabrina the Teenage Witch, which eventually led to her also starring as Sabrina in a television series which lasted seven seasons. In between, she also worked on the series Touched by an Angel and starred in several TV movies.</p>
<p>In 1998, Melissa landed a small part in a movie named Can''t Hardly Wait, and then starred in Drive Me Crazy, a movie that includes &quot;(You Drive Me) Crazy&quot;, a number-one hit by Britney Spears, on its soundtrack. Hart also appeared in the music video for this song. She has appeared in other movies since Drive Me Crazy, but none has brought her as much recognition.</p>
<p>&nbsp;</p>
<p><strong>Controversy</strong></p>
<p>Hart appeared in lingerie in a series of photos featured in the October 1999 issue of the men''s magazine Maxim, as well as in similarly revealing pictorials in Bikini and Movieline magazines around the same time. This caused problems for both Hart and ABC (the network broadcasting Sabrina the Teenage Witch) since the copyright holder of the series, Archie Comics, regarded the series as a show for children and pre-teens, and believed that the Maxim photos and the accompanying article hurt the show''s wholesome image (Hart also discussed her sex life and Sabrina drinking games that could be played when watching the series at home). Michael Silberkleit, the chairman and co-publisher of Archie Comics, demanded that Hart either apologize or be fired from the series. She neither apologized nor was fired.</p>
<p>&nbsp;</p>
<p><strong>Filmography and TV work</strong></p>
<p>Jesus, Mary and Joey (2003) <br>
  Rent Control (2002) <br>
  Hold On (2002) <br>
  Backflash (2001) <br>
  Not Another Teen Movie (2001) <br>
  The Voyage to Atlantis: The Lost Empire (2001) (TV) <br>
  The Specials (2000) <br>
  Sabrina, Down Under (1999) <br>
  Drive Me Crazy (1999) <br>
  Sabrina Goes to Rome (1998) <br>
  Can''t Hardly Wait (1998) <br>
  Silencing Mary (1998) (TV) <br>
  Two Came Back (1997) (TV) <br>
  The Right Connections (1997) (TV) <br>
  Sabrina, the Teenage Witch (1996) (TV) <br>
  Sabrina, the Animated Series (1999) (TV) <br>
  Twisted Desire (1996) (TV) <br>
  Clarissa (1995) (TV) <br>
  Family Reunion: A Relative Nightmare (1995) (TV) <br>
  Clarissa Explains It All (1991) (TV) <br>
</p>
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INSERT INTO `bios` VALUES ('m', 'Michelle Pfeiffer ', 'Michelle_Pfeiffer.jpg', '<p><strong>Michelle Pfeiffer </strong></p>
<p>Michelle Pfeiffer (born April 29, 1958) is an American actress and singer.</p>
<p>Born in Santa Ana, Orange County, California to Dick Pfeiffer and Donna Taverno, she has three siblings, an older brother and two younger sisters. She is of Dutch, German, Irish, Swedish and Swiss descent.</p>
<p>In 1981, she married actor Peter Horton, but they later divorced. In 1993, Pfeiffer adopted a girl, Claudia Rose Pfeiffer; later that year, she married producer David E. Kelley, the creator of the television series'' Chicago Hope and Ally McBeal; a biological son was born in 1994 to Kelley and Pfeiffer.</p>
<p>Her first starring role was in the 1982 musical Grease 2, which could hardly presage her illustrious career with wonderful performances in movies such as Married to the Mob, Batman Returns, Dangerous Minds and What Lies Beneath, among others. Her most recent work includes roles in the movies Sinbad: Legend of the Seven Seas, What Lies Beneath, White Oleander, and I Am Sam.</p>
<p>As a singer, she became most widely known with her role in The Fabulous Baker Boys.</p>
<p>Her younger sister Dedee Pfeiffer is also an actress, but mostly on TV.</p>
<p>&nbsp;</p>
<p><strong>Filmography</strong></p>
<p>Falling in Love Again (1980) <br>
  The Hollywood Knights (1980) <br>
  Charlie Chan and the Curse of the Dragon Queen (1981) <br>
  Grease 2 (1982) <br>
  Scarface (1983) <br>
  Into the Night (1985) <br>
  Ladyhawke (1985) <br>
  Sweet Liberty (1986) <br>
  The Witches of Eastwick (1987) <br>
  Amazon Women on the Moon (1987) <br>
  Married to the Mob (1988) <br>
  Tequila Sunrise (1988) <br>
  Dangerous Liaisons (1988) <br>
  The Fabulous Baker Boys (1989) <br>
  The Russia House (1990) <br>
  Frankie and Johnny (1991) <br>
  Batman Returns (1992) <br>
  Love Field (1992) <br>
  The Age of Innocence (1993) <br>
  Wolf (1994) <br>
  Dangerous Minds (1995) <br>
  Up Close &amp; Personal (1996) <br>
  To Gillian on Her 37th Birthday (1996) <br>
  One Fine Day (1996) (also executive producer) <br>
  A Thousand Acres (1997) (also producer) <br>
  The Uttmost (1998) (documentary) <br>
  The Prince of Egypt (1998) (voice) <br>
  The Deep End of the Ocean (1999) <br>
  A Midsummer Night''s Dream (1999) <br>
  The Story of Us (1999) <br>
  What Lies Beneath (2000) <br>
  I Am Sam (2001) <br>
  White Oleander (2002) <br>
  Sinbad: Legend of the Seven Seas (2003) (voice) <br>
  Chasing Montana (2005) (currently in pre-production) <br>
  I Could Never Be Your Woman (2006) (currently in pre-production) <br>
</p>
<p><strong>TV work</strong></p>
<p>The Solitary Man (1979) <br>
  Delta House (1979) (canceled after 15 episodes) <br>
  B.A.D. Cats (1980) (canceled after 6 episodes) <br>
  Callie &amp; Son (1981) <br>
  Splendor in the Grass (1981) <br>
  The Children Nobody Wanted (1981) <br>
  One Too Many (1983) <br>
  Tales from the Hollywood Hills: Natica Jackson (1987) <br>
</p>
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INSERT INTO `bios` VALUES ('m', 'Monica Keena ', 'Monica_Keena.jpg', '<p><strong>Monica Keena </strong></p>
<p>Monica Keena (born in Brooklyn, New York on May 25, 1979) is an American actress best known as Abby Morgan on Dawson''s Creek.</p>
<p>She has had major roles in such films as Ripe (1996), All I Wanna Do (1998), Crime and Punishment in Suburbia (2000), and Freddy vs. Jason (2003).</p>
<p>She also starred in the short-lived television show Undeclared (2001), as air-headed freshman Rachel Lindquist.</p>
<p>&nbsp;</p>
<p><strong>Filmography</strong></p>
<p>Fifty Pills (2005) <br>
  Long Distance (2005) <br>
  Man of the House (2005) <br>
  Freddy vs. Jason (2003) <br>
  Orange County (2002) <br>
  Undeclared (2001) (TV series) <br>
  Crime and Punishment in Suburbia (2000) <br>
  The Simian Line (2000) <br>
  A Fate Totally Worse Than Death (2000) <br>
  First Daughter (1999) (TV) <br>
  Strike! (1998) <br>
  Devil''s Advocate (1997) <br>
  Snow White: A Tale of Terror (1997) <br>
  Ripe (1996) <br>
  While You Were Sleeping (1995) <br>
  A Promise Kept: The Oksana Baiul Story (1994) (TV) <br>
</p>');
INSERT INTO `bios` VALUES ('n', 'Neve Campbell ', 'Neve_Campbell.jpg', '<p><strong>Neve Campbell </strong></p>
<p>Neve Adrianne Campbell (born on October 3, 1973) is a Canadian film and television actress.<br>
</p>
<p><strong>Early Life</strong></p>
<p>She was born in Guelph, Ontario to Gerry Campbell (a Catholic from Glasgow, Scotland) and Marnie Neve (a Dutch immigrant of Sephardic Jewish descent from Amsterdam, Netherlands).</p>
<p> <br>
  Neve CampbellCampbell began her public life as a dancer - she trained at the National Ballet School of Canada and featured in performances of The Nutcracker and Sleeping Beauty. Following several injuries, Campbell moved from dancing into acting at the age of 15, performing The Phantom of the Opera at the Pantages Theatre in Toronto. Her first starring role was on the short-lived Canadian television series Catwalk.</p>
<p>&nbsp;</p>
<p><strong>Movie Career</strong></p>
<p>Campbell rose to wider fame as lead character Julia Salinger in the teen drama series Party of Five, starring in the series from 1994 to 2000. She went on to star in movies such as The Craft, Scream (and its 2 sequels), Wild Things and Three to Tango. Following the end of the Scream series, Campbell''s career became more low-key, appearing in movies such as Too Smooth and Investigating Sex which did not receive wide releases. She received wide plaudits from critics however for her role in Panic alongside William H. Macy and Donald Sutherland.</p>
<p>Early in 2004, Campbell co-wrote, produced, and starred in The Company, a film about Chicago''s Joffrey Ballet directed by Robert Altman. Despite pre-release publicity suggesting otherwise, Campbell did not break her tradition of having a no-nudity clause in her contract for the film. She did do so for When Will I Be Loved, released later in 2004.</p>
<p>&nbsp;</p>
<p><strong>Private Life</strong></p>
<p>Campbell married Canadian actor Jeff Colt (born in 1964) in 1995; they divorced in 1998.</p>
<p>Campbell appears in campaign literature and videos for Tourette Syndrome Foundation of Canada and the Tourette Syndrome Association (a similar American organisation). Her younger brother, Damian Campbell, suffers from the syndrome. She also has an elder brother, actor Christian Campbell, and another brother, Alex.</p>
<p>&nbsp;</p>
<p><strong>Selected Filmography</strong></p>
<p>Reefer Madness (2005) (TV) <br>
  Churchill: The Hollywood Years (2004) <br>
  The Company (2003) <br>
  Scream 3 (2000) <br>
  Panic (2000) <br>
  Drowning Mona (2000) <br>
  Three to Tango (1999) <br>
  The Lion King II: Simba''s Pride (1998) (V) (voice) <br>
  Hairshirt (1998) <br>
  54 (1998) <br>
  Wild Things (1998) <br>
  Scream 2 (1997) <br>
  Scream (1996) <br>
  The Craft (1996) <br>
  Party of Five (1994) (TV series) <br>
  Catwalk (1992) (TV series) (1992&ndash;1993) <br>
</p>');
INSERT INTO `bios` VALUES ('n', 'Nicole Kidman ', 'Nochole_Kidman.jpg', '<p><strong>Nicole Kidman </strong></p>
<p>Nicole Mary Kidman (born June 20, 1967) is an Academy Award-winning American-born Australian actress, producer and singer.</p>
<p>&nbsp;</p>
<p><strong>Biography<br>
</strong></p>
<p><strong>Early life and career</strong></p>
<p>Kidman was born in Honolulu, Hawaii to Dr. Anthony David Kidman and Janelle Ann (nee MacNeille), who were of Scottish and Irish descent, and were both born in Australia. At the time, her father was a cancer research specialist in Washington, D.C. The family returned to Australia when Nicole was four years old, when Tony Kidman took on a lectureship at the University of Technology, Sydney.</p>
<p>Kidman started taking ballet lessons when she was four, and this led to studies at St. Martin''s Youth Theatre in Melbourne, the Australian Theatre for Young People in Sydney, and then at the Philip Street Theatre, where she majored in voice production and theatre history. She studied at North Sydney Girls High School, but dropped out when her mother was diagnosed with breast cancer; Kidman concentrated on her family responsibilities until her mother''s recovery.</p>
<p> <br>
  Nicole Kidman as Powder Puff in the 1983 film BMX BanditsHer first appearance on film came in 1983 when, as a 15 year-old, she appeared in the Pat Wilson music video for the song &quot;Bop Girl&quot;. By the end of the year she had secured a supporting role in the television series Five Mile Creek, and four film roles, including BMX Bandits and Bush Christmas. During the 1980s she appeared in several Australian movies and TV series, notably including the soap opera A Country Practice, the mini-series Vietnam (1986), Emerald City (1988), and Bangkok Hilton (1989). In 1989 she appeared in the successful thriller Dead Calm as Rae, the wife of naval officer John Ingram (Sam Neill), held captive on a Pacific yacht trip by the psychotic Hughie Warriner (Billy Zane). The role gained her considerable notice in the United States.<br>
</p>
<p><strong>Marriage to Tom Cruise</strong></p>
<p>Her American debut was in Days of Thunder (1990), a stock-car racing movie, in which she played opposite Tom Cruise. Although Cruise was married to actress Mimi Rogers at the time, he and Kidman began an affair. Cruise divorced Rogers and the couple married on Christmas Eve of 1990 in Telluride, Colorado. They adopted two children, Isabella and Connor, and lived in Los Angeles, California, Australia, Colorado, and New York.</p>
<p>After ten years, the marriage was dissolved in 2001: there was much media speculation about the reasons for this, but both celebrities maintained their privacy and were guarded in their public comments. One persistent rumour claims however that Kidman''s desire to bring up their children Catholic, and her critical views on Scientology caused problems in her marriage with Tom Cruise, who is an outspoken follower of the teachings of L. Ron Hubbard.</p>
<p>&nbsp;</p>
<p><strong>Hollywood career</strong></p>
<p>After Days of Thunder, Kidman starred with Cruise in Ron Howard''s Far and Away (1992).</p>
<p>1995 was to bring much success. Kidman featured in the all-star cast of Batman Forever and later that same year starred in To Die For, a satirical comedy that earned her high praise from critics, and talk of an Academy Award nomination for her performance, although this did not materialize. She did, however, win a Golden Globe award, and five other best actress awards for her comic portrayal of the murderous newscaster Suzanne Stone Maretto.</p>
<p> <br>
  DVD cover of To Die For depicting Nicole Kidman as Suzanne Stone MarettoKidman and Cruise portrayed a married couple in Eyes Wide Shut in 1999, Stanley Kubrick''s final film. It was the third time she had co-starred with Tom Cruise.</p>
<p>Kidman''s most professionally successful year thus far is 2001, with her Oscar-nominated performance in Moulin Rouge! and a well-received starring role in the horror film The Others. While in Australia filming Moulin Rouge!, Kidman injured her knee, so that Jodie Foster had to replace her in the Panic Room. The following year Kidman came back to win the same praise from critics for her portrayal of Virginia Woolf in The Hours. She won the Academy Award for Best Actress for this role. In the same year she took a hand at production for the film In the Cut.</p>
<p>In 2004, Kidman appeared in the remake of The Stepford Wives alongside Glenn Close, Faith Hill and Bette Midler. In September of the same year, Birth, in which the 37-year-old actress'' character falls in love with a 10-year-old boy (played by Cameron Bright) who attempts to convince her that he is a reincarnation of her dead husband, met with a mixed reception. Despite this, the film was nominated for the prestigious Golden Lion Award at the Venice Film Festival.</p>
<p>Kidman is author Philip Pullman''s number-one choice to play Mrs. Coulter in the proposed film version of the first volume of the His Dark Materials trilogy.</p>
<p>&nbsp;</p>
<p><strong>Awards<br>
</strong></p>
<p><strong>Film awards</strong></p>
<p>Kidman won the 2003 Academy Award for Best Actress for her performance as Virginia Woolf in The Hours: for the same film she won a BAFTA award. Kidman was nominated in 2002 for the Academy Award for Best Actress for her performance in the Academy Award winning musical, Moulin Rouge!.</p>
<p>She has also been nominated seven times for a Golden Globe, the first time being in 1992 for Best Supporting Actress in a Motion Picture. Kidman won her first of three Golden Globes in 1996 for Best Actress in a Comedy/Musical Motion Picture for the film To Die For, her second win was in 2002 again for Best Actress in a Comedy/Musical Motion Picture for Moulin Rouge!, her third win was in 2003 in the Best Actress in a Drama Motion Picture for the film The Hours. She was nominated four consecutive times in the Best Actress in a Drama Motion Picture Golden Globe, in the years 2002-2005, for the following films in chronological order: The Others, The Hours, Cold Mountain, and most recently Birth.</p>
<p>Kidman has won one British Academy Award (BAFTA), it was for her performance in The Hours. She was nominated for the BAFTA two other times, in 2002 and 1996. In 2003, Kidman was given the American Cinematheque Award. She won two MTV Movie Awards in 2002 for Moulin Rouge!. She has been nominated for three Screen Actors Guild Awards. In 2003, Kidman received her Star on the Walk of Fame in Hollywood, California.</p>
<p>In addition to those accolades, Kidman has received Best Actress awards from the folowing critics'' groups or award giving organizations: Australian Film Institute, Berlin International Film Festival, Blockbuster Entertainment Awards, Boston Society of Film Critics, Broadcast Film Critics Association, Empire Movie Awards, Golden Satellite Awards, Hollywood Film Festival, Kansas City Film Critics Circle, Las Vegas Film Critics Society, London Critics Circle, Prestige Academy of Motion Pictures &amp; Television, Russian Guild of Film Critics, Seattle International Film Festival, and the Southeastern Film Critics Association.<br>
</p>
<p><strong>Charitable work</strong></p>
<p>Kidman publicly supports a variety of charities and causes. She has been a high profile Goodwill Ambassador for UNICEF Australia since 1994. She has worked to help raise money for and draw attention to the plight of and the most disadvantaged children in Australia and around the world. In (2004) she was honoured as a &quot;Citizen of the World&quot; by the United Nations. Kidman was selected as the New South Wales Australian of the Year 2005. In 2005 she visited the tsunami-hit regions of SE Asia.<br>
</p>
<p><strong>Movies in production</strong></p>
<p>Emma''s War, Fur, American Darlings, Wedding Season, and the animated musical Happy Feet are future movies for Kidman. Kidman was cast in The Producers but had to pull out due to scheduling conflicts. She was replaced by Uma Thurman. Eucalyptus would have been Kidman''s first native film since Moulin Rouge! but filming was halted after producer Russell Crowe determined that the script needed to be re-written. The current movie starring Kidman out in 2005 is Bewitched, a revamped version of the classic sitcom. She just finished filming the Diane Arbus bio-pic Fur, and is currently filming Oliver Hirschbiegel''s science fiction movie, The Visiting in Washington D.C. There is a rumour that Kidman may star in an upcoming yet-to-be titled Baz Luhrmann Australian period film.<br>
</p>
<p><strong>Singing</strong><br>
    <br>
    Nicole Kidman and Robbie Williams in the &quot;Something Stupid&quot; music videoNot known as a singer prior to Moulin Rouge!, Kidman had several well received vocal performances in the film. Her collaboration with Ewan McGregor on the song Come What May, from the film''s soundtrack debuted and peaked at 27 in the UK Singles Chart. Later, she collaborated with Robbie Williams on the song Somethin'' Stupid, a cover of the old swing song on Williams'' swing covers album Swing When You''re Winning, debuting and peaking at 8 in the Australian ARIAnet Singles Chart, and at number 1 for three weeks in the UK, also becoming the UK Christmas number 1 Single for 2001. She was reportedly offered a recording contract from a very high-profile record company following the success of Moulin Rouge!, but turned it down, believing that a full-time singing career was not her destined path.<br>
</p>
<p><strong>Other notes</strong></p>
<p>A female shark under GPS observation in South Africa is named after her. <br>
  As Kidman was born in Hawaii, she is an American citizen by birth. She has dual nationality and carries both Australian and U.S. passports. <br>
  Kidman''s sister Antonia is an entertainment reporter for an Australian television program, and also has her own very successful parenting program title ''The Little Things'' set to be syndicated around the world. <br>
  Kidman is also a well renowned fashion paradigm and a frequent &quot;Best Dressed&quot; staple. <br>
  In August 2004, the Australian magazine BRW listed Kidman as the richest Australian woman under the age of 40, with an estimated worth of 155 million A$ (Australian dollars), or $107 million in United States dollars. <br>
  In January 2005, Kidman won interim restraining orders against two Sydney-based paparazzi photographers. <br>
  Listed 45th Most Powerful Celebrity on the 2005 Forbes Celebrity 100 List. She made a reported $14.5 million in 2004-2005. <br>
  Is known as one of the few A-list actresses who take risks on smaller indie/art films, doing Dogville in 2003 and Birth in 2004. <br>
  Celebrity News reports that Nicole Kidman is engaged to Keith Urban and pregnant with his child. <br>
</p>
<p><strong>Statistics</strong></p>
<p>Height:179cm Weight:60kg</p>
<p>&nbsp;</p>
<p><strong>Filmography</strong></p>
<p>BMX Bandits (1983) <br>
  Bush Christmas (1983) <br>
  Wills &amp; Burke (1985) <br>
  Archer''s Adventure (1985) <br>
  Windrider (1986) <br>
  Watch the Shadows Dance (1987) <br>
  The Bit Part (1987) <br>
  Emerald City (1988) <br>
  Dead Calm (1989) <br>
  Days of Thunder (1990) <br>
  Flirting (1991) <br>
  Billy Bathgate (1991) <br>
  Far and Away (1992) <br>
  Malice (1993) <br>
  My Life (1993) <br>
  To Die For (1995) <br>
  Batman Forever (1995) <br>
  The Leading Man (1996) <br>
  The Portrait of a Lady (1996) <br>
  The Peacemaker (1997) <br>
  Practical Magic (1998) <br>
  Eyes Wide Shut (1999) <br>
  Stanley Kubrick: A Life in Pictures (2001) (documentary) <br>
  Moulin Rouge! (2001) <br>
  The Others (2001) <br>
  Birthday Girl (2001) <br>
The Stepford Wives (2004)<br>
Panic Room (2002) (voice only) <br>
  The Hours (2002) <br>
  Dogville (2003) <br>
  Dogville Confessions (2003) (documentary) <br>
  The Human Stain (2003) <br>
  Cold Mountain (2003) <br>
  The Stepford Wives (2004) <br>
  Birth (2004) <br>
  The Interpreter (2005) <br>
  Bewitched (2005) <br>
  Fur (2006) (currently in post-production) <br>
  Happy Feet (2006) (voice) (currently filming) <br>
  The Visiting (2006) (currently filming) <br>
  The Lady from Shanghai (2006) (currently in pre-production) <br>
  Emma''s War (2006) (currently in pre-production) <br>
  American Darlings (2006) (currently in pre-production) (also as executive producer) <br>
  Wedding Season (2006) (announced) <br>
  The Land of The Setting Sun (2007) (announced) <br>
</p>
<p><strong>TV Work</strong></p>
<p>Skin Deep (1983) <br>
  Chase Through the Night (1983) <br>
  Five Mile Creek (1983-1985) <br>
  Matthew and Son (1984) <br>
  Winners (1985) (miniseries) <br>
  Room to Move (1987) <br>
  An Australian in Rome (1987) <br>
  Vietnam (1987) (miniseries) <br>
  Bangkok Hilton (1989) (miniseries) <br>
</p>');
INSERT INTO `bios` VALUES ('n', 'Nicolas Cage ', 'Nicolas_Cage.jpg', '<p><strong>Nicolas Cage </strong></p>
<p>Nicolas Cage (born January 7, 1964) is an American actor.</p>
<p>Born Nicholas Kim Coppola in Long Beach, California to August Coppola, an Italian American writer and professor, and Joy Vogelsang, a German American dancer. In 1976, Cage''s parents divorced and he moved to Beverly Hills with his father. He is the nephew of both Francis Ford Coppola and Talia Shire.</p>
<p>Cage changed his name early in order to try to make his own way in acting without benefiting from his uncle''s reputation. He chose the name Cage after the Marvel comic book hero Luke Cage, Power Man.</p>
<p>He had a small role in Fast Times at Ridgemont High (1982) (credited under the Coppola name), most of which ended on the cutting room floor. His next notable roles were in the 1983 movies Rumble Fish and Valley Girl, which was his breakout role.</p>
<p>He won an Academy Award for Best Actor for his role in Leaving Las Vegas (1995). He has developed a reputation for alternating roles in action movies with more serious character-driven dramas, as well as the occasional black comedy.</p>
<p>He has a son, Weston Coppola Cage (born 1990), by model Kristina Fulton. On April 8, 1995 he married actress Patricia Arquette. They divorced on May 18, 2001. On August 10, 2002 he married Lisa Marie Presley and filed for divorce less than four months later. They divorced on May 16, 2004. He married former waitress Alice Kim on July 30, 2004, in a private ceremony in northern California. He has another son, Kal-el Coppola Cage (born October 3, 2005 in New York City), by the latter.</p>
<p>Cage is an immense Elvis fan.</p>
<p>He also is a big fan of comic books, with his favorite character being Marvel Comics'' Ghost Rider, a carnival motorcyclist bent on revenge. In (July 2005), he landed the role of Johnny Blaze, Ghost Rider''s alter ego. The Ghost Rider movie is slated for 2006.</p>
<p>&nbsp;</p>
<p><strong>Filmography</strong></p>
<p>Fast Times at Ridgemont High (1982) <br>
  Valley Girl (1983) <br>
  Rumble Fish (1983) <br>
  Racing with the Moon (1984) <br>
  The Cotton Club (1984) <br>
  Birdy (1984) <br>
  The Boy in Blue (1986) <br>
  Peggy Sue Got Married (1986) <br>
  Raising Arizona (1987) <br>
  Moonstruck (1987) <br>
  Never on Tuesday (1988) (Cameo) <br>
  Vampire''s Kiss (1989) <br>
  Time to Kill (1990) <br>
  Fire Birds (1990) <br>
  Wild at Heart (1990) <br>
  Zandalee (1991) <br>
  Red Rock West (1992) <br>
  Honeymoon in Vegas (1992) <br>
  Deadfall (1993) <br>
  Amos &amp; Andrew (1993) <br>
  A Century of Cinema (1994) (documentary) <br>
  Guarding Tess (1994) <br>
  It Could Happen to You (1994) <br>
  Trapped in Paradise (1994) <br>
  Kiss of Death (1995) <br>
  Leaving Las Vegas (1995) <br>
  The Rock (1996) <br>
  Sean Connery, an Intimate Portrait (1997) (documentary) <br>
  Con Air (1997) <br>
  Face/Off (1997) <br>
  City of Angels (1998) <br>
  Snake Eyes (1998) <br>
  Junket Whore (1998) (documentary) <br>
  8mm (1999) <br>
  Bringing Out the Dead (1999) <br>
  The Family Man (2000) <br>
  Gone in Sixty Seconds (2000) <br>
  Welcome to Hollywood (2000) (documentary) <br>
  Italian Soldiers (2001) (documentary) <br>
  Captain Corelli''s Mandolin (2001) <br>
  Christmas Carol: The Movie (2001) (voice) <br>
  Windtalkers (2002) <br>
  Sonny (2002) (also director and producer) <br>
  Adaptation. (2002) <br>
  Matchstick Men (2003) <br>
  National Treasure (2004) <br>
  Lord of War (2005) (also producer) <br>
  The Weather Man (2005) <br>
  Ghost Rider (2006) (currently in post-production) <br>
  The Wicker Man (2006) (currently filming) (also producer) <br>
  Ant Bully (2006) (voice) (currently filming) <br>
  Untitled Oliver Stone/September 11 Project (2006) (currently in pre-production) <br>
  Amarillo Slim (2006) (currently in pre-production) (also producer) <br>
  Time Share (2006) (currently announced start of production) (also producer) <br>
</p>');
INSERT INTO `bios` VALUES ('n', 'Nikki Cox ', 'Nikki_Cox.jpg', '<p><strong>Nikki Cox </strong></p>
<p>Nikki Cox (born Nicole Avery Cox on June 2, 1978 in Los Angeles, California) is an American actress.</p>
<p>Cox''s career as an entertainer started at the age of four, as she appeared as a dancer in several ballet productions and tv specials. At the age of ten, she got into acting, as she made appearances in several movies, and guest starred on shows such as Baywatch, California Dreams, Star Trek: The Next Generation and Blossom. She starred on General Hospital from 1993-1995.</p>
<p>Her appearances on various tv shows would lead to her first prime-time starring role as Tiffany Malloy on the sitcom Unhappily Ever After, a role that she had for the show''s entire four year run. With her astonishingly good looks and her character''s penchant to wear revealing outfits, many viewed her as the only reason to watch a sitcom which was generally viewed as a Married... with Children ripoff.</p>
<p>After &quot;Unhappily&quot; left the airwaves, she would portray Taylor Clayton on the sitcom Norm and star as Nikki White in Nikki, a sitcom vehicle that would only last for less than two seasons. She currently stars as Mary Connell on the drama Las Vegas. On May 20th and 23rd, her Las Vegas character will cross over to NBC soap opera Passions to coincide with the arrival of two new characters introduced in Las Vegas.</p>
<p>Cox was engaged in 1999 to Bobcat Goldthwait, a comedian who played the voice of Mr. Floppy (a stuffed bunny) on Unhappily Ever After and is more than fifteen years her senior. She was later linked to Josh Duhamel.</p>
<p>&nbsp;</p>
<p><strong>Selected filmography</strong></p>
<p>Run Ronnie Run! (2002) <br>
  Nutty Professor II: The Klumps (2000) <br>
  The Glimmer Man (1996) <br>
  Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991) <br>
</p>');
INSERT INTO `bios` VALUES ('o', 'Orlando Bloom', 'Orlando_Bloom.jpg', '<p><strong>Orlando Bloom </strong></p>
<p>Orlando Jonathan Blanchard Bloom was born on January 13, 1977 in Canterbury, England) is an English actor who became famous playing Legolas in The Lord of the Rings movie trilogy. He has also had major roles in Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl, Troy, The Calcium Kid, and his first lead role in Kingdom of Heaven. Bloom is currently filming the sequel Pirates of the Caribbean 2: Dead Man''s Chest.</p>
<p>Bloom was born in Canterbury, Kent to Sonia J. Copeland, who was born in India to an English physician father, doctor Francis Copeland. Although he had originally thought that his father was South African Jewish lawyer Harry Bloom (who died in 1981), his mother revealed to Orlando in his teens that his biological father was not Bloom, but family friend Colin Stone. Orlando attended St Edmund''s School in Canterbury, but struggled due to his dyslexia. In 1993, he moved to London and joined the National Youth Theatre, spending two seasons there and earning a scholarship to train at the British American Drama Academy. He had a few television roles and made his film debut in Wilde (1997), opposite Stephen Fry, before entering the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in London. In 1998, he broke his back in a three story fall, and it was briefly feared that he would never walk again. However, he made a complete recovery and walked out of the hospital twelve days later. He had metal plates inserted into his backbone to support it, which have since been removed, except for a single screw. He regularly performs yoga and Pilates to strengthen his back.</p>
<p> <br>
  Bloom with actor Liam Neeson in the film &quot;Kingdom of Heaven&quot;.While also still in drama school he landed his first major role as Legolas in The Lord of the Rings trilogy (2001&ndash;2003). Whilst shooting a scene, he broke a couple of his ribs. He fully recovered and continued shooting. This turned Bloom from an unknown actor into one of world''s hottest celebrities. IMDBPro''s StarMeter reported that Bloom was the most searched-for actor in January 2002, one month after The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring was released. In the same year he was also chosen as one of Teen People Magazine''s &quot;25 Hottest Stars Under 25&quot;. He was named People Magazine''s hottest Hollywood bachelor in the magazine''s 2004 list.</p>
<p>The cast of the Rings movies was nominated for Best Ensemble Acting at the Screen Actors Guild Awards for three years in a row. They finally won in 2003, for the third film The Return of the King. Bloom has also won other various Empire and Teen Choice Awards, and has been nominated for many others.</p>
<p>Bloom has said that he uses the philosophies of Nichiren Buddhism in 2004, a religion that he has long associated himself with.</p>
<p>&nbsp;</p>
<p><strong>Filmography</strong></p>
<p>Pirates of the Caribbean 3 (2007) &ndash; Will Turner <br>
  Pirates of the Caribbean 2: Dead Man''s Chest (2006) &ndash; Will Turner <br>
  Love and Other Disasters (2006) &ndash; Hollywood Paolo <br>
  Elizabethtown (2005) &ndash; Drew Baylor <br>
  Kingdom of Heaven (2005) &ndash; Balian <br>
  Haven (2004) &ndash; Shy (also co-producer) <br>
  Troy (2004) &ndash; Paris <br>
  The Calcium Kid (2004) &ndash; Jimmy Connelly <br>
  The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003) &ndash; Legolas Greenleaf <br>
  Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl (2003) &ndash; Will Turner <br>
  Ned Kelly (2003) &ndash; Joe Byrne <br>
  The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (2002) &ndash; Legolas Greenleaf <br>
  Black Hawk Down (2001) &ndash; PFC. Todd Blackburn <br>
  The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001) &ndash; Legolas Greenleaf <br>
  Midsomer Murders: Judgement Day (2000) &ndash; Peter Drinkwater <br>
  Wilde (1997) &ndash; Rentboy <br>
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INSERT INTO `bios` VALUES ('p', 'Pamela Anderson ', 'Pamela_Anderson.jpg', '<p><strong>Pamela Anderson </strong></p>
<p>Pamela Denise Anderson (born July 1, 1967) is a Canadian international television actress, model, producer, and sex symbol known for her beauty, curvaciously enhanced figure, and revealing fashions, her tongue-in-cheek acting, and reports of her personal life in tabloid newspapers.</p>
<p><strong>Early life</strong></p>
<p>Anderson was born in 1967 in Ladysmith, British Columbia, Canada of partially Finnish ancestry (her paternal grandfather, Juho Hyyti&auml;inen, left Finland in 1908). As the first baby born on Canada''s Centennial Day (unexpectedly well past midnight, at 4:08 in the morning), the newborn Anderson won fame as the nation''s &quot;Centennial Baby&quot;.</p>
<p>She was subsequently &quot;discovered&quot; in 1989 when, attending a B.C. Lions football game wearing a Labatt''s beer t-shirt, her image was shown on the stadium''s giant screen. She was hired by Labatt''s to promote their product, and soon after, she appeared in Playboy magazine. She later had breast augmentation and collagen to enhance her appearance. Her natural hair color is brown and she bleaches her own hair at home according to her personal stylist.</p>
<p><strong>Acting Career</strong></p>
<p>Anderson''s first major television role was on the United States hit television sitcom Home Improvement (1991-1993).<br>
</p>
<p>But her rise to stardom came primarily from her role as C J Parker (1992-1997) on Baywatch. In 1996, she appeared in a feature film, Barb Wire, which failed to achieve commercial success; and in 1998 she appeared in her own television series, V.I.P., which ran for four seasons. As of April 13, 2005, Anderson starred on a new FOX TV series, Stacked as Skylar Dayton.<br>
</p>
<p><strong>Personal life</strong></p>
<p>In addition to her fame from modelling and acting, Anderson has gotten a great deal of press attention for her flamboyant personal life. She married rock star Tommy Lee of the band M&ouml;tley Cr&uuml;e after knowing him for only 96 hours, and subsequently bore him two sons, Brandon and Dylan. After reported incidents of spousal abuse and alcoholism on the part of Lee, Anderson filed for divorce twice and reconciled twice, before the couple finally broke up for good. During the period of her marriage, she was known professionally as Pamela Anderson Lee. Since her divorce, she has become engaged to model Marcus Schenkenberg, broken up with him, and became engaged to rock musician Kid Rock.</p>
<p>Anderson has also had relationships with Scott Baio, &quot;Baywatch&quot; co-star David Charvet, and musician Bret Michaels of the band Poison. She has also allegedly has had affairs with celebrities including Sylvester Stallone, Dean Cain, surfer Kelly Slater, Ben Affleck, Fred Durst, and reality TV star Eric Nies.</p>
<p>A pornographic home video of Pamela Anderson and Tommy Lee was stolen from their home, and made a huge stir on the Internet. Anderson sued the company, the Internet Entertainment Group, that was distributing the video. Ultimately the courts awarded Anderson and Lee $1.5 million plus attorney fees for their share of the profits.[1] The popularity and profitability of the video sparked a miniature genre within the porn film industry, and since then many homemade porn videos of celebrities have been released to the public through home video and Internet channels (either with or without the participants'' co-operation). Frames of the video first appeared in Penthouse Magazine in March of 1998.</p>
<p>In March 2001, Christine Evelyn Roth pled guilty to a misdemeanor charge of trespassing and was deported to her home country, France. The woman had been arrested while sleeping in a guest room of Anderson''s home, but she was only charged with trespassing and not the more serious crime of stalking.</p>
<p>In March 2002, Anderson publicly stated that she had contracted the Hepatitis C virus from Lee (supposedly from sharing tattoo needles), and began writing a regular column for Jane magazine. Lee denies having the disease. Anderson became the celebrity spokesperson for the American Liver Foundation, and served as the Grand Marshall of the SOS motorcycle ride fundraiser. In October 2003, Anderson jokingly said on Howard Stern''s radio show that she does not expect to live more than ten or fifteen years [2], but this was misconstrued and taken seriously by many Internet sites and tabloids.</p>
<p>Anderson became a naturalized citizen of the United States on May 12, 2004, while retaining her Canadian citizenship, for the purpose of sponsoring her parents (or at least her mother) for a green card. She has lived in southern California since 1989.</p>
<p>She is currently a columnist for the Canadian Elle magazine, stars in the sitcom Stacked and voices the cartoon vixen Agent 69 Stripperella in the series of the same name. She has also voiced herself in the series.</p>
<p>Anderson has often spoken revealingly about her private life. On a visit to the David Letterman show in 2004, she said she had not been dating for some time, and when Letterman asked her how she was coping, she responded, &quot;There''s not a square corner left anywhere in my house!&quot; Letterman left that comment unanswered while the audience hooted.<br>
</p>
<p><strong>Novelist</strong></p>
<p>In 2004, Pamela Anderson released the book Star, in which she describes a young teenager doing different things in order to reach fame. After this, she began touring across the States, signing autographs to fans at Wal-Mart stores nationwide.</p>
<p>A sequel, Star Struck, released in 2005, is a thinly veiled look at her life with Tommy Lee and the travails of celebrity life.</p>
<p>&nbsp;</p>
<p><strong>Animal rights</strong></p>
<p>In 1999, Anderson received the Linda McCartney Award for animal rights protectors.</p>
<p>In 2001, Anderson released a letter in support of PETA''s vandalism of Kentucky Fried Chicken; stating, &quot;What KFC does to 750 million chickens, each year, is not civilized or acceptable.&quot;</p>
<p>In 2003, Anderson stripped down for PETA''s &quot;I''d Rather Go Naked Than Wear Fur&quot; advertising campaign.</p>
<p>Many people have questioned her actual knowledge of Animal Rights Issues. In a 2005 interview with Larry King the subject came up, with King asking her what her position on testing medications and treatments on animals if it could ultimately help save the lives of people. In response she admited she didn''t know they tested drugs on animals and stated &quot;I don''t know anything about that.&quot; Advocating the end to Animal drug testing is one of the prime premises of most Animal Rights groups.</p>
<p>&nbsp;</p>
<p><strong>Filmography</strong><br>
</p>
<p>The Taking of Beverly Hills (1991) </p>
<p>Snapdragon (1993) </p>
<p>Raw Justice (1994) </p>
<p>Naked Souls (1995) </p>
<p>Barb Wire (1996) </p>
<p>The Making of Bret Michaels (2002) (documentary) </p>
<p>Scooby-Doo (2002) (Cameo) </p>
<p>Earthlings (2003) (documentary) </p>
<p>Pauly Shore Is Dead (2003) </p>
<p>Scary Movie 3 (2003) </p>
<p>No Rules (2005) (Cameo) <br>
</p>
<p><strong>TV work<br>
</strong></p>
<p>Home Improvement (cast member from 1991-1993) </p>
<p>Baywatch: River of No Return (1992) </p>
<p>Baywatch (cast member from 1992-1997) </p>
<p>Come Die with Me: A Mickey Spillane''s Mike Hammer Mystery (1994) </p>
<p>Baywatch: Forbidden Paradise (1995) </p>
<p>V.I.P. (1998-2002) (also executive producer) </p>
<p>Baywatch: Hawaiian Wedding (2003) </p>
<p>Stripperella (2003-present) (voice) </p>
<p>Stacked (2005-present) </p>
<p>&nbsp;</p>
<p><strong>Her appearances in Playboy Special Editions</strong><br>
</p>
<p>Playboy''s Playmate Review Vol. 7 June 1991. </p>
<p>Playboy''s Nudes December 1991 - cover. </p>
<p>Playboy''s International Playmates January 1992. </p>
<p>Playboy''s Girls of Summer ''92 June 1992. </p>
<p>Playboy''s Girls of Summer ''93 June 1993 - pages 6-7, 44. </p>
<p>Playboy''s Wet &amp; Wild Women July 1993. </p>
<p>Playboy''s Video Playmates August 1993. </p>
<p>Playboy''s Book of Lingerie Vol. 33 September 1993. </p>
<p>Playboy''s Book of Lingerie Vol. 34 November 1993. </p>

<p>Playboy''s Book of Lingerie Vol. 35 January 1994. </p>
<p>Playboy''s Book of Lingerie Vol. 36 March 1994. </p>
<p>Playboy''s Playmates in Paradise March 1994 - pages 38-43. </p>
<p>Playboy''s Book of Lingerie Vol. 37 May 1994. </p>
<p>Playboy''s Girls of Summer ''94 June 1994. </p>
<p>Playboy''s Book of Lingerie Vol. 38 July 1994. </p>
<p>Playboy''s Nudes November 1994. </p>
<p>Playboy''s Hot Denim Daze May 1995 - page 15. </p>
<p>Playboy''s Nude Celebrities June 1995 - cover. </p>
<p>Playboy''s Sexy 100 February 2003 - cover. </p>
<p>&nbsp;</p>
<p>Disappearing labia: In the original Playboy spread, one of Pamela''s poses was a little more revealing than Playboy normally provides. In subsequent reprintings in Newstand Specials, as well as in a mass-market poster, that area was airbrushed.</p>
<p><strong>Pro wrestling</strong></p>
<p>Pamela made an appearance at the World Wrestling Federation''s Wrestlemania XI on April 2, 1995 as the guest valet for WWF World Heavyweight Champion Diesel. Diesel was wrestling Shawn Michaels who had Jenny McCarthy as his guest valet. Diesel left after pinning Michaels with Anderson &amp; McCarthy. <br>
</p>
<p><strong>Trivia</strong></p>
<p>Has been called &quot;the most famous blonde in the world&quot; </p>
<p>Has a small bald patch on her scalp due to a injury involving the removal of a brunette wig. </p>
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INSERT INTO `bios` VALUES ('p', 'Paris Hilton ', 'Paris_Hilton.jpg', '<p><strong> Paris Hilton </strong></p>
<p>Paris Whitney Hilton (born February 17, 1981) is an American celebrity, known primarily for her partying ways and her television shows. She is an American heiress of the Hilton Hotel fortune and her father''s real estate fortune, she is a socialite, model, singer, and actress. She has been described as a &quot;celebutante,&quot; a portmanteau of &quot;celebrity&quot; and &quot;debutante&quot;<br>
</p>
<p><strong>Background</strong></p>
<p>She was born in New York City, the eldest of four children of Richard Hilton and Kathy Richards. Her younger sister is Nicky Hilton, and her younger brothers are Barron Hilton and Conrad Hilton.</p>
<p>On the maternal side of her family, Hilton is a niece of two popular child stars of the 1970s, Kim Richards and Kyle Richards, who appeared in the motion picture Escape to Witch Mountain and TV shows like Nanny and the Professor, Little House on the Prairie, and later, ER. By marriage, she also is related to Zsa Zsa Gabor (the Hungarian-born actress who married Paris Hilton''s great-grandfather Conrad Hilton) as well as Elizabeth Taylor (the actress''s first husband was Paris Hilton''s great-uncle, Conrad Nicholson Hilton Jr.).</p>
<p>Her paternal grandparents are hotel chairman Barron Hilton and his wife, the former Marilyn Hawley, and her paternal great-grandparents were Hilton Hotel founder Conrad Hilton and his first wife, Mary Barron. When Conrad Hilton died in 1979, he left nothing in his will to his children or other descendants. Barron Hilton contested this decision and won in 1988. According to Forbes magazine in 2005, the net worth of Barron Hilton is estimated at just over US $1 billion, of which Paris is expected to inherit a little over US $50 million.</p>
<p>Hilton moved between several exclusive homes in her youth, including a suite in the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel in Manhattan, Beverly Hills, and the Hamptons. Currently, her parents own a $10 million mansion in Bel Air, a $6.3 million estate in the Hamptons, as well as $3 million house in the Hollywood Hills in which she and her sister stay to give them privacy and easy access to LA clubs.</p>
<p>After attending high school at the Dwight School in New York, but dropping out and eventually earning a GED, Hilton decided not to attend a university. Instead, she worked as a fashion model for Catherine Malandrino and Marc Bouwer, and on an ad campaign for Italian label Iceberg. She appeared in cameo roles in Zoolander (2001), The Cat in the Hat (2003) and Win a Date with Tad Hamilton! (2004).</p>
<p>What really shot Hilton to prominence was a sex video of her with her then-boyfriend Rick Salomon, which was leaked onto the Internet shortly after The Simple Life debuted, causing a sensation. On June 9, 2004 it was released as a DVD titled 1 Night in Paris which was hosted by Salomon. Hilton sued Salomon for releasing the tape, but the suit was settled, with Hilton receiving US $400,000 and a percentage of the profits.</p>
<p>Hilton is often seen with her teacup Chihuahua, Tinkerbell.</p>
<p>&nbsp;</p>
<p><strong>Model, actress, entrepreneur</strong></p>
<p>In recent years Hilton has gained recognition by appearing in television, movies, commercials, and modeling. According to Forbes magazine, in 2003-2004 she earned approximately US$2 million for her television and movie roles, but in 2004-2005 her earnings from television, movies, modeling, and personal appearances have earned her an additional $6.5 million. During this period Forbes Magazine has ranked Hilton as one of the top 100 celebrities in the world.</p>
<p>She also appeared in the short subjects QIK2JDG and L.A. Knights, as well as minor and supporting roles in the feature movies House of Wax, The Hillz, Wonderland, Uptown Girls, Raising Helen and Nine Lives. She landed her first lead role in a theatrical release with National Lampoon''s Pledge This! (2005).</p>
<p>Hilton and Nicole Richie (daughter of Lionel) starred in the 2003 FOX hit reality series The Simple Life, in which they lived with a family on their farm in rural Altus, Arkansas. Highlights of the show included the girls performing poorly at various jobs, making out with the local boys, and numerous instances of them shown as &quot;fish out of water.&quot; On March 19, 2004, Hilton suffered a horseback riding accident while filming The Simple Life 2, requiring treatment at a hospital. Following the success of the first season of the show, Hilton is now being paid around US$3 million per season.</p>
<p>In April 2005, however, Hilton announced that she severed both personal and professional ties with Richie. Neither party has commented on the reason why, though Hilton has alluded that it is due to actions on the part of Richie. Unconfirmed reports suggest that Hilton hosted a party to watch her performance as host of Saturday Night Live, but that Richie switched the SNL tape with a tape of Hilton''s infamous sex video.</p>
<p> <br>
  Paris Hilton parodied on the satirical cartoon, South Park.She was also the subject of a negative South Park episode entitled &quot;Stupid Spoiled Whore Video Playset&quot; in which she opens a store called &quot;Stupid Spoiled Whore&quot; selling girls everything they need to emulate her.</p>
<p>In November 2004, Hilton participated in Sean &quot;P. Diddy&quot; Combs'' Vote or Die campaign, to encourage youths to vote in the Presidential election. She drew criticism when it was revealed she did not vote, nor had she even registered to do so. Ironically, she would somewhat fulfill her theoretical obligation to &quot;die&quot; when the promoters of her film, House of Wax, employed a notorious &quot;See Paris die&quot; advertisement campaign, highlighting the death scene of her character in the film.</p>
<p>On top of her acting career, she has also helped to design purses for Samantha Thavasa and Toys for Tots, and has created her own jewelry line for Amazon.com. Currently, her design work earns around US$250,000 per year.</p>
<p>She is the founder of Heiress Records, a label on which she plans to release her debut album in 2006, tentatively titled Paris is Burning. Her first single entitled ''Screwed'' has been leaked to the Internet and has been remixed by Alex G. Her producer for the album will be Jane Wiedlin from The Go-Go''s. Hilton will also be working with Scott Storch. She will be covering Blondie''s hit ''Heart of Glass'' for her album. She describes the album as pop, rock and hip hop, she says it sounds like Blondie and Madonna.</p>
<p>&nbsp;</p>
<p><strong>Celebrity</strong></p>
<p>Hilton and her sister, Nicki, are known for their jet-set lifestyles. Paris in particular has been trying to build herself into a marketable brand much like Donald Trump, claiming she must be regarded as a role model.</p>
<p>She has been widely discussed by tabloids. In 2000, the National Enquirer reported a casual friendship with Leonardo DiCaprio as something far more intimate. She has, however, also been linked with others young guys too, including actor Edward Furlong, boxer Oscar De La Hoya, model Jason Shaw, Chicago Bears football player Brian Urlacher, and singers Rob Mills, Deryck Whibley, and Backstreet Boy Nick Carter. While Hilton was dating Carter, she sported bruises, which caused rumors that Carter may have beat her. This rumor was neither confirmed nor denied by Hilton at the time. A few months later, she announced that those &quot;bruises&quot; were from a magazine photo shoot (just when the magazine was coming out.) She was, for this reason, blamed by the press.</p>
<p>Hilton has also received some gossip attention for a variety of other incidents, mainly party antics. She has been said to have pushed in front of others in line for a public bathroom, saying she only wanted to look at herself in the mirror. She has reportedly danced on the top of bar banquettes, worn shirts reading &quot;Got Blow?,&quot; and other times worn no top at all. One of her more famous quotes is: &quot;What''s a soup kitchen?&quot; Her most famous quote, however, is probably &quot;That''s hot,&quot; as she has used it in myriad situations.</p>
<p>Hilton received an offer from the U.S. version of the reality TV show &quot;Big Brother&quot; to participate in their show. Rumors said she has been offered more than US$1.8 million. If she will agree to be in the reality-show, &ldquo;she will join a bizarre band of ex-strippers, beauty queens, a married couple and a virgin, who are living under 24 hour scrutiny on the set&quot;.</p>
<p>Paris has also been featured in several television commercials including a T-Mobile commercial for which she was paid $250,000 and her Carl''s Jr. commercial (see more below) for which she was paid $400,000 according to Forbes Magazine.</p>
<p>Hilton has been a spokes-woman for the products of GUESS clothing.</p>
<p>In the fall of 2004, Hilton released a book, Confessions of an Heiress: A Tongue-in-Chic Peek Behind the Pose, which brings full color photographs of her and gives her tips on the dos and don''ts of living as an heiress. Hilton was reportedly given a $100,000 advanced payment for this book. Some in the media panned the writing as amateurish, and the book was parodied by Robert Mundell on The Late Show with David Letterman. Still, it became a New York Times bestseller.</p>
<p>She has a new book that will hit shelves in September.</p>
<p>&nbsp;</p>
<p><strong>Sex Symbol</strong><br>
    <br>
    DVD cover for 1 Night in Paris. <br>
    The cover of the March 2005 issue of PlayboyIn the March 2005 issue of Playboy, she was named the &quot;Sex Star of the Year&quot; in their list of the 25 Sexiest Celebrities. Someone appearing to be her was on the cover of the issue, but she did not pose for it; she says she does not know where Playboy got that picture. </p>
<p>&nbsp;</p>
<p><strong>Hacked address book</strong></p>
<p>On February 19, 2005, the contents of Hilton''s personal T-Mobile account were posted to the Internet. They included phone numbers (which included many celebrities such as Christina Aguilera, Fred Durst, Eminem, Lindsay Lohan, Alsou, Jay-Z, Anna Kournikova, Snoop Dogg, Andy Roddick, Benjie Paras, Avril Lavigne, Frankie Muniz, Ashlee Simpson, Jerry Yan), notes (with even more numbers and email addresses and reminders such as her date to host Saturday Night Live), and thirty-five digital snapshots. In two of the leaked photos, Hilton is standing topless next to the MTV Latin America''s VJ Eglantina Zingg, whom she kisses. This further added to the speculation that Hilton might be gay or bisexual. Many of her notes showed heavy usage of Internet slang.</p>
<p>Within days, it was revealed that Hilton''s account could be accessed by anyone guessing the answer to the &quot;forgotten password&quot; challenge question she chose: &quot;What is your favorite pet''s name?&quot; As the answer to this question is a matter of public record, an anonymous party was able to guess it and notify the press.</p>
<p>In September, it was reported that a 17-year old teenager in Massachusetts, known by his online alias Cam0, plead guilty to accessing Hilton''s account and making bomb threats. He was sentenced to 11 months in a juvenile detention center and prohibited from using computers or other devices that can connect to the internet for two years. </p>
<p>&nbsp;</p>
<p><strong>&quot;That''s hot!&quot;</strong></p>
<p>&quot;That''s hot!&quot; is a phrase used by Hilton (although an earlier usage is attributed to her Simple Life co-star Nicole Richie [10] and has been used by others for many years). The catch phrase, a synonym for &quot;That''s cool&quot; or &quot;That''s awesome,&quot; has since been parodied in pop culture outlets such as Saturday Night Live and even by Hilton herself, on The Late Show with David Letterman.</p>
<p>In 2004, Hilton filed a successful request to trademark the phrase. She wishes to market clothing with the phrase prominently emblazoned on the garments; she felt it was time to trademark the phrase because &quot;I''ve been saying it forever. I want to put it on T-shirts and stuff like that.&quot; </p>
<p>&nbsp;</p>
<p><strong>Advertisement controversy</strong></p>
<p>Another controversy involving Hilton was her appearance in a Carl''s Jr. television advertisement, originally broadcast in May 2005. In the commercial, which introduces the restaurant''s &quot;Spicy BBQ Six Dollar Burger&quot;, Hilton wears a provocative swimsuit and soaps up a Bentley automobile and herself before taking a big bite out of the burger.</p>
<p>This has drawn criticism from television watchdog groups, including the Parents Television Council. The research director for the PTC, Melissa Caldwell, says; &quot;This commercial is basically soft-core porn. The way she moves, the way she puts her finger in her mouth - it''s very suggestive and very titillating.&quot; The Los Angeles, California based group says they plan to mobilize their more than 1 million members to contact the restaurant chain and voice their concern.</p>
<p>Andy Puzder, CEO of Carl''s Jr., says the group needs to &quot;get a life... This isn''t Janet Jackson; there is no nipple in this. There is no nudity, there is no sex acts; it''s a beautiful model in a swimsuit washing a car.&quot; Puzder was referring to the Super Bowl XXXVIII halftime show controversy. According to Forbes Magazine, Carl''s Jr. paid Hilton $400,000 for filming in this commercial.</p>
<p>FOX News host Bill O''Reilly speculated that Hilton did not in fact eat the burgers she endorsed and was therefore dishonest, inviting her to come on his show The O''Reilly Factor and eat one of the burgers on the air, thus proving him wrong. Hilton has not thus far acknowledged the invitation.</p>
<p>In addition to featuring the ad on their website, Carl''s Jr. has also built a separate site to play a longer version of the commercial. A similar ad with Hilton for Hardee''s hamburger chain (also owned by Carl''s Jr. parent corporation CKE Restaurants) is expected to air June 2005.</p>
<p>Before this deal with Carl''s Jr., Hilton lost out on a $750,000 multi-commercial deal with Burger King because the company did not feel her sexy image was a good fit with their brand.</p>
<p>&nbsp;</p>
<p><strong>Perfume &amp; Cologne</strong></p>
<p>In early May of 2004, Parlux Fragrances (who have made fragrances for Guess, Perry Ellis, XOXO) announced that they would be releasing a fragrance line created by Hilton. The perfume would be aptly named &quot;Paris Hilton&quot;. The scent was described as &quot;a brilliant flirtatious charm, this head-turning fragrance can be dressed up or down for both day and evening wear.&quot; The scent consists of &quot;an ethereal halo with delicious notes of frozen Apple and juicy Peach Nectar wrapped with sparkling Muguet and a splash of wet Ozone. A luminous bouquet of sensual floralcy is at the heart of this fragrance. Delicate Mimosa Blossoms are entwined with sheer Freesia and Night-Blooming Jasmine petals, while heady, rich Tuberose provides depth and texture.&quot;</p>
<p>The perfume launch was a success. Originally set to be a small release , demand became popular and they had a wide release before Christmas of 2004. The launch was a big part of the Parlux stock increasing 30%. Ilia Lekach, a CEO at Parlux, said &quot;I am delighted with our record performance and I&rsquo;m optimistic regarding results through the end of our fiscal year. We have recently commenced shipments of our Paris Hilton fragrance which has surpassed our expectations.&quot;</p>
<p>After the success of Hilton''s perfume, Parlux Fragrances had her create Paris Hilton for Men, a cologne that has a &quot;sensual aura.&quot; The packaging states : &quot;Paris Hilton knows how she likes a man to smell, so she has created a scent to share with her male admirers around the world.&quot; The colgone is available at Lazarus-Macy''s. Sales reports are not available.</p>
<p>On South Park, she has a perfume dubbed Skanque.</p>
<p>&nbsp;</p>
<p><strong>Engagement</strong></p>
<p>Although she has been linked to many other famous men, on May 29, 2005 it was announced that she was to marry her boyfriend of five months, Paris Latsis, son of Gregory Kasidokostas and Mariana Latsis, a Greek shipping heir.</p>
<p>However, on October 1, 2005 Hilton announced that the five month engagement had been called off, saying &quot;I feel I''m just not ready for marriage.&quot; See also: Paris Hilton &amp; Fiance Paris Latsis @ SPIDER, video (8 May 2005, ourmedia)</p>
<p>She was also engaged to Tommy Hilfiger model Jason Shaw from mid 2002 to early 2003.</p>
<p>&nbsp;</p>
<p><strong>Criticism</strong></p>
<p>There have been arguments that Hilton is a &quot;good for nothing&quot; celebrity, and that her appearances in films and on TV are &quot;phony&quot; and aimed at promoting herself. Much of this media scrutiny has only served to propel her to greater lengths of fame. Some critics, however, have given her credit for her work in modeling (before 2001, when she became a public figure) and dramatic ability, and consider Hilton''s carefully crafted image to be the reason for her success. The only thing that both the critics and public credit her for doing is ''Opening the doors for other rich girls or &quot;heiresses&quot; wanting to be famous.''</p>
<p>&nbsp;</p>
<p><strong>Trivia</strong></p>
<p>She is 173 cm (5 ft 8 in). <br>
  She loves shopping at a store called Kitson. <br>
  Is of Norwegian heritage <br>
  Nicole Ritchie is her former best friend <br>
  Sister of Nicky Hilton, Barron Nicholas Hilton, and Conrad Hughes Hilton. <br>
  Daughter of Rick Hilton and Kathy Richards. <br>
  She is 34B-25-35. <br>
  She wears a size 11 shoe. <br>
  Her favorite color is pink. <br>
  Her favorite sport is golf. <br>
</p>
<p><strong>Filmography</strong><br>
    <br>
    Hilton in House Of Wax.Wishman (1991) (Girl on the Beach) <br>
    Sweetie Pie (2000) (Girl) <br>
    Zoolander (2001) (Herself) (Cameo) <br>
    Nine Lives (2002) (Jo) <br>
    QIK2JDG (2002) (short subject) (Strung-Out Supermodel) <br>
    L.A. Knights (2003) (short subject) (Sadie) <br>
    Pauly Shore Is Dead (2003) (Herself) <br>
    Wonderland (2003) (Barbie) <br>
    The Cat in the Hat (2003) (Female Club Goer) <br>
    1 Night in Paris (2004) (herself) <br>
    Win a Date with Tad Hamilton! (2004) (Herself) (Cameo) <br>
    Raising Helen (2004) (Amber) <br>
    The Hillz (2004) (Heather) <br>
    House of Wax (2005) (Paige Edwards) <br>
    National Lampoon''s Pledge This! (2005) (currently in post-production) (also executive producer) (Victoria English) <br>
    Bottom''s Up (2006) (currently in post-production) (Lisa Mancini) <br>
</p>
<p><strong>Selected TV appearances</strong><br>
    <br>
    Nicole Richie and Paris Hilton on The Simple Life 3The Simple Life (2003) (reality series regular) ... Herself <br>
    Las Vegas (February 2, 2004) ... Madison ... episode: Things That Go Jump in the Night <br>
    The George Lopez Show (February 27, 2004) ... Ashley ... episode: Jason Tutors Max <br>
    The O.C. (March 24, 2004) ... Kate ... episode: The L.A. <br>
    The Simple Life 2: Road Trip (2004) (reality series regular) ... Herself <br>
    Veronica Mars (September 28, 2004) ... Caitlin Ford ... episode: Credit Where Credit''s Due <br>
    The Simple Life 3: Interns (2005) (reality series regular) ... Herself <br>
    Saturday Night Live (February 5, 2005) ... Hosting ... <br>
    American Dreams (March 16, 2005) ... Barbara Eden of &quot;I Dream of Jeannie&quot; <br>
    Live at Much Music (May 3, 2005) ... With the cast of House of Wax. <br>
    The Diary (May 8, 2005) ... Becky ...episode: The Truth <br>
KL Minute (June 2, 2005) ... Archive Footage as Herself/Paige Edwards of House of Wax... episode: Original One </p>');
INSERT INTO `bios` VALUES ('p', 'Patricia Heaton ', 'Patricia_Heaton.jpg', '<p><strong>Patricia Heaton </strong></p>
<p>Patricia Heaton (born March 4, 1958) is an American actress best known for playing Debra Barone on the television sitcom Everybody Loves Raymond.</p>
<p>Heaton was born in Bay Village, a suburb of Cleveland, Ohio, the daughter of well-known Cleveland Plain Dealer sportswriter Chuck Heaton. Her mother died when she was a small child. She moved to New York City to study with drama teacher William Esper after graduating from The Ohio State University.</p>
<p>Heaton made her Broadway debut in the musical Don''t Get God Started, after which she and fellow students created Stage Three, an off-Broadway acting troupe. When they brought one of their productions to Los Angeles, Heaton caught the eye of a casting director for the ABC drama thirtysomething, in which she played an oncologist, leading to three appearances on the series. She was featured in three unsuccessful sitcoms - Room for Two (1992) with Linda Lavin, Someone Like Me (1994), and Women of the House (1995) with Delta Burke - before landing the plum role of beleaguered wife, mother, and in-law Debra Barone in Everybody Loves Raymond (1996 - 2005) with Ray Romano, Doris Roberts, Peter Boyle, Brad Garrett, and Monica Horan. Since 1999, she has been nominated every year for an Outstanding Lead Actress in a Comedy Series Emmy, winning the award twice. She has also collected two Viewers for Quality Television awards and a Screen Actors Guild trophy for her work on the series.</p>
<p>Heaton''s television movies include Shattered Dreams, Miracle in the Woods, A Town Without Christmas, as well as the remake of Neil Simon''s The Goodbye Girl with Jeff Daniels, and The Engagement Ring, both for TNT. Her feature films include Memoirs of an Invisible Man, Beethoven, and Space Jam.</p>
<p>Heaton is a pro-life activist and is the honorary chairperson of Feminists for Life, a nonsectarian, nonpartisan organization (whose members include Jane Sullivan Roberts, wife of John Roberts) opposed to domestic violence, child abuse, infanticide, and, especially, abortion. She is an active Republican and supporter of President George Walker Bush. Although she has been quoted as saying &quot;once a Catholic, always a Catholic&quot;, Heaton now attends an evangelical Presbyterian church with her husband and children.</p>
<p>Her memoir, Motherhood and Hollywood - How to Get a Job Like Mine, was published by Villard Books in 2002. Heaton has been married to British businessman David Hunt II since 1990. The couple has four sons and divides their time between Los Angeles and England, where they own a country estate. Her first marriage (1984-1987) ended in divorce. Since 2003, Heaton has appeared in a series of television and radio commercials as spokesperson for the Albertsons grocery store chain. She has also appeared in advertisements for Pantene hair care products. Heaton has a development deal and will have her own show on ABC.</p>
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INSERT INTO `bios` VALUES ('p', 'Penelope Cruz ', 'Penelope_Cruz.jpg', '<p><strong>Penelope Cruz</strong></p>
<p>Pen&eacute;lope Cruz S&aacute;nchez, nicknamed simply Pe, is a Spanish actress. She was born April 28, 1974 in Madrid and named after a song by Joan Manuel Serrat. Her parents are Eduardo Cruz, a retailer, and Encarna S&aacute;nchez, a hairdresser. Cruz was a dancer as a child and young teen. She completed 2&ordm; B.U.P. (2nd year of secondary school), but dropped school at the age of 15 after she beat more than 300 other girls at a talent agency audition. She received nine years of classic ballet training at the Conservatorio Nacional in Madrid, four years of dance performance with several dance courses at the Cristina Rota School in New York, and three years of Spanish Ballet with &Aacute;ngela Garrido. She also had Jazz Dance courses with Ra&uacute;l Caballero.</p>
<p>She first achieved fame when she appeared in the video clip La fuerza del destino for the Spanish synth-pop group Mecano. She then started a relationship with Nacho Cano, a member of the group, which lasted for several years.</p>
<p>She was a TV presenter for the teen-oriented program La Quinta Marcha, in collaboration with Jes&uacute;s V&aacute;zquez.</p>
<p>Cruz''s first major films were Jam&oacute;n, Jam&oacute;n and the more widely known (in the US) Belle Epoque, a film which won an Academy Award for Foreign Language Film.</p>
<p>She also appeared with Matt Damon in All the Pretty Horses.</p>
<p>In 1999, she appeared in Pedro Almod&oacute;var''s Todo sobre mi madre which won an Academy Award for Foreign Language Film.</p>
<p>In early 2001, she appeared in the film Vanilla Sky with Tom Cruise, which sparked a three-year relationship with the actor.</p>
<p>Her younger sister M&oacute;nica Cruz closely resembles her, a similarity exploited for some Spanish TV ads. In the 2000s, M&oacute;nica left her dancing career and achieved fame on her own in the youth-oriented TV series Un Paso Adelante.</p>
<p>In 2005, Cruz appeared on Punk''d, MTV''s Version of Candid Camera. Cruz called Ashton Kutcher and told him that they have to get her Bandidas co-star Salma Hayek. So, with Ashton Kutcher''s help, Cruz Punk''d Hayek for the mess that they made in the restaurant restroom.<br>
</p>
<p><strong>Partial filmography</strong></p>
<p>The Loop (announced) (2006) (announced) <br>
  Volver (pre-production) (2006) <br>
  Bandidas (post-production) (2005) Maria <br>
  Chromophobia (post-production) (2005) Gloria <br>
  Sahara (2005) <br>
  Noel (2004) <br>
  Don''t Move (2004) <br>
  Head in the Clouds (2004) <br>
  Gothika (2003) <br>
  Fanfan la tulipe (2003) <br>
  Vanilla Sky (2001) <br>
  Captain Corelli''s Mandolin (2001) <br>
  Blow (2001) <br>
  Woman On Top (2000) <br>
  All the Pretty Horses (1999) <br>
  Open Your Eyes (Abre los ojos) (1997) <br>
  Jamon Jamon (1993) <br>
  Belle Epoque (1993) Luz (aka Belle &eacute;poque (France) aka The Age of Beauty) <br>
</p>
<p><strong>Herself - filmography</strong></p>
<p>In Search of Ted Demme (2005) (pre-production) .... Herself <br>
  The 77th Annual Academy Awards (2005) (TV) .... Herself - Co-presenter: Best Sound, Best Sound Editing <br>
  The 47th Annual Grammy Awards (2005) (TV) .... Herself <br>
  XIX premios Goya (2005) (TV) .... Herself - Presenter: Best Picture &amp; Nominee: Best Lead Actress <br>
  Punk''d (2005) (TV) .... Herself <br>
  The 2004 European Film Awards (2004) (TV) .... Herself <br>
  Women on Top: Hollywood and Power (2003) (TV) .... Herself <br>
  XVII premios Goya (2003) (TV) .... Herself - Presenter: Best Film <br>
  ''Masked &amp; Anonymous'' Exposed (2003) (V) .... Herself <br>
  Hitting It Hard (2002) (V) .... Herself <br>
  Prelude to a Dream (2002) (V) .... Herself <br>
  Paul McCartney Back in the U.S. (2002) (TV) .... Herself (thanks) <br>
  All About Desire: The Passionate Cinema of Pedro Almodovar (2001) (TV) (aka All About Desire) (UK: short title) <br>
  America: A Tribute to Heroes (2001) (TV) .... Herself <br>
  The 73rd Annual Academy Awards (2001) (TV) (uncredited) .... Herself - Presenter: Best Costume Design <br>
  Italian Soldiers (2001) .... Herself (aka Spaghetti Requiem)) (USA) <br>
  2000 Blockbuster Entertainment Awards (2000) (TV) .... Herself <br>
  The 72nd Annual Academy Awards (2000) (TV) .... Herself - Co-Presenter: Best Foreign Language Film <br>
</p>
<p><strong>Accolades</strong></p>
<p><strong><br>
  ALMA Awards</strong></p>
<p>2002 Nominated ALMA Award Outstanding Actress in a Motion Picture for: Vanilla Sky (2001) <br>
  1999 Nominated ALMA Award Outstanding Actress in a Feature Film for: The Hi-Lo Country (1998) </p>
<p><strong><br>
  Blockbuster Entertainment Awards</strong></p>
<p>2001 Nominated Blockbuster Entertainment Award Favorite Actress - Drama/Romance for: All the Pretty Horses (2000) </p>
<p><br>
  <strong>David di Donatello Awards</strong></p>
<p>2004 Won David Best Actress (Migliore Attrice Protagonista) for: Non ti muovere (2004) </p>
<p><br>
  <strong>European Film Awards</strong></p>
<p>2004 Won Audience Award Best Actress for: Non ti muovere (2004) <br>
  2004 Nominated European Film Award Best Actress for: Non ti muovere (2004) <br>
  2003 Nominated Audience Award Best Actress <br>
  for: Fanfan la tulipe (2003)</p>
<p>2001 Nominated Audience Award Best Actress for: Captain Corelli''s Mandolin (2001) <br>
  1999 Nominated European Film Award Best Actress for: Ni&ntilde;a de tus ojos, La (1998) </p>
<p><strong><br>
  Fotogramas de Plata</strong></p>
<p>1999 Won Fotogramas de Plata Best Movie Actress (Mejor Actriz de Cine) </p>
<p><br>
  <strong>Goya Awards</strong></p>
<p>2005 Nominated Goya Best Lead Actress (Mejor Actriz Principal) for: Non ti muovere (2004) <br>
  1999 Won Goya Best Lead Actress (Mejor Actriz Principal) for: Ni&ntilde;a de tus ojos, La (1998) <br>
  1993 Nominated Goya Best Lead Actress (Mejor Actriz Principal) for: Jam&oacute;n, jam&oacute;n (1992) </p>
<p><br>
  <strong>Imagen Foundation Awards</strong></p>
<p>2003 - Creative Achievement Award </p>
<p><br>
  <strong>MTV Movie Awards</strong></p>
<p>2002 Nominated MTV Movie Award Breakthrough Female Performance for: Blow (2001) </p>
<p><br>
  <strong>Ondas Awards</strong></p>
<p>1993 Won Film Award Best Acting (Mejor Interpretaci&oacute;n) Tied with Javier Bardem (No award category given officially). </p>
<p><br>
  <strong>Pe&ntilde;&iacute;scola Comedy Film Festival</strong></p>
<p>1995 Won Best Actress for: Todo es mentira (1994) </p>
<p><br>
  <strong>Razzie Awards</strong></p>
<p>2002 Nominated Razzie Award Worst Actress for: Blow (2001) <br>
  Also for Captain Corelli''s Mandolin (2001) <br>
  and Vanilla Sky (2001). </p>
<p><br>
  <strong>Spanish Actors Union</strong></p>
<p>1999 Won Award of the Spanish Actors Union Film: Lead Performance (Protagonista Cine) for: Ni&ntilde;a de tus ojos, La (1998) <br>
  1998 Nominated Award of the Spanish Actors Union Film: Performance in a Minor Role (Reparto Cine) for: Carne tr&eacute;mula (1997) <br>
  1993 Won Award of the Spanish Actors Union Film: Supporting Performance (Secundario Cine) for: Belle epoque (1992) <br>
  1993 Nominated Newcomer Award for: Jam&oacute;n, jam&oacute;n (1992) <br>
</p>');
INSERT INTO `bios` VALUES ('r', 'Rachael Leigh Cook ', 'Rachael_Leigh_Cook.jpg', '<p><strong>Rachael Leigh Cook </strong></p>
<p>Rachael Leigh Cook (born on October 4, 1979) is an American actress.</p>
<p>&nbsp;</p>
<p><strong>Biography</strong></p>
<p>Cook was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota to Thomas Howard Cook and JoAnne Maria Mozzone (an Italian American). She began working as a print model at the age of 10, most notably in nationwide advertisements for Target and appearing on the boxes of Milk-Bone dog biscuits for medium sized dogs.</p>
<p>At 14, Cook began auditioning for acting work. Her modeling agency sent her to read for a short film, 26 Summer Street (1996). She first gained national attention when she was featured in the memorable This is Your Brain on Drugs public-service television advertisement. Success in the acting profession followed quickly and she debuted in The Baby-Sitters Club (1995).</p>
<p>Her two biggest roles to date have been the leads in She''s All That (1999) and Josie and the Pussycats (2001). Cook has also appeared in a number of independent films and in the 2005 television miniseries Into the West.</p>
<p>She owns her own production company called Ben''s Sister Productions, the name of which is a reference to her younger brother, Ben, who is an aspiring filmmaker.</p>
<p>After becoming engaged in December 2003, she married actor Daniel Gillies in August 2004.<br>
</p>
<p><strong>Filmography</strong><br>
    <br>
    Rachael Leigh Cook as Lisa Calighan in AntiTrustInto the West (TV) (2005) <br>
    Fearless (TV) (2004) <br>
    My First Wedding (2004) <br>
    American Crime (2004) <br>
    Stateside (2004) <br>
    Tempo (2003) <br>
    11:14 (2003) <br>
    Bookies (2003) <br>
    The Big Empty (2003) <br>
    Bookies (2003) <br>
    29 Palms (2002) <br>
    Sally (2002) <br>
    Scorched (2002) <br>
    Tangled (2001) <br>
    Texas Rangers (TV) (2001) <br>
    Josie and the Pussycats (2001) <br>
    Blow Dry (2001) <br>
    AntiTrust (2001) <br>
    Get Carter (2000) <br>
    The Bumblebee Flies Anyway (1999) <br>
    The Hi-Line (1999) <br>
    She''s All That (1999) <br>
    Living Out Loud (1998) <br>
    The Naked Man (1998) <br>
    The Hairy Bird (1998) <br>
    The Eighteenth Angel (1997) <br>
    The House of Yes (1997) <br>
    Carpool (1996) <br>
    26 Summer Street (1996) <br>
    Tom and Huck (1995) <br>
    The Baby-Sitters Club (1995) <br>
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INSERT INTO `bios` VALUES ('r', 'Rebecca Romijn-Stamos ', 'Rebecca_Romijn_Stamos.jpg', '<p><strong>Rebecca Romijn-Stamos </strong></p>
<p>Rebecca A Romijn (born November 6, 1972) is an actress and former supermodel. She was born in Berkeley, California to Jaap Romijn and Elizabeth Kuizenga, both of whom are of Dutch ancestry.</p>
<p>While studying music at the University of California, Santa Cruz, she became involved with modeling and eventually moved to Paris, France for more than two years. Among other jobs, she modeled for the swimsuit issue of Sports Illustrated and for Victoria''s Secret. She also was the host of MTV''s House of Style from 1998 to 2000.</p>
<p>In 2000''s X-Men, she had her first major movie role as &quot;Mystique&quot;; she returned to the role in 2003''s sequel X2: X-Men United, and is currently being trained by Jerry O''Connell for her role in X-Men 3, expected for release in 2006. In these movies her costume consisted of blue makeup and some strategically placed prosthetics on her otherwise nude body. She had her first leading role in Brian De Palma''s Femme Fatale (2002). She also has starred in movies such as Rollerball and Godsend.</p>
<p>It was announced she will play the leading role in Pepper Dennis, a TV series set for 2006.</p>
<p>She married actor John Stamos on September 19, 1998. During her marriage, she used the name Rebecca Romijn-Stamos in both her personal and professional life. The couple announced their separation on April 12, 2004 and divorced on March 1, 2005. She has returned to using her birth name. On September 20, 2005, Romijn''s publicist confirmed her engagement to Jerry O''Connell .<br>
</p>
<p><strong>Filmography</strong><br>
    <br>
    Rebecca Romijn on the cover of Premiere <br>
    As Mystique in X2.X-Men 3 (2006) - Mystique <br>
    Man About Town (2005) - Nina Giamoro <br>
    The Alibi (2005) - Lola Davis <br>
    The Punisher (2004) - Joan <br>
    Tron 2.0: Killer App (2004) - (voice) Mercury <br>
    Godsend (2004) - Jessie Duncan <br>
    Tron 2.0 (2003) - (voice) Mercury <br>
    X2 (2003)- Mystique <br>
    S1m0ne (2002) - (uncredited) Faith <br>
    Femme Fatale (2002)- Laure Ash/Lily <br>
    Rollerball (2002) - Aurora <br>
    X-Men (2000) - Mystique <br>
    Dirty Work (1998) - Bearded Lady <br>
</p>
<p><strong>Television</strong></p>
<p>Pepper Dennis (2006) - Pepper Dennis <br>
  Jack &amp; Jill (2000) - Paris Everett <br>
  Hefner: Unauthorized (1999 - 2000) - Kimberly Hefner <br>
  Just Shoot Me (1999) - Adrienne Barker <br>
  House of Style (1998-2000) - Host <br>
  Friends (1997) - Cheryl <br>
</p>');
INSERT INTO `bios` VALUES ('r', 'Reese Witherspoon ', 'Reese_Witherspoon.jpg', '<p><strong>Reese Witherspoon </strong></p>
<p>Laura Jean Reese Witherspoon (born March 22, 1976) is an American actress perhaps most familiar as Elle Woods in the film Legally Blonde (2001) and its sequel Legally Blonde 2: Red, White and Blonde (2003).<br>
</p>
<p><strong>Biography</strong></p>
<p>Witherspoon was born in Baton Rouge, Louisiana to John Witherspoon (a surgeon) and Betty Reese (a nurse and college professor); Reese is a direct descendant of Scottish-born John Witherspoon, a signer of the United States Declaration of Independence and founder of Princeton University, who was also a Presbyterian minister. Reese spent much of her childhood and adolescence in Goodlettsville, Tennessee, a suburb of Nashville. She has a older brother named John, who works as a real estate broker. After graduating high school from Nashville''s prestigious Harpeth Hall School, she attended Stanford University as a literature major. After completing a year of her studies, Reese left Stanford to pursue her acting career.</p>
<p>&nbsp;</p>
<p><strong>Personal life</strong></p>
<p>Witherspoon married actor Ryan Phillippe on June 5, 1999. They starred in a movie together, Cruel Intentions, before they were engaged. They have two children together: Ava Elizabeth Phillippe, born September 9, 1999, and Deacon Phillippe, born October 23, 2003.</p>
<p>&nbsp;</p>
<p><strong>Career</strong></p>
<p>Reese Witherspoon is known for her versatility as an actress, playing both comedic and dramatic roles. She has won Best Actress awards from the National Society of Film Critics and the Online Film Critics Society. Among her critically-acclaimed performances are Vanessa in Freeway and Tracy Flick in Election. Witherspoon was the voice of the animated character Greta Wolfecastle in an episode of The Simpsons. She became best known for her role in 2001''s Legally Blonde, but is currently being critically praised for her turn as June Carter in Walk the Line, and is rumoured to be a potential Best Actress nominee for the 2005 Oscars.</p>
<p>&nbsp;</p>
<p><strong>Filmography</strong><br>
    <br>
    Legally Blonde (2001)<br>
    The Man in the Moon (1991) <br>
    A Far Off Place (1993) <br>
    Twilight (1998) <br>
    Overnight Delivery (1998) <br>
    Pleasantville (1998) <br>
    Cruel Intentions (1999) <br>
    Election (1999) <br>
    Best Laid Plans (1999) <br>
    American Psycho (2000) <br>
    Little Nicky (2000) <br>
    The Trumpet of the Swan (2001) (voice) <br>
    Legally Blonde (2001) <br>
    The Importance of Being Earnest (2002) <br>
    Sweet Home Alabama (2002) <br>
    Legally Blonde 2: Red, White and Blonde (2003) <br>
    Vanity Fair (2004) <br>
    Just Like Heaven (2005) <br>
    Walk the Line (2005) <br>
    Whiteout (2005) (currently announced start of production) <br>
    Sports Widow (2006) (currently announced start of production) (also producer) <br>
    Rapunzel Unbraided (2007) (currently announced start of production) (voice) <br>
</p>');
INSERT INTO `bios` VALUES ('r', 'Roselyn Sanchez ', 'Roselyn_Sanchez.jpg', '<p><strong>Roselyn Sanchez </strong></p>
<p>Roselyn Sanchez (born April 2nd, 1973 in Santurce, Puerto Rico) is the first person to play a hispanic character in one of the most popular soap operas in the U.S..</p>
<p> <br>
  Roselyn SanchezRoselyn is the youngest of four siblings - having three older brothers. She received her primary education in San Juan. At a young age she showed an interest in both dancing and acting and would put on shows for her family. Roselyn enrolled in the University of Puerto Rico, where like her father and brothers she was to study marketing. However, this was not her calling and after three years she left the course.</p>
<p>In 1991, at the age of 21, Roselyn moved to New York City, where she took classes in dancing, acting and singing. She returned to Puerto Rico and in 1992, she made her movie debut, having landed a small part as an island girl in the movie Captain Ron, which was partly filmed on the island, starring Martin Short and Kurt Russell.</p>
<p>In 1993, Roselyn won the Miss Puerto Rico Petite contest and in 1994 she won the international title of Miss America Petite. In Puerto Rico, she gained public attention as a dancer and co-host of the island''s #1 variety show, at that time, &quot;Que Vacilon&quot;.</p>
<p>Roselyn returned to New York and landed her first English speaking role in the CBS soap opera, &quot;As The World Turns&quot;. She became the first hispanic to play a Latina character, when she played the role of &quot;Pilar Domingo&quot; from 1996 until 1997.</p>
<p>In 2001, Roselyn was cast as &quot;Isabella Molina&quot;, a secret customs agent who was Jackie Chan''s love interest in the movie Rush Hour 2. In 2003, she played the role of &quot;Lorena&quot; in the movie Chasing Papi starring alongside Jaci Velasquez and Sofia Vergara.</p>
<p>Roselyn Sanchez has already acted in 20 movies and has been cast in the role of Maria in the Hollywood production Edison and in the role of &quot;Karen Lopez&quot; in the production of &quot;Underclassman&quot;, both due out in 2005. She is also cast in the movies Venus &amp; Vegas and Cayo which are in the post-prodution stages. She is in the process of composing a musical about a singer/dancer/actress who leaves Puerto Rico to hit the big time in New York, in this she is going to play the principal part. In 2005, her first musical recording &quot;Borinque&ntilde;a&quot; will be out in the market. She is preparing for her role in The Perfect Sleep, a neo-noir drama, where she is co-staring with Patrick Bauchau, Tony Amendola, Isaac Singleton and Peter Lucas. She has also joined the cast of Without a Trace.</p>
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INSERT INTO `bios` VALUES ('r', 'Russell Crowe ', 'Russell_Crowe.jpg', '<p><strong>Russell Crowe</strong></p>
<p>Russell Ira Crowe (born April 7, 1964) is an Oscar-winning film actor born in Wellington, New Zealand of Welsh, Norwegian and 1/16th Maori extraction. Crowe currently resides in Australia at both his Sydney home and his rural New South Wales property.<br>
</p>
<p><strong>Early life and career</strong></p>
<p>When he was four years old, his family moved to Australia where his parents pursued a career in filmset catering. His maternal grandfather, Stan Wyemss, was a cinematographer whom Crowe says produced the first film by director Geoff Murphy. The producer of the Australian TV series Spyforce was his mother''s godfather, and Crowe at age 5 or 6 got hired for a line of dialogue in one episode, opposite series star Jack Thompson, whom years later played Crowe''s father in The Sum of Us.</p>
<p>Crowe attended Sydney Boys High School. When he was 14, his family moved back to New Zealand, where he then attended the Auckland Grammar School. He did not complete secondary school, leaving early to help his family financially. Crowe returned to Australia at 21, intending to apply to the National Institute of Dramatic Art. &quot;I was working in a theater show, and talked to a guy who was then the head of technical support at NIDA,&quot; Crowe recalled. &quot;I asked him what he thought about me spending three years at NIDA. He told me it''d be a waste of time. He said, ''You already do the things you go there to learn, and you''ve been doing it for most of your life, so there''s nothing to teach you but bad habits'' &quot; .</p>
<p>After appearing in the TV series Neighbours and Living with the Law, Crowe was cast in his first film, The Crossing (1990), a small-town love triangle directed by George Ogilvie. Before production started, a film-student protege of Ogilvie''s, Steve Wallace, hired Crowe for the film &quot;Blood Oath,&quot; a.k.a. &quot;Prisoners of the Sun&quot; (1990), which though filmed later was released a month ealier.</p>
<p>&nbsp;</p>
<p><strong>Hollywood</strong></p>
<p>After initial success in Australia, Crowe began acting in American films. A three-time Oscar nominee, he won the Academy Award as Best Actor in 2001 for Gladiator, and he was also nominated for the Best Actor award for The Insider and A Beautiful Mind.</p>
<p>On March 9, 2005, Crowe revealed to GQ magazine that Federal Bureau of Investigation agents had approached him prior to the 73rd Academy Awards on March 25, 2001 and told him that the Islamist terrorist group al-Qaeda wanted to kidnap him. Crowe told the magazine that it was the first time he had ever heard of al-Qaeda (the September 11 attacks took place later that year) and was quoted as saying:</p>
<p>&quot;You get this late-night call from the FBI when you arrive in Los Angeles, and they''re, like, absolutely full-on. ''We&rsquo;ve got to talk to you now before you do anything. We have to have a discussion with you, Mr. Crowe.''&quot; Crowe recalled that &quot;it was something to do with some recording picked up by a French policewoman, I think, in either Libya or Algiers...it was about taking iconographic Americans out of the picture as a sort of cultural-destabilization plan.&quot; <br>
  Crowe was guarded by Secret Service agents for the next few months, both while shooting films and at award ceremonies (Scotland Yard also guarded Crowe while he was promoting Proof of Life in London in February 2001). Crowe said that he &quot;never fully understood what the fuck was going on.&quot; The FBI confirmed Crowe''s statement (which is uncharacteristic of the agency in that it usually does not comment to the media).</p>
<p>&nbsp;</p>
<p><strong>Temperament</strong><br>
    <br>
Russell Crowe, fighting ''round the worldCrowe has a reputation for bad temper and a predeliction for brawling. This was parodied in an episode of the cartoon South Park.</p>
<p>He won the Best Actor in the 2002 British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA) awards for his portrayal of John Nash in A Beautiful Mind. During the presentation for his award, he planned to read a piece of poetry called Sanctity by Patrick Kavanagh but was cut short to fit in the BBC''s tape-delayed broadcast. At the awards after party, he accosted producer Malcolm Gerrie. Crowe later apologised for his actions, but many believe this incident was responsible for depriving Crowe of the Oscar for Best Actor that year. A Beautiful Mind won four of the eight awards for which it was nominated, with the lone and conspicuous exception being Crowe''s nomination for Best Actor.</p>
<p>In March 2002, musician Moby alleged that Crowe had shoved him against the wall of a toilet in a Sydney night club and called him &quot;American,&quot; but it was later revealed that Crowe was actually in Ecuador when the incident was alleged to have taken place.</p>
<p>The following month, a court heard charges against several men who were trying to sell a security tape featuring Crowe on the night of November 18, 1999 being involved in a melee, and later engaging in an argument with a couple.</p>
<p>In the early morning of June 6, 2005, Crowe was arrested and charged with second degree assault by New York Police, in connection with an incident at the Mercer Hotel, SoHo, New York, in which a broken telephone was thrown at the hotel front desk, striking a hotel employee. He was further charged with fourth-degree criminal possession of a weapon i.e. the telephone.</p>
<p>Crowe released a statement saying he was jet-lagged, missing his family in Australia and became frustrated after having repeated difficulties making a phone call to his wife in Australia . The concierge, Nestor &quot;Josh&quot; Estrada, was treated for a facial laceration on his upper right cheek. A Crowe spokesperson has said a phone was thrown at a wall but no person was assaulted. Crowe has publically apologized to Estrada, saying the incident was a &quot;low point in his life.&quot;</p>
<p>His attorney is Gerald Lefcourt. In mid-August 2005, the Daily Mail reported that Crowe settled out of court with Estrada, agreeing to pay him $10.8 million in damages; the paper also reported that the NYPD will not pursue criminal charges against Crowe. Crowe''s publicist later acknowledged that a deal had been reached, saying that &quot;Both sides expressed satisfaction at the resolution.&quot; Australian tabloids claims that the true figure is about $100,000.</p>
<p>On November 18 2005, Crowe pleaded guilty to third-degree assault after throwing a telephone at a concierge at the Mercer Hotel. Crowe had said that the outburst was due to frequently being unable to get a telephone connection sp to contact his wife and child during his stay at the hotel. He was sentenced to conditional release on the basis that he not be arrested in the United States for a year and pay US$160 in court costs.</p>
<p>&nbsp;</p>
<p><strong>Family and general interests</strong></p>
<p>On April 7, 2003, his 39th birthday, Crowe married the Australian singer and actress Danielle Spencer. Their son, Charles Spencer Crowe, was born on December 21 that year. Crowe previously dated the American filmstar Meg Ryan, after they met while filming Proof of Life (2000).</p>
<p>Two of Russell Crowe''s cousins, Martin and Jeff Crowe are former New Zealand cricket captains. Crowe is a major supporter of the South Sydney Rabbitohs rugby league team.</p>
<p>&nbsp;</p>
<p><strong>Music Career</strong></p>
<p>Crowe is also a singer and composer. He was the lead singer and guitarist of an Australian pub rock band, 30 Odd Foot Of Grunts, which formed in 1992. The band had found neither critical nor popular success but had several releases including 1998''s Gaslight, 2001''s Bastard Life or Clarity and 2003''s Other Ways of Speaking, plus various CD releases now out of print. His early stage name was &quot;Rus Le Roq&quot; and he was billed as such while performing with the Australian production of Rocky Horror.</p>
<p>According to a message from Crowe on his band''s web site, the group has &quot;dissolved/evolved&quot; and his music would take a new direction. He continued with a collabortion with Alan Doyle of the Canadian band, Great Big Sea, in early 2005. A new single, Raewyn, was released on April 19, 2005. Former members of his previous band have taken part in the new project. An album entitled My Hand, My Heart has been released for download on iTunes and includes a tribute song to the late actor, Richard Harris, who became a close friend when the two were making Gladiator.</p>
<p>According to Russell, there is no 30 Odd Foot Of Grunts without his longtime musical partner, Dean Cochran, who was absent for the recording of My Hand, My Heart. Though Dean was present for a mid-2000s show in Le Thor, France. and took part in the filming of a music video for the song Weight of a Man, the band was billed as Russell Crowe and Friends.</p>
<p>&nbsp;</p>
<p><strong>Filmography</strong></p>
<p>Neighbours (TV Show) (1987) <br>
  The Crossing (1990) <br>
  Prisoners of the Sun (1990) <br>
  Hammers Over the Anvil (1991) <br>
  Proof (1991) <br>
  The Efficiency Expert (1992) <br>
  Romper Stomper (1992) <br>
  For the Moment (1993) <br>
  Love in Limbo (1993) <br>
  The Silver Stallion: King of the Wild Brumbies (1993) <br>
  The Sum of Us (1994) <br>
  The Quick and the Dead (1995) <br>
  No Way Back (1995) <br>
  Virtuosity (1995) <br>
  Rough Magic (1995) <br>
  L.A. Confidential (1997) <br>
  Heaven''s Burning (1997) <br>
  Breaking Up (1997) <br>
  Mystery, Alaska (1999) <br>
  The Insider (1999) <br>
  Gladiator (2000) <br>
  Proof of Life (2000) <br>
  A Beautiful Mind (2001) <br>
  Texas (2002) (documentary) (also director and producer) <br>
  60 Odd Hours in Italy (2002) (short subject) (also director) <br>
  Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World (2003) <br>
  Cinderella Man (2005) <br>
  A Good Year (2006) <br>
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INSERT INTO `bios` VALUES ('s', 'Sandra Bullock ', 'Sandra_Bullock.jpg', '<p><strong>Sandra Bullock </strong></p>
<p>Sandra Annette Bullock (born July 26, 1964 in Arlington County, Virginia) is an American film actress.</p>
<p>Sandra majored in drama at East Carolina University. She left ECU during the spring semester of her Senior year at ECU, only three credits short of graduating, to pursue acting in New York City, but found it difficult to establish herself. She later received an honorary degree from ECU. She moved to Los Angeles, California and landed a series of small roles in several independent films and, eventually, she got the lead role in the TV version of the movie Working Girl.</p>
<p>Bullock''s first notable movie appearance was in Demolition Man in 1993, which led to her breakthrough performance in Speed the following year. She became a bona fide star in the mid&ndash;late 90s, carrying a string of successes on the strength of her name alone. She also runs her own production company, Fortis Films.<br>
</p>
<p><strong>Biography</strong></p>
<p>Bullock was born to the late German-born opera singer Helga Meyer who died of cancer on April 4, 2000, and the Alabama-born voice teacher John Bullock. She started singing as a child in Germany, where she also studied ballet and performed small parts in her mother''s operas. She lived 12 years in F&uuml;rth, Germany. Bullock attended Washington-Lee High School where she was a cheerleader and was voted &quot;Most Likely to Brighten up Your Day&quot; by her class.</p>
<p>Bullock married motorcycle builder and Monster Garage host Jesse James on July 16, 2005. In the past, she had previously dated Troy Aikman, Matthew McConaughey, and Ryan Gosling. She was engaged to actor Tate Donovan.</p>
<p>In October 2004, she won a multi-million-dollar judgment in a lawsuit against Benny Daneshjou, the builder of her Lake Austin, Texas mansion, a home in which she has never lived, claiming it is uninhabitable. The builder denies any wrongdoing and is appealing the verdict.</p>
<p>Bullock publicly donated $1 million twice to the American Red Cross, first to its Liberty Disaster Relief Fund and again over four years later, in response to the 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake and tsunamis.</p>
<p>&nbsp;</p>
<p><strong>Filmography</strong><br>
    <br>
    Sandra Bullock promoting Miss Congeniality in Berlin, Germany (where it was titled Miss Undercover).Grace (2006) (in production) (also producer) <br>
    Have You Heard? (2006) (currently filming) <br>
    Il Mare (2006) (currently filming) <br>
    Crash (2005) <br>
    Miss Congeniality 2: Armed and Fabulous (2005) <br>
    Loverboy (2005) <br>
    Two Weeks Notice (2002) (also producer) <br>
    Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood (2002) <br>
    Murder by Numbers (2002) (also executive producer) <br>
    Miss Congeniality (2000) (also producer) <br>
    Welcome to Hollywood (2000) (documentary) <br>
    Famous (2000) (Cameo) <br>
    28 Days (2000) <br>
    Gun Shy (2000) (also producer) <br>
    Forces of Nature (1999) <br>
    The Prince of Egypt (1998) (voice) <br>
    Practical Magic (1998) <br>
    Making Sandwiches (1998) (short subject) (also director and writer) <br>
    Hope Floats (1998) (also executive producer) <br>
    Speed 2: Cruise Control (1997) <br>
    In Love and War (1996) <br>
    A Time to Kill (1996) <br>
    Two If by Sea (1996) <br>
    The Net (1995) <br>
    While You Were Sleeping (1995) <br>
    Speed (1994) <br>
    Wrestling Ernest Hemingway (1993) <br>
    Demolition Man (1993) <br>
    The Thing Called Love (1993) <br>
    The Vanishing (1993) <br>
    Fire on the Amazon (1993) <br>
    Love Potion No. 9 (1992) <br>
    When the Party''s Over (1992) <br>
    Who Do I Gotta Kill? (1992) <br>
    Who Shot Patakango? (1989) <br>
    Religion, Inc. (1989) <br>
    Hangmen (1987) <br>
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INSERT INTO `bios` VALUES ('s', 'Salma Hayek ', 'Salma_Heyek.jpg', '<p><strong>Salma Hayek </strong></p>
<p>Salma Hayek (born September 2, 1966, in Coatzacoalcos, Veracruz, Mexico) is a Mexican actress. Considered by many to be the most successful Latin American actress in Hollywood since Dolores del R&iacute;o, Hayek, having appeared in more than thirty films and secured a nomination for an Oscar, is arguably the most important Mexican star in Hollywood today.<br>
</p>
<p><strong>Early Career in Mexico</strong></p>
<p>Raised in a devoutly Catholic family, she was sent to a Louisiana boarding school at the age of 12. After getting into trouble for terrorizing the nuns, Hayek returned to Mexico, but she was eventually sent to Houston, Texas, to live with her aunt, where she stayed until she was 17. She subsequently moved to Mexico City, where she studied International Relations as a university student, but, to the chagrin of her family, decided to drop out in order to pursue a career as an actress .</p>
<p>At the age of 23 Salma Hayek landed the title role in Teresa (1989), a successful telenovela which earned her star status in her native Mexico. Later, in 1994, Salma starred in El Callej&oacute;n de los Milagros, which would later become the most awarded movie in the Cinema of Mexico.<br>
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<p><strong>Career in Hollywood</strong></p>
<p>In 1991, not fluent in English, Hayek moved to Los Angeles, California, to study acting with the hopes of starting a career in Hollywood. Robert Rodriguez and his producer wife Elizabeth Avellan soon gave her her big break, starring opposite Antonio Banderas in Desperado which brought her to Hollywood''s attention. The moviegoers proved to be as dazzled with Hayek as Rodriguez had been.</p>
<p>In 2002, Frida, co-produced by Hayek, was released, starring Hayek as Kahlo, and Alfred Molina as her unfaithful husband Diego Rivera. The film also featured an entourage of stars in supporting roles, including Antonio Banderas, Ashley Judd, Geoffrey Rush, Edward Norton and Valeria Golino. Her performance won her a nomination for the 2002 Academy Awards, although some have suggested that the nomination was more a credit to her perseverance in seeing the film made.<br>
</p>
<p><strong>Filmography</strong></p>
<p>Sanj''s Hot Lover 2 (2006) <br>
  Lonely Hearts (2006) <br>
  Bandidas (2006) <br>
  Paint (2005) <br>
  Ask the Dust (2005) <br>
  Sian Ka''an (voice) (2005) <br>
  After the Sunset (2004) <br>
  The Maldonado Miracle (2003) (Director) <br>
  Once Upon A Time In Mexico (2003) <br>
  Spy Kids 3-D: Game Over (2003) <br>
  Frida (2002) <br>
  In the Time of the Butterflies (2001) <br>
  Hotel (2001) <br>
  Traffic (2000) <br>
  La Gran Vida (2000) <br>
  Chain Of Fools (2000) <br>
  Timecode (2000) <br>
  Wild Wild West (1999) <br>
  El Coronel No Tiene Quien le Escriba (No One Writes to the Colonel, 1999) <br>
  Dogma (1999) <br>
  The Faculty (1998) <br>
  The Velocity Of Gary (1998) <br>
  54 (1998) <br>
  Sistole Diastole (1997) <br>
  Breaking Up (1997) <br>
  The Hunchback (TV) (1997) <br>
  Fools Rush In (1997) <br>
  Fled (1996) <br>
  Follow Me Home (1996) <br>
  From Dusk Till Dawn (1996) <br>
  Fair Game (1995) <br>
  Desperado (1995) <br>
  El Callej&oacute;n de los Milagros (Midaq Alley, 1995) <br>
  Roadracers (TV) (1994) <br>
  The Sinbad Show (series) (1993) <br>
  Mi Vida Loca (1993) <br>
</p>');
INSERT INTO `bios` VALUES ('s', 'Sarah Jessica Parker ', 'Sarah_Jessica_Parker.jpg', '<p><strong>Sarah Jessica Parker </strong></p>
<p>Sarah Jessica Parker (born March 25, 1965) is an internationally recognized Emmy-winning American Actress with an extensive portfolio of both television and movie work. Most famous of all her roles is that of Carrie Bradshaw in Sex and the City which began in 1998 and ended in 2004. In addition to her acting work, she is National Ambassador for the U.S. Fund for UNICEF.<br>
</p>
<p><strong>Career</strong><br>
    <br>
    Publicity Still from the late 1980''s <br>
    With co-stars of Honeymoon in VegasParker got her first big break as an actress in 1982 when she was cast in the CBS sitcom Square Pegs. Playing Patty Green - an awkward teen trying to be cool but not quite managing it - she won critical acclaim. The short lived show lasted only one season before being cancelled by the network but it had been a valuable kick start to Parker''s career. In the two years that followed, she was cast in four films - the most significant of those being Footloose in 1984. The remainder of the 1980s was filled with TV Specials and largely mediocre movies - but at least she had steady work and Parker was becoming a much respected actress, if not a publically recognised one.</p>
<p>By the early 1990s her career was gaining momentum. In 1991 she appeared in the Romantic Comedy L.A. Story - both the movie and her performance garnered some positive reviews. The following year she landed an important starring role in Honeymoon in Vegas in which she starred with Nicholas Cage and once again, Parker and the movie were a big hit with the public. A less successful comedy came the following year (1993) in the shape of Hocus Pocus, in which she played opposite Bette Midler. The same year she starred in a different kind of film - this time an action/thriller titled Striking Distance. The next year saw her star opposite Johnny Depp in the classic movie Ed Wood - consistantly listed as one of the finest movies of the 1990''s this was her biggest break yet. Miami Rhapsody in 1995 saw her back on familiar territory with more Romantic Comedy material and a leading role. 1996 was a busy year as she had leading roles in six movies, with the most important of them being Mars Attacks! which was one of the most commercially successful pictures of the year.</p>
<p>After a quiet 1997, Sarah Jessica Parker''s career was about to sky rocket. The script for an HBO Drama/Comedy series titled Sex and the City had been sent to her and the show''s creator Darren Star was determined to bag her as his star of the project. He didn''t need to convince her much, Parker adored the script and she quickly signed up to the ambitious project. Before long her co-stars - Cynthia Nixon, Kim Cattrall and Kristin Davis were in place and work on the pilot began.</p>
<p> <br>
  GAP Print Ad from Spring 2005The first season of the show proved to be an almost instant success and the show''s refreshingly honest approach to sex - and indeed the humour of sex - struck a chord with viewers. During the production of Sex and the City''s fifth season, Parker was also working on romantic comedy Life Without Dick. It didn''t matter when that picture flopped at the box office - by that time Sarah Jessica Parker had made the transition from &quot;Promising Newcomer&quot; of the 90''s to bona fida superstar.</p>
<p>Her transition to status of &quot;Superstar&quot; was helped along by her influence in the world of fashion. With a natural sense of style second to none, Sarah Jessica Parker quickly became one of the worlds most stylish and adored celebrities. But her status as one of the world''s &quot;Best Dressed&quot; is certainly not an indication of a lack of greater talent. In addition to work in movie and television, she is also a very highly respected Stage Actress. Lead roles as a dog in the critically acclaimed off-Broadway play Sylvia, alongside husband Matthew Broderick in How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying and the Tony Award-nominated Once Upon a Mattress as Princess Winifred the Woebegone are some of her most critically acclaimed performances. After the international smash hit Sex and the City bid its final farewell in 2004 and after six seasons she won an Emmy award for her role as Carrie Bradshaw. Her first project after Sex and the City was an unexpected one. In 2005 she had a small role in the Sundance Film Festival movie Strangers with Candy - far from the glitz and glamour of her flagship TV series, the movie was about a recovering drug addict. But her career has not been without failure. In the Spring of 2005 her status as a leading style icon took a knock when American fashion giant GAP axed her from their advertising campaign. She was replaced by relative unknown Joss Stone - a British Soul Singer.</p>
<p>&nbsp;</p>
<p><strong>Personal life</strong><br>
    <br>
    Parker and Son, James <br>
Parker and Broderick - Dublin, 2004The fourth of eight children, Sarah Jessica Parker was born in Nelsonville, Ohio on the March 25th, 1965 to a Jewish American mother and a father of English descent. As a young girl, she trained in singing and ballet and was soon cast in the Broadway production of The Innocents. Her family moved to New Jersey at this time to better support her dreams of becoming a star. After a run of promising performances in several increasingly important films and television shows she met actor Robert Downey Jr. and lived with him for seven years between 1984 and 1991. As her career continued to blossom into the 1990s, she met John Kennedy Jr. and dated him for several months.</p>
<p>In May 1997, she married actor Matthew Broderick. Shortly after she began work on what would be her biggest role yet as Carrie Bradshaw in Sex and the City and before the end of the following year she had become an international superstar. Parker and Broderick''s child, James, was born five years later on October 28th, 2002. Parker is a prominent member of the Hollywood''s Women''s Political Committee and is Unicef''s Representative for the Performing Arts. Currently, she lives in New York City with her husband and son.</p>
<p>&nbsp;</p>
<p><strong>Trivia</strong></p>
<p>When hosting the MTV Movie Awards in 2000, changed into 15 different costumes throughout the show. <br>
  Has said that she prefers British Comedy - with shows such as Fawlty Towers and Absolutely Fabulous listed as her favourites. <br>
  Had a strict &quot;No Nudity&quot; clause in her contract for Sex and the City. <br>
  After filming the Pilot Episode of Sex and the City, as much as she liked the show, Parker hatched a plan with her agent to get out of doing the show - she was terrified of being locked into the show for the rest of her career. After speaking with the shows creator Darren Star she decided to stay on. <br>
  After 5 consecutive losses, she finally won an Emmy for &quot;Outstanding Lead Actress in a Comedy Series&quot; in 2004. <br>
  Many gambling and betting establishments stopped taking bets on her walking away with an Emmy in 2004 because it was so widely predicted she would. <br>
  Appeared several times on &quot;Shalom Sesame&quot;, the Israeli version of Sesame Street. <br>
  In August of 2003, re-negotiated her contract with Nutrisse Hair Products to appear in Print and Television adverts. The sum she received is rumoured to be in the seven figure range. <br>
  Son James was born at Lenox Hill Hospital, Manhattan on October 28th 2002. <br>
  Was introduced to Matthew Broderick by her brother. <br>
  She was mocked on an episode of Family Guy about censorship. Peter Griffin says &quot;they let Sarah Jessica Parker''s face on TV and she looks like a foot&quot;. <br>
</p>
<p><strong>Quotes</strong></p>
<p>&quot;You can''t do four movies and be good to everybody and be flying all night and shooting all day with a different wig and then be going to sing on Broadway without feeling a little tired. You endlessly feel you''re letting somebody down.&quot; <br>
&quot;Derek Jeter is off the disabled list and Chuck Knoblauch is not throwing the ball away. All is right with the world.&quot; <br>
&quot;I don''t judge others. I say if you feel good with what you''re doing, let your freak flag fly.&quot; <br>
&quot;I''m very, very concerned about the Bush presidency. I''m worried about the kinds of cuts in domestic programs that mean something to a lot of people, including members of my family, who depend on certain things from the government.&quot; <br>
&quot;I know that he (Matthew Broderick) doesn''t have his laundry done, and that he hasn''t had a hot meal in days. That stuff weighs on my mind. <br>
</p>
<p><strong>Awards</strong></p>
<p>1999: Golden Globe - Best Actress in a Comedy or Musical Series - Sex and the City <br>
  2000: Golden Globe - Best Actress in a Comedy or Musical Series - Sex and the City <br>
  2005: Emmy - Best Lead Actress in a Comedy Series - Sex and the City <br>
</p>
<p><strong>Selected Filmography</strong></p>
<p>Footloose (1984) <br>
  Girls Just Want To Have Fun (1985) <br>
  Flight of the Navigator (1986) <br>
  L.A. Story (1991) <br>
  Hocus Pocus (1993) <br>
  Striking Distance (1993) <br>
  Ed Wood (1994) <br>
  The First Wives Club (1996) <br>
  Mars Attacks! (1996) <br>
  Dudley Do-Right (1999) <br>
  State and Main (2000) <br>
  The Family Stone (2005) <br>
</p>
<p><strong>Selected TV Work</strong></p>
<p>Square Pegs (1982-1983) <br>
  Dadah is Death (1988) <br>
  Equal Justice (1990) <br>
  The Sunshine Boys (1995) <br>
  Sex and the City (1998-2004) <br>
</p>');
INSERT INTO `bios` VALUES ('s', 'Sarah Michelle Gellar ', 'Sarah_Michelle_Gellar.jpg', '<p><strong>Sarah Michelle Gellar </strong></p>
<p>Sarah Michelle Gellar (born April 14, 1977) is an American actress, best known for her role in the television series Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Some of her most commercially successful films have been horror films such as The Grudge (2004), but she has also acted in a variety of other genres, from family films like Scooby-Doo (2002) to thrillers like Harvard Man (2001).<br>
</p>
<p><strong>Biography<br>
</strong></p>
<p><strong>Her family</strong></p>
<p>Gellar was born in New York City to Jewish-American parents Arthur and Rosellen. After her parents divorced in 1984, she was brought up by her mother. She refuses to acknowledge any relationship with her father saying &quot;Just because you donate sperm does not make you a father.&quot; Arthur died on October 9, 2001 of unknown causes.</p>
<p>&nbsp;</p>
<p><strong>Life and career</strong></p>
<p>She has been acting since the age of four, when she did a commercial for Burger King. Her best friend as a child was Melissa Joan Hart, who later was the star of the television series Sabrina, the Teenage Witch.</p>
<p>&nbsp;</p>
<p><strong>Acting roles</strong></p>
<p>Gellar''s major break came in 1992 in the teen soap opera Swan''s Crossing. From there, she moved on to the long-running soap opera All My Children, where she played the conniving character Kendall Hart, the long-lost daughter of character Erica Kane (played by Susan Lucci). In 1995, at the age of 18, she won a Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Younger Leading Actress in a Drama Series.</p>
<p> <br>
  James Marsters as Spike and Sarah Michelle Gellar as Buffy in season six of Buffy the Vampire Slayer &copy; 2001 20th Century Fox TelevisionGellar left All My Children in 1995 and landed the lead in the TV series Buffy the Vampire Slayer, created by Joss Whedon, as a teenager burdened with the responsibility of fighting a number of mystical foes, with the aid of a group of friends and her Watcher (a teacher of sorts). The show was well received by critics and audiences alike, and throughout its seven seasons, Buffy, and Gellar along with her, became cult icons in the United States and the UK. Gellar also sang several of the songs during the Buffy the Vampire Slayer musical episode &quot;Once More, with Feeling,&quot; which spawned an original cast album. While continuing in that role, she attempted to capitalize on her television fame in order to create a career for herself in motion pictures, with intermittent commercial success. After roles in the popular thrillers I Know What You Did Last Summer and Scream 2, Gellar starred in the film Simply Irresistible. This film, rumored to be the last film ever watched by critic Gene Siskel, featured a magical crab and borrowed heavily from Like Water for Chocolate. Gellar''s next film was the steamy hit Cruel Intentions, a modern-day retelling of Les Liaisons Dangereuses; this movie gained much exposure due to a famous girl on girl kissing scene between Sarah and Selma Blair. Also in 1999, she made an appearance in the Stone Temple Pilots music video Sour Girl. She then went on to play a lead role in Harvard Man.</p>
<p>&nbsp;</p>
<p><strong>Personal life</strong></p>
<p>On September 1, 2002, Gellar and teen-movie actor Freddie Prinze Jr. were married in Mexico.</p>
<p>&nbsp;</p>
<p><strong>Scooby-Doo</strong></p>
<p>Gellar found greater box office success playing Daphne in Scooby-Doo, a live-action adaption of the cartoon series. Despite being universally panned by critics, the movie was highly popular with audiences. Gellar also appeared in the movie''s sequel, Scooby-Doo 2: Monsters Unleashed (2004).</p>
<p>&nbsp;</p>
<p><strong>Movies</strong></p>
<p>The year of 2004 was marked by a point of controversy in Gellar''s career, as the president of the talent agency representing Geller, David Wirtschafter, told the The New Yorker that the success of Gellar''s low-budget film The Grudge (a remake of the Japanese horror film Ju-on: The Grudge) &quot;takes our client Sarah Michelle Gellar, who now is nothing at all, and it makes her a star, potentially. Suddenly, the Sarah Michelle Gellar space is meaningful.&quot; The remark led to Gellar abandoning the agency. In January 2005 Gellar signed for the movie The Return which she started filming in March of that same year. Gellar finished filming The Return in April 2005 and started filming Southland Tales, a film by Donnie Darko director Richard Kelly in August 2005. Sarah finished filming Southland Tales in October 2005. Next she will be filming &quot;The Air I Breathe&quot; with co-stars Diego Luna, Kevin Bacon and Ken Watanabe in January 2006 in Mexico City. Production for A Girl''s Guide For Hunting And Fishing , based on the book of the same name and co-starring Alec Baldwin will start in May 2006. Both The Return and Southland Tales are expected to be released in 2006. Also in that same year, Gellar is expected to start filming Alice based on the game from American McGee.</p>
<p>&nbsp;</p>
<p><strong>Filmography</strong><br>
</p>
<p>2007 The Air I Breathe pre-production <br>
  2007 Alice Alice pre-production (see also American McGee''s Alice) <br>
  2007 The Girl''s Guide For Hunting And Fishing Jane Rosenal pre-production <br>
  2006 Southland Tales Krysta Now Post-production <br>
  2006 The Return Joanna Mills Complete <br>
  2005 Happily N''Ever After Cinderella Animation; Complete <br>
  2004 The Grudge Karen Davis <br>
  2004 Scooby-Doo 2: Monsters Unleashed Daphne Blake <br>
  2002 Scooby-Doo Daphne Blake <br>
  2001 Harvard Man Cindy Bandolini <br>
  1999 Cruel Intentions Kathryn Merteuil <br>
  1999 Simply Irresistible Amanda Shelton <br>
  1999 She''s All That Girl in Cafeteria Bit part; uncredited <br>
  1998 Small Soldiers Gwendy Doll Voice <br>
  1997 Scream 2 Casey &quot;Cici&quot; Cooper <br>
  1997 I Know What You Did Last Summer Helen Shivers <br>
  1989 High Stakes Karen Rose Credited as &quot;Sarah Gellar&quot; <br>
  1988 Funny Farm Elizabeth''s student Bit part; uncredited <br>
  1984 Over the Brooklyn Bridge Phil''s daughter Bit part; uncredited <br>
  </p>
<p><strong>Television</strong></p>
<p>Hercules: The Legendary Journeys (1998)... (voice) Andromeda <br>
  Buffy the Vampire Slayer (1997-2003)....Buffy Summers <br>
  Beverly Hills Family Robinson (1997)... Jane Robinson <br>
  All About Erica (1994)... (archive footage) Kendall Hart <br>
  All My Children (1993-1995)... Kendall Hart #1 <br>
  Swan''s Crossing (1992)... Sydney Orion Rutledge <br>
  A Woman Named Jackie (1991)... teenage Jacqueline Bouvier <br>
  Spenser: For Hire, episode: &quot;Company Man&quot; (#3.17) (1988)... Emily <br>
  An Invasion of Privacy (1983)... Jennifer Bianchi <br>
  Gellar has hosted Saturday Night Live several times.</p>');
INSERT INTO `bios` VALUES ('s', 'Shannon Elizabeth ', 'Shannon_Elizabeth.jpg', '<p><strong>Shannon Elizabeth </strong></p>
<p>Shannon Elizabeth Fadal (born September 7, 1973) is an American actress and model. Elizabeth came to prominence in the 1999 comedy film American Pie.</p>
<p>She was born in Houston, Texas to Gerald Edward Fadal (of Syrian and Lebanese descent) and Patricia Dianne Abbott (of French, English, and American Indian (Cherokee) descent); she was raised in Waco. In high school, Elizabeth was very much interested in tennis, and at one point even considered a professional tennis career. She worked as a model before she began a career in film. In August of 1999, she appeared nude in Playboy Magazine.</p>
<p>She married actor Joseph D. Reitman on June 15, 2002, but separated in March 2005, and filed for divorce in late June.</p>
<p>One year before their divorce, she was Punk''d by Ashton Kutcher''s crew members. It has been speculated by some that it was this&mdash;her husband Joe helped in fooling her into thinking she was caught on a sex tape&mdash;that was the cause of their breakup. 1</p>
<p>Elizabeth played in the 2005 World Series of Poker''s main event.</p>
<p>&nbsp;</p>
<p><strong>Selected filmography</strong></p>
<p>Cursed (2005) <br>
  Johnson Family Vacation (2004) <br>
  Love Actually (2003) <br>
  American Pie 2 (2001) <br>
  Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back (2001) <br>
  Thir13en Ghosts (2001) <br>
  Tomcats (2001) <br>
  Scary Movie (2000) <br>
  American Pie (1999) <br>
  Jack Frost (1997) <br>
</p>');
INSERT INTO `bios` VALUES ('s', 'Sharon Stone ', 'Sharon_Stone.jpg', '<p><strong>Sharon Stone</strong></p>
<p>Sharon Vonne Stone (born March 10, 1958 in Meadville, Pennsylvania) is an American actress, model (height: 5 ft 7 in (1.70 m)), and producer with ancestral roots in Galway, Ireland. She came to international attention for her performance in the 1992 blockbuster film Basic Instinct, which caused controversy for its erotic content. She was one of the highest paid actresses in Hollywood in the 1990s, until she moved to San Francisco to live with her husband and raise their adopted son. When that marriage dissolved, Stone returned to Los Angeles and resumed her film career.<br>
</p>
<p><strong>Early life and education</strong></p>
<p>Stone was born in Meadville, Pennsylvania, USA, a town south of Erie. The second of four children, she is the daughter of Joe and Dorothy Stone, who were blue collar workers. It has been said that her parents raised her with feminist values. &quot;My dad never raised me to believe that being a woman inhibited any of my choices or my possibilities to succeed. To be a feminist like Dad in that blue-collar, middle-class world is a big stand,&quot; said Sharon.</p>
<p>She was said to be a smart and ambitious child. She has described herself as &quot;a nerdy, ugly duckling who sat in the back of the closet with a flashlight and read. I was never a kid. I walked and talked at 10 months. I started school in the second grade when I was five, a real weird, academically driven kid, not at all interested in being social. Recess was a drag until I realized I didn''t have to play, that I could lean up against a wall and read.&quot; Most of the kids disliked her because she was standoffish and didn''t play children''s games. One day on the playground she announced, &quot;I am the new Marilyn Monroe.&quot; Her mother said &quot;Sharon has been posing from the day she arrived. She came out posing.&quot;</p>
<p>As a young woman, her IQ was tested and rated at a high level of 154 points. After skipping a grade in school, she was involuntarily transferred from Saegertown High to Edinboro University in Pennsylvania, enrolling at the young age of 15.</p>
<p>Because she was very self-conscious of her looks, to the point that one biographer said she suffered from &quot;a textbook case of Body dysmorphic disorder, her uncle bribed her with $100 to enter a local beauty contest in order to improve her self-esteem. She entered the contest because she needed the money to help pay her college tuition. She lost the contest, but one of the judges encouraged her to enter the Miss Pennsylvania contest, which she declined. Instead, she entered the county contest and won the title of Miss Crawford County in Meadville. One of the pageant judges said she should quit school and move to New York to become a model. When her mother heard this, she agreed, and in 1977 Stone left Meadville, moving in with an aunt in New Jersey. Within four days of her arrival in New Jersey, she was signed by the elite Ford modeling agency in New York.</p>
<p>&nbsp;</p>
<p><strong>Entertainment career<br>
</strong></p>
<p><strong>1980 - 1990</strong></p>
<p>After joining the Ford Modeling Agency, Stone spent a few years modeling, and appeared in TV commercials for Burger King, Clairol and Maybelline, but she didn''t enjoy her work. While living in Europe she decided to quit modeling and become an actress. &quot;So I packed my bags, moved back to New York, and stood in line to be an extra in a Woody Allen movie,&quot; she later recalled. She was cast for a brief but memorable role in Allen''s Stardust Memories (1980), and then had a speaking part a year later in the horror movie Deadly Blessing (1981), which was a big box-office success. When French director Claude Lelouch saw Stone in &quot;Stardust Memories&quot; he was so impressed that he cast her in &quot;Les Uns et Les Autres&quot; (1982), starring James Caan. She was only on screen for two minutes, and didn''t appear in the credits.</p>
<p>Her next role was in Irreconcilable Differences (1984), starring Ryan O''Neal, Shelley Long, and young Drew Barrymore. Stone plays a starlet who breaks up the marriage of a successful director and his screenwriter wife. The story was based on the real-life experience of director Peter Bogdanovich, his set designer wife Polly Platt, and Cybill Shepherd, who as a young actress starred in Bogdanovich''s The Last Picture Show (1971). The highlight of her performance is when her cocaine addict character plays Scarlett O''Hara in a musical remake of Gone with the Wind. Later that year, she took a part on Magnum, P.I., the highest-rated television show at the time.</p>
<p>She married television producer Michael Greenburg in 1984 on the set of The Vegas Strip War, a TV movie he produced and she starred in, along with Rock Hudson and James Earl Jones. The marriage quickly fell apart; they split up three years later, and their divorce was finalized in 1990.</p>
<p>Throughout the rest of the 1980s she appeared in seven movies of poor quality, such as King Solomon''s Mines (1985), and Allan Quatermain and the Lost City of Gold (1987).</p>
<p>&nbsp;</p>
<p><strong>1990 - 2005</strong><br>
    <br>
    Sharon Stone in Basic Instinct. <br>
Sharon Stone and William Baldwin in SliverHer appearance in Total Recall (1990) with Arnold Schwarzenegger gave her career a much needed jolt. To coincide with the movie''s release, she posed nude for Playboy magazine, showing off the buff body she developed in preparation for the movie (she pumped iron and learned Tae Kwon Do.) She said she posed for the magazine because she needed the money. &quot;I had just remodeled my house. I was broke. I needed the bread.&quot;</p>
<p> <br>
  Sharon Stone on the cover of July 1990 issue of PlayboyShortly after the release of Total Recall, Stone had a bad car accident on Sunset Boulevard in Los Angeles. Immediately after the accident, she went home, not knowing she had just suffered a concussion. She woke up almost completely paralyzed and ended up lying on the floor, crying, for three days. When she finally got to the hospital, she was diagnosed with the concussion, a dislocated shoulder and jaw, several broken ribs, and three compressed disks in her back. The accident left scars that are visible in some of her later screen appearances.</p>
<p>While her memorable role in the Schwarzenegger movie should have led to other important job offers, her career took a considerable dip for the next two years. She worked often and worked hard (five movies in two years), but the movies were low budget productions that few people saw.</p>
<p>The role that made her a true star, the Faye Dunaway of her generation, was that of Catherine Tramell, a brilliant coke-snorting bisexual mind-game playing serial killer in the sexually-charged Basic Instinct (1992). Stone went to considerable trouble to obtain the part for which she was far from first choice. Stone had to wait and actually turned down offers for the mere prospect to play Catherine Tramell. Several better known actresses of the time such as Genna Davis turned down the part mostly because of the nudity required. In the movie&rsquo;s most notorious scene Ms. Tramell is being questioned by the police and she crosses and uncrosses her legs revealing the fact she wasn''t wearing any underwear. Nothing was left to the imagination. Stone claims to have been tricked into the stunt and considered a lawsuit. Latter she admitted that the bold act help make the movie the number one box office hit of the year. That year, she was rated by People magazine as one of the 50 most beautiful people in the world. After years of litigation &quot;Basic Instinct 2: Risk Addiction&quot; is currently in production due to be released in 2006.</p>
<p>In 1995, Empire magazine chose her as one of the 100 sexiest stars in film history.</p>
<p> <br>
  Sharon Stone, Mayor Gavin Newsom and Kimberly Guilfoyle Newsom at the NCLR Spirit Awards, San Francisco, April 24, 2004.In 1996, she received an Academy Award for Best Actress nomination for her role as Ginger in Martin Scorsese''s Casino (1995), a role for which she won a Golden Globe award. In October 1997, she was ranked among the top 100 movie stars of all time by Empire magazine.</p>
<p>On February 14, 1998, she married Phil Bronstein, editor of the San Francisco Chronicle. In 1999, she was rated among the 25 sexiest stars of the century by Playboy.</p>
<p>Stone and Bronstein got a divorce in January 2004, after he had suffered a severe heart attack. They have an adopted son named Roan, born in 2000. Stone herself was hospitalized following a brain aneurysm in October 2001, but has since recovered.</p>
<p>In 2005 during a television interview for her movie Basic Instinct 2, Sharon came out as bisexual stating &quot;Middle age is an open-minded period.&quot; [1]</p>
<p>In April of 2004, she was awarded the National Center for Lesbian Rights Spirit Award in San Francisco for her support and involvement with organizations that serve the lesbian, gay and HIV/AIDS community. She was presented the award by San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom, then embroiled in a national controversy over his decision to allow same sex marriage in his city.</p>
<p>She lives in Beverly Hills, California, and owns a ranch in New Zealand.</p>
<p>On Saturday, May 7, 2005, Stone, at the age of 47, adopted a baby boy who was born in Texas to a surrogate mother. She has named the baby Laird Vonne Stone.</p>
<p>&nbsp;</p>
<p><strong>Filmography</strong></p>
<p>Bobby (2006) (filming) <br>
  Buddha (2006) (ann.) <br>
  Basic Instinct 2: Risk Addiction (2006) <br>
  Cougars (2006) (announced start of production) <br>
  When a Man Falls in a Forest (2006) (announced) <br>
  Broken Flowers (2005) <br>
  Alpha Dog (2005) (completed) <br>
  A Different Loyalty (2004) <br>
  Catwoman (2004) <br>
  Jiminy Glick in La La Wood (2004) (Cameo) <br>
  Cold Creek Manor (2003 <br>
  Searching for Debra Winger (2002) (documentary) <br>
  Picking Up the Pieces (2000) <br>
  Beautiful Joe (2000) <br>
  Gloria (1999) <br>
  The Muse (1999) <br>
  Simpatico (1999) <br>
  Sphere (1998) <br>
  The Mighty (1998) <br>
  Antz (1998) (voice) <br>
  Junket Whore (1998) (documentary) <br>
  Off the Menu: The Last Days of Chasen''s (1997) <br>
  Catwalk (1996) (documentary) <br>
  Diabolique (1996) <br>
  Last Dance (1996) <br>
  The Quick and the Dead (1995) (also co-producer) <br>
  Casino (1995) <br>
  Intersection (1994) <br>
  The Specialist (1994) <br>
  Sliver (1993) <br>
  Last Action Hero (1993) (Cameo) <br>
  Where Sleeping Dogs Lie (1992) <br>
  Basic Instinct (1992) <br>
  He Said, She Said (1991) <br>
  Scissors (1991) <br>
  Year of the Gun (1991) <br>
  Diary of a Hitman (1991) <br>
  Total Recall (1990) <br>
  Beyond the Stars (1989) <br>
  Blood and Sand (1989) <br>
  Action Jackson (1988) <br>
  Above the Law (1988) <br>
  Police Academy 4: Citizens on Patrol (1987) <br>
  Allan Quatermain and the Lost City of Gold (1987) <br>
  Cold Steel (1987) <br>
  King Solomon''s Mines (1985) <br>
  Irreconcilable Differences (1984) <br>
  Within Memory (1981) <br>
  Deadly Blessing (1981) <br>
  Stardust Memories (1980) <br>
</p>');
INSERT INTO `bios` VALUES ('t', 'Tara Reid ', 'Tara_Reid.jpg', '<p><strong>Tara Reid </strong></p>
<p>Tara Reid (born November 8, 1975, Wyckoff, New Jersey) is an American actress and model who has starred in films such as American Pie (1999) and Dr. T &amp; the Women. In 2005, she played the lead in videogame adaptation Alone in the Dark. She is of Irish, English, Hungarian, French, and Italian descent.</p>
<p>Reid began her career at the age of six in 1982 on the short-lived game show Child''s Play. As a child she had roles in a number of commercials for McDonald''s, Crayola, and Jell-O. She grew up in New York City, and attended the Professional Children''s School alongside such celebrities as Ben Taylor, Jerry O''Connell, Sarah Michelle Gellar, and Macaulay Culkin. Reid spent the late 1990s appearing more often on the cover of tabloid magazines than on screen. Her extroverted social life soon gave her a reputation as a party girl &mdash; in fact, U.S. magazine In Touch recently voted Reid &quot;top party animal&quot;.</p>
<p>Although her breakthrough role was in American Pie in 1999, followers of the 1998 cult film The Big Lebowski already knew her as Bunny Lebowski. She has appeared as J.D.''s (Zach Braff) unfaithful girlfriend in the NBC comedy Scrubs.</p>
<p>On the night of Thursday November 4, 2004, Reid was embarrassed by a wardrobe malfunction at a highly publicized photo shoot at P. Diddy''s thirty-fifth birthday party at Cipriani''s Restaurant in New York when her dress fell, exposing her left breast. Scar tissue was visible around Reid''s nipple, confirming rumors of breast implants. The photographs were widely distributed. In August 2005 she finally admitted having had her breasts augmented. [1]</p>
<p>Her half-hour television show on the E! network, Taradise premiered in September 2005, but was cancelled the following month.</p>
<p>&nbsp;</p>
<p><strong>Filmography</strong></p>
<p>A Return to Salem''s Lot (1987) <br>
  The Big Lebowski (1998) <br>
  Girl (1998) <br>
  I Woke Up Early the Day I Died (1998) <br>
  Urban Legend (1998) <br>
  Cruel Intentions (1999) <br>
  Around the Fire (1999) <br>
  American Pie (1999) <br>
  Body Shots (1999) <br>
  Dr. T &amp; the Women (2000) <br>
  Just Visiting (2001) <br>
  Josie and the Pussycats (2001) <br>
  American Pie 2 (2001) <br>
  National Lampoon''s Van Wilder (2002) <br>
  Devil''s Pond (2003) <br>
  My Boss''s Daughter (2003) <br>
  Knots (2004) <br>
  Alone in the Dark (2005) <br>
  Silent Partner (2005) <br>
  The Crow: Wicked Prayer (2005) <br>
  Incubus (2006) (currently filming) <br>
  Land of Canaan (2006) (currently in post-production) <br>
</p>');
INSERT INTO `bios` VALUES ('t', 'Teri Hatcher ', 'Teri_Hatcher.jpg', '<p><strong>Teri Hatcher </strong></p>
<p>Teri Lynn Hatcher (born December 8, 1964 in Sunnyvale, California) is an American actress. She gained attention for her role as Lois Lane in the television series Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman, and has achieved her greatest fame and acclaim starring in the show Desperate Housewives.</p>
<p>Hatcher''s father was a nuclear physicist and her mother was a computer scientist (both of English descent). She attended Fremont High School in Sunnyvale. In 1994, she married actor Jon Tenney; they had a daughter, Emerson Rose, and later divorced.</p>
<p>&nbsp;</p>
<p><strong>Career</strong></p>
<p>Hatcher began her performing career as a young girl taking ballet lessons at the San Juan girls'' ballet studio in downtown Los Altos before studying acting at the American Conservatory Theater. One of her early jobs was as a San Francisco 49ers cheerleader/dancer in 1984. During this time she appeared as one of the mermaids on the show The Love Boat in its final season.</p>
<p>While probably most noted for playing Lois Lane in the TV series Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman, she was also in Spy Kids, the 1997 James Bond film Tomorrow Never Dies, and many other films. She has also made guest appearances in Star Trek: The Next Generation and Seinfeld, and had a recurring role in MacGyver as his young friend, Penny Parker. Hatcher also appeared in a series of popular Radio Shack television commercials alongside NFL Hall of Famer Howie Long.</p>
<p>In 1997, Hatcher was voted &quot;Sexiest Woman in the World&quot; by the readers of FHM.</p>
<p>She now stars as the single mother Susan Mayer on ABC''s Desperate Housewives, a role for which she won the Best Actress in a Musical or Comedy Golden Globe Award in January 2005. In July 2005, she was nominated for an Emmy Award in the Best Actress in a Comedy Series category for the same role, along with co-stars Felicity Huffman and Marcia Cross, with Huffman the eventual winner.</p>
<p>&nbsp;</p>
<p><strong>Film and television roles</strong><br>
</p>
<p>1985 The Love Boat Amy, Loveboat Mermaid television series; cast member from 1985 to 1986 <br>
  1986 MacGyver Penny Parker TV series; guest starring in six episodes between 1986 and 1990 <br>
  1986 Capitol Angelica Stimac Clegg television series; cast member from 1986 to 1987 <br>
  1987 Karen''s Song Laura Matthews television series <br>
  1987 Night Court Kitty TV series; guest starring in the episode &quot;Who Was That Mashed Man?&quot; <br>
  1988 CBS Summer Playhouse Lauri Stevens TV series; guest starring in the episode &quot;Baby on Board&quot; <br>
  1988 Star Trek: The Next Generation Lt. Bronwyn Gail Robinson TV series; guest starring in the episode &quot;The Outrageous Okona&quot; <br>
  1989 The Big Picture Gretchen <br>
  1989 L.A. Law Tracy Shoe TV series; guest starring in the episode &quot;I''m in the Nude for Love&quot; <br>
  1989 Quantum Leap Donna Eleese TV series; guest starring in the episode &quot;Star-Crossed&quot; <br>
  1990 Murphy Brown Madeline Stillwell TV series; guest starring in the episode &quot;Fax or Fiction&quot; <br>
  1990 Tales from the Crypt Stacy TV series; guest starring in the episode &quot;The Thing from the Grave&quot; <br>
  1991 Tango &amp; Cash Katherine ''Kiki'' Tango <br>
  1991 The Brotherhood Teresa Gennaro made-for-TV movie <br>
  1991 Soapdish Ariel Maloney <br>
  1991 Sunday Dinner TT Fagori television series <br>
  1991 Dead in the Water Laura Stewart made-for-TV movie <br>
  1991 The Exile Marissa TV series; guest starring in the episode &quot;Eclipse&quot; <br>
  1992 Straight Talk Janice <br>
  1993 All Tied Up Linda Alissio straight-to-video <br>
  1993 Lois &amp; Clark: The New Adventures of Superman Lois Lane television series (1993 &ndash; 1997) <br>
  1993 Brain Smasher... A Love Story Samantha Crain straight-to-video <br>
  1993 Seinfeld Sidra TV series; guest starring in three episodes between 1993 and 1998 <br>
  1994 The Cool Surface Dani Payson <br>
  1996 Dead Girl Passer-by <br>
  1996 Heaven''s Prisoners Claudette Rocque <br>
  1996 2 Days in the Valley Becky Foxx <br>
  1997 Tomorrow Never Dies Paris Carver <br>
  1998 Since You''ve Been Gone Maria Goldstein made-for-TV movie <br>
  1998 Frasier Marie TV series; guest starring in the episode &quot;First Do No Harm&quot; <br>
  1999 Fever Charlotte Parker <br>
  2000 Running Mates Shawna Morgan made-for-TV movie <br>
  2001 Say Uncle made-for-TV movie <br>
  2001 Spy Kids Ms. Gradenko <br>
  2001 Jane Doe Jane Doe made-for-TV movie <br>
  2003 A Touch of Fate Megan Marguilas <br>
  2003 Momentum Jordan Ripps Sci-Fi Channel made-for-TV movie <br>
  2004 Desperate Housewives Susan Mayer television series (2004 &ndash; present) <br>
  2004 Two and a Half Men Liz TV series; guest starring in the episode &quot;I Remember the Coatroom,<br>
  I Just Don''t Remember You&quot; <br>
</p>');
INSERT INTO `bios` VALUES ('t', 'Tiffani Amber Thiessen ', 'Tiffani_Amber_Thiessen.jpg', '<p><strong>Tiffani Amber Thiessen </strong></p>
<p>Tiffani-Amber Thiessen (born January 23, 1974 in Long Beach, California, USA to Frank Thiessen and Robyn Ernest) is an American television and film actress. After many years of going by her full name, she is now credited as simply Tiffani Thiessen. Thiessen had a restraining order against KLSX''s Frosty Stilwell for stalking.</p>
<p>As a child, she competed in many beauty pageants, and she won the Miss Junior America pageant in 1987. Her first big break in show business was her role on the television program Saved By The Bell, as nice girl teen Kelly Kapowski. This was very different from her next major role, as a duplicitous vixen on Beverly Hills, 90210. She later starred in the sitcom Two Guys and a Girl and the short-lived action show Fastlane.</p>
<p>Her transition to movies has not gone well so far, as most of her movies, including Love Stinks, have been critically panned. In 2002, she appeared in the film Hollywood Ending by Woody Allen.</p>
<p>In March 1999, her boyfriend at the time, actor David Strickland (Suddenly Susan), committed suicide.</p>
<p>On July 9, 2005, she married actor Brady Smith. It is the first marriage for both.</p>
<p>&nbsp;</p>
<p><strong>Selected Filmography</strong></p>
<p>Good Morning, Miami (2003) (TV series) <br>
  Fastlane (2002) (TV series) <br>
  Hollywood Ending (2002) <br>
  Two Guys and a Girl (1998) (TV series) (2000) <br>
  The Ladies Man (2000) <br>
  Love Stinks (1999) <br>
  Beverly Hills 90210 (1990) (TV series) (1994&ndash;1998) <br>
  Saved by the Bell (1989) (TV series) <br>
</p>');
INSERT INTO `bios` VALUES ('t', 'Tom Cruise ', 'Tom_Cruise.jpg', '<p><strong>Tom Cruise </strong></p>
<p>Tom Cruise is the stage name of Thomas Cruise Mapother IV, an American actor, producer, and Scientologist who has starred in a number of top-grossing movies and remains one of the biggest movie stars in the world. His first leading role in a blockbuster movie was in 1983''s Risky Business.<br>
</p>
<p><strong>Early life</strong></p>
<p>Cruise was born to Thomas Cruise Mapother III and Mary Lee Pfeiffer on July 3, 1962 in Syracuse, New York. His paternal ancestry is Welsh: his great great grandfather Dylan Henry Mapother emigrated from Flint, in north Wales, to the United States in 1860. Cruise also has German ancestry from his paternal great-grandparents, William Reibert and Charlotta Louise Voelker. Cruise''s parents moved frequently when he was a child, residing in a number of locations throughout the United States and Canada, including Ottawa; Louisville, Kentucky; Glen Ridge, New Jersey (where he attended Glen Ridge High School); and Wayne, New Jersey. Before going into acting, Cruise attended a Franciscan seminary and aspired to become a Catholic priest.</p>
<p>&nbsp;</p>
<p><strong>Acting career</strong></p>
<p>He received Academy Award nominations for Born on the Fourth of July (1989) and Jerry Maguire (1996), both as Best Actor; and for Magnolia (1999), as Best Supporting Actor. In 1996, he became the first actor in history to star in five consecutive films that grossed $100 million in domestic release. The films were A Few Good Men (1992), The Firm (1993), Interview with the Vampire (1994), Mission: Impossible (1996) and Jerry Maguire (1996).</p>
<p>Cruise also took on more unusual roles following Interview With The Vampire and Jerry Maguire, with Eyes Wide Shut (1999) which took two years to finish as director Stanley Kubrick''s last film, alongside former spouse Nicole Kidman. Cruise also performed as a misogynistic male guru in Magnolia (1999), which netted him a Best Supporting Actor Oscar nomination, and in very rare form, played a villain as the hitman who kidnaps unsuspecting cabbie Jamie Foxx in Michael Mann''s Collateral (2004).</p>
<p>Cruise teamed with producer Paula Wagner to form Cruise/Wagner Productions, which has co-produced several of Cruise''s films such as Mission: Impossible and its sequels, Vanilla Sky (2001), and The Last Samurai (2003). The company also co-produced The Others (2001).</p>
<p>&nbsp;</p>
<p><strong>Sex appeal</strong></p>
<p>In 1990, 1991 and 1997, People magazine rated him among the 50 most beautiful people in the world. In 1995, Empire magazine ranked him among the 100 sexiest stars in film history. Two years later, it ranked him among the top 5 movie stars of all time. In 2002 and 2003, he was rated by Premiere among the top 20 in its annual Power 100 list. Although not being what you would call conventionally handsome and being from all reports a below average height of about 5 ft. 7 Cruise has a huge female fan base.</p>
<p>10/05 UPDATE Tom Cruise&rsquo;s popularity has dropped significantly in the last few months, according to the latest Genius StarPower report. By all measures, the plunge (among 13 to 49 year-olds) is steep for a celebrity of his magnitude:</p>
<p>his StarPower ranking plummeted from 12th to 50th <br>
  he went from the 11th most liked celebrity to the 197th <br>
  his fan base (those who like or like him a lot) shrank from 33% to 25% <br>
  he ranks among the top 5 most controversial actors (those who are heavily disliked and liked), along with David Spade, Tom Green, Pauly Shore and Ashton Kutcher. </p>
<p>The drop follows Cruise&rsquo;s controversial publicity tour for the release of &ldquo;War Of The Worlds&rdquo; and his engagement to actress Katie Holmes. The above figures are from the Genius StarPower Summer 2005 report (covering the six months to July 1, 2005) and the Spring 2005 report (covering the six months to April 1, 2005).</p>
<p>&nbsp;</p>
<p><strong>Personal life</strong></p>
<p>Cruise has been married twice, to Mimi Rogers (married on May 9, 1987, divorced February 4, 1990) and later Nicole Kidman (married on December 24, 1990, divorced August 8, 2001). He and Nicole Kidman adopted two children, Isabella (born 1993) and Connor (born 1995). Cruise recently discussed his bi-racial son with the TV talk show host Oprah Winfrey. Oprah asked Cruise if the issue of his race was ever discussed in the household. &quot;We''re from the human race, human kind,&quot; Cruise said. &quot;I mean, what''s there to talk about? He''s my son. Listen, that''s just how I feel about it. He''s my son. I''ve never thought about color, race, I just have not thought about that.&quot;</p>
<p>During his marriage to actress Nicole Kidman, the couple endured public speculation about their sex life and rumors that Cruise was gay. In May 2001 he filed a lawsuit against gay porn actor Chad Slater. Slater had allegedly told the celebrity magazine Actustar that he had engaged in an affair with Cruise. Both Slater and Cruise denied this, and in August 2001 Slater was ordered to pay $10 million to Cruise in damages.</p>
<p>It is also rumored that Kidman lost interest in Scientology, and the friction between her and Cruise over this issue drove the marriage apart. Tom Cruise left Nicole Kidman 3 months pregnant just shy of their 10 year anniversary. Nicole lost the child.</p>
<p>Cruise was next romantically linked with Pen&eacute;lope Cruz, the lead actress in his film Vanilla Sky. In March 2004, he announced that his relationship with Pen&eacute;lope Cruz had ended in January. In April 2005, he began dating Katie Holmes, before announcing on 17 June 2005 that he had proposed to her at the top of the Eiffel Tower in Paris, France . She accepted his offer, but the couple have yet to decide on a wedding date.</p>
<p>&nbsp;</p>
<p><strong>Church of Scientology</strong></p>
<p>Cruise is arguably Hollywood''s most outspoken member of the Church of Scientology. He joined in 1986 while married to Mimi Rogers. Cruise has publicly said that Scientology, specifically the L. Ron Hubbard Scientology Study Tech , allowed him to overcome his dyslexia .</p>
<p>Since 2004, Cruise has talked more openly about Scientology and promoted its ideas, especially its rejection of psychiatric drugs, which was the subject of a heated argument with Matt Lauer on the Today Show on June 24, 2005. He openly criticized actress Brooke Shields for using the drug Paxil, an anti-depressant, which Shields claims helped her recover from post-partum depression after the birth of her daughter in 2003; Brooke Shields subsequently questioned Cruise''s wisdom. Cruise also claimed in an Entertainment Weekly interview that psychiatry &quot;is a Nazi science&quot; and that methadone was actually originally called Adolophine after Adolf Hitler , a well-known urban legend. In an interview with Der Spiegel magazine, Cruise claimed that &quot;In Scientology, we have the only successful drug rehabilitation program in the world. It''s called Narconon... It''s a statistically proven fact that there is only one successful drug rehabilitation program in the world. Period.&quot; (While Narconon claims to have a success rate over 70%, no outside source has ever verified this claim, let alone declaring it the only successful program as a matter of statistical fact.)</p>
<p>Tom Cruise has said &quot;There is no such thing as a chemical imbalance in the body.&quot; This runs counter to what is believed by most of the medical profession; chemicals such as dopamine and serotonin are widely recognized as playing a role in some mental disorders.</p>
<p>Cruise''s more open attitude to Scientology has been attributed to the departure of his publicist of 14 years, Pat Kingsley in March 2004. He replaced her with his sister, fellow Scientologist Lee Anne DeVette, who served in that role until November 2005.</p>
<p>Recently Cruise has also been reported to have risen to one of the highest echelons of the Church of Scientology, what is known as ''Operating Thetan Seven'' or OT-VII. This rise in the ranks also has contributed to Cruise''s more frequent comments on Scientology, since that level reportedly gives Cruise, among other things, more authoritative powers. Cruise''s fianc&eacute;e, Katie Holmes, recently has begun studying Scientology, which Cruise says does not conflict with her Roman Catholic upbringing.</p>
<p>Cruise may have successfully converted his bride-to-be, Katie Holmes, into Scientology but failed to convert Scarlett Johansson. After two hours of proselytizing, Cruise introduced her to a room full of upper level Scientologists waiting to dine with the pair at that point she excused herself politely. She had then pulled out of Cruise''s upcoming movie Mission Impossible III. Johansson never confirmed this incident and claimed to have dropped out of the movie due to scheduling conflicts with a Woody Allen film she is working on.</p>
<p>Wikinews has news related to this article: <br>
  Church of Scientology does not see humor in website dedicated to Tom CruiseAs of 2005, Tom Cruise has begun advocating for the Church of Scientology before politicians and government officials around the world. As an example, he has lobbied French minister Nicolas Sarkozy in favor of Scientology. Such advocacy does not go well in several European countries where this organization is considered as a cult that swindles its members. As an example, on July 13th, 2005, the city council of Paris vowed &quot;never to receive [before the council or the mayor] the actor Tom Cruise, spokesman for Scientology and self-declared militant for this organisation&quot; after he was mentioned as lobbying Sarkozy and Jean-Claude Gaudin, mayor of Marseille.</p>
<p>Cruise also fell victim to South Park episode (Trapped in the Closet), which explicitly made fun of Scientology. It alluded to his possible homosexuality when he locked himself inside a closet after Stan told him that he was a decent actor, but &quot;not as great as the guy who played Napoleon Dynamite.&quot; Throughout the episode while he was in the closet, all the other characters, including fellow Scientologist John Travolta, R&amp;B singer R. Kelly, and ex-wife Nicole Kidman, pleaded with him to &quot;come out of the closet&quot;.</p>
<p>Cruise&rsquo;s involvement with Scientology is parodied on the site scienTOMogy.info.<br>
</p>
<p><strong>Oprah, interviews and Katie Holmes</strong></p>
<p>Tom Cruise debates psychiatry on Today show <br>
  Tom Cruise jumps ecstatically on Oprah''s couchOn May 23, 2005, Cruise raised some eyebrows with a frenzied, almost manic appearance on The Oprah Winfrey Show in which he &mdash; in the words of The New York Times &mdash; &quot;jumped around the set, hopped onto a couch, fell rapturously to one knee and repeatedly professed his love for his new girlfriend, the actress Katie Holmes.&quot;</p>
<p>Cruise''s public image came under further scrutiny after a number of subsequent television interviews in which he was described as acting in an odd manner and espousing a number of controversial views. In his famous Matt Lauer interview, Cruise appeared tired and hostile when discussing psychiatry. He accused Lauer of being &quot;glib&quot; and insisted that there is &quot;no such thing as a chemical imbalance,&quot; and that through &quot;vitamins and exercise&quot; a person''s psychiatric problems can be cured. Noting that Katie Holmes was embracing Scientology, Lauer then asked Cruise if he could be with someone who wasn''t a Scientologist. He replied: &quot;It''s something you don''t understand. You can be a Christian and be a Scientologist. It is a religion in that it deals with the spirit, you as a spiritual being.&quot;</p>
<p>This short, yet very public love affair took a dramatic turn when Cruise and Holmes got engaged in Paris while on a world publicity tour for their two most recent movies (War of the Worlds for Cruise and Batman Begins for Holmes). War of the Worlds director Steven Spielberg has been critical of Cruise''s focus on his relationship during promotion of the film, but believed it to be genuine. On October 5, 2005, it was reported by People magazine that Holmes is pregnant. The birth would be Holmes'' first child, and Cruise''s third. Cruise has two adopted children; Connor, 10, and Isabella, 12, from his marriage to Nicole Kidman.</p>
<p>Cruise''s hostile behavior in recent interviews and his very public romance with Katie Holmes have led to his being the butt of numerous jokes on late night television shows such as Late Night with Conan O''Brien and The Late Show with David Letterman. The jokes commonly refer to Cruise being crazy or insane. The phrase &quot;jumping the couch&quot; is now used to refer to someone (usually a celebrity) who seems to have gone insane.</p>
<p>In the wake of these events, Tom Cruise demoted his sister LeAnne DeVette and replaced her with veteran publicist Paul Bloch, from the publicity firm Rogers and Cowan. Such restructuring is seen as a move to curtail publicity about Tom''s Scientology views, though DeVette said that it was her decision to work on philanthropic projects rather than publicity. </p>
<p>&nbsp;</p>
<p><strong>Selected filmography</strong></p>
<p>Taps (1981) <br>
  Endless Love (1981) <br>
  The Outsiders (1983) <br>
  Losin'' It (1983) <br>
  Risky Business (1983) <br>
  All the Right Moves (1983) <br>
  Legend (1985) <br>
  Top Gun (1986) <br>
  The Color of Money (1986) <br>
  Cocktail (1988) <br>
  Young Guns (1988) (Cameo) <br>
  Rain Man (1988) <br>
  Born On The Fourth Of July (1989) <br>
  Days of Thunder (1990) <br>
  Far and Away (1992) <br>
  A Few Good Men (1992) <br>
  The Firm (1993) <br>
  Interview With the Vampire (1994) <br>
  Mission: Impossible (1996) <br>
  Jerry Maguire (1996) <br>
  Eyes Wide Shut (1999) <br>
  Magnolia (1999) <br>
  Mission: Impossible II (2000) <br>
  Stanley Kubrick: A Life in Pictures (2001) (documentary) (narrator) <br>
  Vanilla Sky (2001) (also producer) <br>
  Space Station 3D (2002) (documentary) (narrator) <br>
  Minority Report (2002) <br>
  Austin Powers in Goldmember (2002) (Cameo) <br>
  The Last Samurai (2003) (also producer) <br>
  Collateral (2004) <br>
  War of the Worlds (2005) <br>
  Mission: Impossible III (2006) (currently being filmed) (also producer) <br>
</p>
<p><strong>Reported salaries</strong></p>
<p>War of the Worlds (2005) $70,000,000 (20% profit participation) <br>
  The Last Samurai (2003) $25,000,000 + % of profits <br>
  Minority Report (2002) $25,000,000+ <br>
  Vanilla Sky (2001) $20,000,000 + 30% of Profits <br>
  Mission: Impossible II (2000) $75,000,000 (gross participation) <br>
  Eyes Wide Shut (1999) $20,000,000 <br>
  Jerry Maguire (1996) $20,000,000 against 15% <br>
  Mission: Impossible (1996) $70,000,000 (gross participation) <br>
  Interview with the Vampire: The Vampire Chronicles (1994) $15,000,000 <br>
  Far and Away (1992) $13,000,000 <br>
  Rain Man (1988) $3,000,000+% of gross <br>
  Top Gun (1986) $2,000,000 <br>
  Risky Business (1983) $75,000 <br>
</p>
<p><strong>Worldwide Movie Grosses (does not count inflation)</strong></p>
<p>War of the Worlds $587,170,495 <br>
  Collateral $216,770,152 <br>
  The Last Samurai $456,710,575 <br>
  Minority Report $342,000,000 <br>
  Vanilla Sky $202,726,605 <br>
  Mission Impossible II $545,547,560 <br>
  Jerry Maguire $274,000,000 <br>
  Mission Impossible $467,000,000 <br>
  Interview with the Vampire $221,300,000 <br>
  The Firm $262,292,525 <br>
  A Few Good Men $236,500,000 <br>
  Rain Man $412,800,000 <br>
  Top Gun $344,700,000 <br>
</p>');
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<p>Victoria Davey &quot;Tori&quot; Spelling (born May 16, 1973 in Los Angeles, California, USA) is an American actress best known for her role as Donna Martin in the 1990s teen soap opera Beverly Hills 90210.</p>
<p>The daughter of Jewish American parents Candy Marer and Aaron Spelling, a famed television producer with the ABC network in the 1970s, she appeared in a number of guest roles (mostly in her father''s shows) such as The Love Boat, T.J. Hooker, Hotel, Fantasy Island, Vega$, and Saved by the Bell before landing a regular part in Beverly Hills 90210, a series co-produced by her father and Darren Star.</p>
<p>Often described as having a limited acting range, there was much speculation that she landed the 90210 role through her father''s influence. She claimed to have undergone an audition for the role under an assumed name. Since the series went off the air, Spelling has worked primarily on independent films (often receiving praise for her performances) including Trick and The House of Yes.</p>
<p>Spelling is a graduate of Harvard-Westlake School. Her brother Randy Spelling is also an actor.</p>
<p>In July 2004, Spelling married Armenian-American actor Charlie Shanian in a lavish $1 million wedding. In September 2005 the couple announced their separation after only 14 months of marriage. </p>
<p>&nbsp;</p>
<p><strong>Television work</strong></p>
<p>Shooting Stars (1983) <br>
  The Three Kings (1987) <br>
  Beverly Hills, 90210 (1990-2000) <br>
  A Friend to Die For (1994) <br>
  Awake to Danger (1995) <br>
  Deadly Pursuits (1996) <br>
  Co-Ed Call Girl (1996) <br>
  Mother, May I Sleep with Danger? (1996) <br>
  The Alibi (1997) <br>
  So Downtown (2003) (canceled after a few episodes) <br>
  A Carol Christmas (2003) <br>
  The Family Plan (2005) <br>
  Hush (2005) <br>
</p>
<p><strong>Filmography</strong></p>
<p>Troop Beverly Hills (1989) <br>
  The House of Yes (1997) <br>
  Scream 2 (1997) <br>
  Perpetrators of the Crime (1998) <br>
  Trick (1999) <br>
  Sol Goode (2001) <br>
  Scary Movie 2 (2001) <br>
  Naked Movie (2002) <br>
  Evil Alien Conquerors (2002) <br>
  50 Ways to Leave Your Lover (2004) <br>
</p>');
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<p>Vanessa Madeline Angel (born November 10, 1966 in London) is a British actress. She is best remembered for playing the role of &quot;Lisa&quot; on the Weird Science tv series. Her movie roles include King of New York and Kingpin, and she has also had recurring roles on the tv shows Reasonable Doubts and Stargate SG-1.</p>
<p>Prior to acting, Angel was a model who appeared on the covers of such magazines as Vogue and Cosmopolitan</p>');
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<p>Mark Vincent (born July 18, 1967 in New York City), better known by his stage name of Vin Diesel, is an American actor. Diesel is multi-racial of Irish, Dominican, Mexican, African-American, Scottish and Italian descent, a fact upon which he based his well-received 1994 short film Multi-Facial, about a struggling actor who is rejected for part after part because he doesn''t look &quot;black/white/Jewish&quot; enough. He attended Hunter College in New York City. He''s quoted as saying his mother is descended from the Sinclairs of Scotland. He is distinguished by his bald head, muscular physique, and deep gravelly baritone voice.</p>
<p> <br>
  Paul Walker and Vin Diesel in The Fast and the Furious.Diesel was cast in 1998''s Saving Private Ryan on the strength of Multi-Facial, and followed it up with Boiler Room (2000). He broke through to mainstream audiences with the 2001 film The Fast and the Furious and the 2002 film xXx. In 2004 he reprised his role as Pitch Black''s Riddick in The Chronicles of Riddick, and afterwards took on the titular role in Hannibal, as the Carthaginian general who crossed the Alps by elephant to attack Rome.</p>
<p>Diesel has his own film production company, One Race Productions, with long time producing partner, George Zakk. In 2002, he founded Tigon Studios, a video game production company; it is named after the tigon, the hybrid offspring of a male tiger and a female lion.</p>
<p>During his teens, he performed breakdancing in an instructional video on the subject.</p>
<p>Diesel is also a long time fan and player of Dungeons &amp; Dragons and other role playing games, a fact that he proudly states in various interviews. He occasionally places references to D&amp;D in his films, such as in XXX where one of the tattoos on Xander Cage (Diesel''s character) read &quot;Melkor,&quot; the name of one of Diesel''s old player characters. (Melkor is also the original name of the Satan-like character in The Silmarillion and other Tolkien stories.) He has also written the foreword to the commemorative book 30 Years of Adventure: A Celebration of D&amp;D, which chronicles the history of D&amp;D through various stories and essays written by various authors and developers.</p>
<p>Diesel is currently dating British model Lucy Clarkson and has commented that he will concentrate on his career until the age of 40; at that point, he will consider marriage and family life. In the meantime, he owns a mastiff by the name of Roman.</p>
<p>&nbsp;</p>
<p><strong>Filmography</strong><br>
</p>
<p>2007 Hitman Agent 47 Announced <br>
  2006 Rockfish voiceover Announced; animated <br>
  2006 Hannibal Hannibal Barca Announced <br>
  2005 Find Me Guilty Jack DiNorscio Post-Production <br>
  2005 The Pacifier Shane Wolfe <br>
  2004 The Chronicles of Riddick: Dark Fury Richard B. Riddick <br>
  2004 The Chronicles of Riddick Richard B. Riddick <br>
  2003 A Man Apart Sean Vetter <br>
  2002 XXX Xander Cage <br>
  2001 Knockaround Guys Taylor Reese <br>
  2001 The Fast and the Furious Dominic Toretto <br>
  2000 Pitch Black Richard B. Riddick <br>
  2000 Boiler Room Chris Varick <br>
  1999 The Iron Giant The Iron Giant Voice <br>
  1998 Saving Private Ryan Private Caparzo <br>
  1997 Strays Rick <br>
  1994 Multi-Facial Mike <br>
  1990 Awakenings Hospital Orderly <br>
</p>');
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<p>Willard Christopher Smith II (born September 25, 1968) is an African American actor and rapper. He is one of few people who has enjoyed success in the three major entertainment media in the United States: film, television, and the music industry.<br>
</p>
<p><strong>Biography</strong></p>
<p>Smith was born and raised in the Wynnefield section of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, the second of four children. He often uses the line &quot;West Philadelphia born and raised&quot; to describe his roots. He is a graduate of Overbrook High School. He was admitted to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, but chose to pursue acting instead.</p>
<p>Will Smith started his career as The Fresh Prince, the vocalist of the hip-hop duo DJ Jazzy Jeff &amp; the Fresh Prince, which included childhood friend Jeffrey &quot;DJ Jazzy Jeff&quot; Townes as turntablist and producer. The duo was known for performing humorous, radio-friendly songs, most notably &quot;Parents Just Don''t Understand&quot; and &quot;Summertime&quot;.</p>
<p>Smith was a charismatic and energetic performer, and in 1990, the NBC television network signed him up and built a sitcom, The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air, around him. The show was successful and ran for six seasons.</p>
<p>Although he made a notable dramatic film debut in Six Degrees of Separation (in which he played totally against type as a gay con man) while still appearing in The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air, Smith''s film career took off with his role in Bad Boys (1995) along with co-star Martin Lawrence.</p>
<p>After The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air came to an end in 1996, Smith began a successful solo career in music and simultaneously starred in a series of films. The first two films were hugely successful summer blockbusters: Independence Day (1996), where he plays a fearless and confident fighter pilot, and Men in Black (1997), where he plays the comic and confident Agent J against Tommy Lee Jones''s deadpan Agent K. Smith''s acting in Men in Black won critical praise, and both films established Smith''s commercial reputation as a &quot;bankable&quot; star who had appeal across age, race, and gender, and could &quot;open&quot; a film at the box office.</p>
<p>Lead roles in Enemy of the State, Wild Wild West, Ali, Bad Boys II and I, Robot then followed. His most recent film is 2005''s Hitch. (Like Smith, Hitch co-star Kevin James starred in a sitcom named for royalty, The King of Queens.)</p>
<p>Smith was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actor for his portrayal of the boxer Muhammad Ali in Ali.</p>
<p>Smith also released a string of hit singles, often associated with his most recent film, throughout the late 1990s. The most notable of these were his #1 hit theme song &quot;Men in Black&quot;, the #1 hit &quot;Gettin'' Jiggy Wit It&quot; (which made jiggy a catchphrase for a while in 1998), and &quot;Just the Two of Us&quot;, an affecting message to his young son. His first two solo albums went platinum, but his third, on Columbia Records, was a sales disappointment compared to his past efforts, and after a quick Greatest Hits release that was almost not advertised at all, he was dropped by the label. He signed a recording contract with Interscope Records and released the so far, moderately successful Lost and Found in 2005.</p>
<p>On July 2, 2005, Smith served as host for the Live 8 concert in his native Philadelphia before an enormous crowd, and later performed a set with DJ Jazzy Jeff.</p>
<p>Smith married actress Sharee Zampino in 1992. They had a son, Willard Christopher III, also known as &quot;Trey&quot;. They divorced in 1995. Smith married actress Jada Pinkett in 1997. They have had two children: Jaden Christopher Syre (1998) and Willow Camille Reign (2000). Along with his brother Harry Smith, he owns Treyball Development Inc., a Beverly Hills-based company named after his first son. With all his commercial success, Will Smith is arguably the biggest star in today''s pop culture and his wealth has continued to grow as his name has continued to appear in Forbes Richest 40 under the age of 40.</p>
<p>&nbsp;</p>
<p><strong>Discography<br>
</strong></p>
<p><strong>Albums</strong><br>
</p>
<p>with DJ Jazzy Jeff (as The Fresh Prince)<br>
  Rock the House (1987) #83 US <br>
  He''s the DJ, I''m the Rapper (1988) #4 US <br>
  And in this Corner... (1989) #39 US <br>
  Homebase (1991) #12 US <br>
  Code Red (1993) #64 US <br>
  Greatest Hits (1998) (including material from Will Smith''s solo career) #500 US, #20 U <br>
</p>
<p><strong>Solo</strong></p>
<p>Big Willie Style (1997) #8 US, #9 UK (U.S. Sales - 9 million) <br>
  Willennium (1999) #5 US, #10 UK (U.S. Sales - 2 million) <br>
  Born to Reign (2002) #13 US, #24 UK (U.S. Sales - 500,000+) <br>
  Greatest Hits (2002) <br>
  Lost &amp; Found (03/29/2005) #6 US, #15 UK [Certified Gold] <br>
  Total album sales: 16 million</p>
<p>&nbsp;</p>
<p><strong>Hit singles</strong><br>
</p>
<p>with DJ Jazzy Jeff (as The Fresh Prince)<br>
&quot;Girls Ain''t Nothing But Trouble&quot; #21 UK (1986) <br>
&quot;Parents Just Don''t Understand&quot; #12 US (1988) <br>
&quot;Nightmare on My Street&quot; #15 US (1988) <br>
&quot;Summertime&quot; #4 US, #8 UK (1991) <br>
&quot;Ring My Bell&quot; #20 US (1991) <br>
&quot;How Much I Love You&quot; #19 UK (1992) <br>
&quot;Boom! Shake the Room&quot; #13 US, #1 UK (1993) <br>
&quot;I''m Lookin for the One (To Be with Me)&quot; #24 UK (1993) <br>
&quot;Can''t Wait to Be with You&quot; #29 UK (1994) <br>
&quot;Summertime&quot; (re-entry) #29 UK (1994) <br>
&quot;Boom! Shake the Room&quot; (remix) #40 UK (1995) <br>
&quot;Lovely Daze&quot; #37 UK (1998) <br>
<br>
<br>
  <strong>Solo</strong><br>
  <br>
  <br>
&quot;Men in Black&quot; #1 US, #1 UK, #1 Australia (1997) <br>
&quot;Just Cruisin''&quot; #23 UK (1997) <br>
&quot;Gettin'' Jiggy Wit It&quot; #1 US, #3 UK, #6 Australia (1998) <br>
&quot;Just the Two of Us&quot; #20 US, #2 UK (1998) <br>
&quot;Miami&quot; #10 US, #3 UK (1998) <br>
&quot;Boy You Knock Me Out&quot; (Tatyana Ali feat. Will Smith) #3 UK (1999) <br>
&quot;Wild Wild West&quot; (feat. Dru Hill) #2 UK (1999) <br>
&quot;Will 2K&quot;, #2 UK (1999) <br>
&quot;Freakin'' it&quot;, #15 UK (2000) <br>
&quot;Black Suits Comin'' (Nod Ya Head)&quot; (feat. Tra-Knox) (From the film &quot;Men in Black 2&quot;) #3 UK (2002) <br>
&quot;Switch&quot; #7 US, #4 UK, #1 Australia (2005) <br>
&quot;Party Starter&quot; (2005) #19 UK <br>
  Total singles sales: 5 million</p>
<p>&nbsp;</p>
<p><strong>Filmography</strong></p>
<p>Where the Day Takes You (1992) <br>
  Made in America (1993) <br>
  Six Degrees of Separation (1993) <br>
  Bad Boys (1995) <br>
  Independence Day (1996) <br>
  Men in Black (1997) <br>
  Enemy of the State (1998) <br>
  Torrance Rises (1999) (short subject) <br>
  Wild Wild West (1999) <br>
  Men in Black: Alien Attack (2000) (short subject) <br>
  Welcome to Hollywood (2000) (documentary) <br>
  The Legend of Bagger Vance (2000) <br>
  Ali (2001) <br>
  Men in Black II (2002) <br>
  Bad Boys II (2003) <br>
  A Closer Walk (2004) (documentary) (narrator) <br>
  Jersey Girl (2004) (cameo) <br>
  I, Robot (2004) <br>
  Shark Tale (2004) (voice) <br>
  There''s a God on the Mic (2005) (documentary) <br>
  Hitch (2005) (also producer) <br>
  Pursuit of Happyness (2006) (currently in pre-production) (also producer) <br>
  Time Share (2006) (currently announced start of production) (also producer) <br>
  Tonight, He Comes (2006) (currently announced start of production) <br>
</p>
<p><strong>Salary History</strong></p>
<p>I, Robot (2004) $28,000,000 <br>
  Bad Boys II (2003) $20,000,000 + 20% of the gross <br>
  Men in Black II (2002) $20,000,000 + 10% of the gross <br>
  Ali (2001) $20,000,000 <br>
  The Legend of Bagger Vance (2000) $10,000,000 <br>
  Wild Wild West (1999) $7,000,000 <br>
  Enemy of the State (1998) $14,000,000 <br>
  Men in Black (1997) $5,000,000 <br>
  Independence Day (1996) $5,000,000 <br>
  Bad Boys (1995) $2,000,000 <br>
  Six Degrees of Separation (1993) $500,000 <br>
  Made in America (1993) $100,000 <br>
  Where the Day Takes You (1992) $50,000 <br>
  Total salary gross: $135,000,000</p>');
INSERT INTO `bios` VALUES ('y', 'Yasmine ', 'Yasmine.jpg', '<p><strong>Yasmine </strong></p>
<p>Yasmin Le Bon (nee Parvaneh) (born October 29, 1964) is a British supermodel. She was born in Britain of Iranian and English descent.</p>
<p>She has had a fashion modeling career of unusual longevity, still going strong at 41 years of age.</p>
<p>Although she was a successful model long before they met, she gained notoriety for marrying Simon Le Bon of the electronic pop/rock group Duran Duran during the height of their fame in 1985. The couple have three daughters; Amber Rose Tamara (b. August 25, 1989), Saffron Sahara (b. September 25, 1991), and Tallulah Pine (b. September 10, 1994).</p>');