My favorite celebrities
celebrities bio
celebrities - Gwyneth Paltrow
Gwyneth Paltrow
Gwyneth Kate Paltrow (born September 28, 1972) is an Oscar-winning American actress.
Personal life
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.
In May of 2005 she publicly announced that she suffered from depression after the untimely death of her father Bruce Paltrow.
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.
She had a much-publicized romance with Brad Pitt and was also once linked romantically to Ben Affleck.
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 "the sweetest, loveliest name." 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.
Acting career
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.
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).
Other work
In May 2005, Paltrow was announced as the new face of Estée Lauder.
Partial filmography
Running with Scissors (2006)
Proof (2005)
Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow (2004)
Sylvia (2003)
View from the Top (2003)
Austin Powers in Goldmember (2002) (cameo)
Possession (2002)
Shallow Hal (2001)
The Royal Tenenbaums (2001)
The Anniversary Party (2001)
Bounce (2000)
Duets (2000)
The Intern (2000) (cameo)
The Talented Mr. Ripley (1999)
Shakespeare in Love (1998)
A Perfect Murder (1998)
Hush (1998)
Great Expectations (1998)
Sliding Doors (1998)
Emma (1996)
The Pallbearer (1996)
Hard Eight (1996)
Se7en (1995)
Jefferson in Paris (1995)
Mrs. Parker and the Vicious Circle (1994)
Flesh and Bone (1993)
Malice (1993)
Hook (1991)
Shout (1991)
celebrities - Halle Berry
Halle Berry
Halle Maria Berry (born August 14, 1966 in Cleveland, Ohio) is an Academy Award-winning actress and model.
Biography
Early life and career
Halle on the Dec 2002 cover of VogueHalle Berry was named after Halle's Department Store, a local landmark in Cleveland, Ohio. She is the daughter of Judith Ann Hawkins, a caucasian of English ancestry, and Jerome J. Berry, who is African-American. Berry's maternal grandmother, Nellie Dicken, was born in Sawley, Derbyshire, England, while her maternal grandfather, Earl Ellsworth Hawkins, was born in Ohio. Berry's parents divorced when she was 4 years old and she subsequently was raised by her mother, a psychiatric-ward nurse. She also has an older sister, Heidi.
Berry was a popular student at Bedford High School and was a cheerleader, honor society member, editor of the school newspaper, class president and prom queen. She worked in the children's department at Higbee's Department Store. Her personality, as described by a co-worker, was expressed in these terms..."I can hardly believe how sweet and nice she had been to everyone. People who weren't half as beautiful as she did not display the kind of inner beauty she exhibited." She subsequently attended Cuyahoga Community College.
Before becoming an actress, she entered several beauty contests, including Miss Ohio USA, Miss Teen All American, Miss USA (first runner-up in 1986) and Miss World.
Hollywood career
In the late 1980s, she went to Chicago to pursue a modeling career as well as acting. One of her first acting projects was a television series for local cable by Gordon Lake Productions called "Chicago Force."
Berry auditioned for a role in an updated Charlie's Angels television series by producer Aaron Spelling. At the time, Spelling wanted one of the "Angels" to be a African American woman. She did not get the role (because the project never materialized) but she impressed Spelling with her skills, encouraging her to continue perfecting her craft.
In 1989, Berry landed the role of brainy Emily Franklin in the short-lived ABC television series Living Dolls (which was a spin-off of Who's the Boss?). Her breakthrough feature film role was in Spike Lee's Jungle Fever where she played a drug addict named Vivian. Her first co-starring role was in the film Strictly Business. Another one of her early roles was in a supporting capacity in the Flintstones movie where she played "Sharon Stone" (a part rumored to have been intended for Sharon Stone). The year before, Berry really caught the public's attention with her portrayal as a female slave in the TV adaption of Queen: The Story of an American Family.
Berry is also known by most comic book fans for her portrayal of Storm in the movie adaptation of the successful comic book X-Men (2000) and its successful sequel X2: X-Men United (2003). Berry will reprise her role again in the third installment X-Men 3 scheduled for a May 2006 release. In late 2003 Berry starred in the thriller Gothika, which was the first film that she "carried," i.e., her role was the most important one in the film.
Marriages
Berry has been married twice. Her first marriage in 1992 to baseball player David Justice ended in a 1996 divorce due to infidelity. Her second marriage in 2001 to musician Eric Benét has resulted in a 2004 separation (and 2005 divorce) reportedly due to Benét's infidelity. She has said that she will never marry again. Although she does not have any children herself, she is close to her step-daughter India from her marriage to Benét and is also rumored that she is pregnant by her current boyfriend (Michael Ealy). Berry does have two Maltese dogs: Miss Polly and Little Willie.
Halle Berry meet hot-shot attorney at a prestigious entertainment law firm, Kevin Hill a star on the rise. He commands attention in the courtroom and at the hottest clubs in New York City. Then she realize that life woudlnt be complete without dating Kevin R. Hill. They meet in the Four Season Hotel in Maui. Their love has continue to carry on. They later married in 2002, in a romantic ceremony in the Hamptons. Kevin Hill and Halle Berry had three childern Mercedes 7, Porsche 3, and Alexus 2. Since then they have lived happily ever after Mailbu, California.
Film Awards
Halle Berry at the Academy AwardsBerry won the best actress Oscar in 2002 for Monster's Ball, becoming the first African American woman to win this award.
Berry won an Emmy in 1999 for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Miniseries or a Movie for her portayal of Dorothy Dandridge in the HBO movie Introducing Dorothy Dandridge. Interestingly, Dorothy Dandridge was the first African American woman to be nominated for a best actress Academy Award. Another similarity the two women shared was being born in the same hospital.
Berry won a Razzie for her starring role in 2004's Catwoman. She made headlines by accepting her award in person, an unusual gesture that was last performed by Tom Green in 2001. Berry accepted her award with dignity, saying, "When I was a kid, my mother told me that if you could not be a good loser, then there's no way you could be a good winner" but adding "I hope to God I never see these people again!" shortly afterward. At the podium, she appeared with her Razzie in one hand, and her 2002 Oscar in the other.
Halle Berry meethot-shot attorney at a prestigious entertainment law firm, Kevin Hill a star on the rise. He commands attention in the courtroom and at the hottest clubs in New York City. Then she realize that life woudlnt be complete without dating Kevin R. Hill. They meet in the Four Season Hotel in Maui. Their love has continue to carry on. They later married in 2002, in a romantic ceremony in the Hamptons. Kevin Hill and Halle Berry had three childern Mercedes 7, Porsche 3, and Alexus 2. Since then they have lived happily ever after Mailbu, California.
Controversy
In February 2000, she was involved in a car accident when she struck another vehicle after running a red light and left the scene before the police arrived. Berry, who had sustained a head injury, later stated she had no recollection of the accident and pleaded no contest to a misdemeanor charge. She paid a fine, made restitution to the other driver, performed community services, and was placed on three years’ probation.
Having long refused to do any nude scenes, much was made of her first topless scene in the film Swordfish, a thirty-second scene for which she allegedly was paid an additional US$500,000. She followed this with a more extended nude love scene in Monster's Ball. Her appearance in this film won her the Academy Award for Best Actress in 2002. As Bond Girl Jinx in 2002's Die Another Day she famously re-created the scene from Dr. No, bursting from the surf - scantily clad - to be greeted by James Bond, as Ursula Andress did 40 years earlier.
Trivia
In 2003, Berry was named in FHM's 100 Sexiest Women in the World poll.
Also in 2003, Berry was on Punk'd, MTV's celebrity prank show.
She has diabetes and acquired unilateral hearing loss (80% hearing loss in one ear) after being severely beaten by a former boyfriend. Accounts differ as to whether the abusive boyfriend was Wesley Snipes or Christopher Williams.
She is currently living with her boyfriend Michael Ealy of Barbershop fame.
Filmography
Jungle Fever (1991)
Strictly Business (1991)
The Last Boy Scout (1991)
Boomerang (1992)
CB4 (1993) (Cameo)
Father Hood (1993)
The Program (1993)
The Flintstones (1994)
Losing Isaiah (1995)
Executive Decision (1996)
Race the Sun (1996)
Girl 6 (1996) (Cameo)
The Rich Man's Wife (1996)
B*A*P*S (1997)
Bulworth (1998)
Why Do Fools Fall In Love (1998)
X-Men (2000)
Welcome to Hollywood (2000) (documentary)
Swordfish (2001)
Monster's Ball (2001)
Die Another Day (2002)
X2 (2003)
Gothika (2003)
Catwoman (2004)
Robots (2005) (voice)
X-Men 3 (2006) (currently filming)
Perfect Stranger (2006) (currently announced start of production)
TV work
Living Dolls (1989) (canceled after 13 episodes)
Knots Landing (cast member in 1991)
Queen: The Story of an American Family (1993) (miniseries)
Solomon & Sheba (1995)
The Wedding (1998)
Introducing Dorothy Dandridge (1999) (also executive producer)
Their Eyes Were Watching God (2005)
robots 2005
x-men 32006
Latest on celebritiesBeautiful Images of Faye WongTue, 15 May 2007 23:01:00 +0000
This is a great source for images of your favorite Chinese singer, songwriter, actress and model! How about these images of Faye Wong:
Profile: Faye Wong
Faye Wong was born 夏琳 (Xià Lín) in 1969. August 8 is her birthday. Faye is from Hong Kong. Her star sign is Leo.
New Sexy Images of Lena OlinFri, 18 May 2007 23:51:00 +0000
Look at these sexy images of internationally acclaimed Academy Award-nominated Swedish actress, Lena Olin:
About Lena Olin
Lena was born March 22, 1955. Lena Olin was born in Stockholm, Sweden. Lena is an Aries.
Celebrity poker hijinks at Cannes (Los Angeles Times)Mon, 19 May 2008 02:59:33 GMT
Hopper lights up, Robbins orders a triple and Woody forgets his shoes!
Big Brown treated like celebrity at Preakness (Republican-American)Mon, 19 May 2008 07:47:29 GMT
Rain falls as exercise rider Michelle Nevin waits to take Kentucky Derby winner Big Brown to the track at Pilmico Race Course on Friday in Baltimore. The 133rd running of the Preakness Stakes will be held today.
Doherty in celebrity football match (Press Assoc. via Yahoo! UK & Ireland News)Sun, 18 May 2008 18:25:47 GMT
Rock star Pete Doherty was in upbeat mood as he swapped the stage for a football pitch to take part in a celebrity sports event.
More information on celebrities
celebrities bio
celebrities - Hilary Duff Hilary Duff
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.
Biography
Early life and career
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 "Erhard" 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.
Television and film
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.
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.
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).
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, "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." 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.
Lizzie McGuire
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 "a 2002 version of Annette Funicello". 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.
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.
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.
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.
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 "Worst Actress" (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.
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.
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 "absolutely thrilled to have Hilary and Haylie Duff as part of the cast." 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.
Duff recently announced on MTV that she has put her film Outward Blonde on hold for "a little while".
In a recent interview with the Puerto Rican press. Duff has confirmed an April release date for "Material Girls"
Music career
After seeing her sister perform in a band, Duff decided that she wanted to be the next "Pop princess". Her first recorded singing performance was on the song "I Can't Wait", 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 "The Tiki, Tiki, Tiki Room". 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.
Duff also sang on several tracks on the soundtrack to The Lizzie McGuire Movie. One of these tracks, "Why Not", 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, "So Yesterday", 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. "Little Voice" was released as a single overseas in 2004, while "The Math (Live)" was also released overseas and on the internet.
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, "The Siamese Cat Song", recorded with her sister Haylie. Another song, "Circle of Life", included Duff and other Disney Channel Stars. Duff and her sister also recorded a cover of The Go-Gos' "Our Lips Are Sealed" for the soundtrack to A Cinderella Story.
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 "Fly", and it also includes "Haters", 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 "Fly" performed below expectations on the charts.
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 "Wake Up" 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.
Duff has recorded Madonna's signature song "Material Girl" for her film Material Girls, and the music video is due in January. Duff has also mentioned in an interview that "Material Girl" will be included on her next album, which she is planning to start recording in early 2006.
Personal life and trivia
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.
Stuff By Duff backpackDuff is involved with many charities, is an animal rights enthusiast, and a member of "Kids With a Cause". On September 5, 2005, it was reported that Duff donated US$250,000 to help the victims of Hurricane Katrina.
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, "Stuff By Duff" 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]
Her sister, Haylie Duff, has been trying to become a professional singer, as well. Hilary has helped her with duet songs including "Our Lips Are Sealed" 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.
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.
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. "Still Most Wanted Tour", she wanted to take a short break. Her forthcoming film Outward Blonde was then put on hold for "a little while", 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 "Still Most Wanted Tour" in Canada and other countries.
Filmography
Films
Year Film Role Other notes
2006 Outward Blonde Marie Announced
2006 The New Girl Pre-production
2006 Foodfight! Sunshine Goodness Animating
2006 Material Girls Tanzie Marchetta Post-production; due for release in April
2005 Cheaper by the Dozen 2 Lorraine Baker Completed; due for release in December
2005 The Perfect Man Holly Hamilton
2004 In Search of Santa Crystal Animation; direct-to-video
2004 Raise Your Voice Terri Fletcher
2004 A Cinderella Story Sam Montgomery
2003 Cheaper by the Dozen Lorraine Baker
2003 The Lizzie McGuire Movie Lizzie McGuire/Isabella Parigi
2003 Agent Cody Banks Natalie Connors
2001 Human Nature Young Lila Jute Theatrical release in 2002
1998 Playing by Heart Bit part; uncredited
1998 Casper Meets Wendy Wendy Direct-to-video release
Music DVD's
Year Title
2003 All Access Pass
2004 The Girl Can Rock
2004 Learning To Fly
2005 Most Wanted (Japan Release)
Television work
True Women (1997)
The Soul Collector (1999)
Lizzie McGuire (2001-2004)
Cadet Kelly (2002)
Guest appearances
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.
Discography
Album information
Santa Claus Lane
Released: October 15, 2002 (U.S.)
Singles:
"Tell Me a Story"
"Santa Claus Lane"
Metamorphosis
Released: August 26, 2003 (U.S.)
Singles:
"So Yesterday" (July 2003)
"Come Clean" (January 2004)
"Little Voice" (April 2004)
Hilary Duff
Released: September 28, 2004 (U.S.)
Singles:
"Fly" (August 2004)
"I Am" (2004) radio release
"The Getaway" (2004) radio release
"Someone's Watching Over Me" (January 2005)
"Weird" (2005) (Radio Release through the U.K. only)
Most Wanted
Released: August 16, 2005 (U.S.)
Singles:
"Wake Up" (June 2005)
"Beat of My Heart" (November 2005)
"Supergirl" (Jan/Feb 2006)
In addition to her albums, Duff has also recorded songs for some soundtracks and compilations:
Lizzie McGuire discography
I Can't Wait"
"Why Not"
A Cinderella Story soundtrack
"Our Lips Are Sealed" feat. Haylie Duff
She has also been featured on Disneymania Vol. 1 (2002) and Vol. 2 (2004), Radio Disney Jingle Jams (2004) and Marlo Thomas & Friends: Thanks & Giving All Year Long (2004).
celebrities - Jaime Pressly Jaime Pressly
Jaime Elizabeth Pressly (born July 30, 1977) is an American model and actress.
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.
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.
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.
In 2001 she was made the new spokesmodel for Liz Claiborne Cosmetics and its fragrance Lucky You.
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.
Pressly is currently part of the cast of the NBC sitcom My Name is Earl.
Outside of acting, Pressly has posed nude for the March 1998 and February 2004 issues of Playboy and performed with The Pussycat Dolls.
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.
Quotes
"I don't want to be the Hollywood girl... I'm Southern and old-fashioned."
Selected filmography
Poison Ivy: The New Seduction (1997)
The Journey: Absolution (1997)
Against the Law (1997)
Mercenary (1997) (TV movie)
Push (1998) (TV series)
Can't Hardly Wait (1998)
Ringmaster (1998)
Trash (1999)
Coyote Moon (1999) (Direct to Video)
Jack and Jill (1999) (TV series)
100 Girls (2000)
Poor White Trash (2000)
Best Actress (2000) (TV movie)
Joe Dirt (2001)
Not Another Teen Movie (2001)
Ticker (2001)
Tomcats (2001)
Footprints (2002)
Demon Island (2002)
Johnny Chronicles (2002) (TV movie)
Torque (2004)
Evel Knievel (2004) (TV movie)
The Karate Dog (2004)
Death to the Supermodels (2005)
My Name Is Earl (2005) (TV series)
Venus & Vegas (2006)
DOA: Dead or Alive (2006)
Her appearances in Playboy Special Editions
Playboy's Book of Lingerie Vol. 58 November 1997 - Michael Bisco, pages 56-59.
Playboy's Book of Lingerie Vol. 62 July 1998 - pages 32-33.
Playboy's Nudes December 1998 - pages 16-17.
Playboy's Sexy 100 February 2003.
Latest on celebritiesCelebrity birthdays (USA Today)Mon, 19 May 2008 03:29:40 GMT
See who's celebrating a special day.
Norah Jones Beautiful Image DownloadsMon, 21 May 2007 23:25:00 +0000
Looking for images? How about these beautiful ones of American singer-songwriter, musician and occasional actress of American and Indian descent, Norah Jones:
All About Norah Jones
Norah Jones was born March 30, 1979. Norah is an Aries.
Monaco Grand Prix's glamour draws in stars (CNN.com)Mon, 19 May 2008 08:08:23 GMT
Formula One loves nothing more than a celebrity love-in, and every season Monaco continues to deliver the most glamorous show on the circuit.
Kerry's mum admits fraud - Manchester Evening NewsMon, 19 May 2008 15:28:00 GMT
THE mother of reality television celebrity Kerry Katona pleaded guilty to benefit fraud today. Susan Katona, 48, of Dickinson Street, Warrington, Cheshire, admitted wrongly ...
Celebrity fishing tournament June 26 (Waconia Patriot)Mon, 19 May 2008 14:40:23 GMT
You’ve probably seen a hundred professional sports tournaments on ESPN and they always seem to be held some place else. Not this time. On June 26, the E.J. Henderson Celebrity Bass Challenge will be held on Lake Waconia.
