Wednesday, September 29, 2010

Ellen DeGeneres - Actress

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Ellen DeGeneres is a American standup comedian, television host and actress. She hosts the association talk show The Ellen DeGeneres Show, and was also a judge on American Idol for one year, having attached the show in its ninth season. DeGeneres has hosted together the Academy Awards and the Primetime Emmys. As a film actress, she starred in Mr. Wrong, appears in EDtv and The Love Letter, and provided the voice of Dory in the Disney-Pixar animated film Finding Nemo, for which she was reward a Saturn Award for Best Supporting Actress, the first and only time a voice performance won a Saturn Award.

She was starred in two television sitcoms, Ellen from 1994 to 1998 and The Ellen Show from 2001 to 2002. During the fourth season of Ellenin 1997, Degeneres came out openly as a lesbian in an appearance on The Oprah Winfrey Show. Shortly afterwards, her character Ellen Morgan also came out to a psychoanalyst played by Winfrey, and the series went on to explore various LGBT issues including the coming out process. Television and film work in the late 1980s and early on 1990s included role on television in Open House and in the film Coneheads. In 2007, Forbes predictable DeGeneres' net worth at US$65 million. She has won twelve Emmys and numerous other awards for her job and charitable efforts.

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Birth Date

January 26, 1958

Birth Place

Metairie, Louisiana, U.S.

Birth Name

Ellen DeGeneres

Medium

Stand-up comedy, television, film

Nationality

American

Spouse

Portia DeGeneres

Tuesday, September 28, 2010

Reese Witherspoon - Actress

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Laura Jeanne Reese Witherspoon, better recognized as Reese Witherspoon, is an American actress and film producer. Witherspoon lands her first feature role as the female lead in the movie The Man in the Moon in 1991; later that year she made her television acting entrance, in the cable movie Wildflower. In 1996, Witherspoon appears in Freeway and followed that appearance with roles in three major 1998 movies: Overnight Delivery, Pleasantville, and Twilight. The following year, Witherspoon appeared in the seriously acclaimed Election, which earned her a Golden Globe nomination.

In 2005, Witherspoon got worldwide attention and praise for her portrayal of June Carter Cash in Walk the Line, which earns her an Academy Award, Golden Globe, BAFTA, and Screen Actors Guild Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role. Witherspoon owns a production company, Type A Films, and she is actively concerned in children's and women's advocacy organizations. She serves on the board of the Children's Defense Fund (CDF), and was name Global Ambassador of Avon Products in 2007, helping as honorary chair of the charitable Avon Foundation.

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Date Of Birth

March 22, 1976

Birth Place

New Orleans, Louisiana, U.S.

Birth Name

Born Laura Jeanne Reese Witherspoon

Occupation

Actress, Film producer

Spouse

Ryan Phillippe

Monday, September 27, 2010

Sandra Bullock - Actress

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Sandra Annette Bullock is an American actress who rose to celebrity in the 1990s, after roles in successful films such as Speed and While You Were Sleeping. She has since established her occupation with films such as Miss Congeniality and Crash, which received critical acclaim. In 2007, she was ranked as the 14th richest female personality with an expected fortune of $85 million. In 2009, Bullock starred in the mainly financially successful films of her career, The Proposal and The Blind Side. Bullock was awarded a Golden Globe Award for Best Actress, a Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding presentation by a Female Actor in a Leading Role, and the Academy Award for Best Actress, for her role as Leigh Anne Tuohy in The Blind Side.

On April 22, 2007, Marcia Diana Valentine was establishing lying outside James's and Bullock's Southern California home in Orange County. When James confronted the woman, she ran to her 2004 silver Mercedes, got after the wheel, and tried to run over James. The woman is said to be a fanatical fan of Sandra Bullock. Bullock has been a public follower of the American Red Cross, twice donating $1 million, first to its Liberty Disaster Relief Fund and four years later in reply to the 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake and tsunamis. In 2010, she donated $1 million to relief hard work in Haiti following the Haiti earthquake. Along with other stars, Bullock did a PSA influence people to sign an appeal for clean-up efforts of the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico.

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Date Of Birth

July 26, 1964

Place Of Birth

Arlington, Virginia, U.S.

Born Name

Sandra Annette Bullock

Occupation

Actress, producer

Spouse

Jesse G. James

Friday, September 24, 2010

Angelina Jolie - Actress

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Angelina Jolie is an actress of America. She has got an Academy Award, two Screen Actors Guild Awards, and three Golden Globe Awards. Jolie promotes humanitarian causes, and is famous for her work with refugees as a Goodwill Ambassador for the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR). She has been cited as one of the world's most beautiful people, as well as the world's "most beautiful" woman, title for which she has got substantial media attention. Though she made her screen debut as a child beside her father Jon Voight in the 1982 film Lookin' to Get Out, Jolie's acting profession began in earnest a decade later with the low-budget production Cyborg 2 (1993).

Her first foremost role in a major film was in Hackers (1995). She starred in the seriously acclaimed biographical films George Wallace (1997) and Gia (1998), and won an Academy Award for Best sustaining Actress for her performance in the drama Girl, Interrupted (1999). Jolie get wider fame after her portrayal of video game heroine Lara Croft in Lara Croft: Tomb Raider (2001), and since then has recognized herself as one of the best-known and highest-paid actresses in Hollywood. She has had her major commercial successes with the action-comedy Mr. & Mrs. Smith (2005) and the animated film Kung Fu Panda (2008).

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Date of Birth

June 4, 1975

Birth Place

Los Angeles, California, U.S.

Birth Name

Angelina Jolie Voight

Occupation

Actress/Humanitarian

Spouse

Jonny Lee Miller,

Billy Bob Thornton