Friday, October 29, 2010

Grace Kelly - American Actress, Princess Companion of Monaco

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Grace Patricia Kelly was an American Academy Award winning actress and Princess Companion of Monaco. In April 1956 Kelly married Rainier III, Prince of Monaco, and became styled as Her calm Highness The Princess of Monaco, and was usually referred to as Princess Grace. After embark on an acting career in 1950, at the age of 20, Grace Kelly appeared in New York City dramatic productions as well as in more than forty episodes of live drama productions transmit during the early 1950s Golden Age of Television. In October 1953, with the leave go of Mogambo, she became a movie star, a status confirmed in 1954 with a Golden Globe Award and Academy Award suggestion as well as leading roles in five films, including The Country Girl, in which she give a deglamorized, Academy Award winning performance.

She retired from acting at 26 to enter upon her duty in Monaco. She and Prince Rainier had three children: Caroline, Albert, and Stephanie. She also retain her American roots, maintain dual US and Monegasque citizenships. She died on September 14, 1982, two months before her 53rd birthday, when she gone control of her automobile and crashed after suffering a caress. Her daughter Princess Stéphanie, who was in the car with her, survives the accident. In June 1999, the American Film Institute ranked her #13 in list of top female stars of American cinema.

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Full name

Grace Patricia Kelly

Date of Birth

12 November 1929

Place of Birth

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S.

Occupation

Actress

Religion

Roman Catholic

Spouse

Rainier III, Prince of Monaco

Date of Death

14 September 1982

Place of Death

Monaco

Thursday, October 28, 2010

Jessica Simpson - American singer, actress, television character and fashion designer

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Jessica Ann Simpson is an American singer, actress, television character and fashion designer who rose to fame in 1999. She has reach seven Billboard Top 40 hits, three gold and two Multi Platinum RIAA certified studio albums, four of which have reach the top 10 on the US Billboard 200. In March 2007, Simpson donated a fresh Chrysler minivan to the Elim orphanage in Nuevo Laredo. Simpson won a Chrysler Crossfire sports car at the 2006 MTV Video Music Awards, but exchanged the $50,000 luxury car for a minivan so she could facilitate the orphanage. On October 26, 2002, at age 22, Simpson wedded Nick Lachey. She famously announces she had remain a virgin until her marriage.

In November 2005, after months of tabloid conjecture, Simpson and Lachey announced they were separating. The couple's divorce was publicized worldwide and was reportedly finalized on June 30, 2006. She has sell 20 million records worldwide. Simpson has a total of records sales in Australia of more than 426,000 copies and was rank in the # 113 on the 1000 artists chart of ARIA Music Decade Charts. In 2009, Billboard name Simpson as the 95th general best artist of the Decade. Simpson also was graded at number 86 on Billboard 200 Artists, solely based on album sales. Simpson is process Smile's International Youth Ambassador.


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Birth Name

Jessica Ann Simpson

Date of Birth

July 10, 1980

Place of Birth

Abilene, Texas, U.S.

Genres

Pop, dance-pop, R&B, country pop, adult contemporary

Occupations

Singer-songwriter, actress

Wednesday, October 27, 2010

Jennifer Lopez - American actress, singer, record producer, dancer, television producer and fashion designer

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Jennifer Lynn Lopez, often nicknamed J.Lo, is an American actress, singer, record producer, dancer, television producer and fashion designer. She is the richest person of Latin American descent in Hollywood according to Forbes, and the most influential Hispanic comedian in the U.S. according to People en Español's list of "100 Most powerful Hispanics". She parlayed her media fame into a fashion line and different perfumes with her celebrity endorsement. Outside of her work in the entertainment industry, Lopez advocates human rights, vaccination and is a enthusiast of Childrens Hospital Los Angeles. Lopez begins her career as a dancer on the television comedy agenda In Living Color. She then ventured into acting and gain gratitude in the 1995 action-thriller Money Train.

Lopez's first leading role was in the biographical film Selena (1997), in which she get an ALMA Award for Outstanding Actress. In 2007, Lopez out two albums, including her first full Spanish-language album, Como Ama una Mujer, and her fifth English studio album, Brave. She won the 2003 American Music Award for desired Pop/Rock Female performer and the 2007 American Music Award for Favorite Latin Artist. To date, Lopez has sell over 25 million albums worldwide. Reports dispersed in mid-2010 that Lopez would join the judging panel of American Idol. In September 2010, the program's producers officially complete that Lopez had joined the series. Lopez will be one of the first visitors to appear on CBS's new daytime talk show, The Talk.

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Birth name

Jennifer Lynn Lopez

Nickname

J.Lo

Date of Birth

July 24, 1969

Place of Birth

The Bronx, New York, U.S.

Genres

Pop, R&B, hip hop, dance-pop, Latin pop, Salsa

Occupations

Actress, singer-songwriter, record producer, dancer, fashion designer, television producer, model, entrepreneur, choreographer, Miami Dolphins part-owner

Tuesday, October 26, 2010

Scarlett Johansson - American actress and singer

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Scarlett Johansson is one of the American actress and singer. Johansson made her film debut in the 1994 film North and was later chosen for the Independent Spirit Award for Best Female Lead for her presentation in 1996's Manny & Lo. She made the change to adult roles with her performances in Sofia Coppola's Lost in Translation, for which she won a BAFTA Award, and Girl with a Pearl Earring, both of which earn her Golden Globe Award nominations in 2003. A role in A Love Song for Bobby Long get her a third Golden Globe for Best Actress nomination. Following an look in The Island, Johansson garnered a fourth Golden Globe nomination, for Best sustaining Actress, for her role in Woody Allen's Match Point. She follow that with a further Allen film, Scoop, with Hugh Jackman.

Following a 2007 exterior in The Nanny Diaries, Johansson starred in the 2008 films The Other Boleyn Girl, conflicting Natalie Portman and Eric Bana, and the Woody Allen-directed film, Vicky Cristina Barcelona, with Javier Bardem and Penelope Cruz. She appears in He's Just Not That into you (2009) and as the anti heroine Natasha Romanoff in Iron Man 2 (2010), with Robert Downey, Jr. and Samuel L. Jackson. Johansson won the 2010 Tony Award for Best feature Actress in a Play for her piece in A View From the Bridge. On May 20, 2008, Johansson debuted as a singer on her first album, Anywhere I Lay My Head, which included cover version of Tom Waits songs. Her second album, Break Up, with Pete Yorn was out in September 2009.


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Date of Birth

November 22, 1984

Place of Birth

New York City, New York, U.S.

Occupation

Actress, singer

Spouse

Ryan Reynolds