Showing posts with label Golden Globe Awards. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Golden Globe Awards. Show all posts

Monday, November 21, 2011

Jennifer Hudson - Singer, actress, spokesperson

Jennifer Hudson


Jennifer Hudson is an famous American recording artist,actress and spokesperson. She came to importance in 2004 as one of thefinalists on the 3rd season of American Idol coming in seventh place. She completedher film debut in the 2006 film Dreamgirls, which win her an Academy Award for greatestSupporting Actress, a Golden Globe Award, a BAFTA Award, an NAACP Image Awardand a Screen Actors Guild Award.

She won a Grammy Award for her eponymous debut album, JenniferHudson, which was released in 2008 on Arista Records and was expert gold by theRIAA for selling over 800,000 copies in the US; sales exceed 1 million copiesworldwide. Additionally, it spawn the hit single Spotlight. Her 2nd album IRemember Me was released in March 2011, and has reach number two on theBillboard 200, sold 165,000 copies in its first week of release.

In late 2008, after Hudson's mother, brother and nephew werekilled in a shooting, she stepped out of the limelight for three months. Sheresumed her public appearances in 2009, and has since perform at the Super BowlXLIII, the Grammy Awards, American Idol, and The Oprah Winfrey Show. She has been described as a friend of President Barack Obama, who invite her to appearwith him at a benefit in Beverly Hills in May 2009. She also performs at theWhite House at the "Celebration of Music from the Civil RightsMovement" occasion. Her vocal choice is mezzo-soprano.

Jennifer Hudson


Birth name
Jennifer Kate Hudson
Date of Birth
September 12, 1981
Place of Birth
Chicago, Illinois, U.S.
Genres
R&B, soul
Occupations
Singer, actress, spokesperson
Instruments
Vocals

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

Friday, October 22, 2010

Tom Cruise - American film actor and producer

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Thomas Cruise Mapother IV, better recognized by his screen name of Tom Cruise, is an American film actor and producer. He has been chosen for three Academy Awards and won three Golden Globe Awards. His first significant role was the 1983 film Risky Business, which has been describing as "A Generation X classic, and a career maker" for the actor. After playing the role of a heroic naval pilot in the fashionable and financially successful 1986 film Top Gun, Cruise continued in this vein, playing a covert agent in a series of Mission: not possible action films in the 1990s and 2000s.

In addition to these heroic roles, he has starred in a diversity of other successful films such as Days of Thunder (1990) to War of the Worlds (2005). In 2005, the Hollywood journalist, Edward Jay Epstein quarrel that Cruise is one of the few producers who are able to assurance the success of a billion dollar movie franchise. Since 2005, Cruise and Paula Wagner have been in indict of the United Artists film studio, with Cruise as producer and star and Wagner as the chief executive. Cruise is also known for his contentious support of and adherence to the Church of Scientology.

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Birth Name

Thomas Cruise Mapother IV

Date of Birth

July 3, 1962

Place of Birth

Syracuse, New York, U.S.

Occupation

Actor, Producer, Writer, Director

Spouse

Mimi Rogers , Nicole Kidman, Katie Holmes

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