Sally Hawkins Uncensored
Hawkins’ theatre appearances include Much Ado About Nothing (2000), A Midsummer Night’s Dream (2000), Misconceptions (2001), Country Music (2004), and David Hare’s adaptation of Federico García Lorca’s The House of Bernarda Alba in 2005.
Hawkins made her first notable screen performance as Samantha in the 2002 Mike Leigh film All or Nothing. She also appeared as Slasher in the 2004 film Layer Cake. Her first major television role came in 2005 when she played Susan Trinder in the BAFTA-nominated BBC drama Fingersmith, an adaptation of Sarah Waters’ novel of the same name, in which she co-starred with Imelda Staunton, as she had in Vera Drake. Since then she has gone on to star in another BBC adaptation, Patrick Hamilton’s Twenty Thousand Streets Under the Sky.
Hawkins has appeared in three episodes of the hit BBC comedy series Little Britain, in addition to Ed Reardon’s Week on BBC Radio 4. She also has contributed her writing and vocal skills to the BBC Radio 4 series Concrete Cow.
In 2006, Hawkins returned to the stage, appearing at the Royal Court Theatre in Jez Butterworth’s The Winterling. In 2007, she played the lead in a new film of Jane Austen’s Persuasion, and followed this with her critically-acclaimed performance in Happy-Go-Lucky.
Hawkins’ upcoming films include Desert Flower, Never Let Me Go, and Happy Ever Afters. She is attached to work on a number of forthcoming films including We Want Sex and The Roaring Girl, in which she will play Bernadette Devlin.
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Martha Higareda Uncensored
Higareda was born in Villahermosa, Tabasco, the daughter of actress Martha Cervantes and artist Jose Luis Higareda. Her debut was participating in various plays like Bang, Don Juan Tenorio, La Fonda de las Siete Cabrillas, La Casa de Té en la Luna de Agosto, Mujercitas, Muerte Que Te Quiero Muerte, La Corbata, Flores Para Chava Flores and Niñas Mal.
She also appeared in diverse advertising campaigns and video clips. It is not until 1999, when she receives her first professional debut as a show hostess in Disney Channel’s “Zapping Zone”. After that she also appeared in other Mexican soaps like “Carita de Ángel” and “Cara o Cruz.”
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In 2004, Higareda finally appeared in her first movie as a protagonist. The movie “Amarte Duele”, directed by Fernando Sariñana, in which she shares credits with Luis Fernando Peña and Alfonso Herrera. A year after, she debut as a protagonist in the Mexican soap opera, “Enamórate”, TV Azteca Mexican tv chain, next to Yahir, where she also shared credits with Martha Cristiana, Fernando Sarfati, and Amara Villafuerte. In 2004, she participates in another protagonist for “Las Juanas” another of TV Azteca’s soap opera.
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Mary Louise Parker Uncensored
Mary Louise Parker has appeared in over three dozen big-screen movies, made-for-TV films and stage plays since she began working professionally in the late 1980s. She was cited as one of 12 “Promising New Actors of 1990″ in John Willis’ Screen World, and won the Clarence Derwent Award and Theatre World Award for her stage work in Prelude to a Kiss that same year. She also picked up her first Tony nomination for the role.
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Parker has since earned several major acting nominations and a handful of awards. In 1997, she won the OBIE for her exhilarating performance as a victim of child abuse in the play, How I Learned to Drive, and received the prestigious Best Actress Tony Award for Proof in 2001. She earned an Emmy nod in 2002 for her appearances on NBC’s The West Wing, and was nominated for a SAG and Golden Globe Award for her part in the HBO miniseries Angels in America (she took home the Golden Globe in 2004).
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Also in 2004, Parker’s body of work was honored by the Philadelphia Film Festival, where she was presented with a prize for Artistic Achievement. Few (living) actors can claim to have been the inspiration for a song, but you can count Mary-Louise among the tiny group that do. The Counting Crows’ song “Butterfly in Reverse” from their Hard Candy album (2002) was written for the actress.
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Michelle Monaghan Uncensored
A former fashion model, the usually subdued Michelle knows how to crank up the sexiness when the situation calls for it. For starters, this sensuous Iowa native lowers her eyes, exposes a little cleavage and shows off her fabulously long colt-like legs. “I modeled for years, so I’m not really freaked out about showing my body,” she admits.
And it’s a good thing too, because her nude scene in Kiss Kiss Bang Bang (2005) kept us fixated on the screen. Of course Michelle takes it all with a grain of salt. “Somebody told me I’ll be on the Celebrity Skin website, and I was like ‘Oh! That’s great!’” she says. “I love the internet. Now I can look at my t*ts every day online.”
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Kim Cattrall
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Cattrall was born in Mossley Hill, Liverpool, England Her mother, (Gladys) Shane, née Baugh, was a secretary, and her father, Dennis, a construction engineer. When she was 3 months old, her family emigrated to the Canadian city of Courtenay, British Columbia.
At 11, she returned to England when her grandmother became ill, and she took a number of acting examinations with the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art (LAMDA),
before returning to Canada at age 16 to finish her final year of secondary school.
In August 2009, Cattrall took part in the BBC TV show Who Do You Think You Are? where she discovered some uncomfortable facts about her grandfather George Baugh. Baugh, who disappeared in 1938 having abandoned his family including Cattrall’s then 8-year-old mother and two younger sisters, turned out to have bigamously remarried to his new wife Isabella Oliver the following year in Tudhoe, County Durham, and he subsequently had another four children.
In 1961, he emigrated to Australia, where he became a postmaster, retiring in 1972 and died in 1974. Ms Cattrall’s mother and aunts had known nothing of their father’s life after he left until they heard what the Who Do You Think You Are researchers had discovered. Nor had the family previously seen a clear photograph of him.
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Elisabeth Shue
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Shue was born in Wilmington, Delaware. Her mother, Anne Harms (née Wells), was a bank executive who was the vice president of the private division of the Chemical Banking Corporation. Her father, James Shue, is a lawyer and real estate developer who was the president of the International Food and Beverage Corporation and was active in Republican politics, having once unsuccessfully run for the U.S. Senate in New Jersey. Her younger brother, Andrew, is also an actor.
Shue grew up in Bergen and Essex counties in New Jersey. Her parents divorced while she was in the fourth grade. Shue graduated from Columbia High School, in Maplewood, New Jersey, and attended Wellesley College and Harvard University, from which she withdrew to pursue her acting career. She returned to Harvard to finish her degree in Government in 2000. Shue was awarded entrance into Columbia High School’s Wall of Fame in 1994, along with her brother, the actor Andrew Shue.
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Leonor Varela Uncensored
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Varela was born in Santiago, Chile, the daughter of Leonor, a massage therapist, and the famous Chilean biologist and cognitive neuroscientist Francisco Varela García.
She has one sister Alejandra and two brothers, Javier and Gabriel. Her father was of Spanish-Greek and Syrian ancestry, and her mother, Leonor Palma, was of French-Italian-Algerian ancestry.[citation needed] Varela’s family fled to Costa Rica in her early childhood when her homeland was overtaken by a military regime. She subsequently resided in Germany, the U.S., and France.
In the early 1990s, her parents moved back to Chile, while she remained in Paris where she studied acting at the Niels Arestrup School, The Ecole de Passage, and Conservatoire Superieur de Paris.
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Amber Heard Uncensored
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Heard was born and raised in Austin, Texas. Her father David is a contractor and her mother Paige is an Internet researcher for the state.
She attended St. Michael’s Catholic Academy in Austin until junior year, when she left to pursue a career in Hollywood. As a teenager Heard was active in her school’s drama department and appeared in local commercials and campaigns. At the age of 16 her best friend died in a car crash. Heard, who was raised Catholic, now declares herself an atheist along with her boyfriend Jamie.
Dropping out of school at the age of 17 to go to New York to start a career in modelling, she then located to Los Angeles to get into acting.
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Paula Patton Uncensored
Patton says it’s much more than a long Outkast music video. “You have many different storylines happening but, overall, I think the real theme of the film is about people with dreams and trying to achieve their dreams. Andre’s doing that, I’m doing that, Big Boi’s doing that in the movie. And I think people are mistaking it for a long music video because the visuals are so incredible. But I think what made Bryan Barber such an incredible director is that he was able to have such stunning visuals and yet piece it all together to create a real film that’s heartfelt, I think.
It’s a simple story about love and friendship. The name Angel Davenport speaks to the fact that all of us can be angels. She’s flawed but she’s an angel to Andre’s character Percival. She helps him see his talent and brings him out of his shell and, for that, he becomes a better person. He’s truly an angel to her because he sees the best in her, that fragile little girl, and gives her the strength to be the best she can be.”
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Gillian Anderson Uncensored
Gillian Anderson is an award-winning film, television, and theatre actress whose credits include the roles of Special Agent Dana Scully in FOX Television’s long-running and critically-acclaimed drama series, “The X-Files”, ill-fated socialite Lily Bart in Terence Davies’ masterpiece “The House of Mirth” (2000), and Lady Dedlock in the very successful BBC production of Charles Dickens’ “Bleak House”.
In 2003, she won the Whatsonstage.com Theatregoers’ Choice Best Actress Award for her West End debut in Michael Weller’s two-hander “What the Night Is For”. The following year, she starred in Rebecca Gilman’s play “The Sweetest Swing in Baseball” which ran at London’s Royal Court Theatre from March 25 through May 15, 2004. From May 14 through July 18, 2009, she played Nora in a new version of Ibsen’s “A Doll’s House” at the Donmar Warehouse in London.
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