Uma Thurman Uncensored
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Thurman’s mother, Nena Birgitte Caroline von Schlebrügge, was a fashion model born in Mexico City, Mexico in 1941, to German Friedrich Karl Johannes von Schlebrügge, and Birgit Holmquist, from Trelleborg, Sweden. In 1930, Birgit Holmquist, Thurman’s grandmother, modeled for a nude statue that stands overlooking the harbor of Smygehuk. Thurman’s father, Robert Alexander Farrar Thurman, was born in New York City to Elizabeth Dean Farrar, a stage actress, and Beverly Reid Thurman, Jr., an Associated Press editor and U.N. translator. Thurman’s mother was introduced to LSD guru Timothy Leary by Salvador Dalí and became Leary’s third wife in 1964; she later wed Thurman’s father in 1967.
Thurman’s father, Robert, a scholar and professor at Columbia University of Tibetan Buddhist studies, was the first westerner to be ordained as a Tibetan Buddhist monk. He gave his children a Buddhist upbringing: Uma is named after an Dbuma Chenpo. She has three brothers, Ganden (b. 1971), Dechen (b. 1973) and Mipam (b. 1978), and a half-sister named Taya (b. 1960) from her father’s previous marriage. She and her siblings spent time in Almora, India, during childhood, and the Dalai Lama sometimes visited their home.
Thurman grew up mostly in Amherst, Massachusetts and Woodstock, New York. She is described as having been an awkward and introverted girl who was teased for her tall frame, angular bone structure, and unusual name (sometimes using the name “Uma Karen” instead of her birth name). When she was 10 years old, a friend’s mother suggested a nose job.
As a child, she suffered bouts of body dysmorphic disorder, which she discussed in an interview with Talk magazine in 2001.
Thurman attended Northfield Mount Hermon, a college preparatory boarding school in Northfield, Massachusetts, where she earned average grades, but excelled in acting.[citation needed] Talent scouts noticed her performance as Abigail in a production of The Crucible, and offered her the chance to act professionally. Thurman moved to New York City to pursue acting and to attend the Professional Children’s School, but she dropped out before graduating.
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Maura Tierney Uncensored
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Maura Tierney, though hardly a bubbly sexpot, projects an inner strength that can be a definite turn-on. That intelligent resolution was put to good use both in her role of Lisa Miller on NewsRadio, where she turned heads as a determined newswriter, and in her role of Abby Lockhart on ER, where she gives her character perseverance despite Abby’s trials and tribulations. It also explains why many of the characters she portrays have no trouble attracting (if not keeping) suitors.
Of course, Tierney’s looks don’t hurt either. From relaxed settings to photo shoots, Maura can be radiant, so much so that even in her most harried on-screen moments, she still manages to exude a certain enticing allure.
It’s hard enough getting a starring role on one hit TV series, so landing two is certainly something to brag about. After a number of years performing in short-lived sitcoms and unremarkable TV movies, Tierney has undoubtedly hit the big-time, culminating with an Emmy nomination for her outstanding work on the critically acclaimed ER.
Though not quite a superstar, Tierney has a well-balanced resume and now gets steady, high-profile work in films, from satires and comedies such as Primary Colors and Liar Liar, to thrillers like Instinct and Insomnia.
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Jenny McCarthy Uncensored
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McCarthy was born in Chicago, Illinois. Her middle-class Irish Catholic family lived in the West Elsdon neighborhood of Chicago. She is the second of four daughters; her sisters are named Lynette, Joanne and Amy. Her cousin is Melissa McCarthy of Gilmore Girls fame. McCarthy’s mother, Linda, was a housewife and courtroom custodian, and her father, Dan McCarthy, was a steel mill foreman.
She attended St. Turibius Grade School on Chicago’s South Side. As a teenager, McCarthy attended Mother McAuley Liberal Arts High School (whose school sweater she donned in the pages of Playboy) and was a cheerleader at both Brother Rice High School and St. Laurence High Schools, although she has referred to herself as an “outcast” at her school.
After McCarthy graduated from high school, she attended Southern Illinois University Carbondale to study nursing. She needed money to pay for college, so she decided to submit her picture to Playboy magazine to make money. She was accepted and became a model.
Jenny McCarthy, the blonde bombshell apparently still enjoys her sex routines with actor Jim Carrey so much so that she brags about the whole intimacy issue publicly as if she has just come out of bed post a steamy session.
She says, “We are madly in love with each other, and the sex is still awesome… He’s a wonderful man.” Well thanks Jenny but probably you shouldn’t be bragging so much about a star whose has a lot of credibility left in him even if you cannot see that yourself.
The madcap kidnapping comedy Witless Protection casts Jenny McCarthy – Playboy’s 1994 Playmate of the Year – as an endangered trial witness whose paid protectors are on the take and eager to bump her off. Jenny can’t help but radiate sex appeal all over the screen. So after Witless, be sure to up your dose of McCarthy’s mammary-heavy magic in any number of her signature Playboy videos, as well as in the uproarious 2005 farce Dirty Love, which she also scripted.
Twenty-four minutes in, Jenny walks a red carpet, and her massive, pink-tipped chest missiles explode into view. It is Dirty, and you will Love it.
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Karen Allen Uncensored
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Though born in Illinois, Karen Allen spent her youth traveling the country with her family. She packed up and moved herself to New York after high school to study art and design at the Fashion School of Technology, and always having an itch to travel, followed graduation by globetrotting around the Western Hemisphere. This is where she discovered her passion for acting.
In the late 1970s, Karen settled back in New York to continue honing her craft, utilizing the wisdom of such renowned acting teachers as Stella Adler and Lee Strasberg to guide her. By 1978, she was cast as Katy in the wild comedy “Animal House,” which was an instant box office success and raised Karen’s exposure up a notch. But minor roles followed, including a bit part in Woody Allen’s “Manhattan” and William Friedkin’s Al Pacino gay crime drama “Cruising.
Then, in the spring of1980, Steven Spielberg (floundering after his “1941” misfire that reunited many “Animal House” faces) auditioned and cast Karen as the fiery ex of Indiana Jones in “Raiders of the Lost Ark.” Not only did the film go on to great successes, but Karen’s portrayal of Marion Ravenwood was one of the movie’s highlights and proved to be her crowning role.
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Samantha Morton Uncensored
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“I looked and felt ridiculous I’m sure people thought I was trying to make a political statement. As I walked up the red carpet, I vowed: ‘If this Oscar thing ever happens for me again, I’ll get a proper frock’.” Her chance would come sooner than she thought. Just four years later, Samantha would once again need to find an ensemble for the most highly-anticipated awards show of the year. But this time she’d be up for the big one best actress for In America.
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Born on May 13, 1977, the daughter of a coal miner and a factory worker, Samantha was raised alongside eight siblings in a three-bedroom council house in a poor Nottingham neighbourhood. As a small child, however, an abusive family situation led to her being placed in foster care. “I was finally taken away from home when I went to school with bruises all over me and a bust lip,” she explains. 
The troubled youngster, who says she felt like “an unwanted parcel”, cut loose at the age of 13. Dropping out of school she began to attend Central TV junior workshops. “For the first time in my life I was taken seriously,” she says. “I was told I had talent. I was encouraged and it saved me.” 
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Cosma Shiva Hagen Uncensored
Cosma Shiva Hagen (born 17 May 1981 in Los Angeles, California) is a German actress and the daughter of New Wave/punk singer Nina Hagen and the late musician Ferdinand Karmelk. Her grandmother is the actress Eva-Maria Hagen, and her step-grandfather is the East German dissident writer Wolf Biermann. While Eva-Maria Hagen was allowed to emigrate to West Germany during the 1970s, Wolf Biermann was forced to emigrate. Cosma Shiva’s unusual name was picked by her eccentric mother, who saw a UFO while pregnant with her. “Cosma” is a reference to Cosmos, and “Shiva” is a reference to the Hindu god Shiva.
Unlike her world-famous mother, Cosma Shiva is largely unknown outside of German speaking countries. Although she speaks English, her acting roles have been largely confined to German language films and television productions. She also starred in an Irish film called Short Order (2005).
Blessed with her mother’s full lips and a curvacious 1950’s bombshell physique, Cosma Shiva has appeared in a pictorial in the German edition of Playboy in addition to nude scenes in some films.
As a child, Cosma Shiva lived in London, Berlin, Paris, Ibiza, a boarding school in Lüneburg and her current home, Hamburg. Having grown up the child of celebrities, Nina Hagen wanted to shield her daughter from the pressures of being the child of a celebrity. Consequently, throughout most of her childhood, Cosma Shiva’s classmates did not know that her mother was Nina Hagen. Born in Los Angeles, California, Cosma Shiva considers both German and English to be her native languages. She also knows French and Spanish as foreign languages and has the ability to mimic various dialects.
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Cosma Shiva did not like school, did not finish high school and never formally studied acting. She enjoys horseback riding as a hobby. She is also a dedicated animal rights advocate.
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Gwyneth Paltrow Uncensored
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Gwyneth Kate Paltrow is an American actress. She is the daughter of Bruce Paltrow and Blythe Danner. She dropped out of university to act. She began in theatre in 1990, and in film the following year. Her early films include Se7en (1995), Emma (1996), in which she played the title role, and Sliding Doors (1998). Her performance in Shakespeare in Love (1998) brought widespread recognition; she won the Academy Award for Best Actress, a Golden Globe Award and two Screen Actors Guild Awards, for Outstanding Lead Actress and as a member of the Outstanding Cast, among other awards and nominations.
She followed with roles in such films as The Talented Mr. Ripley (1999) and Shallow Hal (2001). She starred in the film Duets (2000), produced and directed by her father, and sang on two singles from the film’s soundtrack. She received a nomination for a Golden Globe Award for Best Actress in Motion Picture Drama for Proof (2005). She appeared in Iron Man (2008).
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Paltrow dated Brad Pitt from 1995 until 1997, and married Chris Martin, lead singer of British rock band Coldplay, in 2003. They have two children, Apple and Moses. Paltrow said she curtailed her work following her first child. In 2005 Paltrow became the face of Estée Lauder’s Pleasures perfume. She is on the board of the charitable Robin Hood Foundation..
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Paltrow dated Brad Pitt from 1995 until 1997, and married Chris Martin, lead singer of British rock band Coldplay, in 2003. They have two children, Apple and Moses. Paltrow said she curtailed her work following her first child. In 2005 Paltrow became the face of Estée Lauder’s Pleasures perfume. She is on the board of the charitable Robin Hood Foundation.
Paltrow was engaged to Brad Pitt, whom she dated from 1994 to 1997. She regretted breaking up with him, telling Diane Sawyer she wished him well and could not believe he was with her when she was “such a mess”.
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Paltrow dated Brad Pitt from 1995 until 1997, and married Chris Martin, lead singer of British rock band Coldplay, in 2003. They have two children, Apple and Moses. Paltrow said she curtailed her work following her first child. In 2005 Paltrow became the face of Estée Lauder’s Pleasures perfume. She is on the board of the charitable Robin Hood Foundation.
On turning 30 on 27 September 2002 she said “I had the most incredible birthday weekend until my dad died on me like six days later. It’s been, in many ways, the worst year of my life and will continue to be.”
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Paltrow dated Brad Pitt from 1995 until 1997, and married Chris Martin, lead singer of British rock band Coldplay, in 2003. They have two children, Apple and Moses. Paltrow said she curtailed her work following her first child. In 2005 Paltrow became the face of Estée Lauder’s Pleasures perfume. She is on the board of the charitable Robin Hood Foundation.
On 5 December 2003, she married Chris Martin of the British rock group Coldplay in a secret ceremony at a hotel in Southern California; she met him at a concert. On 14 May 2004, the couple had their first child, a girl named Apple Blythe Alison Martin. One of Martin’s band associates already had a daughter named Apple, and the couple asked to ‘borrow’ the name. Paltrow further explained the first name on Oprah, saying:“ It sounded so sweet and it conjured such a lovely picture for me – you know, apples are so sweet and they’re wholesome and it’s biblical – and I just thought it sounded so lovely and … clean! And I just thought, “Perfect!” ”.
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Paltrow dated Brad Pitt from 1995 until 1997, and married Chris Martin, lead singer of British rock band Coldplay, in 2003. They have two children, Apple and Moses. Paltrow said she curtailed her work following her first child. In 2005 Paltrow became the face of Estée Lauder’s Pleasures perfume. She is on the board of the charitable Robin Hood Foundation.The child’s godfather is Simon Pegg. She lives in New York and Belsize Park in London, in a house bought from Kate Winslet.
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Paltrow dated Brad Pitt from 1995 until 1997, and married Chris Martin, lead singer of British rock band Coldplay, in 2003. They have two children, Apple and Moses. Paltrow said she curtailed her work following her first child. In 2005 Paltrow became the face of Estée Lauder’s Pleasures perfume. She is on the board of the charitable Robin Hood Foundation..
Paltrow dated Brad Pitt from 1995 until 1997, and married Chris Martin, lead singer of British rock band Coldplay, in 2003. They have two children, Apple and Moses. Paltrow said she curtailed her work following her first child. In 2005 Paltrow became the face of Estée Lauder’s Pleasures perfume. She is on the board of the charitable Robin Hood Foundation.
In January 2006, Paltrow said, “Since my daughter came along, I’ve not worked much through choice. And with another baby on its way, I don’t think I will be doing a lot for the next year or so either.” Her second child, a boy named Moses Bruce Anthony Martin, was born on 8 April 2006, in New York City’s Mount Sinai Hospital. Her son’s first name was explained as the song that her husband wrote for her shortly before their secret wedding, called “Moses”.
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Michelle Williams Uncensored
As semi-reformed bad girl Jennifer Lindley on Dawson’s Creek, actress Michelle Williams garnered a certain type of notoriety unavailable to her more morality-inclined co-stars. In spite of this notoriety–or perhaps because of it–the role provided Williams with a wealth of opportunities, making her one of the foremost teen stars of the late 1990s.
Born September 9, 1980 in small-town Kalispell, Montana and raised there until she was ten, Williams started acting after her family moved to San Diego. Beginning with roles in community theatre productions, she was soon shuttling back and forth to Los Angeles for auditions. Williams made her film debut in 1994 with Lassie, and then had a small but memorable part as the young version of the nubile and bloodthirsty alien in Species (1995).
After the dismal and virtually unseen Timemaster (1995), Williams moved on to more auspicious fare with Jocelyn Moorhouse’s A Thousand Acres (1997). Williams was cast as Michelle Pfeiffer’s daughter, and the film’s small-town setting must have given her some context for her next role, that of Jenn in Dawson’s Creek. The show, which premiered in January of 1998, gave Williams her break-out role, and in short time she was besieged with movie offers and a stream of interviews.
Williams’ first film to exploit her newfound Dawson’s fame was Halloween: H2O (1998), in which she starred opposite Jamie Lee Curtis. The film opened to poor reviews but a strong box office performance, and paved the way for her to star in future films, including 1999’s thoroughly weird political satire Dick. The film, which looks at the Watergate scandal from the point of view of two teenage girls (played by Williams and Kirsten Dunst), provided Williams with a chance to expand her range beyond the constraints of her Dawson’s Creek character.
As the new millennium began, Williams found herself more and more comfortable exploring independent film, participating in smaller but often extremely influential projects like Perfume (2001), The Station Agent (2003) and Prozac Nation (2003).
In 2005, Williams signed on to appear in the groundbreaking Ang Lee film Brokeback Mountain. The critical acclaim surrounding the movie was overwhelming, bringing Williams a new level of notoriety. Her popularity was also bolstered when the public learned that she and costar Heath Ledger had become involved during filming. The two became engaged and had a daughter together, Matilda, in 2005, and though they would later separate in 2007, they remained close for the well being of their daughter.
Tragically, Ledger was found dead of an accidental overdose the following year. The heartbreaking loss for both Williams and her daughter forced the actress to deal with additional public scrutiny at a time when she was most vulnerable, but she coped with the grief as best she could, by investing more energy in her work. In 2008 alone she would appear in numerous films, including the drama Incendiary with Ewan McGregor and the highly anticipated Charlie Kaufman directorial debut Synecdoche, New York.
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Carla Gallo Uncensored
With her role as a memorably over-caffeinated college freshman on television’s critically praised Undeclared, youthful actress Carla Gallo has endeared herself to former campus dorm-rats nationwide. And though her actual age may betray the naïve nature of those making the leap from the high school hallways to the college campus, Gallo has succeeded in making her television alter ego believable, in part by drawing on the vivid recollections of her college career.
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Born in Brooklyn, NY, Gallo attended the LaGuardia School of Performing Arts before setting her sights on Cornell University. Like her television counterpart, Gallo dabbled in numerous potential careers before pursuing a career as an actress, though the lure of the theater was too magnetic to resist and the formerly undeclared student graduated a few short years later with a Theater Arts degree.
Being nominated for an Independent Spirit Award for her feature debut in 1994’s Spanking the Monkey proved to be a good start for the fledgling thespian, and though it would be five more years until her next feature role, Gallo would next appear in The 24-Hour Woman in 1999. With small-screen appearances in both E.R. and Law & Order priming her for her work on Undeclared, the actress approached the series on a positive note after hitting it off early on with series creator Judd Apatow. As someone who encouraged improvisation, Apatow often drew on Gallo’s previous college experiences to make the character more multidimensional and believable.
Thinking back to the frantic all-night cram sessions of her college days, Gallo recalled a session in which her synapses fired on overdrive due to an oversaturation of caffeine. Apatow encouraged her to expand on such recollections (recollections that often found their way into the show), which were a key factor in his aspiration to create a realistic portrayal of the college experience, warts and all.
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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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