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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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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