Julie Benz Uncensored
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Julie M. Benz (born May 1, 1972) is an American actress. She is best known for her role as Rita Morgan on Dexter, Benz won the 2006 Satellite Award for Actress in a Supporting Role in a Series, Mini-Series or Motion Picture Made for Television. She is also well known for her role of Darla on Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Angel.
Benz was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Her father is a Pittsburgh surgeon. The family settled in nearby Murrysville when Benz was two, and she started ice skating when she was three. She competed in the 1988 U.S. Championships in junior ice dancing with her partner David Schilling, coming in 13th.
Her older brother and sister, Jeffrey and Jennifer, were the 1987 U.S. Junior Champions in ice dancing and competed internationally. When Benz was 14, she had a bad stress fracture and had to take time off. She grew up in Murrysville, Pennsylvania, graduating from Franklin Regional High School. She later graduated from New York University.
She plays the title role in the short film Kidnapping Caitlynn, written by her close friend Jenny Mollen, premiered at the Vail Film Festival 2009 and was released online April 6, 2009. She starred in the Lifetime movie called Held Hostage based on Michelle Renee’s true story in July. She also starred in the Hallmark Channel movie called Uncorked as Johnetta which premiered in the UK in July 2009.
She will be the lead female character Eunice in The Boondock Saints II: All Saints Day which had a limited release on October 30 2009 and has been cast in another indie film called Bedrooms as Anna. She has recently been cast as Frankie in the upcoming movie Answers to Nothing which is scheduled for a 2010 release.
Benz appeared on The Soup with Joel McHale. She made her last appearance on Dexter at the end of the fourth season and is now scheduled for a recurring role in Desperate Housewives as Robin Gallagher, a stripper with a heart of gold and a Masters degree in education who gets offered the chance to transition into a more legitimate career.
The character of Robin will be further expanded when she begins an affair with housewife Katherine Mayfair, played by actress Dana Delaney.
In March 2010 ABC announced Benz had landed the other lead role in the network’s drama pilot No Ordinary Family.
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Shannyn Sossamon Uncensored
Hollywood has mirrored the Camelot in which Shannyn Sossamon found herself in her breakthrough role as the leading lady in A Knight’s Tale (2001). Shannyn, who credits her striking looks to an eclectic mix of French, Hawaiian, Dutch, Irish, Filipino and German was born Shannon Marie Kahoolani Sossamon in Honolulu, Hawaii.
At the age of three, Shannyn and her family moved to a new exotic locale: Reno, Nevada. At 17, promptly after high school graduation, she left her small town life for a career in dance in Los Angeles. While attending Dance Unlimited, Shannyn began her alternate career as a D.J. in local clubs.
Acting was not high on the young dancer’s priority list, aside from a series of commercials, not for lack of interest but for the fact that she was content with her life in L.A. as it was. It was in 1999, when Shannyn was helping a friend D.J. at a birthday party for Gwyneth Paltrow that a new chapter began in her fairy tale life. Francine Maisler, a casting director known for such films as The Usual Suspects (1995), spotted Shannyn. Shortly thereafter Shannyn found herself with the backing of an influential Hollywood name and a slew of auditions.
Many offers had no appeal to the established D.J. until A Knight’s Tale (2001) came along; she determined she wanted the lead role and after six call backs, beat out the competition. Admittedly, the dancer turned actress knew little of her Australian costar Heath Ledger but the two became friends during filming. Shannyn continues to D.J. every Tuesday night at a local club in L.A., but the rest of her time is filled with filming and travel. Hawaiian born but raised in Reno, Nevada, Shannyn Sossamon left her hometown the day after graduating high school for Los Angeles to pursue dance. Shortly thereafter, and while filling in as a DJ for a friend at party, she was spotted by casting director Francine Maisler - who introduced her to Brian Helgeland and for his film “A Knight’s Tale.
Determined for the lead role and a handful of auditions later, Sossamon was decidedly set as portraying the beautiful ‘Lady Jocelyn’ and starring opposite Heath Ledger. Most recently, she completed filming the independent film “Wristcutters,” about three persons journey in an afterlife for suicide victims - ‘Mikal’ (Sossamon), a beautiful hitchhiker, who is searching for the people in charge, as she only “accidentally” overdosed, meets ‘Zia’ (Patrick Fugit) and together they explore this strange afterlife and eventually fall in love. The film also co-stars Tom Waits. In 2002 she starred in “40 Days 40 Nights” opposite Josh Hartnett, and “The Rules of Attraction,” for director Roger Avary.
In 2003 Sossamon reunited with Ledger and they co-starred in “The Order” for director Brian Helgeland. Her credits include “Kiss Kiss Bang Bang,” “Chasing Ghosts” and “Undiscovered,” among others.
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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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Abbie Cornish Uncensored
Abbie Cornish was born in Lochinvar, New South Wales, Australia, as the second of five children. But who’s counting? At the age of thirteen, she began taking jobs as a model, something that ugly teen girls can’t stake claim to. By the time she was sixteen, the leggy Aussie was juggling television acting roles and studying, with the intention of pursuing a career as a veterinarian. In 1999, Abbie was awarded the Australian Film Institute Young Actor’s Award for her role in the television show “Wildside” and was soon offered her first role in a feature film, The Monkey’s Mask.
This move convinced her that wearing a monkey’s mask was easier than cleaning up monkey poop and she ditched her plans to be an animal doc. At seventeen Cornish, traveled through the United States and Western Europe for six months, before returning to a blossoming acting career. This is a fact that has no bearing on anything, but how the mind does wonder what tricks a teenage hottie traveling in a foreign land could get into.
She received two awards for Best Actress in a Leading Role for the 2004 film, Somersault. Abbie was now rising to prominence. She was soon to receive widespread critical acclaim for her role in 2006’s Candy with Heath Ledger. Speaking of widespread, Candy marked her first full-fledged nude scene. Candy, indeed. Roles in the Russell Crowe stinker A Good Year and the Cate Blanchett snorer Elizabeth:The Golden Age, solidified her star status. Her role in Stop Loss became tabloid fodder when it was rumored she was bedding Reese Witherspoon’s soon-to-be ex Ryan Phillippe during the shoot. Abbie insisted the real story should have been what is that weird goose egg growing out of Phillippe’s forehead.
On August 3, 2007 it was announced that Abbie has been chosen as the new “Bond Girl” for the 22nd installment of the James Bond franchise.
In January 2010 Abbie was a cover girl on Vanity Fairs contrversial cover, where no girls of any other nationality were featured. This cover has caused a great uproar among people.
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Shannon Elizabeth Uncensored
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Elizabeth appeared in several films, including the horror film Jack Frost and Dish Dogs, before being cast in 1999’s American Pie. Pie was a major box office success, and achieved cult status for her nude bedroom scene in the movie. Elizabeth subsequently appeared in several Hollywood films, including Scary Movie, Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back, and Tomcats.
Elizabeth starred in the UPN series Cuts until the show was canceled in May 2006. Cuts and its parent show, One on One, were two of the many shows not to be picked up by The CW. Elizabeth appeared in That 70’s Show for a number of episodes.
In August 1999, she posed for a nude pictorial in Playboy. In 2000 and 2003, she was featured in Maxim.[3] In June 2008 she was Maxim’s cover girl.
She provided the likeness and voice for Serena St. Germaine in the 2004 video game, James Bond 007: Everything or Nothing.
Elizabeth was one of the celebrities on an episode of NBC’s Thank God You’re Here along with Tom Green, Chelsea Handler, and George Takei.
Elizabeth was among the cast of the sixth season of Dancing with the Stars, partnered with Derek Hough. Elizabeth was the seventh star eliminated from the competition.
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At the 2007 NBC National Heads-Up Poker Championship.
Elizabeth describes poker as her “second career” and has been called “one of the leading celebrity poker players.”
She visits Las Vegas up to three times each month to participate in poker games with the top players of the United States. Elizabeth played in the Main Event of the 2005 World Series of Poker and won a special tournament celebrating the opening of a new poker room at Caesars Palace hotel in January 2006, beating out 83 celebrities and poker professionals to win $55,000.
She has also cashed four times in the World Series of Poker in 2006 and 2007, but again busted out of the Main Event early. In 2007, she advanced to the semi-finals of the NBC National Heads-Up Poker Championship in a field consisting of the top poker professionals before losing to eventual champion Paul Wasicka.
Among the four opponents she defeated were three World Series of Poker multiple bracelet winners: Jeff Madsen, Barry Greenstein, and Humberto Brenes.
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Chloe Sevigny Uncensored
Before she became an actress, Chloë Sevigny was Jay McInerney’s “It” girl. After sighting her on the streets of New York, the author created a seven-page New Yorker spread about her, annointing her with the infamous title. Since then, she has made a career in independent film, known for her daring performances in risky films.
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Sevigny made her screen debut in Larry Clark’s “Kids.” Sevigny have a heartbreaking performance as Jenny, a wide eyed teen who becomes infected with AIDS. She went on to star in two more films with “Kids” screenwriter and long time boyfriend Harmony Korine: “Gummo” and “Julien Donky-Boy.” She has appeared as a bored Long Island teen in Steve Buscemi’s “Trees Lounge,” Whit Stillman’s The Last Days of Disco,” “Palmetto,” “A Map of the World,” and Kimberly Peirce’s “Boys Don’t Cry” in which she played the girlfriend of Brandon Teena, for which she won an Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actress.
Sevigny recently made headlines for her performance in Vincent Gallo’s “The Brown Bunny” in which she performs fellatio on Gallo in a shocking three minute long scene. The film premiered at the 2003 Cannes Film Festival, where Roger Ebert was quoted as saying it may be the worst film in the history of the festival.
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Sevigny also appeared in Lars Von Trier’s “Dogville” and the sequel “Manderlay.” She made a cameo appearance in Jim Jarmusch’s “Broken Flowers” and graced the Canadian film “Three Needles.” Sevigny will next be seen in David Fincher’s “Chronicles” and the HBO polygamy drama “Big Love.”
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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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