Keira Christina Knightley is an English film actress and model. She began her career as a child and came to international prominence in 2003 after co-starring in the films Bend It Like Beckham and Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl.
Knightley has appeared in several Hollywood films and earned nominations for the Academy Award for Best Actress and Golden Globe Award for Best Actress for her role as Elizabeth Bennet in Joe Wright’s 2005 adaptation of Jane Austen’s novel Pride and Prejudice. Two years later she again was nominated for the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress, as well as the BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role for her performance in Atonement.
In 2008, Forbes claimed Knightley to be the second highest paid actress in Hollywood, having reportedly earned $32 million in 2007, making her the only non-American on the list of highest paid actresses.
Knightley, who lives in London, is involved with her Pride & Prejudice co-star Rupert Friend. Knightley has stated she has no plans to be married in the near future. She previously dated Northern Irish fashion model Jamie Dornan.
Knightley has denied rumours she is anorexic, although she did say—after her appearance at the Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest premiere led to media speculation that her extremely slender figure was due to an eating disorder—that her family has a history of anorexia. Knightley sued the Daily Mail after they claimed she lied about having anorexia; the article said that a teenage girl died from anorexia, indicating that Knightley’s physical appearance may have influenced her in some way. She was awarded a settlement.
In July 2006, Knightley said she has become a workaholic, detailing that “the last five years have blended into one. I can’t tell you what was last year and what was the year before” and specifying that she was “working too much” and was “quite frightened that if I continue at this rate I will start to hate what I love,” even suggesting that she would take a one-year break from acting to travel and focus on her personal life.
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Marcia Gay Harden is an American film and theatre actress. Harden’s breakthrough role was in The First Wives’ Club (1996) which was followed by several roles which gained her wider fame including the hit comedy Flubber (1997) and Meet Joe Black (1998).
She received an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her role as Lee Krasner in Pollock (2000) and received another nomination for Mystic River (2003). She has starred in a string of successful mainstream and independent movies, some of which are Space Cowboys (2000), Mona Lisa Smile (2003), Into the Wild (2007) and The Mist (2007). More recently, she starred in Whip It (2009).
In 2009, Harden received a Tony Award for the Broadway play God of Carnage. She has been nominated for an Emmy Award and the Screen Actors Guild Award two times.
Harden is married to Thaddaeus Scheel, with whom she worked on The Spitfire Grill (1996), and the couple have three children: a daughter, Eulala Grace Scheel, and twins Julitta Dee Scheel and Hudson Harden Scheel. The family lives in Harlem, New York.
On December 15, 2003, her young nephew Sander Waring Harden and niece Audrey Gay Harden died as a result of a tragic fire in their Queens, New York, apartment, owned by her former sister-in-law Rebecca Harden who later died from injuries received in the fire. Rebecca Harden was divorced from the children’s father, Thaddeus Harden, who is Marcia Gay Harden’s brother.
In 2009, Harden co-starred with Ellen Page and Drew Barrymore in the comedy Whip It. The film was a critical success. It was also in this year that Harden returned to Broadway in Yasmina Reza’s God of Carnage. She starred with James Gandolfini, Hope Davis and Jeff Daniels. Each lead actor was nominated for the Tony Award and on June 8, Harden won Best Actress in a Play.
Together, Harden’s films have grossed $724,487,920 domestically and $1,128,784,661 worldwide.
She currently has three films in development, Noah’s Ark: The New Beginning (2010), The No Game (2010) and If I Were You (2011).
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Kelly Macdonald (born February 23, 1976) is an Emmy Award-winning Scottish actress.
Macdonald’s career began when, while working as a barmaid, she saw a leaflet advertising an open casting session for what would become the movie Trainspotting, in which she played the part of Dianne, the underage seductress to Ewan McGregor’s Renton. Other roles include a reporter in The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy and an actress playing Peter Pan in Finding Neverland. She also had a big role in Robert Altman’s English period piece Gosford Park, where she played a maid.
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television, her highest-profile roles have been in two BBC dramas, the Paul Abbott serial State of Play (2003) and the one-off Richard Curtis piece The Girl in the Café (2005). Both of these were directed by David Yates, and both also starred Bill Nighy. For her performance in The Girl in the Café, Macdonald was nominated for a Golden Globe in 2006, and won an Emmy.
Macdonald most recently starred in the 2005 film Nanny McPhee, as the scullery maid Evangeline, and A Cock and Bull Story, where she plays the girlfriend of actor Steve Coogan’s onscreen alter ego. She also played Carla Jean Moss in the Coen brothers’ film adaptation of Cormac McCarthy’s No Country for Old Men.
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Kate Hudson
Kate Garry Hudson (born April 19, 1979) is an American actress. She came to prominence in 2001 after winning a Golden Globe and collecting several nominations, including an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress, for her role in Almost Famous. She then starred in the hit film How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days (2003) which gained her wider fame.
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She has since established herself in Hollywood after starring in several production including Skeleton Key (2005), You, Me and Dupree (2006), Fool’s Gold (2008) and Bride Wars (2009). She recently starred in the musical Nine (2009) alongside several noteable film actresses.
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Hudson married Chris Robinson, the frontman for The Black Crowes, on December 31, 2000 in Aspen, Colorado. The couple lived in a house that was once owned by director James Whale and traveled together during Hudson’s film shoots or Robinson’s music tours. On January 7, 2004, Hudson gave birth to son Ryder Russell Robinson. On August 14, 2006, Hudson’s publicist announced that Hudson and Robinson had separated. On November 18, 2006, Robinson filed divorce papers, citing “irreconcilable differences”. The divorce was finalized on October 22, 2007.
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In May 2009, Hudson began dating New York Yankees third baseman Alex Rodriguez. She was seen many times during the 2009 World Series in the crowd. On December 15, 2009, it was reported that Hudson and Rodriguez had split up.
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Hudson has also said that she does not enjoy seeing herself on screen, specifying that she “gets cold… shakes and… sweats” when watching her performances for the first time. In July 2006, Hudson sued the British version of the National Enquirer after they had stated that she has an eating disorder and described her as “painfully thin.” Hudson said that the tabloid’s actions were “completely inappropriate” and a “blatant lie,” and specified her concern relating the impressions about weight that she feels the tabloid could have on young girls.
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Holly Eglinton is a Canadian actress and model, from Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. She is sometimes credited in movies and/or television as Holly Eglington, a common misspelling of her name.
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Eglinton began her modeling career in 2000, with her first appearance in Playboy Playmates. During an extensive country-wide audition process, she was selected to be featured as one of the finalists.
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Her first acting role was in the following year, in the movie Out Cold, a snowboarding comedy, starring Jason London, Lee Majors, and Victoria Silvstedt.
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Her movie roles often type-cast her as “eye-candy”. Although she considers being cast in such roles as a compliment on her attractiveness, she appreciates the challenge of portraying more complex characters. Thankfully, however, her roles are steadily increasing in on-screen appearances and dialogue as she hones her acting skills through training, mentoring and practical experience.
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To date, Holly’s most significant movie role has been the protrayal of the character “Karen” during the 2007 movie Postal, directed by Uwe Boll, and starring Zack Ward and Dave Foley. The part allowed Holly to portray a character with more depth than her previous roles, since she was cast as a principle character involving numerous lines of dialogue and multiple appearances throughout the movie.
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Although Holly does not have the height typically associated with runway models, her fashion sense, business acumen and physical attractiveness have allowed her to also expanded her work experience by modeling for various calendars, swimsuit magazines and promotional catalogues.
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Ironically, she has found herself working alongside her father on several local Vancouver-based movie productions. With her father’s skills in carpentry, he has often found work as a carpenter in set construction on the same productions for which Holly was acting, purely by happenstance.
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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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Jaime King plays sexy single mother Vanessa Flood on the critically acclaimed CBS series Gary Unmarried. Prior to joining the hit sitcom, this native Nebraskan starred in a string of big-screen blockbusters including Pearl Harbor, Blow and Sin City.
A perennial fixture on Maxim’s Hot 100 list, Jaime King’s bodacious body has been gracing the pages of glossy magazines since 1994, when she made her first of many appearances in Vogue. She’s since gone on to show off her irresistible figure in more than a dozen publications, including monthlies as varied as Seventeen and Playboy.
Although static images are nice, most of her male fans will gladly trade them in for her steamy sex scene in 2002’s Slackers. Her spectacular bedroom gymnastics transformed the otherwise unwatchable film into an absolute must-see.
Most women dream of being either an actress or a model — Jaime King has been both, and she’s been phenomenally successful at each pursuit. As an actress, she’s starred in more than 30 film and television productions including blockbuster fare like Sin City as well as critically acclaimed television series such as The Class and Gary Unmarried.
As a model she’s appeared in big budget ads for Guess, Revlon, Benetton, and Kenneth Cole, while also gracing the covers of high-profile magazines such as Vogue, Elle, Glamour, Cosmopolitan, and Mademoiselle. We can hardly wait to see which medium the ambitious Jaime King tackles next.
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Jaime King is an American film actress and model. In her modeling career and early film roles, she went by the names Jamie King and James King, which was a childhood nickname given to King by her parents, because her agency already represented another Jaime — the older, then-more famous model Jaime Rishar. King, because of the latter name, is sometimes referred to as the “Model with a man’s name”.
Called by Complex magazine “one of the original model-turned-actresses”, King appeared in Vogue, Mademoiselle, and Harper’s Bazaar, among other fashion magazines.
Afterwards, she began taking small film roles. Her first larger role was in Pearl Harbor (2001). Her first starring movie role was in Bulletproof Monk (2003). She has gone on to appear as a lead in various other films, gaining more note after Sin City (2005), a role which she will perform in its sequel Sin City 2 (2010).
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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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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 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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