Christina Applegate

Christina Applegate (born November 25, 1971) is an American Emmy Award-winning actress, particularly well-known for playing Kelly Bundy on the sitcom Married... with Children. She has since established a film career, with major roles in several pictures, such as Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy, and recently starred on Broadway in a revival of the musical Sweet Charity.BiographyEarly lifeApplegate was born in Hollywood, California. Her father, Robert Applegate, was a record producer. Her mother, Nancy Priddy, was a singer and an actress who survived breast cancer. Her parents split up after she was born, and her father remarried.CareerApplegate quit school at age 17 to pursue acting. From 1987 to 1997, she played Kelly Bundy on Married... with Children. From 1998 to 2000, she starred in her own sitcom, Jesse, on NBC.Applegate was in attendance at the Viper Room when River Phoenix overdosed.In 2002 she co-starred with Cameron Diaz, on the comic movie The Sweetest Thing, playing the role of Courney Rockcliffe, Diaz's best friend.While playing the title role in a revival of Sweet Charity, she injured her foot, and it was announced that the musical would close during previews. She persuaded the producers to rescind their decision, and on May 4, 2005, she made her Broadway debut to moderately good reviews. Sweet Charity ended its Broadway run on December 31, 2005. She also guest-starred on two episodes of Friends (in 2002 and 2003) as Amy Green, Rachel's (Jennifer Aniston) irresponsible younger sister.In 2006, she appeared in Jessica Simpson's music video "A Public Affair", alongside Eva Longoria, Ryan Seacrest and Christina Milian.Personal lifeOn October 20, 2001, Applegate married longtime boyfriend Johnathon Schaech, in a small mixed-religion Palm Springs ceremony attended by family and close friends. On December 5, 2005, the publicists of Applegate and Schaech confirmed that they had filed for divorce in Los Angeles Superior Court.Applegate was the 2003 spokesperson for the Lee National Denim Day fundraiser which raises millions of dollars for breast cancer education and research. Applegate's mother is a breast cancer survivor. Applegate is a supporter of animal rights and PETA. She appeared in a holiday advertisement for PETA to remind people to forget fur for the shopping season.Applegate is friends with actresses Nicole Eggert (born two months after Christina), Gwyneth Paltrow and actress/singer Jessica Simpson. She studies jazz and dance and donated money to John Kerry's presidential campaign. Applegate was neighbors with guitarist John Frusciante in the early 1990s.AwardsApplegate won a prime-time Emmy Award for her guest-starring role as Amy Green on Friends. In the 1980s and early 1990s, she was nominated four times in the annual Youth in Film Awards, two of which she won.

Claire Forlani

Claire Forlani (born July 1, 1972) is an English actress.BiographyEarly lifeForlani was born in Twickenham in London, England to Pier Forlani (an Italian, from Ferrara) and Barbara (who was English). At the age of eleven, Forlani entered the Arts Educational School in London, where she began to study acting. During her six years at the school, she also studied dance, which led to performances on stage in The Nutcracker and Orpheus in the Underworld.CareerForlani's parents moved to San Francisco in 1993, in order to allow for wider casting opportunities in Hollywood films. Subsequently, Forlani was cast in the television mini-series J.F.K.: Reckless Youth and the film Police Academy: Mission to Moscow.In 1996, Forlani appeared in a supporting role in the blockbuster action movie The Rock. She continued to appear in both widely released and smaller-budget films. Forlani was cast in the 1998 film, Deep Rising, but due to creative conflicts left the set during the first few days of filming; that same year, her starring role in Meet Joe Black (co-starring Brad Pitt) was Forlani's most financially successful film. Next, she appeared in Antitrust, a thriller that was released in January of 2001 to mixed reviews.Forlani was the new face of L'Oreal in 2001. She has been ranked Ranked #51 (2000) and #89 (2001) in Stuff magazine's 100 Sexiest Women, #85 (2001) in FHM magazine's 100 Sexiest Women and was slotted in Loaded's Hot 100 Babes.In the fall of 2006, Forlani will join the cast of CSI: New York in a recurring role as a medical examiner.Personal lifeForlani has dated actors Benicio Del Toro, John Cusack (between 1997 and 1998) and Ben Stiller (between 1998 and 1999) and is engaged to Dougray Scott.

Thora Birch

Thora Birch (born March 11, 1982) is an American actress and was one of the leading child actors of the 1990's, starring in movies such as Hocus Pocus (1993), Now and Then (1995), and Alaska (1996). Since the 1990's she has moved on to more mature roles, with notable performances in films such as American Beauty (1999), and the acclaimed cult film Ghost World (2000)BiographyEarly life and careerBirch was born in Los Angeles, California, the eldest child of Jack Birch and Carol Connors. Both her parents (who have managed her career and remain her managers right up to the present day) were former adult film actors and her mother appeared in the notorious pornographic film, Deep Throat[1]. Birch, who has a brother named Bolt Birch, is of Jewish, Nordic, and Italian descent. The family's original surname was "Biersch", coming from her German Jewish ancestors.[2] The name 'Thora' is a feminized form of the name Thor, the God of the Sky and of Thunder in Norse mythology. From an early age, Birch was encouraged by her parents to audition for commercials. She landed several parts representing companies such as Quaker Oats and Vlasic Pickles. In 1988, she broke into acting when landing the role of Molly in the short-lived television series Day By Day in which she was billed simply as "Thora." That same year she played an important role in the movie Purple People Eater opposite Ned Beatty and Neil Patrick Harris for which she won a Youth In Film Award for her performance.Breakthrough role in ParadiseBirch's breakthrough role came in 1991 when she was cast as 'tomboy' Billie Pike in the movie Paradise which also starred Don Johnson, Melanie Griffith and Elijah Wood. To obtain the role, she had to compete with more than 4,000 other young hopefuls who auditioned for it. Birch received enormous praise for her performance and her career thereafter went from strength to strength.1991-1995: A period of consolidationThora's ability to portray herself as a young tomboy landed her several parts during the period 1991-1995, including the role of Dani in Hocus Pocus (1993). Her acting ability moreover continued to attract much praise and she won leading roles in such films as All I Want For Christmas (1991) and Monkey Trouble (1994). She also appeared in two big-budget blockbuster Harrison Ford films, Patriot Games (1992) and its sequel, Clear and Present Danger (1994).Now & Then: seminal performanceBirch's performance in the 1995 film Now and Then is generally regarded as one of her best performances to date. It also starred Gaby Hoffmann, Christina Ricci, Demi Moore and Melanie Griffith. Directed by Lesli Linka Glatter, the film is about four friends who have been so preoccupied with their own lives that they have not seen one another for some time until the impending birth of one of their babies reunites them. Upon reuniting, they reminisce about events during the summer of 1970 when they were 12 which were ultimately influential in shaping their lives. It was during that summer, a mixture of both happy and sad events, that they realized that adulthood was fast approaching, that they began to work out what life was about and what they wished to do with their own lives. They also promised to be there for another, hence the reason why they were reuniting for the birth of the baby. The film, a female take on the film Stand By Me, was an enormous success and Birch won great critical acclaim for her performance.Alaska: memorable roleBy 1996, Thora was one of leading child actresses of her generation. She consolidated her position with a leading role in the adventure film, Alaska (1996) in which she plays the role of Jessie Barnes who has moved to Alaska with her father (played by Dirk Benedict) and brother after the death of her mother. Her father is a former airline pilot and upon moving to Alaska, he starts earning a living by delivering supplies to small towns in the Alaskan wilderness in his light aircraft. Whilst making a delivery, his plane crashes into a mountainside. Concluding that not enough was being done to locate him, Jessie and her brother set out on a successful attempt to find him with the help of a baby polar bear.1996-1999: break from actingAfter guest-starring appearances in the The Outer Limits, Promised Land and Touched By An Angel, Thora took a break from acting for a couple of years. In 1999, she returned in the made-for-TV movie Night Ride Home and also took a small uncredited role in the Natalie Portman film Anywhere But Here. She also was initially cast in the role of Tammy Metzler in the dark-comedy Election, but ended up leaving after only the third day of filming after disagreements with director/writer Alexander Payne. Jessica Campbell was then given the role of Metzler.American BeautyLater in 1999, Birch won enormous critical praise playing the role of Jane Burnham in American Beauty and was nominated for a British Academy of Film and Television Arts award. The movie itself went on to win the Oscar (i.e. Academy Award) for Best Picture. As Birch was barely 17 at the time she made the film, and thus classified as a minor in the United States, her parents had to approve her brief topless scene in the movie and they and child labor representatives were on the set for the shooting of it.Ghost World: landmark performanceAfter leading roles in The Smokers (2000), Dungeons & Dragons (2000), and The Hole (2001), Birch landed the leading role in Ghost World alongside Scarlett Johansson, Steve Buscemi and Brad Renfro. Not only did she win further enormous critical acclaim, but her performance in the film is considered by many to be her best to date and she was nominated for a Golden Globe for best actress. The film concerns best friends Enid (played by Birch) and Rebecca who graduate from high school and find themselves forced to enter the 'real world'. Enid is a counter-culture rebel who hates 'frauds' and 'losers' and therefore has trouble acquiring and retaining a job. One day, she and Rebecca play a prank on a lonely middle-aged 'loser' named Seymour which backfires. Enid then becomes obsessed with Seymour, at first feeling sorry for him, and then hero worshipping him on the basis that he is a man who has remained true to himself and his own principles unlike the 'frauds' she despises. She then resolves to help him acquire a girlfriend on the basis that she "can't stand the thought of a world where a guy like [Seymour] can't get a date". However, in obsessing about Seymour, Enid is avoiding the challenge of building a life of her own in the 'real world' she is now having to confront post graduation. Essentially, the film is about the complexities of becoming an adult in the modern world. When watching the film, the quality of Birch's performance is such that one can empathise with, and even sympathise with, Enid's perspective on life, despite her cynical attitude, the adverse affect it has on all around her, and her fanatical desire to be 'cool' (so compulsive, that even Rebecca fails to grasp the original punk look she experiments with at one point). The fact that the viewer is not expected to fully identify and sympathise with Enid is brought out by the contrasting fortunes of Rebecca who, in the course of the film, sells out to the conservative values that both she and Enid were rebelling against at its outset. Enid, on the other hand, finishes the film in search of some kind of meaning to her existence. The point of the film is that it's not which choices we make in life that are important, but whether the choices we do make are ones that leave us fulfilled and content. Birch's performance brings out what a difficult process and prospect this is for Enid, as Enid witnesses her best friend Rebecca betray the values she once held dear in an attempt to conform to the more conventional values of society in the pursuit of 'success' (i.e. in its capitalistic form), and realises that Seymour, a man who has remained true to his principles, was doomed to lead an equally empty life. It was Thora's success in bringing out these complex underlying strands to the film in her critically acclaimed performance which were pivotal to the film's success.2001 to dateBirch's most notable roles since 2001 have been that of Liz Murray in Homeless to Harvard: The Liz Murray Story (2003) and April in Slingshot (2005). Her next movie, Shamrock Boy, is in the post production phase and scheduled for release in late 2006. She also has the lead role in Tainted Love which has just completed filming and which is scheduled for release at some point in 2007. Birch has also indicated that she has aspirations to become a director and has recently begun directing short video sketches for a sketch comedy troupe called The Doomed Planet. The sketches can be seen on her official websiteTriviaLives in southern California Is a vegetarian Holds a blue belt in karate.

Rosario Dawson

Rosario Dawson (born May 9, 1979) is an American actress best known for her roles in the films Kids, Sin City, Clerks II, and Rent.HistoryRosario Dawson was born in New York City to a father of Native American and Irish descent and a mother of Puerto Rican and Afro-Cuban ancestry. According to recent interviews the two are now divorced.Early CareerHer film career began unexpectedly when filmmaker Larry Clark saw her on a Manhattan street and asked her to be in a movie he was making. The movie, Kids, became a critical success and Dawson's performance was commended. As a result, Dawson decided to pursue an acting career and attended the Lee Strasberg Theatre Institute. Dawson has worked steadily since her debut, with a mixed amount of commercial and critical success. As of 2006, she has worked with directors such as Oliver Stone, Robert Rodriguez, Kevin Smith, Chris Columbus and Spike Lee, and costarred with the likes of Will Smith, Edward Norton, Adam Pascal, wife & husband duo Idina Menzel & Taye Diggs,Colin Farrell and Clive Owen.Slow SuccessDawson's film career has been varied, ranging from independent films to massive big-budget flops to highly successful blockbusters, among them the Spike Lee-directed He Got Game, opposite Denzel Washington and professional basketball player Ray Allen, to the second Men in Black film, opposite Will Smith and Tommy Lee Jones. She has had leading roles in two massive flops: Josie and the Pussycats and The Adventures of Pluto Nash. The Adventures of Pluto Nash was nominated for six Razzie Awards.Recent WorkIn 2005, Dawson appeared on stage as Julia in the Public Theatre revival of Galt MacDermot's 1971 musical The Two Gentlemen of Verona at the Delacorte Theatre in Central Park, New York (August-September 2005). Next Dawson portrayed the HIV-positive heroin-addicted exotic dancer Mimi Marquez in the film adaptation of Rent. It was her first role in a film musical. Some critics praised her performance; others panned it, stating that she was not as good as the actress who originated the role. Also in the same year Rosario had a major role in the comic book adaptation, Sin City; and she is also scheduled to be in the film's sequel. Dawson is also working on a role in the movie Descent with Rent costars Tracie Thoms and Wilson Jermaine Heredia.In 1999, Dawson teamed up with Prince for his timely re-release of his 1980s hit "1999". This remixed version featured the actress in an introductory voiceover, offering commentary on the state of the world in the titular year. She is also featured on the music track "She Lives In My Lap" from the OutKast album The Love Below.Dawson co-founded Voto Latino in 2004, an organization encouraging American Latinos to participate in civic government using technology and media. She spearheaded the first American Latino celebrity voter registration drive in 2004.Also, a self-proclaimed comic book fanatic, Dawson favoring books such as Jhonen Vasquez's Johnny the Homicidal Maniac, and more. She co-created the comic book miniseries Occult Crimes Taskforce.Her latest film is Kevin Smith's Clerks II, released in the United States on July 21, 2006.Personal LifeDawson has been described by fans and staff as being extremely 'kind' and 'down to earth', and is noted for her 'friendly' and 'sociable' attitude during public appearances. She is currently dating former Sex and the City star Jason Lewis. They reside in Los Angeles.

Eva Longoria

Eva Jacqueline Longoria (born March 15, 1975) is a Golden Globe Award-nominated film and television actress. She is best known for her role as Gabrielle Solis in the ABC television series Desperate Housewives. She has also become an internationally recognised model, appearing in several high profile advertising campaigns and numerous men's magazines.BiographyEarly lifeLongoria was born in Corpus Christi, Texas to Mexican-American Catholic parents Enrique Longoria Jr. and Ella Eva Mireles. The youngest of four daughters, she has three older sisters Elizabeth, Emily and Esmeralda. She received her Bachelor of Science degree in Kinesiology at Texas A&M University-Kingsville. During this time she won the title of "Miss Corpus Christi, USA" in 1998. After completing college, she entered a talent contest which would lead her to Los Angeles, shortly after she was spotted and signed by a theatrical agent.CareerLongoria landed her first television role in 2000, guest starring in an episode of Beverly Hills, 90210. It was a humble beginning, but there would soon be more work. Another guest appearance in General Hospital the same year preceded her big break in popular American soap opera The Young and the Restless, in which she played psychotic Isabella Braña Williams from 2001 to 2003 and was listed in People en Español's "Most Beautiful People" for 2003. After leaving The Young and the Restless, she was seen on the now-canceled Dragnet. Although it lasted only two seasons, the show gave Longoria another leading star credit to her name. Following Dragnet, she starred in two ill-fated productions - Señorita Justice - a poorly received direct-to-video film and a television film titled The Dead Will Tell.Longoria was about to land a role that would elevate her to the A-List. In 2004, she starred as adulteress Gabrielle Solis in the worldwide break-out ABC hit Desperate Housewives. As the show became an overnight sensation, Longoria's career was well and truly launched. She caused a stir at the 2005 MTV Video Music Awards in Miami when she appeared in a one-piece bathing suit to introduce Mariah Carey's performance, and joked that she "wasn’t going to let a little hurricane keep me from wearing a bathing suit." She also became the face of L'Oreal internationally and signed a rumoured 6-figure deal to appear in the company's print and television ads. Despite her success, she was snubbed at the 2005 Emmy Awards when she was the only female member of the Desperate Housewives main cast not be nominated. She satirized Housewives internal drama when she appeared on the The Ellen DeGeneres Show, being interviewed from her supposedly-relegated-to worst seats in the house. She has joked about the unlikeliness of her character having been a top runway model, given her short stature.Shortly after her debut on Desperate Housewives, Longoria starred in a poorly received direct-to-video film titled Carlita's Secret, for which she was also co-producer. In 2005, she was finally rewarded for her performance as Gabrielle Solis in Desperate Housewives when she was nominated for a Golden Globe for Best Performance by an Actress in a Television Series - Musical or Comedy along with her co-stars. She also stars opposite Michael Douglas and Kiefer Sutherland in the 2006 thriller The Sentinel, which is her first major role in a theatrical movie (both Douglas and Sutherland noted that much to their surprise, Eva whipped both of them in gun practice). Longoria continues to be included in lists of Hollywood's Most Beautiful, and was listed as #1 in Maxim's Hottest Female Stars of 2005 and 2006, becoming the first woman to top the list in two consecutive years.On her interview with Ryan Seacrest on The Interview with Ryan Seacrest on E! she has stated: "I don't want to be on 7th Heaven -- on for 20 years and no one's really watching and it's hanging on by a thread." She has stated multiple times that she will not renew her Desperate Housewives contract once it is up. She has set her sights on the film industry. However, the duration of her current contract is not currently known.In May 2006 Maxim magazine named Longoria number 1 on the Hot 100 list for 2006.In 2006, Longoria appeared on Jessica Simpson's music video "A Public Affair" along with Christina Milian, Christina Applegate, Ryan Seacrest, Maria Menounos and Andy Dick.Personal lifeLongoria was married to Tyler Christopher, General Hospital star, from 2002 to 2004, and as such, was also credited as Eva Longoria Christopher. Longoria has been romantically linked to SAG president Edward W V Stephens, successful writer Milan Gracanin, ex-*NSYNC member JC Chasez, actor Mousir Syed and Life As We Know It star, Sean Faris (although both Faris and Longoria deny any romantic link). Although some have reported her height as 5'2", she is in fact 5'1".Longoria spoke candidly about her affection for vibrators in an interview that Rolling Stone magazine published December 15, 2004. As a result, readers started sending sex toys to Longoria (she gave them to friends as gifts). Her employer ABC asked Longoria to stop mentioning the word vibrator in interviews.Presently, she is dating NBA basketball star Tony Parker of the San Antonio Spurs. Reports said Longoria claimed she’s had to teach Tony Parker lots of tricks in the bedroom because he was so inexperienced when he met her. "I’m the experienced one. I’m the teacher, especially about love. He’s always telling me he’s never met anyone who loves the way I do, wholly, freely and unconditionally". Recent reports by People Magazine claim that the couple has recently split although a representative for Longoria says the couple is just going through a "difficult time" due to their busy schedules.On December 24, 2005, a car driven by Parker was cited for impeding traffic. Longoria, who was a passenger, allegedly began verbally abusing the officer by yelling: "He's just a Mexican bike cop. He only wants your autograph." She later denied the allegation, saying through her publicist: "I never made any sort of racial slurs, let alone made any comments about the officer being Mexican, as a Mexican myself."She is a Catholic and jokingly mentioned about how uneasy it made her feel in an episode of Desperate Housewives when her character attacked a nun. She also has mentioned in the past that her grandmother at first disapproved of the fact that her character was having an adulterous affair with a 16 year old.

Rachel Weisz

Rachel Weisz (surname pronounced [vaɪs] or "vice"; it is a variant spelling of the German word weiss, "white") (born March 7, 1971) is an English Academy Award- and Golden Globe-winning, and BAFTA-nominated actress.BiographyEarly lifeWeisz was born in London, England. Her father, George Weisz, is a Hungarian-born Jewish inventor whose family fled to England in order to escape Nazi persecution. Her mother, Edith, is a Vienna-born Austrian psychoanalyst and aspiring actress of 3/4 Ashkenazi Jewish and 1/4 Italian Catholic heritage. Weisz was raised Jewish.Weisz was educated at North London Collegiate School and Trinity Hall, Cambridge, where she graduated with a 2:1 in English. During her university years she appeared in various student productions, co-founding a student drama group called Cambridge Talking Tongues, which went on to win a Guardian Student Drama Award at the Edinburgh Festival for an improvised piece called Slight Possession.Personal lifeWeisz is engaged to American filmmaker Darren Aronofsky. They have a son, Henry Chance, born on May 31, 2006. The couple reside in Brooklyn. Weisz previously dated actor Alessandro Nivola, actor Neil Morrissey, and director Sam Mendes. In a recent interview, Weisz expressed her admiration for Harry Houdini, David Bowie, Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin and Jackie Onassis, amongst others, but it is for singer Elvis Presley that she keeps her greatest love.CareerHer breakthrough role was that of Gilda in Welsh director Sean Mathias's 1995 West End revival of Noël Coward's 1933 play Design for Living at the Gielgud Theatre. Having already worked for television, with strong parts in major UK series such as Inspector Morse (1993), Weisz started her cinema career in 1995 with Chain Reaction and then appeared Bernardo Bertolucci's Stealing Beauty. She followed this work with more English films including Swept from the Sea, The Land Girls, and Michael Winterbottom's I Want You. Since then she has starred in a number of films including The Mummy (1999), Enemy at the Gates (2001), About a Boy (2002), Runaway Jury (2003) and Constantine (2005). Her stage work includes the role of Catherine in a London production of Tennessee Williams' Suddenly Last Summer and Evelyn in Neil LaBute's The Shape of Things at the Almeida Theatre (also film).Weisz in The Constant Gardener (2005).In 2005, Weisz starred in The Constant Gardener, a film adaptation of a John le Carré thriller of the same title set in the slums of Kibera and Loiyangalani, Kenya. For this role, Weisz won the 2006 Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress, the 2006 Golden Globe for Best Supporting Actress and the 2006 Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Supporting Role. In her home country, she was recognized as a leading role for the film according to the nomination from the BAFTA Film Awards and winnings from the London Critics Circle Film Awards and British Independent Film Awards.In 2006, Weisz will star in The Fountain, written and directed by her fiancé, Darren Aronofsky. In the same year, she plans to star in a New York production of August Strindberg's Miss Julie, playing the titular role.

Vanessa Chantal Paradis

Vanessa Chantal Paradis, (surname pronounced Para-DEE) (born December 22, 1972 in Saint-Maur-des-Fossés, Val-de-Marne, France) is a French singer and actress.
CareerVanessa Paradis was discovered on the TV show L'école des fans. She recorded her first single "La magie des surprises-parties" in 1985 and became famous with the song "Joe le taxi" in 1987. She has since appeared in several films, most famously 1999's La fille sur le pont, a black and white romance co-starring Daniel Auteuil, and 2004's Mon ange. She is very famous in France.In 1991, Paradis famously promoted a new fragrance for Chanel, entitled "Coco." In the advertisement, she's dressed in all black and feathers, portraying a bird swinging in a cage. In 2004 they chose her once again to promote Chanel's new line of handbags called "Ligne Cambon." She is now promoting Chanel's "The New Mademoiselle" handbag line. Paradis is currently working on a new album expected to be released in 2007.
FamilySince 1998, Paradis has been in a relationship with American actor Johnny Depp, with whom she has a daughter, Lily-Rose Melody Depp (born May 27, 1999), and a son, John Christopher "Jack" Depp III (born April 9, 2002). Paradis caught Depp's eye in a hotel lobby in Paris while he was there shooting the film The Ninth Gate. They are distant to the world of fame and protective of their privacy. They divide their time between houses in the Hollywood Hills and in the South of France, and also own apartments in Paris and Manhattan. Paradis's 2000 album Bliss was dedicated to Depp and their daughter.
Past boyfriends include Lenny Kravitz, who wrote and produced her 1992 self-titled English language album.

Shannen Maria Doherty

Shannen Maria Doherty (born April 12, 1971 in Memphis, Tennessee) is an American actress of Irish descent, best known for her work as Brenda Walsh in Beverly Hills 90210 and as Prue Halliwell in Charmed.
Early careerShe came to notice when she was cast as Jenny Wilder in Little House on the Prairie. She was then cast as the oldest Witherspoon sibling, Kris, on the family drama Our House, which ran from 1986 to 1988. Shannen then went on to appear in an episode of Magnum P.I.
Later CareerDoherty's first major motion picture role was in Heathers, released in 1989. She went on to star in the Aaron Spelling-produced TV series Beverly Hills 90210 for four years, from 1990 to 1994. Although her departure from the series was reportedly acrimonious, it didn't stop Spelling from casting her in another series, Charmed. She left that series in 2001, after three years (rumors persisted that her departure was against her will, due to a feud with co-star Alyssa Milano). She hosted Scare Tactics on the Sci Fi channel until the 2004 season. She was a former regular on the failed TV series North Shore, a return to her prime-time soap roots.
In 2005, she was cast in the new TV comedy Love Inc. but was dropped from the show just months before the debut in fall.
Doherty is now starring in her own show, Breaking Up With Shannen Doherty on the Oxygen network.
In late July of 2006, rumors began circulating that Doherty had had plastic surgery. In August, tabloid Star Magazine published the first pictures - a cover of the issue can be seen at Doherty Do Over (this issue saw a general release date of August 3rd, 2006). Gossip columnists reported that Doherty was so upset over the front page coverage that she cancelled a shoot for her reality TV series. She made an appearance on The View July 31st to counter that she had not had plastic surgery.
Private LifeHer private life has also been turbulent, with a six month marriage to Ashley Hamilton, son of George Hamilton. She was also married to Rick Salomon (most famous for starring in the Paris Hilton sex tape). That marriage was later annulled. Doherty posed for a nine-page pictorial in the December 2003 issue of Playboy magazine.
TriviaHer brief marriage to Ashley Hamilton is referenced in Mallrats. Co-star Ben Affleck plays a character named Shannon Hamilton. Doherty is a Southern Baptist and a Republican. Suffers from the bowel condition Crohn's Disease.According to some sources, she is fluent in three languages: English, Spanish and French.Close friends with Sarah Michelle Gellar. Has four horses and three dogs. Addicted to the FOX's action-drama 24. While she apparently has not had much contact with most of her former co-stars since leaving Charmed, she remains good friends with Holly Marie Combs, and she has spoken at length with her replacement, Rose McGowan and has told her she thinks Rose has done an excellent job.

Famke Janssen

Famke Janssen (born November 5, 1965 in Amstelveen, The Netherlands) is a Dutch actress and former fashion model. She is perhaps best known for her roles in Goldeneye, Nip/Tuck and the X-Men film series.
BiographyJanssen moved to the United States in 1984 and began her professional career as a fashion model. She was signed with Elite Model Management, and worked for Yves Saint Laurent, Chanel and Victoria's Secret. After studying writing and literature at Columbia University she moved to Los Angeles where she appeared in guest roles on TV series (such as Star Trek: The Next Generation and Melrose Place). Janssen as Xenia Onatopp (1995)Her first film role was with Jeff Goldblum in Fathers & Sons (1992), later she appeared in the first Pierce Brosnan James Bond film, GoldenEye, making an impression on the cinema world as femme fatale Xenia Onatopp. After her brilliant performance, she became one of the most sought after actresses by many directors. In 1998 alone, she starred in eight films. She was also cast in Men in Black II as villainess Serleena in 2002, but had to drop out due to a death in the family. She was also offered the role of the T-X in Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines, but turned it down and was replaced by Kristanna Loken.
Janssen played the highly coveted role of superheroine Dr. Jean Grey/Phoenix in X-Men, X2, and X-Men: The Last Stand. In the films, she plays Dr. Jean Grey, a teacher and medical expert at the Xavier Institute for Higher Learning, where she also doubles as a core member of the X-Men. Her mutant powers are telekinesis and telepathy. In the first film, she appears before a Senate hearing as an advocate for mutant rights, and later helps to save the leaders of the world's nations from an attack by Magneto. In the second film, her powers are growing exponentially as she also grows as Phoenix, and she travels to Boston with Storm to track down Nightcrawler, and later embarks on a mission to Alkali Lake with the rest of the X-Men and The Brotherhood. In the final minutes of the film, she sacrifices her life to save the X-Men from drowning under the water escaping from the Alkali Lake dam. Lastly, in the third film, she is resurrected as the Phoenix and she fights alongside the Brotherhood to destroy humans and their mutant cure.
Famke also starred in the movies Lord of Illusions, House on Haunted Hill, I Spy, Rounders, and Deep Rising.
Janssen also had a prominent role in the second season of the popular TV show Nip/Tuck, as seductive and manipulative life coach Ava Moore.
She speaks Dutch, English, German, and French and is the only brunette in a family of blondes. While best known for her poise and great physical beauty, she is also recognized in Hollywood for her exceptionally large feet, which even made their way into a scene in her 2000 film Love & Sex (in which Jon Favreau's character teases a blushing Janssen about the size of her feet).
Famke currently lives in New York.

Cynthia Watros

Cynthia Michele Watros (born September 2, 1968 in Lake Orion, Michigan) is an American actress.
CareerDaytime televisionWatros initially became known for her role as Annie Dutton on the CBS soap opera Guiding Light from 1994 to 1998. Her character, a nurse, began as a heroine, but she gained notice and critical acclaim when her character's rivalry with Reva Shayne (played by Kim Zimmer) led her to become a scheming villianess. In 1998, Watros won a Daytime Emmy Award as "Outstanding Lead Actress" for her role on Guiding Light.
In 1998, Watros briefly filled in for Jensen Buchanan as Victoria Hudson McKinnon on Another World while Buchanan was on maternity leave.
Primetime televisionWatros is also known for several primetime TV roles.
She appeared as Erin Fitzpatrick on Titus from 2000 to 2002 and gained recognition as a comedic actress, playing the real-life fiance of the title character. According to the DVD commentary, Erin was originally supposed to be more like Tommy in the series (worrysome, neurotic), and Tommy was supposed to be more like how Erin was (strong, supportive). The characters' personality changes were made a week before the pilot was shot. After Titus was canceled, she took on the role of Kellie Newmark on The Drew Carey Show, as a replacement for the departure of Christa Miller. Watros played the role from 2002 to 2004. As a welcoming gesture, Drew Carey sent flowers to her on a weekly basis. Spoiler warning: Plot and/or ending details follow.From 2005 to 2006, she was a cast member on the hit ABC series Lost. She played psychologist Libby, a member of the "Tailies", a group of survivors of the plane crash who were in the tail section of the plane (and not seen during Season One). Towards the end of the season (in the episode Two for the Road), Libby was shot and killed by Michael Dawson (played by Harold Perrineau) along with Ana Lucia Cortez (played by Michelle Rodriguez). After her departure from "Lost" , Watros filmed a pilot for CBS, a show titled "My Ex-Life", where she was slated to play the ex-wife of a character played by Tom Cavanagh. However, the pilot was not chosen by CBS to be on their fall schedule.
Personal lifeWatros overcame a serious disease as a teenager; she was diagnosed with Idiopathic thrombocytopenic purpura, an autoimmune disease of the blood. It required several years of chemotherapy and a splenectomy. In an interview in the Season 3 DVD of Titus, she stated that she had lost her hair and gained over 100 pounds as a result of this disease.
Watros has had a complicated history with Guiding Light co-star Kim Zimmer. Zimmer and Watros met and became friends when they co-starred in an off-Broadway show, "Four Dogs and a Bone" by John Patrick Shanley. Although there is no long-standing rivalry, working in close quarters apparently caused a serious rift between them when they both appeared on Guiding Light. In particular, a physical altercation between the two actors was captured on tape during filming of a Guiding Light episode.
Watros is married to Curtis Gilliland and has twin daughters, Emma Rose and Sadie Anna (b. July 14, 2001).
Watros and her Lost co-star Michelle Rodriguez were each pulled over and arrested on the morning of December 1, 2005 in Kailua, Hawaii, where Lost is filmed. Rodriguez was charged with drunk driving. Five months later both characters in the show were killed in an episode called "Two for the road", leading some fans and TV pundits to suggest it was punishment for their arrests. Rodriguez and the producers have denied this, saying it was to be so from the start.

Christina Mae Chambers some info? photos and bio!

Christina Mae Chambers (born October 24, 1969, in Alexandria, Virginia) is an American actress and model.
Chambers was born into a family of academics, both parents holding doctorates (her father's in physics and her mother's in mathematics). She is the youngest of four siblings. Christina admits to being a tomboy at heart, and has never been very interested in her appearance. Her mother informed her at the age of six when she made her first acting debut that she looked petrified, however Christina says she always knew that she'd become an actress.
She studied Shakespeare at The Catholic University of America in Washington, DC and spent a semester in Stratford on Avon studying with the Royal Shakespeare Company, where she played the character Goneril in King Lear. After joining the Shenandoah Shakespeare Express she went on tour and played Juliet in Romeo & Juliet.
After leaving the tour, while in New York, that she took the big step away from Shakespeare. Chambers was spotted by a New York commercial agency who quickly signed her up, and by pure accident ended up signing with a New York modeling agent too. However, it wasn't until she met her acting agent Peter (who has agencies in New York and Lost Angeles) during a New York showcase that her acting career started to accelerate. On October 16, 1999 she married her present husband Brian Logue.
Chambers became best known to soap fans as Maria Torres-Evans on the NBC soap opera Sunset Beach from 1998 to 1999.
In 2004, she temporarily filled in for Lesli Kay as Molly Conlan on As the World Turns for a few months.
In October 2006, it has announced that Chambers has been cast as Marty Saybrooke on One Life to Live last played by Susan Haskell in the fall.

Kasie Head - Miss Oklahoma USA 2002.
Kasie Head (born April 19, 1981) is best known as a briefcase model on NBC's Deal or No Deal. She was also Miss Oklahoma USA 2002.
Head was born and raised in the town of Braman, Oklahoma which has a population of only 250 people. She is currently living in Brentwood, California.
Apart from her game show modeling and pageant appearances, Head also had a small role on The Princess Diaries 2: Royal Engagement and Just My Luck.

Samaire Rhys Armstrong

Samaire Rhys Armstrong (born October 31, 1980) is an American actress, perhaps best known for her roles as Emily on Entourage and as Anna Stern on The O.C.
Biography
Early lifeArmstrong was born in Tokyo, Japan to American parents; her first name, pronounced Samaires, is Irish. She lived in Japan for several years, before moving to Hawaii and later Sedona, Arizona where she grew up. Armstrong attended the University of Arizona, but dropped out because of the school drama department's policy of barring freshmen from involvement in productions. Afterwards, she moved to Los Angeles. She is now dating Kevin Banek.
CareerHer first major break into film acting was as one half of the conjoined twins the Fratelli sisters in the parody movie "Not Another Teen Movie". Armstrong also had a recurring role on Freaks and Geeks, and had guest appearances on Judging Amy, Party of Five, C.S.I.: Crime Scene Investigation, Numb3rs and the X-Files. She was romantically linked to actor Aaron Paul. Armstrong appeared in The O.C. for one episode, and was brought back at fan request for several episodes of the first season. She had a recurring role on the HBO Television Series Entourage. Her most recent projects include the films Stay Alive, Just My Luck and Rise. She has since returned to The O.C. starting episode 22 of season 3.
When not acting, Armstrong is often designing clothes for her own clothing brand called NARU. She has also appeared in music videos such as in Hanson's Penny and Me and Daniel Powter's Bad Day.

Ivanka Marie Trump. Model and businesswoman.

Ivanka Marie Trump (born October 30, 1981 in New York, New York) is an American model and businesswoman, best known as the daughter of Ivana and Donald Trump.
She attended Choate Rosemary Hall, as well as Chapin. While she was at Choate, her mother only paid for her tuition and Ivanka had to pay for her phone bills. She had to find a job to pay for her other needs, and turned to modeling.
After completing two years at Georgetown University, she transferred to and graduated summa cum laude from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania with a Bachelor of Science in Economics in 2004 [citation needed], and is currently the Vice President of Real Estate Development at the Trump Organization.
She reportedly paid $1.5 million for a two-bedroom apartment at 502 Park Avenue. She started modeling at 16 years of age while in school and is now represented by Elite Model Management. Her first cover was a 1997 issue of Seventeen. She also hosted the Miss Teen USA Pageant that same year. Since then she has made her way down fashion runways for Versace, Marc Bouwer and Thierry Mugler. She has done ad campaigns for Tommy Hilfiger and Sassoon Jeans and was featured on the cover of Stuff magazine in August 2006.
Ivanka will be replacing Carolyn Kepcher as a primary boardroom judge, to take effect on Season 6 of The Apprentice.