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Jordana Brewster



Jordana Brewster (born April 26, 1980) is an American actress. Born in Panama City, Panama, to an investment banker and a former Sports Illustrated Swimsuit model from Brazil, Brewster studied at the Sacred Heart School in New York and later at Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut, graduating in 2004. Her grandfather Kingman Brewster, Jr. is a former president of Yale.



She made her debut on the daytime soap opera, All My Children, in a one-time appearance playing Anita Santos. Brewster returned back to daytime on As the World Turns as Nikki Munson from 1995 to 1998. It was her role as Mia Toretto in The Fast and the Furious that has been her most popular role to date.



She dated Mark Wahlberg from 2000 to June 2001 and has also recently dated Derek Jeter and Jay Penske. In 2002 Stuff Magazine named her the 96th hottest women in their "102 Sexiest Women in the World".





 



Filmography



Annapolis (2006) - Ali


Chasing Fate (2005) (filming)


Nearing Grace (2005) - Grace


D.E.B.S. (2004) - Lucy Diamond


The Fast and the Furious (2001) - Mia Toretto




The Invisible Circus (2001) - Phoebe


The Faculty (1998) - Delilah Profitt




Television



The '60s (1999) - Sarah Weinstock


As the World Turns (1995-1998) - Nikki Munson


All My Children (1995) - Anita Santos






sexy celebrities - Julia Roberts



Julia Roberts



Julia Roberts (born Julie Fiona Roberts on October 28, 1967, in Smyrna, Georgia, USA) is an Academy Award-winning American actress.



She shot to fame during the early 1990s after starring in the romantic comedy Pretty Woman opposite Richard Gere. Since then, Roberts has gone on to become the highest-paid actress in the world with an asking price of over 20 million dollars. Her impressive film career has also given her the title of most bankable actress in Hollywood, with box office receipts well over two billion dollars on the strength of numerous blockbusters such as Pretty Woman, Runaway Bride, and Ocean's Eleven. She won the Best Actress Academy Award in 2000 for her critically praised turn as the title character in Erin Brockovich after two previous nominations during the 1990s. She was also placed at the pinnacle of the Ulmer Scale, a comprehensive guide to the global star power of actors and directors in independent and studio films created by James Ulmer, ahead of such other luminaries as Tom Cruise and Tom Hanks. This was partly due to her ability to open a film based solely on her name above the title without the support of a male costar, something few other actresses are able to do.



Roberts is the first of three actresses (as of July 2005, the others are Cameron Diaz and Angelina Jolie) to join the coveted "$20 Million Club", when she signed to do Erin Brockovich for that amount.




Family background



Roberts' father, Walter Grady Roberts, was a vacuum cleaner salesman, actor and writer of Irish, Scottish, Welsh extraction on behalf of his father, Walter Thomas Roberts, and English-Scottish descent on the part of his mother, Beatrice Beal. Julia's mother, Betty Lou Bredemus, a church secretary and actress, was born in Minneapolis in 1934, daughter of football player Wendell John Bredemus (whose mother Eleanor Johnson was born in Sweden) and Elizabeth Ellen Billingsley. Her parents divorced when she was five, and her mother remarried. Her father died of cancer when Roberts was nine. Her elder brother Eric Roberts, from whom she is estranged, is also an actor. So is her niece, Emma Roberts, whom she would often take along on sets when she was younger.





Roberts wanted to be a veterinarian as a child, but soon after graduating from Smyrna's Campbell High School, she headed to New York to join her sister and pursue a career in acting. Once there she signed with Clicks modeling agency and enrolled in acting classes.



 



Films



Julia Roberts made her film debut playing a supporting role opposite her brother, Eric, in Blood Red, which although completed in 1986 was not released until 1989. Rail-thin, long-legged, and sporting a thick, curly mane of auburn hair, she looked more coltish than elegant in the movie. Here, her large hazel eyes and huge mouth are capable of much expression, sometimes radiance, when she cuts loose with her trademark megawatt smile and a braying laugh.



Roberts first caught the attention of moviegoers with her performance in the film Mystic Pizza in 1988. The following year she was featured in Steel Magnolias as a young bride battling diabetes, garnering her first Oscar nomination (as Best Supporting Actress) for her performance. She catapulted to worldwide fame when she co-starred with Richard Gere in the Cinderella story Pretty Woman in 1990. The role also earned her a second Oscar nod, this time as Best Actress. Her next box office success was the thriller Sleeping with the Enemy, playing a battered wife who escapes her demented husband and starts a new life in Iowa. She played Tinkerbell in Steven Spielberg's Hook in 1991, which was followed by a two-year period of no acting roles other than a cameo appearance in Robert Altman's The Player (1992). In early 1993, she was the subject of a People magazine cover story asking, "What Happened to Julia Roberts?"



Later that year, she co-starred with Denzel Washington in the successful The Pelican Brief, based on the John Grisham novel. For the next few years, she starred in a series of films that were critical and commercial failures, primarily because she was cast in roles that strayed too far from her film persona. She broke her losing streak with the hugely popular comedy My Best Friend's Wedding (1997), and eventually regained her earlier reputation as an actress who could open a movie and guarantee box office success.She also starred with Hugh Grant as Anna Scott, a film actress in the hugely popular 1999 film " Notting Hill ". In 2001, she won critical acclaim and finally received a Best Actress Oscar for her portrayal of Erin Brockovich, who helped wage a successful lawsuit against energy giant Pacific Gas & Electric. Julia will appear in a broadway play starting in March 2006. The play is called "Three Days of Rain".





 



Personal life



Roberts' personal life has often been in the spotlight, a fact that served as the basis of her (1999) film Notting Hill, a romantic comedy about a famous actress falling for an ordinary guy played by Hugh Grant. Her character, Anna Scott, was said to be closely modeled on Roberts herself. (When asked in one scene how much she was paid to appear in a movie, Scott replies "fifteen million dollars"—precisely the amount Roberts had received to appear in Notting Hill.)



Roberts was engaged to actor Kiefer Sutherland in 1991 but ended the relationship just days before the wedding. Julia ran off to Europe with Jason Patric, and the two were eventually a couple after she and Kiefer broke up. She later eloped with country and western singer Lyle Lovett shortly after meeting him. The ceremony was noted by her being barefoot. They divorced in 1995, ostensibly due to their respective career demands keeping them apart, but they still remain friends. Julia also briefly dated Friends star Matthew Perry and Daniel Day-Lewis. For a time she lived with actor Liam Neeson and dated Benjamin Bratt from 1998 to 2001.



Roberts met her husband, cameraman Danny Moder, on the set of her movie The Mexican in 2000. He was already married to Vera Steimberg Moder, but they eventually divorced. Julia and Danny were married on July 4, 2002, in Taos, New Mexico. They became the parents of oddly-named twins, Hazel Patricia Moder and Phinnaeus Walter Moder on November 28, 2004.



Roberts bought a penthouse in Manhattan's Gramercy Park neighborhood. She reportedly loves to shop anonymously, buying her own organic greens on weekends at the market in nearby Union Square. She splits her time between her homes in New York, New York, Venice, California, Malibu, California, and a 50-acre (202,000 m²) retreat in Taos, New Mexico.



She is reportedly a fan of the long-running soap opera Days of our Lives.



Roberts has a production company called Red Om Films ("Moder" spelled backwards; formerly "Shoelace Productions") and has given of her time and resources to UNICEF as well as to other charitable organizations. She has made trips to Haiti, India, and other countries promoting peace, goodwill, and help for others in need.





She has been named one of People magazine's "50 Most Beautiful People in the World" a record-setting eight times.



 



Filmography



Ocean's Twelve (2004)


Closer (2004)


Mona Lisa Smile (2003)


Confessions of a Dangerous Mind (2002)




Full Frontal (2002)


Ocean's Eleven (2001)


America's Sweethearts (2001)


The Mexican (2001)


Erin Brockovich (2000)


Runaway Bride (1999)




Notting Hill (1999)


Stepmom (1998)


Conspiracy Theory (1997)


My Best Friend's Wedding (1997)


Everyone Says I Love You (1996)


Michael Collins (1996)




Mary Reilly (1996)


Something to Talk About (1995)


Prêt-à-Porter (aka Ready to Wear) (1994)


I Love Trouble (1994)


The Pelican Brief (1993)




The Player (1992)


Hook (1991)


Dying Young (1991)


Sleeping with the Enemy (1991)


Flatliners (1990)


Pretty Woman (1990)




Steel Magnolias (1989)


Blood Red (1988)


Mystic Pizza (1988)


Baja Oklahoma (Made for TV) (1988)


Satisfaction (aka Girls of Summer) (1988)


Firehouse (1987)






Awards won




Best Supporting Actress



1990: Golden Globe for Steel Magnolias




Best Actress



1991: Golden Globe for Pretty Woman


2000: Academy Award for Erin Brockovich


2000: British Academy Awards for Erin Brockovich




2000: Golden Globe for Erin Brockovich (2000)


2000: National Board of Review for Erin Brockovich


2000: Screen Actors Guild for Erin Brockovich




Awards nominated




Best Supporting Actress



1989: Academy Award for Steel Magnolias






Best Actress



1990: Academy Award for Pretty Woman


1990: British Academy Awards for Pretty Woman


1997: Golden Globe for My Best Friend's Wedding


1999: Golden Globe for Notting Hill




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sexy celebrities - Jennifer Love Hewitt





Jennifer Love Hewitt



Jennifer Love Hewitt (born February 21, 1979 in Waco, Texas) is an American actress and singer.




Biography



Hewitt grew up in Killeen, Texas with parents Herbert Daniel Hewitt and Patricia Mae Shipp (who were mostly of English descent). At the suggestion of talent scouts, she moved to Los Angeles with her mother at the age of 10, to pursue a career in both acting and singing.



Her first break came soon thereafter as a child actor on the Disney Channel variety show Kids Incorporated (1989-1991). She became a household name after landing the role of Sarah Reeves on the popular Fox Television show Party of Five (1995-1999). She continued this role in the short-lived Party of Five spinoff, Time of Your Life (1999) co-starring Jennifer Garner.



She is perhaps most famous for the role of Julie James in the horror films I Know What You Did Last Summer (1997) and its sequel I Still Know What You Did Last Summer (1998).



In other notable film roles, she was a centerpiece of the chaotic high school comedy Can't Hardly Wait (1998). She starred with Sigourney Weaver in the movie Heartbreakers (2001), which also featured Gene Hackman and Ray Liotta. Even more recently she was paired with Jackie Chan in the action comedy The Tuxedo (2002).



To date she has released four albums with some success, most notably outside the United States in places like Europe and Japan.





In 2003 Jennifer (with Bo Derek) visited troops who are recovering from their 2003 Iraq war injuries at Washington, D.C.'s Bethesda Naval Medical Center and Walter Reed Army Medical Center. She described it as "an amazing experience".



She is featured on the cover of the March 2005 issue of Maxim, and on the final regular-sized issue of the TV Guide.



She stars in the television series Ghost Whisperer on CBS in the U.S. ,CTV in Canada, FOX in Mexico. It premiered in September 2005.



From 1997-1999 she dated Carson Daly and from 1999-2001 she dated Rich Cronin. She is currently dating Lance Mohesky.




Filmography





Jennifer Love Hewitt as Page Conners in Heartbreakers.The Truth About Love (2005)




Garfield: The Movie (2004)


If Only (2004)


The Tuxedo (2002)


The Devil and Daniel Webster (2002)


Heartbreakers (2001)


The Suburbans (1999)




Can't Hardly Wait (1998)


I Still Know What You Did Last Summer (1998)


Telling You (1998)


I Know What You Did Last Summer (1997)


Trojan War (1997)


House Arrest (1996)




Sister Act 2 (1993)




Television



Ghost Whisperer (2005)


Confessions of a Sociopathic Social Climber (movie) (2005)


Family Guy (2002) (voice)...herself


The Audrey Hepburn Story (movie) (2000)




Time of Your Life (1999)


Oh Yeah! Cartoons (1998)


Party of Five (1995-1999)


Byrds of Paradise (1994)


Kids Incorporated (1989-1991)




Discography





Love Songs (1992) released in Japan only


Let's Go Bang (1995)


Jennifer Love Hewitt (1996)


BareNaked (2002)




sexy celebrities - Jennifer Lopez



Jennifer Lopez



Jennifer Lopez, also known as J. Lo, (born July 24, 1969[1]) is a well-known Puerto Rican-American actress, Latin Pop and hip-hop singer, fashion designer, dancer and all-around cultural icon.





Lopez started in television as a 'fly girl' (dancer) on the television comedy program In Living Color in 1990. She moved to Los Angeles to film the show but initially hated it. When her boyfriend, David Cruz Jr., moved to L.A. to be with her, she learned to accept her new environment. She is now married with Marc Anthony.



She also played a small role in a short-lived television program South Central. She later starred in Second Chances and Hotel Malibu.



 



Music





Lopez's debut album, On the 6, a reference to the subway line she used to take growing up in Castle Hill, was released on June 1, 1999 and reached the top ten of the Billboard 200. The album featured the multi-week #1 lead single, "If You Had My Love", as well as the top ten hit "Waiting for Tonight". It also contained the Spanish language, Latin-flavored duet "No me Ames" with Marc Anthony, which was an international DAN hit, though the song was never released as a single in the US. Despite this, the video received moderate airplay on the US music channels VH1 and The Box as a novelty. The album also spawned another international hit in "Feelin' So Good", a hip-hop track which contained guest raps by Big Pun and Fat Joe; despite the cross-genre technique pioneered by Mariah Carey being used on this particular song, it was a relative flop in the US, as it failed to make the top 50 of the Billboard Hot 100. "Let's Get Loud" was also released as a single, and became a minor dance hit.





Her sophomore effort, J. Lo, was released in January 2001 and debuted at #1 on the Billboard 200. The lead single, "Love Don't Cost a Thing" was her first UK number one single, and, along with its follow-up, "Play" (which was written by rising teen star, Christina Milian) it became a top five hit during the year the album was released. The album's next two singles, "I'm Real" and "Ain't it Funny", ended up becoming her biggest ever hits, with both spending several weeks at #1. However, to capitalize on this, Lopez asked Murder Inc. to remix both songs, completely changing the lyrics and melodies and adding raps from Ja Rule in both songs, and from Caddillac Tah to "Ain't it Funny (Remix)". The "I'm Real" and "Ain't It Funny" remixes were two of the biggest pop and rap hits in late 2001 and early 2002, respectively, and their more hip-hop sound gave J. Lo street credibility and brought her music to a whole new group of fans. She re-released the CD on her 32nd birthday, July 24, 2001, including Ja Rule's remixed version of "I'm Real".





Following the successes of the remix (again, a technique pioneered by Mariah Carey), Lopez decided to devote an entire album to the effort; the result, J to tha L-O: The Remixes, appeared on February 5, 2002. This album, too, debuted at #1 on the Billboard 200, marking the first remix album in history to debut (or even reach) #1 on the chart. This time around, she got 50 Cent and Nas to write rhymes for two remixes of her next single, "I'm Gonna Be Alright", which ended up becoming another top ten hit. The album also included rarer dance and hip-hop remixes of her past singles, and a new song, a ballad called "Alive", which was included in Lopez's movie Enough.



On November 26, 2002, Lopez released her third studio album, This Is Me... Then, which reached #2 on the Billboard 200 and spawned three very popular singles; the top 5 "Jenny from the Block", (sampling the track from the song "Watch Out Now" by the Beatnuts, and including raps from Jadakiss and Styles P), the multi-week #1 "All I Have" duet with LL Cool J and the top 10 "Baby I Love You!" (which also was the musical theme to Gigli). Another single, "I'm Glad", was also released, but only managed to go top forty, a rather low result considering Lopez's usual chart success. The last single released from the album, "The One", failed to make any impact on charts whatsoever. Another song from the album was a cover of Carly Simon's "You Belong to Me."





In 2004, Lopez once again participated in duets with Marc Anthony, this time on his albums Amar Sin Mentiras and Valio La Pena.



After a considerable amount of time away from the music scene, Lopez finally released her fourth studio album, Rebirth, on March 1, 2005. Debuting at #2 on the Billboard 200 to initially decent sales success, the album quickly fell off the charts and remains to be Lopez's biggest commercial (not to mention critical) failure yet. Despite this, the album has so-far spawned one hit in "Get Right", which reached the top twenty; still, compared to her previous high-charting singles, even this can be seen as somewhat of a flop. Even so, "Get Right" was her second UK number one, and also topped the charts in Italy and Ireland. The second single, "Hold You Down", which featured Fat Joe, only barely made it into the top 75, peaking at #64. It has recently been confirmed that J. Lo's next single will be "Cherry Pie" which will hopefully be released around the end of September 2005.



The single "Cherry Pie" release was cancelled by Sony Records, although it did debut in charts around the world due to radio air-play.





Jennifer Lopez has now confirmed that she will be releasing her first ever full spanish album in January 2006. The first single will likely be heard on radios in December 2005. It has also been confirmed that she will be releasing an English album during the summer of 2006.



 



Fashion



Lopez owns a clothing line called "J. Lo by Jennifer Lopez". Her line is the most successful of any artists' in history and includes many different types of clothing for young women, including jeans, tees, coats, belts, purses, and many other products. Furthermore, she is planning to launch a jewelry line, hats, gloves and a scarves line. She also has a perfume line out called "Glow", and she was in question before, because the name came from another patented perfume.



In October 2003, Lopez introduced a perfume called "Still". During November of the same year, she launched a new clothing line called "Sweetface".





Lopez's frequent use of fur in her clothing lines and personal wardrobe has brought the scorn of people concerned with animal rights. More than one hundred protestors from People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals held a demonstration at the Los Angeles premiere of Monster-in-Law. For her part, Jennifer told a radio DJ she was open to being educated on the topic-and the DJ promptly told her animals are routinely skinned alive to make trendy furs.



She has also done a photoshoot to represent the Louis Vuitton Winter 2003 campaign, in which the pictures would be seen all over the world through TV commercials, billboards, ads, newspapers, magazines and more.



Other merchandise includes a clothing and cologne line for men due for release either in late 2005 or sometime in 2006.



 



J. Lo Inc.



Lopez owns a production company, Nuyorican Productions, in which she is expected to produce some of her upcoming movies. Some of the projects for the company include Carmen, Dirty Girls Social Club(featuring Jeffrey Wilkinson as Dirty Girl # 4) and The Hector Lavoe Project. This company was founded together with her former manager, Benny Medina, whom she filed a lawsuit against because of alleged fraud in July 2003.



The company produced the commercially-successful movies The Cell, The Wedding Planner and Maid in Manhattan. These three movies put together made more than $350 million at the box office worldwide.



 



Relationships



Lopez has been in two short-lived marriages. The first one, to Ojani Noa, on October 28, 1996 in San Antonio, Noa grabbed a microphone and proposed to her in the middle of the dance floor, presenting her with a large marquis-cut diamond ring. She said, "Yes." They were married on February 22, 1997. He was later named the manager of Jennifer's restaurant, Madre's. Her second marriage, during 2001 and 2002, was to Chris Judd, her former backup dancer. She met Judd while filming the music video for her single "Love Don't Cost A Thing". The two were married in a small ceremony (about 170 guests) at a home in a Los Angeles suburb officiated by attorney Barry Hirsch. The marriage also ended in divorce





Between marriages, from 1999 to 2001, she dated singer and producer Diddy [real name: Sean Combs], breaking up after a shooting incident in a New York night club. Both were arrested in connection with a nightclub shooting in December 1999. Police found them with a stolen gun. The charges against Lopez were dropped, but the charges against Combs stayed. He was eventually tried and acquitted. Their breakup was announced on February 14, 2001.



Lopez became engaged to Ben Affleck and confirmed this in November 2002, after Affleck gave her a reported $3.5 million ring. But the marriage planned for September 14, 2003 in Santa Barbara, California was called off a few days before the event. Stated in interviews during her engagement to Affleck that once married, she would go by the name Jennifer Affleck both privately and professionally. This never came to be as she and Affleck broke off their engagement and split for good in January 2004.



Lopez married singer Marc Anthony in a secret wedding on June 5, 2004, less than a week after his divorce was finalized from former Miss Universe Dayanara Torres. All the guests were invited to a "afternoon party", and they were never told that they were going to a wedding. Years before they married (or even became a couple), she and Marc Anthony sang a song together called "No Me Ames" which appeared on her album "On the 6."



Almost immediately after the wedding, rumors began swirling that the wedding was of the "shotgun" variety and that Lopez was pregnant. A devoted Roman Catholic, Lopez has said in the past that she would never have a baby without being married. Complicating the situation is Anthony's refusal to confirm his marriage to Lopez and the fact that his divorce took place in the Dominican Republic less than a week before his reported marriage to Lopez, making it potentially invalid in the United States.





 



Derriere



No discussion of Jennifer Lopez could be considered complete without discussion of her famously large and shapely rear end. Example: [2]



It has been the subject of much attention and many jokes, as when Chris Rock wisecracked at the MTV Video Music Awards that Lopez in her speech after winning an award "should have thanked her butt".



The size of her butt was actually one of the key components in helping her win the title role in the 1997 film Selena about real-life singer Selena Quintanilla-Pérez who also was famous for having a large posterior.



Even Channel 4 in the UK got in on the act, commissioning documentary maker Jaine Green to make 'Behind-the Behind', which famously asked hispanic ex-husband Ojani Noa, "Does she have a big arse?" - his reply, which leapt across the language barrier and was subsequently aired around the world was, "a big house? Yes very big".





Lopez herself joked that it's so large and upstanding that it could be used as a tray to serve drinks at parties. (This is a variant on an old joke. Groucho Marx once remarked that the one sister in his otherwise all-brother family had "a rear end that stuck a-way out... you could play pinochle on her rear end!")



In a skit at the MTV Video Music Awards, Triumph, the Comic Insult Dog begged Lopez to let him sniff her rear end, claiming that it was the equivalent of climbing Mount Everest for a dog.



Her infamous butt won her the title of Best Female Body in the UK magazine Celebrity Bodies poll in 2001 and #1 in FHM magazine's 2000 and 2001 poll of Sexiest Girls.



On a Hollywood television gossip show in 2004, an interviewer asked her, "How do you feel about your butt?" Her answer was given as "I can't believe you're asking me a question like that."



 



Claims to fame






Professional accomplishments






Became the first Latina actress to get paid $1 million (for her role in Selena).


By 2003, Lopez had become the highest-paid Latina actress in Hollywood. She still holds the record, earning $15,000,000 for her performance in Monster-in-Law (2005).


Lopez is the first actress and singer to have a movie (The Wedding Planner) and an album (J. Lo) at #1 in the same week.


Lopez's album J to tha L-O! The Remixes was the first album of remixes to hit #1.


Lopez's perfume "Glow" made history in 2001, by being the #1 perfume in more than nine countries in more than four months.




Lopez is the only woman who has been #1 three years in a row in FHM magazine's list of the 100 Sexiest Females in the World.


Lopez made the 2004 Fortune list of the wealthiest entertainers under the age of 40. Her wealth is estimated at $255 million.


Lopez made the highest debut of 2003 on the US charts with "All I Have" debuting at #25.


Lopez has sold nearly 40 million records worldwide.




Discography






Albums



1999: On the 6 #8 US, US Certification: 3x Platinum (WW sales: 9 million)


2001: J. Lo #1 (Debut) US (1 week), #2 UK, #12 ITA, US Certification: 4x Platinum (WW sales: 8 million)


2002: J to tha L-O!: The Remixes #1 (Debut) US (2 weeks), #3 UK, US Certification: Platinum (WW sales: 2 million)


2002: This Is Me... Then #2 US, #14 UK, #11 ITA, US Certification: 2x Platinum (WW sales: 5.5 million)


2005: Rebirth #2 US, #8 UK, #6 ITA, #10 AUS, US Certification: Platinum (WW sales: 2 million)




Total album sales: 26.5 million



 



Singles



From On the 6:



1999: "If You Had My Love" #1 US (5 weeks), #4 UK, #1 AUS, US Certification: Platinum


1999: "No Me Ames" #1 Latin




1999: "Waiting for Tonight" #8 US, #5 UK


2000: "Feelin' So Good" (feat. Big Pun and Fat Joe) #51 US, #15 UK


2000: "Let's Get Loud"




From J. Lo:



2001: "Love Don't Cost a Thing" #3 US, #1 UK, #4 AUS


2001: "Play" #18 US, #3 UK, #5 AUS, #7 ITA


2001: "Ain't it Funny" #3 UK, #9 AUS




2001: "I'm Real" (with "I'm Real (Murder Remix)") #4 UK, #3 AUS


From J to tha L-O!: The Remixes:



2001: "I'm Real (Murder Remix)" (with "I'm Real" - feat. Ja Rule) #1 US (5 weeks), 4 UK, #3 AUS




2002: "Ain't it Funny (Murder Remix)" (feat. Ja Rule and Caddillac Tah) #1 US (6 weeks), #4 UK, #1 AUS


2002: "I'm Gonna Be Alright (Track Masters Remix)" #10 US, #3 UK


From This Is Me... Then:



2002: "Jenny from the Block" (feat. Jadakiss and Styles P) #3 US, #3 UK, #5 AUS, #2 ITA




2003: "All I Have" (feat. LL Cool J) #1 US (4 weeks), #2 UK, #2 AUS


2003: "I'm Glad" #32 US, #11 UK, #10 AUS, #31 ITA


2004: "Baby I Love You!" #72 US, #3 UK, #21 ITA




From Rebirth:



2005: "Get Right" #12 US, #1 UK, #3 AUS, #1 ITA, US Certification: Platinum, WW Cert.: 2x Platinum


2005: "Hold You Down" (feat. Fat Joe) #64 US, #6 UK, #19 ITA


2005: "Cherry Pie" Radio single




Total singles sales: 11.5 million (13,000,540 source)



Total album and single sales: 39.1 million



 



DVDs



1999: Feelin' So Good US Certification: Gold


2001: Let's Get Loud US Certification: Gold


2003: The Reel Me #69 US, US Certification: 3x Platinum






Awards & nominations




1995



1995 Independent Spirit Awards: nomination for Best Supporting Actress ("My Family")




1997



1997 Saturn Awards: nomination for Best Actress ("Anaconda")






1998



1998 MTV Movie Awards: 2 nominations, Best Kiss - shared nomination with George Clooney ("Out Of Sight"), Best Female Performance ("Out of Sight")


1998 Empire Awards: nomination for Best Actress ("Out of Sight")




1999





1999 MTV Video Music Awards: 4 nominations for ("If You Had My Love"), Female Video of the Year, Dance Video of the Year, New Artist Video of the Year, Pop Video of the Year


1999 American Music Awards: 2 nominations, Favorite Artist - Latin Music, Favorite New Artist - Pop / Rock


1999 Soul Train Award: nomination for Best R&B/Soul Album - Female ("On the 6")




2000



2000 MTV Video Music Award: nomination for ("Waiting For Tonight"), Best Choreography, win for Dance Video of the Year ("Waiting For Tonight")




2000 MTV Movie Awards: nomination for Best Female Performance ("The Cell"), win for Best Dressed in a Movie ("The Cell")


2000 Grammy Award: nomination for Best Dance Recording ("Let's Get Loud")


2000 Saturn Awards: nomination for Best Actress ("The Cell")






2001



2001 American Music Award: nomination for Favorite Female Artist - Pop or Rock


2001 MTV Video Music Awards: 2 nominations for ("Love Don't Cost A Thing"), Best Dance Video, Best Dance Video


2001 People's Choice Awards: 2 nominations, Favorite Actress, Favorite Female Musical Performer


2001 Hastings Bad Cinema Society Stinkers Awards: nomination for Worst Actress, win for Most Annoying Fake Accent - Female ("Angel Eyes")




2001 Alma Awards: win for Outstanding Music Video - People's Choice Award ("Love Don't Cost A Thing")


2001 Alma Awards: 4 nominations, Outstanding Female Performer, Album of the Year ("J.Lo"), Outstanding Performance - Music, Variety or Comedy Special ("Jennifer Lopez in Concert: Let's Get Loud"), Outstanding Actress - Motion Picture ("Angel Eyes")




2002





2002 American Music Award: nomination for Favorite Female Artist - Hip-Hop/R&B


2002 MTV Video Music Awards: win for Best Hip-Hop Video ("I'm Real") - shared with Ja Rule


2002 NAACP Image Award: nomination for Outstanding Actress - Motion Picture ("Maid in Manhattan")


2002 Hastings Bad Cinema Society Stinkers Awards: nomination for Worst Actress ("Enough")






2003



2003 American Music Award: win for Favorite Female Artist - Pop / Rock


2003 MTV Video Music Awards: 4 nominations for ("I'm Glad"), Best Female Video, Best Dance Video, Best Choreography in a Video, Best Art Direction in a Video


2003 Hastings Bad Cinema Society Stinker Awards: 3 wins, Worst Actress ("Gigli"), Worst On-Screen Couple (Ben Aflleck, Jennifer Lopez - Gigli), Worst Fake Accent - Female ("Gigli")




2003 Golden Raspberry Awards: 2 wins, Worst Actress, Worst Screen Couple ("Gigli")




2004



2004 Golden Raspberry Awards: 2 nominations, Worst Screen Couple, Worst Supporting Actress for ("Jersey Girl")


2004 People's Choice Awards: nomination for Best Smile




2005





2005 MTV Video Music Awards: 4 nominations for ("Get Right"), Best Editing in a Video, Best Direction in a Video, Best Dance Video, Best Choreography in a Video




Nicknames



J.Lo or "Jaylo"


Jen


Jenny




Jenny-Lo


Jenny from The Block


Bella ("beautiful" in spanish)


"La Guitarra" ("the guitar" in Spanish --because of the shape of her body)




La Lopez




Filmography



My Little Girl (1986)


Lambada (1990)


My Family (1995)


Money Train (1995)




Jack (1996)


Blood and Wine (1996)


Selena (1997)


Anaconda (1997)


U Turn (1997)


Out of Sight (1998)




Antz (1998) (voice)


The Cell (2000)


The Wedding Planner (2001)


Angel Eyes (2001)


Enough (2002)


Maid in Manhattan (2002)




Gigli (2003)


Jersey Girl (2004)


Shall We Dance (2004)


Monster-in-Law (2005)


An Unfinished Life (2005)


Bordertown (2006) (currently filming) (also producer)




El Cantante (TBA) (currently in pre production)(also producer)




sexy celebrities - Jeri Ryan



Jeri Ryan



Jeri Lynn Ryan (born February 22, 1968) is an American actress known for playing the shapely Borg Seven of Nine on Star Trek: Voyager and for her relationship with Jack Ryan.




Childhood



Ryan was born as Jeri Lynn Zimmerman in Munich, Germany to American parents. She has one younger brother, Mark. Her father was in the United States Army and raised the family on military bases all over the country including Kansas, Maryland, Georgia and Texas. Finally, at the age of 11, her family settled down in Paducah, Kentucky when Ryan was 11. After Ryan graduated high school in 1986 as a National Merit Scholar, she attended Northwestern University, where she was a member of Alpha Phi sorority. While in college, she enrolled in beauty pageants and swimsuit competitions to pay for tuition. In 1989, Ryan became Miss Illinois and won the Miss America swimsuit competition, while coming in fourth for the Miss America title in 1990. Ryan graduated college in 1990. She stands 5 ft 8 in tall.



 



Career







Jeri Ryan.After college, Ryan decided to pursue her dream of an acting career. Her husband encouraged her and even gave her a plane ticket to Los Angeles. She moved there and made her first acting debut as an extra in Planes, Trains & Automobiles, but was cut out of the final version. She continued to act in commercials and eventually TV shows like Melrose Place, Matlock, and The Sentinel as well as TV movies like Co-Ed Call Girl. Her big break came when she won a regular role as an extraterrestrial investigator named Juliet Stuart on the TV show Dark Skies. The show was cancelled after one season, but the role drew the attention of the science-fiction community.



In 1997, Ryan was cast to play Seven of Nine, a Borg drone freed from the collective on the science fiction series Star Trek: Voyager. The role drew her instant fame and her wardrobe made her a sex symbol among some science-fiction fans. It also drew criticism from some fans who felt that character was created to add sexuality to the show, and who felt that a disproportionate number of episodes that followed her addition to the cast focused on her character to the exclusion of others. However, her appearance also coincided with higher ratings and more positive critical reviews of Voyager, which were partly attributed to better screenwriting and partly due to her character being both intrinsically interesting and well-acted.



After Voyager ended in 2001, Ryan joined the cast of Boston Public in the role of Ronnie Cooke, a frustrated lawyer who quits to become a high school teacher. The show's producer, David E. Kelley, wrote the role specifically for her. The show was cancelled in 2004.



Ryan has recently appeared in movies such as Down With Love.



 



Personal life



In 1990, while dealing blackjack at a charity event, Ryan met investment banker and future political candidate Jack Ryan. The couple married in 1991 and had a son, Alex, in 1994. Throughout their marriage, Ryan and her husband took turns commuting between Los Angeles and Chicago for their careers, but finally divorced in 1999. Ryan had mentioned in an interview for Star Trek that the frequent separation between Chicago and Los Angeles had been difficult for their marriage. The reasons behind their divorce were kept sealed.





In 2004, details of her divorce proceedings with Jack Ryan were unsealed by a California judge despite appeals by both parties to keep them sealed, claiming that the information could be harmful to their son if released. It was revealed that, six years before, she had accused Ryan of attempting to coerce her into sexual acts with him in public, and in adult clubs in New York, New Orleans, and Paris. This information led Jack Ryan to withdraw his Republican candidacy for an open United States Senate seat in Illinois. Ryan had previously enjoyed a strong showing in the polls, and the Republican party was left without a strong replacement candidate, so the unsealing of the Ryan's divorce records may have made the difference in enabling Barack Obama to win the election.



After her marriage ended, Ryan began a relationship with Star Trek: Voyager and Star Trek: Enterprise executive producer Brannon Braga. Her most recent TV appearances have been as a recurring character, Charlotte, on the hit show, The O.C..



In February of 2005, Ryan announced the opening of her restaurant, Ortolan. Located on Third Street in Los Angeles, California, the restaurant serves French food with a modern interpretation. Ryan opened the restaurant with her boyfriend, Chef Christophe Eme.



 



Filmography




Movies



Down With Love (2003)


The Last Man (2002)




Wes Craven Presents: Dracula 2000 (2000)


Disney's The Kid (2000)


Men Cry Bullets (1999)




Television



The O.C. (2005)


Boston Public (2001-2004)




Star Trek: Voyager (1997-2001)


Dark Skies (1996)


Pier 66 (1996)


Co-ed Call Girl (1996)


Matlock: The Fatal Seduction (1993)


In the Line of Duty: Ambush in Waco (1993)




Just Deserts (1992) (TV)


Nightmare in Columbia County (1991) (TV)




Computer games



Star Trek: Voyager Elite Force (2000)






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sexy celebrities - Jennifer Connelly



Jennifer Connelly



Jennifer Lynn Connelly (born December 12, 1970 in the Catskill Mountains, New York) is an American film actress. Although she has been working in the film industry since she was a teenager, she has only recently received critical acclaim for her work, most notably for Requiem for a Dream (2000) and A Beautiful Mind (2001), for which she won an Academy Award as Best Supporting Actress.



 



Early life



Connelly was born to Gerard Connelly (an Irish Catholic immigrant and clothing manufacturer) and Eileen (a New York-bred Jewish mother who was an antiques dealer and a masseuse at Esalen). Jennifer was raised in Brooklyn Heights, Brooklyn near the Brooklyn Bridge, attending St. Ann's School, except for four years the family spent living in Woodstock, New York. One of her father's friends through the garmet trade was an advertising executive.



The executive friend suggested Jennifer audition at a modelling agency. At the age of 10, her career started in newspaper and magazine ads, then moved to television commercials.



Her first film role was in the 1984 film Once Upon a Time in America, where she had a small part as "young Deborah Gelly" in Sergio Leone's gangster epic. She next starred in cult Italian horror director Dario Argento's Phenomena (1985).





 



Early film career



Connelly became a star on her next picture, the fantasy Labyrinth (1986). Connelly played Sarah, a teenager who wishes her baby brother into the world of goblins ruled by goblin king Jareth (played by rock superstar David Bowie). Through a series of adventures reminiscent of Alice In Wonderland, The Muppets and Monty Python, Sarah does indeed manage to rescue her brother. A product of the talents of Jim Henson, George Lucas, ex-Monty Python member Terry Jones and designer Brian Froud, the film was a solid hit and enjoys a cult reputation today.



Connelly seemed stuck as to how to follow up on this success. She made a Japanese pop record and starred in several obscure films - Etoile (1988) and Some Girls (1988). The Dennis Hopper directed The Hot Spot (1990) was underwhelming, both critical and commercially. Another film, Career Opportunities, was more successful and is considered a teen cult classic though it, and Hot Spot threatened to typecast her in the "sexpot" stereotype.



She began studying English at Yale, but transferred two years later to Stanford. She did not graduate from either institution.



The big-budget Disney film The Rocketeer (1991) similarly failed to restart Connelly's career.



The moody indie film Far Harbor (1996), showed her playing against type and hinted at a much broader range than she had previously shown. Connelly began to appear in smaller but well regarded films such as Inventing the Abbotts (1997) and Waking the Dead (2000). The film Dark City (1998) afforded her the chance to work with such top-flight actors as Rufus Sewell, William Hurt, Ian Richardson and Kiefer Sutherland. Connelly revisited her ingenue image again (although in a more understated way) for the film Pollock (2000).



 





Comeback



Connelly's big breakthrough finally came in the 2000 film Requiem for a Dream. The edgy, experimental film started Connelly and Jared Leto as drug users on the edge of a breakdown. The film, which was a big critical success, firmly established Jennifer Connelly as a serious, talented actress. Connelly's star was on the rise and she next starred in Ron Howard's film A Beautiful Mind (2001).



Connelly essayed the role of Alicia Nash, the long-suffering wife of a brilliant mathematician John Nash, (played by Russell Crowe) who struggles with mental illness. The film, based on real life events, was a critical and commercial success and earned Connelly an Academy Award nomination for best supporting actress - which she won. Clearly established in film, Connelly could work with the best and brightest talent in both commercial and independent film.



Connelly starred in two films in 2003: The Hulk and House of Sand and Fog. The Hulk was something of a box office disappointment, but afforded Connelly the chance to work with noted director Ang Lee. House of Sand and Fog, based on the novel by Andre Dubus, was reminiscent of much of her independent film work of the late 1990s.



Connelly's most recent film is Dark Water (2005). Dark Water, based on a Japanese film, was a foray into subtle horror that failed to win over either critics or audiences.



 



Personal life



Connelly is married to the British actor Paul Bettany, whom she met while working on A Beautiful Mind; the couple's son, Stellan (named after Stellan Skarsgård), was born August 5, 2003. She has also a five-year-old son, Kai, from a previous relationship.



 





Selected Filmography





Jennifer Connelly in the 1991 film The RocketeerHulk 2 (2007)


The Blood Diamond (2007)


The Berkeley Connection (2006)


Little Children (2006)


Dark Water (2005)




House of Sand and Fog (2003)


Hulk (2003)


A Beautiful Mind (2001)


The $treet (2000) (TV series)


Pollock (2000)


Requiem for a Dream (2000)




Waking the Dead (2000)


Dark City (1998)


Higher Learning (1995)


The Rocketeer (1991)


The Hot Spot (1990)


Labyrinth (1986)




Once Upon a Time in America (1984)




sexy celebrities - Jennie Garth



Jennie Garth



Jennie Garth (born April 3, 1972) is an American actress. Born Jennifer Eve Garth in Urbana, Illinois, she is best known for her role as the beleaguered Kelly Taylor on the television series Beverly Hills 90210. At various points in the series, Garth's character was involved in a love triangle, became a diet pill abuser, was trapped in a fire, became involved in a cult, used cocaine, was date-raped and had a miscarriage. She is now starring in the sitcom What I Like About You.



She is married to actor Peter Facinelli, with whom she has two daughters, Luca Bella (born 1997) and Lola Ray (born 2002).



 



Filmography



Power 98 (1996)


My Brother's War (1997)






Television series and movies



A Brand New Life (1989)


Just Perfect (1989)


Teen Angel (1989)


Beverly Hills 90210 (1989–97)


Teen Angel Returns (1990)




Star (1993)


Lies of the Heart: The Story of Laurie Kellogg (1994)


Without Consent (1994)


Falling for You (1995)


A Loss of Innocence (1996)


An Unfinished Affair (1996)




What I Like About You (2002–)


The Last Cowboy (2003)




sexy celebrities - Jennifer Garner



Jennifer Garner



Jennifer Anne Garner (born April 17, 1972 in Houston, Texas) is an American film and television actress.



 



Biography



Garner was born to Patricia Ann English (a teacher) and Billy Jack Garner, an engineer whose job with Union Carbide forced the family to relocate to Charleston, West Virginia when Jennifer was three years old, where she remained until college. Jennifer studied ballet for nine years before enrolling at Denison University to study chemical engineering. Upon the realization that she loved the stage more than engineering she changed her major to drama.





She currently stars as the character Sydney Bristow on the TV show Alias.



Garner enjoys cooking, gardening, hiking and kickboxing (a hobby inspired by her character on Alias). She is a graduate of George Washington High School in Charleston, West Virginia (1990).



In 2005, Garner entered the Forbes Power 100 List of celebrities. Garner ranked as the 5th best paid actress in Hollywood, accumulating an estimated US$14 million over the year 2004/05. She came 8th behind Cameron Diaz in the power rankings.



Garner is known for performing her own stunts, and in January 2005 she was forced to bow out of some publicity duties for her film Elektra due to what was first thought to have been a viral infection. Media reports indicated that she was in fact suffering the effects of nerve damage to her back, caused by a stunt during the filming of Alias.



In addition to action films Garner has also starred in the comedy 13 Going on 30 and the upcoming drama from Susannah Grant (writer of Erin Brockovich) named Catch and Release.



Her production company, Vandalia Films will produce its first film in 2007; a remake of a Japanese Mystery Romance titled "Ima, ai ni yukimasu" roughly translated to "Be With You". She will produce alongside American Beauty producers Dan Jinks and Bruce Cohen. Garner is set to star in the remake.





In March 2005, Garner directed the episode "In Dreams" for her series, Alias, which aired in May.



For the fifth season of the show she has been promoted to writer/producer level.



She has received four consecutive Emmy (the most prestigous American television acting award) nominations for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series. During her first nomination in 2002, she was expected by many people to win but lost out to "The West Wing"'s Allison Janney. The year of her second nomination, she lost to Edie Falco for her powerful performance in "The Sopranos." For Garner's third nomination, she again lost out to Janney. The most recent nomination in 2005 was not met with a win as "Medium"'s Patricia Arquette won.



She has received four consecutive Golden Globe nominations for Best Actress in a Television Series Drama, and won once. She won on her first nomination, which was in January of 2002. "Alias" had just begun a few months ago, meaning Garner beat the other nominees even though only half the season (roughly 11 or twelve episodes) had aired.





She won the Actor Award from the Screen Actors Guild in 2005. The category had only five nominees and is composed of all actresses in any dramatic roles, both lead and supporting.



 



Relationships



Interestingly, all of Garner's relationships are with her on-screen love interests, with whom she played. In 2000, Garner married Scott Foley, who played with her on the television show Felicity. The two later separated and subsequently filed for divorce in 2003. She then dated her Alias co-star Michael Vartan until mid-2004, when she started dating her Daredevil co-star Ben Affleck. Nevertheless, Garner and Vartan remained close friends.



Garner has since been together with Affleck, a relationship which has garnered significant media attention. On May 7, 2005 E! News reported that multiple sources close to Garner confirmed that she was pregnant. On June 30, 2005 publicists for both Affleck and Garner confirmed that the couple married the day before at the Parrot Cay resort in the Turks and Caicos Islands in the Caribbean, and that Garner is pregnant with her first child, a girl due in November. On September 27, 2005, on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno, Garner "accidently" referred to her unborn child as "she," acknowledging that she and her husband are expecting a girl. Although there has been rumors that she may has gaven birth already on Thanksgiving or on Black Friday.



Her pregnancy has been incorporated into her hit ABC show Alias. Garner is expected to be absent from several episodes that will be produced around and after the birth; as a result, the series added a new, Sydney Bristow-like character to the series that will take up the reins while Garner is indisposed.





 



Filmography



 



Acting Filmography



Be With You (2006)


Charlotte's Web (2006) (voice)


Catch and Release (2005) Grey


Elektra (2005) Elektra




13 Going on 30 (2004) Jenna Rink


Alias: The Video Game (2004) Sydney Bristow (voice)


The Simpsons (2003) Herself (voice)


Ep.: Treehouse of Horror XIV


Daredevil (2003) Elektra


Catch Me If You Can (2002) Cheryl Ann




Alias (2001-present) Sydney Bristow


Rennie's Landing (2001) Kiley Bradshaw


Pearl Harbor (2001) Nurse Sandra


Dude, Where's My Car? (2000) Wanda


Aftershock: Earthquake in New York (1999) Diane Agostini


Time of Your Life (1999) Romy Sullivan




The Pretender (1999) Billie H. Vaughn/DuPree


Significant Others (1998) Nell Glennon


1999 (1998) Annabell


Felicity (1998-2002) Hannah Bibb


Fantasy Island (1998) Sally


Deconstructing Harry (1997) Woman in elevator




Washington Square (1997) Marian Almond


Mr. Magoo (1997) Stacey Sampanahoditra


In Harm's Way (1997) Kelly


Harvest of Fire (1996) Sarah Troyer


Zoya (1995) Sasha






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