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Gillian Anderson

Gillian Leigh Anderson (born August 9, 1968) is an American actress, best known for her role as FBI Agent Dana Scully in the American TV series The X-Files.

 

Life and career

She was born in Chicago to Edward and Rosemary Anderson; soon after her birth her family moved to Puerto Rico for fifteen months and then to Crouch End in London. When she was eleven, her family moved again, this time to Grand Rapids, Michigan, where she attended City Middle/High School, a program for gifted students with a strong emphasis on the humanities. With her English accent and background, she felt out of place in the American Midwest, and developed a reputation as a strong-willed and rebellious teenager. She had her nose pierced in the early 1980s, dyed her hair various colors, and was once arrested for gluing the locks of the school closed.

She found an outlet for her talents when she began acting in high school and community theater productions. She attended Goodman Theater School of Drama at DePaul University in Chicago, where she earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts in 1990.

Following some professional stage work, she "broke into" television. In 1993, she had a guest appearance on the collegiate drama Class of '96 on the fledgling Fox Network, and auditioned for the role of Dana Scully on The X-Files. There she met assistant art director Clyde Klotz, whom she married and with whom she had a daughter, Piper Maru, in 1994. (An alien-abduction storyline explained her brief absence from the series for delivery.) Anderson and Klotz later divorced. She had roles in a handful of films during the run of The X-Files and starred in The House of Mirth, an adaptation of the Edith Wharton novel of the same name.

Since The X-Files ended, she has performed in several stage productions and worked on various film projects. She has also done narrative work for documentaries on scientific topics, in which the voice listeners recognize as "Agent Scully" lends an air of credible authority to the material. In 2005 she appeared as Lady Dedlock in a BBC television adaptation of Charles Dickens' novel Bleak House and she recently completed work on a film version of the novel Tristram Shandy, due to be released later in the year. In December 2004, Anderson married longtime partner Julian Ozanne, a documentary filmmaker, on Lamu's island of Shella, off the coast of Africa.

Filmography





Anderson as "Lily Bart" in The House of Mirth (2000)The Last King of Scotland (Filming; to be released 2006), as "Sara Zach"




Straightheads (Announced - unknown release date)


Gellhorn: A Twentieth-Century Life (Announced - unknown release date)


Bleak House as "Lady Honoria Dedlock"


Tristram Shandy: A Cock and Bull Story (2005)


The Mighty Celt (2005), as "Kate"




The House of Mirth (2000), as "Lily Bart"


Mononoke Hime (1997), aka Princess Mononoke (English language version, 1999), voice, as "Moro"


Playing by Heart (1998), as "Meredith"


The X-Files: Fight the Future (1998), as "Dana Scully"




The Mighty (1998), as "Loretta Lee"


Chicago Cab, aka Hellcab (1998), as "Southside Girl" (or "Brenda")


The Turning (1992), as "April Cavanaugh"




A Matter of Choice (1988), B&W student production


Three at Once (1986), B&W student production, as "Woman 1"

List of Stage Appearances

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The Sweetest Swing in Baseball (2004). World premiere at the Royal Court Theatre, Sloane Square, London.




What The Night Is For (2002-11-07 to 2003-02-09). This play ran at the Comedy Theatre in London, and was Anderson's West End debut.


The Vagina Monologues (1999)-(2000)


The Philanthropist (1992).


Absent Friends (1991). Long Wharf Theater. Won a Theatre World Award for Best Performance.


A Zoo Story (1986)


Arsenic and Old Lace (1983). City High School, Grand Rapids, Michigan, two performances, as "Officer Brophy".

Trivia

There exist over 180 fake nude and pornographic images of her; only one of which (a nipple-slip at an awards ceremony) has been proven genuine. She has been quoted as saying she doesn't mind: "It's just people getting their rocks off."


Performed nude alongside co-star David Duchovny in the X-Files episode "One Son".


The X-Files episode "Piper Maru" is named after her child, Piper.




X-Files director, creator, writer and actor Chris Carter is godfather to her child.


Her favourite X-Files episodes are "Triangle" and "Bad Blood."


She wrote and directed the X-Files episode "all things."


Her eyes are blue-green, and her original hair color is ash-blonde.




Favourite movie is said to be "Wallace and Gromit: The Wrong Trousers"


Tattoos include a Tahitian tribal symbol on the inside of her right ankle, the words "every day" in Sanskrit on her right wrist, and a "P" on her left hip (presumably for daughter Piper)


As stated in an X-Files commentary, she is allergic to cats.




She compiled a collection of Electronica music inspired by Future Fantastic, entitled Future: A Journey Through The Electronic Underground. She even contributed vocals to one track, Extremis, with music by HAL.

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Goldie Hawn

Goldie Jeanne Hawn (born Goldie Jean Studlendgehawn on November 21, 1945 in Washington, D.C.) is a Jewish–American actress who began her career as one of the regular cast members on the 1960s sketch comedy show Laugh-In. Noted equally for her chipper attitude and her bikini and painted body, she personified a 1960s It girl. On the show she would often break out into high-pitched giggles in the middle of a joke, yet in the next moment deliver a very polished performance. Hawn won an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her work in the 1969 film Cactus Flower, which co-starred the now-deceased acting legends, Walter Matthau and Ingrid Bergman.

Into the 1970s and 1980s Hawn remained a popular figure in entertainment, appearing in various films (generally comedies), and moving into film production, as well. She gathered great respect as a comedy actress, and was outspoken in her liberal political views. Her career died down a bit until 1992 when she revitalized it opposite Bruce Willis and Meryl Streep in the film Death Becomes Her. She also played an aging actress in the late 1990s film The First Wives Club opposite Bette Midler and Diane Keaton. Through the late 1990s and beyond, she has remained popular (in part thanks to the success of her now adult daughter, actress Kate Hudson, whose father is the musician Bill Hudson). She appeared in The Banger Sisters opposite Susan Sarandon in 2002. Her son Oliver Hudson is also an actor, appearing on the short-lived 2004-2005 (WB) television series The Mountain (television series).

She has been in a relationship with Kurt Russell since 1983, and they have a son together, Wyatt Russell, who is now in Vancouver, British Columbia learning and playing hockey. Hawn became a grandmother on 7 January 2004 when her daughter Kate Hudson gave birth to son Ryder Russell Robinson.

Hawn's father, whose family had been in the U.S. for several hundred years, was a Presbyterian; her mother was the daughter of Jewish immigrants from Hungary and Hawn was raised Jewish. Nowadays, Hawn is a practising Buddhist, but still considers herself Jewish, and has raised her children, including actress Kate Hudson, in both the Jewish and Buddhist beliefs.

Her father, Edward Rutledge Studlendgehawn, was a descendant of Edward Rutledge, one of the signers of the Declaration of Independence (United States).

Hawn has proved her singing talent with a cover version of the Beatles' song "A Hard Day's Night" on George Martin's album In My Life (1998) and, along with Diane Keaton and Bette Midler, in covering the Lesley Gore hit "You Don't Own Me" for The First Wives Club in 1996.

She has written an autobiography called A Lotus Grows in the Mud (2005) which Hawn claims is not a Hollywood tell-all, but rather a memoir and record of what she has learned in her life so far.

On the cover of Playboy, January 1985

Filmography

The One and Only, Genuine, Original Family Band Disney, (1968)


Five the Hard Way Crown, (1969) (role unconfirmed)


Cactus Flower Columbia, (1969)


There's a Girl in My Soup Columbia, (1970)


$ Columbia, (1971)


Butterflies Are Free Columbia, (1972)




The Girl from Petrokova Universal, (1974)


The Sugarland Express Universal, (1974)


Shampoo Columbia, (1975)


The Duchess and the Dirtwater Fox 20th Century-Fox, (1976)


Foul Play Paramount, (1978)


Lovers and Liars Levitt-Pickman, (1979)




Private Benjamin Warner Bros., (1980)


Seems Like Old Times Columbia, (1980)


Best Friends Warner Bros., (1982)


Swing Shift Warner Bros., (1984)


Protocol Warner Bros., (1984)


Wildcats Warner Bros., (1986)




Overboard MGM, (1987)


Bird on a Wire Universal, (1990)


Deceived Touchstone, (1991)


CrissCross MGM, (1992)


HouseSitter Universal, (1992)


Death Becomes Her Universal, (1992)




The First Wives Club Paramount, (1996)


Everyone Says I Love You Miramax, (1996)


The Out-of-Towners Paramount, (1999)


Town & Country New Line, (2001)


The Banger Sisters Fox Searchlight, (2002)

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sexy celebrities - Elizabeth Hurley

Elizabeth Hurley

Elizabeth Jane Hurley (born June 10, 1965) is an English model, actress, producer and designer, born in Basingstoke, Hampshire. Her mother is an English Protestant while her late father was a lapsed Catholic of Irish descent. Her height is 1.73m.

Elizabeth has an older sister, Kate, and a younger brother, Michael. She took ballet classes as a child and got a scholarship at a boarding school at the age of 12 but was expelled for poor grades. She first came to public attention following her wearing of a form-fitting black Versace gown barely held together with safety pins (referred to as 'that' dress in the British press), at the premiere of Four Weddings and a Funeral (1994), a film that starred her then-companion Hugh Grant.

Her notable Hollywood films include, two Austin Powers movies (1997 & 1999) and Bedazzled (2000). She has also produced two films starring Grant, Extreme Measures (1996) and Mickey Blue Eyes (1999), under their jointly owned Simian production company. Additionally, in 2004 she was an executive producer on the film Method. She dated Grant from 1987 until 2001 and they seem to remain good friends.

She is the face of Estée Lauder's ReNutriv Skin Care Line. In addition, she has a lipstick named after her, Elizabeth Pink, the profits of which go to the Breast Cancer Foundation.

Since her breakup with Grant, she has been linked with multi-millionaire American film producer Stephen Bing and American millionaire Ted Forstmann. She is engaged to half-Indian, half-German Arun Nayar, the playboy son of a Bombay textile millionaire, whom she has been seeing since 2003 and who obtained a divorce from his Italian wife, Valentina Pedroni, in early 2005. On April 4, 2002, she gave birth to a son, Damian Charles Hurley, fathered by Bing, who initially denied paternity. DNA tests confirmed that he was the father. Damian was baptized a Roman Catholic, as Elizabeth Hurley has been contemplating converting to Catholicism for more than a decade but has not yet officially done so; having a child out of wedlock is frowned on by Catholics.

She has homes in London; in Ampney Crucis, a village in Gloucestershire, England; and in Beverly Hills, California. The Daily Mail 2004 Rich List put her fortune at an estimated £17 million. She said she gets her "hot date" look by eating a lot of Watercress Soup. Elizabeth's dress size is (US) 6 (UK 8 EU 38)

In April of 2005 her beachwear line Elizabeth Hurley Beach debuted in select Saks Fifth Avenue stores in the United States, Harrod's in the UK and in various other locations worldwide.

Elizabeth Hurley is apparently a favorite of director David Yates to play Bellatrix Lestrange in the upcoming film adaptation of Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix in 2007 .

Another interesting fact is that Hurley has twelve piercings in her ears and a pierced nose. She says the Estée Lauder people do a good job of covering them.

Filmography

The Weight of Water, 2000Method (film) (2004) [1]


Serving Sara (2002)


Double Whammy (2001) [2]


Bedazzled (2000)


The Weight of Water (2000)


Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me (1999)




Edtv (1999)


My Favorite Martian (1999)


Permanent Midnight (1998)


Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery (1997)


Dangerous Ground (1997) [3]


Mad Dogs and Englishmen (film) (1995) [4]




Beyond Bedlam (1993) [5]


Passenger 57 (1992)


The Long Winter (1992) [6]


Skipper, Der (1990) [7]


Rowing In the Wind (1988) [8]


Aria (film) (1987) [9]

sexy celebrities - Eva Longoria

Eva Longoria

Eva Jacqueline Longoria (born March 15, 1975) is a Mexican-American actress and model.

Longoria was born in Corpus Christi, Texas. She was teased about being ugly when she was a teenager.

Her rise to fame began when she starred as psychotic Isabella Brana Williams on The Young and the Restless from 2001 to 2003. After leaving Y&R, she was seen on the now-canceled L.A. Dragnet, after which she landed the role of model-unhappily-married-to-money Gabrielle Solis on the popular drama Desperate Housewives in 2004.

Longoria is a former Miss Corpus Christi, was one of People en Español’s "Most Beautiful People" for 2003, and was #1 in Maxim Magazine's hottest female stars of 2005.

Longoria was married to General Hospital star Tyler Christopher from 2002 to 2004, and as such, was also credited as Eva Longoria Christopher. Longoria has been romantically linked to Screen Actors Guild president Sid Laura Horowitz, successful writer Milan Gracanin, ex-*NSYNC member JC Chasez, and basketball star Tony Parker of the NBA's San Antonio Spurs.

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 sextoys to Longoria. Her employer ABC asked Longoria to stop mentioning the word vibrator in interviews.

Longoria caused a stir at the 2005 MTV Video Music Awards when she appeared in a one-piece bathing suit to introduce Mariah Carey's equally head-turning performance, and joked that she “wasn’t going to let a little hurricane keep me from wearing a bathing suit.” At the 2005 Emmy Awards, wherein she had been passed over for nomination, she satirized Housewives internal drama by being interviewed by host Ellen DeGeneres from her supposedly-relegated-to worst seats in the house.

Selected Filmography

Punk'd (2004, one episode) (TV Series, see Jesse Metcalfe)


Desperate Housewives (2004-present) (TV Series)




L.A. Dragnet (2003) (TV Series)


The Young and the Restless (2001-2003) (TV Series)

sexy celebrities - Faith Hill

Faith Hill

Audrey Faith Perry, later known as Faith Hill (born September 21, 1967 in Jackson, Mississippi), is an American country singer, known for her commercial success as well as her much-publicized marriage to country singer Tim McGraw.

 

Early life

Hill was raised in Star, Mississippi and began singing at a very early age. After graduating high school, Hill went to college briefly before dropping out and moving to Nashville in an attempt at starting a singing career.

Hill is adopted and met her biological mother in the early 1990s. She was married to a music executive named Dan Hill from 1988 to 1994. Working as a secretary in a music publishing company, Hill's singing was noticed as she sang to herself one day. She soon signed to Warner Brothers Records.

 

Country success

Hill's debut album was Take Me As I Am (1993); sales were strong, buoyed by the chart success of "Wild One". A version of Janis Joplin's "Piece of My Heart", also went to the top of the country charts. She was delayed in the recording of her second album by surgery on her vocal cords. It Matters to Me finally appeared in 1995 and was another success, with the title track becoming her fourth #1 country single.

Hill began seeing country singer Tim McGraw. When he proposed marriage to her in one of his tour trailers, he had to go perform right then, so she took a permanent marker and wrote her answer on the mirror. Hill began touring with McGraw and married him on October 6, 1996. The couple has three children together: Gracie Katherine, Maggie Elizabeth and Audrey Caroline.

 

Pop crossover







Faith Hill's Album BreatheHill's 1998 album, Faith, moved her closer towards a mainstream, pop-oriented sound, which lost her many of her long-time fans. "This Kiss" became a #1 country hit, and went to #7 on the pop charts.

Hill's fame grew rapidly as she signed an endorsement deal with CoverGirl makeup and released Breathe, an even more successful pop hit that became one of the biggest albums of 2000. The title track "Breathe" was the #1 pop airplay song that year and has become Hill's signature song; especially notable is the power and control she shows in her lower register during the song. "The Way You Love Me" hit the top ten as well (#7), and becoming one of the longest running singles in the history of the Billboard Hot 100 (57 weeks). The album won Hill three Grammy Awards including Best Country Album.

By the holidays she had contributed "Where Are You Christmas?" to the movie How the Grinch Stole Christmas and the following summer she recorded the Diane Warren penned "There You'll Be" for the Pearl Harbor soundtrack.

In 2002, Hill released Cry. Though the album debuted at #1 on Billboard magazine's pop and country album charts, its singles (including the title track, written and originally performed by Angie Aparo) received much less radio airplay than her previous smashes. In fact, country radio pretty much ignored the songs, considering them "too pop". The album did win one Grammy Award.

In the summer of 2004, Hill co-starred with Nicole Kidman and Matthew Broderick in director Frank Oz's remake of the 1975 thriller The Stepford Wives.

She references this sojourn in Hollywood as well as the chilly reception of Cry in the 2005 country release "Mississippi Girl", the first single from her back-to-roots album Fireflies. It worked, as the song restored her to the top of the country charts. She performed this song along with "Breathe" and "Piece of My Heart" at the Live 8 concert in Rome on July 2, 2005, where McGraw also performed.

 

Discography

Albums

Fireflies (2005) #1 US (Platinum)


Cry (2002) #1 US (2X Platinum), #29 UK


Breathe (1999) #1 US (8X Platinum), #19 UK


Faith (1998) #7 US (6X Platinum)


It Matters to Me (1995) #29 US (4X Platinum)




Take Me As I Am (1993) #59 US (3X Platinum)

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