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Nicole Kidman Biography

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A statuesque Australian redhead with creamy alabaster skin and blue eyes that cast a slightly mischievous air, Nicole Kidman had become established in her native land as a rising talent before she ventured to the USA where she met her future husband Tom Cruise during the filming of 1990′s “Days of Thunder”. Born in Hawaii to a biochemist and psychologist father and an activist nursing instructor mother, Kidman spent her first years living in the Washington, DC, area. By the time she was three, she and her parents had returned to Australia and settled in conservative, upper-middle-class suburb of Sydney. As a toddler, she was enrolled in ballet classes and at age four got a taste of theatrical life by stealing her school’s Christmas pageant, garnering laughs as a sheep who upstaged the Nativity scene.

Alicia Keys Biography

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Alicia Keys, born Alicia Augello-Cook, in Manhattan, New York City, USA on January 25, 1981 is a popular R&B vocalist and pianist. She was born to a black father named Craig Cook and a white mother, Terri Augello. Known as a smart student, Alicia successfully graduated as valedictorian from the Professional Performing Arts School, a public high school in Manhattan. Made use of her scholarship Keys briefly attended Columbia University, but then dropped out to pursue her music career.

Catherine Keener Biography

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Overlooked by Hollywood for not possessing a classical leading lady look, dark-haired and sharp-featured Catherine Keener took an alternative route to success, carving out her niche in independent films with a series of diverse, engaging performances that have made her one of the industry’s best-kept secrets. After graduating from college, Keener found work as a casting agent, forming a close friendship with fellow casting director Gail Eisenstadt, who encouraged Keener to pursue acting and cast her in her first film role as a cocktail waitress in “About Last Night …” (1986), exhorting Rob Lowe and Jim Belushi to “Go! Go! Go!” in their drinking contest, thus earning a Screen Actors Guild card. She made her TV debut in a failed pilot (“The Alan King Show” CBS, 1986), had a brief taste of being a regular on the short-lived cop show “Ohara” (ABC, 1987-88) and acted in two 1989 flicks, the Outward Boundish “Survival Quest” (featuring future husband Dermot Mulroney) and the unpromisingly-titled “Curse of the Corn People” (CBS), which actually involved a group of Kansans making a low-budget horror film.

Monica Keena Biography

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Monica Keena was born in New Jersey on May 25th, 1979 and was raised in Brooklyn. She’s about 5’1 and has an older sister named Samantha. Her mother, Mary is a nurse and her father, Bill, is a financial sales manager. As a child, she was always drawing, painting, dancing and signing.

Monica auditioned for acceptance into LaGuardia High School of Performing Arts at the age of thirteen. Although she chose the drama department as her preference, Monica was accepted in both the dramatic and the vocal arts departments. Soon after starting her classes at LaGuardia Monica played in her first role in a short film entitled “Burning Love,”. She also went on to portray the character Bertha in a stage reading of Strinburg’s “The Father,” with Al Pacino.

Keely Shaye Smith Biography

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Wife of Pierce Brosnan, who is the current incarnation of James Bond. Has two children by Brosnan: Dylan Thomas (1/13/97) and Paris Beckett (2/27/01). Married Brosnan at Ballintubber Abbey, County Mayo, Ireland on August 4, 2001.

Education: Unknown; attended high school in suburban LA (lived in Newport Beach and Huntington Beach growing up).

Actress: Spent part of one season on General Hospital as Valerie Freeman (1989). Had bit role in “The Opponent” (boxing movie) in 1992 (Italian-produced film, also called “Qualcun Pagera”).

Journalist/Model: Had short careers as TV journalist in 1990s (two minutes per week on a handful of episodes of “Unsolved Mysteries”; a few showings as an announcer for Entertainment Tonight and the Today Show; eight episodes of PBS TV show called “Home Green Home” in mid-1990s) and model (any evidence of her modelling career, such as photos, would be welcome).

Arielle Kebbel Biography

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Arielle Kebbel was born and raised in Florida where she made the decision to become an actress.

Her first role was in the feature film The Bros., co-starring Shaquille O’Neal and Ludacris.

She has since worked on series such as CSI, Judging Amy, and most recently Law and Order SVU.

She can currently be seen on the WB’s Gilmore Girls, playing the young wife of Jared Padalecki.

Melina Kanakaredes Biography

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With her wavy brunette hair, piercing green eyes and expressive personality, Melina Kanakaredes has been winning fans since her 1991 breakout role as Greek immigrant Eleni Andros on CBS’ daytime serial “Guiding Light”. The Ohio-born former beauty contestant spent nearly five years playing the character who moved from wide-eyed innocent to more mature wife and mother, earning a Daytime Emmy nod along the way. Her talent and abilities transcended the genre and like others who began their days in daytime (e.g., Meg Ryan, Marisa Tomei), it seemed only a matter of time before she would make the leap to primetime and features. Kanakaredes made her feature debut in Gregory Hines’ uneven portrait of an interracial romance “Bleeding Hearts” (1994) and went on to small roles in “The Long Kiss Goodnight” (1996), “Dangerous Beauty” and “Rounders” (both 1998) and “15 Minutes” (2001).