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The milky-skinned, curly-haired Rebecca Gayheart won attention as both the Noxzema Girl in a series of TV commercials in the early 1990s, and as the bride of Dylan (Luke Perry) on “Beverly Hills, 90210″ (Fox, 1995), whose death was used as the actor’s out from the series. Since then the attractive brunette with striking blue eyes has begun racking up both TV and feature film credits as a leading lady whose star is rising.

Born into poverty as the daughter of a coal miner in Kentucky, Gayheart, at age 15, won a modeling contest that promised a career in NYC. With $300 in her pocket (all her parents could afford) she took off for the big city. Within two years, Gayheart had won a contract with Noxzema. While enrolled at the Lee Strasberg Institute, she began to find bit roles and extra work on the soaps “All My Children” and “One Life to Live” and on the NBC sitcom “The Cosby Show”. Her big break came in 1991 when she was cast as Hannah Mayberry, a young woman who becomes psychotically obsessed with her college professor, on the ABC daytime drama “Loving”. After nearly three years on the show, she left in August 1993 to pursue other career opportunities.

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An appealing blonde actress best known for her ten-season run as troubled rich girl Kelly Taylor on Aaron Spelling’s popular drama, “Beverly Hills, 90210″ (Fox, 1990-2000), Jennie Garth racked up credits in several made-for-TV-movies in addition to her star-making series role.

Born April 3, 1972 in Urbana, IL, the young beauty was discovered at age 15 by a talent scout who suggested she head to Los Angeles to pursue an acting career. Garth did just that – dropping out of high school in her junior year to move west. Not long after arriving, she landed a role in the short-lived TV series “Brand New Life” (NBC, 1989-1990). Although “Life” did little to launch her career, its demise was quickly followed by landing her most iconic role – that of Kelly Taylor on “Beverly Hills, 90210.”

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A petite (5′1″) dark-haired smartly cynical comedian and actress, Janeane (pronounced JAH-neen) Garofalo began her career performing standup material at “open mike” nights in East Coast nightclubs. After winning a cable TV contest to find the funniest person in Rhode Island and graduating from Providence College, she settled in Boston where she held odd jobs (i.e., bike messenger, receptionist at a heath club) while pursuing a career as a comic. Garofalo found limited success until she moved to Los Angeles in late 1989. Receiving early exposure on MTV’s “Half Hour Comedy Hour”, she found her neurotic hipster persona and sometimes controversial observations on pop culture appealed to her contemporaries. Meeting actor-director Ben Stiller in an L.A. deli also proved fortuitous as he tapped Garofalo to be a member of the ensemble of his Fox comedy-variety series in 1992. Simultaneously, she landed the role of the acerbic talent booker Paula on the superior HBO sitcom “The Larry Sanders Show”. Although the Stiller show only lasted for 13 episodes (Fox aired only 12 with the final one later showing up on Comedy Central in 1995), Garofalo found herself in demand. She briefly was a regular cast member of NBC’s “Saturday Night Live” before serving as a special correspondent for Michael Moore’s “TV Nation” (NBC, 1994) and hosting and co-producing “Comedy Product” (Comedy Central, 1995). Garofalo headlined her own HBO special in 1995 and continued to lend her sardonic wit to awards shows (and “The Larry Sanders Show”) throughout the decade. In 1997, she made a rare dramatic appearance as the assistant to a murdered film studio executive in a two-part episode of NBC’s “Law & Order”.

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

Garner was born in Houston, Texas to Patricia Ann English (a teacher) and William Jack Garner, a chemical engineer; she is the middle child between two sisters, Melissa Garner Wiley (born in 1969) and Susannah Garner Carpenter (born in 1975). When she was four years old, her father’s job with Union Carbide forced the family to relocate to Charleston, West Virginia, where Garner lived until her college years.

In 1990, Garner graduated from George Washington High School in Charleston, West Virginia, where she played the saxophone. She also studied ballet for nine years before enrolling at Denison University to study chemical engineering. Upon realizing that she enjoyed stage acting more than science, Garner changed her major to drama. Garner graduated from Denison in 1994, and planned to continue her drama education at Yale University. However, keen for experience, she visited a friend in New York City in 1995 and decided to take her chances in theatre.

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Along with Marilyn Monroe and James Dean, Judy Garland has emerged an iconic figure in show business. A child performer with no formal education, she led a life of great highs and deep lows; through it all though, her inestimable talent shown. While she proved herself onscreen as a capable musical star and occasional serious actress, Garland thrived in live performance where her dramatic abilities were tested with each song she sang. Even in later life as she struggled with various illnesses and addictions, she delivered, in the words of The New York Times critic Stephen Holden, “pure feeling. … Like no other American singer, Garland erased the line between laughter and tears, suggesting a barely suppressed hysteria with each grasp and choked-up cry.” Those who saw her perform live spoke of the experience in almost mystical terms. Those not lucky to have that experience can see vestiges of that electricity in her films and videos of her television appearances.

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Greta Garbo is arguably the quintessential embodiment of the Hollywood star system. Her beautiful, glamorous, Sphinx-like image–carefully cultivated by her employer Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer–captivated American and European viewers of both the silent screen of the 20s and sound films of the 30s. Garbo’s personal decision to leave her film career in 1941 and maintain a notoriously private, reclusive lifestyle has only further enhanced her mystique.

As a young model, she made her first screen appearances in Swedish advertising films and as an extra in features as early as 1921. While attending the Royal Dramatic Theater School, she was chosen by noted film director Mauritz Stiller to play the lead in “The Atonement of Gosta Berling” (1924) and he renamed his protegee “Garbo.” After she gained further acclaim costarring with the legendary tragedienne Asta Nielsen in G.W. Pabst’s “The Joyless Street” (1925), she followed Stiller to Hollywood (and MGM) in 1925.

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Monique Gabrielle was Born on Jul 30, 1963 in Kansas City, Missouri, USA.

It’s not that she’s particularly striking or beautiful — her face and body are largely indistinguishable from any other Hollywood beach bunny/starlet — it’s the talent for comedy (usually satire) she brings to most of her roles that makes Monique Gabrielle stand out from the vacantly bouncing throngs of 80s B-movie actresses.

Nelly Kim Furtado (born December 2, 1978) is a Canadian singer-songwriter.

Furtado is known for her musical eclecticism, continually experimenting with different instruments, sounds, genres, languages, and vocal styles. This diversity has been influenced by her wide-ranging musical taste and her interest in different cultures.

Among her most successful songs are her debut single “I’m Like a Bird”, for which she won a Grammy Award, “Turn off the Light”, “Força”, the official anthem of the 2004 European Football Championship, and the recent single, “Promiscuous”.

Furtado, a first-generation Canadian, was born as one of three children to working class Azorean-Portuguese parents (from São Miguel Island), in Victoria, British Columbia, Canada. She was named after Soviet gymnast Nellie Kim.

Furtado first sang at the age of four when she performed a duet with her mother at church on Portugal Day. She began playing instruments at the age of nine, learning the trombone and ukulele and in later years, the guitar and keyboard. She began writing songs at the age of twelve and as a teenager, she played in a Portuguese marching band.

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Norika Fujiwara (Fujiwara Norika, born June 28, 1971 in Nishinomiya, Hyogo Prefecture) is a Japanese beauty queen, model and actress. She became Miss Japan in 1992 and was an exclusive model for CanCam magazine. She has appeared in various commercials and TV series and a number of films in Japan.

After several years of model work, she has since worked internationally as a journalist and spokesperson, including acting as an ambassador of Japanese – Korean friendship during the football World Cup 2002, reporting from the 2004 Olympics in Greece, and going to Afghanistan and holding a photo exhibition there.

She has also worked in video games, her latest work as the main character Alicia in Project Minerva (PS2) (2002), a squad-based, real-time semi-RPG versus rogue robots game, released in an updated English form with more missions as Project Minerva Professional by Midas Interactive of the UK.

She also voiced Princess Fiona in the Japanese-dubbed versions of Shrek and Shrek 2.

She spent one month in a homestay program with a family in the United States and continues to study English. She reportedly hopes to someday act in an English-language movie produced in the West such as in the United States or Great Britain.

Daisy Fuentes (born November 17, 1966 in Havana, Cuba) is an American model and actress.

Daisy Fuentes was born in Cuba, but moved to Madrid, Spain when she was three years old. Four years later, she immigrated to Harrison, New Jersey. Fuentes studied communications and journalism at Bergen Community College, finally being selected to be the host for WXTV Channel 41 weather. She quickly moved up the ranks, eventually becoming news anchor and reporter for the evening news. MTV took notice of the 19-year-old and snatched her up as host of MTV Internacional, which later became MTV Latino. She began to develop acting credits and landed a role on the ABC soap opera loving. Fuentes had appearances on shows such as Dream On, The Larry Sanders Show, and Cybill. From 1994 to 1995, she hosted her own talk show, Daisy, on CNBC. She was the host of America’s Funniest Home Videos for three seasons. She hosted The Alma Awards, Dick Clark’s New Year’s Rockin’ Eve, the 1998 World Music Awards, the 1999 Billboard Latin Awards, and the Miss Teen USA, Miss USA, and Miss Universe pageants. She has been a spokesmodel for Revlon, American Express, Pantene, M&M’s, and Miller Lite. She was married once, but later divorced. She is currently engaged to ex-Bros member Matt Goss.

Fuentes also played on the World Poker Tour in the Hollywood Home games for the St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital charity.

Soleil Moon Frye has quite a unique name, but is better known by the name of the character she played early in her life – Punky Brewster.

She was born in California on August 6th, 1976, to actor Virgil Frye and Sondra Peluce, who would later manage Soleil’s career. Soleil means Sun in French. Her big break (big is an understatement there) was on the NBC series Punky Brewster as the title character. The show was about Punky, who was abandoned with her dog, Brandon, by her mother at a local supermarket, and later adopted by Henry Warnimont. Soleil was just 7 at the time she was cast. And the show was a smash success. Suddenly Soleil was a child superstar, doing interviews on 20/20, describing herself as a “survivor” at the tender age of 8.

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One-half of the Britpack’s “It-couple” (with husband Jude Law), the lovely, lively blue-eyed Sadie Frost has eschewed Hollywood for the more authentic experience of acting in independent films. The product of a free-wheeling, bohemian childhood, she began her career at the age of three in a Jelly Tots commercial and won a scholarship at the age of 11 to London’s Italia Conti Academy, a private theatrical conservatory. Although she made her film debut starring in “A Horse Called Jester” (1980) while still a pre-teen, she dropped out of acting briefly during her rebellious “punk” years, returning to work primarily onstage and in British TV before playing a small role in the feature thriller “Empire State” (1987). She attracted some attention as Gabriel Byrne’s sexually active little sister in “Diamond Skulls” (1989), a stylish melodrama about sex and violence among the British aristocracy, and also appeared in Peter Medak’s popular crime film “The Krays” (1990), co-starring her then-husband, Gary Kemp.

Frost’s work in “Diamond Skulls” helped her land the role of Lucy Westenra, the flirtatious, upper-crust adventuress turned blood-sucking vampire in Francis Ford Coppola’s operatic “Bram Stoker’s Dracula” (1992). Sinking her teeth into the vivacious, quirky portrayal of the spooky, tragic vampire victim, Frost won some of the film’s best notices, but her compelling performance also helped typecast her as a gothic presence, making it hard for her to find a good follow-up project. Her next three films went largely unnoticed by the movie-going public: the zany Brit comedy “Splitting Heirs” (1993, with Rick Moranis), the gritty crime drama “Shopping” (1994, opposite Law), and the multi-national fairy tale “Magic Hunter” (also 1994). Frost finally hit the jackpot again as the tough American waitress and love object in the dark comedy “A Pyromanic’s Love Story” (1995). Disgusted with the type of roles offered, she formed Natural Nylon with fellow actors Law, Jonny Lee Miller, Sean Pertwee and Ewan McGregor, and the production company received its first producing credit on David Cronenberg’s “eXistenZ” (1999), starring Law.

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