Celebrity Wallpapers

One of the clearest illustrations of Erika Christensen’s talent as an actress is the fact that when she played a teenage drug addict to perfection, complete with heavy lids and desperate eyes, she had never so much as puffed a cigarette. Though she was only 17 when she landed her breakout role in the movie “Traffic” in 2000, Christensen had been doggedly pursuing her acting dream for over 5 years.

With her round face and full lips, questioning eyes and flawless complexion, Christensen found acting work easily in her younger years. Growing up outside Los Angeles, she also had access to training and auditions. She had made up her mind by the age of 12 that she wanted to act for the rest of her life. Her mother helped her realize her goal by being supportive but was careful not to try and push Christensen into a life she wasn’t sure she wanted. But she was absolutely sure of her calling and eventually her parents came to see that their daughter was very serious about her dream. She was trained in dance, singing and acting and was schooled at home. She received her G.E.D at the age of 16 to free her up to pursue acting full time.

Continue Reading

Emmanuelle Chriqui was born on December 10th, 1977 in the Canadian city of Montreal. The Chriqui (pronounced shree-kee) family is Moroccan and Emmanuelle has both an older sister and an older brother. They moved to Toronto when Emmanuelle was about 6 years old and this is where she grew up. When she was 9, she realized that acting was something she wanted to do more than anything else. Her parents couldn’t afford acting lessons for their youngest daughter but Serge, her older brother who was 18 at the time, dipped into his own pockets and paid for the classes himself. With her family’s unshakable support, a 10-year-old Emmanuelle began her acting career in a McDonald’s commercial, with a dancing cheeseburger on her sweatshirt. More commercials followed but she had yet to be a superstar. After a few years, Chriqui relocated to Vancouver and began auditioning for TV shows. Supporting herself by working as a waitress — a flexible job that let her make her own schedule — she landed guest-starring roles in the mid-’90s, in Canadian series such as Are You Afraid of the Dark?, Forever Knight, Kung Fu, Once a Thief, and Psi Factor. Then came a succession of TV movies that allowed her to receive more exposure, including Harrison Bergeron (1995) with Christopher Plummer and Sean Astin, Unwed Father (1997), Principal Takes a Holiday (1998) with Kevin Nealon, and Futuresport (1998) with Wesley Snipes and Vanessa Williams. With these projects under her belt, Chriqui was ready for meatier parts. Hollywood came calling and she was offered a supporting role in Detroit Rock City (1999), the story of four teenage boys who try to attend a KISS concert. Even though her screen time was limited, it served as a stepping stone and her next movie, Snow Day (2000), put her on the map. In this Nickelodeon production, Emmanuelle portrayed Claire Bonner, the most popular girl in school. Once again, her name wasn’t on the marquee but she left an impression and even starred in the Hoku music video for “Another Dumb Blonde” (from the Snow Day soundtrack).

Continue Reading

Anna Chlumsky was born on December 3rd, 1980 in Chicago, Illinois. She is a startling and immensely encouraging contrast to the long standing rule that child celebrities are emotionally and psychologically damaged. She comes off as the girl down the street who gets good grades in school, loves her parents, and even considers the price before ordering items from a menu. She isn’t the type of person to turn heads wherever she goes as she dresses like every other teen, wearing a striped cotton sweater, jeans and high-tops. She doesn’t wear a whole lot of jewelry and very little makeup, and she wears her hair just as every other teenager does. Anna is no stranger to show business, she appeared in her first magazine advertisements when she was only ten months old. She has also appeared in industrial films, TV commercials, and in two productions of “Annie“, as well as an on stage performance in “Fiddler on the Roof” and “The Music Man“.

     She made her film debut as a hypochondriac tomboy in “My Girl (1991)” opposite Macaulay Culkin. Her role in this movie led to the sequel “My Girl 2 (1994)” where she travels to Los Angeles to discover her dead mother. Her next movie, “Trading Mom (1994)” was again about mothers where she co-starred with Sissy Spacek, who played the mother that was replaced by her evil clone. Anna played a neglected tom-boy and shared the screen with Christina Ricci in “Gold Diggers: The Secret of Bear Mountain (1995)“. The two become friends and share a number of adventurous scrapes with the spoiled city girl played by Ricci. She played two more roles in 1997: “A Childs Wish” and “Miracle in the Woods“. 1998 brought her a part in the tv-series “Cupid”, where she played a homeless girl called Jill, and a part in “Early Edition”.

Continue Reading

Tall, strong-featured, smart-mouthed singer and actress born Cherilyn Sarkisian, Cher ran away from home as a teenager and met Sonny Bono (her husband from 1964-75) when he was general assistant to record producer Phil Spector. Work as a backup singer for Spector groups like the Ronettes and the Crystals led to the recording of her first single for the producer, “Ringo, I Love You” (1964), under the name Bonnie Jo Mason. Cher and Bono then joined forces as Caesar & Cleo, but it wasn’t long before they changed their name to Sonny and Cher, the handle by which they would come to prominence singing the hit singles “Baby, Don’t Go”, “I Got You Babe” (both 1965) and “The Beat Goes On” (1967), among others. Even while married to Sonny, Cher began recording solo, enjoying success throughout her career for songs like “Gypsies, Tramps and Thieves”, “Take Me Home”, “Half Breed”, “If I Could Turn Back Time” and “One By One”.

Continue Reading

A native of Broken Arrow, Oklahoma, Kristin Chenoweth studied at Oklahoma City University, earning a bachelor’s degree in musical theater and a master’s degree in opera performance, performing a number of roles in the lyric coloratura category. She performed in the stage revue at Opryland and won a “most talented up-and-coming singer” award in the Metropolitan Opera National Council auditions, which resulted in a full scholarship to Philadelphia’s Academy of Vocal Arts. En route to Philadelphia, she auditioned for an Off-Broadway show and got the part. She decided to forgo her scholarship to pursue a career on Broadway; a short time later, she was accepting a Tony Award.

Continue Reading

Born Susan Stockard and raised on Manhattan’s posh Upper East Side, the future Stockard Channing inherited substantial wealth at an early age when her father died in 1950. After attending NYC’s prestigious Chapin School and earning a high school diploma from the Madeira School in Virginia, the intelligent actress went on to graduate summa cum laude at Radcliffe and, despite having no formal theater training, act for the first time in a Harvard University production of “The Threepenny Opera”. The rebellious native New Yorker, who encountered such potent thespians in the Boston theater community as Tommy Lee Jones, John Lithgow and James Woods, married young (acquiring her last name) and joined the experimental Theatre Company of Boston in the mid-60s, debuting professionally in “The Investigation” (1966). She surfaced later off-Broadway with the group’s “Adaptation/Next” and soon after made her Broadway debut in “Two Gentleman of Verona” (1971), her first collaboration with playwright John Guare.

Continue Reading

In 2000, Kasey Chambers emerged as Australia’s first successful country-to-rock crossover female singer. It was just the latest chapter in a unique 25-year life journey.

In 1976, hoping to earn a living hunting foxes, Bill and Diane Chambers took their two-year-old son Nash and newborn daughter Kasey into the 100,000 square mile (260,000 square km) sparsely vegetated and generally flat plateau called the Nullarbor Plain. The family would spend seven or eight months of the year on the Nullarbor, resupplying themselves from the world’s longest stretch of straight railroad track, 330 miles (530 km), running through the Nullarbor. The rest of the year, the hot months, the family spent at a small South Australian fishing village. Each night out on the Nullarbor, after a day’s hunting, the family would camp in a different spot on that vast Australian landmark and, grabbing his guitar, Bill Chambers and his wife Diane passed on their love of country music, by the glow of the campfire, under the stars. This is how Kasey Chambers spent the first nine years of her life.

Continue Reading

Sarah Cassandra Chalke  was born in Ottawa, Canada on 27th August, 1976.  Her family later moved to Vancouver B.C. where she was raised.

Her parents are Angie and Doug Chalke, and she has two siblings (an older and a younger sister). She got interested in performing at an early age, and she starred in musical theatre productions from the age of eight.

She appeared as a reporter on the Canadian series “Kids Zone” throughout 1990-1993. In 1992 she made her debut in acting, starring in the television-movie “City Boys”. A year later she auditioned for the role of Rebecca “Becky” Conner-Healy on the famous ABC sitcom “Roseanne”, after the first Becky (Lecy Goranson) left the show to attend college. This became Sarah’s big break. She replaced Lecy’s role in 1993-1995, before Lecy returned. Sarah once again replaced Lecy in the last season of the show. She graduated from high-school in ‘94, during the recording of “Rosanne”.

Continue Reading

Performing since she was five years old, young Lacey Chabert landed the role of Claudia Salinger on the Fox dramatic series “Party of Five” (1994-2000) about five siblings challenged by the sudden death of both parents. As the headstrong, selfish but musically talented little sister, Chabert brought the right precocious quality that gave the character a sympathetic edge. Over the course of the series’ run, the actress and her character literally grew up. As she matured, Chabert (and Claudia) became less an annoyance and more of a pivotal player in the storylines.

Continue Reading

Kristin Elizabeth Cavalleri (born January 14, 1987 in Chicago, Illinois) is known mainly for her role on the MTV reality TV series Laguna Beach: The Real Orange County

She was one of several teenagers, who had their real lives captured on the reality TV show, as she progressed from a high school junior in the first season to a senior in the second seson of the show. The show is promoted as the “real-life” version of the Fox TV series The O.C.; which is a fictional program, also set in the wealthy coastal community of Orange County, California. Over time, Kristin has become the most prominent member of the show.

Continue Reading

Born in San Diego (California), on April the 8th 1973, Emma Caulfield, despite her young age, has had some remarkable roles in several TV-shows and soap-operas (including “General Hospital”). Emma started studying acting when she was a teenager, and her great passion still remains the theatre. After having had guest-star roles on series like “Weird Science” and “Renegade” (with Lorenzo Lamas), a great opportunity in the world of show-biz arrived. She was offered the recurring role of Susan Keats on “Beverly Hills 90210” (as Brandon’s love interest). Emma’s experience on “Beverly Hills 90210” lasted two years, during seasons 1995 and 1996.

Continue Reading

An attractive, versatile supporting player and occasional lead, Kim Cattrall won attention as the sex-starved coach in the surprise hit teen comedy, “Porky’s” (1981) and was excellent as a bitchy socialite opposite Rob Lowe in Bob Swaim’s stylish thriller, “Masquerade” (1988), although she may be probably best remembered as the animated alter ego of the titular clotheshorse in the 1987 romantic comedy “Mannequin”. With a long list of credits in better forgotten low-budget features, Cattrall did more impressive work on the small screen with roles as the mysterious former lover of James Belushi in the Oliver Stone-produced, “Twin Peaks”-style miniseries, “Wild Palms” (ABC, 1993), a former beauty queen, wife and mother having an affair with the stable boy in the short-lived “Angel Falls” (CBS, 1993) and a fortyish femme fatale PR agent living the high life in NYC on the hit HBO series “Sex and the City” (1998- ).

Continue Reading