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Fresh-faced Linda Cardellini racked up acting credits with parts in film and television before landing a breakthrough role as an honor student in the midst of an identity crisis on NBC’s acclaimed high school drama “Freaks and Geeks” (1999-2000) and while the much admired show was short-lived, she parlayed the critical accolades into a thriving career in film and television. The attractive and talented actress came across as strong-willed, smart and sassy on screen, separating her from the sea of homogenized young adult performers inundating film and television in the late 1990s.

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Frizzy-haired, slim, blonde lead, best known as the skittish heroine of “Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom” (1984), the film noir-style B-girl owner of a “hostess bar” in “Black Rain” (1989), and, as of fall 1991, the second wife of filmmaker Steven Spielberg. Capshaw worked two years as a teacher of learning disabled children before moving to NYC to pursue a career as a model/actress. She worked in TV commercials while studying her craft and eventually landed jobs on several daytime soaps. Capshaw made her feature debut in the modest romantic comedy “A Little Sex” (1981), but regular movie assignments didn’t materialize until after she had played the American entertainer Willie Scott opposite Harrison Ford’s Indiana Jones.

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Jessica Capshaw’s mother is actress Kate Capshaw and her stepfather is modern Hollywood legend Steven Spielberg. One would assume her career in any facet of the entertainment industry would be ensured, but the enthusiastic and well-trained blonde actress has worked hard to prove her talent and make her way on her own. Capshaw’s debut screen credit was as an intern on her stepfather’s fact-based Holocaust film “Schindler’s List” (1993) and her first two big screen appearances were in films starring her mother. Still, Capshaw has insisted on being judged on her own merits rather than those of her accomplished parents and auditioned for and won the roles on her own. The actress made her feature debut in “The Locusts” (1997), altering her appearance, donning spectacles and darkening her hair to play a plain small-town girl in this family secrets drama starring Kate Capshaw and Vince Vaughn. Her next big screen appearance came with “The Love Letter” (1999), an ensemble romantic comedy starring and produced by her mother. A small role in this feature, which did little business at the box office and impressed few critics, did little to further her career. She broke away from family projects with a part in the independent feature “Denial”, which debuted on Cinemax in 1998.

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As she grew up in Providence, R.I., with her five siblings, Blu Cantrell was toted from one jazz performance to another to watch her mother sing. From that point forward, she knew what she wanted to do, and began auditioning for vocal gigs and displaying her dynamic alto at talent shows. On a visit to Atlanta in 2000, Cantrell played her demo tape for AR executive Tab and producer C. Stewart (aka Tricky) of RedZone Entertainment. They were so impressed that they immediately provided studio work to the young singer, and she sang backgrounds for artists including Gerald Levert, Faith Evans, Puff Daddy, and Aaron Hall. Meanwhile, Cantrell began recording tracks for what would ultimately become her first full-length album. Upon hearing the cut “Till I’m Gone,” L.A. Reid, the CEO and president of Arista Records, signed Cantrell. Before the release of the full-length, the single “Hit ‘Em Up Style (Oops!)” occupied the number two position on the Hot 100 list. The buzz was out and Cantrell was invited to perform on national television programs. Her full-length debut, 2001’s So Blu, reached the Top Ten on the album charts. Her next record, 2003’s Bittersweet, didn’t perform as well on the charts but did earn Cantrell a Grammy nomination for best RB album.

This sloe-eyed brunette began her career as a teenage performer in her native Canada, singing and dancing in the chorus of the Toronto production of “The Phantom of the Opera” from 1988 to 1990. After a brief modeling stint, landed a one-season (1992-93) regular role as one of the aspiring musicians in the Canadian-produced series “Catwalk”, which aired on MTV in the USA. Her small screen breakthrough came when she was cast as Julia Salinger, as the headstrong older sister, in the award-winning drama series “Party of Five” (Fox, 1994-2000). Over the course of the series’ run, her character experienced numerous trials and tribulations from an unwanted pregnancy to a busted marriage, all while coping with her family and their problems (which included alcoholism and cancer, among others). Throughout it all, Campbell acquitted herself proving to be a fine dramatic player.

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Naomi Campbell (born May 22, 1970) is an English supermodel and actress. Born in Streatham, South London, Campbell studied at the London Academy For Performing Arts. She has been a prominent fashion model on the runway and in print advertising since the late 1980s. She also posed nude for Playboy magazine and for a series of lesbian-erotic photos with Madonna in her book Sex. She is reputed to have a quick temper, with several tabloid stories involving violence against her staff as well as verbal abuse.

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In comedy genre, it is indeed very scarce to find a young artist who could apply an excellent performance that is able to raise people’s interest. However, this consternation finally can be pushed aside with the arrival of Amanda Bynes. Being considered as the next Goldie Hawn, she possesses the skill of evoking laughter with her unique style of bold, no-holds-barred physical comedy. Looking upon this, it is only a matter of time before she strives to be one of the most prominent comedy actresses of this era.

Born on April 3, 1986 in Thousand Oaks, California, Amanda Laura Bynes is the youngest child of Richard and Lynn Bynes. Together with her older siblings, Tommy and Jillian, she had been encouraged to perform at a very young age by her father, who is also an amateur stand-up comedian. As a result, little Amanda grew up with the intention of becoming a professional actress. She then was involved in the community theater productions of “The Secret Garden”, “To Kill A Mockingbird”, and “The Music Man.” Realizing his daughter’s talent, Richard Bynes thus supported her to enter comedy schools namely The Comedy Store and Laugh Factory in order to develop her skills.

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Yancy Butler was raised in Greenwich Village, New York City during the seventies and early eighties as the only kid of, Joe and Leslie Butler.

Show business has long been in the family, as Joe Butler is a member of the folk rock band, The Lovin Spoonful and her mother was a company manager for Broadway shows. Her parents separated when Yancy was 12 years old.

At the age of 13, Yancy began studying at the prestigious HB Studios in New York. She also studied dance and ballet at the Joffrey and Ailey schools. When the time came for her to choose a college, Yancy went to the well known Sarah Lawrence College, where she did her B.A. in Liberal Arts. She has a 3.8 grade point average and received a Griggs Scholarship. She graduated from SLC in 1991.

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Sophia Anna Bush was born July 8, 1982 in Los Angeles, California, USA.

Born and raised in Pasadena, California, Bush started her career on her high school theater stage. Having been crowned the Pasadena Rose Queen, Bush quickly attracted representation.

Bush recently wrapped production on the feature film Supercross, co-starring Daryl Hannah and Robert Patrick?. She landed her first movie role in the comedy Van Wilder, with Ryan Reynolds and Tara Reid. Bush played Sally, a freshman in college who harbored a huge crush on Reynolds’ character. She also appeared in HBO’s Point of Origin, with Ray Liotta and John Leguizamo, and the independent film Learning Curves.

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Leaving home at age 18 to work as a model in Texas and NYC Ellen Burstyn (nee Edna Rae Gillooly) went through several stage names and an assortment of odd jobs before landing a regular gig as a dancer on “The Jackie Gleason Show” in the late 1950s (billed as Erica Dean). In 1957, she changed her stage name to Ellen McRae for her Broadway debut in “Fair Game” and continued to work under that moniker for over a decade, during which she found constant employment in TV appearances and minor film roles. In 1970, Burstyn began to gain attention for her screen work as Henry Miller’s errant wife in Joseph Strick’s “Tropic of Cancer”, and as the title character’s disenchanted spouse in “Alex in Wonderland”. The following year, now using the name by which she has come to be known, Burstyn garnered critical praise and a Best Supporting Actress Oscar nod for her breakthrough performance as a frustrated wife and ambitious mother in Peter Bogdanovich’s “The Last Picture Show” (1971). “The Exorcist” (1973) won her a second nomination (this time as Best Actress) for her fully believable performance as a resilient, middle-aged actress who refuses to yield against impossible odds to her daughter’s demons, anchoring the film and acting as a counterpoint to the more fantastical elements of the plot. She finally won a Best Actress Oscar for her superb performance as an itinerant housewife turned waitress/singer supporting herself and her 12-year-old son in the poignant “Alice Doesn’t Live Here Anymore” (1975). She recreated her Tony-winning stage triumph in the film adaptation of “Same Time, Next Year” (1978), and was affecting as a woman blessed with healing powers in the little-seen “Resurrection” (1980), both of which earned her additional Best Actress Academy Award nominations.

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A statuesque, six-foot-tall Brit gifted at portraying women with an icy cool exterior and a complex, fiery persona percolating underneath, former model Saffron Burrows built an early career on her innate physical beauty and quickly established that she was capable of portraying both soft corners and sharp edges.

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Heather Burns a Chicago native, started out studying at Chicago’s famed Second City, spent a summer at Yale Drama school and earned a B.F.A. at New York University. After three years studying with the Atlantic Theater Company and several independent films, Burns appeared in two television pilots – Nearly Yours, directed by famed television director James Burrows for Dreamworks SKG/NBC and Chicks, written by Carol Leifer for the Greenblatt-Joanollari company and the Fox network. Other television appearances have included Law & Order and as a series regular on the Tom Fontana and Barry Levinson’s cop show, The Beat. Burns burst on to the scene in Nora Ephron’s You’ve Got Mail and has been busy ever since. With her first feature film, Burns set a trend – those who work with her almost always work with her again. She was recently seen in Ephron’s Bewitched, starring opposite Nicole Kidman and Will Ferrell.

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