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Judy Garland Biography

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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.

Greta Garbo Biography

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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.

Monique Gabrielle Biography

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

Itâ€™s not that sheâ€™s particularly striking or beautiful â€” her face and body are largely indistinguishable from any other Hollywood beach bunny/starlet â€” itâ€™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 Furtado Biography

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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”, “ForÃ§a”, 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 SÃ£o 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.

Norika Fujiwara Biography

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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 Biography

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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 Biography

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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.