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Lexa Doig Biography

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Alexandra L. D (born June 8, 1973 in Toronto) is a Canadian actress best known for her role as Rommie in the science-fiction TV series Andromeda.

Doig’s exotic appearance stems from her mixed heritage – Irish and Scottish descent on her father’s side, Filipina on her mother’s. She was born and raised in Toronto, Ontario, where her family held season tickets to their local theatre, and caught the acting bug at the age of nine, after seeing a production of Porgy and Bess. At the age of sixteen, she enrolled in a modelling course and was immediately picked up by an agent. She did commercials and modelling work, before dropping out of high school during her final year to pursue an acting career. She worked on stage productions of Romeo and Juliet and Arsenic and Old Lace while auditioning for film and television roles.

She had a small role on Gene Roddenberry’s Earth: Final Conflict.

Her first significant role was on William Shatner’s series TekWar as the character “Cowgirl”, a specialist in tracking and obtaining information from the net. Doig recalls the time she heard the news of this role: “I walked out of the audition absolutely convinced I had blown it, and then my agent called to tell me I got the part. I was leaping around my parents’ house and screaming at the top of my lungs. I knew then I’d chosen the right profession and I’ve never looked back since.”

Shannen Doherty Biography

A former child actress, gained attention during her four-year stint as one of the teen leads in the popular high school serial “Beverly Hills, 90210″ (Fox, 1990-94). Pouting and pixyish, with long, dark hair and wide eyes, she had kept busy on primetime TV for most of the 1980s, primarily in family-oriented fare, with featured roles in two NBC series, “Little House: A New Beginning” (1982-83) and “Our House” (1986-88). While on “90210″, Doherty unfortunately attracted much attention from both tabloids and mainstream media for what was perceived as temperamental behavior. In recent years, she has attempted to make the transition to adult roles with such diverse fare as “Blindfold: Acts of Obsession” (USA, 1994), as a woman trying to save her marriage, “Burning Passion: The Margaret Mitchell Story” (NBC, 1994), as the feisty author of “Gone With the Wind”, and “Gone in the Night” (CBS, 1996), as a young mother unjustly accused of murdering her daughter. From 1998-2001 Doherty starred in the supernatural-themed TV series “Charmed” (The WB) and in 2002, she hosted the sci-fi game show “Scare Tactics.”

Celine Dion Biography

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CÃ©line Marie Claudette Dion (born March 30, 1968) is a Quebec vocalist.

She was born to a catholic family in the small town of Charlemagne, Quebec, with a singing voice that her mother encouraged. By the age of five she was performing for anyone who would listen.

In 1980 her mother brought her to agent/manager RenÃ© AngÃ©lil, who so believed in her voice that he mortgaged his home to help finance her career. In 1981 they released her first record in her native French language, “La Voix du bon Dieu” (“The Voice of God”), which made her an instant star in Quebec. The following year she competed and won the gold medal at the Tokyo World Song Festival. Her career continued to blossom, and in 1987 she produced the album Incognito, which became a huge success. Approached by Swiss song writers Atilla Sereftug and Nella Martinetti she was chosen to represent Switzerland in the 1988 Eurovision Song Contest singing “Ne partez pas sans moi”. By winning the contest in Dublin, Ireland on April 30, 1988, she received a large boost to her career in Europe. Her first English-language album, Unison (1990), expanded her international recognition with the breakthrough single, “Where Does My Heart Beat Now”.

Dido Biography

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Dido Armstrong (pronounced Die-Dough) was born on Christmas Day – thats December 25th 1971. Dido was named after an African Warrior Queen, by her Mother and Publisher Father. The Armstrongs lived in London throughout Dido’s childhood, and it is still her hometown. Without the influence of a television at home, Dido found music to be her entertainment – her talent emerged rapidly and she enrolled at London’s Guildhall School of Music at the age of 6. Starting on that favourite schoolday instrument – the recorder – she soon became competent in all the available pieces, and graduated onto Violin and Piano. This led to her first touring experiences as a member of a Classical Ensemble.

Teenage years were influenced by brother Rollo’s music collection – Dido names such legends of the early 80′s as The Clash and Duran Duran – together with Ella Fitzgerald. School unfortunately leads to getting “a real job”, and Dido fell back on her love of reading, getting a job as a literary agent whilst simultaneously studying at Law School. Music still played a large part in her life, and she sang with a number of bands in the London area. One such project was her brother’s band Faithless. This can now be seen as a great move for Dido, as it introduced her to the nation and the industry. Faithless launched with their debut album “Reverence” with Dido providing some backing vocals and lead on “Flowerstand Man”. 5 Million albums were sold, Faithless became known, and Dido had sown the seeds that were to take her into the big time.

Janice Dickinson Biography

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Janice Doreen Dickinson (born February 17, 1953 in Brooklyn, New York), is an American supermodel of Polish and Belarusian descent who started modeling at the age of 14. At 5’10″, she has appeared on the covers of Vogue, ELLE, Harper’s Bazaar Swimsuit Issue, Cosmopolitan and Playboy. She has also appeared in ads for Revlon, Max Factor and Clairol. Dickinson is the author of three books, including No Lifeguard on Duty: The Accidental Life of the World’s First Supermodel, Everything About Me Is Fake… And I’m Perfect and Check, Please! : Dating, Mating, and Extricating. Besides writing and modeling, she is a photographer and a mother of two, Nathan and Savannah. She has been divorced 3 times. Her former husbands are Ron Levy, Alan B. Gersten, and Simon Fields.

Dickinson claims to have coined the title “supermodel,” which she still applies to herself in the present tense. Though she proclaims herself the world’s first supermodel, the term was first used regarding Jean Shrimpton in the 1960s.

Yamila Diaz Biography

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Yamila was born in Argentina and is the daughter of a physician father and her mother is a health care manager. She is of Lebanese and Spanish descent, and Yamila has two sisters, Maria and Yael. Yamila was raised in Argentina, with no original intention to become a model. Everything changed for her when she was spotted by a modeling agent in Buenos Aires, where Yamila was an Economics student.

Yamila as the young Argentinean, has gone from an unknown beauty frolicking on an Uruguayan beach in 1996, to one of World’s prettiest, sought after models. She is the new spokesperson for Cover Girl, and is a regular in the most recent Victoria’s Secret catalogues.

Cameron Diaz Biography

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While her teen contemporaries were struggling with mundane things like school and dating, Southern California native Cameron Diaz was employed by the Elite Modeling agency appearing on magazine covers and in campaigns for clients like Calvin Klein and Levi’s. And just like many women in the modeling industry, she harbored dreams of an acting career. Diaz, of Cuban and Native American descent, burst onto the big screen as the torch-singing moll in 1994′s Jim Carrey blockbuster “The Mask”. Perhaps ironically, she had set her sights lower, auditioning for the supporting part of a reporter (played in the film by Amy Yasbeck), but after some dozen callbacks, she was hired. In spite of, or perhaps because of, her lack of formal training, the now blonde Diaz managed to hold her own against the often over-the-top antics of co-star Carrey. Roger Ebert writing in his review in the Chicago Sun-Times (July 29, 1994) called her “a true discovery in the film, a genuine sex bomb with a gorgeous face, a wonderful smile, and a gift of comic timing,” and correctly predicted that while it was her first film role, it would surely not be her last.

Riding the buzz on her performance in “The Mask”, Diaz was courted by virtually every producer scrambling to cast “this year’s blonde”. In a series of shrewd moves, she opted to take roles in low-budget films which stretched her acting abilities. Diaz joined a cast of other rising players (including Courtney B. Vance, Ron Eldard and Annabeth Gish) as liberal college students who invite right-wingers to “The Last Supper” (1995) before tackling the role of a confused bride-to-be who finds herself attracted to her brother-in-law in “Feeling Minnesota” (1996). Willing to portray less than likable women, she deftly essayed a former hooker now a Wall Street shark in Edward Burns’ comedy “She’s the One” (also 1996). Although she stumbled as a spoiled rich girl who conspires with her kidnapper in Danny Boyle’s uneven “A Life Less Ordinary” (1997), that same year found her playing Dermot Mulroney’s fiancee who encounters a rival in Julia Roberts in the fluffy but enjoyable “My Best Friend’s Wedding”. While most of the attention originally focused on Roberts’ return to lighter fare, the spotlight shifted to Diaz’s scene-stealing turn as the seemingly ditsy bride-to-be.