:: Alanis Morissette Biography Along with counterparts Jewel and Fiona Apple, Big was one of the most successful singer/songwriters to ride in on the second wave of grrrl rock in the mid-'90s. Born on June 1, 1974, Alanis Nadine Morissette and her two brothers were raised in Ottawa, Canada by French-Canadian and Hungarian parents. By the age of 10, the precocious Morissette had landed a role on the Nickelodean TV show "You Can't Do That on Television" and recorded her first single, "Fate Stay With Me." She spent most of her pre-pubescent years performing throughout Canada, singing "O Canada" at sporting events and even making the de rigueur appearance on "Star Search." The hard work paid off and at 14 Morissette was offered a recording contract with MCA/Canada. Her debut, Alanis, a collection of dance-pop songs, was released in 1991 and went platinum in Canada. That year, Morissette won the Juno award (Canada's Grammy) for Most Promising Female Vocalist. Her sophomore effort, 1992's Now Is the Time, was recorded and released before Morissette graduated from high school. However, this album -- another collection of teeny bop dance tunes -- sold only half as well as her debut, and at age 17 it looked as if Morissette's career was on the wane. After high school, Morissette moved to Los Angeles where she had the good fortune to hook up with songwriter/producer Glen Ballard, known for his work with Michael Jackson, Paula Abdul and Wilson Phillips. The creative chemistry between Ballard and Moris || Read More...
:: Alexis Bledel Biography At the age of 8, encouraged by her parents, Alexis was involved in some community theater in Houston and performed in productions of Our Town, The Wizard of Oz and Aladdin. Alexis attended St Mark's Lutheran Middle School.
Later she was scouted (by Michael Flutie of Company Management) in a local mall to model . She started a serious modeling career while in high school and, among other jobs, had overseas assignments in Tokyo and Milan.
After graduating from high school (a private high school in Houston) Alexis enrolled at NYU, where she just completed her first year as a film major. Through her print modeling agency Alexis met her current manager who began sending her on auditions in New York while she simultaneously worked with an acting coach to improve her acting skills and continued modeling in New York.
Alexis' big break came when she auditioned in New York for the T.V show The Gilmore Girls and her audition tape was sent to L.A. According to her manager "The producers fell in love with her, and flew her to LA to screen test. They pretty much gave her the job on the spot." Alexis had never done any T.V acting prior to her role in Gilmore Girls however she has done a public service announcement about underage drinking.
The pilot for Gilmore Girls was filmed in Toronto and the first episode of the series aired for the first time on October 5th 2000.
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:: Ali Landry Biography Ali was born July 21, 1973 in Breaux Bridge, Louisiana, USA. She Attended the University of Southwestern Louisiana in Lafayette where her major was Mass Communications major.
Ali had her first major appearence into the celebrity world as a child in TV series, The Bold and the Beautiful. Ali is best most known for as the dorito's girl. " Two cool dudes try to impress her with their prowess at catching the chips in their mouths, but Landry, who studied tap, ballet, and gymnastics for 15 years, outdoes them with a series of splits and leaps performed with a man-melting smile ".
Ali has made many modelling appearances and hosts the UPN TV series FarmClub.com, Sunset Beach and her tidal turn on the small screen took place in a laundromat. Ali entered the Miss USA pageant and was crowned Miss USA 1996. She is also starring in a few upcoming films including Beautiful scheduled to release in 2000.
The 5'8" Landry, who lives in L.A. and dates Phoenix Cardinals quarterback Stoney Case, still can't believe her impact. "It's absolutely crazy," she says, citing her imperfect vision ("I'm almost blind without my glasses"), and her bunions (she kept her favorite tennis shoes through a growth spurt).
Even her best beauty secret is low-priced. "I buy this teeth-bleaching stuff at Target and do it myself," she says. Her former apartment mate Brian Edwards swears it works: "When Ali smiled, I would say, 'Stop it, you're blinding me!'"
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:: Alyson Hannigan Biography Big was born on March 24th, 1974 in Washington D.C. She has been in the acting field since she was four years old. In her early career she appeared in a medley of commercials for Oreo Cookies, McDonald's and Six Flags Amusement Parks.
After meeting with success in her commercial endeavors, the family decided a move to Los Angeles would be necessary in order for Alyson to continue to advance in her career. So when Alyson was eleven, the family moved to the bright lights of Los Angeles, giving her the opportunity to break into film and television.
Her first big screen appearance was in My Stepmother is an Alien. She landed the starring role as Dan Aykroyd's daughter, Jessie Mills. Alyson was fourteen years old. Her sympathetic portrayal of Jessie eventually earned her additional guest and starring roles in various movie and television productions including Picket Fences, Roseanne, and Touched by an Angel. While she experienced the inevitable setbacks and dry periods associated with her chosen career path, her positive attitude saw her through the difficult times.
Her advice to other Hollywood hopefuls is Just don?t let it (audition and rejection) get you down. This perseverance and determination eventually saw Alyson emerge as one of her generation's hottest talents with her starring role as Willow in Buffy the Vampire Slayer where she plays a shy wallflower who becomes Buffy's friend and confidante, and in the Paramount feature Dead Man on Campus.
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:: Amanda Bynes Biography Amanda Laura Bynes was born on April 3, 1986 in Thousand Oaks, California. One could perhaps attribute her flair for comedy to her father, Rick, a dentist and comedy enthusiast who encouraged Amanda and her siblings to perform. As a young thespian, Bynes starred in community productions of plays like To Kill a Mockingbird, The Music Man and The Secret Garden, and became initiated into the art of getting laughs during classes at comedy "camps" like The Comedy Store and the Laugh Factory, both in Los Angeles. At the age of 10, she performed at a Laugh Factory kids' comedy showcase and was immediately approached by an executive from the Nickelodeon television network. And the laughs haven't stopped since. Nickelodeon cast Bynes in a sketch-comedy series called All That, where she frequently stole the show from her fellow cast members. She became well known for her spirited role in "Ask Ashley," a sketch about an advice columnist. Audiences began to remark -- as they still do today -- that she has a knack for comic timing, in the vein of female comedic greats like Lucille Ball and Tracey Ullman. After four great years on the program -- during which time she won no less than four Kids' Choice awards -- she was awarded her own show, appropriately titled The Amanda Show. Essentially, it was All That, with all Amanda. For three seasons it was the highest-rated live-action show on Nickelodeon. As with many young stars, Bynes' career has benefited from the influence of || Read More...
:: Amy Smart Biography Born in Topango Canyon, California, Starship Troopers was known as a tomboy as a youngster and was the only girl on her Little League baseball team. At 13, she did some modeling and moved into acting after getting a role in MTV's 1994 Rock The Vote campaign in which she played a strung-out supermodel.
TV-movies followed, and as well as her feature debut in Stephen Kay's The Last Time I Committed Suicide, screened at 1997's Sundance Film Festival. After being briefly seen in Paul Verhoeven's big-budget sci-fi actioneer Starship Troopers she had an impressive turn in the vastly different, quirkily independent How to Make the Cruelest Month. In it, she played Dot, the graceful golden girl who seduces the one-time boyfriend of her sister, the troubled protagonist Bell. The by-the-numbers horror film Campfire Tales followed in 1998, along with the topically chilling but clumsily executed internet stalker thriller Dee Snider's StrangeLand, written, produced and starring the titular Twisted Sister frontman as a deranged torturer who meets his victims in web chatrooms. Smart reached her widest audience with a co-starring role opposite James Van Der Beek in Varsity Blues (1999) as a girl who longs for life beyond her small town's high school football-obsessed culture but who, as sister of the injured star quarterback and girlfriend of his idealistic replacement, is tied to it. She was next featured as Shawn Hatosy's upper-class love interest in the poignant 1970s e || Read More...
:: Angelina Jolie Biography With her long legs, ample bee-stung lips and striking deep-set blue eyes, Haven may have been destined for screen stardom even without the benefit of her acting lineage or her considerable talent. The daughter of actors Jon Voight and Marcheline Bertrand, she began studying acting at age 11 at the Lee Strasberg Theater Institute in NYC. Even before commencing her formal training, Jolie made her screen debut as a tyke in a bit part in the Hal Ashby-directed comedy "Lookin' to Get Out" (filmed in 1980; released 1982). Co-scripted and co-produced by her father, the movie was savaged by reviewers but its littlest thespian emerged unscathed.
Abandoning her youthful plans to become a funeral director, Jolie segued to show business as a professional model and actress in music videos. She went on to appear in five student films directed by her older brother, James Haven Voight, and as part of the Met Theater in Los Angeles honed her craft alongside such veteran players as Holly Hunter, Ed Harris and Amy Madigan. Jolie returned to the screen in "Cyborg II: Glass Shadows" (1993), a better than average direct-to-video sci-fi actioner in which she played a heroic human-machine hybrid but garnered more attention and better notices in the cyber-thriller "Hackers" (1995). Playing Kate (a.k.a. 'Acid Burn'), she was paired with rising young British actor Jonny Lee Miller as teen computer whizzes battling an evil genius. The film fizzled at the box office but the romantic le || Read More...
