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MARIAH CAREY

BIOGRAPHY SYNOPSIS: You’d want the Billboard Artist of the Decade for the 1990s to be a singer who had a number one recording in each of those ten years and whose incredible virtuosity of voice is unmatched by any other popular music artist. It could only be Mariah Carey, and, indeed, it was. She received the title in December, 1999. It all began when Carey’s opera singer/vocal coach mother recognized and nurtured her daughter’s precocious perfect pitch, and encouraged the youngster to sing for friends, festivals and talent shows. The sweet voiced singer began to write her own songs in junior high, and throughout high school commuted to Manhattan from her New York home to further her music studies. In 1987, at age 17, she graduated and threw herself into the usual odd jobs and part-time backup vocals work that marks the early career of many aspiring performers. It was during one of those backup sessions that she grabbed her chance and passed a demo tape to Sony Music Entertainment President Tommy Mottola. The music industry big-wig was impressed and signed her to a recording contract. Carey has a reported seven octave range (that’s a whole piano’s worth), and it was her impossibly high, clear grace notes and scat sequences that made those otherwise fluffy pop tunes unique. Her debut album, Emotions (1991) sold six million copies, and two of the singles hit number one on the charts. Seven Billboard awards, two Grammys, plus a cartload of American Music, Soul Train, and New York City Music awards later, the new star recorded Music Box (1993). That year, as well, she married Mottola in a star-studded and hugely expensive fairy-tale ceremony. Music’s “royal couple” continued to crank out award-winning chart-topping hits, with Merry Christmas (1994), Daydream (1995), Butterfly (1997), and #1s (1998). Collaborative works, Diana, Princess of Wales: Tribute (1997) and VH-1 Divas Live (1998) were hugely popular as well. Carey and Mottola divorced in 1998, but the music went on -- the singer/song writer recorded Rainbow in 1999. Every Carey album has included more that its share of number one hits. Every one has garnered the artist glittering heaps of awards -- so many that the 29-year-old artist is now being presented the sort of “special honor” awards reserved for lifetime achievers. Her career record sales stand at 105 million. What more could a girl possibly want? Why, movie-stardom, that’s what. Carey broke into acting in 1999 with the feature film The Bachelor. A second, All That Glitters, is currently in pre-production. If the performer’s incredible success in the music business translates to the big screen, then Hollywood can expect another movie star in Carey. She has the drive, the ambition ... and the production company.

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MELISSA JOAN HART

Name: Melissa Joan Hart. Birth Name: Melissa Joan Catherine Hart. Height: 5'.3''. Nationality: American. Date: April 18, 1976. Birth Place: Smithtown, Long Island. Occupation: Actress, producer. Education: Attended New York University. Relationship: Adrian Grenier (actor; had relationship 1998 during filming of Next to You), James Fields (actor; 1993-1998). Father: William Hart (shellfish supplier). Mother: Paula Hart (agent; TV producer). Sister: Emily Hart (born 1986). Brother: Brian Hart (born 1984). Half Sister: Alexandra Hart Gilliams (born 1993), Samantha Gilliams (born 1996). Step Father: Leslie Gilliams (TV exec). Claim to fame: as Sabrina Spellman in TV Series: Sabrina the Teenage Witch (1996). Awards: Melissa won Young Artist Award for Best Youth Comedienne in a TV Show in 1995 for CLARISSA EXPLAINS IT ALL and Best Performance in a TV Comedy Series: Leading Young Performer in 1998 for SABRINA, THE TEENAGE WITCH.

BIOGRAPHY SYNOPSIS: From the East Coast of the USA. The first child of William and Paula Hart. Melissa hails from Smithtown Long Island, New York. Born with the name; "Melissa Joan Catherine Hart" on the 18th April 1976, 1:30 PM on an Easter Sunday, she is the oldest of her 6 siblings. The name "Melissa" was inspired from a Allman Bothers song. Lyrical content of the song seemed to have been the influence, perhaps it was just the simple statement of the name "Melissa" throughout the song that persuaded Melissa's parents to choose it. Two middle names then came into play, Joan and Catherine. The decision to middle name the little Hart, "Joan" was named after her maternal grandmother. "Catherine" was named at a later date. Her childhood years have been spent with patience, hard work and growing hopes of a successful future in TV and entertainment. There was no specific goal except for success. The young Melissa Hart started showing her face on the TV at the age of 4. Now revealing blonde haired, and green/blue eyes One of her first pieces of work involved starring in a TV commercial for Connecticut Gas in 1980. The formula for the child star during the 70's to 80's shared one common maxim - get the kid to do something out of the ordinary to get the attention. Just like Jodie Foster on Taxi Driver. However, whether Paula Hart knew about this and avoided it, or had no idea about the possible returns in this form of talent showcasing is unclear. The 1980's was the start of Melissa Hart's career - Melissa was under a less is more approach - slowly grow and glow, or flare out fast but burn out fast. It happened to child star Gary Coleman (Different Strokes). What if that happened to Melissa? Prior to any considerable form of public exposure, Paula Hart (Melissa's mother) has been looking out for young Melissa - finding opportunities for Melissa to gain public recognition. After the damage being done to various other young aspiring stars, it shows that the cut throat ways of the TV studios and Hollywood has no moral ground however young its hopefuls might be. Paula Hart not only playing mother, but agent for Melissa. Had this been faith in Melissa to be a huge success in the future right from the start - or by offering a choice for her (when she grows) between conventional career to an extraordinary one, however, whatever the outcome - it was better than having no choice or future at all. Having accumulated up to 20 commercials since 4 to age 5, the baby future star of Sabrina had moved on to more sophisticated but less frequent roles in the TV studios. Major studios such as ABC and NBC has welcomed Melissa, and her mother to another step up the ladder. Productions such as The Adventures of Con Sawyer, Hucklemary Finn in 1984 - 1985. Further mid 80's work got her to appear on Kane and Abel and 1986's Christmas Show. Closing towards the end of the 80's, Melissa grew and grew, shedding off another layer of baby youth. Only after the appearances in NBC and ABC productions had established that Melissa's main craft was of acting for now. There has not been any real story about her development of acting, or that of any acting schools. But this did not stop Melissa and Paula from entering even more demanding roles. 1989 - 1990, Melissa performed in a play "Beside Herself" "Imagining Brad" and the more familiar "The Crucible" along side thespian Martin Sheen. It seemed to be a brave move to pitch a young, and untrained and suddenly assumed as actress into the professional world of theatre. Perhaps, Paula wanted and tried to guide Melissa through the more "talent" based road to success. The baby girl in Melissa was fading day by day - the image that got her started in TV was dying.

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MEG RYAN

Name: Meg Ryan. Birth Name: Margaret Mary Emily Anne Hyra. Height: 5'.8". Nationality: American. Date: November 19, 1961. Birth Place: Fairfield, Connecticut, USA. Occupation: Actress, producer. Education: New York University in New York, NY (majored in Journalism). Husband: Dennis Quaid (actor; born on April 9, 1954; met in 1987 when they were co-starring in Innerspace; married on February 14, 1991; filed for divorce on July 12, 2000; divorced on July 16, 2001). Relationship: William Keane (Chicago Hope television actor), Russell Crowe (actor; born on April 7, 1964; romance ignited while the two working together in the Proof of Life - 2000; separated in December 2000). Father: Harry Hyra (teacher; divorced in 1976). Mother: Susan Hyra (aka Susan Jordan; teacher; former actress and casting director). Sister: Dana Hyra and Annie Hyra. Brother: Andrew Hyra. Step Father: Pat Jordan. Son: Jack Henry Quaid (born on April 24, 1992; father: Dennis Quaid). Claim to fame: as Sally Albright in When Harry Met Sally (1989). Agent: William Morris Agency, One William Morris Place, Beverly Hills, CA, 90212, USA. 310-859-4000/310-274-7451, 310-859-4462.

BIOGRAPHY SYNOPSIS: Meg Ryan is huge. She’s petite, but she’s huge. One of Hollywood’s best-loved actors and biggest names, she’s known for a single genre, but is master of many. Born Margaret (Peggy, Meg) Mary Emily Anne Hyra, the Connecticut teen pared down her moniker when applying for a Screen Actors’ Guild membership, using her own nickname and her mom’s maiden name (a mom who left her husband and children about that time, and from whom Ryan is said to be still estranged). After a stint as Bethel High School’s Homecoming Queen, filling in as runner-up to the suspended queen (somebody was prettier?!), young Ryan financed University (of New York say some biographies, of Connecticut say others) with television commercial work. Two years into a degree in journalism, Ryan was lured away from the books with a small part in Rich and Famous (1981). The 20-year-old turned to full time acting, and the small screen. Amy and the Angel (1982 – an ABC After School Special) led to the daytime drama As The World Turns (1982-84), and two series, Wildside (1984) and Charles In Charge (1984). Amityville III: The Demon (1983) brought Ryan back to the big screen, and there she stayed. Supporting roles in Top Gun (1986), Armed and Dangerous (1986), Innerspace (1997), DOA (1988), Promised Land (1988), and The Presidio (1988), gave way to Ryan’s first and successful leading role in When Harry Met Sally (1989). Audiences loved Ryan, and so did casting: there followed: Joe Versus The Volcano (1990), The Doors (1991), Prelude To A Kiss (1992), Sleepless In Seattle (1993), IQ (1994), When A Man Loves A Woman (1994), Restoration (1995), French Kiss (1995 – Ryan produced and starred), Courage Under Fire (1996), Addicted to Love (1997), Hurlyburly (1998), City of Angels (1998), You’ve Got Mail (1998), Hanging Up (2000), and Proof of Life (2000). Ryan lends her pleasant voice to animation: television’s Red Riding Hood/Goldilocks (1990), The New Adventures of Captain Planet (1990), Celebrate Storytelling With Tracy Ullman (1994), and the film Anastasia (1997). Listed one of only two women in Ulmer’s Y2K top twenty Hottest Actors, she’s one of only two (the other on both lists being Julia Roberts) women to command $15 million per picture. Even Ryan’s tousled hairdo is on a list – Most Imitated – and the actor is a favourite web-shrine subject. Ryan married and divorced (1991-2000) actor Dennis Quaid, with who she worked on three pictures, and the couple has a son. Upcoming are production/starring projects The Women and This Man, This Woman. Best loved for her roles in romantic comedies (and, therefore, deluged with such scripts) Ryan does well, too, with a darker side. Bright talent, impeccable timing, impressive range, all-American good looks, and seeming accessibility took Ryan to the top, and are more than enough to keep her there for as long as she chooses to stay.

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MILLA JOJOVICH

Name: Milla Jovovich. Birth Name: Milla Jovovich. Height: 5'.8". Nationality: Ukrainian. Birth Date: December 17, 1975. Birth Place: Kiev, Ukraine. Occupation: Actress, singer, and model. Education: Excelsior High School Husband: Luc Besson (director; married in December 1997 in Las Vegas; separated in April 1999), Shawn Andrews (actor; married in 1993; divorced in 1993).Relationship: Jeremy Davies (actor; dating as of May 1999), Mario Sorrenti (photographer; 1995-1997). Father: Bogich Jovovich (aka Bogdanovitch Jovovich; doctor; Yugoslavian; divorced 1991). Mother: Galina Loginova (actress; Russian; has served as her daughter's manager). Claim to fame: as Revlon's Unforgettable Woman (1988). Facts: Is urging the parents of teenage models to rethink plans to put their daughters on the catwalk - because it's a lawless and terrible world. Jovovich and Gary Oldman have been getting steamy in Donna Karan clothes - for a seductive book to go with the designer's autumn collection.

BIOGRAPHY SYNOPSIS: Milla has been acting since she was 11 years old. Her first taste of the silver screen came in Two Moon Junction (1988) as Samantha, April's younger sister. The basic plot is that April (Sherilyn Fenn) is to marry a man her snobby parents like but then falls in love with a blue-collar stud named Perry. April must reconcile the expectations of her family and her fiancé with the passion she feels for Perry. Next came the made-for-TV movie The Night Train to Kathmandu (1988) in which Milla plays Lily McLeod, the daughter of two American professors in search of an ancient jewel in Kathmandu. Lily and her little brother Andrew befriend Prince Joharv, a magical prince from another world. He needs the jewel to get back to his world...but there's a greedy villain involved who wants it strictly for it's monetary value. Great line from Milla: "Well you certainly can't be in my bed without a ticket--and not even with one!!" Milla also appeared on the TV show Paradise (1988). Before her next movie, Milla appeared on Married...With Children (1989) as Yvette, a French exchange student who becomes the center of attention at Kelly's high school. She also played played Robin Fecknoids in the pilot episode of Parker Lewis Can't Lose (1990). Amidst some controversy (she was just 15 years old), Milla played Lilli in Return to the Blue Lagoon (1991), the sequel to Brooke Shields' 1980 classic The Blue Lagoon. The story is basically the same: a young boy (Richard, played by Brian Krause) and girl are stranded together on a tropical island for a number of years and must teach themselves and each other about life, love, and survival.

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Milla played Maya Carlton, George Kuffs' (Christian Slater) girlfriend in Kuffs (1992). The title character addresses the camera throughout the film in a Ferris-Bueller-meets-Alf style. George loses his job and skips town when he finds out that Maya is pregnant. He tries to get a loan from his older brother Brad but Brad is promptly murdered and George is suddenly the owner of Brad's security agency business. Milla plays Mildred Harris, the second wife of Charlie Chaplin (Robert Downey, Jr.) in Chaplin (1992), the biography of the legendary silent film comedian. She's in the film for about 15 minutes, but once she and Chaplin separate she's not seen again. Blink and you might miss her in Dazed and Confused (1993). Aside from a scene in which Milla sings a couple of lines from The Alien Song (from her 1994 album The Divine Comedy) she is all but non-existent in Richard Linklater's cult classic tale of 1970's high school slackers. This was undoubtedly the low point of Milla's acting career - she was used extensively in the promotion of the film and was promised a much larger role.

Discouraged, she took a temporary hiatus from acting. Milla returned with a bang in her breakout film, director Luc Besson's The Fifth Element (1997). Set in New York City in 2214, it's a futuristic science-fiction movie complete with wild looking villains, funky weapons, a healthy dose of explosions, and the typical Besson humor. Starring opposite Bruce Willis, Milla's portrayal of the "perfect being" Lee-Loo received high praise from fans and critics. Milla married Luc Besson in December 1997. From perfect being to prostitute, Milla's next role was as Dakota Burns in director Spike Lee's He Got Game (1998). The film is about Jesus Shuttleworth (Ray Allen), the top high school basketball player in the country. His father, Jake (Denzel Washington) is serving a life sentence for murdering Jesus' mother. Jake is released on parole but with one condition - in one week, he must persuade his son to sign with the governor's alma mater university, Big State. Milla teamed up with Luc Besson once again as she played the title role in The Messenger: The Story of Joan of Arc (1999). Besson's unique directing focuses on Joan's visions far more than any previous version. The film follows Joan's short but incredible life - her rise from peasanthood to hero as she led the French Army against the invading British in early 15th century France. Joan was made a Saint 500 years later in 1920. Milla & Luc divorced shortly after the film was released. She plays a troubled, damaged, yet brilliant character named Eloise in Wim Wenders' The Million Dollar Hotel (2000). The movie starts when a billionaire's son dies in a skid row hotel and a federal agent (Mel Gibson) turns the lives of the miscreant residents upside down to find out if it was suicide or murder. The name of the film is the nickname for the LA flophouse which was featured in the U2 video, Where the Streets Have No Name. The premiere was February 9, 2000 at the 50th Berlin Film Festival. Milla also filmed The Claim (2000) (formerly known as Kingdom Come) in 2000. It is a female version of Thomas Hardy's 1886 novel The Mayor of Casterbridge: an epic love story set in California in the 1850s. US release was April 20, 2001. Milla plays the mysterious Katinka in Ben Stiller's comedy Zoolander. Based upon a character Ben Stiller created for skits shown during the 1996 VH1 Fashion Awards.

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Derek Zoolander (Stiller) is a shallow, self-obsessed male model who has lost his position as the #1 model, being brainwashed by the mysterious dominatrix-like character Katinka (Milla) into assassinating the president of Malaysia. Meanwhile, he also has to deal with nemesis (Wilson), a younger, blonde model who is now the hot stuff. In You Stupid Man, a man who can't get over his suddenly famous ex-girlfriend agrees to go on a blind date with one of her friends (Milla) who has been helping him get over his ex. After they fall in love the ex's show gets canceled and she wants him back. The video game turned movie Resident Evil focuses on a military unit that fights a powerful super computer that is out of control. In order to save the world, the military unit (led by Alice (Milla) and Rain (Michelle Rodriguez)) must combat hundreds of scientists who have mutated into flesh-eating undead due to a laboratory accident. A sequel is being planned with Milla returning as Alice. Filming for Dummy was completed in the summer of 2000. Milla plays an aspiring singer in a dysfunctional household who finds her niche in Yiddish music, while her friend (Adrien Brody) tries to make it as a ventriloquist. Milla is also in No Good Deed, a thriller starring Samuel L. Jackson & Stellan Skarsgard in which Milla plays an international bond thief. Milla will soon be filming Red America in which she stars opposite Russian star Vladimir Mashkov. Milla will also be in Rob Schmidt's American Heroes.

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NATALIE PORTMAN

Name: Natalie Portman. Height: 5'.4''. Nationality: American. Birth Date: June 9, 1981. Birth Place: Jerusalem, Israel. Occupation: Actress, model. Education: 1999: Syosset High School, Syosset, New York. Relationship: Lukas Haas (actor). Claim to fame: as Queen Amidala in Star Wars Episode I: The Panthom Menace (1999). Facts: Portman will join Leonardo DiCaprio, Harrison Ford, Jennifer Lopez and Nicolas Cage promoting products on Japanese television, and she's clinched a reported $1 million for her efforts -- according to an American tabloid, Portman secretly shot a commercial for the Japanese coffee, Cafe Latte, during her holiday break from the prestigious Harvard University. (January 20, 2003). Portman and Penelope Cruz have been set to star with up-and-comer Jay Rodan in HEAD IN THE CLOUDS, which will begin filming in December in Montreal. (October 14, 2002). Agent: International Creative Management, 8942 Wilshire Blvd., Beverly Hills, Ca 90211, USA .

BIOGRAPHY SYNOPSIS: In the Professional (1994; originally released in director Luc Besson's native France under the title Léon), Mathilda, played by Natalie Portman, formed an unlikely symbiotic relationship with the professional hit man Jean Reno. As the storyline unfolds, Portman's stunning performance proves that she's an actress to be reckoned with. Her '94 debut was immediately followed by minor performances and appearances before Portman once again captured the audience' minds, next to Matt Dillon and Timothy Hutton, in Beautiful Girls (1996). Her career was a one-way ticket, as she continued to distinguish herself in various films, including Michael Mann's Heat (1995) and Woody Allen's Everyone Says I Love You (1996), and Tim Burton's Mars Attacks! (1996), in which she played the daughter of President Jack Nicholson. Portman, who turned 18, June '99, has through many years been recognized for her "mature" performances, and has for that and many others reasons become one of cinema's most promising performers. Yet despite her image as a serious young thespian, Portman, who was born in Jerusalem but raised in New York City, is still somewhat a typical teenager who hangs out with her friends, watches Dawson's Creek, listens to Portishead while she does her homework, ponders college, and harbors a fervent passion for fashion (of which she quotes, "It is an art, but people mistake it for materialism"). When Portman was nine, the family settled in Long Island (after having spent years in Israel, Maryland, and Connecticut while her father received advanced training as a doctor) where she has lived as a suburban kid ever since, attending the local high school (even during the major theatrical coming-of-age, her run as Anne Frank) and escaping to the city on weekends ("where I live is a classic suburb - a nice place to grow up but there's nothing to do, which causes a huge problem for young people"). She loves to dance , particularly at giddy, velvet-rope nightspots such as Life. With her interest in fashion, Portman is well-suited to play the exotic Queen Amidala in the beginning of a legend, Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace. In the year of 1995, she met George Lucas in his Marin County home. Approaching the eight year commitment was to Portman not an easy task, as she has yet to reveal her final choice whereas she'll continue as an actress or follow in her father's footsteps to eventually become a doctor (?). Aware of the potential loss of privacy by starring in a film series that has provoked such devotion among fans worldwide, she signed up for the role as the young queen and future mother of Luke and Leia. "I still can't prepare myself. I don't know what's to come. But what's happened so far has been wonderful, to see people so passionate."

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NEVE CAMPBELL

Name: Neve Campbell. Birth Name: Neve Adrianne Campbell. Height: 5'.5 1/2''. Nationality: Canadian. Date: October 3, 1973 Birth Place: Guelph, Ontario, Canada. Occupation: Actress, producer. Education: National Ballet School of Canada. Husband: Jeff Colt (actor; married on April 3, 1995; divorced on May 8, 1998). Relationship: Matthew Lillard (actor; 1997-1998), John Cusack (actor). Father: Gerry Campbell (high school drama teacher). Mother: Marnie Campbell (yoga instructor; manages Neve's fan club). Half Brother: Damian McDonald (mother: Marnie Campbell; born 1982), Alex Campbell (father: Gerry Campbell; actor; born 1984). Claim to fame: as Julia Salinger on TV Series: Party of Five (1994). Awards: Neve Campbell won the Best Female Performance in the MTV Movie Awards 1998 from her appearance in SCREAM 2. Neve Campbell won Blockbuster Entertainment Award for Favorite Actress - Horror for SCREAM 2 in 1998 and MTV Movie Award for Best Female Performance for SCREAM 2 in 1998. Agent: #102 2401 Cliff Street, Courtney B.C., Canada.

BIOGRAPHY Synopsis: Neve Campbell is “beautiful and accessible,” hardworking and talented, as are her peers, the young and fashionable Hollywood elite. But Campbell is oft cited for that extra something – believability. Time magazine named her, in 1995, TV’s Most Believable Teenager. Critics lauded her for “believable performances” in the horror parody Scream – and if you’re believable in Scream, you’re Believable. Born in Ontario, Canada, the daughter of a high school drama teacher and a yoga instructor, Campbell was six when first given ballet lessons. At nine she was accepted by the prestigious National Ballet of Canada, and spent five years with the company, studying many forms of dance, and performing such favorites as Sleeping Beauty and The Nutcracker. At 14, the rigors of the art and the demands of a parochial ballet kingdom became too much and she gave it all up. Within months, however, Campbell was back dancing, as the youngest member of the Toronto cast of The Phantom of the Opera. Two years (1988/89) and 800 performances later the dancer briefly tried commercials and modeling, then moved to Canadian and American television: Kids in the Hall (1989), Kung Fu: The Legend Continues (1992), Catwalk (1992-93), Web of Deceit (1993), The Forget-Me-Not Murders (1994), Are You Afraid of the Dark? (1994), I Know My Son Is Alive (1994), The Dark (1994), Baree (1994), and Paint Cans (1994). Immediately after acting upon advice that she move to Los Angeles, Campbell was cast as “scholarly rebel” Julie Salinger in the award-winning television series Party of Five (1994-2000), and never stopped working, filling her weekends with talk and comedy show appearances, and hiatus time with movie-making.

She did Northern Passage (1995-direct to video), Mad TV (1995), Love Child (1995), The Canterville Ghost (1996 – for a Family Film Award), and the hugely popular Scream, Scream 2 and Scream 3 (1996/97 and 2000). For the latter trilogy she netted a Saturn Award, and MTV and Blockbuster nominations and awards, as well as a Saturday Night Live hosting gig (1997). For The Craft (1996), Campbell was awarded another series of MVT and Blockbuster awards, including Best Female Performance. Between Screams Campbell filmed 54 (1998), Lion King II: Simba’s Pride (1998-voice), Wild Things (1998), Three to Tango (1999), Panic (2000), and Drowning Mona (2000). Away from the camera, Campbell is a yoga and meditation enthusiast, and dances in her custom basement studio. She married (1995) and divorced (1998) actor Jeffrey Colt, and has been linked speculatively, by the press, to several leading men. She is one of a handful in Hollywood who refuse roles that require nudity. She speaks for the Tourette Syndrome Foundation on behalf of one brother. She and another brother, Christian, and Matthew Lillard, all actors, have formed the Blue Sphere Alliance Production Company at Los Angeles’ Lex Theater. The Canadian was one of Six Bright Lights in American Network TV while in Party of Five, and has been voted one of the “stars who bring the most money to box offices” by theatre owners (she tied, at 11th, with Brad Pitt). Upcoming are roles in the filmed and soon-to-be-released Hair Shirt/Red Shoes, and Investigating Sex. Bright, beautiful and believable, Campbell will be a Hollywood fixture for years to come. Believe it.

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NICOLE KIDMAN

Name: Nicole Kidman. Birth Name: Nicole Mary Kidman. Height: 5'.10". Nationality: Australian. Birth Date: June 20, 1967. Birth Place: Honolulu, Hawaii, USA. Occupation: Actress, producer. Education: St Martin's Youth Theater, Melbourne, Australia, Australian Theater for Young People, Sydney, Australia, Philip Street Theater, Australia (majored in Voice, Production and Theater History). Husband: Tom Cruise (actor; married on December 24, 1990; separated since December 2000; filed for divorce on February 7, 2001; divorced on August 8, 2001). Relationship: Fabrizio Lombardo (Italian; producer). Father: Anthony Kidman (biochemist; clinical psychologist; author). Mother: Janelle Kidman (nurse; educator). Sister: Antonia Kidman (younger). Son: Connor Anthony Kidman Cruise (born on February 1995; adopted). Daughter: Isabella Jane Kidman Cruise (born on January 1993; adopted). Claim to fame: as Rae Ingram in Dead Calm (1989). Agent: C/O Nancy Seltzer, 6220 Dell Valle Drive, CA 90048, USA.

BIOGRAPHY SYNOPSIS: You can’t speak of superstar Nicole Kidman without also mentioning her superstar husband of ten years, Tom Cruise. That relationship began with joint film, Days of Thunder (1990) when Kidman was 22, but her career was established long before she met the famous Hollywood actor/producer. Beginning with ballet lessons at age three, and subsequent extensive training in dance, drama and mime (at St. Martin’s Youth Theater in Melbourne and the Australian Theater for Young People), the pretty red-haired Australian (born in Hawaii) was a natural for the stage. She joined Sydney’s Philip street Theater at age 14, and earned a Sydney Theater Critics’ Best Newcomer Award for that work. She made her television debut in the still seasonably popular Bush Christmas (1983), and went on that same year to a starring role in Australian TV’s BMX Bandits, and parts in Chase Through The Night (1983), Five-Mile Creek (1983), Prince and the Great Race (1983) and 1984's Matthew and Son. Kidman’s steady television work continued with Wills and Burke (1985), Room To Move (1985), Archer’s Adventure (1985), Windrider (1986), Watch The Shadows Dance (1987), Night Master (1987), and the films Une Australienne a Rome (1987), The Bit Part (1987), and Emerald City (1988). The actor was awarded Australian Film Institute Best Actress Awards for Vietnam (TV - 1988) and Bangkok Hilton (TV - 1989). Those two years, consecutively, she was named the Australian Public’s Best Actress of the Year. In 1989, the now well-respected actor made her American film debut in Dead Calm. It was on her next film, Days of Thunder (1990), that she worked with her future husband. They married that year. Proving to detractors that she was not merely a “Hollywood wife” to her established actor-husband, she delivered solid performances in Emerald City (1990), Billy Bathgate (1991), Far and Away (1992), Flirting (1992), My Life (1993), Malice (1993), and Batman Forever (1995). Her next film, though, is considered her breakthrough success. To Die For (1995) thoroughly established Kidman as a serious actor in her own right in hard-to-please Hollywood. The Leading Man (1996), The Portrait of a Lady (1996), The Peacemaker (1997), Practical Magic (1998), Eyes Wide Shut (1999) and The Last Movie: Stanley Kubrick and “Eyes Wide Shut” (1999) followed. Set for release in 2000, are the Kidman movies Criminal Conversation, Berlin Diaries 1940-45, Moulin Rouge, In the Cut and Heartswap. Kidman has proved herself capable of juggling a very public marriage, a very private home-life (the couple have two adopted children), and a busy, high-caliber career in an unforgiving business. If Kidman and Cruise are, as described, “Hollywood’s most famous super-couple,” then Kidman is a bona-fide super-woman.

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FANCY LIVING MAGAZINE. NOV. 2005. P.198

CELEBRITIES OF THE YEAR: FROM THE MOST BORING TO THE MOST TALENTED

MOST TALENTED AND LUCKIEST CELEBRITIES

PATRICIA VELASQUEZ

Name: Patricia Velasquez. Height: 5'.9". Nationality: Venezuelan. Birth Date: January 31, 1971. Birth Place: Guajira, Venezuela. Occupation: Actress, model. Claim to fame: as Anck Su Namun in The Mummy (1999). Filmography: The Mummy Returns (2001), Turn It Up (2000), Committed (2000), The Mummy (1999), Facade (1999), The Jaguar (1996). Agent: C/O Ford Model Ag., 344 E. 59th St., New York, NY 10022, USA.

BIOGRAPHY SYNOPSIS: Patricia Velasquez was born in Guajira, Venezuela, on January 31, 1971. Raised by her educator parents in a third world country, not to mention the fifth child of six, Patricia's life was far from luxurious or glamorous. She attended San Vicente de Paul High School, and after her graduation in 1987, Patricia headed for college to study engineering and accounting. Although she was being raised to go into the Venezuelan oil industry, which is practically the only choice for Indian children from Venezuela (Patricia's mother is of native heritage, from the Wayu tribe in the Amazon), a chance event led her to switch her plans. A friend of hers wanted to become a model, and one of the pictures that she sent to a casting call in Caracas included Patricia. As fate would have it, the agency wanted exotic Patricia. After a year of college studies, she left for Milan in pursuit of a modeling career. Up until that point, the closest Patricia came to a modeling experience was her participation in beauty pageants in her native Venezuela, which didn't affect her upcoming modeling gigs. In 1998, Patricia strutted down catwalks in ready to wear fashion shows for designers such as Antonio Berardi, Bella Freud, Corinne Cobson, Claude Montana, Jean Paul Gaultier, Salvatore Ferragamo, Dolce & Gabbana, and Owen Gaster. As for print, Patricia appeared in ads for Chanel's Allure, Monsoon, Roberto Verino's Verino fragrance, as well as everyone's favorite, Victoria's Secret. She even donned swimsuits for Sports Illustrated's Swimsuit Edition in 1994. Signed with Ford in New York, IMG in Paris and Models 1 in London, Patricia extended her resume from appearing in the pages of Vogue and Elle, to appearing on the big screen. Her debut role was as Maya in the 1996 film Le Jaguar, which she followed up with a role in Eruption (a.k.a. Volcano Run) a year later. 1999 was a huge year for Patricia, as she appeared in Beowulf and No Vacancy; broke out despite a small role, as Anck-Su-Namun in the sleeper hit, The Mummy; and finally appeared in Façade (a.k.a. Death Valley). Patricia stole the spotlight from cutey Heather Graham in Committed, in a comedic turn as a waitress -- she was especially noticed during the screening at the 2000 Sundance Film Festival. That same year, she appeared with Pras and Ja Rule in Turn It Up, and then starred in Saint Bernard. Even with the glamour and glitz of Hollywood, Patricia never forgets the struggling days of poverty growing up in Venezuela. After her first few modeling gigs, she bought her family a new home, made sure her 3 brothers received a college education, and still supports causes such as the advancement of Hispanics, fair treatment of indigenous peoples, and the fight against pediatric AIDS. She also launched a foundation to help Venezuelans. Patricia will next be seen in the anticipated sequel to The Mummy, The Mummy Returns, as the Pharaoh's untouchable wife. She may be evil in the film, but it's surely her beauty that makes her untouchable.

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