Actresses

Joanne Gignilliat Trimmier Woodward (born February 27, 1930) is an Academy Award winning, American actress. Woodward is also a television and theatrical producer. Early life Woodward was born in Thomasville, Georgia, daughter of Elinor Gignilliat and Wade Woodward, Jr., who at one point was vice president of publisher Charles Scribner's Sons. Her middle name, "Gignilliat", originates from distant Huguenot ancestry.She was influenced to become an actress by her mother's love of movies. Her mother named her after Joan Crawford, using the Southern pronunciation of the name - "Joanne". Attending the premiere of Gone with the Wind in Atlanta, nine-year-old Woodward rushed o…

I don't know much about her really besides what I just found on the net but she looks alot like Aishwarya Rai. Uploaded with ImageShack.us Date of Birth (Birthday): 1987 Hair Color: Black Birth Place: Muscat, Sultanate of Oman Education: Podar College Marital Status: Single Occupation: bollywood actress Languages: Hindi, English Family Background Mother's Name: Usha Sister(s): Soumya Film Background (Filmography) Debut Film: Lucky: No Time for Love Famous Movies: Aryan, Lucky: No Time for Love Latest Movies: Aryan Other Facts: She was a TV news reader before she joined the cinema Sneha Ullal - BOLLYWOOD"I was eight years old when Aishwarya Rai was crow…

Popular Telugu actress Genelia D'Souza got her first break in the movie 'Boys' directed by Shankar. The film was a box-office hit and soon Genelia started getting more roles. Genelia has so far acted in over a dozen Telugu, Tamil and Hindi movies. Genelia's success rate in Tollywood has been pretty good. Her movies Satyam, Masti, Samba, Sye and Happy have all fared pretty well at the box office. Despite getting good roles and her movies doing average business commercially, Genelia was still waiting for that one big hit that could change her career. The wait was not long as her most recent movie 'Bommarillu' has had a huge positive impact on Genelia�s career. Bommarillu, …

Shirley Temple, or Shirley Jane Temple (born April 23, 1928) is a former American film and television actress, autobiographer, and public servant. She began her screen career in 1932 at the age of three, and, in 1934, skyrocketed to superstardom in Bright Eyes, a feature film designed specifically for her talents. She received a special Academy Award in February 1935, and blockbusting super hits such as Curly Top and Heidi followed year after year during the mid to late 1930s. Licensed merchandise that capitalized on her wholesome image included dolls, dishes, and clothing. Temple's box office popularity waned as she reached adolescence and she left the film industry at t…

After recovering from polio as a child, and studying ballet, Charisse entered films in the 1940s. Her roles usually focussed on her abilities as a dancer, and she was paired with Fred Astaire and Gene Kelly; her films include Singin' in the Rain (1952), The Band Wagon (1953) and Silk Stockings (1957). She stopped dancing in films in the late 1950s, but continued acting in film and television, and in 1992 made her Broadway debut. In her later years, she discussed the history of the Hollywood musical in documentaries, and participated in That's Entertainment! III in 1994. She was awarded the National Medal of the Arts and Humanities in 2006 and died two years later as a re…

Clara Gordon Bow (July 29, 1905 – September 27, 1965) was an American actress who rose to stardom in the silent film era of the 1920s. Her acting artistry and high spirits made her the premier flapper and the film It (1927) made her world famous. Bow came to personify the "roaring twenties" and is described as its leading sex symbol. Early life Bow was born in a tenement in Brooklyn, New York. She was the third child; the first two, also daughters, born in 1903 and 1904, died in infancy. Her mother Sarah Bow (1880-1923) was told by a doctor not to become pregnant again, because this time she might die as well. Despite this, Bow was conceived in fall of 1904. According…

María Fernanda Yépes (born December 23, 1980 in Medellín, Colombia) is a Colombian actress and model, who is mostly known for playing Yésica "La Diabla", a crude and manipulative girl who worked recruiting, selecting, and leading groups of women for whom drug dealers would pay in advance to receive sexual services in return in the Telemundo hit series Sin Senos no hay Paraíso. Personal life María Fernanda Yepés started modeling in her country Colombia at the age of 14. As a model she has been part of important national and international campaigns including one of Colombia's top female intimates apparel. Most recently she was seen as a print model for the Swimwear line…

Natalia Mart�ƒ­nez Streignard (born 9 September 1970) is a famous Venezuelan actress who is working in telenovelas and soap operas. Biography Streignard was born in Madrid, Spain. Her mother was Argentine, and her father was German. When she was 3, the whole family emigrated to Venezuela. Before becoming an actress, Streignard was a contestant in the Miss Venezuela pageant, where she was a finalist. Her acting career started shortly after (in 1992), with starring and supporting roles in several Venezuelan telenovelas. Some of her most memorable productions have been Pedacito de cielo (Marte TV, 1993), Sol de tentaci�ƒ³n (Venevisi�ƒ³n, 1996), Mi destino eres t�ƒº (Te…

Olivia Mary de Havilland (born July 1, 1916) is an American film and stage actress. She is the elder sister of actress Joan Fontaine. Along with her sister, de Havilland is one of the last surviving female stars from 1930s Hollywood. She is also the last living lead cast member from Gone with the Wind. Early lifeOlivia de Havilland was born in Tokyo, Japan to English parents. Her mother, Lilian Augusta Ruse (1886–1975), was an actress known professionally as Lillian Fontaine, and her father, Walter Augustus de Havilland (1872–1968), was a patent attorney with a practice in Japan.[1][2] Her parents married in 1914 and divorced in 1919. Her younger sister is actress Joan F…

Lucille Désirée Ball (August 6, 1911 – April 26, 1989) was an American comedienne, film, television, stage and radio actress, model, film and television executive, and star of the sitcoms I Love Lucy, The Lucy-Desi Comedy Hour, The Lucy Show and Here's Lucy. One of the most popular and influential stars in America during her lifetime, with one of Hollywood's longest careers,[2] especially on television, Ball was acting in the 1930s, becoming a B-movie star in the 1940s and a television star in the 1950s. She was still making films in the 1960s and 1970s. She was a radio actress during the 1940s, as well. Ball received thirteen Emmy Award nominations and four wins.[3] She…

Tallulah Brockman Bankhead (January 31, 1902 – December 12, 1968) was an American actress, talk-show host, and bon vivant. Early life and family Bankhead was born in Huntsville, Alabama to William Brockman Bankhead and Adelaide Eugenia Bankhead. She was named after her paternal grandmother. Her mother died as a result of blood poisoning on February 23, 1902, shortly after Bankhead's birth. Bankhead has been described as "an extremely homely child", overweight and with a deep, husky voice resulting from chronic bronchitis. However, others described her as an exhibitionist, performer, personality, and star from the very beginning. Bankhead came from the powerful Bankhead…

The beautiful Kirsten Johnston, the great and funny star from 3rd Rock From the Sun. Kristen Johnston (born September 20, 1967) is an American stage, film, and television actress. She may be most famous for her role as Sally Solomon in the television series 3rd Rock from the Sun. She also starred as Wilma Flintstone in The Flintstones in Viva Rock Vegas. Johnston is 6'1". Johnston was born in Washington, D.C., the daughter of a real estate agent and a Republican state senator from Wisconsin. Johnston was raised mostly in Whitefish Bay, Wisconsin, a suburb of Milwaukee, where she attended St. Eugene's Catholic Grade School and Whitefish Bay High School. She spent some …

Bridget Kathryn Regan (born February 3, 1982; San Diego County, California) is an American film, television and theater actress currently portraying lead character Kahlan Amnell in the television series Legend of the Seeker. Career Since 2006, she has appeared in several movies and television shows. Her filmography includes The Wedding Album, Blinders, Supreme Courtships, The Babysitters and the Sex and the City movie. She also had guest appearances on the TV shows Love Monkey, Law & Order: Criminal Intent, American Experience, Six Degrees, The Black Donnellys and New Amsterdam. In 2008, Regan began filming Legend of the Seeker, a television show based on Terry Goo…

Barbara Payton (November 16, 1927 – May 8, 1967) was an American film actress. Early life and careerBorn Barbara Lee Redfield, in Cloquet, Minnesota, she was the daughter of restaurateurs, and raised in Odessa, Texas. In 1945, at age seventeen, she headed for Hollywood in search of a career in movies and was eventually placed under contract by Universal Studios where she began appearing in bit parts. After being discovered by James Cagney and his producer brother William, Payton starred in Cagney’s Kiss Tomorrow Goodbye in 1950. She signed a contract with Cagney’s production company. Personal life In 1951, while engaged to movie actor Franchot Tone, Payton proposed mar…

Doris Day (born Doris Mary Ann Kappelhoff; April 3, 1922)[1] is an American actress, singer, and animal rights activist. Day's entertainment career began in her late teens as a big band singer. In 1945 she had her first hit recording , "Sentimental Journey", and, in 1948, appeared in her first film, Romance on the High Seas. During her entertainment career, she has appeared in thirty-nine films, recorded more than six-hundred-fifty songs, received an Academy Award nomination, won a Golden Globe and a Grammy Award, and, in 1989, received the Cecil B. DeMille Award for lifetime achievement in motion pictures. As of 2009, Day was the top-ranking female box office star of a…

Ashley Benson stars as Hanna Marin, who became the school's new "it" girl after Alison disappeared. But being at the top of the social ladder is not all it is cracked up to be, especially when someone is out there reminding Hanna of how things used to be. Born and raised in California, Benson developed a passion for theater at the age of 3, began acting when she was 9 – working mostly in commercials – and then quickly made the transition into film and television. Most recently in television, she was a series regular on ABC's "Eastwick," playing Rebecca Romijn's daughter, and she starred in the Lifetime Television movie "Fab Five: The Texas Cheerleader Scandal." Her addi…

Felicity Huffman (Born-Felicity Kendall Huffman) Date of Birth: December 9,1962 Place of Birth: Bedford,New York,USA Height: 1.65 cm Years active: 1978-present All Movie: 61 Felicity Kendall Huffman (born December 9,1962) is an American film,stage,and television actress. She is known for her role as executive producer Dana Whitaker on the ABC television show Sports Night (1998-2000), which earned her an Golden Globe Award nomination,and as hectic supermom Lynette Scavo on the ABC show Desperate Housewives (2004-2012),which has earned her an Emmy Award. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Felicity_Huffman

Candice Patricia Bergen (born May 9, 1946) is an American actress and former fashion model. She is best known for starring in two TV series, as the title character on the situation comedy Murphy Brown (1988–1998), for which she won five Emmy Awards and two Golden Globe Awards; and as Shirley Schmidt on the comedy-drama Boston Legal (2004–2008), for which she was nominated for two Emmys, a Golden Globe, and a Screen Actors Guild Award. She starred in several major films throughout the mid 1960s to early 1980s such as The Sand Pebbles, Carnal Knowledge, The Wind and the Lion, and Gandhi, receiving an Oscar nomination for her role in Starting Over. Her later career includes…

Jemima Rooper (born 24 October 1981, in Hammersmith, London, England) is an English actress. BackgroundLondon-born Rooper is the daughter of TV journalist Alison Rooper. She attended Redcliffe Primary School in Chelsea, London and then, at age 12, went to Godolphin and Latymer girls' school. While working on The Famous Five she passed eight GCSEs with A* and A grades. From there she went to sixth form college where she got three A-grade A levels Work Rooper expressed a wish to be an actress at the age of nine and contacted an agent.[1] Her first professional roles were in the 1993 film The Higher Mortals and the 1994 film Willie's War. In 1996 she appeared in all episodes…

Born January 30 1995 Oregon United States[1] Occupation Actress Years active 2006

Tamzin Outhwaite Date of Birth:5 Nov.1970 Place of Birth:England Height:173cm All Movie:25 Hotel Babylon...Rebecca Mitchell Cassandra's Dream...Burns' Date Paradox...D.I. Rebecca Flint

Joan Fontaine (born October 22, 1917) is a British American actress. She is the younger sister of actress Olivia de Havilland, also an Academy Award winner. The two sisters are among the last surviving female stars from Hollywood's Golden Age. Fontaine is the only actress to have won an Academy Award for a performance in a film directed by Alfred Hitchcock. Early life She was born Joan de Beauvoir de Havilland in Tokyo, Japan, the younger daughter of Walter Augustus de Havilland (1872-1968), a British patent attorney with a practice in Japan, and Lilian Augusta Ruse (1886-1975), a British actress known by her stage name of Lillian Fontaine. Her parents married in 1914…

I can't believe there was no topic about this lovely lady! Julie Andrews Born Julia Elizabeth Wells 1 October 1935 (1935-10-01) (age 74) Walton-on-Thames, Surrey, England Occupation Actress, singer, author Years active 1949

From Wikipedia Born Estelle Merle Thompson 18 February 1911(1911-02-18) Bombay (now Mumbai), British India Died November 23, 1979 (aged 68) Malibu, California, U.S. Occupation Actress Years active 1928–1973 Spouse(s) Alexander Korda (divorced)(1939–1945) Lucien Ballard (divorced)(1945–1949) Bruno Pagliai (1957–1973) (divorced) 2 adopted children Robert Wolders (1975–1979) (her death) Merle Oberon (18 or 19 February 1911[1] – 23 November 1979) was an Anglo-Indian-born American and British film actress. She began her film career in British films, and a prominent role, as Anne Boleyn in The Private Life of Henry VIII (1933), brought her attention. Leading r…

Olivia d'Abo Date of Birth: 22 January 1969, Paddington, London, England, UK Birth Name: Olivia Jane d'Abo Height: 5' 6" (1.68 m) Spouse: Patrick Leonard (1 January 1995 - present) 1 child Olivia is a British actress and singer-songwriter, best known for portraying Karen Arnold in The Wonder Years and Nicole Wallace, the recurring villain in Law & Order: Criminal Intent. She has worked in film and television since she was 13 and written and recorded her songs for almost as long. "It's been tricky and quite a challenge for me to balance the two. Ironically, I've been given the gifts and talent of both of my parents combined. Though most people know me as an…