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ELISABETH SHUE Date of Birth: 6 October 1963, Wilmington, Delaware, USA Mini Biography Being born into a well-established and well-educated family doesn't necessarily mean much. Despite such family accolades, Shue's parents divorced while she was in the fourth grade. Owing to the occupational demands of her parents, Shue and her siblings found plenty of time to get into trouble in their suburban neighborhood, but Elisabeth soon enrolled in Wellesley College, an all-female institution which kept her out of trouble. During her studies, she found a way to make a little extra money by acting in television commercials. Elisabeth became a common sight in ads for Burger King, DeBeers diamonds, and Hellman's mayonnaise. In 1984, she landed a role in the The Karate Kid (1984) as the on-screen girlfriend of Ralph Macchio and a role as the teenage daughter of a military family in the short-lived series "Call to Glory" (1984). At this time, Shue got herself an acting coach and transferred to Harvard, where she began studying political science. She continued her acting work with Adventures in Babysitting (1987), Cocktail (1988), Soapdish (1991) and The Marrying Man (1991). Unfortunately, time was catching up with the impressive girl-next-door. Her brother Andrew Shue had almost eclipsed her own fame by landing a starring role in the hit TV series "Melrose Place" (1992). It was at this time that Elisabeth took a chance on a low-budget, high-risk project entitled Leaving Las Vegas (1995), directed by Mike Figgis. Her gutsy portrayal of a prostitute mixed up with a suicidal alcoholic paid off as she was recognized with a Best Actress nomination at the Academy Awards that year. This was the turning point of her career. What followed was a barrage of film roles, including The Saint (1997), Woody Allen's Deconstructing Harry (1997), Palmetto (1998) and Hollow Man (2000). Over forty years of age, Elisabeth still continues to impress with a variety of film and television roles that show off her versatility as an actress and not just her good looks and girl-next-door persona. IMDb Mini Biography By: Ian Hamilton

CHERYL LADD Birth Name: Cheryl Jean Stoppelmoor Date of Birth: 12 July 1951, Huron, South Dakota, USA Career Ladd was known as "Cherie Moor" when she performed on the album based on Hanna-Barbera's Josie and the Pussycats animated series. In 1977 (starting from the second season), Ladd (as she was now known) replaced Farrah Fawcett in Charlie's Angels, and stayed until the end of the show in 1981. She also starred in the 1994–1996 series One West Waikiki. In January 1980, Ladd sang the national anthem prior to Super Bowl XIV. In 1996, she released a children's book, The Adventures of Little Nettie Windship, following it up in 2005 with Token Chick: A Woman’s Guide To Golfing With The Boys, an autobiographical book which focused on her love of golf. In September 2000, Ladd took over the role of Annie Oakley from Bernadette Peters on Broadway in the revival of Irving Berlin's musical, Annie Get Your Gun. She played the role until January 2001, when Reba McEntire took over. From 2003 to the show's cancellation in 2008, Ladd played the lead character's wife, Jillian Deline, in the television drama Las Vegas. Personal life Cheryl married fellow actor David Ladd, son of the famous actor Alan Ladd, by whom she had a daughter, Jordan. She took his surname as her own, which she kept after their divorce. She has been married to record producer Brian Russell since 1981. Ladd is a celebrity ambassador for the child abuse prevention and treatment non-profit Childhelp. source: wikipedia

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URSULA ANDRESS Date of Birth: 19 March 1936, Ostermundigen, Bern, Switzerland BIO It's probably unsurprising that one of the most famous sequences in movie history features a woman who spent most of her time faking being an actress. When Swiss bombshell Ursula Andress emerges from the sea in Dr. No (1962) in the famed white bikini, she's living proof that what's truly unique about the movies is their unsurpassed visual power. The quintessential jet-set Euro starlet, Ursula Andress was born in the Swiss canton of Berne on March 19, 1936, one of seven children in a German Protestant family. Although often seeming icily aloof, a restless streak early demonstrated itself in her personality, and she had a desire from an early age to explore the world outside Switzerland. For instance, she ran away with an Italian actor at the tender age of 17, then returned home after her parents intervened. The stunning young woman started her movie career with small roles in Italian farces which invariably focused on her impressive physical attributes. Eventually, due in part to the patronage of her paramour Marlon Brando, she signed a contract to make movies for Columbia Pictures and came to the US, but met rising star John Derek and married him in 1957, dropping out of movie-making for several years thereafter. The year 1962 saw the relatively unknown Swiss beauty back on the set, co-starring with Sean Connery in the first movie version of Ian Fleming's fanciful "James Bond" espionage novels - in Dr. No (1962), Andress' smoldering-yet-aloof screen presence immediately established her as one of the most desired women in the world, helped to start the James Bond franchise that continues to this day, and set the "Bond Girl" standard beside which all future Bond actresses would be judged (notwithstanding the fact that her Swiss/German accent was so strong that her voice had to dubbed in the movie). The success of Dr. No (1962) established her as a spectacular ornament to put on-screen alongside the most bankable talent of the 1960s, and she was cast in vehicles for such icons as Elvis Presley, Dean Martin, Frank Sinatra and Sammy Davis Jr.. In 1965, she was one of several European starlets to co-star in What's New Pussycat (1965), a movie that perhaps sums up mid-'60s pop culture better than any other - written by Woody Allen, starring Allen and Peter Sellers, with music by Burt Bacharach and a title song performed by Tom Jones, and much on-screen sexual romping. Andress made many more movies in the US and Europe from the mid-'60s to the mid-'70s, including Decima vittima, La (1965), in which she wears a famously ballistic bra, The Blue Max (1966), in which she is aptly cast as the sultry, sexually insatiable wife of an aristocratic German general in World War I, and Casino Royale (1967), another foray into the world of James Bond. Her charms seemingly undiminished by age, at 40 she could still easily play a bombshell nurse hired to titillate a doddering millionaire to death in the slight Italian sex comedy Infermiera, L' (1975). Having been divorced by Derek is 1966 so he could pursue younger lookalike Linda Evans, Andress played the field for years, reportedly involved at various times with Jean-Paul Belmondo, 'Ryan O'Neal (I)' and Warren Beatty. In 1979, she began what would be a long-term romance with Harry Hamlin, her handsome young co-star from Clash of the Titans (1981) (in which she was cast, predictably, as Aphrodite). While subsequently traveling in India, Andress' belly began to swell out of her clothing, and she felt very nauseous. What at first seemed a severe case of "Delhi Belly" turned out to be pregnancy, her first and only, at the age of 43. She and Hamlin named the child, who was born in 1980, Dimitri Hamlin. After the her son's birth, Andress scaled back her career, which now focused mostly on European TV and films, as she was raising Dimitri in Rome. She last worked on film in 1997. Her relationship with Hamlin having ended in 1982, she has lived with Lorenzo Rispoli since 1983. IMDb Mini Biography By: Larry-115

KRISTIAN ALFONSO Birth Name: Kristian-Joy Alfonso Date of Birth: 5 September 1963, Brockton, Massachusetts, USA FILMOGRAPHY "Days of Our Lives" .... Hope Brady / ... (432 episodes, 1983-2008) Day of Redemption (2004) .... Mary Everly "Secret Lives" (2003) TV series .... Host (unknown episodes) Days of Our Lives' 35th Anniversary (2000) (TV) .... Hope Williams "Friends" .... Hope (1 episode, 2000) - The One That Could Have Been: Part 1 (2000) TV episode .... Hope What Happened to Bobby Earl? (1997) (TV) .... Chelsea Coals In the Kingdom of the Blind, the Man with One Eye Is King (1995) .... Jeanna Blindfold: Acts of Obsession (1994) (TV) .... Chris Madigan "Melrose Place" .... Lauren Ethridge (7 episodes, 1993-1994) - Devil with the G-String On (1994) TV episode .... Lauren Ethridge - Imperfect Strangers (1994) TV episode .... Lauren Ethridge - In Bed with the Enemy (1994) TV episode .... Lauren Ethridge - Under the Mistletoe (1993) TV episode .... Lauren Ethridge - Duet for One (1993) TV episode .... Lauren Ethridge (2 more) "Burke's Law" .... Susan Bell (1 episode, 1994) "Baywatch" .... Debra Harris (2 episodes, 1993) ... aka Baywatch Hawaii (USA: new title) - Tentacles: Part 2 (1993) TV episode .... Debra Harris - Tentacles: Part 1 (1993) TV episode .... Debra Harris Joshua Tree (1993) .... Rita Marek "Love Stories" (1991) TV series .... Host "Falcon Crest" .... Pilar Cumson / ... (44 episodes, 1988-1990) "Full House" .... Judge / ... (2 episodes, 1988-1989) - Star Search (1989) TV episode (uncredited) .... Judge - Half a Love Story (1988) TV episode .... Robin Winslow "MacGyver" .... Deborah (2 episodes, 1988-1989) - Unfinished Business (1989) TV episode .... Deborah - The Negotiator (1988) TV episode .... Deborah Out of Time (1988) (TV) .... Cassandra Barber "Murder, She Wrote" .... Michele Gambini (1 episode, 1988) "Who's the Boss?" .... Frankie (1 episode, 1987) "Amazing Stories" (1 episode, 1985) ... aka Steven Spielberg's Amazing Stories (USA: complete title) - Remote Control Man (1985) TV episode The Star Maker (1981) (TV) .... Kelly Blake