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Kiley Dean

Kiley Dean Bowlin (born July 12, 1982 in Alma, Arkansas), known professionaly as Kiley Dean, is an American female R&B singer.

Growing up in Orlando, Florida, Kiley made early footsetps into music business. In 1998 she landed an audition for Britney Spears and was hired as background singer. After touring all over the world, she was justly signed to Timbaland’s Beat Club Records. With the assistance of R&B/Soul producer Robert Smith both created a whole new album called "Simple Girl", resting upon her southern roots and jazzy R&B tracks.

But, as with all fairy tales there is a glitch - the solo album Simple Girl was never released. Kiley Dean sat on the label for two years while everyone tried making her something she wasn’t. But in retrospect, the experience was a blessing for Kiley. “I thank God for everything that has happened to me,” she declares, speaking of the heartache, pain, and insecurities this business has given her over the last two years. “I feel so lucky because as hard as it’s been, it made me dig real deep and find out who I am.”

Now, Kiley has a new management team and a new album deal with Bungalo/Universal that will allow her the creative freedom she is looking for. “The new record is so special to me. There was so much going on in my head and every song just captures the moment.” Brimming with sensual grooves, edgy rock guitars and laced with a sexy, sassy stance, CHANGES is an explosion of passionate singing, hot beats, incredible melodies and meaningful lyrics that will make you want to push the repeat button over and over again. Boasting songs co-written by Kiley and production by Bryan Michael Cox (Usher) and Big Bert (J-Lo), CHANGES shimmers with an honest vibrancy that’s hard to resist. “I just think that this album is so real and personal. Over the last few years I’ve experienced so much in my life. I was able to let it out on this record. It talks about the things everyone can relate to.”

Discography

Albums

Simple Girl (2003 (unreleased / digital only)
Changes (2005)

Singles

From Simple Girl:

"Make Me A Song" (2003)
"Who Will I Run To / Kiss Me Like That" (2004)
From Changes:

"Looking 4 Love" (2005)

Misc.

From Deliverance:

"Nowhere" (with Bubba Sparxxx) (2004)
From Unity:

"By Your Side" (with Utada) (2004)

Gillian Anderson

Gillian Leigh Anderson (born August 9, 1968) is an American actress, best known for her role as FBI Agent Dana Scully in the American TV series The X-Files.

Life and career

She was born in Chicago to Edward and Rosemary Anderson; soon after her birth her family moved to Puerto Rico for fifteen months and then to Crouch End in London. When she was eleven, her family moved again, this time to Grand Rapids, Michigan, where she attended City Middle/High School, a program for gifted students with a strong emphasis on the humanities. With her English accent and background, she felt out of place in the American Midwest, and developed a reputation as a strong-willed and rebellious teenager. She had her nose pierced in the early 1980s, dyed her hair various colors, and was once arrested for gluing the locks of the school closed.

She found an outlet for her talents when she began acting in high school and community theater productions. She attended Goodman Theater School of Drama at DePaul University in Chicago, where she earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts in 1990.

Following some professional stage work, she "broke into" television. In 1993, she had a guest appearance on the collegiate drama Class of ‘96 on the fledgling Fox Network, and auditioned for the role of Dana Scully on The X-Files. There she met assistant art director Clyde Klotz, whom she married and with whom she had a daughter, Piper Maru, in 1994. (An alien-abduction storyline explained her brief absence from the series for delivery.) Anderson and Klotz later divorced. She had roles in a handful of films during the run of The X-Files and starred in The House of Mirth, an adaptation of the Edith Wharton novel of the same name.

Since The X-Files ended, she has performed in several stage productions and worked on various film projects. She has also done narrative work for documentaries on scientific topics, in which the voice listeners recognize as "Agent Scully" lends an air of credible authority to the material. In 2005 she appeared as Lady Dedlock in a BBC television adaptation of Charles Dickens’ novel Bleak House and she recently completed work on a film version of the novel Tristram Shandy, due to be released later in the year. In December 2004, Anderson married longtime partner Julian Ozanne, a documentary filmmaker, on Lamu’s island of Shella, off the coast of Africa.

Filmography

Anderson as "Lily Bart" in The House of Mirth (2000)The Last King of Scotland (Filming; to be released 2006), as "Sara Zach"
Straightheads (Announced - unknown release date)
Gellhorn: A Twentieth-Century Life (Announced - unknown release date)
Bleak House as "Lady Honoria Dedlock"
Tristram Shandy: A Cock and Bull Story (2005)
The Mighty Celt (2005), as "Kate"
The House of Mirth (2000), as "Lily Bart"
Mononoke Hime (1997), aka Princess Mononoke (English language version, 1999), voice, as "Moro"
Playing by Heart (1998), as "Meredith"
The X-Files: Fight the Future (1998), as "Dana Scully"
The Mighty (1998), as "Loretta Lee"
Chicago Cab, aka Hellcab (1998), as "Southside Girl" (or "Brenda")
The Turning (1992), as "April Cavanaugh"
A Matter of Choice (1988), B&W student production
Three at Once (1986), B&W student production, as "Woman 1"

List of Stage Appearances

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The Sweetest Swing in Baseball (2004). World premiere at the Royal Court Theatre, Sloane Square, London.
What The Night Is For (2002-11-07 to 2003-02-09). This play ran at the Comedy Theatre in London, and was Anderson’s West End debut.
The Vagina Monologues (1999)-(2000)
The Philanthropist (1992).
Absent Friends (1991). Long Wharf Theater. Won a Theatre World Award for Best Performance.
A Zoo Story (1986)
Arsenic and Old Lace (1983). City High School, Grand Rapids, Michigan, two performances, as "Officer Brophy".

Trivia

There exist over 180 fake nude and pornographic images of her; only one of which (a nipple-slip at an awards ceremony) has been proven genuine. She has been quoted as saying she doesn’t mind: "It’s just people getting their rocks off."
Performed nude alongside co-star David Duchovny in the X-Files episode "One Son".
The X-Files episode "Piper Maru" is named after her child, Piper.
X-Files director, creator, writer and actor Chris Carter is godfather to her child.
Her favourite X-Files episodes are "Triangle" and "Bad Blood."
She wrote and directed the X-Files episode "all things."
Her eyes are blue-green, and her original hair color is ash-blonde.
Favourite movie is said to be "Wallace and Gromit: The Wrong Trousers"
Tattoos include a Tahitian tribal symbol on the inside of her right ankle, the words "every day" in Sanskrit on her right wrist, and a "P" on her left hip (presumably for daughter Piper)
As stated in an X-Files commentary, she is allergic to cats.
She compiled a collection of Electronica music inspired by Future Fantastic, entitled Future: A Journey Through The Electronic Underground. She even contributed vocals to one track, Extremis, with music by HAL.

Brad Pitt

Brad Pitt (born William Bradley Pitt on December 18, 1963), is an American film actor, and one of the most widely recognized people in the world.

He was born in Shawnee, Oklahoma to strictly Southern Baptist parents of mainly British and Irish descent and was raised in Springfield, Missouri.

In high school, Pitt was involved in sports, debating, student government, and school musicals. He attended the University of Missouri School of Journalism where he was a member of the Sigma Chi Fraternity. He was two credits shy of graduating with a journalism degree, before trying his luck in Hollywood.

Before he became successful at acting, Pitt supported himself as a chauffer, by working as a furniture mover, and as a costumed mascot for the restaurant chain El Pollo Loco. In the late 1980s, Pitt started landing acting gigs on prime-time series such as Dallas, thirtysomething, 21 Jump Street, Another World, Growing Pains, and Head of the Class. In 1988, he finally landed his first starring role in The Dark Side of the Sun. But as the film was being edited, civil war tore apart Yugoslavia, where location shooting was taking place. Most of the footage remained lost until 1997, when the film was finally released.

In 1991, Pitt finally got his big break in one of that year’s biggest hits: Thelma & Louise as J.D., Thelma (Geena Davis)’s one-night stand who gives her tips on robbing 7-11 stores. He followed up that success with A River Runs Through It and Se7en.

In 1995, he was chosen by Empire magazine as one of the 25 sexiest stars in film history. Pitt has also twice been named the "Sexiest Man Alive" by People magazine, the only person to ever receive this honor more than once, and is consistently rated as the world’s sexiest man in womens’ polls worldwide.

Pitt was involved in a long-term relationship with actress Gwyneth Paltrow. They became engaged in December 1996, but it didn’t last long and the two split up in June 1997. Extensive tabloid coverage surrounded the relationship. Nude photographs of the couple — taken by paparazzi without permission — controversially appeared in magazines.

Also in 1997, the film Seven Years in Tibet was released. This film, which chronicled China’s invasion of Tibet, was hailed by Tibetian nationalists and resulted in Brad Pitt, along with his co-star David Thewlis being banned from entering China for life.

He married actress Jennifer Aniston on July 29, 2000. Their separation was announced on January 7, 2005, and Aniston filed for a divorce on March 25 the same year. There has been speculation that the marriage ended due to Aniston’s refusal to have children with Pitt, which he greatly desired.

After seperation from Aniston, Pitt began dating actress Angelina Jolie. Pitt accompanied Jolie to Ethiopia in July 2005 to pick up her adopted daughter Zahara from an orphanage in that country. After returning, Pitt was diagnosed with a mild case of viral meningitis. He checked himself into Cedars-Sinai hospital in Los Angeles but was released a few days later. Though reluctant to embrace celebrity status, the philanthropic Pitt has been an active supporter of research into diseases, such as AIDS. Unlike many Hollywood celebrities he has remained largely bipartisan, working with members of both parties to help fight poverty, disease and improve global environmental conditions. Along with U2 frontman Bono, and TV evangelist Pat Robertson, Pitt has used his celebrity to campaign for assistance to Africa, and is the marquee spokesman for the ONE Campaign. Pitt has also traveled oversees to visit and entertain U.S. and allied troops.

He was nominated for an Academy Award as Best Supporting Actor for his performance in the 1995 film Twelve Monkeys.

Trivia

Like many A-List stars, Pitt does not normally perform in American commercials. Instead, he does commercials that are seen in Asia only, most notably for Edwin Jeans, the Toyota Altis, and Japanese canned coffee, ROOTS. The one exception to this is the Heineken commercial which aired during the 2005 Super Bowl, it was directed by David Fincher who he worked with on Seven and Fight Club.

He was previously engaged to Gwyneth Paltrow, and dated actresses Juliette Lewis, Robin Givens, Alice Wilkinson and Geena Davis. Paltrow confessed in an interview that she regretted breaking up with him.

He tore his Achilles tendon during the production of Troy, in which he plays, coincidentally, Achilles.

He sued Damiani International, the company which made the wedding ring he gave Jennifer Aniston, for selling replica "Brad and Jennifer" rings. According to Pitt, the ring was his design and was to be exclusive. Under the settlement reached in January 2002, Pitt will design jewelry for Damiani that Aniston will model in ads, and the company will stop selling the copies.

On August 6, 2005, a man was arrested for trespassing on Pitt’s property. Reportedly, the tresspasser was a photographer for People Magazine, who was there to take pictures of a possible birthday party for Angelina Jolie’s adopted son Maddox.
He is a vegetarian.

He was taught to ride a horse by Albertan John Scott, a rancher/stunt co-ordinator who also taught numerous other Hollywood stars the same skill.

Together with Paramount Pictures head Brad Grey and Jennifer Aniston, he is the co-founder of the production company Plan B. Aniston is no longer a partner in the company, although she is still attached to many projects that were set up before her divorce. The company produced the Johnny Depp starring blockbuster Charlie and the Chocolate Factory.

Has been awarded a Blue Peter badge.

Despite being one of the most popular actors, he hasn’t achieved major box office success like Tom Cruise or Arnold Schwarzenneger. His biggest hit was Troy, which was considered a flop by many because of its budget. The 2005 film Mr. and Mrs. Smith defied all expectations and took in over $300 million at the international box office — still less than what Tom Cruise’s War of the Worlds took in.
He owns a house in the picturesque town of Carmel-by-the-Sea, California.

Filmography

No Man’s Land (1987)
Less Than Zero (1987)
Happy Together (1989)
Cutting Class (1989)
Across the Tracks (1991)
Thelma & Louise (1991)
Johnny Suede (1991)
Contact (1992) (short subject)
Cool World (1992)
A River Runs Through It (1992)
Kalifornia (1993)
True Romance (1993)
The Favor (1994)
Interview with the Vampire (1994)
Legends of the Fall (1994)
Se7en (1995)
Twelve Monkeys (1995)
Sleepers (1996)
The Devil’s Own (1997)
Seven Years in Tibet (1997)
The Dark Side of the Sun (1997) (filmed in 1988)
Meet Joe Black (1998)
Being John Malkovich (1999) (Cameo)
Fight Club (1999)
Snatch (2000)
The Mexican (2001)
Spy Game (2001)
Ocean’s Eleven (2001)
Full Frontal (2002) (Cameo)
Confessions of a Dangerous Mind (2002) (Cameo)
Sinbad: Legend of the Seven Seas (2003) (voice)
Abby Singer (2003) (Cameo)
Troy (2004)
Ocean’s Twelve (2004)
Special Thanks to Roy London (2005) (documentary)
Mr. & Mrs. Smith (2005)

Upcoming:

The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford (2006)
Chad Schmidt (2006)
Benjamin Button (2007)

Lucy Lawless

Lucy Lawless (born Lucille Frances Ryan on March 29, 1968 in Auckland, New Zealand), is a Kiwi actress and singer best known for her role as Xena on the television series Xena: Warrior Princess from 1995 to 2001.

Lucy was born the fifth child of Frank and Julie Ryan. She discovered an enjoyment of acting in high school. At Auckland University, she studied foreign languages for a year. She then left for Europe with her boyfriend to travel around Germany and Switzerland. They went back and landed a job with a mining company in Australia. In 1988, Lucy and Garth Lawless were married. They returned to New Zealand and had a daughter, Daisy.

She had a guest role in 1990 on New Zealand TV series Shark in the Park, around the same time compatriot Karl Urban appeared.

Vanessa Angel was supposed to play a new character, the villainess Xena, in an en episode of Hercules: The Legendary Journeys, but became sick and was unable to travel to New Zealand. Lucy had previously played two different characters in Hercules, so the directors chose her as a replacement (though Lucy’s hair had to be dyed to distinquish her from the previous, unrelated characters). Under the 5′10 1/2" Lucy, Xena’s character became popular, so she started to redeem herself and got her own her series, Xena: Warrior Princess. The show was a hit, lasting six seasons.

A testament to the popularity of Xena: Warrior Princess is that Lawless is a universally recognized celebrity even though she has not had a single great success outside of it. She was even immortalized as a character on The Simpsons (playing a super-powered, flying version of herself).

She would later be named one of the 50 Most Beautiful People in the World by People magazine in 1997.

She has since appeared in the Vagina Monologues, on the first two episodes of the ninth season of The X-Files, and in the short-lived (eight episodes) television series Tarzan. She has had brief appearances in the movies Eurotrip, Spider-Man, and the horror film Boogeyman. Her next role was on TV battling bugs in her new TV-movie Locusts!.

Lucy Lawless as fleet reporter D’anna Biers on Battlestar Galactica.Recently, Lawless has taken on a recurring role on the Battlestar Galactica television series. She plays a D’anna Biers, a reporter with a secret agenda who works on a critical documentary about the crew of the Galactica (and who in secret is actually a Cylon humanoid robot that has infiltrated the ship to help bring about its destruction).

Lucy and Garth were divorced in 1995. She married the executive producer of Xena, Robert G. Tapert, in 1998. The couple had a son in 1999 named Julius Robert Bay Tapert. Lucy gave birth to her son in New Zealand. Her third child, and second with Robert Tapert, was born 2002 in New Zealand, and named Judah Miro Tapert.

Due to her character Xena’s ambiguous sexuality, Lucy Lawless gained a large cult following in the lesbian community. A new term, dykon, was coined to describe her status as a gay icon. Although she is heterosexual, Lucy Lawless has enhanced this reputation by appearing at gay pride events such as the Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras.

Gwyneth Paltrow

Gwyneth Kate Paltrow (born September 28, 1972) is an Oscar-winning American actress.

Personal life

Paltrow was born in Los Angeles to the late Bruce Paltrow (a Jewish American film director) and Blythe Danner (a well known Quaker character actress of part Pennsylvania Dutch descent). Raised in Santa Monica, she attended Spence School, a selective private girls’ school in New York City, and briefly studied Art History at the University of California, Santa Barbara, before dropping out and committing herself to acting. Paltrow has a younger brother named Jake and is a cousin of actress Katherine Moennig.

In May of 2005 she publicly announced that she suffered from depression after the untimely death of her father Bruce Paltrow.

She is a vegetarian and a good friend of both Madonna and Christina Applegate, but she earned the enmity of Sharon Stone due to her performance as Stone in a Saturday Night Live skit that poked fun at Stone and her then-husband, Phil Bronstein.

She had a much-publicized romance with Brad Pitt and was also once linked romantically to Ben Affleck.

On December 5, 2003, she married Chris Martin of the rock group Coldplay in secret. Paltrow gave birth to their first child, Apple Blythe Alison Martin, on May 14, 2004. She has been quoted as saying she chose the name Apple because it was "the sweetest, loveliest name." In October 2005, her mother hinted that Gwyneth may be pregnant with the couple’s second child; however, neither Gwyneth nor her husband have so far commented on this.

Acting career

Her debut film was Shout (1991), and later the same year she played in family friend Steven Spielberg’s Hook (1991). She later starred in Se7en (1995), dating her co-star Brad Pitt.

Her performance in Emma (1996) received its share of praise. She was awarded the Academy Award for Best Actress two years later for her performance in Shakespeare in Love (1998), in which Affleck appeared. She has since had a steady film career, with a few notable film roles, including Proof (2005) and The Royal Tenenbaums (2001).

Other work

In May 2005, Paltrow was announced as the new face of Estée Lauder.

Partial filmography

Running with Scissors (2006)
Proof (2005)
Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow (2004)
Sylvia (2003)
View from the Top (2003)
Austin Powers in Goldmember (2002) (cameo)
Possession (2002)
Shallow Hal (2001)
The Royal Tenenbaums (2001)
The Anniversary Party (2001)
Bounce (2000)
Duets (2000)
The Intern (2000) (cameo)
The Talented Mr. Ripley (1999)
Shakespeare in Love (1998)
A Perfect Murder (1998)
Hush (1998)
Great Expectations (1998)
Sliding Doors (1998)
Emma (1996)
The Pallbearer (1996)
Hard Eight (1996)
Se7en (1995)
Jefferson in Paris (1995)
Mrs. Parker and the Vicious Circle (1994)
Flesh and Bone (1993)
Malice (1993)
Hook (1991)
Shout (1991)

Monica Keena

Monica Keena (born in Brooklyn, New York on May 25, 1979) is an American actress best known as Abby Morgan on Dawson’s Creek.

She has had major roles in such films as Ripe (1996), All I Wanna Do (1998), Crime and Punishment in Suburbia (2000), and Freddy vs. Jason (2003).

She also starred in the short-lived television show Undeclared (2001), as air-headed freshman Rachel Lindquist.

Filmography

Fifty Pills (2005)
Long Distance (2005)
Man of the House (2005)
Freddy vs. Jason (2003)
Orange County (2002)
Undeclared (2001) (TV series)
Crime and Punishment in Suburbia (2000)
The Simian Line (2000)
A Fate Totally Worse Than Death (2000)
First Daughter (1999) (TV)
Strike! (1998)
Devil’s Advocate (1997)
Snow White: A Tale of Terror (1997)
Ripe (1996)
While You Were Sleeping (1995)
A Promise Kept: The Oksana Baiul Story (1994) (TV)

Keira Knightley

Keira Knightley (born March 26, 1985 in Teddington, London, England) is an English actress. She is the daughter of Sharman Macdonald, a Scottish playwright, and Will Knightley, an English actor. Knightley has lived most of her life in Richmond upon Thames.

Career

She started to follow in her parents’ footsteps at an early stage, making her film debut at the age of nine in A Village Affair (1994). Her first major theatrical appearance was as Sabé, Padmé Amidala’s decoy in the 1999 release Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace. Knightley was cast because of her close resemblance to Natalie Portman, who played Padmé. Her first major starring role was as the daughter of Robin Hood in a made-for-TV Walt Disney Productions feature, Princess of Thieves, first telecast in 2001.

Knightley is best known for her breakthrough roles in Bend It Like Beckham and Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl. Bend It Like Beckham was especially physically demanding for Knightley in terms of the intense football training she underwent but opened the way for her into Hollywood. Her role in the blockbuster Pirates cemented her up-and-coming position in international cinema.

In 2004 Knightley appeared in the blockbuster King Arthur, which, although criticised for its numerous historical inaccuracies, was praised by critic Roger Ebert for "the considerable production qualities and the charisma of the actors, who bring more interest to the characters than they deserve", Knightley being described as looking "simultaneously sexy and muddy" fitting in with the current vogue for strong female action heroes (something which Knightley repeated in a modern setting in the 2005 film Domino).

Keira Knightley in King Arthur (2004).Knightley’s dedication to developing herself as an actress rather than a movie star was noted by Time magazine in a 2004 feature. In July 2004, Knightley was voted by readers of Hello! magazine as the movie industry’s most promising teen star. Additionally, Knightley was voted the sexiest movie star of all time by the readers of Empire magazine, leaving behind other stars such as Angelina Jolie, Halle Berry, Charlize Theron, Julia Roberts, Marilyn Monroe and Brigitte Bardot.

In 2005 Knightley starred in the title role of Tony Scott’s film Domino inspired by the life of his friend Domino Harvey, a British born model-turned- L.A. bounty hunter who died in July 2005 of an overdose aged 35. Ebert commented that, although the movie is "fractured and maddening" it is also "alive", praising Knightley for her ability to play a diversity of roles. In contrast to Knightley’s role in the same year of the regency englishwoman Elizabeth Bennett in a film adaption of Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice with Donald Sutherland and Matthew Macfadyen. Recently opening at No.1 in the UK box office, it is her sixth film to do so in her career.

She is currently filming the sequels to the immensely popular Pirates of the Caribbean series, due for release in the summers of 2006 and 2007 respectively. She recently ended her relationship with Irish model Jamie Dornan. She has been awarded Personality Of The Year 2005 by Variety UK, and is widely tipped for either a Golden Globe or Academy Award nomination in 2006 for her portrayal of Elizabeth Bennet in Pride & Prejudice. Beside acting, Knightley is currently modelling for Asprey, a British luxury items company.

Filmography

2007 Pirates of the Caribbean 3 Elizabeth Swann Filming
2006 Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest Elizabeth Swann Filming
2005 Kingdom Hearts 2 Elizabeth Swann (voice) Video Game
2005 Pride and Prejudice Elizabeth Bennet Completed
2005 Domino Domino Harvey
2005 The Jacket Jackie
2004 King Arthur Guinevere
2003 Love Actually Juliet
2003 Gaijin Kate Short film, animated
2003 Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl Elizabeth Swann
2002 The Seasons Alter Helena Short film
2002 Doctor Zhivago Lara Antipova (née Guishar) Miniseries
2002 Pure Louise
2002 Thunderpants Music School Student
2002 Bend It Like Beckham Juliette ‘Jules’ Paxton
2002 New Year’s Eve Leah Short film
2001 Deflation Jogger Short film
2001 The Hole Frances ‘Frankie’ Almond-Smith
2001 Princess of Thieves Gwyn Hood Television movie
1999 Oliver Twist Rose Fleming Miniseries
1999 Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace Sabé
1998 Coming Home Young Judith Dunbar Television movie
1996 Treasure Seekers The Princess Television movie
1995 Innocent Lies Young Celia
1994 A Village Affair Natasha Jordan
1993 Royal Celebration Little Girl Television movie

Colleen Haskell

Colleen Marie Haskell was a contestant on the first season of the American reality show Survivor. She was born December 6, 1976 in Bethesda, Maryland to John and Patricia Haskell. Haskell was a graduate of the University of Georgia.

Haskell was a castaway on the Pagong tribe. She finished in 6th place as the last member of her tribe remaining in the game. Bryant Gumbel tagged her as "America’s Sweetheart" due to her fair play, witty observations and girl next door appearance. She was arguably the most popular castaway from the first season and is still a fan favorite.

In 2001 she starred in the comedic film The Animal, playing Rob Schneider’s love interest. In 2003, she worked as an assistant producer on The Michael Essamy Show.

Haskell’s final words after being voted off were "Play fair, be nice".

Courteney Cox

Courteney Cox Arquette (born Courteney Bass Cox on June 15, 1964 in Birmingham, Alabama) is an American actress, best known for her role in the long-running television series Friends. (While she has occasionally used her full married name professionally, she continues to be generally known simply as Courteney Cox.)

Cox was born to Richard Cox and Courteney Copeland, members of an affluent Southern family. She was raised in Mountain Brook, Alabama. She attended Mountain Brook High School, where she was a cheerleader, tennis player and swimmer. Upon graduation, Cox went to study architecture and interior design at Mount Vernon College. She dropped out after one year to a pursue a modelling career after being signed by the Ford modeling agency in New York City. While modelling, she also took acting classes, and lost her Southern accent.

Cox was the first person to use the word "period" on US TV in its physiological sense, in a 1980s advertising campaign. After coming to prominence in the 1984 music video for Bruce Springsteen’s "Dancing in the Dark" (in which she danced onstage with Springsteen), she appeared in several movies including Masters of the Universe (1987), Cocoon: The Return (1988) and Blue Desert (1991).

Cox had a starring role in the short-lived TV series, Misfits of Science (1985) and later had a recurring role (1987 - 1989) on the television series Family Ties (1982 - 1989).

Cox is best known for playing Monica Geller Bing on the hit TV series Friends (1994 - 2004). She became the only principal member of the show’s cast not to be nominated for an Emmy Award.

Cox has also appeared in many Hollywood films including Ace Ventura: Pet Detective (1994), Scream (1996), Scream 2 (1997), Scream 3 (2000) and 3000 Miles to Graceland (2001). She met actor David Arquette on the set of Scream and the couple married on June 12, 1999. In June 2004 she gave birth to a baby girl, Coco Riley Arquette. Prior to her relationship with Arquette, she had had a relationship with actor Michael Keaton.

Kate Winslet

Kate Elizabeth Winslet (born October 5, 1975 in Reading, Berkshire, England) is an English actress most famous for her role as Rose DeWitt Bukater in the 1997 blockbuster film Titanic.

Her career began on television, with a co-starring role in the BBC children’s science-fiction serial Dark Season in 1991, followed by an appearance in an episode of the medical drama Casualty in 1993, also for the BBC.

Winslet’s film career took off in 1994 when she performed her first leading role as Juliet Hulme in Peter Jackson’s criticly acclaimed Heavenly Creatures. Since then she has acted in several films, such as Sense and Sensibility, Titanic, Iris, Finding Neverland, and Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, earning her four Oscar nominations and four Golden Globes.

Kate Winslet has also enjoyed a brief taste of success as a singer, with her single "What If" from the Christmas Carol: The Movie soundtrack. More recently her musical talents have been shown in her duet with "Weird Al" Yankovic on the Sandra Boynton CD "Dog Train."

On November 22, 1998 Winslet married director Jim Threapleton with whom she has a daughter named Mia Honey. After her divorce in 2001, she began a relationship with director Sam Mendes. Winslet married Mendes on May 24, 2003 on the island of Anguilla in the West Indies and their son Joe Alfie Winslet-Mendes was born on December 22, 2003.

On January 25, 2005 Winslet was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actress in Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind. She eventually lost to Hilary Swank. This tied her for the record for most Academy Award nominations for an actress before the age of 30. This nomination was preceded by nominations for Best Supporting Actress in Sense and Sensibility and Iris. Winslet was also nominated for Best Actress in Titanic, but lost to Helen Hunt. She was also nominated for a BAFTA for Best Actress in that film and in Finding Neverland, but lost to Imelda Staunton.

Her home town of Reading has named a street - Winslet Place - in her honour, built on the site of a demolished cinema.

Winslet is famous for her curvaceous figure, and the media, in England in particular, have enthusiastically documented her weight fluctuations over the years. Winslet, a former anorexic, has been outspoken about her refusal to lose weight in order to conform to the Hollywood "ideal". In February 2003, the British edition of GQ magazine published photographs of Winslet which had been airbrushed to make her look dramatically thinner than she really was; Winslet issued a statement saying that the alterations were made without her consent.

Selected Filmography

2006 Holiday
2006 Flushed Away Rita (voice)
2006 Little Children Sarah Pierce
2006 All the King’s Men Anne Stanton
2005 Romance & Cigarettes Tula
2004 Finding Neverland Sylvia Llewelyn Davies
2004 Pride (TV) Suki (voice)
2004 Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind Clementine Kruczynski
2003 The Life of David Gale Bitsey Bloom
2001 Iris Young Iris Murdoch
2001 Christmas Carol: The Movie Belle (voice)
2001 Enigma Hester Wallace
2000 Quills Madeleine ‘Maddy’ LeClerc
1999 Holy Smoke Ruth Barron
1999 Faeries Brigid (voice)
1998 Hideous Kinky Julia
1997 Titanic Rose DeWitt Bukater
1996 Hamlet Ophelia
1996 Jude Sue Bridehead
1995 Sense and Sensibility Marianne Dashwood
1995 A Kid in King Arthur’s Court Princess Sarah
1994 Heavenly Creatures Juliet Hulme
1991 Dark Season (TV series) Reet