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Tori Spelling

Victoria Davey "Tori" Spelling (born May 16, 1973 in Los Angeles, California, USA) is an American actress best known for her role as Donna Martin in the 1990s teen soap opera Beverly Hills 90210.

The daughter of Jewish American parents Candy Marer and Aaron Spelling, a famed television producer with the ABC network in the 1970s, she appeared in a number of guest roles (mostly in her father’s shows) such as The Love Boat, T.J. Hooker, Hotel, Fantasy Island, Vega$, and Saved by the Bell before landing a regular part in Beverly Hills 90210, a series co-produced by her father and Darren Star.

Often described as having a limited acting range, there was much speculation that she landed the 90210 role through her father’s influence. She claimed to have undergone an audition for the role under an assumed name. Since the series went off the air, Spelling has worked primarily on independent films (often receiving praise for her performances) including Trick and The House of Yes.

Spelling is a graduate of Harvard-Westlake School. Her brother Randy Spelling is also an actor.

In July 2004, Spelling married Armenian-American actor Charlie Shanian in a lavish $1 million wedding. In September 2005 the couple announced their separation after only 14 months of marriage.

Television work

Shooting Stars (1983)
The Three Kings (1987)
Beverly Hills, 90210 (1990-2000)
A Friend to Die For (1994)
Awake to Danger (1995)
Deadly Pursuits (1996)
Co-Ed Call Girl (1996)
Mother, May I Sleep with Danger? (1996)
The Alibi (1997)
So Downtown (2003) (canceled after a few episodes)
A Carol Christmas (2003)
The Family Plan (2005)
Hush (2005)

Filmography

Troop Beverly Hills (1989)
The House of Yes (1997)
Scream 2 (1997)
Perpetrators of the Crime (1998)
Trick (1999)
Sol Goode (2001)
Scary Movie 2 (2001)
Naked Movie (2002)
Evil Alien Conquerors (2002)
50 Ways to Leave Your Lover (2004)

Yasmine

Yasmin Le Bon (nee Parvaneh) (born October 29, 1964) is a British supermodel. She was born in Britain of Iranian and English descent.

She has had a fashion modeling career of unusual longevity, still going strong at 41 years of age.

Although she was a successful model long before they met, she gained notoriety for marrying Simon Le Bon of the electronic pop/rock group Duran Duran during the height of their fame in 1985. The couple have three daughters; Amber Rose Tamara (b. August 25, 1989), Saffron Sahara (b. September 25, 1991), and Tallulah Pine (b. September 10, 1994).

Tara Reid

Tara Reid (born November 8, 1975, Wyckoff, New Jersey) is an American actress and model who has starred in films such as American Pie (1999) and Dr. T & the Women. In 2005, she played the lead in videogame adaptation Alone in the Dark. She is of Irish, English, Hungarian, French, and Italian descent.

Reid began her career at the age of six in 1982 on the short-lived game show Child’s Play. As a child she had roles in a number of commercials for McDonald’s, Crayola, and Jell-O. She grew up in New York City, and attended the Professional Children’s School alongside such celebrities as Ben Taylor, Jerry O’Connell, Sarah Michelle Gellar, and Macaulay Culkin. Reid spent the late 1990s appearing more often on the cover of tabloid magazines than on screen. Her extroverted social life soon gave her a reputation as a party girl — in fact, U.S. magazine In Touch recently voted Reid "top party animal".

Although her breakthrough role was in American Pie in 1999, followers of the 1998 cult film The Big Lebowski already knew her as Bunny Lebowski. She has appeared as J.D.’s (Zach Braff) unfaithful girlfriend in the NBC comedy Scrubs.

On the night of Thursday November 4, 2004, Reid was embarrassed by a wardrobe malfunction at a highly publicized photo shoot at P. Diddy’s thirty-fifth birthday party at Cipriani’s Restaurant in New York when her dress fell, exposing her left breast. Scar tissue was visible around Reid’s nipple, confirming rumors of breast implants. The photographs were widely distributed. In August 2005 she finally admitted having had her breasts augmented. [1]

Her half-hour television show on the E! network, Taradise premiered in September 2005, but was cancelled the following month.

Filmography

A Return to Salem’s Lot (1987)
The Big Lebowski (1998)
Girl (1998)
I Woke Up Early the Day I Died (1998)
Urban Legend (1998)
Cruel Intentions (1999)
Around the Fire (1999)
American Pie (1999)
Body Shots (1999)
Dr. T & the Women (2000)
Just Visiting (2001)
Josie and the Pussycats (2001)
American Pie 2 (2001)
National Lampoon’s Van Wilder (2002)
Devil’s Pond (2003)
My Boss’s Daughter (2003)
Knots (2004)
Alone in the Dark (2005)
Silent Partner (2005)
The Crow: Wicked Prayer (2005)
Incubus (2006) (currently filming)
Land of Canaan (2006) (currently in post-production)

Teri Hatcher

Teri Lynn Hatcher (born December 8, 1964 in Sunnyvale, California) is an American actress. She gained attention for her role as Lois Lane in the television series Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman, and has achieved her greatest fame and acclaim starring in the show Desperate Housewives.

Hatcher’s father was a nuclear physicist and her mother was a computer scientist (both of English descent). She attended Fremont High School in Sunnyvale. In 1994, she married actor Jon Tenney; they had a daughter, Emerson Rose, and later divorced.

Career

Hatcher began her performing career as a young girl taking ballet lessons at the San Juan girls’ ballet studio in downtown Los Altos before studying acting at the American Conservatory Theater. One of her early jobs was as a San Francisco 49ers cheerleader/dancer in 1984. During this time she appeared as one of the mermaids on the show The Love Boat in its final season.

While probably most noted for playing Lois Lane in the TV series Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman, she was also in Spy Kids, the 1997 James Bond film Tomorrow Never Dies, and many other films. She has also made guest appearances in Star Trek: The Next Generation and Seinfeld, and had a recurring role in MacGyver as his young friend, Penny Parker. Hatcher also appeared in a series of popular Radio Shack television commercials alongside NFL Hall of Famer Howie Long.

In 1997, Hatcher was voted "Sexiest Woman in the World" by the readers of FHM.

She now stars as the single mother Susan Mayer on ABC’s Desperate Housewives, a role for which she won the Best Actress in a Musical or Comedy Golden Globe Award in January 2005. In July 2005, she was nominated for an Emmy Award in the Best Actress in a Comedy Series category for the same role, along with co-stars Felicity Huffman and Marcia Cross, with Huffman the eventual winner.

Film and television roles

1985 The Love Boat Amy, Loveboat Mermaid television series; cast member from 1985 to 1986
1986 MacGyver Penny Parker TV series; guest starring in six episodes between 1986 and 1990
1986 Capitol Angelica Stimac Clegg television series; cast member from 1986 to 1987
1987 Karen’s Song Laura Matthews television series
1987 Night Court Kitty TV series; guest starring in the episode "Who Was That Mashed Man?"
1988 CBS Summer Playhouse Lauri Stevens TV series; guest starring in the episode "Baby on Board"
1988 Star Trek: The Next Generation Lt. Bronwyn Gail Robinson TV series; guest starring in the episode "The Outrageous Okona"
1989 The Big Picture Gretchen
1989 L.A. Law Tracy Shoe TV series; guest starring in the episode "I’m in the Nude for Love"
1989 Quantum Leap Donna Eleese TV series; guest starring in the episode "Star-Crossed"
1990 Murphy Brown Madeline Stillwell TV series; guest starring in the episode "Fax or Fiction"
1990 Tales from the Crypt Stacy TV series; guest starring in the episode "The Thing from the Grave"
1991 Tango & Cash Katherine ‘Kiki’ Tango
1991 The Brotherhood Teresa Gennaro made-for-TV movie
1991 Soapdish Ariel Maloney
1991 Sunday Dinner TT Fagori television series
1991 Dead in the Water Laura Stewart made-for-TV movie
1991 The Exile Marissa TV series; guest starring in the episode "Eclipse"
1992 Straight Talk Janice
1993 All Tied Up Linda Alissio straight-to-video
1993 Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman Lois Lane television series (1993 – 1997)
1993 Brain Smasher… A Love Story Samantha Crain straight-to-video
1993 Seinfeld Sidra TV series; guest starring in three episodes between 1993 and 1998
1994 The Cool Surface Dani Payson
1996 Dead Girl Passer-by
1996 Heaven’s Prisoners Claudette Rocque
1996 2 Days in the Valley Becky Foxx
1997 Tomorrow Never Dies Paris Carver
1998 Since You’ve Been Gone Maria Goldstein made-for-TV movie
1998 Frasier Marie TV series; guest starring in the episode "First Do No Harm"
1999 Fever Charlotte Parker
2000 Running Mates Shawna Morgan made-for-TV movie
2001 Say Uncle made-for-TV movie
2001 Spy Kids Ms. Gradenko
2001 Jane Doe Jane Doe made-for-TV movie
2003 A Touch of Fate Megan Marguilas
2003 Momentum Jordan Ripps Sci-Fi Channel made-for-TV movie
2004 Desperate Housewives Susan Mayer television series (2004 – present)
2004 Two and a Half Men Liz TV series; guest starring in the episode "I Remember the Coatroom,
I Just Don’t Remember You"

Jessica Simpson

Jessica Ann Simpson (born July 10, 1980) is an American Pop singer who rose to fame during the late 1990s. She starred with Nick Lachey in the MTV reality show Newlyweds, released her own line of beauty products called Dessert, and started a career as an actress with appearances in the TV series That ’70s Show and in the film The Dukes of Hazzard.

Beginning

Simpson was born in Abilene, Texas and raised in Richardson, a suburb of Dallas, Texas. She is the daughter of Joe Truett Simpson (a former Baptist youth minister) and Tina Ann Drew (a former Sunday School teacher). She has a younger sister, Ashlee, who launched her own music career in mid-2004. Jessica started singing at the age of twelve as a part of her Baptist church choir. At the same age, she made an unsuccessful application for The New Mickey Mouse Club, which starred fellow pop singers Christina Aguilera, Britney Spears and Justin Timberlake, among other future stars.

Jessica attended J.J. Pearce High School in Richardson, Texas. Simpson was discovered singing at a church camp by a head of a small contemporary Christian record label and recorded an album over the next three years; however, the label folded before the record could be released. She dropped out in her senior year in order to tour and promote her demo album, which was funded by her grandmother, Joyce (thus the reason for the name of her 2004 holiday album, Rejoyce: The Christmas Album); she later earned her GED. During this time, she toured with the Christian Youth Conference circuit performing with Kirk Franklin, God’s Property and CeCe Winans. She and her father sold copies of the album after her performances.

Tommy Mottola of Columbia Records obtained a copy of the album and, thinking she had potential as a pop singer, signed her as such. Christian influences can still be found in much of her music.

Music career

Sweet Kisses

On November 23, 1999, Jessica released her debut pop album Sweet Kisses, which reached a peak of number twenty-five on the U.S. Billboard 200 chart and also made the top forty of the U.K. charts. The album proved to be a success, selling two million copies in the U.S. Her first single, the Platinum-selling "I Wanna Love You Forever," reached the top five of the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 singles chart and the top ten in Canada and the U.K. in late 1999. Her second single, a duet with then-boyfriend, now-husband Nick Lachey of 98 Degrees, "Where You Are," was a modest radio hit. The last single from the album, the John Mellencamp-sampled "I Think I’m in Love with You," was a top forty hit in the U.S. and a top twenty hit in Canada and the U.K. In 2000, Simpson won two Teen Choice Awards for Choice Breakout Artist and Love Song of the Year ("Where You Are").

Irresistible

Simpson’s second album, Irresistible, released on June 5, 2001, reached the top ten of the Billboard 200 and top twenty of the Canadian album charts. Despite this improvement, the album’s sales were less than satisfactory; to date, it has only managed to be certified Gold in the U.S. for selling over 500,000 copies. The title track lead single, "Irresistible," reached the top twenty in the U.S., Canada, and the U.K., as well as the top forty in Australia and Switzerland. A follow-up single entitled "A Little Bit" was also released, but failed to achieve much success apart from reaching the top twenty in Portugal.

Between her second and third albums, Simpson released a collection of remixes entitled This Is the Remix on July 2, 2002. However, the collection failed to even chart on the Billboard 200.

In This Skin

Coinciding with Newlyweds, her third album, In This Skin, was released on August 19, 2003. On a whole, the record featured a much more mature sound compared to her earlier releases. Though the album initially was not a huge success, it got its chance to rebound on the charts when a special collector’s edition was released on March 2, 2004. This helped Skin to reach a peak of number two on the Billboard 200 and the top forty of the U.K. charts, due largely in part to the success of Newlyweds. The album eventually proved to be her most successful, selling three million copies in the U.S. and allowing her teetering music career a second chance. The first single from the album was a cover of Diane Warren’s "Sweetest Sin"; the song was not very successful, however, and caused a setback in sales of Skin early on. The follow-up single, the Gold-selling "With You," enjoyed much more success, and has gone on to become her signature song and arguably most successful single. The song reached the top ten in the U.K. and the top twenty in the U.S. and Australia, as well as on world adult charts. The third single, a cover of Berlin’s "Take My Breath Away," also reached the top twenty in the U.S. A cover version of Robbie Williams’ "Angels" was released as the fourth and final single from the album.

After the double success of her reality show and In This Skin, Simpson began to bank on her new-found popularity by releasing a line of edible beauty products called Dessert Beauty and Dessert Treats. She has also unleashed her own clothing line called JS, which is named after her own initials.

And the Band Played On

Jessica’s next album, And the Band Played On, is set to be released sometime in 2006. It has been described as having "a little bit of everything in it," and it will sound like "Billie Holiday, Patsy Cline, Stevie Nicks — it’s all over the place. But then there’s songs for us girls to dance to in the club," according to Simpson. Information has it that the lead single off the album will be "Fired Up," a song written by Simpson and Scott Storch, who described the song as Jessica’s "Dirrty." It has been rumored that the track is to be produced by Lil’ Jon. For the first time, Simpson has participated for much of the process of the creation of the album; she has registered a number of new songs on ASCAP.com and is also the executive producer of the album.

Reality Show

Jessica and Nick Lachey.On October 26, 2002 Simpson married Nick Lachey. Simpson famously announced that she remained a virgin until her wedding night, making Lachey the only man she had been with. During the summer of 2003, Simpson and husband Lachey’s reality show Newlyweds began airing on MTV. Though Simpson was moderately famous before the series began, the show is considered responsible for transforming her into a star. However, on November 23, 2005, Simpson and Lachey officially announced their separation in a joint statement.

Throughout the run of three seasons, she often appeared as a stereotype of a dumb blonde, notably when she asked whether the Chicken of the Sea tuna she was eating was chicken or fish, and when she thought that buffalo wings were made from actual buffalo. Her apparent stupidity made the show a huge hit, making the average rating for each episode about 1.4 million viewers. When introduced to Interior Secretary Gale Norton, Simpson responded: "You’ve done a nice job decorating the White House."

Banking on the success of her new popularity, she appeared on a variety show with Lachey on the ABC called the Nick and Jessica Variety Hour on April 11, 2004. A pilot for a sitcom on ABC was also planned, but was rejected by network executives in May 2004. During that summer, Simpson won three Teen Choice Awards for Female Fashion Icon, Hottie Female, and Female Reality/Variety TV Star, further proving that Newlyweds had greatly strengthened her overall popularity. In 2005, the series won a People’s Choice Award for Favorite Reality Show. Shortly after, Newlyweds wrapped.

Movie Career

Jessica in The Dukes Of Hazzard.During the summer of 2005, Simpson made her her big screen debut as Daisy Duke in The Dukes of Hazzard. The film debuted at number one in the box office charts, grossing more than thirty million USD. One of the tracks off the soundtrack for the film, "These Boots Are Made for Walkin’," was sung by none other than Simpson. It peaked within in the top twenty in the U.S., but made it well into the top ten in other countries such as the U.K. and Australia, making it arguably Simpson’s biggest international hit. The provocative music video for the single also earned itself quite a bit of media attention.

In the aftermath of Dukes, Simpson’s fans noticed her buttocks flattening. Speculation abounded as to the cause of her disappearing behind. The general consensus is that it resulted from a change in diet and exercise regimen.

Jessica Simpson is also rumoured to become the next Bond Girl in the upcoming James Bond film, Casino Royale starring Daniel Craig as James Bond.

Separation

In November 2005, after months of speculation, Simpson and Lachey officially announced that they had separated, though reports stopped short of the couple indicating a divorce. However, later that month it was confirmed that they will indeed get a divorce. Nick and Jessica did not sign a prenuptial agreement, thus leaving Nick free to receive half of her net worth under California law. Last year alone she grossed $35 million dollars. Joint Statement

Discography

Sweet Kisses
Released: November 23, 1999 (U.S.)
Chart Positions: #25 U.S., #36 U.K.
U.S. Sales: 2.1 Million
RIAA Certification: 2x Platinum

Singles:
1999: "I Wanna Love You Forever" — #3 U.S., #7 U.K., #9 CAN
2000: "Where You Are" (featuring Nick Lachey) — #62 U.S.
2000: "I Think I’m in Love With You" — #21 U.S., #15 U.K., #1 CAN

Irresistible
Released: June 5, 2001 (U.S.)
Chart Positions: #6 U.S., #13 CAN
U.S. Sales: 800,000
RIAA Certification: Gold

Singles:
2001: "Irresistible" — #15 U.S., #11 U.K., #16 CAN
2001: "A Little Bit"

This Is the Remix
Released: July 2, 2002 (U.S.)
Chart Positions:
U.S. Sales: N/A
RIAA Certification: Uncertified

In This Skin
Released: August 19, 2003 (U.S.) (Original)/ April 2, 2004 (U.S.) (Re-release)
Chart Positions: #2 U.S., #36 U.K.
U.S. Sales: 2.9 Million
RIAA Certification: 3x Platinum

Singles:
2003: "Sweetest Sin"
2004: "With You" — #14 U.S., #7 U.K., #4 AUS
2004: "Take My Breath Away" — #20 U.S., #7 U.K., #4 AUS
2004: "Angels" — #106 U.S., #27 AUS

Rejoyce: The Christmas Album
Released: November 23, 2004 (U.S.)
Chart Positions: #14 U.S.
U.S. Sales: 540,000
RIAA Certification: Gold

Singles:
2004: "Let It Snow, Let It Snow, Let It Snow"
2004: "What Christmas Means to Me"

And The Band Played On
Released: TBA (U.S.)
Chart Positions: TBD
U.S. Sales: TBD
RIAA Certification: TBD

Singles:
2005: "These Boots Are Made for Walkin’" #14 U.S., #4 U.K., #2 AUS

Filmography

2005: The Dukes of Hazzard

Jaime Pressly

Jaime Elizabeth Pressly (born July 30, 1977) is an American model and actress.

Pressly was born in Kinston, North Carolina, USA to James Liston Pressly and Brenda Sue Smith. Her mother was a classical dance instructor which lead to Pressly’s studying of gymnastics and dancing in her youth which continued for 11 years. By the time she was 14, she was already the spokesperson for her modeling agency, International Cover Model Search and had begun to gain recognition for modeling both in the United States as well as in Italy and Japan. Pressly had herself legally emancipated from her parents at the age of 15.

Pressly worked as Drew Barrymore’s body double in the film Poison Ivy. As a result, she was offered the lead in the 1997 sequel, Poison Ivy: The New Seduction.

Pressly’s first real taste of success came in 1999, when she was cast as the promiscuous dancer Audrey on the television show, Jack and Jill.

In 2001 she was made the new spokesmodel for Liz Claiborne Cosmetics and its fragrance Lucky You.

Pressly also starred in Poor White Trash playing scheming gold-digger Sandy Lake. Poor White Trash was written by Michael Addis and Tony Urban and plays frequently on Comedy Central. It was named one of the top 10 overlooked films of 2001 by Reel.com.

Pressly is currently part of the cast of the NBC sitcom My Name is Earl.

Outside of acting, Pressly has posed nude for the March 1998 and February 2004 issues of Playboy and performed with The Pussycat Dolls.

One persistent rumor is that Pressly married a man named Brodie Mitchell in 1998. Pressly, who has never married, has stated she has heard of Mitchell but does not know him. Mitchell apparently has made enough claims about being married to Pressly that some sources have reported it as fact.

Quotes

"I don’t want to be the Hollywood girl… I’m Southern and old-fashioned."

Selected filmography

Poison Ivy: The New Seduction (1997)
The Journey: Absolution (1997)
Against the Law (1997)
Mercenary (1997) (TV movie)
Push (1998) (TV series)
Can’t Hardly Wait (1998)
Ringmaster (1998)
Trash (1999)
Coyote Moon (1999) (Direct to Video)
Jack and Jill (1999) (TV series)
100 Girls (2000)
Poor White Trash (2000)
Best Actress (2000) (TV movie)
Joe Dirt (2001)
Not Another Teen Movie (2001)
Ticker (2001)
Tomcats (2001)
Footprints (2002)
Demon Island (2002)
Johnny Chronicles (2002) (TV movie)
Torque (2004)
Evel Knievel (2004) (TV movie)
The Karate Dog (2004)
Death to the Supermodels (2005)
My Name Is Earl (2005) (TV series)
Venus & Vegas (2006)
DOA: Dead or Alive (2006)

Her appearances in Playboy Special Editions

Playboy’s Book of Lingerie Vol. 58 November 1997 - Michael Bisco, pages 56-59.
Playboy’s Book of Lingerie Vol. 62 July 1998 - pages 32-33.
Playboy’s Nudes December 1998 - pages 16-17.
Playboy’s Sexy 100 February 2003.

Britney Spears

Britney Jean Spears (born December 2, 1981) is an iconic American pop singer, songwriter and dancer. Her career encompasses chart-topping records, high-profile advertising, and forays into acting and reality television. She remains very popular throughout the world despite some controversy surrounding the perceived sexual nature of her music and image.

Biography

Childhood and discovery

Born to Jamie Spears, a building contractor, and Lynne Bridges, a grade school teacher, in McComb, Mississippi, USA and raised in Kentwood, Louisiana, Spears performed in local dance revues and church choirs as a young girl, and was auditioning for the Disney Channel’s New Mickey Mouse Club by the age of eight years old. Although she was too young to join the series at that time, a producer on the show introduced her to a New York agent; she subsequently spent three summers at the Professional Performing Arts School Center and also appeared in a number of off-Broadway productions, including 1991’s pop hit Ruthless!along with actress Natalie Portman. In 1992 she landed a spot on Star Search and though she won the first round, she was beaten by another contestant in the second.

Spears then returned to the Disney Channel for a spot on the New Mickey Mouse Club and was accepted. She was featured for two years between the ages of eleven and thirteen during the 1993 and 1994 seasons. Her castmates on the show included Justin Timberlake and Joshua Chasez (who later became members of the pop group *NSYNC), Keri Russell (star of the TV show Felicity), fellow pop singer Christina Aguilera, and actor Ryan Gosling.

Before long, Spears had recorded a demo tape, which eventually landed in the hands of a Jive Records executive. She was quickly signed to their label and began touring American venues for a series of concerts sponsored by U.S. teen magazines before joining *NSYNC and becoming their opening act. It was at this time that Spears became romantically involved with Timberlake.

1998-2001: Early commercial success

…Baby One More Time is Spears’ most commercially successful album both in the U.S. and internationally.By late 1998, Spears’ debut single "…Baby One More Time" was beginning to impact radio stations and MTV. Led by a music video that featured the 5′4" brown-eyed bottle blonde dressed as a racy schoolgirl, among other belly-baring outfits that would soon become her trademark, the song became an international success, earning Platinum sales and going to number one in the U.S., as well as the United Kingdom, Canada and Australia, among many other countries.

Her debut album of the same name, …Baby One More Time, topped the LP charts in Canada and the U.S. for six non-consecutive weeks. Within a year of the record’s release, the album had become the best-selling LP by a teenager in history, spawned two U.S. top ten hits (in "…Baby" and "(You Drive Me) Crazy") and shipped over ten million copies in the U.S. alone; it would go on to ship another four million copies on top of this.

In April of 1999, she was featured on the cover of Rolling Stone magazine. The sexually suggestive Lolita-themed photo spread began a whirlwind of rumors that the still-seventeen-year-old had gotten breast implants. These claims were denied by Spears’ camp, and seemed to have little impact on the young starlet’s rising popularity.

That summer, she kicked off her first headlining tour, titled the …Baby One More Time Tour. By late 1999, Britney Spears had become one of the year’s biggest stars, a claim backed-up in the amount of award nominations she received that season. In December, she took home four Billboard Music Awards, including Female Artist of the Year, and the next month won for Favorite Pop/Rock New Artist at the American Music Awards.

At the Grammys held in February 2000, Spears received two nominations, including one for Best New Artist. She performed her signature song "…Baby One More Time" and her then-current single, the top twenty hit "From the Bottom of My Broken Heart" at the show, but went home empty-handed, losing the aforementioned award to fellow ex-mouseketeer Christina Aguilera.

After the short-lived Crazy 2K Tour and just two months after her debut began to die down in steam, Spears was ready to release the lead single off her sophomore effort. "Oops!… I Did It Again" broke a record for most radio station adds in a single day and quickly became a U.S. top ten hit and number one single in other countries, including the U.K. and Australia.

Oops!… I Did It Again became a massive commercial success upon its 2000 release.Released in May 2000, Oops!… I Did It Again also debuted at number one in the U.S. and Canada, and was a similarly huge hit like her debut. It sold over 1.3 million units during its first week in the U.S., making it the fastest-selling album by a female artist in history. Within a year of release, it had shipped over nine million copies in the U.S. alone (and would go on to ship another million on top of that).

That summer was another busy one for Spears, as she kicked off her first world tour (titled the Oops!… I Did It Again World Tour) and also became an author after co-writing the novel Britney Spears’ Heart-to-Heart with her mother Lynne. At the annual MTV Video Music Awards, she gave a lip-synched performance of "Oops!… I Did It Again" and The Rolling Stones’ classic hit, "(I Can’t Get No) Satisfaction." During her performance, she ripped off a black suit to reveal a provocative nude-colored and crystal-adorned stage costume that caused quite a bit of controversy, seeing as the singer was only eighteen at the time.

Through the year, the top thirty "Lucky" and top twenty "Stronger" kept Britney on the charts. In late 2000, she won two Billboard Music Awards (one of which honored her for breaking the record for one week album sales by a female artist). Then, in early 2001, she hosted the American Music Awards, performed "Stronger" at the ceremony and was also nominated twice. At the Grammys, one of her two nominations was for Oops!… I Did It Again in the category of Best Pop Vocal Album. Again, however, she did not win.

2001-2004: Artistic development

In early 2001, she struck a $7-8 million USD promotional deal with the soft drink giant Pepsi; her first commercial for them premiered during the 2001 Academy Awards. She then released the follow-up novel to Britney Spears’ Heart-to-Heart, with this one being entitled A Mother’s Gift.

Britney was viewed as a developmental milestone in Spears’ music.In September 2001, Britney again performed at the MTV Video Music Awards. This time around, she was dressed in one of her usual revealing outfits, drenched in ’sweat’ and on a jungle stage environment. She lip-synched her new single "I’m a Slave 4 U" and danced around the stage with an albino snake. Along with another blitz of media attention, she was also criticized by the PETA organization for her use of animals (both the snake and four cheetahs) as a part of her performance.

In November 2001, she released her third album, Britney. It debuted at number one on both the U.S. and Canadian charts, selling over 745,000 units during its first week in the U.S. This made her the only female artist in SoundScan history to have her first three albums debut at number one. Over four million copies of the record have been sold in the U.S. alone , and while this is by no means low, these figures can not compare to the sales of her first two albums. Britney also failed to spawn any U.S. top ten hits; in fact, the only successful single released from the album was "I’m a Slave 4 U," which became a top thirty hit. This album is also notable for being the first of which Spears really began to take some creative control; she co-wrote five of the album’s tracks. At the same time the album was released, Spears set off on her next world tour: the Dream Within a Dream Tour.

In 2002, Spears starred in a movie, Crossroads, which reached number two in its first week at the box-office charts, but quickly dropped from sight. Songs from the album Britney appeared in the film. Spears’ performance was very badly received by critics, and she netted herself a Razzie Award for Worst Actress, tied with Madonna. One of the tracks from Britney, "I’m Not a Girl, Not Yet a Woman," also won the Worst Original Song award, and in 2005 Spears was again ‘honored’ by the Golden Raspberry judges when she was proclaimed Worst Supporting Actress for her cameo role in the documentary Fahrenheit 9/11, which showed her response to a CNN interview question by Tucker Carlson, regarding her political views during the then-impending 2003 invasion of Iraq.

On another sour note, Spears’ five-year relationship with Justin Timberlake ended at this time. The break-up became a very publicized event on the news and in the tabloids, with Britney rumored to have been unfaithful.

In June 2002, Spears branched out as a restaurateur with the opening of a New York City eatery, NYLA; but the venture was not a success, and the restaurant closed in 2003. A couple of months later, she took a break from the spotlight, and in 2003 many music industry critics speculated her career was in decline. That same year, Spears was nominated for two Grammys yet again, including Best Pop Vocal Album for Britney.

It would not be until August 2003 that Britney truly resurfaced on the music scene. That month, she appeared in perhaps her most controversial performance to date with her idol Madonna, pop contemporary Christina Aguilera and rapper Missy Elliott. Spears and Aguilera performed Madonna’s classic hit "Like a Virgin," danced suggestively and then each locked lips with the pop icon. In particuliar, the kiss between Madonna and Britney launched a huge media coverage that would last for months.

In the Zone is generally perceived as Spears’ most overtly sexual album to-date.In November 2003, In the Zone was released. Jettisoning the Max Martin-produced synth-pop of her earlier releases, the album took in lesser-known producers such as RedZone, as well as such big names as Moby and R. Kelly. Spears co-wrote eight of the album’s thirteen songs and also helped with producing for the first time. Zone rose straight to the top of the U.S. charts in its debut week, making Spears the only female in music history to have her first four albums debut at number one. The record has sold close to three million copies in the U.S. and spawned the international number one and U.S. top ten hit "Toxic." The single struck gold not only commercially, but also critically as it helped Spears win her first Grammy in the category of Best Dance Recording.

On January 3, 2004, Spears married her childhood friend Jason Allen Alexander at The Little White Wedding Chapel on the Las Vegas Strip in Las Vegas, Nevada. An annulment was promptly arranged and was granted on January 5, ending their fifty-five hour marriage.

In March, Spears embarked on her fourth world tour, The Onyx Hotel Tour, which grossed over $34 million USD and was seen by over 600,000 fans in North America and Europe. In June, she cancelled the remaining dates of her tour after reportedly injuring her knee during the filming of the video for her single "Outrageous." That same month, Spears, 22, announced her engagement to dancer Kevin Federline, 26. Federline was formerly in a relationship with actress Shar Jackson, with whom he has two children.

On the night of September 18, 2004, Spears married Federline before twenty-seven guests in a private, non-denominational ceremony at a residence in Studio City, California. Spears wore a strapless, white silk gown by Monique Lhuillier and Federline wore a black tux by Jeff Fox at Scott Hill. The wedding party famously donned sweatsuits after the ceremony and ventured out to an L.A. nightclub for an afterparty of drinking, dancing and full-on partying until after 2 a.m. The legitimacy of the marriage was initially questioned, but on November 18, 2004 a representative of the Los Angeles County registrar’s office confirmed Spears and Federline had successfully filed their marriage license with the county within ten days of their ceremony and were therefore legally married.

2004 - present: "Career hiatus"

"Curious" perfume promotion, at the Toronto Eaton Centre.During the latter half of 2004, Spears announced she would be taking another career break in order to start a family. Though she stopped making many public appearances, the ‘Britney Spears industry’ seemed to continue running itself.

In September 2004, she released her first fragrance, "Curious" (a floral scent with vanilla and musk), for which she earned a reported $12 million USD. The fragrance had the biggest debut in sales in history from Elizabeth Arden, breaking the record for first-week gross for a perfume; after one year of sales, the product has netted more than $100 million USD. In addition, the perfume ended up as the number one fragrance of 2004 in department stores, and in 2005, "Curious" was honored by the Fragrance Foundation, naming it Best Women’s Fragrance. Following the success of "Curious," Spears released her next Elizabeth Arden fragrance, "Fantasy" (a fruity scent with flowers and cupcake), in September 2005.

Greatest Hits: My Prerogative.On November 9, 2004, Spears released her first hits collection: Greatest Hits: My Prerogative. The album debuted at number four on the U.S. charts (becoming Spears’ first album to not debut at number one domestically), selling over 255,000 copies in its first week of release; since hitting shelves, the set has sold over a million copies in the States. The collection includes all of her biggest hits, such as "…Baby One More Time," "Oops!… I Did It Again," and "Toxic," as well as two new songs and a cover of Bobby Brown’s "My Prerogative," which was featured as the lead single. A second single entitled "Do Somethin’" was released in early 2005.

On May 17, 2005 Spears’ reality show with husband Kevin Federline, entitled Britney and Kevin: Chaotic, premiered on UPN. In total, the series included five episodes that debuted weekly every Tuesday at 9PM ET/PT up until the hour-long finale on June 14, 2005. Both Spears and Federline were credited as executive producers. The series was panned by most critics, and ratings were not as high as expected.

On September 14, 2005, the 6lb. 11oz. baby boy Sean Preston Federline was born in the Santa Monica UCLA Medical Center in Santa Monica, California by an elective caesarean section. On November 22, Britney released a remix album entitled B in the Mix, The Remixes.

Controversy

Spears’ success has rested on a mixed fanbase. Some parents of young daughters have ambivalent or even negative feelings towards Britney Spears. To many critics, the singer has combined a very raunchy public image with a major marketing "play" for the hearts, minds and pockets of prepubescent girls, often as young as seven or eight. The sexualization of such girls is arguably a trend that is visible elsewhere in popular culture, for example in the film and fashion industries.

This has raised the question of how fast girls or young teens should move from childhood towards an early emotional adolescence. Some parents may worry that Britney Spears provides an unsuitable role model for their daughters’ lives and career plans.

In October 2003, Maryland First Lady Kendel Ehrlich, the wife of Governor Robert Ehrlich, was criticized for saying she would like to "shoot Britney Spears" in an address to a domestic violence conference. After her comments made national headlines, she was compelled to apologize.

The sexualized public image of Britney Spears once again became a topic of debate as a result of her 2003 semi-nude photo spread for the men’s magazine, Esquire. Prompted by this, Playboy reportedly offered the star over a million USD to pose nude for their magazine. Spears has publicly declined the offer.

One of the more common criticisms linked with Spears is that of lip-synching; she is often seen doing such at her concert tours and award show performances. Most critics and musicians (at least in public) express a negative view on this way of performing, arguing that live entertainment should literally be what it suggests, singing included. Some argue that Britney, like other performers, can’t practically sing while being engaged in complicated and demanding dance moves. Also, some see it as little different than lip-synching in music videos, which is standard. Also, defenders will distinguish between lip-synching to one’s own pre-recorded music (which is widely conceded) and lip-synching to music sung entirely by others (which is denied and disputed).

The 2004 Onyx Hotel Tour brought new criticism. While Spears and her on-stage dancers performed her songs "Touch of My Hand" and "Breathe on Me," they were seemingly nude and were performing explicit routines simulating gay sex, orgies and masturbation. Given that some underage fans were in the audience, there was some outrage at the lack of subtlety of the performances, and there were reports of adult chaperones angrily storming out with children they brought to the concert.

While young girls seldom address this debate in the same terms as their parents, many are divided on whether they consider Britney Spears appealing, especially in the light of more recent developments in her career. For her part, Spears has responded to their concerns by stating she is "not their babysitter. It’s the parents’ responsibility. If you don’t like it, turn the T.V. off. The only person I want to be a role model is to my sister, Jamie Lynn." (From ABC’s Primetime interview with Diane Sawyer).

The criticisms leveled against Spears are similar to those Madonna received at the start of her career. Indeed, Madonna’s early fans belonged to a similar demographic to Spears’ current fanbase. Spears’ show-stealing kiss with Madonna at the 2003 MTV Video Music Awards received much media attention, as have her recent marriages. Her provocative image and, ironically, seemingly down-to-earth personality have both equally contributed to her success. Many have compared Spears to a young Madonna.

In common with a number of other popular female figures in show business, Britney Spears’ private life has attracted considerable media attention. Indeed, some people feel she has courted it by cultivating, in her early years at least, a chaste, God-fearing and "wholesome" image somewhat at odds, not only with the traditional pressures, temptations and opportunities of "pop ‘n’ roll", but with the increasingly sexualized content of her own songs. Regardless of where the responsibility for the gossip industry surrounding the pop star lies, Spears’ public response has been to repeatedly express regret and resentment at the intrusive media coverage.

Career achievements

According to the VH1 special "The Fabulous Life Of… Britney & Kevin" and TIME, Spears has sold over seventy-six million records worldwide.

Having thirty-one million RIAA-certified albums in the U.S., Spears ranks as the eighth best-selling female artist in American Music history.

Only female artist in SoundScan history to have her first three albums debut at number one on the Billboard 200 chart. She then broke her own record when her fourth album debuted at number one.

In the U.S., Spears, Madonna, Céline Dion, Mariah Carey, Whitney Houston, Shania Twain and the Dixie Chicks are the only female artists with multiple diamond (shipped over ten million copies) albums (Spears has two: …Baby One More Time and Oops!… I Did It Again).
Artist with the most retired videos on TRL U.S. with a total of fifteen.

Broke the record for youngest artist (at age seventeen) to have his or her first single ("…Baby One More Time") reach number one on the Billboard Hot 100.

Broke the record for youngest artist (at age seventeen) to have his or her first single ("…Baby One More Time") and first album (…Baby One More Time) simultaneously reach number one on the Billboard charts.

…Baby One More Time is the best-selling album by a teenager in history.

"…Baby One More Time" is the twenty-fourth best-selling single of all time in the U.K.
Holds the record for biggest first-week album sales by a female artist in history (1.3 million copies) for Oops!… I Did It Again.

Broke the record in the U.K. for biggest first-week sales for a greatest hits compilation by a female artist (115,341 copies) with Greatest Hits: My Prerogative.

Has grossed over $145 million USD from tour ticket sales.

Broke the record for first-week gross for a fragrance with "Curious." "Curious" also went on to become the biggest-selling fragrance of 2004. To-date, "Curious" has grossed over $100 million USD worldwide.

Has grossed over $30 million USD in merchandise from her tours.

Trivia

Britney’s younger sister, Jamie Lynn Spears, is currently starting a career as an entertainer in the Nickelodeon shows All That and Zoey 101; Britney herself wrote the theme song "Follow Me" for Zoey 101, though it is sung by Jamie Lynn. Zoey 101 drew record numbers with the premiere of the show which gave the kids channel 1.6 million viewers age 9-14 — its biggest viewership in that demographic for a premiere in eight years. Her older brother, Bryan Spears, is one of her co-managers. Britney’s parents, Jamie and Lynne, have divorced.

One of Spears’ best friends, Jenny, was in the unsuccessful girl-group Innosense. Spears was also a member of the group, but she left and debuted as a solo artist before the band released their first record. One of Britney’s closest friends is Felicia Culotta, her assistant.

Is an accomplished gymnast (she did a backflip for the "…Baby One More Time" video and several for the New Mickey Mouse Club).

In 2001, her supposed death in a car crash was announced on the radio by two Texas DJs as a joke; the radio station was subsequently sued.

Spears publicly declared that she was a virgin early in her career and would like to remain one until marriage, but after her split from Justin Timberlake he revealed that this was no longer true. Spears has been quoted as saying, "I thought he was the one".

In 2002, Forbes named Spears the most powerful celebrity in the world.

For the movie Chicago, producer Harvey Weinstein wanted Spears for the role that eventually went to Lucy Liu. Britney was also offered a role in Scary Movie but was forced to turn it down, due to concert scheduling. She was considered for the part of Allie Hamilton in The Notebook, but was beat out by Rachel McAdams.

Is a good friend of Sarah Michelle Gellar and was asked to appear in the Buffy the Vampire Slayer episode I Was Made to Love You. She could not appear due to scheduling conflicts and the role eventually went to Shonda Farr who also did a voice in the Britney’s Dance Beat video game.

Topped FHM magazine’s 2004 U.S. and world polls for sexiest woman.

In May 2004 Spears had a Hebrew tattoo (מהש) inked into the nape of her neck. She was under the impression that it meant "new era", while a more scholarly reading would be "protection". A source said, "She’s taken Kabbalah pretty seriously and this was a big deal for her." This echoes a similar incident in 2003 when Spears was informed by her friend, actress Taryn Manning, that her hip tattoo (the Japanese Kanji character 奇) read "strange" rather than "mysterious" (see Wiktionary).

Her numerous other tattoos include pink dies on her forearm and kevin has tattood blue dice.She also has a butterfly tattoo.

In September 2004, Forbes estimated Spears’ net worth at $275 million USD.
Cites Marilyn Monroe as one of her idols.
Has hosted Saturday Night Live twice and been a musical guest three times. Spears also had a notable guest appearance with former cast member, Will Ferrell, in 2003.

Filmography

1990s Ruthless! Off-Broadway
1993/1994 The New Mickey Mouse Club Herself
1999 Longshot Flight Attendant Cameo
2002 Crossroads Lucy Wagner
2002 Austin Powers in Goldmember Herself Cameo
2007 In the Pink Drew Heart Pre-production

Miscellaneous

Books

2000 Britney Spears’ Heart-to-Heart
2001 A Mother’s Gift
2002 Stages
2003 Britney Spears’ Crossroads Diary

DVDs

1999 Time Out with Britney Spears 3x Platinum
2001 Britney Spears - Live and More! 4 3x Platinum
2001 Britney - The Videos 1 (Debut/2 weeks) 2x Platinum
2002 Live from Las Vegas 1 (Debut/6 weeks) 2x Platinum
2004 In the Zone 1 (Debut/1 week) Platinum
2004 Greatest Hits: My Prerogative 1 (Debut/3 weeks) 2x Platinum

Select merchandise

In 1999, Play Along Toys released the Britney Spears Doll. It became one of the biggest-selling dolls of all time.
Britney’s Dance Beat is a dance game featuring five of her songs, for the PlayStation 2 and Game Boy Advance.

Tours

1998 Hair Zone Mall Tour
1998 Opened for *NSYNC
1999 …Baby One More Time Tour
2000 Crazy 2K Tour
2000 Oops!… I Did It Again World Tour
2001/2002 Dream Within a Dream Tour
2004 The Onyx Hotel Tour

Melissa Hart

Melissa Joan Hart (born April 18, 1976) is an American actress who is best known for playing the title roles in two successful television series, Clarissa Explains It All and Sabrina, the Teenage Witch.

Personal history and family

Hart was born in Smithtown, New York, on Long Island, and grew up in Sayville, New York. Her full name is Melissa Joan Catherine Hart, Catherine being the name she chose for her confirmation in eighth grade.

Her immediate Irish-American family includes father William Hart and mother Paula Hart. Her stepfather is television executive Leslie Gilliams. She has eight sisters, three of whom are stepsisters, and one brother. Most of her siblings have acted, among them Elizabeth Hart, Brian Hart, Emily Hart, and Alexandra Hart-Gilliams. Sister Trisha Hart has worked as a producer.

In 2003, Hart married musician Mark Wilkerson, a member of the band Course of Nature. The preparations for the ceremony, which took place in Florence, Italy, were documented in a TV miniseries entitled Tying the Knot, produced by Hart’s production company, Hartbreak Films.

In June 2005, Hart announced that she and her husband are expecting their first child in January 2006.

Career

Hart’s career began early on. When she was still a baby, she made her first TV commercial for a bathtub toy called Splashy. From then on, she appeared regularly in commercials, making 25 of them before the age of five. Other early TV work included a small role in the miniseries Kane & Abel in 1985, a guest-starring role in an episode of The Equalizer in 1986, and a starring role alongside Katherine Helmond in the Emmy Award-winning TV movie Christmas Snow, also in 1986.

In 1989, she auditioned for a Broadway production of The Crucible starring Martin Sheen, becoming an understudy to three of the young girls in the play. This paved the way for her to land the title role in the TV show Clarissa Explains It All. The Nickelodeon series, a comedy about a teen girl in everyday situations, became a big hit and aired for five seasons. The show brought her four consecutive Young Artist Award nominations, of which she won three, and made her a household name among American teenagers.

Hart also recorded an album as Clarissa entitled This is What ‘Na Na’ Means. It was mostly a novelty product and did not sell well, receive critical attention, or place in any charts.

After the series was canceled, she attended New York University. She did not complete her degree as she resumed her acting career in 1994 when she got the lead role for the TV movie Sabrina the Teenage Witch, which eventually led to her also starring as Sabrina in a television series which lasted seven seasons. In between, she also worked on the series Touched by an Angel and starred in several TV movies.

In 1998, Melissa landed a small part in a movie named Can’t Hardly Wait, and then starred in Drive Me Crazy, a movie that includes "(You Drive Me) Crazy", a number-one hit by Britney Spears, on its soundtrack. Hart also appeared in the music video for this song. She has appeared in other movies since Drive Me Crazy, but none has brought her as much recognition.

Controversy

Hart appeared in lingerie in a series of photos featured in the October 1999 issue of the men’s magazine Maxim, as well as in similarly revealing pictorials in Bikini and Movieline magazines around the same time. This caused problems for both Hart and ABC (the network broadcasting Sabrina the Teenage Witch) since the copyright holder of the series, Archie Comics, regarded the series as a show for children and pre-teens, and believed that the Maxim photos and the accompanying article hurt the show’s wholesome image (Hart also discussed her sex life and Sabrina drinking games that could be played when watching the series at home). Michael Silberkleit, the chairman and co-publisher of Archie Comics, demanded that Hart either apologize or be fired from the series. She neither apologized nor was fired.

Filmography and TV work

Jesus, Mary and Joey (2003)
Rent Control (2002)
Hold On (2002)
Backflash (2001)
Not Another Teen Movie (2001)
The Voyage to Atlantis: The Lost Empire (2001) (TV)
The Specials (2000)
Sabrina, Down Under (1999)
Drive Me Crazy (1999)
Sabrina Goes to Rome (1998)
Can’t Hardly Wait (1998)
Silencing Mary (1998) (TV)
Two Came Back (1997) (TV)
The Right Connections (1997) (TV)
Sabrina, the Teenage Witch (1996) (TV)
Sabrina, the Animated Series (1999) (TV)
Twisted Desire (1996) (TV)
Clarissa (1995) (TV)
Family Reunion: A Relative Nightmare (1995) (TV)
Clarissa Explains It All (1991) (TV)

Kirsten Dunst

Kirsten Caroline Dunst (born April 30, 1982, in Point Pleasant, New Jersey, to Klaus and Inez Dunst) is an American actress of German and Swedish descent. Her first name is pronounced "KEER-sten."

Career

Dunst began acting at the age of three in television commercials. In a 1988 episode of Saturday Night Live, she played the role of President George H.W. Bush’s granddaughter, in a sketch in which Dana Carvey acted as President Bush. Years later, Dunst hosted Saturday Night Live as an adult and brought this to light.

In 1993, Dunst also had a small cameo appereance in Star Trek: The Next Generation as Hedril/Kestra (Troi’s sister).

Dunst made the transition to the big screen in New York Stories in 1989. Soon after, she landed a small part playing the daughter of Tom Hanks’s character in The Bonfire of the Vanities.

Dunst’s breakthrough role was in Interview with the Vampire, a 1994 film based on Anne Rice’s novel of the same name and directed by Neil Jordan. This movie features a somewhat controversial scene in which Dunst, then aged eleven, had to kiss Brad Pitt, who was 29. Her most well-known performances to date have been in The Virgin Suicides, the cult hit Bring It On, and as Mary Jane Watson in Spider-Man and Spider-Man 2.

Dunst won the 2002 Best Actress Silver Ombú at the Mar de Plata Film Festival for her performance as Marion Davies in Peter Bogdanovich’s The Cat’s Meow.

Dunst made her singing debut in the 2001 film, Get Over It, performing two songs written by Marc Shaiman. She also lent her musical voice to the end credits of The Cat’s Meow by singing the old standard, "After You’ve Gone."

More recently, Dunst has played the role of doomed 18th-century royal, Queen Marie Antoinette. The forthcoming motion picture, titled Marie-Antoinette, is scheduled for release in Autumn 2006. It is the third film directed by Sofia Coppola and is based on British historian Lady Antonia Fraser’s biography of Marie-Antoinette.

Filmography

Marie Antoinette (2006) (filming)
Elizabethtown (2005)
Wimbledon (2004)
Spider-Man 2 (2004)
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004)
Mona Lisa Smile (2003)
Kaena: The Prophecy (2003) (voice)
Levity (2003)
Spider-Man (2002)
The Cat’s Meow (2001)
Crazy/Beautiful (2001)
Get Over It (2001)
Deeply (2000)
Bring It On (2000)
Luckytown (2000)
The Crow: Salvation (2000)
All Forgotten (2000)
Dick (1999)
Drop Dead Gorgeous (1999)
The Virgin Suicides (1999)
The Devil’s Arithmetic (1999)
Fifteen and Pregnant (1998)
The Hairy Bird (1998)
Small Soldiers (1998)
Wag the Dog (1997)
Anastasia (1997) (voice)
Tower of Terror (1997)
True Heart (1997)
Mother Night (1996)
Jumanji (1995)
Little Women (1994)
Interview with the Vampire (1994)
Greedy (1994)
High Strung (1994)
The Bonfire of the Vanities (1990)
Kiki’s Delivery Service (1989) (voice in 1998 English dubbed version)
New York Stories (1989)

Personal Life

Kirsten’s parents separated several years ago. Her father, Klaus Dunst, a German medical services executive, stayed in New Jersey. Her mother, Inez Dunst, a Swedish former art gallery owner, moved to California. Kirsten has a younger brother, Christian, born in 1986.

Kirsten graduated from Notre Dame High School, a private Catholic high school in Los Angeles, in 2000. She is currently working on her own production company with her mother, called Wooden Spoon Productions.

Kirsten started dating fellow actor Jake Gyllenhaal in September 2002, after meeting him through his sister, Maggie Gyllenhaal (her co-star in Mona Lisa Smile.) They broke up in July 2004, but there are rumours that they’re back together.

Reese Witherspoon

Laura Jean Reese Witherspoon (born March 22, 1976) is an American actress perhaps most familiar as Elle Woods in the film Legally Blonde (2001) and its sequel Legally Blonde 2: Red, White and Blonde (2003).

Biography

Witherspoon was born in Baton Rouge, Louisiana to John Witherspoon (a surgeon) and Betty Reese (a nurse and college professor); Reese is a direct descendant of Scottish-born John Witherspoon, a signer of the United States Declaration of Independence and founder of Princeton University, who was also a Presbyterian minister. Reese spent much of her childhood and adolescence in Goodlettsville, Tennessee, a suburb of Nashville. She has a older brother named John, who works as a real estate broker. After graduating high school from Nashville’s prestigious Harpeth Hall School, she attended Stanford University as a literature major. After completing a year of her studies, Reese left Stanford to pursue her acting career.

Personal life

Witherspoon married actor Ryan Phillippe on June 5, 1999. They starred in a movie together, Cruel Intentions, before they were engaged. They have two children together: Ava Elizabeth Phillippe, born September 9, 1999, and Deacon Phillippe, born October 23, 2003.

Career

Reese Witherspoon is known for her versatility as an actress, playing both comedic and dramatic roles. She has won Best Actress awards from the National Society of Film Critics and the Online Film Critics Society. Among her critically-acclaimed performances are Vanessa in Freeway and Tracy Flick in Election. Witherspoon was the voice of the animated character Greta Wolfecastle in an episode of The Simpsons. She became best known for her role in 2001’s Legally Blonde, but is currently being critically praised for her turn as June Carter in Walk the Line, and is rumoured to be a potential Best Actress nominee for the 2005 Oscars.

Filmography

Legally Blonde (2001)
The Man in the Moon (1991)
A Far Off Place (1993)
Twilight (1998)
Overnight Delivery (1998)
Pleasantville (1998)
Cruel Intentions (1999)
Election (1999)
Best Laid Plans (1999)
American Psycho (2000)
Little Nicky (2000)
The Trumpet of the Swan (2001) (voice)
Legally Blonde (2001)
The Importance of Being Earnest (2002)
Sweet Home Alabama (2002)
Legally Blonde 2: Red, White and Blonde (2003)
Vanity Fair (2004)
Just Like Heaven (2005)
Walk the Line (2005)
Whiteout (2005) (currently announced start of production)
Sports Widow (2006) (currently announced start of production) (also producer)
Rapunzel Unbraided (2007) (currently announced start of production) (voice)