female celebrities - Ali Larter

Ali Larter

Alison Elizabeth Larter (born February 28, 1976) is an American model and actress. She has starred in the movies Varsity Blues, Legally Blonde, and Final Destination.

Larter began modeling at age 13 with the world-renowned Ford modeling agency and traveled the world. At 17, Ali settled temporarily in Japan. In 1995, she accompanied her boyfriend in his move to Los Angeles. Soon after on the advice of a friend, she began taking acting classes.

In November 1996, she "played" the hoax Allegra Coleman in Esquire Magazine. Even after the hoax had been revealed, its effects lingered, and she was wooed by various agencies. Larter landed her first professional role in 1997 in the television series Chicago Sons, which was followed by a number of other brief appearances on Dawson's Creek, Chicago Hope and Just Shoot Me. She is set to appear in Southland Tales in late 2005.

Facts & Stats


Height: 5' 8" (172 cm)


Measurements: 34-24-34 (86-60-86 cm)




Eyes: Hazel


Hair: Blonde


Starsign: Pisces

Quotes


"I hate pretty looking boys. I'd rather have a guy with a potbelly than one who's in the gym all the time and watches what he eats."


"I keep seeing the Backstreet Boys on TV and all their fans and I'm thinking, I was one of those girls when I was little. Ohmigod."

Partial Filmography


Final Destination 2 (2003)


Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back (2001)


American Outlaws (2001)


Legally Blonde (2001)


Final Destination (2000)




House on Haunted Hill (1999)


Varsity Blues (1999)


Drive Me Crazy (1999)

female celebrities - Ali Landry

Ali Landry

Ali Landry (born July 21, 1973) is an actress best known as a spokesperson for Doritos, for whom she appeared in celebrated commercials aired during the 1998 and 1999 Super Bowls. A trained gymnast, she still required hours of takes to get the seconds of footage doing acrobatic stunts for the commercials. She got national fame after winning the 1996 Miss USA pageant, as the contestant from Louisiana. In later years she has hosted the pageant.

Ali Landry grew up in Breaux Bridge, Louisiana and is of Cajun descent.

She has participated in the show Fear Factor, and was runner up. An avid athlete, she also participated in the Boston Marathon.

Starting in 2003 she played in the UPN sitcom Eve.

She married longtime boyfriend Mario Lopez in 2004, and two weeks after marriage, filed for divorce because she claims that he cheated on her during his bachelor party.

Engaged to director Alejandro Monteverde on Memorial Day, 2005.

Facts & Stats


Full Name: Ali Landry


Height: 5' 8"




Measurements: 36C-24-34


Hair: Brown


Eyes: Brown


Miss Louisiana Teen USA (1990)


Miss Teen USA Semi-finalist (1990)


Miss Louisiana USA (1996)




Miss USA (1996)


Miss Universe Top 6 Finalist (1996)


Named by "People" magazine as one of 50 most beautiful people in the world (1998)


She is from the southwestern region of Louisiana, also referred to as "Acadiana," the heart of Cajun country

Quotes


"Sex outdoors is great. I'm not an exhibitionist, but I love the possibility that people might be able to see."

"I didn't know what my goal was, but I knew I had to get out and do something exciting."

"I don't date guys that I just meet randomly. I don't feel comfortable meeting strangers."

Filmography


Eve (2003) (TV series)


Who's Your Daddy? (2003) (V)




Will You Marry Me? (2003) (TV)


Spy TV (2001) (TV series) (2002)


Outta Time (2002)


Repli-Kate (2002)


Soulkeeper (2001)


Farmclub.com (2001) (TV series)




Beautiful (2000)


America's Greatest Pets (1998) (TV series)


Sunset Beach (1997) (TV series)

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celebrities - Alicia Silverstone

Alicia Silverstone

Alicia Silverstone (born October 4, 1976) is an American actress. She first came to widespread attention in the music video for Aerosmith's Cryin and later starred in "crazy" and several Hollywood motion pictures. According to critics, she has demonstrated a versatile acting talent in a range of parts, from femme fatale in The Crush to quirky comedy in Clueless. She is also noted for her strong views on animal welfare and is a committed vegan. In 2004, Silverstone was voted sexiest female vegetarian.

Alicia SilverstoneSilverstone has continued to make a wide range of movie and television appearances, appearing mostly in comedy and action roles (she is still widely known for her role in Clueless), although proving herself versatile enough to tackle the major Shakespeare production Love's Labour's Lost. Recently, she has extended her repertoire by working as both a television and film producer.

Silverstone reportedly refuses to appear nude in any of her movies. Because of this, she requires a body double in her place for nude scenes. When she starred in the stage version of The Graduate, she insisted on wearing underwear for the famous nude-scene. The producers were forced to let her do this because, otherwise, she would have resigned from the show.

Silverstone was born in San Francisco, California, to English Jewish parents Monty Silverstone, real-estate investor, and Didi Radford, a Scottish-born former flight attendant. She was raised in Hillsborough, California. Alicia is the youngest of Monty and Didi's three children but she also has a half-sister, Kezi Silverstone, who's a rock singer in London from Monty's previous marriage and a half-brother, David Silverstone. When Alicia was six, Monty took some photos of his young daughter. The photos allowed her to get some modeling gigs which then led to television commercials (the first being for Domino's Pizza).

Alicia later attended San Mateo High School in San Mateo, California where she was a cheerleader. During this time she acquired some early modelling and advertising work and eventually got the part of the 'dream girl' on American TV series The Wonder Years. She won a leading part in the 1993 movie The Crush, playing a girl who sets out to ruin an older man after her teenage crush is spurned, for which she won two awards at the 1994 MTV Movie Awards. Silverstone actually became legally emancipated at the age of 15 in order to work the hours required for the shooting schedule of The Crush.

She went on to star in three Aerosmith music videos, entitled Cryin, Crazy, and Amazing which were hugely successful both for the band and Silverstone, making her a household name. Around this period, Silverstone was offered the role of Valerie Malone, on Beverly Hills 90210. After she turned it down, the role went to Tiffani Thiessen.

After Clueless became a huge sleeper hit and critical darling during the summer of 1995, Silverstone was hailed as the woman of the hour, and branded the spokeswoman for an emerging young generation. As a result, she was able to sign a deal with Columbia-TriStar worth $10 million. As part of the package, she got a three-year first-look deal for her own production company, "First Kiss Productions."

The first movie to be released by "First Kiss Productions" was a 1997 black comedy called Excess Baggage. Excess Baggage, a movie in which Silverstone played a chain smoking, underage drinking, rich brat, who fakes her own kidnapping in order to get her father's attention was not as criticially or commercially embraced as Clueless. Silverstone also came under fire (especially by E!) for receiving such a lucrative production deal so early in her career. Excess Baggage was such a disappointment, that after just one film, Columbia-TriStar quietly let their production deal with Silverstone expire.

Around the time she was featured as Batgirl in Batman and Robin, Silverstone was lambasted by tabloid media and mainstream press alike for putting on weight. Though hardly obese by any standard, Silverstone had obviously put on more weight than the public was used to seeing her carry, and this started a whirlwind of rumours which affected her personal life. Ironically, she was turned down for the lead in 1994's My Father the Hero because the producers said that she was too heavy for the part. The role ultimately went to Katherine Heigl instead. It didn't help Silverstone's cause that Batman and Robin was an even bigger critical and commercial failure than her other movie from 1997, Excess Baggage.

For some time, Silverstone, despite her young age, gained the reputation of being a "has-been", who reached her peak with the Aerosmith videos and Clueless. She effectively removed herself from the public eye for many years, resurfacing in the critically acclaimed television show Miss Match, which was cancelled after thirteen episodes. Silverstone later acknowledged that she hates the trappings of fame, insisting that being a celebrity is a horrific ordeal that she wouldn't want her worst enemy to suffer. According to Silverstone "Fame is not anything I wish on anyone. You start acting because you love it. Then success arrives, and suddenly you're on show."[1]

Silverstone married her longtime boyfriend Christopher Jarecki, lead singer of the band S.T.U.N., at a beach front ceremony at Lake Tahoe on June 11, 2005. The pair dated for eight years before the wedding.

celebrities - Alyssa Milano

Alyssa Milano

Alyssa Jayne Milano (born December 19, 1972 in New York City) is an American actress. She currently appears in The WB program Charmed. Milano was born to Italian parents Tom and Lin Milano and has a younger brother, Cory (born 1982), who is also an actor. One of her first acting roles was in the television program Who's the Boss? with Tony Danza, Judith Light and Katherine Helmond.

For the majority of her career Milano was known for her role on Who's the Boss?, something which she tried to shed by appearing in many very adult film roles. Many of these included nudity or very graphic (simulated) sex scenes. Many actresses do not manage to escape the stigma of such a career turn, but Milano redeemed herself with her success on Melrose Place and especially Charmed.

Milano is also an accomplished singer and recording artist, though not in her home country of the United States. She has released 5 albums that have all reached sales of over 1 million copies in Japan. She even appeared in the blink-182 video for the song "Josie".

In 1989 her image was used for the character development of Ariel in the Disney movie, The Little Mermaid.

Milano is an avid fan of tattoos and has several of them. She is dating Los Angeles Dodgers pitcher Brad Penny. She was briefly married to Remy Zero lead singer Cinjun Tate.

Filmography


Dinotopia: Quest for the Ruby Sunstone (2005)


Win, Lose and Kaboom (2004)


Dickie Roberts: Former Child Star (2003)


Lady and The Tramp II: Scamp's Adventure (2001)


Diamond Hunters (2001)




Buying the Cow (2001)


Goldrush: A Real-Life Alaskan Adventure (1998)


Alyssa Milano in a scene from Embrace of the VampireHugo Pool (1997)


Poison Ivy II: Lily (1996)


Body Count (1996)


Fear (1996)




Glory Daze (1996)


To Brave Alaska (1996)


Deadly Sins (1995)


Public Enemies (1995)


Public Enemy No. 1 (1995)


The Surrogate (1995)




Embrace of the Vampire (1994)


Double Dragon (1994)


Confessions of a Sorority Girl (1994)


Casualties of Love: The Long Island Lolita Story (1993)


Conflict of Interest (1993)


Candles in the Dark (1993)




Where the Day Takes You (1992)


Little Sister (1992)


Teen Steam (1988)


Dance 'Til Dawn (1988)


Crash Course (1988)


The Canterville Ghost (1986)




Commando (1985)

celebrities - Alyson Hannigan

Alyson Hannigan

Alyson Hannigan (born Allison Lee Hannigan March 24, 1974) is an American actress best known for playing Willow Rosenberg in the TV series Buffy the Vampire Slayer. She also appeared in films including, as Michelle Flaherty, American Pie (1999), American Pie 2 (2001) and American Wedding (2003).

Born in Washington, DC to an Irish-American father and a Jewish-American mother, her first film role was in My Stepmother is an Alien (1988). Before that she had done a little television work, mostly commercials, and she went on to do a good deal more including Almost Home, Picket Fences, Roseanne and Touched by an Angel before being chosen for Buffy in 1997. By the final season she was earning $250,000 an episode.

It was announced in October 2003 that she had signed a deal with NBC to appear in a comedy, expected to debut in fall 2004. Reports indicated that it was likely to be titled Americana, but the pilot was not part of NBC's 2004 fall lineup.

In early 2004, Hannigan made her West End debut starring in a stage adaptation of When Harry Met Sally at the Theatre Royal Haymarket, opposite Luke Perry.

She owns a home in Sacramento, California and married actor Alexis Denisof (who played Wesley Wyndam-Pryce in the Buffy franchise) on October 11, 2003. Previous relationships include actor Steven Sutphen and Marilyn Manson drummer Ginger Fish.

In 2005, Hannigan is one of several Buffy cast returning to television - others being David Boreanaz, Nicholas Brendon, Charisma Carpenter and James Marsters - as part of the cast of the new TV series "How I Met Your Mother", as well as a recurring guest role on Veronica Mars.

Hannigan's somewhat unstereotypical looks and specific acting style have led her, for the most part, to choose somewhat quirky characters. Her best known roles in BtVS and the American Pie series are clear examples of this.

Filmography


Date Movie (2006)


How I Met Your Mother (2005) (TV series)... Lily


Veronica Mars (2005) (TV series)... Trina Echolls




American Wedding (2003)... Michelle Flaherty


Beyond the City Limits (2001)... Lexi


American Pie 2 (2001)... Michelle Flaherty


Boys and Girls (2000)... Betty


American Pie (1999)... Michelle Flaherty


Hayley Wagner, Star (1999) (TV)... Jenna Jakes




Dead Man on Campus (1998)... Lucy


Buffy the Vampire Slayer (1997) (TV series)... Willow Rosenberg


For My Daughter's Honor (1996) (TV)... Kelly


A Case for Life (1996) (TV)... Iris


The Stranger Beside Me (1995) (TV)... Dana


Switched at Birth (1991) (TV)... Gina Twigg




Free Spirit (1989) (TV series)... Jessie Harper


My Stepmother Is an Alien (1988)... Jessie Mills


Impure Thoughts (1985)... Patty Stubbs

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