Monday, January 24, 2011

Alexis Dziena

Dziena was born in New York City of Irish, Italian, and Polish descent.[1] She attended Saint Ann's School alongside her Bringing Rain (2003) costar, Paz de la Huerta. She spent many of her summers growing up in the small South Jersey shore town of Sea Isle City. Also, during high school, she attended classes at the American Academy of Dramatic Arts and appeared in plays there as well.[2]

 Career

Dziena made her acting debut in TNT's Witchblade. One of her first major roles was in the Lifetime Channel original She's Too Young, in which she portrayed a sexually active teenager alongside Miriam McDonald of Degrassi: The Next Generation fame.
She also played the role of Heather, a sexually frustrated young woman in a loving relationship, who takes part in a couple swap as part of therapy in the film Sex and Breakfast. The film also starred Eliza Dushku and Macaulay Culkin. In the ABC television series Invasion she played the sheriff's daughter Kira Underlay. Dziena also appeared frequently on the sixth season of the HBO series Entourage.
In addition to acting, Dziena is a budding playwright and drummer.

Kayden Kross

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Brad Pitt

Once proclaimed as the Sexiest Man Alive by People Magazine, Oklahoma-born William Bradley Pitt was raised in Missouri where his high school years were spent in sports, debating, student government - and an occasional appearance in school musicals.
In college, he was just about to complete his journalism degree when he decided to pursue a career in Hollywood.
In the late '80's, bit parts on TV were followed by his breakthrough role as a charismatic drifter in Thelma & Louise. And if critics praised his look, rather than his performance, he later answered them with a string of successful dramatic roles in A River Runs Through It, directed by Robert Redford and later in Legends of the Fall. Other successes followed with performances in Interview with the Vampire opposite Tom Cruise.

Julia Roberts

One of the highest paid actresses in Hollyood was born October 28, 1967 in Smyrna, Georgia, showing an early interest in acting that she shared with her older brother, actor Eric Roberts.
Roberts' first major film appearance was a memorable role as a small town waitress in Mystic Pizza in 1989, quickly followed by her Oscar-nominated performance in Steel Magnolias that same year.
Roberts' breakthrough role came in 1990, with her acclaimed prostitute-with-a-heart-of-gold performance in Pretty Woman opposite Richard Gere.
In the mid-90's, the actress also showed her dramatic acting chops alongside Denzel Washington in the Pelican Brief and in an equally-tense thriller, Conspiracy Theory, co-starring Mel Gibson. Offscreen, Roberts wed and divorced singer Lyle Lovett in a short-lived marriage that ended in divorce in 1995.
She later closed out the decade starring in huge box office successes - including Runaway Bride, Notting Hill (with Hugh Grant) and most notably in My Best Friend's Wedding featuring a young fledgling actress, Cameron Diaz.
In 2000, Roberts followed up with a powerhouse performance in Erin Brockovich for which she was paid an astronomical $20 million and walked off with the Best Actress Oscar, and the title of Highest Paid Actress in Hollywood.
Other notable appearances include co-starring alongside good friend  in Ocean's Eleven and with Julia Stiles and Kirsten Dunst in Mona Lisa Smile.
In 2004, the actress appeared with Jude Law in Closer and re-teamed with the Ocean's Eleven crew in the sequel, Ocean's Twelve.
Offscreen, Roberts gave birth to twins, a boy and a girl named Phinnaeus and Hazel in Los Angeles on November 28, 2004 with current husband, Danny Moder, at her side. The infants' television premiere occured when the actress shared pictures of the twins with Oprah Winfrey (screen shot, upper right) in February 2005.

Jennifer Aniston

Jennifer Aniston was born in California, but spent most of her childhood in New York where she attended the High School of Performing Arts.
Off-Broadway roles were the kickoff of her professional career, moving on to TV with short-lived performances in a variety of doomed comedy-variety shows and sitcoms such as The Ben Stiller Show in 1993.
Aniston's big career break finally came with her role as Rachel Green in a newly planned sitcom, Friends Like These in what would eventually became known as Friends by the time it aired in 1994.
Not only was the show a mega-hit, it scored a huge following for Aniston herself, whose hairstyle on the show became a popular rage among young 20-somethings.
Today, Jennifer Anniston's hair continues to enthrall fans as she sports a straight-down style, obtained with a flat iron and which has brought the "Sedu" iron style into the popular lexicon.
Originally known for his status as a TV teen heartthrob in his role on 21 Jump Street, Depp later went on to become a serious adult actor respected for his choice of offbeat roles and sensitive, multi-textured performances.
He began his career as a Kentucky-born high school dropout with dreams of making it as a musician, but later fell into acting with a debut performance in the horror shocker, A Nightmare on Elm Street in 1984, which later led to his winning the TV role on 21 Jump Street.
With his teen following assured, Depp's breakthrough performance came in 1990 in the title role of Tim Burton's film Edward Scissorhands.



Johnny Depp in The Tourist

Since then, the actor has varied his roles enormously in such star turns as the cross-dressing director Ed Wood, as an undercover FBI agent in Donnie Brasco, as Ichabod Crane in Sleepy Hollow, and as a flamboyant over-the-top pirate in Pirates of the Caribbean.
In 2005, Depp won a Golden Globe nomination for his starring role in Finding Neverland and in early 2005 took home the Favorite Male Movie Star award at the People's Choice Awards (and won yet again in the same category in 2006).
Depp reprised his role as Jack Sparrow in Pirates of the Caribbean - Dead Man's Chest which opened in July 2006.

Christian Bale

An even larger fan base of "Baleheads" was to grow as the actor, having just completed filming of The Machinist, was cast as Batman in the new Christopher Nolan-directed film series (beating out a number of other Hollywood stars including the heavily favored Jake Gyllenhaal).
The role required a now emaciated Bale to quickly bulk up for the lead role in Batman Begins, which earned him wide critical praise for his dual portrayal as Bruce Wayne/Batman - and for which he received a "Best Hero" award a year later from a young movie-going public at the 2006 MTV Movie Awards. Bale also provided the voice of Batman for the equally successful video game based on the film.


Following the success of Batman Begins, Bale returned to smaller, independent films such as the critically praised Harsh Times in 2006, and in a secondary role in The New World starring Colin Farrell, along with lead roles in Rescue Dawn and The Prestige starring with Hugh Jackman and Scarlett Johansson.
Bale next appeared in the highly-anticipated sequal in the Batman franchise, The Dark Knight, co-starring Heath Ledger as The Joker, released on July 18, 2008.
In addition to The Dark Knight, in 2008 Bale appeared in I'm Not There, a biopic of muscian Bob Dylan, and co-starred with Aussie actor Russell Crowe in 3:10 to Yuma.
Coming up, he will also star as John Connor in the next installment in the Terminator franchise Terminator Salvation: The Future Begins slated for May 2009 release.
Family Life, Arrest News

Away from the movie studio, Bale is married to former model Sibi Blazic and has a daughter, Emmaline born in 2005.
Making headlines over assault charges against his mother and sister in July 2008, Bale was arrested and questioned over the incident in a London hotel. Representatives for Bale later released a statement denying that an assault ever took place.