1.
Natalie Portman
Actress, V for Vendetta
Natalie Portman was born in Jerusalem, to a
Jewish family. She is the only child of a doctor father (from Israel)
and an artist mother (from Cincinnati, Ohio), who also acts as Natalie's
agent. She left Israel for Washington, D.C., when she was still very
young. After a few more moves, her family finally settled in New York...
“ The most overrated woman of all time. ” - katumbu_gola
2.
Amanda Seyfried
Actress, Mamma Mia!
Amanda Seyfried grew up in Allentown,
Pennsylvania, and began modeling when she was 11-years-old. She acted in
high school productions as well as taking singing lessons, and landed a
recurring role in the long-running US soap, As the World Turns, when she was just age 15. More soap work followed as she...
3.
Alyson Hannigan
Actress, American Pie
Alyson, born in Washington DC, began her
acting career in Atlanta at the young age of 4 in commercials sponsoring
such companies as McDonald's, Six Flags, and Oreos. She is a seasoned
television actress veteran, guest starring in Picket Fences, Roseanne, Touched by an Angel and the The Torkelsons before starring in her most notorious role yet in Buffy the Vampire Slayer as "Willow Rosenberg"...
4.
Emma Watson
Emma Charlotte Duerre Watson was born in
Paris, France to parents, Jacqueline Luesby and Chris Watson. At the age
of five, Emma's parents divorced and she then moved to Oxfordshire,
England with her mother and younger brother, Alexander. Since the
divorce, Emma's extended family has grown as her parents both have new
partners...
5.
Rachel McAdams
Actress, Sherlock Holmes
Born on November 17, 1978, in London,
Ontario, Canada, Rachel McAdams became involved with acting as a
teenager and by the age of 13 was performing in Shakespearean
productions in summer theater camp; she went on to graduate with honors
with a BFA degree in Theater from York University. After her debut in an
episode of Disney's The Famous Jett Jackson...
6.
Amanda Peet
Actress, 2012
Amanda Peet grew up in New York with her
older sister and their parents; Charles, a lawyer; and Penny, a social
worker. She made an unconventional stage debut at the age of three, when
she jumped onto the stage during a play. Yet, despite this early start,
she later studied acting more as a hobby than anything else...
7.
Ginnifer Goodwin
Actress, Walk the Line
Ginnifer Michelle Goodwin was born on 22nd
May 1978, in Memphis, Tennessee. Bright and talented, Ginnifer carried
her love for theater and acting through her high school years. She
graduated from Lausanne Collegiate School in 1996 and spent a year at
Hanover before going to Boston University where she received her BFA in
Acting...
8.
Olivia Wilde
Actress, TRON: Legacy
Olivia Wilde was born Olivia Jane Cockburn
in New York City. She was raised in Washington, D.C. and went to school
there, as well as in Andover, Massachusetts, where she graduated in
2002. Her father, Andrew Cockburn,
is Irish, giving her dual American and Irish nationality and
facilitating her brief study at the Gaiety School of Acting in Dublin...
9.
Sarah Jessica Parker
Actress, Sex and the City
Sarah Jessica Parker was born March 25,
1965, in Nelsonville, Ohio to parents Stephen Parker and Barbra Forste
(who remarried Paul Forste after divorcing Sarah's father). After her
mother wed Forste, she had four more children, bringing the total to
eight. Sarah Jessica now had 3 full siblings and 4 half siblings...
10.
Rachel Bilson
Actress, Jumper
Born and raised in Los Angeles, Rachel
Bilson began acting while still at Notre Dame High School. She graduated
high school in 1999 and went to Grossmont College but dropped out after
a year and was encouraged to pursue a career in acting by her father, Danny Bilson, himself a writer, director and producer...
11.
Michelle Williams
Actress, Shutter Island
Michelle Williams was first known as bad girl Jen Lindley in the television series Dawson's Creek. She appeared in the comedy Dick which was a parody of The Watergate Scandal along with Kirsten Dunst as well as Prozac Nation with Christina Ricci. Since then Michelle has worked her way into the world of independent films such as The Station Agent...
12.
Helena Bonham Carter
Actress, Fight Club
Helena Bonham Carter is an actress of
great versatility, and one of the UK's finest and most successful. Most
recently, she has starred in Sweeney Todd as Mrs Lovett alongside Johnny
Depp for which she was awarded Best Actress at the Evening Standard
British Film Awards 2008. Other recent work includes Conversations with
Other Women opposite Aaron Eckhart...
13.
Mayim Bialik
Actress, Beaches
Mayim Bialik grew up in San Diego and got her first acting job (Pumpkinhead) when she was just 12 years old. A number of TV roles followed until in 1990 she was cast in Blossom,
the role which made her famous. By 1993, while Blossom was still
airing, she had already won a deferred place at Harvard and was also
accepted by Yale but chose in the end to attend UCLA...
14.
Marion Cotillard
Actress, Inception
Academy Award-winning French actress Marion Cotillard was born on September 30, 1975 in Paris to Jean-Claude Cotillard, an actor, playwright and director, and Niseema Theillaud, an actress and drama teacher. While still a teenager, Cotillard made her cinema debut in the film L'histoire du garçon qui voulait qu'on l'embrasse. Her first prominent screen role was as "Lilly Bertineau" in Taxi...
15.
Jenna Dewan-Tatum
Actress, Step Up
Jenna Dewan is a former model and dancer
and was born on December 3, 1980 in Hartford Connecticut. Jenna grew up
in Grapevine, Texas and discovered a love for dancing at the age of
five. She is a graduate of Grapevine High School and has also attended
the University of Southern Califronia, where she was a member of Pi Beta
Phi...
16.
Natasha Lyonne
Actress, American Pie
Natasha Lyonne is an American stage, film,
and television actress. As a young child she was signed by the Ford
Modeling Agency, and at the age of six she was cast as Opal on Pee-wee's
Playhouse which was quickly followed by film appearances in Heartburn
written by Nora Ephron, directed by Mike Nichols; A Man Called Sarge;
and Dennis the Menace with Walter Matthau and Christopher Lloyd...
17.
Milla Jovovich
Actress, Resident Evil
Milla Jovovich was born in 1975 in Kiev,
Ukraine, to a Serbian pediatrician and a renowned Russian actress. Her
family moved to the U.S. in 1981 and she began her remarkable modeling
career at age nine. At age 12, she was chosen by legendary photographer
Richard Avedon as one of Revlon's "Most Unforgettable Women in the
World" and has since appeared on over 150 magazine covers around the
world...
19.
Tori Spelling
Actress, Trick
The daughter of Candy Spelling and Hollywood producer Aaron Spelling.
With her father as the producer of many popular television shows in the
1970s, Tori had a taste for fame. She appeared on many of her father's
shows, which gained her more praise for acting in comedies. Tori has a
younger brother Randy Spelling...
20.
Selena Gomez
Actress, Monte Carlo
Selena Gomez was born and raised in Grand
Prairie, Texas. Her mother Amanda [Commonly known as Mandy] Cornett is
an Italian woman from Dallas, Texas and her father Ricardo Gomez is from
New Mexico. Mommy Mandy gave birth to Selena at 16, and her parents
divorced in 1997. Nearly 10 years later, she was remarried to Brian
Teefy...
21.
Lisa Kudrow
Actress, Analyze This
Hardly the dumb blonde of Romy and Michele's High School Reunion,
Lisa Marie Diane Kudrow was born in Encino, California on July 30,
1963. Her father, Lee, was a physician and her mother, Nedra, was a
travel agent. Lisa was raised in Tarzana and played varsity-level tennis
in high school and college, and is a pool shark who has mastered some
of the more difficult trick shots (so beware)...
22.
Neve Campbell
Actress, Scream
Born and raised in Canada by a Scottish
father and Dutch mother, Neve Campbell first came to our TV screens in
the hit Drama series Party of Five.
Described as TV's most believable teenager, her first major film role
came in the form of innocent victim "Sidney Prescott" in Scream, the film which re-defined the slasher genre...
23.
Kate Mara
Actress, 127 Hours
Kate graduated from high school a year
early. She was accepted at the prestigious NYU Tisch School of the Arts
but deferred for 3 consecutive years due to acting and singing. She is
the great-granddaughter of the founder of the New York Giants, Timothy
Mara and Art Rooney, founder of the Pittsburgh Steelers. She often sings the national anthem at Giants home games.
24.
Patricia Arquette
Actress, True Romance
With her expressive blue eyes, soft,
Southern-tinged voice and an acting range that can carry her from
hysterically funny to terrifying in seconds, Patricia Arquette is one of
the most underrated, talented actresses of her generation. Though she's
been working for years, she's always stayed just under the radar of
true stardom...
25.
Rosanna Arquette
Actress, Pulp Fiction
Rosanna Arquette has acted extensively in
film and television, and has come to be acknowledged as an actress of
rare depth and scope. Growing up in a family of actors, she began at a
young age. Her first big break came as a teenager with a role in the
Movie of the Week The Dark Secret of Harvest Home, which starred Bette Davis...
26.
Ellen Page
Actress, Inception
Ellen Philpotts-Page was born on February
21, 1987, in Halifax, Nova Scotia. Page wanted to start acting at an
early age and attended the Neptune Theater School. She began her career
at the age of 10 on the award-winning television series Pit Pony, for which she received a Gemini nomination and a Young Artist Awards nomination...
27.
Sarah Silverman
Actress, The School of Rock
Sassy, sharp tongued actress / comedian / writer from Bedford, New Hampshire who first started out writing in the 1990s for Saturday Night Live, and then moved on to the HBO program Mr. Show with Bob and David.
Her quick wit and attractive features meant she was ideal on either
side of the camera, and Silverman soon broke into feature films with
appearances in Bulworth, There's Something About Mary and The Bachelor...
30.
Lisa Bonet
Actress, Enemy of the State
Lisa Bonet was born in San Francisco but
has lived most of her life in New York and Los Angeles, where she
attended Reseda High School and Celluloid Actor's Studio. Lisa is the
child of a Jewish mother and a black father who was a music teacher. Her
parents divorced when she was young, and she began acting in
commercials at the age of 11...
31.
Kate Capshaw
Actress, Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom
Capshaw worked as a teacher with an MA in
Learning Disabilities. Her desire to be an actress led her to New York
where she landed a role on the soap The Edge of Night. She met her future husband, Steven Spielberg while beating out 120 actresses for the female lead in Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom.
32.
Rihanna
Soundtrack, The Hangover
Rihanna was born in a parish in Barbados
called St. Michael. She lived the life of a normal island girl going to
Combermere, a top sixth form school. Rihanna won numerous beauty
pageants and performed Mariah Carey "Hero" in a school talent show. Her life changed forever when one of her friends introduced her to Evan Rodgers...
33.
Barbra Streisand
Self, Barbra: The Concert
Barbra Streisand is an American singer,
actress, director and producer and one of the most successful
personalities in show business. Born in Brooklyn, New York, in 1942,
from a middle class Jewish family, she grew up dreaming to become an
actress (or even an actress / conductor, as she happily describes her
teenager years in one of her concerts)...
34.
Ally Sheedy
Actress, The Breakfast Club
While at New York's Bank Street School,
12-year-old Ally Sheedy wrote about a mythical encounter between Queen
Elizabeth I and an inquisitive mouse. The result, "She Was Nice to
Mice", was published by McGraw-Hill and became an instant best seller.
Although it proved a springboard to an acting career...
35.
Miley Cyrus
Actress, Bolt
Miley Cyrus is the daughter of country singer Billy Ray Cyrus
and his wife Tish. She has 5 siblings - two half-brothers, a
half-sister and a younger brother and sister. Her birth name is Destiny
Hope, given to her by her parents who hoped she would achieve greatness.
Her childhood nickname was Smiley, as she had a cheerful disposition
which was eventually shortened to Miley...
36.
Pink
Self, Get Him to the Greek
Alecia "Pink" Moore was born in
Doylestown, Pennsylvania, and later raised in Philadelphia. Her parents,
James and Judy Moore, divorced when she was very young. As a child, all
Pink wanted out of life was to become a singer, and she was driven by
the music of Madonna, Mary J. Blige, 4 Non Blondes...
37.
Mare Winningham
Actress, Turner & Hooch
Mary 'Mare' Megan Winningham is an actress
and songwriter who has appeared in nearly 100 TV shows and feature
films. She began her career in 1976 as a singer, and starred in numerous
and diverse film roles before hitting it big as one of the original
Brat Pack in Joel Schumacher's St. Elmo's Fire with Emilio Estevez, Andrew McCarthy, Demi Moore, Judd Nelson, and Ally Sheedy...
38.
Miranda Cosgrove
Actress, Despicable Me
Miranda Cosgrove was born May 14, 1993 in
Los Angeles, California. She was discovered at a young age singing and
dancing around a table in a restaurant, where an agent saw her talent
and quickly signed her. Miranda's career started with commercials for
Burger King, McDonalds and more as she auditioned for many roles and
finally won her first role as the band's manager in the movie...
39.
Chelsea Handler
Chelsea Handler was born in New Jersey to a
Mormon mother and a Jewish father. She was the youngest of six
children. In 2002, Chelsea was one of the star's of Oxygen's Girls Behaving Badly.
Chelsea got her start doing stand-up comedy, she has since performed
nationwide to sold out audiences. Chelsea is a best-selling author...
40.
Selma Blair
Actress, Hellboy II: The Golden Army
One of our most exciting and versatile actresses, Selma Blair first gained our attention for her performance in Cruel Intentions,
a youthful retelling of the classic novel "Les Liaisons Dangereuses".
After graduating from high school in Michigan, Selma moved to New York
City to pursue her goal of being...
41.
Aly Michalka
Actress, Easy A
Alyson began acting at the age of five in
stage productions by churches her family attended outside Seattle,
Washington, and in Thousand Oaks California. She was featured in
numerous musicals including "Jailhouse Rock" and "A Time to Remember".
Alyson, who plays piano and guitar, also writes music and sings with her
younger sister...
42.
AJ Michalka
Actress, Super 8
Amanda began seriously studying acting at
the age of 9, landing a lead role in a church musical, "Jailhouse Rock",
then later booked a national commercial on her very first audition. She
has been consistently working ever since, appearing on television shows
on CBS, FOX, HBO, ABC, WB and NBC. Prior to becoming an actress...
46.
Paula Abdul
Self, Brüno
Her father (Harry Abdul) is of Sephardic
Jewish background from Syria. Her mother is also Jewish and was born in
Canada. Her parents have lived in Syria, Brazil, and Canada - and this
varied background has contributed to incredibly different stories in the
press about her nationality and/or religion...
47.
Julia Roberts
Actress, Closer
Julia Fiona Roberts, born in Smyrna,
Georgia, never dreamed she would become the most popular actress in
America. As a child, due to her love of animals, Julia originally wanted
to be a veterinarian, but later studied journalism. When her brother, Eric Roberts, achieved some success in Hollywood...
48.
Claire Danes
Actress, Temple Grandin
New Yorker Claire Danes is the youngest
daughter of Carla, a day-care provider and artist and Christopher, a
computer consultant and photographer. She has an older brother named
Asa. She was educated at Dalton School, New York, The New York City Lab
School for Collaborative Studies, The Professional Performing Arts
School and Lycée Français de Los Angeles...
49.
Michelle Rodriguez
Actress, Avatar
Known for tough-chick roles, Michelle
Rodriguez is proof that there is a cross between beauty and brawn. Born
in Bexar County, Texas on July 12, 1978, Michelle always knew she was
destined to become a star, she just didn't know how to get there.
Michelle lived in Texas until the age of 8 when her family moved to the
Dominican Republic where she lived for two years before moving to Puerto
Rico...
50.
Reese Witherspoon
Actress, Walk the Line
Laura Jeanne Reese Witherspoon was born on
March 22, 1976 at Southern Baptist Hospital (now Memorial Medical
Center) in New Orleans, Louisiana. She was the second child born to Dr.
John Witherspoon and Betty Reese. Her father was a military surgeon
specializing in the ear, nose and throat. Her mother was a Registered
Nurse who later became a Ph.D in pediatric nursing...
51.
Noomi Rapace
Actress, Prometheus
Swedish actress Noomi Rapace is the daughter of actress Nina Norén
and Spanish Flamenco singer Rogelio Durán. Her parents did not stay
together, and when Rapace was five she moved to Iceland with her mother
and stepfather, where she lived for three years. When she was eight, she
was cast in a small role in the Icelandic film...
52.
Lucy Liu
Actress, Kill Bill: Vol. 1
Born to immigrants in Queens, New York,
Lucy Liu has always tried to balance an interest in her cultural
heritage with a desire to move beyond a strictly Asian-American
experience. Lucy's mother is from Beijing, and her father is from
Shanghai. Once relegated to "ethnic" parts, the energetic actress is
finally earning her stripes as an across-the-board leading lady...
53.
Vera Farmiga
Actress, Up in the Air
Vera Farmiga is a Ukrainian-American
actress who received an Academy Award nomination for best performance in
her supporting role, opposite George Clooney, in Up in the Air.
She was born Vera Ann Farmiga, second of seven children, on August 6,
1973, in Passaic County, New Jersey, USA. She did not speak English
until the age of six...
54.
Isabel Lucas
Actress, Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen
Isabel was born in Melbourne, Australia.
Her father is Australian and her mother is Swiss. When she was age 6,
her family moved to Switzerland for a year. They moved back to Melbourne
for a while before moving to a very small mining town in the Northern
Territory (population 1,000). Along with her sister, she attended the
Jabiru Area School, which included both white and Aboriginal children...
55.
Bai Ling
Actress, The Crow
Born in the southern city Cheng Du of
China, Bai Ling began her career at the age of 14. She enlisted In the
Chinese People's Liberation Army where she spent three years in a
performance troop entertaining soldiers stationed in Tibet. Bai Ling
first gained the attention of audiences and critics alike when she won
the coveted lead role opposite Richard Gere in Jon Avnet's Red Corner...
56.
Anna Paquin
Actress, The Piano
Anna Paquin, the young Canadian who grew
up in New Zealand and whose only acting experience was as a skunk at a
school play, stunned movie-goers from all over the world with her
performance as Holly Hunter's angry young daughter in the acclaimed film The Piano. Anna, who received an Oscar for her performance (the second youngest Oscar winner ever)...
57.
Christina Ricci
Actress, Sleepy Hollow
Precocious, outspoken child-teen starlet
of the 1990s, Christina Ricci was born in 1980 in Santa Monica,
California, the youngest of four children of a lawyer father and realtor
mother. She made her screen debut at the age of 9 in Mermaids, in which she worked with Cher. Her breakthrough adult role was in The Ice Storm...
59.
Thora Birch
Actress, American Beauty
For some people, oatmeal starts the day
off right - for Thora Birch, it launched a healthy career in front of
the camera. It's hard to believe that the actress, who slunk into
stardom with her turn as the disillusioned daughter in American Beauty, is even related to the apple-cheeked blonde who once gazed up at Quaker Oats (R) spokesman Wilford Brimley and said...
60.
Maya Rudolph
Actress, Bridesmaids
Maya Rudolph was born in Gainesville, Florida, on July 27th, 1972, to Dick Rudolph, a music producer, and soul singer Minnie Riperton. In 1973, Maya, her parents, and her older brother, Marc Rudolph, moved to California to further Minnie's music career. Here Minnie recorded "Lovin' You", her most famous single...
61.
Krysten Ritter
Actress, One Life to Live
With her model looks and quirky style,
actress Krysten Ritter is fostering an impressive body of work that
encompasses both film and television. Ritter starred alongside Jay Baruchel and Alice Eve in Dreamworks' comedy, She's Out of My League. She played "Patty", the audacious and frank best friend and business partner of "Molly" (Eve)...
62.
Eva Mendes
Actress, Hitch
Eva Mendes was born in Miami, Florida but
raised in Los Angeles of Cuban-American heritage. In college she began
acting, studying underneath acting coach Ivana Chubbuck.
This led to her desire to appear in feature films. Though taking many
smaller roles in movies, she was little known until playing the
girlfriend of Denzel Washington's character in Training Day...
63.
Jennifer Coolidge
Actress, American Pie
Jennifer Coolidge is a versatile character actress and experimental comedienne, best known for playing Stifler's mom in American Pie.
She was born on August 28, 1961, in Boston, Massachusetts, USA. Her
father, Paul Coolidge, was a plastics manufacturer. Young Coolidge was
dreaming of becoming a singer...
64.
Daniela Ruah
Actress, Red Tails
Descending from a family of Portuguese
doctors, Daniela was born in Boston, Massachusetts and lived in the US
until she was 5. She attended St. Julian's School in Portugal, where she
grew up, landing her first acting role at the age of 16. She kept
working on diverse projects and finished high school...
65.
Jennifer Carpenter
Actress, Dexter
Jennifer was born in Kentucky. Her mother
is Catherine Mitchell and her father is Robert Carpenter. She attended
St. Raphael the Archangel and then the Sacred Heart Academy. During her
last two years of high school, she studied drama at the Walden Theatre
in Louisville, Kentucky. She then trained at the Juilliard School in New
York City...
66.
Julia Stiles
Actress, The Bourne Ultimatum
Julia O'Hara Stiles was born on March 28,
1981 in New York City, the outgoing daughter of an elementary school
teacher father and a Greenwich Village artist mother, and the eldest of
three children. Encouraged to take modern dance lessons at an early age,
she was introduced to Shakespeare and theater...
67.
Lacey Chabert
Actress, Mean Girls
Regarded as one of the best young actresses of her generation, Lacey Chabert started in drama and music performances in and around her hometown in Mississippi from an early age, and was a finalist on Star Search
in 1991. She gained her break in a cough syrup commercial, before
successfully auditioning for the Broadway production of Les
Miserables...
68.
Lucy Punch
Actress, Bad Teacher
Lucy Punch grew up in London and was a
member of the National Youth Theatre in her late teens before going to
University College London to read History. While she was there she
auditioned for TV roles and eventually dropped out to concentrate on
acting. She learned a lot, she says, from working on...
69.
Olivia Thirlby
Actress, Juno
Olivia resides in New York City where she
was born and raised. She has trained extensively in classical
Shakespearian acting in New York at the American Globe Theatre, and in
London at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art. She began acting
professionally in 2003, and plans to pursue a career in both theater and
film.
70.
Robin Wright
Actress, Beowulf
Robin Virginia Wright was born in Dallas,
Texas, but grew up in San Diego, California. She started her
professional career as a model in 1980 at age 14, and worked both in
Paris and Japan. After finishing high school she decided to become an
actress. She got a role on the soap opera Santa Barbara...
71.
Sarah Hyland
Actress, Another World
Sarah Hyland was born in New York City to
parents Melissa Canaday and Edward James Hyland. Sarah began in the
business at the age of 4 with commercial work and voice overs. Her first
film was Private Parts. She then moved on to The Object of My Affection and then spent time on Another World as "Rain Wolfe"...
73.
Mandy Moore
Actress, Tangled
Amanda Leigh Moore was born in Nashua, New
Hampshire, on April 10, 1984 to Don (an airline pilot) and Stacy (a
former news reporter). After seeing the musical "Oklahoma!", she decided
that she wanted to pursue a career in singing. As a child, she
performed the National Anthem at several athletic events around her
hometown of Orlando, Florida, and became known as the "National Anthem
girl"...
74.
Zoe Saldana
Actress, Avatar
Zoe Saldana was born in New Jersey and
raised in Queens, New York. When she was 10 years old, she and her
family moved to the Dominican Republic where they would live for the
next 7 years. While living in the Dominican Republic, Zoe discovered a
keen interest in performance dance and began her training...
75.
Rosario Dawson
Actress, Sin City
This exotically stunning actress, who has a
built in resourcefulness to her, has been primarily a film player thus
far. Only recently has she been opening herself up more to doing TV (the
series Gemini Division,
which she executive-produced), and animated voiceovers. Rosario Dawson
obviously acquired the best-looking genes from her multi-ethnic
heritage...
76.
Piper Perabo
Actress, The Prestige
After graduating college, Piper Perabo moved to New York and was later cast in a short film called Single Spaced. Her first big role came after that, where she played the girlfriend of a wannabe rapper in Whiteboyz. In 2000 she was cast in The Adventures of Rocky & Bullwinkle as FBI agent Karen Sympathy. However...
77.
Hilary Duff
Actress, A Cinderella Story
Hilary Duff was born on September 28, 1987, to Susan Duff and Bob Duff. She loved to perform ever since she was a little girl. She got her big break as "Wendy" in the real life movie Casper Meets Wendy, and went on to star in Disney's hit TV show Lizzie McGuire, where she played Elizabeth "Lizzie" Brooke McGuire...
78.
Mena Suvari
Actress, American Beauty
Mena Alexandra Suvari was born in Newport,
Rhode Island. Her first name comes from her British aunt, named after
the Mena House Oberoi (at the base of the pyramids in Egypt); her last
name is Estonian. Mena started modeling for Wilhelmina at the age of 12
and her acting career began when she did a Rice-A-Roni commercial at the
age of 13...
79.
Jamie Chung
Actress, Sucker Punch
Jamie Chung was born and raised in
California, the daughter of Korean parents. She studied Economics at the
University of California, Riverside. Chung's break came in 2004, when
she was working in a sports bar. MTV held auditions for The Real World there, she tried out, and was successful, appearing in the San Diego based fourteenth season...
82.
Beyoncé Knowles
Soundtrack, Austin Powers in Goldmember
Beyoncé's father, Mathew Knowles, manages Destiny's Child. Her mother, Tina Knowles, designs their glittering costumes. Solange Knowles,
her sister (they're about 5 years apart), has released her debut album.
She dances with her big sister during DC-3 concerts. She and her group
were discovered by Whitney Houston...
83.
Lena Dunham
Writer, Tiny Furniture
New Yorker Lena Dunham is the daughter of a
painter, Carroll Dunham and Laurie Simmons, a designer and
photographer. Dunham was educated at Oberlin College, Ohio, graduating
with a creative writing degree. It was while at Oberlin that she began
writing shorts and feature films. In 2009, Dunham created the web series
Delusional Downtown Divas, which gained a cult following...
86.
Eva Longoria
Actress, Harsh Times
The youngest of four sisters who grew up
on a ranch near Corpus Christi, Texas, Longoria attended Texas A&M
University-Kingsville, where she received a Bachelor of Science degree
in Kinesiology. After graduating from college, she entered a talent
contest that brought her to Los Angeles, where she was spotted and
subsequently signed by a theatrical agent...
87.
Denise Richards
Actress, Starship Troopers
Elder of 2 daughters born to Irv and Joni
Richards. She grew up in the Chicago area, until the family relocated to
Oceanside, CA when Denise was 15. She began working as a model, and
moved to L.A. after she graduated from high school. She landed parts in
both TV and movies, and gave breakthrough performances in Starship Troopers with Casper Van Dien...
88.
Billie Piper
Actress, The Girl in the Fireplace
Billie Piper studied at the prestigious Sylvia Young
Theatre School. She caught the eyes of record producers who were
interested in signing a young vocalist when she was the poster girl for
the ad campaign of a British pop music magazine, "Smash Hits". She
released her first single, "Because We Want To"...
89.
Devon Aoki
Actress, Sin City
Born in New York but raised in California,
Devon is no stranger to the lifestyles of the rich and famous. Her
father is former Olympic wrestler and Benihana Steakhouse magnate Rocky
Aoki, and her mother is Pamela Hilburger, a jewelry designer. Devon is
of Japanese, German, and English ancestry. She started modeling when she
was 13...
90.
Franka Potente
Actress, Run Lola Run
Franka Potente was born on 22 July 1974 in
the German town of Dülmen. After her graduation in 1994, she went to
the Otto-Falckenberg-Schule, a drama school in Munich, but soon broke
off to study at the Lee Strasberg Theatre Institute in New York. After a
notable debut in Nach Fünf im Urwald, the role of the heroine in Run Lola Run...
91.
Qi Shu
Actress, The Transporter
Shu Qi was born in Taiwan and is of
Taiwanese nationality. She has been described as having a "manic" acting
style, which (unfortunately) has won her detractors. However, she has
proved her acting credibility by winning the prestigious Golden Horse
Awards in Taiwan (regarded as the "Asian Oscars") for Best Supporting
Actress...
93.
Fairuza Balk
Actress, American History X
Fairuza Balk began her career as a child on the ABC special The Best Christmas Pageant Ever and the Disney movie Return to Oz.
She attended the Bush Davies Performing Arts School in the UK for two
and a half years, where she landed a series of jobs. She won a CableAce
award as Best Actress for her role in the TV movie Shame and won the Independent Spirit Award for Best actress for Gas, Food Lodging...
94.
Andrew Garfield
Actor, The Amazing Spider-Man
Andrew Garfield was born in Los Angeles,
to an American father, Richard, and a British mother, Lynn. When he was
age 3, he moved to Surrey, U.K., with his parents and older brother. He
went to a private school (known as a "public" school in England), the
City of London Freemen's School. Andrew began acting in youth theatre
productions while he was still at school...
95.
Jesse Eisenberg
Actor, The Social Network
Jesse was born in Queens, New York, and
raised in New Jersey. His ancestors moved to the US from Poland and
Ukraine. His father ran a hospital before moving on to become a college
professor. His mother is a professional clown, performing at children's
birthday parties. He has two sisters. He attended East Brunswick high
school...
96.
Justin Long
Actor, Live Free or Die Hard
A likable, boyish-looking actor with thick
eyebrows and a friendly smile, Justin Long is a native of Connecticut.
He grew up in Fairfield, the second of three sons. His father, R. James
Long, is a Professor of Philosophy at Fairfield University and his
mother, Wendy Lesniak, is a former Broadway actress...
97.
Jay Baruchel
Actor, How to Train Your Dragon
Jay Baruchel was raised in Montreal, QC
Canada. He has a younger sister who also acts. He started acting in 1995
when he made his first of three appearances on the hit show Are You Afraid of the Dark?. He was also in more localized shows such as My Hometown and Popular Mechanics for Kids. Baruchel had spent some downtime and finally got a chance to be in a classic film called Almost Famous in 2000...
98.
Jay-Z
Soundtrack, Men in Black 3
Shawn Corey Carter was born 4 December
1969 in Brooklyn, New York, USA. Raised in Brooklyn, Carter was a school
friend of the Notorious B.I.G. He first started releasing records in
the late 1980s. In 1990, he appeared on records by his close friend Jaz
("The Originators") and Original Flavor ("Can I Get Open")...
99.
Salman Khan
Actor, Dabangg
Often known as Bollywood's "bad boy," his
knack of walking into trouble has overshadowed people's perception of
him as an actor. He has been featured as the bad guy of the industry
several times over. But many-a-common-man claims that this macho hunk
has a heart made of pure gold. Born on December 27...
100.
John Cena
Self, WWE Backlash
John Felix Anthony Cena or better known as
John Cena, the WWE superstar was born on April 23rd, 1977 in West
Newbury, Massachusetts. When he was in college, he played football. He
then continued on to be a bodybuilder and a limousine driver. The
6-foot-1 tall star weighs exactly at 240 pounds and is a very successful
superstar in the WWE...
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