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Carey Lowell Biography

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This 16th “James Bond girl” followed in the spike-heeled footsteps of female actors as diverse as Ursula Andress, Jill St John, Jane Seymour and Joanna Lumley (as well as more than a few whose names are long-forgotten). A geologist’s daughter, the New York-born Lowell grew up in Libya, Holland, Virginia and Texas. By the time she was a fine-featured high school graduate, she had been signed by the Ford modeling agency and was posing for Ralph Lauren and Calvin Klein while attending college.

After some experience at New York’s Neighborhood Playhouse, Lowell opted out of modeling. She played unnoticed roles in small films such as “Dangerously Close” and “Club Paradise” (both 1986) and “Downtwisted” (1987) and met future husband Griffin Dunne while shooting the 1988 sex comedy “Me and Him” (”Me” being Dunne and “Him” being his private parts). But Lowell’s big break came the following year, when she was cast as Pam Bouvier, the tough, confrontational CIA agent who makes life interesting for Timothy Dalton’s James Bond in “Licence to Kill” (1989).

A leading role followed, in William Friedkin’s silly ‘killer nanny from Hell’ flick “The Guardian” (1990, in which Lowell and Dwier Brown hire Jenny Seagrove, who turns out to be a tree-worshipping demon). Stardom did not follow, and her next film–appropriately titled “Road to Ruin” (1992)–was a romantic comedy that sank without a trace. Her subsequent feature, Nora Ephron’s “Sleepless in Seattle” (1993), was a box office hit, but her role as Tom Hanks’ deceased wife was nothing more than a cameo. Lowell, who had returned to modeling (for Revlon), went on to play small roles in the big-budget Warren Beatty-Annette Bening vehicle “Love Affair” (1994) and in Mike Figgis’ acclaimed low-budget “Leaving Las Vegas” (1995). In the latter, she played a bank teller who clashes with a hung-over Nicolas Cage. Lowell was also in the 1995 short drama “The Duke of Groove” (directed by Dunne; their separation shortly thereafter was presumably unrelated to the film). She also appeared in the British comedy “Fierce Creatures” (1997), directed by John Cleese and featuring Kevin Kline, Michael Palin and Jamie Lee Curtis.

Lowell’s TV exposure has been limited. She starred as Dottie (the role originated by Geena Davis on the big screen) in the short-lived comedy series “A League of Their Own” (CBS, 1993). Lowell spent two seasons (1996-98) as an assistant district attorney on NBC’s award-winning “Law & Order” and returned to television in 2001 as an attorney on the short-lived series “Big Apple.” In between projects Lowell was most visible as the longtime companion of actor Richard Gere; after seven years and one child together, the couple finally tied the knot in 2002.

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Lindsay Lohan Biography

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When it came time to find a young actress to assume the role of the twins (originated by Hayley Mills) for the 1998 remake of “The Parent Trap”, an exhaustive casting search occurred throughout the USA, Canada and even in London. Perhaps because the behind-the-scenes figures opted to avoid the obvious and cast the Olsen twins, thousands of girls were considered. After three callbacks and a screen test with stars Dennis Quaid and Natasha Richardson, auburn-haired, freckle-faced Long Islander Lindsay Lohan won the role. Although she was just eleven when she was cast, she had an impressive resume.

The oldest child of four born to former actors, Lohan became a child model at age three, purportedly the first red-haired child signed by the Ford Modeling Agency. TV commercials for various products followed, including a Jell-O spot with pitchman Bill Cosby. Lohan also had recurring roles on two daytime dramas (CBS’ “Guiding Light” and NBC’s “Another World”) before she landed the first movie role for which she ever auditioned. Playing separated at birth twins, one American and one British, for “The Parent Trap” remake, she turned in a delightful performance. Lohan next filmed the telepic “Life-Size” (2000)–originally a “Wonderful World of Disney” production later released on home video–opposite Tyra Banks as a Barbie-style doll come to life, part of Lohan’s three-picture deal with Disney. In 2000, Lohany was cast Bette Midler’s teen daughteer on the short-lived CBS sitcom “Bette” (2000). After shooting the pilot episode, the show’s producers decided it would be easier on the L.A.-based crew if filming moved to California, and Lindsay gave up the role to stay in New York, and the role was recast although the series was canceled shortly thereafter.

Lohan next played Lexy Gold in Disney Channel telepic “Get a Clue” (2002). The young actress also pursued a musical career when Emilio Estefan, Jr., took her under his professional wing in 2002. with a five-album production deal and the promise of an aggressive effort to sell her popular style “with a rock edge” to a major record label. She also has worked as a model for Abercrombie & Fitch Kids (A&F Kids) and Calvin Klein Kids.

Lohan continued her relationship with the Mouse Factory, signing on to play Anna Coleman in the theatrical remake of the body-swapping comedy “Freaky Friday” (2003) opposite Jamie Lee Curtis as the mother-and-daughter team who wake up one day in each other’s bodies. The film was a surprise summer, generating over $100 million at the box office, raising Lohan’s profile even further and landing her in a public fued with fellow teen queen Hilary Duff (the two briefly shared a boyfriend: singer Aaron Carter). Like Duff, she also incorporated her singing career into his acting gig, with the “Freaky Friday” soundtrack including her debut single, “Ultimate.” Lohan returned to the public eye carrying the girl-minded comedy “Confessions of a Teenage Drama Queen” (2004) on her solo shoulders. Lohan played Lola, an egocentric teen who is uprooted from the home town that seemingly revolves around her and finds herself competing for attention in Manhattan, with grander and grander schemes. The actress provided vocals on four songs from the film’s soundtrack: “Drama Queen (That Girl),” “What Are You Waiting For,” “A Day in the Life” and a medley that incorporates the original song “Don’t Move On” with her take on Stevie Wonder’s “Living for the City” and David Bowie’s “Changes.”

Next up was a slightly edgier role, taking on the lead in “Mean Girls” (2004), a funny if familiar comedy penned by Tina Fey exploring in-fighting amongst a clique of catty high school girls. The film proved to be a box office success and firmly cemented Lohan’s star power, even beyond her teen and ‘tween core audience. Under the wing of new mentor Tommy Mottola, the famed head of Sony Music, Lohan also released her first full album, Speak, which swifty achieved platinum status, featuring the single “Rumors,” in which she decried the gossipy buzz that had suddenly surrounded her every move.

Indeed, the young actress’ rapidly maturing body and youthful sex appeal combined with a reputation for enjoying the Hollywood fast lane suddenly made her regular fodder for gossip magazines, which dutifully followed her denials about having received breast implants, her brief relationship with TV actor Wilmer Valderrama, her alleged hard-partying ways, an agressive paparazzi pursuit that resulted in a fender bender, and, after her figure had turned voluptuous and her titian hair became her trademark, her eyebrow-raising rapid weight loss (which the actress attributed to a healthier lifestyle) and new look as a blonde. The actress also had to deal with press reports regarding her estranged father Michael Lohan, whose alleged substance abuse and short temper (he reportedly threatened the lives of his ex-wife and children) resulted in several brushes with the law, including a legal restraining order preventing him from contact with his family and jail time for a litany of legal offenses including assaulting his brother-in-law at his son’s first communion party, violating terms of his restraining order and a 2005 drunk driving crash in which his vehicle struck a utility pole in Long Island and caught fire. Further estranging his famous daughter, he also sought to claim a percentage of his offspring’s earnings.

Despite all the lurid press, Lohan’s popularity continued unabated and Disney cast her in further family fare, this time the remake of the studio’s famous “Love Bug” franchise, “Herbie: Fully Loaded” (2005) as a young girl who inherits the legendary Volkswagen Beetle and takes to the NASCAR race circuit. The Mouse House did have some concerns about the then-voluptuous Lohan’s image for its young audiences in some scenes, and spent considerable sums to digitally decreade her burgeouning bust size when it was deemed distracting. Later in 2005 she was in her second auto accident of the year, again blaming pursuing paparazzi. her private life made headlines again when she confessed to Vanity Fair that she had indeed experienced an eating disorder, bulemia, that accounted for her significant weight loss, and was shocked back to healthy ways after she was confronted by “Saturday Night Live’s” Lorne Michaels and Tina Fey while hosting the show in 2005. She also admitted to experimenting with drugs. The cover story was released just as Lohan was hospitalized for a reported asthma attack in Miami after ringing in 2006 there. Within a week, Lohan denied having made the statements to the magazine, saying her words were “misconstrued and misconstructed” - The magazine stood by the story.

She joined the cast of Emilio Estevez’s independent film “Bobby” (lensed 2005), about the assassination of Robert F. Kennedy, and was set to costar in “Chapter 27″ (lensed 2006), an indie film about a woman who befriends Mark David Chapman during the weekend that he kills John Lennon

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Evangeline Lilly Biography

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Evangeline Lilly was born on August 3, 1979, in Fort Saskatchewan, Alberta. She is a Canadian actress and fashion model. Before her outstanding performance as an actress, Lilly was formerly an air hostess. Evey, that’s how people usually call her, is fluent in French. Between acting and modeling, Lilly spends her spare time ice-skating, canoeing, kayaking, snowboarding and rock climbing.

Since fourteen, Lilly has been volunteering for children’s project. She has also joined the missionary group and traveled to over 14 countries. It was no hard times at all for her even though she has to live in a grass hut in the Philippines jungles for the consequence. Despite her joining the Peace Corps, she also founded and ran a world development and human rights committee at the University of British Columbia.

The Ford modeling agency found Lilly on the streets of Kelowna, British Columbia. She later signed to the agency so that she could pay her education expenses at the University of British Columbia.

Evangeline Lilly made her outstanding appearance and caught the media attention as she stars Kate in the 2004 ABC TV series “Lost” in which she refused to do partial nude scene in its early episode.

She was originally auditioned for one of the supporting roles, but unexpectedly won the lead role of Kate. The series has led her to be nominated as the Best Actress in a Series by Golden Satellite Awards and Best Actress on Television by Saturn Awards.

Lilly also had her role in TV series “Judgment Day” (2002) and “Kingdom Hospital” (2004), and movies “Stealing Sinatra” (2003) and “The Long Weekend” (2005). As a result of her outstanding act, the Entertainment Weekly has voted Evangeline Lilly as one of the Breakout Stars of 2004.

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Courteney Cox Arquette Biography

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A whisper-thin, raven-haired beauty of TV and film, Courteney Cox first registered with audiences when she was plucked from the crowd by Bruce Springsteen in the Brian De Palma-directed video for The Boss’ hit 1984 single “Dancing in the Dark”. Work for the prestigious Ford Modeling Agency and appearances in Noxzema and Maybelline commercials (among others) and a bit part on the CBS soap “As the World Turns” preceded the video, after which she snagged a regular role in the short-lived primetime series “Misfits of Science” (NBC, 1985-86). Cox then joined the cast of the hit NBC sitcom “Family Ties” for the final two seasons (1987-89) as the brainy girlfriend of Alex P Keaton (Michael J Fox). She made the leap to the big screen, appearing in the little-seen caper film “Down Twisted” and the children’s sci-fi epic “Masters of the Universe” (both 1987), and “Cocoon: The Return” (1988), none of which registered much with critics or audiences.

For the rest of the 80s and into the early 90s, Cox alternated between TV and feature films, often trading on her girl-next-door qualities. While she landed the female lead opposite Jim Carrey in the smash hit “Ace Ventura: Pet Detective” (1994), she was overshadowed by the flashy antics of her co-star. Cox finally achieved small screen stardom as the neurotic aspiring chef Monica Geller, serving as the anchor of the ensemble, in the hit sitcom “Friends” (NBC, 1994-2004)–initially viewed as the star of the show, she easily settled into the emerging ensemble and, after a few seasons of playing Monica relatively straight, she showed her comedic chops as the character’s quirks–such as her hyper-cleanliness–emerged. She displayed her dramatic prowess as a blind rape victim in the made-for-cable movie “Sketch Artist II: Hands that See” (Showtime, 1995) before becoming the first of the “Friends” to score a big screen hit with Wes Craven’s “Scream” (1996). Cast against type as savvy, ambitious TV newscaster Gale Weathers, Cox delivered a strong performance and she reprised the part in the inevitable sequels “Scream 2″ (1997) and “Scream 3″ (2000). Unfortunately, “Commandments” (both 1997), in which she portrayed the unhappy wife of Anthony LaPaglia, embarking on an affair with her brother-in-law (Aidan Quinn), failed to mine the versatility she displayed in the Craven movies. After a string of roles in unimpressive films–”3000 Miles to Graceland,” “The Shrink Is In” and “Get Well Soon” (all 2001), Cox focused primarily on her series and her marriage to her “Scream” co-star David Arquette, whom she married in 1999 (the actress also added the Arquette name to her professional credits). As the final season of “Friends” wound down in 2004, Cox Arquette, had her share of options, motherhood was looming, she’d signed to appear in a slate of feature films, and she ahd her husband had already served as executive producers and design consultants on the home improvement reality series “Mix It Up” (2003-2004) on the cable network WE: Women’s Entertainment, a series that focused on helping couples blend their disparate design senisbilities when they move in together.

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