Hollywood Singer Actress - Britney Spears

Britney Spears Born Dec. 2, 1981 in the rural Louisiana town of Kentwood to parents Jamie and Lynne Spears, the young girl started training

for her future superstar status as a small child. A skilled dancer and gymnast - as well as a capable singer - Spears had the determination

and stamina to get to the top, starting her career in the entertainment industry early - too early, in fact - for producers of the revamped

"The Mickey Mouse Club" (The Disney Channel, 1989-1994). Producers of the star-making kiddie show turned down the talented youngster because

of her age when she first auditioned in 1990. Mindful of her potential, Spears was hooked up with an agent and temporarily moved with her

mother and baby sister to New York City the following year. Here, she starred in the off-Broadway production, "Ruthless," a stage comedy

loosely based on "The Bad Seed." Playing the evil but seemingly angelic child was an enjoyable role for the 10-year-old Spears, who next

wowed judges with her debut performance on the televised talent competition, "Star Search" (CBS, 1983-2004) in 1992. A year later, she was

finally welcomed into the cast of the "Mickey Mouse Club," becoming a part of an elite cast that included future TV star Keri Russell as well

as fellow teen pop luminaries Justin Timberlake and J.C. Chasez of *NSYNC and Christina Aguilera. As part of the ensemble, she could do all

the dancing, acting and singing her heart desired, but unfortunately, the show ended its run in the midst of only her second season.
Britney Spears - When "MMC" called it a day in 1994, the young star-in-the-making returned to Louisiana and attended a private junior/senior

high school in nearby McComb, MS, but missed the excitement of the entertainment world. In 1997, she signed with Jive Records, beginning a

partnership that would make Spears a household name. In 1998, she toured the malls of America a la teen pop star Tiffany did a decade

earlier, getting her bouncy, blonde image into the minds of the people while, at the same time, getting her promo tape into their stereos.

Her debut single "...Baby One More Time" was a smash hit in the last days of 1998, thanks, in part, to the provocative schoolgirl uniform-

sporting music video that accompanied the catchy and oddly edgy tune. While the fresh-faced teen sensation improbably crooned "My loneliness

is killing me," audiences of all ages were transfixed - from middle-aged men creepily fixating on the singer's short plaid kilt and midriff-

baring blouse, to seven-year-old girls hopping around the playground, strangely pleading "Hit me baby, one more time." Spears' debut album

went multi-platinum while her single stayed at the top of the charts in the first months of 1999. Upping her visibility, Spears'

controversial Rolling Stone cover (clad only in a bra and hot pants, surrounded by stuffed animals while talking on the phone) had parent

groups up in arms when the overtly sexy image hit stands in April - nearly eight months before the star's 18th birthday. Meanwhile, Spears

and her inner circle began a long-standing policy of sending mixed messages, proclaiming the star's commitment to Southern, church-going

values and remaining a virgin until she married.
Britney Spears - Appearances on a myriad of specials and awards shows and a guest stint on the ABC sitcom "Sabrina, the Teenage Witch"

(ABC/WB, 1996-2003) helped keep her in the minds and hearts of the public in between record releases. When her follow-up effort, Oops!... I

Did It Again dropped in 2000, her audience welcomed it with open wallets. Another round of multi-platinum sales were made, and the video for

the lead-off title track won the performer more kudos, proving her dance talents with an eye-catching routine in a fetching red vinyl

catsuit. When Spears appeared at that year's "MTV Video Music Awards," tearing off a man's tuxedo to reveal a flesh colored body suit, her

sexy image was solidified. Indeed, it became central to her routinely controversial image, with fans and media debating over lurid topics

such as whether or not the young star had received breast implants. Spears' sex appeal was tempered for her more family value-minded fans by

her sweet and seemingly chaste relationship with longtime boyfriend (and former Mouseketeer) Justin Timberlake - by then, the lead singer of

the hugely popular boy band *NSYNC, which shared the same musical management as Spears. Expressing herself, showing her versatility and

growing up in the public eye while losing very few of her original preteen fans, the singer seemed poised to stand the test of time.
Britney Spears - Though potential roles in the TV series "Dawson's Creek" (WB, 1998-2003) and the feature "Scary Movie" (2000) came to naught

- reportedly due to her busy schedule - new projects with Spears' name attached sprung up frequently. Rumors of her co-starring with hot

Latin singer Ricky Martin in a sequel to the 1987 hit musical, "Dirty Dancing," were not realized, but the singer/dancer made another major

impression on TV viewers. Following a second erotically charged performance on the 2001 "MTV Music Video Awards," during which she undulated

in a barely-there harem outfit to her new song "I'm a Slave for U" while an albino python wrapped around her neck, viewers of both sexes were

blown away yet again by her brazen "barely legal" performance. Britney-mania continued with her saucy performance in the HBO live concert,

"Britney Spears: Live in Las Vegas" (2001) - a production that demonstrated her adult sex appeal as much as it did her propensity to lip-

synch. Not satisfied with just conquering the music market, Spears tried her hand at publishing, co-authoring with her mother the

autobiographical tome Britney Spears' Heart to Heart (2000) and the novel A Mother's Gift (2001) - the latter of which was turned into the

ABC Family Channel telepic, "Brave New Girl" (2004), which Spears and her mother co-executive produced.
Britney Spears - After much build-up, at last the young diva made her big-screen acting debut - with a healthy dash of the more proven skill,

singing - in "Crossroads" (2002). Directed by Tamra Davis, the critically panned flick focused on three childhood friends on a road trip of

self-discovery. Neither the mawkish film nor Spears' candy-coated, "aw-shucks" performance were exactly Oscar material, but it did appeal to

a certain audience of die-hard Spears fans - namely the preteen and teen female and occasional smitten male. A blight on an otherwise world-

conquering 2002 - including opening her own New York restaurant NYLA (which became a spectacular failure) and continuing to tour around the

globe -was Spears' very public break-up with Timberlake, amid sordid rumors of infidelity on her part. On the defensive, Timberlake rather

ungentlemanly confirmed to much feigned shock that he and Spears had, indeed, put an end to her much-discussed virginity (as well as latter

outing her as the cheater in his future solo hit single and video, "Cry Me a River"). Amidst all the professional solo triumphs and personal

set-backs, she found time for a brief cameo in the comedy hit, "Austin Powers: Goldmember" and to record songs for a variety of film

soundtracks.
Britney Spears - By 2003-04, the media saturation of Spears and her fellow teeny-bopper idols (including Aguilera, Backstreet Boys and

*NSYNC) resulted in the beginnings of the inevitable backlash, with the singer making news more for her personal escapades than professional

activities. In a move many saw as desperate for all parties involved, Spears made headlines when, during an appearance on the 2003 "MTV Music

Video Awards," she opened the show in a musical sequence opposite her idol Madonna and her reported rival Aguilera, in which she shared a

lip-lock with the Material Girl. That was followed by the release of her fourth album, In the Zone, in which the singer further pushed

provocative boundaries in an obvious attempt to establish herself as a grown-up artist and to capitalize on her always buzzed-about sexpot

charms. The album received a critical drubbing in most quarters and did not entirely live up to commercial expectations. The disc still

provided hit singles, including the ubiquitous dance floor favorite "Toxic" and its controversial, overtly sexy music video, which was

briefly relegated to late-night-only airings on MTV. Oddly, during the promotional period for the album, Spears appeared in many increasingly

provocative, skin-baring photographs, including a recreation of a 1960s-era Angie Dickinson shot with her bare bottom peaking out of a

strategically stretched sweater for the cover of Esquire, yet she claimed in interviews she did not approve the shots, still trying to

project - albeit, unconvincingly at this point - an innocent, girl-next-door persona.
Britney Spears - The wild child beneath the surface was bubbling over into her public persona, with the mainstream and tabloid press

endlessly chronicling every juicy aspect of her behavior - which allegedly included late night partying and hook-ups with celebrity lotharios

Fred Durst and Colin Farrell. The dam seemingly broke loose in January of 2004, when the singer shocked fans with a surprise marriage to her

childhood friend Jason Alexander in an apparently booze-fueled New Year's Eve wedding in Las Vegas - something she called "a joke that had

gone too far." The marriage was annulled within 55 hours (with a lucrative pay-off to Alexander), but that did not stop Spears' shocking

second rush to the altar later that same year - this time to seemingly gold-digging back-up dancer, Kevin Federline. This union was not

without its controversy either, as at the start of their romance, Federline was an expectant father involved in a relationship with actress

Shar Jackson - who had already bore him one child not long before. Their engagement was announced in June, with plans for a fall 2004

wedding. Somewhere between romances, Spears continued to self-promote with faux-revelatory documentary specials on MTV, ABC and E! networks,

and she performed a surprisingly uninspired live version of her universally panned Onyx Hotel tour for the HBO special "Britney Spears: Live

in Miami" (2004). The blonde idol pulled out of the final leg of her poorly received tour after injuring her knee in June of that year,

requiring surgery and four months of recuperation (she also admitted that her head "really wasn't into" the tour).
Britney Spears - As a newly married woman in September of 2004, Spears increasingly found herself the subject of snarky bloggers and tabloid

magazines. Much of it she brought on herself, as she was constantly photographed leaving gas station bathrooms barefoot and chowing down on

Cheetos while cruising around town in a number of luxury vehicles. Worse yet, she often looking disheveled and messy coming in and out of

seemingly every fast food restaurant in the greater Los Angeles area. And interestingly enough to the public - she seemed not to care what

people thought of her or her new husband. This was most apparent when Spears and Federline sold home movies taken during their courtship to

UPN, resulting in the May, 2005 premiere of their reality show, "Britney & Kevin: Chaotic" - complete with the questionable catchphrase: "Can

you handle our truth?" By this time, it seemed the answer was no - and that no one cared to. Critics were less than kind, to say the least.

In fact, the show made the couple an even bigger laughing stock than before, what with the constant stream of nonsensical baby-talk, mugging

close-ups and uncomfortable pawing of one another. But Spears seemed happy - especially after giving birth to her first child, Sean Preston

in September, 2005.
Britney Spears - In a summer of seemingly one train wreck after another, Spears started appearing in the press wearing a variety of hats with

wig attached, attacking a photographer with an umbrella, spontaneously frolicking in the ocean in her underwear, making out with a college-

age extra while skinny-dipping in a hotel pool and hitting clubs left and right - all while Federline began lining up witnesses for his

custody fight - including issuing subp nas covertly to many in his ex's inner circle, including assistants, nannies and her long-time

manager, Larry Rudolph. After a disastrous photo shoot with OK magazine in August - during which Spears reportedly seemed "out of it," went

to the bathroom with the door open, wiped her greasy fingers on expensive frocks and then took off with some of the pricey wardrobe provided

without even finishing the interview or shoot - things seemed to be reaching a boiling point for the girl who had cut out everyone in her

life who cared for her. When the singer was announced as the opening act of the 2007 MTV Video Music Awards, public interest ran high - could

she pull it off? Performing her first single off her first studio album in some time, "Gimme More," Spears bombed so spectacularly - that

even she appeared to realize it, giving up mid-song. Her lip-synching was off, her dance moves lethargic and she even stumbled a bit just

walking through her routine. It did not help matters that she was poured into a sequined bikini that was not flattering to her figure.

Critics wasted no time slamming the singer, who reportedly left the stage in tears, for not only phoning it in, but for partying in Vegas

non-stop in the days leading up to the anticipated performance.




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Hollywood Models Actress - Bar refaeli

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Hollywood Beautiful Actress - Riya sen

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Riya Sen is yesteryear’s actress’ Moon Moon Sen’s daughter, Suchitra Sen’s granddaughter and current actress Raima Sen’s sister. Her father, Bharat Dev Varma is a member of the Royal Family of Tripura. Ila Devi of Coochbehar, whose younger sister is Gayatri Devi, is Riya’s grandmother. Both sister’s use their maternal grandmother, Suchitra Sen’s surname. Riya is a student of Loreto House and Rani Birla College and she also did a stint at the National Institute of Fashion Technology. She designs most of her clothes in commercials and films.

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Riya sen first noticed as the delicate beauty in Falguni Pathak’s video, Yaad Piya Ki Aane Lagi, though she made her film debut in Vishkanaya in 1991. She has appeared in many other music videos like Shaan’s Sutta Maro and Sonu Nigam’s Jeena Hai Tere Liye.

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While Riya sen does not have a good film career to boast of, she has established herself as a sex symbol. She wore a bikini in Shaadi No.1; she also kissed her co-stars Sharman Joshi and Ashmit Patel in Style and Silsilay respectively. She has appeared on magazine covers such as Savvy, Femina, Cosmopolitan and Elle and walked the ramp with her sis Raima at the Wills and Lakme Fashion Weeks from 2005 to 2007. Jhankaar Beats and Shaadi No. 1 are the only notable hits of her career. Riya is often compared to her mother Moon Moon Sen because of her sex symbol status.

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Riya Sen’s tantalizing looks and a lineage that boasts of royals and actors like Suchitra Sen and Moon Moon Sen made sure that she sashayed into tinsel town.

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Riya Sen - is an Aquarian born on 24th January 1981 in Kolkata, West Bengal. Her father is Bharat Dev Verma belonging to the royal family of Tripura and her mother is Moon Moon Sen, a former actress. Her sister Raima Sen is also an actress. Her maternal grandmother is Suchitra Sen, a renowned actress in Bengali cinema. Her paternal grandmother was the Princess of Cooch Behar and Maharani of Jaipur Gayatri Devi’s sister. On her maternal side, her great-great-grandfather Dinanath Sen was the Diwan of the Maharaja of Tripura.

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Riya Sen - in Kolkata at the Loreto House, Rani Birla College and National Institute of Fashion Technology. She is into jewellry-designing. Her interests also include belly dancing, kick boxing and kathak which she has trained under Vijayashree Chaudhry.Riya had trouble calling, when an MMS clip was circulated that showed her in a compromising position with ex-boyfriend Ashmit Patel.Riya Sen played girlfriend with actors like John Abraham, Ashmit Patel and Akshaye Khanna.

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Riya Sen - has appeared in ads for Colgate, Dabur Vatika, Reliance, Cadbury’s, Limca and Nirma. She has been the cover girl for magazines like Elle, Cosmopolitan, Gladrags, Femina and Maxim. She stirred conservative feathers when she struck a semi-nude pose for Daboo Ratnaani’s annual calendar.At sixteen, she looked gorgeous in Falguni Pathak’s music video “Yaad Piya Ki Aane Lagi”. She was a music video favourite as she appeared in Asha Bhonsle’s Jhumka Gira Re, Sonu Nigam’s Jeena Hai Tere Liye, Shaan’s Sutta Maro and others.

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Riya Sen - played the character of Nishi as a child in the movie Vishkanya (1991) which starred her mother Moon Moon Sen.In 1991, she acted in two Tamil movies Taj Mahal and Good Luck both of which fell flat. She appeared in the comedy Style (2001) which did pretty well. Jhankaar Beats, a tribute to R.D.Burman in 2002 was popular. In 2004, she appeared in item numbers in Plan and the Tamil movie Arasatchi.

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Riya Sen - In 2005, she played Bhama in Santhosh Sivan’s Ananthabadram, a Malayalam movie, which won awards and commercial success. She was seen in Shaadi No.1, Silsilay and an English language movie It Was Raining One Night.

Hollywood Top Actress - Scarlett Johansson

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Scarlett Johansson - In the mid-2000s, when gossip stories about twenty-something actresses behaving badly dominated headlines, Scarlett Johansson was nowhere to be found. Johansson was certainly one of the most respected actresses of her generation, having made an impact in a number of roles as intriguing young muses to older men in crisis, but she preferred to limit her dramatic behavior to movie screens. For her physical allure and intelligence, the born-and-bred New Yorker was courted by creative filmmakers like Robert Redford - who gave her a breakout role in "The Horse Whisperer" (1998) - the C n Brothers, Frank Miller and Woody Allen, who cast her in his late-career hits "Match Point" (2005) and "Vicky Cristina Barcelona" (2008). Johansson's translucent skin, curvy figure and flair for distant melancholy made her well-suited for period dramas like "Girl with the Pearl Earring" (2003) and "The Other Boleyn Girl" (2008), but the versatile actress also connected with young adult audiences for personifying the complex modern woman in films like "Ghost World" (2001) and "Lost in Translation" (2003), for which she earned a Golden Globe nomination. Johansson's number of intellectual pursuits outside of Hollywood also suggested that the poised performer would still be going strong when others her age had long since burnt out.

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Scarlett Johansson - and her twin brother, Hunter - were born in New York City, NY on Nov. 22, 1984. Raised in Manhattan where her father was an architect and her mother a producer, she was singing, dancing and acting from the time she was very young. Her movie buff mother cooperated by taking her to auditions where she was so un-childlike that commercial directors passed her over but film and theater directors were captivated. She studied at the Lee Strasberg Institute and made her stage debut at age eight in 1993's "Sophistry" at Playwrights Horizons Theatre. When Johansson was 10, she launched her film career in Rob Reiner's disastrous "North" (1994), a family film about a boy who seeks emancipation and travels the world searching for a new family. The following year, Johansson's instinctively natural acting skill came to attention in the legal thriller "Just Cause" (1995),

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Scarlett Johansson - where she played the daughter of a couple (Sean Connery and Kate Capshaw) who are terrorized by a convicted rapist (Blair Underwood). While attending the Children's Professional School in New York, the focused young actress carried on full steam ahead with a film career, appearing in two films in 1996. She earned notice as one of Eric Schaeffer's wise charges in "If Lucy Fell" and took a co-starring role in the understated independent "Manny & Lo" (1996). Johansson's finely crafted portrayal of a rather sensible 11-year-old who escapes from a foster home and runs away with her 16-year-old sister earned her critical praise and led directly to her casting in the high profile but disappointing 1997 release, "Home Alone 3."

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Scarlett Johansson was the subject of great buzz again the following year with Robert Redford's blockbuster romance "The Horse Whisperer" (1998), where she took the role of a youngster whose debilitating riding accident is responsible for a romance between her mother (Kristin Scott Thomas) and a horse trainer (Robert Redford), and turning what could have been little more than a two-dimensional plot device into a full-fledged character. All but disappearing after this high profile role, a teenage Johansson resurfaced three years later in-demand by some of the independent film world's most respected directors. Terry Zwigoff cast Johansson in "Ghost World" (2001),

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Scarlett Johansson - where she starred alongside Thora Birch as the more pragmatic of two cynical, outcast best friends newly graduated from high school. Snarky but less edgy than her black-haired buddy, Johansson did not get the screen time of her co-star but nonetheless impressed in her smaller role as a teen facing an unknown future. Adding to her resume of complex, three-dimensional teen roles that downplayed her blossoming beauty in favor of a sophisticated naturalism, Johansson was cast by the C n Brothers as a teenager who fancies an aloof barber (Billy Bob Thornton) caught in a blackmail scheme in the acclaimed period noir, "The Man Who Wasn't There" (2001). Later that year, she played a young Hungarian girl left behind when her refugee family flees their homeland during a Cold War political climate in "An American Rhapsody."

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Scarlett Johansson - star-making performance came with "Lost in Translation" (2003), writer-director Sophia Coppola's stylishly hip film about an emotionally adrift young married tourist left to her own devices in Tokyo. While her self-involved photographer husband is working, she forms a complex relationship with an equally disaffected 50-something Hollywood actor (Bill Murray). The actress - only 18 during filming - was a revelation in the picture, displaying a rare, multilayered chemistry with Murray that fueled the movie and carried many scenes; some without dialogue. Her subtle, knockout performance was wildly praised by critics. Hot on the heels of that role, Johansson dazzled audiences in "Girl with a Pearl Earring" (2003), a speculative account of the life of the 16-year-old maid who posed for Johannes Vermeer's (Colin Firth) most famous painting. As a result of her two strong 2003 performances, at the young age of 19, Johansson received a pair of Golden Globe nominations - one for Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture Drama (for "Girl With a Pearl Earring") and another for Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture Musical or Comedy (for "Lost In Translation"). "The Perfect Score" (2004), a limp teen caper made before Johansson's big breakout, was thankfully little-seen and she was better served with a pair of challenging roles released simultaneously in 2004.

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Scarlett Johansson - First, she added depth to a supporting role as the daughter of a middle-aged ad salesman (Dennis Quaid) who becomes involved with her father's young boss (Topher Grace) in writer-director Paul Weitz's comedy "In Good Company." Following that moderate box office success, she gave a Golden Globe-nominated (but little-seen) performance as a headstrong teen who returns to her late mother's home to unexpectedly share it with a pair of booze-soaked intellectual boarders (John Travolta and Gabriel Macht) in the Southern-influenced character drama "A Love Song for Bobby Long." In both films, Johansson's potent combination of adolescent freshness and wise-beyond-her-years maturity helped breathe a compelling realism into her roles. Off-screen, her male admirers were disappointed to find out that the young sex symbol had her own leading man, Josh Hartnett, with whom she began a two-year relationship in 2004. In an unfortunate introduction into the sci-fi action genre, Johansson was cast as the lead in director Michael Bay's misfire "The Island" (2005), as a woman living in a post-Apocalyptic world only to discover it is a façade for something much more sinister. As expected from an actress who generally shone under the employ of more artful auteurs, Johansson fared better in Woody Allen's serious-minded "Match Point" (2005), playing a sensual but struggling American actress in London who takes up with her ex-beau's brother-in-law (Jonathan Rhys-Myers), forcing him to choose between her and his comfortable, status-granting marriage. The result was another Golden Globe nomination and one of Allen's best works in years. Johansson would, in fact, become a kind of muse for the director, who would cast her in several more of his films.

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Scarlett Johansson - The writer-director quickly drafted Johansson to star as an American student in London who becomes involved with an aristocrat (Hugh Jackman) in "Scoop" (2006), though that follow-up came and went without much fanfare. Her next outing was "The Black Dahlia" (2006), Brian De Palma's take on James Ellroy's complicated and richly-textured noir thriller about two hard-edged cops (Josh Hartnett and Aaron Eckhart) who descend into obsession, corruption and sexual degeneracy while investigating the infamous brutal murder of a would-be actress (Mia Kirshner). Again, Johansson was believable as a sensual, smart woman able to woo men against their better judgment, but the film was not well received. She rebounded with the well-reviewed blockbuster "The Prestige" (2006), a Victorian-set supernatural thriller about two stage magicians (Hugh Jackman and Christian Bale) in an ongoing feud that takes them both to the top of their careers, but with terrible consequences. Fast-forwarding to the 1930s, Johansson co-starred in the unsuccessful attempt to bring Oscar Wilde's Lady Windermere's Fan to the screen with "A Good Woman" (2006). While the actress was now a presence in the Top Ten lists of men's cheesecake magazines like Maxim and FHM, the well-grounded actress hardly took her new sex symbol status seriously, and continued with a run of decidedly non-male oriented films, starting with the surprisingly commercial comedy "The Nanny Diaries" (2007). The adaptation of the bestseller did not survive its reinvention as a screen comedy and underperformed at the box office.

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Scarlett Johansson - In 2008, Johansson married film star Ryan Reynolds and co-starred with friend and fellow brainy babe Natalie Portman in the relatively successful "The Other Boleyn Girl" (2008), where she leant intelligence and wit to her portrayal of Mary Boleyn, sister of famed Henry VIII mistress, Anne. The film was the most widely-seen of Johansson's film releases that year, though her re-teaming with Woody Allen in "Vicky Cristina Barcelona" (2008), another European-set love triangle, was a hit with critics and perfectly utilized the actress' talent for intelligent, melancholy romance. She followed up with a pair of very different but similarly commercial-minded features - the adaptation of Frank Miller's comic "The Spirit" (2008) and a screen version of the cheeky self-help bestseller, "He's Just Not That Into You" (2009). Johansson played an aspiring singer in the film, which dovetailed with her new off-screen interest in music and the release of her first album, Anywhere I Lay My Head (2008), a reinterpreted collection of songs by Tom Waits. Meanwhile, she joined the all-star cast that included Robert Downey, Jr., Gwyneth Paltrow and Mickey Rourke for the hit sequel, "Iron Man 2" (2010), playing the Natalie Rushman/Natasha Romanoff, an undercover spy for the espionage group S.H.I.E.L.D. posing as the assistant to billionaire industrialist Tony Stark (Downey, Jr.)

Hollywood Top Actress - Ashley greene

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Ashley greene - In movies and on television, vampires were often portrayed as vicious creatures that preyed on innocent, helpless victims. Ashley Greene's portrayal of Alice Cullen in the hugely successful "Twilight" (2008) film franchise shed new light on the cinematic undead - loyal, sympathetic, and one who could control the thirst for human blood. Greene rose from obscurity after playing the kindhearted vampire created by "Twilight" author Stephenie Meyer in 2005. Greene's new-found fame hit a minor speed bump after nude photos of the star, taken during her early modeling career, were published on the Internet. After taking legal action to remove the photos, she was flooded with offers for various projects and reprised her star-making role in the subsequent "Twilight" saga films, ultimately becoming one of the most successful and globally recognized young actors of the vampire genre.

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Ashley Michele Greene was born on Feb. 21, 1987 in Jacksonville, FL. Her father, Joe Greene, was a U.S. Marine and concrete business owner and her mother, Michele Greene, worked in insurance. Midway through Greene's senior year at Samuel W. Wolfson High School, the 17-year-old decided to pack her bags and move to Los Angeles. She initially wanted to become a fashion model, but after getting turned down for her petite 5'5" stature, Greene was encouraged to take up commercial modeling instead. It was during this time when she discovered her love for acting taking classes at the Lee Strasberg Theatre and Film Institute, named after the man who had pioneered "Method Acting."

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Ashley greene - At the beginning of her acting career, Greene booked minor roles on television shows such as "MADtv" (Fox, 1995- ) and "Crossing Jordan" (NBC, 2001-07). One of Greene's first appearances was playing herself on a 2005 episode of Ashton Kutcher's prank-themed series "Punk'd" (MTV, 2003-07) with celebrity "targets" Justin Long, Macy Gray and DJ Qualls. The actress then landed a recurring role in the short-lived telenovela, "Desire" (MyNetworkTV, 2006).

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Ashley greene - Greene's Hollywood career started slow, but picked up speed at a record pace after landing a role in the much anticipated film, "Twilight." The actress was at home with her family for the holidays when she received the call to play Alice Cullen, a precognitive vampire who befriends the main character of Bella Swan (Kristen Stewart) in the film adaptation of Stephenie Meyer's novel, "Twilight." As soon as production began in Portland, OR, Greene was so dedicated to her role that she wore a short wig, contacts, and stayed out of sunlight to get her character's pale, "undead" look.

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Ashley greene - She also learned how to pitch like a professional baseball player for a climactic scene in the movie. Meyer herself praised Greene's transformation and commitment to the role, telling The Los Angeles Times that when she first saw Greene's photo, she exclaimed, "You found Alice!"

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Ashley greene - "Twilight" became a phenomenal blockbuster. Fueled by the book series' rabid tween fan base - who called themselves "Twi-hards" - along with the young and good looking cast lead by British heartthrob Robert Pattinson, the film grossed over $382 million worldwide. In March 2009, Greene treated the film's fanatics to a surprise appearance in Hollywood for the midnight release of the "Twilight" DVD, which ended up selling over $150 million during its first year. That same month, Greene reunited with her castmates and began filming "New Moon," the second book in the Twilight series. This time, Alice had a more instrumental role in the sequel, bringing Bella to Italy to save Edward Cullen (Pattinson) from surrendering to the Volturi, an evil vampire clan. Anticipation for "New Moon" reached a record high, with presale tickets to the November 2009 release selling out months before.

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Ashley greene - At the height of her success during the "Twilight" phenomenon, nude photos of Greene surfaced on the Internet in August 2009. It was reported they were taken when she was 19 years old and pursuing a modeling career. The blogosphere did not waste any time posting the leaked photos on entertainment news and gossip sites, but they were immediately removed after Greene took legal action. Her attorney released a statement, declaring the photos in question to be illegal and unlawfully displayed.

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Ashley greene - With the nude photo controversy resolved, Greene focused on several non-"Twilight" projects in 2009. She played a young woman terrorized by a family of serial killers in the thriller "Summer's Blood" and starred in the 1980s coming-of-age film, "Skateland." Greene reunited with her "Twilight" co-star Kellan Lutz in the drama, "Warrior," about a self-destructive and hotheaded Lacrosse player (Lutz).

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Ashley greene - She also landed a supporting role opposite singer Alanis Morissette in the sci-fi drama, "Radio Free Albemuth." In 2010, Greene would reprise her role of Alice Cullen in "Eclipse," the third and most action-packed chapter in the "Twilight" saga, in which her character has a vision that a vengeful vampire has returned to their hometown with an army of "newborn" vampires to kill her human friend, Bella.

Hollywood Top Actress - Selena Gomez

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Selena Gomez - Dubbed "the next Miley Cyrus" in 2008, singer and actress Selena Gomez vaulted to the top of tween stardom thanks to her starring role as a New York teenager with magical powers on the hit Disney Channel series, "Wizards of Waverly Place" (2007- ). While fame came at a young age, Gomez had already been working in the entertainment business for several years, having started her acting career at seven years old with a role on "Barney and Friends" (PBS, 1992- ). Following her feature debut with a bit part in "Spy Kids 3-D: Game Over" (2003), she was discovered by the Disney Channel after a nationwide scouting search and subsequently cast in a couple of unaired pilots before landing "Waverly." Because of the program's immense popularity

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Selena Gomez able to branch out into a singing career, releasing her debut album Kiss & Tell (2009) with her band Selena Gomez & the Scene. All this was precursor to other ventures like endorsement deals and launching a fashion line. Because of her multifaceted success unhinged by controversy, Gomez was poised to surpass the likes of Cyrus and Hilary Duff as the next top tween star.

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Selena Marie Gomez was born on July 22, 1992 in New York, but grew up an only child in Grand Prairie, TX. Her mother, Mandy Teefy, was a former stage actress who inspired her daughter to pursue a career in entertainment.

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Selena Gomez first acting job was "Barney & Friends" (PBS, 1992- ), where she played Gianna, one of the purple dinosaur's singing and dancing sidekicks. It was while auditioning for "Barney" that Gomez met her best friend and co-star Demi Lovato. Years later, Lovato herself became a Disney darling when she was cast in the starring role alongside the Jonas Brothers in the 2008 TV movie "Camp Rock" (Disney Channel). When she was only 10, Gomez attended a Disney nationwide talent search and not surprisingly, the Mouse House fell in love with her instantly.

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Selena Gomez appeared in an episode of "The Suite Life of Zack and Cody" (Disney Channel, 2005-07), followed by a recurring role on the mouse network's hit series "Hannah Montana" (2006- ). Gomez played Mikayla, a rival pop star to Cyrus' Hannah. Playing enemies on the show as well as a YouTube video Cyrus posted in 2008 that seemed to mock Gomez (and her friend Lovato) had fans wondering whether the two actresses were feuding in real life. Gomez laughed off the rumor, saying "I think (Miley's) a wonderful performer. It's all good."

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Selena Gomez - Her memorable appearances on the Disney Channel were enough for the network to give Gomez a starring role in the sitcom "Wizards of Waverly Place." The Texan teen was hilarious as middle child Alex Russo in the magic-themed series. It also gave the star an opportunity to grow with Disney, and they were more than willing to market her as one of the channel's biggest stars.

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Selena Gomez recorded a cover of "Cruella de Vil" for the "101 Dalmatians" (1961) DVD release and the album, DisneyMania6 (2008). She also reunited professionally with her pal Lovato in "Princess Protection Program" (Disney Channel, 2009) a movie about a princess who is taken into custody by the Princess Protection Program.

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Selena Gomez also appeared in the Jonas Brothers' music video for the song "Burnin' Up" in July 2008 as youngest brother Nick's onscreen girlfriend. In September 2008, the teen queen crown passed from Duff to Gomez, when the latter starred in "Another Cinderella Story" as a shy, aspiring dancer who falls in love with a pop singer, played by Drew Seeley. The DVD release was a sequel to the film "A Cinderella Story" (2004), which starred Duff. Gomez not only trained in dance for the movie, she also performed four songs for the soundtrack.

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Selena Gomez - Her first records were recorded in Spanish and she sang the words phonetically. After her music began to catch on, she began learning Spanish formally and by the time of her death, she was fluent in the language.