Annalise Braakensiek is an Australian model, actress and TV presenter born December 9, 1972 in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. Of Norwegian ancestry, she speaks five languages: (English and German fluently and Dutch, Italian and Japanese conversationally). She studied a Bachelor of Fine Arts at the University of NSW College of the Fine Arts,(COFA) majoring in jewellery design and sculpture.

Braakensiek has enjoyed a successful international career as a model, and uses her profile for charities such as PETA and HSI amongst others.

Braakensiek is best known for her role of “Claudia Macpherson” in the 5 times Logies nominated Australian comedy TV series Pizza. She has also appeared on Home and Away, Heart Break High, and guest starred in many others. (more…)

Annabella Gloria Philomena Sciorra (born March 29, 1960 or 1964) is an American film and stage actress who has starred in a number of films and television series.

Biography

Personal life

Sciorra was born in Wethersfield, Connecticut to a fashion stylist mother and a veterinarian father. Her father is of half Italian and half Cuban descent, and her mother is of French ancestry. She currently resides in Brooklyn, New York. (more…)

Anna Helene Paquin (born July 24, 1982) is an Academy Award-winning, as well as Emmy- and Golden Globe-nominated, Canadian-New Zealander actress. Her breakthrough performance was in The Piano, which earned her an Academy Award for Best Supporting actress and made her the second youngest winner in history at the age of 11. She is also the first Canadian-born actress to win Best Supporting Actress.

Biography

Early life

Paquin was born in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada, the daughter of Mary (née Brophy), an English teacher and native of Wellington, New Zealand, and Brian Paquin, a high school physical education teacher. Paquin moved to New Zealand when she was four. She attended the Raphael House Rudolf Steiner School until she was eight or nine. Her musical childhood hobbies in New Zealand included playing the viola, cello and piano. She has also done gymnastics, ballet, swimming and downhill skiing, but she didn’t have hobbies related to acting. (more…)

Anna Mouglalis (Muğlalı)(born April 26, 1978 in Nantes, Loire-Atlantique), is a French actress of Greek (her father) and French (her mother) descent.

Biography

Anna Mouglalis spent her youth in the Var département, before moving back to Nantes with her family. Her father is a doctor and her mother is a masseuse. Until 2001 she studied at the Conservatoire National Supérieur d’Art Dramatique de Paris (CNSAD) under the direction of Daniel Mesguich. In addition to her native French, she speaks fluent English, Italian, Spanish, and understands Greek to a limited extent.

In 1997, she had begun an acting career in La Nuit du Titanic, played in Paris. In the same year she was chosen by Francis Girod for the film Terminal. In 2000 she co-starred with Isabelle Huppert in Claude Chabrol’s Merci pour le chocolat. After appearing in Novo (2002) by Jean Pierre Limosin, she was called up by Roberto Andò for the thriller Sotto falso nome. In 2003, she played in La Maladie de la mort which previewed at the Venice Film Festival, a film in black and white by first-time director Asa Mader. In this very same year, she also co-starred at a Greek film, called “Real Life “(”Alithini Zoi”), directed by Panos Koutras. In 2005 she took part in two Italian movies: Romanzo criminale, directed by Michele Placido, and Mare buio, where she featured alongside Luigi Lo Cascio. And she made a huge public and critical triumph with her co-star Lorànt Deutsch completely embodying the characters of the existentialists Simone de Beauvoir and Jean-Paul Sartre to the point that some critics said that they thought something mystical was happening before their eyes, in a TV movie called Les Amants du Flore showing their romance and the birth of their careers directed by Ilan Duran Cohen. (more…)