Drew Blyth Barrymore (born February 22, 1975) is an American actress and film producer. She is the youngest member of the Barrymore family of American actors. She began acting when she was eleven months old. Barrymore made her screen debut in Altered States in 1980. Following her 1980 screen debut in Altered States, she starred in her breakout role in E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial. She quickly became one of Hollywood’s most recognized child actresses, going on to establish herself in mainly comic roles.

Following a turbulent childhood which was marked by drug and alcohol abuse and two stints in rehab, Barrymore wrote the 1990 autobiography, Little Girl Lost. Barrymore successfully made the transition from child star to adult actress with a number of films including the unsuccessful Poison Ivy, Bad Girls, Boys on the Side, and Everyone Says I Love You. Subsequently, she has established herself in romantic comedies such as The Wedding Singer and starred in the drama film Lucky You opposite Eric Bana. (more…)

Gisele Caroline Bündchen^[1] (born July 20, 1980) is a Brazilian supermodel. According to Forbes, she is the highest-paid model in the world and also the sixteenth richest woman in the entertainment world,^[2] having earned $33 million in 2007 and $35 million in 2008 alone, adding to her estimated $150 million fortune. She is also listed on Guinness Book of World Records as the world’s richest supermodel. Bündchen has been the face of more than 20 brands internationally, and has appeared on more magazine covers than any other supermodel.

Biography

Family and early life

Gisele Bündchen was born in the Brazilian town of Três de Maio and grew up in Horizontina, Rio Grande do Sul, to Vânia Nonnenmacher, a bank clerk pensioner, and Valdir Bündchen, a university teacher and writer. She has five sisters — Raquel, Graziela, Gabriela, Rafaela and her fraternal twin Patrícia, Gisele’s junior by five minutes. Bündchen was raised as a Roman Catholic, speaks Portuguese as her native language and English as a second language. (more…)

Elizabeth Jean “Busy” Philipps (born June 25, 1979) is an American film actress, perhaps best known for her supporting roles on the TV series Freaks and Geeks and Dawson’s Creek.

Biography

Career

She worked the toy-fair circuit as a real-life Barbie before making her show-business debut. She appeared on the UPN sitcom Love, Inc., in a role originally intended for Shannen Doherty. The show lasted for one season (2005-2006) before being canceled. Since Fall 2006, she had a major recurring role as Hope on ER.

Philipps is leaving ER after the second episode of Season 14; her character is headed to South America to “fulfill her Christian mission”

She also played Joey’s college roomate Audrey Liddell (46 episodes, 2001-2003) in Dawson’s Creek. She also played “Karen” in the Wayons Bro movie “White Chicks”.

She was ranked #58 on the Maxim Hot 100 Women of 2001. (more…)

Bryce Dallas Howard (born March 2, 1981) is an American actress, perhaps best known for her film roles in the M. Night Shyamalan-directed The Village and Lady in the Water, and as Gwen Stacy in Sam Raimi’s Spider-Man 3. She will star as Katherine Connor, second-in-command of the human resistance and wife to John Connor in the 2009 movie Terminator Salvation.

Biography

Early life

Conceived in Dallas, Texas – the source of her middle name – Howard was born in Los Angeles, California, the daughter of Cheryl (née Alley), a writer, and Hollywood actor-director Ron Howard. Her paternal grandparents were actors Jean Speegle Howard and Rance Howard and her uncle is actor Clint Howard; her godfather is actor Henry Winkler, who co-starred on Happy Days (1974) with her father.

Howard and her younger sisters, twins Jocelyn and Paige, and their younger brother, Reed, were raised away from the world of showbusiness. Their parents didn’t allow them access to television and instead encouraged reading, outside play, and hobbies. Nevertheless, all four Howard children can be seen as extras in some of their father’s films, such as in 1999’s EDtv. (more…)