Paris Hilton

Paris Hilton

DO YOU KNOW: Paris Hilton is the founder of Heiress Records (2004), a sub-label of Warner Bros.

Paris Whitney Hilton (or just Star, Princess), an American socialite, is an heiress to a share of the Hilton Hotel fortune, and also to the real estate fortune of her dad, Richard Hilton. Initially she became well known due to her participation in the reality series, The Simple Life, and 1 Night in Paris. She lend her name in cartoon series, animated life of herself. Her voice was used in See Paris Die! A viral animation promoting House of Wax.

Some Facts about Paris Hilton

Genre(s)	Born	Nick Name	Alternate Names	Height
Actress	February 17, 1981	Star	Paris Whitney Hilton	5' 7½" (1.71 m)`
Model	New York City, NY, USA	Princess
Singer

Filmography (Supporting or Minor Roles) 

• House of Wax (2005)
• The Hillz (2004)
• Raising Helen (2004)
• Nine Lives (2002)

Album 

• Paris

Hit Singles

• 2006 "Stars Are Blind" - (June 11)
• 2006 "Turn It Up" - (August 15)
• 2006 "Nothing in this World" - (September 12)

Signed Modeling Agencies

• Ford Models Management in New York
• Models 1 Agency in London
• Nous Model Management in Los Angeles
• Premier Model Management in London

Appearance in Top Advertisements

• Iceberg
• GUESS
• Tommy Hilfiger
• Christian Dior
• Marciano

Top Paris Hilton News 

• The mayor of Las Vegas had proclaimed the day August 29, 2006 as "Paris Hilton Day"
• By Maxim magazine Hilton was ranked No.38 on its annual Hot 100 list - 2006 May
• She has hosted "Saturday Night Live" on NBC - 2005
• In the Playboy magazine, Hilton was named the "Sex Star of the Year" - 2005 March
• She starred in horror remake of "House of Wax" - 2005
• She starred as a sorority president in "National Lampoon's Pledge This!" - 2005
• She was featured as the new face for Guess in the Fall 2004 ads - 2004
• She made a cameo appearance on SNL's weekend update - 2003

Hilton Trade Mark

• Paris Hilton wears blue coloured contact lenses.
• Her quote and shirts that usually reads "That's Hot".
• Hilton's Long blonde hair

Official Paris Hilton Website
www.parishiltonrecord.com

Julia Roberts

Julia Roberts

DO YOU KNOW: Julia Roberts is the first actress to reach 20 million dollar mark salary.

Julia Roberts (Julia Fiona Roberts) is an American film actress. She won the fame in the early 1990s when she starred in a romantic comedy named Pretty Woman. With this fame, Julia became the highest-paid actress in the world. For four consecutive years, 2002-2005, she was top-earning female stars according to the Hollywood Reporter's annual power list.

In 2001 Julia won the Best Actress Academy Award for her critically praised turn as the title character in Erin Brockovich. In 1990s she was twice nominated for the same title. For all her fame, she is often referred as "America's Sweetheart."

Julia Robert after signing Erin Brockovich became the first actress along with Cameron Diaz to join the coveted "$20 Million Club." In 2003s she was paid $25 million for her role in Mona Lisa Smile. As of 2007, her net worth is estimated to be US$140,000,000. Julia Rober is the first actress to appear on the cover of Vogue magazine and she is also the first woman to land on the cover of GQ.

Some Facts about Julia Roberts

Genre(s)	Born	Nick Name	Alternate Names	Height
Actress	October 28, 1967	Jules	Julia Fiona Roberts	5' 9" (1.75 m)
	Atlanta, Georgia, United States

Awards 
Golden Globe Awards

• Best Actress - Motion Picture Drama (2001; Erin Brockovich)
• Best Actress - Motion Picture Musical or Comedy (1991; Pretty Woman)
• Best Supporting Actress - Motion Picture (1990, Steel Magnolias)

Academy Awards 

• Best Actress (2000; Erin Brockovich)

Filmography 

• 1987 Firehouse
• 1988 Blood Red, Mystic Pizza, Baja Oklahoma, Satisfaction aka Girls of Summer
• 1989 Steel Magnolias
• 1990 Flatliners, Pretty Woman
• 1991 Hook, Dying Young, Sleeping with the Enemy
• 1992 The Player
• 1993 The Pelican Brief
• 1994 Ready to Wear (Prêt-à-Porter), I Love Trouble
• 1995 Something to Talk About
• 1996 Everyone Says I Love You, Michael Collins, Mary Reilly
• 1997 Conspiracy Theory, My Best Friend's Wedding
• 1998 Stepmom
• 1999 Runaway Bride, Notting Hill
• 2000 Erin Brockovich
• 2001 Ocean's Eleven, America's Sweethearts, The Mexican
• 2002 Confessions of a Dangerous Mind, Full Frontal
• 2003 Mona Lisa Smile
• 2004 Ocean's Twelve, Closer
• 2006 Charlotte's Web, The Ant Bully
• 2007 Charlie Wilson's War

What Julia Quoted 
Julia Roberts, on forgetting to include the real-life Erin Brockovich-Ellis in her Academy Award acceptance speech, she said "It doesn't bring out the Einstein moment that you hoped it would."

According to People Magazine (8/22/99), "The first time I felt I was famous was when I went to the movies with my mom. I had gone to the loo, and someone in the bathroom said in a very loud voice, 'Girl in stall No. 1, were you in Mystic Pizza (1988)? I paused and I said, yeah that was me."

Trivia

• Julia was on People (USA) magazine's '50 Most Beautiful' list. [2000]
• She was ranked No.66 in Empire (UK) magazine's "The Top 100 Movie Stars of All Time" list. [October 1997]
• She was chosen by People magazine as one of the 50 Most Beautiful People in the world. [1990 & 91]
• She was ranked No.1 (in Hollywood Power) and No.12 (in $$) on Forbes magazine 'Power 100'.
• She toped the list of the 200 "hottest" actors and actresses in the business in "James Ulmer's Hollywood Hot List: The Complete Guide to Star Power - 2000" book that was published in October 2000.
• She was named one of People Magazine's '25 Most Intriguing People of 2001'.
• She was named one of E!'s "top 20 entertainers of 2001".
• She was ranked 6th of the 100 Sexiest Women by FHM Taiwan in the year 2001.
• She was ranked No.16 in Premiere's 2003 annual Hollywood Power List. Her rank was No.18 in 2002
• She was ranked No.10 in Star TV's Top 10 Box Office Stars of the 1990s (2003)
• She was ranked by Premiere Magazine No.7 for Greatest Movie Star of All Time in their Stars in Our Constellation feature (2005).
• She was ranked No.8 in Forbes the 20 Richest Women In Entertainment.

Christine Solomon

Christine Solomon

They say all great things come on tiny packages, this 5'2” of tremendous talent is an established trained actor. Christine started pretty young, at the tender age of eight she took up Gymnastics, at the age of twelve she developed a passion for theatre and started modeling at the age of thirteen after winning several competitions; including The International Modeling and Talent Association (IMTA) and Model Search America.

Christine Solomon’s big break came in at The Cairo International Film Festival 2006 where she met several directors and agreed to act in twofilms Basra and voice over for the film Balad Al Banat. Chrisitne has also shown tremendous support to various foundations like the Breast Cancer Foundation and Make Poverty History. She has also performed at several benefit concerts helping raise money for Cancer Research.

Some Facts about Christine Solomon

Hips	Bust	Weight	Waist	Height
34	32	105 lbs.	24	5' 2" (1.63 m)

Filmography

• Fakers
• Heliopolis
• Basra
• Obsession
• A Chance Meeting

Television

• Yasmine
• Abdallah Al Rowaished
• Nour
• Cameron Carito
• Hysteria

Theatre

• The Comedy of Errors
• Holiday Dingles
• The Gambler
• Murder at San Gennaro
• Our Country's Good
• The Laramie Project

Official Christine Solomon Website
http://www.christinesolomon.com/

Nicole Kidman

Nicole Kidman

DO YOU KNOW: Nicole Kidman is a three-time Golden Globe winner for Best Actress

Nicole Kidman (Nicole Mary Kidman) is an Australian actress who was crowned as the highest paid actress in the film industry in 2006. Her breakthrough role was in a thriller movie of 1989, Dead Calm. After that there was no stopping for Kidman. She received a Star on the Walk of Fame in Hollywood in 2003.

Kidman's first appearance in films was when she was just fifteen year-old. She appeared in Pat Wilson music video in 1983 for the song Bop Girl. Kidman also has several vocal performances;. With Ewan McGregor she was on her debut song "Come What May," a film soundtrack and it peaked at 27 in the UK Singles Chart.

Some Facts about Nicole Kidman

Born	Nick Name	Alternate Names	Height
June 20, 1967	Nic	Nicole Mary Kidman	5' 10½" (1.79 m)
Honolulu, Hawaii, USA

Awards 
Academy Awards

• In 2003 Best Actress in a Leading Role for The Hours

Golden Globe Awards

• In 1996 Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture - Musical or Comedy for To Die For
• In 2002 Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture - Musical or Comedy for Moulin Rouge!
• In 2003 Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture - Drama for The Hours

MTV Movie Awards

• In 2002 Best Female Performance for Moulin Rouge!
• In 2002 Best Musical Sequence for Moulin Rouge!

BAFTA Awards

• In 2003 - The Hours

Notable roles

• Suzanne Stone Maretto - To Die For
• Virginia Woolf - The Hours
• Satine - Moulin Rouge!

What Nicole Quoted

• On receiving her star on the Walk of Fame she said, "I've never been so excited to have people walk all over me for the rest of my life."
• On Dogville in the year 2003 she said, "One day it would be a fairytale, the next it was a nightmare. Lars was gentle with me - he was gentle and soft, then he would beat me up emotionally when he felt he needed that. I did not always register what was happening until afterwards but you shouldn't have too much awareness as an actor..."

Trivia

• She was listed in "People Weekly"s "Most Intriguing People" list. (December 25 1995/January 1st 1996 issue)
• She was named for one of People Magazine's '25 Most Intriguing People of 2001'.
• She was named E!'s Celebrity of the Year in 2001.
• Named Entertainment Weekly's Entertainer of The Year for 2001.
• She was named for one of the 50 Most Beautiful People by People Magazine in 2002.
• Nicole received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame on 13th January 2003.
• She was ranked No.31 in Premiere's 2003 annual Power 100 List. She was ranked No.83 in 2002.
• She was voted the 5th Sexiest Female Movie Star in the Australian Empire Magazine - September 2002.
• By Premiere Magazine she was ranked as No.48 on a list of the Greatest Movie Stars of All Time in their Stars in Our Constellation feature (2005).
• By One People Magazine's she was among "50 Most Beautiful People" for most wanted skin (2004)
• She has been ranked as No.69 in FHM's "100 Sexiest Women in the World 2005" special supplement. (2005)

Janet Jackson

Janet Jackson

Grammy Award winner Janet Jackson is an American singer, songwriter, record producer, dancer, and actress. She is the youngest in the Jackson music family. Her first breakthrough was in the family's limelight in 1974 Las Vegas production, then in 1976 television show, and later on her own as a television actress.

In the early '80s she released modestly successful records, Janet Jackson and Dream Street. According to Billboard, Janet is ranked 9th most successful artist in the history of rock and roll. She holds the record for the most Soul Train Music Awards.

Janet also gets the fame for being the "Most Searched on the Internet," in 2006 and also the "Most Searched for News Item," according to Guinness Book of World Records. According to Forbes Magazine, she was ranked the seventh richest woman in the entertainment business amassing a fortune of more than $150 Million.

Some Facts about Janet Jackson

Genre(s)BornNick NameAlternate NamesHeightR&B*May 16, 1966DunkJanet Damita Jo Jackson5' 4" (1.63 m)Pop, Soul, RockGary, Indiana, United StatesJDance  

Filmography 
Television Series

• 1977-1979: Good Times
• 1979-1980: A New Kind of Family
• 1980-1984: Diff'rent Strokes
• 1984-1985: Fame

Films 

• 1993: Poetic Justice
• 2000: Nutty Professor II: The Klumps
• 2008: Why Did I Get Married?

Music Videos

• 1984: Dream Street
• 1986: What Have You Done For Me Lately, Nasty, When I Think Of You, Control
• 1987: Let's Wait Awhile, The Pleasure Principle
• 1988: Diamonds
• 1989: 2300 Jackson Street, Miss You Much, The Knowledge, Rhythm Nation, Escapade
• 1990: Alright, Come Back To Me, Black Cat, Love Will Never Do (Without You)
• 1992: The Best Things in Life are Free
• 1993: That's The Way Love Goes, If, Again
• 1994: Because of Love, Any Time, Any Place, Throb (live), You Want This feat. MC Lyte
• 1995: Whoops Now, What'll I Do (live), Scream, Runaway
• 1996: Twenty Foreplay
• 1997: Got 'Til It's Gone, Together Again, Together Again (Deeper Remix)
• 1998: I Get Lonely, I Get Lonely (TNT Remix) feat BLACKstreet, Go Deep, You, Every Time
• 1999: Girlfriend/Boyfiend, What's It Gonna Be?!
• 2000: Doesn't Really Matter
• 2001: All For You, Someone To Call My Lover, Son Of A Gun
• 2002: Feel It Boy
• 2004: Just A Little While
• 2004: I Want You, All Nite (Don't Stop)
• 2005: Gotta Getcha
• 2006: Call On Me feat. Nelly, So Excited feat. Khia

Discography
Studio albums

• 1982: Janet Jackson
• 1984: Dream Street
• 1986: Control
• 1989: Janet Jackson's Rhythm Nation 1814
• 1993: janet
• 1995: Design of a Decade 1986/1996
• 1997: The Velvet Rope
• 2001: All For You
• 2004: Damita Jo
• 2006: 20 Y.O.

U.S. number-one singles (Billboard Hot 100) 

• 1986: "When I Think of You"
• 1989: "Miss You Much"
• 1990: "Escapade"
• 1990: "Black Cat"
• 1991: "Love Will Never Do (Without You)"
• 1993: "That's the Way Love Goes"
• 1993: "Again"
• 1997: "Together Again"
• 2000: "Doesn't Really Matter"
• 2001: "All For You"

U.S number-one singles (Billboard R&B/Hip-Hop)

• 1986: "What Have You Done For Me Lately"
• 1986: "Nasty"
• 1986: "Control"
• 1987: "Let's Wait Awhile"
• 1987: "The Pleasure Principle"
• 1989: "Miss You Much"
• 1989: "Rhythm Nation"
• 1990: "Escapade"
• 1992: "The Best Things In Life Are Free"
• 1993: "That's The Way Love Goes"
• 1994: "Any Time, Any Place"
• 1997: "I Get Lonely"
• 1999: "What's It Gonna Be?!"(Busta Rhymes featuring Janet Jackson)
• · 2001: "All For You"
• · 2006: "Call on Me"

Trivia

• She was voted as one of "The 10 Sexiest Women of 2001" by the readers of Black Men Magazine.
• The last five of her eight albums (excluding "Janet Jackson," "Dream Street" and her greatest hits album "Design of a Decade: 1986 -1996") have all hit #1
• She was ranked No.77 on VH1's 100 Greatest Women of Rock N Roll
• She won nine Billboard Awards in the year 1990 for Rhythm Nation 1814.
• Her 1st self-titled album peaked at No.63 on Billboard's Top 200 Albums and sold a disappointing 250,000 copies.
• Her sophomore album "Dream Street" reached No.147 on Billboard and sold 200,000 copies only.
• Her third album "Control" sold more than 10 million worldwide and produced five top 5 hits that included Nasty, Let's Wait Awhile, and the No.1 When I Think Of You.
• Rhythm Nation 1814 spend 4 weeks being No.1 on both Pop and R&B charts in US and it sold another 10 million worldwide and the singles were even more successful. The album spawned seven top five hits including four #1s,the 1st and only artist to accomplished that feat.
• The album "Janet" produced 6 top 10 hits and sold more than 15 million copies.
• Her first biography was released in the year 1977 as a joint biography about her and her brother Randy Jackson.
• She became the first artist to score a No.1 hit simultaneously on the Billboard Hot 100 and Mainstream Rock singles chart with "Black Cat" in the year 1990.
• She holds the record for most weeks spent at No.1 on the R&B chart for her 1994 single, "Any Time, Any Place."
• She was named No.37 in FHM's "100 Sexiest Women in the World 2005" special supplement.
• In Japan, she appeared in a television commercial for Pepsi-Cola with Ricky Martin in the year 1999. She also appeared in another Japanese TV ad back in 1990 for Japan Airlines.
• She had endorsements with PepsiCo, American Airlines and Revlon.

Sharon Stone

Sharon Stone

DO YOU KNOW: Sharon Stone is a Golden Globe and Emmy winner.

Sharon Stone (Sharon Vonne Stone) is an american actress, producer, and former fashion model. At the age of 17 she was crowned Miss Pennsylvania beauty contest. She also became a successful Ford model in TV commercials as well as in print ads. In 1980, Sharon made her debut in Woody Allen's Stardust Memories as "pretty girl on train."

She accepted the breakthrough role in Basic Instinct in 1992 as a sociopath novelist, "Catherine Tramell." The interrogation scene became a classic in film industry. Her performance captivated everyone. MTV viewers honored her as Most Desirable Female and Best Female Performance Awards. At Golden Globe, she was nominated for Best Actress.

Some Facts about Sharon Stone

Genre(s)	Born	Alternate Names	Spouse	Height
Actress	March 10, 1958	Sharon Vonne Stone	George Englund Jr.	5' 8½" (1.74 m)
	Meadville, Pennsylvania		Phil Bronstein (1998-2004)
	United States of America		Michael Greenburg (1984-1987)

Awards 
Academy Awards

• Nominated - Best Actress (1995; Casino)

Emmy Awards

• Outstanding Guest Actress in a Drama Series (2003; The Practice)

Golden Globe Awards

• Best Actress - Motion Picture Drama (1996; Casino)

Filmography 

• 2008 Dirty Tricks, Rocket
• 2007 If I Had Known I Was a Genius, When a Man Falls in the Forest, Alpha Dog
• 2006 Bobby, Basic Instinct 2
• 2005 Broken Flowers
• 2004 Catwoman, A Different Loyalty
• 2003 Cold Creek Manor
• 2000 Beautiful Joe, Picking Up the Pieces, If These Walls Could Talk 2
• 1999 Simpatico, The Muse, Gloria
• 1998 The Mighty, Antz, Sphere
• 1996 Last Dance, Diabolique
• 1995 Casino, The Quick and the Dead
• 1994 The Specialist, Intersection
• 1993 Sliver 1992 Basic Instinct
• 1991 Where Sleeping Dogs Lie, Diary of a Hitman, Year of the Gun, Scissors, He Said, She Said
• 1990 Total Recall
• 1989 War and Remembrance, Blood and Sand, Beyond the Stars
• 1988 Above the Law, Action Jackson, Tears in the Rain
• 1987 Cold Steel, Allan Quatermain and the Lost City of Gold, Police Academy 4: Citizens on Patrol
• 1985 King Solomon's Mines
• 1984 Irreconcilable Differences, The Vegas Strip War, Calendar Girl Murders
• 1983 Bay City Blues 1982 Not Just Another Affair
• 1981 Deadly Blessing, Les Uns et les autres
• 1 980 Stardust Memories

Notable Roles

• 2006 "Stars Are Blind" - (June 11)
• 2006 "Turn It Up" - (August 15)
• 2006 "Nothing in this World" - (September 12)

Signed Modeling Agencies

• Catherine Tramell in Basic Instinct

What Sharon Quoted

• When she was asked to pay tribute to troops fighting in Iraq: "I know it's a difficult time for you to come out to party during such a time of strife in our world. My feeling is that I hope everyone will be safe and protected and taken care of, and our prayers are with the people around the world who will be affected by this."
• In 1994 she says, "I dress up to show that I am happy.".
• Whe she was asked on the benefits of being famous: "I find I get to torture a higher class of men."

Trivia

• She has been chosen by Empire magazine as one of the "100 Sexiest Stars in Film History" (#49). [1995]
• She was ranked No. 24 in Playboy Magazine's "100 Sexiest Stars of the Century" . [1999]
• She has been ranked No.77 in Empire (UK) magazine's "The Top 100 Movie Stars of All Time" list. [October 1997]
• She was one of People Magazine's "50 Most Beautiful People." [1992]
• She was also one of People Magazine's "25 Most Intriguing People" of 1992.

Julie Christie

Julie Christie

Born in Assam (India), Julie Christie (or Julie Frances Christie) is an English Academy Award-winner actress. Christie's first major film role was in 1963 film Billy Liar as Liz. Her break through role was as a amoral Diana Scott in the 1965 film Darling.

In the '70s Julie was Oscar nominated as second Best Actress for the film Robert Altman's McCabe and Mrs Miller. She has never been a prolific actress. Even in '60s, when she was at the height of her career, she made fewer and fewer films.

Some Facts about Julie Christie

Born	Alternate Names	Height
14 April 1941	Julie Frances Christie	5' 2" (1.57 m)
Assam, India

Awards 
Academy Awards

• Best Actress (1965; Darling)

Filmography 

• 1965 - Darling, Doctor Zhivago
• 1967 - Far from the Madding Crowd
• 1968 - Petulia
• 1971 - McCabe and Mrs Miller, The Go-Between
• 1973 - Don't Look Now
• 1975 - Shampoo
• 1977 - Demon Seed

What Christie Quoted 
On making Shampoo in the year 1975 with Warren Beatty and Robert Towne she said, "We showcased a utterly immoral, grotesquely greedy, decadent society that we felt was imminent."

On her relationship with Warren Beatty she said, "I'm terribly dependent on him, like a baby to its mother, so we travel backwards and forward to be with each other."

Trivia

• She was chosen by Empire magazine as one of the 100 Sexiest Stars in film history (No.26). [1995]
• In the year 1967 Time magazine said of her, "What Julie Christie wears has more real impact on fashion than all the clothes of the ten Best-Dressed women combined."
• She was ranked No.29 in Mr.Skin's Top 100 Celebrity Nude Scenes
• She was ranked No.34 in Celebrity Skin's 50 Sexiest Starlets of All Time
• She was ranked No.5 in Hello Magazine's 25 British Beauties
• She was ranked No.9 in FHM magazine's '100 sexiest women of all time'
• She was chosen by Empire magazine as one of the 100 Greatest Movie Stars (No.91)

Salary 

• Power (1986) - $1,000,000
• Petulia (1968) - $400,000
• Fahrenheit 451 (1966) - $200,000
• Darling (1965) - $7,500

Beyonce Knowles

Beyonce Knowles

DO YOU KNOW: People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA), an animal rights organization have voiced concern over Beyoncé wearing and using fur in her clothing line, House of Deréon.

Beyoncé Giselle Knowles (or just JuJu, Mothe, Bee) is a Grammy Award winner as R&B singer, songwriter and record producer. She rose to fame with R&B girl group Destiny's Child. They were the best-selling female group of all time, with over fifty million records sold.

The debut solo album of Knowles was Dangerously in Love. This album topped the album charts in the U.S. and the UK. It became one of the biggest commercial successes of the year. In 2001, Knowles turned to acting with a film for television, Carmen.

Some Facts about Beyonce Knowles

Genre(s)	Born	Nick Name	Alternate Names	Height
Singer	September 4, 1981	JuJu	Beyoncé Giselle Knowles	5' 7" (1.70 m)
Actress	Houston, Texas, United States	Mothe
Model		Bee

Filmography

• Dreamgirls - 2006
• The Pink Panther - 2006
• Fade to Black - 2004
• Temptations - 2003
• The Fighting - 2003
• Goldmember - 2002
• Austin Powers in - 2002
• Carmen: A Hip Hopera - 2001

Discography

• B'Day - 2006
• Live at Wembley - 2004
• Dangerously in Love - 2003

Hit Singles

• Deja Vu - 2006
• Ring the Alarm - 2006
• Irreplaceable - 2006
• Check on It - 2005
• Naughty Girl - 2005
• Baby Boy - 2003
• Me, Myself and I - 2003
• Crazy in Love - 2003
• 03 Bonnie & Clyde - 2002

Top Paris Hilton News

• She has been nominated for two Golden Globe Awards for the film Dreamgirls - "Best Actress - Motion Picture Musical or Comedy" & "Best Original Song" for "Listen".
• Her film 'Dreamgirls' is nominated for eight 2007 Academy Awards, including "Best Original Song" for "Listen".

Hilton Trade Mark
Big, heavy earrings

Hilton Loves

• Pop eyes fried chicken in food
• Houston, Atlanta in cities
• Antique Convertible Jaguar in car
• Swimming

Hilton's Fan Clubs
www.foreverbeyonce.com

Shakira

Shakira

Rock singer Shakira is ten-time Grammy Award winner. She is Colombian singer, songwriter, instrumentalist, record producer, dancer and occasional actress. She is one of the major figure in pop music scene of Latin America for more than a decade. Her first album in the English-speaking market was Laundry Service. More than fifteen million copies of this album was sold worldwide.

Among the Colombian artists, Shakira is the highest-selling of all time. She is the only artist of Colombian to have reached the number-one spot on the Billboard Hot 100 and UK Singles Chart.

Some Facts about Shakira

Genre(s)	Born	Nick Name	Alternate Names	Height
Latin pop	February 2, 1977	Shaki	Shakira f. Wyclef Jean	4' 11¾" (1.52 m)
Rock en español	Barranquilla, Colombia		Shakira Mebarak
Dance

Grammy Awards 

• 1998 - The Best Latin Rock/Alternative Album (Dónde Están Los Ladrones) - awarded to Fabulosos Calavera by Los Fabulosos Cadillacs.
• 2001 - The Best Latin Pop Album (MTV Unplugged) - won.
• 2006 - The Best Latin Rock/Alternative Album (Fijación Oral Vol. 1) - won.
• 2007 - The Best Pop Collaboration With Vocals ("Hips Don't Lie" with Wyclef Jean) - awarded to "For Once in My Life" by Tony Bennett with Stevie Wonder.

Latin Grammy Awards
2000

• Album Of The Year for MTV Unplugged - awarded to Amarte Es Un Placer by Luis Miguel.
• Latin Grammy Award for the Best Female Pop Vocal Performance ("Ojos Así") - won.
• Latin Grammy Award for the Best Female Rock Vocal Performance ("Octavo Dia") - won.
• Best Pop Vocal Album - MTV Unplugged (Shakira album) - awarded to Amarte Es Un Placer by Luis Miguel.
• Latin Grammy for the Best Music Video ("Ojos Así") - awarded to "No Me Dejes de Querer" by Gloria Estefan.

2002

• Latin Grammy for Best Music Video ("Suerte") - won.

2003

• Latin Grammy Award for the Best Rock Song ("Te Aviso, Te Anuncio (Tango)") - awarded to "Mala Gente" by Juanes.

2006

• Record Of The Year ("La Tortura" with Alejandro Sanz) - won.
• Album Of The Year (Fijación Oral Vol. 1) - won.
• Song Of The Year ("La Tortura" with Alejandro Sanz) - won.
• Best Female Pop Vocal Album (Fijación Oral Vol. 1) - won.
• Best Short Form Music Video ("La Tortura" with Alejandro Sanz) - awarded to "AtréveteTe, Te!" by Calle 13.
• Best Engineered Album (Fijación Oral Vol. 1) - won.

Shakira Discography 

Studio Albums

• 1991: Magia
• 1993: Peligro (Danger)
• 1996: Pies Descalzos (Bare Feet)
• 1998: ¿Dónde Están los Ladrones? (Where Are The Thieves?)
• 2001: Laundry Service / Servicio De Lavanderia
• 2005: Fijación Oral Vol. 1
• 2005: Oral Fixation Vol. 2

Live Albums

• 2000: MTV Unplugged
• 2004: Live & Off the Record (En Vivo Y En Privado (Live And In Private)
• 2007: Oral Fixation Tour: Live from Miami

Compilation Albums

• 1997: The Remixes
• 2002: Laundry Service: Washed & Dried
• 2002: Grandes Éxitos (Greatest Hits)
• 2006: Oral Fixation Volumes 1&2

Shakira Trivia 

• Shakira has announced her engagement to Antonio de la Rua, son of the present President of Argentina. [2001]
• Shakira is of Colombian, Lebanese and Macedonian heritage.
• She was ranked No.9 in Stuff magazine's "102 Sexiest Women in the World" (2002).
• She likes chocolate balls.
• Shakira's father's name is William Mebarak Chadid and mother's name is Nidia del Carmen Ripolli Torrado.
• Shakira's mother is half Colombian and half Italian. Her father is American with Lebanese and Macedonian ancestry.
• Steven Spielberg offered Shakira the role of Elena Montero in The Mask of Zorro (1998) back when he was originally in talks to direct it. But, Shakira turned the offer down because she felt that not only was she a bad actress, but her English wasn't so good.
• She was ranked as No.76 in FHM's "100 Sexiest Women in the World 2005" special supplement. (2005)
• She was featured as No.15 in Maxim Magazine's "Hot 100 of 2002" supplement. (2002)
• Shakira's recording of "La Tortura" was a No.1 hit in many countries, specially in Europe.
• She was named No.20 in FHM magazine's "100 Sexiest Women in the World 2006" supplement. (2006).

Shakira's Official Website
www.shakira.com 

Kate Winslet

Kate Winslet

Kate Winslet (or Kate Elizabeth Winslet) is an English actress and best known for her critically acclaimed performances as Juliet Hulme in Heavenly Creatures (1994) and Rose DeWitt Bukater in the highest-grossing film of all time. She has also been popular for the mega film Titanic (1997).

Winslet is the winner of a BAFTA and SAG Award. She has been nominated to Oscar five times. In fact she broke the record of becoming the youngest person to receive two Oscar nominations. She was then just 22 years old.

Kate's career began as a television artist. She co-starred in the BBC children's science fiction serial Dark Season in 1991. In 1992 she appeared in the made-for-tv movie Anglo-Saxon Attitudes and in 1993 she acted in an episode of medical drama, Casualty.

Some Facts about Kate Winslet

Born	Nick Name	Alternate Names	Height
October 5, 1975	English Rose	Kate Elizabeth Winslet	5' 6" (1.68 m)
Reading, Berkshire, England

Awards 
Academy Awards
Nominated for Best Actress:

• 1997 Titanic
• 2004 Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
• 2006 Little Children

Nominated for Best Supporting Actress:

• 1995 Sense and Sensibility
• 2001 Iris

BAFTA Awards
Best Actress in a Supporting Role:

• 1995 Sense and Sensibility

Filmography 

• 2006 - The Holiday, Flushed Away, Little Children, All the King's Men
• 2005 - Romance & Cigarettes
• 2004 - Finding Neverland, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
• 2003 - The Life of David Gale
• 2001 - Iris, Christmas Carol: The Movie, Enigma
• 2000 - Quills
• 1999 - Holy Smoke!, Faeries
• 1998 - Hideous Kinky
• 1997 - Titanic
• 1996 - Hamlet, Jude
• 1995 - Sense and Sensibility, A Kid in King Arthur's Court
• 1994 - Heavenly Creatures
• 1991 - Dark Season (TV series)

Notable roles

• Juliet Hulme - Heavenly Creatures
• Marianne Dashwood - Sense and Sensibility
• Rose DeWitt Bukater - Titanic
• Young Iris Murdoch - Iris
• Clementine Kruczynski - Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
• Sarah Pierce - Little Children
• Iris Simpkins - The Holiday

Trivia

• Kate won a Grammy for the Best Spoken Word Album for Children in the year 2000.
• Kate was the youngest actress ever to be nominated for two Academy Awards (for Sense and Sensibility in 1995 and Titanic in 1997). She was then aged 20 and 22 respectively. [1998]
• She was nominated for Best Supporting Actress, according to Manchester Evening News Award for her theatre role in "What the Butler Saw" as Geraldine Barclay. [1994]
• She was chosen by People (USA) magazine as one of the 50 most beautiful people in the world in the 1996.
• Kate has sung in 5 of her films.
• She missed the premiere of Titanic in 1997 because she was attending the funeral of a close friend and former boyfriend, Stephen Tredre.
• She married to director Sam Mendes in a private ceremony whilst on holiday in the West Indies in May, 2003.
• She was nominated for the Best Supporting Actress, Premiere Magazine for Sense and Sensibility in the year 1995.
• She won the Best Film Actress award, Smash Hits Magazine. [1998]
• She Won Sexiest Actress award at Entertainment Insider Awards in 1998.
• She was nominated for Best Actress, Roughcut.com Internet Movie Award for Holy Smoke (1999) in the year 2000.
• She was nominated for Best Spoken Word Album for Children, Grammy Awards, shared with Graham Greene in 1999.
• she is the youngest actress, as of 2007, to rack-up 5 Oscar nominations.
• She won the Best Actress, Toronto Film Festival for Heavenly Creatures (1994), shared with Melanie Lynskey in the year 1995.
• She was Runner-Up for Best Actress, New York Film Critics Circle for Holy Smoke in the year 1999.
• She was nominated for Best Supporting Actress, Rec.Arts.Movies. Critics Circle for Quills in 2000.
• She was Runner-Up for Best Actress, National Society of Film Critics for Holy Smoke in the year 1999.
• She was Runner-Up for Best Actress, New York Film Critics Circle for Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind in the year 2004.

Britney Spears

Britney Spears

DO YOU KNOW: Spears' kiss with Madonna at the 2003 MTV Video Music Awards received much media attention, as have her marriages and romantic relationships.

Britney Jean Spears (or just Brit, Pinkey) first came to fame as a member of the Mickey Mouse Club in the early 1990s. She subsequently emerged at the forefront of the pop music scene in early 1998. Her debut album was Baby One More Time.

At the age of 18, she released her second album in 2000, the No.1 smash "Oops! I did it again." The single of the same topped the singles chart for 5 weeks. Two other smash singles followed, "Stronger" and "Lucky." This was the time for Britney to rise more than few eyebrows.

Some Facts about Britney Spears

Genre(s)	Born	Nick Name	Alternate Names	Height
Pop	December 2, 1981	Brit	Britney Jean Spears	5' 4" (1.63 m)
Dance	Kentwood, Louisiana	Pinkey
Urban Pop

Filmography

• Chaotic (TV) (2005)
• Trading Paint (2004)
• Britney Spears - In The Zone (2004)
• Crossroads (2002)
• Austin Powers in Goldmember ( 2002)
• Britney Spears - Live From Las Vegas ( 2001)
• On the Line (2001)
• Longshot (2000)
• Longshot: The Movie (1999)
• Robbie the Reindeer in Hooves of Fire (1999)

Discography

• In the Zone (2003)
• Britney (2001)
• Oops...I Did it Again (2000)
• Baby One More Time (1999)

Hit Singles

• "...Baby One More Time "
• "(You Drive Me) Crazy"
• "Born to Make You Happy"
• "Oops!...I Did It Again"
• "Lucky"
• "Stronger"
• "I'm a Slave 4 U"
• "Me Against the Music"
• "Toxic"
• "Everytime"

Top Britney News

• She has been ranked most powerful celebrity in the world by Forbes in 2002
• She has been ranked #20 out of the 200 top pop culture icons of all time by VH1 and People in 2002
• She topped FHM magazine's "100 Sexiest Women" in the year 2004
• She topped Yahoo!'s annual list of the most-searched names in the world.
• She ranked 12th in Forbes "The Twenty Richest Women In Entertainment" ($100 million) in the year 2007

Britney Trade Mark

• She shows her midriff during performances.
• Lip-synchs and synthesized vocals in her albums and during live performances.

Britney Loves

• Shopping, Reading Romance Novels, Seeing Movies, Swimming, Days at the beach.
• Ice Cream, Pasta, Hot Dogs.
• Baby Blue color (leaning more towards pink now).
• Basketball

Britney Admires

• Mariah Carey
• Whitney Houston
• Madonna

Official Britney Website
www.britneyspears.com

Britney Spears Fan Clubs
www.britneyfans.com
www.britneyzone.com
www.britney.com
www.britneyspearsonline.net
www.britneyspearsfan.info