While
most Hollywood stars do everything they can to appear cool, professional
and squeaky-clean, diligently concealing all their nasty little secrets,
Angelina Jolie appears wholly unconcerned
by controversy. Ever-keen to talk about her breakdowns, her disorders,
her fantasies and her
world-famous penchant for S&M, many would say she's built a career
on titillating public confession. But she's also an increasingly
fine and award-winning performer, her Oscar for Girl, Interrupted
being only the first in a string of prestigious honours. Onscreen,
as in bed, she is a risk-taker, and perhaps deserves to be seen as
the spiritual sister of such greats as Streep, Pfeiffer and Lange.
Beyond this, her international efforts on behalf of children and
refugees have made her the most public-minded superstar since Audrey
Hepburn.
She was born Angelina Jolie Voight in Los Angeles, on June 4th,
1975 - her name meaning Pretty Little Angel. Her father, Jon, was
already an established superstar, having topped the bill in such
classics as Midnight Cowboy and Deliverance. When Angelina was 2,
he'd scoop the Best Actor Oscar for Coming Home. By then though,
he'd already split from her mother, the part-Iroquois actress and
model Marcheline Bertrand (now Angelina'smanager), who'd moved with
Angelina and her brother James to the East Coast - to the Palisades,
New York, to be more precise.
Living here, Angelina Jolie was
a happy child. She collected snakes and lizards - her favourite
lizard being named
Vladimir, and her favourite snake
Harry Dean Stanton - and, oddly, like many females of her age, she
had a major crush on Mr Spock. She would wear glittery clothing,
including sparkly underwear, and flounce around, already performing,
keen to make people laugh, to make them like her. She was a member
of the Kissy Girls, who hunted boys down and kiss them till they
screamed - until the school was forced to call the parents and the
gang broke up. Marcheline would take the kids to the movies often,
and Jolie claims this is where she got the notion to be an actress
- not from her uncle, Chip Taylor (an actor and composer), not from
her godmother Jacqueline Bisset, and definitely NOT from her father,
though at age 7 she did appear in Lookin' To Get Out, a movie about
inveterate gamblers, co-written by and starring Jon Voight.
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Actress
Teri Hatcher Desperate Housewives
Teri Hatcher began her performing
career as a young girl taking ballet lessons at the San
Juan Girls' Ballet Studio in downtown Los Altos, California.
She later studied acting at the American Conservatory Theater.
One of her early jobs (in 1984) was as a cheerleader with
the San Francisco 49ers. Teri
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Actress
Erica Durance Smallville
Born in Calgary, Erica Durance was raised in Three Hills, Alberta. After
graduating from high school, Durance moved to Vancouver, British Columbia,
to pursue her interest in acting professionally. "I wanted to get
my feet wet in a smaller area than Los Angeles when I gave it a try",
Durance has said. Erica
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Movie
and Television Actress Alyssa Milano
In 1983, at age 10, she landed her breakthrough role on the new sitcom "Who's
the Boss?" as Tony Danza's saccharine sweet daughter, Samantha Micelli,
a kid whose native Brooklyn accent rivaled her TV dad's. Alyssa
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Actress Cameron Diaz
Cameron Diaz left school at 16 to become a model. For the next five years,
she traveled the globe, working in Japan, Australia, Mexico, Morocco, and
Paris. As a model for the Elite Agency, she did commercial work for such
products as Coke, Nivea, and L.A. Gear. Cameron
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Actress Reese Witherspoon
Reese Witherspoon has been featured
four times in the annual "100 Most Beautiful" issues
of People magazine. In 2007, she was selected by People
and the entertainment news program Access Hollywood as
one of the best dressed female stars of the year. Reese
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Actress Jessica Alba
Jessica Alba's first film role,
in the 1994 film Camp Nowhere, came her way by chance.
She was cast with a bit part in the film after one of the
characters dropped out of the production. Dark-haired Jessica
was cast as the replacement, thanks to the fact that her
hair matched that of the original actress. Jessica
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Television
Actress Jennifer Love Hewitt
Jennifer Love Hewitt has been in
front of the camera ever since she was nine when she joined
a Show Team in Texas, this was a dance team that traveled
to Russia and Denmark. When she was ten she was an international
spokesperson for LA Gear shoes. Jennifer
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