Margarita Levieva

January 26th, 2012 admin No comments

Margarita Levieva (born February 9, 1980) is an American actress. Born in the Soviet Union, she was a competitive gymnast before going on to star in the films The Invisible, Adventureland and Spread.

Levieva made a guest appearance on Law & Order: Trial by Jury in 2005. In 2006, she starred in the Fox series, Vanished. Her feature film credits include The Invisible, the independent film Billy’s Choice, and Noise starring Tim Robbins, Bridget Moynahan, and William Hurt. In 2005, New York Magazine featured her as one of the 50 Most Beautiful People in New York.

In 2009, Levieva played Lisa P. in the comedy Adventureland. The same year, she made an appearance in the NBC drama Kings (in the episode “First Night”) and starred in the play The Retributionists. She also stars in HBO’s comedy-drama series How to Make it in America.

In 2011 she appears on the thriller film The Lincoln Lawyer, with Matthew McConaughey. Her other film credits include The Stand Up, Knights of Badassdom, For Ellen and Loft. From 2011 to 2012 she appears as the original Emily Thorne who agreed to switch identities with Amanda Clarke in the ABC drama series Revenge.

Levieva, a Russian Jew, was born in Leningrad, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union (now Saint Petersburg, Russian Federation). At the age of three, she began the rigorous training program of a competitive rhythmic gymnast. Levieva continued to train for the next 13 years, winning competitions in Russia and eventually going on to compete in the United States after emigrating.

When she was 11, Levieva’s mother moved her and her twin brother to Sheepshead Bay, Brooklyn in New York City. She attended high school in Secaucus, New Jersey. Levieva majored in economics at NYU and worked as a fashion buyer. Her continuing interest in acting led her to be accepted into the Meisner Training Program at the William Esper Studio.

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Natalie Tran

January 26th, 2012 admin No comments

Natalie Tyler Tran (born 24 July 1986) is a video blogger on YouTube from Sydney, Australia, using the nickname communitychannel. She is the most subscribed Australian YouTuber. As of January 2012, Tran has 281 videos available on her YouTube channel and is the most-subscribed user of all time in Australia, the 26th most subscribed of all time on YouTube, and the 7th-most subscribed director worldwide. She also manages the 58th most viewed channel on YouTube of all time. Tran was the first runner up in Michael Buckley’s Miss YouTube contest. She created her first video on 25 September 2006.

Tran has more than 1 million subscribers and more than 406 million views. This popularity has led to media coverage and appearances in The Sydney Morning Herald, Western Australia Today, B&T Magazine, Venus Zine. Der Spiegel, Báo Viêt Luận Online, Việt Tribune, VnExpress, Triple J, and the Hot30 Countdown. Her defence of Vegemite in response to a YouTube video by Ben Going was featured on the Australian television programme A Current Affair on February 2007, as part of the Vegemite wars segment. Tran’s most viewed video had over 20 million views in March 2010 and the number of views has grown significantly since then.

Tran has been recognised for her creative work and popularity on the Internet in various ways. She was one of the Australian YouTube celebrities invited to talk about the site at the launch of YouTube Australia in 2007. She is presently enlisted by The Sydney Morning Herald as a contributor and Real World Correspondent to their technology vlog Digital Life, complementing main presenter and journalist Séamus Byrne.

Although her original skits are specifically written and created for Digital Life, they are produced almost entirely in the same manner and style as her YouTube material. Tran was a presenter at “Creative Sydney” in May 2009 at the Museum of Contemporary Art. Tran was nominated for “Best YouTube Channel or Personality” and “Funniest YouTube Channel” by Mashable in their 2009 Open Web Awards.

Tran was one of the presenters at the 2010 Entertainment Gathering (EG) convention in Monterey, California. In 2010, Tran was a presenter at ideaCity in Toronto, Canada. In 2010, the analytics firm TubeMogul placed Tran at #10 on their list of top ten earners from YouTube advertising. According to TubeMogul, Tran earned $101,000 and had 138,871,829 views. Based on data released by YouTube, Tran’s YouTube channel had more views in one week in March 2011 than many of the most popular television shows on Australian television.

In November 2010, Tran embarked on a global odyssey sponsored by Lonely Planet. Tran is also a Sydney correspondent for The Project’s Metro Whip Around segment. In 2011, she appeared as a guest on an episode of the third series of Talkin’ ‘Bout Your Generation.

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Rachel Bilson

January 26th, 2012 admin No comments

Rachel Sarah Bilson (born August 25, 1981) is an American actress and designer. Bilson grew up in a California show business family, and made her television debut in 2003, subsequently becoming well known for playing Summer Roberts on the prime time drama series The O.C. Bilson made her film debut in the 2006 film The Last Kiss and starred in the 2008 action/science fiction film Jumper. She is currently starring as Dr. Zoe Hart on The CW’s Hart of Dixie.

In late 2006, Bilson was cast in the role of Millie in Doug Liman’s thriller Jumper, as the replacement for actress Teresa Palmer; the film was released on February 14, 2008. She also appeared in a two-episode arc on The O.C. creator Josh Schwartz’s NBC comedy, Chuck, and in the film New York, I Love You, and appeared in the 100th episode of How I Met Your Mother (“Girls Versus Suits”) as Ted Mosby’s latest love interest. In September 2008 she started shooting the indie romantic film Waiting For Forever, directed by James Keach.

In September 2009 Rachel appeared as a celebrity guest judge in the third episode of Project Runway (season 6). She stars in the upcoming indie film BBF & Baby next to Krysten Ritter and Kate Bosworth. The film began production in Los Angeles in October 2010. It was announced in 2011 that Bilson was set to star in a new The CW series called Hart of Dixie created by The O.C. creator Josh Schwartz. Bilson and Schwartz, who already had worked together on The O.C, were previously set to work again together on the NBC show Ghost Angeles, but the supernatural romantic comedy was dropped. Bilson also launched a shoe range in 2011.

Bilson and Adam Brody, her co-star on The O.C., dated for three years, ending in 2006. She met Hayden Christensen on the set of Jumper in 2007 and became engaged in 2008. In mid-2010 the couple split up, but were dating again a few months later. Bilson has been recognized by several media sources as being a “fashion junkie”. She has described herself as having a “vintage” sense of style, and has noted Kate Moss and Diane Keaton as inspirations. Her clothes often have a “boho” feel to them.

She approached DKNY Jeans in late 2007 with a view to design a clothing line with the popular fashion brand. Together they created Edie Rose. The collection was launched in September 2008. It consisted of mainly black and white separates with a splash of yellow that could easily work with an existing wardrobe. Her idea was to keep fashionable items accessible to young women by keeping the prices of each piece under $100.

An advertising image was released in July 2008 which featured Bilson modelling her Edie Rose collection. Of her line, she said in an interview with Teen Vogue that “I wanted to keep it as separate as possible from Rachel Bilson the actress. I’m hoping people will appreciate it for the clothes, not the person behind them.” Much of her fashion collection was lost when her home was burgled in May 2009. Before appearing in Maxim, Bilson had turned down requests to appear seminude in men’s magazines, specifying that she feels that her body “is sacred” and “not there for the whole world to see”. Bilson’s fashions and sense of style made her the unwitting target of the Bling Ring, who burgled her home on several occasions.

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Madison Welch

January 26th, 2012 admin No comments

Madison Welch (born August 27, 1990) is an English glamour model and Page 3 girl.

She has made several appearances in lads mags such as Zoo Weekly.

She made an appearance on an episode of BBC’s Top Gear as James May’s co-driver, and has also featured in comedy sketches on Russell Howard’s Good News.

In 2011, Welch appeared as a “Forest Woman” in the Danny McBride fantasy film Your Highness.

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Lyndsy Fonseca

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Lyndsy Marie Fonseca (born January 7, 1987) is an American actress known for playing Colleen Carlton on the CBS daytime soap opera The Young and The Restless, Dylan Mayfair on the ABC series Desperate Housewives, and Ted Mosby’s daughter on How I Met Your Mother. She also played Katie Deauxma in the 2010 superhero film Kick-Ass. She stars as Alex in the CW’s action series Nikita.

In 2001, Fonseca was signed by an agent and a manager and played troubled teen Colleen Carlton in CBS’ daytime drama The Young and the Restless. She also has recurring roles as Ted Mosby’s future daughter on How I Met Your Mother and as Donna on HBO’s Big Love. She starred in the 2005 Hallmark TV film, Ordinary Miracles, as a 16-year-old juvenile delinquent who goes to live with a judge (Jaclyn Smith).

In fall 2007, she played Dawn in the movie Remember The Daze. She joined the cast of ABC’s Desperate Housewives as the daughter of Katherine Mayfair (Dana Delany), a character moving onto Wisteria Lane. Fonseca also appeared in an episode of Switched!.

In 2008 she was nominated for the Actor award at the Screen Actors Guild Awards for Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Comedy Series for Desperate Housewives (2004) shared with the cast.

Fonseca played Katie Deauxma in the 2010 superhero film Kick-Ass which also featured her Nikita co-star Xander Berkeley in the cast. She appeared in three more US films in 2010, including Hot Tub Time Machine.

In 2010, she was cast in the CW’s Nikita as Alex, a new recruit, known as Alexandria in Russia. She was listed at #62 in the 2010 Maxim Hot 100 and #89 in the 2011 list.

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Faye Reagan

January 25th, 2012 admin No comments

Faye Reagan, formerly Faye Valentine, (September 19, 1988 in Las Vegas, Nevada) is an American pornographic actress.

In May 2008 she was one of Adult Video News’s four “Fresh New Faces” cover girls.

She appeared at the 12th annual Erotic LA convention at the Los Angeles Convention Center in June 2008.

Reagan has been engaged to fellow pornographic actor Dane Cross, whom she works with on a regular basis, since 2007.

She appeared in a print ad for American Apparel in mid-2008, credited as Jillian, and in Steve Connell’s short video poetry of “Compromise”.

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Frankie Sandford

January 25th, 2012 admin No comments

Francesca “Frankie” Sandford (born 14 January 1989) is an English pop and R&B singer-songwriter and currently a member of girl group The Saturdays, signed to the record labels of Fascination Records and Polydor Records. The group has had huge success, releasing twelve singles of which ten have reached the Top 10 on the UK Singles Chart.

In addition, the group has had three Top 10 albums on the UK Album Charts, which have all gained a certification from the British Phonographic Industry. Sandford has previously been a member in band S Club 8 and released six singles and five of them charting in the Top 10 of the UK Singles Chart. She also appeared in the children’s television programme I Dream with them before they disbanded.

Sandford released a solo song with Calvin Goldspink, Dreaming, which was a hit. She later featured on Kids in Glass Houses song Undercover Lover. Sandford later went on The Dirt Tour with them. Glamour Magazine regularly publishes “Get Frankie’s Look” showing how to get Sandford’s style.

Sandford’s personal life has been a staple of the tabloids especially her relationship with McFly’s Dougie Poynter. When the pair split up, she received death threats from his fans. She also began dating footballer Wayne Bridge in December 2010. In 2011, Sandford walked away from the Glamour Woman of the Year Awards with three awards from four nominations. She won Inspiration and Best Dressed and she went on to win Band of the Year with The Saturdays. She has been heavily involved with charities including taking part in The Door. Sandford has had a number of sponsorship deals including Veet, Impulse and Nintendo 3DS game, Nintendogs + Cats.

Sandford began dating McFly bassist Dougie Poynter in October 2008. However, the pair split for a brief period in March 2010 before reuniting the following month but split up again in November of the same year. Poynter has stated that they will not be getting back together for the third time. After the split, some of Poynter’s fans sent Sandford death threats. Sandford has been dating Manchester City footballer, Wayne Bridge since December 2010.

Sandford has been battling an unknown illness since early October 2011 and doctors ordered her to take time off from the band so that she would be well enough to perform during the All Fired Up Tour. She confirmed in early December 2011 that she was starting to get well again. Sandford has a tattoo of a star on her wrist and another on her back under her neck which says “Sunshine ‘n’ Showers”, inspired by her grandmother, who used to call her “Sunshine and showers”. Sandford revealed in late 2011 that she had sought treatment in a clinic for an undisclosed medical condition, but did say it wasn’t related to alcohol, drugs or an eating disorder.

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Isla Fisher

January 25th, 2012 admin No comments

Isla Lang Fisher (born 3 February 1976) is an actress and author. She began acting on Australian television, on the short-lived soap opera Paradise Beach before playing Shannon Reed on the soap opera Home and Away. She has since been known for her comedic roles in Scooby-Doo (2002), Wedding Crashers (2005), Hot Rod (2007), Definitely, Maybe (2008), and Confessions of a Shopaholic (2009).

In 2006, Fisher starred as Becca, a Manhattan party host, in the relationship drama London co-starring Jessica Biel, Chris Evans, and Jason Statham. She played the role of Katie in the romantic comedy Wedding Daze with Jason Biggs. In 2007, she appeared in The Lookout, a thriller film co-starring Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Matthew Goode, and Hot Rod, opposite Andy Samberg. She was scheduled to appear in The Simpsons Movie, although her appearance was cut from the final version.

In 2008, she starred in the critically acclaimed romantic comedy film Definitely, Maybe, with Ryan Reynolds, Elizabeth Banks, Rachel Weisz, and Abigail Breslin, and had a voice role in Horton Hears a Who! Fisher has also co-written a script entitled Groupies with Amy Poehler, as well as another project entitled The Cookie Queen. She starred in the movie adaptation of the book Confessions of a Shopaholic, which opened on 13 February 2009. In the film, Fisher played a college graduate who works as a financial journalist in New York City to support her shopping addiction. Confessions of a Shopaholic suffered critically but eventually opened at No.4 grossing $15,054,000 on its opening weekend.

Fisher received her third Teen Choice Award nomination. Fisher has spoken out against the lack of opportunities for comediennes in Hollywood. In 2010, she starred in the black comedy Burke and Hare. Fisher then voiced the role of Beans in Rango, a computer-animated Western film released in March 2011. In the movie, Johnny Depp and her Definitely, Maybe co-star Abigail Breslin also provide voice-over roles.

Fisher first met English comedian Sacha Baron Cohen in 2002 at a party in Sydney, Australia. The couple became engaged in 2004, and wed on 15 March 2010 in Paris, France. In order to marry Baron Cohen, Fisher converted to Judaism after three years of study and completed her conversion in early 2007, saying “I will definitely have a Jewish wedding just to be with Sacha. I would do anything move into any religion to be united in marriage with him. We have a future together, and religion comes second to love as far as we are concerned.”

She took on the Hebrew name Ayala (איילה), the Hebrew word for Doe, and has described herself as keeping Shabbat. Fisher and Baron Cohen have two daughters: Olive, born on 19 October 2007 in Los Angeles, and Elula Lottie Miriam, born in the summer of 2010. The family lives in London and Los Angeles. Fisher has said that her “sensibility is Australian” and that she has a “laid-back attitude to life” that she feels “very Australian.” Her mother and siblings live and work in Athens, Greece, while her father lives in Frankfurt, Germany, and Nicaragua.

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Yulia Volkova

January 25th, 2012 admin No comments

Yulia Olegovna Volkova, born February 20, 1985, better known by the alternative spelling of Julia, is a Russian singer and actress best known as a member of the Russian pop duo, t.A.T.u., along with Lena Katina. They had signed to Universal Music Russia, where they had eventually signed to Universal’s sub-label Interscope Records in 2001.

They had been successful as a group, with worldwide hits including “All the Things She Said”, “Not Gonna Get Us” and “All About Us”, releasing six studio albums in total; three Russian language albums and three English language albums. In 2011, Katina and Volkova announced that t.A.T.u. had broken up. Julia signed a solo career with Gala Records in June 2011, and released her debut single “All Because of You” in October 2011. The song was also released in a Russian-language version under the title “Сдвину мир”(I’ll Change the World).

In May 2004, Volkova announced that she was pregnant by her then long-time boyfriend Pavel Sidorov, which caused some controversy due to Sidorov already having a wife and daughter. Daughter Viktoria Pavlovna Volkova was born on 23 September 2004, in Moscow. She does not keep in contact with Sidorov.

Volkova then had a long term relationship with businessman Parviz Yasinov. The press reported that the two got married and she converted to Islam for him, but she denied this. It was reported and confirmed that Volkova was pregnant with her second child, her first with Yasinov, around June 2007.

Volkova gave birth to a baby boy named Samir on 27 December 2007, in Moscow. The couple stated that they wanted to get married in the future. In 2010, Volkova confirmed that she and Yasinov had broken up, but denied claims that she had been separated from her son.

On 5 June 2008, t.A.T.u. canceled a concert scheduled for 19 June due to Volkova falling ill. The official site didn’t give exact details of her illness. It has been speculated by the media that she was diagnosed with postpartum depression but it was never confirmed. On 19 June, a blog entry was posted by Lena saying that “Yulia’s better” and shortly after Volkova appeared to be resuming normal activities. In a recent interview, it was said that according to MKRU’, it was said that Julia doesn’t contact with band mate Katina any more. She said “Just so happens that we are now almost do not talk.”

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Esti Ginzburg

January 25th, 2012 admin No comments

Esti Ginzburg (born 6 March 1990, Tel Aviv, Israel) is an Israeli model and actress.

Ginzburg started modeling at the age of eight with a milk advertisement and at the age of 14 signed a contract with modeling agency Elite Models.

In 2006, she signed a two-year deal with Israeli firm Fox, replacing four-year covergirl Yael Bar Zohar and was featured on the February/March 2007 cover of French ELLE.

She has also modeled for brands like Tommy Hilfiger, Burberry, FCUK, Pull and Bear, and Castro. She was also featured in the 2009, 2010, and 2011 Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue. Ginzburg made her acting debut in the 2010 Joel Schumacher film Twelve.

Ginzburg currently resides in Tel Aviv. She was drafted into the army (IDF) on 22 July 2009, and in early October of that year, while speaking in support of enlisting, caused headlines by criticizing fellow Israeli model Bar Rafaeli for avoiding military service via a short-lived marriage to a family friend.

On joining the army Ginzburg said: “Military service is part of the things I personally believe in.”

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