Actress Naomi Watts was born in Britain, but lost her father Peter Watts, a former sound engineer for pioneering British band, Pink Floyd when she was seven. She grew up in Australia where she began acting in her teens. Her film debut was in the Australian movie For Love Alone in 1986. In the period that followed, "Naomi Watts" acted in several films and television programs both in Australia and the United States but none of them met with any big success.
Name : Naomi Watts Gender : Female Date of birth : Sep 28, 1968 City : Shoreham Country : United Kingdom Naomi Watts got a major breakthrough when David Lynch cast her in his ABC pilot Mulholland Drive. However, the project suffered a setback when ABC canceled the project in 1999. Fortunately, StudioCanal stepped in and financed its transformation into a feature film. Mulholland Drive debuted at Cannes in 2001 and won rave reviews.
With this, Watts came to be recognized as an upcoming ‘new’ actress. Basking in the glory of Muloholland Drive, she scored yet another hit with The Ring (2002), the Hollywood remake of the Japanese horror film. She played the role of a courageous reporter trying to find the origins of a lethal videotape in the movie that further consolidated her star status. Watts also starred in The Ring Two in 2005.
In 2005, she played the lead role in Peter Jackson's updated version of King Kong. Watts’ other films include Flirting (1991), The Kelly Gang (2003), I Heart Huckabees (2004), and The Painted Veil (2006).
The 5’5” blonde actress earlier dated Daniel Kirby, playwright Jeff Smeenge, director Stephen Hopkins and actor Heath Lager. Since 2005, she has been dating Liev Schreiber, her co-star in The Painted Veil. They were blessed with a son, Alexander on July 26, 2007. She recently converted to Buddhism, but said she was not yet a strict Buddhist. In May 2006, Watts was named a special representative to the United Nations program for HIV/AIDS.
At several times it happen that an actor through a chance encounter accomplishes the objective. The same happened with Kathryn Beckinsale who through her stunning performance together with Ben Affleck and Josh Hartnett in the $130 million blockbuster Pearl Harbour, at last came to be regarded as a major screen actress with a great potential.
Name : Kathryn Bailey Beckinsale Gender : Female Date of birth : Jul 26, 1973 City : London Country : United Kingdom
The role was quite impressive as opposed to the damaged daughter of a famous father. She from her earlier days idealized the famous heroines like Geena Davis and Katherine Hepburn and transformed herself into a smart, well-read and occasionally outspoken, following the footsteps of these actresses. Kathryn Bailey Beckinsale has also acted in the films like Van Helsing in 2004 and Underworld in 2003.
Having born in the family of actors like Judy Loe, a stage and television actress and Richard Beckinsale, a television actress it was natural for her to get inclined to the movie world. It was when she was at the Oxford, that Beckinsale was offered a part in the film Much Ado About Nothing, adapted from the Shakespeare play. Again it was in the year 1996 when she starred for the first time in Emma, a TV film adaptation of Jane Austen's novel.
However during the same time she also appeared in few low-profile films that include Shooting Fish, The Last Days of Disco both appeared in 1998. During this time, she also appeared in television films and in stage roles, including the well-received Cold Comfort Farm, against British silver and small screen notables Rufus Sewell, Eileen Atkins and Joanna Lumley.
It was in 2006, when Beckinsale appeared in the Adam Sandler starring comedy-drama, Click, which was released on June 23. Next, Beckinsale replaced Sarah Jessica Parker in the film Vacancy that was released in 2007. Her next role will be in Snow Angels, which is in post-production and scheduled for release some time in 2008.
Name : Catherine Zeta-Jones Gender : Female State/Region : Wales Country : United Kingdom
Catherine Zeta-Jones (born 25 September 1969) is a Welsh actress. She began her career on stage at an early age. After starring in a number of television films and small roles in films, she came to prominence with roles in films such as The Phantom, The Mask of Zorro, and Entrapment in the late 1990s.
She won an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for portraying Velma Kelly in the 2002 film adaptation of Chicago. Zeta-Jones is married to Michael Douglas, with whom she starred in the 2000 film Traffic. Early life Zeta-Jones, the middle of three children, was born Catherine Zeta Jones[1] in Treboeth, a working-class area of Swansea, West Glamorgan in South Wales. Her father, David "Dai" Jones, is Welsh and a sweets factory manager, and her mother, Patricia (Fair), is Irish and a seamstress.[2][3] Her father's cousin is married to singer Bonnie Tyler, who is also from Swansea.
Her uncle owns Swansea's Škoda car dealership as well as Llanelli A.F.C. football club. Her name stems from those of her grandmothers — her maternal grandmother, Katherine Fair, and her paternal grandmother, Zeta Jones.
Catherine Zeta Jones was raised Catholic.[1][4][5] After her parents won £100,000 at bingo in the 1980s, they moved to St. Andrews Drive in Mayals, an upper class area of Swansea. Zeta-Jones attended the moderately-priced private school, Dumbarton House in Swansea where she was apparently an average student. Comedian and actor Rob Brydon also went there. She left school early to further her acting ambitions without obtaining O levels and went on to attend The Arts Educational Schools in Chiswick for a full-time three year course in musical theatre.
Career Zeta-Jones' stage career began in childhood. She often performed at friends and family functions when she was younger. She was a part of a Catholic congregation's performing troupe before she was 10. She also starred in a London production of Annie, as well as a version of Bugsy Malone. By 1987 she was starring in 42nd Street as Peggy Sawyer in the West End. Once the show closed, Zeta-Jones travelled to France, where she received the lead role in French director Philippe de Broca's 1001 Nights (also known as Sheherazade), her feature film debut.
Her exotic looks, along with her singing and dancing ability, suggested a promising future, but it was in a straight acting role, as Mariette in the successful television adaptation of H. E. Bates' The Darling Buds of May), that made her name. She briefly flirted with a musical career, beginning with a part in the 1992 album: Jeff Wayne's Musical Version Of Spartacus, from which the single "For All Time" was released in 1989. It failed to chart. She went on to release the singles "In the Arms of Love", "I Can't Help Myself", and a duet with David Essex, "True Love Ways". The Duet was her only chart single, reaching #38 in the UK singles chart in 1994. She also starred in an episode of The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles, as well as in Christopher Columbus: The Discovery.
She continued to find moderate success with a number of television projects, including The Return of the Native (1994) and the mini-series Catherine the Great (1995). She also appeared in Splitting Heirs (1993), a comedy starring Eric Idle, Rick Moranis and John Cleese.
In 1996, she was cast as the evil aviatrix "Sala" in the action film, The Phantom , based on the comic created by Lee Falk. Her character did her best to kill Billy Zane's Phantom, while assisting villain Xander Drax (Treat Williams) in taking over the world with a weapon of doom. The following year, she starred in the CBS mini-series Titanic, which also starred Tim Curry and Peter Gallagher. Steven Spielberg, who noted her performance in the mini-series, recommended her to Martin Campbell, the director of The Mask of Zorro.[6] Zeta-Jones subsequently landed a lead role in the film, alongside Antonio Banderas. The following year she co-starred with Sean Connery in the film Entrapment, and alongside Liam Neeson and Lili Taylor in The Haunting.
In 2000, she starred in Traffic with future husband Michael Douglas. In 2003, she won an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her performance as Velma Kelly in the film Chicago. Chicago also won the Academy Award for Best Picture that year. On 22 October 2005, she referenced her award, as guest host on the television show Saturday Night Live, surrounded by four male dancers, mimicking the Bob Fosse-inspired Chicago-style dancing, suggesting in song that, no matter how bad she might be that night, "They Can't Take My Oscar Away".[7] For her role in Chicago, she specifically requested a 1920s-style short bob haircut, so her face could be seen and fans wouldn't doubt she did all her dancing herself.
In 2003 she voiced Marina in Sinbad: Legend of the Seven Seas, as well as starring in Intolerable Cruelty with George Clooney. In 2004 she was in The Terminal, as well as Ocean's Twelve, the sequel to Ocean's Eleven. In 2005 she reprised her role as Elena in The Legend of Zorro, the sequel to The Mask of Zorro. She stars in and produces the rugby-related comedy, Coming Out. The film is produced by her company Milkwood Films.
Name : Catherine Lisa Bell Gender : Female Date of birth : Aug 14, 1968 City : London Country : United Kingdom
Catherine Lisa Bell is one of the celebrated actresses of the present days and is a British born American actress who was the co-star of the hit television show JAG from 1997 to 2005. Apart from her acting she is also widely popular not only as the co-star but also as the fiancée and best friend in the role of Lt. Colonel Sarah MacKenzie of the same television show. Her smart performance has also made her known on the hit series "Army Wives" as Denise Sherwood. He childhood has not been a pleasant one and following the divorce of her parents at the age of three she along with her mother moved to Los Angeles, California and thus became a naturalized citizen of the United States at age 12.
It was for the sake of earning money she from her childhood used to act in various television advertisements as a child. But in the meanwhile she also attended the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) with an ambition to be a biomedical engineer or doctor in the future, but owing to exigency had to cease and pursued a career of a model.
Her first appearance in the gamut of film happened in 1992 when she first appeared as the body double for Isabella Rossellini in the film, Death Becomes Her. It was in 2003 she played a supporting role in the comedy called Bruce Almighty along with Jim Carrey. Her first appearance in a film was as a body double for Isabella Rossellini in Death Becomes Her (1992). In 2003, Bell played a supporting role in the comedy Bruce Almighty, which starred Jim Carrey.
Until April 29, 2005, Bell also played Marine Lt Colonel Sarah McKenzie on the television show JAG and particularly from the year 1997 to 2005, she performed in the role of Lt. Col. Sarah MacKenzie of the U.S. Marine Corps on the widely acclaimed television series JAG, as a practicing attorney in the U.S. Navy's Judge Advocate General's Corps of legal experts. It was in the year 2006 she was nominated in the Saturn Award of the Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror Films for the Best Supporting Actress on Television, The Triangle.
