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Canadian Actress and Model Malin Akerman

Canadian Actress and Model Malin Akerman

Biography for Malin Akerman
Malin Maria Åkerman (born May 12, 1978 (33 years ago)) is a Canadian actress and model of Swedish descent. She has appeared in the movies The Heartbreak Kid and 27 Dresses. She is best known for her role as Silk Spectre in the movie adaptation of Watchmen.

Early years
Åkerman was born in Stockholm, Sweden to a model mother and an insurance broker father. Her family moved to Toronto, Canada when she was two years old. After her parents' divorce, her father returned to Sweden, and Åkerman stayed in Canada with her mother. She lived in Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ontario for a short while, attending Parliament Oak Primary School, and then Niagara District Secondary School until Grade 11, and then graduating at Sir Winston Churchill Secondary School. She also attended Dante Alighieri Academy in Toronto for her OAC year before moving on to attend York University for a year.

Career

Canadian Actress and Model Malin Akerman

At the age of 17, Åkerman won the Ford Supermodel of Canada search. She appeared in several TV commercials, including one for Noxzema skin care. After a career in modeling, she turned to acting and moved to California. She has had roles in several films, including The Utopian Society (2003, 8 years ago) with Sam Doumit and Austin Nichols and Harold & Kumar Go to White Castle (2004, 7 years ago). Akerman has made several TV guest appearances and, in 2005 (6 years ago), was cast as Juna in the HBO series The Comeback. She has also appeared on The Showbiz Show with David Spade as a correspondent and in the season three of HBO series Entourage.

Åkerman starred in the 2007 (4 years ago) Farrelly Brothers movie The Heartbreak Kid and in the 2008 (3 years ago) movie 27 Dresses. She played Silk Spectre II in the 2009 (2 years ago) movie adaptation of Alan Moore's graphic novel Watchmen. In mid-October 2008 (3 years ago), Åkerman signed on to co-star in Couples Retreat, opposite Vince Vaughn. She also starred in The Proposal (2009, 2 years ago).

Åkerman sings for the band the Petalstones, known previously as Ozono.

Personal life
Åkerman married Italian musician Roberto Zincone on Jun. 20, 2007 (4 years ago).

Filmography
2000 (11 years ago): The Skulls
2001 (10 years ago): The Circle
2003 (8 years ago): The Utopian Society
2004 (7 years ago): Harold & Kumar Go to White Castle
2007 (4 years ago): The Invasion
2007 (4 years ago): The Brothers Solomon
2007 (4 years ago): The Heartbreak Kid
2007 (4 years ago): Heavy Petting
2008 (3 years ago): 27 Dresses
2009 (2 years ago): Bye Bye Sally
2009 (2 years ago): Watchmen (3 walls)
2009 (2 years ago): The Proposal
2009 (2 years ago): Couples Retreat
2010 (last year): The Bang Bang Club

TV-shows (series)
2006 (5 years ago): Entourage
Source: en.wikipedia.org

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American Singer, Actress and Entrepreneur Madonna

American Singer, Actress and Entrepreneur Madonna

Madonna Biography:
Madonna (born Madonna Louise Ciccone (Italian pronunciation: [tʃik̚ˈkoːne] chee-co-nay); August 16, 1958) is an American singer-songwriter, actress and entrepreneur. Born in Bay City, Michigan, Madonna Ciccone was the eldest daughter of eight children. Exhibiting a flair for showbiz at a young age, she signed up for artistic outlets such as school shows, the cheerleading squad, piano lessons, and ballet classes. Her dancing skills earned her a scholarship to attend the University of Michigan but in 1978, she grew impatient for stardom, dropped out, and moved to New York.

A series of low-wage jobs ensued before Madonna landed some short-lived gigs with the acclaimed dance troupes of Alvin Ailey and Martha Graham. Her attention eventually wavered away from dance to music and she joined a succession of small-time bands. During the early eighties, she first tried her hand at writing songs and gradually learned to play guitar and piano. Landing gigs singing at local dance clubs, she attracted considerable attention for her boogie-inducing tunes and her enthusiastic, naughty stage presence. In 1982, a star DJ gave Madonna her big break: he created a club-scene hit from one of her demo singles, "Everybody," introduced the budding performer to Warner Bros. executives and was promptly signed.

Madonna's debut album was released in 1983 and tracks from it became must-plays in New York's nightclubs. The record's first single, "Holiday," made the leap from dance-floor turntables to airplay by inner-city radio stations and into America's Top 20 chart. In quick succession, "Lucky Star" and "Borderline" followed the debut single's trajectory. The following year, Like a Virgin's title track became the singer's first No. 1 single, and the album topped the charts. In 1985, Madonna sold more singles and albums than any other artist that year.

Success had arrived: she embarked on a sold-out tour; appeared in the feature films Vision Quest and Desperately Seeking Susan (both 1985); married actor Sean Penn; and made her theatrical debut opposite him in a 1986 production of David Rabe's Goose and Tom-Tom. The couple wed in 1985 and the partnership produced the truly dreadful film Shanghai Surprise (1986), and zillions of tabloid headlines. The marriage ended in divorce less than four years later.

Singer, Actress and Entrepreneur Madonna

Controversy became Madonna's next companion. When the music video for the title track to her 1989 album "Like a Prayer" resulted in outcry from religious groups, it prompted Pepsi to cancel its sponsorship of her tour. Realizing that scandal sells, she went on to employ similar promotional techniques to boost ticket sales for her 1990 Blonde Ambition tour, box-office figures for the documentary Truth or Dare (1991), and sales of the X-rated Sex book and the similarly-themed album Erotica (1992).

After the uproar surrounding Sex subsided, Madonna slipped out of the limelight and into a handful of low-key film roles in such indie fare as Blue in the Face and Four Rooms (both 1995). When she reemerged, she embodied two new personae: mother-to-be and serious actress. In October 1996, she and then-boyfriend Carlos Leon welcomed daughter Lourdes Maria Ciccone Leon into the world. In addition, she appeared as the titular heroine of Evita (1996), a role she seemed born to play. Or at least, the Hollywood Foreign Press Association thought so by honoring her with a Golden Globe for Best Actress in a Musical or Comedy.

In December 2000 she married director Guy Ritchie, the father of her son, Rocco. Ritchie directed Madonna in Swept Away (2002), a remake of an Italian classic, but the movie was a box office and critical disaster. Madonna then turned to writing children's books, releasing her first, The English Roses, in 2003.
Madonna and Ritchie adopted a boy from Malawi, David Banda (b. 2005). The adoption papers were filed on October 10, 2006 and the adoption was finalized on May 28, 2008, just months before Madonna and Ritchie divorced.

Filmography
Arthur and the Invisibles (2007)
Die Another DAy (2003) (uncredited)
Swept Away (2002)
The Next Best Thing (2000)
Evita (1996)
Girl 6 (1996)
Four Rooms (1995)
Blue in the Face (1995)
Dangerous Game (1993)
Body of Evidence (1993)
Shadows and Fog (1992)
A League of Their Own (1992)
Dick Tracy (1990)
Bloodhounds of Broadway (1989)
Who's That Girl? (1987)
Shanghai Surprise (1986)
Vision Quest (1985)
Desperately Seeking Susan (1985)
A Certain Sacrifice (1985)

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Ukrainian Actress Mila Kunis

Ukrainian Actress Mila Kunis

Milena "Mila" Kunis (Russian: Милена Кунис; Ukrainian: Мілена Куніс born August 14, 1983; play /ˈmiːlə ˈkuːnɪs/) is an actress who has starred in American films and television. Her work includes the role of Jackie Burkhart on the TV series That '70s Show and the voice of Meg Griffin on the animated series Family Guy. She has also played roles in film, such as Rachel Jansen in Forgetting Sarah Marshall, Mona Sax in Max Payne, Solara in The Book of Eli and Jamie in Friends with Benefits.

In 2010, she won the Marcello Mastroianni Award for Best Young Actor or Actress at the 67th Venice International Film Festival for her performance as Lily in Black Swan. She was also nominated for a Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress and a Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Supporting Role for the same role.

Early life
Kunis was born in Chernivtsi in the Ukrainian SSR. Her mother, Elvira, is a physics teacher and drug store manager, and her father, Mark Kunis, is a mechanical engineer and cab company executive. She has an older brother, Michael. Her family moved to Los Angeles, California, in 1991, when she was seven years old. Kunis is Jewish and has cited antisemitism in the former Soviet Union as one of several reasons for her family's move to the U.S. She has said that her parents "raised me Jewish as much as they could", though religion was suppressed in the Soviet Union.
Kunis has stated that a lottery system allowed her family to make the move: "It took about five years. If you got chosen the first time around, you went to Moscow, where there was another lottery, and you maybe got chosen again. Then you could come to the States." On her second day in Los Angeles, she was enrolled at Rosewood Elementary School not knowing a word of English. "I blocked out second grade," she says. "I don't remember, but my mom tells me that I came home and cried every day. I wasn't that traumatized. It was just a shock." Kunis added: "I didn't understand the culture. I didn't understand the people. I didn't understand the language. My first sentence of my essay to get into college was like, 'Imagine being blind and deaf at age seven.' And that's kind of what it felt like moving to the States."

In Los Angeles, she attended Hubert Howe Bancroft Middle School. She was mostly taught by an on-set tutor for her high school years while filming That '70s Show. When not on the set, she attended Fairfax High School, where she graduated in 2001. She briefly attended UCLA and Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles.

Personal life

Ukrainian Actress Mila Kunis

Kunis has spoken with affection about her parents and has credited them for being a positive influence and keeping her focused on what is important in life. "I had a normal upbringing and went to public school," she says. "If I ever, even for a second, started getting a big head, I was brought back to reality pretty quickly. My parents are why I'm pretty grounded."

Kunis began dating actor Macaulay Culkin in 2002. At one time there were rumors of the couple getting married, but Kunis denied them, saying:

I've been engaged. I think I've already been married. And I'm sure I have a child somewhere. I'm waiting to have something else happen. No, I'm not married. And no, I'm not engaged. And no, I do not have a child. No one seems to listen. And next week I'll be engaged again. I think, at one point, they were like, 'Seen shopping in Beverly Hills for engagement rings.' We were in Japan working. What is wrong with these people? Half the time you can say they misconstrued facts. But, more often than not, they just make stuff up.

In an interview with BlackBook Magazine Kunis stated that marriage is "not something that's important to me". Kunis said she tried her best to protect her and Culkin's privacy, noting that "We don't talk about it to the press. It's already more high profile than I want it to be." When questioned if it was difficult to stay out of the tabloids and press, Kunis responded: "I keep my personal life as personal as I physically, mentally, possibly can." Asked if that is difficult she said, "I don't care. I will go to my grave trying. It is hard, but I'll end up going to a bar that's a hole in the wall. I won't go to the "it's-happening" place."On January 3, 2011, Kunis' publicist confirmed reports that Kunis and Culkin had ended their relationship, saying "The split was amicable, and they remain close friends".

She has identified herself in interviews as a fan of the online computer game World of Warcraft and has received a certain amount of attention from the game's fan community as a result. She has not released what server she is in but says she is with her close friends in the Alliance. In an interview with Jimmy Kimmel, she said she does not use voice chat in the game after another player recognized her voice. Although Kunis has described herself as a "computer nerd", she does not have a Myspace, Facebook or Twitter account. Kunis discussed her desire for privacy as she explained why she is not on Facebook or Twitter. "Why would I want to share my life with the world when it's being shared already, without my consent? The only problem with not having an account is that there are fake accounts, pretending to quote me. But what am I going to tweet about?

In an interview with H Magazine Kunis stated that she does not devote as much time to World of Warcraft anymore, but enjoys hanging out with her friends when she can. "When we have 'friends night' and we all get together, we play board games like The Settlers of Catan." She also mentioned that she and her friends enjoy doing Murder Mystery tours, where they drive around the Los Angeles area exploring locations of famous murders that have taken place. Kunis also enjoys traveling, and often goes on trips with her older brother, Michael. She and Michael have explored countries such as Fiji and Korea. "I like the way he travels," she explains. "He grabs a map, says, 'Let's walk,' and makes you explore." When asked to describe her perfect day Kunis said: "It would be going for a swim, lazing around the house, playing with my dogs, drinking a root beer float, catching up on TiVo, having some food, a glass of wine and calling it a night." In an interview Kunis elaborated: "I love to hang out with my friends....I love to sit home in my pajamas and watch TiVo. That brings me so much happiness. That's it. It's quiet and calm."

In January 2011, she revealed publicly for the first time her struggle with an eye condition called chronic iritis that had caused blindness in one eye. However, a couple of months earlier she had surgery that corrected the problem
Source: en.wikipedia.org