Sunday, January 22, 2012
Natalie Portman Biography 2012
Child stars in general have a dreadful time growing up. Cast primarily for their looks (or their connections), the onset of acne ordinarily proves fatal. No longer cute, they are nothing, fit only to be cast into the bottomless dustbin of history. But sometimes child stars have something else to them. Not simply precociousness, but a sense that they are far older than their years. Jodie Foster had it. Haley Joel Osment had it, so did Christina Ricci. Jennifer Connelly had it, too, though she had to wait 20 years for everyone to recognise it. And, of course, there's Natalie Portman, who began her career in two of the hardest-hitting films of the mid-Nineties (Leon and Heat), then acquitted herself well in comedy, ensemble pieces and high drama before starring as the regal love interest in George Lucas's 3-part prequel to the Star Wars trilogy. An extraordinary growth pattern, and all the more so because she also found time to undergo a high class academic education. No fool, her.
Natalie Portman was born in Jerusalem on the 9th of June, 1981. Her grandfather had been a Polish Jew and socialist who, when young, had organised special camps to teach agriculture to young men moving to Israel - the first kibbutzim. Her name was not Portman, it was Hershlag. When debuting onscreen, Natalie wisely took her grandmother's name to avoid any interference in her schooling and private life. Her father, Avner, was a doctor, specialising in fertility. Throughout Natalie's youth, he would return from work and announce how many women he had made pregnant that day. At age 8, Natalie would be reprimanded for repeating his stories at school. Her mother, Shelley, from Ohio, was an artist, and later Natalie's agent. Coincidentally, Shelley was conceived on Natalie's dad's birthday, as was Natalie herself.
The family lived in Jerusalem till Natalie was 3, then moved to Washington for four years. Then came two years in Connecticut, before they settled on Long Island, where she'd attend Syosset High School. By this time, Natalie was well on her way toward a career in entertainment. She'd been dancing since the age of 4 but was really taken when she saw Dirty Dancing. Now she began to really perform, arranging pillows in rows in the family basement and charging adults 10 cents a throw to watch her. For an all-round education, her parents would take her to the theatre, to galleries and to many foreign lands. Her later co-star Susan Sarandon would describe Natalie's home-life as "a rarefied atmosphere", and she was absolutely correct.
A vegetarian since the age of 8 (she switched when she attended a medical conference with her father and witnessed laser surgery on a chicken), she also turned early to acting.
Saturday, January 21, 2012
Nina Dobrev Hollywood Actress Profile And Pictures 2012
Famous as: Actress
Popular for: As Mia Jones in "Degrassi: The Next Generation" (2006-2009)
Birth Name: Nina Konstantinova Dobreva
Birth Date: January 09, 1989
Birth Place: Sofia, Bulgaria
Height: 5' 6.5
Nationality: Bulgarian
Education: Graduated from Wexford Collegiate School for the Arts
Attended Ryerson University in Toronto, majored in Sociology
Wentworth Miller Biography 2012
Birth Name: Wentworth Miller III
Birth Place: Chipping Norton, Oxfordshire, England
Date of Birth / Zodiac Sign: 06/02/1972, Gemini
Profession: Actor
Biography:
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This sexy multiracial actor boasts an impressive intellectual pedigree. Born in England to a Rhodes-scholar father, Miller graduated from Princeton with a degree in English. After moving to Los Angeles in the mid ‘90s, he made guest appearances on various TV series before landing what seemed to be his big break, a role in 2003’s The Human Stain playing Anthony Hopkins' younger self, but the film went bust. In 2005, he was handpicked by Mariah Carey to appear in her “We Belong Together” video, and he credits the singer for his success. Because soon after, he landed a lead role on Prison Break, playing a tattooed hunk determined to free his wrongfully convicted brother from death row. The hit show truly proved to be his big break.Wentworth Miller Fast Facts:
Was a member of Princeton's a cappella group, the Princeton Tigertones.
Portrayed a villain on a 1998 episode of Buffy the Vampire Slayer.
Made Entertainment Weekly's 2003 IT List after being noticed in Popular and Dinotopia. He was the IT Ex-Teen Crush.
Provided the voice of EDI, the evil robot jet, in the 2005 film Stealth.
Has vivid memories of his Prison Break audition. He told the Hollywood Reporter, "There I was, doing my test in a room full of Fox executives, and I realized that I had temped in the offices of probably half of them... the people I was trying to impress remembered me from the copy machine---it was insane."
Named one of TV's Sexiest Men by TV GUIDE in 2006.
Reportedly writes horror screenplays under the pseudonym Ted Foulke.
Wentworth Miller Relationships:
Wentworth Earl Miller II - Father
Wentworth Miller Awards:
2006 Golden Globe: Best Performance by an Actor in a Television Series - Drama - Nominee
College:
Princeton University, Princeton, NJ (BA, English, 1995)
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