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Thursday, March 3, 2011
Nadine Wilson Njeim is a beauty queen, former Miss Lebanon, who represented her country in Miss World 2007 in China and Miss Universe 2007 in Mexico. Nadine Njeim was born in Lebanon to Colonel Wilson Njeim and Mrs. Therese Khoury Njeim from Maaser El Shouf .
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Name Njeim, Nadine
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Short description
Date of birth 1988
Place of birth Maaser El Shouf , Lebanon
Date of death
Born Nadine Njeim
1988 (age 22–23)
Maaser El Shouf , Lebanon
Occupation International Business Management
Height 5 ft 11 in (1.80 m)
Weight 65 kg (140 lb; 10.2 st)
Title(s) Miss Lebanon 2007
Major
competition(s) Miss World, Miss Universe
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Tuesday, March 1, 2011
Charity and politics
In 2005, Alba offered her acting talents for free, to raise money for AIDS charity Amfar at the Cannes Film Festival. The Industry had held a benefit for the US research foundation. Alba had caused "the greatest stir" by promising to star as an unpaid actress in one of The Lord of the Rings producer Bob Weinstein's movies, if Weinstein agreed to bid $100,000 for tennis lessons with sports stars Monica Seles and Boris Becker.
Alba's charity work includes participation with Clothes Off Our Back, Habitat for Humanity, National Center for Missing and Exploited Children, Project HOME, RADD, Revlon Run/Walk for Women, SOS Children Villages, Soles4Souls, and Step up. Alba openly endorsed and supported Democratic presidential hopeful Barack Obama during the 2008 primary season. Together with Bono, Alba is an ambassador for the 1Goal movement to provide education to children in Africa.
Alba posed for a bondage-themed print advertising campaign by Declare Yourself, a campaign encouraging voter registration among youth for the 2008 United States presidential election. The ads photographed by Mark Liddell,which feature Alba wrapped in and gagged with black tape, drew national media attention. The ads were described by some as being "Shocking". Alba said of doing the advertisements that "it didn't freak me out at all." Alba also said "I think it is important for young people to be aware of the need we have in this country to get them more active politically," and "People respond to things that are shocking."
In June 2009, while filming The Killer Inside Me in Oklahoma City, Alba was involved in a controversy with residents when she pasted posters of sharks around town. Alba said that she was trying to bring attention to the diminishing population of great white sharks. Media outlets speculated that Alba would be pursued and charged with vandalism.On June 16, 2009, Oklahoma City police said that they would not pursue criminal charges against Alba, because none of the property owners wanted to pursue it. Alba apologized in a statement to People magazine and said that she regretted her actions. She later donated an undisclosed amount of money (over $500)to the United Way, whose billboard she had obscured with one of the shark posters.
Filmography
Film
Year↓ Title↓ Role↓ Notes
1994 Camp Nowhere Gail Film debut
1995 Venus Rising Young Eve
1999 P.U.N.K.S. Samantha Swoboda
Never Been Kissed Kirsten Liosis
Idle Hands Molly
2000 Paranoid Chloe
2003 The Sleeping Dictionary Selima DVD Exclusive Award for Best Actress in a DVD Premiere Movie
Honey Honey Daniels Teen Choice Award for Breakout Movie Star, Actress - Drama/Action Adventure, Chemistry and Liplock
Nominated
2005 Sin City Nancy Callahan MTV Movie Award for Sexiest Performance
Nominated — Saturn Award for Best Supporting Actress
Nominated — Alma Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Motion Picture
Nominated — Washington DC Area Film Critics Association Awards for Best Ensemble
Nominated — Broadcast Film Critics Association Award for Best Cast
Fantastic Four Sue Storm / Invisible Woman Nominated — Imagen Foundation Award for Best Actress
Nominated — MTV Movie Award for Best Hero
Into the Blue Sam
2007 Knocked Up Herself Uncredited Cameo
Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer Sue Storm / Invisible Woman Blimp Award for Favorite Female Movie Star
The Ten Liz Anne Blazer
Good Luck Chuck Cam Wexler
Awake Sam Lockwood
2008 The Eye Sydney Wells Teen Choice Award for Actress: Horror/Thriller
Meet Bill Lucy
The Love Guru Jane Bullard
2010 Valentine's Day Morely Clarkson
The Killer Inside Me Joyce Lakeland
Machete Special Agent Sartana Rivera
An Invisible Sign Mona Gray
Little Fockers Andi Garcia
2011 Spy Kids 4: All the Time in the World Marissa Cortez Wilson
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Michelle Pfeiffer born April 29, 1958 is a three-time Oscar nominated American actress. She made her screen debut in 1980, but first garnered mainstream attention with her stunning entrance down an elevator in Scarface (1983). She rose to prominence in the late 1980s and early 1990s with a series of versatile and critically-acclaimed performances in the films Dangerous Liaisons (1988), Married to the Mob (1988), The Fabulous Baker Boys (1989), The Russia House (1990), Frankie and Johnny (1991), Love Field (1992), Batman Returns (1992), and The Age of Innocence (1993).
The much talked about scene in The Fabulous Baker Boys (1989) in which Pfeiffer drapes herself on top of a grand piano to sing Makin' Whoopee is a minor classic, while her performance as Catwoman in Tim Burton's Batman Returns (1992) has become iconic.
Michelle Pfeiffer has won numerous awards for her work, including the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress - Motion Picture Drama for The Fabulous Baker Boys, the BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role for Dangerous Liaisons, and the Silver Bear for Best Actress for Love Field; each of these films also resulted in a nomination for an Academy Award. She received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame on August 6th, 2007. Her star is located at 6801 Hollywood Boulevard.
In 1990, Michelle Pfeiffer graced the cover of People magazine's first ever "50 Most Beautiful People in the World" issue. She again graced the cover of the annual issue in 1999, having made the "Most Beautiful" list a record six times during the decade (1990, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1996, 1999). Pfeiffer is also the first celebrity to have made the cover of the annual issue two times, and the only one to have graced the cover twice during the 1990s.
Contents
* 1 Early life
* 2 Film career
o 2.1 First television and film appearances
o 2.2 Mainstream Attention
o 2.3 Critical Acclaim and Rise to A-List
o 2.4 International Superstardom
o 2.5 Return to Film
* 3 Theater
* 4 Personal life
o 4.1 Marriages
o 4.2 Other relationships
o 4.3 Children
* 5 Filmography
* 6 Television work
* 7 References
* 8 External links
Early life
Pfeiffer was born in Santa Ana, California, the second of four children of Richard Pfeiffer, a heating and air-conditioning contractor, and Donna (née Taverna), a homemaker. She has one elder brother, Rick, and two younger sisters, Dedee Pfeiffer and Lori Pfeiffer. Her father was of Dutch, German, and Irish descent, and her mother was of Swiss and Swedish ancestry. The family moved to Midway City, California, where Pfeiffer spent her childhood. She attended Fountain Valley High School and graduated within three years, later working as a check-out girl at Vons supermarket. She then attended Golden West College. After a short stint training to be a court stenographer, she decided upon an acting career, and entered the Miss Orange County Beauty Pageant in 1978 (which she won), and the Miss Los Angeles contest later that year, after which she was signed by a Hollywood agent who appeared on the judging panel. Moving to Los Angeles, she began to audition for commercials and bit parts in television and film.
Film career
First television and film appearances
Pfeiffer's early acting appearances included television roles in Fantasy Island, Delta House and BAD Cats, and small film roles in Falling in Love Again (1980) with Susannah York, The Hollywood Knights (1980) opposite Tony Danza, and Charlie Chan and the Curse of the Dragon Queen (1981), none of which met with much success. Pfeiffer took acting lessons, and appeared in three further television movies - Callie and Son (1981) with Lindsay Wagner, The Children Nobody Wanted (1981), and a remake of Splendor in the Grass (as Ginny) - before landing her first major film role as Stephanie Zinone in Grease 2 (1982), the sequel to the smash-hit musical Grease (1978). The film was a critical and commercial failure, although Pfeiffer herself received some positive attention, notably from the New York Times, which said "although she is a relative screen newcomer, Miss Pfeiffer manages to look much more insouciant and comfortable than anyone else in the cast." Despite escaping the critical mauling, Pfeiffer's agent later admitted that her association with the film meant that "she couldn't get any jobs. Nobody wanted to hire her.
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Agnes Bruckner born August 16, 1985 is an American actress. She began acting on television in the late 1990s and has since appeared in 7 films, including 2006's The Woods, Blue Car, and Murder By Numbers.
Contents
* 1 Early life
* 2 Career
* 3 Personal life
* 4 Filmography
* 5 References
* 6 External links
Early life
Bruckner was born in Hollywood, California to a Hungarian father and a Russian mother who have since divorced; her paternal grandfather was German. Her parents met in Hungary and immigrated to the U.S. in 1984 through a refugee camp in Italy. She has two sisters and a brother.
Bruckner speaks some Russian and is fluent in Hungarian, having grown up speaking the language. She has been involved in dance, ballet, and tap since the age of five and initially wanted to pursue a career as a dancer. At the age of eight, Bruckner worked as a child model at the suggestion of her mother, and also appeared in a beauty pageant. Bruckner grew up in Los Feliz, Los Angeles, California and then lived in Portland, Oregon from age five to 10. She returned with her family to Los Angeles to pursue an acting career, moving to Burbank, California.
Career
Bruckner began her career at age 11. She appeared in commercials, a few television pilots, and on the daytime soap opera The Bold and the Beautiful in 1999. At the age of 15, Bruckner got her first lead role in the independent film Blue Car (2002), in which she played a high school student involved in an affair with her teacher, played by David Strathairn. Film critic Roger Ebert wrote that Bruckner "negotiates this difficult script with complete conviction." Bruckner received an Independent Spirit Award nomination for "Best Female Lead" for the role.
In the 2000s, other minor roles in television and film followed, including roles in The Glass House (2001), and the thriller Murder by Numbers (2002) starring Sandra Bullock. Bruckner has appeared in episodes of the television series 24 and Alias. She starred in the horror films Venom (2005) and The Woods (2006). Also in 2006, she appeared in the drama Peaceful Warrior, opposite Scott Mechlowicz and received a ShoWest Female Star of Tomorrow Award, and played the lead role in Dreamland.
In 2007, Bruckner appeared in the horror/romance film, Blood and Chocolate. Upcoming film roles include: Say Hello to Stan Talmadge (2008), Kill Theory (2008), and Vacancy 2: The First Cut (2009).
Personal life
Bruckner enjoys hip hop and R&B, as well as The Killers and The Fray. Bruckner has stated that she does not participate in "the Hollywood part of Hollywood", and travels or lives at home with her family during her free time.
Filmography
Year Title Role
2001 The Glass House Zoe
2002 Home Room Cathy
2002 Murder By Numbers Lisa Mills
2003 Blue Car Megan Denning
Rick Eve O'Lette
2004 Stateside Sue "of the Dubervilles" Dubois
Haven Pippa
2005 Venom Eden
2006 The Woods Heather
Peaceful Warrior Susie
Dreamland Audrey
Law & Order: Criminal Intent Country Crossover May
2007 Blood and Chocolate Vivian
2008 Kill Theory Jennifer
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2009 Vacancy 2: The First Cut Jessica
Private Practice Heather
2011 The Craigslist Killer Megan McAllister
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