BIOGRAPHIES OF HOLLYWOOD ACTOR/ACTRESSES

An actor and producer known as much for his versatility as he is for his
handsome face, Golden Globe-winner Brad Pitt's most widely
recognized role may be Tyler Durden in Fight Club (1999). However, his
portrayals of Billy Beane in Moneyball (2011), and Rusty Ryan in the
remake of Ocean's Eleven (2001) and its sequels, also loom large in his
filmography.

Pitt was born William Bradley Pitt on December 18th, 1963, in

Shawnee, Oklahoma, and was raised in Springfield, Missouri. He is the
son of Jane Etta (Hillhouse), a school counselor, and William Alvin Pitt, a
truck company manager. He has a younger brother, Douglas (Doug) Pitt,
and a younger sister, Julie Neal Pitt. At Kickapoo High School, Pitt was
involved in sports, debating, student government and school musicals.
Pitt attended the University of Missouri, where he majored in journalism
with a focus on advertising. He occasionally acted in fraternity shows. He
left college two credits short of graduating to move to California. Before
he became successful at acting, Pitt supported himself by driving
strippers in limos, moving refrigerators and dressing as a giant chicken
while working for "el Pollo Loco".

Pitt's earliest credited roles were in television, starting on the

daytime soap opera Another World (1964) before appearing in the
recurring role of Randy on the legendary prime time soap
opera Dallas (1978). Following a string of guest appearances on various
television series through the 1980s, Pitt gained widespread attention with
a small part in Thelma & Louise (1991), in which he played a sexy criminal
who romanced and conned Geena Davis. This lead to starring roles in
badly received films such as Johnny Suede (1991) and Cool World (1992).

Pitt's portrayal of Achilles in the big-budget period

drama Troy (2004) helped establish his appeal as action star and was
closely followed by a co-starring role in the stylish spy-versus-spy
flick Mr. & Mrs. Smith (2005). It was on the set of Mr. & Mrs. Smith that
Pitt, who married Jennifer Aniston in a highly publicized ceremony in
2000, met his current partner Angelina Jolie. Pitt left Aniston for Jolie in
2005, a break-up that continues to fuel tabloid stories years after its
occurrence.

He continues to wildly vary his film choices, appearing in everything

from high-concept popcorn flicks such as Megamind (2010) to
adventurous critic-bait like Inglourious Basterds (2009) and The Tree of
`Life (2011). He has received two Best Actor Oscar nominations,
for The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (2008) and Moneyball (2011).
In 2014, he starred in the war film Fury (2014), opposite Shia
LaBeouf, Logan Lerman, Jon Bernthal, and Michael Peña.

Pitt and Jolie have six children, including two sons and a daughter
who were adopted.
- IMDb Mini Biography By: Anonymous and JJH

Johnny Depp is perhaps one of the most versatile actors of his day
and age in Hollywood.

He was born John Christopher Depp II in Owensboro, Kentucky, on

June 9, 1963, to Betty Sue (Wells), who worked as a waitress, and John
Christopher Depp, a civil engineer.

Depp was raised in Florida. He dropped out of school when he was

15, and fronted a series of music-garage bands, including one named
'The Kids'. However, it was when he married Lori Anne Allison (Lori A.
Depp) that he took up the job of being a ballpoint-pen salesman to
support himself and his wife. A visit to Los Angeles, California, with his
wife, however, happened to be a blessing in disguise, when he met up
with actor Nicolas Cage, who advised him to turn to acting, which
culminated in Depp's film debut in the low-budget horror film, A
Nightmare on Elm Street (1984), where he played a teenager who falls
prey to dream-stalking demon Freddy Krueger.

In 1987 he shot to stardom when he replaced Jeff Yagher in the

role of undercover cop Tommy Hanson in the popular TV series 21 Jump
Street (1987).

In 1990, after numerous roles in teen-oriented films, his first of a

handful of great collaborations with director Tim Burton came about
when Depp played the title role in Edward Scissorhands (1990).
 Depp has played many characters in his career, including another
fact-based one, Insp. Fred Abberline in From Hell (2001). He stole the
show from screen greats such as Antonio Banderas in the finale
to Robert Rodriguez's "mariachi" trilogy, Once Upon a Time in
Mexico (2003). In that same year he starred in the marvelous family
blockbuster Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black
Pearl (2003), playing a character that only the likes of Depp could pull
off: the charming, conniving and roguish Capt. Jack Sparrow. The film's
enormous success has opened several doors for his career and included
an Oscar nomination. He appeared as the central character in
the Stephen King-based movie, Secret Window (2004); as the kind-
hearted novelist James Barrie in the factually-based Finding
Neverland (2004), where he co-starred with Kate Winslet; and Rochester
in the British film, The Libertine (2004). Depp collaborated again with
Burton in a screen adaptation of Roald Dahl's novel, Charlie and the
Chocolate Factory (2005), and later in Alice in Wonderland (2010)
and Dark Shadows (2012).

Off-screen, Depp has dated several female celebrities, and has

been engaged to Sherilyn Fenn, Jennifer Grey, Winona Ryder and Kate
Moss. He was married to Lori Anne Allison in 1983, but divorced her in
1985. Depp has two children with French singer/actress Vanessa Paradis:
Lily-Rose Melody, born in 1999 and Jack, born in 2002. He married
actress/producer Amber Heard in 2015.

- IMDb Mini Biography By: mikedavies86 and Sidhartha Shankar

 Angelina Jolie is an Academy Award-winning actress who rose to
fame after her role in Girl, Interrupted (1999), playing the title role in the
"Lara Croft" blockbuster movies, as well as Mr. & Mrs.
Smith (2005), Wanted (2008), Salt (2010) and Maleficent (2014). Off-
screen, Jolie has become prominently involved in international charity
projects, especially those involving refugees. She often appears on many
"most beautiful women" lists, and she has a personal life that is avidly
covered by the tabloid press.

Jolie was born Angelina Jolie Voight in Los Angeles, California. In

her earliest years, Angelina began absorbing the acting craft from her
actor parents, Jon Voight, an Oscar-winner, and Marcheline Bertrand,
who had studied with Lee Strasberg. Her good looks may derive from
her ancestry, which is German and Slovak on her father's side, and
French-Canadian, Dutch, Polish, and remote Huron, on her mother's
side. At age eleven, Angelina began studying at the Lee
Strasberg Theatre Institute, where she was seen in several stage
productions. She undertook some film studies at New York University
and later joined the renowned Met Theatre Group in Los Angeles. At age
16, she took up a career in modeling and appeared in some music
videos.

In the mid-1990s, Jolie appeared in various small films where she

got good notices, including Hackers (1995) and Foxfire (1996). Her
critical acclaim increased when she played strong roles in the made-for-
TV movies True Women (1997), and in George Wallace (1997) which won
her a Golden Globe Award and an Emmy nomination. Jolie's acclaim
increased even further when she played the lead role in the HBO
production Gia (1998).

Angelina got a major break in 1999 when she won a leading role in
the successful feature The Bone Collector (1999), starring
alongside Denzel Washington. In that same year, Jolie gave a tour de
force performance in Girl, Interrupted (1999) playing opposite Winona
Ryder. The movie was a true story of women who spent time in a
psychiatric hospital. Jolie's role was reminiscent of Jack Nicholson's
character in One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975), the role which won
Nicholson his first Oscar.

In 2000, Jolie was asked to star in Lara Croft: Tomb Raider (2001).
At first, she expressed disinterest, but then decided that the required
training for the athletic role was intriguing. The Croft character was
drawn from a popular video game. Lara Croft was a female cross
between Indiana Jones and James Bond. When the film was released,
critics were unimpressed with the final product, but critical acclaim
wasn't the point of the movie. The public paid $275 million for theater
tickets to see a buffed up Jolie portray the adventuresome Lara Croft.
Jolie's father Jon Voight appeared in "Croft", and during filming there
was a brief rapprochement between father and daughter.

Jolie has stated that she now plans to spend most of her time in
humanitarian efforts, to be financed by her actress salary. She devotes
one third of her income to savings, one third to living expenses and one
third to charity. In 2002, Angelina adopted a Cambodian refugee boy
named Maddox, and in 2005, adopted an Ethiopian refugee girl named
Zahara. Jolie's dramatic feature film Beyond Borders (2003) parallels
some of her real life humanitarian experiences although, despite the
inclusion of a romance between two westerners, many of the movie's
images were too depressingl realistic..

In 2004, Jolie began filming Mr. & Mrs. Smith (2005) with co-
star Brad Pitt. The film became a major box office success. There were
rumors that Pitt and Jolie had an affair while filming "Smith". Jolie insisted
that because her mother had been hurt by adultery, she herself could
never participate in an affair with a married man, therefore there had
been no affair with Pitt at that time. Nonetheless, Pitt separated from his
wife Jennifer Aniston in January 2005 and, in the months that followed,
he was frequently seen in public with Jolie, apparently as a couple. Pitt's
divorce was finalized later in 2005.

Jolie and Pitt announced in early 2006 that they would have a child
together, and Jolie gave birth to daughter Shiloh that May. They also
adopted a three-year-old Vietnamese boy named Pax. The couple, who
married in 2014 and divorced in 2019, continue to pursue movie and
humanitarian projects, and now have a total of six children.

- IMDb Mini Biography By: Roger Burns <rogerburns@pobox.com>

 Few actors in the world have had a career quite as diverse as
Leonardo DiCaprio's. DiCaprio has gone from relatively humble
beginnings, as a supporting cast member of the sitcom Growing
Pains (1985) and low budget horror movies, such as Critters 3 (1991), to
a major teenage heartthrob in the 1990s, as the hunky lead actor in
movies such as Romeo + Juliet (1996) and Titanic (1997), to then become
a leading man in Hollywood blockbusters, made by internationally
renowned directors such as Martin Scorsese and Christopher Nolan.

Leonardo Wilhelm DiCaprio was born November 11, 1974 in Los

Angeles, California, the only child of Irmelin DiCaprio (née Indenbirken)
and former comic book artist George DiCaprio. His father is of Italian
and German descent, and his mother, who is German-born, is of German
and Russian ancestry. His middle name, "Wilhelm", was his maternal
grandfather's first name. Leonardo's performance skills became obvious
to his parents early on, and after signing him up with a talent agent who
wanted Leonardo to perform under the stage name "Lenny Williams",
DiCaprio began appearing on a number of television commercials and
educational programs.

DiCaprio began attracting the attention of producers, who cast him

in small roles in a number of television series, such as Roseanne (1988)
and The New Lassie (1989), but it wasn't until 1991 that DiCaprio made
his film debut in Critters 3 (1991), a low-budget horror movie.
While Critters 3 (1991) did little to help showcase DiCaprio's acting
abilities, it did help him develop his show-reel, and attract the attention
of the people behind the hit sitcom Growing Pains (1985), in which
Leonardo was cast in the "Cousin Oliver" role of a young homeless boy
who moves in with the Seavers.

Leonardo took up a diverse range of roles in the early 1990s,

including a mentally challenged youth in What's Eating Gilbert
Grape (1993), a young gunslinger in The Quick and the Dead (1995) and
a drug addict in one of his most challenging roles to date, Jim Carroll
in The Basketball Diaries (1995), a role which the late River
Phoenix originally expressed interest in. While these diverse roles helped
establish Leonardo's reputation as an actor, it wasn't until his role as
Romeo Montague in Baz Luhrmann's Romeo + Juliet (1996) that
Leonardo became a household name, a true movie star. The following
year, DiCaprio starred in another movie about doomed
lovers, Titanic (1997), which went on to beat all box office records held
before then, as, at the time, Titanic (1997) became the highest grossing
movie of all time, and cemented DiCaprio's reputation as a teen
heartthrob. Following his work on Titanic (1997), DiCaprio kept a low
profile for a number of years, with roles in The Man in the Iron
Mask (1998) and the low-budget The Beach (2000) being some of his
few notable roles during this period.

In 2002, he burst back into screens throughout the world with

leading roles in Catch Me If You Can (2002) and Gangs of New
York (2002), his first of many collaborations with director Martin
Scorsese. With a current salary of $20 million a movie, DiCaprio is now
one of the biggest movie stars in the world. However, he has not limited
his professional career to just acting in movies, as DiCaprio is a
committed environmentalist, who is actively involved in many
environmental causes, and his commitment to this issue led to his
involvement in The 11th Hour, a documentary movie about the state of
the natural environment. As someone who has gone from small roles in
television commercials to one of the most respected actors in the world,
DiCaprio has had one of the most diverse careers in cinema. DiCaprio
continued to defy conventions about the types of roles he would accept,
and with his career now seeing him leading all-star casts in action thrillers
such as The Departed (2006), Shutter Island (2010) and Christopher
Nolan's Inception (2010), DiCaprio continues to wow audiences by
refusing to conform to any cliché about actors.

In 2012, he played a mustache-twirling villain in Django

Unchained (2012), and then tragic literary character Jay Gatsby in The
Great Gatsby (2013) and Jordan Belfort in The Wolf of Wall Street (2013).

DiCaprio is passionate about environmental and humanitarian

causes, having donated $1,000,000 to earthquake relief efforts in 2010,
the same year he contributed $1,000,000 to the Wildlife Conservation
Society.

- IMDb Mini Biography By: Pedro Borges

 Ask Kate Winslet what she likes about any of her characters, and
the word "ballsy" is bound to pop up at least once. The British actress
has made a point of eschewing straightforward pretty-girl parts in favor
of more devilish damsels; as a result, she's built an eclectic resume that
runs the gamut from Shakespearean tragedy to modern-day mysticism
and erotica.

Kate Elizabeth Winslet was born in Reading, Berkshire, into a family

of thespians -- parents Roger Winslet and Sally Anne Bridges-Winslet
were both stage actors, maternal grandparents Oliver and Linda Bridges
ran the Reading Repertory Theatre, and uncle Robert Bridges was a
fixture in London's West End theatre district. Kate came into her talent
at an early age. She scored her first professional gig at eleven, dancing
opposite the Honey Monster in a commercial for a kids' cereal. She
started acting lessons around the same time, which led to formal training
at a performing arts high school. Over the next few years, she appeared
on stage regularly and landed a few bit parts in sitcoms. Her first big
break came at age 17, when she was cast as an obsessive adolescent
in Heavenly Creatures (1994). The film, based on the true story of two
fantasy-gripped girls who commit a brutal murder, received modest
distribution but was roundly praised by critics.

Still a relative unknown, Winslet attended a cattle call audition the

next year for Ang Lee's Sense and Sensibility (1995). She made an
immediate impression on the film's star, Emma Thompson, and beat out
more than a hundred other hopefuls for the part of plucky Marianne
Dashwood. Her efforts were rewarded with both a British Academy
Award and an Oscar nomination for Best Supporting Actress. Winslet
followed up with two more period pieces, playing the rebellious heroine
in Jude (1996) and Ophelia in Kenneth Branagh's Hamlet (1996).

The role that transformed Winslet from art house attraction to

international star was Rose DeWitt Bukater, the passionate, rosy-
cheeked aristocrat in James Cameron's Titanic (1997). Young girls the
world over both idolized and identified with Winslet, swooning over all
that face time opposite heartthrob Leonardo DiCaprio and noting her
refreshingly healthy, unemaciated physique. Winslet's performance also
garnered a Best Actress nomination, making her the youngest actress to
ever receive two Academy Award nominations.

After the swell of unexpected attention surrounding Titanic (1997),

Winslet was eager to retreat into independent projects. Rumor has it that
she turned down the lead roles in both Shakespeare in Love (1998)
and Anna and the King (1999) in order to play adventurous soul
searchers in Hideous Kinky (1998) and Holy Smoke (1999). The former
cast her as a young single mother traveling through 1970s Morocco with
her daughters in tow; the latter, as a zealous follower of a guru tricked
into a "deprogramming" session in the Australian outback. The next year
found her back in period dress as the Marquis de Sade's chambermaid
and accomplice in Quills (2000). Kate holds the distinction of being the
youngest actor ever honored with four Academy Award nominations
(she received her fourth at age 29). As of 2016, she has been nominated
for an Oscar seven times, winning one of them: she received the Best
Actress Oscar for the drama The Reader (2008), playing a former
concentration camp guard.

For her performance of Joanna Hoffman in Steve Jobs (2015), she

received her seventh Academy Award nomination. Off camera, Winslet
is known for her mischievous pranks and familial devotion. She has two
sisters, Anna Winslet and Beth Winslet (both actresses), and a brother,
Joss.

In 1998, she married assistant director Jim Threapleton. They had a

daughter, Mia Honey Threapleton, in October 2000. They divorced in
2001. She later married director Sam Mendes in 2003 and gave birth to
their son, Joe Alfie Winslet-Mendes, later that year. After seven years of
marriage, in February 2010 they announced that they had amicably
separated, and divorced in October 2010. In 2012, Kate married Ned
Rocknroll, with whom she has a son. She was awarded Commander of
the Order of the British Empire in the 2012 Queen's Birthday Honours
List for her services to drama.

- IMDb Mini Biography By: IMDb Editors

 Willard Carroll "Will" Smith, Jr. (born September 25, 1968) is an
American actor, comedian, producer, rapper, and songwriter. He has
enjoyed success in television, film, and music. In April 2007, Newsweek
called him "the most powerful actor in Hollywood". Smith has been
nominated for five Golden Globe Awards, two Academy Awards, and has
won four Grammy Awards.

In the late 1980s, Smith achieved modest fame as a rapper under

the name The Fresh Prince. In 1990, his popularity increased dramatically
when he starred in the popular television series The Fresh Prince of Bel-
Air. The show ran for six seasons (1990-96) on NBC and has been
syndicated consistently on various networks since then. After the series
ended, Smith moved from television to film, and ultimately starred in
numerous blockbuster films. He is the only actor to have eight
consecutive films gross over $100 million in the domestic box office,
eleven consecutive films gross over $150 million internationally, and
eight consecutive films in which he starred open at the number one spot
in the domestic box office tally.

Smith is ranked as the most bankable star worldwide by Forbes. As

of 2014, 17 of the 21 films in which he has had leading roles have
accumulated worldwide gross earnings of over $100 million each, five
taking in over $500 million each in global box office receipts. As of 2014,
his films have grossed $6.6 billion at the global box office. He has
received Best Actor Oscar nominations for Ali and The Pursuit of
Happyness.
 Smith was born in West Philadelphia, the son of Caroline (Bright),
a Philadelphia school board administrator, and Willard Carroll Smith, Sr.,
a refrigeration engineer. He grew up in West Philadelphia's Wynnefield
neighborhood, and was raised Baptist. Smith started as the MC of the
hip-hop duo DJ Jazzy Jeff & The Fresh Prince, with his childhood friend
Jeffrey "DJ Jazzy Jeff" Townes as producer, as well as Ready Rock C
(Clarence Holmes) as the human beat box. The trio was known for
performing humorous, radio-friendly songs, most notably "Parents Just
Don't Understand" and "Summertime". They gained critical acclaim and
won the first Grammy awarded in the Rap category (1988).

Smith's first major roles were in the drama Six Degrees of

Separation (1993) and the action film Bad Boys (1995) in which he starred
opposite Martin Lawrence.

In 2005, Smith was entered into the Guinness Book of World

Records for attending three premieres in a 24-hour time span.

In 2008 Smith was reported to be developing a film entitled The

Last Pharaoh, in which he would be starring as Taharqa. It was in 2008
that Smith starred in the superhero movie Hancock. Men in Black III
opened on May 25, 2012 with Smith again reprising his role as Agent J.
This was his first major starring role in four years.

Smith and his son Jaden played father and son in two productions:
the 2006 biographical drama The Pursuit of Happyness, and the science
fiction film After Earth, which was released on May 31, 2013.
 As of November 2015, Smith is set to star in the independent drama
Collateral Beauty, which will be directed by David Frankel. Smith will play
a New York advertising executive who succumbs to an deep depression
after a personal tragedy. Nobel Peace Prize Concert December 11, 2009,
in Oslo, Norway: Smith with wife Jada and children Jaden and Willow
Smith married Sheree Zampino in 1992. They had one son, Trey Smith,
born on November 11, 1992, and divorced in 1995. Trey appeared in his
father's music video for the 1998 single "Just the Two of Us". He also
acted in two episodes of the sitcom All of Us, and has appeared on The
Oprah Winfrey Show and on the David Blaine: Real or Magic TV special.

Smith married actress Jada Koren Pinkett in 1997. Together they

have two children: Jaden Christopher Syre Smith (born 1998), his co-star
in The Pursuit of Happyness and After Earth, and Willow Camille Reign
Smith (born 2000), who appeared as his daughter in I Am Legend. Smith
and his brother Harry own Treyball Development Inc., a Beverly Hills-
based company named after Trey. Smith and his family reside in Los
Angeles, California.

Smith was consistently listed in Fortune Magazine's "Richest 40" list

of the forty wealthiest Americans under the age of 40.

- IMDb Mini Biography By: Akram Braham

 Robert Downey Jr. has evolved into one of the most respected
actors in Hollywood. With an amazing list of credits to his name, he has
managed to stay new and fresh even after over four decades in the
business.

Downey was born April 4, 1965 in Manhattan, New York, the son
of writer, director and filmographer Robert Downey Sr. and actress Elsie
Downey (née Elsie Ann Ford). Robert's father is of half Lithuanian Jewish,
one quarter Hungarian Jewish, and one quarter Irish, descent, while
Robert's mother was of English, Scottish, German, and Swiss-German
ancestry. Robert and his sister, Allyson Downey, were immersed in film
and the performing arts from a very young age, leading Downey Jr. to
study at the Stagedoor Manor Performing Arts Training Center in
upstate New York, before moving to California with his father following
his parents' 1978 divorce. In 1982, he dropped out of Santa Monica High
School to pursue acting full time. Downey Sr., himself a drug addict,
exposed his son to drugs at a very early age, and Downey Jr. would go
on to struggle with abuse for decades.

Downey Jr. made his debut as an actor at the age of five in the
film Pound (1970), written and directed by his father, Robert Downey Sr..
He built his film repertoire throughout the 1980s and 1990s with roles
in Tuff Turf (1985), Weird Science (1985), True Believer (1989),
and Wonder Boys (2000) among many others. In 1992, Downey received
an Academy Award nomination and won the BAFTA (British Academy
Award) for Best Actor for his performance in the title role
of Chaplin (1992).

In Robert Altman's Short Cuts (1993), he appeared as an aspiring

film make-up artist whose best friend commits murder. In Oliver
Stone's Natural Born Killers (1994). For the comedy Heart and
Souls (1993), Downey starred as a young man with a special relationship
with four ghosts. In 1995, Downey starred in Restoration (1995),
with Hugh Grant, Meg Ryan and Ian McKellen, directed by Michael
Hoffman. Also that year, he starred in Richard III (1995), in which he
appears opposite his Restoration (1995) co-star McKellen.

In 2000, Downey co-starred with Michael Douglas and Tobey

Maguire in Wonder Boys (2000), directed by Curtis Hanson. In this
dramatic comedy, Downey played the role of a bisexual literary agent. In
2001, Downey made his prime-time television debut when he joined the
cast of the Fox-TV series Ally McBeal (1997) as attorney "Larry Paul". He
marked his debut into music with his debut album, titled "The Futurist",
on the Sony Classics Label on November 23rd, 2004. Downey starred in
powerful yet humbling roles inspired by real-life accounts of some of
history's most precious kept secrets, including Richard Linklater's A
Scanner Darkly (2006) in 2006 co-starring Keanu Reeves, Winona
Ryder and Woody Harrelson, and Fur: An Imaginary Portrait of Diane
Arbus (2006) co-starring Nicole Kidman, a film inspired by the life of
Diane Arbus, the revered photographer whose images captured
attention in the early 1960s. These roles exhibited Downey's momentum
from the previous year of 2005, in which he starred in the Academy
Award®-nominated feature film Good Night, and Good Luck. (2005),
directed by George Clooney and in Shane Black's action comedy Kiss
Kiss Bang Bang (2005) co-starring Val Kilmer. In 2007, he co-starred
in David Fincher's suspenseful Zodiac (2007).

In May 2008, Downey achieved critical acclaim and worldwide box

office success for his starring role in Iron Man (2008), Jon Favreau's big-
screen rendering of the Marvel comic book superhero.

Downey was honored by Time Magazine's "Time 100" in 2008, an

annual list of the 100 most influential people in the world. His laurels
include two Academy Award nominations, three Golden Globe wins,
numerous other award nominations and wins, and tremendous popular
and commercial success, particularly in his roles as Sherlock Holmes and
Tony Stark has topped the Forbes list of Hollywood's highest-paid
actors, making an estimated $80 million in earnings between June 2014
and June 2015.

Robert has jump-started the Team Downey Production Company

with wife Susan Downey.

- IMDb Mini Biography By: Anonymous, Rogers & Cowan, and Pedro
Borges
 Sandra Annette Bullock was born in Arlington, a Virginia suburb of
Washington, D.C. Her mother, Helga Bullock (née Helga Mathilde
Meyer), was a German opera singer. Her father, John W. Bullock, was an
American voice teacher, who was born in Alabama, of German descent.
Sandra grew up on the road with her parents and younger sister,
chef Gesine Bullock-Prado, and spent much of her childhood in
Nuremberg, Germany. She often performed in the children's chorus of
whatever production her mother was in. That singing talent later came
in handy for her role as an aspiring country singer in The Thing Called
Love (1993). Her family moved back to the Washington area when she
was adolescent. She later enrolled in East Carolina University in North
Carolina, where she studied acting. Shortly afterward she moved to New
York to pursue a career on the stage. This led to acting in television
programs and then feature films. She gave memorable performances
in Demolition Man (1993) and Wrestling Ernest Hemingway (1993), but
did not achieve the stardom that seemed inevitable for her until her work
in the smash hit Speed (1994). She now ranks as one of the most popular
actresses in Hollywood. For her role in The Blind Side (2009) she won the
Oscar, and her blockbusters The Proposal (2009), The Heat (2013)
and Gravity (2013) made her a bankable star. With $56,000,000, she was
listed in the Guinness Book of World Records as the highest-paid actress
in the world.

- IMDb Mini Biography By: David Montgomery <djmont@aol.com>

 Megan Fox was born Megan Denise Fox on May 16, 1986 in Oak
Ridge, Tennessee to Gloria Darlene Tonachio (born: Gloria Darlene
Cisson), a real estate manager & Franklin Thomas Fox, a parole officer;
she was raised in Rockwood, Tennessee during her early childhood. She
began her drama & dance training at age 5 and at age 10, she moved to
Port St. Lucie, Florida where she continued her training & finished school.
Megan began acting and modeling at age 13 after winning several
awards at the 1999 American Modeling and Talent Convention in Hilton
Head, South Carolina. At age 17, she tested out of school using
correspondence and eventually moved to Los Angeles, California.
Megan made her film debut as Brianna Wallace in the Mary-Kate
Olsen and Ashley Olsen film, Holiday in the Sun (2001). Her best known
roles are as Sam Witwicky's love interest, Mikaela Banes in the first two
installments of the Transformers series, Transformers (2007)
and Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen (2009), and as April O'Neil in
the film reboot of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (2014).

- IMDb Mini Biography By: anonymous

 A tall, strikingly attractive blue-eyed natural blonde, Cameron Diaz
was born in 1972 in San Diego, the daughter of a Cuban-American father
and a German mother. Self-described as "adventurous, independent and
a tough kid," Cameron left home at 16 and for the next 5 years lived in
such varied locales as Japan, Australia, Mexico, Morocco, and Paris.
Returning to California at the age of 21, she was working as a model
when she auditioned for a big part in The Mask (1994). To her
amazement and despite having no previous acting experience, she was
cast as the female lead in the film opposite Jim Carrey. Over the next 3
years, she honed her acting skills in such low budget independent films
as The Last Supper (1995); Feeling Minnesota (1996); and Head Above
Water (1996). She returned to main stream films in My Best Friend's
Wedding (1997), in which she held her own against veteran actress Julia
Roberts. She earned full-fledged star status in 1998 for her performance
in the box office smash There's Something About Mary (1998). With her
name near the top on virtually every list of Hollywood's sexiest actresses,
and firmly established as one of filmdom's hottest properties and most
sought after actresses, Cameron Diaz appears to possess everything
necessary to become one of the super stars of the new century.

- IMDb Mini Biography By: Tom McDonough