Carice van Houten

Carice Anouk van Houten (Dutch pronunciation: [kaˈris ˈanuk fɑn ˈhʌutɛn]; born 5 September 1976) is a Dutch stage and film actress. She won three Golden Calves for her roles in Suzy Q (1999), Undercover Kitty (2001), and Black Book (2006). Her role in Black Book launched her international career. She acted in the American films Valkyrie (2008), and Repo Men (2010).
Early life

Van Houten was born on 5 September 1976 in Leiderdorp, the Netherlands. Her mother Margje Stasse is on the board of Dutch educational TV and her father Theodore van Houten is a writer and broadcaster. She has a younger sister, Jelka van Houten, who is also an actress. She went to the St. Bonifatiuscollege (high school) in Utrecht, where she played the leading role in Hugo Claus' Tijl Uilenspieghel, directed by Ad Migchielsen. Van Houten studied at the Kleinkunstacademie in Amsterdam.
Acting career

Carice van Houten played her first leading role in Martin Koolhoven's TV film Suzy Q. Van Houten won a Golden Calf for her part as Suzy. She also won the Pisuisse Award and the Top Naeff Award for her stage acting and another Golden Calf for her part as the kitten that becomes a girl in Undercover Kitty (2001). The first time she could be seen in cinemas in the USA was when Martin Koolhoven's AmnesiA (2001) got a small theatrical release.
Van Houten won a Golden Calf for her performance as Rachel Stein in the 2006 film Black Book at the Netherlands Film Festival. Black Book's director Paul Verhoeven says about her in a television interview: "Never in my life I have worked with an actress this talented." and when he is asked to compare her with Sharon Stone he says: "Carice can really act".The international press is also enthusiastic about her role in Black Book.Dick Schümer writes in his review of the film in the Frankfurter Allgemeine that Carice van Houten is "not only more beautiful, but also a better actress than Scarlett Johansson".
In December 2006, Van Houten withdrew from a theatre production of Alex van Warmerdam due to personal reasons. According to a theatre spokesman it was because of a work overload.
Carice's first English spoken movie was Dorothy from French director Agnès Merlet.
Her performance in Black Book led to roles opposite Tom Cruise in Valkyrie and Jude Law and Forest Whitaker in Repo Men. She has acted in three movies directed by Dutch director Martin Koolhoven.
In 2008, she starred in the non-commercial short movie Zingen in het Donker, a drama on domestic violence. In January 2008, Van Houten was named Woman of the Year by New York Magazine.She appeared in the magazine Vanity Fair in the issue for March 2008, photographed by Wayne Maser.
On 4 October 2008 filming began on From Time To Time, directed by Julian Fellowes. It is based on the children’s literature classic The Chimneys of Green Knowe by Lucy M. Boston. Van Houten is attached to star as Maria Oldknow.
In April 2009 it was announced that Van Houten would star in Black Death by UK director Christopher Smith and in the highly anticipated Dutch film Love Life (Komt een vrouw bij de dokter), based on the celebrated novel of the same name by Ray Kluun. She also starred in the Science-Fiction thriller Repo Men.

She was in a relationship with actor Sebastian Koch, her co-star in Black Book.The couple announced they were separating in August 2009.
Carice has stated that Hollywood makes her unhappy: "I have seen Hollywood, and although I have nothing against it, it's not my kind of life. My agent is shocked that I want to stay in Europe", she says. "If Hollywood offers me a great part, of course I'll take it, but I just don't want to live there."

Filmography

Year Film Role Notes
1997 3 ronden Emily
1998 Ivory Guardians unknown
1999 Suzy Q Suzy Golden Calf for Best Acting in a Television Drama
2001 Storm In Mijn Hoofd Erwtenbloesem/Titania
AmnesiA Sandra
Undercover Kitty Minoes Golden Calf for Best Actress
2002 The Wild Boar Pandora
2003 Father's Affair Monika
2005 Black Swans Marleen Nominated — Golden Calf for Best Actress
Lepel Juffrouw Broer
Knetter Lis
2006 Ik Omhels Je Met 1000 Armen Samarinde
Black Book Rachel Stein/Ellis De Vries Golden Calf for Best Actress
Rembrandt Award for Best Actress
Nominated — European Film Award for Best Actress
Nominated — Saturn Award for Best Actress
Nominated — German Film Award for Best Actress
Nominated — Chicago Film Critics Association Award for Best Actress
Nominated — Online Film Critics Society Award for Best Actress
2007 Alles is Liefde Kiki Jollema Rembrandt Award for Best Actress
2008 Dorothy Mills Jane Van Dopp
Valkyrie Nina Schenk Gräfin von Stauffenberg Nominated — Saturn Award for Best Supporting Actress
2009 Komt een vrouw bij de dokter Carmen Rembrandt Award for Best Actress
From Time to Time Maria Oldknow
2010 Repo Men Carol
De Gelukkige Huisvrouw Lea
Black Death Langiva
Satisfaction pre-production
2011 Intruders
Black Butterflies Ingrid Jonker
Vivaldi Julietta

Discography

Black Book (2006)
Awards

Film Awards
Golden Calf 1999: Best TV Actress – Suzy Q
Camério (2002): Best Actress – Undercover Kitty
Golden Calf 2002: Best Actress – Undercover Kitty
Artek (2005): Best Actress – Undercover Kitty
Golden Calf 2006: Best Actress – Black Book
Rembrandt Award 2007: Best Actress – Komt een vrouw bij de dokter
Theatre Awards
Pisuisse Prize (1999)
Top Naeff Prize (2000)
Other Awards
ELLE Personal Style Award 2006

Catherine Zeta-Jones

Catherine Zeta Jones, CBE (pronounced /ˈziːtə/ "zeeta"; born 25 September 1969), now hyphenated as Catherine Zeta-Jones, is a Welsh actress, currently based in the United States. She began her career on stage at an early age. After starring in a number of UK and US television films and small roles in films, she came to prominence with roles in Hollywood movies such as The Phantom, The Mask of Zorro and Entrapment in the late 1990s. She won an Academy Award, BAFTA Award and a Screen Actors Guild Award and was nominated for a Golden Globe Award for portraying Velma Kelly in the 2002 film adaptation of the musical Chicago. In 2010 she won the Tony Award for Best Actress in a Musical for her portrayal of Desiree in A Little Night Music.
Early life

She was born Catherine Zeta Jones in Swansea, South Wales to Patricia (née Fair), an Irish seamstress, and David James Jones (b. 1946), a Welsh sweet factory owner.Her name stems from those of her grandmothers — her maternal grandmother, Catherine Fair, and her paternal grandmother, Zeta Jones (1917 – 14 August 2008)

Zeta-Jones was raised Catholic.After her parents won £100,000 at Bingo in the 1980s, they moved to St. Andrews Drive in Mayals, an upper middle class area of Swansea. Jones left the private Dumbarton House School early, to further her acting ambitions without obtaining O levels. While at Dumbarton she once had her lunch money stolen by fellow pupil Rob Brydon.She then attended The Arts Educational Schools in Chiswick, west London, for a full-time three-year course in musical theatre.

Career
Early work (1979–1995)

Catherine Zeta-Jones's stage career began in childhood. She often performed at friends' and family functions, and was part of a local dance troupe, The Hazel Johnson School of Dance, which rehearsed at St Alban's church, Treboeth. Zeta-Jones made her professional acting debut when she played the lead in Annie, a production at Swansea Grand Theatre. When she was 14, Mickey Dolenz cast her as Tallulah in Bugsy Malone.She then went on, at the age of 17 in 1986, to a part in the chorus of The Pajama Game at the Haymarket Theatre, Leicester starringPaul Jones and Fiona Hendley. The show subsequently toured the UK and then, in 1987, Zeta-Jones starred in 42nd Street as Peggy Sawyer at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane. Zeta-Jones was cast in the leading role after the actress playing Peggy Sawyer and the understudy fell ill. She also played Mae Jones in the Kurt Weill opera Street Scene with the English National Opera at the London Coliseum Theatre in 1989. After the show closed, she traveled to France, where she played the lead role in French director Philippe de Broca's Les 1001 Nuits [1001 Nights] (also known as Sheherazade), her feature film debut.

Her singing and dancing ability suggested a promising future, but it was in a straight acting role, as Mariette in the successful British television adaptation of H. E. Bates' The Darling Buds of May, that brought her to public attention and made her a British tabloid darling. 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 1992. It reached #36 in the UK charts. 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", 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) based on the novel of the same name 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.
Breakthrough (1996–2001)
In 1996, she was cast as the evil aviatrix Sala in the action film, The Phantom, based on the comic by Lee Falk. 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.Zeta-Jones subsequently landed a lead role in the film, alongside compatriot Anthony Hopkins and Antonio Banderas. She learned dancing, riding, sword-fighting and took part in dialect classes to play her role as Elena.Commenting on her performance, Variety noted, "Zeta-Jones is bewitchingly lovely as the center of everyone's attention, and she throws herself into the often physical demands of her role with impressive grace."In 1999, 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 the critically acclaimed Traffic with future husband Michael Douglas. Traffic earned praise from the press, with the critic for the Dallas Observer calling the movie "a remarkable achievement in filmmaking, a beautiful and brutal work".Zeta-Jones's performance earned her her first Golden Globe nomination, as Best Actress in a Supporting Role in a Motion Picture.

After taking the lead role of America's Sweethearts, a 2001 film which also starred Julia Roberts, Billy Crystal and John Cusack some thought her career might suffer because the movie was panned by the critics for poor screenwriting, directing and acting. Despite the poor reviews, it was a hit at the box office grossing over $138 million worldwide.

International success (2002–present)

In 2002, Zeta-Jones continued her momentum and played murderous vaudevillian Velma Kelly in the film adaptation of the Broadway musical Chicago. Her performance was praised by the press, including the Seattle Post-Intelligencer which stated,
"Zeta-Jones makes a wonderfully statuesque and bitchy saloon goddess."Zeta-Jones won an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her performance. For her role in Chicago, she specifically requested a 1920s-style short bob wig, so her face could be seen and fans would not doubt she did all her dancing herself.

In 2003, she voiced Marina in the animated film Sinbad: Legend of the Seven Seas opposite Brad Pitt, as well as starring as serial divorcee Marilyn Rexroth in the black comedy Intolerable Cruelty with George Clooney. In 2004, she played air hostess Amelia Warren in The Terminal as well as Europol agent Isabel Lahiri in 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. In 2007, she starred in the romantic comedy No Reservations, a remake of the German film Mostly Martha, and in 2008 starred alongside Guy Pearce and Saoirse Ronan in Death Defying Acts, a biopic about legendary escapologist Harry Houdini. In 2009, Zeta-Jones starred in romantic comedy The Rebound, in which she played a 40-year old mother of two who falls in love with a younger man, played by Justin Bartha.

In August 2009, it was announced she would return to her musical roots and make her Broadway debut in the revival of A Little Night Music with Angela Lansbury, beginning December 2009. She is currently starring in the role of Desiree.For her performance, Zeta-Jones received an Outer Critics Circle Award, Drama Desk Award, as well as a Tony Award for Best Leading Actress in a Musical. In her Tony acceptance speech, Zeta-Jones created controversy by shouting to husband Michael Douglas: "See that man over there? He's a movie star and I get to sleep with him every night!". She has since apologised, stating "I can't believe I said something...as crass as that."
Apart from her acting career, Zeta-Jones is also an advertising spokeswoman, currently the global spokeswoman for cosmetics giant Elizabeth Arden. She has appeared in numerous TV commercials for the phone company T-Mobile, and one for Alfa Romeo. She is also the spokeswoman for Di Modolo jewelry.

Zeta-Jones was appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in the 2010 Birthday Honours.

Personal life
Zeta-Jones is married to actor Michael Douglas, sharing the same birthday, making him exactly 25 years her senior. She claims that when they met, he used the line "I'd like to father your children."They were married at the Plaza Hotel in New York City on 18 November 2000. A traditional Welsh choir (Côr Cymraeg Rehoboth) sang at their wedding. Her Welsh gold wedding ring includes a Celtic motif and was purchased in the Welsh town of Aberystwyth.They have two children. Their son, Dylan Michael Douglas (named after Dylan Thomas), was born on 8 August 2000, with Zeta Jones's pregnancy incorporated into her role in Traffic. Their daughter, Carys Zeta Douglas, was born on 20 April 2003. Zeta-Jones has two brothers, David and Lyndon. Her father's cousin is married to singer Bonnie Tyler, from nearby Neath, Wales. Her younger brother, Lyndon Jones, is her personal manager and producer for Milkwood Films. Zeta-Jones's parents recently moved from their Mayals property to a £2 million home two miles (3 km) further west along the Swansea coast, paid for by their daughter.

When she was born, Zeta-Jones had difficulty breathing, so an emergency tracheotomy was performed. She refuses to hide the scar on her neck, stating that it is because of that scar that she is alive today.

In 2004, Douglas and Zeta-Jones took legal action against stalker Dawnette Knight, who was accused of sending violent letters to the couple that contained graphic threats on Catherine's life. Testifying, Zeta-Jones said the threats left her so shaken she feared a nervous breakdown.Knight claimed she had been in love with Douglas and admitted to the offenses, which took place between October 2003 and May 2004. She was sentenced to three years in prison.

In the media
Dawn French and Jennifer Saunders parodied Zeta-Jones as a vacuous über-celebrity named Catherine Spartacus-Zeta-Douglas-Jones on their show French & Saunders in the series Back With a Vengeance. Catherine Spartacus-Zeta-Douglas-Jones alternates between a strong Welsh accent and a strong American accent and uses Welsh-language phrases when she speaks.

Zeta-Jones is also parodied in the BBC's The Impressions Show with Culshaw and Stephenson by Debra Stephenson reading Beauty and the Beast also alternating between strong Welsh and American accents.

Zeta is mentioned in the song Hollywood by Marina and the Diamonds in the line "Oh my God, you look just like Shakira no, no, you're Catherine Zeta, actually my name's Marina".

Filmography
Film Year Title Role Notes
1990 Les 1001 nuits Scheherazade English: 1001 Nights
1992 Christopher Columbus: The Discovery Beatriz
1993 Splitting Heirs Kitty
1994 The Cinder Path Victoria Chapman
The Return of the Native Eustacia Vye
1995 Catherine the Great Catherine II
Blue Juice Chloe
1996 The Phantom Sala
1998 The Mask of Zorro Eléna (De La Vega) Montero

* Nominated — Saturn Award for Best Actress
Nominated — Empire Award for Best British Actress

1999 Entrapment Virginia Baker

* European Film Award — Jameson People's Choice Award – Best European Actress

The Haunting Theo
2000 High Fidelity Charlie Nicholson
Traffic Helena Ayala

Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture

* Nominated — Chicago Film Critics Association Award for Best Supporting Actress
* Nominated — Empire Award for Best British Actress
* Nominated — Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress - Motion Picture

2001 America's Sweethearts Gwen Harrison
2002 Chicago Velma Kelly

* Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress
* BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role
* Broadcast Film Critics Association Award for Best Cast
* Broadcast Film Critics Association Award for Best Supporting Actress
* Evening Standard British Film Award for Best Actress
* Phoenix Film Critics Society Award for Best Supporting Actress
* Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture
* Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Supporting Role
* Nominated — Golden Globe Award for Best Actress - Motion Picture Musical or Comedy
* Nominated — Online Film Critics Society Award for Best Supporting Actress
* Nominated — Phoenix Film Critics Society Award for Best Cast

2003 Sinbad: Legend of the Seven Seas Marina Voice role
Intolerable Cruelty Marylin Rexroth
2004 The Terminal Amelia Warren
Ocean's Twelve Isabel Lahiri

* Nominated — Broadcast Film Critics Association Award for Best Cast

2005 The Legend of Zorro Elena de la Vega Murrieta

* Nominated — People's Choice Award for Favorite Female Action Star

2007 No Reservations Kate Armstrong
2008 Death Defying Acts Mary McGarvie
2009 The Rebound Sandy
2011 Cleo Cleopatra Pre-Production
Television Year Title Role Notes
1991 Out of the Blue Chirsty BBC Television Play

1991–1993
The Darling Buds of May Mariette 18 episodes; Credited as Catherine Zeta Jones
1992 Coup de foudre Unknown Episode "Résurgence"
1993 The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles Maya Episode "Palestine, October 1917"
1996 Titanic Isabella Paradine TV mini-series
2005 Saturday Night Live Guest Host 1 Episode

Discography
Year Recording
2002 Chicago (Soundtrack)
2010 A Little Night Music (2010 Broadway Revival Cast Recording)

Cameron Diaz

Cameron Michelle Diaz (born August 30, 1972) is an American actress and former model. She broke out in the 1990s with her roles in the blockbuster films The Mask, My Best Friend's Wedding, and There's Something About Mary. Her other notable film credits include Charlie's Angels, Vanilla Sky, Gangs of New York, and voicing Princess Fiona in the Shrek film series. Diaz has received Golden Globe nominations for her performances in There's Something About Mary, Being John Malkovich, Vanilla Sky, and Gangs of New York.
Early life
Diaz was born in San Diego, California, the daughter of Billie (née Early), an import-export agent, and Emilio Diaz (1949–2008), who worked for the California oil company UNOCAL for more than 20 years as a field gauger, and in the pipeline department, until he retired in 1998.Her father, who was born in Los Angeles County, was a second-generation Cuban American (her grandparents settled in Tampa's Ybor City)and her mother is of English, German and Cherokee ancestry.She has one older sister, Chimene, and one older brother, Michael. She attended Long Beach Polytechnic High School at the same time as rapper Snoop Dogg.
Career

Modeling
At 16, she began her career as a fashion model. Diaz signed with top modeling agency Elite Model Management. For the next few years, her modeling took her around the world, working for contracts with major companies. She modeled for designers such as Calvin Klein and Levi's. When she was seventeen she was featured on the cover of the July 1990 issue of Seventeen magazine.
Acting
At 21, Diaz auditioned for The Mask, even though she had no previous acting experience,based on the recommendation of an agent for Elite who met the film's producers while they were searching for the female lead. After obtaining the lead female role, she immediately started acting lessons. The Mask became one of the top ten highest grossing films of 1994,and earned Diaz nominations for several awards.

Over the next three years, she took roles in low-budget independent films, such as The Last Supper (1995), Feeling Minnesota (1996), She's the One (1996), Keys to Tulsa (1996), and A Life Less Ordinary (1997), preferring to feel her way effectively into the business.

She returned to mainstream films with the major box office successes My Best Friend's Wedding (1997) and There's Something About Mary (1998), a film for which she was nominated for a Golden Globe in the category of Best Actress — Musical or Comedy. She received critical acclaim for her performance in Being John Malkovich (1999), which earned her Best Supporting Actress nominations at the Golden Globes, the BAFTA Awards, and the SAG Awards. During 1990–2000, Diaz starred in many films, such as Things You Can Tell Just by Looking at Her, Very Bad Things, Any Given Sunday, and the hit adaptation of Charlie's Angels. In 2001, she won nominations for Best Supporting Actress at the Golden Globes, the SAG Awards, the Critics' Choice Awards, and the AFI Awards for Vanilla Sky, and also voiced Princess Fiona in Shrek, for which she earned $10 million.

In 2003, Diaz received another Golden Globe nomination for Martin Scorsese's epic Gangs of New York, and became the third actress (after Wedding costar Julia Roberts) to earn $20 million for a role, receiving the sum for Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle. Her next films were In Her Shoes (2005), and The Holiday (2006). She was set to team up again with The Mask co-star Jim Carrey in the film Fun with Dick and Jane, but dropped out to star in In Her Shoes. Diaz reportedly earned $50 million in the period of a year ending June 2008, for her roles in What Happens in Vegas opposite Ashton Kutcher, and the Shrek sequels.In 2009 she starred in the films My Sister's Keeper and The Box.In 2010, Diaz again voiced Princess Fiona in Shrek Forever After, and reunited with her Vanilla Sky costar Tom Cruise in the action/comedy Knight and Day.

Personal life
Diaz received "substantial" defamation damages from suing American Media Incorporated, after The National Enquirer had claimed she was cheating on then-boyfriend Timberlake.

In 1992 Diaz appeared in a soft-core S&M video entitled "She's No Angel" shot by photographer John Rutter. In 2003 she won an injunction against Rutter preventing him from distributing the video or accompanying photographs, but in 2004 the video began being distributed online through a Russian website.

When Diaz was asked if she can speak Spanish she said:
“ I go, 'God, you know, it all sounds so familiar. I know what you're saying, I really do. I just cannot respond to you back in Spanish. I can barely speak English properly.' I didn't grow up in a Cuban community. I grew up in Southern California on the beach, basically. And I'm third generation. I'm of Cuban descent.

She was vocal in her support for Al Gore in 2000. Diaz went so far as sporting a t-shirt that read "I won't vote for a son of a Bush!" while making the publicity rounds for Charlie's Angels."

Diaz has also been involved with the Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America (IAVA), the first and largest nonprofit for veterans of Iraq and Afghanistan, and has spoken as an advocate for military families.

Although she was quoted in a 1997 Time Magazine article saying she was germophobic,Diaz specifically denied this on the June 26, 2009 edition of Real Time with Bill Maher, saying that a small comment she made 12 years earlier regarding public bathroom doorknobs was blown out of proportion.

On April 15, 2008, her father, Emilio Diaz, died of pneumonia, aged 58. Relationships
From 1990 to 1995, Diaz dated video director Carlos de la Torre.In 1995 she began a relationship with actor Matt Dillon, with whom she co-starred in There's Something About Mary and broke up with in 1998.She then had a relationship with singer/actor Jared Leto from 1999 to 2003. Diaz dated singer Justin Timberlake from 2003 to 2006.In October 2004, Diaz and Timberlake were in an altercation with a tabloid photographer outside a hotel. When the photographer and another man tried to photograph them, the couple snatched the camera. Pictures of the incident appeared in Us Weekly. Representatives for the pair claimed that they were ambushed and acting out
Filmography and awards
In 1996 Diaz received an award at the ShoWest Convention for "Female Star of Tomorrow." In 2006 she won a People's Choice Award for "Favorite Leading Lady." On June 22, 2009, she received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
Year Film Role Notes
1994 The Mask Tina Carlyle Nominated — MTV Movie Award for Best Breakthrough Performance
Nominated — MTV Movie Award for Most Desirable Female
Nominated — MTV Movie Award for Best Dance Sequence (shared with Jim Carrey)
1995 The Last Supper Jude
1996 She's the One Heather
Feeling Minnesota Freddie Clayton
Head Above Water Nathalie
Keys to Tulsa Trudy
1997
My Best Friend's Wedding Kimberly Wallace ALMA Award for Outstanding Actress in a Feature Film in a Crossover Role
Blockbuster Award for Favorite Supporting Actress – Comedy
Nominated — Satellite Award for Best Supporting Actress - Motion Picture
A Life Less Ordinary Celine Naville Nominated — MTV Movie Award for Best Dance Sequence (shared with Ewan McGregor)
1998 Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas Blonde TV Reporter
There's Something About Mary Mary Jensen American Comedy Award for Funniest Supporting Actress in a Motion Picture
Blockbuster Award for Favorite Actress – Comedy
New York Film Critics Circle Award for Best Actress
Teen Choice Award for Most Disgusting Scene
MTV Movie Award for Best Performance - Female
Nominated — ALMA Award for Outstanding Actress in a Feature Film in a Crossover Role
Nominated — Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Motion Picture Musical or Comedy
Nominated — MTV Movie Award for Best Kiss
Nominated — MTV Movie Award for Best Comedic Performance
Nominated — MTV Movie Award for Best On-Screen Duo
Nominated — Teen Choice Award for Film Actress
Very Bad Things Laura Garrety
1999 Man Woman Film Random Celebrity cameo
Being John Malkovich Lotte Schwartz Nominated — American Comedy Award for Funniest Supporting Actress in a Motion Picture
Nominated — BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role
Nominated — Chlotrudis Award for Best Supporting Actress
Nominated — Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress – Motion Picture
Nominated — Las Vegas Film Critics Society Award for Best Supporting Actress
Nominated — Online Film Critics Society Award for Best Supporting Actress
Nominated — Satellite Award for Best Supporting Actress - Motion Picture
Nominated — Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Supporting Role
Nominated — Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture
Any Given Sunday Christina Pagniacci ALMA Award for Outstanding Actress in a Feature Film
Blockbuster Entertainment Award for Favorite Actress - Drama
Things You Can Tell Just by Looking at Her Carol Faber
The Invisible Circus Faith
2000 Charlie's Angels Natalie Cook Nominated — Satellite Award for Best Actress - Motion Picture Musical or Comedy
2001
Shrek Princess Fiona voice
Vanilla Sky Julie Gianni Boston Society of Film Critics Award for Best Supporting Actress
Chicago Film Critics Association Award for Best Supporting Actress
Nominated — AFI Award for Best Actress
Nominated — ALMA Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Motion Picture
Nominated — Broadcast Film Critics Association Award for Best Supporting Actress
Nominated — Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress – Motion Picture
Nominated — Phoenix Film Critics Society Award for Best Supporting Actress
Nominated — Saturn Award for Best Supporting Actress
Nominated — Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Supporting Role
2002 The Sweetest Thing Christina Walters Nominated - Teen Choice Award for Favorite Comedy Actress
My Father's House The Girl cameo
Minority Report Woman on Metro
Gangs of New York Jenny Everdeane Nominated — Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress – Motion Picture
2003 Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle Natalie Cook Imagen Foundation Award for Best Actress
2004 Shrek 2 Princess Fiona voice
2005 In Her Shoes Maggie Feller Nominated — Imagen Foundation Award for Best Actress
2006 The Holiday Amanda Woods Nominated — ALMA Award for Outstanding Actress – Motion Picture
2007 Shrek the Third Princess Fiona voice
2008 What Happens in Vegas Joy McNally Nominated — Teen Choice Award for Comedy Actress
2009 My Sister's Keeper Sara Fitzgerald Nominated — ALMA Award for Outstanding Actress – Motion Picture
The Box Norma Lewis
2010 Shrek Forever After Princess Fiona voice
Knight and Day June Havens
2011 The Green Hornet Lenore Case Post-production
Bad Teacher Elizabeth Halsey Filming
Television
Year Title Role Notes
2007 Shrek the Halls Princess Fiona Made for television
2008–2009 Saturday Night Live Kiki Deamore 3 episodes
2010 Top Gear Star in a Reasonably-Priced Car Series 15
Episode 5 - appeared alongside Tom Cruise

Catherine Elisa

Catherine Elisa "Cate" Blanchett (born 14 May 1969) is an Australian actress and theatre director. She has won multiple acting awards, most notably two SAGs, two Golden Globe Awards, two BAFTAs, an Academy Award, as well as the Volpi Cup at 64th Venice International Film Festival.

Blanchett came to international attention in the 1998 film Elizabeth, directed by Shekhar Kapur, in which she played Elizabeth I of England. She is also well-known for her portrayals of the elf queen Galadriel in Peter Jackson's The Lord of the Rings trilogy, Colonel-Doctor Irina Spalko in Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull and Katharine Hepburn in Martin Scorsese's The Aviator, a role which brought her the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress.
She and her husband Andrew Upton are currently artistic directors of the Sydney

Theatre Company.
Early life and education
Blanchett was born in Ivanhoe, a suburb of Melbourne, the daughter of June, an Australian property developer and teacher, and Robert "Bob" Blanchett, a Texas-born US Navy Petty Officer who later worked as an advertising executive.The two met while Blanchett's father's ship USS Arneb was in Melbourne. When Blanchett was 10, she lost her father to a heart attack. She has described herself during childhood as "part extrovert, part wallflower".She has two siblings; her older brother, Bob, is a computer systems engineer, and her younger sister, Genevieve, worked as a theatrical designer and received her Bachelor of Design in Architecture in April 2008.

Blanchett attended primary school in Melbourne at Ivanhoe East Primary School. For her secondary education, she attended Ivanhoe Girls' Grammar School and then Methodist Ladies' College, from which she graduated, where she explored her passion for acting.She studied Economics and Fine Arts at the University of Melbourne before leaving Australia to travel overseas. When she was 18, Blanchett went on a vacation to Egypt. A fellow guest at a hotel in Cairo asked if she wanted to be an extra in a movie, and the next day she found herself in a crowd scene cheering for an American boxer losing to an Egyptian in the film Kaboria, starring the Egyptian actor Ahmad Zaki. Blanchett returned to Australia and later moved to Sydney to study at the National Institute of Dramatic Art, graduating in 1992 and beginning her career in the theatre.

Career
Her first major stage role was opposite Geoffrey Rush in the 1993 David Mamet play Oleanna, for which she won the Sydney Theatre Critics' Best Newcomer Award.She also appeared as Ophelia in an acclaimed 1994–95 Company B production of Hamlet, directed by Neil Armfield, starring Rush and Richard Roxburgh. Blanchett appeared in the TV mini-series Heartland opposite Ernie Dingo, the mini-series Bordertown, with Hugo Weaving, and in an episode of Police Rescue entitled "The Loaded Boy". She also appeared in the 1994 telemovie of Police Rescue as a teacher taken hostage by armed bandits and in the 50 minute drama Parklands (1996), which received a limited release in Australian cinemas.

Blanchett made her international film debut with a supporting role as an Australian nurse captured by the Japanese Army during WW2 in Bruce Beresford's 1997 film Paradise Road, which co-starred Glenn Close and Frances McDormand. Her first leading role, also in 1997, was as Lucinda Leplastrier in Gillian Armstrong's production of Oscar and Lucinda opposite Ralph Fiennes. Coincidentally, Peter Carey, the Booker Prize-winning Australian author of Oscar and Lucinda, had known Blanchett's father, Bob, when both worked in the advertising industry in Melbourne. Blanchett was nominated for her first Australian Film Institute Award as Best Leading Actress for this role but lost out to Pamela Rabe in The Well. She did, however, win an AFI Award as Supporting Actress in the same year for her role as Lizzie in the romantic-comedy Thank God He Met Lizzie, co-starring Richard Roxburgh and Frances O'Connor.

Her first high-profile international role was as Elizabeth I of England in the 1998 movie Elizabeth, which earned her an Academy Award nomination for Best Actress. Blanchett lost out to Gwyneth Paltrow for her role in Shakespeare in Love but won a British Academy Award (BAFTA) and a Golden Globe Award for Best Actress in a Motion Picture Drama. The following year, Blanchett was nominated for another BAFTA Award for her supporting role in The Talented Mr. Ripley.

Already an acclaimed actress, Blanchett received a host of new fans when she appeared in Peter Jackson's The Lord of the Rings. She played the role of Galadriel in all three films. The trilogy holds the record as the highest grossing film trilogy of all time.

In 2005, she won an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for playing Katharine Hepburn in Martin Scorsese's The Aviator. This made Blanchett the first person to garner an Academy Award for playing a previous Oscar-winning actor/actress.

In 2006, she starred in Babel opposite Brad Pitt, The Good German with George Clooney and Notes on a Scandal opposite Dame Judi Dench. Coincidentally, Dench won the Best Supporting Actress Academy Award for playing Elizabeth I, the same year Blanchett lost for playing the same historical figure, albeit in a different category. Blanchett received her third Academy Award nomination for her performance in the film (Dench was also Oscar nominated).

In 2007, Blanchett was named as one of Time magazine's 100 Most Influential People In The World and also one of the most successful actresses by Forbes magazine.

In 2007, she won the Volpi Cup Best Actress Award at the Venice Film Festival and the Best Supporting Actress Golden Globe Award for portraying one of six incarnations of Bob Dylan in Todd Haynes' feature film I'm Not There and reprised her role as Elizabeth I in the sequel, Elizabeth: the Golden Age.At the 80th Academy Awards Blanchett received two Academy Award nominations; Best Actress for Elizabeth: the Golden Age and Best Supporting Actress for I'm Not There, becoming the eleventh actor to receive two acting nominations in the same year and the first female actor to receive another nomination for the reprisal of a role.

Blanchett and her husband started three-year contracts as artistic co-directors of the Sydney Theatre Company in January 2008, with Giorgio Armani as its patron.

She next starred in Steven Spielberg's Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull as the villainous KGB agent Col. Dr. Irina Spalko, and in David Fincher's The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, appearing on screen alongside Brad Pitt for a second time.

On 5 December 2008 Blanchett was honoured with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 6712 Hollywood Boulevard in front of Grauman's Egyptian Theatre.

As of 2008, Blanchett has featured in seven films that were nominated for the Academy Award for Best Picture: Elizabeth (1998), The Lord of the Rings trilogy (2001, 2002 and 2003), The Aviator (2004), Babel (2006) and The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (2008).

Blanchett provided a voice for the film Ponyo,and appeared opposite Russell Crowe in Ridley Scott's Robin Hood, released on 14 May 2010.

Personal life
Blanchett's husband is playwright and screenwriter Andrew Upton, whom she met in 1996 while she was performing in a production of The Seagull. It was not love at first sight, however; "He thought I was aloof and I thought he was arrogant", Blanchett later remarked. "It just shows you how wrong you can be, but once he kissed me that was that." They were married on 29 December 1997 and have three sons: Dashiell John (born 3 December 2001), Roman Robert (born 23 April 2004), and Ignatius Martin (born 13 April 2008).

After making Brighton, England, their main family home for much of the early 2000s, she and her husband returned to their native Australia. In November 2006, Blanchett stated that this was due to a desire to decide on a permanent home for her children, and to be closer to her family as well as a sense of belonging to the Australian (theatrical) community.She and her family live in "Bulwarra", an 1877 sandstone mansion in the harbourside Sydney suburb of Hunters Hill. It was purchased for $10.2 million Australian dollars in 2004 and underwent extensive renovations in 2007 in order to be made more "eco-friendly".

In 2006, a portrait of Cate Blanchett and family painted by McLean Edwards was a finalist in the Archibald Prize, which is awarded the "best portrait painting preferentially of some man or woman distinguished in Art, Letters, Science or Politics".

Blanchett is a Patron of the Sydney Film Festival. She works as the face of SK-II, the luxury skin care brand owned by Procter & Gamble. In 2007, Blanchett became the ambassador for the Australian Conservation Foundation's online campaign www.whoonearthcares.com
— trying to persuade Australians to express their concerns about climate change. She is also the Patron of the development charity SolarAid. Opening the 2008 9th World Congress of Metropolisin Sydney, Blanchett said: "The one thing that all great cities have in common is that they are all different."
In early 2009, Blanchett appeared in a series of special edition postage stamps called "Australian Legends of the Screen", featuring Australian actors acknowledged for the "outstanding contribution they have made to Australian entertainment and culture".She, Geoffrey Rush, Russell Crowe, and Nicole Kidman each appear twice in the series: once as themselves and once in character; Blanchett is depicted in character from Elizabeth: The Golden Age.
Filmography
Year Title Role Notes
1994 Police Rescue: The Movie Vivian
1996 Parklands Rosie
1997 Oscar and Lucinda Lucinda Leplastrier Nominated—Australian Film Institute Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role
Nominated—Film Critics Circle of Australia Award for Best Actor – Female
Thank God He Met Lizzie Lizzie Australian Film Institute Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role
Film Critics Circle of Australia Award for Best Supporting Actor – Female
Paradise Road Susan Macarthy
1998 Elizabeth Queen Elizabeth I BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role
Broadcast Film Critics Association Award for Best Actress
Chicago Film Critics Association Award for Best Actress
Chlotrudis Award for Best Actress
Empire Award for Best Actress
Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Motion Picture Drama
Las Vegas Film Critics Society Award for Most Promising Actor
London Film Critics Circle Award for Best Actress
Online Film Critics Society Award for Best Actress
Satellite Award for Best Actress - Motion Picture Drama
Southeastern Film Critics Association Award for Best Actress
Toronto Film Critics Association Award for Best Actress
Nominated—Academy Award for Best Actress
Nominated—MTV Movie Award for Best Breakthrough Performance - Female
Nominated—Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Leading Role
1999 Bangers Julie-Anne
The Talented Mr. Ripley Meredith Logue Nominated—BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role
Nominated—Chlotrudis Award for Best Supporting Actress (also for An Ideal Husband)
Pushing Tin Connie Falzone
An Ideal Husband Lady Gertrude Chiltern Nominated—Chlotrudis Award for Best Supporting Actress (also for The Talented Mr. Ripley)
Nominated—Satellite Award for Best Supporting Actress - Motion Picture
2000 The Gift Annabelle "Annie" Wilson Nominated—Phoenix Film Critics Society Award for Best Actress
Nominated—Saturn Award for Best Actress
The Man Who Cried Lola Chlotrudis Award for Best Supporting Actress
Florida Film Critics Circle Award for Best Supporting Actress (also for Bandits, The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring and The Shipping News)
National Board of Review Award for Best Supporting Actress (also for The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring and The Shipping News)
2001 The Shipping News Petal Quoyle Florida Film Critics Circle Award for Best Supporting Actress (also for Bandits, The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring and The Man Who Cried)
National Board of Review Award for Best Supporting Actress (also for The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring and The Man Who Cried)
Charlotte Gray Charlotte Gray Nominated—Kansas City Film Critics Circle Award for Best Actress
Nominated—Satellite Award for Best Actress - Motion Picture Drama
The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring Galadriel Florida Film Critics Circle Award for Best Supporting Actress (also for Bandits, The Shipping News and The Man Who Cried)
National Board of Review Award for Best Supporting Actress (also for The Shipping News' and The Man Who Cried)
Phoenix Film Critics Society Award for Best Cast
Nominated—Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture
Bandits Kate Wheeler Florida Film Critics Circle Award for Best Supporting Actress (also for The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring, The Shipping News and The Man Who Cried)
Nominated—American Film Institute Award for Best Actress
Nominated—Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Motion Picture Musical or Comedy
Nominated—Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Supporting Role
2002 The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers Galadriel Online Film Critics Society Award for Best Cast
Phoenix Film Critics Society Award for Best Cast
Nominated—Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture
Heaven Philippa
2003 The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King Galadriel Broadcast Film Critics Association Award for Best Cast
National Board of Review Award for Best Cast
Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture
Nominated—Phoenix Film Critics Society Award for Best Cast
The Missing Magdalena 'Maggie' Gilkeson Nominated—Saturn Award for Best Actress
Coffee and Cigarettes Herself & Shelly Central Ohio Film Critics Association Award for Actor of the Year (also for The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou and The Aviator)
Nominated—Chlotrudis Award for Best Supporting Actress
Nominated—Independent Spirit Award for Best Supporting Female
Veronica Guerin Veronica Guerin Nominated—Empire Award for Best Actress
Nominated—Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Motion Picture Drama
Nominated—Washington D.C. Area Film Critics Association Award for Best Actress
2004 The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou Jane Winslett-Richardson Central Ohio Film Critics Association Award for Actor of the Year (also for Coffee and Cigarettes and The Aviator)Las Vegas Film Critics Society Award for Best Supporting Actress (also for The Aviator)Nominated—Broadcast Film Critics Association Award for
Best Cast
The Aviator Katharine Hepburn Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress
BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role
Central Ohio Film Critics Association Award for Actor of the Year (also for Coffee and Cigarettes and The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou)
Kansas City Film Critics Circle Award for Best Supporting Actress
Las Vegas Film Critics Society Award for Best Supporting Actress (also for The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou)
Online Film Critics Society Award for Best Supporting Actress
Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Supporting Role
Washington D.C. Area Film Critics Association Award for Best Supporting Actress
Nominated—Broadcast Film Critics Association Award for Best Supporting Actress
Nominated—Empire Award for Best Actress
Nominated—Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress – Motion Picture
Nominated—Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture
Nominated—Satellite Award for Best Supporting Actress - Motion Picture
2005 Little Fish Tracy Heart Australian Film Institute Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role
Film Critics Circle of Australia Award for Best Actress in a Lead Role
2006 Babel Susan Jones Palm Springs International Film Festival Award for Best Cast
Nominated—Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture
The Good German Lena Brandt
Notes on a Scandal Sheba Hart Dallas-Fort Worth Film Critics Association Award for Best Supporting Actress
Florida Film Critics Circle Award for Best Supporting Actress
Phoenix Film Critics Society Award for Best Supporting Actress
Toronto Film Critics Association Award for Best Supporting Actress
Vancouver Film Critics Circle Award for Best Supporting Actress
Nominated—Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress
Nominated—British Independent Film Award for Best Supporting Actress
Nominated—Broadcast Film Critics Association Award for Best Supporting Actress
Nominated—Chicago Film Critics Association Award for Best Supporting Actress
Nominated—Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress – Motion Picture
Nominated—Online Film Critics Society Award for Best Supporting Actress
Nominated—Satellite Award for Best Supporting Actress - Motion Picture
Nominated—Saturn Award for Best Supporting Actress
Nominated—Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Supporting Role
2007 Hot Fuzz Janine Uncredited Cameo
Elizabeth: The Golden Age Queen Elizabeth I Australian Film Institute Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role
Nominated—Academy Award for Best Actress
Nominated—BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role
Nominated—Broadcast Film Critics Association Award for Best Actress
Nominated—Empire Award for Best Actress
Nominated—Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Motion Picture Drama
Nominated—Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Leading Role
I'm Not There Jude Quinn (Bob Dylan) Chicago Film Critics Association Award for Best Supporting Actress
Central Ohio Film Critics Association Award for Best Supporting Actress
Chlotrudis Award for Best Supporting Actress
Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress – Motion Picture
Independent Spirit Award for Best Supporting Actress
Independent Spirit Award Robert Altman Award
Kansas City Film Critics Circle Award for Best Supporting Actress
National Society of Film Critics Award for Best Supporting Actress
Toronto Film Critics Association Award for Best Supporting Actress
Volpi Cup for Best Actress
Nominated—Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress
Nominated—BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role
Nominated—Broadcast Film Critics Association Award for Best Supporting Actress
Nominated—Irish Film and Television Awards – Audience Award for Best International Actress
Nominated—Online Film Critics Society Award for Best Supporting Actress
Nominated—Satellite Award for Best Actress - Motion Picture Musical or Comedy
Nominated—Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Supporting Role
2008 Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull Colonel-Doctor Irina Spalko
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button Daisy Fuller Nominated—Broadcast Film Critics Association Award for Best Actress
Nominated—Broadcast Film Critics Association Award for Best Cast
Nominated—Saturn Award for Best Actress
Nominated—Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture
2009 Ponyo Granmamare voice – English version
2010 Robin Hood Lady Marian
2011 Hanna Marissa Wiegler post-production

Theatre credits
Year Production Location Role Notes
pre-1992 The Odyssey of Runyon Jones Methodist Ladies' College, Melbourne Unknown Adaption of play by Norman Corwin
They Shoot Horses, Don’t They? Methodist Ladies' College, Melbourne Director Directed fellow students in a production of an adaptation of the novel by Horace McCoy
1992 Electra National Institute of Dramatic Art, Melbourne Electra Lead
1992/1993 Top Girls Sydney Theatre Company Unknown This play by Caryl Churchill was her first starring role there
1993 Oleanna Sydney Theatre Company Carol Lead opposite Geoffrey Rush in David Mamet's play about a university professor who is accused of sexual harassment by a student. Won Rosemont Best Actress Award.
1994 Hamlet Belvoir Street Theatre Company Ophelia Played opposite Geoffrey Rush. It was a Company B Production, directed by Neil Armfield.
1995 Sweet Phoebe Sydney Theatre Company and Warehouse Theatre, Croydon Helen Played lead in the Belvoir Street Theatre/Playbox Theatre co-production, written and directed by Michael Gow. The Sydney production was the first ever, then transferred to the West End
The Tempest Belvoir Street Theatre Company Miranda A Company B Production, directed by Neil Armfield. Played alongside Duxton Chevalier.
The Blind Giant is Dancing Belvoir Street Theatre Company Rose Draper Played alongside Hugo Weaving. A Stephen Sewell play. It opened on 15 August 1995, and closed on 10 September 1995. It was a Company B production, directed by Neil Armfield, with music composed by Paul Charlier.
1997 The Seagull a.k.a. The Seagull in Harry Hills Belvoir Street Theatre Company Nina Lead in the Anton Checkov play. It opened on 4 March 1997, and closed on 13 April. It was a Company B Production, directed by Neil Armfield, music composed by Paul Charlier.
1999 Plenty The Alemida Season at the Albery Theatre, London Susan Traherne Lead in play by David Hare, directed by Jonathan Kent. It opened on 27 April 1999, and closed on 27 July.
The Vagina Monologues Old Vic Theatre, London Unknown Took part in the show in February 1999, alongside other actors including Melanie Griffith.
2004 Hedda Gabler Sydney Theatre Company Hedda Gabler Opened on 22 July 2004, and closed on 26 September 2004. She reprised her performance as Hedda in New York in March 2006, at the Brooklyn Academy of Music's Harvey Theatre.
2009 The War of the Roses Cycle Sydney Theatre Company Richard II, Lady Anne Previewed from 5 January 2009; performed in two parts as part of the Sydney Festival 2009, 10–31 January; through 14 February 2009.
A Streetcar Named Desire Sydney Theatre Company Blanche DuBois The play was directed by actress Liv Ullman and co starred Joel Edgerton.
2010 Uncle Vanya Sydney Theatre Company

Camilla Belle

Camilla Belle (born October 2, 1986) is an American actress. Her works include The Lost World: Jurassic Park, When a Stranger Calls, 10,000 BC, The Quiet, and Push.
Early life
Belle was born as Camilla Belle Routh in Los Angeles, California to Cristina Routh, a Brazilian fashion designer, and Jack Routh, the owner of a construction company. Belle was raised in a strict Catholic household. She attended St. Paul's Catholic Elementary School and then the Marlborough School, an all-girl high school in Los Angeles. Career
At age five she was cast as a lead in her first film, NBC's thriller, Trapped Beneath the Earth.Belle began her career with a small role in the film production of the novel A Little Princess starring Liesel Matthews. Her first lead role was in Rip Girls in 2000, a Disney Channel original movie. She returned to performing after a short break with the lead role in the remake of When A Stranger Calls. Her next role was in the feature film 10,000 BC, directed by Roland Emmerich, a film about prehistoric humans. Belle's next big release was playing the role of Kira Hollis in Push,a sci-fi thriller involving a group of super-powered youths, hiding from a clandestine U.S. government agency.

Personal life
In September 2008, Belle began a relationship with Joe Jonas after starring in the band's music video for the song "Lovebug".In late July 2009, Belle and Jonas ended their relationship.

Filmography
Film
Year Film Role Notes
1993 Empty Cradle Sally Television
Trouble Shooters: Trapped Beneath the Earth Jennifer Gates Television
1994 Deconstructing Sarah Young Elizabeth Television
1995 A Little Princess Jane
Annie: A Royal Adventure! Molly Television
1996 Poison Ivy II Daphna Falk
Marshal Law Boot Coleman Television
1997 The Lost World: Jurassic Park Cathy Bowman
1998 The Patriot Holly McClaren
Practical Magic Sally Owens at age 11
1999 Replacing Dad Mandy Television
Secret of the Andes Diana Willings
2000 Rip Girls Sydney Miller Television
2001 The Invisible Circus Phoebe at age 10-12
Back to the Secret Garden Lizzie Buscana
2005 The Ballad of Jack and Rose Rose Slavin
The Chumscrubber Crystal
The Quiet Dot
2006 When a Stranger Calls Jill Johnson "Bell Ringer" - Philippines (English title), "Stranger Call" - Japan (English title)
2007 The Trap Hermia
2008 10,000 BC Evolet
2009 Push Kira Hollis
À Deriva Ângela "Adrift" - International (English title)
2010 The Father of Invention "Robert Axle" - USA (informal title)
After the Wedding
2011 From Prada to Nada
Mary Mother of Christ

Christina Ricci

Christina Ricci (born February 12, 1980) is an American actress. Ricci received initial recognition and praise for her performances as a child-star in films such as The Addams Family (1991), its sequel Addams Family Values (1993), as Wednesday Addams, and in Casper (1995). Ricci made a transition into more adult-oriented roles with The Ice Storm (1997), followed by an acclaimed performance in The Opposite of Sex (1998), for which she received a Golden Globe nomination for Best Actress. She continued her success with well-received performances in Sleepy Hollow (1999) and Monster (2003).
Ricci has recently appeared in the films Black Snake Moan (2007), Penelope, Speed Racer (2008), New York, I Love You (2009) and After.Life (2009) opposite Liam Neeson.Early life
Ricci was born in Santa Monica, California, the fourth and youngest child of Sarah (née Murdoch), a former Ford Model and real estate agent, and Ralph Ricci, a lawyer and psychiatrist.Regarding her ancestry, Ricci has stated that "the Italian blood has been bred out of me. There's an Italian four or five generations back who married an Irish woman and they all had sons. So they married more Irish women, there were more sons, and more Irish women. Now I'm basically Scots-Irish."

The family moved to Montclair, New Jersey, where she grew up attending Edgemont Elementary School, Glenfield Middle School, and Montclair High School as well as the Morristown-Beard School.After one year she left the high school for the Professional Children's School in New York City.Her siblings are Rafael (born 1971), Dante (born 1974), and Pia (born 1976).

Career
Early work (1990–1997)
A critic for the Bergen Record discovered Ricci at age eight in a school play (The Twelve Days of Christmas) at Edgemont School in Montclair, New Jersey. The critic's son was originally cast in the role, but Ricci got him to hit her and told on him; he lost the role to her as part of his punishment.After this, she became involved in the movie business. She did several commercials starting at the age of six, until she finally got her big screen debut in Mermaids in 1990 as Cher's younger daughter. The young actress made enough of an impression to land more work; later she appeared in the video of the film's soundtrack "The Shoop Shoop Song". The following year, she starred as the morbidly precocious Wednesday Addams in the film adaptation of The Addams Family. The role would help to establish Ricci as an actress known for playing dark, unconventional characters – she went on to play Wednesday again in the film's 1993 sequel, Addams Family Values, which became another box office draw, and more screen time was provided for Ricci's performance as Wednesday. After this, her popularity increased dramatically, and she became in high demand by the mid-1990s. Her next project, Casper, received mixed critical reviews, but was a major success at the box office, being the year's seventh highest grossing film. After Casper, she starred in Now and Then, a coming-of-age film about four 12-year-old girls and their friendship during the 1970s to the 1990s. Now and Then was another box office success, and received favorable comparisons to Stand by Me, being called "the female version" of the film, and Ricci was becoming a top box office draw. She also starred in a handful of other films with teenage roles such as Golddiggers: The Secret of Bear Mountain and That Darn Cat.

Career Breakthrough (1998–2005)
In 1997, Ricci began to appear in more adult roles, beginning with her role as the troubled, sexually curious Wendy Hood in Ang Lee's critically acclaimed The Ice Storm. Ricci subsequently appeared in films like the independent hit Buffalo '66 (in which she played Vincent Gallo's unwitting abductee-turned-girlfriend), John Waters' Pecker, and Don Roos' The Opposite of Sex (as the acid-tongued, manipulative Dede). For her performance as Dede, Ricci won acclaim and was nominated for a Golden Globe and attained the unofficial title of the Sundance Film Festival's 1998 "It" Girl.Although she missed out on an Academy Award nomination, Entertainment Weekly honored her well-received performance as one of the "Worst Oscar Snubs Ever".

Later films included Sleepy Hollow (alongside Johnny Depp), and Prozac Nation (which featured her first on-screen nude scene). She starred opposite Charlize Theron in the film Monster. During Theron's acceptance speech at the Golden Globes, she acknowledged Ricci, calling her the "unsung hero" of the film.Ricci had to turn down the role of Ronna in Go because of scheduling conflicts; the role eventually went to Sarah Polley. Ricci was turned down four times for the role of Dolores Haze in Lolita, and the role eventually went to Dominique Swain. Ricci was originally slated to play the lead in Ghost World (2001), but by the time it was filmed she was too old for the part and had moved on to other projects. Thora Birch (Ricci's co-star in Now And Then) took over the role. Ricci also turned down a role in Loser. Ricci made a cameo appearance on Beck's successful album

Guero, providing vocals on "Hell Yes".
In February 2006, Ricci made a guest appearance as a paramedic in the ABC drama Grey's Anatomy, for which she was nominated for an Emmy award. She was a guest star for seven episodes in the last season of Ally McBeal in 2002 as Debbie 'Liza' Bump, a lawyer who works at Cage & Fish and marries Richard Fish in the last episode. It was initially hoped that Ricci and several other noted guest star appearances would boost Ally McBeal's then declining ratings.

On December 4, 1999, she appeared as the guest host on Saturday Night Live. She performed parodies of Britney Spears and the Olsen Twins. During one of her skits, she accidentally punched actress Ana Gasteyer in the face. The skit was a parody of the Sally Jessy Raphael show, in which she played a 13-year-old runaway who sleeps with dogs, and required her to fake-punch Gasteyer, but accidentally ended up really hitting Gasteyer in the eye. Although Ricci initially reacted by putting her hands over her mouth in surprise, she quickly fell back into character.

International success (2006–present)
In 2006, Ricci stated that she feels that at 5 ft 1 in (155 cm) she is "too short" to ever be an A-list actress, saying she tends "to look really small on camera".She has also said that she believes that she does not have much control over her career, specifying that she still has to audition for film parts.Her 2007 film, Black Snake Moan received mixed reviews, with rottentomatoes.com tallying an overall score of 66 percent.On the television program Ebert & Roeper, filmmaker Kevin Smith, filling in for Roger Ebert, described the film as the best of the year thus far and called it Ricci's best performance. Richard Roeper also gave the film a "thumb up" rating. The film earned $4 million, putting it in eighth place for the highest earnings in its opening weekend. For her role in Black Snake Moan, Ricci was required to lose several pounds and wore a forty-pound (18 kg) chain during filming.Apart from having to lose weight, Ricci ate only food items without any nutritional value to achieve her unhealthy appearance.Ricci has starred in Penelope, alongside Reese Witherspoon, a modern day fairytale, and in 2008, she played the female lead in The Wachowski Brothers' feature film adaptation of Speed Racer. She also signed on for three episodes of TNT's crime drama Saving Grace, during its second season.Ricci played a young detective who temporarily partners with Grace, played by Holly Hunter.

Ricci's latest film, the psychological thriller After.Life, with Liam Neeson and Justin Long, had a limited release on April 9, 2010.
Personal life
Ricci owns her own production company, Blaspheme Films, responsible for Prozac Nation and Pumpkin. She is on the national board of VOX-Voices for Planned Parenthood. She will also be appearing in national ads for emergency contraception.She supported John Kerry's presidential bid in 2004.Ricci maintains a close friendship with former child star and actress Gaby Hoffmann, with whom she starred in Now and Then and 200 Cigarettes. She is also a friend of Black Snake Moan co-star Samuel L. Jackson.

After making the top of PETA's worst-dressed listand receiving a letter from the animal rights group, Ricci decided to give up wearing fur.Ricci also owns two dogs (The Sheriff Steve Goldburg and Buzz Goldicci).

In 2004, Ricci appeared as the first model in the Spring/Summer 2005 Louis Vuitton show, and also appeared in advertisements for the popular French fashion house that year.

In April 2007, Ricci became the national spokesperson for RAINN, the Rape, Abuse and Incest National Network for the United States, which assists victims of these crimes and promotes programs that help prevent them from occurring. She cited some of her research in Black Snake Moan role as educational on the importance of the issues that RAINN deals with.

She has cited Pulp Fiction, Lord of the Rings, Gangs of New York, and My Own Private Idaho as her favorite films. She drives a Porsche Boxster. Her favorite musicians are the Red Hot Chili Peppers, Tom Petty, The Ramones, R.E.M., The White Stripes, Weezer, and Pixies.

Ricci also has many tattoos: a lion on her right shoulder blade (a reference to The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, a favorite novel of hers as a child), a fairy on the inside of her right wrist, praying hands on her left hip (this tattoo was originally a bat), the name "Jack" on her right thigh for a dead pet, a sparrow on her right breast, and a mermaid on her left ankle. She also had the words "Move or Bleed" on the left side of her ribcage before having them removed, citing that it was an aggressive mistake. She also had a bouquet of sweetpeas on her lower back removed after learning that this was becoming a trend known as "the tramp stamp" tattoo.

She was briefly engaged to fellow actor and comedian Owen Benjamin.

Ricci has stated that she has battled against anorexia, self-harm and depression while growing up.

Filmography
Film
Year Film Role Notes
1990 Mermaids Kate Flax Young Artist Award for Best Young Actress in a Supporting Role – Motion Picture
1991 The Hard Way Bonnie
The Addams Family Wednesday Addams Nominated – Young Artist Award for Best Young Actress – Motion Picture
1993 The Cemetery Club Jessica
Addams Family Values Wednesday Addams
1995 Casper Kathleen 'Kat' Harvey Nominated – Young Artist Award for Best Young Actress – Feature Film or Video
Now and Then Young Roberta Martin Nominated – Young Artist Award for Best Cast – Feature film or Video
Golddiggers: The Secret of Bear Mountain Beth Easton
1996 Bastard Out of Carolina Dee Dee
The Last of the High Kings Erin Also known as Summer Fling
1997 Little Red Riding Hood Little Red Riding Hood Short film
That Darn Cat Patti Randall Nominated – Kids' Choice Award for Favorite Movie Actress
Nominated – Young Artist Award for Best Young Actress – Feature Film or Video
The Ice Storm Wendy Hood Nominated – Chlotrudis Award for Best Supporting Actress
Nominated – Young Artist Award for Best Young Actress – Feature Film or Video
1998 Souvenir Young Orlando (voice)
Buffalo '66 Layla Florida Film Critics Circle Award for Best Supporting Actress also for The Opposite of Sex and Pecker
Seattle International Film Festival – Golden Space Needle Award – Best Actress also for The Opposite of Sex
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas Lucy
The Opposite of Sex Dede Truitt Florida Film Critics Circle Award for Best Supporting Actress also for Buffalo '66 and Pecker
National Board of Review Award for Best Supporting Actress
Satellite Award for Best Actress – Motion Picture Musical or Comedy
Seattle International Film Festival – Golden Space Needle Award – Best Actress also for Buffalo '66
Nominated – American Comedy Award for Funniest Actress in a Motion Picture
Nominated – Chlotrudis Award for Best Actress
Nominated – Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Motion Picture Musical or Comedy
Nominated – Independent Spirit Award for Best Female Lead
Small Soldiers Gwendy Doll (voice)
Pecker Shelley Florida Film Critics Circle Award for Best Supporting Actress also for The Opposite of Sex and Buffalo '66
Desert Blue Ely Jackson
I Woke Up Early the Day I Died Teenage Hooker
1999 200 Cigarettes Val
No Vacancy Lillian
Sleepy Hollow Katrina Van Tassel Blockbuster Entertainment Award for Favorite Actress
Nominated – Teen Choice Award for Choice Actress
Nominated – Young Artist Award for Best Young Actress – Feature Film or Video
2000 Bless the Child Cheri Post Blockbuster Entertainment Award for Favorite Supporting Actress
The Man Who Cried Suzie Character born "Fegele Abramovich"
2001 All Over the Guy Rayna Wyckoff
Prozac Nation Elizabeth Wurtzel
2002 The Gathering Cassie Grant
The Laramie Project Romaine Patterson
Pumpkin Carolyn McDuffy Nominated – Teen Choice Award for Choice Actress
Miranda Miranda (Alice)
2003 Anything Else Amanda
Monster Selby Nominated – MTV Movie Award for Best Kiss shared with Charlize Theron
I Love Your Work Shana
2005 Cursed Ellie
2006 Black Snake Moan Rae Premiere at the Butt-Numb-A-Thon on December 9, 2006; wide release on March 2, 2007
Home of the Brave Sarah Schivino
2007 Penelope Penelope Wilhern
2008 Speed Racer Trixie Fontaine Nominated – Teen Choice Award for Choice Actress
New York, I Love You Camille
2009 After.Life Anna Taylor
All's Faire in Love Kate
2010 Born to Be a Star Becca
"Alpha and Omega (film)" Lilly (voice)
2011 Bel Ami Clotilde Post-Production

Television series
Year Series Role Notes
1990 H.E.L.P. Olivia 1 episode
1996 The Simpsons Erin 1 episode
voice
2002 Ally McBeal Liza Bump 7 episodes
Malcolm in the Middle Kelly 1 episode
2005 Joey Mary Teresa 1 episode
2006 Grey's Anatomy Hannah Davies 2 episodes

Nominated – Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actress – Drama Series

2009 Saving Grace Offcr. Abby Charles 3 episodes

Bonnie Hunt

Bonnie Lynne Hunt (born September 22, 1964)is an American actress, comedienne, writer, director, television producer and daytime television host.
Early life

Hunt, who was born in Chicago, Illinois, is the daughter of Alice, a homemaker of Polish descent, and Bob Hunt, an electrician of Irish descent.She was raised in a large Catholic family,and has three older brothers, Patrick, Kevin, and Tom, two older sisters, Cathy and Carol, and one younger sister, Mary. Hunt was educated in Catholic schools and attended St. Ferdinand Grammar School and Notre Dame High School for Girls in Chicago.

In 1982, Hunt worked as an oncology nurse at Northwestern Memorial Hospital in Chicago. In 1984, she co-founded An Impulsive Thing, an improvisational comedy troupe, with Holly Wortell, Andy Miller and John Gripentrog. Hunt also performed as a member of Chicago's world-famous The Second City, joining in 1986.
Career

In 1990 Bonnie had a role on the NBC show "Grand" a comedy that lasted a season and a half. Hunt refused to become a cast member of Saturday Night Live because the show's producers generally frowned on her preferred improvisational style.In 1992, she turned down a higher-paying role on Designing Women to co-star in Davis Rules with Jonathan Winters, Randy Quaid, and Audrey Meadows.

In 1993, Hunt teamed with good friend David Letterman to produce The Building, a short-lived sitcom that was modeled after early-1950s television shows. The show was also filmed live; mistakes, accidents, and forgotten lines were often left in the aired episode. Hunt and Letterman re-teamed in 1995 with The Bonnie Hunt Show (later retitled Bonnie), which featured many of the same cast members as The Building and the same loose style. The show was praised by critics but was canceled after 11 of the 13 episodes produced were aired. In 2002, Hunt returned to television with Life with Bonnie, a show known for clean and offbeat humor. Her role on that show earned her a 2004 Emmy nomination, her first. Despite fair ratings, the show was canceled in its second season. Hunt announced on Live with Regis and Kelly that ABC had offered her another sitcom, in which she would have played a divorced detective. This pilot, Let Go (also known as Crimes and Dating), was not picked up for the fall 2006 schedule.

Hunt co-wrote, directed, and co-starred in the 2000 film Return to Me, a romantic comedy starring David Duchovny and Minnie Driver. It was filmed in her Chicago neighborhood and included bit parts for a number of her relatives.

A recognizable film actress, Hunt has starred as Alice Newton opposite Charles Grodin in the popular children's films Beethoven and Beethoven's 2nd. She played opposite Robin Williams in Jumanji as well as opposite Steve Martin in Cheaper by the Dozen and its sequel. She played the sister of Renée Zellweger in the movie Jerry Maguire and Jan Edgecomb opposite Tom Hanks in the film adaptation of the Stephen King novel The Green Mile. Also, she played the biological mother, Grace Bellamy, of Mark Austin (played by Kip Pardue) in Loggerheads, a 2005 independent film written and directed by Tim Kirkman. She has provided her voice for a total of four Pixar films: A Bug's Life as Rosie the black widow spider; Monsters, Inc. as training supervisor Mrs. Flint; Cars as the heroine Sally Carrera; and Toy Story 3 as Dolly. In addition, Hunt received a writing credit on the film Cars, and will be reprising her role in the sequel Cars 2.
Personal life

Hunt married investment banker John Murphy in 1988. However, during her June 6, 2006, appearance on The Late Show with David Letterman, she mentioned that she was single again. She has no children.

Hunt's hometown is Chicago and she is a lifelong Chicago Cubs fan, having not missed an Opening Day at Wrigley Field since 1977. She is also a supporter of the Multiple Myeloma Research Foundation, of which she is an honorary board member.The Bonnie Hunt Show
Main article: The Bonnie Hunt Show

In 2007 Bonnie Hunt taped a pilot episode for Telepictures. The pilot passed and the talk show was created. The Bonnie Hunt Show premiered on Monday, September 8, 2008. The show's set design is a tribute to Dean Martin and on the walls are pictures of historic television personalities as well as Bonnie's family members. The show is clearly inspired by the format of Live with Regis and Kellywith the host and guests often interacting with the audience. Many of show's staffers are longtime friends of Hunt from Chicago. The show typically started with an opening monologue followed by guest interviews and spontaneous audience participation games. Hunt's mother Alice often appeared in webcasts from her home in Chicago. A characteristic of the show was Hunt's facial scolding of non-PG conversation, while enjoying the double entendre of conversation. The Bonnie Hunt Show taped in Culver City, California and was viewed in 17 of the top 20 US television markets. In its first year, the show was nominated for three Daytime Emmy Awards for opening theme, hairstyle, and makeup. The show won the Gracie Award for "Outstanding Talk Show" in 2009. In 2010, Bonnie was nominated for "Outstanding Talk Show Host" at the Daytime Emmy Awards. The final episode aired Wednesday, May 26, 2010.
Filmography
Year Title Role Notes
1988 Rain Man Sally Dibbs
1992 Beethoven Alice Newton
1993 Dave White House Tour Guide
1994 Only You Kate Corvatch
1995 Now and Then Mrs. DeWitt
Jumanji Sarah Whittle/Madam Serena
1996 Getting Away with Murder Dr. Gail Holland
Jerry Maguire Laurel Boyd
1998 A Bug's Life Rosie Voice
Kissing a Fool Linda Streicher
1999 Random Hearts Wendy Judd
The Green Mile Jan Edgecomb
2000 Return to Me Megan Dayton also director/writer
2001 Monsters, Inc. Mrs. Flint Voice
2002 Stolen Summer Margaret O'Malley limited release
2003 Cheaper by the Dozen Kate Baker
2005 Cheaper by the Dozen 2
Loggerheads Grace
2006 From Hair To Eternity Martha Bakerson
I Want Someone to Eat Cheese With Stella Lewis
Cars Sally Carrera Voice
2008-2010 The Bonnie Hunt Show Herself/Host Talk show
2010 Toy Story 3 Dolly Voice
2011 Cars 2 Sally Carrera