Celebs Profile

Cassidy was born in Los Angeles, California, the daughter of '70s pop idol David Cassidy and former model Sherry Benedon (née Kaltschnee); the two had an "on-again, off-again" relationship during the 1970s-1980s, resulting in Katie's birth, fifteen years after first meeting. Cassidy's paternal grandparents were actors Jack Cassidy and Evelyn Ward. She grew up in Calabasas, California with her mother and stepfather, Richard Benedon, an ER physician. She now has a close relationship with David Cassidy. She has two older sisters, Jenna and Jaime. As a child, Cassidy took to tumbling and eventually became a cheerleader for the California Flyers, a competitive team. She cheered as a freshman for Calabasas High School where she attended classes and graduated in 2005. As a child, Cassidy became interested in show business. She is also known for dating two members of former boy band Dream Street, rocker Greg Raposo (2002 - 2003) and popstar Jesse McCartney (2004-2007). Ra...

Berkeley was born December 16, 1955, in Brooklyn, New York. He graduated from Hampshire College. Berkeley is a painter and a sculptor, as well as a make-up artist. Berkeley designed his own make-up on 24 when his character was suffering from the deteriorating effects of radiation sickness. Berkeley also met Sarah Clarke on the set of 24 in 2001, and married her the following year. On September 23, 2006, Clarke gave birth to their first child, daughter Olwyn Harper. Incidentally, both Berkeley and his wife have played turncoat federal agents: he played a traitorous Secret Service agent in the 1997 film Air Force One, and his wife Clarke played traitorous CTU agent Nina Myers in 24.

Grace, eldest of three children, was born in Worthington, Ohio, a suburb of Columbus, the daughter of Linn and Rick Denig. She took to acting at an early age, performing in several local theatre productions, among them Jewish Community Center's Gallery Players' 2000 production of The Crucible. The director of that play, John S. Kuhn, said of Grace "Even at that young age she brought a lot to her work." At 16, Grace left Ohio with her mother, Valinn, for Los Angeles. The actress frequently found herself struggling to pay her rent. In 2001 she landed the eponymous role in the Sony Pictures web-serial Rachel's Room, which took the form of a teenager's video journal. In all, she appeared in 56 short videos dialoguing teen angst and her conflict with her mother and school teachers. Quick Info Born Margaret Grace Denig September 21, 1983, Columbus, Ohio

Valance was born in Melbourne, Australia, on 11 May 1983 to a Serbian father Ryko and a British mother, Rachel. She is related to the late British comedian Benny Hill — Hill's cousin was her grandfather (cousins twice removed). Valance was educated at the Star of the Sea College, a Roman Catholic high school in Melbourne. Valance currently resides in Los Angeles, California and is dating fellow Aussie actor Alex O'Loughlin. Valance has recently become involved in charitable work with Mental Disability Rights International. Quick Info Birth name Holly Rachel Vukadinović Born May 11, 1983, Australia Genre(s) Pop, Dance, Urban Pop Occupation(s) Singer, Actress, Model Official Site

Janssen was born in Amstelveen, the Netherlands, as the only brunette in a family of blondes. Besides her native Dutch, Janssen learned to speak English, German and French. She has two sisters, director Antoinette Beumer and actress Marjolein Beumer. Janssen moved to the United States in 1984 and began her professional career as a fashion model. She was signed with Elite Model Management and worked for Yves Saint Laurent, Chanel and Victoria's Secret. Janssen also studied writing and literature at Columbia University before moving to Los Angeles to establish her acting career. Janssen lives in West Village in New York City. She was married to writer/director Tod Culpan Williams, son of architect Tod Williams, from 1995 to 2000. Janssen is a vegetarian and wants to be a vegan. Janssen has a brindle Boston terrier named Licorice, with whom she frequently travels Quick Info Born Famke Janssen November 5, 1965, Amstelveen, Netherlands Spouse(s) Tod Williams (1995-2000)

Neeson was born in Ballymena, County Antrim, Northern Ireland, the son of Katherine "Kitty" (née Brown), a cook, and Barnard Neeson, a caretaker at the local Catholic girls' school. He was called Liam, the Irish equivalent to William, after the local priest. He was the third child in the family and the only boy among four siblings; his sisters are Elizabeth, Bernadette and Rosaline. At age nine, Neeson began boxing lessons at the All Saints Youth Club. It was at age eleven that Neeson first stepped on stage. His English teacher gave him the lead role in a school play, which he accepted because the girl he fancied would be starring. From then on, he kept acting in school productions for the following years. His interest in acting and decision to become an actor was also influenced by Ian Paisley whose church Neeson would sneak into. Neeson has said of Paisley that "He had a magnificent presence and it was incredible to watch this six foot-plus man just bible-thumping...

Diaz was raised along with her elder sister in New York's lower east side by parents of Puerto Rican descent. She became interested in acting at the Henry Street Settlement and subsequently attended professional performing arts high school. She recently completed a degree in Film Production at New York University's Tisch School of the Arts and has made numerous off-Broadway and workshop appearances include Medea at the Bullet Space, the Hip Hop Theater Festival at P.S. 122, and the New York City Fringe Festival. She started her film career with a supporting role in Tom DiCillo's Double Whammy (2001) Quick Info Born April 25, 1984, New York, New York

Shue was born in Wilmington, Delaware. Her mother, Anne Harms (née Wells), was a bank executive who was the vice president of the private division of the Chemical Banking Corporation. Her father, James Shue, is a lawyer and real estate developer who was the president of the International Food and Beverage Corporation and was active in Republican politics, having once unsuccessfully run for the U.S. Senate in New Jersey. Shue grew up in Bergen and Essex counties in New Jersey. Her parents divorced while she was in the fourth grade. Shue graduated from Columbia High School, in Maplewood, New Jersey, and attended Wellesley College and Harvard University, from which she withdrew to pursue her acting career. She returned to Harvard, 15 years after withdrawing, to finish her degree in Government in 2000. Shue was awarded entrance into Columbia High School's Hall of Fame in 1994, along with her brother, Andrew. Known among her friends and family as "Lisa," Shue is married to Dav...

David Arquette was born in a Subud commune in Bentonville, Virginia, the son of Mardi Olivia (née Nowak), an actress, poet, theater operator, activist, acting teacher and therapist, and Lewis Arquette, an actor. Arquette's paternal grandfather was comedian Cliff Arquette. David Arquette's mother was Jewish, the daughter of a Holocaust refugee from Poland, and his father was a convert to Islam and a descendant of explorer Meriwether Lewis. and is thus of partial Welsh descent. Arquette's siblings are actors Rosanna, Alexis, Richmond and Patricia Arquette. Arquette married actress Courteney Cox on June 12, 1999. Their first child, a daughter named Coco Riley Arquette, was born on June 13, 2004. Jennifer Aniston, (Courteney's Friends co-star) is the baby's godmother. He is the brother-in-law of actor Thomas Jane. Quick Info Born David James Arquette September 8, 1971, Winchester, Virginia, United States Spouse(s) Courteney Cox (June 12, 1999 - present)

Poehler was born in Burlington, Massachusetts, the daughter of Eileen, a teacher, and Bill Poehler. She has a younger brother, Gregory, who was a copyright lawyer in New York before moving to Stockholm, Sweden with his wife. A 1993 graduate of Boston College, Poehler was a key member of America's oldest collegiate improv comedy troupe, My Mother's Fleabag. After graduating from college, Poehler moved to Chicago where she studied improv at Second City alongside friend and future co-star Tina Fey. She also studied with Del Close at ImprovOlympic, going on to become part of the touring company as well as teaching classes at iO. Poehler is married to Will Arnett, of the FOX comedy Arrested Development, and had recurring roles in the series as the nameless wife of Arnett's character George Oscar "G.O.B." Bluth II. Poehler and Arnett also played a quasi-incestuous brother-sister ice skating team in the 2007 film Blades of Glory.They live in New York City. Quick Info Bo...

Keener, the third of five children, was born in Miami, Florida, the daughter of Evelyn and Jim Keener, a manager of an automotive store. She is of Irish descent on her father's side and of Lebanese descent on her mother's. Keener attended Immaculate Conception Catholic School in Hialeah, Florida. Although she didn’t get into trouble growing up, by the time she reached high school at Monsignor Edward Pace High School, Keener began rebelliously acting out. She was eventually expelled from the 11th grade, although she later returned to school, and kept her grades up enough to be accepted into college. She attended Wheaton College, in Norton, Massachusetts where she lived with an aunt in order to save on room and board, feeling out of place among her more privileged peers. Keener majored in English and history, enrolling in a theater course only when she was unable to get into a photography class. After graduating in 1983 Keener moved to New York, where she interned as an assistan...

Born Winona Laura Horowitz in Olmsted County, Minnesota, she was named after the nearby city of Winona. She was given her middle name, Laura, because of her parents' friendship with Aldous Huxley's wife, Laura Huxley. Her mother, Cynthia Palmer (née Istas), is an author, as well as a video producer and editor. Her father, Michael Horowitz, is an author, editor, publisher and antiquarian bookseller. Ryder's mother is a Buddhist and her father is an atheist. Regarding her ancestry, Ryder has described herself as "Jewish", her paternal grandparents were Jewish immigrants from Russia, and relatives of hers died in the Holocaust. Ryder has one sibling, a younger brother, Yuri, an older half-brother, Jubal, and an older half-sister, Sunyata. Ryder's family friends included her godfather, LSD guru Timothy Leary, and beat poets Allen Ginsberg and Lawrence Ferlinghetti. In 1978, when Ryder was seven years old, she and her family relocated to Rainbow, a commune near Elk...

Eric Bana was born in Melbourne, Australia, the younger of two children. His Croatian father, Ivan, was a logistics manager for Caterpillar, Inc., and his German-born mother, Eleanor, was a hairdresser. Bana grew up in Melbourne's Tullamarine, a suburban area on the western edge of the city, near the airport. Showing acting skill early in life, Bana began doing impressions of family members at the age of six or seven, first mimicking his grandfather's walk, voice and mannerisms. In school, he mimicked his teachers to get out of trouble. As a teen he watched the Mel Gibson film Mad Max (1979), and decided he wanted to become an actor. However, he did not seriously consider a career in the performing arts until 1991 when he was persuaded to try stand-up comedy while working as a barman at Melbourne's Castle Hotel. His stand-up gigs in inner-city pubs did not provide him with enough income to support himself, so he continued his work as a barman, clearing tables In 1995, while...

Cho was born in Seoul, South Korea, and raised in Los Angeles, California, where his family settled in 1978. His father is a minister. Cho graduated from Herbert Hoover High School in Glendale, California in 1990. He then attended the University of California, Berkeley, graduating in 1996 with a BA degree in English and proceeding to teach English for some time at Pacific Hills School in West Hollywood, California. He is married to actress Kerri Higuchi. They are currently expecting their first child, a boy. He has also recently been involved in the making of a website which promotes the participation in activities in Hong Kong, this has been due to his passion in helping the community. Many community service activities can be found at his website. Quick Info Born John Yohan Cho June 16, 1972, Seoul, South Korea

Saldana was born in New Jersey to a Puerto Rican mother and a Dominican father from the Dominican Republic. She was raised in Queens, New York, and her first languages are English and Spanish. When Saldana was nine, her father died in a car accident, and Saldana's mother moved her and her sisters back to the Dominican Republic. While there, Saldana enlisted in a ballet class and gained experience as a dancer, enlisting in one of the most prestigious dancing schools in that country, which benefited her later in her role in Center Stage. She returned to the U.S. after her sophomore year in high school and enrolled in the Faces Theater Program, an acting course. She also worked in Burger King as a cashier in the mid 1990s. Quick Info Born Zoe Yadira Zaldaña Nazario June 19, 1978, New York City, U.S.A.[1] Occupation Actress Years active 2000–present

Pegg was born in Gloucester, England, the son of Gillian Rosemary (née Smith), a civil servant, and John Henry Beckingham, a jazz musician and keyboard salesman. His parents divorced when he was seven. He attended many schools including Dene Manga Secondry School and Brockworth Comprehensive Secondary School and later Stratford Upon Avon College to study English Literature and Performance Studies. Pegg finally studied drama at the University of Bristol and wrote his undergraduate thesis on "A Marxist overview of popular Seventies cinema and hegemonic discourses". Pegg married Maureen McCann on 23 July 2005 in Glasgow. Nick Frost was the best man. Along with Jonny Buckland, Pegg is godfather to close friends Chris Martin and Gwyneth Paltrow's daughter, Apple. Pegg's parents and sister briefly appeared in Spaced while his mother alone appeared in both Shaun of the Dead and Hot Fuzz. Quick Info Born Simon John Beckingham 14 February 1970, Gloucester, England Other name(s...

Karl Urban was born in Wellington, New Zealand, the son of a leather goods manufacturer. He attended St Mark's Church School where he showed an early love for public performance. His first acting role was when he was eight he had a line on a television show. However, he did not act again until after high school. He then went on to Wellington College. Upon leaving High School Karl was offered a role in the hit New Zealand TV-series Shortland Street playing homosexual paramedic Jamie Forrest. After appearing on the show for the 1993-1994 season he attended Victoria University of Wellington for one year, then left to pursue his acting career. Over the next few years, he landed several theater roles in the Wellington area. Eventually, he moved to Auckland where he was offered many guest roles in local shows. One of his first roles was that of a heroin addict in police drama Shark In the Park. Quick Info Born Karl-Heinz Urban June 7, 1972, Wellington, New Zealand

Quinto, who is half-Italian and half-Irish, was born in Pittsburgh and grew up in nearby Green Tree, Pennsylvania. As a youth, Quinto attended summer camp at Camp Notre Dame in Fairview, Pennsylvania. He was a member of the Civic Light Opera mini-stars in Pittsburgh as a child. He attended Aiken elementary school through fifth grade and Jay Neff Middle School through eighth grade in the Keystone Oaks school district. He graduated from Central Catholic High School, class of 1995, and then attended Carnegie Mellon University's School of Drama, from which he graduated in 1999. Quick Info Born Zachary John Quinto June 2, 1977, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

Pine was born in Los Angeles, California to Robert Pine and Gwynne Gilford; he also has a sister, Katie. His father was an actor and had a contract with Universal, while his mother was a seamstress for B-movies. His maternal grandparents were Anne Gwynne, a Hollywood actress, and Max M. Gilford, a Hollywood attorney. Pine graduated from the University of California at Berkeley with a degree in English. Quick Info Born August 26, 1980, Los Angeles, California

Curtis, one of nine children, was born in Rotorua, North Island, the son of an amateur dancer. He is of Maori descent and his tribal affiliations are Te Arawa and Ngati Hauiti. He has shown the ability to portray characters of a wide range of ethnicities; particularly various Latin American and Arab characters. He has appeared as a character actor in many Hollywood films, while back home in New Zealand he is usually the main star. As a boy he studied "Mau Rakau" a traditional Maori form of staff fighting with Maori elder "Mita Mohi" on the island of Mokoia, which nurtured his abilities as a performer in "Kapahaka" (traditional Maori song and dance performance). He later performed as a breakdancer and then competitively in Rock'n'Roll revival dance competitions. He started acting in amateur theatre productions of musicals Fiddler on the Roof and The Man of La Mancha with the Kapiti Players and the Mantis Cooperative Theatre Company before attending ...