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Was born on December 24, 1970, in Puerto Rico, where he studied biology as a full-time student at the University of Puerto Rico in an effort to become a doctor. Initially, he did not intend to become an actor. After various acting gigs, Nolasco moved to New York, where he trained at the American British Dramatic Arts School. Nolasco's childhood friend is Jorge Posada, they met in the first grade. He worked at a club in Los Angeles called the Conga Room as a bartender.

Logue was born in Ottawa, Ontario. His father, Michael J. Logue, was once a Carmelite Catholic missionary in Africa where he met Donal's mother, Elizabeth, where they eventually got married and had four children. He has three sisters: Karina, an actress, his twin sister Deirdre (who is not in show business), and Eileen, an education consultant. His father is the president of Aisling Industries, which make microchips to cellphone companies (such as Telcel USAcell, Pegaso, and Nokia) and rents his plot from Nuevo Centro Industrial Comercial S.A. de C.V., in the famous building of Cervecería de Mexicali, Maltera. Logue lived most of his childhood and teen years in El Centro, California where he attended Central Union High School, although for his junior year, he attended St Ignatius' College Enfield, Middlesex, England. After high school, Logue studied History at Harvard University. His mother was a teacher at Calexico High School in Calexico, California during the 1980s and 1990...

Was born on September 10, 1957 in Geneva, Switzerland, the daughter of producer Sybil Burton (née Williams) and actor Richard Burton. She was the stepdaughter of actress Elizabeth Taylor and Jordan Christopher. Burton earned a bachelor's degree in Russian studies and European history from Brown University in 1979. She also studied at Yale University School of Drama in 1983. In 2007, Burton was given an honorary doctorate from Brown University. Burton is married to Michael Ritchie, Artistic Director of the Center Theatre Group in Los Angeles and one of the producers of the Broadway musicals The Drowsy Chaperone and Curtains. They have two children, a son Morgan (born in 1988) and a daughter Charlotte (born in 1998).

Born December 2, 1978, Victoria, British Columbia, Canada is a singer-songwriter, record producer, actress and instrumentalist, who also holds Portuguese citizenship. Furtado came to fame in 2000 with the release of her debut album Whoa, Nelly!, which featured her breakthrough Grammy Award-winning single "I'm like a Bird". After becoming a mother and releasing the less commercially successful Folklore (2003), she returned to prominence in 2006 with the release of Loose and its hit singles "Promiscuous", "Maneater", "Say It Right", and "All Good Things (Come to an End)". Furtado is known for experimenting with different instruments, sounds, genres, vocal styles and languages. This diversity has been influenced by her wide-ranging musical taste and her interest in different cultures.

O'Donnell, the youngest of seven children (with four sisters and two brothers), was born in Winnetka, Illinois, the son of Julie, a realtor, and William O'Donnell, Sr., a radio manager. O'Donnell is of paternal Irish and maternal German descent; he was raised in a devout Catholic family and attended Catholic schools, including Loyola Academy in Willmette, Illinois for high school, graduating in 1988. O'Donnell attended Boston College and graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in marketing. He subsequently attended law school at UCLA but did not graduate. From the ages of thirteen to sixteen, O'Donnell began modeling, and was featured in several commercials. In 1996, O’Donnell proposed to his girlfriend Caroline Fentress. He met her while in college; they married in 1997. The couple have five children, three sons and two daughters: Lily Anne O'Donnell (b. September 1999), Christopher Eugene O'Donnell Jr (b. October 24, 2000), Charles McHugh O'Donnell (b. July ...

Ludacris was born Christopher Brian Bridges on September 11, 1977, in Champaign, Illinois, United States, North America. He is the son of Roberta Shields and the late Wayne Brian Bridges. Ludacris lived in Oak Park, Illinois and attended Oak Park and River Forest High School. During his high school years his family later moved to the College Park a suburb of Atlanta, Georgia. He attended Banneker High School there, and then studied at Georgia State University.

Kunis was born in Kiev, Ukraine to a Jewish family. She is the daughter of Elvira, a physics teacher, and Mark Kunis, a mechanical engineer. She also has an older brother. Her family moved to Los Angeles, California in 1991 to separate from her father. She says that her English improved from watching The Price Is Right. In Los Angeles, she attended Hubert Howe Bancroft Middle School. She was mostly taught by an on-set tutor for her high school years while taping That '70s Show. When not on the set, she attended Fairfax Senior High School. Kunis was ranked #54 in Stuff's "102 Sexiest Women in the World" (2002); Maxim named her #47 on its 2006 Hot 100 list. In 2008, Mila was ranked #81 on the Maxim Hot 100 list. She was also ranked #81 on the FHM U.S 100 Sexiest Women in the World 2008, however unranked in other FHM magazines from different nations.

Bridges was born on December 9, 1941, in Los Angeles, California, the son of actor Lloyd Bridges and his college sweetheart, Dorothy Dean Simpson. He was nicknamed "Beau" by his mother and father after Ashley Wilkes' son in Gone with the Wind, the title of the book they were reading at the time[citation needed]. Bridges is also the older brother of actor Jeff Bridges, born in 1949. Their sister Cindy was born in 1950. In 1989, he starred opposite his brother in perhaps his best known role, as one of The Fabulous Baker Boys. In 1995, Bridges starred in the first ever two-part episode of the new series of Outer Limits. In 1998, he starred as Judge Bob Gibbs in the one-season Maximum Bob on ABC. He had a recurring role in the Showtime series Beggars and Choosers (1999-2000). In 2001, he guest-starred as Daniel McFarland, the stepfather of Jack McFarland, in two episodes of the NBC sitcom Will & Grace. From 2002 to 2003, he took on the role of Senator Tom Gage, newly-appo...

Born in the Dorchester neighborhood of Boston, Massachusetts, he is the youngest of nine children, with siblings Arthur, Jim, Paul, Robert, Tracey, Michelle, Debbie, and Donnie Wahlberg. His mother, Alma Elaine (née McPeck), was a bank clerk and nurse's aid, and his father, Donald Edward Wahlberg, was a Teamster who worked as a delivery driver; the two divorced in 1982. Wahlberg had a Catholic upbringing and attended Copley Square High School (but never graduated) on Newbury Street in Copley Square in Boston. The campus now houses Muriel Snowden International School. As a teenager, Wahlberg participated in several acts of violence and vandalism. He later claimed to have been in trouble 20-25 times with the Boston Police Department as a youth. By the age of thirteen Wahlberg had developed a serious addiction to cocaine and other substances. At fifteen he harassed a group of African American school children on a field trip by throwing rocks (causing injuries) and shouting epithets. W...

She began modeling at the age of ten, and joined Elite Model Management when she was fifteen. She has been on the cover of many fashion magazines including Vogue, Marie Claire, Cosmopolitan and ELLE. She's been in fashion campaigns for the likes of Calvin Klein, Donna Karan, BCBG, Louis Vuitton, Hugo Boss and Gucci. Anden has also been in the Victoria's Secret catalog many times. She is currently seen as the face for Giorgio Armani's new perfume Armani Code for women edP. When videogame company Eidos Interactive were looking for a new live version of Lara Croft for the upcoming game Lara Croft Tomb Raider: Legend she auditioned for the role but the role was given to model Karima Adebibe. She was a judge in the Miss Universe beauty pageant in 2001. She was the host of the Swedish section of Scandinavia's Next Top Model which premiered February 16, 2005. Anden has appeared in a handful of films and even produced 2003's Buffoon. She appeared in MyNetworkTV's Fashio...

This Brit is actually as American as she is English, born in New York and raised in London. But the unique quality England imparts to its young actresses is apparent as Brooks striking facial beauty and voice have elicited lofty comparisons. Brooks' next films are the upcoming feature My Best Friend's Girl (with Kate Hudson and Dane Cook) and Stiletto (with Tom Berenger and Tom Sizemore). Brooks' life was filled with the arts from an early age, (her father is Academy Award winning composer Joe Brooks, best original song "You Light Up My Life") and she initially became involved in acting as a way to interact with others and overcome her shyness. Bitten by the acting bug, Brooks felt most at home delivering the lines of William Shakespeare and Tennessee Williams and soon found herself cast for roles in stage performances of Romeo & Juliet, The Glass Menagerie and Daisy Pulls it Off to name but a few. When stage work wasn't enough to quench her thirst for the...

Baird was born on April 6, 1983, in Miami, Florida. Her mother was also a model. She got into acting when her mother enrolled her in an acting class to help her overcome introversion. Later, she became vice president of her school's Thespian Society. At the age of 17, she moved to Los Angeles in hope of pursuing an acting career. To earn money while auditioning she worked at The Gap as well as a clown at children's parties, caterer, waitress and pre-school teacher until breaking in to the modeling industry, most notably with Guess?. Her exposure increased considerably with an appearance on the cover of the August 2005 issue of Playboy magazine. She is signed to Elite Model Management in Miami.

Jenny Mollen was born in Phoenix, Arizona to a family of doctors. Her work in local theater led to experiences with The Old Globe in San Diego, California, The Idywild School, and the renowned Oregon Shakespeare Festival in Ashland, Oregon. Mollen attended UCLA's School of theater, film, and television and while there earned immediate industry attention for a one woman show she both wrote and produced entitled "Not A Pretty Girl". Mollen earned her degree in just three years. Upon graduation, She traveled abroad to Paris, France and Heidelberg, Germany for graduate studies. She is fluent in both French and German, and currently holds a master's in psychology from Antioch University. In addition to acting, she is an accomplished painter who has exhibited and sold artwork in New York, Arizona, San Diego, Los Angeles and London. She co-wrote the song Perfect World with her sister Samantha. The song was used in the Lifetime movie Girl, Positive. She also owns a poodle nam...

Caplan was born in Los Angeles, California and grew up in a Reform Jewish family. She attended Alexander Hamilton High School in Los Angeles, where she starred in such productions as Much Ado about Nothing and You Can't Take It with You. Caplan resides in the Hollywood Hills with some roommates. She has a cat named Lisa Turtle, which she named after her favorite character on Saved By The Bell. She is going to be the godmother of friend Busy Philipps' daughter when she is born in August 2008. Caplan's Cloverfield character, Marlena Diamond, has a Myspace page. Quick Info Born Elizabeth Anne Caplan June 30, 1982, Los Angeles, California

Baldwin was born in Massapequa, New York, USA, the son of Carolyn Newcomb (née Martineau) and Alexander Rae Baldwin, Jr., a high school history/social studies teacher and football coach. Baldwin was raised in a Catholic family of Irish and French descent. He attended Alfred G. Berner High School in Massapequa, Long Island, and played football there under Coach Bob Reifsnyder, who is in the College Football Hall of Fame. Baldwin worked as a busboy at the famous New York City disco Studio 54. He attended George Washington University from 1976 to 1979, where he was known as "Alex." After losing a student body president election, he transferred to New York University to study acting at the Lee Strasberg Theatre Institute under Elaine Aiken and Geoffrey Horne. He returned to NYU in 1994 and graduated with a BFA that year. The other Baldwin brothers, Daniel (Homicide: Life on the street), William (Backdraft), and Stephen (The Usual Suspects) all followed him in becoming actors. Bal...

Biggs was born on May 12, 1978, in Pompton Plains, New Jersey, the son of Angela, a nurse, and Gary Biggs, a shipping company manager. He grew up in Hasbrouck Heights, New Jersey and attended Hasbrouck Heights High School there. Biggs has joked in interviews about the fact that he is often cast as an explicitly or implicitly Jewish character, as he was in American Pie (other examples include Darren Silverman or Jerry Falk), although Biggs himself is Italian American and Catholic. In January 2008, he became engaged and married his My Best Friend's Girl co-star, actress Jenny Mollen on April 23, 2008.

Hudson was born in Los Angeles, the daughter of Academy Award-winning actress Goldie Hawn and Bill Hudson, an actor, comedian, and musician. Hudson's parents divorced eighteen months after her birth; she and her brother, actor Oliver Hudson, were raised in Colorado by her mother and her mother's long-time boyfriend, actor Kurt Russell. Hudson has stated that her biological father "doesn't know me from a hole in the wall", and that she considers Kurt Russell to be her father. Hudson has described her mother as "the woman that I've learned the most from, and who I look up to, who has conducted her life in a way that I can look up to". She has three half-siblings, Emily and Zachary Hudson, from her biological father's subsequent marriage to actress Cindy Williams, and Wyatt, from her mother's relationship with Kurt Russell. Hudson is of Hungarian, Italian, and Ashkenazi Jewish descent, and was raised in her maternal grandmother's Jewish reli...

Dane Cook was born on March 18, 1972, in Cambridge, Massachusetts, the son of George Cook (who now works at a golf course but at different times managed and ran a lumber yard, a window business and a rock club in Cambridge) and Donna Cook, a homemaker. Cook grew up in Arlington, Massachusetts, a Boston suburb in an Irish Catholic family.[3] He is the second youngest of seven siblings; he has a younger sister, one older brother and four older sisters. He attended Arlington High School, where he starred in the school production of Grease. In high school, Cook was very introverted and to help break through his shell, he took up drama and eventually fell in love with improvisation and sketch comedy. As a teenager, Cook became interested in comedy when his father, former radio personality George Cook, gave him a tape recorder and microphone. Later, he would learn what it meant to be a stand-up comedian. He was enthralled with comedians who were not afraid to sweat on stage—Richard Pryor and...

was born on 2 June 1978, Greenwich, London. He has performed in film, TV, radio and theatre, and originated the role of Dakin in the play The History Boys, a character he also played on film. He also plays Sky in the film adaptation of Mamma Mia!. Cooper is the son of Julie, a nursery school teacher. He attended the Thomas Tallis School in Kidbrooke, and trained at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art, graduating in 2000.

Rampling was born into an upper class family in Sturmer, Essex, the daughter of Anne Isabelle (née Gurteen), a painter, and Godfrey Rampling, an Olympic Gold Medal winning athlete and army officer. She attended Jeanne d'Arc Académie pour Jeunes Filles in Versailles and St. Hilda's School, a boarding school in Bushey, Hertfordshire, England. In 1972, Rampling married the actor Bryan Southcombe. They lived in a ménage à trois with a male model Randall Laurence and had one child, Barnaby, before divorcing in 1976. Barnaby Southcombe is now a successful television director. In 1978, she married the French composer Jean Michel Jarre and had a son, the magician David Jarre. She also raised her stepdaughter, Émilie Jarre, now a fashion designer. The marriage was publicly dissolved in 1997 when she found out via tabloid newspaper stories about Jarre's affairs with other women and had a nervous breakdown. She has been engaged to Jean-Noël Tassez, a French communications tycoon, sinc...

An only child, Atwell's part native American father (once a photographer, now a motivational speaker in California) and her English mother separated when she was two. She was a sixth-former at the London Oratory School, West London, and chose to train at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama, graduating in 2005, in place of studying philosophy and theology at Oxford University. Quick Info Born 5 April 1982, London, England

Fiennes was born in Ipswich, Suffolk, England, the son of Mark Fiennes (1933-2004), a farmer and photographer, and Jennifer Lash (1938-1993), a writer. His surname is of Norman origin. He is a third cousin of the adventurer Sir Ranulph Fiennes. The eldest of six children, his siblings are actor Joseph Fiennes (Shakespeare in Love, Luther), Martha Fiennes, a director (in her film Onegin, he acted the title role), Magnus Fiennes, a composer, Sophie Fiennes, a filmmaker, Jacob Fiennes, a conservationist, and his foster brother Michael Emery, an archaeologist. Fiennes is a UNICEF ambassador. Fiennes met actress Alex Kingston (Dr. Corday from ER) while both were students at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts. After dating for ten years, they married in 1993. However, they divorced in 1997. In 1995, Fiennes started dating Francesca Annis, an actress 17 years his senior, who played his mother in Hamlet. In February 2006 the couple separated. This came after tabloid reports that said Fiennes h...

Knightley was born in Teddington, Middlesex England, the daughter of Sharman Macdonald, an award-winning playwright, and Will Knightley, a theatre and television actor. Her father is English and her mother is Scottish and of half Welsh ancestry. She has an elder brother, Caleb, who was born in 1979. Knightley lived most of her life in Richmond, attending Teddington School and Esher College. Knightley has dyslexia, but nevertheless was successful in school and was thus permitted to acquire a talent agent and pursue an acting career. She requested an agent as early as the age of three but got one when she turned six, from her mother as a reward for studying hard. Knightley has noted that she was "single-minded about acting" during her childhood. She performed in a number of local amateur productions including After Juliet (written by her mother) and United States (written by her then drama teacher, Ian McShane, no relation to the Deadwood actor). Knightley, who currently lives ...

Wiig was born in Rochester, New York and graduated from Brighton High School in 1991. She later attended the University of Arizona. She married fellow actor Hayes Hargrove in 2005 but they are currently separated. Quick Info Born Kristen Carroll Wiig 22 August 1973, Rochester, New York

Leoni was born Elizabeth Téa Pantaleoni IPA: ['teːɑ pantalɛ'oːniː] in New York City, the daughter of Emily (née Patterson), a dietician and nutritionist, and Anthony Pantaleoni, a corporate lawyer. Leoni’s mother is a native of Texas and her father is of Italian and Polish descent. Leoni’s paternal grandmother, Helen "Helenka" Tradusa Adamowska (1901 - 1987), was a film and stage actress who was a sister of Józef and Tymoteusz Adamowski, who with Józef's wife Antonina Szumowksa were the Adamowski Trio. Leoni's paternal great-grandfather was the brother of Italian economist and politician Maffeo Pantaleoni. Leoni states in the October 27, 2006, issue of Life magazine that she became a goodwill ambassador for UNICEF partially because her paternal grandmother was the president of the U.S. Fund for UNICEF for 25 years. Leoni married her first husband, Neil Joseph Tardio, Jr., a television producer, on June 8, 1991, at St. Luke’s Episcopal Church in Hope, New Jerse...

Kinnear was born in Logansport, Indiana, the son of Suzanne, a homemaker, and Edward Kinnear, a career diplomat who worked for the U.S. State Department. He has two brothers — one named James, Vice President-Investments at Wachovia Securities in Arizona (born in 1957), and one named Steve. As a child, Greg and his family moved around a lot, from places as far as Beirut, Lebanon to Athens, Greece, and was therefore part of a group sometimes referred to as Foreign Service Brats. While a student at the American Community Schools in Athens, Greg first ventured into the role of talk show host with his radio show "School Daze With Greg Kinnear". Returning to the States for a college education, he attended the University of Arizona, where he graduated in 1985 with a degree in broadcast journalism. Kinnear married Helen Labdon in 1999. In 2001, Labdon was seven months pregnant when she suffered a miscarriage with their first child. The couple welcomed a daughter, Lily Katherine, in S...

Gervais, along with siblings Larry, Marsha, and Bobby, was raised in the suburb of Whitley in Reading, Berkshire. Gervais's father Jerry, a Franco-Ontarian, emigrated while on foreign duty during the Second World War from London, Ontario, Canada. Jerry met Gervais's mother, Eva, during a blackout, and both settled in Whitley. During Xfm London's The Ricky Gervais Show and in further newspaper interviews with The Independent, Gervais noted that he believes his birth was unplanned due to the age difference between his youngest sibling and himself. During one interview with the Independent, Gervais tells the author that even his mother admitted his birth was unplanned. Gervais has stated that his upbringing and childhood were stable and trauma-free, with a high level of honesty and openness between his family members. He described it as "much like [how] The Waltons" made fun of each-other. Gervais began his secondary education at Ashmead School, before moving on to U...

Baron Cohen, the youngest of three sons, was born in Hammersmith, London, England, to an Orthodox Jewish family. His mother, Daniella (née Weiser), teaches at a school of movement and was born in Israel. His father, Gerald Baron Cohen, originally from Wales, owns a menswear shop in Piccadilly[citation needed]. Baron Cohen's paternal grandfather was born in Pontypridd and his maternal grandmother, who now lives in Haifa, Israel, was an acclaimed ballet dancer from Germany. His paternal great grandfather was born in Kaunas. His brother Erran Baron Cohen, a composer and trumpet player, contributed to the "Borat" film with the song "O Kazakhstan". Sacha Baron Cohen's cousin Simon Baron Cohen is a leading researcher in the study of autism spectrum disorders (including Asperger syndrome). Baron Cohen is engaged to Australian actress Isla Fisher, and the pair plan to wed in a traditional Jewish ceremony. After several years of study, Isla has converted to Judaism, ...

Schwimmer was born in Astoria, Queens, New York, to Jewish parents, Arthur Schwimmer and Arlene Colman, and then lived in Valley Stream, Long Island, until he was 2 years old. He was raised in Los Angeles, California, where he attended Beverly Hills High School. Having attended Northwestern University’s summer “Cherub” program (the National High School Institute) in 1983, he subsequently enrolled at the university as a theater major, joining Delta Tau Delta Fraternity and Arts Alliance in addition to acting and directing. In 1988, along with seven other Northwestern graduates, he co-founded Chicago's Lookingglass Theatre Company. Schwimmer dated Natalie Imbruglia and Mili Avital, (broke up in 2001) and Carla Alapont. After they broke up in 2003, he was linked to Emmanuelle Perret amongst others. Quick Info Born David Lawrence Schwimmer November 2, 1966, Astoria, New York, U.S.

Rock was born in Andrews, South Carolina. Shortly after his birth, his parents moved to Crown Heights, Brooklyn, New York. A few years later, they relocated and settled in the working-class area of Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn. His mother, Rosalie (née Tingman), was a teacher and social worker with the mentally handicapped; his father, Julius Rock, was a former truck driver and newspaper deliveryman. Both his parents are Christian. Julius died in 1988 after ulcer surgery. Rock has five younger siblings, Andre, Tony, Brian (a minister), Kenny and Andi, and a half-sibling, Jordan. His brothers Tony and Kenny are also in the entertainment business. Rock has said that he was influenced by the performing style of his paternal grandfather, Allen Rock, a preacher. Rock has been married to Malaak Compton since November 23, 1996. She is the founder and executive director of StyleWorks, a non-profit, full-service salon that provides free services for women leaving welfare and entering the workfo...