Halle Berry Biography
Halle Berry (Halle Maria Berry) was born on 14 August, 1968 in Cleveland, Ohio, USA to Judith Ann Hawkins and Jerome J. Berry. Her mother Judith is a Liverpudlian and father Jerome is African American. Halle has a older sister, Heidi. Her parents divorced when she was four years old. Halle and Heidi was grew up with their mother, who was a psychiatric nurse. Halle was a popular student in school as she was a cheerleader, editor of the school newspaper, honor society member, class president and prom queen. She has attended a Bedford High School and attended Cuyahoga Community College, studied broadcast journalism.
Before enter into acting career, Halle has won numerous beauty contests including Miss Ohio USA (at 17), Miss Teen All-American, Miss USA 1986 (first runner-up), and Miss World 1986.
In 1980, Halle went to Chicago to pursue career in modeling and acting. Her first acting project was a TV series of Gordon Lake Productions "Chicago Force". Halle has also auditioned for a role in an updated Charlie's Angels television series. But she didn't get the role because the project never materialized. In 1989, Halle got a role in ABC television series "Living Dolls" as a brainy Emily Franklin.
While Berry got a break in films as a drug addict, Vivian in Spike Lee's "Jungle Fever". She first co-starred in film "Strictly Business". Her next film was the villain/friend in the Flintstones as "Sharon Stone". In 1996, Halle landed a role of Sandra Beecher in "Race the Sun". The film was based on a true story. While Berry got her first attention with Alex Haley's TV adaptation "Queen: The Story of an American Family", where she played a portrayal as a female biracial slave.
Halle is also popular in X-Men comic fans because she played a role of the regal mutant Storm in movie adaptation of a comic X-Men i.e. X-Men (2000) and its sequels "X2: X-Men United (2003)" and "X-Men: The Last Stand (2006)". Yet the best has come to her, in 2001 Halle appeared in "Monster's Ball(2001)", for which she got the Academy Award as a Best Actress. In 2002, she appeared as a Bond Girl Jinx in "Die Another Day", which was again a huge success.
In 2003, Berry was appeared in "Gothika", which was a psychological thriller casted opposite Charles S. Dutton. It was first film in which she landed a most important role. Next Halle was starred in "Catwoman", which earned her a "worst actress" Razzie award (2005). In 2005, she casted in the TV movie "Their Eyes Were Watching God" and given her voice to the animated film "Robots".
Apart from acting Halle is also working with author Angela Nissel as an executive producer to produce an HBO comedy series "The Broke Diaries and Mixed: My Life in Black and White", which is based on Nissel's two memoirs. Halle has also worked as the face of "Revlon" cosmetics and was recently picked as the new face of "Versace".
Hilary Duff Biography
Hilary Duff, full name Hilary Erhard Duff, was born on 28th September, 1987, in Houston, Texas. She and her older sister Haylie Duff toured with the Cechetti Ballet when she was only 6 years of age. But she always wanted to take acting and singing as her career. With Haylie, she made her first television appearance in the mini-series True Women (1997). In 1998, she acted as Wendy in Casper meets Wendy and in 1999 she received the Young Artist Award for the movie The Soul Collector in a supporting role.
In 2001, she played the role of the famous Lizzie McGuire. The Disney Channel show became very popular among the youth audience. Two yea rs later, she topped the Billboard with her debut pop album Metamorphosis (2003). The same year she was signed for The Lizzie McGuire Movie (2003) which budgeted over a million dollar, and featured in Agent Cody Banks and Cheaper by the Dozen.After the success of Lizzie McGuire, she starred in A Cinderella Story and the drama Raise Your Voice in 2004. On that September, she released her self-titled album which opened on the 2nd spot on the Billboard. However, the sales were a bit dull as compared to her first album. She also took the job of international spokesperson for Kids With A Cause that year.
In 2005, she played Lorraine Baker in Cheaper By The Dozen and also appeared in The Perfect Man, co-starring with Heather Locklear. Hilary released a compilation album that year in August, named Most Wanted, featuring previous hits and 3 new tracks. The album clung to the top of Billboard for a fortnight. In 2006, she reunited with Haylie and produced the feature Material Girls.
Eva Longoria Biography
Eva Longoria was born on March 15 in 1975 at Corpus Christi, Texas, USA. She is a well known American film and television actress. She is daughter of Catholic parents Enrique Longoria, Jr. and Ella Eva Mireles. In her childhood she was thinking like she was adopted because she has dark features (skin tone and eye color) among all of her siblings.
Eva completed her Bachelors of Science degree from Kinesiology at Texas A&M Kingsville. During this time only she won the title of "Miss Corpus Christi, USA" in 1998. After completing her college, she had many ways to built up her career. Eva Longoria entered in a talent contest which would lead her to Los Angeles. After that she was signed by a theatrical agent.
Eva Longoria started her career with a small role in the episode of Beverly Hills, 90210. It was a quiet humble beginning for her, but very soon she got another guest appearance in General Hospital.
In the same year preceded her big break in popular American soap The Young and the Restless, in which she played psychotic Isabella Brana Williams from 2001 to 2003 and she was listed in People en EspaƱol's "Most Beautiful People" for 2003.
Some of her vary popular films and television series include: Foodfight(2007), The Sentinel(2006), Harsh Times(2005), Carlita's Secret(2005), also she was credited as co-producer for this film. The TV serials are The Dead Will Tell, Desperate Housewives, Dragnet, The Young and the Restless.
Talking about Eva Longoria's personal life, she was married to General Hospital star Tyler Christopher in 2002. They lived together for three years and separated out in 2004. She was sometimes credited as Eva Longoria Christopher.
After divorced from Tyler she was romantically linked with Sid Laura Horowitz, a screen Actors Guild president, successful writer Milan Gracanin, and an ex-*NSYNC member JC Chasez. Now days she was busy in dating with her new boyfriend Tony Parker. He is a NBA's star basketball player.
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