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Lindsay Lohan

Birth name: Lindsay Dee Lohan
Born: July 2, 1986 New York City, United States

Lindsay Dee Lohan (born July 2, 1986) is an American actress, model and pop music singer. Lohan started in show business as a child fashion model for magazine advertisement and television commercials. At age 10, she began her acting career in the soap opera Another World; at 11, she made her motion picture debut by playing identical twins in Disney’s 1998 remake of The Parent Trap.

Lohan rose to stardom with her leading roles in the films Freaky Friday, Confessions of a Teenage Drama Queen, Mean Girls and Herbie: Fully Loaded. Her subsequent roles include appearances in A Prairie Home Companion and Bobby. In 2004, Lohan launched a second career in pop music yielding the albums Speak (2004) and A Little More Personal (Raw) (2005).

Lohan’s personal life has been a frequent subject of celebrity and tabloid journalism.

Acting career

Early success

Lohan began her career with Ford Models at age three, but found little work as a fashion model. She persisted and eventually appeared in more than 100 print-ads for companies like Toys “R” Us. She also modeled for Calvin Klein Kids (usually with siblings Michael and Ali) and Abercrombie Kids.

Lohan’s first auditions for television work did not go well; by the time she tried out for a Duncan Hines commercial, she told her mother that she would give up if she did not get the job. She was hired, and went on to appear in over 60 commercials, including a Jell-O spot with Bill Cosby. Her ad work led to roles in soap operas, and she was already considered a show-business veteran in 1996 when she landed the role of Alexandra “Alli” Fowler on Another World, “where she delivered more dialogue than any other 10-year-old in daytime serials” of the time.

Lohan gave up Another World for the big screen when director Nancy Meyers cast her to play the dual roles of the estranged twin sisters who try to reunite their long-divorced parents (Dennis Quaid and Natasha Richardson) in the 1998 remake of The Parent Trap. Trap was well-received for a family comedy, bringing in US$92 million worldwide. Film critic Janet Maslin found Lohan’s dual performances so forceful “that she seems to have been taking shy violet lessons from Sharon Stone.” Critic Kenneth Turan called Lohan “the soul of this film as much as Hayley Mills was of the original, and … she is more adept than her predecessor at creating two distinct personalities”.

She starred in two original television movies, Life-Size (2000) (with Tyra Banks) and Get a Clue (2002). She also played Bette Midler’s daughter in the first episode of the short-lived series, Bette (2000), but Lohan, then 14, quit when the production moved from New York to Los Angeles. In 2001, she hosted the ABC-TV commercial series commemorating Walt Disney’s 100th birthday during a rebroadcast of The Parent Trap.

Rise to fame

Following a brief hiatus, Lohan won a lead role in another Disney remake: Freaky Friday (2003), starring Jamie Lee Curtis. Lohan’s character in the movie was originally written as a Goth, but she did not think anyone would relate to that, and decided to dress in a preppy style for her audition, and the character ended up being re-written. Through 2005, Friday was Lohan’s biggest commercial film success, earning US$160 million worldwide. In 2004, Lohan was given the lead in two films, Confessions of a Teenage Drama Queen (her first feature that was not a remake) and Paramount’s Mean Girls, both released in 2004. Drama Queen was a modest success at the box office, grossing about US$30 million, but was a failure with critics. “Though still a promising star, Lohan will have to do a little penance before she’s forgiven for Confessions,” Robert K. Elder wrote.

Far more successful was Mean Girls, her first PG-13 (and first non-Disney) film. Her breakout lead performance pushed the critical and commercial hit to gross US$128 million worldwide, “cementing her status as the new teen movie queen,” wrote Brandon Gray. “Lohan dazzles us once more,” said Steve Rhodes. “The smartly written script is a perfect match for her intelligent brand of comedy.” Mean Girls was scripted by Tina Fey and featured several alumni of Saturday Night Live; Lohan was asked to host the show three times, in 2004, 2005, and 2006.

With Mean Girls Lohan’s public profile was raised significantly and paparazzi began following her. Lohan’s attitude to the paparazzi and tabloids is ambivalent. She has said that while she doesn’t ask them to follow her, if they’re not around she wonders if it means people are bored of her or no one cares anymore. Her manager worked with the paparazzi during the shooting of Labor Pains to encourage the media to show Lohan working, as opposed to partying.

In 2005, Lohan became the first living person to have a “My Scene Goes Hollywood” doll released by Mattel. She also voiced herself in the direct-to-DVD feature film based on the dolls.

Lohan returned to Disney in 2005 for Herbie: Fully Loaded, the fifth film in the Herbie series. Her popularity allowed her to choose from a wider variety of projects; Lohan felt the post-college character she portrayed in Herbie would help her make the transition into more grown-up roles. Fully Loaded earned US$144 million worldwide.

In 2006 Vanity Fair described Herbie as Lohan’s “first disastrous shoot”; how she—stressed out from issues in her personal life and strained from trying to record her first album during the shoot—eventually ended up hospitalized with a kidney infection. The magazine also recounted how Lohan terminated Herbie’s European promotional tour, and how Disney de-emphasized her on the movie poster due to “un-Disney-like behavior”.

Her next film in wide release, Just My Luck, opened in May 2006 to poor reviews and earned only $38 million worldwide.

Independent movies and career interruptions

Lohan in A Prairie Home Companion

Following Just My Luck, Lohan focused on independent films. In June 2006, A Prairie Home Companion, in limited release ended its run earning $25 million globally. “Lohan rises to the occasion, delivering a rock-the-house version of ‘Frankie and Johnny’,” wrote Peter Travers. Lohan completed filming the independent Emilio Estevez film, Bobby, in December 2005; the film was released in theaters on 23 November 2006, earning $19 million worldwide. While Bobby received generally mixed reviews (45% on Rotten Tomatoes), Lohan got some praise for her performance, particularly a scene opposite Sharon Stone.

She then appeared in Chapter 27 as a John Lennon fan who befriends Mark David Chapman (Jared Leto) on the day he murders the singer. It was filmed in New York between January and March 2006. The film had trouble finding a distributor for the United States and received a very limited release. Chapter 27 was widely panned by critics, receiving a dismal 20% Fresh rating on Rotten Tomatoes.

On May 11, 2007, Georgia Rule was released in which Lohan starred alongside Felicity Huffman and Jane Fonda. The film — whose production received adverse publicity when a letter from a studio executive to Lohan criticizing her professionalism was made public — received mostly negative reviews. It grossed US$6.7 million at the box office in its opening weekend and to date has grossed over US$22 million worldwide.

After entering a rehabilitation facility in January 2007, Lohan withdrew from a film adaptation of Oscar Wilde’s A Woman of No Importance, her publicist stating that Lohan needed to “focus on getting better”.During her stay, she was allowed to continue shooting her latest film I Know Who Killed Me, returning to the center at night.Production on the film was previously halted when Lohan underwent appendix surgery earlier in the month. Lohan also dropped out of The Edge of Love in late April 2007, just before filming was to begin, when she reportedly couldn’t come to terms on salary, furthermore the director citing “insurance reasons” and Lohan later explaining that she “was going through a really bad time then.” Lohan was then cast in the film adaptation of Poor Things. She ultimately lost, or perhaps withdrew from, the part following her May 2007 DUI arrest, although the film’s producers voiced support for her decision to once again enter rehab.

On July 24, 2007, Lohan—in the wake of her second DUI arrest—withdrew from a scheduled appearance on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno to promote her starring role as a stripper in the film I Know Who Killed Me. The film premiered “to an abysmal $3.5 million” and earned Lohan two nominations for worst actress at the Golden Raspberry Awards. She came in first and second, tying with herself.

Entertainment Weekly quoted the head of a major film studio as saying, “Her career was over long before she had these troubles… Right now, she’d have to pay a studio to get herself into a movie.” The article continues, “There’s the L.A. bar scene that serves underage stars and Hollywood’s compulsion to turn child actors into products, plus a frenzied 21st century media culture that has made Lohan and other celebs into exotic prey in flashbulb cages.” ABC News quoted publicist Michael Levine as calling Lohan unemployable “for the next 18 months.” The head of a talent agency agreed, noting that her personal issues likely made the insurance and other costs required for any film production to proceed prohibitively expensive. James Robinson, the producer of Georgia Rule, stated he would still like to work with her. “She’s a good person who’s making some bad choices. She needs time to get the proper medical care, but when she’s in the right emotional state, I’d put her in a movie right away…. She’s probably one of the most talented young women in the movie business today.”

2008-present

In May 2008 Lohan appeared on ABC’s Ugly Betty television series, her first screen appearance since I Know Who Killed Me. Subsequently guest starring in a total of four episodes, spanning seasons two and three in 2008, Lohan played Kimmie Keegan, an old schoolmate of America Ferrera’s character Betty Suarez.

Lohan is the star of the forthcoming film comedy Labor Pains, playing a young woman who pretends to be pregnant to avoid being fired. The film is in post-production as of July 2008 and scheduled for release in spring 2009.

Upon leaving rehab in 2007, Lohan was cast to star in the tango biopic “Dare to Love Me”. Filming is planned to start in May 2009. The release date is scheduled to be sometime in 2010.

Box office status

Lohan’s films have grossed $433,522,095.

Music career

Lohan in 2003

Hoping to become a triple threat – actor, singer and dancer – like her idol, Ann-Margret, Lohan began showcasing her singing talent through her films. For the Freaky Friday soundtrack, she sang the closing theme, “Ultimate”; she also recorded four songs for the Confessions of a Teenage Drama Queen soundtrack.

Producer Emilio Estefan, Jr. signed Lohan to a five-album production deal in 2002. “The minute I heard her sing, I knew she was gifted,” he said, “and has an incredible ability to connect with her audience. I am very excited to be working with her.” Lohan — who said she was “extremely excited” — added, “I am surrounded by a group of very talented people.” Two years later, Lohan signed a recording contract with Casablanca Records, headed by Tommy Mottola.In 2006, Lohan was switched from Casablanca to Motown Records by Universal Music Group.

Speak (2004)

Her debut album, Speak, was released in December 2004, and peaked at number four on the Billboard 200. By early 2005, it was certified Platinum. Though primarily a pop album, Speak was introduced with the single “Rumors”, described by Rolling Stone as “a bass-heavy, angry club anthem”. Its sexually suggestive video reached number one on MTV’s Total Request Live and was nominated for Best Pop Video at the 2005 MTV Video Music Awards. “Rumors” eventually earned a Gold certification in America.

The album spawned the second single “Over” and the third single “First”, which was featured in Lohan’s 2005 film Herbie: Fully Loaded. The music video also featured Herbie the Love Bug. Both music videos were directed by Jake Nava, who also directed the music video for “Rumors.”

“ith just two hit films under her belt, Lohan decided it was time to turn into a multimedia, cross-platform star,” wrote Stephen Thomas Erlewine of Allmusic. “And so Speak was recorded quickly and rushed into the stores”. He called her music “a blend of old-fashioned, Britney-styled dance-pop and the anthemic, arena rock sound pioneered by fellow tween stars Hilary Duff and Ashlee Simpson. Lohan stands apart from the pack with her party-ready attitude and her husky voice”.

A Little More Personal (Raw) (2005)

A Little More Personal (Raw) was supposed to be released on November 22, 2005, but was pushed back by two weeks to December 6.The album debuted at number 20 on the Billboard 200 chart, but fell to #111 in just six weeks.Reviews were mixed; Entertainment Weekly said that “Lohan’s (admittedly studio-sheened) brand of pop darkness reads realer than Ashlee Simpson’s”.Slant magazine called it “contrived … RAW is considerably more consistent than its predecessor, and it’s not a bad listen by any means, but for all the so-called weighty subject matter, there’s not much meat on these bones”.All music was in a similar agreement with Slant magazine, writing “While this makes for an album that’s substantially more interesting and cohesive than the gaudy Speak, it doesn’t necessarily mean that A Little More Personal (Raw) is a successful record, either” but noted that “even if A Little More Personal (Raw) is far from being totally successful, it is an intriguing mash-up of heart and commerce. And it does suggest one thing that Speak never did: Lindsay Lohan may have an artistic vision as a recording artist, which is indeed a huge step forward.”.Rolling Stone wrote that “The album de-emphasizes the (very) guilty pop pleasures of her 2004 debut in favor of leaden I-hate-you-Daddy laments”. Still, A Little More Personal (Raw) was certified Gold on 18 January 2006. The music video for the album’s first single, “Confessions of a Broken Heart (Daughter to Father)” — directed by Lohan and featuring the acting debut of her sister, Ali — was a dramatization of the pain Lohan says her family has suffered at the hands of her father. She said “It’s kind of offensive… I hope he sees the positive side of the video rather than the negative”.It became Lohan’s first song to chart on the Billboard Hot 100, where it peaked at #57.

The album’s second single was supposed to be “I Live for the Day.” Radio promos were pressed and released and sent to radio stations. However due to Lohan’s schedule, she was unable to promote or support the single as she did with her previous efforts. Eventually, since the single received absolutely no radio airplay or support, and due to the disappointing chart position and sales of the album, Casablanca Records cancelled “I Live for the Day” and moved forward with “Fastlane” as the second single, which was also supossed to serve as the theme song for Lohan’s movie “Just My Luck”.However plans for releasing “Fastlane” were later cancelled, as well as all other singles and promotion with the album.Therefore, A Little More Personal (Raw) was not as successful as her previous album, Speak. A Little More Personal (Raw), with little promotion, was still certified gold by the RIAA on 18 January 2006 after debuting on the Billboard 200 at #20, while “Speak” went platinum after debuting at #4.

2008-present

Lohan started work on a third album in 2007.Lohan stated that she wants the album to be dance, hip-hop, and R&B – “kind of Kylie Minogue-meets-Rihanna”. She was working with a wide range of producers and songwriters, including J. R. Rotem, Stargate, Ne-Yo, Akon, Snoop Dogg, Timbaland, Bloodshy & Avant, Christopher “Tricky” Stewart, The-Dream, Thaddis “Kuk” Harrell, Pharrell Williams, 50 Cent, and Sam Sparro, among others.In May, 2008, a song entitled “Bossy” was leaked and later officially released as a “buzz single” from the album and received a favourable reaction from consumers.Bossy became Lohan’s first single to enter the Hot Dance Club Play chart, and her first #1 hit on this chart.

On November 13, 2008, Access Hollywood reported that Lohan has been avoiding calls and e-mails from her Motown manager about finishing work on the album, feeling “on the defensive”. “I just — I didn’t want to,” she explained. “With my other records, I kind of just did it, just to do it”. Lohan said she struggled while working on her movies and music at the same time and wants to avoid the stress of simultaneous major projects in the future. “I want to be able to focus and balance my life,” she continued. “So, I can enjoy each thing as I do it and as it comes”. Lohan also stated in the interview that she called back her manager to resume work on the album.. As a result the album, reportedly titled “Spirit in the Dark”, was not released on November 4, 2008 as scheduled.No announcements have been made as to modified release dates or material.Tracks that were confirmed and scheduled to be on the album were “Bossy”, “Problem Solver”, “Washing My Hands”, and “Playground” featuring Pharrell, which was slated to be released as the album’s first single in September 2008.

Other work

Lohan was voted #10 on the list of “100 Sexiest Women” by readers of FHM. Maxim placed her at #3 on its 2006 Hot 100 list. In 2007, Lohan placed at #1 on the Maxim “Hot 100″.

Lohan has a long-lasting admiration for Marilyn Monroe going back to when she saw Niagara during the The Parent Trap shoot. In the February 25, 2008 Spring Fashion edition of New York, Lohan re-created Monroe’s final photo shoot, known as the Last Sitting, including nudity. Her mother said doing the photo shoot was an “honor.”

Lohan makes a cameo in the music video for the single “Everyone Nose” by N*E*R*D, released in May 2008. A song about the restroom drug usage of young party-goers, the video also has appearances by friends Cory Kennedy, Samantha Ronson and Kanye West.

Lohan is the face of the 2008 Visa Swap UK fashion campaign. Lindsay was photographed for the campaign in early 2008 in Los Angeles, California.

In 2008 Lohan launched a leggings line named 6126, choosing 6126 as her brand name because it represents Marilyn Monroe’s birth date. Lohan also started a brand development firm called Stay Gold which will focus on a lower-priced line of leggings, creating a self-tanner, and a line of accessories.

Lohan will be a guest judge on U.S. TV style contest “Project Runway.” She will sit in with show host Heidi Klum and designer Michael Kors on the series’ sixth season premiere episode in 2009, Access Hollywood reports.

In May of 2008 Lohan was chosen as the face of Italian clothing company Fornarina for its Spring/Summer 2009 campaign.Lohan has also been the face of Jill Stuart, Miu Miu, and Dooney and Bourke.

Personal life

Family background and education

Lohan was born in New York City and grew up in Merrick and Cold Spring Harbor on Long Island in New York. She is the eldest child of Donata “Dina” (née Sullivan) and Michael Lohan. Lohan has three younger siblings, all of whom were child models: Michael Jr., who appeared with her in The Parent Trap, sister Aliana, who is also an actress, and Dakota, the youngest Lohan child. Lohan is of Irish and Italian heritage and was raised as a Catholic.

Her maternal family were “well known Irish Catholic stalwarts” in Merrick, with her great-grandfather, John L Sullivan, being a co-founder of the Pro-life Party in Long Island. Lohan attended public school on Long Island and was a cheerleader. She finished her studies at home through Laurel Springs School of Ojai, California.

Lohan’s parents have a turbulent history. They married in 1985, separated when Lindsay was three, and later reunited.

Lohan’s father has been in trouble with the law repeatedly. He was a Wall Street trader and in the late 1980s, around the time of the release of The Parent Trap, he served a four year sentence for stock fraud. Lohan has said her mother only told her that he was busy working. He went to jail in 1998 for a propbation violation, and in 2000 after violating an order of protection to prevent him from seeing his children.

Following one separation when Michael Lohan was not allowed near the children Dina went to live with the children at her parents’ because they were afraid to live in their own home. Lohan spoke in 2007 about her younger siblings: “I feel like a second parent in the sense that I helped raise my family.” And speaking about her parents’ conflicts: “I was put between my mother and father a lot. Well, I would put myself between them to try and keep the peace, and I felt good doing that.”

In December 2005, Michael and Dina Lohan signed a separation agreement. According to Vanity Fair, Dina Lohan accused Michael of threats and domestic abuse in the legal papers. Michael Lohan in turn insinuated through the media that Dina had been drinking and doing drugs, possibly together with Lindsay. In 2007, Lohan’s parents announced that their divorce proceedings had been finalized.

Despite the conflicts, Lindsay calls herself a family girl and has spoken very fondly of her family, including her father. However, in 2007 and again in 2008 she stated that she is no longer in contact with him, describing his unpredictable behavior as hard to deal with.

Lohan has suffered from asthma since the age of two. Despite this she is a smoker.

Following Mean Girls in 2004 Lohan spent several years living out of hotels in Los Angeles, two of those years at Chateau Marmont. In fall 2007 she settled down in more permanent residency, and later explained that she spent so much time in hotels because she “didn’t want to be alone” but that “it wasn’t a way of life… not very consistent.”

Car accidents, drug and alcohol use

Lohan has had a series of car accidents that have been widely reported, with minor crashes in August 2004, October 2005, and November 2006, when Lohan suffered minor injuries because a paparazzo who was following her for a photograph hit her car. Police called the crash intentional, but prosecutors said there was not enough evidence to file criminal charges.

Lohan is also well known on the celebrity party scene. In a letter to Lohan and others associated with the filming of Georgia Rule that was later made public, James G. Robinson, CEO of the film’s production company, Morgan Creek Productions, wrote:

You and your representatives have told us that your various late arrivals and absences from the set have been the result of illness; today we were told it was ‘heat exhaustion’. We are well aware that your ongoing all night heavy partying is the real reason for your so-called ‘exhaustion’.

In 2006, Lohan attended Alcoholics Anonymous meetings.

On January 18, 2007, Lohan checked herself in to the Wonderland Center rehabilitation facility. Through her representative, she issued a statement saying, “I have made a proactive decision to take care of my personal health.”.Lohan checked out on February 16, 2007 after completing a 30-day stay.

On May 26, 2007, Lohan lost control of her car and ran the vehicle up a curb. Beverly Hills police also found a “usable” amount of cocaine in her car and the police lab detected cocaine in her blood. After receiving treatment for minor injuries, Lohan was arrested on a misdemeanor charge of driving under the influence of alcohol. Two days later, Lohan entered the Promises Treatment Centers rehabilitation facilitystaying for 45 days..Lohan checked out on July 13, 2007.

On July 24, 2007 the police found Lohan by a parking lot in Santa Monica having a “heated debate” with her former assistant who was fired several hours earlier. After failing field sobriety tests Lohan was taken to a police station where her blood alcohol level was found to be above the legal limit. While conducting a search, the police found a small amount of cocaine in her pocket. Lohan was booked on a felony charge of possession of cocaine and misdemeanor charges of driving under the influence and driving with a suspended license. On October 22, 2008, TV Guide reported that Lohan has been sued by three men she took on a car chase in July 2007 that resulted in a DUI arrest.

On August 23, 2007, Lohan pleaded guilty to cocaine use and driving under the influence and was sentenced to one day in jail and 10 days community service. She was also ordered to pay fines and complete an alcohol education program, and was placed on three years probation. “It is clear to me that my life has become completely unmanageable because I am addicted to alcohol and drugs,” Lohan said in a statement.

On August 5 2007, Lohan entered Cirque Lodge Treatment Center in Sundance, Utah for a third stint at rehabilitation, staying until discharge on 5 October 2007.

Political positions

In 2004, Lohan stated that she did not like to talk about politics because she did not want to risk alienating any part of her fanbase. However, in 2006 she expressed an interest in going to Iraq on a USO tour with Hillary Clinton,. During the 2008 US presidential campaign, she offered her services to Barack Obama’s election effort, including hosting events aimed at young voters; but her offer was declined by the campaign, who stated she was “not exactly the kind of high-profile star who would be a positive for us.” She nonetheless weighed in publicly on her choices in that election, urging voters to support Obama, criticizing media coverage of vice-presidential candidate Sarah Palin, and posting MySpace blogs describing Palin as homophobic, anti-abortion and anti-environmentalist.

Relationships

Lohan began dating singer Aaron Carter in 2001. It was reported that Carter left Hilary Duff for Lohan, but soon broke up with Lohan and resumed dating Duff. On March 23, 2007, Claymation facsimiles of Lohan and Duff appeared on the celebrity wrestling series Celebrity Death Match episode “Where’s Lohan?”. Duff and Lohan were later reported to have been involved in a “feud” with each other over their relationship with Carter. In 2007, Duff and Lohan had reconciled. Lohan attended the release party for Duff’s album Dignity and Duff told People magazine that she thought Lohan was “fun” and “a nice girl”.

Lohan started dating Wilmer Valderrama in 2003, though the couple were not seen together until May 2004 and didn’t go public with their romance until Lohan’s 18th birthday bash at the Hollywood nightclub, Avalon, two months later; the couple broke up in late 2004. Lohan has also dated Pink Taco restaurant owner Harry Morton and British TV personality Calum Best.

While seeking treatment at the Cirque Lodge in Utah, Lohan met and began dating Riley Giles; however, in late November 2007, it was announced that they had split up. Lohan’s mother, Dina Lohan said, ” took desperate measures to hurt Lindsay because she broke up with him”.

In 2008, several media outlets began commenting on Lohan and Samantha Ronson, who were regularly seen being affectionate in public. In July 2008, several newspapers, including The Times and Los Angeles Times, published opinion pieces describing their relationship as romantic. Lohan’s father, Michael Lohan, has been very outspoken in his disapproval of Lohan’s relationship with Samantha Ronson, and on September 24, 2008, Lohan wrote a response to him via e-mail to the New York Post: “Samantha is not evil, I care for her very much and she’s a wonderful girl….She loves me, as I do her.” Lohan opened up about her relationship with Ronson in the December 2008 issue of Harper’s Bazaar magazine. She stated, “I think it’s pretty obvious who I’m seeing… I think it’s no shock to anyone that it’s been going on for quite some time… She’s a wonderful person and I love her very much.” While speaking about her sexual orientation, Lohan said she was not a lesbian, but responded “Maybe. Yeah.” when asked if she was bisexual. She then added, “I don’t want to classify myself.” Lohan said her family, with the exception of her father Michael, had been supportive of her relationship with Ronson.

Filmography

Films

Television

• Another World – 1996–1997
• Bette (2000–2001) – appeared 11 October 2000, in pilot episode only
• Punk’d – one episode, 14 December 2003
• Saturday Night Live – Host, 1 May 2004
• 2004 MTV Movie Awards – Host, 10 June 2004
• That ’70s Show – “Mother’s Little Helper” episode, 10 November 2004
• Saturday Night Live – Cameo for Weekend Update, 11 December 2004
• Saturday Night Live – Host, 21 May 2005 (season finale)
• Saturday Night Live – Host, 15 April 2006
• 2006 World Music Awards – Host, November 2006
• 2008 MTV Movie Awards – Presenter, 1 June 2008
• 2008 MTV Video Music Awards – Presenter, September 7, 2008
• Ugly Betty – Kimmie Keegan – “Jump”, 22 May 2008
• Ugly Betty – Kimmie Keegan – “The Manhattan Project”, 25 September 2008
• Ugly Betty – Kimmie Keegan – “Granny Pants”, 23 October 2008
• Ugly Betty – Kimmie Keegan – “Ugly Berry”, 30 October 2008

Discography

Main article: Lindsay Lohan discography

Albums

• 2004: Speak
• 2005: A Little More Personal (Raw)

Soundtracks

• 2003: Freaky Friday
• 2004: The Princess Diaries 2: Royal Engagement
• 2004: Confessions of a Teenage Drama Queen
• 2004: That’s So Raven
• 2005: Herbie: Fully Loaded
• 2006: A Prairie Home Companion

Awards and nominations

Lindsay Lohan has received various awards related to her film performances:

• Nominated for a Blockbuster Entertainment Award for Favorite Female Newcomer for The Parent Trap (1998)
• Won a Young Artist Award for Best Performance in a Feature Film – Leading Young Actress for The Parent Trap (1998)
• Nominated for a Young Star Award for Best Performance by a Young Actress in a Comedy Film for The Parent Trap (1998)
• Nominated for a Saturn Award for Best Performance by a Younger Actor for Freaky Friday (2003)
• Won an MTV Movie Award for Breakthrough Female Performance for Freaky Friday (2003)
• Won a Teen Choice Award for Choice Breakout Movie Star – Female for Freaky Friday (2003)
• Won a Teen Choice Award for Choice Movie Hissy Fit for Freaky Friday (2003)
• Nominated for a Young Artist Award for Best Performance in a Feature Film – Leading Young Actress for Freaky Friday (2003)
• Nominated for a Critics Choice Award for Best Young Actress for Mean Girls (2004)
• Won a Blimp Award for Favorite Movie Actress for Mean Girls (2004)
• Won an MTV Movie Award for Best Female Performance for Mean Girls (2004)
• Won an MTV Movie Award for Best On-Screen Team for Mean Girls (2004) – shared with: Rachel McAdams, Lacey Chabert and Amanda Seyfried
• Won a Teen Choice Award for Choice Breakout Movie Star – Female for Mean Girls (2004)
• Won a Teen Choice Award for Choice Breakout Movie Star – Female for Confessions of a Teenage Drama Queen (2004)
• Won a Teen Choice Award for Choice Movie Actress – Comedy for Mean Girls (2004)
• Won a Teen Choice Award for Choice Movie Blush for Mean Girls (2004)
• Nominated for a Teen Choice Award for Choice Movie Chemistry for Mean Girls (2004) – shared with Jonathan Bennett
• Nominated for a Teen Choice Award for Choice Movie Liar for Mean Girls (2004)
• Won a Blimp Award for Favorite Movie Actress for Herbie Fully Loaded (2005)
• Nominated for a Teen Choice Award for Choice Movie Actress: Comedy for Herbie Fully Loaded (2005)
• Won a 2005 Young Hollywood Award for Superstar of Tomorrow
• Nominated for a Teen Choice Award for Choice Crossover Artist (2005)
• Won a Hollywood Breakthrough Award for Breakthrough Actress (2006)
• Won a Hollywood Film Award for Bobby (2006) – shared with: Harry Belafonte, Joy Bryant, Nick Cannon, Emilio Estevez, Laurence Fishburne, Brian Geraghty, Heather Graham, Anthony Hopkins, Helen Hunt, Joshua Jackson, David Krumholtz, Ashton Kutcher, Shia LaBeouf, William H. Macy, Svetlana Metkina, Demi Moore, Freddy Rodríguez, Martin Sheen, Christian Slater, Sharon Stone, Jacob Vargas, Mary Elizabeth Winstead and Elijah Wood
• Nominated for a Gotham Award for Best Ensemble Cast for A Prairie Home Companion (2006) – shared with: Woody Harrelson, Tommy Lee Jones, Garrison Keillor, Kevin Kline, Virginia Madsen, John C. Reilly, Maya Rudolph, Meryl Streep, Lily Tomlin, L.Q. Jones, Sue Scott and Tim Russell
• Nominated for a Razzie Award for Worst Actress for Just My Luck (2006)
• Nominated for a SAG Award for Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture for Bobby (2006) – shared with: Harry Belafonte, Joy Bryant, Nick Cannon, Emilio Estevez, Laurence Fishburne, Brian Geraghty, Heather Graham, Anthony Hopkins, Helen Hunt, Joshua Jackson, David Krumholtz, Ashton Kutcher, Shia LaBeouf, William H. Macy, Svetlana Metkina, Demi Moore, Freddy Rodríguez, Martin Sheen, Christian Slater, Sharon Stone, Jacob Vargas, Mary Elizabeth Winstead and Elijah Wood
• Nominated for a Teen Choice Award for Choice Movie Actress: Drama for Bobby (2006)
• Nominated for a Teen Choice Award for Movies – Choice Actress: Comedy for Just My Luck (2006)
• Nominated for a Teen Choice Award for Movies – Choice Hissy Fit for Just My Luck (2006)
• Won a Razzie Award for Worst Actress for I Know Who Killed Me (2007)(As Aubrey)
• Won a Razzie Award for Worst Actress for I Know Who Killed Me (2007)(As Dakota)
• Won a Razzie Award for Worst Screen Couple for I Know Who Killed Me (2007)
• Nominated for a Teen Choice Award for Choice Movie Actress: Drama for Georgia Rule (2007)

References

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Further reading

• Boone, Mary (2004). Lindsay Lohan: A Star on the Rise. Triumph. ISBN 1572436891. 
• Wheeler, Jill C. (2004). Lindsay Lohan (Young Profiles). Checkerboard. ISBN 1591978785. 
• Brown, Lauren (2004). Lindsay Lohan: The “It” Girl Next Door. Simon Spotlight. ISBN 0689878885. 

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Christina Aguilera

Birth name: Christina María Aguilera
Also known as Christina Aguilera-Bratman, Xtina
Born December 18, 1980 Staten Island, New York, United States
Origin: Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States
Voice type(s) Soprano

Christina María Aguilera (born December 18, 1980) is an American pop/R&B singer and songwriter. Aguilera first appeared on national television in 1990 as a contestant on the Star Search program, and went on to star in Disney Channel’s television series The New Mickey Mouse Club from 1993–1994. Aguilera signed to RCA Records after recording “Reflection” for the film Mulan. She came to prominence following her debut album Christina Aguilera (1999), which was a commercial success spawning three number one singles on the Billboard Hot 100. A Latin pop album, Mi Reflejo (2001), and several collaborations followed which garnered Aguilera worldwide success.

After parting from her management, Aguilera took creative control over her second studio album Stripped (2002), which received mixed reviews and produced substantial sales. The second single, “Beautiful”, was a commercial success and sustained the album’s sales amidst controversy over Aguilera’s sexual image. Aguilera’s third studio album Back to Basics (2006), included elements of soul, jazz, and blues music, and was released to positive critical reception. Her fourth studio album is tentatively set for release in Summer 2009.

Aside from being known for her vocal ability, music videos and ever-changing image, musically, she includes themes of dealing with public scrutiny, her childhood, and female empowerment in her music. Apart from her work in music, she has also dedicated much of her time as a philanthropist for charities, human rights and world issues. Aguilera’s work has earned her numerous awards, including five Grammy Awards amongst eighteen nominations. She has become one of the most successful recording artists of the decade, selling more than 42 million records worldwide.

Early life and career

Aguilera was born in Staten Island, New York, to Fausto Wagner Xavier Aguilera, a Sergeant in the U.S. Army at the time and Shelly Loraine Fidler, a teacher of Spanish language. Aguilera’s father was born in Guayaquil, Ecuador, while her mother is of Irish descent (Christina’s maternal grandmother emigrated from County Clare.) Her father, Fausto, was stationed at Earnest Harmon Air Force Base in Stephenville, Newfoundland, Canada and Japan. Aguilera lived with her father and mother until she was seven years old. When Aguilera’s parents divorced, her mother took her, and her younger sister Rachel, to her grandmother’s home in Rochester, Pennsylvania, a suburb outside of Pittsburgh. According to both Aguilera and Fidler, her father was very controlling, as well as physically and emotionally abusive. She later wrote about her difficult childhood in the songs “I’m OK” in Stripped, and “Oh Mother” in Back to Basics. Although her father has written to Aguilera, she has ruled out any chance to reunite with him. Since then, Fidler has married a paramedic named Jim Kearns, and changed her name.

As a child, Aguilera aspired to be a singer. She was known locally as “the little girl with the big voice”, singing in local talent shows and competitions. According to VH1’s Driven, whenever competitors learned they would be up against her in any given week, they would immediately withdraw, prompting insiders to claim it was “like sending a lamb to the slaughter.” Her peers soon became jealous of her and would frequently subject her to ridicule, ostracism, and, in one gym class, attempted assault. Acts of vandalism around her house included the slashing of the tires on the family car. Eventually, the family relocated to another suburb in the Pittsburgh area (this time, Wexford) and took to secrecy about Aguilera’s talent lest another backlash occur. She attended Marshall Middle School near Wexford and North Allegheny Senior High School until she was later home-schooled.

On March 15, 1990, she appeared on Star Search singing Etta James’ “A Sunday Kind of Love”, but lost the competition at number 2. Soon after losing on Star Search, she returned home and appeared on Pittsburgh’s KDKA-TV’s Wake Up with Larry Richert to perform the same song. People remarked that the then ten-year-old “sounded 20.”

Throughout her youth in Pittsburgh, Aguilera sang “The Star-Spangled Banner” before Pittsburgh Penguins hockey, Pittsburgh Steelers football and Pittsburgh Pirates baseball games. Her first major role in entertainment came in 1993 when she joined the Disney Channel’s variety show The New Mickey Mouse Club. Her co-stars included Justin Timberlake, Britney Spears, Ryan Gosling, and Keri Russell, the show lasted another year until its cancellation. According to the documentary Driven, Aguilera’s co-stars called her “the Diva”. One of her most notable performances was of Whitney Houston’s “I Have Nothing”.

At the age of fourteen, Aguilera recorded her first song, “All I Wanna Do”, a hit duet with Japanese singer Keizo Nakanishi. In 1997, she represented the United States at the “Golden Stag” International Festival with a two-song set.

Music career

1998–2001: Pop music beginnings and Christina Aguilera

In 1998, Aguilera sang the High “E” in full voice (E₅) on a cover of Whitney Houston’s “Run to You” which she recorded with a tape recorder in her bathroom. She was then selected to record the song “Reflection” for the Disney production of Mulan (1998). Recording “Reflection” led to Aguilera earning a contract with RCA Records the same week. “Reflection” peaked within the top twenty on the Adult Contemporary Singles Chart, and it was nominated for a Golden Globe Award for “Best Original Song” in 1998.

Under the exclusive representation of Steve Kurtz, Aguilera’s self-titled debut album Christina Aguilera was released on August 24, 1999. It reached the top of the Billboard 200 and Canadian album charts, selling eight million copies in the U.S. and over twelve million copies worldwide. The album is also included in the Top 100 Albums of All Time list of The Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) based on US sales.

Aguilera during the promotion of her debut album in April 2000.

Her singles “Genie in a Bottle”, “What a Girl Wants” and “Come on Over Baby (All I Want Is You)” topped the Billboard Hot 100 during 1999 and 2000, and “I Turn to You” reached #3. According to the album’s songwriters, Aguilera wanted to display the range and audacity in her voice during the promotion of the album, and performed acoustic sets and appeared on television shows accompanied only by a piano. She ended the year on MTV’s New Year’s Special, as she performed and was MTV’s first artist of the millennium. At the 2000 Grammys Aguilera received a Best Female Pop Vocal Performance nomination for “Genie in a Bottle” and despite earlier predictions, she won the award for Best New Artist.

Later in 2000, Aguilera first emphasized her Latin heritage by releasing her first Spanish album, Mi Reflejo on September 12, 2000. This album contained Spanish versions of songs from her English debut as well as new Spanish tracks. Though some criticized Aguilera for trying to cash in on the Latin music boom at the time. The album still managed to peak at #27 on the Billboard 200 and number one on the Latin album charts. In 2001, it won Aguilera a Latin Grammy Award for Best Female Pop Vocal Album. The album went Gold in the US and sold 3 million worldwide. She also won the World Music Award as the best selling Latin artist that year. Aguilera also released a Christmas album on October 24, 2000 called My Kind of Christmas. It peaked at #28 on the Billboard 200, and has been certified Platinum in the US. Ricky Martin asked Aguilera to duet with him on the track “Nobody Wants to Be Lonely” from his album Sound Loaded; released in 2001 as the album’s second single, which reached #1 on the World Chart.

In 2001, Aguilera, Lil’ Kim, Mýa, and Pink were chosen to remake Labelle’s 1975 single “Lady Marmalade” for the film Moulin Rouge! and its soundtrack. The single Missy Elliott produced hit number one on the Hot 100 for five weeks and was the most successful airplay-only single in history. It also reached number one in eleven other countries amd earned all four performers a Grammy Award for Best Pop Collaboration with Vocals. Aguilera’s appearance in the music video was compared to that of Twisted Sister frontman Dee Snider. The video won two MTV Video Music Awards including Video of the Year in 2001, where Aguilera accepted the award saying, “I guess the big hair paid off.”

That year a single emerged into record stores called “Just Be Free”, one of the demos Aguilera recorded when she was around fifteen years old. When RCA Records discovered the single, they advised fans not to purchase it. Months later, Warlock Records was set to release Just Be Free, an album which contains the demo tracks. Aguilera filed a breach of contract and unfair competition suit against Warlock and the album’s producers to block the release. Instead, the two parties came to a settlement to release the album. Aguilera lent out her name, likeness and image for an unspecified amount of damages. Many of the details of the lawsuit remain confidential. When the album was released in August 2001, it had a photograph of Aguilera when she was fifteen years old.

Although Aguilera’s debut album was very well received, she was dissatisfied with the music and image her management had created for her. Aguilera was marketed as a bubblegum pop singer because of the genre’s upward financial trend. She mentioned plans of her next album to have much more depth, both musically and lyrically. Aguilera’s views of Steve Kurtz’s influence in matters of the singer’s creative direction, the role of being her exclusive personal manager and overscheduling had in part caused her to seek legal means of terminating their management contract.

In October 2000, Aguilera filed a Breach of fiduciary duty lawsuit against Kurtz for improper, undue and inappropriate influence over her professional activities, as well as fraud. According to legal documents, Kurtz did not protect her rights and interests. Instead, he took action that was for his own interest, at the cost of hers. The lawsuit came about when Aguilera discovered Kurtz used more of her commissionable income than he was allotted, and had paid other managers to assist him. She also petitioned the California State Labor Commission to nullify the contract. After terminating Kurtz’s services, Irving Azoff was hired as her new manager.

Kurtz countersued later that month for breach of contract, claiming that the singer violated the same agreement she had sued to void. In the lawsuit, he included others close to Aguilera, alleging their intent to sabotage his business relationship with her. He also singled out Azoff for being in violation of the terms of Kurtz’s contract. During this time, while she was also working on her second album, she later revealed that she was betrayed by several friends, and hit rock bottom. She used her then-upcoming album as therapy, saying “this record saved me from insanity.”

2002–2003: Stripped era

On October 29, 2002, after much delay, Aguilera’s second full-length English album, Stripped, was released, selling more than 330,000 copies in the first week and peaking at #2 on the Billboard 200. Unlike previous work, the album showcased Aguilera’s raunchier side. The majority of Stripped was co-written by Aguilera (who had recently signed a global music publishing contract with BMG Music Publishing), and was influenced by many different subjects and music styles, including contemporary R&B, gospel, soul, balladry, pop rock, and hip hop. The majority of the album was produced by Scott Storch and singer-songwriter Linda Perry who produced her more personal records. Rockwilder and singer Alicia Keys also contributed a track each. Upon initial release, the album was very well-received by critics, although Aguilera’s vocals were overlooked as she began to cultivate a more sexually provocative image. After the release of the album, she took part in photoshoots for magazines, many of these photographs featured her nude or semi-nude. Her cover for Rolling Stone, featured the singer only wearing boots and a well-placed electric guitar. It was during this time Aguilera referred to herself as “Xtina“, even getting a tattoo of her nickname on the back of her neck and several piercings.

Initially, the raunchy image had a negative effect on Aguilera in the U.S., especially after the release of her controversial “Dirrty” music video. She denied that this change was a matter of publicity, claiming that the image better reflected her true personality than did the image she cultivated back in 1999. While the video for “Dirrty” became very popular on MTV, it disappointed on the U.S. singles chart. However, the single was a hit worldwide, reaching number one in the UK and Ireland. The album reached the top five on the U.K., U.S. and Canadian album charts. The second single, “Beautiful” received critical praise. The classically influenced ballad reached number one in several countries and peaked at #2 in the US. “Beautiful” earned Aguilera the Grammy for Best Female Pop Vocal Performance. Three more singles (”Fighter”, “Can’t Hold Us Down” featuring Lil’ Kim, “The Voice Within”) were released in the following two years and were hits that helped the album stay on the charts for the next two years. Stripped stayed on the U.S. and UK album charts well into 2004, and went on to be certified four-times platinum in the U.S. with over nine million copies sold worldwide. It appeared at number ten on Billboard’s year-end album chart. Kelly Clarkson’s second single “Miss Independent” was co-written by Aguilera, having been half-finished for Stripped.

Aguilera performing in her Stripped Tour.

Aguilera joined Justin Timberlake that June on the final leg of his international Justified tour, held in the U.S. This portion of the tour became a co-headliner called the “Justified & Stripped Tour”. In August, an overhead lighting grid collapsed from the ceiling of the Boardwalk Hall in Atlantic City, New Jersey, causing major damage to the sound and video equipment below. Because the collapse occurred hours before the show, only a few stagehands were injured, but a few shows were cancelled or postponed. In the fourth quarter of that year, Aguilera continued to tour internationally without Timberlake, and changed the name of the tour to the “Stripped World Tour”. She also dyed her hair black. It was one of the top-grossing tours of that year, and sold out most of its venues. Rolling Stone readers named it the best tour of the year. She was a special guest performer with the Pussycat Doll’s dance troupe and appeared on a Maxim spread alongside them. Her second Maxim cover that year set record sales for the issue, by the end of the year she topped the annual Hot 100 list later saying, “We had fun working with certain clothes, or the lack thereof.” After much delay, Aguilera’s first DVD live-recording from a concert tour, Stripped Live in the UK, was released in November 2004.

In light of the tour’s success, another U.S. tour was scheduled to begin in mid-2004 with a new theme. The tour however was scrapped because of the vocal cord injuries Aguilera suffered shortly before the tour’s opening date. In a tribute to Madonna’s performance at the inaugural MTV Video Music Awards, Aguilera performed a kiss with the singer-actress at the 2003 edition of the ceremony in August. The incident occurred during the opening performance of Madonna’s songs “Like a Virgin” and “Hollywood” with fellow popstar Britney Spears.

2004–2007: Artistic development – Back to Basics

Aguilera later decided to embrace a more mature image; this move was met with more praise than criticism, with articles using punch lines such as “From Crass to Class.” She eventually dyed her hair cherry blonde and recorded a jingle, “Hello”, for a Mercedes-Benz ad. Shortly after, she dyed her hair blonde and cut it short, and took on a Marilyn Monroe look; she is one of the main proponents (along with Dita Von Teese, Gwen Stefani, and Ashley Judd) in bringing back the 1920s-1940s Hollywood glamour look.

In late summer 2004, Aguilera released two singles. The first, “Car Wash”, was a remake of the Rose Royce disco song recorded as a collaboration with rapper Missy Elliott for the soundtrack to the film Shark Tale. The second song was also a collaboration, but this time as a second single from one of Nelly’s double-release albums, Sweat, titled “Tilt Ya Head Back”. Both singles failed commercially in the U.S., but did considerably better in other parts of the world.

Aguilera collaborated with jazz artist Herbie Hancock on a cover of Leon Russell’s “A Song for You” recorded for Hancock’s album Possibilities, released in August 2005. Aguilera and Hancock were later nominated for the Grammy Award for Best Pop Collaboration with Vocals. She helped open the 50th Anniversary for Disneyland performing “When You Wish upon a Star”, and she also collaborated with Andrea Bocelli on the song “Somos Novios” for his album Amore.

Aguilera’s third English studio album, Back to Basics, released August 15, 2006, debuted at #1 in the U.S., the U.K. and eleven other countries. Aguilera described the double CD as “a throwback to the 20s, 30s, and 40s-style jazz, blues, and feel-good soul music, but with a modern twist.” Although critics commented on the album’s length saying, “At one disc, this would have been nothing short of masterful.” The critically acclaimed lead single “Ain’t No Other Man” was a substantial success, reaching #2 on the World Chart, #6 in the U.S., and #2 in U.K. Producers on the album included DJ Premier, Kwamé, Linda Perry, and Mark Ronson. One track, “F.U.S.S.”, was written as a response to the animosity between Aguilera and her former producer Scott Storch. In an interview she said, “That’s a way of burying my experience with him. When I tried to work with him again, he made uncalled-for demands. It was disappointing that someone would get affected like that.” She received writing credit for the album and was the executive producer. The follow-up singles did very well in different regions, “Hurt” in Europe and “Candyman” in the Pacific. She co-directed both music videos, the former with Floria Sigismondi who directed her “Fighter” video, and the latter, “Candyman”, with director/photographer Matthew Rolston which was inspired by The Andrews Sisters. Back to Basics has shipped 4,5 million copies worldwide.

Aguilera performing in her Back To Basics Tour.

In late 2006 Aguilera collaborated with Sean “Diddy” Combs on a track, titled “Tell Me”, from his album Press Play. She also began the “Back to Basics Tour” in Europe followed by a 41-date North American tour in early 2007. After this, she toured Asia and Australia, where it was supposed to end on August 3, however she canceled her dates in Melbourne and her final two in Auckland due to an illness. Her extravagant arena tour included cabaret, three-ring circus and juke joint sets and 10 piece costumes designed by Roberto Cavalli. It was the most successful US tour by a female in 2007. In early 2008, she released her concert DVD Back to Basics: Live and Down Under.

At the 49th Grammy Awards, Aguilera again won the Best Female Pop Vocal Performance for “Ain’t No Other Man”. She made a noteworthy performance at the ceremony paying tribute to James Brown with her rendition of his song “It’s a Man’s Man’s Man’s World”. In January 2007, she was named the 19th richest woman in entertainment by Forbes, with a net worth of US$60 million.

Aguilera performed “Steppin’ Out With My Baby” with Tony Bennett on his NBC special Tony Bennett: An American Classic and on Saturday Night Live. They performed at the 59th Primetime Emmy Awards where both specials received Emmys. “Steppin’ Out” was nominated for Best Pop Collaboration with Vocals at the 50th Annual Grammy Awards.

2008–present: Keeps Gettin’ Better and fourth album

In 2008 Aguilera was featured on the soundtrack to the film, Shine a Light, from a live recording of the song “Live With Me” with the Rolling Stones. The film’s soundtrack was released on April 1, 2008. To commemorate Aguilera’s ten years in the music industry, RCA Records released, Keeps Gettin’ Better – A Decade of Hits on November 11, 2008 exclusively at Target stores. The greatest hits included her first three number one singles, and other songs released from her previous three albums. The album’s lead single, “Keeps Gettin’ Better” was premiered at the 2008 MTV Video Music Awards and was her highest debut peaking at #7 on the Billboard Hot 100.

She described her forthcoming album as “short, sweet and completely different” from Back to Basics. In a July 2008 interview Aguilera revealed several details about her album saying, “I can tell you that this record is all about fun. I’ll be referencing Pop art, Andy Warhol’s art. So it will fun and fast-paced, and visually, it will be full of color”. She also added, “there’s also going to be a modern element to it that comes from my love of Tokyo”. Australian singer-songwriter Sia, will contribute her songwriting skills for Aguilera’s album saying, “I’m going to write with Christina in mid-September – It might not work, she might not like any of the stuff I write, and it may not make the cut, but I’m pretty excited about it.” “I’m definitely a fan of Sia’s, “I was thrilled she also wanted to work together and, in turn, was a fan of mine.” Aguilera will also be working with Goldfrapp and Ladytron. The album is expected for release during summer 2009 and will be mostly produced by long time collaborator Linda Perry.

Musicianship

Vocal ability

Aguilera in 2007 performing at a private show in Paris, France.

Aguilera has rivaled many of her other contemporaries and has been referred to as the “voice of her generation” and a blue eyed soul singer. In the MTV special All Eyes on Christina, John Norris said that Aguilera “has a four-octave vocal range”. Aguilera also topped COVE’s list of the 100 Best Pop Vocalists with a score of 50/50 and came fifth in MTV’s 22 Greatest Voices in Music. Aguilera has also been known to sing in the whistle register. A review in an Entertainment Weekly article mentions her “tackling that dog-whistle high note” at the 3:20 mark in the song “Soar” from her album Stripped. Her rendition of “It’s A Man’s Man’s Man’s World” at the 49th Grammy Awards ranked 3rd in the Grammy’s Greatest Moments List behind Celine Dion’s performance of “My Heart Will Go On”. In an interview Dion described Aguilera as “probably the best vocalist in the world.” During the work on Back to Basics, DJ Premier explained, “She really represents true music and true singing. She can belt out notes. She has true lungs.” Rolling Stone ranked Aguilera at 58 on their list of the 100 Greatest Singers of All Time, the youngest singer on the list.

Since her debut in 1999 Aguilera has been compared to the likes of Mariah Carey and Whitney Houston. A review in the Los Angeles Times compared Aguilera’s vocal stylings to Barbara Streisand, Gladys Knight, and Aretha Franklin adding, “Aguilera’s Streisand-esque tendencies are a good thing; they’re helping her figure out how to become the “great singer” she’s been dubbed since she released her first single, the wise-beyond-its-years “Genie in a Bottle”, at 18.” Although praised for her vocals, Aguilera has been labeled for oversinging in her songs and concerts. Longtime producer and writer, Linda Perry, commented on working on the record, “Beautiful”, saying, “I tried to keep it straight. I told her to get rid of the finger waves. Every time she’d start going into “hoo-ha”, I’d stop the tape. I’m like, ‘You’re doing it again.’” Perry ended up using the first take saying, “She had a hard time accepting that as the final track. It’s not a perfect vocal — it’s very raw. She knows her voice really well, and she knows what’s going on. She can hear things that nobody else would catch.”

Themes and musical style

The constant theme in Aguilera’s music and lyrics is love, although she has written on other subjects including spirituality, female empowerment, and grief. Aguilera has also written about her childhood in two of her records which dealt with domestic abuse. In an interview Aguilera admitted she feels responsible to reveal her most vulnerable feelings and to share the darker sides of her life adding “People that can relate might not feel as alone in the circumstance.” She has been noted to constantly changing her sound in her music and lyrical content. Originally marketed as a bubblegum pop singer during the late 90’s pop scene, she quickly departed into a broad range of musical genres for her follow-up album Stripped. A review states, “Clearly afflicted with Premature Serious Artist Syndrome, Aguilera wants to demonstrate the range of her interests – vampy soul, quasi-metal, piano-bar intimacy, quiet-storm R&B, bounce-bounce hip-hop, and semi-exotic rock, all of it dutifully accomplished.” Although by many she is still considered a pop and contemporary R&B singer despite her range of genres. A review in Allmusic states, “no other teen-pop singer of her era has a better track record than Christina.” The majority of the songs are characterized by Aguilera’s loud vocals, though she has used breathy and soft vocals.

Aguilera has often cited that she prefers working with producers that other artists haven’t approached, saying “I don’t necessarily go to the main people that are the No. 1 chart-toppers in music.”

Influences

One of Aguilera’s major influences and idol is blues singer Etta James, whose classic song, “At Last” has been covered by Aguilera throughout her career. Aguilera says, “Etta is my all-time favorite singer. I’ve said it for the last seven years — since I had my first debut record out — in every interview. I mean, all of Etta’s old songs, countless songs I could name, I grew up listening to.” The majority of her album, Back to Basics, pays tribute to James and other pop standard singers who many originated from the 1950s. In her early years she listened to vintage jazz, blues, and soul music. The album included an unreleased song, “Slow Down Baby”, which sampled a Gladys Knight & the Pips song. A review in The Guardian declared, “Practically everything recorded before Aguilera was born blurs into one amorphous genre, which she categorises, somewhat inadequately, as “fun music”. Her other musical influences include Aretha Franklin, Whitney Houston, Nina Simone, and Madonna.

Aguilera cites the musical The Sound of Music and its lead actress, Julie Andrews as an early inspiration for singing and performing. She mentioned the “Golden age of Hollywood” as another inspiration in which she says, “I’m referencing Marlene Dietrich, Marilyn Monroe, Carole Lombard, Greta Garbo, Veronica Lake”. In her music video for “Ain’t No Other Man” she plays her alter ego, “Baby Jane” in reference to the film Whatever Happened to Baby Jane? The film’s stars included actresses Bette Davis and Joan Crawford.

Film and television

In 1991 Aguilera auditioned for a role on The New Mickey Mouse Club, however she didn’t meet the age requirements. Two years later she joined the cast performing musical numbers and sketch comedy until the show’s cancellation in 1994. Since then Aguilera has done numerous television appearances, in 1999 she made a cameo appearance performing on an episode of Beverly Hills, 90210. She hosted a Saturday Night Live episode in 2004, which included a Sex & The City skit where she portrayed Samantha Jones revealing to everyone she was a man the entire time. In regards to acting in film, she’s mentioned in several interviews that she intends to pursue edgy acting roles similar to Angelina Jolie. She voiced a small singing part in the animated film Shark Tale playing a rastafarian jellyfish in the film’s closing musical number. The film’s stars included, among others, Jolie herself.

In 2008 she appeared in the Martin Scorsese documentary Shine A Light which chronicles a two day Rolling Stones concert in New York City’s Beacon Theatre. The film features Aguilera performing “Live With Me” alongside Mick Jagger. Shine A Light premiered at the Berlin Film Festival on February 7 and was released worldwide on April 4, 2008. She will appear as herself in the upcoming Judd Apatow film, Get Him to the Greek.

Products and endorsement

In 2000, Aguilera was the face for make-up line Fetish where she worked in choosing colors and packaging for the line. She ended her contract the following year. Throughout her career Aguilera has endorsed several brands, including Skechers, Mercedes-Benz, Verizon Wireless, and soft drink giants Coca-Cola in 2001, and Pepsi in 2006. She became the muse and model for fashion house Versace appearing in a campaign for the 2003 fall line. In 2004 Aguilera earned £200,000GBP (about $500,000USD) for opening the summer sale at London’s Harrods store which took in record breaking profits during the four week period. Aguilera signed a contract with European cell phone operator Orange to promote the new Sony Ericsson Walkman phone during the 2006 World Cup.

In 2008 jewelry designer Stephen Webster and close friend of Aguilera released “Shattered”, a collection of sterling silver pieces, through Neiman Marcus and Bergdorf Goodman. Aguilera, who inspired the collection, was featured as a Hitchcock heroine saying, “Working together on this campaign and collection has been an incredible experience. I am honored to be a part of it all.” They reprised their work together for Webster’s upcoming 2009 spring line. Aguilera added that the campaign will be retro inspired.

Aguilera released two fragrances throughout Europe, the first one Xpose, was released in late 2004 and sold relatively well. Through Procter and Gamble Aguilera released her signature fragrance, Simply Christina in 2007. In Christmas 2007, the fragrance became the number one perfume in the UK, and Germany where it topped sales for the year. The perfume won as the people’s choice for favorite celebrity fragrance at the annual UK Fifi Awards 2008. She released her third fragrance, Inspire, accompanied with a body care collection, on September 1, 2008. The perfume hit shelves in the US, Canada, Latin America, Asia and Northern and Eastern Europe. It is Aguilera’s first fragrance released outside of Europe. Her worldwide ad campaign included a television ad shot by David LaChapelle and was released in the US through Macy’s department stores. The release coincided with Macy’s 150th anniversary which featured Aguilera in commemorative photos.

Philanthropy

Throughout her career, Aguilera has been involved with certain charities. She signed a letter from PETA to the South Korean government asking that the country stop its alleged killing of dogs for food. She also supports Defenders of Wildlife, Missing Kids, National Alliance of Breast Cancer Organizations, Women’s Cancer Research Fund, and Cedars-Sinai Women’s Cancer Research Institute. She has also worked alongside nonprofit organization Do Something saying, “Every individual has the power to inspire young people across the country.” She was featured in the campaign for photographer, Brie Childers with the goal of helping women of all ages, races and lifestyles feel beautiful and confident about themselves and the body and skin they were born with. Proceeds from benefit several women’s charities nationwide.

Aguilera is still a major contributor in her hometown of Pittsburgh contributing regularly to the Women’s Center & Shelter of Greater Pittsburgh. According to her official website, she toured the center and donated $200,000 to the shelter. She also has auctioned off front row seats and back stage passes for the Pittsburgh-based charity. She has continued her donations and visits to the shelter, and plans to open an additional one. She also supports the National Coalition Against Domestic Violence and Refuge UK. Since then she has worked with Lifetime Television’s ‘End violence against women’ campaign. Her work there included a public service announcement which aired on the network and during her 2007 tour.

Aguilera is a supporter of the LGBT community. She was honored at the GLAAD Awards for using gay and transgender images in her music video for “Beautiful”. When accepting the award Aguilera said, “My video captures the reality that gay and transgender people are beautiful, even though prejudice and discrimination against them still exists.” In 2005 she appeared on a compilation album titled, Love Rocks, proceeds benefit the Human Rights Campaign, an organization dedicated to fighting for equal rights for gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgendered people. In 2008 she publicly spoke out against California’s Proposition 8 which eliminates same-sex marriage in California saying, “Why you would put so much money behind something stopping from people loving each other and bonding together? I just don’t understand it. It’s hard for me to grasp. But I would’ve been out there with my rally sign as well.”

Aguilera contributes in the fight against AIDS, by participating in AIDS Project Los Angeles’ Artists Against AIDS “What’s Going On?” cover project. In 2004, Aguilera became the new face for cosmetic company M·A·C and spokesperson for M·A·C AIDS Fund. Aguilera appeared in advertisements of the M·A·C’s Viva Glam V lipstick and lipgloss, and was featured on Vanity Fair in recognition of her campaign work. In addition, Aguilera contributed to YouthAIDS by posing for a joint YouthAIDS and Aldo Shoes campaign for “Empowerment Tags” in Canada, the U.S. and the UK. She was featured with one of three ubiquitous slogans, “Speak No Evil?” and stated, “HIV is something that people don’t want to talk about, hear about, or face.” Singer Elton John featured Aguilera in his charity book titled “Four Inches” benefiting the Elton John AIDS Foundation. Elton also hand-picked Aguilera, for his annual “Fashion Rocks” charity concert which accompanies music and fashion to benefit the fight against AIDS/HIV.

In the run-up to the 2004 United States presidential election, Aguilera was featured on billboards for the “Only You Can Silence Yourself” online voter registration drive run by the nonpartisan, non-profit campaign “Declare Yourself”. In these political advertisements, shot by David LaChapelle, Aguilera was shown with her mouth sewn shut, to symbolize the effects of not voting. She appeared on The Oprah Winfrey Show to discuss the importance of voting. In late 2007 Aguilera became the spokesperson for “Rock the Vote” where she urged young people to vote in the 2008 presidential election. In partnership with “Rock the Vote”, she appeared in a public service announcement which aired in summer 2008. The advert showed Aguilera with her son, Max Bratman, wrapped in an American flag, while singing “America the Beautiful”.

In November 2005, all of her wedding gifts were submitted to various charities around the nation in support of Hurricane Katrina victims. That year she also performed at “Unite of the Stars” concert in aid of Unite Against Hunger in Johannesburg, South Africa and at the Nelson Mandela Children’s Fund at the Coca-Cola Dome. In March 2007 Aguilera took part in a charity album (remaking Lennon’s “Mother”), proceeds benefit Amnesty International’s efforts to end genocide in Darfur. The album titled, Instant Karma: The Amnesty International Campaign to Save Darfur, was released June 12, 2007 and featured various artists. In 2008 she headlined London’s Africa Rising charity concert at Royal Albert Hall which raises awareness for finding substantial issues facing the continent. Later that year she appeared on the Turkish version of Deal or No Deal “Var mısın? Yok musun?” , where she won $180,000. Proceeds were donated to a charity program for orphans.

Personal life

1999–2003

In late 1999, Aguilera was rumored to have dated MTV VJ Carson Daly. The relationship was the subject of much discussion after the release of Eminem’s song “The Real Slim Shady”, in which Eminem satirically suggests that Aguilera had performed fellatio on both Daly and Fred Durst, the lead singer of Limp Bizkit, and had given the rapper himself a venereal disease. Aguilera called the song’s innuendo “disgusting” and “untrue.” Aguilera and Eminem reportedly resolved the issue three years later backstage at the MTV Video Music Awards.

Aguilera appeared twice on Mr. Blackwell’s Ten Worst Dressed Women’s list in 2000 and 2002. It was during this time Aguilera’s image was ridiculed for her heavy make-up and outfits during award shows and public events. Aguilera insisted she doesn’t mind the criticism and was merely making a statement. While seeing one of her music videos, Aguilera’s grandma was disappointed saying, “I nearly died when I saw she was wearing so little. I rang her mom and said, ‘Oh my God, what is Christina doing?’ I feel sad for her really — she is so young. I totally understand why people criticize her.”

She dated Puerto Rican dancer Jorge Santos, he appeared on her tour and music videos throughout 2000. They dated for nearly two years until the relationship ended in September 2001. He remained her dancer well into 2002. She was reportedly linked to producer Dallas Austin who had contributed tracks to her then upcoming Stripped album but were never included, Aguilera never confirmed the relationship.

In 2003, Aguilera was in several public feuds with other musicians including Pink who had worked with her on “Lady Marmalade”, the singer mocked Aguilera on stage by using a blow-up doll during her tour. Kelly Osbourne also remarked that Aguilera was, “one of the most disgusting human beings in the world.” Later that year at the MTV Europe Awards where Aguilera was hosting, Osbourne commented on the red carpet calling her a “cow”, Aguilera was later seen throwing darts at a picture of Kelly during the telecast. Several years later however Aguilera purchased The Osbourne house from Sharon and Ozzy which seemed to have ended their feud.

2004–2008

Aguilera began dating music marketing executive Jordan Bratman in 2002. Their engagement was announced in February 2005, and they married on November 19, 2005, in a Napa Valley estate. In an interview with Ellen DeGeneres, Aguilera revealed that she and Bratman enjoy being nude on Sundays, saying, “You have to keep marriage alive, spice it up”. The story received so much attention that following the news supermodel Heidi Klum told Degeneres that she and her husband Seal would consider doing the same ritual.

In May 2006, she posed nude for a Marilyn Monroe-inspired photoshoot in GQ magazine where she re-created several photographs done by Monroe and spoke about her marriage to Bratman. In the issue she also expressed disappointment in fellow singer Mariah Carey, saying that Carey “was never cool to me”, and that “one time we were at a party, I think she got really drunk, and had really derogatory things to say to me.” Carey then released a statement saying, “It is sad yet predictable that she would use my name at this time to reinvent past incidents for promotional gain.” Aguilera responded saying, “My intentions were not to upset Mariah with any statements published or taken out of context. I have all the respect in the world for her.”

On September 9, 2007, Paris Hilton claimed that the singer was pregnant. Aguilera, however, had not yet publicly confirmed her pregnancy at the time. Aguilera later confirmed this on November 4 in an interview with Glamour magazine. On January 12, 2008, Aguilera gave birth to her son, Max Liron Bratman, at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles, California. His name translates to “Our Greatest Song” in Hebrew. Aguilera was reportedly paid $1.5 million USD by People magazine for her baby pictures, which according to Forbes places fifth on the list of the most expensive celebrity baby photos.

Discography

Main article: Christina Aguilera discography

Filmography

• 1993–1995: Mickey Mouse Club — Herself
• 1999: Beverly Hills, 90210 — Herself
• 2000: Saturday Night Live — Musical guest
• 2003: Saturday Night Live — Musical guest
• 2004: Shark Tale — Voice
• 2004: Saturday Night Live — Host
• 2006: Saturday Night Live — Musical guest
• 2008: Shine a Light — Musical guest

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Paris Whitney Hilton (born February 17, 1981) is an American celebutante, socialite, heiress, television personality, businesswoman, actress, author, singer and model.

She is known for her appearance in a sex tape in 2003, her appearance on the television series The Simple Life, her several minor film roles (most notably her role in the horror film House of Wax in 2005), her 2004 tongue-in-cheek autobiography, her 2006 album Paris, and her work in modeling. As a result of several legal incidents, Hilton also served a widely publicized sentence in a Los Angeles County jail in 2007.

Early life and background

Born in New York City, Hilton is the oldest of four children of Richard and Kathy Hilton (née Avanzino). She has a sister, Nicky, and brothers, Barron and Conrad.

On the maternal side of her family, she is a niece of two child stars of the 1970s, Kim Richards and Kyle Richards. Hilton was related by marriage to Nicole Richie’s godmother, Nancy Davis, when Nancy’s brother, Greg, was married to Kim Richards.

Hilton’s paternal grandparents are hotel chairman Barron Hilton, and his wife, the former Marilyn Hawley; Barron Hilton’s parents were Hilton Hotels founder Conrad Hilton and his first wife, Mary Barron.

Hilton moved between several exclusive homes in her youth, including a suite in the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel in Manhattan, Beverly Hills, and the Hamptons. She attended her freshman year of high school at the Marywood-Palm Valley School in Rancho Mirage, California followed by the Dwight School in New York for her sophomore and junior years. She was then transferred to the Canterbury School, in New Milford, Connecticut where she was a member of the hockey team. However, in early 1999, she was expelled for violating the school rules. Hilton later earned her GED.

In December 2007, Hilton’s grandfather Barron Hilton pledged 97 percent of his estate to a charitable organization founded by his father, the Conrad N. Hilton Foundation. An immediate pledge of $1.2 billion was made, with a further $1.1 billion due after his death. He cited his father’s actions as the motivation for his pledge. According to reports, the potential inheritance of his grandchildren is sharply diminished.

Career

Hilton has worked as a model, actress, musician, and engaged in occasional business pursuits. According to Forbes Magazine, she earned approximately $2 million in 2003–2004, $6.5 million in 2004–2005, and $7 million in 2005–2006.

As a model

Hilton began modeling as a child, initially at charity events. When she was 19, she signed with Donald Trump’s modeling agency, T Management. Hilton has also worked with Ford Models in New York, Models 1 Agency in London, Nous Model Management in Los Angeles, and Premier Model Management in London. She has appeared in numerous advertising campaigns, including Iceberg Vodka, GUESS, Tommy Hilfiger, Christian Dior, and Marciano. In 2001, Hilton began to develop a reputation as a socialite, being identified as “New York’s leading It Girl” whose fame was beginning to “extend beyond the New York tabloids”. She has appeared in several magazines, including the April 2004 issue of Maxim.

As an actress

Film

Hilton at the Sundance Film Festival in 2008

Hilton has made cameo appearances in several films, notably Zoolander, Wonderland, and The Cat In The Hat. She landed minor and supporting roles in the feature films Nine Lives, Raising Helen, The Hillz, and House of Wax. Her role as Paige Edwards in House of Wax won the Teen Choice Award for “Best Scream” and earned her a nomination for “Choice Breakout Performance – Female”. (It also won her the 2005 Razzie for “Worst Supporting Actress” at the 2005 Golden Raspberry Awards.) She also earned a nomination for “Best Frightened Performance” at the 2006 MTV Movie Awards. She landed her first lead roles in 2006 with the straight-to-DVD releases National Lampoon’s Pledge This! and Bottoms Up. She plays the Hottie in the box office bomb romantic comedy The Hottie and the Nottie, released in 2008. She had a minor cameo appearance as herself in An American Carol. Hilton plays Amber Sweet, the surgery- and painkiller-addicted daughter of a biotech magnate in the goth/rock musical Repo! The Genetic Opera. Critics have responded well to her performance in the film, in which she sings and acts. However, in an interview Repo! director Darren Lynn Bousman revealed that he had originally refused to audition Paris for the role of Amber Sweet. “I broke down,” says Bousman, “and I met with her, and immediately she charmed everyone in the room.” In the same interview, Bousman also revealed that Hilton was so keen to get the part that she had the script smuggled into her during her much publicized stint in a Los Angeles jail, and used her time inside to work on her role.

Television

Paris Hilton in Cannes during the Film festival

Hilton co-starred with Nicole Richie in the Fox reality series The Simple Life, which premiered on December 2, 2003. The Simple Life ran for three seasons on Fox. The show was cancelled by Fox after a dispute between Hilton and Richie, but it was subsequently aired by E! Entertainment Television for the fourth and fifth seasons. Despite talks of a sixth season, the series finished its run at the end of the fifth season. In March 2008, it was reported that Hilton would star in a new MTV reality series tentatively titled Paris Hilton’s My New BFF, about her looking for a new best friend. The series premiered on September 30, 2008.

Hilton has also guest-starred in episodes of The O.C., The George Lopez Show, Las Vegas, American Dreams and Veronica Mars. Furthermore, she appeared in several music videos, including “It Girl” by John Oates and “Just Lose It” by Eminem. Planning is underway for an eponymous cartoon series following the animated life of Hilton, her sister Nicky, and her dog Tinkerbell, which began filming in September 2007. In April 2008, she guest starred on the My Name is Earl episode I Won’t Die with a Little Help from My Friends.

Recording artist

Hilton founded Heiress Records, a sub-label of Warner Bros. Records, in 2004 and released her self-titled debut album, Paris, under that label on August 22, 2006. Although the album reached number six on the Billboard 200 for a week, its total sales volume has been low – but the first single “Stars Are Blind” was a top ten hit in 17 countries. Allmusic commented that the album was “more fun than anything released by Britney Spears or Jessica Simpson, and a lot fresher, too.” On the whole, critical reception was mixed. On July 16, 2007 Hilton confirmed that she was working on a new album with producer Scott Storch. In a recent interview with MTV, Hilton decided that her second album is going to be a dance album. She stated that she “loves Bob Sinclar” and wants to create dance-music vibe. Hilton has installed a professional recording studio in her house to work on the album. On September 30, 2008, Hilton premiered her song “My BFF” on KIIS-FM with host Ryan Seacrest. It is the first single from her as yet untitled second studio album and the theme song of her show Paris Hilton’s My New BFF. Hilton stated that she finished working on the album. A second song “Paris For President” was released along with a music video late October 2008. Paris Hilton can also be heard singing on the soundtrack to the musical Repo! The Genetic Opera. In an interview, the director, Darren Lynn Bousman, praised her vocal skills. When talking about Paris’ vocal audition process for the role, Bouseman said, “We gave her some music and said, ‘You have one day to come back and perform this.’ She came back the next day, memorized everything, was pitch-perfect, I mean she was awesome.”

As an author

In the autumn of 2004, Hilton released an autobiographical book, Confessions of an Heiress: A Tongue-in-Chic Peek Behind the Pose, co-written by Merle Ginsberg, which includes full color photographs of her and her advice on life as an heiress. Hilton reportedly received a $100,000 advance payment for this book. Some in the media panned the writing as amateurish, and the book was parodied by Robert Mundell on The Late Show with David Letterman. The book became a New York Times bestseller. Hilton followed it up with a designer diary, also with Ginsberg, called Your Heiress Diary: Confess It All to Me.

Activism and politics

In 2007, after watching a graphic video about animals raised for their fur, Hilton announced her support of vegetarianism and her opposition to wearing fur. Hilton said:

Hilton is a Democrat and was a supporter of Barack Obama’s Democratic presidential candidacy, saying that “I am definitely voting. I think that Barack Obama is a very exciting politician. He has some good ideas, and he’s very inspiring to a lot of people.”

Alleged discriminatory remarks

In January 2007 a video surfaced on the commercial website ParisExposed.com in which Paris Hilton uses homophobic and ethnic slurs. Hilton appears to mock African-Americans and Jews at a party during the song “We Are Family” by Sister Sledge. The video was found among Hilton’s personal and medical documents auctioned off after she allegedly failed to pay the bill on a storage facility. Hilton’s publicist Elliot Mintz confirmed to the New York Post its authenticity, saying she had obviously been drinking. On February 3, 2007 Hilton obtained a temporary injunction against ParisExposed.com, closing down the website for a short period of time before it went back online.

Standing as a celebrity

Paris Hilton has been quoted as saying that she is the “iconic blonde of the decade”‘ and compared herself to Princess Diana and Marilyn Monroe (a claim she denied in the May 2007 issue of Harper’s Bazaar). She appeared in the 2007 Guinness World Records as the world’s “Most Overrated Celebrity”. In a poll conducted by the Associated Press and AOL, Hilton was voted the second “Worst Celebrity Role Model of 2006″, behind Britney Spears. Critics suggest that Hilton epitomizes the title of famous for being famous; echoing that sentiment, the Associated Press conducted what they called an experiment in February 2007, trying not to report on Hilton for a whole week.

Hilton recently posed nude, covered in gold paint, to promote “Rich Prosecco”, a canned version of an Italian sparkling wine.

2008 parody Presidential campaign

On August 6, 2008, Paris appeared in a 1 minute 50 second long video, “Paris Hilton Responds to McCain Ad”, directed by Adam McKay and posted on the Funny or Die website. The video featured Hilton in a parody advertisement, and was made in response to a television campaign advert “Celeb”, by the 2008 John McCain presidential campaign. In Celeb, McCain briefly compared his rival Barack Obama to that of celebrities such as Hilton and Britney Spears, going on to question his readiness to lead and criticize his energy policy.

In what The Washington Post opined “might just be her best acting role yet,” Hilton appears wearing a leopard print swimsuit. She starts out by suggesting that her personal mention by McCain means that she must now be a candidate in the presidential race, and goes on to mock McCain, and critique the expected qualities and lifestyle of a celebity in comparison to that of a US president. In a 30 second segment, in the style of an academic speaker, Paris compares and contrasts the policies of McCain and Obama for solving the US energy crisis, and goes on to propose a ‘compromise solution’ combining elements of both.

The video received 7 million views in two days garnering worldwide press coverage, and drew both written and verbal media response from both campaigns. The merits and drawbacks of the ‘Paris compromise solution’ with regard to energy policy, as well as its contrast to the adversarial political campaigns, generated multiple comments from US political commentators, as well as Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi and Congressman Michael Burgess.

Continuing the spoof campaign, in October, Hilton featured in a second parody video posted on Funny or Die, the 2 minute 20 second long Paris Hilton Gets Presidential with Martin Sheen, alongside Hollywood actor Martin Sheen, with his son, actor Charlie Sheen, appearing in a cameo role. Hilton, heavily made up and in a green evening dress, interviews Martin Sheen in a kitchen, discussing various political issues, seeking his advice from his days playing a fictional President on The West Wing.

Products and endorsements

Hilton helped design a collection of purses for Japanese label Samantha Thavasa, and also a jewelry line for Amazon.com. In 2004, Hilton was involved in the creation of a perfume line by Parlux Fragrances. Originally set to be a small release, high demand led to a wider release before December 2004. The launch was followed by a 47 percent increase in sales of Parlux products, predominantly due to sales of the Hilton-branded perfume. After the success of Hilton’s perfume, Parlux Fragrances released several more perfumes with her name, including fragrances for men. Paris Hilton launched a new fragrance in October 2007, called Can Can. This is her fourth women’s fragrance after Paris Hilton, Just Me, and Heiress. During the month of November 2008, Paris Hilton released her fifth fragrance for women called, “Fairy Dust”. In January 2007, Hilton released the DreamCatchers line of hair extensions in partnership with Hair Tech International. In early August 2007, Hilton signed a licensing agreement with Antebi for a signature footwear line, “Paris Hilton Footware”, featuring stilettos, platforms, flats, wedges, and a sports collection, expected to reach stores in 2008. In mid August 2007, Hilton launched a line of tops, dresses, coats, and jeans at Kitson boutique in Los Angeles.

In 2005, Hilton lent her name to a chain of nightclubs owned by Fred Khalilian and known as Club Paris. This association ended in January 2007 after she had failed to attend several scheduled promotional appearances.

In December 2007, Hilton joined in promotion of RICH Prosecco, an Italian sparkling wine sold in cans rather than bottles. Hilton went to Germany to promote the drink.

Personal life

Paris Hilton in Munich 2005

Hilton was engaged to fashion model Jason Shaw from mid-2002 to early 2003. In 2003-2004 she had a relationship with singer Nick Carter. Later she was engaged to Greek shipping heir Paris Latsis, from May 29, 2005 to November 2005. Thereafter, she began dating another Greek shipping heir, Stavros Niarchos III, before breaking up in May 2006. In early 2008, she was spotted with Good Charlotte guitarist Benji Madden and in May, Hilton announced her intention to marry Madden during interview with television talk-show host David Letterman. The two broke up in November 2008, and “remain very good friends”.

Hilton told Live with Regis and Kelly: “One-night stands are not for me. I think it’s gross when you just give it up. Guys want you more, if you don’t just hand it to them on a platter.”

Hilton loves small dogs, and owns a Yorkshire Terrier and a female Chihuahua named Tinkerbell. Hilton is frequently seen carrying Tinkerbell (dubbed an “accessory dog”) at social events and functions, and in all five seasons of television reality show The Simple Life. In 2004, Tinkerbell “authored” a memoir, The Tinkerbell Hilton Diaries. On August 12, 2004, Tinkerbell went missing after Hilton’s apartment was burgled, and a $5,000 reward was offered for her safe return. She was found six days later. By December 1, 2004, Tinkerbell was again spotted with Paris Hilton at various events. Hilton has also purchased a male Chihuahua on July 25, 2007 from Pets of Bel Air in Los Angeles. Hilton’s love for man’s best friend led her to create an apparel line for dogs called Little Lily by Paris Hilton, with some of the proceeds going to benefit animal rescue. “I have 17 dogs and I like to dress them, so I started designing this clothing line and it’s really cute, like dresses and jeans — everything you can imagine for humans, but for dogs,” she said in an interview during Super Bowl XLII festivities.

A homemade sex video of Hilton and then-boyfriend Rick Salomon was leaked on the Internet in 2003, later released as the DVD 1 Night in Paris despite attempted legal action. It appeared a week prior to the premiere of The Simple Life.

On December 20, 2008, around 4:00am, a man in a hooded sweater and gloves entered Hilton’s Mulholland Estates, Los Angeles home and stole $2 million dollars worth of jewelry and other items from her bedroom. Hilton was not home at the time and nobody was injured in the home invasion. There is speculation that it was an inside job.

Driving violations

Paris Hilton’s booking photograph

In September 2006, Hilton was arrested and charged with driving under the influence of alcohol with a blood alcohol content of 0.08%, the level at which it is illegal to drive in California. Hilton’s driving license was subsequently suspended in November 2006, and in January 2007 she pleaded no contest to the alcohol-related reckless driving charge. Her punishment was 36 months’ probation and fines of about $1,500. On January 15, 2007, Hilton was pulled over for driving with a suspended license and signed a document acknowledging that she was not permitted to drive. On February 27, 2007 Hilton was caught driving 70 mph in a 35 mph zone, again with a suspended license. She also did not have her headlights on even though it was after dark. Prosecutors in the office of the Los Angeles City Attorney charged that those actions, along with the failure to enroll in a court-ordered alcohol education program, constituted a violation of the terms of her probation.

On May 4, 2007 Hilton was sentenced by Judge Michael T. Sauer to 45 days in jail for violating her probation. Initially, Hilton planned to appeal the sentence, and supported an online petition asking California governor Arnold Schwarzenegger for a pardon. The petition was created and organized on May 5, 2007 by Joshua Morales. In response, various opponents started a counter-petition to maintain the sentence. Both petitions attracted tens of thousands of signatures. Hilton later switched lawyers and dropped her plans to appeal.

Hilton was required to begin her jail term on June 5, 2007, and checked herself into the Century Regional Detention Facility, an all-female jail in Lynwood, California after attending the 2007 MTV Movie Awards on June 3, 2007. With credit for good behavior, it was anticipated that Hilton would only serve 23 days of her 45-day sentence; however, in an unexpected turn of events, Los Angeles County Sheriff Lee Baca signed orders on the morning of June 7, reassigning Hilton to 40 days of home confinement with an electronic monitoring device due to an unspecified medical condition. Baca commented on the release saying, “My message to those who don’t like celebrities is that punishing celebrities more than the average American is not justice,” contesting that under normal circumstances, Hilton would not have served any time in jail, and he added that “The special treatment, in a sense, appears to be because of her celebrity status … She got more time in jail”. On the same day that Hilton was released from jail, Judge Michael Sauer summoned her to reappear in court the following morning (June as the sentencing statement had explicitly said she would serve time in jail with “No work furlough. No work release. No electronic monitoring.” At the hearing he declined to be briefed by Hilton’s attorney in private chambers on the nature of her condition and sent her back to jail to serve out her original 45-day sentence. Upon hearing the sentence, Hilton shouted, “It’s not right!” and started screaming, requesting to hug her mother who was present in the courtroom. Concern about Hilton’s condition led to her being moved to the medical wing of the Twin Towers Correctional Facility in Los Angeles, and she was moved back to the Century Regional Detention Facility in Lynwood on June 13.

While in jail, Hilton was influenced by the clergyman minister Marty Angelo: Hilton referred to starting a “new beginning” during her interview with talk show host Larry King on June 28, 2007, two days after being released from jail, and quoted from Angelo’s autobiography, entitled Once Life Matters: A New Beginning. On June 9, 2007, Marty Angelo petitioned Sauer, asking to serve out the remainder of Hilton’s jail sentence if the judge would release her to an alternative treatment program, but the petition was turned down.

Filmography

Discography

Main article: Paris Hilton discography

Albums

• Paris (released August 22, 2006)
• TBA (2009)

Singles

From Paris:

• “Stars Are Blind”
• “Turn It Up”
• “Nothing in This World”
• “Screwed”

Bibliography

• Confessions of an Heiress: A Tongue-in-Chic Peek Behind the Pose, 2004, ISBN 0743266641
• Your Heiress Diary: Confess It All to Me, 2005, ISBN 0743287142

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Kate Mara (born February 27, 1983) is an American television and film actress. Beginning acting in her hometown of Bedford, New York, she moved from the stage to her first film, Random Hearts (1999). Notable roles include appearances in Academy Award-winning Brokeback Mountain and on Fox television series 24. Included on the New York Daily News list of “10 young actors who have a shot at making it big” at the start of 2006, she has since appeared in the feature films We Are Marshall (2006) and Shooter (2007). She will next be seen with Justin Timberlake in The Open Road (2008).

Biography

Early life

Mara was born and raised in Bedford, New York, the daughter of Chris Mara, a scout for the New York Giants, and Kathleen (née Rooney). She is Irish-Italian-American, her family name used to be O’Mara. She has one older brother, Daniel, and two younger siblings, Patricia and Conor. Mara wanted to be an actress since seeing Les Misérables at a young age; she said she “fell in love with Broadway and musicals”, and grew up watching movie musicals on television and going to Broadway shows with her mother. She was especially a fan of Judy Garland’s films. She began acting at the age of nine, appearing in a school musical. Mara attended several youth theater-arts schools and appeared in community theater and in school plays.

Beginning at a young age, Mara continually asked her mother to help her get an agent. Mara’s mother got the name and address of a management company, sent in a photograph, and Mara signed with her first agent, beginning her professional career at the age of 14. Mara’s first audition was for the television drama Homicide: Life on the Street. She didn’t get the role, but knew from then on that she just wanted to act. Mara was accepted into the Tisch School of the Arts at New York University to study musical theater and graduated from Fox Lane High School early by a year. Mara felt pressure from her parents to go to college, but was already getting work as an actress, so she deferred for three or four years before deciding not to go. Mara moved to Manhattan in order to act full time.

Television and stage roles

Mara’s first television role was in the drama Law & Order in 1997. She went on to guest star on numerous television series including, Madigan Men, Ed, and Law & Order: Special Victims Unit. Recurring parts followed in 2003 on the series Everwood, as Kate, an 18-year-old who is impregnated by her piano teacher and then gets an abortion, and on Nip/Tuck as Vanessa, a bisexual cheerleader involved in a love triangle with boyfriend Matt McNamara and another cheerleader, played by Sophia Bush. Mara also appeared on Cold Case, Boston Public, CSI: Miami, and CSI: Crime Scene Investigation in 2003. Mara was cast as the lead in Prodigy in 2004, a television series on the WB Television Network about a teenage child prodigy played by Mara. The series only produced a pilot episode. Mara appeared in a large recurring role on the WB series Jack & Bobby in 2005 and a 5 episode arc on Fox television series 24 in 2006, playing computer analyst Shari Rothenberg.

Mara debuted theatrically in 2003 at the Williamstown Theatre Festival in John Guare’s Landscape of the Body with Lili Taylor. Doing more theater work for Mara is a “dream” because it was “all I really wanted to do as a kid. I didn’t care about movies or tv, I just wanted to do Broadway”, she told WFAN radio in 2006. Mara starred in The Alice Complex, a play by Peter Barr Nickowitz, at Dixon Place in New York City in 2005 and at the Blank Theatre in Los Angeles in 2006. The production co-starred Tony Award-winner Harriet Harris.

Film career

Mara’s film debut was in Random Hearts with Harrison Ford in 1999, directed by Sydney Pollack. She played Jessica Chandler, the daughter of a congresswoman. She next appeared in the Sundance Film Festival award-winning films Joe the King (1999) and Tadpole (2002), alongside Sigourney Weaver. Mara co-starred in Peoples (2004), a drama and coming of age story filmed in Louisville, Kentucky. She starred in the direct-to-video horror film Urban Legends: Bloody Mary, and appeared with Noah Wyle and Illeana Douglas in The Californians in 2005. However, it was her supporting role in the Academy Award-winning Brokeback Mountain (2005) that brought her more widespread attention.

At the beginning of 2006, Mara signed with the William Morris Agency. That year, she appeared in Zoom with Tim Allen and Courteney Cox and in We Are Marshall, starring Matthew McConaughey. We Are Marshall recalled the aftermath of the 1970 Marshall University plane crash that took the lives of most of the football team, with Mara playing fictional cheerleader Annie Cantrell. It was a script that Mara responded to emotionally because of her football background.

In 2007, Mara appeared in the comedy Full of It with Ryan Pinkston for New Line Cinema. The film later aired on television as Big Liar on Campus. Mara was also featured in an advertising campaign for clothing retailer Gap called, “khakis with attitude.” She appeared in Shooter, a thriller about a master sniper lured out of retirement to prevent an assassination, based on the novel Point of Impact. Mara played Kentucky widow Sarah Fenn, the love interest of Mark Wahlberg’s character’s partner, and then Wahlberg’s character himself. She adopted a southern dialect for the role. Director Antoine Fuqua immediately felt Mara was right for the part when she auditioned.

Also in 2007, Mara finished the film Transsiberian by Brad Anderson, the director of The Machinist (2004). Transsiberian takes place on the Trans-Siberian Railway that runs from China to Moscow. The cast includes Woody Harrelson, Ben Kingsley, Eduardo Noriega, and Emily Mortimer. Mara spent three months shooting the thriller in Vilnius, Lithuania, starting in December 2006. The film also shot on location in Beijing and Russia. Mara plays Abby, a 20-year-old runaway from Seattle, Washington, a character she described to MoviesOnline as “dark”, “mysterious”, “sort of goth”, and doesn’t talk much. Transsiberian premiered at the 2008 Sundance Film Festival in January 2008 and was released in theaters on July 18, 2008.

In 2008, Mara will star in Stone of Destiny, written and directed by Charles Martin Smith, a film about the theft of the Stone of Scone on Christmas Day, 1950. Mara plays Kay Matheson, one of four students that removed the stone in a Scottish nationalist plot. The period “adventure-comedy” co-stars Billy Boyd, Robert Carlyle and Charlie Cox. Filming began in June 2007 in locations around Glasgow, including Film City studio and Arbroath Abbey. Mara employed a Scottish accent for the role, which she described to the Daily Mail as “incredibly difficult to master”, and stayed near the Botanic Gardens in the city’s West End while filming. Mara attended the film’s world premiere at the Edinburgh International Film Festival in Fountainbridge, Edinburgh, Scotland on June 21, 2008. The film closed the 2008 Toronto International Film Festival on September 13, 2008, and will be released in UK theaters on October 10, 2008.

Mara will star in The Open Road alongside Jeff Bridges, Justin Timberlake, and Mary Steenburgen. Filming began in Hammond, Louisiana in February 2008, continuing in Memphis, Tennessee and elsewhere in the southern United States. She will also appear with Charlie Hunnam in Deal, a film by Michael Corrente, and Flying Lessons, produced by 20th Century Fox.

NFL football ties

Mara’s family owns the New York Giants and the Pittsburgh Steelers; she is the great-granddaughter of Giants founder Tim Mara, the granddaughter of late Giants owner Wellington Mara on her father’s side, as well as the great-granddaughter of Steelers founder Art Rooney on her mother’s side. Mara’s uncle is John Mara, the president and CEO of the Giants, and her father is the vice president of player evaluation. Mara attended almost every Giants home game while growing up. On Sundays, after attending church, her family would head directly to the games. When asked who she roots for when the Giants play the Steelers she replied to Vanity Fair magazine, “that question is not allowed. I can’t answer.” Mara missed the Steelers’ winning Super Bowl in 2006 because she was working in Los Angeles. Mara was so disappointed, she added to her contract that if the Giants or Steelers go to the Super Bowl, she can attend. She attended almost every game of the 2007 Giants season, leading up to the team’s win in Super Bowl XLII.

Mara’s favorite Giants game was when she was asked to sing the national anthem in honor of her grandfather, Wellington Mara, who died in October 2005. Mara has regularly sung at home games and season openers of the Giants since about the age of 15 or 16 when her uncle asked her to fill in when they couldn’t find a singer. She sang the national anthem at the 2006 NFL season opener, dubbed the “Manning Bowl,” where the Giants played the Indianapolis Colts. Mara’s singing was featured in the film The Californians.

Personal life

Mara has stated that she comes from a “huge” family. Her father was one of 11 children. She has 22 aunts and uncles and 40 cousins. She lives in Los Angeles, having resided there on and off since around 2003. Her younger sister, Patricia, is living with her temporarily since relocating to Los Angeles in 2007. Mara travels back to New York when her schedule allows and has stated, “If I could live in New York, I would”, specifying that she likes “the cold… the rain” and “miss it”. Mara tries to spend the football season in New York when she can. As of 2007, her boyfriend was producer and director Joseph McGinty Nichol, whom she worked with on We Are Marshall. As of July 2008, she was linked to Stone of Destiny co-star Charlie Cox.

Although she frequently resides in Los Angeles for work purposes, she has said of living in New York, “I’m from so there’s always friends and family to see. And I just love walking around the city. My favorite part, after living in Los Angeles, is not needing plans. In New York, you can just wake up and everything sorts itself out. I love that, not having a plan.”

Filmography

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Jessica Marie Alba (born April 28, 1981) is an American television and film actress. She began her television and movie appearances at age 13 in Camp Nowhere and The Secret World of Alex Mack (1994). Alba rose to prominence as the lead actress in the television series Dark Angel (2000–2002). Alba later appeared in various films including Honey (2003), Sin City (2005), Fantastic Four (2005), Into the Blue (2005), Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer and Good Luck Chuck both in 2007.

Alba appears frequently on the “Hot 100″ section of Maxim and was voted AskMen.com’s number one on their list of “99 Most Desirable Women” in 2006, as well as “Sexiest Woman in the World” by FHM in 2007. She also appeared on the cover of Playboy on March 2006, which was followed by a lawsuit, which was later dropped. Alba has won various awards for her acting, including the Choice Actress Teen Choice Award and Saturn Award for Best Actress (TV) for her acting in the series Dark Angel.

Early life

Alba was born in Pomona, California to Catherine Alba (née Jensen) and Mark Alba. Her mother is of Danish and French Canadian descent and her father is of Mexican American descent (both his parents were born in California). She has a younger brother, Joshua. Her father’s Air Force career took the family to Biloxi, Mississippi, and Del Rio, Texas before settling back in California when she was nine years old.

Alba’s early life was marked by a multitude of physical maladies; she suffered collapsed lungs twice, had pneumonia 4-5 times a year, a ruptured appendix, and a tonsillar cyst. This isolated her from other children at school because she was in the hospital so often that no one knew her well enough to befriend her. She has also acknowledged suffering from obsessive-compulsive disorder during childhood. Her health improved, however, when her family moved to California. She graduated from high school at age 16, and subsequently attended the Atlantic Theater Company.

Career

Alba at the premiere for The Eye

Alba expressed interest in acting since the age of five. In 1992, the 11-year-old Alba persuaded her mother to take her to an acting competition in Beverly Hills, California whose grand prize was free acting classes. Alba won the grand prize, and took her first acting lessons. An agent signed Alba nine months later. Her first appearance on film was a small role in the 1994 feature Camp Nowhere as Gail. She was originally hired for two weeks but her role turned into a two-month job in a leading role when one of the prominent actresses dropped out.

Alba appeared in two national television commercials for Nintendo and J.C. Penney as a child. She was later featured in several independent films. She branched out into television in 1994 with a recurring role as the vain Jessica in three episodes of the Nickelodeon comedy series The Secret World of Alex Mack. She then performed the role of Maya in the first two seasons of the television series Flipper. Under the tutelage of her lifeguard mother, Alba learned to swim before she could walk, and she was a PADI-certified scuba diver, skills which were put to use on the show, which was filmed in Australia.

In 1998, she appeared as Melissa Hauer in a first-season episode of the Steven Bochco crime-drama Brooklyn South, as Leanne in two episodes of Beverly Hills 90210 and as Layla in an episode of The Love Boat: The Next Wave. In 1999, she appeared in the Randy Quaid comedy feature P.U.N.K.S.. After Alba graduated from high school, she studied acting with William H. Macy and his wife, Felicity Huffman, at the Atlantic Theater Company, which was developed by Macy and Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright and film director, David Mamet.

Alba rose to greater prominence in Hollywood in 1999 after appearing as a member of a snobby high school clique in the Drew Barrymore romantic comedy Never Been Kissed, and as the female lead in the 1999 comedy-horror film Idle Hands, opposite Devon Sawa.

Her big break came when writer/director James Cameron picked Alba from a pool of 1,200 candidates for the role of the genetically-engineered super-soldier, Max Guevara, on the FOX sci-fi television series Dark Angel. Co-created by Cameron, the series starred Alba, and ran for two seasons until 2002, earning her critical acclaim as well as a Golden Globe nomination. Alba later revealed that she had suffered from an eating disorder while in preparation for Dark Angel.

Alba’s most notable film roles have included an aspiring dancer-choreographer in Honey, exotic dancer Nancy Callahan in Sin City and as the classic Marvel Comics character Sue Storm, the Invisible Woman in the Fantastic Four, of which movie critic Mick LaSalle said that her performance while talking for long periods of time was on “shaky ground”. She then appeared in its sequel, in Into the Blue later that year, and Good Luck Chuck a few years later. Alba went on to host the 2006 MTV Movie Awards and performed sketches spoofing the movies King Kong, Mission Impossible 3, and The Da Vinci Code.

In 2008, Alba appeared in her first horror-film role in The Eye, a remake of the Hong Kong original. In February, she hosted the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences’s Science and Technical Awards. Later in the year, she starred in The Love Guru. She has signed on to star in An Invisible Sign of My Own to be released in 2009.

Alba has been represented by talent agents Patrick Whitesell and Brad Cafarelli.

Public image

Cover of the March 2006 issue of Playboy magazine. Alba objected to being on the cover of the magazine and filed suit, but later dropped the action.

In 2006, readers of Askmen.com voted Alba No. 1 on 99 Most Desirable Women, while in 2007, Maxim Magazine placed Alba on the number 2 spot of their “Top 100″, after Lindsay Lohan. Both GQ and In Style had Alba on their June covers, and in May, after eight million votes, FHM (UK and USA editions) named Alba the winner as “2007’s Sexiest Woman in the World”. Alba continues to be regarded as one of the world’s most attractive women, being named to Maxim’s Hot 100 in 2008.

Alba has been well-received in popular culture. She received the Teen Choice Award for Choice Actress and Saturn Award for Best Actress (TV) for her role in Dark Angel. She has frequently appeared on Maxim’s Hot 100 list. In 2006, Alba received an MTV Movie Award for “Sexiest Performance” for Sin City.

Her acting has also drawn criticism, however, as she was nominated for a 2007 Razzie Award for Worst Actress for her performances in Awake, Good Luck Chuck, and Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer. She was also nominated for the same award in 2005 for her performances in Fantastic Four and Into the Blue.

On the cover of the March 2006 issue, Playboy magazine named Alba among its 25 Sexiest Celebrities, and the Sex Star of the Year. Alba was involved in litigation against Playboy for its use of her image (from a promotional shot for Into the Blue) without her consent, which she contends gave the appearance that she was featured in the issue in a “nude pictorial”. However, she later dropped the lawsuit after receiving a personal apology from Playboy owner Hugh Hefner, who agreed to make donations to two charities that Alba has supported.

Alba fears being typecast as a sex kitten based on the bulk of parts offered to her, commenting, “Somehow, I don’t think this is happening to Natalie Portman.” In the interview, Alba said she wants to be taken seriously as an actress but believes she needs to do movies that she would otherwise not be interested in to build her career, stating that eventually she hopes to be more selective in her film projects. Alba also maintains a strict no-nudity clause in her contract. She was given the option to appear nude in Sin City by the film’s directors, Frank Miller and Robert Rodriguez, but declined the offer, saying, “I don’t do nudity. I just don’t. Maybe that makes me a bad actress. Maybe I won’t get hired in some things. But I have too much anxiety”. She remarked of a GQ shoot in which she was scantily clad, “They didn’t want me to wear the granny panties, but I said, ‘If I’m gonna be topless I need to wear granny panties.”

Personal life

Religion

Although her parents weren’t religious, Alba became a born-again Christian for much of her teenage years, but left the church after four years because she felt she was being judged for her appearance, explaining:

Alba at the Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer première in London 2007

Alba also had objections to the church’s condemnations of premarital sex and homosexuality, and the lack of strong female role models in the Bible, explaining “I thought it was a nice guide, but it certainly wasn’t how I was going to live my life.” However, she has stated that she still holds her belief in God despite leaving the church.

Adult family life

While filming Dark Angel, Alba began a four year romance with fellow co-star Michael Weatherly, which caused controversy due to their 12 year age gap. He proposed to her on her twentieth birthday. They eventually broke up after a four-year relationship. In July 2007, Jessica spoke out about the break up. “I don’t know . I was a virgin. He was 12 years older than me. I thought he knew better. My parents weren’t happy. They’re really religious. They believe God wouldn’t allow the Bible to be written if it wasn’t what they are supposed to believe. I’m completely different.”

Jessica Alba posing in a Declare Yourself bondage-themed print advertisement encouraging voter registration.

Alba had at one time said she envisioned a much older man as her ideal partner, making references to Morgan Freeman, Sean Connery, Robert Redford, and Michael Caine. “I have this thing for older men. They’ve been around and know so much.” Regarding children, Alba said, “I’m really girly when it comes to kids. I’ve been surrounded by kids my whole life because I’m the oldest of 15 cousins — I’ve been changing diapers since I was six. I want to have a couple, for sure”.

Alba met Cash Warren, son of actor Michael Warren, while making Fantastic Four in 2004. Alba married Warren in Los Angeles on Monday, May 19, 2008. On June 7, 2008, Alba gave birth to a baby girl, Honor Marie Warren, at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles, California. The first pictures of Honor Marie appeared in OK! magazine, which paid a reported $1.5 million for them.

Charity and politics

Alba’s charity work includes participation with Clothes Off Our Back, Habitat for Humanity, National Center for Missing and Exploited Children, Project HOME, RADD, Revlon Run/Walk for Women, SOS Children Villages, Soles4Souls, and Step up. Alba endorsed Democratic presidential hopeful Barack Obama during the 2008 primary season.

Alba posed for a bondage-themed print advertising campaign by Declare Yourself, a campaign encouraging voter registration among youth for the 2008 United States presidential election. The ads by photographer Mark Liddell, which feature Alba wrapped in and gagged with black tape, drew national media attention. Alba said of the advertisements, “It didn’t freak me out at all.”

Filmography

Films

Television

Awards and nominations

Alba receiving an award at the Spike TV Awards

Golden Globe Award

• Nominated: Best Performance by an Actress in a TV-Series – Drama for Dark Angel (2000)

ALMA Awards

• Winner: Breakthrough Actress of the Year (2001)

Young Hollywood Awards

• Winner: Superstar of Tomorrow (2005)

Premios Juventud

• Nominated: “Actríz que se roba la pantalla” for: Awake, Good Luck Chuck, Fantastic Four and The Eye (2008)

TV Land Awards

• Nominated: Little Screen/Big Screen Star (Women) (2007)

Spike TV Guys’ Choice Awards

• Winner: Hottest Jessica (2007)

Nickelodeon Kids’ Choice Awards

• Winner: Best Movie Actress for Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer as Susan Storm (2008)

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Born:
Scarlett I. Johansson
November 22, 1984
New York City, New York, U.S.

Occupation
Actress, singer, songwriter
Spouse(s)
Ryan Reynolds (2008–present)

Awards won
BAFTA Awards
Best Actress in a Leading Role
2003 Lost in Translation

Other awards
BSFC Award for Best Actress
2003 Lost in Translation

Scarlett I. Johansson (born November 22, 1984) is an actress and singer of American and Danish citizenship. Johansson rose to fame with her role in 1998’s The Horse Whisperer and subsequently gained critical acclaim for her roles in Ghost World, Lost in Translation (for which she won a BAFTA), and Girl with a Pearl Earring, the latter two earning her Golden Globe Award nominations in 2003.

On May 20, 2008, Johansson debuted as a vocalist on her first album, Anywhere I Lay My Head, with cover versions of Tom Waits songs.

Early life

Johansson was born in New York City. Her father, Karsten Johansson, is a Danish-born architect, and her paternal grandfather, Ejner Johansson, was a screenwriter and director. Her mother, Melanie Sloan, a producer, comes from an Ashkenazi Jewish family from the Bronx. Johansson’s parents met in Denmark, where her mother lived with Johansson’s maternal grandmother, Dorothy, a former bookkeeper and schoolteacher. Johansson has an older sister, Vanessa, who is also an actress; an older brother, Adrian; a twin brother, Hunter, also an actor; and a half-brother, Christian, from her father’s re-marriage.

Johansson grew up in a household with “little money” with a mother who was a “film buff”. Johansson began her theater training by attending and graduating from Professional Children’s School in Manhattan in 2002. She attended P.S. 41 in Greenwich Village for elementary school.

Acting career

Johansson began acting during childhood, after her mother began taking her to auditions. She made her film debut in 1994’s North. After appearing in several films during the late 1990s, including a very brief appearance in the Mandy Moore video for her single “Candy”, Johansson garnered praise and widespread attention for her performance in 1998’s The Horse Whisperer and 2001’s Ghost World.

She won the “Upstream Prize” for Best Actress at the Venice Film Festival for her performance in 2003’s Lost in Translation. The same year, she was nominated for two Best Actress awards at the Golden Globes, one for drama (Girl with a Pearl Earring) and one for comedy (Lost in Translation). She was also nominated for Best Actress for both films at the BAFTAs, and won Best Actress for Lost in Translation.

Johansson was invited to join the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences in June 2004. In the same year, she starred in the films The Perfect Score, In Good Company and A Love Song for Bobby Long, the last of which earned her a third Golden Globe Award nomination. Johansson was involved for a short time with the film Mission: Impossible III, but was not officially cast because of scheduling conflicts, although a falling out with the film’s star, Tom Cruise, had been both widely reported and publicly denied. She was replaced by Keri Russell.

In July 2005, Johansson starred with Ewan McGregor in Michael Bay’s The Island, making her debut as a female lead in a mainstream action film. In the same year, she starred in the Woody Allen-directed drama Match Point, which opened in December. Johansson received her fourth Golden Globe nomination for Best Supporting Actress for the role, but lost to Rachel Weisz.

Johansson’s next film, Scoop, another collaboration with Allen, was released on July 28, 2006. The same year, she appeared in Brian De Palma’s The Black Dahlia, a film noir shot in Los Angeles and Bulgaria. Johansson has noted that she was a De Palma fan and had wanted to work with him on the film, even though she thought that she was “physically wrong” for the part. Her reviews were mixed: CNN.com noted that Johansson “takes to the pulpy period atmosphere as if it were oxygen,” whereas the Kalamazoo Gazette referred to Johansson as “miscast.”

On January 14, 2006, Johansson hosted Saturday Night Live. Also in 2006, Johansson starred in a short film directed by Bennett Miller and set to Bob Dylan’s “When the Deal Goes Down…”, released to promote Dylan’s album, Modern Times. Johansson also appeared in the Christopher Nolan thriller The Prestige, which opened on October 20, 2006. She made a return appearance on Saturday Night Live on April 21, 2007, during which she dueted with Andy Samberg for a version of Bonnie Raitt’s “Something to Talk About.”

Johansson at the film set of Vicky Cristina Barcelona in 2007

Johansson next appeared in 2007’s The Nanny Diaries, starring alongside Laura Linney, and 2008’s The Other Boleyn Girl, opposite Natalie Portman and Eric Bana. She has filmed her third Woody Allen film, Vicky Cristina Barcelona, in Spain.

Johansson played femme fatale Silken Floss in Frank Miller’s noir comedy adaptation of Will Eisner’s comic The Spirit. The film was released in US theaters on December 25th, 2008. Johansson will also portray Mary, Queen of Scots in a film scheduled to begin production in March 2008, and appear as a pilates instructor in He’s Just Not That Into You, with Drew Barrymore, Jennifer Aniston, Jennifer Connelly, Kevin Connolly, Ginnifer Goodwin, and Justin Long. The film is directed by Ken Kwapis and produced by Barrymore.

Music career

In 2005, Johansson was considered for the role of Maria in Andrew Lloyd Webber’s West End revival of The Sound of Music, though the role ultimately went to newcomer Connie Fisher after she won BBC’s talent show How Do You Solve a Problem Like Maria? Released May 8, 2006, Johansson sang the track “Summertime” for Unexpected Dreams – Songs from the Stars, a non-profit collection of songs recorded by Hollywood actors. She also performed with The Jesus And Mary Chain for a special Coachella Reunion Show in Indio, California in April 2007.

In 2007, she appeared as the leading lady in Justin Timberlake’s music video for “What Goes Around…/…Comes Around,” nominated in August 2007 for video of the year at the MTV Video Music Awards. The filming of the video took place in Los Angeles. The video sparked rumours of a romance between Johansson and Timberlake.

In the summer of 2007, Johansson spent about a month in Maurice, Louisiana recording an album at Dockside Studio, a rural 12-acre (49,000 m²) complex. The album consists of one original song and ten cover versions of Tom Waits songs. It was produced by Dave Sitek of TV on the Radio and features David Bowie, members from the Yeah Yeah Yeahs and Celebration. The record, entitled Anywhere I Lay My Head was released on May 20, 2008, through Atco/Rhino Records, amid a negative “critical consensus, stretching from comments on Gawker.com to the pages of The New York Times.” Reviews of the album were mixed to somewhat positive. Criticisms include her sub-par Ann Wilson-style vocal abilities and the perceived failure to add a new dimension to the well-established classics she chose to cover. Conversely, some critics found it to be surprisingly alluring, brave in its eccentric selection, and even brilliant. The album was named the ‘23rd best album of 2008′ by NME. Of her album, what Johansson had to say was, “I had this golden opportunity to record and thought I would do maybe an album of standards, because I’m not a songwriter. I’m a vocalist.” Johansson said for her recording she “wanted to have space and wanted to be in a remote place where all of us could just be ourselves and not worry about anyone trying to listen in or get in on that.” Johansson said in an interview that she started listening to Tom Waits when she was 11 or 12. Of Tom Waits, Johansson said in an interview, “his melodies are so beautiful, his voice is so distinct and I had my own way of doing Tom Waits songs.”

In December 2008, MTV reported Johansson plans to follow-up Anywhere I Lay My Head with an album of all original music, telling MTV, “I don’t think I’d do covers, so it’d be a project that I have to dedicate myself to. I feel like that’s something for the future.”

Personal life

Johansson does not discuss her personal life with the press, saying “it’s nice to have everybody not know your business.” This has not stopped Johansson from sharing “select” opinions and personal details. Johansson’s ex-boyfriend (and member of the band Steel Train), Jack Antonoff, wrote lyrics that refer to Johansson in the song “Better Love.” Antonoff alludes to Johansson in the song “2 O’clock.” She has been linked to many famous men, including Derek Jeter, Benicio del Toro, Jared Leto, Justin Timberlake and her Black Dahlia co-star Josh Hartnett. They dated for about two years until the end of 2006, with Hartnett citing their busy lives as the reason for the split. She dated Canadian actor Ryan Reynolds, and on May 5, 2008, it was reported that the two were engaged.

On September 27, 2008, Johansson and Reynolds were married at a quiet ceremony outside Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. Johansson has expressed a concern about the potential conflict between the nature of human beings and the concept of monogamy. However, she has also stated “contrary to popular belief… not promiscuous” and that she works “really hard” when she’s in a relationship “to make it work in a monogamous way.” She gets tested for HIV twice a year, and has said “it’s part of being a decent human” and it is “disgusting” and “irresponsible” when people do not do so.

Johansson is close to her twin brother Hunter, and often gives him advice on women and dating.

She has criticized the media and Hollywood for promoting an image that causes unhealthy diets and eating disorders among women, saying “that being ultra-thin is not sexy at all. Women shouldn’t be forced to conform to unrealistic and unhealthy body images that the media promote.”

Johansson appeared on the cover of the March 2006 issue of Vanity Fair in the nude alongside actress Keira Knightley and fashion designer Tom Ford. In March 2006, she topped the U.S. edition of FHM’s poll of the sexiest women alive (in the UK edition Johansson was third). In 2007, Maxim named Johansson #3 in their Hot 100 issue. In November 2006, Johansson was named “Sexiest Woman Alive” by Esquire. In February 2007, she was named the “Sexiest Celebrity” of the year by Playboy.

About her religious affiliation, Johansson says: “That’s a very personal question. I would rather not answer.” She celebrates a “little of both” referring to Christmas and Hanukkah. She dislikes when celebrities thank God or Jesus in their award acceptance speeches. She described herself as Jewish when she was talking about Woody Allen. “I just adore Woody,” she says. “We have a lot in common. We’re New Yorkers, Jewish. We have a very easygoing relationship.”

Johansson is a Global Ambassador for the aid and development agency, Oxfam. On March 14, 2008, a UK-based bidder by the name of Bossnour paid £20,000 for a 20 minute date with Johansson on an online auction for Oxfam on eBay. The bidder paid for a hair and make up treatment and the chance to accompany Johansson on her July premiere of He’s Just Not That Into You.

She is a fan of the children’s television show SpongeBob Squarepants. She supplied the voice of Mindy the Mermaid in The SpongeBob Squarepants Movie.

Together with Michael Caine, she co-hosted the 2008 Nobel Peace Concert.

Political advocacy

Johansson is a Democrat. In 2004, she campaigned for John Kerry in the 2004 presidential election. She was quoted as saying of George W. Bush’s re-election, ” disappointed. I think it was a disappointment for a large percentage of the population.” Johansson campaigned for Barack Obama in Iowa on January 2, 2008; her efforts were targeted at small groups of younger voters, including Cornell College students and students at St. Paul Central in Minnesota on Super Tuesday. Johansson appeared in the 2008 music video for Black Eyed Peas front man Will.i.am’s song, “Yes We Can”, directed by Jesse Dylan. The song was inspired by Obama’s speech following the 2008 New Hampshire primary. According to the FEC’s website, she donated the maximum allowed amount of $2300 to the Obama campaign on May 8, 2008.

Johansson has also taken part in the anti-poverty campaign ONE which was organized by U2 lead singer Bono.

Charity

Scarlett Johansson sold a used Kleenex on eBay to raise funds for a hunger charity, USA Harvest.

Filmography

Discography

Studio album

• 2008 – Anywhere I Lay My Head (SWI 15, FR #20, SW #27, GER #30, UK #64, SP #77, US #126)

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Megan Denise Fox (born May 16, 1986) is an American actress and model. Fox’s career in modeling and acting began with her winning several awards at the 1999 American Modeling and Talent Convention in Hilton Head Island, South Carolina. She began her acting career with the film Holiday in the Sun (2001), later appearing in the films Confessions of a Teenage Drama Queen, Crimes of Fashion, and the TV series The Help (all 2004). She is well known for her roles on the television series Hope & Faith (2004) and in the 2007 live-action film Transformers.

Early life

Fox was born in Oak Ridge, Tennessee to Darlene Tonachio, former Roane County, Tennessee Tourism Director, and Franklin Foxx. Franklin dropped an x from his surname prior or subsequent to Megan’s birth. Fox has one older sister. She claims Irish, French and Native American ancestry. Fox grew up in nearby Rockwood, Tennessee beginning her training in drama and dance at the age of five in Kingston. She attended a dance class at the community center there, and was involved in Kingston Elementary School’s chorus and the Kingston Clippers swim team. At age ten, after moving to St. Petersburg, Florida, Fox continued her training. She attended Morningside Academy, a private Christian school in Port St. Lucie during her middle school years and finished her high school education at St. Lucie West Centennial High School in Port St. Lucie.

Career

By age sixteen, Fox’s talent created new opportunities for her in the entertainment world. She began acting and modeling upon winning several awards at the 1999 American Modeling and Talent Convention in Hilton Head Island, South Carolina.

Megan Fox at Hollywood Life Magazine’s 7th Annual Breakthrough Awards

Megan Fox at Spike TV’s 2007 Scream Awards

Fox made her film debut in the 2001 film Holiday in the Sun as the spoiled heiress Brianna Wallace and rival of Alex Stewart (Ashley Olsen). She then landed guest appearances on Ocean Ave., What I Like About You, Two and a Half Men and The Help from 2003 to 2004. In 2004, Fox starred in Confessions of a Teenage Drama Queen alongside Lindsay Lohan. She was subsequently cast in her first recurring role in a television series on Hope & Faith, in which she portrayed Sydney Shanowski from 2004 through 2006.

Fox’s big break arrived when she acquired the lead female role of Mikaela Banes in the 2007 live-action film Transformers, based on the toy and cartoon saga of the same name. She played the love interest of Shia LaBeouf’s character Sam Witwicky. In June 2007, Fox was cast in How to Lose Friends & Alienate People, starring alongside Jeff Bridges, Simon Pegg and Kirsten Dunst. The character Fox portrayed is that of a young Hollywood starlet getting her first taste of fame. The film premiered in October 2008.

She is also signed on for two more Transformers sequels.

Fox has appeared in a five page spread for the November 2005 issue of the popular men’s magazine FHM. She also posed for the March 2007 issue of FHM, the June 2007 issue of GQ, the July 2007 issue of Maxim, and the September 2007 issue of Arena. She was voted the Sexiest Woman in the World by FHM magazine in 2008, beating out Jessica Biel and Jessica Alba. Megan is also on the cover page for the Maxim October 2008 issue and the GQ October 2008 issue. Fox is represented by The Gersh Agency.

Fox will star opposite Amanda Seyfried and Adam Brody in Diablo Cody’s second feature film titled Jennifer’s Body, which is due to be released in 2009. She was cast in October 2007. While filming the sequel of Transformers, Michael Bay, the movie’s director, ordered the actress to gain 10 lbs, stating that he “does not like skinny girls.”

Personal life

Since 2004, Fox has been involved with actor Brian Austin Green of Beverly Hills, 90210 and Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles fame. They are currently engaged to be married.

In a frank interview with GQ Magazine, Fox claimed that she once fell in love and sought to establish a relationship with a female stripper when she was eighteen and used the experience to illustrate her belief that “…all humans are born with the ability to be attracted to both sexes..”

Fox has seven tattoos, including a poem on her ribcage, a symbol for strength on her neck, Green’s name on her hip, a bull’s eye on her lower back, a pink flamingo on her upper thigh, and a picture of Marilyn Monroe’s face on her right arm. She also has one on her right shoulder that reads, “We will all laugh at gilded butterflies,” a line from Shakespeare’s play King Lear.

Filmography

Film

Television

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