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Synopsis

Born in Israel in 1981, actress Natalie Portman grew up on Long Island, New York, and began modeling at age 11. Her film debut was in The Professional (1994), and she was cast as Queen Amidala in the Star Wars prequels. While continuing her career, Portman earned a degree in psychology from Harvard. She then won the 2010 Best Actress Oscar for her role as a troubled dancer in Black Swan. In 2012, she married dancer Benjamin Millepied. The couple has a son, Aleph.

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Early Life

Natalie Portman was born on June 9, 1981 in Jerusalem, Israel. While she was a toddler, Portman’s parents immigrated to the United States. Initially they resided in Washing-ton D.C., and finally settled in Long Island, New York, where Natalie attended Syosset High School.

While at a local pizza parlor, Port-man was discovered by a represen-tative of Revlon cosmetics, who en-couraged the 11-year-old to pursue a modeling career. However, Portman found modeling mundane, and decid-ed to direct her efforts toward act-ing. Shortly after, she began working with the Usdan Theatre Arts Camp, where she appeared in a number of local productions.

Portman made her film debut in Luc Besson’s memorable 1994 feature, The Professional. The demanding role, which featured her as hitman’s apprentice, caught the attention of critics and audiences. The following year, she sustained her popularity with a brief but captivating per-formance as Al Pacino’s troubled daughter in Heat (1995).

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MilaKunis

AshleyTisdale

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OCCUPATIONFilm Actor/Film Actress

BIRTH DATEJune 9, 1981 (age 33)

EDUCATIONHarvard UniversityPLACE OF BIRTH

Jerusalem, IsraelORIGINALLY

Natalie HershlagZODIAC SIGN

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Career Breakthrough

In her next projects, Portman held her own alongside Holly-wood’s A-list actors and directors. Ted Demme’s heartwarming film Beautiful Girls (1996) featured her in a pivotal role as a coming-of-age pre-teen. She was noted for her charming performance, opposite an impressive cast, including Matt Dillon, Timothy Hutton, Uma Thurman, and Lauren Holly. Later that year, she took on lighter parts in Woody Allen’s musical Everyone Says I Love You, with Drew Bar-rymore and Julia Roberts; and in Tim Burton’s sci-fi comedy Mars Attacks!, with Jack Nicholson and Glenn Close.

After turning down the controver-sial role of Lolita, Portman took a brief sabbatical from the big screen. In 1997, she spent a year on Broadway in the title role of The Diary of Anne Frank. The play was a critical success, and Portman was credited with delivering a fresh interpretation of Frank’s character.

She returned to film in 1999, gain-ing international recognition with the release of George Lucas’ eager-ly anticipated prequel Star Wars I: The Phantom Menace. Later that same year, she was cast opposite Susan Sarandon in the film version of Mona Simpson’s novel Anwhere But Here. 2000’s Where the Heart Is featured Portman in a more mature role, in which her character ages five years during the course of the film.

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Mature Roles

In spite of her burgeoning film career, Portman re-mained adamant about her education, graduating with honors from Harvard University in June 2003.

Portman has also completed production on the second and third films in the Star Wars series, reprising her role as Queen Amidala. In 2004 Portman starred in 2004’s Garden State. In 2005, she won a Golden Globe for Best Supporting Actress for her performance in Closer co-starring Clive Owens, Julia Roberts and Jude Law.

Portman won critical praise for her role in 2006’s V for Vendetta. In 2008 she starred in historical drama The Other Boleyn Girl alongside Scarlett Johansson.

Portman’s next big role came in 2010, when she starred in Darren Aronofsky’s Black Swan. Portman reportedly lost 20 pounds and went through rigorous dance training for the film, which was a critical suc-cess.

Personal Life

Portman started dating ballet dancer Benjamin Mil-lepied in 2009, after meeting on the set of Black Swan. In 2010 the couple announced their engagement, and in June 2011 Portman gave birth to her first child, Aleph Portman-Millepied. Portman and Millepied wed in August 2012. According to People magazine, the wedding was attended by several celebrities, including Ivanka Trump, Jared Kushner and Macaulay Culkin.

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Salma Hayek

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Synopsis

Born on September 2, 1966, in Coatzacoalcos, Vera-cruz, Mexico, Salma Hayek was raised in a well-to-do Catholic home by her a Spanish mother and Lebanese father before she found fame in Hollywood. She got her big break in the entertainment industry after appear-ing in Robert Rodriguez’s Desperado. The actress has played in a wide range of roles on film, including her portrayal of Frida Kahlo in the biopic Frida (2002) and her work as the love interest of Antonio Banderas’ character in the animated film Puss in Boots (2011).

Early Life and Career

Salma Hayek Jiménez was born on September 2, 1966, in Coatzacoalcos, Veracruz, Mexico, the daughter of a Spanish mother and Lebanese father. Raised in a well-to-do Catholic home, Hayek attended a convent school in Louisiana at the age of 12 and lived with her aunt in Houston, Texas, during her teens. After a brief stint at a university in Mexico City, she dropped out to pursue a career in acting, eventually becoming a soap star in her native Mexico.

Early Film Roles

In 1991, the ambitious Hayek moved to Los Angeles, Cal-ifornia, determined to improve her English and become a Hollywood actress. After small gigs, she landed a role op-posite Antonio Banderas in 1995’s Desperado. The success of the film garnered her work in relatively lackluster mov-ies, including the teen thriller The Faculty (1998), 1999’s Wild Wild West and 1997’s Fools Rush In. Subsequently, Hayek became engaged with smaller, independent pictures and began her own production company, Ventanarosa.

‘Frida’ and Continued Success

Hayek’s increasingly intellectual and passionate approach to filmmaking culminated in her dream role in 2002’s Frida, which she both produced and starred in (as Frida Kahlo). The film was nominated for six Academy Awards, including a best actress nomination for Hayek—making her the first Latin actress to be nominated in that category.

Large-scale projects followed the success of Frida, in-cluding directing 2002’s The Maldonado Miracle; star-ring in the final episode of the Desperado trilogy, Once Upon a Time in Mexico (2003); and appearing in the heist thriller After the Sunset (2004) with Pierce Brosnan.

OCCUPATIONFilm Actor/Film Actress

BIRTH DATESeptember 2, 1966 (age 47)

PLACE OF BIRTHCoatzacoalcos, Veracruz, Mexico

AKASalma HayekFULL NAME

Salma Hayek JiménezZODIAC SIGN

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Branching Out

Emmy Award winner and Oscar nominee Hayek went on to serve as executive producer of the hit television series Ugly Betty. Based on the Colombian telenovela Yo Soy Betty La Fea, the series ran from 2006 to 2010, premier-ing on ABC and garnering a Golden Globe win (best comedy) in 2007. Also in 2007, the show’s star, America Ferrera, won the Emmy Award for outstanding lead actress in a comedy series.

Demonstrating her comedic skills, Hayek made a series of guest appearances on the popular sitcom 30 Rock in 2009. She played a nurse who becomes romantically involved with a tele-vision network executive played by Alec Bald-win and later reprised her role for two guest appearances in 2013. The actress went on to appear opposite Adam Sandler in the 2010 comedy Grown Ups.

Hayek proved that she could hold her own as a voice actor as well after appearing in Puss in Boots (2011)—a spin-off of the popular Shrek franchise—alongside Antonio Banderas, who voiced the lead role. She also reprised her role as Adam Sandler’s wife in Grown Ups 2 (2013).

Personal Life

Hayek began dating French entrepreneur Francois-Henri Pinault in 2006, and the couple became engaged the following year. Hayek gave birth to daughter Valentina Paloma Pinault on September 21, 2007, in Los Angeles, California. The couple later married on Valentine’s Day in 2009, in Paris, France, and held a second cer-emony soon after in Venice. Hayek previously dated several actors, including Edward Norton, Edward Atterton and Richard Crenna Jr.

Nicole KidmanAcademy Award–winning ac-tress Nicole Kidman starred in Dead Calm, Moulin Rouge! and The Hours, and was married to Tom Cruise for 10 years.

Synopsis

Nicole Kidman was born June 20, 1967, in Honolulu, but grew up in Sydney, Australia, where director Jane Campion encouraged her to pursue acting. Kidman’s first indie hit, Flirting, was followed by bigger films like Dead Calm (1989) and Bil-ly Bathgate (1991). She was married to screen heartthrob Tom Cruise from 1991-2001. Kidman received the Academy Award for her lead role in 2002’s The Hours. She married Keith Urban in 2006. Her latest films include 2012’s The Paperboy.

Acting Debut

Born Nicole Mary Kidman on June 20, 1967, in Honolulu, Hawaii, Ni-cole Kidman is one of Hollywood’s most beautiful and well-regarded leading female stars. At age 4 she moved with her parents to Sydney, Australia. As a schoolgirl she at-tended a local theater group and, encouraged by director Jane Cam-pion, made a notable film debut in Bush Christmas (1983). Kidman also met one of her best friends, actress Naomi Watts, around this time. The two were at an open call for a bath-ing-suit ad and later worked togeth-er on the 1991 film Flirting.

OCCUPATIONFilm Actor/Film Actress

BIRTH DATEJune 20, 1967 (age 47)

PLACE OF BIRTHHonolulu, Hawaii

FULL NAMENicole Mary Kidman

ZODIAC SIGNGemini

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Career Highlights

Her U.S. breakthrough came with Dead Calm (1989), and success followed with Billy Bathgate (1991), To Die For (1995), Practical Magic (1998), and Eyes Wide Shut (1999), in which she co-starred with husband Tom Cruise. She and Cruise divorced in 2001 after 10 years of marriage. They had adopted two children, Isabella and Connor, during their relationship.

While her marriage was ending, Kidman’s career reached new heights. She won a Golden Globe for her portrayal of a Parisian singer and courtesan in Baz Luhrmann’s musical extravaganza Moulin Rouge! (2001). The follow-ing year, Kidman wowed critics and audiences alike with her performance in The Hours (2002), playing famed writer Virginia Woolf. She received several major honors for her work, including her first Academy Award as Best Actress.

Working with acclaimed director Anthony Minghella, Kidman starred in the Civil War epic Cold Mountain (2003) with Jude Law. She has taken on some less main-stream projects as well, such as working with director Lars von Trier on the stark drama Dogville (2004). Best known for her dramatic work, Kidman has also tried her hand at comedy, starring in The Stepford Wives (2004) with Matthew Broderick and Bette Midler and Be-witched (2005) with Will Ferrell. She also lent her voice to the lighthearted animated film Happy Feet (2006).

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Mila KunisFilm and television ac-tress Mila Kunis came to fame on the sitcom That ‘70s Show. In film, she’s co-starred in such hits as Forgetting Sarah Marshall and Black Swan.

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OCCUPATIONTelevision Actress,

Film Actor/Film Ac-tress

BIRTH DATEAugust 14, 1983 (age

30)PLACE OF BIRTHChernivtsi, Ukraine

AKAMila Kunis

FULL NAMEMilena KunisZODIAC SIG

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Synopsis

Actress Mila Kunis was born in Cher-nivtsi, Ukraine, in 1983. At the age of 7 she immigrated with her family to Los Angeles, where she began taking act-ing lessons. After appearing in several television commercials, Kunis landed a co-starring role in the Fox sitcom That ‘70s Show in 1998. She also did voice work for the cartoon series Family Guy. Kunis has since branched out into films. She’s co-starred in Forgetting Sarah Marshall (2008), Black Swan (2010), Friends with Benefits (2011) and Ted (2012).

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Early Life

Mila Kunis was born Milena Kunis in the Ukrainian city of Chernivtsi on August 14, 1983. At the age of 7, Kunis immigrated to the United States with her parents, Mark and Elvira, as well as her older brother, Michael, and eventu-ally settled in Los Angeles.

It proved to be a rough start for the Kunis family, who arrived in their new country with just $250 in their pocket. But Kunis’s parents, who both gave up professional careers to uproot them-selves, were determined to make a better life for their children. Mark, a former mechanical engineer, soon found work as a cab driver, while Elvira, who had taught physics in Ukraine, wound up running a pharmacy.

“I didn’t understand the culture,” Ku-nis has said about first arriving in the United States. “I didn’t understand the people. I didn’t understand the language. My first sentence of my essay to get into college was like, ‘Imagine being blind and deaf at age 7.’ And that’s kind of what it felt like moving to the States. But I got over it pretty fast.”

Ashley Tisdale (born July 2, 1985 in Deal, New Jersey) is an American actress and singer who rose to fame playing Maddie Fitzpatrick in the Disney Channel series The Suite Life of Zack and Cody and Sharpay Evans in the High School Musical film series. The popularity of High School Musical earned Tisdale her own solo record deal with Warner Bros. Records in 2006. Her debut album Headstrong was released in February 2007 and debuted at number five in the Billboard 200 and was certified Gold. She followed that with her second studio album Guilty Pleasure in 2009. She has also gained fame in animation as the voice of Candace Flynn in the Disney Channel show Phineas & Ferb. She has also starred in TV as Savannah Monroe in The CW’s 2010 short-lived show Hellcats and the straight-to-DVD High School Musical spin-off Sharpay’s Fabulous Adventure.

Best Known For:

Ashley’s signature role is that of the an-noyingly driven Sharpay Evans in the High School Musical trilogy.

Date of Birth: July 2, 1985Height: 5’3”

Hometown: Deal, New Jer-sey, United States

In a Relationship With:Christopher FrenchDate of

Birth: July 2, 1985Height: 5’3”

Hometown: Deal, New Jer-sey, United States

In a Relationship With:Christopher French

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Personal Life:

Ashley is tight with her High School friends Vanessa Hudgens and Zac Efron. She split from her boyfriend of two years, Scott Speer, in 2011. Afterwards she began dating musician Christopher French in Decem-ber 2012, and after dating for nine months, they got engaged in August 2013.

Qoute TimeThe hero of my tale, whom I love with all the power of my soul, whom I have tried to portray in all his beauty, who has been, is, and will be beautiful, is Truth.

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Time’s glory is to calm contending kings,To unmask falsehood, and bring truth to light.

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Diversity in counsel, unity in command.

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