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celebrities - Kristanna Loken
Kristanna Loken
Kristanna Sommer Løken (born October 8, 1979) is an American actress and model.
Early life
She was born in Hudson, New York to Chris Loken (a Norwegian American writer) and Rande Porath (a model). She grew up on her parents' fruit farm in Upstate New York.
Film career
Loken started her acting career in 1996, when she appeared in several television shows and films. She is probably best known for her performance as the android T-X (Terminatrix) in the 2003 movie Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines. Subsequently, she starred as the leading character in the 2006 film version of the video game BloodRayne.
celebrities - Laura Linney
Laura Linney
Laura Linney (born February 5, 1964 in New York City) is an American actress.
She was nominated for a Academy Award for Best Actress in 2000 for her role in You Can Count on Me, and again in 2004 for Best Supporting Actress for her role in Kinsey. Other films she appeared in include Mystic River, The Truman Show, and Primal Fear.
Her important television roles include "Mary Ann Singleton" in the television adaptations of Armistead Maupin's Tales of the City books. She won an Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actress in a Comedy Series in 2004 for her recurring role as the final love interest of Frasier Crane in Frasier.
Her extensive stage credits on Broadway and elsewhere include Hedda Gabler, Holiday (based on the movie starring Katharine Hepburn), and The Crucible.
Linney was educated at the Northfield Mount Hermon School and Brown University, where she graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in 1986. She also trained at the Juilliard School and the Moscow Art Theatre. Her father is the playwright Romulus Linney and her mother was a nurse.
Selected Filmography
Driving Lessons (2006) as Laura
The Exorcism of Emily Rose (2005) as Erin Bruner
The Squid and the Whale (2005) as Joan Berkman
P.S. (2004) as Louise Harrington
Kinsey (2004) as Clara McMillen
Love Actually (2003) as Sarah
Mystic River (2003) as Annabeth Markum
The Life of David Gale (2003) as Constance Harraway
The Mothman Prophecies (2002) as Connie Mills
The Laramie Project (2002) as Sherry Johnson
The House of Mirth (2000) as Bertha Dorset
You Can Count on Me (2000) as Samantha 'Sammy' Prescott
The Truman Show (1998) as Hanna Gill as Meryl Burbank
Absolute Power (1997) as Kate Whitney
Primal Fear (1996) as Janet Venable
Congo (1995) as Dr. Karen Ross
Searching for Bobby Fischer (1993) as School Teacher
Dave (1993) as Randi
Lorenzo's Oil (1992) as Young Teacher
celebrities - Lucy Liu
Lucy Liu
Lucy Alexis Liu (born December 2, 1968 in New York City, New York) is a Chinese American actress, who starred in the TV series Ally McBeal and in the 2000 film Charlie's Angels. Her Chinese name is Liú Yùlíng (劉玉玲).
She was raised in Queens, New York by Chinese immigrant parents, and attended New York City's famous Stuyvesant High School. She attended New York University for one year, transferred to University of Michigan at Ann Arbor, and graduated with a degree in Asian languages and cultures.
Liu is widely considered the most prominent Asian-American actress in American media. She had small stints in films and TV roles before landing a break on Ally McBeal. Liu's role on the series was originally not meant to be a regular, but the enthusiastic audience response to the actress' feisty Ling Woo secured Lucy as a prominent cast member. She became more famous with her turn as Alex in the Charlie's Angels movie, starring alongside more established modern Hollywood icons Drew Barrymore and Cameron Diaz. The sequel to the film, however, opened to poor reviews and box office receipts. Lucy was also paid sixteen million dollars less for her work in Charlie's Angels than co-star Cameron Diaz.
Liu starred with Antonio Banderas in Ballistic: Ecks vs. Sever, a critical and box-office failure that was remarkable only in its casting of two minorities as the lead roles. Liu had a hit as Princess Pei-Pei in Shanghai Noon.
Lucy is perhaps most famous for her role as O-Ren Ishii in director Quentin Tarantino's Kill Bill films. The first installment of the Kill Bill films, Volume 1, exposed Lucy as a more serious and physically adept actress than had been evident from her previous roles. She won an MTV Movie Award, further solidifying her fame with young, hip audiences, for "Best Movie Villain".
Lucy recently appeared on several episodes of "Joey" with Matt LeBlanc, who played her love interest in the Charlie's Angels movies. She also had a small role opposite Keira Knightley in the thriller Domino. Liu is currently in talks to recreate the Charlie Chan series for modern audiences.
Although Liu is not married, rumors in the past have linked her with George Clooney. Recently, there was news that she is engaged to a New York playwright, Zach Helm.
Filmography
Domino (2005)
Kill Bill: Volume 2 (2004)
Kill Bill: Volume 1 (2003)
Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle (2003)
Chicago (2002)
Cypher (2002)
Ballistic: Ecks vs. Sever (2002)
Futurama (Guest Appearance) (2001)
Charlie's Angels (2000)
Shanghai Noon (2000)
Play It to the Bone (1999)
The Mating Habits of the Earthbound Human (1999)
Molly (movie) (1999)
True Crime (1999)
Payback (1999)
Love Kills (1998)
Flypaper (1997)
City of Industry (1997)
Gridlock'd (1997)
Guy (1996)
Jerry Maguire (1996)
Bang (1995)
Protozoa (1993)
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