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Aimee Jo Johnson



Amy Jo Johnson (born October 6, 1970) is an actress and entertainer. She was born in Cape Cod, Massachusetts, USA and her most notable roles have been those of Kimberly Ann Hart on the television series Mighty Morphin Power Rangers and of Julie Emrick on the college drama series Felicity.



Biography


In her early life, Johnson became interested in gymnastics and, after training for years, decided to aim for the Olympics. She eventually reached Class One - the highest status in gymnastics - and participated in competitions hosted both in the United States and in Europe, but was forced to abandon her career as a professional gymnast due to a severe injury.





At the age of 18, she left her home town, Cape Cod, and moved to New York, in order to pursue her acting career. She attended the Lee Strasberg Theatre Institute (see Lee Strasberg) and the American Musical and Acting Academy. When Johnson felt comfortable with her skills, she left for Los Angeles to audition for her first part.



Her gymnastics background was a clear advantage for her in being chosen for the role of Kimberly Ann Hart in the Power Rangers series (Mighty Morphin Power Rangers), in its first 3 seasons 1993-1995. The series achieved unexpected success and Johnson had a fair share of media exposure, both as the character of Kimberly Hart and as herself. After her character left the series, she went on to star in the indie film Susie Q in 1996. In 1997 she participated in the NBC's adaptation of Lois Duncan's novel Killing Mr. Griffin, and also played a bulimic gymnast in the movie Perfect Body. She also reprised her role as Kimberly Hart for perhaps the last time in Turbo: A Power Rangers Movie, as her character was turned evil after being sacrified to Divatox's fiancee, Maligore.



In 1998, she played the part of a vampire in the cult indie movie Cold Hearts. Soon after, she was invited to play the second most notable role of her acting career: Julie Emrick, a college freshman who becomes the best friend of the lead actress of the Warner Brothers series Felicity. She was in the series for two and a half years.



Her character in the series was originally cast as a dancer, but Johnson managed to convince the producers to turn the role into that of a singer and guitarist, which eventually lead her to being able to play a song of her own composition, entitled Puddle of Grace. The song was added to the show's official soundtrack. Her talent in music also lead her to star in the movie Sweetwater: A True Rock Story, a biography about the life of Nansi Nevins, lead singer from the band that opened the Woodstock festival, Sweetwater.



Johnson then took roles in a number of indie movies, namely Interstate 60, Pursuit of Happiness (in her sole nude scene) and Hard Ground. She also had a role in the final season of the television crime drama The Division.



As of 2001, she has dedicated herself mostly to music (after her fellow MMPR co-star Thuy Trang's untimely death), releasing her debut album, titled The Trans-American Treatment and performing live in the Los Angeles area alongside The Amy Jo Johnson Band. She later dropped the band, and limited the instrumental presence in her shows to her acoustic guitar and her voice. She has released another album titled Imperfect released on 1-Mar-05.



In 2002 she played a bit role in the film Interstate 60 as a seducturess on the mythical Interstate 60.



She currently resides in Los Angeles, California.



She is currently filming in Outward Blonde with Hilary Duff.






celebrities - Alicia Silverstone



Alicia Silverstone



Alicia Silverstone (born October 4, 1976) is an American actress. She first came to widespread attention in the music video for Aerosmith's Cryin and later starred in "crazy" and several Hollywood motion pictures. According to critics, she has demonstrated a versatile acting talent in a range of parts, from femme fatale in The Crush to quirky comedy in Clueless. She is also noted for her strong views on animal welfare and is a committed vegan. In 2004, Silverstone was voted sexiest female vegetarian.






Alicia SilverstoneSilverstone has continued to make a wide range of movie and television appearances, appearing mostly in comedy and action roles (she is still widely known for her role in Clueless), although proving herself versatile enough to tackle the major Shakespeare production Love's Labour's Lost. Recently, she has extended her repertoire by working as both a television and film producer.



Silverstone reportedly refuses to appear nude in any of her movies. Because of this, she requires a body double in her place for nude scenes. When she starred in the stage version of The Graduate, she insisted on wearing underwear for the famous nude-scene. The producers were forced to let her do this because, otherwise, she would have resigned from the show.





Silverstone was born in San Francisco, California, to English Jewish parents Monty Silverstone, real-estate investor, and Didi Radford, a Scottish-born former flight attendant. She was raised in Hillsborough, California. Alicia is the youngest of Monty and Didi's three children but she also has a half-sister, Kezi Silverstone, who's a rock singer in London from Monty's previous marriage and a half-brother, David Silverstone. When Alicia was six, Monty took some photos of his young daughter. The photos allowed her to get some modeling gigs which then led to television commercials (the first being for Domino's Pizza).



Alicia later attended San Mateo High School in San Mateo, California where she was a cheerleader. During this time she acquired some early modelling and advertising work and eventually got the part of the 'dream girl' on American TV series The Wonder Years. She won a leading part in the 1993 movie The Crush, playing a girl who sets out to ruin an older man after her teenage crush is spurned, for which she won two awards at the 1994 MTV Movie Awards. Silverstone actually became legally emancipated at the age of 15 in order to work the hours required for the shooting schedule of The Crush.



She went on to star in three Aerosmith music videos, entitled Cryin, Crazy, and Amazing which were hugely successful both for the band and Silverstone, making her a household name. Around this period, Silverstone was offered the role of Valerie Malone, on Beverly Hills 90210. After she turned it down, the role went to Tiffani Thiessen.



After Clueless became a huge sleeper hit and critical darling during the summer of 1995, Silverstone was hailed as the woman of the hour, and branded the spokeswoman for an emerging young generation. As a result, she was able to sign a deal with Columbia-TriStar worth $10 million. As part of the package, she got a three-year first-look deal for her own production company, "First Kiss Productions."



The first movie to be released by "First Kiss Productions" was a 1997 black comedy called Excess Baggage. Excess Baggage, a movie in which Silverstone played a chain smoking, underage drinking, rich brat, who fakes her own kidnapping in order to get her father's attention was not as criticially or commercially embraced as Clueless. Silverstone also came under fire (especially by E!) for receiving such a lucrative production deal so early in her career. Excess Baggage was such a disappointment, that after just one film, Columbia-TriStar quietly let their production deal with Silverstone expire.



Around the time she was featured as Batgirl in Batman and Robin, Silverstone was lambasted by tabloid media and mainstream press alike for putting on weight. Though hardly obese by any standard, Silverstone had obviously put on more weight than the public was used to seeing her carry, and this started a whirlwind of rumours which affected her personal life. Ironically, she was turned down for the lead in 1994's My Father the Hero because the producers said that she was too heavy for the part. The role ultimately went to Katherine Heigl instead. It didn't help Silverstone's cause that Batman and Robin was an even bigger critical and commercial failure than her other movie from 1997, Excess Baggage.



For some time, Silverstone, despite her young age, gained the reputation of being a "has-been", who reached her peak with the Aerosmith videos and Clueless. She effectively removed herself from the public eye for many years, resurfacing in the critically acclaimed television show Miss Match, which was cancelled after thirteen episodes. Silverstone later acknowledged that she hates the trappings of fame, insisting that being a celebrity is a horrific ordeal that she wouldn't want her worst enemy to suffer. According to Silverstone "Fame is not anything I wish on anyone. You start acting because you love it. Then success arrives, and suddenly you're on show."[1]





Silverstone married her longtime boyfriend Christopher Jarecki, lead singer of the band S.T.U.N., at a beach front ceremony at Lake Tahoe on June 11, 2005. The pair dated for eight years before the wedding.



celebrities - Alyssa Milano



Alyssa Milano



Alyssa Jayne Milano (born December 19, 1972 in New York City) is an American actress. She currently appears in The WB program Charmed. Milano was born to Italian parents Tom and Lin Milano and has a younger brother, Cory (born 1982), who is also an actor. One of her first acting roles was in the television program Who's the Boss? with Tony Danza, Judith Light and Katherine Helmond.



For the majority of her career Milano was known for her role on Who's the Boss?, something which she tried to shed by appearing in many very adult film roles. Many of these included nudity or very graphic (simulated) sex scenes. Many actresses do not manage to escape the stigma of such a career turn, but Milano redeemed herself with her success on Melrose Place and especially Charmed.



Milano is also an accomplished singer and recording artist, though not in her home country of the United States. She has released 5 albums that have all reached sales of over 1 million copies in Japan. She even appeared in the blink-182 video for the song "Josie".



In 1989 her image was used for the character development of Ariel in the Disney movie, The Little Mermaid.



Milano is an avid fan of tattoos and has several of them. She is dating Los Angeles Dodgers pitcher Brad Penny. She was briefly married to Remy Zero lead singer Cinjun Tate.






Filmography


Dinotopia: Quest for the Ruby Sunstone (2005)


Win, Lose and Kaboom (2004)


Dickie Roberts: Former Child Star (2003)


Lady and The Tramp II: Scamp's Adventure (2001)


Diamond Hunters (2001)




Buying the Cow (2001)


Goldrush: A Real-Life Alaskan Adventure (1998)


Alyssa Milano in a scene from Embrace of the VampireHugo Pool (1997)


Poison Ivy II: Lily (1996)


Body Count (1996)


Fear (1996)




Glory Daze (1996)


To Brave Alaska (1996)


Deadly Sins (1995)


Public Enemies (1995)


Public Enemy No. 1 (1995)


The Surrogate (1995)




Embrace of the Vampire (1994)


Double Dragon (1994)


Confessions of a Sorority Girl (1994)


Casualties of Love: The Long Island Lolita Story (1993)


Conflict of Interest (1993)


Candles in the Dark (1993)




Where the Day Takes You (1992)


Little Sister (1992)


Teen Steam (1988)


Dance 'Til Dawn (1988)


Crash Course (1988)


The Canterville Ghost (1986)




Commando (1985)




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Yasmine



Yasmin Le Bon (nee Parvaneh) (born October 29, 1964) is a British supermodel. She was born in Britain of Iranian and English descent.





She has had a fashion modeling career of unusual longevity, still going strong at 41 years of age.



Although she was a successful model long before they met, she gained notoriety for marrying Simon Le Bon of the electronic pop/rock group Duran Duran during the height of their fame in 1985. The couple have three daughters; Amber Rose Tamara (b. August 25, 1989), Saffron Sahara (b. September 25, 1991), and Tallulah Pine (b. September 10, 1994).



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Angie Harmon



Angie Harmon or Angie Sehorn, formerly Angela Michelle Harmon (born August 10, 1972), is an American television and movie actress and fashion model who rose to fame as Abbie Carmichael on the television drama Law & Order, a role she played from 1998 to 2001.


A native of Highland Park, Texas, Harmon's parents were professional fashion models Larry and Daphne Harmon. Harmon is currently married to professional football player Jason Sehorn with whom she had been engaged since a March 13, 2000 marriage proposal on the Tonight Show with Jay Leno, a popular television talk show program. Harmon and Sehorn were married on June 9, 2001.



On October 14, 2003, at 10:55 a.m. she and husband Jason Sehorn welcomed their first child, a daughter, Finley Faith Sehorn in Dallas, Texas. They are expecting their 2nd child in the summer of 2005.



Filmography


The Deal (2004/I)


Agent Cody Banks (2003)




Video Voyeur: The Susan Wilson Story (2002)


Good Advice (2001)


Batman Beyond: Return of the Joker (2000/I)


"Law & Order" (1990) TV Series .... Asst .Dist. Atty. Abbie Carmichael (1998-2001)


Lawn Dogs (1997)




"C-16: FBI" (1997)


"Baywatch Nights" (1995)



 



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Salma Hayek



Salma Hayek (born September 2, 1966, in Coatzacoalcos, Veracruz, Mexico) is a Mexican actress. Considered by many to be the most successful Latin American actress in Hollywood since Dolores del Río, Hayek, having appeared in more than thirty films and secured a nomination for an Oscar, is arguably the most important Mexican star in Hollywood today.




Early Career in Mexico



Raised in a devoutly Catholic family, she was sent to a Louisiana boarding school at the age of 12. After getting into trouble for terrorizing the nuns, Hayek returned to Mexico, but she was eventually sent to Houston, Texas, to live with her aunt, where she stayed until she was 17. She subsequently moved to Mexico City, where she studied International Relations as a university student, but, to the chagrin of her family, decided to drop out in order to pursue a career as an actress .



At the age of 23 Salma Hayek landed the title role in Teresa (1989), a successful telenovela which earned her star status in her native Mexico. Later, in 1994, Salma starred in El Callejón de los Milagros, which would later become the most awarded movie in the Cinema of Mexico.




Career in Hollywood



In 1991, not fluent in English, Hayek moved to Los Angeles, California, to study acting with the hopes of starting a career in Hollywood. Robert Rodriguez and his producer wife Elizabeth Avellan soon gave her her big break, starring opposite Antonio Banderas in Desperado which brought her to Hollywood's attention. The moviegoers proved to be as dazzled with Hayek as Rodriguez had been.





In 2002, Frida, co-produced by Hayek, was released, starring Hayek as Kahlo, and Alfred Molina as her unfaithful husband Diego Rivera. The film also featured an entourage of stars in supporting roles, including Antonio Banderas, Ashley Judd, Geoffrey Rush, Edward Norton and Valeria Golino. Her performance won her a nomination for the 2002 Academy Awards, although some have suggested that the nomination was more a credit to her perseverance in seeing the film made.




Filmography



Sanj's Hot Lover 2 (2006)


Lonely Hearts (2006)


Bandidas (2006)


Paint (2005)


Ask the Dust (2005)




Sian Ka'an (voice) (2005)


After the Sunset (2004)


The Maldonado Miracle (2003) (Director)


Once Upon A Time In Mexico (2003)


Spy Kids 3-D: Game Over (2003)


Frida (2002)




In the Time of the Butterflies (2001)


Hotel (2001)


Traffic (2000)


La Gran Vida (2000)


Chain Of Fools (2000)


Timecode (2000)




Wild Wild West (1999)


El Coronel No Tiene Quien le Escriba (No One Writes to the Colonel, 1999)


Dogma (1999)


The Faculty (1998)


The Velocity Of Gary (1998)


54 (1998)




Sistole Diastole (1997)


Breaking Up (1997)


The Hunchback (TV) (1997)


Fools Rush In (1997)


Fled (1996)


Follow Me Home (1996)




From Dusk Till Dawn (1996)


Fair Game (1995)


Desperado (1995)


El Callejón de los Milagros (Midaq Alley, 1995)


Roadracers (TV) (1994)


The Sinbad Show (series) (1993)




Mi Vida Loca (1993)




female celebrities - Sarah Jessica Parker



Sarah Jessica Parker



Sarah Jessica Parker (born March 25, 1965) is an internationally recognized Emmy-winning American Actress with an extensive portfolio of both television and movie work. Most famous of all her roles is that of Carrie Bradshaw in Sex and the City which began in 1998 and ended in 2004. In addition to her acting work, she is National Ambassador for the U.S. Fund for UNICEF.




Career







Publicity Still from the late 1980's


With co-stars of Honeymoon in VegasParker got her first big break as an actress in 1982 when she was cast in the CBS sitcom Square Pegs. Playing Patty Green - an awkward teen trying to be cool but not quite managing it - she won critical acclaim. The short lived show lasted only one season before being cancelled by the network but it had been a valuable kick start to Parker's career. In the two years that followed, she was cast in four films - the most significant of those being Footloose in 1984. The remainder of the 1980s was filled with TV Specials and largely mediocre movies - but at least she had steady work and Parker was becoming a much respected actress, if not a publically recognised one.



By the early 1990s her career was gaining momentum. In 1991 she appeared in the Romantic Comedy L.A. Story - both the movie and her performance garnered some positive reviews. The following year she landed an important starring role in Honeymoon in Vegas in which she starred with Nicholas Cage and once again, Parker and the movie were a big hit with the public. A less successful comedy came the following year (1993) in the shape of Hocus Pocus, in which she played opposite Bette Midler. The same year she starred in a different kind of film - this time an action/thriller titled Striking Distance. The next year saw her star opposite Johnny Depp in the classic movie Ed Wood - consistantly listed as one of the finest movies of the 1990's this was her biggest break yet. Miami Rhapsody in 1995 saw her back on familiar territory with more Romantic Comedy material and a leading role. 1996 was a busy year as she had leading roles in six movies, with the most important of them being Mars Attacks! which was one of the most commercially successful pictures of the year.



After a quiet 1997, Sarah Jessica Parker's career was about to sky rocket. The script for an HBO Drama/Comedy series titled Sex and the City had been sent to her and the show's creator Darren Star was determined to bag her as his star of the project. He didn't need to convince her much, Parker adored the script and she quickly signed up to the ambitious project. Before long her co-stars - Cynthia Nixon, Kim Cattrall and Kristin Davis were in place and work on the pilot began.






GAP Print Ad from Spring 2005The first season of the show proved to be an almost instant success and the show's refreshingly honest approach to sex - and indeed the humour of sex - struck a chord with viewers. During the production of Sex and the City's fifth season, Parker was also working on romantic comedy Life Without Dick. It didn't matter when that picture flopped at the box office - by that time Sarah Jessica Parker had made the transition from "Promising Newcomer" of the 90's to bona fida superstar.





Her transition to status of "Superstar" was helped along by her influence in the world of fashion. With a natural sense of style second to none, Sarah Jessica Parker quickly became one of the worlds most stylish and adored celebrities. But her status as one of the world's "Best Dressed" is certainly not an indication of a lack of greater talent. In addition to work in movie and television, she is also a very highly respected Stage Actress. Lead roles as a dog in the critically acclaimed off-Broadway play Sylvia, alongside husband Matthew Broderick in How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying and the Tony Award-nominated Once Upon a Mattress as Princess Winifred the Woebegone are some of her most critically acclaimed performances. After the international smash hit Sex and the City bid its final farewell in 2004 and after six seasons she won an Emmy award for her role as Carrie Bradshaw. Her first project after Sex and the City was an unexpected one. In 2005 she had a small role in the Sundance Film Festival movie Strangers with Candy - far from the glitz and glamour of her flagship TV series, the movie was about a recovering drug addict. But her career has not been without failure. In the Spring of 2005 her status as a leading style icon took a knock when American fashion giant GAP axed her from their advertising campaign. She was replaced by relative unknown Joss Stone - a British Soul Singer.



 



Personal life





Parker and Son, James




Parker and Broderick - Dublin, 2004The fourth of eight children, Sarah Jessica Parker was born in Nelsonville, Ohio on the March 25th, 1965 to a Jewish American mother and a father of English descent. As a young girl, she trained in singing and ballet and was soon cast in the Broadway production of The Innocents. Her family moved to New Jersey at this time to better support her dreams of becoming a star. After a run of promising performances in several increasingly important films and television shows she met actor Robert Downey Jr. and lived with him for seven years between 1984 and 1991. As her career continued to blossom into the 1990s, she met John Kennedy Jr. and dated him for several months.



In May 1997, she married actor Matthew Broderick. Shortly after she began work on what would be her biggest role yet as Carrie Bradshaw in Sex and the City and before the end of the following year she had become an international superstar. Parker and Broderick's child, James, was born five years later on October 28th, 2002. Parker is a prominent member of the Hollywood's Women's Political Committee and is Unicef's Representative for the Performing Arts. Currently, she lives in New York City with her husband and son.



 



Trivia



When hosting the MTV Movie Awards in 2000, changed into 15 different costumes throughout the show.


Has said that she prefers British Comedy - with shows such as Fawlty Towers and Absolutely Fabulous listed as her favourites.




Had a strict "No Nudity" clause in her contract for Sex and the City.


After filming the Pilot Episode of Sex and the City, as much as she liked the show, Parker hatched a plan with her agent to get out of doing the show - she was terrified of being locked into the show for the rest of her career. After speaking with the shows creator Darren Star she decided to stay on.


After 5 consecutive losses, she finally won an Emmy for "Outstanding Lead Actress in a Comedy Series" in 2004.


Many gambling and betting establishments stopped taking bets on her walking away with an Emmy in 2004 because it was so widely predicted she would.




Appeared several times on "Shalom Sesame", the Israeli version of Sesame Street.


In August of 2003, re-negotiated her contract with Nutrisse Hair Products to appear in Print and Television adverts. The sum she received is rumoured to be in the seven figure range.


Son James was born at Lenox Hill Hospital, Manhattan on October 28th 2002.


Was introduced to Matthew Broderick by her brother.


She was mocked on an episode of Family Guy about censorship. Peter Griffin says "they let Sarah Jessica Parker's face on TV and she looks like a foot".






Quotes



"You can't do four movies and be good to everybody and be flying all night and shooting all day with a different wig and then be going to sing on Broadway without feeling a little tired. You endlessly feel you're letting somebody down."


"Derek Jeter is off the disabled list and Chuck Knoblauch is not throwing the ball away. All is right with the world."


"I don't judge others. I say if you feel good with what you're doing, let your freak flag fly."


"I'm very, very concerned about the Bush presidency. I'm worried about the kinds of cuts in domestic programs that mean something to a lot of people, including members of my family, who depend on certain things from the government."


"I know that he (Matthew Broderick) doesn't have his laundry done, and that he hasn't had a hot meal in days. That stuff weighs on my mind.






Awards



1999: Golden Globe - Best Actress in a Comedy or Musical Series - Sex and the City


2000: Golden Globe - Best Actress in a Comedy or Musical Series - Sex and the City


2005: Emmy - Best Lead Actress in a Comedy Series - Sex and the City




Selected Filmography



Footloose (1984)




Girls Just Want To Have Fun (1985)


Flight of the Navigator (1986)


L.A. Story (1991)


Hocus Pocus (1993)


Striking Distance (1993)


Ed Wood (1994)




The First Wives Club (1996)


Mars Attacks! (1996)


Dudley Do-Right (1999)


State and Main (2000)


The Family Stone (2005)






Selected TV Work



Square Pegs (1982-1983)


Dadah is Death (1988)


Equal Justice (1990)


The Sunshine Boys (1995)


Sex and the City (1998-2004)






female celebrities - Sarah Michelle Gellar



Sarah Michelle Gellar



Sarah Michelle Gellar (born April 14, 1977) is an American actress, best known for her role in the television series Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Some of her most commercially successful films have been horror films such as The Grudge (2004), but she has also acted in a variety of other genres, from family films like Scooby-Doo (2002) to thrillers like Harvard Man (2001).




Biography




Her family





Gellar was born in New York City to Jewish-American parents Arthur and Rosellen. After her parents divorced in 1984, she was brought up by her mother. She refuses to acknowledge any relationship with her father saying "Just because you donate sperm does not make you a father." Arthur died on October 9, 2001 of unknown causes.



 



Life and career



She has been acting since the age of four, when she did a commercial for Burger King. Her best friend as a child was Melissa Joan Hart, who later was the star of the television series Sabrina, the Teenage Witch.



 



Acting roles





Gellar's major break came in 1992 in the teen soap opera Swan's Crossing. From there, she moved on to the long-running soap opera All My Children, where she played the conniving character Kendall Hart, the long-lost daughter of character Erica Kane (played by Susan Lucci). In 1995, at the age of 18, she won a Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Younger Leading Actress in a Drama Series.






James Marsters as Spike and Sarah Michelle Gellar as Buffy in season six of Buffy the Vampire Slayer © 2001 20th Century Fox TelevisionGellar left All My Children in 1995 and landed the lead in the TV series Buffy the Vampire Slayer, created by Joss Whedon, as a teenager burdened with the responsibility of fighting a number of mystical foes, with the aid of a group of friends and her Watcher (a teacher of sorts). The show was well received by critics and audiences alike, and throughout its seven seasons, Buffy, and Gellar along with her, became cult icons in the United States and the UK. Gellar also sang several of the songs during the Buffy the Vampire Slayer musical episode "Once More, with Feeling," which spawned an original cast album. While continuing in that role, she attempted to capitalize on her television fame in order to create a career for herself in motion pictures, with intermittent commercial success. After roles in the popular thrillers I Know What You Did Last Summer and Scream 2, Gellar starred in the film Simply Irresistible. This film, rumored to be the last film ever watched by critic Gene Siskel, featured a magical crab and borrowed heavily from Like Water for Chocolate. Gellar's next film was the steamy hit Cruel Intentions, a modern-day retelling of Les Liaisons Dangereuses; this movie gained much exposure due to a famous girl on girl kissing scene between Sarah and Selma Blair. Also in 1999, she made an appearance in the Stone Temple Pilots music video Sour Girl. She then went on to play a lead role in Harvard Man.



 





Personal life



On September 1, 2002, Gellar and teen-movie actor Freddie Prinze Jr. were married in Mexico.



 



Scooby-Doo



Gellar found greater box office success playing Daphne in Scooby-Doo, a live-action adaption of the cartoon series. Despite being universally panned by critics, the movie was highly popular with audiences. Gellar also appeared in the movie's sequel, Scooby-Doo 2: Monsters Unleashed (2004).



 



Movies





The year of 2004 was marked by a point of controversy in Gellar's career, as the president of the talent agency representing Geller, David Wirtschafter, told the The New Yorker that the success of Gellar's low-budget film The Grudge (a remake of the Japanese horror film Ju-on: The Grudge) "takes our client Sarah Michelle Gellar, who now is nothing at all, and it makes her a star, potentially. Suddenly, the Sarah Michelle Gellar space is meaningful." The remark led to Gellar abandoning the agency. In January 2005 Gellar signed for the movie The Return which she started filming in March of that same year. Gellar finished filming The Return in April 2005 and started filming Southland Tales, a film by Donnie Darko director Richard Kelly in August 2005. Sarah finished filming Southland Tales in October 2005. Next she will be filming "The Air I Breathe" with co-stars Diego Luna, Kevin Bacon and Ken Watanabe in January 2006 in Mexico City. Production for A Girl's Guide For Hunting And Fishing , based on the book of the same name and co-starring Alec Baldwin will start in May 2006. Both The Return and Southland Tales are expected to be released in 2006. Also in that same year, Gellar is expected to start filming Alice based on the game from American McGee.



 



Filmography




2007 The Air I Breathe pre-production




2007 Alice Alice pre-production (see also American McGee's Alice)


2007 The Girl's Guide For Hunting And Fishing Jane Rosenal pre-production


2006 Southland Tales Krysta Now Post-production


2006 The Return Joanna Mills Complete


2005 Happily N'Ever After Cinderella Animation; Complete


2004 The Grudge Karen Davis




2004 Scooby-Doo 2: Monsters Unleashed Daphne Blake


2002 Scooby-Doo Daphne Blake


2001 Harvard Man Cindy Bandolini


1999 Cruel Intentions Kathryn Merteuil


1999 Simply Irresistible Amanda Shelton


1999 She's All That Girl in Cafeteria Bit part; uncredited




1998 Small Soldiers Gwendy Doll Voice


1997 Scream 2 Casey "Cici" Cooper


1997 I Know What You Did Last Summer Helen Shivers


1989 High Stakes Karen Rose Credited as "Sarah Gellar"




1988 Funny Farm Elizabeth's student Bit part; uncredited


1984 Over the Brooklyn Bridge Phil's daughter Bit part; uncredited




Television



Hercules: The Legendary Journeys (1998)... (voice) Andromeda


Buffy the Vampire Slayer (1997-2003)....Buffy Summers




Beverly Hills Family Robinson (1997)... Jane Robinson


All About Erica (1994)... (archive footage) Kendall Hart


All My Children (1993-1995)... Kendall Hart #1


Swan's Crossing (1992)... Sydney Orion Rutledge


A Woman Named Jackie (1991)... teenage Jacqueline Bouvier


Spenser: For Hire, episode: "Company Man" (#3.17) (1988)... Emily




An Invasion of Privacy (1983)... Jennifer Bianchi


Gellar has hosted Saturday Night Live several times.





RODNEY KING TALKS 'CELEBRITY REHAB': World's most famous police brutality victim discusses alcohol and drug addictions. (Eurweb)

Fri, 24 Oct 2008 07:11:46 GMT
*The Associated Press caught up with Rodney King to talk about his televised battle against alcohol and drug demons as part of VH1's "Celebrity Rehab," which premiered its second season last night.

Spector jury chosen in shadow of OJ Simpson trial - WTOP Radio

Fri, 24 Oct 2008 09:29:00 GMT
LOS ANGELES (AP) - A jury of seven men and five women was sworn in for the murder retrial of music producer Phil Spector and attorneys began searching for six alternates, revealing ...

Download these Marisa Tomei Images

Tue, 15 Jan 2008 23:27:00 +0000
Here’s more images, this time of Academy Award-winning American film and stage actress, Marisa Tomei:
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Marisa Tomei was born December 4, 1964. Her star sign is Sagittarius.

Download these Abi Titmuss Images

Mon, 14 Jan 2008 11:56:00 +0000
Here’s more images, this time of English glamour model turned television personality and occasional actress, Abi Titmuss:
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Abi Titmuss was born September 8, 1976. Her star sign is Virgo.
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