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Katherine Heigl

Andrej — Fri, 27 Dec 2013 16:06:44 +0000

Katherine Heigl does not just come across as a stunningly beautiful blonde actress, there is much more to this diva than just her drop-dead gorgeous looks. Nicknamed as “Katie”, she is the youngest in her family, with two siblings, John and Meg. The tragic death of her brother Jason in 1986 gave Heigl a new-found respect for life and eventually, led her to promote the noble cause of organ donation, working as the spokesperson for Donation Life America. She is an active feminist, who works hard towards various causes concerning betterment of women and is also stands up for animal welfare.

Popularly known for her role as Dr. Isobel “Izzie” Stevens in the ABC Medical drama Grey”s Anatomy, Heigl departed the show after season 6 to spend more time with her family. Heigl started her career early, working as a child model with the renowned Wilhemina Modeling Agency and her film debut came with the film That Night. She was 14 when she played her first lead role in a comedy film, My Father the Hero and that was the time she was attending New Cannan High School. Eventually, she dropped out after her sophomore year in order to concentrate on her career in Hollywood and then there was no casino online looking back.

In 1992, she turned to television, playing the role of Isabel Evans in the science fiction drama series Roswell and thereafter appeared in a lot of Television films as well. Some of Heigl”s most popular movies are Knocked Up, 27 Dresses, The Ugly Truth, New Year”s Eve, Life as We Know It, One for the Money and more. Heigl is the only star on Grey”s Anatomy to have won an Emmy Award. She has appeared on numerous magazine covers such as for Maxim, Vanity Fair, and Cosmopolitan. She is reported to make a television comeback with a CIA Drama show on NBC.

Katherine Heigl married singer Josh Kelly in 2007 and have two adopted daughters, Nancy Leigh and Adalaide Marie Hope.

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Sandra Oh

Andrej — Thu, 26 Dec 2013 15:50:05 +0000

Sandra Oh is an extremely talented Canadian actress who started her career in her childhood. Born to Korean immigrants, Oh was 19 years old, when she went to the National Theatre School of Canada, which, in the year, 1993, landed her to the breakthrough role of her career in the TV biopic, ‘The Diary of Evelyn Lau’. Not only she was nominated for a Gemini nomination for her splendid performance, she won the 1994 Cannes FIPA d’Or for Best Actress. In the following years, Sandra joined the comedy show, ‘Arli$$’ in 1996, aired on HBO and landed on roles in movies such as ‘Under the Tuscan Sun’ in 2003, followed by ‘Sideways’ in the year 2004 and since 2005, we’ve been seeing her as Dr. Christina Yang on ABC’s medical drama, which has been her trademark role for the past 10 years. Oh has earned numerous wins and nominations for her role on Grey’s Anatomy, including a Golden Globe, many Screen Actor’s Guild awards and Emmy nominations for five years in a row.

Sandra’s love to perform began at an age of 4 when her parents put her in ballet and at 10, she made her debut performance in a play, ‘The Canada Goose’. There was no looking back for young Sandra, who, by 15 was doing professional gigs in TV, theatre and commercials. At the time of choosing college major, Oh decided to for acting school, which her parents didn’t approve of. She went on to study in a renowned drama school and paid the fees on her own. Sandra has earned many laurels for her breakthrough performance in ‘The Diary of Evelyn’, for which she auditioned against 1000 actresses and bagged the role.

Sandra Oh’s married director Alexander Payne in 2003, who cast her in his small independent film, Sideways. Surprisingly, the film was not just a hit but also got nominated for five academy awards and Oh won critical acclaim for her supporting role in the film. Payne and Oh parted ways in 2005 and finally got divorced in 2006. She is in a relationship with musician Andrew Featherston since 2007.

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Ellen Pompeo

Ilija — Tue, 24 Dec 2013 14:32:12 +0000

Ellen Pompeo is an American actress, largely known for her portrayal of Dr. Meredith Grey, the protagonist of the Medical Drama Series called Grey”s Anatomy. Ellen lost her mother due to a painkiller overdose, when she was just four. Her father was a salesman and Ellen used to work in a restaurant in Soho, when she was first discovered. Ellen head-started her career with small roles in some of the highest rated TV shows like Friends, Law and Order, Strangers with Candy and others. She also played a part in the movie Mambo Café with Thalia but her big screen debut happened in 2002 when director Brad Silberling casted her in his film Moonlight Mile. Ellen played the character of a candid woman who is heart-broken and is silent about the burden she is carrying. Her performance received an exceptional response and thereafter, in 2002, she was seen in Steven Spielberg”s Catch Me If You Can, opposite to Leonardo Da Caprio.

Further, in 2004, she played a small role in Michel Gondry”s Eternal Sunshine of a Spotless Mind, portraying Jim Carrey”s ex-girlfriend, although, later on, casino the scenes were deleted from the film.

Pompeo also starred in the widely successful film, Old School (2003) where she starred opposite to Luke Wilson, Vince Vaughn and Will Ferrell. And before 2002, she was also involved in numerous independent short films such as Coming Soon, In the Weeds and Life of the Party.

But, as we all know, Ellen”s career head-started in 2005 when she bagged the lead role of Meredith Grey on the ABC Medical Drama, Grey”s Anatomy. Her character started off as a surgical intern at a renowned hospital and over the years, grew to become a successful surgeon. The series has completed nine seasons, with season 10 premiering on September 26, 2013 and Pompeo is known to have signed the contract till the 10^th season. Till date, Ellen has appeared in 196 episodes of Grey”s Anatomy. In 2012, she was earning $9 million, making here the 8th highest paid TV actress.

Pompeo is married to the music producer Chris Ivery and gave birth to their first daughter, Stella Luna on September 15, 2009.

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Patrick Dempsey

TVHackr — Wed, 06 Nov 2013 16:39:12 +0000

His Nickname is Dr. McDreamy and his trademark look is curly black hair and soft blue eyes. Meet Patrick Dempsey, a true charmer, American actor and race car driver. He is best known for his role in the popular Medical Drama Series on ABC, Grey’s Anatomy, as the Neurosurgeon, Dr. Derek Shepherd. Dempsey has had a multi-faceted personality, with an amalgamation of Television, film and motor sports. He started off as a charmer in college comedy movies in the late 1980s and early 90s, went on to evolve as this incredibly handsome, wavy-aired daily soap charmer and now with the successful completion of the 24 hours of Le Mans, we get to see Dempsey’s brand new avatar as a racer.

The youngest child in the family, Dempsey grew up in Buckfield, Maine. His father worked an as Insurance Salesman and mother was a school secretary. Patrick was diagnosed with dyslexia when he was 12 years; in fact even now he has to memorize his scripts. In an Oscar Special event, he said that this challenge has made him strive to achieve the position, he’s at today and that he never gave up. During school, he was a skilled juggler and also a proficient skier and even won the Maine state slalom championship, when he was in high school.

A natural actor, Dempsey enacted in numerous stage productions and Broadway shows, till the age of 21, as that is when his first feature film ‘In the Mood’ was released in 1986. This was followed by teen comedy and romantic movies in the early 90s. In the late 90s Dempsey was seen on popular TV shows like Will & Grace and Once & Again, he was even nominated for the Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actor in a Drama Series for Once & Again.

In 2005, Patrick landed on the role of Derek Shepherd on Grey’s Anatomy and since then, there was no looking back for him. During this time, he maintained his Prince Charming avatar with movies like Enchanted, Made of Honor, Valentine’s Day, etc. Recently, he has completed a mini-series called Patrick Dempsey: Racing Le Mans with Velocity. The actor was a part of France’s eminent 24 hour race, LeMans and this miniseries features him gearing up for one of the world’s toughest car racing challenges.

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Neil Patrick Harris

TVHackr — Fri, 13 Sep 2013 13:10:50 +0000

When you think of child stars who made the nearly impossible transition to adult acting careers, one of the first names to pop up is Neil Patrick Harris. After being discovered at a drama camp by playwright Mark Medoff, he went on to win critical acclaim in the 1988 film adaptation of Clara’s Heart, starring alongside Academy Award winner Whoopi Goldberg, before earning the role of teenage physician Doogie Howser on ABC’s Doogie Howser, M.D., which ran for four seasons. Once the show was canceled, Harris went on to a highly successful stage career and reemerged in film with a supporting role in 1997’s Starship Troopers, with his television return coming in 1999 one-season sitcom Stark Raving Madly, where he plays obsessive-compulsive book editor Henry McNeeley opposite Tony Shalhoub. In 2004, he starred as an exaggerated version of himself in cult comedy Harold & Kumar Go to White Castle, a role that helped him land a spot on CBS sitcom How I Met Your Mother, arguably the role he’s most known for. Harris plays womanizer Barney Stinson on the long-running comedy, set to sign off after the 2013-2014 season. Among the recognition Harris has received for the role were two Golden Globe nominations and four Emmy nominations. Additionally, the multi-talented actor, whose singing ability has been lauded, has become one of the go-to hosts for award shows in recent years, having emceed the Tony Awards four times, the Creative Arts Emmys once, the TV Land Awards once, Spike TV’s Video Game Awards once, and the Emmys main telecast once.

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Patrick J. Adams

TVHackr — Thu, 12 Sep 2013 13:15:10 +0000

Following the divorce of his parents, Patrick J. Adams moved to the United States and enrolled in the theater program at the University of Southern California. He quickly became involved in the theater community around the area, making his stage debut in a production of “The Goat, or Who is Sylvia?”, at The Mark Taper Forum and becoming a fixture at the Ojai Playwrights Conference. Adams got into the world of film through a small role in 2003 hit Old School and subsequently made guest appearances on everything from Friday Night Lights and Jack & Bobby to Cold Case, Lost, and NCIS. After having several pilots fail to get off the ground, including 2008’s Good Behavior that found Adams playing twin brothers, his big break came in 2011 when he was cast as brilliant college dropout Mike Ross on provocative USA drama Suits, which began airing its third season in the summer of 2013. While Ross is a more sympathetic attorney, often becoming emotionally involved in his cases, his rival Harvey is a colder presence, more focused on getting a win than securing justice for those he works with, a fundamental difference that leaves the two at odds. For the role, Adams received a surprise Screen Actors Guild nomination in early 2012 in the category of Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Drama Series, which he lost to Boardwalk Empire star Steve Buscemi. While on Suits, Adams had a four-episode recurring arc on ill-fated HBO horse racing drama Luck, which was canceled after its first season due to the death of three horses and safety concerns for the remaining animals.

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Gabriel Macht

TVHackr — Mon, 09 Sep 2013 13:03:47 +0000

The son of a museum curator and One Life to Live actor Stephen Macht, Gabriel Macht first brought notice to his acting talent when he appeared in 1980 dramedy Why Would I Lie? as a young boy in the foster care system who helps bring two people together. However, despite the critical praise he earned at the tender age of 8, he didn’t return to the business until over a decade later, landing guest appearances on Beverly Hills, 90210, Spin City, and Sex and the City in the first few years of his adult career. Macht did the occasional bit of television, including starring in 2000 NBC supernatural series The Others, but focused more on film and theater, with roles coming in Behind Enemy Lines, The Object of My Affection, and A Love Song for Bobby Long. (The Carnegie Mellon graduate’s most notable theater credit during this time was “Steve Martin’s Picasso at the Lapin Agile” at Promenade Theater Off Broadway and Theater on the Square in San Francisco, though he also appeared in productions of La Ronde, To Whom It May Concern, Turnaround, and What the Butler Saw.) Following well-received turns in The Good Shepherd and Love & Other Drugs, as well as the Yankees fan returned to television in 2011 with USA’s Suits, where he plays Harvey Specter, one of New York’s top corporate attorneys. Along with co-star Patrick J. Adams, who plays brilliant college dropout Mike Ross, he received a producer credit on the legal drama, which began airing its third season in the summer of 2013.

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Christina Hendricks

TVHackr — Wed, 28 Aug 2013 12:25:56 +0000

Christina Rene Hendricks never found much stability during her childhood, as her father, who worked for the United States Forest Service, moved them around the country for his professional obligations. As a result of the constant traveling, which took her everywhere from Idaho to Virginia, she found her sense of peace in children’s theater and eventually transitioned to being a model when she was 18, a profession she was in until the age of 27. The modeling led to minor television roles and in 2000, she got her first series regular role on Showtime show business satire Beggars and Choosers, which lasted 42 total episodes. In addition to appearing in music videos for Everclear (“One Hit Wonder”) and Broken Bells (“The Ghost Inside”), Hendricks has guest starred on episodes of Angel, Without a Trace, and Las Vegas, while recurring on ER, Life, and Firefly. But it was her role as Joan, office manager at advertising agency Sterling Cooper Draper Pryce, on AMC’s Mad Men that proved to be her breakout, earning her several Emmy nominations and widespread critical praise, both for her performance and her curvaceous body; Hendricks found herself being compared to the likes of Marilyn Monroe and Veronica Lake for her look on the show, which is said to have inspired a rise in British breast augmentation surgeries in 2010. The actress has since transitioned into film with roles in Nicolas Winding Refn’s action-thriller Drive, Katherine Heigl/Josh Duhamel romantic-comedy Life as We Know It, and Sarah Jessica Parker comedy I Don’t Know How She Does It.

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Lucy Hale

TVHackr — Tue, 27 Aug 2013 10:27:55 +0000

Multi-talented Memphis native Lucy Kate Hale burst onto the pop culture scene at the tender age of 13 when she tried out for American Juniors, the 2003 American Idol spin-off that focused on younger contestants. After performing a rendition of Blondie’s “Call Me” in the final round of the live competition, she became a member of the group, which disbanded in 2005 after releasing one failed album. Other familiar names that appeared on the one-season experiment were The Secret Life of the American Teenager’s Katelyn Tarver, pop singer Kristinia DeBarge, and The Thompson Sisters, who were a part of The Voice’s first season in 2011. Hale then began focusing on her acting career, where she appeared in episodes of How I Met Your Mother and Wizards of Waverly Place before landing her first series regular role on NBC’s short-lived re-imagining of Bionic Woman. She played the younger sister to the title character in eight episodes. Later, she appeared in every episode of The CW’s one-season dramedy Privileged and currently stars as Aria Montgomery, one of the four principal characters on ABC Family mystery Pretty Little Liars. For the role, where she has an on again-off again relationship with an older man and tries to figure out who is stalking/mess with her and her friends, she’s earned several Teen Choice Awards. She’s continued to pursue her musical aspirations four songs to television movie A Cinderella Story: Once Upon a Song, which she starred in with Freddie Stroma and Missi Pyle.

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Amber Heard

TVHackr — Mon, 26 Aug 2013 09:26:36 +0000

Born to a contractor father and state Internet researcher in Austin, Texas, Amber Laura Heard always knew that her true calling was show business, so at the age of 17, she dropped out of high school and moved to New York to pursue modeling, as she considered it an easier ticket out of town than immediately pursuing acting. After appearing in music videos for Kenny Chesney’s “She Thinks My Tractor’s Sexy” and Eisley’s “I Wasn’t Prepared”, the blonde beauty quickly earned roles in the episodes of Jack & Bobby, The O.C., and The Mountain before transitioning to a film career, the medium she’s primarily worked in for the last decade. Known for her roles as sexualized teenagers, her first series regular role came on 2007 CW soap Hidden Palms as secretive beauty Greta Matthews, though the summer series only lasted eight total episodes. A fan of muscle cars and a regular on FHM’s and Maxim’s rankings of the sexiest women of the year, the former Texas line-dancer has called her time as rumored real life boyfriend Johnny Depp’s love interest in 2011’s The Rum Diary the best experience of her life. Her last regular television role came as Bunny Maureen on NBC’s 2011 period drama The Playboy Club, which was canceled after three episodes of low ratings and inflated controversy. The American actress is actively involved with Amnesty International, a nonprofit focused on people fighting injustice and promoting human rights, and recently appeared in a commercial meant to promote the Guess Girl fragrance for spring/summer 2013. Think you know Amber? Take our short quiz to find out!

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