Orlando Bloom

Orlando Jonathan Blanchard Bloom was born on January 13, 1977 in Canterbury, England) is an English actor who became famous playing Legolas in The Lord of the Rings movie trilogy. He has also had major roles in Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl, Troy, The Calcium Kid, and his first lead role in Kingdom of Heaven. Bloom is currently filming the sequel Pirates of the Caribbean 2: Dead Man’s Chest.

Bloom was born in Canterbury, Kent to Sonia J. Copeland, who was born in India to an English physician father, doctor Francis Copeland. Although he had originally thought that his father was South African Jewish lawyer Harry Bloom (who died in 1981), his mother revealed to Orlando in his teens that his biological father was not Bloom, but family friend Colin Stone. Orlando attended St Edmund’s School in Canterbury, but struggled due to his dyslexia. In 1993, he moved to London and joined the National Youth Theatre, spending two seasons there and earning a scholarship to train at the British American Drama Academy. He had a few television roles and made his film debut in Wilde (1997), opposite Stephen Fry, before entering the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in London. In 1998, he broke his back in a three story fall, and it was briefly feared that he would never walk again. However, he made a complete recovery and walked out of the hospital twelve days later. He had metal plates inserted into his backbone to support it, which have since been removed, except for a single screw. He regularly performs yoga and Pilates to strengthen his back.

Bloom with actor Liam Neeson in the film "Kingdom of Heaven".While also still in drama school he landed his first major role as Legolas in The Lord of the Rings trilogy (2001–2003). Whilst shooting a scene, he broke a couple of his ribs. He fully recovered and continued shooting. This turned Bloom from an unknown actor into one of world’s hottest celebrities. IMDBPro’s StarMeter reported that Bloom was the most searched-for actor in January 2002, one month after The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring was released. In the same year he was also chosen as one of Teen People Magazine’s "25 Hottest Stars Under 25". He was named People Magazine’s hottest Hollywood bachelor in the magazine’s 2004 list.

The cast of the Rings movies was nominated for Best Ensemble Acting at the Screen Actors Guild Awards for three years in a row. They finally won in 2003, for the third film The Return of the King. Bloom has also won other various Empire and Teen Choice Awards, and has been nominated for many others.

Bloom has said that he uses the philosophies of Nichiren Buddhism in 2004, a religion that he has long associated himself with.

Filmography

Pirates of the Caribbean 3 (2007) – Will Turner
Pirates of the Caribbean 2: Dead Man’s Chest (2006) – Will Turner
Love and Other Disasters (2006) – Hollywood Paolo
Elizabethtown (2005) – Drew Baylor
Kingdom of Heaven (2005) – Balian
Haven (2004) – Shy (also co-producer)
Troy (2004) – Paris
The Calcium Kid (2004) – Jimmy Connelly
The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003) – Legolas Greenleaf
Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl (2003) – Will Turner
Ned Kelly (2003) – Joe Byrne
The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (2002) – Legolas Greenleaf
Black Hawk Down (2001) – PFC. Todd Blackburn
The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001) – Legolas Greenleaf
Midsomer Murders: Judgement Day (2000) – Peter Drinkwater
Wilde (1997) – Rentboy

Elizabeth Hurley

Elizabeth Jane Hurley (born June 10, 1965) is an English model, actress, producer and designer, born in Basingstoke, Hampshire. Her mother is an English Protestant while her late father was a lapsed Catholic of Irish descent. Her height is 1.73m.

Elizabeth has an older sister, Kate, and a younger brother, Michael. She took ballet classes as a child and got a scholarship at a boarding school at the age of 12 but was expelled for poor grades. She first came to public attention following her wearing of a form-fitting black Versace gown barely held together with safety pins (referred to as ‘that’ dress in the British press), at the premiere of Four Weddings and a Funeral (1994), a film that starred her then-companion Hugh Grant.

Her notable Hollywood films include, two Austin Powers movies (1997 & 1999) and Bedazzled (2000). She has also produced two films starring Grant, Extreme Measures (1996) and Mickey Blue Eyes (1999), under their jointly owned Simian production company. Additionally, in 2004 she was an executive producer on the film Method. She dated Grant from 1987 until 2001 and they seem to remain good friends.

She is the face of Estée Lauder’s ReNutriv Skin Care Line. In addition, she has a lipstick named after her, Elizabeth Pink, the profits of which go to the Breast Cancer Foundation.

Since her breakup with Grant, she has been linked with multi-millionaire American film producer Stephen Bing and American millionaire Ted Forstmann. She is engaged to half-Indian, half-German Arun Nayar, the playboy son of a Bombay textile millionaire, whom she has been seeing since 2003 and who obtained a divorce from his Italian wife, Valentina Pedroni, in early 2005. On April 4, 2002, she gave birth to a son, Damian Charles Hurley, fathered by Bing, who initially denied paternity. DNA tests confirmed that he was the father. Damian was baptized a Roman Catholic, as Elizabeth Hurley has been contemplating converting to Catholicism for more than a decade but has not yet officially done so; having a child out of wedlock is frowned on by Catholics.

She has homes in London; in Ampney Crucis, a village in Gloucestershire, England; and in Beverly Hills, California. The Daily Mail 2004 Rich List put her fortune at an estimated £17 million. She said she gets her "hot date" look by eating a lot of Watercress Soup. Elizabeth’s dress size is (US) 6 (UK 8 EU 38)

In April of 2005 her beachwear line Elizabeth Hurley Beach debuted in select Saks Fifth Avenue stores in the United States, Harrod’s in the UK and in various other locations worldwide.

Elizabeth Hurley is apparently a favorite of director David Yates to play Bellatrix Lestrange in the upcoming film adaptation of Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix in 2007 .

Another interesting fact is that Hurley has twelve piercings in her ears and a pierced nose. She says the Estée Lauder people do a good job of covering them.

Filmography

The Weight of Water, 2000Method (film) (2004) [1]
Serving Sara (2002)
Double Whammy (2001) [2]
Bedazzled (2000)
The Weight of Water (2000)
Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me (1999)
Edtv (1999)
My Favorite Martian (1999)
Permanent Midnight (1998)
Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery (1997)
Dangerous Ground (1997) [3]
Mad Dogs and Englishmen (film) (1995) [4]
Beyond Bedlam (1993) [5]
Passenger 57 (1992)
The Long Winter (1992) [6]
Skipper, Der (1990) [7]
Rowing In the Wind (1988) [8]
Aria (film) (1987) [9]

Rebecca Romijn-Stamos

Rebecca A Romijn (born November 6, 1972) is an actress and former supermodel. She was born in Berkeley, California to Jaap Romijn and Elizabeth Kuizenga, both of whom are of Dutch ancestry.

While studying music at the University of California, Santa Cruz, she became involved with modeling and eventually moved to Paris, France for more than two years. Among other jobs, she modeled for the swimsuit issue of Sports Illustrated and for Victoria’s Secret. She also was the host of MTV’s House of Style from 1998 to 2000.

In 2000’s X-Men, she had her first major movie role as “Mystique”; she returned to the role in 2003’s sequel X2: X-Men United, and is currently being trained by Jerry O’Connell for her role in X-Men 3, expected for release in 2006. In these movies her costume consisted of blue makeup and some strategically placed prosthetics on her otherwise nude body. She had her first leading role in Brian De Palma’s Femme Fatale (2002). She also has starred in movies such as Rollerball and Godsend.

It was announced she will play the leading role in Pepper Dennis, a TV series set for 2006.

She married actor John Stamos on September 19, 1998. During her marriage, she used the name Rebecca Romijn-Stamos in both her personal and professional life. The couple announced their separation on April 12, 2004 and divorced on March 1, 2005. She has returned to using her birth name. On September 20, 2005, Romijn’s publicist confirmed her engagement to Jerry O’Connell .

Filmography

Rebecca Romijn on the cover of Premiere
As Mystique in X2.X-Men 3 (2006) – Mystique
Man About Town (2005) – Nina Giamoro
The Alibi (2005) – Lola Davis
The Punisher (2004) – Joan
Tron 2.0: Killer App (2004) – (voice) Mercury
Godsend (2004) – Jessie Duncan
Tron 2.0 (2003) – (voice) Mercury
X2 (2003)- Mystique
S1m0ne (2002) – (uncredited) Faith
Femme Fatale (2002)- Laure Ash/Lily
Rollerball (2002) – Aurora
X-Men (2000) – Mystique
Dirty Work (1998) – Bearded Lady

Television

Pepper Dennis (2006) – Pepper Dennis
Jack & Jill (2000) – Paris Everett
Hefner: Unauthorized (1999 – 2000) – Kimberly Hefner
Just Shoot Me (1999) – Adrienne Barker
House of Style (1998-2000) – Host
Friends (1997) – Cheryl

Jennifer Connelly

Jennifer Lynn Connelly (born December 12, 1970 in the Catskill Mountains, New York) is an American film actress. Although she has been working in the film industry since she was a teenager, she has only recently received critical acclaim for her work, most notably for Requiem for a Dream (2000) and A Beautiful Mind (2001), for which she won an Academy Award as Best Supporting Actress.

Early life

Connelly was born to Gerard Connelly (an Irish Catholic immigrant and clothing manufacturer) and Eileen (a New York-bred Jewish mother who was an antiques dealer and a masseuse at Esalen). Jennifer was raised in Brooklyn Heights, Brooklyn near the Brooklyn Bridge, attending St. Ann’s School, except for four years the family spent living in Woodstock, New York. One of her father’s friends through the garmet trade was an advertising executive.

The executive friend suggested Jennifer audition at a modelling agency. At the age of 10, her career started in newspaper and magazine ads, then moved to television commercials.

Her first film role was in the 1984 film Once Upon a Time in America, where she had a small part as "young Deborah Gelly" in Sergio Leone’s gangster epic. She next starred in cult Italian horror director Dario Argento’s Phenomena (1985).

Early film career

Connelly became a star on her next picture, the fantasy Labyrinth (1986). Connelly played Sarah, a teenager who wishes her baby brother into the world of goblins ruled by goblin king Jareth (played by rock superstar David Bowie). Through a series of adventures reminiscent of Alice In Wonderland, The Muppets and Monty Python, Sarah does indeed manage to rescue her brother. A product of the talents of Jim Henson, George Lucas, ex-Monty Python member Terry Jones and designer Brian Froud, the film was a solid hit and enjoys a cult reputation today.

Connelly seemed stuck as to how to follow up on this success. She made a Japanese pop record and starred in several obscure films – Etoile (1988) and Some Girls (1988). The Dennis Hopper directed The Hot Spot (1990) was underwhelming, both critical and commercially. Another film, Career Opportunities, was more successful and is considered a teen cult classic though it, and Hot Spot threatened to typecast her in the "sexpot" stereotype.

She began studying English at Yale, but transferred two years later to Stanford. She did not graduate from either institution.

The big-budget Disney film The Rocketeer (1991) similarly failed to restart Connelly’s career.

The moody indie film Far Harbor (1996), showed her playing against type and hinted at a much broader range than she had previously shown. Connelly began to appear in smaller but well regarded films such as Inventing the Abbotts (1997) and Waking the Dead (2000). The film Dark City (1998) afforded her the chance to work with such top-flight actors as Rufus Sewell, William Hurt, Ian Richardson and Kiefer Sutherland. Connelly revisited her ingenue image again (although in a more understated way) for the film Pollock (2000).

Comeback

Connelly’s big breakthrough finally came in the 2000 film Requiem for a Dream. The edgy, experimental film started Connelly and Jared Leto as drug users on the edge of a breakdown. The film, which was a big critical success, firmly established Jennifer Connelly as a serious, talented actress. Connelly’s star was on the rise and she next starred in Ron Howard’s film A Beautiful Mind (2001).

Connelly essayed the role of Alicia Nash, the long-suffering wife of a brilliant mathematician John Nash, (played by Russell Crowe) who struggles with mental illness. The film, based on real life events, was a critical and commercial success and earned Connelly an Academy Award nomination for best supporting actress – which she won. Clearly established in film, Connelly could work with the best and brightest talent in both commercial and independent film.

Connelly starred in two films in 2003: The Hulk and House of Sand and Fog. The Hulk was something of a box office disappointment, but afforded Connelly the chance to work with noted director Ang Lee. House of Sand and Fog, based on the novel by Andre Dubus, was reminiscent of much of her independent film work of the late 1990s.

Connelly’s most recent film is Dark Water (2005). Dark Water, based on a Japanese film, was a foray into subtle horror that failed to win over either critics or audiences.

Personal life

Connelly is married to the British actor Paul Bettany, whom she met while working on A Beautiful Mind; the couple’s son, Stellan (named after Stellan Skarsgård), was born August 5, 2003. She has also a five-year-old son, Kai, from a previous relationship.

Selected Filmography

Jennifer Connelly in the 1991 film The RocketeerHulk 2 (2007)
The Blood Diamond (2007)
The Berkeley Connection (2006)
Little Children (2006)
Dark Water (2005)
House of Sand and Fog (2003)
Hulk (2003)
A Beautiful Mind (2001)
The $treet (2000) (TV series)
Pollock (2000)
Requiem for a Dream (2000)
Waking the Dead (2000)
Dark City (1998)
Higher Learning (1995)
The Rocketeer (1991)
The Hot Spot (1990)
Labyrinth (1986)
Once Upon a Time in America (1984)

Vin Diesel

Mark Vincent (born July 18, 1967 in New York City), better known by his stage name of Vin Diesel, is an American actor. Diesel is multi-racial of Irish, Dominican, Mexican, African-American, Scottish and Italian descent, a fact upon which he based his well-received 1994 short film Multi-Facial, about a struggling actor who is rejected for part after part because he doesn’t look "black/white/Jewish" enough. He attended Hunter College in New York City. He’s quoted as saying his mother is descended from the Sinclairs of Scotland. He is distinguished by his bald head, muscular physique, and deep gravelly baritone voice.

Paul Walker and Vin Diesel in The Fast and the Furious.Diesel was cast in 1998’s Saving Private Ryan on the strength of Multi-Facial, and followed it up with Boiler Room (2000). He broke through to mainstream audiences with the 2001 film The Fast and the Furious and the 2002 film xXx. In 2004 he reprised his role as Pitch Black’s Riddick in The Chronicles of Riddick, and afterwards took on the titular role in Hannibal, as the Carthaginian general who crossed the Alps by elephant to attack Rome.

Diesel has his own film production company, One Race Productions, with long time producing partner, George Zakk. In 2002, he founded Tigon Studios, a video game production company; it is named after the tigon, the hybrid offspring of a male tiger and a female lion.

During his teens, he performed breakdancing in an instructional video on the subject.

Diesel is also a long time fan and player of Dungeons & Dragons and other role playing games, a fact that he proudly states in various interviews. He occasionally places references to D&D in his films, such as in XXX where one of the tattoos on Xander Cage (Diesel’s character) read "Melkor," the name of one of Diesel’s old player characters. (Melkor is also the original name of the Satan-like character in The Silmarillion and other Tolkien stories.) He has also written the foreword to the commemorative book 30 Years of Adventure: A Celebration of D&D, which chronicles the history of D&D through various stories and essays written by various authors and developers.

Diesel is currently dating British model Lucy Clarkson and has commented that he will concentrate on his career until the age of 40; at that point, he will consider marriage and family life. In the meantime, he owns a mastiff by the name of Roman.

Filmography

2007 Hitman Agent 47 Announced
2006 Rockfish voiceover Announced; animated
2006 Hannibal Hannibal Barca Announced
2005 Find Me Guilty Jack DiNorscio Post-Production
2005 The Pacifier Shane Wolfe
2004 The Chronicles of Riddick: Dark Fury Richard B. Riddick
2004 The Chronicles of Riddick Richard B. Riddick
2003 A Man Apart Sean Vetter
2002 XXX Xander Cage
2001 Knockaround Guys Taylor Reese
2001 The Fast and the Furious Dominic Toretto
2000 Pitch Black Richard B. Riddick
2000 Boiler Room Chris Varick
1999 The Iron Giant The Iron Giant Voice
1998 Saving Private Ryan Private Caparzo
1997 Strays Rick
1994 Multi-Facial Mike
1990 Awakenings Hospital Orderly

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