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Poppy Petal Emma Elizabeth Deveraux Donahue was born in Sydney, Australia, the daughter of Nicola (née Montgomery), an executive and market researcher, and Phil Donahue, a restaurateur.[3] Her parents named her and her sisters (Rosie Thorn, Daisy Yellow, Lily Belle and Marigold Sun) after flowers, and their brother after Jethro Tull. She attended the Ascham School, Edgecliff, New South Wales.Montgomery and boyfriend, actor Adam Kaufman, have a son together named Jackson.
Montgomery quit school to travel with her then-boyfriend, emigrating to the United States around 1993. She came to prominence with her portrayal of Marilyn Monroe in the 2001 CBS mini-series Blonde, based on the novel by Joyce Carol Oates.[6] She got her big break in 2002, when she was picked out of over 100 women for the role of Samantha Spade on Without A Trace.
As of April 2011, she has completed filming a biopic Magic Beyond Words, playing J. K. Rowling and is filming "Unforgettable," a Ed Redlich TV pilot of a police procedural drama about a former detective gifted/cursed with perfect recall, for CBS and Sony, based on the short story

Mayte Michelle Rodriguez (born July 12, 1978), known professionally as Michelle Rodriguez, is an American actress. Following on from her breakthrough role in 2000's Girlfight, she is best known for playing tough-girl roles and starring in Hollywood blockbusters such as The Fast and the Furious, Resident Evil, S.W.A.T., Avatar, Machete and Battle: Los Angeles, as well as for her role as Ana Lucia Cortez in the television series.
Michelle Rodriguez was born in San Antonio, Texas, the daughter of Carmen Milady (née Pared), a native of the Dominican Republic, and Rafael Rodriguez, a Puerto Rican who served in the United States Army. She has a total of ten siblings and half-siblings. She was partly raised by her devoutly religious maternal grandmother and was brought up as one of Jehovah's Witnesses (her mother's religion), though she has since abandoned that faith. Rodriguez moved to the Dominican Republic with her mother when she was eight and lived in Puerto Rico until the age of eleven, later settling in Jersey City, New Jersey. She dropped out of high school, but later earned her GED;[citation needed] in total she was expelled from five schools. Rodriguez briefly attended business school before quitting to pursue a career in acting, with the ultimate goal of becoming a writer and director.

Shakira Isabel Mebarak Ripoll (born February 2, 1977), known professionally as Shakira (pronounced ) Spanish: [?a'ki?a]), is a Colombian singer, songwriter, musician, record producer, dancer, and philanthropist who emerged in the music scene of Colombia and Latin America in the early 1990s. Born and raised in Barranquilla, Colombia, Shakira revealed many of her talents in school as a live performer, demonstrating her vocal ability with rock and roll, Latin and Middle Eastern influences with her own original twist on belly dancing. Shakira is a native Spanish speaker and also speaks fluent English and Portuguese as well as some Italian, French and Arabic.

After commercial flops with local producers on her first two albums, and being little-known outside Colombia, Shakira decided to produce her own brand of music. In 1995 she released Pies Descalzos, which brought her great fame in Latin America and Spain, and her 1998 album ¿Dónde Están los Ladrones? was a critical success selling over 7 million copies worldwide. In 2001, aided by the worldwide success of her first English single "Whenever, Wherever" that became the best selling single of 2002, she broke through into the English-speaking world with the release of Laundry Service, which sold over 13 million copies worldwide. Four years later, Shakira released two album projects called Fijación Oral Vol. 1 and Oral Fixation Vol. 2. Both reinforced her success, particularly with the best selling song of the 2000s, "Hips Don't Lie".

In 1995, Shakira founded the Pies Descalzos Foundation. It is a Colombian charity with special schools for poor children all around Colombia. During her career, Shakira has performed at a large number of benefit concerts. Among the most famous are the Live 8 benefit concert in July 2005, the Live Earth concert, Hamburg where she headlined the show, as well as the "Clinton Global Initiative" created by former US President Bill Clinton. She was also invited to the Oval Office by President Barack Obama in February 2010 to discuss early childhood development.[8]

She has won two Grammy Awards,[9] seven Latin Grammy Awards,[9] twelve Billboard Latin Music Awards[9] and has been Golden Globe-nominated.[9] She is also the highest-selling Colombian artist of all time, and the second most successful female Latin singer after Gloria Estefan, having sold over 60 million albums worldwide according to Sony Music Entertainment.Her U.S. album sales stand at 9.6 million.

In the fall of 2009, Shakira released her sixth studio album She Wolf worldwide gaining a lot of critical praise for her eccentricity and writing skills. The album sold roughly 2 million copies around the world. Shakira's "Waka Waka (This Time for Africa)", was chosen as the official song for the 2010 FIFA World Cup. The song has received generally positive critical reception, and has become a worldwide smash hit and the biggest selling World Cup song of all time.[16] On YouTube, the English version of the music video is the 3rd most watched video of all time with over 370 million views.[17] When she released her seventh studio album, the bilingual Sale el Sol in October 2010, she gained back her Latin following, which Shakira described as being the main goal for the album. The album has sold over 2 million copies worldwide.

Denise Lee Richards (born February 17, 1971) is an American actress and former fashion model. She has appeared in films including Starship Troopers, Wild Things, and The World Is Not Enough. She appeared on the reality TV show, Denise Richards: It's Complicated, which was carried by American cable channel E!.


Richards was cast as the nuclear-physicist Christmas Jones in the 1999 James Bond film The World Is Not Enough (1999). Though she considered her role "brainy", "athletic", and having depth of character, she was criticized as not credible in the role.[8][9] Her outfit, which often comprised a low-cut tank top and tight shorts, elicited comments. She was ranked as one of the worst Bond girls of all time by Entertainment Weekly in 2008, and was chosen as "Worst Supporting Actress" at the 1999 Razzie Awards for the role.

In addition to her film work, Richards has made appearances in the situation comedies Spin City, Two and a Half Men, Friends and Seinfeld. She also starred in the short-lived UPN series Sex, Love & Secrets in 2005.

Richards appeared in Valentine, Undercover Brother and Scary Movie 3. In December 2004, she posed for a nude pictorial in Playboy magazine, five months after giving birth.[13] Richards also posed semi-nude for the July 2006 issue of Jane magazine to raise money for the Clothes Off Our Back Foundation. In 1999, she ranked 9th in Maxim's 50 Sexiest Women and in 2001 she was voted 2nd in FHM's USA 100 Sexiest Women, 5th in FHM's 100 Sexiest Women and 19th in AskMen.com's 50 Most Beautiful Women.

Richards appeared on the 8th season of Dancing with the Stars, paired with Maksim Chmerkovskiy. She was eliminated second on March 24, 2009. Richards sang "Take Me Out to the Ballgame" during the seventh-inning stretch at Wrigley Field on May 1, 2009

A petite actress with olive skin and pixie features, Russian-born Mila Kunis became a breakout teen star on the FOX sitcom That_'70s_Show, playing spoiled daddy's girl Jackie Burkhardt. The rare 15-year-old actress to be cast as a 15-year-old character, Kunis also demonstrated her maturity by mastering accent-free English only a few years after immigrating. Her command of slang and teen vocal mannerisms won her work even when her appearance was not being utilized, as she voiced another all-American teen on FOX's animated envelope-pusher, Family Guy.

Jeri Lynn Zimmerman was born on February 22, 1968 in Munich, Germany to her parents Sharon and Jeri Zimmerman. Jeri has one younger brother and is an a self-professed army brat. She was raised on military bases all over the US before her family finally settled down in Paduch, Kentucky.

By this time, Jeri was already 11 years old and her father decided to retire at which point her mom decided to begin her career in social work. Because of all the moving around Jeri had done as a young child, she learned how to become somewhat of an actress without even making an effort since she was constantly changing schools and forced to make new friends.

Although Jeri initially wanted to be a veterinarian, her acting career began when she was in the fourth grade whereupon she starred in Market house Theater productions of Gracie at the Bat, Cinderella, Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown (as Lucy), and The Drunkard in the mid 80's.

In 1986, Jeri graduated at the top of her class from Lone Oak High School with. Fittingly enough, she was voted most talented by all of her classmates. Jeri attended Northwestern University and earned a BS in theater.

While studying at University, Jeri won the sixth annual Miss Northwestern Alpha Delta Phi Pageant in 1989. That same year, she won the Miss Illinois Pageant and went came in fourth in the 1990 Miss America Pageant.

Her professional career began when she was cast as an extra in the movie Planes, Trains and Automobiles. Unfortunately, however, the scene Jeri was in did not make the final cut.

But soon enough, Jeri began getting call ins for auditions for television shows and she began acting professionally right after she graduated from University. Like most stars, she began doing some commercials in her senior year and then got her first guest-starring role in the sitcom Who's the Boss?, which starred Charmed vixen, Alyssa Milano.

Jeri was guest-starring on a slew of popular television shows including Matlock, Who's the Boss?, Murder, She Wrote, Reasonable Doubts, Time Trax, Melrose Place and Diagnosis Murder.

Ryan's stint on television was far from over as she starred in the made-for-TV movies Coed Call Girl, Nightmare in Columbia County and NBC's In the Line of Duty: Ambush in Waco.

As well, Jeri starred in some independent films which include The Last Man and Men Cry Bullets.

Although Jeri's attempt at her own starring role on a television show did not succeed as NBC's Dark Skies was cancelled soon after its debut, her more recent Star Trek Voyager role (as Seven of Nine) has developed somewhat of a cult following. Jeri has even signed with Paramount for another three years.

More recently, was married to Jack Ryan with whom she has one son, Alex. Jeri is now divorced and lives alone with her 5-year-old son.