Top US Actress - Charlize Theron

Charlize Theron , As legend has it, Charlize Theron was discovered by an agent while fighting with a bank manager on Hollywood Boulevard. Eighteen and starving, Theron purportedly got into the argument after the manager refused to cash her check. The outburst caught the agent's attention, and eight months later Theron got her first acting job. Since then, she has become one of the fastest rising stars in Hollywood, thanks to a combination of talent and the blonde, statuesque good looks so loved by the camera.

Born August 7, 1975, Theron was raised on a farm in Benoni, South Africa. Trained as a ballet dancer, she was sent to Milan at sixteen to become a model following the death of her father. Theron tired of modeling and went back to her first love, dancing, which resulted in a move to New York to dance with the Joffrey Ballet. Unfortunately, her dancing career was halted by a knee injury, which led Theron--at her mother's behest--to travel to Los Angeles to try her luck with acting. After a long, unprofitable struggle, fate smiled upon Theron in the form of the aforementioned bank encounter. Following a bit part in 1994's Children of the Corn III, Theron found recognition with Two Days in the Valley (1996). The film wasn't particularly successful, but it gave Theron both much-needed exposure and critical praise. It also acted as the stepping stone to her first leading role, that of Keanu Reeves' wife in The Devil's Advocate (1997).

The film drew poor reviews, but Theron's performance was widely singled out for praise. Her next project, Trial and Error (1997), surfaced briefly and then disappeared without a trace, but the subsequent Mighty Joe Young (1998) netted Theron more positive notices. Theron's ascent was confirmed with her casting in Woody Allen's 1998 cameo-fest Celebrity. With her performance as a perpetually aroused supermodel, Theron shone in a role seemingly designed to allow her to flaunt the natural attributes, which played a significant role in the success she had so long coveted.

Top US Actress - Shannon Elizabeth

As part of the amazingly successful American Pie (1999), went almost overnight from complete obscurity to being a lust object for mammary-obsessed teenage boys everywhere.

Before her turn as Nadia, the Czech foreign-exchange student who steals the heart and hormones of the film's perpetually horny protagonist, Jim (Jason Biggs), Elizabeth did time in a number of forgettable films and TV movies. Born of Syrian, Lebanese, and Cherokee heritage in Houston, Texas on September 7, 1976, the actress made her film debut in 1998's Dish Dogs. 

Minor parts in two TV programs, My Generation (1998) and Dying to Live (1999), followed before her role in American Pie. After the success of the blockbuster teen comedy, Elizabeth was signed to a three-picture deal with Miramax, ensuring that her career was off to an auspicious start. In 2000 she could be seen as the star of Keenen Ivory Wayans' Scary Movie, a teen thriller parody.

Top US Actress - Penelope Cruz

One of Spain's foremost leading ladies of the 1990s, Penelope Cruz has managed to make her mark on international audiences as well. Born in Madrid on April 28, 1974, Cruz was one of three children of a merchant and a hairdresser. After years of intensive study in ballet and jazz, she broke into acting in 1992. That year, she had starring roles in Jamón Jamón and Belle Epoque, two very disparate films. 

The former cast her as the desperately poor daughter of a village prostitute, while the latter featured her as one of four lusty daughters of a wealthy man in pre-Franco Spain. Belle Epoque proved to be a huge success, winning nine Goya Awards (the Spanish equivalent of an Academy Award) and an Oscar for Best Foreign Film. Its success gave Cruz a dose of international recognition, and, after starring in a number of Spanish films, she enhanced this recognition in 1997 with the Sundance entry Abre los Ojos. That same year, she had a brief but memorable role in Pedro Almodóvar's Carne Trémula. 

In 1998, Cruz had her first starring role in an English language film, playing Billy Crudup's Mexican-American love interest in Stephen Frears' The Hi-Lo Country. She had another go at English later that year in the Spanish-British romantic comedy Twice Upon a Yesterday, which cast her as a Spanish barmaid living in London. In 1999, she returned to Spain to collaborate once again with Almodóvar on Todo Sobre Mi Madre, a wildly acclaimed film that premiered at Cannes that year.

 

Top US Actress - Jennifer Love Hewitt

Jennifer Love Hewitt prefers to be called Love. Her mother named her after her college friend and roommate whom Love has never met. Her mom had told her friend (who was gorgeous and really sweet) that if she ever had a little girl, she would name her Love.Love started performing young.

When she was only three years old, she got away from her mother at a dinner club, and was found on stage, singing "Help Me Make It Through The Night." Two years later, Love started taking dance lessons.While still in Texas, Love was voted a "living doll" in a Texas beauty pageant, and at the age of nine, joined the Texas Show Team, performing in the U.S.S.R. and Denmark. At ten, Love was touring the world as a spokesperson for L.A. Gear.Shortly after, the Hewitt moved to Los Angeles, and Love got her start in commercials, including more than twenty national commercials for Mattel Toys.After doing several commercials for the Mattel Toy company (Barbie dolls), Circuit City, Ross Department Stores, Chex Cereal, and Mrs. Smith's Pies, she landed her first television series as Robin on "Kids Incorporated" in 1989. On a 1991 episode, Love sang a song about saving the environment called "Please Save Us the World." This song became the theme song, which Love sang with other young celebrities, at the Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Love then put out an album in Japan called "Love Songs" in 1992 which featured this hit song. From this album, she released a single called "Dancing Queen" with the song "I'll Find You" on the flipside. Love co-wrote one song called "90's Kids" and had Debbie Gibson singing backup vocals on a song Debbie wrote called "Bedtime Stories." Love then continued to pursue her acting career. She was a series regular in "Shaky Ground," "Byrds of Paradise," and "McKenna." These television series didn't last too long on the air. But her television career didn't end there. She landed the role as Sarah Reeves on the 2nd season of Fox TV's "Party of Five".She also appeared in the movies "Munchie," "Little Miss Millions," and "Sister Act 2" which are all available on videotape, and as one of the dancers in "Dance! Workout with Barbie" which is also available on videotape.

On October 10, 1995, she released her American debut CD on Atlantic Records called "Let's Go Bang" (Bang being a type of dance). Her first single is "Couldn't Find Another Man." Love's 3rd CD came out on September 3rd, 1996, which was called "Jennifer Love Hewitt", from Atlantic Records. This CD includes her well-known tracks such as "No Ordinary Love", and "It's Good To Know That I'm Alive".Love Hewitt plays as Brook Figler in "House Arrest" (came out on Aug. 14th, 1996), which also stars Jamie Lee Curtis, Kevin Pollack, Jennifer Tilly and Kyle Howard. This is a comedy in which the kids lock their parents in the basement because they are getting a divorce, having problems, or in Brooke Figler's (Love's character) case, can't stand her mother. Also featured in the ending credits of this movie is the song " It's Good to Know That I'm Alive", from Love's recent CD. Love says that this is not her first on-screen kiss, although it took them four or five takes to get it right. Her first on-screen kiss on Byrds of Paradise was also her first kiss in real life.Love has another movie, which is called "Trojan War". Love Hewitt plays the character Leah Jones, a very intelligent, yet very sarcastic, and also very shy young girl. She's the type that always has an opinion about everything.

And Will Friedle plays as Brad Kimble, a high school kid that is obsessed with this popular, prom queen-type school girl name Brooke Kingsley (played by Marley Shelton). Its a story of what happens when Leah falls in love with her best friend Brad, but doesn't know how to tell him, knowing probably that he's still thinking about Brooke. In one night, their unusual love triangle, creates havoc among themselves, and yet comes to a funny, romantic conclusion. Off screen, they became very close friends! "We were inseparable on the set," Love says about Will. "It was really fun.". "Trojan War" is now out on video since Dec. 16th, 1997.Love Hewitt's suspense thriller called "I Know What You Did Last Summer ", is an adaption of Lois Duncan's thriller about four teenagers trying to cover up a hit-and-run. Love stars as Julie, a high school senior who has just been accepted into Smith College, and is looking forwards to leaving her small town. Also starring with Love, is Ryan Phillippe, from the movie "White Squall", as Barry Cox. Ryan plays a local college boy who is dating one of Julie's friends. Freddie Prinze Jr. plays as Julie's boyfriend, and fisherman, name Ray. And Sarah Michelle Gellar, from the WB's "Buffy, The Vampire Slayer", as Helen Rivers.

Sarah's character is known as the town's Channel Five Golden Girl. Storyline goes as these four teens were coming home from celebrating what was left of there summer, til they hit a fisherman in the road. Believing that he's dead, they put his body at the river, and try to keep it a secret among themselves. They then go on with their lives, as if nothing happens. Until almost 1 year later, they start receiving letters saying, "I know what you did last summer". And now, their lives are in danger, as a man with a hook, comes after them, trying to kill them all. This movie was released at theaters on Oct. 17th 1997, which was released to video stores since March 24th, 1998.Love Hewitt is starring in a new independent film entitled "Telling You ". The filming was recently completed in Los Angeles. The film also stars Rick Rossovich ("Top Gun", "Roxanne", "The Terminator", "ER", " Touched by an Angel") Richard Libertini ("Fletch", "Awakenings", "Nell "), Matt Lillard ("Serial Mom", "Mad Love"), and Peter Facinelli. " Telling You" is about a young man who is troubled by an old mistake he made in high school, by cheating on his girlfriend. When he meets his ex-girlfriend again several years later, he comes to suspect that the mistake he made was perhaps the reason why his life has turned out to be so uninspired. So he wants to "tell her" how his mistake has affected his life. (Release date is set for sometime in 1998).

Love starred in the movie "Can't Hardly Wait", formally called "The Party", which came out in theaters on Jun. 12th, 1998. Now that the graduation ceremony is over at Huntington High, it is time for the real festivities to begin at the graduation party. Ethan Embry plays the aspiring writer Preston Meyers, who has been in love with beautiful class knock-out Amanda Beckett since freshman year. Jennifer Love Hewitt plays Amanda "Ms. Popularity" Beckett, a girl who's sick of her boyfriend , as well as her prom queen type image, that people see her as. Preston now seizes his big chance to proclaim his adoration for her before he leaves town the next day. Preston's shy confidante Denise Fleming, played by Lauren Amborse, winces when Preston decides to make his move now that Amanda has just been dumped by super-jock boyfriend Mike Dexter, played by Peter Facinelli. Charlie Korsmo plays the sci-fi geek William Lichter, who Mike has picked on for so long.

Now William has a plan to ruin Mike's stud reputation at the party. Denise stumbles into an unlikely situation and hooks up with ex-childhood friend turned "homeboy" Kenny Fisher, played by Seth Green, that's been making plans to score with practically any girl at the party. All this and more as these teenagers search for their next move while making a statement about their future and their past.Love Hewitt returns on the sequel to "I Know What You Did Last Summer", which is called "I Still Know What You Did Last Summer". Julie James (Jennifer Love Hewitt) hasn't been the same since last summer. Still harboring guilt over the death of fisherman Ben Willis (Muse Watson), her college grades have slipped and her relationship with high school sweetheart Ray Bronson (Freddie Prinze, Jr.) is on the rocks. Julie's classmate Will Benson (Matthew Settle) would like to ease Julie's pain, but she is hesitant to trust him or anyone else. Julie's spunky best friend Karla Wilson (Brandy) wins an all-expense paid trip for four to the Bahamas. Karla invites her main squeeze, Tyrell Martin (Mekhi Phifer), while Julie settles for Will's company after being rejected by Ray. The moment they reach the island, havoc ensues. Their romantic getaway turns into a vacation of murder and mayhem that soon has Julie and friends running for their lives. Movie is set to be released in theatres on Nov. 20th, 1998.Love will also be producing, and starring in her own movie titled " Cupid's Love". She'll also be starring in another movie called "The Suburbans", coming sometime in 1999. More info to come soon. Jennifer Love Hewitt made a big hit by appearing on the front cover of the 1st issue of Teen People Magazine, which came out on Jan 15th, 1998. Love participated in the Nickelodeon Big Help Telethon in which she joined other young celebrities to get kids around the nation to pledge volunteer hours to help their community. It was a big success. She also did a promotional gig for the Cartoon Network along with Lacey Chabert, met the First Lady Hillary Clinton when she performed at a benefit concert in Boston, and took part in the Sail with the Stars cruise to Alaska this summer to benefit the Starlight Foundation.

She also made TV guest appearances on:"The Tonight Show with Jay Leno (A few times) " MTV's "Singled Out","Rock 'n' Jock B Ball Jam 96", "Loveline", "Live", the making of "Can't Hardly Wait", and "Fanatics" "Live with Regis & Kathie Lee" NBC's "Later" FOX's "Mad TV" & "Home Team w/ Terry Bradshaw" "The Rosie O'Donnell Show" "E's Party of 5 (behind the scenes)", and review on "Can't Hardly Wait". "Boy Meets World (guest appearance on 2/27/98)" "The Howie Mandell Show"She also hosted a couple of "Fox's Halloween Bash" (one from 1995, and one from 1996), hosted a few MTV videos, as well as "True Tales of a Teen Trauma" & "True Tales of a Teen Romance", hosted a couple of ABC specials "A Senior Prom" (Jul. 2nd, 1997),"Christmas Miracles" (Dec. 13th, 1997), presented one of the awards at the "25th Annual American Music Awards" (Jan. 26th, 1998), won an award for a newcomer at "The 4th Annual Blockbuster Entertainment Awards" (Mar. 10th, 1998), and w/ Chris Rock, they presented the Best Kiss award at the "MTV's 98' Movie Awards" (Jun. 7th, 1998).Live appearances she attended were the following: Universal Studios Hollywood (Feb. 17th 1996), Sears/Seventeen Peak Performance (in several Sear stores throughout the states, during the summer of 96'), Hard Rock Cafe (at Universal Studios on Nov. 12th, 1996), Tampa, Florida (Feb. 7th, 1997), and in King of Prussia, Pennsylvania (Aug. 24th, 1997). There are some more interesting facts about Love. Her favorite TV show is Friends. She loves Johnny Depp (having seen "Don Juan DeMarco" many times) and would love to work with Winona Ryder. She likes to write poetry, paint porcelain, and collect angels, as well as scented candles. Her favorite things are her laptop computer, her cat Haylie, and her kitten Don Juan. Off the set of Party of Five, she has lots of fun with Scott Wolf, as well as the other cast members. She used to date Joey Lawerence back in 1996, as well as Will Friedle from "Boy Meets World" since their 1st blind date later that year, up to the spring of 98.Rumors have since linked Love Hewitt to MTV VJ Carson Daly, according to US Magazine July 98' issue. But, from another source, says it differently. Click here to go to: Totally TV/ Totally Teen TV!/ Jennifer Love Hewitt. So far, from what I've been reading in the magazines and other sources, it's been confirmed that Love Hewitt and Carson Daly are seeing each other. That's all I know for now.If given the choice between acting and singing, she would choose to sing.

No matter what decisions she makes, or where she'll go from here,just remember one thing, her key phrase:
"Always follow your heart." -Jennifer Love Hewitt-

Top US Actress - Sarah Gellar

Born April 14, 1977 in New York City, Sarah Michelle Gellar has become sort of a pseudo 'feminist' for her generation, although she cringes at the word herself. But her role as a beautiful female who kicks ass on television certainly has made herself a role model to her female generation. While many of Gellar's scenes as Buffy in Buffy the Vampire Slayer use stunt double Sophia Crawford, Gellar does carry a brown belt in Tae Kwon Do. Sarah was seen on TV as early as three years old, where she played Valerie Harper's daughter in An Invasion of Privacy, a made for TV movie. At four, she was part of the infamous burger wars playing in a commercial for Burger King which mocked the size of McDonald's burgers.

Afterwards, she appeared in scores more commercials, which also helped land her roles in movies like Over The Brooklyn Bridge, Funny Farm, High Stakes, and TV's Spencer for Hire. Further roles include A Woman Named Jackie and Swan's Crossing. At the age of 16, Gellar played as a 22 year old (!) in All My Children. She played as Erica Kane's (Susan Lucci) daughter, and was in a role which had her seduce her stepfather, break up her mother's marriage, shooting people, and faking pregnancies! The role got her something Susan Lucci almost never did, an Emmy in 1994 for Outstanding Younger Actress. Perhaps that award played a role in Lucci's despising of the young star, which comes as a shock since Gellar is supposedly the only person on the All My Children cast which Lucci clashed with. 

1996 Brought on her most well known roll, cast as Buffy in Buffy the Vampire Slayer, which was based on the movie that starred Kristy Swanson. Buffy has become sort of a cult favorite and gets decent ratings despite being relegated to the WB Network. Her starring role has helped her land jobs in I Know What You Did Last Summer and Scream. In 1999 she played in the comedy Simply Irresistible. Its ironic given that Gellar is apparently anything but irresistible according to gossip which suggests she has running feuds with not only Lucci, but Neve Campbell, former lover Matthew Perry, Julia Roberts, and The Spice Girls (we can forgive her for that!). The latest feud apparently exists with fellow WB star Kerri Russell, whom Gellar says she's sick about hearing Russell's story of losing her virginity in the press, a statement we'd wholeheartedly agree with! 

You probably can also add actress Ingrid Quinn to that list, who's marriage to David Boreanaz was supposedly terminated due in large part to a reported affair he had with his then Buffy co-star (he played Angel, recently spun off). It also has been widely reported that Gellar has had an on and off battle with anorexia, and with a 5'3 frame at a reported 98 pounds, its easy to understand why those rumors persist. Besides her romantic ties to Mathew Perry and Boreanaz, Gellar has also been linked to ex-Slider star Jerry O'Connell and has dated tennis player Jan Michael Gambill. The latest man involved with Sarah is Freddie Prinze Jr., who publically was slobbering all over Prinze at the MTV Movie awards, where Sarah landed two awards for Best Kiss (with Selma Blair) and Best Female Performance in the film Cruel Intentions. 

There have been alot of stories of Sarah's controlling behavior around Freddie that has resulted in concerns amongst his friends (according to tabloids, anyways). But before we get too rough on Sarah, it should be noted that she is not the wild party type and in fact spends so much time working she hasn't had much time for relationships, often working 15 hour days on the Buffy set.
 

Top US Actress - Jennifer Lopez

Jennifer Lopez, the multi-talented superstar, actress and singer, who hails from New York City's Castle Hill section of the Bronx, has busted onto the scene in a manner that has left a lot of folks speechless. Getting her break when she was chosen to play the lead role in Selena , the 1997 big screen biopic of the slain Tejano singer, Lopez earned more film credits in the 1997 summer thriller Anaconda, Oliver Stone's U Turn, Jack , with George Clooney in Out of Sight and The Cell . 

Recently she finished filming The Wedding Planner with Matthew McConaughey which is due in theatres in February. Her vocal abilities are proved on her powerful debut effort, basted with her Latino heritage, which provides a sensational sound for the listener. On the 6 , referring to her days on train 6 heading into New York City for dance classes and auditions, including "Let's Get Loud," produced by Emilio Estefan, opener, "If You Had My Love" and Waiting for Tonight pull the listener all the way in. Many of the albums tracks were co-written by the album's executive producer Corey Rooney.

Lopez brought together some well-knowns in the music world to produce this album, besides Estefan and Rooney, Sean "Puffy" Combs, Rick Wake and Track Masters contributed. Lopez's On The 6 has sold almost 2.8 million records internationally in over 30 countries. She will be premiering her new single "Love Don't Cost A Thing" from her upcoming album JLO at the MTV Europe Awards. Almost as well known for her fashion sense and her relationship with Combs as she is for all of her accomplishments, Lopez was presented with the 2000 Versace Award at this year's VH1 Vogue Fashion Awards. The award was "given to the person who best continues to represent the energy, creativity, and daring" that the late designer represented. With a new album and movie due out in the New Year, we can expect that Lopez is well underway to an outstanding career. 

Top US Actress - Heather Graham

Blonde-haired, blue-eyed, and posessing a certain bodacious je ne sais quoi, Heather Graham has had one of the more inspiring career trajectories of the 1990s. After debuting in the 1988 License To Drive, which featured the Two Coreys and little else, Graham worked in relative obscurity for years before hitting it big in a string of successful films, including Swingers, Boogie Nights and Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me.

Originally hailing from the Midwest, Graham was born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin on January 29, 1970. The oldest of two girls (younger sister Aimee is also an actress), Graham led a fairly itinerant childhood thanks to her father's job with the FBI. A quiet, unpopular girl by her own account, Graham became interested in acting at a young age. She had her first role as Dorothy in a school production of The Wizard of Oz, and remained active in the theatre throughout high school, winning the title of "Most Talented" from her peers.

After high school, Graham packed up and headed to Los Angeles, where she discovered that talented as she may have been, it was no guarantee of employment. She worked a variety of odd jobs, including a stint as an usher at the Hollywood Bowl, before making her 1988 film debut in License to Drive as the object of Corey Haim's desire.

The following year, Graham's career began to travel in a more auspicious direction when she was cast as a doomed drug addict in Gus Van Sant's critically acclaimed Drugstore Cowboy. Despite winning raves for her performance, Graham eluded stardom, as her subsequent film roles were largely incidental. However, she did win a recurring role on the long-running TV miniseries Twin Peaks in 1990, and the following year starred in the widely celebrated made-for-TV movie O Pioneers!.

In 1992, Graham had a supporting role in Diggstown, the most notable effect of which was a relationship with co-star James Woods, who was twice her age. After appearing in a few more films of varying quality (Six Degrees of Separation (1993) being at one end of the spectrum, 1994's Don't Do It, which paired her with Drugstore boyfriend James LeGros at the other), the actress finally got a break with the 1996 hit Swingers, appearing in a small but memorable role as the girl of Jon Favreau's dreams. The part marked the beginning of an upswing in Graham's career: the following year she had a bit part in the movie-within-a-movie in Scream 2, which led to her inclusion on a Rolling Stone cover featuring the movie's assorted Hot Young Things, and also had her breakthrough role in Boogie Nights. As Rollergirl, an under-dressed, over-sexed coke-snorting young porn actress, Graham made an indelible impression on audiences everywhere. 1997 continued to be the best year of the actress' career thus far: she also starred in Gregg Araki's Nowhere, in which she did little except have copious amounts of sex with the similarly golden-tressed Ryan Phillippe, and Two Girls and a Guy, a critically acclaimed piece that featured her as one of the title's two girls opposite Robert Downey Jr.'s guy.

Unfortunately, Graham's first big-budget undertaking, the 1998 sci-fi film Lost in Space, was swallowed in a deep pit of critical and commercial quicksand. The actress more than rebounded the following year, however, earning top billing in two films, the Steve Martin comedy Bowfinger and the eagerly-awaited Austin Powers sequel, Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me. The same year Graham earned the 1999 ShoWest convention's "Female Star of Tomorrow" title, further assuring what looked like a very bright future for the young actress.

Killing Me Softly (2001)
Say It Isn't So (2001)
Sidewalks of New York (2001)
Committed (2000)
Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me (1999)
Bowfinger (1999)
Kiss and Tell (1999)
Two Girls and a Guy (1998)
Boogie Nights (1997)
Nowhere (1997)
Scream 2 (1997)
Entertaining Angels: The Dorothy Day Story (1996)
Swingers (1996)
Terrified (1996)
Desert Winds (1995)
Don't Do It! (1995)
Even Cowgirls Get the Blues (1994)
The Ballad of Little Jo (1993)
Diggstown (1992)
Shout (1991)
Drugstore Cowboy (1989)

Top 10 US Actress - Angelina Jolie

Born June 4, 1975 in Los Angeles, Angelina Jolie Voight (daughter of actor John Voight, but using her middle name professionally,) has become one of the most fascinating women in Hollywood. Daring to be different, perhaps to the point of being bizarre, Jolie has starred in many big budget films of late and has catapulted herself from model daughter of a famous acting pair to a top billed actress in her own right. There are many press accounts though of her having a distant relationship with her father, but she claims there was never a time when she needed him that he wasn't there. She praises her mother Marcheline Bertrand and brother James Haven Voight, in fact acting in five films at the USC School of Cinema, of which her brother directed.

Her first notable film was the internet ground breaker film Hackers in 1995. Angelina had her most memorable role perhaps in the film Gia, which profiled the life of the bisexual and heroin addict Gia Carangi, who also died from AIDS. At the time, it has been said that Jolie, who tends to absorb herself in her roles, may have gotten too much into this one according to worried friends.

Her breakout year though for big budget films occurred in 1999, with roles in Girl, Interrupted (released nationally in 2000) in which she co-starred with Winona Ryder, and The Bone Collector, which also featured Denzel Washington. Duvring the filming of Gone in 60 Seconds, it is rumored Angelina was caught nude in the sack with married co-star, Nicolas Cage. Dancing in the Dark is said to contain graphic nudity which Jolie insists "I'm going to fight for them not to cut any of it."

Her current film, Tomb Raider, promises excitement, astounding special effects, and a solid place in Hollywood megastardom for Jolie. In addition to her admitted affection towards death and the macabre, Jolie sports several scars from playing with knives (including an X on her arm, a slice on her stomach and a nick on her neck), or as she puts it "You're young, you're drunk, you're in bed, you have knives; s--- happens." She also has spoken of using knives in sexual play. Its unknown whether that played a factor in the recent 1999 divorce from Jonny Lee Miller whom she married in 1995. It's doubtful, since the marriage started out in the same fashion, with Jolie's wedding garb being a white shirt with her husband's name painted across the back... in her own blood! Jolie also has admitted several times to being bisexual, although besides Miller, she's been romantically linked to Timothy Hutton, whom she dated for about a year.

Angelina's most recent hook up ended up in marriage. The lucky man is Billy Bob Thornton, whom she met on the set of Pushing Tin. The two married in a small Las Vegas wedding. It was reported that Angelina checked herself into UCLA for psychological examination only four days prior to the wedding. There have been many reports that the marriage is doomed, noting that this is Billy Bob's fifth attempt at marital happiness. Left behind in this relationship was Laura Dern, who had thought she was going to marry Billy Bob. Dern's mother told the Enquirer "Billy Bob Thorton is a real Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. I'm shocked. Billy Bob told me he wants my daughter to be his wife and I know they've talked about having kids. I don't know how to make sense out of it."

Nevertheless, Angelina claims it is true love, saying Billy Bob is the love of her life. She's also told friends that he is "the biggest in Hollywood" which is especially important since Angelina has said "I love sex! I never get enough, I need it more than anyone I know."

Filmograhy
Sharkslayer (2003) .... Lola
Beyond Borders (2002) .... Sarah Jennings
Life or Something Like It (2002) .... Lanie Kerigan
Original Sin (2001) .... Julia Russell/Bonny Castle
... aka Péché originel (2001) (France)
Lara Croft: Tomb Raider (2001) .... Lara Croft
... aka Tomb Raider (2001) (USA: short title)
73rd Annual Academy Awards, The (2001) (TV) (uncredited) .... Presenter of Best Supporting Actor
Gone in Sixty Seconds (2000) .... Sara 'Sway' Wayland
AFI's 100 Years... 100 Stars (1999) (TV) .... Herself
Girl, Interrupted (1999) .... Lisa Rowe
... aka Durchgeknallt (2000) (Germany)
Bone Collector, The (1999) .... Amelia Donaghy
Pushing Tin (1999) .... Mary Bell
... aka Turbulenzen - und andere Katastrophen (2000) (Germany)
Playing by Heart (1998) .... Joan
Hell's Kitchen (1998) .... Gloria McNeary
... aka Hell's Kitchen N.Y.C. (1999) (USA)
Gia (1998) (TV) .... Gia Marie Carangi
Playing God (1997) .... Claire
... aka Playing Hero (1997)
George Wallace (1997) (TV) .... Cornelia Wallace
True Women (1997) (TV) .... Georgia Virginia Lawshe Woods
Mojave Moon (1996) .... Eleanor 'Elie' Rigby
Foxfire (1996) .... Margret 'Legs' Sadovsky
Love Is All There Is (1996) .... Gina Malacici
Without Evidence (1995) .... Jodie Swearingen
Hackers (1995) .... Kate Libby ('Acid Burn')
Cyborg 2 (1993) .... Casella 'Cash' Reese
... aka Cyborg 2: Glass Shadow (1993)
Lookin' to Get Out (1982) .... Tosh

 

Television Guest Appearances

"Larry King Live" (1985) playing "Herself" in episode: "Larry King Weekend" 8/4/2001
"Big Breakfast, The" (1992) playing "Herself" 7/4/2001

Top 10 US Actress - Cameron Diaz

Born on August 30, 1972 in Long Beach, California, Cameron Diaz grew up in the typical fashion of any all-American girl. Except of course, she was an exceptional beauty. Cameron's dad, Emilio, a Cuban American, was a foreman at a California Oil Company. Her mom, Billie, who's German, English, and Native American, was an import-export broker. Cameron was raised in Long Beach alongside her sister Chimene.

 As she was growing up, Cameron was like most girls, listening to lots of modern music and acting wild. But by her mid-teens, Cameron began attending Hollywood parties and staying out until the wee hours of the morning. It was during this party phase of her life that Cameron ended up meeting a well connected man who would change her whole life.

 Jeff Dunas spotted Cameron while she was out one night and told her that he could sign her up with the Elite modeling agency. Although Cameron initially thought his proposition was somewhat fishy, she took his card and discussed it with her family and friends.

After having left Long Beach and having traveled around the world due to her modeling contracts, and having appeared in such magazines asMademoiselle and Seventeen, Cameron returned to California at age 21, and although she continued to model, she knew that she wanted more.

In 1994, she decided to audition for a small bit part in the movie, The Mask starring the elastic faced Jim Carrey. Although she didn't have any acting experience whatsoever, Cameron was cast as the female lead in the film.

Although Cameron was supposed to star in Mortal Kombat, for which she was required to learn martial arts, she ended up injuring her wrist and ultimately had to back out of the film.

But after having received such rave reviews upon The Mask's release, Cameron set out to perfect her acting skills by steering clear of potential blockbuster hits and focused on low budget films such as The Last Supper, Feeling Minnesota which co-starred Keanu Reeves, and Head Above Water, in which she played Harvey Keitel's wife.

Once Cameron felt that she had reached her acting acme, she returned to the big screen, starring in My Best Friends Wedding starring opposite Julia Roberts. It was at this time that The National Association of Theater Owners (NATO) acknowledged her string of movie triumphs by naming her the ShoWest Female Star of Tomorrow.

A little while after that, she hit the silver screen once again with A Life Less Ordinary starring opposite Ewan McGregor. Unfortunately, however, the movie was not well received by critics.

The film that really turned Cameron into a household name was her now iconic role in There's Something About Mary, which co-starred comedian Ben Stiller and Matt Dillon. Although Cameron was dating Dillon for nearly three years, whom she met on the set of the film, the couple has recently split.

More recently, Cameron starred opposite Al Pacino in Any Given Sunday, with John Cusack in Being John Malkovich (in which she's hardly recognizable), and most recently, she starring in Charlie's Angels with fellow beauties Drew Barrymore and Lucy Liu.