Tuesday, 29 May 2012

Aaron Eckhart



Edward Aaron Eckhart (born March 12, 1968) was an American film and stage actor. Born in California, he moved to England at age 13 when his father moved the family. A few years later, he began his acting career, performing in school plays, before moving to Sydney, Australia, his high school senior year. He left school without a higher education, but received a diploma in adult education courses, and graduated from Brigham Young University-Hawaii (BYUH) in 1994 with a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in film. For most of the 1990s, he lived in New York, how to fight, an unemployed actor.

As a student at Brigham Young, Eckhart met director and screenwriter Neil LaBute, who cast him in several of his own original plays. Five years later, Eckhart made his debut as an oily, black female sociopath man comedy LaBute, in the company of men (1997). Under the direction of LaBute, he worked in the movies producer, your friends and neighbors (1998), Nurse Betty (2000), and possession (2002). Eckhart has chosen a role in a huge selection of movies, from science fiction films such as The Core (2003) and wages (2003), a romantic drama, as conversations with other women (2006) and No Reservations (2007).






Eckhart gained wide recognition as George in Steven Soderbergh's critically acclaimed film, Erin Brockovich (2000), and in 2006 was nominated for a Golden Globe for Best Actor for his role as Nick Naylor in Thank You for Smoking. In 2008 he starred in big budget studio The Dark Knight, as Harvey Dent / Two-Face. Eckhart co-starred with Nicole Kidman in the movie holes Rabbit (2010).
Eckhart was born in Cupertino, Calif., the son of Mary Eckhart (née Lawrence), a poet and children's writer, and James C. Eckhart "Jim Senior", a computer executive.  He is the youngest of three brothers. Eckhart was raised by a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (Mormons, LDS), the church and served as a two-year LDS mission in France and Switzerland.

Eckhart family moved to England in 1981 after the father's work in the field of information technology. The family lived in Surrey, South East England, first in Walton-on-Thames, and then moving to Cobham. While living in England Eckhart attended American Community School, now known as ACS International Schools, [6], where it was first enacted, the main role in a school production as Charlie Brown. In 1985 he moved to Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, where he attended the American International School in Sydney for his high school senior year. He further developed his acting skills in productions like Waiting for Godot, where he admits that he is "terrible" production [10] In the autumn of his senior year, Eckhart left school to get a job working in a movie theater shopping center. In the end, he received a diploma in adult training. It also allowed Eckhart time to enjoy a year surfing and skiing in Hawaii and in coastal waters France.In 1988 Eckhart returned to the U.S. and enrolled in a film major at Brigham Young University, Hawaii, and then transferred to Brigham Young University (BYU) in Provo, Utah. He graduated in 1994 with a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree.

Anna Kournikova



Anna Sergeyevna Kournikova (Russian: This is the sound of Anna S. Kournikova, born June 7, 1981), a retired Russian professional tennis player. Her beauty and celebrity status made her one of the most famous tennis stars all over the world, despite her never to win a WTA singles title. At the peak of his fame, fans looking for images of Kournikova made her name one of the most popular search string on Google.

Despite reaching number 8 in the world in 2000, she has never won a WTA title in singles. Forte Kournikova was twice, where she sometimes was the World number 1 player. With Martina Hingis as her partner, she won Grand Slam titles in Australia in 1999 and 2002. Based on their looks, Hingis and Kournikova called themselves the "Spice Girls of tennis."

Kournikova tennis professional career has been limited, and possibly ended, serious back and spine in the last few years. She lives in Miami Beach, Florida and played in random exhibitions and in doubles in Saint-Louis Aces of World Team Tennis. She was a new coach for season 12 television show The Biggest Loser, Jillian Michaels replaced, but will not return for season 13. In addition to his television work, and tennis, Kournikova serves as a global ambassador of the living and the five programs Population Services International, which addresses the health crises faced by children aged under five and their families.




Anna Kournikova was born in Moscow, USSR, June 7, 1981. Her father, Sergei Kournikov (b. 1961), was 19 years old. Sergei, a former Greco-Roman wrestling champion, had earned his doctorate and was a professor at the University of Physical Education and Sport in Moscow. In 2001 he was a part-time martial arts instructor. mother Alla (born 1962), who was 18 when Kournikova was born, was the 400-meter wheel.
Sergei Kournikov said: "We were young and we liked the clean, physical life, so Anna was in a good environment for sport from the beginning."  the name is written in Russian without the "o", so a direct transliteration would be "Kournikova" and it is sometimes written that way. But it is pronounced as "Kournikov", so the family chose their English spelling.
Kournikova won her first tennis racket as a New Year's gift in 1986 at the age of 5 years . Describing her early treatment, she said: "I've been playing twice a week to six years. This was a program for children. And that was just for fun .. my parents did not know what I was going to play professionally, they just wanted to I have to do something, because I had a lot of energy just when I started playing, and at seven, I went to a professional academy, I would be in school and then my parents had me in the club, and I wanted to spend the rest of the day there just having fun together with their children. " In 1986, Kournikova became a member of the club Spartak tennis coach Larissa Preobrazhenskaya.In 1989, at the age of eight years, Kournikova began appearing in junior tournaments, and the next year, has been attracting attention from tennis scouts across the world. Kournikova has signed a deal to manage the age of ten and went to Bradenton, Florida, training at the famous Nick Bollettieri Tennis Academy in.

Saturday, 26 May 2012

Alyson Hannigan

Alyson Lee Hannigan (born March 24, 1974) is an American actress. She is known for her roles as Lily Aldrin in the CBS sitcom How I Met Your Mother, Michelle Flaherty in four American films, cake, and Willow Rosenberg in the TV series Buffy the Vampire Slayer.
 

Hannigan was born in Washington, DC She is the only child of Emilie Posner, a real estate agent, and Al-Hannigan, a truck driver. Her father is of Irish descent and his mother was Jewish. Her parents divorced when she was two years old and she was raised mostly with his mother in Atlanta, Georgia.
Hannigan met Ginger Fish of Marilyn Manson.. She was married to actor Alexis Denisof two Bunch Palms Resort in Desert Hot Springs, California, October 11, 2003. (Denisof played Wesley Wyndam-Price in the Buffy / Angel franchise, and also appeared in How I Met Your Mother as Robin co-anchor of Sandy River in the first, sixth and seventh seasons). They bought a house together in Santa Monica, California. Their daughter, Satyana Marie Denisof, was born in the house for five and a half years later, on March 24, 2009, aged 35 to Hannigan. In December 2011, the representative Hannigan announced that the couple expects their second child.
















AJ Michalka

Amanda Joy "AJ" Michalka (born April 10, 1991), often referred to as AJ, American actress, singer and musician. Previously, she was a model before becoming an actress, and was known as one half of the duo 78violet (formerly Aly & AJ) and her sister, Alyson Michalka. AJ recently recorded a song for the film by the Secretariat entitled "It's who you are." The video was released along with the single.
















Michalka lived and grew up in Seattle, Washington and Southern California with her sister Ali. Her father, Mark, owns a contracting company, and her mother, Carrie, is a musician and has performed with JC Band, a Christian group. Michalka plays the piano since she was four years old and started playing guitar in her early teens. She started acting when she was five, mostly in the performances of the Church of the game. She was raised as a Christian and still practice the faith. Michalka has been in a number of musical works in their school in the city of Milwaukee as a young man.