Showing posts with label American. Show all posts
Showing posts with label American. Show all posts

Wednesday, July 25, 2007

Ewa Laurance

Ewa Laurance
Ewa Laurance (aka Ewa Mataya aka the Striking Viking) was born on February 26, 1964 in Gävle, Sweden. She is a Swedish-American professional pool player, most notably on the Women's Professional Billiard Association nine-ball tour. She is also a sports commentator for ESPN.

Laurance is playing pool since she was 14 years old in her native country and moved to the United States in 1983.

She has authored three books related with pool i.e. The Ewa Mataya Pool Guide, The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Pool and Billiards and Quick Start Guide to Pocket Billiards. She has also written monthly columns for the Pool & Billiard magazine.

In 2004, she was inducted into the Billiard Congress of America's Hall of Fame.

In 2005, Ewa Mataya Laurance bested three of her peers, WPBA tour members Allison Fisher, Dawn Hopkins, and Gerda Hofstatter, at the Women's Trick Shot Challenge held at the New York Hotel Casino in Las Vegas, Nevada, pocketing $25,000 as the grand prize.

She has also done modeling for many brands.

Laila Ali

Laila Ali
Laila Ali was born on December 30, 1977 in Miami Beach, USA. She is the daughter of former heavyweight champion of World, Muhammad Ali. She is 5' 10" tall professional American boxer.

Tuesday, July 24, 2007

Camilla Belle

Camilla Belle
Camilla Belle was born on October 2, 1986 in Los Angeles, California, USA. She is 5ft 8in tall American actress and known for her lead role in the 2006 remake of When a Stranger Calls and the 2000 Disney Channel Original Movie Rip Girls.

Monday, July 23, 2007

Tara Reid

Tara Reid
Tara Reid was born on November 8, 1975 in Wyckoff, New Jersey, USA. She is an American actress and best known for her roles in the films American Pie series.

Saturday, July 21, 2007

Babes From Movie Wild Hogs

These are the hot list of cute hot and beautiful babes from the Hollywood movie Wild Hogs.

Marisa TomeiMarisa Tomei was born on December 4, 1964 in Brooklyn, New York, USA. She is an Academy Award-winning American film and stage actress.


Jill HennessyJill Hennessy was born on November 25, 1968 in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. She is a Canadian actress, known for her television roles on Law & Order and Crossing Jordan.


Tichina ArnoldTichina Arnold was born on June 28, 1971 in Queens, New York, USA. She is an American actress known for her role on Martin.


Drew SidoraDrew Sidora was born on May 1, 1985 in Chicago, Illinois, USA. She is an American actress and singer. Se got famous for her role as Chantel in the Disney Channel Original Series That's So Raven.


Margaret Travolta Margaret Travolta is an American actress born in Englewood, New Jersey, USA. She is sister of famous Hollywood actor John Travolta.


Jessica Tuck Jessica Tuck was born on February 19, 1963 in New York City, USA. She is an American actress.

Thursday, July 19, 2007

Queen Latifah

Queen Latifah
Dana Elaine Owens (aka Queen Latifah) was born on March 18, 1970 in Newark, New Jersey, USA. She is an American rapper, singer and actress. Latifah's work in music and film has earned her a Grammy Award, five additional Grammy nominations, and an Academy Award nomination as well.

On July 11th, 2007, Latifah made her singing debut at the famed Hollywood Bowl in Los Angeles as the headliner act in a live jazz concert.

Check her official site here.

Tuesday, July 17, 2007

Nicole Richie

Nicole Richie
Nicole Richie was born on September 21, 1981 in Berkeley, California, USA. She is an American socialite, actress, author and singer.

Monday, July 16, 2007

Megan Fox

Megan Fox
Megan Fox was born on May 16, 1986 in Oak Ridge, Tennessee, USA. She is an American actress, model and best known for her roles in the television series Hope & Faith and in the 2007 film Transformers. In 2006, she was ranked number sixty-eight on the FHM 100 Sexiest Women.

Padma Lakshmi

Padma Lakshmi
Padma Lakshmi
Padma Lakshmi
Padma Lakshmi was born in September 1, 1970. She is a New York based Indian-American model, actress and award-winning cookbook author. She modeled for top designers such as Emanuel Ungaro, Ralph Lauren and Alberta Ferretti and done ad campaigns for Roberto Cavalli and Versus. She gave her acting performance in Glitter with Mariah Carey and in Boom with Amitabh Bachchan, Jackie Shroff, Gulshan Grover, Madhu Sapre, Katrina Kaif and Zeenat Aman and in 2005 in The Mistress of Spices with Aishwarya Rai, Dylan McDermott, Ayesha Dharker.

She has been the host of the reality television program Top Chef since season two and an ambassador for the United Nations Development Fund for Women. Her first cookbook Easy Exotic was awarded Best First Book at the 1999 World Cookbook Awards at Versailles.

Padma and her novelist husband Salman Rushdie filed for divorce on July 2, 2007.

Check out more about Padma at her official website.

Sunday, July 15, 2007

Remy Ma

Remy Ma
Reminisce Smith (aka Remy Ma) was born on May 30, 1981 in The Bronx, New York. She is an Grammy-nominated rapper and former member of Fat Joe's rap crew, Terror Squad. She is one of three female rappers in history to have a number one on the Billboard Hot 100 chart, with Terror Squad's number one single "Lean Back." Currently she is arrested by police on charges of attempted murder.

Thursday, July 12, 2007

Brittany Daniel

Brittany Daniel
Brittany Daniel was born on March 17, 1976 in Gainesville, Florida, USA. She is 5'7" tall actress, well known for her role as Jessica Wakefield in the television series Sweet Valley High, who she co-starred with her twin sister, Cynthia Daniel. Both twin sisters began modeling at age eleven in print ads. She is currently performing as Kelly Pitts in The Game.

Tuesday, July 10, 2007

Esther Baxter

Esther Baxter

Esther Baxter was born on September 23, 1984. She is an African American model and an aspiring actress from Miami, Florida.

Wednesday, July 4, 2007

Venus Williams

Venus Williams
Venus Williams was born on June 17, 1980 in Lynwood, California, United States. She is a former World No. 1 ranked female tennis player and Olympic gold medalist who has won 13 Grand Slam titles, including 5 singles, 6 women's doubles, and 2 mixed doubles titles. Williams is the older sister of fellow former World No. 1 tennis player Serena Williams. Venus holds the record for the fastest serve ever recorded by a female player in a main draw match (128.8 mph).

Apart from tennis ace Venus is also a businesswoman and CEO of her interior design firm V Starr Interiors located in Jupiter, Florida.

Currently she is participating in ongoing Wimbledon 2007 where she beat the second seeded Maria Sharapova in a straight set 6-1 6-3 and secured her position for Quarterfinal round where she will face fifth seed Svetlana Kuznetsova.

Tuesday, July 3, 2007

Kelly Clarkson

Kelly Clarkson
Kelly Clarkson was born on April 24, 1982 in Fort Worth, Texas. She is an American singer, songwriter. Clarkson made her debut as a pop musician with album Thankful after winning the highly publicized first season of the television series American Idol in 2002. Clarkson's new album, My December, was released on June 26, 2007.

Clarkson placed second behind Norwegian Idol Kurt Nilsen in a competition titled World Idol which was held in London, England, gathering the winners of the first seasons of Idol from across the globe in December 2003.

Sunday, July 1, 2007

Madonna

Madonna
Madonna was born on August 16, 1958 in Bay City, Michigan. She is an American pop singer, songwriter, record and film producer, dancer, actress, author and fashion icon. In 2000, The Guinness World Records listed Madonna as the most successful female recording artist of all time, with estimated worldwide sales of 120 million albums. Madonna is the highest earning female singer of all time according to both the 2007 Guinness Book of Records and Billboard Magazine. Madonna also holds the record for the top-grossing concert tour by a female artist.

Saturday, June 30, 2007

Serena Williams

Serena Williams
Serena Williams was born on September 26, 1981 in Saginaw, Michigan. She is an American former World No. 1 ranked female tennis player who has won eight Grand Slam singles titles and an Olympic gold medal in women's doubles. She is the younger sister of another former world no. 1 professional female tennis player, Venus Williams. When Serena was four and a half, she won her first tournament, and she entered 49 tournaments before the age of 10, winning 46 of them.

In 2005, Tennis magazine ranked her as the 17th-best player of the preceding forty years.

She was WTA Newcomer of the Year in 1998 succeeded by Kim Clijsters, WTA Most Improved Player in 1999 succeeded by Elena Dementieva and WTA Player of The Year in 2000 succeeded by Justine Henin. As on June 25, 2007 she is at eight position in list of women's top tennis player.

In 2007 she won Australian Open by defeating Maria Sharapova by 6-1, 6-2 in final.

Currently she is participating in Wimbledon 2007 and won her 3rd round defeating Milagros Sequera by 6-1, 6-0.

Sandra Bullock

Sandra Bullock
Sandra Bullock was born on July 26, 1964 in Arlington County, Virginia. She is an American film actress who came to fame in the 1990s with her roles in successful films like Speed and While You Were Sleeping, Miss Congeniality and one of her most recent performance in 2004's Crash, receiving critical acclaim. Her latest realease movie is Premonition.

In January 2007, Bullock was named the 14th richest woman in entertaiment by Forbes, with a net worth of $85 million.

Friday, June 29, 2007

Eva Mendes

Eva Mendes
Eva Mendes was born on March 5, 1974 in Miami, Florida. She is an American actress who began acting in the late 1990s. She started her big screen career with the award-winning and critically-acclaimed Training Day. She was part of major Hollywood films like 2 Fast 2 Furious and Hitch. She is ranked #7 by Maxim in its 2007 list of Hot 100.

Thursday, June 28, 2007

Maggie Q

Maggie Q
Margaret Denise Quigley better known as Maggie Q was born on May 22, 1979 in Honolulu, Hawaii. She is an American actress and former fashion model.

Maggie is playing a role of hacker who works with villain and tries to terrorize America in Bruce Willis's Die Hard 4.0.

Wednesday, June 27, 2007

Julia Roberts

Julia Roberts
Julia Roberts was born on October 28, 1967 in Smyrna, Georgia. She is an Academy Award-winning American film actress and former fashion model. She got the fame during the early 1990s after starring in the romantic comedy, Pretty Woman, opposite Richard Gere. She won the Best Actress Academy Award in 2001 for her performance in Erin Brockovich.

She was the first actress to appear on the cover of Vogue and the first woman to land on the cover of GQ. She has been named one of People magazine's "50 Most Beautiful People in the World" a record-setting eleven times, tied with
Halle Berry. In 2001 Ladies Home Journal ranked her as the 11th most powerful woman in America beating out then national security adviser Condoleezza Rice and first lady Laura Bush.