World Actor Nice: May 2010

Date of Birth
16 May 1986, Rockwood, Tennessee, USA
Birth Name
Megan Denise Fox
Nickname
Mega Fox
Foxy Megan
Height
5' 4" (1.63 m)
Mini Biography
Megan Fox was born May 16, 1986 in Tennessee. She has one older sister. Megan began her

training in drama and dance at the age of 5 and, at the age of 10, moved to Florida where she continued her training and finished school. She now lives in Los Angeles. Megan began acting and modeling at the age of 13 after winning several awards at the 1999 American Modeling and Talent Convention in Hilton Head, South Carolina. Megan made her film debut as "Brianna Wallace" in the Mary-Kate Olsen and Ashley Olsen movie, Holiday in the Sun (2001) (V).

Career
At 16, Fox made her acting debut in the 2001 film Holiday in the Sun, as spoiled heiress Brianna Wallace and rival of Alex Stewart (Ashley Olsen). The film was released Direct-to-DVD on November 20, 2001. The following year, Fox landed the lead main role as Ione Starr on the television series Ocean Ave. The series lasted two seasons, from 2002–2003 and Fox appeared in 122 one-hour-long episodes. Also in 2002, she guest-starred on What I Like About You, appearing in the episode "Like a Virgin (Kinda)". She was an uncredited extra in Bad Boys II in 2003. In 2004, Fox guest-starred on Two and a Half Men in the episode "Camel Filters and Pheromones". In the same year, Fox made her film debut in Confessions of a Teenage Drama Queen co-starring opposite Lindsay Lohan, playing the supporting role of Carla Santi, a rival of Lola (Lindsay Lohan). Again in 2004, Fox was cast in regular role on the ABC sitcom Hope & Faith, in which she portrayed Sydney Shanowski, replacing Nicole Paggi in the role. Fox appeared in 36 episodes from seasons 2 to 3, until the show was cancelled in 2006.[14]
In 2007, Fox won the lead female role of Mikaela Banes in the 2007 live-action film Transformers, based on the toy and cartoon saga of the same name. Fox played the love interest of Shia LaBeouf's character Sam Witwicky. Fox was nominated for an MTV Movie Award in the category of "Breakthrough Performance", and was also nominated for three Teen Choice Awards, in the category of "Choice Movie Actress: Action Adventure", "Choice Movie: Breakout Female", and "Choice Movie: Liplock".[15] Fox has signed on for two more Transformers

sequels.[14][16] In June 2007, Fox was cast in a minor role in How to Lose Friends & Alienate People, starring alongside Jeff Bridges, Simon Pegg and Kirsten Dunst. She portrayed Sophie Maes, a love interest of Sydney Young (Simon Pegg). The film premiered on October 3, 2008, but was considered a box-office failure.[17][18] In 2008, Fox appeared alongside Rumer Willis as the character Lost in Whore. The film centers around a group of young hopeful teenagers who have come to Hollywood in the hopes of an acting career find that the business is harder than they had ever imagined. The film was released October 20, 2008.[19]
Fox reprised her role as Mikaela Banes in the Transformer sequel, Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen. There was some controversy surrounding Fox's appearance while filming the sequel of Transformers when Michael Bay, the movie's director, ordered the actress to gain 10 pounds.[20] Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen premiered on June 8, 2009 in Tokyo, Japan. The movie was released worldwide on June 24, 2009.[21] Fox had her first lead role playing the title character in Jennifer's Body, written by Academy Award-winning screenwriter Diablo Cody.[22] She played Jennifer Check, a mean-girl cheerleader possessed by a demon who begins to feed off the boys in a Minnesota farming

town.[23] The film was released on September 18, 2009,[24] and co-stars Amanda Seyfried and Adam Brody.

In April 2009, Fox began filming Jonah Hex, in which she will portray Leila, a gun-wielding beauty and Jonah Hex's (Josh Brolin) love interest. The film, currently in production, is set to be released on June 18, 2010. The movie stars Josh Brolin and Will Arnett,[25] and Fox described her role in the film as being a cameo.[26] In early April, 2009 Fox signed on to star as the lead female role in the up-coming 2011 film The Crossing about a young couple who get caught up in a drug trafficking scheme during their vacation to Mexico.[27] In March 2009, Variety reported that Fox was set to star as the lead role of Aspen Matthews in the film adaption of the comic books Fathom which she will also co-produce with Brian Austin Green.[28] Fathom is currently in pre-production.[29] Fathom is currently in pre-production.[29] Fox's will not repirse her role as Mikaela Banes in Transformers 3.[30]

Michael Cera

MICHAEL CERA
Born: June 7, 1988
Brampton, Ontario, Canada
As a Canadian TV and film actor, Michael Cera began his career in

commercials for a Canadian fast food chain at age 9. He then moved to sitcoms, and landed a role on Fox Family’s comedy series "I Was a Sixth Grade Alien." The baby-faced actor gained most of his exposure acting as the son of Jason Bateman on Fox sitcom "Arrested Development," which portrayed a dysfunctional family of land-tract developers. Later, he played the young, sexually overactive Chuck Barris in the 2002 film

Confessions Of A Dangerous Mind.

No stranger to “awkward” or “challenging” roles, he’s become a recent staple of big-screen comedies, co-starring in Superbad, Juno, Nick and Norah’s Infinite Playlist and Year One. His dry-witted screen persona has brought nothing but laughter to audiences across the nation. Michael has helped reinvent new age humor with his on screen awkwardness and growing fan base.

Career
Cera's career began when he was cast as Larrabe Hicks in the Canadian television series Was a Sizth Grade Alin in 1999. In 2002, Cera played the young Chuck Barris in Confessions of Dangerous Mind and he also provided the voice for Brother Bear in The Berenstain Bears animated series, he also voiced Josh Spitz in the cartoon Braceface . He played George Michael Bluth in the award-winning television series Arrested Development for three seasons before it was cancelled. In 2005, he starred as Harold in the award winning short film Darling Darling, for which he was awarded Best Actor at the San Gio Festival in Verona,

Italy

. In 2006, he created and starred in a parody of Impossible is Nothing , a video résumé created by Aleksey Vayner. He also guest-starred in an episode of teen noir drama Veronica Mars the episode "The Rapes of Graff" which also

featured Arrested Development co-star Alia Shawkat also in the Adult Swim series Tim and Eric Awesome Show, Great Job

Cera, along with best friend Clark Duke wrote and starred in a series of short videos released on their website.^[8] In 2007, they signed a deal with CBS Television to write, produce, direct, and act in a short-form comedy series entitled Clark and Michae The show featured guest stars such as David Cross, Andy Richter and Patton Oswalt and was distributed via CBS's new internet channel, CBS Innertube.Duke and Cera are both members of the band The Long Goodbye.

Cera also appeared in a staged comedy video that shows him being fired from the lead role of the film Knocked Up after belittling and arguing with the director, in a scene that mocks the David O.Russell blow up on the set of /Heart Huckabees

Dakota Fanning

Born: Feb 23, 1994
Occupation: Actor
Active: 2000s
Major Genres: Drama, Children's/Family
Career Highlights: The Runaways, Coraline, War of the Worlds
First Major Screen Credit: I Am Sam (2001)
Biography
Kicking off an impressive career in front of the camera at the tender age of five, it was a mere three years later that actress Dakota Fanning would

become the youngest person ever to be nominated for a Screen Actor's Guild Award for her role in the Sean Penn drama I Am Sam. She subsequently appeared in such efforts as Sweet Home Alabama (2002) and director Steven Spielberg's sci-fi miniseries Taken.

A Conyers, GA, native whose acting abilities became apparent when, at the age of three, she acted out the entire process of pregnancy and childbirth (with her younger sister Elle substituting for the newborn baby) to her amused parents. Advised by an agent to take their daughter to Los Angeles, it wasn't long before young Fanning was cast in a commercial for Tide detergent. Television appearances in ER and Ally McBeal were quick to follow, and in 2001 she made her feature debut in the comedy Tomcats. Though the film was only seen by an unlucky few, her role in the same year's I Am Sam was a wide release that found the adorable young starlet a solid fan base.

Later alternating between television and film with features such as Trapped and roles on such high-profile series as Spin City and Malcolm in the Middle, her part opposite Brittany Murphy in the 2003 comedy Uptown Girls found the precocious youngster playing well off of her older co-star. In 2003 Fanning could be spotted in The Cat in the Hat, and it wasn't long before she was gearing up to appear alongside Denzel Washington and Christopher Walken in the Tony Scott thriller Man on Fire.

2005 would prove to be Fanning's busiest year yet, with her taking on prominent roles in no less than five high-profile projects. First up, she took a creepy turn opposite Robert DeNiro in the horror flick Hide and Seek. The ensemble drama Nine Lives and the horse-racing picture Dreamer followed, but Fanning's biggest film of the year was undoubtedly Stephen Spielberg's big-budget remake of War of the Worlds. She also belatedly dubbed one of the English-language voices for the anime feature My Neighbor Totoro, originally produced in 1988, or 6 years before her birth. ~ Jason Buchanan, All Movie Guide

Acting career
arly years
Fanning began acting at the age of five after appearing on a Tide commercial. Her first significant acting job was a guest-starring role in the NBC prime-time drama ER, which remains one of her favorite roles ("I played a car accident victim who has leukemia. I got to wear a neck brace and nose tubes for the two days I worked.")[8]
Fanning subsequently had several guest roles on established television series, including CSI: Crime Scene Investigation, The Practice, and Spin City. She also portrayed the title characters of Ally McBeal and The Ellen Show as young girls. In 2001, Fanning was chosen to star opposite Sean Penn in the movie I Am Sam, the story of a mentally challenged man who fights for the custody of his daughter (played by Fanning).
Her role in the film made Fanning the youngest person ever to be nominated for a Screen Actors Guild Award, being seven years of age at the time.[9] She also won the Best Young Actor/Actress award from the Broadcast Film Critics Association for her performance.[10]

2002–2003
In 2002, director Steven Spielberg cast Fanning in the lead child role of Allison "Allie" Clarke/Keys in the science fiction miniseries Taken. By this time, she had received positive notices by several film critics, including Tom Shales of The Washington Post, who wrote that Fanning "has the perfect sort of otherworldly look about her, an enchanting young actress called upon ... to carry a great weight."[11]
In the same year, Fanning appeared in three films: as a kidnap victim who proves to be more than her abductors bargained for in Trapped, as the young version of Reese Witherspoon's character in Sweet Home Alabama, and as Katie in the movie Hansel and Gretel.
Fanning was featured even more prominently in two films released in 2003: playing the uptight child to an immature nanny played by Brittany Murphy in Uptown Girls and as Sally in The Cat in the Hat.
Fanning did voice-over work for four animated projects during this period, including voicing Satsuki in Disney's English language release of My Neighbor Totoro, a little girl in the Fox series Family Guy, and a young Wonder Woman in an episode of Cartoon Network's Justice League.
2004–2005
In 2004, Fanning appeared in Man on Fire as Pita, a nine-year-old who wins over the heart of a retired mercenary (Denzel Washington) hired to protect her from kidnappers. Roger Ebert wrote that Fanning "is a pro at only 10 years old, and creates a heart-winning character."[12]
Hide and Seek was her first release in 2005, opposite Robert De Niro. The film was generally panned, and critic Chuck Wilson called it "a fascinating meeting of equals — if the child star [Fanning] challenged the master [De Niro] to a game of stare-down, the legend might very well blink first."[13] Fanning voiced Lilo (succeeding Daveigh Chase) in the direct-to-video film Lilo & Stitch 2: Stitch Has a Glitch. She also had a small part in the Rodrigo Garcia film Nine Lives (released in October 2005), in which she shared an unbroken nine-minute scene with actress Glenn Close, who had her own praise for Fanning: "She's definitely an old soul. She's one of those gifted people that come along every now and then."[14] Fanning also recorded voice work for Coraline during this time.[15]

Fanning completed filming on Dreamer: Inspired by a True Story (opposite Kurt Russell) in late October 2004. Russell declared he was astonished by his co-star's performance in the film. Russell, 54, who plays her father in the movie, says, "I guarantee you, (Dakota) is the best actress I will work with in my entire career." [16] Kris Kristofferson, who plays her character's grandfather in the movie, said that she's like Bette Davis reincarnated.[17]
While promoting her role in Dreamer, Fanning became a registered member of Girl Scouts of the USA at a special ceremony, which was followed by a screening of the film for members of the Girl Scouts of the San Fernando Valley Council. She is not a member of a troop, but rather registered as a "Juliette", GSUSA's title for independently registered girls.[18]
She then went directly to the set of War of the Worlds, starring alongside Tom Cruise. Released in reverse order (War in June 2005 and Dreamer in the following October), both films were critical successes. War director Steven Spielberg praised "how quickly she understands the situation in a sequence, how quickly she sizes it up, measures it up and how she would really react in a real situation."[19]
After filming was completed on War of the Worlds, Fanning moved straight to another film without a break: Charlotte's Web, which she finished filming in May 2005 in Australia. Released on December 15, 2006, Web met generally warm critical acclaim. Producer Jordan Kerner said, "...when she was so caught up in War of the Worlds, we had to end up going on a search for other young actresses. They would have been nothing compared to her."[20]
2006–2007
Over the summer of 2006, Fanning worked on the film Hounddog, described in press reports as a "dark story of abuse, violence and Elvis Presley adulation in the rural South."[21] Fanning's parents have been criticized for allowing her to film a scene in which her character is raped. However, in response, Fanning said that "It's not really happening," to Reuters. "It's a movie, and it's called acting."[22] Director Deborah Kampmeier addressed the controversy in the January 2007 edition of Premiere: "The assumption that [Dakota] was violated in order to give this performance denies her talent."[23]
In 2006, at the age of 12, she was invited to join the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, becoming the youngest member in the Academy's history.[24] Her income for 2006 was $4 million, earning her the fourth place in Forbes Magazine's list of top-earning stars aged under 21.[25]
In March and April 2007, she filmed Fragments – Winged Creatures alongside Kate Beckinsale, Guy Pearce, Josh Hutcherson, and Academy Award winners Forest Whitaker and Jennifer Hudson. She plays Anne Hagen, a girl who witnesses her father's murder and who turns to religion in the aftermath.
In July 2007, Fanning filmed for three days a short film titled Cutlass, one of Glamour's "Reel Moments" based on readers' personal essays. Cutlass was directed by Kate Hudson.
From September to December 2007, Fanning filmed Push, which centers on a group of young American expatriates with telekinetic and clairvoyant abilities who hide from a U.S. government agency in Hong Kong and band together to try to escape the control of the division.[26] Fanning plays Cassie Holmes, a 13-year-old psychic.
2008–present
In January 2008, Fanning began filming the movie adaptation of The Secret Life of Bees, a novel by Sue Monk Kidd.[27] Set in South Carolina in 1964, the story centers on Lily Owens (Fanning), who escapes her lonely life and troubled relationship with her father by running away with her caregiver and only friend (played by Jennifer Hudson) to a South Carolina town where they are taken in by an eccentric trio of beekeeping sisters (played by Queen Latifah, Sophie Okonedo, and Alicia Keys). Her movies Coraline and Push were released on the same day, February 6, 2009.
Fanning played Jane in New Moon and will reprise the role in Eclipse, based on novels by Stephenie Meyer.[28] New Moon was released on November 20, 2009, and Eclipse is set for release on June 30, 2010.
In 2010, she starred in the movie The Runaways, alongside Kristen Stewart, Stella Maeve, and Scout Taylor-Compton, where she played Cherie Currie, the lead singer of the band.

Emma Watson

Born: Apr 15, 1990 in Paris, France
Occupation: Actor
Active: 2000s
Major Genres: Children's/Family, Fantasy
Career Highlights: Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
First Major Screen Credit: Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone (2001)

Biography

Emma Watson made her big-screen debut in 2001's box-office smash Harry potter and the Sorcerer s Stone, bringing to life Hermione Granger, friend to the famous protagonist Harry Potter of J.k.Rowling's children's novel. Born in Paris, where she lived for the first five years of her life, Watson acted only in school plays before breaking into Hollywood with this film, but her performance skills had been honed through dancing, singing, and poetry recitals, the latter of which she had already received recognition for by the age of seven. In the years following that blockbuster, she reprised her role alongside co-starsDaniel Radcliffe and Rupert Grintfor the subsequent beloved Harry Potter films. A self-avowed serious student at an all-girls school in Oxford, England, Watson signed on for the final two installments of the series, but decided to temporarily put further project offers aside to focus on her studies. ~ Sarah Sloboda, All Movie Guide

Career

In 1999, casting began for Harry Potter and the philosopher’s Stone(released as Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone in the United States), the film adaptation of British author J.k. Rowling's bestselling novel. Casting agents found Watson through her Oxford theatre teacher, and producers were impressed by her confidence. After eight auditions, producer David Heyman told Watson and fellow applicants Deniel Radcliffe and Rupert Grint that they had been cast for the roles of the schoolfriends Hermione Granger, Harry potter and Ron weasley respectively. Rowling supported Watson from her first screen test .

The release of Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone in 2001 was Watson's debut screen performance. The film broke records for opening-day sales and opening-weekend takings and was the highest-grossing film of 2001.(15)(160) Critics praised the performances of the three leads, often singling out Watson for particular acclaim; The Daily Telegraph called her performance "admirable", and IGN said she "stole the show". Watson was nominated for five awards for her performance in Philosopher's Stone, winning the Young Artist Award for Leading Young Actress.

A year later, Watson again starred as Hermione in Harry potter and the Chamber of Secrets,the second installment of the series. Although the film received mixed reviews, reviewers were positive about the lead actors' performances. The Los Angeles Times said Watson and her peers had matured between films, while The Times criticised director Chris Columbus for "under-employing" Watson's hugely popular character. Watson received an Otto Award from the German magazine Bravo for her performance.

In 2004, Harry potter and the prisoner of Azkaban was released. Watson was appreciative of the more assertive role Hermione played, calling her character "charismatic" and "a fantastic role to play". Although critics panned Radcliffe's performance, labelling him "wooden", they praised Watson; The New York Times lauded her performance, saying "Luckily Mr. Radcliffe's blandness is offset by Ms. Watson's spiky impatience. Harry may show off his expanding wizardly skills ... but Hermione ... earns the loudest applause with a decidedly unmagical punch to Draco Malfoy's deserving nose." Although Prisoner of Azkaban remains the lowest-grossing Harry Potter film as of April 2009, Watson's personal performance won her two Otto Awards and the Child Performance of the Year award from Total Film.

With Harry potter and the Goblet of Fire(2005), both Watson and the Harry Potter film series reached new milestones. The film set records for a Harry Potter opening weekend, a non-May opening weekend in the US, and an opening weekend in the UK. Critics praised the increasing maturity of Watson and her teenage co-stars; the New York Times called her performance "touchingly earnest". For Watson, much of the humour of the film sprang from the tension among the three lead characters as they matured. She said, "I loved all the arguing. ... I think it's much more realistic that they would argue and that there would be problems." Nominated for three awards for Goblet of Fire, Watson won a bronze Otto Award. Later that year, Watson became

the youngest person to appear on the cover of Teen Vogue an appearance she reprised in August 2009.In 2006, Watson played Hermione in the Queen s Handbag, a special mini-episode of Harry Potter in celebration of Queen Elizabeth II's 80th birthday. The fifth film in the Harry Potter franchise, Harry potter and the Order of the Phoenix, was released in 2007. A huge financial success, the film set a record worldwide opening-weekend gross of $332.7 million. Watson won the inaugural National Movie Award for Best Female Performance. As the fame of the actress and the series continued, Watson and fellow Harry Potter co-stars Daniel Radcliffe and Rupert Grint left imprints of their hands, feet and wands in front of Grauman’s Chinese The ater in Hollywood on 9 July 2007.

Despite the success of Order of the Phoenix, the future of the Harry Potter Franchise became surrounded in doubt, as all three lead actors were hesitant to sign on to continue their roles for the final two episodes. Radcliffe eventually signed for the final films on 2 March 2007, but Watson was considerably more hesitant. She explained that the decision was significant, as the films represented a further four-year commitment to the role, but eventually conceded that she "could never let [the role of] Hermione go",signing for the role on 23 March 2007. In return for committing to the final films, Watson's pay was doubled to F2 million per film; she concluded that "in the end, the pluses outweighed the minuses".Principal photography for the sixth film began in late 2007, with Watson's part being filmed from 18 December to 17 May 2008.

Harry potter and the Half-Blood prince premiered on 15 July 2009, having been controversially delayed from November 2008. With the lead actors now in their late teens, critics were increasingly willing to review them on the same level as the rest of the film's all-star cast, which the Los Angeles Times described as "a comprehensive guide to contemporary UK acting". The Washington post felt Watson to have given "[her] most charming performance to date" while The Daily Telegraph described the lead actors as "newly-liberated and energized, eager to give all they have to what's left of the series".

Watson's filming for the final installment of the Harry Potter series, Harry potter and the Deathly Hasllow began on 18 February 2009. For financial and scripting reasons, the original book has been divided into two films which will be shot back to back. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows parts 1 and 2 are scheduled for release in November 2010 and July 2011 respectively.

Lauren Bacall

Name :Lauren Bacall
Profession : Model/Actress

Birth Details : born in Poland, in an area which is now part of Belarus
Birth name : Betty Joan Perske
Height : 5' 8�" (1.74 m)
Nickname : Baby The Look
Personal quotes : "She's a real Joe. You'll fall in love with her like everybody else." - Humphrey Bogart
"I never believed marriage was a lasting instit
Salary : Two Guys from Milwaukee (1946) $5,000 To Have and Have Not (1944) $125/week
Spouse : Jason Robards (4 July 1961 - 10 September 1969) (divorced) 1 child Humphrey Bogart (21 May 1945 - 14 January 1957) (his death) 2 children
Trade mark : Her deep, sexy voice

Career
Bacall took lessons at the American Academy of Dramatic Arts. During this time, she became a theatre usher and worked as a fashion model. As Betty Bacall, she made her acting debut, at age 17, on Broadway in 1942, as a walk-on in Johnny 2 X 4. According to her autobiography, Bacall met her idol Bette Davis at Davis's hotel. Years later, Davis visited Bacall backstage to congratulate her on her

performance in Applause, a musical based on Davis's turn in All About Eve.
Bacall became a part-time fashion model. Howard Hawks's wife Nancy spotted her on the March 1943 cover of Harper's Bazaar and urged Hawks to have her take a screen test for To Have and Have Not. Hawks invited Bacall to Hollywood for the audition. He signed her up to a seven-year personal contract, brought her to Hollywood, gave her $100 a week, and began to manage her career. Hawks changed her name to Lauren Bacall. Nancy Hawks took Bacall under her wing.[7] She dressed Bacall stylishly, and guided the newcomer in matters of elegance, manners, and taste. Bacall's voice was trained to be lower, more masculine, and sexier, which resulted in one of the most distinctive voices in Hollywood.[8] In the movie, Bacall takes on Nancy's nickname “Slim”.

Later career
During the 1980s, Bacall appeared in the poorly-received star vehicle The Fan (1981), as well as some star-studded features such as Robert Altman's Health (1980) and Michael Winner's Appointment with Death (1988). In 1997, Bacall was nominated for a Best Supporting Actress Academy Award for her role in The Mirror Has Two Faces (1996), her first nomination after a career span of more than fifty years. She had already won a Golden Globe and was widely expected to win the Oscar, which went to Juliette Binoche for The English Patient.

Bacall received the Kennedy Center Honors in 1997. In 1999, she was voted one of the 25 most significant female movie stars in history by the American Film Institute. Since then, her movie career has seen a new renaissance and she has attracted respectful notices for her performances in high-profile projects such as Dogville (2003) and Birth (2004), both with Nicole Kidman. She is one of the leading actors in Paul Schrader's 2007 movie The Walker.
In March 2006, Bacall was seen at the 78th Annual Academy Awards introducing a film montage dedicated to film noir. She also made a cameo appearance as herself on The Sopranos in April 2006, during which she was punched and robbed by a masked Christopher Moltisanti.
In September 2006, Bacall was awarded the first Katharine Hepburn Medal, which recognizes "women whose lives, work and contributions embody the intelligence, drive and independence of the four-time-Oscar-winning actress", by Bryn Mawr College's

Katharine Houghton Hepburn Center.[17] She gave an address at the memorial service of Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr at the Reform Club in London in June 2007.
Bacall is the spokesperson for the Tuesday Morning discount chain. Commercials show her in a limousine waiting for the store to open at the beginning of one of their sales events. She is currently producing a jewelry line with the company Weinman Brothers.
Bacall was selected by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences to receive an Honorary Academy Award. The award was presented at the Inaugural Governors Awards on November 14, 2009.

Amanda Seyfried

Amanda Seyfried biography
Amanda Seyfried (born December 3, 1985) is an American actress and former child model. She is known for her roles in Mean Girls, Veronica Mars, and Big Love.

Early life and education

Seyfried was born in Allentown, Pennsylvania and is a 2003 graduate of

Allentown's William Allen High School. She is a student at New York City's Fordham University. As a teenager, she appeared on the cover of three Francine Pascal books.

Career

Seyfried started her career as an actress in soap operas. In 2000, she was the first actress to play the role of Lucy Montgomery on CBS's As the World Turns. She went on, from 2002 to 2003, to play the role of Joni Stafford on ABC's All My Children.

In 2004, Seyfried achieved a breakthrough when she was cast as the most dimwitted of the "Plastics", Karen Smith, in the popular teen film Mean Girls alongside Lindsay Lohan, Rachel McAdams and Lacey Chabert. The film grossed over $86 million in the United States. In Mean Girls, she initially auditioned for the role of Regina. She became the original casting choices for

both the roles of "Regina George" and "Cady". She was cast as the sidekick to "Regina", "Karen Smith". The other roles later went to McAdams and Lohan, respectively. In 2005, she played the lead character in one of the nine parts in the movie Nine Lives.

Continuing her television career, Seyfried was cast in UPN's Veronica Mars as the title character's murdered best friend Lilly Kane. In her role as Lilly, she appeared on the show through a series of flashbacks, dreams and visions, which portrayed her as a wild, stylish, and bubbly teenage daughter of a business executive. Lilly is sometimes compared to the character of Laura Palmer of Twin Peaks, who also was deceased and appeared through various flashbacks as the plot unfolded. While appearing often during Mars' first season, she also appeared briefly in season 2's premiere and finale. Seyfried originally auditioned for the title role on Veronica Mars, but lost the place to Kristen Bell and ended up winning the role of Lilly Kane.

Seyfried has had primetime cameo appearances and minor guest roles on Fox's House, Justice, NBC's Law & Order: Special Victims Unit and CBS's CSI: Crime Scene Investigation and currently appears as Rebecca on ABC Family's television series Wildfire.

Seyfried is also a main character, Sarah Henrickson, in the highly-touted HBO original series Big Love. She appeared in the 2007 film Alpha Dog, and will next have a supporting role in the film Solstice.

Filmography
Year Title Role Film or TV
2000 As the World Turns Lucy Montgomery TV on NBC
2002 All My Children Joni Stafford TV on ABC

2004 Mean Girls Karen Smith Film
Buffy The Vampire Slayer Emily TV
Veronica Mars Lilly Kane TV on UPN/CBS
2005 American Gun Mouse Film
Nine Lives Samantha Film
2006 Justice (TV) Ann Diggs TV/FOX
Wild Fire (TV) Rebecca TV
Big Love Sarah Henrickson TV/HBO
Gypsies, Tramps & Thieves Chrissy Film
2007 Solstice Zoe Film in Production

Shia LaBeouf

Birthdate: June 11, 1986
Birthplace: Los Angeles, California.

Shia La Beouf has gone from Even Stevens to to starring in this summer's biggest flick, Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull in the blink of an eye. Check out this rising star!

Funny Family

Shia (rhymes with hi-ya) LaBeouf was named after his grandfather, who is a comedian. Young Shia also liked making people laugh and used to perform a stand-up comedy act at local coffee joints around his neighborhood in California. After seeing a friend's performance on a TV show, Shia decided he should try acting too. His mom, Shayna LaBeouf, agreed and Shia began calling agents out of the yellow pages the very next day. He performed a stand-up piece for one, and was signed.

Career

Early work, 1996–2006

Prior to his acting career, LaBeouf's career as a comedian originated when he would "create things, story lines and fictitious tales" during his childhood; he practiced stand-up comedy around his neighborhood as an "escape" from a hostile environment. At the age of ten, he began performing stand-up and "talking dirty" at comedy clubs(including The Ice House in Pasadena), describing his appeal as having "disgustingly dirty" material and a "50-year-old mouth on the 10-year-old kid".LaBeouf, who described himself as an "insult comic", stated that his comic material included talking about his first erection and cursing. LaBeouf commented on his stand-up comedy career, "I just knew that money was a solution to whatever the hell was going on in my household. With money, I and my family would have had more options. So I went after a job that I thought I could make the most money for a 10-year-old or an 11-year-old boy."'LaBeouf subsequently found agent Teresa Dahlquist (who is his agent as of June 2008) through theYellow

pages. He was taken on after doing his stand-up act for her and pretending to be his own manager, promoting himself in the third person. LaBeouf has said that he initially became an actor because his family was broke, not because he wanted to pursue an acting career. LaBeouf commented, "My humor came from seeing my parents have sex, smoke weed, my mom being naked—just weird hippie stuff, twisted R-rated humor. I’d get up there in my OshKosh B’Gosh outfit and my bowl haircut. I was a little kid with a Lenny Bruce mouth. That was the act. But there’s no money in stand-up comedy, so I went into acting." LaBeouf began acting when he was 12 years old. His acting debut was on Caroline in the City, in the episode "Caroline and the Bar Mitzvah", and he made guest appearances on popular television shows:The X-Files, Touched by on Angel Jesse, and Suddenly Susan, all in 1999.

LaBeouf became well known among young audiences after playing Louis Stevens on the Disney Channel weekly program Even Stevens, a role for which he was cast three months after being signed by his agent. Even Stevens aired from 2000-2003 for three seasons and 65 episodes. Even Stevens ended with the Even Stevens Movie a TV movie which premiered June 13, 2003, on the Disney Channel . In 2003, LaBeouf was awarded a Daytime Emmy Award for the role of Louis and has said, "[he] grew up on that show" and his childhood was "kind of lost", although being cast in the show was the "best thing" that has happened to him. His father, having just been released from rehab, served as LaBeouf's on-set parent and the two bonded. Around this time period, LaBeouf pitched an arrangement to Disney inspired by his and his father's residence at motels. Disney bought the rights to the story, but the project, entitled Rent-A-Dad, has never moved out of development—presumably because the material may not have been suited to the family-oriented film studio. In 2001 LaBeouf had a supporting role in the Disney Channel TV movie Hounded, as Ronny Van Dussel, a rival of the main character. The following year he appeared in another Disney Channel TV movie Tru Confessions, where he played a mentally challenged kid with a sister who made a documentary about his disability.Gary Marsh, President of Entertainment for Disney Channel Worldwide, described LaBeouf as giving an "unbelievable acting performance", and stated, "to this day I believe [that performance] gave him the leverage and credibility to get a lot of other roles. During this time, LaBeouf also appeared in sketch shows on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno

In 2003, he appeared in another Disney production, Holes , as Stanley "Caveman" Yelnats IV, opposite Jon Voight. While filming Holes, Voight lent LaBeouf acting books that turned him on to the notion that acting could be about more than just a paycheck. The film was a moderate box office success. Stven Spielberg was a fan of LaBeouf in Holes, saying he reminded him of a young Tom Hanks. The film Holes made over US$ 67 million worldwide and was well-received by critics, garnering a 77% approval rating on Rotten Tomatoes. That same year, he was heavily featured in the HBO documentary show Project Greenlight which chronicled the making of the independent film The BattleHeights, his first PG-13S film. In the film, LaBeouf played the lead role of troubled teen Kelly Ernswiler. The Battle of Shaker Heights was theatrically released on August 22, 2003, in limited release and had a poor box office performance. LaBeouf also had minor roles in the films, Charlie’s Angels:Full Throttle and Dumb and Dumberer: When Harry Met Lloyd.

In 2004, LaBeouf co-wrote and directed the short film Let's Love Hate with Lorenzo Eduardo, which was LaBeouf's directorial debut. Also in 2004, LaBeouf played Farber, a minor role in I, Robot Sand, the following year, appeared in the action-horror film Constantine as Chas Kramer, a supporting characterLaBeouf made his transition into more mature roles, playing the lead role in the 2005 Disney film The Greatest Game Ever played, as Francis Ouimet, a real-life golfer from a poor family who won the 1913 U.S. Open Championship. He also voiced the character Asbel in the English dubbed version of the 1984 film Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind, a Japanese anime film directed by Hayao Miyazaki LaBeouf appeared in the 2006 ensemble drama Bobby as Cooper, a campaign volunteer for Robert F. Kennedy .As part of the cast of Bobby, LaBeouf won a Hollywood Film Award for "Ensemble Of The Year", and was nominated for a Screen Actors Guild A ward for "Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture".Also in 2006, LaBeouf played the younger version of Dito Montiel in A Guide to Recognizing Your Saints, the older version being played by Robert Downey, Jr.in a semi-autobiographical account of Montiel's upbringing in 1980s Astoria,Queens In her review for the film, Lisa Schwarzbaum, of Entertainment Weekly , described LaBeouf as being "lavishly talented".