Jumat, 24 September 2010

Angelina Jolie - Actress

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Angelina Jolie is an actress of America. She has got an Academy Award, two Screen Actors Guild Awards, and three Golden Globe Awards. Jolie promotes humanitarian causes, and is famous for her work with refugees as a Goodwill Ambassador for the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR). She has been cited as one of the world's most beautiful people, as well as the world's "most beautiful" woman, title for which she has got substantial media attention. Though she made her screen debut as a child beside her father Jon Voight in the 1982 film Lookin' to Get Out, Jolie's acting profession began in earnest a decade later with the low-budget production Cyborg 2 (1993).

Her first foremost role in a major film was in Hackers (1995). She starred in the seriously acclaimed biographical films George Wallace (1997) and Gia (1998), and won an Academy Award for Best sustaining Actress for her performance in the drama Girl, Interrupted (1999). Jolie get wider fame after her portrayal of video game heroine Lara Croft in Lara Croft: Tomb Raider (2001), and since then has recognized herself as one of the best-known and highest-paid actresses in Hollywood. She has had her major commercial successes with the action-comedy Mr. & Mrs. Smith (2005) and the animated film Kung Fu Panda (2008).

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Date of Birth

June 4, 1975

Birth Place

Los Angeles, California, U.S.

Birth Name

Angelina Jolie Voight

Occupation

Actress/Humanitarian

Spouse

Jonny Lee Miller,

Billy Bob Thornton

Kamis, 23 September 2010

Ben Stiller - American Actor

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Benjamin Edward "Ben" Stiller is an American comedian, actor, writer, producer and film director. He is the child of veteran comedians and actors Jerry Stiller and Anne Meara. After beginning his acting career with a play, Stiller wrote many mockumentaries, and was offered two of his own shows, both entitled The Ben Stiller Show. He begins acting in films, and had his directorial debut with Reality Bites. Throughout his career he has since written, starred in, directed, and/or produced over fifty films with Heavyweights, There's Something about Mary, Meet the Parents, Zoolander, Dodgeball, and Tropic Thunder. In addition he has had several cameos in music videos, television shows, and films.

Stiller is an associate of the comedic acting brotherhood colloquially known as the Frat Pack. His films have gross more than $2.1 billion domestically (United States and Canada), with an average of $73 million per film. Throughout his career, he has got several awards and honors including an Emmy Award, several MTV Movie Awards, and a Teen Choice Award. Stiller has some upcoming films in 2010, Stiller will again portray Gaylord 'Greg' Focker in Little Fockers, a sequel to both Meet the Parents & Meet the Fockers. Stiller will produced a Yahoo! web series starring his parents, Jerry Stiller and Anne Meara. The show will be launch by the end of this year (2010).

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Birth Date

November 30, 1965

Birth Place

New York City, U.S.

Birth Name

Benjamin Edward Stiller

Winning Awards

Emmy Award, MTV Movie Awards,

Teen Choice Award

Occupation

Actor, comedian, director, producer, screenwriter

Spouse

Christine Taylor

Rabu, 22 September 2010

Larry Page

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Lawrence "Larry" Page is a American computer scientist and industrialist, who co founded Google Inc., along with Sergey Brin. Page is an active investor in option energy companies, such as Tesla Motors, which developed the Tesla Roadster, a 220-mile range battery electric vehicle. He continues to be dedicated to renewable energy technology, and with the help of Google.org, Google's philanthropic arm, promotes the acceptance of plug-in hybrid electric cars and other alternative energy investments.

In 1998, Brin and Page established Google, Inc. Page ran Google as co-president along with Brin until 2001 when they hired Eric Schmidt as Chairman and CEO of Google. Together Page and Brin earn an annual compensation of one dollar. In 2004, Page and Brin were name "Persons of the Week" by ABC World News Tonight. Page acknowledged an honorary doctorate from the University of Michigan on May 2, 2009 during the commencement ceremony exercises of the class of 2009. In 2009, he was ranked 26th on the Forbes list of the world’s billionaires and as the 11th richest person in America, in spite of his compensation of one dollar annually. In 2009, Brin and Page were ranked fifth on Forbes' "The World's mainly Powerful People" list.

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Birth Date

March 26, 1973

Birth Place

East Lansing, Michigan

Birth Name

Born Lawrence "Larry" Page

Nationality

American

Occupation

Computer scientist, technology innovator, entrepreneur

Known for

Co-founder of Google Inc.

Net worth

US$17.5 billion

Spouse

Lucinda Southworth

Johnny Depp - Actor

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John Christopher "Johnny" Depp II is one of the American actor and musician known for his portrayals of offbeat, eccentric characters such as Jack Sparrow in the Pirates of the Caribbean film series, Raoul Duke in Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, and Ichabod Crane in Sleepy Hollow. Depp rose to prominence in a direct role on the television series 21 Jump Street and quickly became regarded as a teen idol. Uncomfortable with this career direction, he twisted his focus to film roles. He firstly came to film prominence as the titular character of Edward Scissorhands, and later found box office success in roles such as Ichabod Crane in Sleepy Hollow, Jack Sparrow in the Pirates of the Caribbean film series and Willy Wonka in Charlie and the Chocolate Factory.

He has collaborate with director and close friend Tim Burton in seven films, the most current of which are Alice in Wonderland and Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (2007). Depp has garner acclaim for his portrayals of real life figures such as Edward D. Wood, Jr., in Ed Wood, Joseph D. Pistone in Donnie Brasco and George Jung in Blow (2001). Films feature Depp have gross over $2.6 billion at the United States box office and over $6 billion worldwide. selected for the Academy Award for Best Actor three times, Screen Actors Guild Awards four times and Golden Globe Awards eight times, Depp won the Best Actor Awards from the Golden Globes.

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Birth Date

June 9, 1963

Birth Place

Owensboro, Kentucky, U.S.

Birth Name

John Christopher Depp II

Occupation

Actor, screenwriter, director,

producer, musician

Spouse

Lori Anne Allison