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Johnny Deep Biography, Johnny Deep Photos

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Early life

Depp was born in Owensboro, Kentucky, the son of Betty Sue, a waitress, and John Christopher Depp Sr., a city engineer. The family moved frequently during Depp's childhood, and he and his siblings lived in more than twenty different locations, settling in Miramar, Florida, in 1970, when he was 7. In 1978, when Depp was 15, his parents were divorced. He engaged in self-harm as a child, due to the stress of dealing with family problems and his own insecurity. He has seven or eight scars from practicing self-harm. In a 1993 interview, he explained his self-injury by saying, "My body is a journal in a way. It's like what sailors used to do, where every tattoo meant something, a specific time in your life when you make a mark on yourself, whether you do it yourself with a knife or with a professional tattoo artist"

Rock band

Depp's mother bought her son a guitar when he was twelve, and Depp began playing in various garage bands. His first band was in honor of his girlfriend Meredith. A year after his parents' divorce, Depp dropped out of high school to become a rock musician. As he once explained on Inside the Actors Studio, he attempted to go back to school two weeks later, but the principal told him to follow his dream of being a musician. Depp called the remark "really sweet." He played with The Kids, a band that enjoyed modest local success. The Kids set out together for Los Angeles in pursuit of a record deal, changing their name to "Six Gun Method."
As Depp's marriage caused friction between the band members, the group split before signing a record deal. Depp subsequently collaborated with the band Rock City Angels and co-wrote their song "Mary," which appeared on Rock City Angels' debut for Geffen Records titled Young Man's Blues.

Marriage

On December 24, 1983, Depp married Lori Anne Allison, a makeup artist and sister of his band's bass player and singer. During Depp's marriage, his wife worked as a makeup artist while he worked a variety of odd jobs, including a telemarketer for ink pens. Later, his wife introduced him to actor Nicolas Cage, who advised Depp to pursue an acting career. In 1985, Depp and Allison divorced.

Relationships

After his marriage ended, Depp dated and was engaged to Sherilyn Fenn (whom he met on the set of the 1985 short film Dummies). He also dated Winona Ryder, Jennifer Grey, and Kate Moss. Since 1998, Depp has been involved with Vanessa Paradis, a French actress and singer whom he met while filming The Ninth Gate. The couple have two children. Daughter Lily-Rose Melody Depp was born May 27, 1999. In 2007, she recovered from a very serious illness, an E. coli bacteria infection that began to cause her kidneys to shut down and resulted in an extended hospital stay. However, earlier sources reported that she had blood poisoning due to stepping on a rusty tack. Son John "Jack" Christopher Depp III was born April 9, 2002. Although Depp has not remarried since his early divorce, he notes that having children has given him "real foundation, a real strong place to stand in life, in work, in everything. "You can't plan the kind of deep love that results in children. Fatherhood was not a conscious decision. It was part of the wonderful ride I was on. It was destiny; kismet. All the math finally worked." The family divides its time between their home in Meudon, located in Paris suburbs, and their villa in Plan-de-la-Tour, a small town an hour and a half from Saint-Tropez, in the south of France.
Depp has thirteen tattoos, many of them signifying important persons or events in his life. including an American Indian in profile and a ribbon reading "Wino Forever" (originally "Winona Forever", but altered after his breakup with Winona Ryder) on his right bicep, "Lily-Rose" (the name of his first-born child) over his heart, "Betty Sue" (his mother's name) on his left bicep, and a sparrow flying over water with the word "Jack" (his son's name; the sparrow is flying towards him rather than away from him as it is in Pirates of the Caribbean) on his right forearm.

Television

Depp starred in a lead role on the FOX TV television series, 21 Jump Street, which premiered in 1987. Depp accepted this role because he wasn't getting much work in the business and wanted to work with actor Frederic Forrest, who inspired him. Later in the season, Depp's long time friend Sal Jenco joined the cast as a semi-co-star as the janitor named Blowfish. The series' success turned Depp into a popular teen idol during the late 1980s. He found the teen-idol status an irritant, noting that he felt "forced into the role of product and that it was "a very uncomfortable situation and I didn't get a handle on it and it wasn't on my terms at all." Depp promised himself that after his contract on the series expired, he would only appear in films that he felt were right for him.

Film roles

Johnny Depp's first major role was in the 1984 horror film A Nightmare on Elm Street, playing the heroine's boyfriend and one of Freddy's victims. In 1986, he also appeared in a secondary role as a Vietnamese-speaking private in Oliver Stone's Platoon. Depp has since stated that he felt Platoon was the first 'proper' film in which he appeared. Depp then left his teen idol image in 1990, playing the quirky title role in the Tim Burton film, Edward Scissorhands. The film's success began a long association with Burton, as Depp starred in several of his films, including Ed Wood (1994), Sleepy Hollow (1999), Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (2005), Corpse Bride(2005) and Sweeney Todd (2007). Depp, an avid fan and long-time friend of writer Hunter S. Thompson, played a version of Thompson (named Raoul Duke in 1998's Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, based on the writer's pseudobiographical novel of the same name. Depp also accompanied Thompson as his road manager on one of the author's last book tours. In 2006, Depp contributed a personal foreword to Gonzo by Hunter S. Thompson, a posthumous visual biography of the writer's legacy published by ammobooks.com. A close friend of Thompson's, Depp paid for most of Thompson's memorial event, complete with fireworks and the shooting of Thompson's ashes by a cannon, in Aspen, Colorado, where Thompson lived.

Depp's film characters have been described by the press as "iconic loners," and Depp has noted that this period of his career was full of "studio defined failures" and films that were "box office poison," stating that he believes film studios never "understood" the films he appeared in and did not know how to market them properly. Depp has also said that he specifically chose to appear in films that he found personally interesting, rather than those he thought would succeed at the box office.
Depp's status as a major star was solidified with the success of the 2003 Walt Disney Pictures film Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl, for which his lead performance as the suave pirate Captain Jack Sparrow was highly praised. The performance was initially received negatively by the studio bosses who saw the film, but the character became popular with the movie-going public; in 2006, Depp's co-star from the sequel to Pirates of the Caribbean, Bill Nighy, described the role as probably being "one of the most popular performances of recent times." According to a survey taken by Fandango, Depp was also considered to be one of the main reasons audiences wanted to see the movie. The film's director, Gore Verbinski, has said that Depp's Jack Sparrow character closely resembles Depp's own personality, although Depp himself said that he modelled the character after Rolling Stones guitarist Keith Richards. Depp, who has noted that he was "surprised" and "touched" at the positive reception given to the film, was nominated for an Academy Award for the role. In 2004, he was again nominated for a Best Actor Oscar, this time for playing Scottish author J. M. Barrie in the film Finding Neverland. Depp next starred as Willy Wonka in the 2005 film Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, which was a major success at the box office.

Depp returned to the character of Jack Sparrow for the sequel Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest, which opened on July 7, 2006 and grossed $135.5 million in the first three days of its U.S. release, breaking a box office record in reaching the highest weekend tally ever. The next sequel to Pirates of the Caribbean, At World's End, was released May 24, 2007; Depp has mentioned his attachment to his Captain Jack Sparrow character, specifying that Sparrow is "definitely a big part of me," and expressing his desire to portray the character in further sequels. Depp voiced Sparrow in the video game, Pirates of the Caribbean: The Legend of Jack Sparrow.
Depp and Gore Verbinski are executive producers of the album Rogues Gallery, Pirate Ballads, Sea Songs and Chanteys.

As a child, Depp was obsessed with Dark Shadows. Warner Brothers pitched the idea of making another film to Johnny, and he accepted. In July 2007 a rights deal was closed with the estate of Dan Curtis, the producer/director who created the soap that aired weekdays on ABC, from 1966 to 1971. Depp and Graham King will produce with David Kennedy, who ran Dan Curtis Productions inc. until Curtis died in 2006 of a brain tumor. Infinitum-Nihil's Christi Dembrowski served as the point person on the deal. It was confirmed that he will portray Paul Kemp, the main character in a film version of writer Hunter S. Thompson's book, The Rum Diary. Depp played the title role of Sweeney Todd in Tim Burton's film adaptation of the musical Sweeney Todd, for which he won a Golden Globe Award for Best Actor - Motion Picture Musical or Comedy. Depp's production company has picked up the rights to the story of poisoned former Russian spy Alexander Litvinenko.
In May 2006, Autograph Collector Magazine published its list of "10 Best & 10 Worst Hollywood Signers," with Depp topping the list of Best Signers. In December 2007, CNN reported that he topped the list again for a third year in a row.

Robbie Williams Biography and Photos

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There's only one Robbie Williams. Top entertainer. Top guy. Class clown. Class act.

A man so maddeningly cool he can hold an audience in the palm of his hand while, ahem, adjusting himself with the other. Small wonder (ahem again) that the man is hailed as the UK's most gifted and celebrated star.

But, as true artists so often are, Robbie Williams is a complex and quixotic soul. Despite a gold-certified U.S. debut in The Ego Has Landed, record-breaking worldwide sales (approximately 5 million combined for previous LPs Life Thru A Lens and I've Been Expecting You), unfailingly incendiary live shows and rabid worldwide acclaim, Williams has spent his share of time shrouded in confusion...

That was then...

Now: Robbie Williams returns with Sing While You're Winning. This time, he's on top of his game and, perhaps more importantly, totally naked. (And we're not just talking about his October British VOGUE cover with Gisele...)

"In the past," he admits, "it's been difficult for me to talk about things I believe in and not dress it up in irony in case someone takes the piss out of me. I think I've gotten to the point where I'm prepared to be sincere."

Quite a claim following the supreme mind-fuck of the last year: Rarely off the international radio or radar, amassing armfuls of accolades for superb songwriting and showmanship, setting his sights on the United States and going home with a gold record and Entertainment Weekly Album of the Year honors, our Rob seems to have weathered it all by sticking to a single modus operandi: Being himself.

And on August 28th 1999, Robbie Williams took on the single biggest challenge of his career, headlining at Slane Castle in Dublin. The full capacity of 80,000 tickets sold out five weeks in advance. Expectations could not have been higher. Ever the consummate showman, Robbie delivered a show that everyone in attendance-and the 50,000 who logged on for the simultaneous webcast-will never forget.

Somehow, amidst the madness, media and mayhem of that same year, Robbie Williams managed to find time to conceive, write and record Sing While You're Winning. A fearless leap forward for Robbie as a lyricist, singer and artist, Sing?features 12 songs, co-written once again with musical mastermind Guy Chambers, immediate and mysterious, unashamedly populist and beguilingly intelligent.

As with The Ego Has Landed and the two solo LPs from which it was compiled, Sing While You're Winning makes ample use of the musical rulebook?as kindling. All bets are once again off: Guitar-fueled rock anthems sit happily alongside country-tinged love songs while super sexy funk nestles cheek-by-jowl with the classic balladry that has become synonymous with the name Robbie Williams.

Speaking of which, like "Angels" before it, Sing?standout "Better Man" is a song so simple and emotionally direct, it will both break your heart and fill you with hope. Honest, tender and raw in its search for self and promise of redemption, it is quite possibly the best song Robbie Williams has ever written-or at least the one of which he's most proud.

"I was heartbroken," says Williams of the time in his life that spawned the song. "Nothing to do with relationships, but I was thinking, 'Well, you've got it, son. You've sold eight million albums, made money, you're more famous than anyone would want to be and it's not doing it, is it?' So I sat outside with my guitar and I thought, 'I'll just pray to John Lennon and if he's listening maybe he'll give me something.' Now that can be taken as raging arrogance or plain loony but I started strumming these chords which became the verse and the whole thing was written in an hour. And I mean that song. It's me being honest. Not ironic or smart-arse. It's just me."

On the other hand, virtually all of Sing While You're Winning vies for the "Robbie's Best Work To Date" prize: The opening call to arms of "Let Love Be Your Energy" has been likened to bastard-spawn of Lenny Kravitz and Marilyn Manson. First single "Rock DJ" is a HUGE Daft Punk-meets-Parliament party stomper inspired in part by the late great Ian Dury. "Forever Texas" is a bionic rocker that pushes the testosterone levels into the red, while "Kids" is a powerhouse Who-indebted duet with none other than Kylie Minogue.

(As is always the case, each of these influences is balanced out by equal parts Robbie. In the case of the "Rock DJ" video, Robbie's?parts are actually distributed amongst a roller-disco-ing throng in a future burlesque that sees its star quite literally stripped down to the bone?But more on that another day.)

Of course, Sing?has its tender moments too. "If It's Hurting You" is a gentle lament underscored by poignant curlicues of pedal steel guitar. The song was written about Robbie's painful break-up with former fiancee' Nicole Appleton, as is the touchingly poetic meditation "The Beach."

"I saw Nicky recently," says Robbie. "It was great because we did that thing for a year where you'd bump into each other: 'I'm really happy and doing absolutely fine without you. Look! I'm telling jokes and I'm laughing and I'm just so relaxed in company and at ease in any social situation! And I'm walking like John Travolta in Grease!' It was good to meet up and go 'You alright?' 'No.' 'You alright?' 'No.' It was such a relief to stop pretending we were fine without each other. It felt good."

These are good times for Robbie. He looks great-imagine James Dean alive and well and joining the Clash!-he's writing like a dream and America is once again beckoning. But, more crucially these days, Robbie Williams is looking life square in the eye, confident with himself, finally prepared to deal head-on with his triumphs, his failures and the myriad challenges ahead.

"I wouldn't change this for the world," Robbie says. "It's my job. I've been dealt a fantastic deal and I've just got to learn how to handle it. You're not given tools to learn how to cope with this. There's no celebrity support group you can go to."

"Actually there are," he reconsiders. "They're called awards ceremonies."

The man beyond the boy band, behind the awards?Let him entertain you all over again.

There's only one Robbie Williams.

Jude Law, Jude Law's Biography and Photos

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Early life

Jude Law was born in Lewisham, South London, England to teachers Peter and Maggie Law, who now run their own drama school in France. His sister Natasha is a well regarded illustrator and artist. He was educated at 'John Ball' Primary school in Blackheath and Kidbrooke School in Kidbrooke, before attending the Alleyn's School in Dulwich. In 1987 he started acting with the National Youth Music Theatre.

Career

Law's first major stage role was as Foxtrot Darling, the sexually ambiguous and manipulative teenager in Philip Ridley's multi-award-winning The Fastest Clock In The Universe. Law went on to appear as Michael in the West End production of Jean Cocteau's tragicomedy Les parents terribles directed by Sean Mathias. This role saw Jude nominated for an Olivier Award as Best Newcomer. Following a title change to Indiscretions, the play transferred as an imaginative re-working to Broadway in 1995, and he played opposite Kathleen Turner, Roger Rees and Cynthia Nixon. This role earned him a Tony Award nomination and the Theatre World Award.

In 1989 he got his first TV role in a movie based on a Beatrix Potter book, The Tailor of Gloucester. After minor roles in British television, including a two year stint in the Granada TV soap opera Families and the leading role in the BFI /Channel 4 short The Crane, Law had his breakthrough with the British ram-raiding drama Shopping which also featured his future wife Sadie Frost. He shot to fame in Britain upon the release of the biopic Wilde, in which he played Lord Alfred "Bosie" Douglas, the glamorous lover of Stephen Fry's Oscar Wilde.
He subsequently moved to Hollywood; his performances include Andrew Niccol's Gattaca, as a frustrated Olympic medalist bound by a wheelchair, in Clint Eastwood's Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil as the ill-fated lover of Kevin Spacey's character, and in Sam Mendes's Road to Perdition as a sadistic hitman in a critically-praised performance. He has been nominated for an Academy Award twice; once as Best Supporting Actor for his performance in The Talented Mr. Ripley in 2000, and then again as Best Actor in a Leading Role for Cold Mountain in 2003, both directed by Anthony Minghella. For the film The Talented Mr. Ripley he learned to play saxophon and earned a MTV Movie Award nomination together with Matt Damon and Fiorello for performing the song Tu Vuo' Fa L'Americano by Renato Carosone and Nicola Salerno, so he learned ballet dancing for the film Artificial Intelligence: AI (2001).

He portrayed the lead character in Alfie, the remake of Bill Naughton's 1966 drama. He also acted opposite Michael Caine in the 2007 film Sleuth. In both films, he plays the role originally played by Caine. In Sleuth Michael Caine played Laurence Olivier's role. Law is an admirer of Olivier and it was Law's idea to use archive footage of Olivier (who died in 1989) in Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow so the deceased actor could "play" the film's villain.

Jude Law is on the latest Top Ten List from the 2006 A-list of the most bankable movie stars in Hollywood. The list was created by James Ulmer, he calls his method The Ulmer Scale. He was honored with the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres by the French government on March 1, 2007 in recognition of his contribution to World Cinema Arts. He was named a Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres .
He is a fan of the graphic novel Watchmen, by Alan Moore, so much so he has a tattoo of the Rorschach character. He has maintained an interest in being involved in a feature film production of the series, especially if it were directed by Darren Aronofsky. He has said that he would most likely play the character Ozymandias. He was, at one point, courted to play either Batman or Superman in Batman Begins, Batman vs. Superman, and/or General Zod in Superman Returns. In 2005, he was one of many actors rumored to be a possible choice to assume the role of James Bond, as MGM decided not to renew Irish actor Pierce Brosnan's contract. The role would eventually go to fellow Englishman Daniel Craig.

Other work

In 1997 he set up a film company, Natural Nylon, with Sadie Frost and fellow friends and thespians Jonny Lee Miller, Ewan McGregor, Sean Pertwee, Damon Bryant and Bradley Adams.
Jude Law is the apparel ambassador of Dunhill. He has signed a two year deal ad campaign with Dunhill in spring 2006. The ads will be shown in Asia only. He is to be the international face and appear in the worldwide Spring/Summer 2008 advertising campaign, apart from commercials in North America. He represented the company in Asia since 2005.
In 2002 Sadie Frost and Jude Law supported Respect for Animals with an Anti Fur commercial. It was directed by Jude Law and with music specially composed by Gary Kemp.

In 2004 Jude Law has launched a public campaign to raise £2.5 million towards the Young Vic Theatre’s £12.5 million redevelopment project. He is currently Chair of the Young Vic committee and proud to help make the Young Vic “a nurturing bed” for young directors.

He is a big soccer fan and a supporter of the English football club Tottenham Hotspur. In 2006 he was set to join Robbie Williams in the Soccer Aid celebrity football match to beneft UNICEF.
Jude Law's charity work also includes that for Make Poverty History, Rhys Daniels Trust and WAVE Trauma Centre. He supports the charity Make-A-Wish Foundation and is the chair of the Music For Tomorrow Foundation to help rebuild Katrina-devastated New Orleans.

In 2006, Frost and Law dedicated their Christmas holidays to direct a Shakespeare play in a South African orphanage. He traveled to Durban, South Africa, with Frost and their children in order to help children who have lost their parents to Aids. In July 2007 as patron of the charity he helped kick off the month-long tour of the AIDS-themed musical Thula Sizwe by The Young Zulu Warriors.

Jude Law, plus many others, record video clips for online web march for Friends of the Earth/The Big Ask campaign, asking Government to take strong action against climate change.

In July 2007, Jude Law was travelling with the founder of Peace One Day Jeremy Gilley on a mission to document peace commitments and activities in Afghanistan for an upcoming film which will be released in May 2008 and for marking the UN International Day of Peace. They were accompanied by UNICEF Representative Catherine Mbengue. They traveled and filmed in treacherous areas of eastern Afghanistan with a Peace One Day film crew, and interviewed children, government ministers, community leaders and UN officials. The crew also filmed schools and visited various UNICEF-supported programmes inside and outside the capital. Peace Day is on September 21.

Personal life

Law married Sadie Frost on September 2, 1997. They have four children: Finlay Munro (stepson of Law, born September 20, 1990), son Rafferty (born October 6, 1996), daughter Iris (born October 25, 2000) and son Rudy (born September 10, 2002). Kate Moss is the godmother of his daughter Iris. For a time Frost and Law were central to the so-called 'Primrose Hill set' of young British actors. In early 2003, Jude and Sadie separated and the so-called supercouple finalized its divorce on October 29, 2003. In 2005, Frost and Law reached a divorce settlement after nearly two years of negotiations. Sadie Frost kept the couple's £2million London house in Primrose Hill, and she received a £4million payment and £15,000 a month, according to reports.

He became engaged to Sienna Miller, his co-star in Alfie. On July 18, 2005, he issued a public apology to his fiancée for having an affair with his children's nanny. Law and Miller reconciled. Reports from May 29, 2006 stated that Miller and Law were "working things out." On November 12, 2006 they made public their relationship was over.

Academy Awards

2004 Nominated Oscar - Best Actor in a Leading Role for: Cold Mountain (2003)2000 Nominated Oscar - Best Actor in a Supporting Role for: The Talented Mr. Ripley (1999)

Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror Films

2000 Nominated Saturn Award- Best Supporting Actor for: The Talented Mr. Ripley (1999)

BAFTA Awards

2004 Nominated BAFTA Award - Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role for: Cold Mountain (2003)2000 Won BAFTA Film Award - Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role for: The Talented Mr. Ripley (1999)

Blockbuster Entertainment Awards

2000 Won Blockbuster Entertainment Award - Favorite Supporting Actor - Suspense for: The Talented Mr. Ripley (1999)

Broadcast Film Critics Association Awards

2005 Nominated BFCA Award - Best Acting Ensemble for: Closer (2004/I)Shared with: Clive Owen, Natalie Portman, Julia Roberts

Chicago Film Critics Association Awards

2002 Nominated CFCA Award - Best Supporting Actor for: Artificial Intelligence: AI (2001)

Cesar Awards, France

2007 Honorary Cesar

Empire Awards, UK
2004 Nominated Empire Award - Best British Actor for: Cold Mountain (2003)2003 Nominated Empire Award - Best British Actor for: Road to Perdition (2002)2001 Nominated Empire Award - Best British Actor for: The Talented Mr. Ripley (1999)

European Film Awards

2001 Nominated Audience Award - Best Actor for: Enemy at the Gates (2001)

Evening Standard British Film Awards

1998 Won Evening Standard British Film Award - Most Promising Newcomer for: Wilde (1997)

Golden Globes

2004 Nominated Golden Globe - Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture - Drama for: Cold Mountain (2003)2002 Nominated Golden Globe - Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role in a Motion Picture for: Artificial Intelligence: AI (2001)2000 Nominated Golden Globe - Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role in a Motion Picture for: The Talented Mr. Ripley (1999)

Irish Film and Television Awards

2004 Nominated Audience Award - Best International Actor for: Cold Mountain (2003)

London Critics Circle Film Awards

2001 Nominated ALFS Award - British Supporting Actor of the Year for: The Talented Mr. Ripley (1999)

MTV Movie Awards

2007 Nominated MTV Movie Award - Best Kiss for: The Holiday (2006), shared with Cameron Diaz

2005 Nominated MTV Movie Award - Best Kiss for: Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow (2004), shared with Gwyneth Paltrow

2003 Nominated MTV Movie Award - Best Trans-Atlantic Breakthrough Performer

2000 Nominated MTV Movie Award - Best Musical Performance for: The Talented Mr. Ripley (1999), shared with Matt Damon and Fiorello for the song "Tu Vuo' Fa L'Americano".

National Board of Review

2004 Won NBR Award - Best Acting by an Ensemble for: Closer (2004/I)Shared with: Clive Owen, Natalie Portman, Julia Roberts

Online Film Critics Society Awards

2002 Nominated OFCS Award - Best Supporting Actor for: Artificial Intelligence: AI (2001)

People's Choice Awards

2005 Nominated People's Choice Award - Favorite Leading Man

Santa Fe Film Critics Circle Awards

2000 Won SFFCC Award - Best Supporting Actor for: The Talented Mr. Ripley (1999)

Satellite Awards

2004 Nominated Golden Satellite Award - Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture, Drama for: Cold Mountain (2003)2000 Nominated Golden Satellite Award - Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role, Drama for: The Talented Mr. Ripley (1999)

Screen Actors Guild Awards
2005 Nominated - Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture for: The Aviator (2004)Shared with: Alan Alda, Alec Baldwin, Kate Beckinsale, Cate Blanchett, Leonardo DiCaprio, Ian Holm, Danny Huston, John C. Reilly, Gwen Stefani

ShoWest Convention

2004 ShoWest Award - Male Star of the Year

Teen Choice Award

2000 Nominated Teen Choice Award - Film Choice Breakout Performance for: The Talented Mr. Ripley (1999)

Visual Effects Society Awards

2005 Nominated VES Award - Outstanding Performance by an Actor or Actress in a Visual Effects Film for: Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow (2004)

James Blunt, James Blunt Songs and Phtos, Populer Music Star

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Blunt was born in Tidworth, Wiltshire, England in 1974 and educated at Elstree School, Woolhampton, then Harrow School (Elmfield House). From Harrow School he gained an army sponsored place at Bristol University, before finally completing his education at the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst. Blunt's father was a Colonel in the British Army Air Corps, and his family has a long history of military service. The Blount family (Blunt is the performer's stage name) is also known to have owned and restored Cley windmill.

Blunt was then a commissioned officer in The

Life Guards regiment, a unit of the Householl Cavalry of the British Army. He rose to the rank of Captain and served as an armoured reconnaissance officer in the NATO peacekeeping force in Kosovo. He was put in charge of leading 30,000 troops into Priština as the first British officer to enter the Kosovan capital.

It was while on duty in Kosovo that he wrote the song "No Bravery". He also stood guard at the coffin of the Queen Mother during the days of her lying in State and was part of the funeral procession on April 9, 2002.

Music career

Within a year of leaving the army, Blunt signed to EMI Music Publishing as a singer/songwriter. He soon caught the eye of former 4 Non Blondes singer Linda Perry, who had written and produced songs for Pink, Courtney Love and Christina Aguilera.

Perry signed him to her new US-based Custard Records label, and Blunt recorded his album, Back to Bedlam, in Los Angeles with producer Tom Rothrock at Rothrock's home studio, Embassy studios while lodging with actress Carrie Fisher.

James Blunt's debut single, by "soft release" in the

UK was "High" (co-written with Ricky Ross of Deacon Blue). This song peaked below the Top 100 of the UK Singles Chart. However, the song was chosen to appear in a Vodafone commercial in Italy, and was a Top 10 hit in that country. His second single, "Wisemen", this time properly commercially available, peaked at #42, and sent the album into the UK's Top 20 chart. A support slot on Elton John's 2004 tour followed.

Blunt's third single "You're Beautifull" was his breakout hit. The song debuted at #12 in the UK, and demonstrated a rare trend of upward mobility on the UK charts, rising all the way to the #1 position six weeks after its debut. The song also received massive airplay in the UK, which helped propel Back to Bedlam to #1 on the Albums Chart, unseating the record-breaking album X&Y by Coldplay from the pole position.

After the success of "You're Beautiful" in the UK, the song crossed over to mainland Europe, becoming one of the biggest hits of summer 2005 across the continent. In the U.S., "You're Beautiful" made its debut in the summer of 2005 on WPLJ, a prominent radio station in New York City, despite not having been released to radio yet. Once the song was released to radio stations in the Autumn of 2005, the song climbed into the Top 10 at three radio formats: Adult Contemporary, Adult Top 40, and Adult Alternative, eventually climbing to number one on the U.S. Hot 100.

The videos for all of Blunt's singles released from Back To Bedlam feature symbolism and dark imagery. In the first video for "High", he is buried in a desert. In the first video for "Wisemen", he is kidnapped and taken hostage.

In the video for "You're Beautiful", he alludes to suicide by jumping off a cliff into the sea. The re-release video for "High" then features Blunt running in a forest.

The re-release video for "Wisemen" has Blunt burning identification papers, and then walking through a forest while he is on fire and in "Goodbye My Lover", he is the outsider in a love triangle, forced to imagine the couple, a man and woman (played by Matt Dallas of Kyle XY and Mischa Barton of The O.C.) together.

OnDecember 3, 2005, James Blunt was the musical guest on Saturday Night Live. His music has been featured on television programmes throughout the world. He made his acting debut on the (US) ABC Family Channel programme Wildfire, first aired on January 30, 2006. He also appeared in episode 103 of the CBS comedy Love Monkey (original air date February 7, 2006).

He was interviewed and performed "You're Beautiful" and "Goodbye My Lover" on the Oprah Winfrey Show on March 8, 2006 (taped on February 21, 2006).

In 2005, he performed ninety live shows, mainly across the UK and Europe, ending the year supporting

Jason Mraz in a North American tour. The "Back to Bedlam World Tour" started off in Europe in early January 2006, moving through the UK in February, and then progressing to his first full headlining tour in North America starting in March.

In April, Blunt performed several dates in Australia, New Zealand and Japan before returning to North America for May, and then starting another UK/European tour in June and July. October and November saw the return of Blunt to North America.

In addition to the songs from the Back to Bedlam album, Blunt has included several cover songs, including "Where Is My Mind?" and "Breakfast in America". Blunt has also performed several unrecorded original works in live performances.
On 7 July 2007, Blunt performed at the UK leg of Live Earth at Wembley Stadium, London. He performed two of his own songs, "Wisemen" (from Back to Bedlam) and "Same Mistake" (to be on All The Lost Souls). Additionally, he covered Cat Stevens' "Wild World".

Denzel Washington' s Life and Bio, Hollywood's hottest leading men, USA Male Celebrities Photos, Celebrities Lifes

2007-09-13T21:22:00.000-07:00

One of Hollywood's hottest leading men, Denzel Washington is an actor whose poise and sexy intelligence permeate whatever film he is in, be it socially conscious drama, comedy, or suspense thriller.

Born in Mount Vernon, New York on December 28, 1954, Washington was the second of three children, and his father was an ordained Pentecostal minister. His parents divorced when he was 14, and afterwards he lived primarily with his mother, who sent him to prep school after he began showing behavioral problems as a teenager. He went on to receive a journalism degree from Fordham University in New York City, where he also found an interest in the dramatic arts.

Two-time Academy Award-winner Denzel Washington is one of Hollywood’s sexiest and most talented leading men. From his small-screen start in the 1977 TV film “Wilma” to this year’s “Inside Man,” Washington never fails to provide rousing, watchable performances that resound for a wide array of diverse audiences.

5 Things about Denzel Washington:

1. Washington serves as a spokesman for the Boys & Girls Clubs of America.
2. He is the son of a Pentecostal minister and a hairdresser/former gospel singer, who sent him and his sister to boarding school during their divorce.
3. He has a B.A. in journalism.
4. His first name is the last name of the doctor who delivered his father.
5. He is the first African-American to receive two Academy Awards.

FILMS

American Gangster - (2007) - Actor
Inside Man - (2006) - Actor
Déjà Vu - (2006) - Actor
Man on Fire - (2004) - Actor
The Manchurian Candidate - (2004) - Actor
Out of Time - (2003) - Actor
The Antwone Fisher/Thin Red Line - (2003) - Actor

John Q - (2002) - Actor
Hard Lessons - (2002) - Actor
Antwone Fisher - (2002) - Director, Producer, Actor
Pearl Harbor/Remember the Titans - (2002) - Actor
Training Day - (2001) - Actor
Remember the Titans - (2000) - Actor
The Bone Collector - (1999) - Actor
The Hurricane - (1999) - Actor
Fallen - (1998) - Actor
He Got Game - (1998) - Actor
The Siege - (1998) - Actor

He Got Game/Good Morning, Vietnam - (1998) - Actor
Happily Ever After: Fairy Tales for Every Child - Mother Goose: A Rappin' and a Rhymin' Fairy Tale - (1997) - Voice
Happily Ever After: Fairy Tales for Every Child - Collection - (1997) - Voice
The Preacher's Wife - (1996) - Actor
Courage Under Fire - (1996) - Actor

Devil in a Blue Dress - (1995) - Actor
Crimson Tide - (1995) - Actor
Virtuosity - (1995) - Actor
Much Ado About Nothing - (1993) - Actor
The Pelican Brief - (1993) - Actor
Philadelphia - (1993) - Actor
Mississippi Masala - (1992) - Actor
Malcolm X - (1992) - Actor

Rabbit Ears - John Henry - (1992) - Actor
Ricochet - (1991) - Actor
Heart Condition - (1990) - Actor
Mo' Better Blues - (1990) - Actor
Glory - (1989) - Actor
The Mighty Quinn - (1989) - Actor
For Queen and Country - (1989) - Actor
Cry Freedom - (1987) - Actor
Power - (1986) - Actor
The George McKenna Story - (1986) - Actor

License to Kill - (1984) - Actor
Carbon Copy - (1981) - Actor
Wilma - (1977) - Actor

Justin Timberlake Prince of Pop Music, Justin Timberlake Photos

2007-09-07T06:17:00.000-07:00

Justin Timberlake Prince of Pop Music

Justin Randall Timberlake was born January 31, 1981, and raised in Memphis, Tennessee. He began to perform at a very young age, whether it was singing, acting or dancing. The world was first granted a glimpse of him as a youngster on Star Search, his first-ever television appearance. Back in those early days, Timberlake sang primarily country music, a direct result of his Music City background.

Grammy or No Grammy
Though 'N Sync is nominated for three Grammy awards, including Record of the Year for "Bye, Bye, Bye," the group goes home without a statue. But, Timberlake is thrilled: "I was shocked when we got nominated for three awards," he told CBS's The Early Show, "I didn't think the industry people were into what we did."

The Sexiest Tour on Earth
In what Rolling Stone calls the "Sexiest Tour on Earth," Timberlake joins Christina Aguilera on the 45-date Justified/Stripped tour. The New York Times hails Timberlake's performance, saying his moves "nearly put his backup dancers to shame."

While temperatures dropped outside, Justin Timberlake warms up his audience with a smile as the emcee of the MTV Europe Music Awards in Copenhagen, Denmark, on Thursday. The singer, who opened the show with a medley of his latest hits, went on to win the award for best pop act. "It's nice to pick up the most prestigious award tonight," Timberlake said, adding, "I'm convinced that you guys gave me this because you talked me into hosting the show."

Angel Love
Timberlake smooches new girlfriend Cameron Diaz outside her Hollywood Hills home the morning after her Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle premiere, PEOPLE reports. The pair had been seen around town in April.

First Grammy
Timberlake wins his first solo Grammy Awards: Best Pop Vocal Album for 2003's Justified and Best Male Pop Vocal Performance for "Cry Me a River." He calls his wins "the greatest moment of my life."