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celebrities - Carrie Anne Moss

Carrie Anne Moss

Carrie-Anne Moss, born August 21, 1967 in Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada, is an actress who achieved worldwide fame following her appearances in The Matrix trilogy.

In the late 1980s she moved to Spain to pursue a career in modelling. Her first television appearance was in the drama series Dark Justice. She moved to Los Angeles, California with the series in 1992. Her big breakthrough came when she was chosen to play the leather-clad hacker Trinity in the 1999 box office success The Matrix. She reprised the role of Trinity in two sequels as well as providing voice-overs for video game and animated spin-offs of the film. She also appeared as Natalie in the critically-acclaimed Memento in 2000 as well as in a supporting role with Juliette Binoche in the Academy Award nominated film, Chocolat starring Johnny Depp.

Moss married fellow actor Steven Roy in 1999. They had a child together in the summer of 2003. As of November 2003, Moss, very keen to protect her and her family's privacy, had revealed almost nothing about her son.

Filmography

Fido (2006)


Snow Cake (2005)... Maggie




Mini's First Time (2005)... Diane


The Chumscrubber (2005)... Jerri Falls


Sledge: The Untold Story (2005)... Girlfriend


Suspect Zero (2004)... Fran Kulok


The Matrix Revolutions (2003)... Trinity


Kid's Story (2003)... Trinity (voice)




The Matrix Reloaded (2003)... Trinity


A Detective Story (2003)... Trinity (voice)


The Animatrix (2003) (V)... Trinity


Chocolat (2000)... Caroline Clairmont


Red Planet (2000)... Cmdr. Kate Bowman


Memento (2000)... Natalie




The Crew (2000)... Detective Olivia Neal


The Matrix (1999)... Trinity


New Blood (1999)... Leigh


Lethal Tender (1997)... Melissa Wilkins


The Secret Life of Algernon (1997)... Madge Clerisy


F/X: The Series (1996) (TV series)... Lucinda Scott (1996-1997)




Sabotage (1996)... Louise Castle (uncredited)


Terrified (1996)... Tracy


364 Girls a Year (1996)


Models Inc. (1994) (TV series)... Carrie Spencer


Tits to Please the Nig (1994)... Keri Terrace


The Soft Kill (1994)... Jane Tanner




Matrix (1993) (TV series)... Liz Teel


Doorways (1993) (TV)


Flashfire (1993)... Meredith Neal


Dark Justice (1991) (TV series)... Tara McDonald

celebrities - Catherine Zeta Jones

Catherine Zeta Jones

Catherine Zeta-Jones (born September 25, 1969) is an Oscar-winning Welsh actress. Born Catherine Jones in Swansea, West Glamorgan, Wales, her name stems from those of her grandmothers; one named Catherine, and the other Zeta, named after a ship which her great-grandfather had sailed on. She was one of three children born to Patrick Jones, a Welsh candy factory worker and Dia Fair, who was of Irish Catholic extraction; Catherine was raised a Catholic. Besides English she speaks Welsh, Spanish and French fluently. As a child, she had a tracheotomy which left a scar.

Zeta-Jones' stage career began in childhood. She sang and danced her way to local stardom as a part of a Catholic congregation's performing troupe before she was 10, and by 1987 she was starring in Forty-Second Street as Peggy Saywer in the West End. Once the show closed, Zeta-Jones travelled to France, where she received the lead role in French director Phillippe De Broca's 1001 Nights (a.k.a. Sheherazade), her feature film debut.

Her exotic beauty, along with her singing and dancing ability, suggested a promising future, but it was in a straight acting role, as Mariette in the successful television adaptation of H. E. Bates' The Darling Buds of May (1991), that she made her name. She became famous outside Britain after leading roles in two movies, The Mask of Zorro (1998) with Antonio Banderas and Entrapment (1999) with Sean Connery. It is said that she gained the role in Zorro after Steven Spielberg saw her performance in the Lifetime Television event of Titanic, also starring Tim Curry and Peter Gallagher.

She won an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for the movie Chicago in 2003. On October 22, 2005, she parodied this fact as guest host on the TV show Saturday Night Live, surrounded by four male dancers, mimicking the Bob Fosse-inspired Chicago-style dancing, suggesting in song that, no matter how bad she might be that night, "They Can't Take My Oscar Away."

Apart from her acting career, Zeta-Jones is also an advertising spokeswoman for the mobile phone company T-Mobile. She is currently the global spokeswoman for cosmetics giant, Elizabeth Arden.

Zeta-Jones is married to actor Michael Douglas, with whom she has two children. Her son, Dylan Michael Douglas was born August 8, 2000. (Her American admirers like to think that he is named after Bob Dylan - a favourite of Douglas - while her British admirers like to think that Dylan Thomas, also born in Swansea, was the inspiration, although Dylan is a reasonably common Welsh firstname). Her daughter, Carys Zeta Douglas was born April 20, 2003. Zeta-Jones has determined that her children grow up aware of their Welsh heritage and has built a seaside dream home in her hometown of Swansea.

 

Selected filmography

The Legend of Zorro (2005)


Ocean's Twelve (2004)




The Terminal (2004)


Intolerable Cruelty (2003)


Sinbad: Legend of the Seven Seas (2003) (voice)


Chicago (2002)


America's Sweethearts (2001)


Traffic (2000)




High Fidelity (2000)


The Haunting (1999)


Entrapment (1999)


The Mask of Zorro (1998)


Titanic (1996) (miniseries)


The Phantom (1996)




Splitting Heirs (1993)


The Darling Buds of May (1991) (TV series)

Trivia

Has the same birthday as husband Michael Douglas. Douglas is 25 years her senior.


For her role in Chicago, she specifically requested a 1920s-style short bob haircut, so her face could be seen and fans wouldn't doubt she did all her dancing herself.

celebrities - Cameron Diaz

Cameron Diaz

Cameron Michelle Díaz (born August 30, 1972) is an American film actress.

Diaz was born and raised in San Diego, California, the daughter of Emilio Díaz, a Cuban-American father who worked as a foreman for an oil company, and mother Billie Early, an exporting agent whose ancestry includes English, German, and Native American. She attended Long Beach Polytechnic High School.

At age 16 she landed a contract with the prestigious Elle modelling agency. After graduating from High School she went to work in Japan, there meeting video director Carlo de la Torre. On her return to America she moved in with him. For the next few years her modelling took her 'round the world, working for contracts with major companies.

At the age of 21 she auditioned for a part in the Jim Carrey movie The Mask. To her own surprise, and with no previous acting experience, she was cast as the female lead. Immediately on getting the part she signed up for acting lessons.

Over the next three years she honed her acting skills in low budget, independent films such as The Last Supper (1995), Feeling Minnesota (1996), and She's The One (1996).

She returned to mainstream as "perfect" fiancée in the romantic comedy in My Best Friend's Wedding (1997) with Julia Roberts. Her lead role in the massive crude comedy hit There's Something About Mary (1998). The film grossed $369.8 million worldwide and brought her genuine star status.

Díaz then returned to independent film with the quirky Being John Malkovich (1999), which earned her Best Supporting Actress nominations at the Golden Globes, the BAFTA Awards and the SAG Awards. That year she also appeared in Oliver Stone's Any Given Sunday. Both films enjoyed critical and commercial success and critics heralded Díaz's performances.

She then went on her biggest box-office tear. In 2000 she starred in the TV-to-film adaptation of Charlie's Angels that made $264.1 million worldwide and voiced a character in Shrek which made $484.4 million worldwide. In 2001 she starred in Cameron Crowe's Vanilla Sky which made $203.3 worldwide and saw her nominated for Support Actress honors at the Golden Globes, the SAG Awards and the AFI Awards. She won Best Supporting Actress honors for the role at the Chicago Film Critics Association Awards and the Boston Society of Film Critics Awards. In January 2002, she became only the 2nd actress to ever be paid $20 million for a role (Julia Roberts was the first). when she signed to be paid that much for Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle.

Yet things began to sour for Diaz after joining the $20 million club. In 2002 she saw her chick-flick The Sweetest Thing tank at the box office. She then appeared in Gangs of New York. Despite of having the honor of appearing in a film directed by Martin Scorsese and appearing in a film that was nominated for many Academy Awards, her performance wasn't considered a highlight of the film. In 2003 the sequel Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle underperformed at the box office. Things looked up a bit as she was paid $10 million for a little over a weeks worth of voice work on Shrek 2, which smashed box-office records, grossing $920.6 million worldwide in total.

Diaz continues to struggle to appear in a successful film in which she makes a live action apperance. After having avoided smaller films in the past couple of years, she starred in Curtis Hanson's In Her Shoes, based on the Jennifer Weiner novel. While the film may have restored her good graces with some critics, it quickly fizzled out at the box office.

She will star in Nancy Meyers' Holiday in 2006 and Shrek 3 in 2007.

Covers and Featured in Magazines

Entertainment Weekly (October 14, 2005, Issue 844/845) -- Cameron Diaz made the cover and was featured.




Rolling Stone (April 25, 2002, Issue No. 894) -- Cover with Cameron Diaz, Christina Applegate & Selma Blair.


Rolling Stone (August 22, 1996, Issue No. 741) -- Cover and feature article on Diaz.

Selected Filmography

Holiday (2006)


In Her Shoes (2005)


Trippin' (2005) (TV series)




Shrek 2 (2004) (voice)


Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle (2003)


The Invisible Circus (2001)


Shrek (2001) (voice)


Vanilla Sky (2001)


Charlie's Angels (2000)




Any Given Sunday (1999)


There's Something About Mary (1998)


Very Bad Things (1998)


The Mask (1994)

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