Natalie Portman (June 9, 1981) is an Israeli American actress. Her first role came in the 1994 independent film Léon. She became very widely known when she was cast as Padmé Amidala in the Star Wars prequel trilogy. Portman, who stated that she would “…rather be smart than be a movie star,” completed a bachelor’s degree in psychology at Harvard College while she was working on the Star Wars films.
Laetitia Marie Laure Casta (born May 11, 1978 in Pont-Audemer, Normandy) is a French model and actress.
Casta’s mother, Line Blin, is from Normandy. Her father, Dominique Casta, is from Corsica. She has an older brother, Jean-Baptiste, and a younger sister, Marie-Ange. She spent her childhood in Normandy and Noisy-le-Grand (93 – France). On October 19, 2001, she gave birth to her daughter Sahteene. The father is her former boyfriend Stéphane Sednaoui. Casta is engaged to Italian actor Stefano Accorsi. They have one son together, Orlando, born on September 24, 2006.
Casta’s career reportedly began when she was discovered by a photographer during a family holiday in her father’s native Corsica, at age 15.
Bar Refaeli (born June 4, 1985) is an Israeli model, known for her modeling work and for her relationship with American actor Leonardo DiCaprio. She is the 2009 covermodel of the Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue.
Bar Refaeli was born in 1985 into a Jewish Israeli family in Hod HaSharon, Israel. Her parents, Tsipi and Rafael, own a horse ranch. She began a modeling career at the age of eight months, appearing in commercials. She had to wear braces in her early years, postponing her modeling. At age 15, Refaeli returned to modeling with the representation of Irene Marie Models.
Angelina Jolie (born Angelina Jolie Voight on June 4, 1975) is an American film actor and a Goodwill Ambassador for the UN Refugee Agency. She has been cited as one of the world’s most beautiful women and her off-screen life is widely reported. Jolie has received three Golden Globe Awards, two Screen Actors Guild Awards, and an Academy Award. Though she made her screen debut as a child alongside her father Jon Voight in the 1982 film Lookin’ to Get Out, Jolie’s acting career began in earnest a decade later with the low-budget production Cyborg 2 (1993).
Her first leading role in a major film was in Hackers (1995). She starred in the critically acclaimed biographical films George Wallace (1997) and Gia (1998), and won an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her performance in the drama Girl, Interrupted (1999). Jolie achieved international fame as a result of her portrayal of video game heroine Lara Croft in Lara Croft: Tomb Raider (2001), and since then has established herself as one of the best-known and highest-paid actresses in Hollywood. She has had her biggest commercial successes with the action-comedy Mr. & Mrs. Smith (2005) and the animated film Kung Fu Panda (2008).
Ana Ivanović (born November 6, 1987, in Belgrade, Serbia, then Yugoslavia) is a former World No. 1 Serbian tennis player. She is currently ranked World No. 8 by the Women’s Tennis Association and is the reigning French Open singles champion. She was also the runner-up in singles at the 2007 French Open and the 2008 Australian Open.
Ivanović’s mother, Dragana who is a lawyer, attends all of her daughter’s matches. Her father, Miroslav, a self-employed businessman, attends as many events as he possibly can. Ana has a younger brother, Miloš, with whom she loves to play basketball. Other hobbies include shopping, watching movies and playing Sudoku. She chooses not to have a permanent coach. Aside from her tennis career, Ivanović also studies finance at a university in Belgrade, and Spanish in her spare time. Her inspiration to begin playing was Monica Seles, and she also admires Roger Federer.
Charlotte Jackson is an English television presenter who currently presents on Setanta Sports News. Her main programme is the Lunchtime Live show which she co-presents with Murray Dron.
Charlotte presented the ‘Beijing Bulletin’ for Aljazeera +3 Sport with Rhodri Williams- coverage of the 2008 Olympics, in Qatar.
Charlotte Jackson co-presents Setanta and Betfreds League of Legends darts tournament.
She began her career as a model and in 2005 became a presenter on sportal.com, Football365 and golf365 among other sports related websites- where she wrote and presented sports bulletins before joining Setanta Sports News in 2007. She also regurlarly appears with Tim Shaw on his radio show, Absolution.
She is also a singer and backing vocalist and was a backing vocalist for Tony Christie for a TV appearance for his hit, “Is this the Way to Amarillo.”
Jackson also presented the coverage of the National Hunt Festival for the official Cheltenham website in 2006. She participated in ‘Catfight’ in 2007, a boxing match in Hammersmith Palais.
Ekta Chowdhry - Miss India Universe 2009
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