Haifa Wehbe new Wallpapers and Photos

Haifa Wehbe (Arabic: هيفا وهبي also spelled Haifa Wehbeh, Haifa Wahbi, Hayfa Wehbe, Hayfa Wehbi; born March 10, 1976), is a Lebanese model, actress, and singer who rose to fame in the Arab world as runner up for ‘Miss Lebanon’ and later the release of her debut album Huwa az-Zaman (Arabic: هو الزمن It is Time).

Wehbe was born in a small farming town near Southern Lebanon from a shiite father and christian mother . She grew up listening to jazz and R&B. She became a model at a very young age and won the title of “Miss South Lebanon” at age sixteen.

Wehbe’s next distinction came in 1995 when she was runner up for Miss Lebanon. It was shortly discovered that she was married and had a daughter named Zeinab (Zaza). Her title was thus revoked. By 1996, she had recovered from the scandal and continued to model. She was seen on over 100 magazine covers. In 2006, she was on People Magazine’s 50 most beautiful people list.
She released her first album, titled Huwa az-Zaman (Arabic: هو الزمن It is Time) which was a hit thanks to her debut single “Agoul Ahwak” (I say I love you)”.
Her second album Baddi ‘Ayš (Arabic: بدي عيش I Want to Live) was released in 2005 and lived up to expectations due to the success of its lead single “Hayat Albi.” Released after the assassination of Lebanese politician Rafik Hariri, the song of the same name is about “freedom, considered to be among the most basic of human rights.”

Her follow-up single was her biggest hit to date, “Ana Haifa” (I am Haifa) which became her novelty song. In 2006 she released a follow up single Bus al-Wawa which so far has sold respectably.

On June 10, 2006 Haifa became the first artist in the Arab world to perform with rapper 50 Cent when she performed as an opening act for his first concert in Lebanon, at BIEL in Beirut.

She remains popular among Lebanon’s youth and makes countless television appearances. In July 2005, Wehbe, along with 14 other celebrities from the Arab world, began airing the live pan-Arab reality show series The Valley (Arabic: الوادي Al-Wadi), based on the French reality show La Ferme Célébrités. The show aired for three months. The show featured weekly live performances in which Wehbe played a central role as well as singing songs from her new album.
Her other non-musical successes include a few movie roles and TV hosting. Wehbe has also designed her own range of diamond jewelry. She has also been a spokesperson for Pepsi.

Her three sisters are Alia, Hanna and Rola. The singer lost her brother at the age of 24 during 1982 Lebanon War. During Wehbe’s marriage, she gave birth to a daughter named Zeinab Zaza. Wehbe has not seen her child since the divorce. Her ex-husband has engaged in parental alienation for over 10 years.

In 2005, she announced her engagement to a Saudi businessman Tariq Al-Jaffali. After only a few weeks, she and her fiancé decided to split for personal reasons and family issues.

During the 2006 Israel-Lebanon conflict, she left her home, in Verdun, Beirut and moved to Egypt for the duration of the conflict. In a concert in the Lebanese town of Jounieh, Wehbe congratulated Hassan Nasrallah for his stand against Israel during the war.

In a further interview with Reuters, Wehbe stated that Israel attacked Lebanese civilians intentionally while Hezbollah attacked only military targets. “ I believe the whole world knows who started this war and who aggressed on whose land. There isn’t a war that starts from nothing and he who begins is the unjust one.” Wehbe also refused to perform at any concert during the 34 days of the war including fundraisers saying that there were more ways than one to show support for Lebanon

Her revealing outfits have been considered scandalous in some conservative countries In March of 2006, a video of Wehbe’s dress coming undone reportedly circulated on the web. Her management stated that the video was fabricated and “not worth worrying about.” She was ranked forty-nine in the 2006 Edition of the Top 99 Most Desirable Women by the website AskMen.com.

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Jenna Von Oy new Photos

Jennifer von Oÿ (born May 2, 1977 in Stamford, Connecticut, U.S.) is an American actress and country singer best known as Stevie van Lowe on the UPN sitcom The Parkers and Six LeMure in Blossom.

Von Oÿ was born in Stamford, Connecticut and attended Newtown High School in Newtown, Connecticut. Her last name is German (language/written) and her paternal grandparents were German immigrants.

Her maternal grandparents were Dutch immigrants.
Jenna began her acting career in 1986, appearing in the television film The Kingdom Chums: Little David’s Adventure and guest-starring in an episode of Tales from the Darkside. She later appeared in a series of commercials endorsing the popular early 90’s beverage, Boku.

Jenna has appeared in several television series such as Blossom, in which she played the character Six LeMeure, Family Values, in which she played Phoebe Huck, and The Parkers, as quirky sidekick Stevie van Lowe. She also provided the voice of Stacey in A Goofy Movie and the voice of Trinket St. Blaire in Pepper Ann. She most recently appeared on an episode of Cold Case, and was a voice actor on Family Guy.

In June 2000, Jenna recorded a demo CD in an attempt to launch a recording career in country music. Jenna’s debut album, Breathing Room, was released on September 18, 2007.

In 2004, she posed for a spread in KING Magazine. In 2005, she was named number 94 on VH1’s “100 Greatest Kid Stars”. Jenna is precisely 5 feet (152 cm) tall.

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Christine Baranski Biography and Photos

Christine Jane Baranski (born May 2, 1952) is an Emmy- and Tony Award- winning American actress. Baranski was born in Buffalo, New York, the daughter of Virginia (née Mazerowski) and Lucien Baranski, who edited a Polish-language newspaper. She is of Polish descent. Baranski attended Villa Maria Academy, after which she studied at Juilliard. She has been married to actor Matthew Cowles since 1983. They have two daughters.

Baranski’s Broadway credits include : The Real Thing, Hurlyburly, The House of Blue Leaves, Rumors, Regrets Only and Follies. She has won both the Tony and Drama Desk Award twice. Baranski had a role as Cybill Shepherd’s hard-drinking friend Maryanne Thorpe in the CBS sitcom Cybill, which ran from 1995 until 1998, during which time she hosted Saturday Night Live.

She had an uncredited role in the series Now and Again as the voice of Roger’s overbearing wife Ruth, who was never seen by viewers. She later appeared in the 2000-2001 sitcom Welcome to New York and, with John Larroquette, in the 2003-2004 NBC sitcom Happy Family. Her film credits include Addams Family Values, Chicago, How the Grinch Stole Christmas!, Bulworth, Bowfinger, The Birdcage, Cruel Intentions, and Falling for Grace. At the Kennedy Center, Baranski starred as Mrs. Lovett in Sweeney Todd in 2002 and as Mame in Mame in 2006.

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Caterina Murino Wallpapers and Photos

Caterina Murino (born September 15, 1977) is an Italian actress. She was born in Cagliari, Sardinia, Italy. She reached fourth place in the 1996 Miss Italy contest. In 1999 and 2000, she studied drama at the Cinema of Theatre of Francesca de Sapio, and appeared in stage productions of Richard III and Italian language plays. She began her career in television in 2002.

She gained international fame after playing Solange in the 2006 adaptation of the James Bond novel Casino Royale. She speaks Italian, English and French. She lives in Paris. Her birth year is sometimes reported as 1974, though her official website gives the year as 1977. Caterina Murino was born on September 15, 1974, in Cagliari, Sardinia, Italy.

Her carefree childhood was full of extracurricular activities such as horseback riding, dance lessons and singing classes. Caterina was always an extremely adept athlete, and although she never quite stepped over the line into tomboy territory, there’s certainly no denying that she’s more than able to hold her own among her male counterparts.

As a teenager, Caterina was often complimented on her outwardly attractive features, although she decided to remain focused on her studies and generally avoided any thoughts of pursuing a career within the entertainment industry. Caterina’s original concept for post-high school life was to study medicine and eventually take on a career as a doctor, though a failing mark on her medical school entrance exam ensured that simply wasn’t going to happen.

Instead, Caterina decided to act on all the felicitations she’d received over the years by pursuing a career as a model. She quickly signed herself up for the 1996 Miss Italy pageant and was pleasantly surprised after she came in fourth place.

Caterina’s performance in the pageant gave her the courage to move to Milan in order to pursue modeling, and it wasn’t long before she was appearing in advertisements for well-known brands like Mercedes Benz, MasterCard and Swatch.

It didn’t take long for Caterina to determine that she really enjoyed working in front of the camera, and she decided that the next logical step was for her to start pursuing actual acting jobs. To that end, Caterina signed up for a two-year stint at a local acting school and began the slow process of learning the ins and outs of performing. It was also around that time that Caterina made her stage debut in a 1999 production of William Shakespeare’s Richard III. By the time she graduated in 2000, Caterina already appeared in several Italian-language plays.

She began auditioning for a variety of Italian movies and television shows, and in 2002, Caterina made her debut with a small role in a made-for-German-TV film called In der Mitte eines Lebens. She followed that up with a series of appearances in productions spanning the globe, and her big break came in 2004 with a starring role opposite screen legend Jean Reno in a French comedy called L’Enquête Corse.

The part increased Caterina’s exposure exponentially, and it wasn’t long before the actress was being pursued for increasingly high-profile projects.

One such project was 2006’s Casino Royale — the much ballyhooed and talked about reboot for the James Bond series that is also starring Daniel Craig and Eva Green. Caterina was invited to audition for the role of Solange Dimitrios, a woman who decides to take revenge on her husband by having a one-night stand with none other than Mr. Bond. Alhough she almost botched her first audition — she broke a rib the day before and was unable to walk — Caterina won over the director with her sultry demeanor and undeniable screen presence.

After filming Casino Royale wrapped, Caterina started auditioning for North American films and was the focus of a full-page article in Entertainment Weekly.

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Rose Byrne Photos and Biography

Rose Judith Esther Byrne (born July 24, 1979) is a Golden Globe-nominated Australian actress. Byrne is of Irish-Scottish descent and was born in Sydney, Australia to Jane, a primary school administrator, and Robin Byrne, a semi-retired statistician. She has an older brother, George, and two older sisters, Alice and Lucy.

She began taking acting classes at age eight, joining the Australian Theatre for Young People and also attended the University of Sydney. in 1999 Byrne studied acting at the Atlantic Theatre Company developed by David Mamet and William H. Macy.

Byrne was cast in her first film role, Dallas Doll, when she was 12 years old. She has appeared in a variety of Australian television shows including Heartbreak High, Echo Point, and the film Two Hands alongside Heath Ledger. She appeared in The Date, My Mother Frank, and Clara Law’s The Goddess of 1967 for which she obtained the Female Volpi Cup at the 2000 Venice Film Festival. Meanwhile, she appeared as a guest in an episode of the cop drama series Murder Call.

She also acted on stage, playing a lead role in La Dispute and starred in a production of Anton Chekov’s classic The Three Sisters at the Sydney Theatre Company.

Byrne appeared in the music video of Darren Hayes’s single I Miss You and starred with Australian musician Alex Lloyd in the music video for his single Black The Sun and was featured on the cover artwork for the EP. She also appeared in the TV Commercial for Sony and reunited with Alex Lloyd, appearing in his music video for 1000 Miles from the album Distant Light.
In 2002, Byrne entered Hollywood with a small role as Dormé, the loyal handmaiden to Natalie Portman’s Queen Padme Amidala, in George Lucas’ Star Wars: Episode II – Attack of the Clones. and appeared the same year in Matt Dillon movie City of Ghosts.

The next year, she flew to the UK to shoot I Capture The Castle, Tim Fywell’s adaptation of the 1948 novel of the same title by Dodie Smith. In the film, which relates the adventures of the eccentric Mortmains family struggling to survive in a decaying English castle in the 1930s, she portrayed Rose Mortmain, the elder sister of Romola Garai’s Cassandra.

She starred the same year in three Australian films: The Night We Called It a Day alongside Melanie Griffith and Dennis Hopper; The Rage In Placid Lake for which she was named Best Actress at the Australian Film Institute with singer Ben Lee; and Take Away another comedy.

In 2004, Byrne starred as Briseis the Trojan priestess who was abducted during the Trojan War by Achilles (played by Brad Pitt), in Wolfgang Petersen’s epic Troy also starring , Eric Bana, Peter O’Toole and Orlando Bloom. She then reunited with Peter O’Toole in the acclaimed BBC TV drama Casanova.

Byrne appeared with Snoop Dogg in Danny Green’s film The Tenants, based on Bernard Malamud’s novel, and starred with Josh Hartnett and Diane Kruger in the romantic psychological thriller Wicker Park where she played Alex, the woman who manipulated Josh Hartnett’s character to keep him apart from the woman he falls in love with.

In 2006 Byrne portrayed Gabrielle de Polastron, duchesse de Polignac a French aristocrat and friend of Marie-Antoinette, in Sofia Coppola’s Marie-Antoinette, alongside Kirsten Dunst and The Dead Girl directed by Karen Moncrieff.

In 2007, she played Cassie, the pilot in Danny Boyle’s science fiction suspense film Sunshine, and then portrayed Scarlett Ross, an army medical officer in Juan Carlos Fresnadillo’s sci-fi horror 28 Weeks Later, the sequel to Boyle’s 28 Days Later.

She will next be seen in the independent film Just Buried, a Canadian dark comedy written and directed by Chaz Thorne as well as an Australian film noir The Tender Hook with Hugo Weaving.

Byrne is currently in a FX drama production Damages playing the regular lead role of Ellen Parsons , a young attorney torn between her hard-hitting, high-stakes new boss (Glenn Close) and her own ambitions. She and Marie Antoinette director Sofia Coppola have both played handmaidens in the Star Wars prequels: Coppola appeared in The Phantom Menace, Byrne in Attack of the Clones. She was the face of Max Factor between 2004 and 2006 and named in the ‘Most Beautiful People of 2007′ list in Who Magazine.

Byrne has supported UNICEF Australia by being the face of the 2007 Designers United campaign and a member of tropfest jury in 2006 and tropfest tribeca in 2007.

She is a graduate and ambassador for NIDA’s (National Institute of Dramatic Art) Young Actors Studio. She was recently named the first patron of Chauvel Cinemas presented by the Brisbane International Film Festival and named in honour of Charles Chauvel.

Byrne has the ability to use different accents from film to film ; the Australian, British, American , and the Canadian one. Byrne has been in a relationship with Australian writer, director and actor Brendan Cowell for over four years. The couple maintained a long-distance relationship for much of their relationship, with work commitments meaning they were often on separate continents. However, Cowell has planned a move from Sydney to New York City, due to Byrne’s success on Damages. Previously she dated Australian writer, director Gregor Jordan who directed her in Two Hands.

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