Emmanuelle Seigner Biography and Photos

Emmanuelle Seigner (born June 22, 1966) is a French actress and former fashion model. Seigner was born in Paris, France to a photographer father and a journalist mother. She is the granddaughter of the respected French actor Louis Seigner (1903-1991) and sister of the actress Mathilde Seigner.

She was educated at a Catholic convent school, and began modelling at the age of fourteen, capitalizing on her beauty. She achieved international status as a professional model. She married the Polish film director Roman Polanski in 1989, and they have two children, Morgane and Elvis. He directed her in Frantic, with Harrison Ford and later in Bitter Moon, as well as The Ninth Gate with Johnny Depp.

In addition to her high-profile marriage to internationally renowned filmmaker Roman Polanski, actress Emmanuelle Seigner has utilized her enigmatic beauty to striking effect in such films as Jean-Luc Godard’s Détective and Polanski’s dark supernatural thriller The Ninth Gate.

A native of Paris and the daughter of a prolific photographer father and journalist mother, Seigner was no stranger to show business. Grandfather Louis and aunt Françoise were both members of the renowned Comédie Française, a theater company with a history that reaches back as far as 1680. Raised at a convent school before embarking on a career in modeling at age 14, Seigner’s unusual beauty found the blossoming cover girl eventually making a segue into film.

Seigner made her screen debut in the 1984 romantic drama Year of the Jellyfish, and it wasn’t long before her acting career was gaining momentum with Godard’s Détective and the 1986 drama Cours Privé. A year after appearing as Harrison Ford’s missing wife in Polanski’s Frantic (1989), the screen beauty exchanged wedding vows with the diminutive director.

Subsequently appearing in such Polanski efforts as Bitter Moon (1992) and The Ninth Gate (1999), Seigner also found success in her own right when nominated for a Best Supporting Actress César for her performance in the 1998 drama Place Vendôme.

Her role as the mysterious neighbor in 1999’s Buddy Boy utilized her beauty to striking effect, and in 2003 Seigner took the lead as a stripper who escapes the seedy world of men’s clubs only to uncover a horrifying secret about her husband in Corps à corps. With her high-profile role in the 2003 action film Os Imortais, it appeared as if Seigner might finally be escaping the legendary shadow of her husband to build a respectable onscreen career of her own.

Seigner appears as the main character in the music video “Hands Around my Throat” by Death In Vegas. In 2006 she became lead singer of the French band Ultra Orange, and the group’s name was changed to Ultra Orange and Emmanuelle.

Lindsey Shaw Photos and Biography

Lindsey Marie Shaw (born on May 10, 1989) is an American actress. She is perhaps best known for her starring role as Jennifer Mosely on Nickelodeon’s sitcom, Ned’s Declassified School Survival Guide. and Claire Tolchuck in Aliens in America.

From 2004-2007 Lindsey starred in Ned’s Declassified School Survival Guide. She is currently starring in the show Aliens in America, which premiered fall 2007 on The CW.

American actress Lindsey Shaw was born on May 10, 1989, in Lincoln, NE. Lindsey is best known for her starring role as Jennifer ‘Moze’ Mosley on Nickelodeon’s sitcom “Ned’s Declassified School Survival Guide.” The actress has also appeared in the films “Aliens in America” and “The Great Lie.”

In 2002, Lindsey and her mother moved to San Mateo, California, where she attended Notre Dame High School in Sherman Oaks. She is a client of Kansas City, Missouri’s, I and I Agency and loves to root for the University of Nebraska’s team, The Cornhuskers.

The archetyple middle-American everygirl, Nebraskan actress Lindsey Shaw first reached viewers in the mid-2000s when the then-teenager signed for a lead role in the Nickelodeon series Ned’s Declassified School Survival Guide.

In that program – a silly and goofy sitcom about a 6th grader’s adventures at a new middle school – Shaw plays Mose, the lead character’s one and only female friend and the object of affections from the local tough.

Shaw was born in in Lincoln, Nebraska. For many years, Shaw and her mother traveled from Lincoln to Omaha, mainly because her agent was located there.

In 1998, Shaw became a client of Kansas City, Missouri’s I and I Agency, and upon doing so, traveled with her mother back and forth from Lincoln to Kansas City twice a month, doing print ads and commercials. In 2002, Shaw and her mother moved to San Mateo, California.

Lindsey finished middle school at St. Francis Xavier School in Burbank. She attended Notre Dame High School for her freshman year. Due to scheduling conflicts, she was forced to continue her schooling through Laurel Springs home school program. She is involved in various charities such as the Starlight Starbright Children’s Foundation.

Raye Hollitt Photos and Biography

Raye Hollitt (born April 17, 1964) is an American actress and female bodybuilder, also known by her stage name Zap, one of the original cast members of American Gladiators. She was born in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania.

Raye Hollitt appeared in Season 1 of American Gladiators in 1989, taking off the second season (1990-91) for maternity leave, before returning for Season 3 and continuing on the show through 1995. She reappeared for an alumni show in the final season (1995-96). Hollitt married Ted Prior in 1990 and has one child. She is currently married to photographer George Kontaxis.

Raye Hollitt, best known for her role as “Zap” on the hit, syndicated television show The American Gladiators, was a formidable presence for 6 seasons Growing up in Harvey’s Lake, Pennsylvania, where she lived until the age of 18, Raye developed her competitive spirit by participating in such sports as softball, basketball, field hockey, track and field and volleyball. 

It was in 1982 that she knew where her life was leading. After moving to the mecca of bodybuilding in Venice, California, she began to pursue a bodybuilding career.  After winning the 1988 Ms. Los Angeles Bodybuilding Championships, Raye landed her first major role in the Blake Edwards hit film titled “Skin Deep” starring John Ritter.

In addition to her popularity as an American Gladiator, Raye has appeared on several television shows, namely, Blossom and Baywatch, as well as several top-name talk shows including: The Tonight Show with Jay Leno,  MTV with Pauly Shore, Good Morning America,  Beach House w/Jenny McCarthy, the Muppet’s Tonight Show, Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous, The Joan Rivers Show, Montel Williams,  and the Jenny Jones Show.

1995 was a busy year for Raye, as she shot a 6-page celebrity pictorial for Playboy’s February 1996 issue.  Also that year, Raye was cast as Lt. Cassie Puller for the pilot of NBC’s “JAG” (Judge Advocate General) directed by Don Bellisario.  Her last film Brand X, where Raye plays a futuristic superhero was  released on video in  2001.  Raye was also cast as a regular on UPN/Paramount’s Manhunt as Rayne, a Survivor-like, reality-based television show.  The past two and a half years has kept Raye busy with the production of her own project, the Sagas of Reya, a series about the voyages of a female Viking warrior and her entourage.

The discipline of being a competitive bodybuilder has helped Raye to obtain and succeed at many of her goals that she set for herself.  Her motto is: ‘Believe and Achieve’.  Her personal data reads of a true athlete, standing  5 feet 7 inches tall and a toned body of 135 pounds.

She is a former paralegal. She posed for Playboy in February 1996. She appeared for many years in local television commercials for “Ye Olde Clock and Gift Shop” in Dallas, a small town just outside her hometown of Wilkes-Barre.

April Bowlby Photos and Biography

April Michelle Bowlby (born 30 July 1980) is an American actress best known for her recurring role as Alan Harper’s ditzy girlfriend (later wife, then ex-wife) Kandi on the CBS sitcom Two and a Half Men.

Bowlby was born in Vallejo, California, and moved to Manteca, California, as a child. She studied ballet, French, and marine biology at Moorpark College before deciding to pursue an acting career. She studied drama with Ivana Chubbuck and secured a role in a major television series (Kandi in Two and a Half Men) within months of her first Hollywood audition.

April Bowlby was born in Vellejo, California and grew up in Manteca, California, home of the world famous Manteca waterslides. Unsure of what she wanted to do with her life, she briefly attended Moorpark College where she studied marine biology, French and ballet.

Bowlby decided to become an actress because a friend suggested it, and began studying acting with Ivanna Chubbuck. A few months later, she auditioned for a couple of lines in TWO AND A HALF MEN and secured the role of Kandi.

Bowlby has appeared on many TV series including CSI as “Kaitlin Rackish” in 2004, CSI: New York as “Jenny Lee” in 2005, Freddie as “Sydney” in 2005 and Stacked as “Jasmine” in 2005. April has an upcoming role in the movie Shadows of Atticus as “Natasha”, about a 12 year old girl who loses her mother in an automobile accident. April is currently single and resides in Los Angeles. April has natural red hair and blue eyess

Janine Turner Biography and Photos

Janine Turner (born Janine Loraine Gauntt on December 6, 1962) is an American actress, known for her starring role on General Hospital from 1982 to 1983 and the prime time television show Northern Exposure from 1990 to 1995. She is also known for her role as Dr. Dana Stowe on the 2000-2002 Lifetime original series, Strong Medicine.

Turner was born in Lincoln, Nebraska, U.S., to Janice, a real estate agent, and Turner M. Gauntt, a pilot who attended West Point and flew for Braniff for 30 years. Her father is from East Texas and her mother is from South Texas. She has a brother, Tim, and was raised in Euless, Texas. At the age of fifteen, she left home to pursue a modeling career with the Wilhelmina Modeling Agency.

Turner began her acting career in 1980, at the age of 18, in an episode of Dallas. She continued to make guest appearances on popular television shows throughout the 1980s until landing the important role of Maggie O’Connell on Northern Exposure in 1990.

She appeared in the music video “Ricochet” by David Bowie. After her breakthrough in Northern Exposure, she appeared in the big budget action film Cliffhanger starring Sylvester Stallone. In 2004, she wrote and directed Trip in a Summer Dress, a film about a strong-willed mother and her children. She has worked with actor and director Mike Norris in a number of recent projects. In 2006, she appeared in a low budget film filmed in Dallas, The Night of the White Pants.

An attractive leading player of the small screen, Janine Turner won fans and fame as the intelligent, down-to-earth, but unlucky in love Alaskan pilot Maggie O’Connell in the quirky CBS comedy-drama “Northern Exposure” (CBS, 1990-95).

Although born in the heartland, Turner was raised in Texas where she began to compete in beauty pageants as a child. By age 15, she had moved to NYC to pursue a modeling career and within a year was under contract with the Wilhelmina agency as one of its youngest ever models. Then a pert brunette with long luxurious hair, Turner moved from posing to acting with a three-episode stint as a friend to Lucy Ewing (Charlene Tilton) on the popular CBS primetime soap “Dallas” in 1980. That experience led to her casting as a soap actress on the late night backstage melodrama “Behind the Scenes” (CBS, 1981-82). In a case of art imitating life, Turner soon found herself acting in a daytime serial, With her hair dyed blonde, she moved to ABC as Laura Templeton, a doppelganger for departed star Genie Francis, on “General Hospital”.

After leaving the soap, Turner floundered for much of the 1980s, making occasional guest appearances, generally of the damsel in distress variety, on shows like “Mickey Spillane’s Mike Hammer” and “Knight Rider”. Features also provided little opportunities, as Turner was relegated to cameos (as in her debut, “Young Doctors in Love” 1972) or supporting roles in big screen bombs (like “Tai-Pan” 1986). the actress regrouped and returned to NYC where she studied acting and honed her skills in Off-Broadway plays. Perhaps her best-recognized role of this period was a tiny part as a spoiled Southern belle in “Steel Magnolias” (1989).

Although stardom seemed elusive, all that changed in 1990 with “Northern Exposure”. Her hair now returned to its natural brunette and closely cropped, Turner cut a dashing figure as the tomboyish, insecure but strong-willed flyer. Her onscreen chemistry with Rob Morrow (as the New York Jewish doctor forced to work in what he considers the hinterlands) helped propel the series to success and each to 1993 Emmy nominations. With her newfound status, Turner attempted to establish herself as a leading lady in features with “Cliffhanger” (1993), but the special effects and her male co-stars Sylvester Stallone and John Lithgow overshadowed her. After “Northern Exposure” left the air, Turner filmed a busted sitcom pilot and bided her time. In 1997, she was cast as a frontierswoman who falls in love with the Native American who kidnaps her in the CBS drama “Stolen Women: Captured Hearts” and returned to the big screen paying homage to the moms of the 1950s as June Cleaver in the big screen version of “Leave It to Beaver”.

Following time off for motherhood, Turner kept active in a string of TV-movies like “Circle of Deceit” (ABC, 1998, which she also co-produced), “Beauty” (CBS, 1998), a contemporary spin on “Beauty and the Beast” and “Barbara Taylor Bradford’s ‘A Secret Affair’” (CBS, 1999). The actress returned to series TV playing a headstrong surgeon forced to work with a female doctor at a free clinic in “Strong Medicine” (Lifetime, 2000).

In 1983, she became engaged to Alec Baldwin, but the two never made it to the altar. She lives on a ranch outside of Dallas, Texas, with her daughter Juliette (born November 22, 1997).