Sofia Milos Photos and Biography

Sofia Milos (born September 27, 1965) is an actress. Milos was born in Zurich, Switzerland, to an Italian father and a Greek mother.

In her teens she entered a local beauty pageant, and after winning first prize went on to win the provincial, regional and national contests as well. Milos studied acting diligently at the Beverly Hills Playhouse under acting coach Milton Katselas.

Though her family would ultimately settle in Italy, Sofia Milos was born to a Greek father and Italian mother in Zurich, Switzerland. By the time she reached adolescence, Milos had demonstrated a clear knack for the liberal arts, and, in addition to proving herself a skilled painter, had become fluent in Italian, French, German, Greek, Suisse, Spanish, and English.

Though she wouldn’t begin acting until later in life, Milos nonetheless got used to public scrutiny when she won a beauty contest at the age of 14, beginning a successful modeling career a year later — so successful, in fact, that the money she earned modeling throughout France, Italy, Japan, Russia, and the United States paid for her education at the School of Business and Economics in Switzerland.

In 1990, Milos decided to take up residence in the United States, where she spent time living in New York before settling down in Los Angeles.

Shortly after her arrival, Milos began attending acting classes at the Beverly Hills Playhouse, which is led by renowned acting coach and director Milton Katselas.

Milos worked primarily in theater circles until 1993, when she was cast in Café Americain, NBC’s short-lived sitcom co-starring Valerie Bertinelli and Maurice Godin. Though the show wasn’t a hit, the right people noticed her potential, and Milos began racking up an impressive television resumé.

She appeared on Friends in 1995, made a guest appearance on Mad About You in 1996, and landed a reoccurring role on Caroline in the City from 1997-1998. Though she made her feature film debut in 1999 — she played one of Tim Meadows’ voluptuous love interests in The Ladies Man — it wasn’t until her performance as mob boss Annalisa Zucca on HBO’s The Sopranos that she would achieve mainstream recognition.

HBO continued to showcase Milos’ talents in Larry David’s Curb Your Enthusiasm, for which she played an entirely improvised role as the girlfriend of Richard Lewis. After several more unsuccessful television pilots and a guest spot on ER, Milos starred as a long-suffering widow opposite Jason Isaacs and Lupe Ontiveros in Passionada (2003).

Following the film, Milos landed a regular role as detective Yelina Salas in the hit television drama CSI: Miami. Her last name is pronounced ‘Mee-loz’. Milos speaks English, Italian, French and German fluently, and can also carry a basic conversation in Greek and Spanish. She is a Scientologist. At one point she studied business and economics.

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Emily Procter CSI: Miami Hot Wallpapers

Emily Mallory Procter (born October 8, 1968 in Raleigh, North Carolina) is an American actress best known for her recurring role as Ainsley Hayes in The West Wing and the major part as Calleigh Duquesne in CSI: Miami.

Procter was born and raised in Raleigh, North Carolina. Emily is a graduate of Ravenscroft School in Raleigh. While at East Carolina University she was a member of Alpha Delta Pi sorority.

After she received her degrees in journalism and dance at East Carolina, she was employed as a television weather anchor at WNCT-TV in Greenville, North Carolina.

After the move to Los Angeles, her father provided the costs for acting school for two years. Before even graduating, she had already landed a number of small roles in films such as Jerry Maguire (1996) and Breast Men (1997), where she appeared along with David Schwimmer and Chris Cooper.

During the 1995–96 season (season 3) of Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman, she portrayed Lana Lang the first blond actress to ever do so. She also briefly appeared in the 1997 TV movie The Dukes of Hazzard: Reunion! as Mavis. She also had a recurring guest role as Associate White House Counsel Ainsley Hayes on NBC’s The West Wing.

She landed her breakthrough with the role of Calleigh Duquesne in the television series CSI: Miami, which has been running on American television since 2002. She took the role after consulting with her friend Jorja Fox.

She participated in 2007’s LiveEarth by reading (along with several other actresses) an essay written by Michelle Gardner-Quinn while Gardner-Quinn was a student at the University of Vermont. She has volunteered as an actress with the Young Storytellers Program.

She is very interested and knowledgeable in interior decoration and antiques. She puts these interests to good practical use in the 1921 Spanish-style home that she owns.

She is an avid poker player. She says she learned to play this game as a child when her father would play a game called “penny poker” with her. She has already participated in at least one celebrity poker tournament. She is also fascinated with flower jigsaw puzzles and tries to assemble them faster with each attempt.

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Evangeline Lilly Wallpapers

Nicole Evangeline Lilly (born August 3, 1979) is a Canadian Golden Globe-nominated actress. She is known for her role as Katherine “Kate” Austen in ABC’s hit drama Lost.

Lilly was born in Fort Saskatchewan, Alberta, Canada to a devoutly Christian family. Her father is a home economics teacher, and her mother is a beauty consultant. Lilly also has a younger sister, whom she has described as “the actor in the family.” During her childhood, the family did not have a television.

Before leaving the city of Fort Saskatchewan at the age of 10, she attended three elementary schools. She briefly attended Fort Elementary, Rudolph Henning and James Mowat Elementary. During a phone interview with the local paper, The Record, Evangeline was quoted saying, “When I was a kid, the Fort was tiny. I could ride my bike at five years old from one end of town to the other … To me Fort Saskatchewan holds a lot of really great memories. I just consider it a little happy hideaway.”
Lilly served briefly as a foreign missionary and lived in a grass hut in the Philippines at the age of 18.

She was offered a missionary post there for two years, an offer she nearly accepted but eventually declined because of her parents’ wishes. Lilly is a former flight attendant of Air Canada, and speaks French fairly well.

Lilly was discovered on the streets of Kelowna, British Columbia by Ford modeling agency. Although she initially decided to pass on a modeling career, she went ahead and signed with Ford anyway, to help pay for her University of British Columbia tuition and expenses. Despite being signed to Ford Models, she was never actually a fashion model, working instead with their acting branch.

She was previously featured in several LiveLinks Chatline television commercials and on G4’s Judgment Day. She appeared uncredited in the 2003 film Freddy vs. Jason as a high-school girl leaning against a locker, and in an episode of Smallville in a pool hall scene. She also had a guest appearance on the ABC supernatural horror series Kingdom Hospital (2004).

Lilly’s first speaking role was on Lost. She also appeared in the 2003 teenager film The Lizzie McGuire Movie as an (uncredited) Italian police officer.
When Lilly was cast as Kate in Lost, her main concern was acquiring a work visa to enter the United States. With production literally days away and no news about the visa, casting directors were forced to grudgingly begin re-casting the role of Kate. After nearly 20 auditions, Lilly’s work visa was approved/cleared but she arrived on set a day late.

Her salary in 2004 for Lost was $80,000 per episode. On the heels of her role in Lost, she was voted one of the Breakout Stars of 2004 by Entertainment Weekly. Although Lilly placed 8th in the FHM “100 Sexiest Women in the World” of 2006 and initially placed 2nd on Maxim’s “Hot 100″ list of 2005, she slipped to 67th in Maxim’s 2006 list. On December 14, 2006, Lilly was nominated for a Golden Globe for Best Lead Actress-Drama. Action figures of Lilly’s Lost character were released during the holiday season of 2006.

Lilly was once married to Canadian hockey player Murray Hone, and is believed to have ended her relationship with her former Lost co-star Dominic Monaghan. Her known nicknames include “Evie” and “Monkey”. Her Lost castmates nicknamed her “Monkey” because of her ability to climb trees with ease, a skill which has been incorporated into her character. Her fellow Lost-actor Josh Holloway also calls her ‘Freckles’, sharing the nickname his on-screen character Sawyer gave her. She is also known on set for her tomboyishness, Christian faith, and her “potty mouth.”

Lilly has stated that she “live[s] in a bubble,” specifying that she is not familiar with popular culture and does not watch television or own a TV set. She has also said that she would not appear in a nude scene or perform in sexual scenes that she would consider “gratuitous”.
On the May 9, 2007 Episode of Jimmy Kimmel Live, Evangeline Lilly described her deep need to leave her home town after her high school graduation.

She did much travelling at this point in her life, moving from town to town approximately every six months. She stated that in each town she took on a persona, for example, she would decide in one town to take on the role of a “nerdy bookworm” and in another she decided to be a ditzy “cheerleader” type and acting as such she would frequently date different men.

Lilly has also used her celebrity status to help promote Just Yell Fire, a video aimed at teaching teenage girls how to defend themselves against rapists. During the summer break between the first and second seasons of Lost, Lilly spent time visiting the poor in Rwanda.

On December 20, 2006, Lilly’s house in Kailua, Hawaii was completely destroyed by fire while she was on the Lost set with one of her two roommates, both of whom work as her stand-ins on the show. The second roommate was off-island at the time of the blaze, which occurred on the final day of shooting before the show’s holiday break. The cause of the fire has now been determined as an electrical fault.

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Sarah Chalke Wallpapers

Sarah Chalke (born August 27, 1976 in Ottawa, Ontario) is a Canadian television and movie actress best known for portraying Dr. Elliot Reid on the NBC sitcom Scrubs and also for portraying the second Becky Conner-Healy on ABC’s Roseanne.

Chalke was born in Ontario, Canada, and was raised in Vancouver, British Columbia. She is the middle of the three daughters of Doug and Angie Chalke. Her mother is from Rostock, Germany. Chalke maintains contact with her German relatives. According to a Scrubs commentary track, she used to attend the German school in her hometown twice a week. Her first language is English, though she speaks German and French fluently.

Chalke’s acting career began at the age of eight when she began appearing in musical theatre productions. At 16, she became a reporter on the Canadian children’s show KidZone. In 1993, she took over the role of Becky (Conner) Healy on Roseanne from Lecy Goranson; she also made a cameo appearance as a different character in the Roseanne episode “Halloween: The Final Chapter” (#178, originally aired October 31, 1995). She returned briefly to Canada where she starred in the CBC Television drama Nothing Too Good for a Cowboy (1998-1999).

A bubbly, comedically-gifted performer and a veteran of two major network TV series, Sarah Chalke’s first claim to fame was as Lecy Goransen’s replacement as the troubled daughter, Becky Conner, on the seminal sitcom, “Roseanne” (ABC, 1988-1997). Chalke would later shine even brighter on another popular sitcom – a one-two punch most television actors experience just once if they are lucky.

As the deadpan and adoringly lovelorn Dr. Elliot Reid of the NBC medical dramedy “Scrubs” (NBC, 2001- ), Chalke mastered the deadpan delivery and goofy antics the hit medical comedy was known for, as well as held her own alongside such seasoned comic actors as Ken Jenkins (Dr. Kelso) and John C. McGinley (Dr. Cox).

Born in Ottawa, Ontario on Aug. 27, 1976, Sarah Cassandra Chalke was the middle child of three. Raised by their parents to enjoy culture and have an appreciation for the arts, Chalke and her two sisters participated in local stage shows and musical theater productions throughout her childhood. At 16, she got her first job in front of the cameras as an on-air reporter for a popular television show in Canada called KidZone (CBC, 1992). Chalke’s screen acting debut, a small role in a made-for-TV movie called “City Boy” (1992), was enough to establish her credentials in casting circles.

In 1993, when Lecy Goransen – one of the stars of the hit comedy “Roseanne” – announced she was leaving the show to attend college, producers were left in a quandary. Goransen’s character of Becky, the eldest of the Connor clan’s children, had been conceived as a core element of the show. Rather than write the character out completely, producers decided to simply recast the role and hope for the best. Chalke was one of the young actresses who auditioned, but considered herself a long shot due to her own limited resume and Canadian nationality.

To her complete shock, Chalke won the role. Seemingly unintimidated in her audition, Chalke’s natural spunk and instant chemistry with star Roseanne Arnold had sealed the deal. The fact that Chalke bore little physical resemblance to Lecy Goransen was a non-issue and was, in fact, even played for laughs. Without ever addressing the issue directly, producers invited audiences to share in on the joke by deciding to reshoot the classic “Roseanne”’ opening, with the Connors sitting around the table. The sequence, which used morphing technology to show the actors’ progressions over the seasons, had Becky’s face literally begin as Goransen’s before changing to Chalke’s – one of many knowing winks of acknowledgement to viewers at home.

Chalke graduated high school in 1995 while shooting the seventh season of “Roseanne” – her last full season before Goransen returned to resume the role. At one point, the two actresses even alternated playing Becky towards the end of the run, as the show’s tone started heading into more surreal territory. For instance, the eighth season premiere kicked off with Goransen (as Becky) entering the living room, prompting her family to chide, “Where the hell have you been? It feels like you’ve been gone for three years!” To which Becky responds, “Why does everyone keep saying that?” The matter of Chalke’s exit/ Goransen’s return as Becky continued to be a running gag until Chalke’s last show.

After “Roseanne,” Chalke appeared in a handful of television movies; the most notable being “Stand Against Fear” (1996), in which she played a teenage cheerleader who must stand up alone against sexual harassment. In 1997, Chalke returned to Canada to shoot a made-for-TV film called “Nothing Too Good for a Cowboy,” based on the book by author Richmond P. Hobson. Chalke was singled out by critics for her performance as lovelorn teen Gloria McIntosh and the movie did well enough to spawn a brief weekly CBC series of the same name. Chalke reprised her role, but the show lasted only one season and went off the air in 1999.

In 2000, the actress seriously considered taking a break from acting to attend college. As fate would have it, at that same moment of indecision, Chalke landed the biggest role of her career to date – Dr. Eliot Reed in the medical comedy-drama “Scrubs.” The story of three interns learning the ways of love, life, and medicine in a fictional hospital, “Scrubs” was an immediate hit with critics and fans alike. By the end of its first year, its audience had grown exponentially, making it one of NBC’s most popular shows and one of the last of the peacock network’s successful 90’s holdover sitcoms.

In 2001, she was cast as Dr. Elliot Reid in the NBC comedy series Scrubs. She has appeared in several feature films, starting with Ernest Goes to School (1994). She also appeared in Channel 101’s The ‘Bu with The Lonely Island, a parody of the hit show The O.C., but was credited as “Pamela Fenton”.

Chalke lost her aunt and grandmother to breast cancer because they weren’t diagnosed while the disease was in its early stages. As a result, Chalke decided to encourage breast cancer awareness, and starred in Lifetime’s movie Why I Wore Lipstick To My Mastectomy. Chalke is currently engaged to Jamie Afifi. She is a vegetarian.

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Sarah Silverman Personal life and Photos

Sarah Kate Silverman (born December 1, 1970) is an American comedian, writer and actress. Although usually credited as Sarah Silverman, she is sometimes credited by her nickname Big S or Sarah ‘Big S’ Silverman.

Her comedy deals with topical humor and satire, societal taboos, and controversial topics such as racism, sexism and religion.

Her comedy acts are sometimes performed from a caricatured or stereotypical Jewish-American princess perspective, in which, according to Village Voice writer Michael Musto, she mocks bigotry and ethnic or religious stereotypes by endorsing them ironically. Silverman was first noticed as a writer for and occasional performer on Saturday Night Live. She now stars in and produces the The Sarah Silverman Program, which debuted February 1, 2007, on Comedy Central.

Silverman received national exposure after earning a role on the 1993–94 season of Saturday Night Live. She was a writer and featured player at the time, but was fired after one season because she wrote only one sketch that survived to dress rehearsal, with none ever airing. Bob Odenkirk, a former SNL writer who knew her from her stand-up act in Los Angeles, explained why she was fired: “I could see how it wouldn’t work at SNL because she’s got her own voice, she’s very much Sarah Silverman all the time. She can play a character but she doesn’t disappear into the character–she makes the character her.”

Silverman claims being fired by SNL in an undignified manner (via fax), upset her greatly. The situation was parodied when she appeared on The Larry Sanders Show episode “The New Writer”, in which she plays Sander’s new staff writer, whose jokes are not used because of chauvinism (and associated bias of the male chief comedy writer), who favors the jokes of his male co-writers. She had a recurring role on Larry Sanders for its last several seasons.

Silverman worked on the HBO sketch comedy show Mr. Show with Bob and David, where she was a featured performer. She made guest appearances on such programs as the 1997 Seinfeld episode “The Money”, the two-part time-travel episode “Future’s End” of Star Trek: Voyager and as a series regular on the TV show Greg the Bunny (2002), playing serious characters, as well as the voice of character “Hadassah Guberman” on the salacious puppet television comedy Crank Yankers. She has also had small parts in films such as There’s Something About Mary, Say It Isn’t So, School of Rock, The Way of the Gun, Overnight Delivery, Screwed, Heartbreakers, Evolution, School for Scoundrels and Rent, playing a mixture of comic and serious roles.

On November 11, 2005, her stand-up comedy act (one-woman show) was released as a feature film, Sarah Silverman: Jesus Is Magic. As part of the publicity campaign surrounding the film, Silverman made several high profile appearances, including online in Slate, as the cover subject of Heeb magazine, and performing on the Comedy Central roasts of Pamela Anderson and Hugh Hefner.

She was a guest star in a second season episode of the USA cable program Monk, playing an obsessed fan of a fictional television detective. The show therefore featured a good deal of meta-humor, of which she had a core part. She returned as the same character in the sixth season premiere. According to the audio commentary on the Clerks 2 DVD, director Kevin Smith offered her the role that eventually went to Rosario Dawson, but she turned it down out of fear of being typecast in “girlfriend roles.” However, she told Smith the role was “really funny” and mentioned that if the role of Randal Graves was being offered to her she “would do it in a heartbeat”.

On Jimmy Kimmel Live, Silverman parodied sketches from Chappelle’s Show, from the perspective of what would happen if she played Rick James, Tyrone, or the Pilot Boy Productions-like logo called ‘Pilot Girl Productions’. This segment is based on a popular rumor that Silverman was a planned replacement for Dave Chappelle after the apparent demise of his popular television show Chappelle’s Show.

Silverman made the cover of the March 12, 2006 issue of The Observer with an article titled “If women aren’t funny, how come the world’s hottest, most controversial comedian is female?” In 2005, she played a therapist in a skit session with Josh Homme of the band Queens of the Stone Age. This interview was on the bonus DVD of their album Lullabies to Paralyze. In 2006, she placed #50 in the annual Maxim List. In 2007, she placed #29 and appeared on the cover of the magazine’s Hot 100 List issue.

In October 2007, on The Howard Stern Show, Silverman volunteered to smell writer Richard Christy’s scrotum after he had not showered in four days. Silverman attempted to match her description of the smell with other members of the Stern show staff. Silverman gagged a few times before describing the smell; “It was a hint of raw sourdough dough in a vat of mayonnaise that was in a trunk of, like, a 70’s car for the summer”.

Silverman caused a brief controversy after using the ethnic slur “chink” in an interview on the July 11, 2001, episode of Late Night with Conan O’Brien. In the interview, Silverman explained that a friend had advised her on how to avoid jury duty by writing a racial slur on the selection form, “something inappropriate, like ‘I hate chinks’.” However, Silverman said that she ultimately decided that she did not want to be thought of as a racist, so she said, “I wrote ‘I love chinks’ – and who doesn’t?” Silverman said that the joke satirizes the racist thought process. Guy Aoki, co-founder and head of the Media Action Network for Asian Americans (MANAA), objected to her use of the slur, saying that NBC’s airing of it was inexcusable.

NBC and O’Brien issued an apology, but Silverman did not, later appearing on Politically Incorrect on July 26, and August 22, 2001. During the former episode, actress Kelly Hu stated that she understood the point of the joke, and did not object to it, and Silverman questioned Aoki’s sincerity, accusing him of exploiting the opportunity for publicity.

During the latter episode, Aoki appeared with Silverman, and stated that he did not accept Silverman’s explanation, saying that it was not successful satire, that she should have substituted “chink” with “Chinese person”, and that comedians should consult with groups such as his before performing such material. Silverman stated in an interview on NPR’s Fresh Air that she was asked to repeat the joke on Politically Incorrect, among other places, but she eventually dropped the joke from her act because she felt it was becoming stale.

Silverman has since turned the complaint into grist for her stand-up act, saying that the experience helped teach her the important lesson that racism is bad: “And I mean bad, like in that black way.”

Silverman talked about having dated Dave Attell on one of her appearances on the Howard Stern radio show. Silverman was also romantically linked with Colin Quinn during her Saturday Night Live career, which is referred to humorously by both parties. In her first appearance on the Stern show in June 2001, she said she was dating someone named Tom who wrote for SNL.
Since 2002, Silverman has been in a relationship with Jimmy Kimmel, host of Jimmy Kimmel Live. It is a relationship she refers to in some of her comic material:

“ I’m Jewish, but I wear this Saint Christopher medal sometimes; my boyfriend is Catholic — but you know … it was cute the way he gave it to me. He said if it doesn’t burn a hole through my skin it will protect me.” Silverman is a fan of Jenny Lewis and appeared in one of Lewis’ music videos. She is also a fan of comedian Steve Martin, who was one of her major inspirations as a younger comedian.

Silverman is very open about her lifelong battle with clinical depression, crediting her current emotional health to her use of prescription drug Zoloft. Silverman has said that she does not consume alcohol, because it nauseates her. Silverman says she does not want to get married until same-sex couples are able to. She also says she doesn’t want to have biological children to avoid the chance that they might inherit her depression. She enjoys playing Internet Scrabble; one of her regular opponents is Alyssa Milano, who lives in the same building.

On The Howard Stern Show, she admitted to struggling with bedwetting when she was a teenager. She said the last time she wet her bed was when she was fired from Saturday Night Live. She credits comedian Tig Notaro as one of her best friends in The Advocate.

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