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Tila Tequila – actress and singer

Tila Tequila – actress and singer

Tila Tequila – actress and singer

Tila Tequila is an American singer, rapper, songwriter, actress, model and television host of French-Vietnamese origin.
Thien Thanh Thi Nguyen (her real name) was born on October 24, 1981 in Singapore. Her parents emigrated from Vietnam after the Vietnam War. Tila is the third and the youngest child in the family. She has brother Daniel (born in 1976) and sister Terry (born in 1979). After the emigration her family lived in Houston (Texas, USA). Then they joined a closed Buddhist commune, and left it when Tila was 8 years old.
Her career began when she was 17 years old. The girl was seen by Playboy agent in Sharpstown Mall and was invited to take part in the photo shoot. So she moved to Northern California. On April 22, 2002 Tila became Playboy Cyber Girl of the week and then became the first Asian Cyber Girl of the month.
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Emma Stone – American actress

Emma Stone - American actress

Emma Stone – American actress

Emma Stone is an American actress. She is best known for her roles in the films Easy A, The Help and Amazing Spider-Man. For the role of main character’s daughter in black comedy Birdman she was nominated for Oscar award.
Emily Jean Stone was born on November 6, 1988 in Scottsdale, Arizona to Christa, a housewife, and Jeff Stone, a contractor. Emily has younger brother Spencer, who was born in 1990.
Stone studied at Sequoya Elementary School and Cocopah Middle School. She was a member of Valley Youth Theatre, where she appeared in The Wind in the Willows at the age of 11. In the same theater she appeared in 16 productions when she was homeschooled. Stone also studied at Xavier College Preparatory, the Catholic high school for girls.
At the age of fifteen she and her mother moved to Los Angeles.
Stone began her career in the movie The New Partridge Family (2005), which included only one pilot episode.
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Dolly Parton – Queen of Country music

Dolly Parton - Queen of Country music

Dolly Parton – Queen of Country music

Dolly Parton is an American country music performer and actress. She has written more than six hundred songs. Dolly is recognized as one of the most successful singers in the genre and is named Queen of Country Music. Only she and Reba McEntire are performers who rose to the top of the charts in four different decades. In 2016, Parton became the only singer whose hits have appeared in the Top-20 country music chart Hot Country Songs all recent 6 decades in a row (1960, 70th, 80th 90th, 00th & 10th).
Dolly Rebecca Parton was born on January 19, 1946 in Locust Ridge, Sevier County, Tennessee. She was the fourth of twelve children born to Robert Lee (1921-2000) and his wife Avie Lee Parton (1923-2003). Parton’s grandfather Robert Jake Owens (1899-1992) was a preacher in a Pentecostal church and the family all played music and sang in the church. Dolly began writing music and playing the guitar when she was seven years old. When she was ten years old, Parton sang on the show in front of a live audience in Knoxville, Tennessee, and a year later she recorded Puppy Love, a song she had written on Gold Band, a small label.
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Kate Mara – American actress

Kate Mara - American actress

Kate Mara – American actress

Kate Mara is an American actress.
Kate Rooney Mara was born on February 27, 1983 in Bedford, New York. Her father Timothy Christopher is of Irish, German, and French Canadian descent and her mother is of Irish and Italian descent. Mara has older brother Daniel, younger brother Conor and younger sister Rooney, who is also an actress.
As a child, Kate saw Les Miserables and decided to become an actress, and fell in love with Broadway and musicals. Especially she liked movies with Judy Garland.
At the age of nine Mara began playing in school plays and community theater, attended several acting schools. In an interview with Esquire, Kate admitted that she was very shy and had only one friend and felt uncomfortable with a large number of people.
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Emilia Clarke – British actress

Emilia Clarke – British actress

Emilia Clarke – British actress

Emilia Clarke is a British film and theater actress. She is best known for her role as Daenerys Targaryen in the television series Game of Thrones and Sarah Connor in Terminator Genisys.
Emilia Clarke was born on October 23, 1986. She was born in London and spent her childhood in Berkshire. Her father worked as a sound engineer in the theater, and her mother was engaged in business. At the age of 3 the girl decided to become an actress. In 2009 she graduated from Drama Centre London.
During her studies she played in several productions of the Center: dramas Awake and Sing, The Hot L Baltimore, Wild Honey – adaptation of Chekhov’s early play, known in Russia as the Fatherless (other names – Play Without a Title and Platonov), tragedies Hamlet, Emilia Galotti, The Changeling, comedies Pygmalion, Midsummer night’s Dream, The Government inspector A Flea in Her Ear.
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Ellen DeGeneres – actress and TV presenter

Ellen DeGeneres - actress and TV presenter

Ellen DeGeneres – actress and TV presenter

Ellen DeGeneres is an American actress, comedian and TV presenter, the winner of 11 Emmy awards for The Ellen DeGeneres Show, presenter of two Oscar ceremonies (2007, 2014).
Ellen Lee DeGeneres was born on January 26, 1958. She grew up in a suburb of New Orleans, Louisiana, into a family of a speech therapist Betty DeGeneres and insurance agent Elliott DeGeneres. She has a brother Vance DeGeneres, who became a producer and musician. DeGeneres family has French, English, German and Irish roots.
Her parents divorced when she was 16 years old. Shortly thereafter, Betty DeGeneres married Roy Gruessendorf and the family moved to Atlanta (Georgia, USA), but her brother stayed with the father in Louisiana. In May 1976, Ellen graduated from high school in Atlanta and returned to Louisiana. She entered the University of New Orleans and studied public relations.
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Rita Ora – actress and singer

Rita Ora - actress and singer

Rita Ora – actress and singer

Rita Ora is a British actress and singer of Albanian origin. In 2009, she appeared on BBC in the show Eurovision: Your Country Needs Youruen. A little later, she signed a contract with Roc Nation.
Rita Sahatçiu Ora was born on November 26, 1990 in Yugoslavia. In the same year her family moved to the UK. She lived in West London and attended St Matthias CE primary school. Then she studied in youth theater school and St Charles Catholic Sixth Form College. Her mother is a psychiatrist, and her father is the owner of the pub. Rita has elder sister Elena and younger brother Don. The girl became interested in music at an early age.
In 2007, Rita took part in recording of Craig David’s single Awkward, which was the first release of the singer. In 2009 Craig David offered her to record Where’s Your Love together. Ora appeared in the music video for this song.
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