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Kaley Cuoco – American actress

Kaley Cuoco - American actress

Kaley Cuoco – American actress

Kaley Cuoco is an American actress. In October 2014 she received the star number 2532 on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
Kaley Christine Cuoco was born on November 30, 1985 in Camarillo, California. Her father Gary Carmine Cuoco was a real estate agent, and her mother Ann Wingate Lane was a housewife. Kaley has a younger sister, Brianna, who is 6 years younger.
Kaley appeared in children’s toys advertisement when she was only 8 months old. At the age of three she was engaged in tennis and dreamed of becoming a famous athlete. When the girl was 6 years old she appeared in Barbie dolls advert. Soon she began to participate in the theater plays Annie and Fiddler on the Roof.
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Nina Dobrev – beautiful Canadian actress

Nina Dobrev – beautiful Canadian actress

Nina Dobrev – beautiful Canadian actress

Nina Dobrev is a Canadian actress of Bulgarian origin, singer, model and gymnast.
Nikolina Konstantinova Dobreva was born on January 9, 1989 in Sofia, People’s Republic of Bulgaria. Nina was born to an artist and programmer. She has an elder brother Alexander. When Nina was two years old, her family moved to Canada and settled in Toronto, Ontario. As a child the girl was interested in dancing, gymnastics, theater, music, visual arts and acting. At first she studied at J.B. Tyrrell Sr. Public School and then transferred to Wexford Collegiate School for the Arts. Later she entered Dean Armstrong School, where she was noticed by many agencies.
In 2008, Nina entered Ryerson University but quit it in favor of her acting career.
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Olivia Munn – American actress

Olivia Munn - American actress

Olivia Munn – American actress

Olivia Munn is an American actress, comedienne, model, television presenter and writer. At the beginning of her career, she was known as Lisa Mann, but in 2006 she began to use Olivia Munn in personal and professional spheres.
Lisa Olivia Munn was born on July 3, 1980 in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. When Munn was two years old, her mother married US Air Force soldier. Although the family moved many times, Munn mostly grew up in Tokyo, Japan. During that time she appeared in several local theater productions, and later became a model in the Japanese fashion industry. When Olivia was fifteen years old her mother and stepfather divorced and she moved to Oklahoma, where graduated from Putnam City North High School. Munn graduated from the University of Oklahoma where she studied journalism and Japanese theater.
Munn moved to Los Angeles to pursue an acting career. In 2004, she got a job on Fox Sports Net channel and worked as a reporter on American football and women’s basketball, but soon left the job.
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Gigi Hadid – model and television presenter

Gigi Hadid - model and television presenter

Gigi Hadid – model and television presenter

Gigi Hadid is an American model and television presenter. She is a face of Tom Ford, Victoria’s Secret’s model. Her photos appeared in the Pirelli 2015 calendar.
Jelena Noura Hadid was born on April 23, 1995 in Los Angeles. She is a daughter of a construction company owner, Mohamed Hadid and model Yolanda Hadid. Gigi has sister Bella and brother Anwar. The girl also has seven half-sisters. In 2000, her parents divorced and her mother married music producer David Foster, winner of 14 Grammy awards.
At school Gigi was the captain of the volleyball team. After school Hadid moved to New York and in 2013 she entered the New School.
Her modeling career began when she was 2 years old. The girl was noticed by Paul Marciano from Guess.
In 2011 she signed a contract with IMG Models. In 2012 she became the face of Guess.
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Michael Shannon – American actor and musician

Michael Shannon – American actor and musician

Michael Shannon – American actor and musician

Michael Shannon is an American film and theater actor, musician. Shannon began his acting career in 1991. He made his debut in the theater in the city of Chicago. The first film in his career was Groundhog Day where he played a cameo role of the groom at a wedding.
His most famous film is considered Revolutionary Road by Sam Mendes. The actor is also known for his role as General Zod in Man of Steel, as well as for the TV series Boardwalk Empire. He also starred in the film Batman vs Superman: Dawn of Justice.
Shannon is known for collaborations with filmmaker Jeff Nichols. He starred in all his films, and the most notable are Shelter, Mud and Midnight Special.
Michael is a winner of the US Screen Actors Guild Award, and Saturn, a nominee for Oscar, Golden and Tony.
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Emily Ratajkowski – American model and actress

Emily Ratajkowski – American model and actress

Emily Ratajkowski – American model and actress

Emily Ratajkowski is an American model and actress. She gained popularity after shooting topless in Robin Thicke’s music video for the song Blurred Lines.
Emily O’Hara Ratajkowski was born on June 7, 1991 in London in an American family. She has Polish, Jewish, English, Irish and German roots. Her mother is a professor and writer, Emily characterized her as “a feminist and intellectual”. Her father is a talented Polish artist. Emily grew up in the city of Encinitas, California. As a child, she visited many parts of Europe and lived in Bantry in Ireland and in Mallorca in Spain.
At the age of 14 Ratajowski signed a contract with Ford Models. She combined her studies at the school in San Diego (CA) with her work as a model in Los Angeles. Emily studied art at the University of California in Los Angeles and a year later she quit it and decided to devote herself to her modeling career.
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Shelley Duvall – American actress

Shelley Duvall – American actress

Shelley Duvall – American actress

Shelley Duvall is an American film and television actress. She was nominated for BAFTA Award in 1978 and for Emmy in 1988 and 1992. In 1977 she won Best Actress award at the Cannes Film Festival. She is best known for her roles in the films Nashville (1975), Three Women (1977), Annie Hall (1977), The Shining (1980), Popeye (1980), Time Bandits (1981) and Portrait of a Lady (1996).
Shelley Alexis Duvall was born on July 7, 1949 in Houston, Texas. Her father Robert Richardson Duvall was a lawyer and her mother Bobby Ruth Crawford was a real estate broker. Shelley has three brothers – Scott, Shane and Stuart.
After school Shelley sold cosmetics. Then she studied at the South Texas College.
In 1970 she debuted in Robert Altman’s film Brewster McCloud. Altman was impressed and invited the actress to his following films: western McCabe and Mrs. Miller (1971), crime drama Thieves Like Us (1974) and the musical Nashville (1975).
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