Jessica Alba

Jessica Marie Alba is an American television and film actress and model. Jessica Alba began her television and movie appearances at age 13 in Camp Nowhere iSecret World of Alex Mack (1994). Alba rose to prominence as an actress in the television series Dark Angel James Cameron (2000-2002), when he was 19 years old . Jessica Alba later appeared in Honey (2003), Sin City (2005), Fantastic Four (2005) Into the Blue (2005), Fantastic Four : Rise of the Silver Surfer (2007) and Good Luck Chuck (2007).

Jessica Alba was nazwanasymbolem sex. She appears on the " Hot 100 " Maxim and has been recognized as number one on the AskMen.com is the " 99 Most Desirable Women " in 2006, as well as the " sexiest woman in the world " by FHM in 2007. In 2005, TV Guide ranked her # 45 on its " 50 Sexiest Stars of All Time " list. The use of her image on the cover of Playboy in March 2006 sparked a lawsuit by her, which was later dropped. She also won many awards for its activities, including actress awards Teen Choice Award and Saturn Award for Best Actress in a TV, and a Golden Globe nomination for her role in the television series Dark Angel.

Jessica Alba Eearly life

Jessica Alba was born in Pomona, California, Catherine (née Jensen) and Mark Alba. Jessica Alba mother is of Danish and French Canadian origin, and her father is of Mexican origin. She has a younger brother, Joshua. Father's Air Force career took the family to Biloxi, Mississippi and the Del Rio, Texas, before settling back in Claremont, California, when Jessica Alba was nine years old. Alba described the family as " very conservative family - a traditional, Catholic, Latin American family " and herself as very liberal, she says she is not presented as a " feminist " as early as age five.

Early life Alba was marked by many physical ailments. During childhood, she suffered twice partially collapsed lung, pneumonia four to five times a year, as well as a ruptured appendix and tonsil cyst. Alba became isolated from other children at school because she was in the hospital so often due to her illness, that no one knew her well enough to befriend her. Jessica Alba has also had asthma since she was a child. Alba said that her family is often moving also contributed to her isolation from peers. She admitted that she suffers from obsessive - compulsive disorder in childhood. Alba is a graduate of Claremont High School at the age 16 and she subsequently attended the Atlantic Theater Company.

Jessica Alba Career

Jessica Alba expressed interest in acting since the age of five. In 1992, 11 -year-old Alba persuaded her mother to take her to acting competition in Beverly Hills, whose grand prize was free acting classes. Alba won the grand prize, and her first acting lessons. The agent signed Alba nine months later. Her first appearance in film byłamała role in 1994 include Camp Nowhere as Gail. Jessica Alba was originally hired for two weeks but her role turned into a job two months when one of the prominent actresses dropped out.

Alba appeared in two national television commercials for Nintendo and JC Penney as a child. Jessica Alba was later featured in several independent films. She took to television in 1994 in the recurring role as the vain Jessica in three episodes of the Nickelodeon comedy series The Secret World of Alex Mack. Then he held the role of Maya in the first two seasons of the series Flipper. Under tutelage of her lifeguard mother Alba learned to swim before she could walk, and onacertyfikat PADI scuba diver, skills which were used in the show, which was filmed in Australia.

In 1998, she appeared as Melissa Hauer in the first episode of the season with Steven Bochco crime Brooklyn South, as Leanne in two episodes of the Beverly Hills, 90210, and as the Layla in an episode of The Love Boat : The Next Wave. In 1999, Jessica Alba appeared in the Randy Quaid comedy PUNKS. After Alba graduated, she studied acting with William H. Macy and his wife, Felicity Huffman, at Atlantic Theater Company, which was developed by Macy and Pulitzer Prize -winning playwright and director David Mamet.


Alba rose to greater importance in Hollywood in 1999 after the appearance of a snobby high school clique member in the romantic comedy starring Drew Barrymore Never Been Kissed, and as the female lead in the 1999 film comedy - horror film Idle Hands, opposite Devon Sawa.

Jessica Alba big break came when writer / director James Cameron picked Alba from a pool of 1,200 candidates for the role of genetically super- soldier, Max Guevara, on Fox sci-fi television series Dark Angel. Co-created by Cameron, the series favorites Alba, and ran for two seasons until 2002, earning her critical acclaim and a Golden Globe nomination. Jessica Alba later admitted to suffering from anorexia while in preparation for Dark Angel. In August 2010 it was announced that Alba will appear in Spy Kids 4. The film was wydanyrok later.

In January 2012, Alba and business partner Chris Gavigan launched honest company, a collection of free toxins household goods, hygiene and personal care products. In March 2012, Alba has announced that it will release the book, honest life, based on their experience, creating a natural, non-toxic life for his family. The book is slated for release in early 2013, will be published by Rodale.

Jessica Alba Public Image

In 2001, Alba was ranked 1 on the Hot 100 Maxim magazine. She said " I have to go to certain lengths to use sexuality to my advantage, and lead people to think the way we want. " In 2005, Alba was named one of people magazine 50 most beautiful people, and also appeared in 100 most beautiful list magazine in 2007. In 2002, Alba was elected as the fifth Sexiest Female Star for 2002 in a Hollywood.com poll, No. 4 in the Top 10 Sci-Fi Babes, # 6 in FHM sexiest girls in the survey, and the place for No.12 in Stuff magazine " 102 sexiest women in the World " 2002 edition. In 2005, Alba took No.5 on the Hot 100 Maxim magazine.

On the cover of the March 2006 issue of Playboy named Alba among its 25 Sexiest Celebrities and Sex Star of the Year. Jessica Alba was involved in litigation against Playboy for its use of her image (from a promotional shot for Into the Blue) without Jessica Alba consent, which she contends gave the appearance that she was featured in the issue in a " nude pictorial ". However, she later dropped the lawsuit after receiving a personal apology from Playboy owner Hugh Hefner, who agreed to make the donations to two charities that Alba has supported. When reports surfaced, 21 year old Chinese woman looking for plastic surgery to resemble Alba in order to win back an ex-boyfriend, the star spoke out against the perceived need to change their appearance for love.

Jessica Alba Personal life

Jessica Alba was raised as a Catholic throughout her teenage years, but left church after four years because she felt that her judged on her appearance, explaining : " Older people hit me, and my youth pastor said it was because he had wearing provocative clothing, when I was not. I just feel like if I was at all desirable to the opposite sex that it was my fault the way, and it made me ashamed of my body and being a woman".

Alba also had objections to the Church's condemnation of premarital sex and homosexuality, and what Jessica Alba saw as a lack of strong female role models in the Bible, explaining " I thought tomiły guide, but it certainly was not how I was going to live your life. " Her " religious devotion to wane " at the age of 15, when he guest starred as a teenager with gonorrhea in the throat in a 1996 episode of Chicago Hope. Jessica Alba friends at church reacted negatively to the role, making her lose faith in the church. However, she said that still holds her belief in God despite leaving the church.

While filming Dark Angel in January 2000, Alba began a three years relationship with her play Michael Weatherly, which caused controversy due to their 12 year age difference. Weatherly proposed to Jessica Alba on her twentieth birthday, which was adopted. In August 2003, Alba and Weatherly announced that they had ended their relationship. In July 2007, Jessica Alba spoke out about  breakup, saying " I do not know. Byłamdziewicą. Had 12 years older than me. Thought he knew better. My parents were not happy. They are very religious. Believe that God does not pozwoliBiblia be written if not for what they believe. 'm completely different. " Alba had once said that she expected to be much older man in her ideal partner, referring to Morgan Freeman, Sean Connery, Robert Redford, and Michael Caine. She said : " I have something for older men. Were around and know so much. "


Alba met Cash Warren, son of actor Michael Warren, while filming Fantastic Four in 2004. Alba married Warren in Los Angeles in May 2008. They have two daughters : Honor Marie Warren (born 2008) and Haven Garner Warren (born 2011). First pictures of Honor Marie appeared in the July 2008 issue of OK ! Magazine, which paid $1.5 million.

In 2005, Alba offered her acting talents for free, to raise money for AIDS charity amfAR at Cannes Film Festival. Industry has ruled in favor of the Research Foundation in the U.S.. Alba has caused "the greatest stir " by promising to star as an unpaid actress in one of the films Lord of the Rings producer Bob Weinstein, if Weinstein agreed to bid $100,000 for tennis lessons with sports stars Monica Seles and Boris Becker.

Jessica Alba charity work includes participation with the clothes back, Habitat for Humanity, National Center for Missing and Exploited Children Project HOME, RADD, Revlon Run / Walk for Women, SOS Children Villages, Soles4Souls, and Step up. Alba openly endorsed and supported Democratic presidential hopeful Barack Obama during the primary season of 2008. Alba jestambasadorem traffic 1GOAL to ensure the education of children in Africa. It takżezwolennikiem gay rights and 27 June 2013, expressed joy at the decision of the Supreme Court to strike down Doma on her Twitter account. She Entries " # equality # love."


Alba posed for a print advertising campaign Declare Yourself bondage -style, by a campaign encouraging voter registration among youth for the presidential election in the U.S. in 2008. Ads photographed by Mark Liddell, which feature Alba wrapped in and gagged with black tape, drew the attention of the media. National ads were described by some as " shocking ". Alba said doing advertisements that "it did not scare me at all. "Alba also said " I think it is important that young people are aware of the need we have in this country to get them more active politically," and " People respond to things that are shocking. "

In June 2009, while filming The Killer Inside Me in Oklahoma City, Alba was involved in a controversy with the inhabitants, while the pasted posters of sharks around town. Alba said that he tried to pay attention to the diminishing population of great white sharks. Media have speculated that Alba will be conducted on suspicion of vandalism. On 16 June 2009, Oklahoma City police said that they will continue the charges against Alba, because none of the owners wanted to pursue it. Jessica Alba apologized in a statement to People magazine and said that he regrets his actions. Later donated an undisclosed amount of money (over $500) to the United Way, whose table was covered with one of the posters of sharks. In 2011, Jessica Alba participated in a two-day lobbying in Washington for the Safe Chemicals Act on the amendment to the Toxic Substances Control Act of 1976.

Angelina Jolie

Angelina Jolie is an American actress, the film director, screenwriter and the author. Angelina Jolie has received an Academy Award, two Screen Actors Guild Awards and the three Golden Globe Awards, and was named actress Hollywood's highest paid Forbes in 2009, 2011 and 2013. Angelina Jolie promotes humanitarian causes, and noted her work with refugees as a Special Envoy and former Goodwill Ambassador for the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR). Angelina Jolie has often cited the woman of the world "very good", the title of which has received little media attention.

Angelina Jolie made ​​her DEBUT screen as a child and her father, Jon Voight, in Lookin' to Get Out (1982), but her film career began in earnest a decade later to produce a low-budget Cyborg 2 (1993). The role of leading his first major film was in hackers Cyber ​​- Thriller (1995). He stars in the acclaimed eye of the television biographical films George Wallace (1997) and Gia (1998), and won the Award Academy for Best Supporting actress for her work in the Girl drama, Interrupted (1999).


Angelina Jolie achieved more fame after his light of the video game Heroine Lara Croft in Lara Croft: Tomb Raider (2001), and established himself among the players the highest paid in Hollywood with the sequel The Cradle of Life (2003). He continued his action star course with Mr. & Mrs. Smith (2005), Wanted (2008), salt (2010) and The Tourist (2010) and his live action commercial success so far with an international investment of U.S. $478 million, $341 million, $293 million and $278 million, respectively, and received further critical acclaim for her performances in the dramas A Mighty Heart (2007) and Changeling (2008), which gained her a nomination for an Academy Award for Best actress. Jolie made ​​her DEBUT directorial the wartime drama In the Land of Blood and Honey (2011). Divorced from actors Jonny Lee Miller and Billy Bob Thornton, Jolie now lives with actor Brad Pitt, in a relationship notable for fervent media attention. Jolie and Pitt have three adopted and three biological children.

Angelina Jolie Early Life

Angelina Jolie, born in Los Angeles, California, Jolie is the daughter of actors Jon Voight and Marcheline Bertrand. She is the sister of actor James Haven, niece of singer - songwriter Chip Taylor, and goddaughter of actors Jacqueline Bisset and Eurostars Schell. On his father's side, Jolie is German and Slovak descent, and his mother's side, he's Canadian, Dutch, and German ancestry mainly in French. Like her mother, Jolie has said that part of the Iroquois, although his ancestors Indigenous known only to the Huron woman born in 1649.

After the separation of his parents in 1976, Jolie and her brother lived at his mother, who had made ​​his wishes to focus on raising her children. As a child, Jolie often watched movies with her ​​mother and explained that inspired his interest, he said he did not influence the course of their father. When she was six years old, his mother and father, filmmaker Bill Day, moved the family to Palisades, New York, returned to Los Angeles five years later. Then he decided he wanted to do and enrolled at the Lee Strasberg Theatre Institute, where he trained for two years and appeared in several products company.

When 14 year old, Angelina Jolie went out of the things he did in his classes and aspired to become a funeral director. He started working as a fashion model, modeling mainly in Los Angeles, New York, and London. During this time, he wore dark clothing, experimented with knife play, and went out moshing with her ​​boyfriend lived - in. Two years later, after the relationship had ended, she rented a room above a garage a few blocks from home to his mother. She graduated from high school and returned to theater studies, although in recent times has referred to this period with the observation, " I am still at heart - and always will be - just a punk kid with Tattoos. "

Angelina Jolie suffered episodes of suicidal depression throughout his youth and early twenties. Felt isolated Beverly Hills High School among the children of some of the area's affluent families, as her mother survived on a more common, it was ridiculed by other students, who targeted her for being extremely thin and wearing glasses and braces. He found it difficult to emotionally connect with other people, and because of this he began to self - harm ;. Later, answering, " I collected knives and always had certain things around For some reason, the tradition of being cut myself and feeling the pain, maybe feeling alive, feeling some kind of release, it was somehow therapeutic to me. " And he began abusing drugs, with 20 - year - old, had tried " just about every drug possible, " including heroin.

Angelina Jolie Career

When Angelina Jolie was seven years old, Jolie had a small part in Lookin' to Get Out (1982), a movie co-written and covers his father, Jon Voight. She committed to acting at the age of 16, but initially found it difficult to pass auditions, often being told that says " too dark. " He appeared in five student films, and his brother, made ​​when he went to the USC School of Cinema - Television, as well as a number of music, namely Lenny Kravitz's' Stand by My Woman " (1991) ; version Antonello Venditti of hit Crowded House's " Do not Dream shattered ", "Alta Marea " (1991) ; The Lemonheads's " It's About Time " (1993), and Meat Loaf's' Rock and Roll Dreams Come Through " (1993). He began to read from his father, as he noted his way of seeing the people to be like them. This time, their relationship was a bit strained, with Jolie realizing that both " drama queens. "

Angelina Jolie began to film his professional career in 1993, when he played his first role in the low- budget, straight - to -video science - fiction sequel Cyborg 2, as Casella " Cash " Reese, a near - human robot, designed to seduce her way to the headquarters manufacturing rival, and then self - detonate. Jolie was extremely disappointed with the film that he did not audition again for a year. Following a supporting role in the independent film Without Evidence (1995), Jolie stars as Kate " Acid Burn " Libby in her first Hollywood picture, hackers (1995). The New York Times wrote : " Kate (Angelina Jolie) stands out. That's because she scowls even sourly and that rare female hacker who lives intently at her keyboard on the other side. Despite his posturing sullen, which is all this role requires, Ms. Jolie has four sweetly beauty of her father, Jon Voight. " fails to benefit the box office, but developed a cult following after its video release.


Angelina Jolie next appeared in the 1996 comedy Love Is All There Is, a loose modern adaptation of Romeo and Juliet set in the midst of a rival Italian family restaurant owners and two in The Bronx, New York. In the road movie Mojave Moon (1996) she played a young woman who falls for Danny Aiello's middle syllable, when he became the feelings of his mother, played by Anne Archer. In the same year, Jolie also portrayed Margret " Legs " Sadovsky, one of five girls in his obligation is not possible in the film Foxfire after they beat up a teacher who has sexually harassed them. The Los Angeles Times wrote about her performance, " I had of hogwash to develop this character, but Jolie, Knockout's Jon Voight's daughter, has the presence to overcome the idea. Though the story narrated by Maddy, Legs is the subject and the catalyst. "

In 1997, Angelina Jolie stars David Duchovny in the thriller Playing God, set in the underworld of Los Angeles. The movie was not well received by critics, Roger Ebert noted that " Angelina Jolie finds a certain warmth in a kind of role that is usually hard and aggressive, seems to be very nice to have a girlfriend Blossom, and it may be that. " He then appeared in the television film True Women (1997), a historical romantic drama set in the American West and based on the book by Janice Woods Windle. In the same year, he appeared as a Stripper in the music video for "Anybody Seen Baby Farm" by the Rolling Stones.

Although most of his abilities, Jolie's films to date had often not appealed to a wider audience, but Lara Croft : Tomb Raider (2001) made ​​him a superstar international. An adaptation of the popular Tomb Raider videogame, Jolie had to learn English in a different way undergo intensive training to play the title role in martial of Lara Croft. He was often praised for his physical performance, but the movie generated mostly negative reviews. Slant commented : " Angelina Jolie was born to play Lara Croft but Simon West makes her journey into a game of Frogger. " Became an international success nonetheless, earning around $275 million, and launched its global reputation as a female action star.

In 2004, Angelina Jolie stars alongside Ethan Hawk Thriller in taking life. He is an FBI profiler summoned to help Montreal law enforcement hunt down a serial killer. Movie received mixed reviews and The Hollywood Reporter concluded : " Angelina Jolie plays a role that definitely feels like something already done, but he did add a dash unmistakable glamor happiness. " He also provided the voice of Lola angelfish in the DreamWorks animated movie Shark Tale (2004), and a brief appearance in Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow (2004), a science - adventure film shot entirely of players in front of bluescreen. In the same year, Jolie played Olympias in Alexander, about the life of Alexander the Great. The film failed in this, which director Oliver Stone attributed to disapproval of the depiction of Bisexuality Alexander, but was successful in the world, with income of $139 million outside the United States.

In 2011, Angelina Jolie made ​​directorial feature is his DEBUT In the Land of Blood and Honey, a love story between Serb and Bosniak prisoner of war, set during the 1992-95 Bosnian War. He wrote the text twice after a visit to Bosnia and Herzegovina in her role as a UNHCR Goodwill Ambassador, for the purpose of renewal of care for survivors of the war occurred in recent history. In order to ensure a sense of authenticity, and then cast the only players from the former Yugoslavia, the majority of those who lived through the war - including star Goran hep and Marjanovic town and incorporated their experiences into his script. The film resulted, which he co - produced, was released in theaters U.S. entirely in the language of Serbo-Croatian - Bosnian.

In the Land of Blood and Honey received mixed reviews from citics. Kenneth Turan of The Los Angeles Times criticized' contrived a plot point, " but in the end he agreed that, as the first director of the time, " Jolie plays much the same area as difficult war in Bosnian. " Write The New York Times, Manohla Dargis also criticized the script's Jolie, noting the game " instructional somewhat uncomfortable, sometimes about the people factor, " but Pineda that, for the most part, the film " moves briskly and easily holds your attention. " the film won the Stanley Kramer Award from the Producers Guild of America, which honors films that highlight provocative social issues, and received a nomination for a Golden Globe Award for Best Foreign Language film. It aroused both praise and criticism in the Balkans, the answer to the Bosniak victims of war and organizations espousing' overwhelmingly positive, " while a Serb prisoners of war group decried the film for its bias against Serb. The government district of Sarajevo named Jolie an honorary citizen of the city of awareness of the war.

After four years of absence from the screen, Angelina Jolie will star in the upcoming Maleficent (2014). He plays the titular role of Maleficent, the main antagonist from the 1959 Disney's animated Sleeping Beauty. The film will show the original story's Maleficent's point of view, it reflects the character's background. He is set to direct the film about World War II hero Lou Perine, a former Olympic track star who survived a plane crash over the sea, and spent two years in a prisoner - of - war camp Japanese. Joel and Ethan Coen will be in the new text, based on the biography Laura Hillenbrand's Unbroken.

Angelina Jolie first in the results of the humanitarian crisis while filming Lara Croft : Tomb Raider (2001) in the war - torn Cambodia, and later brought his understanding of the world. On his return home, he met with the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) for information on international trouble areas. To learn more about the conditions in these areas, he began visiting refugee camps around the world. In February 2001, he went on her first field visit, an 18 - day mission to Sierra Leone and Tanzania, later expressed her shock of what he had witnessed.

In the months following, he returned to Cambodia for two weeks and met with Afghan refugees in Pakistan, where he donated $1 million for an international UNHCR emergency appeal, offering the largest UNHCR received from the private sector. Covered all costs related to his work and he was working and living conditions of the same bad as UNHCR field staff on all of her visit. Jolie was named a UNHCR Goodwill Ambassador UNHCR headquarters in Geneva on August 27, 2001.

Angelina Jolie Personal life

Angelina Jolie got a serious boyfriend for two years from the age of 14. Mother allowed them to live together in his home, which was later Jolie said : " I was either going to be reckless on the streets with my boyfriend or he was going to me in my mother's room to the next room. Makes a decision, and for his sake, I continued to go to school in the morning and the first to examine my relationship in a safe way. " Yes, he likened his marital relationship is emotional, and said that the breakup compelled her to dedicate herself to her acting career at the age of 16.

During the recording of hackers (1995), Angelina Jolie had a romance with a British actor Jonny Lee Miller, her first lover since the relationship in her youth. They were not in touch for many months after production ended, but eventually reconnected and married soon after on March 28, 1996. He went to his wedding in black rubber pants and a white T - shirt, upon which she had written the groom's name in her blood. Jolie and Miller separated in September 1997 and divorced on February 3, 1999. They remained on good terms and Jolie later explained, " It comes down to timing., I think that a very large man girl could ask for. Would always love him, we were simply too much."

Angelina Jolie had a brief relationship with model - actress Jenny richie on the set of Foxfire (1996). Later he said, " I would probably have married Jenny if I had not married my husband. Fell in love with him the second time I saw her. " Richie said in 2005 that his relationship with Jolie had lasted many years and continued even while Jolie was romantically involved with other people. In 2003, she asked was bisexual, Jolie replied, " Yes. If I fell in love with a woman tomorrow, would I feel that it is right to want to kiss and touch her ​​? If I fell in love with him".

After a two month Dating, Jolie married actor Billy Bob Thornton on May 5, 2000, in Las Vegas. They met on the set of Pushing Tin (1999), but did not pursue a relationship at that time as Thornton was the marriage to actress Laura Dern. Because of their public announcements, unholy passion and love - most famously wearing one another's blood in vials in their neck - their marriage became a favorite topic of the entertainment. Jolie and Thornton announced the adoption of a son from Cambodia in March 2002, but abruptly separated three months later. Their divorce was finalized on May 27, 2003. Asked about the sudden elimination of their marriage, Jolie stated, " It also took me by surprise, because overnight, we totally changed., I think one day we just had not

In early 2005, Angelina Jolie was involved in a Hollywood scandal when accused of being the reason for the divorce actors Brad Pitt and Jennifer Aniston. She and Pitt were alleged to have started an affair during filming of Mr. & Mrs. Smith (2005). She denied this on several occasions, but later admitted that he' loved' on the set. Explained in 2005, " To close with a married man, when my father himself cheated on my mother, is not something I could forgive. Could not look at myself in the morning if I did that. I will not be attracted to a man who would cheat on his wife. " Jolie and Pitt did not comment publicly on the nature of the relationship their until January 2006, when Jolie confirmed to People that she was pregnant Pitt's child. Pitt and Jolie announced their engagement April 2012, after seven years together. The couple " Brangelina " by the entertainment media - are the subject of worldwide media

Angelina Jolie Children

On March 10, 2002, Angelina Jolie adopted her first child, Maddox Chivan seven - month -old, from an orphanage in Phnom Penh, Cambodia. Born as contrary Vibol on August 5, 2001, the local area. Jolie applied for adoption after he visited Cambodia twice, while filming Lara Croft : Tomb Raider (2001) and on a UNHCR field mission. Adoption process was halted in December 2001 when the U.S. government banned adoptions from Cambodia into allegations of child trafficking. Just when the adoption was finalized, she took custody of Maddox in Namibia, where filming Beyond Borders (2003). Although Jolie and her then - husband Billy Bob Thornton announced the adoption together, this is in fact adopted Maddox as a single parent.

Jolie adopted a daughter, Zahara Marley six months old, from an orphanage in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, on July 6, 2005. Zahara was born Yemsrach on January 8, 2005, in Awasa. At the time of the adoption, Zahara was wrongly believed to be an orphan AIDS and it was unknown whether he had contracted HIV, but later tested negative. Shortly after he returned to the United States, Zahara was hospitalized for dehydration and malnutrition. In November 2007, the media reported that the mother of Zahara stores blood and wanted her daughter back, but she denied these reports, saying she thought Zahara was' very lucky' to have been adopted by Jolie.

Angelina Jolie was accompanied by her partner Brad Pitt when he went to Ethiopia to keep Zahara. Later indicated that she and Pitt had made ​​the decision to accept from Ethiopia together. In December 2005,'s publicist Pitt announced that Pitt wanted to Maddox and Zahara. To reflect this, Jolie filed a legal change her children's surnames from Jolie to Jolie - Pitt, which was granted on January 19, 2006. This was adopted immediately after the statement.

In an attempt to avoid the media frenzy surrounding their relationship, Jolie and Pitt went to Namibia for the birth of their first child blood. On May 27, 2006, Jolie gave birth to a daughter, Shiloh Nouvel, in Swakopmund. Pitt confirmed that their newborn daughter would have a Namibian passport. The couple decided to sell the first pictures of Shiloh through the owner of the Getty Images themselves, rather than letting Paparazzi useful to make these images. People paid a reported $4.1 million American rights, while Hello ! obtained the British rights for a reported $3.5 million. All profits were donated to charities serving African children.

On March 15, 2007, Angelina Jolie adopted a son, three year old Pax Thien, from an orphanage in Ho Chi Minh City (HCMC), Vietnam. He was born as Pham Quang Sang on November 29, 2003, in HCMC, when he abandoned soon after birth. Jolie adopted Pax as a single parent, for the approval of Vietnam's regulations in do not allow unmarried couples to co - adopt. Rights for the first post- adoption of Pax were sold to People for a reported $2 million, and Hello ! for an undisclosed fee. In April, Jolie filed a legal change her son's surname from Jolie to Jolie - Pitt, which was approved on May 31, 2007. Pitt's acceptance of Pax was finalized in the United States on February 21, 2008.

At the Cannes Film Festival in May 2008, Jolie confirmed that they are expecting twins. For two weeks she spent in the hospital seaside in Nice, France, reporters and photographers camped outside the tour. Gave birth to a son, Knox León, and a daughter, Vivienne Marcheline, on July 12, 2008. Rights for the first images of Knox and Vivienne were jointly sold to Hello ! for a reported $14 million - the most expensive celebrity pictures ever taken.

Jennifer Lawrence

Jennifer Shrader Lawrence is an American actress. Jennifer Lawrence role as the first lead cast member on the sitcom TBS The Bill Engvall Show (2007-2009). Jennifer Lawrence then appeared in the independent films The Tree Plain (2008) and Bone Winter's (2010), for which he received his first Academy Award nomination for the Best actress, at the time, was the second youngest person to get the nomination stage.

Jennifer Lawrence, at the age of 22, working with Lawrence in the comedy David O. Russell directed romantic Silver Bangs Playbook (2012) received a number of awards, including the Golden Globe Award for Best actress (Musical or Comedy) and the Academy Award for Best actress, making her the second-a little Best actress winner at the Oscars. His role in supporting Russell's comedy-drama American Hustle (2013), received a Golden Globe Award, the Award FTA and received a third Academy Award nomination, for Best Supporting actress.


Jennifer Lawrence is also known for playing Raven Darkhölme/Mystique in the 2011 superhero film X-Men: First Class, the role she will reprise in 2014 film X-Men: Days of Future Past. Since -2012, gained international fame for playing the Heroine of lead, Katniss Everdeen, The Hunger Games film series. To work with her in his films garnered significant praise crisis and marked her as the highest-grossing Heroine of action-all the time.

Jennifer Lawrence Until that led Rolling Stone to call her "the most talented young actress in America." In 2013, Time magazine named her one of the 100 most influential people in the world, the Elle Magazine named her most powerful woman in the entertainment business and in 2013 and in-2012 and was ranked No. 1 on the list AskMen's of Top 99 Desirable Women of the year.

Jennifer Lawrence Early life

Jennifer Lawrence was born and raised in Louisville, Kentucky, the owner of the building Lawrence & Associates Gary Lawrence and a children's camp Karen (Koch) Lawrence. He has two older brothers, Ben and Blaine. Acted in local theater and, by the age of 14, had decided to continue to work to persuade her parents to take her to New York City to find the agent talent. Before finding success in Hollywood, Lawrence was Kammerer Middle School in Louisville. Jennifer Lawrence graduated from the high school two years early with an average of 3.9, aiming at a career in the making. While growing up, and the acting, Lawrence served as an assistant nurse at summer day camp that his mother ran.

Jennifer Lawrence Career

Jennifer Lawrence began his career in the TBS comedy The Bill Engvall Show, playing Lauren Pearson,  eldest daughter. The series went on air in September 2007 and was canceled in 2009 after three seasons. Lawrence was nominated for Award Artist Young for Outstanding Young performer in a TV Series in their 2009 award show for his role. After the show was canceled, he landed guest roles on the television series Cold Case, Medium and Monk.

In 2007, Jennifer Lawrence auditioned for the role of Bella Swan in Twilight, though the role went to Kristen Stewart. Later, Lawrence said that he 'was' because of the large role the media attention that Stewart received. The following year, he appeared in a small role in the film Garden Party, as TIFF, followed by the appearance of a big screen film DEBUT Guillermo Arriaga's directorial Tree Plain, opposite Charlize Theron and Kim Basinger. His performance in the film received the Marcello Mastroianni Award for best young emerging actor/actress at the Venice Film Festival in 2008.

Jennifer Lawrence had the lead role in DEBUT one of the film's director, a family drama Lori Petty's The Poker House opposite Selma Blair and Chloe Grace Moretz, where he stars as Agnes, is a victim of abuse. Received the Los Angeles Film Festival Award for Outstanding Performance for his role in the film. He appeared in the music video for the song "The Mess I Made", from the 2009 album Sleep loss by parachute. Also sometime in year, 2009, Lawrence appeared in The Beaver, the dark comedy Starring Jodie Foster and Mel Gibson, but the film spent a long time to set up because of the issue on May 6, 2011.

In October 2012, Jennifer Lawrence was announced as the new face of Dior. The following month, she played the newly widowed Tiffany Maxwell in David O. Russell Silver Bangs Playbook, an adaptation of the novel by the same name, Matthew Quick, opposite Bradley Cooper and Robert De Niro. He received widespread credit crisis for his performance in this film, and Richard Corliss of writing in Time, "Why is Lawrence. Just 21 when the movie was shot, Lawrence is that rare young actress playing the year, to grow up. Sullen and hot, and lends a mature intelligence to the role..... Jennifer Lawrence is a silver lining in this Playbook especially the ordinary. "Peter Travers of Rolling Stone also wrote that Lawrence" is a miracle. He's rude, dirty, funny, foulmouthed, sloppy, sexy, alive, and accident, sometimes all in the same scene, even in the same spirit. No. list of Best actress Oscar contenders would be complete without a thrilling Lawrence in the lead. lights up the screen. "He won the Academy Award, Golden Globe Award, and a number of other accolades for actress Best for his performance in this film.

Jennifer Lawrence replaced Angelina Jolie in the depression era drama Susanne's framework, Serena, based on the posting the same name by Ron outbreak. He plays the role of a woman whose unstable Serena learns that they will bear children with her husband and sets out to kill the woman who bore her husband's illegitimate son before their marriage. Recording was completed in -2012 and the film is scheduled to be released in April 2014.

While filming began in September 2012, Catching Fire, the next payment Hunger Games series, was released on November 22, 2013. Proved to be very successful commercial and critical. Lawrence's portrayal of Katniss Everdeen received praise for his predicament. Stephanie Zacharek of The Village Voice wrote that Lawrence is "both on fire in the process of being, and beautiful to watch." On January 10, Catching Fire was the first movie with a female lead only to have the highest serious domestic year since The Exorcist (1973). Jennifer Lawrence will reprise her role in the final film of the books of the Hunger Games book, The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part One is set to be released on November 21, 2014 and Part 2 on November 20, 2015.

Jennifer Lawrence played a support role in the David O. Russell's crime drama American Hustle. The film, based on the FBI ABSCAM surgery, is set against the making of political corruption in New Jersey in the late 1970s. Lawrence played a con artist wife to Christian Bale. The film features Bradley Cooper, Amy Adams, and Jeremy Renner in the main roles, and was released on December 13, 2013. Lawrence has critical acclaim for his work and has been nominated for Best Supporting actress by the Screen Actors Guild and critics Choice Awards. Received a Golden Globe for Best Supporting actress on January 12, 2014. And received a third Academy Award nomination, first of all, it is the role of support, a young actress of the three proposals.

Jennifer Lawrence will be put in and produce an adaptation of the film of memoir Claire Bidwell Smith's The Rules of Inheritance, directed by Susanne framework. In September 2013, it was announced that Lawrence was to star in an adaptation of the Orient to send Eden director Gary Ross. The film is based on the novel by John Steinbeck and was adapted to film in -1955, Starring James Dean (although the film is only a change in the latter part of the novel). In addition, it was chosen to star in the Rites of Burial, a adaptation of the film of DEBUT novel's Hannah Kent, where she would be joined again by Gary Ross.

In 2014, Jennifer Lawrence will be reprising her role as Mystique in the film X-Men: Days of Future Past James McAvoy and Michael Fassbender. Will be put together his third film directed by David O. Russell, titled The Ends of the Earth. In addition, Jennifer Lawrence will play Jeannette Walls in  adaptation of the film of 'best-selling memoir The Glass Castle.

Jennifer Lawrence Acting style Style

Donald Sutherland compared Lawrence to Laurence Olivier and described her as "a great character and wisdom. 'Film director David O. Russell praised his work that make her performances look easy. Lawrence said," I have studied and was impressed by their reactions and feelings And I think that's good is a class you can take. Watching real people, listen to them and study them "

Jennifer Lawrence Personal life

Since August 2013, Lawrence dating X-Men: First Class and X-Men: Days of Future Past co-star Nicholas Hoult. The couple began dating in 2011 after filming the X-Men: First Class, but ended their relationship in January 2013, after 2 years of dating. They reconnected after 6 July 2013, after filming the X-Men: Days of Future Past together.

Taylor Swift

Taylor Swift Alison is an American singer - songwriter. Raised in Wyo-missing, Pennsylvania, the Taylor Swift moved to Nashville, Tennessee at the age fourteen to pursue the country music. Taylor Swift signed with Major independent registered a record and become the youngest songwriter ever hired by the Sony/ATV Music Press. Release of Swift 's eponymous titled debut album in June 2006 to the end as a country music Star. "Our Song", only the third, the youngest person and only handedly write and do a number one song on the hot Latin songs chart. You have received a best new artist selection in the 2008 Grammy Awards.

Swift second album, Fearless, will be released in 2008. Buoyed by the pop crossover success of singles "Love Story" and "You are with me", Fearless became the best selling album of 2009. If you received four Grammy Awards, including Swift clique is the youngest ever Album of the Year Winner. Swift 's third album, 2010's Now, sold more than a million copies in its first week of U.S. release. The only one album, "means", received two Grammy Awards. Swift's fourth album, Red, a release in 2012. Its opening U.S. sales of 1.2 million was recorded in a decade, with Swift became the only female artist to have two million Plus opening week. The singles "We 'll never know Getting Back Together" and "I know the problem" in the world shudders.

Taylor Swift is known for songs about his experiences as children and young adults. As a songwriter, you have been Honored by the Nashville Songwriters Association and the Songwriters Hall of the republic. Swift 's other achievements in seven Grammy Awards, the twelve Billboard Music Award, fifteen American Music Awards, televen Country Music Association Award and six Academy of Country Music Awards. It has sold more than 26 million albums and 75 million digital downloads only, making it one of the world 's best selling artists of all time. Forbes is correct that it is more than $220 million. In addition to the music, Swift has appeared as one of the players ensemble comedy Valentine (2010) and the animated movie Lorax (2012). As the Taylor Swift supports, education, children's education, natural disasters relief LGBT anti-discrimination efforts and the charities for sick children.

Taylor Swift Early life

Taylor Swift Alison was born on December 13, 1989 in reading, Pennsylvania. Your father, Scott Kingsley Swift, a Merrill Lynch financial adviser. Scott was raised in the Pennsylvania and is the descendant of three generations of a bank director. His mother, Andrea, a homemaker who previously working as a retail business with financial leaders. Andrea used the first ten years of his life in Singapore, before settling in Texas, your father is engineer oil rig to operate throughout Southeast Asia. Swift has the younger brother, Austin, who attends University of Notre Dame. You and your brother were raised in the Presbyterian faith and Bible school. It is used at the beginning of life on an eleven acre Christmas tree hoe in nearby Cumru Township, Pennsylvania. You peanuts and kindergarten at Alvernia Montessori School, run by Franciscan St., and was later educated at Wyndcroft, an organization - private school. When Taylor Swift was nine years old, family opened the private school in the rural town of Wyomissing, Pennsylvania, is where you go to sleep reading difficulties the company and Wyomissing Area Junior/Senior High School. Swift summered at his parents ' waterfront vacation home in Stone Harbor, New Jersey and is described as a place "where the very best of my control".

Taylor Swift's family owned several horses and a quarter Shetland Pony and his main hobby is English Riding horses. Her first time in a saddle when he was nine months old and he later competed in horse shows. At age of nine, Taylor Swift became interested in emissions in the theater. You have several Berks Youth Theatre Academy Productions and frequently travel to Broadway for vocal and educational anesthetic. Swift then turned his attention to country music, Shania humorist your songs "you want to run around the block four times and daydream about everything". You can use your client area, fairs, coffeehouses, Karaoke competitions, garden clubs, Boy Scout meetings and sporting events. At the age of eleven, after many efforts have failed, a Swift Talent local competition by a rendition of leann "Big deal" and for the opportunity to appear as the opening step for Charlie Daniels is a Strausstown amphitheater. This form of greed start to be leased to Swift middle school group.

After watching a Behind the Music events by Faith Hill, Swift think that you need to go to Nashville, Tennessee to pursue music. At the age of eleven, you travel with your mother to Nashville for spring Break to give a demo of the mammary Parton and Dixie chicks Karaoke covers with the title along music row. You get rejections and have found that all people in the country in which you want to do what I want to do. So, I kept thinking to myself, I need to figure out a different way. "In the age of twelve, a Swift displayed by a computer repairman how to play three chords on a guitar, inspiring him to write his first song "luck". He had previously received a national poetry contest with a poem titled "Monster in my closet", but now I need to focus on songwriting. In 2003, Swift and her parents started to work with New York based music manager Dan Dymtrow. Dymtrow help, Swift modeled for Abercrombie and Fitch as part of their "Rising stars" campaign, the original music is a Maybelline Cosmetics compilation CD and hold meetings with the special title. After performing original songs at RCA record disclosure, the eighth grader is an artist development of the project and start making frequent trips to Nashville with his mother.

Taylor Swift Music Career

Taylor Swift moved to Nashville, Tennessee at age of fourteen. If your own artist development deal with RCA records, you have playing time with the music row songwriters Troy Verges, Brett Beavers, Brett James, Mac McAnally and The Warren Brothers. It 's a damage - control lasting up work together with Liz. Swift to get up in the RCA songwriter event and suggested that if they are not together. They began to meet for two hours every Tuesday Friday after school. Up has said that " some of the easiest I've ever done. Basically, I was an editor. Want to write about what happened at school that day. You have such a clear vision of what you have to say. he is with the most incredible hooks. Taylor Swift also began the recording demos with producer Nathan Chapman. After working in a BMI songwriter Circle showing the bitter End, New York, Taylor Swift became youngest songwriter ever hired by the Sony/ATV Press. Swift left RCA record when he was fifteen, company would like to receive other services songwriters and wait until you are eighteen to release an album, but you think your ready to launch with the your own applications. He also parted ways with manager Dan Dymtrow, and later legal action against Swift and her parents. "I think I genuinely running out of time, "Swift feedback later". I want to Capture the years of my life on a plate when they represented what I was going through. " The companies have a Nashville Bluebird Cafe in 2005, Swift took note of Scott Borchetta, a DreamWorks record executive is preparing to form your own independent record, Great record. It became one of the first signings, with his purchase of a three percent stake in the fledgling company estimated cost of $120,000. As a signal to the country music business, Borchetta arranged for Taylor Swift to Intern as a player escort at CMA Music Festival.

Taylor Swift's second album Studio, Fearless, will be released in November 2008. Taylor Swift wrote seven songs only album, with two singles, and organizations - wrote the remaining six with songwriters Liz up, John Rich, Colbie Caillat and Hillary Lindsey. He co-produced the album with Nathan Chapman. Musically, it has been said that it is characterized by a loud, lean guitars and rousing choruses, "duration" bit of fiddle and Funmilayo tucked into the Mix. "The New York Times described Swift as" one of the best pop songwriters, country before pragmatist and more in touch with your group life than most adults. "Not do what you think of " preternatural wisdom and inclusiveness, " " masterfully tempted representatives diarist pitfalls of trite banality and pseudo real bullshit. " Recently described Stone as " a songwriting savant with an intuitive gift for verse chorus bridge architecture" of  "close squirmingly and professionalism" songs seem to be "literally a strong rural girls Diary".

Taylor Swift started writing songs for her fifth album Studio in July 2013, are expected to be released in the fourth quarter of 2014. In June 2013, the singer told Billboard that, " we have probably seven or eight that I know I want you on the record. Seeking to exist in a new, and that is all I want. "He is again working with Max Martin and Johan Shellback, at the time of this writing "a lot more than three songs together". Diane Warren and Ryan Tedder has also worked on the album, with Tedder remarking" For anyone hoping you, you have your plans. it is probably the fastest songwriter I have ever met in my life. "Taylor Swift is also an interest in collaborating with Jess, Jack Antonoff and Imogen heap.

Taylor Swift Personal life

Swift space between a three - room duplex penthouse in Midtown Nashville, Tennessee and a three small room in Beverly Hills, California. It is an eight - room summer home in the coastal Hill, Rhode Island. In addition, Swift has purchased a four - room mansion in Belle Meade, Tennessee for your parents. You have a Dassault Falcon 900 private planes and airport hangar at Nashville International Airport.

Taylor Swift dated singer Joe Jonas to July 2008, and actor Taylor Lautner to December 2009. It has been linked romantically to singer John Mayer from late 2009 until early 2010. You dated actor Jake Gyllenhaal to December 2010. Break - up, they get together in January and February 2011. Swift dated political heir Conor Kennedy from July to September 2012. You dated a guide singer Harry styles from November 2012 to January 2013.

Jonas and Mayer had two songs written by Taylor Swift. In 2010, former U.S. President George HW Bush at a taping of the television Swift at Kennebunkport, Maine, and later described Swift as " unspoiled" and "very good". In 2012, Swift has been presented with a kids choice award in recognition of his charitable work by Michelle Obama, who praised him as someone who has rocketed to the top of the music industry, but also keeps your feet on the ground, someone has shattered every expectation of what a 22 year old can accomplish. "First Swift later described ABC as "a role model". In a 2012 interview, Swift remarked that, although he tried to hide the body as educated and informed as possible, "you can not" talk about politics because it may influence other people. "It is in her interest in American history and has read books about Abraham Lincoln, John Adams, the rest of the Father and Ellis Island. Taylor Swift is a friend of the Kennedy family and has spoken of his admiration for Ethel Kennedy.

Taylor Swift Awards and Nominations

Main article : List of Awards and nominations received by Taylor Swift. Taylor Swift is the recipient of seven Grammy Awards, fifteen American Music Awards, the eleven Country Music Association Awards and six Academy of Country Music Awards, and twelve Billboard Music Awards. As a songwriter, you have been Honored by the Nashville Songwriters Association and the Songwriters Hall of the republic. In 2013, he became the second person to the Country Music Association's Pinnacle Award. Additionally, Taylor Swift has received two Golden Globe Award nominations.

Ronan Farrow

Ronan Farrow is an activist, journalist, lawyer and former adviser to the U.S. government. Ronan Farrow is the son of actress Mia Farrow and film director Woody Allen. Farrow was born in New York, with actress Mia Farrow and director Woody Allen. It was named after baseball player Satchel Paige and his maternal grandmother, actress Maureen O'Sullivan. It was given the name "Farrow" to avoid a family with "a son named Allen between two Previns six piglets." Ronan Farrow attended Bard College at Simon's Rock and graduated at age 15. In 2009, following the postponement of the entry for several years, graduated from Yale Law School, and later became a member of the Bar of New York.

Ronan Farrow Career

From 2001 to 2009, Ronan Farrow Farrow was a spokesperson for UNICEF for Youth, which acts as an "advocate" for children and women caught in the current crisis in the Darfur region of Sudan and assistance in fundraising and deal groups affiliated to the United Nations in the United States. During this time, he also made joint trips to the Darfur region in Sudan, with her mother, actress Mia Farrow, who is a Goodwill Ambassador for UNICEF. Later, he called for the protection of refugees from Darfur. After his experience in Sudan, Farrow joined the Genocide Intervention Network, a group founded by Swarthmore College students to advocate for participation in the armed conflict in Darfur group.

During his time at Yale Law School, Farrow internship at the law firm Davis Polk & Wardwell and in the office of the chief counsel to the Committee of the U.S. House Foreign Affairs focuses on international law of human rights. In 2009 Farrow joined the Obama administration with his appointment as Special Advisor for Humanitarian Affairs and NGOs in the Office of the Special Representative for Afghanistan and Pakistan. He was part of a team of officials employed by the veteran diplomat Richard Holbrooke, for Farrow who had previously worked as a speechwriter. Over the next two years, Farrow was responsible for "overseeing relations with the U.S. Government civil society and non-state actors" in Afghanistan and Pakistan.


In 2011, Ronan Farrow was appointed Special Adviser to the Secretary of State Hillary Clinton for Global Youth Affairs and Director, Office of Global Youth Affairs, Department of State. The creation of the office was the result of a working group for several years appointed by Clinton to review the economic and social policies of the United States on youth for which Farrow chaired the working group lead from 2010. Farrow's appointment and the creation of the office were announced by Clinton as part of a new focus on youth after the revolutions of the Arab Spring. Farrow was responsible for U.S. policy youth and programming aimed towards "empowering young people as economic actors and civilians." Farrow concluded his term as Special Counsel in 2012, with its policies and programs that continue under his successor. After leaving the government, Farrow began a Rhodes Scholar at Oxford University.

 
Ronan Farrow has written essays, opinion pieces and other pieces for The Guardian, Foreign Policy, The Atlantic, The Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times and other periodicals. In October 2013 MSNBC announced that Farrow would host a weekday one-hour show from early 2014. Also that month, Penguin Press acquired the book Farrow, Pandora's Box: How American Military Aid Creates enemies of the United States, the publication schedule for 2015.
Ronan Farrow  Recognition

Ronan Farrow has been named by New York "New Activist" of the year and included in your list of "to the point of changing their world" for 2009; listed as "up-and-coming politician" of 2011 and the No. of Harper's Bazaar Law and Policy on "30 Under 30" list of most influential people in 2012 Forbes magazine. In his 2013 retrospective of men born in its 80 years of publication, Esquire named him man of the year of his birth.

Farrow was awarded the Humanitarian Refugees International McCall-Pierpaoli in 2008 for "extraordinary service to refugees and displaced persons." He was awarded an honorary doctorate by the Dominican University of California in 2012.

Ronan Farrow Personal life

Ronan Farrow is estranged from his father, Woody Allen. In 2011, said: "He's my father married to my sister That makes me his son and his brother-in-law that's a moral transgression..." On June 12 2012, he tweeted, "Happy Father's Day or as they call it in my family, the day-in-law happy."

Asked about speculation that longstanding Ronan Farrow is the son of the ex-husband of Mia Farrow, Frank Sinatra, Mia Farrow said in a 2013 Vanity Fair article that Sinatra could "possibly" the father of Ronan. After the complaint was widespread in the media, Ronan Farrow tweeted humorously October 2, 2013, "Listen, we're all possibly son of Frank Sinatra." In a February 7, 2014 Editorial, wrote in the New York Times, Allen publicly expressed his own uncertainty, writing, "Is my child like Mia suggests, Frank Sinatra?" No DNA testing has been carried out to determine the paternity of Ronan Farrow.

 

Natasha Richardson

Natasha Richardson was an English stage and screen actress. A member of the Redgrave family, she was the daughter of actress Vanessa Redgrave and director / producer Tony Richardson and the granddaughter of Michael Redgrave and Rachel Kempson. Early in her career, she played Mary Shelley and Patty Hearst in Gothic Ken Russell in the eponymous 1988 film directed by Paul Schrader, and later received critical acclaim and a Theatre World Award for his Broadway debut in the revival of 1993 Anna Christie.

Natasha Richardson won the Tony Award for Best Performance by a Leading Actress in a Musical, the Drama Desk Award for Best Actress in a Musical and the Outer Critics Circle Award for her performance as Sally Bowles in the 1998 Broadway revival of Cabaret. Some of his notable films included Patty Hearst (1988), The Handmaid's Tale (1990), Nell (1994), The Parent Trap (1998) and Maid in Manhattan (2002).

Natasha Richardson first marriage to filmmaker Robert Fox ended in divorce in 1992. In 1994, he was married to actor Liam Neeson, whom he had met when they both appeared in Anna Christie. The couple had two sons, Michael and Daniel. Richardson's father died of AIDS-related causes in 1991. She helped raise millions of dollars in the fight against AIDS through the charity amfAR, the American Foundation for AIDS Research. Richardson died on March 18, 2009 of an epidural hematoma after a skiing accident in Quebec, Canada

Natasha Richardson Early Life

Natasha Richardson was born and raised in London, a member of the Redgrave family, known as a dynasty of actors in theater and film. She was the daughter of director and producer Tony Richardson and actress Vanessa Redgrave, granddaughter of actors Sir Michael Redgrave and Rachel Kempson, sister of Joely Richardson, half-sister of Carlo Gabriel Nero and Katharine Grimond Hess, niece of actress Lynn Redgrave and actor Corin Redgrave and cousin Jemma Redgrave.
Richardson's parents divorced in 1967. The following year, she made her film debut at age four in one uncredited role in the Charge of the Light Brigade, directed by her father. Richardson was educated in London at two independent schools, the Lycée Français Charles de Gaulle in South Kensington, London School for Girls and St Paul 'in Hammersmith, London, before training at the Central School of Speech and Drama.

Natasha Richardson Career

Natasha Richardson began her career in regional theater at the West Yorkshire Playhouse in Leeds, and in 1984, at the Open Air Theatre in Regents Park, London, when he appeared in the dream of a summer night, with Ralph Fiennes and Richard E . Grant. His first professional work in London's West End was in a revival of Anton Chekhov's The Seagull in 1985. Soon after, she starred in a stage production of London High Society, a film adaptation of Cole Porter. In 1993 he made his Broadway debut in the lead role of Anna Christie, which is where he met future husband, Liam Neeson. In 1998, she played the role of Sally Bowles in Sam Mendes' revival of Cabaret on Broadway, for which she won the Tony Award for Best Actress in a Musical. The next year he returned to Broadway in Closer, for which she was nominated for a Drama Desk Award for Best Actress in a Play, and in 2005, she appeared again with the roundabout, this time as Blanche DuBois in his revival of Tennessee Williams A Streetcar Named Desire, opposite John C. Reilly as Stanley Kowalski.
 In January 2009, two months before his death, Richardson played the role of Desirée in a concert production of Stephen Sondheim's A Little Night Music, opposite her mother, Vanessa Redgrave who played Mme. Armfeldt. Both were appointed to head a new Broadway production of the brand (which became the current Broadway revival directed by Trevor Nunn), which never came to fruition. 

Natasha Richardson Movie

Natasha Richardson portrayed Mary Shelley in the 1986 film Gothic, a fictional account of the creation of the author of Frankenstein. The following year she starred opposite Kenneth Branagh and Colin Firth in A Month in the Country, directed by Pat O'Connor. Director Paul Schrader signed her for the title role in Patty Hearst, his 1988 docudrama about the heiress and her alleged abduction. Her performances opposite Robert Duvall and Faye Dunaway in The Handmaid's Tale and Christopher Walken, Rupert Everett and Helen Mirren in the Comfort of Strangers earned her the Best Actress Award 1990 Evening Standard British Film. In 1991, she appeared in The Favour, the Watch and the Very Big Fish alongside Bob Hoskins. Later is credited with giving the best kiss of your life for the film. "She came over me and kissed me like I've never been kissed before. I was stunned." She was named Best Actress at the 1994 Karlovy Vary International Film Festival widows peak, and that same year appeared in Nell opposite Jodie Foster and future husband Liam Neeson. Additional film credits include The Parent Trap (1998), Dry (2001), Chelsea Walls, Waking Up in Reno (2002), Maid in Manhattan (2002), Asylum (2005), which won second prize at Evening Standard Best Actress, The White Countess (2005) and Night (2007). His last screen appearance was as the director of a school for girls in the comedy Wild Child 2008. During the last week of January 2009, he recorded his role off screen wife of George Mallory climber who disappeared while climbing Mount Everest during a 1924 expedition, in the documentary film, 2010 The Wildest Dream, for which Liam Neeson provides narration. Director Anthony Geffen described listening to the movie since his death as "terrible".


Natasha Richardson made his American television debut in a small role in the 1984 CBS miniseries Ellis Island. That same year he made his debut on British television in an episode of the BBC series Oxbridge Blues. The following year she appeared as Violet Hunter alongside Jeremy Brett and David Burke in The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, in the episode entitled "The Copper Beeches". She starred with Judi Dench, Michael Gambon and Kenneth Branagh in a BBC adaptation of Henrik Ibsen's 1987 play Ghosts, with Maggie Smith and Rob Lowe in the BBC adaptation of 1993 Suddenly, Last Summer by Tennessee Williams, portrayed Zelda Fitzgerald 1993 television movie Zelda, and starring Haven (2001) by CBS and The Mastersons of Manhattan (2007) on the NBC network.

 Natasha Richardson Personal life

Natasha Richardson's first marriage was to filmmaker Robert Fox whom he had met in 1985, during the filming of Anton Chekhov's The Seagull, who were married from 1990 to 1992. He married Irish actor Liam Neeson in the summer of 1994 at the home they shared near Millbrook, New York, who had taken American citizenship. Richardson and Neeson have two sons: Michael (born 1995) and Daniel (born in 1996). Richardson helped raise millions of dollars in the fight against AIDS, her father, director Tony Richardson, died of AIDS-related causes in 1991.

Natasha Richardson was actively involved in amfAR, becoming a member of the board of trustees in 2006, and participated in many other AIDS charities including Bailey House, God's Love We Deliver, Mothers Voices, AIDS Crisis Trust and National AIDS Trust, for which he was ambassador. Richardson received the amfAR Award of Courage in November 2000. A longtime smoker, although they had stopped smoking reportedly Richardson was an outspoken opponent of the ban on smoking in restaurants in New York.

Natasha Richardson Injury and Death

On 16 March 2009, Natasha Richardson sustained a head injury when she fell while taking a beginner ski lesson at the Mont Tremblant Resort in Quebec, Canada, about 80 miles (130 km) from the Montreal airport. The injury was followed by a lucid interval, when Richardson seemed fine and was able to speak and act normally. Paramedics and an ambulance which initially responded to the accident were told they were not needed and left. Refusing medical attention twice, she returned to her hotel room and about three hours later was taken to a local hospital in Sainte-Agathe-des-Monts after complaining of a headache. She was transferred from there by ambulance to Hospital du Sacré-Cœur, Montreal, in critical condition and was admitted about seven hours after the fall. The next day he was taken to Lenox Hill Hospital in New York City, where he died March 18 at age 45. An autopsy conducted by the Office of Medical Examiners of New York on 19 March revealed the cause of death was "epidural hematoma due to mitigating the impact to the head" and his death was an accident.

On March 19, the theater lights went out on Broadway in New York and in the West End of London as a sign of respect for Richardson. The next day, a private call is held at the American Irish Historical Society in Manhattan. On March 22, a private funeral was held at the Episcopal Church of San Pedro, near Millbrook, New York, near the north of the family home, and Richardson was buried near her grandmother Rachel Kempson in the cemetery. Richardson's aunt Lynn Redgrave was also buried in the same cemetery on May 8, 2010, near Richardson and Kempson. Richardson's family released a statement the day of his death, "Liam Neeson, his sons and the entire family is shocked and devastated by the tragic death of their beloved Natasha.'re Deeply grateful for the support, love and prayers of all, and asks for privacy during this very difficult time. "

Natasha Richardson was not wearing a helmet when he suffered his injury. This sparked a debate on whether helmet use while skiing should be mandatory. After the incident, the spokesman for the ski resort of Mont Tremblant, Ian Galbraith, said "we recommend all skiers and snowboarders wear helmets, it is a matter of personal preference if our guests choose to do so." A mandatory helmet law was never implemented in Quebec, although the Association of Ski Quebec budgeted $ 200,000 for a safety campaign. According to a BBC report, the number of skiers and snowboarders wore helmets increased substantially after the death of Natasha Richardson and several other high-profile incidents.