Jordana Brewster

Jordana Brewster was born in Panama City, Panama on April 26th of 1980 to her father, Alden Brewster (an investment banker), and her mother, Maria Joao (a former Sports Illustrated covergirl swinsuit model). Jordana lived in Great Britain for six years, then moved to Rio de Janiero, Brazil and lived there for four years. During Jordana's time in Brazil, she got a small part as one of many children who danced on the popular kids show, "Xuxa Against Evil." It didn't take Jordana long to realize that she wanted to be an actor.

When she moved to New York in the United States of America, she attended a school for girls where she appeared in numerous theatrical performances, one of which was Godspell, where she played the part of Jesus Christ. To persue her career in acting, after Jordana studied theater at Weist-Barron, she then joined the Professional School for Children. While schooling, she received a one-day job on the television soap opera All My Children as character Anita Santos.

It was immediately following this episode that she was offered a continuing role on "As The World Turns" where she played the character Nikki Munson-Graves. She spent 3 years working on ATWT. During that time, she was up for a part in the blockbuster movie "Independence Day". She had to turn down the role because her obligations in her contract with ATWT's would not permit her time to do it.

It was shortly after, that she decided to quit her television job to attend Yale University. Having no obligations with television, she then defered her enrollment at Yale for a year and decided to try motion picture acting. It turned out to be a nice start when she got the part of Delilah Proffitt in Robert Rodriguez's sci-fi film "The Faculty". With the film, came the promotions for the film.

She was featured in many Tommy Hilfiger ads and also appeared in the remake of Pink Floyd's "Another Brick in the Wall (part 2)" video by Class of 99. She made a featurette along with the other cast members and crew to promote "The Faculty" called "Invasion of the Fright Films". "Invasion" aired on MTV and Jordana got some major exposure. Shorty after "The Faculty" was released in theaters, Jordana got a part on NBC's mini-series movie "The 60's" directed by Lynda Obst. This then led to her first lead role in a film called "The Invisible Circus" by Adam Brooks.

Though the movie was only released in limited theaters, it was a learning experience for her. Jordana had started her education at Yale and was entering her sophomore year as an English Major, when she found another role to her liking. Taking time to do the film, she came to play "Mia Toretto" in the surprise blockbuster "The Fast and the Furious". This movie has given her the much needed exposure to jump-start her career. Though currently, she has returned to Yale to continue her studies, we expect many more opportunities for this beautiful and talented actress.

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Mary Elizabeth Winstead

Mary Elizabeth Winstead was born on November 28, 1984, in Rocky Mount, North Carolina. The youngest of five children, Mary has three sisters and a brother.
When she was young she wanted to be a ballerina and attended the Geoffrey School of Ballet in New York City. As a child she was involved in theatre and appeared with Donny Osmond in Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat.

Mary became interested in acting at an early age. After playing Juliet in a fourth-grade production of Romeo and Juliet, Mary convinced her mother to find her an agent, and by the time Mary hit her teens, she was appearing on TV shows like Touched by an Angel and Promised Land.

Mary played Jessica Bennett on the soap opera Passions from 1999 to 2000; the following year, she became a regular on Wolf Lake. She appeared in the TV movies Then Came Jones (2003) and Monster Island (2004), and guest-starred on Tru Calling in 2004.

Her most notable roles are in movies such as Sky High, Final Destination 3, The Ring Two with Naomi Watts and the horror remake Black Christmas - and then Grindhouse by Quentin Tarantino and Lucy McClane in Live Free or Die Hard with Bruce Willis.

Mary Elizabeth Winstead is related to screen legend Ava Gardner - she's a distant cousin.

Vanessa Hudgens

Vanessa Anne Hudgens (born December 14, 1988), is an American actress and singer. She made her screen debut in 2003 and appeared in the Hollywood films Thirteen and Thunderbirds, before reaching fame in the 2006 hit Disney Channel film High School Musical series. Hudgens also began a music career and released her debut album, entitled V, in 2006. In 2007, Hudgens became the spokesperson for Neutrogena. She will also be in the upcoming movie Rock On. Her sophomore album, Identified, will be released July 1, 2008.

Hudgens was born in Salinas, California, the daughter of Gina (née Guangco) and Greg Hudgens. She has a younger sister, actress Stella Hudgens. Hudgens's father is an American of Irish and Native American descent, and her mother, who grew up in Manila, is a Filipino-born of Filipino, Spanish and Chinese descent. Hudgens has been home-schooled since after her seventh-grade year at the Orange County High School of the Arts.

Starting at the age of eight, Hudgens performed in musical theater as a singer, and appeared in local productions of Carousel, The Wizard of Oz, The King and I, The Music Man, and Cinderella, among others. Hudgens successfully auditioned for a commercial and subsequently moved to Los Angeles with her family, with whom she is still close.

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The Rising Dark Angel - Jessica Alba

Jessica Marie Alba was born on April 28, 1981 in Pomona, California to Mark Alba, an Air Force officer who is Mexican American and Catherine, a lifeguard who is part French and Danish. Her father"s profession relocated the family to many places like Biloxi, Mississippi and Del Rio, Texas, before they settled back in California.

Alba was interested in acting since her childhood in fact. She even took acting classes when she was just 12 years old and was promptly rewarded with her first acting assignment just after nine months. Jessica Alba though wasn"t popular among her mates due to her obsessive compulsive disorder which later got settled down.

She debuted as a child actress with a small role in 1994 feature Camp Nowhere as Gail following it up by appearing in two national TV commercials for Nintendo and J.C. Penney. There were some more television appearances like in The Secret World of Alex Mack, Flipper, Brooklyn South, Beverly Hills 90210, and The Love Boat: The Next Wave.

Jessica Alba was managing all this with her academics. But soon after her graduation she joined the Atlantic Theater Company which was developed by Macy and Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright and film director, David Mamet. Tits and bits roles in the movies followed for this actress in the form of Never Been Kissed (1999) and comedy-horror film Idle Hands.

Her career"s crowning glory came as a lead role of genetically-engineered super-soldier, Max Guevara, on the FOX sci-fi TV series Dark Angel produced by famed director, James Cameron in 2000. She successfully played the character for 2 years before the series got cancelled in 2002. Jessica later revealed that while preparing for the role she went through obsessive-compulsive disorder.

Jessica Alba took this end of her golden role in her stride and went on to work in movies with a renewed spirits. Some of her famous roles are dancer-choreographer in Honey, exotic dancer Nancy Callahan in Sin City and as the classic Marvel Comics character Sue Storm, the Invisible Woman in the Fantastic Four.

She has graced the covers of various renowned magazines like GQ, and In Style and has been voted as the 2007"s Sexiest Woman in the World in FHM.

With her kitty full of certain potential projects Jessica Alba will surely pave the path for more great work in the coming future!

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