bollywood and hollywood: August 2011

Sunday, August 14, 2011

J.K. Rowling British author best known as the creator

Joanne "Jo" Rowling, OBE born 31 July 1965 better known as J. K. Rowling (play /ˈroʊlɪŋ/ roh-ling), is a British author best known as the creator of the Harry Potter fantasy series, the idea for which was conceived on a train trip from Manchester to London in 1990. The Potter books have gained worldwide attention, won multiple awards, sold more than 400 million copies and been the basis for a popular series of films, in which Rowling had overall approval on the scripts as well as maintaining creative control by serving as a producer on the final instalment.
Rowling is perhaps equally famous for her "rags to riches" life story, in which she progressed from living on benefits to multi-millionaire status within five years. As of March 2011, when its latest world billionaires list was published, Forbes estimated Rowling's net worth to be US$1 billion. The 2008 Sunday Times Rich List estimated Rowling's fortune at £560 million ($798 million), ranking her as the twelfth richest woman in the United Kingdom. Forbes ranked Rowling as the forty-eighth most powerful celebrity of 2007,and Time magazine named her as a runner-up for its 2007 Person of the Year, noting the social, moral, and political inspiration she has given her fans. In October 2010, J. K. Rowling was named 'Most Influential Woman in Britain' by leading magazine editors. She has become a notable philanthropist, supporting such charities as Comic Relief, One Parent Families, Multiple Sclerosis Society of Great Britain, and Lumos (formerly the Children's High Level Group).
Contents
* 1 Name
* 2 Background
* 3 Harry Potter
o 3.1 Harry Potter books
o 3.2 Harry Potter films
* 4 Life after Harry Potter
o 4.1 Subsequent writing
o 4.2 Relationship with the press
* 5 Philanthropy
o 5.1 Anti-poverty
o 5.2 Multiple sclerosis
o 5.3 Other philanthropic work
* 6 Political views
* 7 Religious views
* 8 Legal disputes
* 9 Awards and honours
* 10 Publications
o 10.1 Harry Potter series
o 10.2 Other books
o 10.3 Short story
o 10.4 Articles
* 11 References
* 12 External links
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Although she writes under the pen name "J. K. Rowling", pronounced like rolling (/ˈroʊlɪŋ/) her name when her first Harry Potter book was published was simply "Joanne Rowling". Fearing that the target audience of young boys might not want to read a book written by a woman, her publishers demanded that she use two initials, rather than her full name. As she had no middle name, she chose K as the second initial of her pen name, from her paternal grandmother Kathleen Ada Bulgen Rowling. She calls herself "Jo" and has said, "No one ever called me 'Joanne' when I was young, unless they were angry." Following her marriage, she has sometimes used the name Joanne Murray when conducting personal business

J.K. Rowling

Saturday, August 13, 2011

Jameela Jamil english television presenter and model

Jameela Jamil born 25 February 1986 is an English television presenter and model. She has appeared on various Channel 4 programmes, and has been a presenter of T4 since 2009.
Contents
* 1 Biography
* 2 Fashion
* 3 Magazines
* 4 Television career
* 5 Charity
* 6 References
* 7 Further reading
* 8 External links
Biography
Jamil, nickname "Jam-Jam", was born in Hampstead Heath. At school, Jamil says she was "bookish and shy [...] Back then it was all about comfort. I literally didn't care what I wore".Her interests include art and biology.
At the age of 17, Jamil was struck by a car, breaking several bones damaging her spine. Jamil was confined to bed for a year; she weighed 126 pounds (57 kg) before the accident and gained 77 pounds (35 kg) while convalescing. She was told that she may never walk again, but after steroid treatment and physiotherapy she slowly recovered, using a Zimmer frame to start walking. She rapidly lost weight, returning to her original weight.
Jamil taught English to foreign students – including a nun and monk – at the Callan School of English, Oxford Street, London; she also worked as a model, a photographer, and as a fashion scout for Premier Model Management Limited.
Of her political views, Jamil has said that "It's not a matter of who's got the better policies – it's literally a case of thinking 'Who's less evil?'" and prior to the 2010 general election said "I'm so confused as to who's actually worse. And I just don't think there's much of a point voting for the Lib Dems."
Jamil is represented by Money Management as of 2010, a management group that has represented people such as Edith Bowman, Abigail Clancy, Donna Air and co-presenter Nick Grimshaw (with whom she presented Freshly Squeezed).

Jameela Jamil

Wednesday, August 10, 2011

Amanda Crew Canadian television and film actress

Amanda Crew June 5, 1986 is a Canadian television and film actress. She is best known for her work on the television series 15/Love and Whistler, and in the feature-length films Final Destination 3, Sex Drive, The Haunting in Connecticut, and Charlie St. Cloud.
Contents
* 1 Early life
* 2 Career
o 2.1 Television
o 2.2 Film
* 3 Filmography
o 3.1 Films
o 3.2 Television
* 4 References
* 5 External links
Early life
Crew was born in Langley, British Columbia. Her mother is a legal secretary and her father is a telecom worker. Crew attended Brookswood Secondary School in Langley, BC. She began her acting career when she was cast in the musical Dragon Tales during her fourth grade in elementary school. Three agents contacted her, and she has been acting ever since. She did a Coca-Cola commercial and acted in stage plays like Stalling, Cordstons Courts, and Langley, the Musical. Crew attended the American Academy of Dramatic Arts.
Career
Television
Crew got her big break at age 18 for playing Tanis McTaggart on the YTV teen dramedy series 15/Love. After leaving the show in 2005, she guest starred on the television series Life As We Know It and Smallville. From 2006 to 2008, she played Carrie Miller on the CTV drama series Whistler, for which she won Best Lead Performance by a Female in a Dramatic Series at the Vancouver-based Leo Awards.

Amanda Crew

Alice Braga Brazilian actress. She has appeared

Alice Braga Moraes born April 15, 1983 is a Brazilian actress. She has appeared in several films in her native Brazil, most notably as Angélica in 2002's highly acclaimed City of God and as Karina in 2005's Lower City. She has also starred in the Hollywood movies I Am Legend (2007), Repo Men and Predators (both 2010).
Contents
* 1 Early life
* 2 Career
* 3 Filmography
* 4 References
* 5 External links
Early life
Alice Braga Moraes was born in São Paulo, Brazil. She was raised in a Catholic family. Her exposure to the world of acting came at an early age. Both her mother, Ana Braga, and aunt, Sônia Braga, are actresses, and Braga often accompanied them to film sets. She began her career by appearing in school plays and commercials. Her first commercial was for yoghurt when she was eight years old. As a teenager she began pursuing roles in television and movies. She speaks fluent Portuguese, Spanish and English.
Career
In 1998, Braga debuted in a Portuguese-language short called Trampolim, then returned to her schooling. Her big break came in 2002, when she was cast as Angélica in the critically acclaimed film, City of God, for which she received a Best Supporting Actress nomination from the Cinema Brazil Grand Prize. She took more time off, and attended university while appearing in a pair of well-regarded South American films—2005’s Lower City and 2006’s Only God Knows—and also played a role in the popular Brazilian television program Carandiru, Outras Historias. Braga made her English-language debut in 2006 with a starring role with Brendan Fraser, Mos Def, and Catalina Sandino Moreno in Journey to the End of Night, which premiered at the 5th Annual Tribeca Film Festival and eventually went straight to video in North America. In 2007, Braga was cast in the Will Smith blockbuster I Am Legend, and the drama Crossing Over (which stars Harrison Ford, Ray Liotta, and Ashley Judd). She also appeared in the 2008 David Mamet film Redbelt alongside Chiwetel Ejiofor.Braga portrayed Beth in the science-fiction film Repo Men. She starred as Isabelle in Antal Nimrod's Predators, which was shot and produced by Troublemaker Studios and Robert Rodriguez.

Tuesday, August 9, 2011

Adriana Sklenarikova Slovak actress and fashion model

Adriana Sklenarikova Karembeu born on 17 September 1971 is a Slovak actress and fashion model. Also she is a former Guinness record holder for the longest legs among female models. Her legs (from the hip to heels) are 49.25 inches (125 cm).
Contents
* 1 Biography
o 1.1 Personal life
* 2 References
* 3 External links
Biography
Adriana Sklenaříková was born in Brezno, a town in central Slovakia (then a part of Czechoslovakia). Having originally studied medicine in Prague, she gave up her studies to become a fashion model at the age of 26. She was hired as one of the models for the Wonderbra, and she was popular in Europe for her Wonderbra billboards. In the United States, she modeled for Victoria's Secret.
Personal life
On 22 December 1998, she married French football player Christian Karembeu. Their story began in the most romantic ways to board a flight to Paris-Milan in 1996. Fifteen years later, on 9 March 2011, she ends through the media. Adriana and Christian Karembeu have announced their breakup and the reasons were her ex-husband Sal which she was still in a relation with, and that was after the media wrote a lot and shown pics of them together.

Adriana Sklenarikova