Who says you can't come from a long way? All the way from Toronto, Canada, Vanessa del Bianco has made it and has established her star along the bright horizon of young Filipino/Filipina superstars.
The only child of a Filipina mother and Italian father, Vanessa is blessed with unique mixed beauty. Eventually becoming the 1996 Faces Asia-Canada beauty queen, she was also a finalist in the Model Search America. Winning this was the break she needed to secure a chance at Filipino stardom. with Vanessa's talent potential, this led to her joining ABS-CBN's Star Circle Batch 4.
The job of being a hostess on the noontime gameshow Magandang Tanghali Bayan has allowed the public eye to see the sweet charm of Vanessa. Audiences from all over the Philippines enjoyed her sexy dance moves, all the way to her questionable but lovable vocal range. In addition to being involved with other shows like Kaybol, Gimik, and Puwedeng-Puede, Vanessa proves that she can be versatile with participating in different roles. In relation to her television career, she has also made her mark in commercials such as being our favorite hair model in Head & Shoulders commercials.
Branching out from the realm of TV, Vanessa del Bianco has also made her mark in the Philippine box office industry. She already has a fair amout of films under her belt with the likes of Hiling, Labs Kita...Okey Ka Lang? Ispiriktik, Dito Sa Puso Ko, Pepeng Agimat, and Pera O Bayong: Not Da TV.
Monday, May 25, 2009
Vanessa del Bianco
Friday, May 22, 2009
Assunta de Rossi
Maria Assunta Schiavone, better known by her screen name Assunta de Rossi (born February 19, 1983 in Lecce, Italy)
, is an Italian-Filipino actress. Her sister Alessandra de Rossi is also an actress. Both sisters have won the Best Actress award at the Metro Manila Film Festival. Assunta is currently married to Jules Ledesma.
Thursday, May 21, 2009
Pamela Denise Anderson
born July 1, 1967is a Canadian American actress, sex symbol, glamour model, producer, author, and former show girl.
Anderson is best known for her roles on the television series Home Improvement, Baywatch, and V.I.P. She was chosen as a Playmate of the Month for Playboy magazine in February 1990.For a time, she was known as Pamela Anderson Lee (or Pamela Lee Anderson) after marrying Mötley Crüe drummer, Tommy Lee.
She holds both American and Canadian citizenship.After graduating from Highland Secondary School in 1985, Anderson moved to Vancouver and worked as a fitness instructor. During the summer of 1989, Anderson went with her friends to a BC Lions game at BC Place; at some point during the game she was shown on the stadium screen wearing a Labatt's t-shirt, causing the crowd to cheer for the 21-year-old Anderson. She was taken down to the field to get an ovation from the crowd. Labatt's immediately offered Anderson a modeling contract and she accepted. In late 1989, Anderson decided to model for Playboy magazine. She first appeared as their October 1989 cover girl. At this stage in her modeling career, she had decided to live in Los Angeles to further pursue her career ambitions. She became a centerfold for Playboy when the magazine chose her to be their Playmate of the Month for their February 1990 issue. Anderson has since appeared in Playboy several times in the 1990s and the following decade. After her move to Los Angeles, Anderson bleached her brunette hair blonde and underwent breast augmentation and returned with diameters of 32.5 centimetres. In 1991, she landed a minor role as the original "Tool Time girl" on the hit television sitcom, Home Improvement. She left the show after two seasons and landed the role of C. J. Parker on Baywatch. Anderson was still modeling for Outdoor Life and appearing on the cover of the magazine each year. Her role as C.J. Parker gave her more popularity and gained her attention from international viewers. She returned to Baywatch for the 2003 reunion movie, Baywatch: Hawaiian Wedding. She also made appearances on The Nanny as Fran's rival, Heather Biblow.
In 1996, she appeared in a feature film, Barb Wire, as a character known as Barbara Rose Kopetski, which was mistakenly thought by some to have been her real name. The movie, a thinly-veiled futuristic remake of Casablanca, failed to achieve commercial success. During the filming of Barb Wire, Anderson suffered a miscarriage. In April 1997, she guest-hosted Saturday Night Live. During the beginning of the show, Anderson said, "You know, if you're nervous on stage, you actually should be naked!" She then began a striptease. Her breasts, however, were covered by a small flesh-colored bra and she also wore a crotch patch that was also flesh colored (though they were still blurred out for the sake of the joke). The segment became fodder for late-night comedians for the following weeks. She also appeared on one of two covers for the September issue of Playboy; the other cover pictured Jenny McCarthy.
In September 1998, Anderson starred in her produced series V.I.P. It was very poorly received and a critical bomb. However, with many people tuning in just to see her, the show lasted four seasons before being canceled in 2002. Anderson stated that she needed to dedicate her time to raising her children, but many believed that she was retiring.
On April 15, 1999, Anderson decided to remove her breast implants. The main reason was that Anderson's modeling career was on the downfall. She needed to raise her children and possibly retire, but about a year later, Anderson decided to get breast implants back. The new implants were bigger than the first ones she claimed. The following year she appeared as giantess in the music video for "Miserable" by California alternative rock band Lit.
In March 2001, Christine Evelyn Roth was arrested while sleeping in a guest room of Anderson's home. She was only charged with the misdemeanor of trespassing and not the more serious crime of stalking. Roth pleaded guilty to the charge of trespassing and was deported home to France. In 2004, Anderson returned to the spotlight. In May, she appeared naked on the cover of Playboy magazine. It was the first time she had appeared naked on any magazine cover. Later, she posed naked for Stuff and GQ magazines. Many noticed that her breast size was larger than her pictorials from 2003.
Anderson became a naturalized citizen of the United States on May 12, 2004, while retaining her Canadian citizenship. She has lived in Southern California since 1989. Anderson has often spoken revealingly about her private life. On a visit to the David Letterman show in 2004, she said she had not been dating for some time, and when Letterman asked her how she was coping, she responded, "There's not a square corner left anywhere in my house!" Letterman left that comment unanswered while the audience hooted.
In 2004, Pamela Anderson released the book Star, co-written by Eric Shaw Quinn, in which she describes a young teenager doing different things in order to reach fame. After this, she began touring the United States, signing autographs for fans at Wal-Mart stores nationwide. Her second book, the sequel Star Struck, released in 2005, is a thinly veiled look at her life with Tommy Lee and the travails of celebrity life.
In January 2005, Anderson confessed that she had new bigger breast implants, claiming not to feel like herself without them.
In April 2005, Anderson starred in a new FOX sitcom Stacked as Skyler Dayton, a party girl (with implants), who goes to work at a bookstore. It was canceled on May 18, 2006, after two seasons, although some episodes had not been aired on the network. On August 14, 2005, Comedy Central created the Roast of Pamela Anderson to honor the sex symbol for the past decade. During her final speech at the Roast, Anderson referred to her breasts as "Pancho and Lefty".
In December 2005, NBC cut off a video of Anderson pole dancing topless on Elton John's "The Red Piano." NBC said that the footage was inappropriate for primetime. The video was shown on huge screens during the event, while John was playing a song.
In March 2006, it was announced that Anderson would receive a star on Canada's Walk of Fame thanks to her many years as a model and actress. She is only the second model to receive a star. In April 2006, Anderson hosted Canada's Juno Awards, becoming the first non-singer and model to do so. In May 2006 Anderson and swedish model Sigrid Åhs met during a television show, Åhs is notable as one of the worlds most famous Pamela Anderson look-a-likes.
Anderson was repeatedly referenced in the 2006 comedy film Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan as the title character seeks to kidnap and marry her. Anderson appears in person at the end of the film confronted by Borat in a staged botched abduction.
She performed on February 13-14 2008 in a Valentine's Day striptease act at the Crazy Horse cabaret in Paris.
On July 9, 2008, Anderson entered the Australian Big Brother house for a three day visit. Her appearance on this show also marked Anderson's foray into reality television with a series of her own, Pam: Girl on the Loose, which debuted on August 3, 2008 on E! in the United States. Pam also was featured in a film about ants and aligators.
Wednesday, May 20, 2009
Priscilla Almeda
Her first screen name was Abby Viduya and she appeared in teen-oriented films with the Guwapings of Douglas Quijano (Mark Anthony Fernandez, Jomari Yllana and Eric Fructuoso). The change of screen name coincided with her decision to tackle more mature roles.
At Seiko Films, she appeared in the film Machete with Cesar Montano, Gardo Versoza and Rosanna Roces. She also starred in Sariwa and Halimuyak ng Babae . In Exploitation , she starred opposite Isko Moreno and Fernando Montenegro. In Huwag kang Kikibo, Diyos ang Hihipo, she appeared opposite Raymond Bagatsing, and opposite Tonton Gutierez and Eddie Garcia in Syota ng Bayan. But her most daring film was Sutla , directed by Romy Suzara, whose theatrical exhibition was ordered stopped by the MTRCB and its permit recalled.
Tuesday, May 19, 2009
Jennifer Lynn Lopez
Jennifer Lynn Lopez born July 24, 1969 popularly nicknamed J.Lo, is an American actor, singer, record producer, dancer, fashion designer and television producer. She is the richest person of Latin American descent in Hollywood according to Forbes, and the most influential Hispanic entertainer in the U.S. according to People en Español's list of "100 Most Influential Hispanics".Starting in 1999, Lopez released seven albums, including two number one albums on the Billboard 200 charts and four Billboard Hot 100 number one singles. She won the 2003 American Music Award for Favorite Pop/Rock Female Artist and the 2007 American Music Award for Favorite Latin Artist. She has appeared in numerous films, and has won ALMA Awards for outstanding actress for her work in Selena, Out of Sight, and Angel Eyes. She parlayed her media fame into a fashion line and various perfumes with her celebrity endorsement.Media attention has also focused on her personal life. She has had high-profile relationships with Ojani Noa, Cris Judd, Sean Combs, Ben Affleck, and Marc Anthony. Her first children, fraternal twins named Max and Emme, were born on February 22, 2008.
Jennifer Lopez was born and grew up in the South Bronx, New York to Puerto Rican parents Guadalupe Rodríguez, a kindergarten teacher, and David Lopez, a computer specialist. She has two siblings, Lynda and Leslie. Lopez spent her entire academic career in Catholic schools, finishing at the all-girls Preston High School, in the Bronx. She financed singing and dancing lessons for herself from the age of 19. After attending Baruch College for one semester, Lopez divided her time between working in a legal office, dance classes, and dance performances in Manhattan night clubs. After months of auditioning for dance roles, Lopez was selected as a dancer for various rap music videos, a 1990 episode of Yo! MTV Raps, and as a backup dancer for the New Kids on the Block and their performance of their song "Games" for the American Music Awards in 1991. After being rejected twice, Lopez gained her first regular high-profile job as a "Fly Girl" dancer on the television comedy program In Living Color in 1990. Soon after, Lopez became a backup dancer for Janet Jackson and made an appearance in her 1993 video "That's the Way Love Goes".
Lopez appeared on the short-lived television programs South Central, Second Chances, and Hotel Malibu, and the made-for-television film Nurses on the Line: The Crash of Flight 7. Lopez broke into the big screen in the 1995 drama My Family and then appeared opposite Wesley Snipes in the action film Money Train. Lopez has played roles in Francis Ford Coppola's 1996 comedy Jack starring Robin Williams, and the 1997 thriller Blood and Wine with Jack Nicholson. Lopez played the lead role in the 1997 film Selena for which she was nominated for the Golden Globe Award for "Best Actress - Motion Picture Musical or Comedy" in 1998. She became the first Hispanic actress to get paid $1 million or more for a film role.Some of her other critically-acclaimed films include Out of Sight, The Cell, An Unfinished Life, and Shall We Dance?. Two independent films produced by Lopez were well-received at film festivals: El Cantante at the Toronto International Film Festival, and Bordertown at the Brussels film festival. Other modestly successful films include The Wedding Planner, Maid in Manhattan, Monster-in-Law, and Enough. Gigli, however, would be a critical and commercial disappointment. In August 2007, Lopez collaborated on the feature film, El Cantante, with her husband singer-actor Marc Anthony. The film is in English, with a creative use of subtitles for songs with Spanish lyrics.Lopez made an appearance as a mentor on American Idol on April 10, 2007. In May 2006, Lopez was the executive producer of the eight-episode reality show, DanceLife, which ran on MTV beginning January 15, 2007. Lopez helped select the show's participants and made cameo appearances. She then served as executive producer of a miniseries broadcast on Univisión. Titled after her CD Como Ama Una Mujer, it ran in five episodes from October 30 to November 27, 2007, and starred Christian Borrero and Adriana Cruz. Lopez signed a contract as star and executive producer of an unscripted reality series for TLC, a division of Discovery Communications Inc. The series will show the launching of her new fragrance, and will not focus on her family.
Lopez launched a clothing line in 2003. Named JLO by Jennifer Lopez, the line included different types of clothing for young women, including jeans, T-shirts, coats, belts, purses, and lingerie, a jewelry line, and an accessory line that includes hats, gloves, and scarves. Lopez participated in the Louis Vuitton Winter 2003 campaign. In 2005, she launched a new clothing line called Sweetface. In late 2007, Lopez retired JLO by Jennifer Lopez and launched a new juniors' line called JustSweet. Her fashion lines have featured at many New York Fashion Week events.
Lopez's frequent use of animal fur in her clothing lines and personal wardrobe has brought the scorn of people concerned with animal rights. At the Los Angeles premiere of Monster-in-Law, more than one hundred protesters from People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) held a demonstration to highlight their concerns. Lopez told a radio DJ she was open to being educated on the topic.
On April 12, 2002, Lopez opened a Cuban restaurant in the South Lake district of Pasadena, California named Madre's. A media sensation was creating when during a press shoot for the fancy restaurant, a mysterious man appeared out of the sidelines and gave Lopez a floral arrangement from Ben Affleck, even as then-husband Cris Judd stood next to her. Lopez was widely criticized for what appeared to be infidelity on her part.
Lopez has ventured in the perfume industry, with her debut "Glow by J.Lo". In October 2003, Lopez introduced a perfume called "Still", having revisit "Glow" the previous year by creating a limited edition spin-off, "Miami Glow by J.Lo", in homage to her adopted hometown of Miami. Lopez also marketed a "Glow" line of body lotions and bronzing products. For the Christmas season of 2005, she launched another fragrance, "Live by Jennifer Lopez". For 2006 Valentine's Day, "Miami Glow" was replaced by yet another "Glow" spin-off, "Love at First Glow by J.Lo". Her following fragrance, "Live Luxe", was released in August 2006, with "Glow After Dark" following in January 2007.
Lopez owns the film and television production company Nuyorican Productions, which she co-founded with her manager, Benny Medina.[citation needed] Dancer and ex-husband Cris Judd once had a stake in the company when he and Lopez were still married Lopez is a spokesperson for Lux shampoo in Japan, appearing in the product's television commercials.
Lopez has been recognized by People en Español magazine as both the cover subject for the "50 Most Beautiful" issue in 2006 and the "100 Most Influential Hispanics" issue in February 2007.
Monday, May 18, 2009
Sunshine Cruz
This actress who has starred in a lot of movies and TB series in her career began this very same career as a teenybopper in the now defunct teen show That's Entertainment. Cousin to a few popular Cruz's in the industry, namely Sheryl Cruz, Donna Cruz and Geneva Cruz, she showed that she had what it took to shine in show business just like her cousins. Equally gifted with a wonderful set of vocal chords, she also showed the people of Philippine show business that she too could hold her own when it came to proving that she was indeed another Cruz that could sing.
She began her showbiz career starring in cutesy roles that paired her off with other aspiring young stars in the movie First Time . . . Like a Virgin in 1992. Along with her in the movie were other equally young and soon-to-be sexy stars Jackie Forster, Karla Estrada, and Shirley Fuentes. She was also one of the original casts of Bubble Gang when it first showed in 1995.
After a few more such teen movies, she then moved on to star in sexier roles and she fit the role to a T since she indeed has quite a figure that would cause men to stop and stare. This figure, plus the personality and the attitude, led to more than one showbiz hunk courting her and becoming her beau. One such beau, Cesar Montano , is now her husband and father to her two children. It is said that Cesar's proposal to the talented, sexy and beautiful actress was like something out of a romance novel, complete with a famous choir serenading them and a proposal that was made in a church belfry. This culminated into a fairy tale wedding that had hundreds of guests, friends from within and outside of showbiz, coming to wish the lovely couple all the luck.
While this lovely lady may seem to have lived a charmed life full of love, fame and success, it was actually a life that was not without intrigue. One such rumor that seems to hound her is that controversial film her husband bought for an undisclosed amount just to get it canned and away from the eyes of the public. This film was said to have been too sexy for Cesar's taste and seems to show a future politician and award-winning director's wife in bad taste. Another intrigue that seems to keep on hounding this lass is her suffering the rumors that her husband's affections keep on going astray. Whether or not there is truth in these allegations, the couple seems to have weathered such problems until now.
Despite there being a lull in her career after her semi-retirement to concentrate on raising her kids and taking care of her husband, Sunshine is back in the limelight, first portraying the beauty queen turned villainess Mothra in Lastikman. She also sets to be part of the anticipated TV adaptation of the classic movie Palos, together with Cesar Montano. This can hopefully bring back the life in her career and stop tongues from wagging incessantly over the next problem her marriage to Cesar seems to keep on generating.
Her first daughter with Cesar, Angeline Isabelle, was born in 2005. Also in the same year, the lovebirds decided to renew their vows under the waters of Thailand. They were chosen to represent the Philippines in the biggest underwater wedding ever.
Friday, May 15, 2009
Alicia Silverstone
Alicia Silverstone was born October 4, 1976 An American film and stage actress and former fashion model. She first came to widespread attention in music videos for Aerosmith, and is best known for her roles in Hollywood films such as Clueless (1995) and her portrayal of Batgirl in Batman & Robin (1997).
Silverstone has dated famous people including Benicio del Toro, Stephen Dorff, Leonardo DiCaprio, Bryan Mashard, Mozie Chabbouth and Adam Sandler. In a January 2000 interview with FHM, she denied that she dated Kenneth Branagh.Silverstone married her longtime boyfriend, rock musician Christopher Jarecki (lead singer of group S.T.U.N.), in a beachfront ceremony at Lake Tahoe, on June 11, 2005. After meeting outside a movie theater in 1997, the couple dated for eight years prior to their marriage. They got engaged about a year before their marriage and Jarecki presented Silverstone with an engagement ring that had belonged to his grandmother. Her wedding dress was designed by Monique Lhuillier.Silverstone and Jarecki live in an eco-friendly Los Angeles house complete with solar panels and an organic vegetable garden. She bought the house, shared with a "menagerie of rescued dogs," in 1996. She also graced the cover of 944 magazine, promoting vegeterianism.
Silverstone has won several awards for her film performances including MTV Movie Awards, National Board of Review, and Young Artist Awards. She has been nominated for an Emmy award and a Golden Globe Award. During her career, she turned down several key roles in films, including Dede Truitt in The Opposite of Sex, Juliet Capulet in Romeo + Juliet and a role in Scream 3. She was also considered for roles in Scream 2, Bewitched, Little Women and Heartbreakers. She turned down the role of Valerie Malone on Beverly Hills, 90210 in 1994; Tiffani Thiessen was cast instead.