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Friday, April 29, 2011

Eva Mendes

Born: 5 March 1974

•Birthplace: Miami, Florida

•Best Known As: Sexy Cuban-American co-star of Training Day and Hitch

After spending the last part of the 1990s in TV roles, music videos and small parts in movies such as A Night at Roxbury and Exit Wounds (both 1998), Eva Mendes had a career breakthrough co-starring with Denzel Washington in Training Day (2001). Since then she’s been one busy, sexy actor in half a dozen movies, including the car chase sequel 2 Fast 2 Furious (2003, starring Paul Walker), Once Upon a Time in Mexico (2003, with Antonio Banderas and Johnny Depp), Out of Time (2003, also with Denzel Washington), the slapstick comedy Stuck on You (2003, with Matt Damon), the romantic comedy Hitch (2005, with Will Smith) and the relationship flick Trust the Man (2006, with David Duchovny). She is sometimes compared with her fellow Latinas Jennifer Lopez and Salma Hayek. Her other films include We Own the Night (2007, with Joaquin Phoenix) and Frank Miller’s film The Spirit (2008).

Mendes was born in Miami, Florida, to Cuban parents and was raised in the Los Angeles suburb of Glendale by her mother after her parents’ divorce;Mendes has said that her mother “suffered so much to make my life OK” during her early years.Mendes was raised a Roman Catholic and aspired to be a nun. She is also fluent in Spanish. As a child, Mendes was teased about her “buck teeth”.

Mendes never saw herself as an actress while she was young and pursued other interests. She attended Hoover High School in Glendale and later attended California State University, Northridge to study marketing, but dropped out after wanting to begin an acting career. She studied acting under the acting teacher, Ivana Chubbuck.

In early 2008, Mendes entered a rehabilitation facility in Utah for several weeks for substance abuse problems. In a statement, her representative said that she had been “working hard for the past year and made a positive decision to take some much-needed time off to proactively attend to some personal issues that, while not critical, she felt deserved some outside professional support.”

In 2008, Mendes very pointedly broke from her co-stars of The Women by not offering support to any presidential campaign, noting that she considered her ballot preference private. After the election, she expressed disappointment at not receiving an invitation to Barack Obama’s inauguration party.

Mendes and her boyfriend, filmmaker George Augusto, have been together since 2002. “I don’t wanna have kids … I love the little suckers; they’re so cute. But I love sleep so much, and I worry about everything,” she told Marie Claire. “I feel like the institution of marriage is a very archaic kinda thing. I don’t think it fits in my world today.”

Friday, April 22, 2011

Heather Graham

* Born: 29 January 1970

* Birthplace: Milwaukee, Wisconsin

* Best Known As: Rollergirl in the 1997 movie Boogie Nights

Though she appeared to be on a track toward superstardom as the a new decade and millenium unfolded, a string of duds (From Hell, The Guru, Killing Me Softly, etc.) derailed Graham's career a bit. As many actors in her position often do, she decided to give television a try. Unfortunately, like much of her film work of the period, the ABC comedy Emily's Reasons Why Not was met with little excitement from critics audiences alike, and the heavily hyped series was cancelled after a single episode. Her recurring role on the comedy Scrubs, however, was well received. ~ Rebecca Flint Marx, Rovi.

Tuesday, April 19, 2011

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Sunday, April 10, 2011

Lorraine Nicholson

The frat boys were in for a surprise when sophomore Lorraine Nicholson moved into their house on the Brown University campus. The self-described “supernerd,” and daughter of Jack Nicholson and Rebecca Broussard, admits that her initial interaction with her housemates—a circumstance arising from Nicholson’s poor draw in the university housing lottery—consisted of her “waving my fist out my window like a granny, telling them to shut up, and they’re asking me, quite honestly, why I live in a fraternity.” But just as Nicholson’s collegiate living situation eventually found a happy medium, her burgeoning acting career forced her to take a semester sabbatical. Earlier this year, she headed to Hawaii to film Steve McNamara’s Soul Surfer, a film about how pro surfer Bethany Hamilton (played in the movie by AnnaSophia Robb) returned to the water after losing her left arm in a shark attack. Nicholson plays Hamilton’s best friend, Alana Blanchard, which required her to take an on-set crash course in wave riding. “The first lesson is impossible,” Nicholson admits. “You’re wondering how people do this all the time.” Nicholson grew up in L.A. but shied away from typical California beach activities, instead burying her head in books. Whether she returns to Brown next semester depends on whether the 1960s-era road movie Prettyface finally goes into production. If not, Nicholson will no doubt be found in the library. She has a particular fondness for Ayn Rand’s The Fountainhead: “It’s amazing and full of sexiness, but also it’s philosophical and extremely smart,” says Nicholson. “The best combination of things.”