World Stars Celebrites: February 2011

marisa tomei early life and career beginnings

Marisa Tomeiborn December 4, 1964 is an American stage, film and television actress. Following her work on As The World Turns, Tomei came to prominence as a supporting cast member on The Cosby Show spinoff A Different World in 1987. After appearing in a few films, her breakthrough came in 1992, with the comedy My Cousin Vinny, in which she won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress.
Appearing in over several films in the past fifteen years, her most commercially successful films to date are What Women Want (2000), Anger Management (2003), and Wild Hogs (2007). She received critical acclaim for her performances in Unhook the Stars (1996), Before the Devil Knows You're Dead (2007) and received subsequent Academy Award nominations for her performances in In the Bedroom (2001) and The Wrestler (2008).
Contents
* 1 Life and career
o 1.1 1964-1983: Early life and career beginnings
o 1.2 1984-2002: Breakthrough and critical success
o 1.3 2003-present
o 1.4 Theatre
o 1.5 Personal life
* 2 Filmography
* 3 References
* 4 External links
Life and career
1964-1983: Early life and career beginnings
Tomei, an Italian American, was born in Brooklyn, New York, the daughter of Patricia "Addie," an English teacher, and Gary A. Tomei, a trial lawyer. She has a younger brother, actor Adam Tomei, and was partly raised by her paternal grandparents, Rita and Romeo Tomei. Tomei grew up in the Midwood neighborhood of Brooklyn. While there, she became captivated by the Broadway shows that her theater-loving parents took her to and became drawn to acting as a career. At Andries Hudde Junior High School, she played the part of Hedy LaRue in a school production of How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying. She graduated from Edward R. Murrow High School and she attended Boston University for a year, transferring to New York University in 1983 after landing a role in the soap opera As The World Turns. Soon afterward, she dropped out of college as her career in acting started to take off.
1984-2002: Breakthrough and critical success
Tomei followed up As the World Turns, in 1986, with a role on the sitcom A Different World as Maggie Lauten during the first season. Her film debut was in the 1984 comedy film, The Flamingo Kid with Matt Dillon, following several small films, her breakthrough comedic performance came in My Cousin Vinny (1992), for which she was named Best Supporting Actress at the 1993 Academy Awards, prevailing over Miranda Richardson, Joan Plowright, Vanessa Redgrave and Judy Davis. American film critic Rex Reed created controversy (and a minor Hollywood myth) when he suggested that Jack Palance had announced the wrong name after opening the envelope. While this has been repeatedly disproved – even the Academy has officially denied it – Tomei has called the story "extremely hurtful".
After her Oscar win, she appeared as silent film star, Mabel Normand in the film Chaplin with her then boyfriend, Robert Downey Jr. as the title character. The following year she starred in the romantic drama, Untamed Heart with Christian Slater and appeared alongside Downey Jr. again in the romantic comedy, Only You the following year. She received her first Screen Actor's Guild Award nomination for Outstanding Female Supporting Actor for Nick Cassavetes's Unhook the Stars alonside Gena Rowlands. On Tomei's performance, The New York Times wrote, "Ms. Tomei is equally fine as Mildred's younger, hot-tempered neighbor, whose raw working-class feistiness and bluntly profane vocabulary initially repel the genteel older woman." She appeared in several films throughout the following years and received an American Comedy Award nomination for Funniest Supporting Actress for Tamara Jenkins's Slums of Beverly Hills. However, she spent several years away from high-profile roles and major motion pictures in the later 90's before rising again to prominence.[19] Tomei later appeared in the 2000 film, What Women Want with Mel Gibson and Helen Hunt which was a commercial success and had a supporting role in the romantic comedy, Someone Like You. In 2001, Tomei appeared in the critically acclaimed film, In the Bedroom with Tom Wilkinson and Sissy Spacek, earning Tomei a second Academy Award nomination and her first Golden Globe Award nomination for Best Supporting Actress. Tomei received the ShoWest Award for Supporting Actress of the Year in 2002.
Throughout the later part of the decade Tomei made several television appearences, in 1996 she made a guest appearance on the sitcom Seinfeld, playing herself in the two-part episode "The Cadillac". In this episode, George attempts to get a date with Tomei through a friend of Elaine. She has also made an appearance on The Simpsons as movie star Sara Sloane, who falls in love with Ned Flanders. Former Saturday Night Live cast member Jay Mohr wrote in his book Gasping for Airtime that, as guest host in October 1994, Tomei insisted that a proposed sketch about another actress not be used because she didn't like the idea of making fun of her, which displeased the writers and performers, given the show's penchant for satirizing celebrities.
2003-present
In 2003, Tomei appeared in the hit Anger Management with Adam Sandler and Jack Nicholson, and Alfie opposite Jude Law. In 2005, she was featured in an ad campaign for Hanes with the slogan "Look who we've got our Hanes on now", featuring various other celebrities including Michael Jordan, Jennifer Love Hewitt, Damon Wayans, Matthew Perry and, on Spanish-language advertising, Aracely Arambula and Pablo Montero. In 2006, Tomei had a recurring role on Rescue Me, playing Johnny Gavin's ex-wife Angie. She won a Gracie Allen Award for Supporting Actress in a Drama Series for her work in the four episodes she appeared in. The following year she appeared in the comedy, Wild Hogs alongside John Travolta, Tim Allen, William H. Macy and Martin Lawrence. The film was the 13th highest-grossing movie of 2007 ($168,273,550 domestic box office). She also starred in the Sidney Lumet-directed Before the Devil Knows You're Dead opposite co-stars Philip Seymour Hoffman and Ethan Hawke. This role received extra attention because Tomei appeared in nude love scenes with both Hoffman and Hawke.
Tomei at the 81st Academy Awards in February 2009
In 2008, Tomei played Cassidy/Pam, a struggling stripper in the Darren Aronofsky independent film The Wrestler opposite Mickey Rourke. She appeared in several nude scenes performing dance numbers in the film. Numerous critics heralded this performance as a standout in her career. Ty Burr of The Boston Globe writes, "Tomei gives a brave and scrupulously honest performance, one that's most naked when Pam has her clothes on." Variety exclaimed, "Tomei is in top, emotionally forthright form as she charts a life passage similar to Ram's."For her performance she was nominated for her first BAFTA, second Golden Globe and third Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress.
Tomei was included at #18 on the FHM annual list of "100 Sexiest Females in the world" in 2009. The following year she appeared in two films, the first a comedy-drama, Cyrus and a cameo in the comedy film, Grown Ups. Her next projects include Salvation Boulevard with Pierce Brosnan and Greg Kinnear, and Crazy, Stupid, Love with Steve Carell, Julianne Moore, Ryan Gosling and Emma Stone.
Theatre
Tomei has also done substantial work in the theater, including taking lead roles on Broadway in Wait Until Dark (1998) and Oscar Wilde's Salomé (2003) alongside Al Pacino and Dianne Wiest as well as many Off Broadway plays.
Personal life
In the early 1990s, Tomei dated Robert Downey, Jr. (her co-star in Chaplin and Only You). In 1999, she dated actor Dana Ashbrook and had a relationship with playwright Frank Pugliese, living with him in Greenwich Village.
Tomei was the recipient of an honorary degree from Boston University.
She has been dating actor Logan Marshall-Green for the past few years

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mariah carey songwriter and pop singer

Mariah Carey born March 27, 1970 or 1969; sources varyis an American R&B/pop singer-songwriter, record producer and actress. She made her recording debut, in 1990, under the guidance of Columbia Records executive Tommy Mottola, and became the first recording artist to have her first five singles top the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 chart. Following her marriage to Mottola, in 1993, a series of hit records established her position as Columbia Records' highest-selling act.
Following her separation from Mottola, in 1997, she introduced elements of hip hop into her album work, to much initial success, but her popularity was in decline when she left Columbia, in 2001. She signed a record $80 million deal with Virgin Records, only to be dropped from the label and bought out of her contract in the following year. This radical turn of events was due to the highly publicized physical and emotional breakdown, as well as the poor reception that was given to Glitter, her film and soundtrack project. In 2002, Carey signed with Island Records, and, after a relatively unsuccessful period, returned to the top of pop music, in 2005, with her album, The Emancipation of Mimi.
In a career spanning over two decades, Carey has sold more than 200 million albums, singles and videos worldwide, according to Island Def Jam, which makes her one of the world's best-selling music artists. Carey was cited as the world’s best-selling recording artist of the 1990s at the 1998 World Music Awards and was also named the best-selling female artist of the millennium by the same award-giving body in 2000. According to the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA), she is the third-best-selling female artist, with shipments of 63 million albums. In 2008, Carey earned her eighteenth number one single on the Hot 100, which ties her with Elvis Presley for the most by any solo artist. Aside from her commercial accomplishments, she has earned five Grammy Awards and is known for her five-octave vocal range, power, melismatic style and use of the whistle register.
Contents
* 1 Life and career
o 1.1 1970–87: Childhood and youth
o 1.2 1988–92: Early career
o 1.3 1993–96: First marriage, and international success
o 1.4 1997–2000: New image, Butterfly and Rainbow
o 1.5 2001–04: Glitter, Charmbracelet and personal struggles
o 1.6 2005–07: Return to prominence with The Emancipation of Mimi
o 1.7 2007–09: E=MC², second marriage, and Memoirs of an Imperfect Angel
o 1.8 2010–present: Merry Christmas II You and pregnancy
* 2 Artistry
o 2.1 Voice
o 2.2 Themes and musical style
* 3 Legacy
* 4 Philanthropy and other activities
* 5 Filmography
* 6 Discography
* 7 See also
* 8 Notes
* 9 References
* 10 External links
Life and career
1970–87: Childhood and youth
Mariah Carey was born in Huntington, Long Island, New York. She is the third and youngest child of Patricia (née Hickey), a former opera singer and vocal coach, and Alfred Roy Carey, an aeronautical engineer Her mother is Irish American and her father is of Afro-Venezuelan and African American descent;[21] her paternal grandfather, Roberto Nuñez, changed his surname to Carey to better assimilate upon moving to the United States from Venezuela. Carey has two siblings, Morgan and Alison Carey. Carey was named after the song "They Call the Wind Mariah" Carey's parents divorced when she was three years old. While she lived in Huntington, racist neighbors allegedly poisoned the family dog and set fire to her family's car. After her parents' divorce, she had little contact with her father and her mother worked several jobs to support the family. Carey spent much of her time at home, alone, and turned to music to occupy herself. She began to sing at around the age of three, when her mother began to teach her, after Carey imitated her mother practicing Verdi's opera Rigoletto in Italian.
Carey graduated from Harborfields High School, in Greenlawn, New York. She was frequently absent, because of her work as a demo singer for local recording studios; her classmates consequently gave her the nickname "Mirage" Her work in the Long Island music scene provided opportunities to work with musicians, such as Gavin Christopher and Ben Margulies, with whom she co-wrote material for her demo tape. After she moved to New York City, she worked part-time jobs to pay the rent and she completed 500 hours of beauty school., she became a backup singer for Puerto Rican freestyle singer Brenda K. Starr.
1988–92: Early career
In 1988, Carey met Columbia Records executive Tommy Mottola at a party, where Starr gave Carey's demo tape to him. Mottola played the tape when he left the party and was impressed. He returned to find Carey but she had left. Nevertheless, Mottola tracked her down and signed her to a recording contract. This Cinderella-like story became part of the standard publicity that surrounded Carey's entrance into the industry.
Carey co-wrote the tracks on her 1990 debut album Mariah Carey and she has co-written most of her material since. During the recording, she expressed dissatisfaction with the contributions of producers such as Ric Wake and Rhett Lawrence, whom the executives at Columbia had enlisted to help to make the album more commercially viable. Critics were generally enthusiastic (See Critical reception section of the album article). Backed by a substantial promotional budget, the album reached number one on the U.S. Billboard 200 chart, where it remained for several weeks. It yielded four number-one singles and made Carey a star in the United States but it was less successful in other countries. Critics rated the album highly, which assisted Carey's Grammy wins for Best New Artist, and—for her debut single, "Vision of Love"—Best Female Pop Vocal Performance. Mariah Carey was also the best selling album of 1991 in the United States.
Carey conceived Emotions, her second album, as an homage to Motown soul music (see Motown Sound), and she worked with Walter Afanasieff and Clivillés & Cole (from the dance group C+C Music Factory) on the record. It was released soon after her debut album — in late 1991 — but was neither as critically or commercially successful (See Promotion and reception section of the album article). The title track "Emotions" made Carey into the only recording act whose first five singles have reached number one on the U.S. Hot 100 chart, although the album's follow-up singles failed to match this feat. Carey had lobbied to produce her own songs and, beginning with Emotions, she has co-produced most of her material. "I didn't want [Emotions] to be somebody else's vision of me," she said. "There's more of me on this album."

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mariel hemingway Personal life and career

mariel Hadley Hemingway born November 22, 1961 is an American actress and writer.
Contents
* 1 Early life
* 2 Career
* 3 Personal life
* 4 Bibliography
* 5 Filmography
* 6 References
* 7 External links
Early life
Hemingway was born in Mill Valley, California, the third daughter of Byra Louise (née Whittlesey) Hemingway and John 'Jack' Hadley Nicanor Hemingway, a writer. Her sisters are Joan Hemingway (born 1950) and Margaux Louise Hemingway (born 1954). Margaux, who became an actress and model, died of a barbiturate overdose in 1996 at age 42.
Her paternal grandparents were Hadley Richardson and writer Ernest Hemingway, whom she never met, as he committed suicide several months before she was born. She was named after the Cuban port of Mariel—a village that her father and grandfather visited regularly as sportsmen to fish. Her middle name was after her paternal grandmother.
Hemingway grew up primarily in Ketchum, Idaho, where her father lived, and where her paternal grandfather had also spent a great deal of time as a sportsman and writer. Mariel also spent part of her adolescence growing up in New York City, New York, and Los Angeles, California.
Caree
Hemingway's first role was with her sister Margaux in the film Lipstick (1976). The movie was not considered especially good, but Mariel did receive notice for the quality of her acting, and she was nominated as "Best Newcomer" for the Golden Globes Award that year.
Hemingway's most famous role was in Woody Allen's Manhattan (1979), a romantic comedy in which she plays Allen's high school-aged lover. Only sixteen during filming, she was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress.
In Personal Best (1982), she played a bisexual athlete in a film noted for some explicit (by mainstream standards) lesbian love scenes. In connection with Personal Best, she appeared in a pictorial in the April 1982 issue of Playboy, including the cover.
She starred as Dorothy Stratten in Star 80 (1983), a film about the Playboy model's life and murder. Reports circulated for years that Hemingway had her breasts enlarged to play the role of Stratten, but during a 2007 appearance on the late-night talk and variety show, Fashionably Late with Stacy London, she said she had the surgery before Star 80 came up. Her implants were removed years later after they had ruptured.
Hemingway was also featured in the Golan-Globus's Superman IV: The Quest for Peace (1987) as Lacy Warfield. Her role was expanded upon in newly discovered deleted footage, which was shown in a very rough edit with unfinished visual effects and was released on DVD in November 2006 as a deluxe edition and as part of The Superman Ultimate Collector's Edition. She also co-starred in the 1991-93 ABC series Civil Wars.
Hemingway has played a lesbian or bisexual woman in several films and television shows, including, Personal Best, The Sex Monster, In Her Line of Fire, and episodes of the TV series "Roseanne" ("Don't Ask, Don't Tell" and "December Bride") and Crossing Jordan.
Hemingway, however, is not gay. She has said she formed a "big connection with the gay-and-lesbian community" after Personal Best and enjoys taking roles in "cutting-edge" productions.
Hemingway has a perfume, "Mariel", by H2O+.
She is currently the host of Spiritual Cinema, a monthly television show dedicated to spiritual films. She has begun hosting a series of yoga practice videos Yoga Now, with guru Rodney Yee.
Personal life
In December 2008, Hemingway announced via her web site's blog that she had separated from her husband earlier in the year. Hemingway had been married since December 9, 1984 to Stephen Crisman. They had two daughters together: model Dree Hemingway (born 1987) and Langley Fox (born 1989).
Bibliography
Mariel Hemingway is the author of:
* Hemingway, Mariel. Finding My Balance: A Memoir (1st ed.). Simon & Schuster. ISBN 0743238079.
* Hemingway, Mariel. Mariel Hemingway's Healthy Living from the Inside Out: Every Woman's Guide to Real Beauty, Renewed Energy, and a Radiant Life (1st ed.). HarperOne. ISBN 978-0060890391.
Filmography
* Lipstick (1976) ... Kathy McCormick
* I Want to Keep My Baby (1976) ... Sue Ann Cunningham
* Manhattan (1979) ... as Tracy
* Personal Best (1982) ... as Chris Cahill
* Star 80 (1983) ... as Dorothy Stratten
* Creator (1985) ... as Meli
* The Mean Season (1985)...as Christine Connelly
* Amerika (1987) ... as Kimberly Ballard
* Superman IV: The Quest for Peace (1987) ... as Lacy Warfield
* Steal the Sky (1988) ... as Helen Mason
* Sunset (1988) ... as Cheryl King
* Delirious (1991) ... as Janet Dubois/Louise
* Falling From Grace (1992) ... as Alice Parks
* Desperate Rescue: The Cathy Mahone Story (1993) ... as Cathy Mahone
* Bad Moon (1996) ... as Janet
* Deconstructing Harry (1997) ... as Beth Kramer
* Little Men (1997) ... as Jo Baer
* The Sex Monster (1999) ... as Laura Barnes
* First Daughter (1999) ... as Alex McGregor
* American Reel (1999) ... as Disney Rifkin
* The Contender (2000) ... as Cynthia Charlton Lee
* First Shot (2001) ... as Alex McGregor
* Perfume (2001) ... as Leese Hotton
* In Her Line of Fire (2006) ... as Lynn Delaney
* Between Truth and Lies (2006) ... as Dr. Claire Parker
* Nanking (2007) ... as Minnie Vautrin
* The Golden Boys (2008) ... as Martha
* My Suicide (2008) ... as Charlotte Silver
* Ay lav yu (2010) ... as Pamela

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