Celebrity Wallpapers, Biographies Information 2006 May

A porcelain-skinned, blue-eyed beauty, Vera Farmiga began her professional acting career in the mid-1990s counting among her credits performances in stage productions of The Tempest , The Glass Menagerie and Hamlet . Making her Broadway debut as an understudy in the 1996-1997 play Taking Sides , Farmiga followed up with a well-reviewed featured turn in the 1997 Off-Broadway production Second-Hand Smoke . That same year she was featured in the CBS Hallmark Hall of Fame TV-movie Rose Hill , and starred with then-unknown Heath Ledger on the Fox medieval adventure series Roar , playing female lead Catlin.

A former slave turned dreadlocked battler, Farmiga s Catlin was a fan favorite, though she would later admit embarrassment over the attention garnered for the role on the short-lived genre program. (The series did introduce her to her future husband, actor Sebastian Roache.)
1998 saw Farmiga make her big screen debut, acting in the drama Return to Paradise .

In 2000 she played the daughters of Christopher Walken and Richard Gere in The Opportunists and Autumn in New York respectively, and made the most of her underwritten roles. 2001 s 15 Minutes marked the actress breakthrough, in a part that somewhat utilized her own Eastern European background. (She was born to immigrants and raised in a Ukrainian community in New Jersey.

) In the film, she played a Czech import who witnesses a crime and falls for the investigating detective (Edward Burns). Winning critical raves and audience notice for her supporting turn, Farmiga had already lined up a host of projects to continue her upward climb.
When Anna Faris college roommate first saw Faris in her breakthrough role in Scary Movie, the ex-roomie called the actress in surprise and told her That s so weird that you were cast, because you are not funny.

Hollywood has continually disagreed with that assessment, casting Faris in several projects where her comedic skills subtle or, if Faris is to be believed, even unintentional were allowed to shine.
An actress and performer since age six, the naturally blond, Seattle-bred beauty began her acting career in the independent horror feature, Lover s Lane. In 2000, she received her breakout role as the hapless Cindy Campbell in the Wayans Brothers horror spoof feature Scary Movie .

It was during the filming of Scary Movie that Faris decided to dye her blond tresses to black in an attempt to make her character look more like Neve Campbell and Jennifer Love Hewitt in the Scream and I Know What You Did Last Summer features, the already-self-aware slasher hits Scary Movie was primarily parodying. The consistently amusing, often crude but good-natured spoof was a surprise hit with much deserved credit going to Faris for her vanity-less performance (an admiring Hewitt sent her a bouquet of roses after seeing the film) and the actress returned again under director Keenan Ivory Wayans guidance for the lesser 2001 sequel Scary Movie 2 and its 2003 non-Wayans follow-up, Scary Movie 3 (with her clueless character promoted to the full lead and parodied Courteney Cox rather than Campbell).
Evoking public amazement with her incredible acting skills, Hannah Dakota Fanning has truly established herself as the most popular child actress in the Hollywood film industry.

Four awards and seven nominations she had received so far have proven that she is indeed worthy to deserve the title. It is likely because of her immense love to acting that she is always able to give brilliant performances in each movie she starred in. This infatuation has grown at her very young age, looking upon her interest to conduct some role-plays repeatedly at home.

“I ve always played the mom and I play my sister as the daughter,” she admitted. “I wanted to be an actress on television and movies instead of just around the house.”
Realizing Dakota s enthusiasm to act, her parents, Steve and Joy Fanning, brought her to a playhouse near their residence where she could perform every week with other children in front of the parents.

The playhouse s instructors quickly spotted her talent, thus advised her parents to put her in an agency. The agent later suggested the family to look for an opportunity in L.A.

to develop Dakota s potentiality. A promising chance approached in 1999 as this charming little girl surprisingly was selected out of thousands to be in Tide dishwashing liquid commercial. Born on February 23, 1994 in Conyers, Georgia, she was barely five years old at that time.

By the following year, she had performed in an episode of the notable TV series, such as “ER”, “Ally McBeal”, and “CSI.”