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Stunning Closeups of Karen Gillan HQ Photo Gallery – Actress of “Doctor Who”

Posted on 20 Jul 2010 at 12:32am

Karen Gillan attends the Veuve Clicquot Gold Cup Final in Midhurst, UK, Jul 18, 2010
Karen Sheila Gillan (born 28 November 1987) is a Scottish actress who is best known for her current portrayal of Amy Pond in the British science fiction series Doctor Who.

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Posted on 22 Sep 2009 at 12:17am

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This sloe-eyed brunette began her career as a teenage performer in her native Canada, singing and dancing in the chorus of the Toronto production of “The Phantom of the Opera” from 1988 to 1990. After a brief modeling stint, Neve Campbell landed a one-season (1992-93) regular role as one of the aspiring musicians in the Canadian-produced series “Catwalk”, which aired on MTV in the USA. Her small screen breakthrough came when she was cast as Julia Salinger, as the headstrong older sister, in the award-winning drama series “Party of Five” (Fox, 1994-2000). Over the course of the series’ run, her character experienced numerous trials and tribulations from an unwanted pregnancy to a busted marriage, all while coping with her family and their problems (which included alcoholism and cancer, among others). Throughout it all, Campbell acquitted herself proving to be a fine dramatic player.

The actress was a bit slower to translate her appeal on the big screen. She made her film debut in the forgettable direct-to-video outing “The Dark” (1994) before finding success in a supporting role as a teenager dabbling in witchery in “The Craft” (1996), although co-stars Fairuza Balk and Robin Tunney had the showier roles. Campbell achieved her breakthrough as the put-upon heroine Sidney Prescott in the post-modern box-office smash “Scream” (also 1996). “Scream,” directed by Wes Craven and scripted by Kevin Williamson, both parodied and emulated the slasher films of the early 80s and spawned the inevitable sequel “Scream 2″ (1997), with Campbell’s character now a college student. She fared less well with this outing, playing an aspiring actress targeted by a copycat killer (One set piece had Campbell “acting” in a school production that was unintentionally hilarious). Nevertheless, she returned to close out the trilogy with “Scream 3″ (2000), this time returning from self-imposed exile to visit the set of a movie based on her experiences.

Attempting to distance herself from the horror genre, Campbell was seemingly miscast in the role of a white-trash vixen (a former prison inmate no less!) in the uneven “Wild Things” and further floundered as a soap actress enjoying the nightlife of Studio “54″ (both 1998). She debuted as a producer with the romance “Hair Shirt” (premiered at the 1998 Toronto Film Festival) in which she appeared as an egotistical movie star alongside her brother Christian. Campbell also landed the role of the mistress of an advertising executive in the triangular romantic comedy “Three to Tango” (1999) as well as a stint in the ensemble of the dismal comedy “Drowning Mona” (2000), but neither did much to add to her star power or build her acting resume, but she equated herself well in a series of less pop audience minded projects, including “Panic” (2000) playing the dark, edgy muse of an older man (William H. Macy) leading a stalled life; Alan Rudolph’s frankly refreshing dramedy “Investigating Sex” (2001) as one of two female stenographers assisting two male sex researchers; and as F. Scott Fitzgerald’s young protege, writer Frances Kroll Ring, opposite Jeremy Irons in the cable telepic “Last Call” (2002).

Campbell’s accumulated credits sufficiently impressed legendary director Robert Altman to turn the Campbell-penned story (ultimately co-written with screenwriter Barbara Turner) of a young ballet dancer poised to become a fictional Chicago troupe’s next big thing into his next film, “The Company” (2003). The actress, who trained at the National Ballet of Canada as a girl, was cast as the rising prima ballerina Ry, around who Altman built a trademark multi-character tale filmed inside the famed Joffrey Ballet–Campbell’s authentic knowledge of the inside world of ballet and her always convincing dancing allowed her to deliver her best, most nuanced performance to date. She followed up with the equally ambitious “When Will I Be Loved?” (2004), a noir-ish intellectually and erotically-charged tale of a indulged, sexually adventurous femme fatale artist (Campbell) who uses her powerful sexuality to advance her aims and control those who seek to use her. Although it was a daring–even brash–choice for Campbell, the movie suffered from writer-director James Toback’s largely improvisational approach and characteristic–and slightly disturbing– fetishization of his leading lady.

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Alicia Silverstone Malibu Candids in Bikini at beach

Posted on 08 Sep 2009 at 11:42pm

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Hailed as the teen queen of the mid-’90s, Alicia Silverstone rapidly ascended the summit of idolism with the help of an infamous Aerosmith video and starring roles in the cult trash favorite The Crush, and Amy Heckerling’s sleeper hit Clueless. Despite such a promising beginning to her career, however, the vivacious, green-eyed blonde subsequently weathered a series of professional set-backs, due to poor film choices, weight issues, and an industry increasingly congested with such similarly ebullient young starlets as Sarah Michelle Gellar and Jennifer Love Hewitt. By the end of the decade, Silverstone’s future looked uncertain, although many observers noted that her youth and talent made her chances for a comeback entirely plausible.

Born to English parents in San Francisco on October 4, 1976, Silverstone is the daughter of a real-estate agent and an airline stewardess. She began working as a child model at the age of six after her father sent several pictures of her in a bathing suit to a few agencies. Modeling work led to TV commercials, which in turn led to work on a number of TV series including an episode of The Wonder Years which cast her as Fred Savage’s literal dream girl. At the age of 15, Silverstone landed her first starring role in The Crush (1993), a Fatal Attraction for the Noxema set in which she portrayed a young woman obsessed with an older man (Cary Elwes). Although the film was trashed by critics, it was a hit among its teenage target audience, and Silverstone — who had become legally emancipated from her parents while making the film in order to work longer hours — was feted at the 1994 MTV Movie Awards with trophies for Best Villain and Breakthrough Performance. Around the same time, she starred in the popular music video for Aerosmith’s “Crazy.” Her onscreen antics with Liv Tyler, daughter of Aerosmith frontman Steven, coupled with her vampish turn in The Crush virtually ensured Silverstone’s status as Hollywood’s latest embodiment of nubile, underage female sexuality.

Silverstone’s real break came with her starring role as the spoiled, meddlesome, but ultimately endearing Cher Horowitz in Amy Heckerling’s Clueless (1995). A very loose and modern adaptation of Jane Austen’s -Emma, the film was a huge sleeper hit, and Silverstone was roundly praised for her effervescent performance. In the wake of the film’s success, the actress signed a ten-million-dollar deal with Columbia that included a three-year first-look deal for her own company, First Kiss Productions. She also won the coveted role of Batgirl in Batman && Robin, something that allowed her to contemplate breaking out of the teen sexpot mode.

Unfortunately, the actress was subsequently besieged with a number of problems, ranging from unending industry criticism of her weight to her first excursion as a producer, Excess Baggage (1997). The film, which also served as a starring vehicle for Silverstone, was a thoroughly misguided kidnapping comedy that failed to win favor with either audiences or critics. To add insult to injury, Silverstone’s other major 1997 project, the long-awaited Batman && Robin, was one of the year’s most expensive critical and commercial flops.

After a nearly two-year absence from the screen, Silverstone resurfaced in 1999 with Blast from the Past. A likable romantic comedy that cast her as a cynical Valley girl opposite Brendan Fraser, the film enjoyed modest success. Silverstone followed it with a starring role as the French princess in Kenneth Branagh’s much-anticipated musical adaptation of Shakespeare’s Love’s Labour’s Lost (2000), which saw the actress interpreting the Bard and Irving Berlin alongside the likes of Branagh, Nathan Lane, Matthew Lillard, and Alessandro Nivola.

In 2001, Silverstone played an American rocker in England for the straight-to-video Rock My World (aka Global Heresay), which, despite providing little more than a blip on her resumé, gave her the opportunity to work with the iconic Peter O’Toole. After serving as executive producer for the animated television series Braceface, Silverstone went on to star in NBC’s 2003 sketch comedy Miss Match, which featured the young actress as a divorced lawyer cum matchmaker whose good intentions were not necessarily met with equally positive results. In the same year, she starred opposite Rachael Leigh Cook in Scorched; this time playing a disgruntled bank teller. Silverstone played a role in Scooby Doo 2: Monsters Unleashed alongside fellow twentysomethings Sarah Michelle Gellar and Freddie Prinze Jr. in the summer of 2004. A subsequent trip to the salon in Beautyshop found Silverstone continuing to keep audiences in stitches, and in 2006 she would join Ewan McGregor, Bill Nighy, Missi Pyle, and Alex Pettyfer in bringing author Anthony Horowitz’s adolescent daredevil to the screen in the family-oriented action adventure Stormbreaker. Rebecca Flint Marx, All Movie Guide