Jennifer Lopez

Jennifer Lopez aka J.Lo is a Golden Globe Award-nominated, five-time ALMA Award-winning American actress, Grammy Award-nominated singer, songwriter, dancer, and fashion designer.

Jennifer Lopez launch her new Spanish language album "Como Ama Una Mujer" (How a Woman Loves) on March 28, 2007 to the delight of her hometown fans in Brooklyn. This is her sixth album and only effort in Spanish, which contains 11 pop songs is co-produced by Julio Reyes.

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Yukta Mookhey

Yukta Mookhey was born on 7 October 1979. She is an Indian model and actress from Mumbai. She appeared in Bollywood movie Pyasa. Yukta was crowned Miss World in December 1999 at the Olympia theatre in London and succeeded by Priyanka Chopra in 2000.

Paulina Porizkova

Paulina Porizkova was born on April 9, 1965 in Prostějov, Czech Republic. She is a Czech-born supermodel and actress.

She appeared twice on the cover of the Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue in 1984 and again in 1985. She was also the cover model for the 20th Anniversary issue of Cosmopolitan magazine in November 1985.

Paulina was the first to be voted off from ABC's fourth season of "Dancing With the Stars", which began last week.

Ujjwala Raut

Ujjwala Raut was born on June 11, 1978. She is India's most accomplished supermodel. Raut was a 17-year-old commerce student when she became the winner of Femina Look of the Year in Miss India Pageant in 1996. She walked the catwalk for numerous high-end fashion shows, including Yves Saint-Laurent, Victoria's Secret, Roberto Cavalli, Hugo Boss, Cynthia Rowley, Diane von Furstenberg, Dolce & Gabbana, Betsey Johnson, Gucci, Valentino, Oscar de la Renta, and Emilio Pucci. Raut has graced the covers of ELLE, Time, L'Officel Magazine, Tank, and WWD.

Zeenat Aman

Zeenat Aman was born on November 19, 1951. She is an Indian Bollywood actress of late 70s. Aman graduated from St. Xavier's School in Mumbai, India and went to Los Angeles for her higher studies. Upon returning to India, she first took a job as a journalist for Femina magazine and then later on moved on to modeling. She was the second runner up in the Miss India Contest and went on to win the Miss Asia Pacific in 1970. She was considered a sex symbol during the 70s.

Aman's sultry persona was a contrast to many of the more conservative stars of the era. At a time when heroines were obedient wives and lovers on screen, Aman was drawn to more unique roles - she was cast as the opportunist who deserts her jobless lover for a millionaire (Roti Kapda Aur Makaan), the ambitious girl who considers aborting her baby to pursue a career (Ajnabee), the happy hooker (Manoranjan), the disenchanted hippie (Hare Rama Hare Krishna), the girl who falls in love with her mother's one-time lover (Prem Shastra), and a woman married to a caustic cripple but involved in an extramarital relationship (Dhund). She managed to balance these roles with acting in more conventional films such as Chori Mera Kaam, Chhaila Babu, Dostana and Lawaaris.

She appears rarely on screen now. She acted in Kaizad Gustad's film Boom in 2003 which also starts Amitabh Bachchan, Jackie Shroff, Gulshan Grover, Padma Lakshmi, Madhu Sapre and Katrina Kaif.

Miss USA 2007 : Rachel Smith

Rachel Smith of Miss Tennessee was crowned Miss USA 2007 by outgoing titleholder Tara Conner. The 56th Miss USA pageant, was held in Los Angeles, California, on March 23, 2007. Rachel Renee Smith was born on April 18, 1985 in Panama.

Evangeline Lilly

Nicole Evangeline Lilly was born on August 3, 1979 in Fort Saskatchewan, Alberta, Canada. She is a Canadian Golden Globe-nominated actress. She is well known for her role as Katherine "Kate" Austen in ABC's hit drama Lost.

Lilly placed eighth in the FHM 100 Sexiest Women in the World 2006 and placed second on Maxim's Hot 100 list of 2005 while #67 in Maxim's 2006 list.

Evangeline was hottest among USA Today's most gorgeous actresses on television from a recent poll conducted by TV Guide. Eva Longoria was second in this list.

Shakira

Shakira is leading pop singer from Colombia. She will be in Mumbai, India for her live performance on 25th March 2007. You can get more details about Shakira from previous post.

Alexis Bledel

Alexis Bledel was born on September 16, 1981 in Houston, Texas. She is an American actress and former fashion model. She is best known for her role in the television series Gilmore Girls and for the films Tuck Everlasting, Sin City, and The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants. She was ranked #87 on the Maxim Hot 100 Women of 2005.

Shonali Nagrani

Shonali Nagrani born on 20 December 1981 in Delhi, India. She is an Indian film actress, VJ, anchor, host and model, who has appeared in Hindi language films. Shonali won the pageant of former Miss India International in 2003 and subsequently finished first runner-up of Miss International 2003 beauty contest. She anchored on field for Cricket World Cup 2007 in West Indies.


She has appeared in supporting roles in the 2008 film, Rab Ne Bana Di Jodi with Anushka Sharma and the 2009 cricket themed film, Dil Bole Hadippa with Rani Mukherjee amongst other roles. 


In 2011, Shonali featured in the Indian reality television show Bigg Boss (Season 5) as one of the contestant alongside other celebrity contestants like Shakti Kapoor, Pooja Bedi, Nihita Biswas, Shraddha Sharma, Mandeep Bevli, Raageshwari, Vida Samadzai, Mahek Chahal, Sonika Kaliraman Malik, Pooja Misrra, Gulabo Sapera, Laxmi Narayan and Juhi Parmar.


Shweta Tiwari was the winner of Bigg Boss (Season 4).

Uma Thurman

Uma Thurman was born on April 29, 1970 in Boston, Massachusetts. She is an Oscar-nominated American film actress. She is best known for her films directed by Quentin Tarantino. Her most popular films include Dangerous Liaisons (1988), Pulp Fiction (1994), Gattaca (1997) and the two Kill Bill movies (2003–04).

In 2006, Thurman was named a knight of the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres of France for outstanding achievement in the field of art and literature.

Nicole Richie

Nicole Camille Richie was born on September 21, 1981 in Berkeley, California. She is an American actress and singer. The adopted daughter of Lionel Richie, she is best known for her role in the reality show The Simple Life in which she appeared along with Paris Hilton in 2003.

Preeti Jhangiani

Preeti Jhangiani was born on 18 August 1980. She is an Indian actress and model. She made her Bollywood debut in 2000 with Mohabbatein. The film starred Amitabh Bachchan, Shahrukh Khan, Aishwarya Rai as well as five other debutantes i.e. Shamita Shetty, Uday Chopra, Jugal Hansraj, Kim Sharma and Jimmy Shergill.

Norah Jones

Norah Jones (Geethali Norah Jones Shankar) was born on March 30, 1979 in New York City, New York. She is a Grammy Award-winning American singer-songwriter and occasional actress.

Jones's career was launched with her massively successful 2002 debut album Come Away with Me, a contemporary pop album with a sensual, plaintive soul/folk/country tinge, which sold over twenty million copies worldwide and received eight Grammy Awards.

On January, 30, 2007, Norah released her third and most personla album yet, Not Too Late - a collection of 13 original songs debuted at #1 on the charts.

Sonam Kapoor

Sonam Kapoor was born on June 9, 1985. She is an upcoming Indian film actress. She is the daughter of Anil Kapoor and Sunita Kapoor.

Rishi Kapoor's son Ranbir Kapoor will make his debut with Sonam Kapoor under Sanjay Leela Bhansali direction in the film titled Saawariya and is due for release in late 2007.

Zhang Ziyi

Zhang Ziyi was born on February 9, 1979 in Beijing, China. She is one of the most well-known Chinese film actresses working today, with a string of Chinese and international hits to her name.

Zhang rose to fame due to her role in the phenomenally successful Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, for which she won the Independent Spirit's Best Supporting Actress Award and the Toronto Film Critics' Best Supporting Actress Award.

In May 2006, Zhang became the youngest member to sit on the jury of the Cannes Film Festival. She was also included in People's 100 Most Beautiful People in the World in 2006.

Asin Thottumkal

Asin Thottumkal is a beautiful and successful Indian film actress. She will soon appear opposite Kamal Haasan in Tamil movie Dasavatharam along with Mallika Sherawat.

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Naomi Campbell

Naomi Campbell was born on May 22, 1970 in Streatham, South London, England, United Kingdom. She is an iconic British supermodel and sometime actress, singer, and author.
Naomi was the first black model to appear on the cover of Time magazine and the French and British Vogue magazines.
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Parizad Kolah

Parizad Kolah is a model and TV Anchor from Mumbai, India. She won an inter-collegiate fashion show while still at HR College, Mumbai in 1997. She is hosting big hit Indian TV comedy show called The Great Indian Laughter Challenge.

Leelee Sobieski

Leelee Sobieski was born on June 10, 1983. She is an American actress. Sobieski rose to fame in her mid-teens with her appearance in the movie Deep Impact in 1998 and went on to play a modern Lolita in Stanley Kubrick's Eyes Wide Shut in 1999.

Aishwarya Rai

We are glad to post our 200th post here on International Women's Day with the cool pictures of Aishwarya Rai.

Check previous post of Aishwarya Rai with pictures here here & here.

Sridevi

Sridevi (aka Sreedevi Ayyapan now Sridevi Kapoor) was born on August 13, 1963 in Sivakasi, Tamil Nadu, India. She is an Indian actress who has starred in hundreds of Hindi, Telugu, Tamil, Malayalam, and Kannada films. Sridevi started her career as a child artiste in Tamil movie Kandhan Karunai in 1967.

She was the number one actress in Tamil during the period 1975-85.

Elizabeth Hurley

Elizabeth Hurley was born on 10 June 1965 in Basingstoke, Hampshire. She is an English actress, fashion model, producer and designer.
In the late 1980s, Hurley won a "Face of the Year" competition at a local newspaper in Winchester, England, and gained a year's modeling contract with a prestigious London firm as the first prize.

On March 2nd, 2007, Liz Hurley married in secret to Indian businessman Arun Nayar at Sudeley Castle, near Cheltenham, Gloucestershire.

Drew Barrymore

Drew Barrymore was born on February 22, 1975 in Culver City, California. She is an American actress and film producer. She has her own production company, Flower Films. Barrymore made her screen début in Altered States in 1980, her breakout role came two years later in E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial as Gertie, which brought the then young actress widespread attention, and she quickly became one of the most recognized child actresses.

According to trade magazine The Hollywood Reporter's annual Star Salary Top 10, she is one of the actresses with the second highest salary per movie for 2006.

She has produced several films, including Charlie's Angels which also stars Lucy Liu and Cameron Diaz and was a major box office success of 2000.

Shamita Shetty

Shamita Shetty was born on 2nd February 1979. She is an Indian actress. She is the younger sister of Bollywood actress Shilpa Shetty.

She made her debut with the 2000 blockbuster Mohabbatein which also had Aishwarya Rai, Kim Sharma, Preeti Jhangiani.

Bridget Moynahan

Bridget Moynahan was born on September 21, 1970 in Binghamton, New York. She is an American model and actress of Irish descent, best known for her roles in films such as Coyote Ugly, I, Robot, and Lord of War.

She also made guest appearances in the television series Sex and the City. As a model she was on many magazine covers, including Elle, Vogue, Self, Fitness, New Woman and Glamour.

In May 2006, Maxim magazine named her #96 on their annual Hot 100 List.

Renee Zellweger

Renée Kathleen Zellweger was born on April 25, 1969 in Katy, Texas. She is an Academy Award-winning American film actress.
In 2002, she starred in Rob Marshall's Best Picture winning film Chicago opposite Catherine Zeta Jones, Richard Gere, Queen Latifah, and John C. Reilly.
In 2004, Zellweger received an Academy Award as Best Supporting Actress in Anthony Minghella's Cold Mountain opposite Jude Law and Nicole Kidman.