Amanda Bynes

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Amanda Bynes Biography

Birth Name: Amanda Bynes
Born: 04/03/1986
Amanda Laura Bynes was born on April 3, 1986 to her father, Rick, a dentist, and mother, Lynn, an office manager. Along with her two siblings, she grew up north of Los Angeles in Thousand Oaks, CA. Bynes was the family superstar from the get-go, putting on her mother's clothes and staging performances at the age of three. She enjoyed musical theater and knew all the words to "Oliver!" (1968) and "Evita" (1996) by the age of five. Her parents took notice of the youngster's potential, going so far as to drive her an hour from their hometown to a summer comedy camp in Los Angeles every Saturday. The support of her parents and her own hard work soon led the star-in-training to the famous Laugh Factory in Hollywood. It was in the the esteemed club that Bynes performed a comedy routine when she was only 10 years old, impressing a group of people who worked for Nickelodeon, who asked her to audition for "All That" (Nickelodeon, 1994-2005), a sketch comedy show for the middle school set. Bynes was a natural fit for the series, with her charm and physical comedy skills. A regular "All That" cast member for four years, she won fans and a handful of Nickelodeon Kid's Choice Awards in the process.

Being part of the "All That" ensemble cast showcased Bynes' comedic talents, but the network saw a lot more potential for the young star. As the driving force of the show, she was offered her own comedy series for Nickelodeon, "The Amanda Show" (1999-2001), which became the channel's highest-rated live-action program at that time. The actress, who was as versatile as she was likeable, reigned over her show for three successful seasons, finding comfort within her characters. She was fond of stating that she was more nervous doing her monologues at the start of every show because she was herself up there, but regardless of stage fright, her fans supported her every career move. Naturally, such popularity led to the next step in her nascent career, conquering the big screen.

Bynes set her sights on a film career while still maintaining TV credibility. In 2002, the California native co-starred with Frankie Muniz in "Big Fat Liar," playing Kaylee, the free-spirited and slightly tomboyish best friend to Muniz's Jason. The role was originally written for a boy, but Bynes nailed the part with ease. That very same year, she was cast in a TV comedy series about two sisters living in New York City called "What I Like About You." On the soon-to-be-hit, she played Holly, a teen who lived with her older sister, played by "Beverly Hills, 90210" (Fox, 1990-2000) alum Jennie Garth. The relationship on the show hit close to home for the actress, as she considered her older sister, Jillian, her best friend in real life. "What I Like About You" lasted four years, and turned Bynes into a household name and bankable teen star, joining a young Hollywood group that at the time included Hilary Duff, Lindsay Lohan and Mandy Moore. Unlike some of her peers, however, Bynes was adamant she would not lose sight of her goals by partying her teen years away and becoming a tabloid headline.

The busy actress scored another starring role in the film "What a Girl Wants" (2003), pushing the actress ahead of the young Hollywood pack. A coming-of-age movie with romantic comedy elements, "What a Girl Wants" was a minor hit and provided Bynes with yet another opportunity to show off her versatility as well as her growing maturity. At a time when animated movies were also box-office dynamite, Bynes voiced the character of Piper in the feature film "Robots" (2005). The cast was a veritable who's-who of comedy, including Robin Williams, Mel Brooks and Drew Carey. Being a former teen sketch comedy star, Bynes was finally acting among her biggest influences, a feat that made the film one of her personal favorites.

Never much of an athlete, Bynes had always preferred musical theater and acting over sports. When her next movie "She's The Man" (2006) called for the actress to learn to play soccer, she did so with flying colors. The film - a remake of "Just One of the Guys" (1985) - featured Bynes as a girl who dresses as a boy to land a spot on the all-male soccer team, all in an effort to show up the ex-boyfriend who dumped her. Romance was in the air off-screen, as Bynes and her co-star, actor Channing Tatum, became an item, dating for a few years, before their relationship cooled. She had previously dated another co-star, "What I Like About You" hunk Nick Zano, but that also lasted only briefly. Compared to other actresses of her generation, the focus on Bynes was less about her personal life and more on her work.

Her biggest project then to date arrived in the form of "Hairspray" (2007), a musical romp through the 1960s, based on John Waters' 1988 cult film and the hit Broadway production. The "Hairspray" cast consisted of Hollywood heavyweights like John Travolta, Michelle Pfeiffer and Queen Latifah, as well as newcomers like Nikki Blonsky and Disney Channel heartthrob Zac Efron. Somewhere in the middle was Bynes, a showbiz veteran at such a young age. She channeled the role of Tracy's sidekick Penny Pingleton, making it her own with her signature line "I am now a checkerboard chick!" during the movie's big finale. Following the massive success of "Hairspray," Bynes played the lead in "Sydney White" (2007), a hip adaptation of the classic Snow White fairy tale.

Talented and mature well beyond her years, Bynes set out for an entirely different direction with her career by launching a fashion line called "Dear By Amanda Bynes" in August 2007, with fun and trendy pieces her teen fans loved to wear available at the department store chain Steve and Barry's nationwide. Bynes' business venture was short-lived, however, when the troubled chain filed for bankruptcy the next year. In the meantime, the actress stuck with what she knew best, appearing in the biopic, "Living Proof" (Lifetime, 2008), which focused on researcher Dr. Dennis Slamon (Harry Connick, Jr.) and his efforts to find a treatment for breast cancer patients. Although "Canned," an unaired sitcom pilot for ABC about a group of recently fired investment bankers, failed to generate heat, Bynes' lingerie-clad appearance on the cover of the February 2010 issue of Maxim magazine certainly did. Shortly thereafter, she left fans scratching their heads when she announced via Twitter her decision to quit acting that summer, only to proclaim a month later that she was "unretired," in a post on the same social media site.

As proof of her "un-retirement," Bynes was soon seen in the coming-of-age satire, "Easy A" (2010). Loosely inspired by Nathanial Hawthorne's novel The Scarlet Letter, the comedy simultaneously employed and skewered nearly every teen comedy convention of the previous 20 years, with Bynes playing the holier-than-thou nemesis of Emma Stone's social outcast protagonist. While the film and Bynes' performance enjoyed strong notices, the actress nonetheless maintained that although she was not retired, she was still committed to taking some time off. Unfortunately, time off from work was spent making unpleasant headlines. Having already been ticketed the previous month for talking on her cell phone while driving, Bynes was arrested for drunk driving after colliding with a police cruiser in West Hollywood during the early morning hours of April, 6, 2012. After being held for several hours, she was later released on $5,000 bail. The following Monday, Bynes' father adamantly told members of the press that his daughter was "not drunk," and that she was only taken into custody because she was so visibly distraught by the accident.

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Angelina Jolie

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Angelina Jolie Biography

Birth Name: Angelina Jolie
Born: 06/04/1975
Birth Place: Los Angeles, California, USA
The daughter of actors Jon Voight and Marcheline Bertrand, Angelina Jolie (Voight) was born on Jun. 4, 1975 in Los Angeles. Like her older brother by two years, director James Haven (Voight), Jolie seemed destined for a career in the arts. At the age of 11, she began studying at the famed Lee Strasberg Theater Institute in New York City. Even before commencing her formal training, Jolie made her screen debut as a tyke in a bit part in the Hal Ashby-directed comedy "Lookin' to Get Out" (1982). While reviewers savaged the movie - which was co-scripted and co-produced by her father - its littlest thespian fortunately emerged unscathed. The experience briefly turned young Angelina off of show business - she even briefly considered going into funeral directing for a time - but because it was in her blood, she eventually bounced back.

With two extremely photogenic parents, it came as no surprise that Jolie inherited gorgeous good looks, with her most striking being her lush lips which made her a standout from all other young girls. Her comeliness allowed her to segue back into show business, first as a professional model, and later, as an actress in music videos. In addition to appearing in five student films directed by her older brother, Jolie became a member of the Los Angeles Metropolitan Theatre Company, where she honed her craft alongside such veteran players as Holly Hunter, Ed Harris and Amy Madigan. Jolie made her return to the screen playing a heroic human/machine hybrid in the above-average direct-to-video sci-fi actioner, "Cyborg II: Glass Shadows" (1993), but the entry went virtually unnoticed by critics. Luckily, her flashy role as Kate (a.k.a. 'Acid Burn') in the cyber-thriller "Hackers" (1995) garnered her more attention and better notices. Paired with rising young British actor Jonny Lee Miller, Jolie played a teen computer whiz battling an evil genius. "Hackers" fizzled at the box office, but the romantic leads sizzled - both onscreen and off. Jolie and Miller's chemistry eventually culminated in their wedding in 1996. Though the two would divorce just three years later, Jolie and Miller would remain close friends even after their break-up.

More film work readily followed for Jolie, initially in small-scale character-driven indies. In an indifferently received adaptation of Joyce Carol Oates' novel "Foxfire" (1996), Jolie played a mysterious outsider named Legs Sadovsky - described in Variety as "sort of a female James Dean" - who helps some other teenaged girls stand up for their rights. In Renee Taylor and Joseph Bologna's romantic comedy-drama "Love Is All There Is" (1996), Jolie displayed a humorous and innocent light as half of a pair of star-crossed lovers divided by their families' feud. That same year, the actress appeared in the high-minded suspense drama "Without Evidence," playing a drug-addicted teen, and "Mojave Moon," opposite Danny Aiello. Next came "Playing God" (1997), in which Jolie capably essayed a woman torn between her gangster boyfriend (Timothy Hutton) and a discredited doctor (David Duchovny) in his employ. While the films remained largely unseen by most moviegoers, Jolie received strong notices for each of these projects.

Unlike many feature stars, Jolie showed no compunction about working on the small screen. Case in point: during the late 1990s, the actress appeared in a handful of exceptional made-for-TV productions that effectively allowed her to strut her stuff on her own terms. In 1997, Jolie received top notices for her co-starring turn alongside Annabeth Gish and Dana Delaney as Texas pioneers in the 1997 CBS historical miniseries, "True Women." Jolie then brought a fiery passion to her portrayal of Cornelia Wallace, the politician's first wife, in the biographical miniseries "George Wallace" (TNT, 1997). But it was her dazzling turn as another real-life figure - the late supermodel Gia Carangi - that catapulted Jolie into the public consciousness. Jolie's brave, sensitive performance as the drug-addicted, AIDS-stricken title character in HBO's excellent biopic "Gia" (1998) brought the beauty widespread critical acclaim. For her efforts, Jolie was twice Emmy-nominated in the supporting category for "George Wallace," which she lost to co-star Mare Winningham, and in the leading category for "Gia," which she ended up losing to Ellen Barkin. Fortunately, Jolie received more-than-adequate consolation for her Emmy losses by picking up two back-to-back Golden Globe Awards for both performances.

After this spate of acclaimed television appearances, Jolie found her way back into in films, landing roles that similarly showcased her acting strengths. In 1998, Jolie received special notice for her work in the comedy-drama "Playing By Heart" (1998), as Joan, an outgoing club kid smitten with the sullen Keenan (Ryan Phillippe). Vivid and engaging, Jolie easily held her own among an ensemble cast featuring such luminaries as Gena Rowlands and Sean Connery. The following year, the actress joined John Cusack and Billy Bob Thornton in Mike Newell's Big Apple-set comedy about air traffic controllers, "Pushing Tin" (1999). Jolie later got her feet wet in the increasingly crowded crime-drama pond playing a tough rookie cop assisting a quadriplegic detective (Denzel Washington) in "The Bone Collector" (1999), a flawed, but well-acted serial killer thriller directed by Philip Noyce. Jolie finally rounded out the year by landing the much sought after co-starring role of the disturbed Lisa Rowe in "Girl, Interrupted." Based on author Susanna Kaysen's best-selling memoir of her own two-year stay in a psychiatric hospital, Jolie's showy turn as the sociopathic inmate netted Jolie a Best Supporting Actress Oscar.

But public respect would come neither immediately nor easily for Jolie, even after winning Hollywood's highest honor. Far more interested in her girl-gone-wild ways, the tabloids tended to dismiss her talents in favor of her more unorthodox personal life. Among the gossip fodder were her exotic tattoos, extensive collection of knives and her past "cutting" experiences, her provocative revelations and her intimations of a profoundly edgy sex life. The tabloids also made much hay out of Jolie's close relationship with her look-alike brother, James Haven - a bond which raised many eyebrows after Jolie planted a passionate kiss on his lips in plain view of drooling paparazzi. It did not help matters when she declared she was "in love with her brother" upon accepting the Oscar. Media saturation would reach a boiling point, however, in mid 2000, when Jolie became the fifth wife of her "Pushing Tin" co-star - the equally eccentric and significantly older actor Billy Bob Thornton. A match made in tabloid heaven, the couple's constant declarations of love and erotic devotion to each other was capped by the wacky revelation that the two wore vials of one another's blood around each other's necks and had sex in the car on the way to the "Pushing Tin" premiere.

Her off-screen quirks notwithstanding, the actress continued portraying tough young women on the big screen. In the flashy but unfulfilling car heist thriller "Gone in 60 Seconds" (2000), Jolie crackled in scenes even opposite notorious scene-stealing star, Nicolas Cage. Jolie's next project was as the flesh-and-blood embodiment of the titular adventuress in "Lara Croft: Tomb Raider" (2001). Based on the wildly popular "Tomb Raider" video game franchise, Lara Croft launched an Indiana Jones-style adventure series which failed to impress critics, but racked up a healthy box office take. The film also marked Jolie's first adult collaboration with her father, Jon Voight, who played her character's father in the film. Shortly after their onscreen pairing, however, Voight made a series of disparaging comments regarding his daughter's mental emotional stability (or lack thereof) to the American entertainment newsmagazine "Access Hollywood" (syndicated, 1996- ). Outraged by the insult, Jolie immediately responded by painting Voight as a philandering, self-righteous hypocrite who cheated on her mother. The resulting rift between father and daughter would last for several years and several on-camera pleas by Voight to give him another chance.

Meanwhile, back on the career front, Jolie - possibly distracted by her tumultuous personal crises - seemed a bit unfocused in her next two features. Starring opposite Antonio Banderas in the dismal noir-wannabe "Original Sin" (2001), Jolie came off less than committed, despite some steamy erotic sequences. Her follow-up, the dramatic vehicle "Life or Something Like It" (2002), in which she played a superficial, platinum blonde newscaster forced to examine her existence more closely, also died quickly. Jolie subsequently took a significant hiatus from film, but continued to make headlines in her personal life, divorcing Thornton in 2003 amid rumors of his infidelity, which he denied. It was also rumored that Jolie's recent adoption of a baby boy from a Cambodian orphanage whom she named Maddox, did not help matters. The couple was allegedly at different points in their life and thus, split.

The actress returned to familiar territory for her comeback screen vehicle, the sequel "Lara Croft Tomb Raider: The Cradle of Life" (2003), a lackluster follow-up to a lackluster first outing. Reflecting their off-screen internecine tensions, Voight, did not reprise his role in this second follow-up. "Cradle of Life" was followed by a turn in the too-righteous political/romantic drama "Beyond Borders" (2003). After this came a dangerous foray into Ashley Judd territory with a starring role in the routine thriller "Taking Lives" (2004), in which Jolie played an FBI profiler caught up in dangerous and erotic intrigue. Signing up for another purely commercial vehicle, the actress adopted another rich accent as she cheekily played the eye patch-sporting Captain Frankie Cook, the leader of an all-female amphibious attack squadron, in the retro action-adventure "Sky Captain & the World of Tomorrow" (2004). Cast opposite Jude Law and fellow Oscar winner, Gwyneth Paltrow, Jolie joined the CGI-laden action-adventure battling giant robots in an Art Deco environment. Jolie then lent her voice to the finny femme fatale, Lola, in DreamWorks' CGI-animated underwater underworld opus "A Shark's Tale" (2004). Finally, Jolie closed out the year with a bizarrely seductive turn as Alexander's mother, Olympias, who raises her son to believe in his impressive destiny, in Oliver Stone's historical epic, "Alexander the Great," which bombed at the box office.

Jolie's profile as both a movie star and public figure rose to even more epic proportions when she co-starred with the equally lovely actor Brad Pitt in the Doug Liman-helmed actionfest "Mr. & Mrs. Smith" (2005). In it, the actors played a bored married couple who are actually rival assassins, each hired to kill the other. Almost from the get-go, spurious rumors abounded of an on-set romance between Jolie and Pitt - innuendo that contributed to Pitt's subsequent split from his high-profile marriage to actress Jennifer Aniston. Though both Pitt and Jolie initially refuted the rumors - the two later took a coyer stance after being photographed together numerous times post-Aniston separation. The intense media and public interest in their possible romance propelled "Mr. & Mrs. Smith" to huge box office receipts, thanks in large part to their palpable onscreen chemistry. Needless to say, the "are they or aren't they?" nature of the Jolie-Pitt coupling captivated star watchers and quickly became the most written about celebrity story of 2005, even prompting the coining of the term "Brangelina."

Taking a page from the playbook of the late Audrey Hepburn, Jolie began using her celebrity status to bring attention to such humanitarian causes as the plight of violence-torn nations - something she began doing around the time she made "Lara Croft: Tomb Raider." As their relationship gradually emerged in the public eye, Pitt began to accompany Jolie on her missions of mercy to third world nations and grow ever more attached to her son, Maddox. Away from the screen, Jolie expressed a dedication and commitment to increasing awareness and aid to counties devastated by internal and external conflicts, disease and third world conditions. In 2001, after the actress made several trips to the war-torn nations of Sierra Leone, Tanzania and Pakistan, Jolie had been appointed Goodwill Ambassador for the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees. It was during one of these trips that in 2005, she adopted an infant daughter from an Ethiopian orphanage whom she named Zahara. Later that year, surprising the world at large, Pitt petitioned to adopt the two children as his own. A year later, on May 27, 2006, Jolie and Pitt welcomed their biological firstborn child into the world, daughter Shiloh Nouvel Jolie-Pitt. Clearly serious about starting a family, in March 2007, Jolie and Pitt made headlines once again by adopting a fourth child, a three-year-old boy from Vietnam whom they named Pax. And no one was surprised when the couple gave birth to twins Vivienne and Knox in 2008.

Returning to the big screen later that summer, Jolie next starred as Marianne Pearl, the wife of murdered journalist Daniel Pearl, in the gripping drama "A Mighty Heart" (2007). Though Jolie's casting initially sparked a furor of controversy among minority groups, as Marianne Pearl was of Afro-Cuban/Dutch ancestry, much of the complaints dissipated upon the film's release. Hailed by many as quite possibly the boldest performance of her career, Jolie's portrayal of Marianne Pearl was rooted in dignity and reflected a tragic truthfulness free of exploitative sentimentality. Unfortunately, the serious film was released during the summer box office season, rendering it lost amidst all the big-budget special effect movies. Also that year, Jolie became a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, then received the International Rescue Committee's annual Freedom Award for her contributions to the cause of refugees and human freedom.

Back on the big screen, Jolie starred in the high-action comic book thriller, "Wanted" (2008), playing a supersensory assassin who mentors an office-bound wimp (James McAvoy), turning him into a highly skilled member of a centuries-old order of hit men. Following a leading voice role as Tigress in the blockbuster animated family comedy, "Kung Fu Panda" (2008), Jolie returned to Oscar-caliber form with "Changeling" (2008), a period thriller inspired by true events directed by Clint Eastwood. Jolie played a distressed mother taking on the Los Angeles Police Department in 1928 when her son mysteriously reappears after having gone missing. Sure that the boy is not her son and in search of answers, she fights a corrupt bureaucracy that tries to publicly declare her unfit and delusional. Jolie's strong performance earned her nominations at both the Golden Globes and Academy Awards for Best Actress. Despite her continued acclaim for her accomplishments, Jolie was forced to continually contend with tabloid stories about herself, her family and her relationship with Brad Pitt. In early 2010, Jolie and Pitt sued the British tabloid News of the World for reporting that they were about to break up after the paper refused to either apologize or retract its story.

Several months later, the lawsuit was settled with the tabloid issuing a public apology and paying an undisclosed sum for damages, which was donated to the Jolie-Pitt Foundation. Meanwhile, Jolie returned to blockbuster prominence as the star of "Salt" (2010), a fast-paced spy thriller in which she played a dedicated CIA agent forced to go on the run after she is accused of being a Russian mole. A surprising box office hit during a busy summer, "Salt" was notable for being originally written for a male lead, which obviously was changed when Jolie became interested in the project. She next starred in another espionage thriller, "The Tourist" (2010), playing a mysterious British woman who pulls an unwitting American (Johnny Depp) vacationing in Italy into a whirlwind of intrigue and danger. Though attractive to look at, "The Tourist" was blasted by most critics for its slow plot and lack of chemistry between the leads. Regardless, the film earned surprising Golden Globe nominations for both Jolie and Depp. After once again voicing Master Tigress in "Kung Fu Panda 2" (2011), she made her directorial debut with "In the Land of Blood and Honey" (2011), a love story between a Serbian soldier (Gora Kostic) and a Bosnian prisoner (Zana Marjanovic) that played out against the backdrop of the Bosnian War. Also in 2011, Jolie was recognized for her 10 years of service as the U.N.'s Goodwill Ambassador, while the following year she and Pitt announced their official engagement to be married in April

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Riya Sen

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Riya Sen Biography
Riya Sen is an Indian film actress and model. Riya, who hails from a family of actors including her grandmother Suchitra Sen, mother Moon Moon Sen and sister Raima Sen, began her acting career in 1991 as a child artiste in the film Vishkanya. Her first commercial success in her film career was with Style, a 2001 Hindi low-budget sex comedy directed by N. Chandra. Some of her other films include producer Pritish Nandy`s musical film, Jhankaar Beats (2001) in Hinglish, Shaadi No. 1 (2005) Malayalam horror film Ananthabhadram (2005).

Riya was first recognised as a model when she performed in Falguni Pathak`s music video Yaad Piya Ki Aane Lagi at the age of sixteen. Since then, she has appeared in music videos, television commercials, fashion shows, and on magazine covers. She has been a heartthrob sensation throughout India and is known for her gorgeous smile. Riya has worked as an activist and appeared in an AIDS awareness music video with the aim of dispelling popular myths about the disease. She also helped raise funds for pediatric eye-care. Riya has faced controversies such as a MMS clip with actor Ashmit Patel, her semi-nude photograph on photographer Dabboo Ratnani`s annual calendar and her on-screen kisses in a conservative Indian film industry.

Riya first appeared as a child artist in the film Vishkanya in 1991, where she played the role of the young Pooja Bedi. At the age of 18, she did National Film Awards winning director Bharathiraja`s Tamil film, Taj Mahal (2000), which did not achieve commercial success. She was scheduled to make her Bollywood film debut in Love You Hamesha, opposite actor Akshaye Khanna however, the film was stalled, and she finally made her debut in N. Chandra`s Style in 2001. This low-budget sex comedy was the first commercial success in over a decade for the director. A launch pad for Riya, cast in the female lead along with fellow-newcomers, Sharman Joshi, Sahil Khan and Shilpi Mudgal, the film pioneered a trend of commercial success for small budget films in India. Riya and the second female lead of the film were replaced by aspirant actresses Sunali Joshi and Jaya Seal in Xc`.

Her next success was Jhankaar Beats, a comedy revolving around the music of legendary composer R D Burman, which saw her playing a small and glamorous role alongside Shayan Munshi, Juhi Chawla, Rahul Bose, Rinke Khanna and Sanjay Suri. Produced by Pritish Nandy, publishing director of The Times of India, the film was made on a budget of Rs. 25 million (US$525,000), marking the sixth in a row of small to medium budget films made by Pritish Nandy Communications (PNC). Despite being part of a wave of offbeat films that mostly failed to make an impact at the box office, it drew public attention upon its release, which led to a commercial success among a restricted audience targeted by a selective release in twenty cities. It was one of the first films made in Hinglish, a mixture of Hindi and English. In 2005, she starred in Shaadi No. 1, which had no female lead. This comedy, based on the theme of modern marriage, was directed by David Dhawan, a renowned film director from this genre.

Although films like Style and Jhankar Beats succeeded commercially, most of her later films have generated less revenue. A number of them remained unfinished. While many of her appearances have been item numbers and cameos, few of her leading roles have been in low-budget films. Though she had small roles in Dil Vil Pyar Vyar (2002), Qayamat (2003) and Plan (2004), attention was drawn to her item numbers in all three, especially the one in Qayamat that featured her in a bubble-bath. Besides this, she performed another item number in James (2005) on director-producer Ram Gopal Varma`s behest, who has a history of casting aspirant actress-models like Sameera Reddy, Isha Koppikar and Koena Mitra in similar roles. Furthermore, she took part in a dance number for Sajid Khan`s Heyy Babyy (2007) that featured several mainstream Bollywood actresses.

Riya has, in addition to Bollywood films, appeared in Bengali, Tamil,Telugu, Malayalam and English films. Her film career began in the earnest with Tamil films such as Bharathi Raja`s Taj Mahal, co-starring Manjoj Bharatiraja in the male lead, and Manoj Bhatnaghar`s Good Luck, oppsite Prasanth. Both of the films failed commercially, and she had a brief reappearance in Tamil cinema only to perform in a dance number for N. Maharajan`s Arasatchi.

Her first English language movie was It Was Raining That Night, a remake of the Bengali film Hei Brishtir Raat, scripted by Sudeshna Roy and directed by Mahesh Manjrekar. In the film, she collaborated with mother Moon Moon Sen. Riya was slated to appear in Anjan Dutta`s Bengali-English bilingual film The Bong Connection with her sister, but she was eventually dropped from the project and replaced by Peeya Rai Chaudhary. The two sisters were later cast together in director Ajai Sinha`s The Bachelor, a Bengali film that, as of 2008, is yet to be finished.

Her most successful non-Hindi film has been director Santhosh Sivan`s Ananthabhadram (2005). The first Malayalam venture for both Riya and Sivan, was both a critical and commercial success. It won five Kerala State Film Awards and surfaced as one of the biggest Malayalam successes that year. She played the role of Bhama in the film, a village girl who is lured by Digambaran, the evil magician portrayed by Manoj K Jayan. In a song-and-dance sequence showing Digambaran turning Bhama into a medium for demonic rituals, the choreographer Aparna Sindoor made abundant use Kathakali movements. The use of Kathakali has been a high point in the resurgence of the classical dance form in other major Indian films as well, including Shaji Karun`s Vanaprastham (1999) and Adoor Gopalakrishnan`s Kalamandalam Ramankutty Nair (2005). She made her Telugu Debut with Nenu Meeku Telusa...?, in which she was paired opposite Manoj Manchu.

Riya became a popular model when she appeared in numerous music videos for songs by popular singers, including Falguni Pathak`s Yaad Piya Ki Aane Lagi (alternative title: Chudi Jo Khankayi), Asha Bhosle`s Jhumka Gira Re, Jagjit Singh and Bhosle`s Jab Samne Tum and Kahin Kahin Se, Lata Mangeshkar, Bhonsle and Singh`s Dil Kahin Hosh Kahin, Sonu Nigam`s Jeena Hai Tere Liye and Shaan`s Sutta Maro. She shot for her first music video, Yaad Piya Ki Aane Lagi, at the age of sixteen. This led to her being identified primarily as a performer for music videos early in her career, an image she aimed to shed in 2005. Riya has appeared on several magazine covers, including Femina, Elaan, Man`s World, Gladrags, Savvy and Indian versions of Elle, Maxim and Cosmopolitan, as well as on the ramp of major fashion shows like Lakmé Fashion Week (2005–07) and Wills Fashion Week (2006–2007). She participated in fashion shows along with her elder sister, Raima Sen. Besides modeling, Riya has ventured into the advertisement world as well. A high point of her modeling career came in 2006, when she became the soft drink, Limca`s brand ambassador, replacing Deepika Padukone. Her other notable assignments include Colgate, Dabur Vatika, Reliance Industries, Cadbury Dairy Milk Chocolate, and Nirma.

In 2004, she was featured partially nude in leading Indian photographer Dabboo Ratnani`s annual calendar, which is a major happening in the Indian glamor industry. According to Daboo, "Her mother saw it much later, after the calendar released. She thought it was too sexy, and Riya shouldn`t have done it. But the response to the photograph was superb. Riya was so thrilled that for her next ad campaign, she asked me to light her up like I did in this." A career highlight for the model, it led to a three year contract with Ratnani to feature her on his annual calendar. She is the only female face to be featured on the calendar in five consecutive years (2003–07).

Born on 24 January 1981 in Kolkata, West Bengal, Riya is the daughter of Moon Moon Sen, a former actress, and granddaughter of Suchitra Sen, a legend in Bengali cinema. Before moving to Mumbai, she lived in Kolkata with her parents and sister Raima Sen, also an actress. Her father Bharat Dev Varma is a member of the royal family of Tripura. Her paternal grandmother, Ila Devi, was the princess of Cooch Behar, whose younger sister Gayatri Devi was the Maharani of Jaipur. Her paternal grandmother Indira was the only daughter of Maharaja Sayajirao Gaekwad III of Baroda. Riya`s maternal great-grandfather Adinath Sen was a prominent Kolkata businessman, whose father Dinanath Sen - a relative of former Union Law Minister Ashoke Kumar Sen- was the Diwan or a Minister of the Maharaja of Tripura. The sisters are credited on-screen under their mother`s maiden name, although their official papers carry the surname Dev Varma.

Riya completed her schooling at Loreto House and Rani Birla College, both in Kolkata. Thereafter, she studied at the National Institute of Fashion Technology, and she took up jewellery-designing as a hobby. She designs most of the clothes that she wears in films and commercials. Riya is trained in Kathak and is still pursuing it under Vijayshree Chaudhury. She is taking kickboxing lessons and has completed Level I of the 5 levels in belly dancing. Riya entered the film industry through small-time modeling assignments, commuting between Mumbai and Kolkata and traveling by public transport during the her early career. After breaking into the film industry, she shifted from her mother`s house in Ballygunge Circular Road in south Kolkata to Mumbai. There she moved into the family house in Juhu, where she stays with her sister. During her stay in Mumbai, the media romantically linked her to model and actor John Abraham. In the Bollywood press, she was, in 2008, speculatively linked to the novelist Salman Rushdie, although both stated that they were simply good friends.

Riya has suffered a number of untimely incidents. During the filming of Shaadi No. 1 in France, she was knocked unconscious after being accidentally run over by a stuntman`s motorbike, but she was not seriously injured. Shortly before the release of Silsiilay, in which she starred opposite her boyfriend Ashmit Patel, a 90-second video clip was circulated through Multimedia Messaging Services and the internet, showing the pair in compromising situations. This was one of a number of controversies that erupted when celebrities were caught in similar situations using cameraphones. Following this incident, the couple split up, although Riya denied that she was the girl in the MMS clip. One commentator claimed that the footage was an orchestrated publicity stunt. In 2007, she underwent a brief detoxification session in Bangkok for addiction to chocolate.

Riya`s on-screen performances have established her as a sex symbol and youth icon in India. Since entering the film industry, she has gained attention for wearing a bikini in Shaadi No. 1 and sharing on-screen kisses with co-stars Ashmit Patel in Silsiilay and Sharman Joshi in Style, respectively. Such performances garnered attention because of the relatively conservative outlook of Indian cinema and her own statements about such practises. Before becoming a film identity, she had a reputation for partying, which started at the age of fifteen. Riya`s public persona is compared to her mother Moon Moon, who was seen as a sex symbol of her time, while her sister Raima is mostly compared their grandmother Suchitra.

Although her film career has yet to achieve large-scale success, Riya has generated considerable media attention. She was ranked ninth on Femina 50 Most Beautiful Women, published in the magazine`s September 2007 issue. She was a jury member for the 2008 Final of the Mr. India contest. Along with Bollywood actors such as Waheeda Rehman, Shilpa Shetty, Dia Mirza, Raveena Tandon, Jackie Shroff, Naseeruddin Shah, Tabu and Lara Dutta, Riya appeared in Haath Se Haath Mila, an HIV/AIDS awareness music video. She made charity appearances at McDonald`s India to raise money for paediatric eye-care during World Children`s Week (14–20 November) in 2003.

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As the event has happened inside house of this famous glamourous actress in Tamil cinema, it has been making vibration all around the area of her house in Chennai city. The lover of Alphonsa, namely Vinoth's birth place is Kanchi Puram district, Kalpakkam Pudhu pattinam. The age of him is 28. Vinoth kumar is known on the screen of Tamil cinema as, Joy. He has acted in a Tamil movie under the production of famous Tamil actor Murali (father of Tamil actor Adharva). But this movie was dropped in the middle itself due to some reasons.

In this situation Vinoth Kumar has got the friendship of the brother of Tamil actress Alphonsa. So, Vinoth Kumar had been going to the house of Alphonsa often.Tamil Actress Alphonsa is a married girl and her husband name is Nobal, aged 32. With some reasons, Alphonsa has got seperated from her husband, Nobal and she has been living with her femal child alone.

At this stage, there was love between Alphonsa and Vinoth Kumar raised (said so). So, Alphonsa had been living with Vinoth Kumar together in a same house at the area, Sipra Shyamala Garden. Vinoth has been asking Alphonsa to marry him. But, as she is the mother of a child, she had been refusing his proposal. There has been some clashes between Alphonsa and Vinoth Kumar often.

In this stage, there has been a fight going on between Vinoth and actress Alphonsa last night (04 Mar). In the mid night Alphonsa has seen that Vinoth Kumar hung himself using the saree of Alphonse to die. After the Doctor's checking, it was confirmed that, Vinoth is dead.

The police investigation based on the dead body of Vinoth has been going on. The parents of Vinoth have come and accusing Alphonsa that, she has killed their son.

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Ambika

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Ambika (Malayalam: അംബിക) (born: 6 November 1962) is an Indian film actress. She has acted in a number of South Indian films. She started her career with the Malayalam movie Mamangam in 1979. Within a couple of years she became a busy actress not only in Malayalam, but also in Tamil and Kannada as well[citation needed]. Her sister Radha is also an actress. She has acted with Kamal Haasan in many movies and has appeared in glamorous roles in movies like Kaakki Sattai, Vikram, and Kadhal Parisu. Ambika remained under spotlights for over a shorter period as she didn’t act in many films. But, most of her films have been big superstars Kamal Hassan, Rajinikanth, Mohanlal, Mammootty, Vijayakanth and more leading actors.[1] Bhagyaraj introduced Ambika in his movie "Andha 7 Natgal". Getting married, she settled down at United States and after a longtime returns around 1999 and acted in important role in Jodi. Ambika has been acting all tiny roles up to recent release "vel". After a long time she is going to act as one of the heroine in Vikaraman’s forthcoming project "Mariyathai". Captain Vijayakanth would act as dual role. [2]

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