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Keri Russell

Keri Lynn Russell (born March 23, 1976) is an American actress and dancer. After appearing in a number of made-for-television films and series during the mid-1990s, she came to fame for portraying the title role of Felicity Porter on the series Felicity, which ran from 1998 to 2002, and for which she won a Golden Globe Award. Russell has since appeared in several films, including Mad About Mambo (2000), We Were Soldiers (2002), The Upside of Anger (2005), Mission: Impossible III (2006), Waitress (2007), August Rush (2007), Bedtime Stories (2008) and Extraordinary Measures (2010).

Early life

Russell was born in Fountain Valley, California, the daughter of Stephanie (née Stephens), a homemaker, and David Russell, a Nissan Motors executive. She has an older brother, Todd, and a younger sister, Julie. Russell grew up in Coppell, Texas, Mesa, Arizona, and Highlands Ranch, Colorado, moving frequently because of her father's employment. Though she is best known for her acting, she started out at Starstruck dance studio in a suburb of Denver and it was her dancing, not her acting, that earned her a spot on the Mickey Mouse Club.[citation needed]

Career

[edit]1991–2002
Russell first appeared on television as a cast member of the All-New Mickey Mouse Club variety show on the Disney Channel.[2] She was on the show from 1991 to 1993 and co-starred with future pop stars Chasen Hampton, Christina Aguilera, Britney Spears, JC Chasez, Justin Timberlake, and Ryan Gosling.[3]
In 1992, she appeared in Honey, I Blew Up the Kid alongside Rick Moranis and in 1993, had a role on the sitcom Boy Meets World as Mr. Feeny's niece. Keri had an appearance on Married with Children in a 1995 episode ("Radio Free Trumaine", production 9.24). Russell subsequently starred in several film and television roles, including the 1996 made-for-television film The Babysitter's Seduction.[citation needed] She also had a role on the short-lived soap opera series Malibu Shores the same year. In 1994, she appeared in Bon Jovi's music video "Always" with Jack Noseworthy.[citation needed] In 1997, she appeared in two episodes of Roar alongside Heath Ledger.[citation needed]
From 1998 to 2002, Russell starred as the title character on the successful WB Network series Felicity; she won a Golden Globe for the role in 1999. Russell's long and curly hair was one of her character's defining characteristics, and a drastic hairstyle change at the beginning of the show's second season was considered to be the cause of a significant drop in the show's television ratings.[4] During the show's run, Russell appeared in the films Eight Days a Week, The Curve, and Mad About Mambo, all of which received only limited releases in North America. Her next role was in the film We Were Soldiers, playing the wife of an American serviceman. The film was released in March 2002, two months before the end of Felicity's run.
[edit]2003–present


Russell at the 2009 Toronto International Film Festival
When Felicity ended, Russell took a break from acting. She moved to New York City and took two years off to avoid the business of Hollywood, spending time with friends.[citation needed] Russell subsequently made her off-Broadway stage debut in 2004, appearing opposite Jeremy Piven, Andrew McCarthy, and Ashlie Atkinson in Neil LaBute's Fat Pig.[5] In 2005, she returned to television and film, beginning with an appearance in the Hallmark Hall of Fame television movie The Magic of Ordinary Days, theatrical film The Upside of Anger (alongside Kevin Costner, Joan Allen and Evan Rachel Wood), and the television miniseries Into the West.
Although a number of her Felicity co-stars went on to appear in producer J. J. Abrams' series, Alias, Russell declined invitations to be part of the show.[citation needed] In a seminar at the Museum of Television and Radio, Abrams said, "I've asked Keri if she would ever do it, and I usually get this, sort of like, giggle — and then she hangs up". In 2005, Abrams asked Russell to join the cast of Mission: Impossible III, a film he directed, and she accepted. The film was released on May 5, 2006. In the summer of 2006, Russell was chosen to be a celebrity spokeswoman for CoverGirl Cosmetics.[citation needed] Before she was in Mission Impossible: III, she was screen tested for the role of Lois Lane in Superman Returns but lost the role to Kate Bosworth.[citation needed]
She taped two episodes as a guest character on the NBC show Scrubs in 2007. She played Melody, a sorority sister and good friend of Elliot Reid played by Sarah Chalke. The first episode aired on April 26, and the second on May 3.[citation needed] She starred in Waitress, a well-reviewed independent film in which she played Jenna, a pregnant waitress in the American South; it was the fourth film in a row in which Russell had played a pregnant woman.[6] The film opened on May 4, 2007 and Russell's performance was positively received by critics,[7] with Michael Sragow of The Baltimore Sun writing that Russell's performance had "aesthetic character" and "welds tenderness and fierceness with quiet heat".[8] In the summer of 2007, Russell appeared in The Keri Kronicles, a reality show/sitcom sponsored by CoverGirl and airing on MySpace; the show was filmed at Russell's home in Manhattan and spotlighted her life.[7]
Russell next appeared in August Rush, a drama released in November, 2007. She also appeared on the cover of the New York Post's Page Six magazine on November 11, 2007.[citation needed] She has completed roles in Butterfly: A Grimm Love Story (titled Rohtenburg for its German release), in which she plays Katie Armstrong, a graduate student who writes a thesis paper on an infamous cannibal murder case, and the thriller The Girl in the Park, opposite Sigourney Weaver, Kate Bosworth and Alessandro Nivola.
Russell later appeared in Bedtime Stories, with Adam Sandler playing the lead.[9] In an appearance on The View on December 15, 2008, Russell said she got the part because Sandler's wife Jackie had seen Russell in Waitress and suggested her for the movie.
Russell portrayed Wonder Woman in a direct-to-video animated feature released March 3, 2009.[10] She starred alongside Brendan Fraser and Harrison Ford in the Tom Vaughan-helmed Extraordinary Measures[11][12] for CBS Films. The drama, which started filming on April 6, 2009 and was released on January 22, 2010, was the first film to go into production for the new company.[citation needed] Russell played Aileen Crowley, a mother who tries to build a normal home life for her sick children while her husband, John (Fraser), and an unconventional scientist (Ford) race against time to find a cure.[13]
Russell played Emmy Kadubic in the premiere season of Running Wilde, a Fox comedy series cancelled in May 2011.[14]
[edit]Personal life

Russell and Shane Deary, a carpenter she met through mutual friends,[6] became engaged in 2006 and were married on February 14, 2007 in New York.[15] Russell gave birth to a boy, River Russell Deary, on June 9, 2007 in New York.[16] Russell had a midwife-assisted hospital birth;[17] she has described her pregnancy experience as "real great and easy".[18] On July 7, 2011, Russell announced her second pregnancy.[19]
As of 2007, Russell resides in Brooklyn, New York.[20][21]
[edit]Filmography

Year Title Role Notes
1991–1993 The Mickey Mouse Club Various Television series
1992 Honey, I Blew Up the Kid Mandy Park
1993 Boy Meets World Jessica Feeny TV, 1 episode: "Grandma Was a Rolling Stone"
1993 Emerald Cove Andrea McKinsey Television series
1994 Daddy's Girls Phoebe TV, 3 episodes: "Pilot", "American in Paris... Cool" and "Keep Your Business Out of My Business"
1995 Married with Children April Adams TV, 1 episode: "Radio Free Trumaine"
1995 Clerks. Sandra Television film
1996 The Babysitters Seduction Michelle Winston Television film
1996 The Lottery Felice Dunbar Television film
1996 Malibu Shores Chloe Walker TV, 10 episodes
1997 Eight Days a Week Erica
1997 When Innocence Is Lost Erica French Television film
1997 7th Heaven Camille TV, 1 episode: "Choices"
1997 Roar Claire TV, 2 episodes: "Pilot" and "Banshee"
1998 The Curve Emma
1998–2002 Felicity Felicity Porter TV, 84 episodes
Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Television Series Drama
Teen Choice Award for Choice TV Breakout Performance
Nominated—Teen Choice Award for Choice TV Actress (1999, 2000, 2001)
Nominated—Teen Choice Award for Choice TV Actress – Drama
1999 Cinderelmo Princess Television film
2000 Mad About Mambo Lucy McLoughlin
2002 We Were Soldiers Barbara Geoghegan
2005 The Upside of Anger Emily Wolfmeyer
2005 The Magic of Ordinary Days Olivia 'Livy' Dunn Television film
Nominated—Satellite Award for Best Actress – Miniseries or Television Film
2005 Into the West Naomi Wheeler TV, 1 episode: "Manifest Destiny"
2006 Mission: Impossible III Lindsey Farris Nominated—Teen Choice Award for Choice Movie Actress – Drama/Action Adventure
2007 Grimm Love Katie Armstrong
2007 Waitress Jenna Hunterson
2007 Scrubs Melody O'Hara TV, 2 episodes: "My Turf War" and "My Cold Shower"
2007 The Girl in the Park Celeste
2007 August Rush Lyla Novacek Nominated—Teen Choice Award for Choice Movie Actress – Drama
2008 Bedtime Stories Jill
2009 Wonder Woman Wonder Woman/Diana Prince Voice
2009 Leaves of Grass Janet
2010 Extraordinary Measures Aileen Crowley
2010 Running Wilde Emmy Kadubic TV, 12 episodes
2011 Goats Judy Filming
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Salma Hayek

Salma Valgarma Hayek Jiménez-Pinault (Spanish pronunciation: [ˈsalma ˈxaʝek]; born September 2, 1966) is a Mexican actress, director and producer. She is one of the most prominent Mexican figures in Hollywood. She received a Best Actress Oscar nomination for her role as Frida Kahlo in the movie Frida.



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Early life



Hayek was born in Coatzacoalcos, Veracruz, Mexico, the daughter of Diana Jiménez Medina, an opera singer and talent scout, and Sami Hayek Dominguez, an oil company executive who once ran for mayor of Coatzacoalcos.[1][2][3][4] Hayek's father is of Lebanese descent, while her mother is of Spanish descent.[5][6] Her first given name, Salma, is Arabic for "safe".[7] Raised in a wealthy, devoutly Roman Catholic[8] family, she was sent to the Academy of the Sacred Heart in Grand Coteau, Louisiana, at the age of twelve.[4] While there, she was diagnosed with dyslexia.[9][10] She attended college in Mexico City, where she studied International Relations at the Universidad Iberoamericana.[4]

[edit]Career



[edit]Mexico

At the age of 23, Hayek landed the title role in Teresa (1989), a successful Mexican telenovela that made her a star in Mexico. In 1994, Hayek starred in the film El Callejón de los Milagros (Miracle Alley), which has won more awards than any other movie in the history of Mexican cinema.[citation needed] For her performance, Hayek was nominated for an Ariel Award.[11]

[edit]Early Hollywood acting work

Hayek moved to Los Angeles, California in 1991 to study acting under Stella Adler.[12] She had limited fluency in English, which was attributed to her suffering from dyslexia.[13] Robert Rodriguez and his producer and then wife Elizabeth Avellan soon gave Hayek a starring role opposite Antonio Banderas in 1995's Desperado.[4]

Hayek had a starring part opposite Matthew Perry in the 1997 romantic comedy Fools Rush In. She followed her role in Desperado with a brief role as a vampire queen in From Dusk Till Dawn, in which she performed a table-top snake dance. In 1999, she co-starred in Will Smith's big-budget Wild Wild West, and played a supporting role in Kevin Smith's Dogma.[4] In 2000, Hayek had an uncredited acting part opposite Benicio del Toro in Traffic. In 2003, she reprised her role from Desperado by appearing in Once Upon a Time in Mexico, the final film of the Mariachi Trilogy.

[edit]Director, producer and actress

Around 2000, Hayek founded film production company Ventanarosa, through which she produces film and television projects. Her first feature as a producer was 1999's El Coronel No Tiene Quien Le Escriba, Mexico's official selection for submission for Best Foreign Film at the Oscars.[14]

Frida, co-produced by Hayek, was released in 2002. Starring Hayek as Frida Kahlo, and Alfred Molina as her unfaithful husband, Diego Rivera, the film was directed by Julie Taymor and featured an entourage of stars in supporting and minor roles (Valeria Golino, Ashley Judd, Edward Norton, Geoffrey Rush) and cameos (Antonio Banderas). She earned a Best Actress Academy Award nomination for her performance.[4]

In the Time of the Butterflies is a 2001 feature film based on the Julia Álvarez book of the same name, covering the lives of the Mirabal sisters. In the movie, Salma Hayek plays one of the sisters, Minerva, and Edward James Olmos plays the Dominican dictator Rafael Leónidas Trujillo whom the sisters opposed. Marc Anthony plays a brief role as Minerva's first love, and as the motivation for her later revolutionary activities.

In 2003, Hayek produced and directed The Maldonado Miracle, a Showtime movie based on the book of the same name, winning her a Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Directing in a Children/Youth/Family Special.[15] In December 2005, she directed a music video for Prince, titled "Te Amo Corazon" ("I love you, sweetheart") that featured Mia Maestro.[16]





Hayek at the 2008 Cannes Film Festival.

Hayek was an executive producer of Ugly Betty, a television series that aired around the world from 2006 to 2010. Hayek adapted the series for American television with Ben Silverman, who acquired the rights and scripts from the Colombian telenovela Yo Soy Betty La Fea in 2001. Originally intended as a half hour sitcom for NBC in 2004, the project would later be picked up by ABC for the 2006–2007 season with Silvio Horta also producing. Hayek guest-starred on Ugly Betty as Sofia Reyes, a magazine editor. She also had a cameo playing an actress in the telenovela within the show. The show won a Golden Globe Award for Best Comedy Series in 2007. Hayek's performance as Sofia resulted in a nomination for Outstanding Guest Actress in a Comedy Series at the 59th Primetime Emmy Awards.[17]

In April 2007, Hayek finalized negotiations with MGM to become the CEO of her own Latin themed film production company, Ventanarosa.[18] The following month, she signed a two year deal with ABC for Ventanarosa to develop projects for the network.[19]

Hayek is developing and producing La Banda, a Spanish-language romantic comedy set in Mexico, written by Issa Lopez.[citation needed]

Hayek had a guest stint on 30 Rock as Elisa, the nurse for Jack Donaghy's mother, for whom Jack falls.[citation needed]

Hayek stars as the wife of Adam Sandler in Grown Ups, which also co-stars Chris Rock and Kevin James.[20] Salma is set to co-star with Antonio Banderas in the Shrek spin-off film Puss in Boots as the voice of the character Kitty Softpaws, who serves as Puss' female counterpart and love interest.[21]

[edit]Singing credits

Hayek has been credited as a song performer in three movies. The first was Desperado for the song Quedate Aquí. In Frida she performed the Mexican folk song La Bruja with the band Los Vega. She also recorded Siente mi amor, which played during the end credits of Once Upon a Time in Mexico. She contributed to Happiness is a Warm Gun in Across the Universe as the singing nurses.[citation needed]

[edit]Promotional work





Hayek featured on the cover of Veronica magazine, as seen here on an SUV in Amsterdam

Hayek has been a spokesperson for Avon cosmetics since February 2004.[22] She formerly acted as spokesperson for Revlon in 1998.[citation needed] In 2001, she modeled for Chopard[23] and was featured in 2006 Campari adverts, photographed by Mario Testino.[24] On April 3, 2009, she helped introduce La Doña, a watch by Cartier inspired by fellow Mexican actress María Félix.[25]

Hayek was also featured in a series of Spanish language commercials for Lincoln cars.

[edit]In art

In spring 2006, the Blue Star Contemporary Art Center in San Antonio, Texas displayed 16 portrait paintings by muralist George Yepes and filmmaker Robert Rodriguez of Hayek as Aztec goddess Itzapapalotl.[dead link][26]

[edit]Personal life



Hayek is a naturalized United States citizen.[27] She dated actor Edward Norton between 1999 and 2003, and then Josh Lucas in 2003. Hayek studied at Ramtha's School of Enlightenment,[28] and is a practitioner of yoga.[29] Her brother, Sami Hayek,[30] is a designer with his own line of products at Target[31] and clients that include Louis Vuitton, Brad Pitt, and the Mexican Government.[32]

On March 9, 2007, Hayek confirmed her engagement to French billionaire and PPR CEO François-Henri Pinault as well as her pregnancy. On September 21, 2007, she gave birth to daughter Valentina Paloma Pinault at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles, California. On July 18, 2008, Hayek and Pinault announced the end of their engagement.[33] They later reconciled and were married on Valentine's Day, 2009 in Paris.[34] On April 25, 2009, they were married a second time in Venice.[35]

[edit]Charity work

Hayek's charitable work includes increasing awareness on violence against women and discrimination against immigrants.[36][dead link] On July 19, 2005, Hayek testified before the U.S. Senate Committee on the Judiciary supporting reauthorizing the Violence Against Women Act.[37] In February 2006, she donated $25,000 to a Coatzacoalcos, Mexico, shelter for battered women and another $50,000 to Monterrey based anti-domestic violence groups.[38] Hayek is a board member of V-Day, the charity founded by playwright Eve Ensler.[citation needed]

Since the birth of her daughter, Hayek has worked to help mothers in developing nations worldwide, teaming up with Pampers and UNICEF to help stop the spread of life-threatening maternal and neonatal tetanus. She is a global spokesperson for the Pampers/UNICEF partnership 1 Pack = 1 Vaccine to help raise awareness of the program.[39]

Hayek also advocates breastfeeding. During a UNICEF fact-finding trip to Sierra Leone, she breastfed a hungry week-old baby whose mother could not produce milk.[40]

In 2010, Hayek's humanitarian work earned her a nomination for the VH1 Do Something Awards.[41]

Hayek is a member of the board of Global Green USA, with whom she works to fight global warming and to help provide clean drinking water to nearly 2.5 billion people who are without it. Her Los Angeles home is outfitted with solar panels, and she drives a fuel-efficient hybrid to help reduce CO2 emissions.[42][clarification needed]

[edit]Honors



Recipient of Glamour magazine Woman of the Year Award in October 2001.[43]

Recipient of Producers Guild of America Celebration of Diversity Award in 2003.[44]

Recipient of Harvard Foundation Artist of the Year Award in February 2006.[45]

Recipient of Time magazine 25 Most Influential Hispanics in 2005.[46]

In July 2007, The Hollywood Reporter ranked Hayek fourth in their inaugural Latino Power 50, a list of the most powerful members of the Hollywood Latino community.[47] That same month, a poll found Hayek to be the "sexiest celebrity" out of a field of 3,000 celebrities (male and female); according to the poll, "65 percent of the U.S. population would use the term 'sexy' to describe her".[48] In 2008, she was awarded the Women in Film Lucy Award in recognition of her excellence and innovation in her creative works that have enhanced the perception of women through the medium of television[49] In December of that year, Entertainment Weekly ranked Hayek number 17 in their list of the "25 Smartest People in TV."[50]

[edit]Filmography



Film

Year Film Role Notes

1993 Mi Vida Loca Gata

1994 Roadracers Donna

1995 El Callejón de los Milagros Alma (Midaq Alley) Spanish-language

Nominated—Ariel Award for Best Actress[11]

1995 Desperado Carolina Nominated—Saturn Award for Best Supporting Actress

Nominated—MTV Movie Award for Best Kiss (Shared with Antonio Banderas)

1995 Fair Game Rita

1995 Four Rooms TV Dancing Girl

1996 From Dusk Till Dawn Santanico Pandemonium

1996 Follow Me Home Betty

1996 Fled Cora

1997 Fools Rush In Isabel Fuentes Nominated—Outstanding Actress in a Feature Film

1997 Breaking Up Monica

1997 Sistole Diastole Carmelita

1997 The Hunchback Esméralda

1998 54 Anita Nominated—Outstanding Actress in a Feature Film

1998 The Velocity of Gary Mary Carmen Producer

1998 The Faculty Nurse Harper

1999 Dogma Serendipity

1999 El Coronel No Tiene Quien Le Escriba Julia (No One Writes to the Colonel)

Producer; Spanish-language

1999 Wild Wild West Rita Escobar Blockbuster Entertainment Award for Favorite Supporting Actress - Action

Nominated—Outstanding Actress in a Feature Film

2000 Timecode Rose

2000 La Gran Vida Lola (Living it Up) Spanish-language

2000 Chain of Fools Sgt. Meredith Kolko Direct-to-video release

2000 Traffic Rosario uncredited

2001 Hotel Charlee Boux

2001 In the Time of the Butterflies Minerva Mirabel

2002 Frida Frida Kahlo Producer

Golden Camera for Best International Actress

Imagen Award for Best Actress - Film

Nominated—Academy Award for Best Actress

Nominated—BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role

Nominated—Boston Society of Film Critics Award for Best Actress

Nominated—Chicago Film Critics Association Award for Best Actress

Nominated—Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Motion Picture Drama

Nominated—Satellite Award for Best Actor - Motion Picture Drama

Nominated—Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Leading Role

2003 Spy Kids 3-D: Game Over Francesca Giggles

2003 Once Upon a Time in Mexico Carolina

2003 V-Day: Until the Violence Stops herself

2004 After the Sunset Lola Cirillo

2006 Ask the Dust Camilla Lopez

2006 Bandidas Sara Sandoval

2007 Lonely Hearts Martha Beck

2007 Across the Universe Bang Bang Shoot Shoot Nurses

2009 Cirque Du Freak: The Vampire's Assistant Madame Truska

2010 Grown Ups Roxanne Chase-Feder

2011 Puss in Boots Kitty Softpaws (Voice)

Television

Year Title Role Notes

1988 Un Nuevo Amanecer Spanish-language telenovela

1989 Teresa Teresa Spanish-language telenovela

1993 The Sinbad Show Gloria Contreras recurring character

1994 Roadracers Donna

1994 El Vuelo del Águila Juana Cata Spanish-language telenovela

1997 The Hunchback Esmeralda Nominated—ALMA Award for Outstanding Individual Performance in a Made-for-Television Movie or Mini-Series in a Crossover Role

1999 Action Herself guest star

2001 In the Time of the Butterflies Minerva Mirabal Producer; feature

Nominated—ALMA Award for Outstanding Actor/Actress in a Made for Television Movie or Miniseries

Nominated—Broadcast Film Critics Association for Best Actress in a Picture Made for Television

2003 The Maldonado Miracle Feature; producer, director. Emmy for Outstanding Directing in a Children/Youth/Family Special

2003 Saturday Night Live Guest Host March 15

2006–

2007 Ugly Betty Sofia Reyes Producer and guest star

Nominated—Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actress – Comedy Series — 2007

Nominated—Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Comedy Series — 2007

Nominated—Producers Guild of America Television Producer of the Year Award

2009 30 Rock Elisa guest star

[edit]Event appearances



Was a member of the 2005 Cannes Film Festival jury.[51]

Co-hosted the annual Nobel Peace Prize concert with Julianne Moore in Oslo, Norway on December 11, 2005.[52]

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