Hollywood Celebrities: July 2012

Chris Evans Profile, Biography, Pictures And Wallpapers

Chris Evans Profile

Famous as: Actor
Birth Name: Christopher Robert Evans
Birth Date: June 13, 1981
Birth Place: Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Claim to fame: As Jake Wyler in "Not Another Teen Movie" (2001)
Height: 6'
Nationality: American
Hair Color: Brown
Eye Color: Blue
Biography:
Chris Evans not to be confused with the British DJ and wild man of the same name - began his acting career in typical fashion: performing in school productions and community theater. But it was his rapid rise to stardom that was unusual. Bitten by the acting bug in the first grade because his older sister, Carly, started performing, Evans followed suit and began appearing in school plays. From there, it was a quick jump to theater camp and later an internship for a casting office - a position he held one summer while living in a hole-in-the-wall in Brooklyn, New York. Once Evans made friends with a few agents on the job, it was a straight shot to television and blockbuster features.
Originally from Framingham, Massachusetts, the Evans family moved to suburban Sudbury when he was 11 years-old. While at Lincoln-Sudbury Regional High School, his obvious talent led others to lavish praise and encouragement on him, particularly his drama teacher, who cited his performance as "Leontes" in "The Winter's Tale" as exemplary of his skill. After more school plays and regional theater, he moved to New York and attended the Lee Strasberg Theater Institute. On the advice of friends, he landed an internship at a casting office and befriended a couple of the agents he regularly communicated with - one of whom later took him on as a client. The screen - not the stage - then became his focus; Evans soon began auditioning for feature films and series television.

Chris Evans

Channing Tatum With His Wife Jenna Dewan In These Pictures 2012

Channing Tatum Wife

Channing Tatum Profile, Biography, Pictures And Wallpapers

Channing Tatum Profile

Name: Channing Tatum
Full name: Channing Matthew Tatum
Date of Birth: Saturday April 26 1980
Born: Cullman, Alabama (USA)
Famous as :Actor
Height: 6' 1"
Nationality: American
Hair Color: Brown
Eye Color: Green

Biography:

Channing Tatum shot to stardom as the star of "Step Up" (2006), a classic high school romance set in the world of competitive dance which showcased the former model's ripped physique and hinted at untapped dramatic depths. Tatum enjoyed another teen success with "She's the Man" (2006), before unveiling surprising acting chops in the acclaimed coming-of-age drama, "A Guide to Recognizing Your Saints" (2006), which was a hit at that year's Sundance Film Festival and earned the newcomer a nomination from the Independent Spirit Awards. With a prominent role in the war drama "Stop-Loss" (2008) and big budgeters "Public Enemies" (2009) and "G.I. Joe" (2009), Tatum carved out a career playing imposing Brando-esque physical characters with a believably sensitive bent.
Tatum was born to father, Glenn, and mother, Kay, on April 26, 1980, in the small Alabama town of Cullman and spent his teenage years in Tampa, FL, where his high profile in football, baseball, track and martial arts earned him the distinction of Most Athletic at Tampa Catholic High School. But he also frequently found himself on the wrong side of that school's administration's rule and spent time working on his discipline problems. Tatum turned down a football scholarship to a West Virginia state college and was living in Miami when was approached on the street by a talent agent. At the agent's urging, Tatum began print modeling, eventually finding himself traveling the world and representing the lines of Armani and Abercrombie and Fitch.

Channing Tatum

Casey Affleck With His Wife Summer Phoenix In These Pictures 2012

Casey Affleck Wife

Casey Affleck Profile, Biography, Pictures And Wallpapers

Casey Affleck Profile

Famous as: Actor, writer, editor
Birth Name: Caleb Casey McGuire Affleck-Boldt
Birth Date: August 12, 1975
Birth Place: Falmouth, Massachusetts, USA
Claim to fame: As Morgan O'Mally in "Good Will Hunting" (1997)
Biography:
Actor, director, screenwriter. Born Caleb Casey Affleck on August 12, 1975 in Falmouth, Massachusetts. After his parents' divorce, Casey Affleck and his older brother Ben were raised by their mother in Cambridge. It was she who first got the boys interested in acting, with Casey gaining notice for his turn as Bobby Kennedy in the ABC miniseries, The Kennedys of Massachusetts.
After graduating from Cambridge Rindge and Latin School, Casey headed to Los Angeles to pursue a career in acting. He landed a role in Gus Van Sant's To Die For before returning to the East Coast to study politics, physics and astronomy at George Washington University and Columbia University. He returned to Los Angeles for a supporting role in 1997's Good Will Hunting, the Oscar-winning screenplay that was famously written by his brother and childhood friend Matt Damon.
While Ben Affleck became an overnight A-list celebrity, Casey took a different course, concentrating primarily on character roles in independent films, such as Desert Blue and 200 Cigarettes. These small project led to his Hollywood breakthrough as one of the members of George Clooney's Ocean's Eleven and its sequels. In his own time, Affleck assumed more grown-up roles, including 2005's Lonesome Jim and 2006's The Last Kiss.
In 2007, Affleck turned in two acclaimed performances, as the murderous Robert Ford in The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford and as a introspective private investigator in his brother's hit directorial debut Gone, Baby, Gone. He received an Oscar nomination for Best Supporting Actor for his performance as Ford.
Casey Affleck has been coupled with actress Summer Phoenix since 2000. They have a son, Indiana August Affleck.

Casey Affleck

Brad Pitt With His Family In These Pictures 2012

Brad Pitt Family

Brad Pitt Profile, Biography, Pictures And Wallpapers

Brad Pitt Profile

Famous as: Actor
Birth Name: William Bradley Pitt
Birth Date: December 18, 1963
Birth Place: Shawnee, Oklahoma, USA
Claim to fame: As J.D. in "Thelma & Louise" (1991)
Height: 6'
Nationality: American
Hair Color: Blonde
Eye Color: Blue
Education: Graduated from Kickapoo High School, Springfield, Missouri (1982)
Attended University of Missouri-Columbia, majoring in journalism with a focus on advertising
Biography:
Born December 18, 1963, in Shawnee, Oklahoma. Pitt grew up in Springfield, Missouri, the eldest of three children in a devoutly Southern Baptist family. His father, Bill Pitt, owned a trucking company and his mother, Jane Pitt, was a family counselor. Pitt originally aspired to be an advertising art director, studying journalism at the University of Missouri. However, the young college student had other quiet aspirations, the product of a childhood love of movies, which finally seemed tangible his last semester at university when he realized, "I can leave." On a whim, Pitt dropped out of college, packed up his Datsun, and headed West to pursue an acting career in Los Angeles, just two credits shy of a college degree.
Pitt told his parents he intended to enroll in the Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, but instead spent the next several months driving a limousine—chauffeuring strippers from one bachelor party to the next, delivering refrigerators, and trying to break into the L.A. acting scene. He joined an acting class and, shortly after, accompanied a classmate as her scene partner on an audition with an agent. In a twist of fate, the agent signed Pitt instead of his classmate. After weathering only seven months in Los Angeles, Pitt had secured an agent and regular acting work.
Pitt's first jobs came in television, appearing in episodes of Dallas, the daytime soap Another World, the sitcom Growing Pains, and in 1990's short-lived Fox Television series, Glory Days. In 1989, Pitt played Billy Canton, the drug-addicted pimp of a teenage runaway, played by Juliette Lewis, in the NBC made-for-television movie Too Young to Die. Pitt and Lewis (9 years his junior at age 16) started dating and eventually moved in together.
Pitt made his big screen debut in 1989's horror/slasher film Cutting Class with Donovan Leitch, and played a teen track star in Sandy Tung's Across the Tracks, but it was a well-timed bit part in a controversial Hollywood film that pushed him into the glare of instant stardom. Pitt's performance as a renegade, sugar-tongued hitchhiker who gets picked up by the two title characters in Ridley Scott's Thelma and Louise (1991) grabbed universal attention despite only a few minutes worth of screen time. Pitt's combination of charming bad boy charisma and sexual playfulness (particularly in a fiery love scene with Geena Davis) secured him as a genuine sex symbol (and wore out the rewind button on many a VCR).
Pitt's next few films failed to boost his acting credibility and establish him as more than just a pretty face in Hollywood. He appeared in The Favor (1992) with Elizabeth McGovern, Tom CiCillo's directorial debut, Johnny Suede (1992), and the unconvincing, half-animated Cool World (1992).

Brad Pitt

Ben Barnes Biography, Pictures And Wallpapers

Born Aug. 20, 1981 in London, England, Barnes made his theatrical debut at 15 as a member of the National Youth Music Theatre in “The Ballad of Solomon Peavy” and appeared in several other productions with the company until 2003. He graduated from Kingston University with a degree in Drama and English in 2004, and began making the rounds on British and American television. Among his credits during this period was “Split Decision”, an unsold pilot about high school life that was shot in Canada for The CW Network. Barnes was also featured in a supporting role as the younger version of Nathaniel Parker’s character in Matthew Vaughn’s fantasy feature “Stardust”, which was met with much derision by critics.
English actor Ben Barnes landed in hot water when he abruptly departed a London stage production of “The History Boys” in 2007 to take a role in a Disney film shooting in New Zealand. The decision may have not won him any accolades among the theater community, but it did wonders for his career – the role was that of Prince Caspian, the titular hero of the 2008 sequel to “The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe”, and the blizzard of publicity that preceded its early summer released virtually papered the globe with pictures of his face. The exposure catapulted the actor into worldwide attention, and generated more work in major motion pictures, including the third “Narnia” feature and an opportunity to romance Jessica Biel in a big-screen version of Noel Coward’s “Easy Virtue” .
Barnes enjoyed a substantial career on the London stage in a variety of plays, which culminated in a turn as the manipulative Dakin in the 2006-07 production of the Tony Award-winning “History Boys.” However, Barnes received an offer in 2007 from the producers of “The Chronicles of Narnia” to essay Prince Caspian in the 2008 sequel and two subsequent films based on the C.S. Lewis fantasy series. He subsequently departed the tour prior to the end of his contract, which generated some harsh criticism in the press from his employers at the National Theatre. Regardless, Barnes headed to New Zealand to begin filming “Prince Caspian” for director Andrew Adamson. As Caspian, the Narnian prince who summons the Pevensie children to return to the mythical land to aid him in preventing an evil king from usurping his throne, Barnes was central to the film’s massive advertising campaign, and his appearance resulted in a small army of devoted fan sites.
“Caspian” wasn’t Barnes’ only film for 2008 – he was also top-billed as a Russian who falls in with bad company after arriving in London in "Bigga Than Ben." It was soon followed by another leading role, this time in Stephan Elliot’s film version of the Noel Coward comedy “Easy Virtue.” Barnes played a young Englishman who introduces his parents to the American girl he has married on a whim in France. The year ended with Barnes returning to New Zealand to begin work on the third Narnia film, “The Voyage of the Dawn Treader,” which was expected for a 2010 release.

Ben Barnes