Hulk was inducted into the WWE Hall of Fame in 2005.
As a boy, Hulk was a pitcher in Little League Baseball.
Hulk was the winner of the Royal Rumble in 1990 and 1991.
Hulk began watching professional wrestling at 16 years old.
Hulk was a skilled musician, spending ten years playing bass guitar in several Florida-based rock bands.
According to Hulk, during their first training session, Matsuda sarcastically asked him, "So you want to be a wrestler?" and purposely broke Hulk's leg.
One of Hulks most famous presonas was "The Super Destroyer," hooded character.Forbes magazine ranked Tom as the world's most powerful celebrity in 2006.
Tom has been nominated for three Academy Awards and won three Golden Globe Awards.
Tom's first leading role was the 1983 film Risky Business , which has been described as "A Generation X classic, and a career-maker" for the actor.
After playing the role of a heroic naval pilot in the popular and financially successful 1986 film Top Gun, Tom continued in this vein, playing a secret agent in a series of Mission: Impossible action films in the 1990s and 2000s.
In addition to these heroic roles, Tom played other parts such as the misogynistic male guru in Magnolia (1999) and a cool and calculating sociopathic hitman in the Michael Mann crime-thriller film Collateral (2004).
In 2005, the Hollywood journalist, Edward Jay Epstein argued that Tom is one of the few producers (the others being George Lucas, Steven Spielberg and Jerry Bruckheimer) who are able to guarantee the success of a billion-dollar movie franchise.
Tom is also known for his controversial support of and adherence to the Church of Scientology.
As a child in the game "British Bull Dog", Tom lost his newly capped tooth and hurt his knee.
In all, Tom attended eight elementary schools and three high schools.
Tom briefly attended a Franciscan seminary in Cincinnati (on a church scholarship) and aspired to become a Catholic priest.
In his senior year, Tom played football for the varsity team as a linebacker, but he was cut from the squad after getting caught drinking beer before a game.
John has a Grammy Awards for Best Pop Vocal Album for Continuum and Best Male Pop Vocal Performance for "Waiting on the World to Change".
John began his career performing mainly acoustic rock, but gradually began a transition towards blues by collaborating with renowned blues artists such as B.B. King, Buddy Guy, and Eric Clapton.
John's first two studio albums, Room for Squares and Johnavier Things, did well commercially, achieving multi-platinum status.
After graduation, John worked for fifteen months at a gas station until he saved up enough money to buy his first proper guitar, a 1996 Stevie Ray Vaughan signature Stratocaster.
John once suffered from crippling panic attacks, and even now he keeps Xanax, an anti-anxiety drug, with him.

When John was seventeen, he was stricken with a cardiac arrhythmia that spent a weekend in hospital.
John is involved in philanthropic activities through his "Back to You" fund and is concerned about over global warming.
John has also tried stand-up comedy, design, and writing; he has written pieces for magazines, most notably for Esquire.Jordin won the sixth season of American Idol.
Jordin released her self-titled debut album in 2007, which went platinum in the United States, having sold about 2 million copies worldwide.
Jordin won when she was 17 years old, making her the youngest winner.
Due to the success of her album and its singles, Jordin won an American Music Award in 2008 and received her first Grammy nomination in 2009.
Jordin's success continued with the release of her sophomore album Battlefield.
Jordin attended Sandra Day O'Connor High School until 2006, then she was homeschooled to better concentrate on her singing.
Jordin is an evangelical Christian and attends Calvary Community Church in Phoenix, Arizona.
On her "American Idol" biography, she thanks her parents and God for her win.
Jordin wears a purity ring that symbolizes her desire to remain a virgin until marriage.
Jordin also appeared on the cover of World, an Evangelical Christian news magazine.
In 2006, Jordin was one of six winners who won the Phoenix Torrid search for the "Next Plus Size Model."
A full-page ad for Torrid featuring Jordin ran in the December 2006 issue of Seventeen magazine.Josh has concentrated his career so far mostly in concert singing and recordings, although he has stated that he wishes to pursue music theatre in the future.
As of July 2009, he has sold 19,147,000 albums in the United States alone.
Josh received a Grammy for his song Believe and was nominated for an Academy Award in 2005.
Josh's father is of Russian Jewish descent and his Norwegian American mother's grandparents were from the eastern Norwegian district of Toten.
Josh was raised an Episcopalian.
Josh stands 5' 9.75" (177 cm).
Josh debuted as a singer in seventh grade.
Josh went to Bridges Academy to get his grades up to straight A's." While at Bridges Academy, Josh took normal classes from 9:00 AM until 1:00 PM, and then afterwards attended theatre classes.
In 1997 and 1998, Josh attended the Interlochen Center for the Arts in Michigan, majoring in music theatre, which is also when he began taking vocal lessons outside of school. "I was very much into musical theatre. I had a pretty good baritone voice, so I began acting and singing in school productions."
Josh attended the Los Angeles County High School for the Arts as a theatre major, graduated in 1999.
Josh has performed at numerous charity concerts.Jesse rose to fame in the early 2000s as member of the boy band Dream Street.
Jesse branched into a solo career, having appeared in the television series Summerland and as a recurring character in the ABC Family series Greek.
Jesse began performing in local community musicals at the age of seven, before joining the national tour of The King and I at age ten along with Phil of the Future star Ricky Ullman.
Jesse moved to Los Angeles to become an actor and singer when he was 11.
Jesse once earned a Daytime Emmy nomination.
In 2005, Jesse appeared as himself in the Disney Channel show, The Suite Life of Zack and Cody.
In 2007, Jesse appeared as himself in the Disney Channel television show Hannah Montana.
According to Entertainment Weekly in December 2008, Jesse was negotiating to play against type in the role of the Fire Nation's prince Zuko in M. Night Shyamalan's feature film adaptation of Avatar: The Last Airbender. In February 2009, British actor Dev Patel replaced Jesse, whose tour dates conflicted with a boot camp scheduled for the cast to train in martial arts.
Jesse has expressed an interest in directing and producing films and even considered enrolling in a film school.
Jesse has described the experience of being in the Dream Street as a good "stepping stone" for his solo career.
Jesse released his first solo EP in July 2004.Colin is a Golden Globe and IFTA-winning Irish actor, who has appeared in Hollywood films including Tigerland, Daredevil, Miami Vice, Minority Report, Phone Booth, Alexander, In Bruges and S.W.A.T.
Colin's uncle Tommy played for Rovers.
Colin auditioned for the Irish group Boyzone when he was still unknown, but was unsuccessful.
Colin attended The Gaiety School of Acting, but dropped out and was cast in the part of Danny Byrne on Ballykissangel, a BBC television drama.
Colin had his film debut in Tim Roth's The War Zone.
In 2000, he was cast in the lead role of Private Roland Bozz in Tigerland, an American film directed by Joel Schumacher.
In late 2003, Colin starred as a criminal who plots a bank heist with Cillian Murphy in the comedy Intermission, which held the record as highest-grossing Irish independent film in Irish box office history until 2006.
Colin appeared in the title role of Alexander the Great in Oliver Stone's 2004 biopic Alexander, which, while receiving some favorable reviews internationally, received mostly mediocre and negative reviews in the United States. It was marked by controversy for portraying the ancient conqueror as bisexual. The movie grossed a total of $167 million worldwide, despite its poor showing within the United States, just exceeding its budget of $155 million.
On 11 January 2009, he won the Golden Globe award for Best Actor: Musical or Comedy for his role in In Bruges.
In December 2005, Colin voluntarily checked into a rehabilitation treatment center for addictions to recreational drugs and painkillers.Clive won a Golden Globe, BAFTA Award and was nominated for an Academy Award for his appearance in the 2004 film, Closer.
Clive's father was a country and western singer.
Clive has described his childhood as "rough."
Clive graduated from the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in 1987. After graduation, he won a position at the Young Vic, performing in several William Shakespeare plays.
In an incident he later described as "very schmaltzy", Clive met his future wife when the two performed the leads in Romeo and Juliet.
Initially, Clive carved out a career in television: in 1988 Clive starred as Gideon Sarn in a BBC production of Precious Bane and the Channel 4 film Vroom. UK.
Clive won critical acclaim for his performances in the 1991 Stephen Poliakoff film Close My Eyes, in which he has a full frontal nude scene.
In 1996 he appeared in his first major Hollywood film The Rich Man's Wife alongside Halle Berry before finding international acclaim in a Channel 4 film directed by Mike Hodges called Croupier in 1998. Clive played the title role of a struggling writer who takes a job in a London casino as inspiration for his work, only to get caught up in a robbery scheme.
Clive appeared in Robert Altman's Gosford Park, alongside an all-star cast including Clivelen Mirren, Maggie Smith, Michael Gambon, Kristin Scott Thomas and Ryan Phillippe.
Clive has appeared in The Bourne Identity with Matt Damon.
Despite public denials, Clive had long been rumored to be a possible successor to Pierce Brosnan in the role of James Bond.
In 2006, Clive starred in the highly acclaimed Children of Men, for which he received widespread praise.
Clive and Denzel Washington will return for the sequel to Inside Man, which will be released in 2010.A self-proclaimed "D-list celebrity", Kathy first gained recognition for appearances on two episodes of Seinfeld, and then for her supporting role on the NBC sitcom Suddenly Susan.
Kathy is now the star of the Bravo reality show Kathy Griffin: My Life on the D-List, for which she won two Emmy Awards as executive producer.
Kathy has also worked as a voice artist and red carpet commentator, in addition to several other career pursuits.
In 2008 she was nominated for a Grammy Award for Best Comedy Album.
Kathy made a cameo appearance in Quentin Tarantino's 1994 film Pulp Fiction.
Kathy has appeared on the show Ugly Betty as a fashion channel reporter.
Kathy also has a secondary career in voiceover work, and has been featured on a variety of projects such as the animated series Dilbert and Spider-Man: The New Animated Series.
Kathy's TV production company is called Inappropriate Laughter, a reference to her sometimes shocking form of humor.
While Kathy paints herself as a Hollywood outsider, she has a group of close celebrity friends such as Rosie O'Donnell, Joan Rivers, Jerry Seinfeld, Brooke Shields, Gloria Estefan, Whoopi Goldberg, Jennifer Coolidge, Larry David, and Ricky Gervais.Russell's acting career began in the early 1990s with roles in Australian TV series such as Police Rescue and films such as Romper Stomper.
In the late 1990s, Russell began appearing in US films such as the 1997 movie L.A. Confidential.
Russell has been nominated for three Oscars, and in 2001, he won the Academy Award for Best Actor for his starring role in the film Gladiator.
Russell is co-owner of National Rugby League team the South Sydney Rabbitohs.
Russell's maternal grandfather, Stan Wemyss, was a cinematographer who, according to Russell, produced the first film by New Zealander Geoff Murphy, and was also named an MBE for filming footage of World War II.
Two of Russell Russell's cousins, Martin and Jeff Russell are former New Zealand national cricket captains.
When Russell was four years old, his family moved to Australia, where his parents pursued a career in film set catering.
Russell has always had a special love of horses.
In the 1988 Australian production of Blood Brothers, Russell played the role of Mickey.
Russell once was in the Australian soap Neighbours.
Russell co-starred with Denzel Washington in Virtuosity, and with Sharon Stone in The Quick and the Dead in 1995.
Russell received three consecutive best actor Oscar nominations for The Insider, Gladiator and A Beautiful Mind.Kathy is known as a former model, actress, CEO and designer of her eponymous brand product marketing company, Kathy Ireland Worldwide.
At age 17, Kathy was "discovered" by an agent for the Elite Model Management company.
By the time Kathy had graduated from high school, she was working steadily as a model.
Kathy was featured in the annual Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue for 13 consecutive years.
Kathy appeared on the cover of the annual issue three times, a feat tied by Christie Brinkley and Cheryl Tiegs and surpassed only by Elle Macpherson.
Kathy's first cover was for the 25th Anniversary Swimsuit Edition, which became SI's best selling swimsuit issue to date.
In 1993, Kathy put her name on a line of socks. After they proved a best-seller for Kmart, the retailer gave Ireland her own clothing line.
By 2005, KIWW products were sold at over 50,000 locations, in 15 countries and generating an estimated $1.4 billion in retail sales. Kathy's annual take is thought to be around $10 million.
Forbes named her the "prototype for model-turned-mogul," in an article about the trend of modelpreneurs.
Kathy has written five books (including three for children), and a sixth book is due out in Fall 2009.Justin has won six Grammy Awards as well as two Emmy Awards.
Justin got his big break when he appeared as a contestant on Star Search, and went on to star in the Disney Channel television series The New Mickey Mouse Club, where he met future bandmate JC Chasez.
Justin became famous in the late 1990s as the lead singer of the boy band 'N Sync.
In 2002, he released his debut solo album, Justified, which sold more than 7 million copies worldwide.
Aside from music, he has also begun an acting career, while his other ventures include record label Tennman Records, fashion label William Rast, and the restaurants Destino and Southern Hospitality.
Justin considers himself more "spiritual than religious".
Justin's first attempts at a singing career were country music songs on Star Search as "Justin Randall."Johnny is best known as the host of The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson, which ran for 30 years (1962-92).
Johnny received six Emmy Awards including the Governor Award and a 1985 Peabody Award; he was inducted into the Television Academy Hall of Fame in 1987.
Johnny was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1992, and received Kennedy Center Honors in 1993.
Johnny became host of NBC's The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson, after Jack Paar quit in October 1962.
Johnny's opening line, "Heeeere's Johnny" became a hallmark.
Johnny's trademark was a phantom golf swing at the end of his monologues, aimed stage left where the Tonight Show Band was.
Paul Anka wrote the theme song ("Johnny's Theme"), a reworking of his "Toot Sweet". Paul Anka gave Johnny co-authorship and they split the royalties for three decades.
Johnny was a major investor in the ultimately failed DeLorean Motor Company.
Johnny had a successful clothing line, through which his turtlenecks became a fashion trend.
Johnny retired from show business on May 22, 1992. Jay Leno became the new host.
In November 2004, Carson Johnny announced a $5.3 million gift to the University of Nebraska Foundation to support the Hixson-Lied College of Fine and Performing Arts' Department of Theatre Arts, which created the Johnny Carson School of Theatre and Film.
On January 23, 2005, Johnny died at Los Angeles' Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, at the age of 79 years old.Kevin's trademark is usually playing the best friend or confidant characters to the leading men, as he did in Ricochet, End of Days, A Few Good Men (1992) and The Wedding Planner.
Kevin has however, played a wide variety of parts; he played a gangster in The Whole Nine Yards (2000) and a criminal in The Usual Suspects (1995).
Kevin's most substantial role to date was in Deterrence (1999), in which he played the main character: a Vice President who must take over for a deceased President and deal with a nuclear crisis.
Kevind has a recurring role as a District Attorney on the television series Shark.
In March 2008, Pollak played himself in the web series The Writers Room on Crackle.
As a comedian, Kevin's most popular work was his 1992 HBO special Stop With the Kicking: Kevin Pollak in Concert.
Kevin is known for having one of the best Christopher Walken impersonations in show business.
Kevin is also known for his impression of William Shatner as Captain James T. Kirk in Star Trek. Shatner himself has said that Pollak does the best impersonation of him that he had ever seen.
In April 2009, Pollak began a weekly internet talk show, Kevin Pollak's Chat Show. Guest for the show include film directors Kevin Smith and Mike Binder, actors Nia Vardalos, Illeana Douglas, Adam Carolla, Dana Carvey, Mathew Perry, Jon Hamm and Jason Lee.
Kevin started performing stand-up comedy at the age of ten.Rob became known after appearing in 1980s movies such as The Outsiders and St. Elmo's Fire, which included other members of the Brat Pack. Lowe is also known for his role as Sam Seaborn on The West Wing and as Senator Robert McCallister on Brothers & Sisters.
Because of a virus during infancy, Rob is deaf in his right ear.
Rob attended Santa Monica High School, the same high school as fellow actors Emilio Estevez, Charlie Roben, Sean Penn, Chris Penn and Robert Downey Jr.
Rob his second Golden Globe nomination for "Best Supporting Actor" for his role as the mentally disabled Rory in Square Dance (1987).
Rob is infamously remembered for performing a duet with an actress playing the part of Snow White at the 1989 Academy awards opening montage.
In 1984, Rob was dating actress Melissa Gilbert. In her recent autobiography, Prairie Tale she was open about sleeping with Rob's best friend, John Cusack, while Rob was away filming The Hotel New ampshire. According to Gilbert, she had heard that Rob was sleeping with his co-star, Nastassia Kinski and she slept with Cusack out of revenge.
Rob was the first male spokesperson for the 2000 Lee National Denim Day fundraiser, which raises millions of dollars for breast cancer research and education.
Rob is a founder of the Homeowner's Defense Fund, a Santa Barbara County non-profit, non-partisan organization dedicated to local control of land-use planning and transparency in government.Newsweek has called Will the most powerful actor on the planet.
Will has been nominated for four Golden Globe Awards, two Academy Awards, and has won multiple Grammy Awards.
Will rose to fame as a rapper under the name The Fresh Prince in the late 1980s and his role in the television series The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air.
Will's most notable films include Bad Boys, Independence Day, Men in Black, Ali, I, Robot, The Pursuit of Happyness, I Am Legend, Hancock, and Seven Pounds.
Will was raised a baptist.
Will's charming and sly demeanor in school resulted in the nickname "Prince", which eventually turned into the "Fresh Prince".
While still in his teens, Will began rapping and eventually began collaborating with Jeff Townes (a.k.a.
DJ Jazzy Jeff), whom he met at a party.
Will spent money freely during his early career and underpaid his income taxes.
Will's acting in Men in Black won critical praise.
Will originally rejected the lead role in Men in Black, but wife Jada Pinkett coaxed him into it.
Will turned down the role of Neo in The Matrix in favor of Wild Wild West.
Will's first two solo albums, Big Willie Style (1997) and Willennium (1999), went multi-platinum.Mel moved with his parents to Sydney when he was 12 years old and later studied acting at the National Institute of Dramatic Art.
After appearing in the Mad Max and Lethal Weapon series, Mel went on to direct and star in the Academy Award-winning Braveheart.
Mel's direction of Braveheart made him the sixth actor-turned-filmmaker to receive an Academy Award for Best Director.
In 2004, he directed and produced The Passion of the Christ, a controversial but successful film that portrayed the last hours of the life of Jesus Christ.
The movies Mel has acted in have grossed more than two billion dollars in the US alone.
Mel's paternal grandmother was an Australian opera soprano.
Mel's first name comes from Saint Mel, fifth-century Irish saint.
Mel was considered for roles in Batman, GoldenEye, Amadeus, The Golden Child, X-Men, Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves, Runaway Bride and Primary Colors.
Actor Sean Connery once suggested Mel should play the next James Bond.
The release of Mad Max in 1979 brought Mel to mainstream attention.
Mel made his directorial debut in 1993 with The Man Without a Face.
In 1985, Mel was named "The Sexiest Man Alive" by People, the first person to be named so.Larry is the co-creator and producer of two successful television comedies, Seinfeld (1989-1998) and Curb Your Enthusiasm (2000-present).
In 1989, he teamed up with Jerry Seinfeld to co-create the television series Seinfeld, where he also acted as head writer and executive producer.
Larry's work won him a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Comedy Series in 1993.
In 1999, he created the HBO series Curb Your Enthusiasm, a mostly improvised sitcom in which he stars as a fictionalized version of himself.
Formerly a standup comedian, Larry went into television comedy, writing and starring in ABC's Fridays, as well as writing briefly for Saturday Night Live.
Larry was voted by other comedians the 23rd-greatest comedian of all time in British Channel 4's poll The Comedians' Comedian.
Larry was a contributing blogger at The Huffington Post.
In 2008 Larry made $55 million from Seinfeld syndication, dvd sales, and Curb Your Enthusiasm.
Larry also had a cameo appearance on the HBO series Entourage as a client of Ari Gold. Larry is recognized in the United States as one of the premier broadcast interviewers.
Larry has conducted some 40,000 interviews with politicians, athletes, entertainers, and other newsmakers.
Larry has won an Emmy Award, two Peabody Awards, and ten Cable ACE Awards.
Larry began as a local Florida journalist and radio interviewer in the 1950s and '60s.
Larry became prominent as an all-night national radio broadcaster starting in 1978, and then began hosting the nightly interview TV program Larry King Live on CNN, which started in 1985.
Larry's parents were Jewish and had emigrated from Belarus (Minsk and Pinsk) to Brooklyn, New York City, where Larry was born.
Larry's father died at 44 of heart disease when Larry was nine, and his mother had to go on welfare to support Larry and his younger brother.
Larry's father's death affected Larry greatly, and he lost interest in school, ruining his chances to go to college.
From an early age he wanted to go into radio.
After initial setbacks, Larry got his first job in radio through persistence.
The manager of a small station, WAHR (now WMBM) in Miami Beach, hired him to clean up and perform miscellaneous tasks. When one of their announcers quit, they put Larry on the air.
Larry acquired the name Larry King when the general manager Martial Cemen said that Zeiger was too ethnic and difficult to remember, and instead suggested the surname King, which he got from an ad in The Miami Herald for King's Wholesale Liquor.
Larry's first interview was with a waiter in a restaurant.
Larry once didn't like the set, so we broke into the general manager's office and changed the set.
In a May 2009 interview with Anderson Cooper, Larry revealed that he was raised in a Jewish home but now is an agnostic.
Larry was given the Golden Mike Award for Lifetime Achievement in January 2009.Lenny often plays all the guitar, bass, drums, keyboards, and percussion when recording.
Lenny is known for his elaborate stage performances and music videos.
Lenny has had multiple number 1 hits on the US Top Singles Charts.
Lenny won the Grammy Award for "Best Male Rock Vocal Performance" four years in a row from 1999 to 2002, breaking the record for most wins in that category and most consecutive wins in one category.
Lenny has been nominated and won other awards, namely American Music Awards, MTV Video Music Awards, Radio Music Awards, BRIT Awards and Blockbuster Entertainment Awards.
Lenny has sold around 40 million albums worldwide.
Lenny began banging on pots and pans in the kitchen, playing them as drums at the age of three.
At the age of five, he wanted to be a musician.
Lenny grew up listening to the music his parents listened to: RandB, jazz, classical, opera, gospel, and blues.
Around the age of 7, Lenny saw The Jackson 5 perform at Madison Square Garden, which became his favorite group.
Lenny's father, who was also a jazz promoter, was friends with Duke Ellington, Sarah Vaughan, Count Basie, Ella Fitzgerald, Bobby Short, Miles Davis and other jazz greats.
Lenny and Lisa Bonet eloped on November 16, 1987, her 20th birthday, in a Las Vegas ceremony.
Lenny and Bonet divorced in 1993.
Lenny identifies himself as both a Christian "through choice" and a Jew, which he described both as "all the same to me".
In 2003, Lenny Lenny dated Nicole Kidman.
Lenny made his feature film acting debut in Precious which premiered at the Sundance Film Festival in January 2009.