David won Golden Globe awards for his work as FBI Special Agent Fox Mulder on The X-Files and as Hank Moody on Californication.
David's paternal grandparents were Russian Jews and his mother is a Lutheran immigrant from Scotland.
David graduated from Princeton University in 1982 with a Bachelor of Arts in English Literature.
In 1982 David's poetry received an honorable mention for a college prize from the Academy of American Poets, and the title of his senior thesis was The Schizophrenic Critique of Pure Reason in Beckett's Early Novels.
David received a Master of Arts, in English Literature, from Yale University and subsequently began work on a Ph.D. that remains unfinished. The title of his uncompleted doctoral thesis was Magic and Technology in Contemporary Poetry and Prose.
David left the X Files partly due to a contract dispute that occurred after season seven finished filming.
David also provided the voice for a parody of his Fox Mulder character in an episode of The Simpsons, entitled The Springfield Files.
David has guest hosted Saturday Night Live twice.
In 2001, David played a hand model in the Ben Stiller comedy, Zoolander.
David played the role of Ira Kane in the movie Evolution alongside Seann William Scott.
David directed an episode of Bones during its second season.
David currently plays Hank Moody, a troubled novelist in Showtime's series Californication.Seth is known as an animator, writer, producer, actor, singer, voice actor, and director best known for creating the animated sitcoms Family Guy, American Dad!
Seth currently owns his own production company, Fuzzy Door Productions.
As an actor, he has made guest appearances on shows such as Gilmore Girls and The War at Home.
Seth's interest in science fiction and fantasy has led to cameo and guest appearances on Star Trek: Enterprise and voicing the character of Johann Kraus in Guillermo del Toro's Hellboy II: The Golden Army.
Seth's cartoon shows are known for spoof references to popular fiction in movies and on television.
In 2008, he made his own YouTube channel.
As a singer, Seth is notable for performing Broadway tunes. Seth's best known live performance was in the BBC Proms 2009, where, during the encore, Seth briefly sung in Stewie's voice.
Seth occasionally speaks at universities and colleges throughout the United States.
A recent deal signed with The Fox Broadcasting Company, reportedly worth $100 million, has made Seth the highest-paid television writer and producer in history.
Seth resides in Los Angeles, California, where he purchased a $13.5 million home.
During his childhood, Seth developed an interest in illustration and began drawing cartoon characters Fred Flintstone and Woody Woodpecker.
When he was eight years old, he drew "Walter Crouton", a comic strip for the The Kent Good Times Dispatch.
Seth's headmaster, the Rev. Richardson W. Schell, publicly rebuked Seth for his "low" style of humor and later asked Fox not to air Family Guy. Seth's parents, who both taught at the school, resigned in protest.
Seth went on to study animation at the Rhode Island School of Design (RISD) where he earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts Degree.
As a student, he wanted to work for The Walt Disney Company, but changed his mind upon graduating.William gained worldwide fame and became a cultural icon for his portrayal of Captain James T. Kirk, captain of the starship USS Enterprise, in the television series Star Trek from 1966 to 1969, Star Trek: The Animated Series and in seven of the subsequent Star Trek feature films.
William has written a series of books chronicling his experiences playing Captain Kirk and being a part of Star Trek as well as several co-written novels set in the Star Trek universe.
William has also authored a series of science fiction novels called TekWar that were adapted for television.
William also played the title veteran police sergeant in T.J. Hooker from 1982 to 1986.
William has since worked as a musician, bestselling author, producer, director, and celebrity pitchman.
From 2004 to 2008, he starred as attorney Denny Crane on the television drama Boston Legal, for which he has won three Emmy Awards and a Golden Globe Award.
William's grandparents were Jewish immigrants from Austria, Poland, and Hungary, and William was raised in Conservative Judaism.
William earned a Bachelor's degree in commerce from McGill University.
In 1954, he was cast as Ranger Bob on the Canadian version of the Howdy Doody Show.
Though his official movie debut was in the 1951 Canadian film entitled The Butler's Night Off, William's first feature role came in the 1958 MGM film The Brothers Karamazov with Yul Brynner, in which he starred as the youngest of the Karamazov brothers.Babe Ruth originally broke into the major leagues with the Boston Red Sox as a starting pitcher, but after he was sold to the New York Yankees in 1919, he converted to a full-time right fielder and subsequently became one of the league's most prolific hitters.
Babe Ruth was a mainstay in the Yankees' lineup that won seven pennants and four World Series titles during his tenure with the team.
After a short stint with the Boston Braves in 1935, Babe Ruth retired.
In 1936, Babe Ruth became one of the first five players elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame.
Babe Ruth has since become regarded as one of the greatest sports heroes in American culture.
Babe Ruth has been named the greatest baseball player in history in various surveys and rankings, and his home run hitting prowess and charismatic personality made him a larger than life figure in the "Roaring Twenties".
Off the field Babe Ruth was famous for his charity, but also was noted for his often reckless lifestyle.
Babe Ruth is credited with changing baseball itself. The popularity of the game exploded in the 1920s, largely due to his influence.
Babe Ruth ushered in the "live-ball era," as his big swing led to escalating home run totals that not only excited fans, but helped baseball evolve from a low-scoring, speed-dominated game to a high-scoring power game.
In 1998, The Sporting News ranked Babe Ruth number one on the list of "Baseball's 100 Greatest Players." In 1999, baseball fans named Babe Ruth to the Major League Baseball All-Century Team.
In 1969, he was named baseball's Greatest Player Ever in a ballot commemorating the 100th anniversary of professional baseball.
In 1993, the Associated Press reported that Babe Ruth was tied with Muhammad Ali as the most recognized athletes, out of 1000, in America.
According to ESPN, he was the first true American sports celebrity superstar whose fame transcended baseball.
In a 1999 ESPN poll, Babe Ruth was ranked as the third-greatest US athlete of the century, behind Michael Jordan and Muhammad Ali.
Babe was the first player to hit 60 home runs in one season (1927), setting the season record which stood until broken by Roger Maris in 1961.
Babe's lifetime total of 714 home runs at his retirement in 1935 was a record, until first surpassed by Hank Aaron in 1974.Teri grew up in Sunnyvale, California.
As an undergraduate she studied mathematics and engineering.
Teri hosted NBC's Saturday Night Live in 1996.
In March 2006, Teri revealed to Vanity Fair that she was sexually abused from the age of five by Richard Hayes Stone, an uncle by marriage who was later divorced by Teri's aunt.
Teri beat out four other actresses for one of the lead role on ABC's Desperate Housewives, on which she stars as Susan Mayer, a role for which she won the Best Actress in a Musical or Comedy Golden Globe Award in January 2005.
Bruce records and tours with the E Street Band.
Bruce is widely known for his brand of heartland rock infused with pop hooks, poetic lyrics, and Americana sentiments centered on his native New Jersey.
Bruce's recordings have tended to alternate between commercially accessible rock albums and somber folk-oriented works.
Bruce's most successful studio albums, Born to Run and Born in the U.S.A. made him one of the most recognized artists of the 1980s.
Because of his support for the presidential campaigns of Senator John Kerry and Senator Barack Obama, Bruce has gradually become identified with liberal politics.
Bruce is also noted for his support of various relief and rebuilding efforts in New Jersey and elsewhere, and for his response to the September 11th attacks, on which his album The Rising reflects.
Bruce has earned numerous awards for his work, including nineteen Grammy Awards, two Golden Globes and an Academy Award.
Bruce has sold more than 65 million albums in the United States and 120 million worldwide.
Bruce was raised a Roman Catholic.
Old teachers have said Bruce was a "loner, who wanted nothing more than to play his guitar."
Bruce was inspired to take up music at the age of seven after seeing Elvis Presley on The Ed Sullivan Show.
At 13, he bought his first guitar for $18; later, his mother took out a loan to buy the 16-year-old Bruce a $60 Kent guitar, an event he later memorialized in his song "The Wish".Zac began acting professionally in the early 2000s, and became known to young audiences after his roles in the Disney Channel Original Movie High School Musical.
Zac once said he was always the shortest kid in school (he is now 5'8") and was teased for the "huge gap" in his teeth.
People magazine named Zac as one of 100 Most Beautiful People in 2007.
Zac says he wants to be a serious dramatic actor, not necessarily a singer.
Zac was recommended to an agent in Los Angeles by his drama teacher.
Zac's father encouraged him to begin acting when he was eleven.
Zac is of Jewish ancestry and is an agnostic, having never been religious.Derek is a Major League Baseball (MLB) shortstop who has played his entire career for the New York Yankees.
Derek has served as the Yankees' team captain since 2003.
Derek's presence in the Yankees' lineup, highlighted by his hitting prowess, played an instrumental role in the team's late 1990s dynasty, which won four World Series championships.
Derek debuted in the Major Leagues in 1995, and the following year, he won the Rookie of the Year Award and helped the Yankees win the 1996 World Series.
In 2000, Derek became the only player to win both the All-Star Game MVP Award and the World Series MVP Award in the same year.
Derek has been selected as an All-Star ten times, and he has won the Silver Slugger and Gold Glove awards on three occasions.
Derek is regarded as a consummate professional, by teammates and opponents alike.
Derek is considered to be one of the best players of his generation.
Derek is the all-time hits leader among shortstops and his .317 career batting average through the 2009 season ranks as the fifth-highest among active players.
Derek has been among the American League (AL) leaders in hits and runs scored for the past ten years.
Derek is the all-time Yankees hit leader, passing Hall of Fame member Lou Gehrig in 2009.
As a child, Derek and his sister would spend summers with their grandparents in New Jersey, who took them to Yankees games, making him a passionate fan of his future team.Classically trained, Orlando had his break-through roles in 2001 as the elf-prince Legolas in The Lord of the Rings and starting in 2003 as blacksmith Will Turner in the Pirates of the Caribbean trilogy of films, and subsequently established himself as a lead
Orlando appeared in the ensemble film New York, I Love You.
On 12 October 2009 Orlando was named a UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador.
Orlando is a cousin of photographer Sebastian Copeland.
Orlando, was named after the 16th century composer Orlando Gibbons.
As a child, Orlando managed to get through The King's School Canterbury and St Edmund's School in Canterbury despite his dyslexia.
Orlando was encouraged by his mother to take art and drama classes.
Orlando began acting professionally with television roles in episodes of Casualty and Midsomer Murders, and subsequently made his film debut in Wilde (1997), opposite Stephen Fry, before entering the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in London.
Two days after graduating from Guildhall in 1999, he was cast in his first major role, playing Legolas in The Lord of the Rings.Pink has sold over 30 million albums to date.
Pink's stage name 'Pink', comes from the Steve Buscemi's character in the 1992 movie Reservoir Dogs.
Pink began performing in Philadelphia clubs when she was fourteen years old.
Pink joined her first band in high school -called Middleground.
Peter played Carlisle Cullen in the film adaptation of Twilight.
Peter studied acting at the Atlantic Theater Company Acting School in New York City; his teachers there included William H.Macy, Felicity Huffman, Giancarlo Esposito, and Camryn Manheim.
Peter made his feature film debut in Rebecca Miller's Angela in 1995 and came to the attention of critics in the TV-movie The Price of Love later that year.
In 1996, Peter played opposite future wife Jennie Garth in An Unfinished Affair.
Peter appeared in the sci-fi film Supernova starring Kevin Spacey in 2000.
Peter had a recurring role in the HBO series Six Feet Under in 2004 and a role in the FX original series Damages beginning in 2007.
Peter starred in Hollow Man 2 with Christian Slater.
Peter will reprise his role in 2009's sequel to Twilight, New Moon, and in 2010's Eclipse.Matt is currently working for World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) on their SmackDown brand.
Before signing with WWE, Matt, with his brother Jeff, founded a wrestling organization called Organization of Modern Extreme Grappling Arts (OMEGA).
While there, Matt held many championships including the Heavyweight and Tag Team Championship, which he held with Jeff.
Matt gained notoriety in WWE's tag team division due to his participation in Tables, Ladders, and Chairs matches.
As a tag team wrestler, Matt is a six-time World Tag Team Champion, a one-time WWE Tag Team Champion, and a one-time WCW Tag Team Champion.
Apart from his success as a tag team wrestler, Matt has won numerous singles championships, including the Hardcore, European, Cruiserweight, United States and ECW Championships once each, the latter of which was his first world heavyweight championship.
Matt competed under the name High Voltage under the OMEGA Wrestling label.
As The Wolverine, Matt captured the New England Wrestling Alliance (NEWA) Championship in May 1994.
As High Voltage, he teamed with Venom to claim the New Frontier Wrestling Association (NFWA) Tag Team titles in March 1995. A month later, High Voltage defeated the Willow for the NFWA Championship.
Matt's first WWF match was against Nikolai Volkoff on May 23, 1994, which he lost.Serena will regain the World Number 1 ranking for the fifth time in her career on 2nd November 2009.
In 2001, the meeting meeting of Serena and Venus in the final of the US Open was the first Grand Slam final contested by two sisters in the open era.
Serena became the World No 1 for the first time in five years in September 2008.
Serena is the younger sister of fellow former World Number 1 professional female tennis player Venus Serena. The sisters have played each other in 21 professional matches dating back to 1998.
Serena won a Grand Slam title at the Australian Open in 2007, despite being ranked World Number 81 at the time.
As of July 2009, Serena and Venus have met in eight Grand Slam finals, with Serena winning six of those.
Serena is of African American heritage and is one of five sisters.
Between the 2002 French Open and the 2003 Australian Open, the sisters met in all four Grand Slam finals, the first time in the open era that the same two players had contested four consecutive Grand Slam finals.
Richard Williams, their father and coach, stopped sending his daughters to national junior tennis tournaments when Serena was 10, since he wanted them to take it slow and focus on school work. Another motivation was racial, as he had allegedly heard parents of white players talk about the sisters in a derogatory manner during tournaments.
Serena is the reigning Australian Open and Wimbledon singles champion and the reigining Australian Open, Wimbledon and US Open Doubles Champion and has won 23 Grand Slam titles: 11 in singles, ten in women's doubles and two in mixed doubles.
Serena reached the top ten on the WTA world rankings for the first time in 1999 when she won several tournaments, including her first Grand Slam victory at the US Open at the age of 17.
Serena has won two Olympic gold medals in women's doubles.
Serena also has won more Grand Slam titles than any other active female player and has won more career prize money than any other female athlete in history.
In 2005, Tennis Magazine ranked her as the 17th-best player in 40 years. Since this ranking however Serena has won an additional 5 grand slam singles titles.
Between 2002 and 2003, Serena won five of the six Grand Slam events she entered, becoming the fifth woman in history to hold all four Grand Slam titles simultaneously.
Serena became the World Number 1 for the first time in July 2002.
Serena' domination of the sport came to an abrupt but not permanent end in mid-2003 when she had surgery to repair a partial tear in a knee tendon.
In early 2005, she won her first Grand Slam title in 18 months at the Australian Open, but a string of injuries then limited her to competing in just 13 events in the two years that followed.At the age of 15, Rihanna formed a girl group with two of her classmates.
Rihanna was an army cadet in a sub-military programme that trained with the military of Barbados and Shontelle was her drill sergeant.
In 2004, Rihanna won the Miss Combermere Beauty Pageant.
Rihanna's mother is a native of Guyana, and her father is Barbadian and Irish.
Rihanna has attained five Hot 100 number one singles.
Rihanna's first US number one hit single was "SOS".
Michael has won 14 career Olympic gold medals, the most by any Olympian.
As of August 2, 2009, Michael has broken thirty-seven world records in swimming.
Michael is the cousin of the nationally recognized radio broadcaster Jon "the big man" Michael.
Michael holds the record for the most gold medals won in a single Olympics, his eight at the 2008 Beijing Games surpassed American swimmer Mark Spitz's seven-gold performance at Munich in 1972.
Overall, Michael has won 16 Olympic medals: six gold and two bronze at Athens in 2004, and eight gold at Beijing in 2008.
In doing so he has twice equaled the record eight medals of any type at a single Olympics achieved by Soviet gymnast Alexander Dityatin at the 1980 Moscow Summer Games.
Michael's five golds in individual events tied the single Games record set by Eric Michaeliden in the 1980 Winter Olympics and equaled by Vitaly Scherbo at the 1992 Summer Games.
Michael career Olympic medal total is second only to the 18 Soviet gymnast Larissa Latynina won over three Olympics, including nine gold.
Michael's international titles and record breaking performances have earned him the World Swimmer of the Year Award in 2002, 2003, 2004, 2006, 2007, and 2008 and American Swimmer of the Year Award in 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2006, 2007, and 2008.
Michael has won a total of fifty-four career medals thus far in major international competition, forty-five gold, seven silver, and two bronze spanning the Olympics, the World, and the Pan Pacific Championships.
Michael's unprecedented Olympic success in 2008 earned Michael Sports Illustrated magazine's Sportsman of the Year award.Aaron is the younger brother of singer Nick Aaron, from the boy band Backstreet Boys.
Aaron came to fame as a pop and hip hop singer in the late-1990s, establishing himself as a star among preteen and teenage audiences during the early-2000s.
Aaron, who has also launched an acting career, is known for media reports regarding his personal life, including his relationships with Hilary Duff and Lindsay Lohan, and his legal problems, some involving his mother.
Aaron is named after his maternal grandfather Douglas "Charles" Spaulding and paternal grandfather (Aaron Charles Aaron).
Aaron also remembers being pushed into show business when he was too young.
Aaron plays several instruments, including drums, piano, guitar, and saxophone.
Aaron is a dancer who has done some of his own choreography.
Aaron began his performing career at the age of seven, as the lead singer of a local band, Dead End.
Aaron made his first solo appearance, singing a cover of The Jets' "Crush on You", when opening for the Backstreet Boys in Berlin in March 1997.Emma was cast as Hermione at the age of nine, having previously only acted in school plays.
From 2001 to 2009, she starred in six Harry Potter films alongside Daniel Radcliffe and Rupert Grint.
In 2007, Emma announced her involvement in two non-Harry Potter productions: the television adaptation of the novel Ballet Shoes and an animated film, The Tale of Despereaux.
Emma has one French grandmother, and lived in Paris until the age of five.
From the age of six, Emma wanted to become an actress, and for a number of years, she trained at the Oxford branch of Stagecoach Theatre Arts, a part-time theatre school where she studied singing, dancing, and acting.
By age 10, Emma had performed in various Stagecoach productions and school plays, including Arthur: The Young Years and The Happy Prince, but she had never acted professionally before the Harry Potter series.
Casting agents found Emma through her Oxford theatre teacher, and producers were impressed by her confidence.
After eight auditions, producer David Emmayman told Emma and fellow applicants Daniel Radcliffe and Rupert Grint that they had been cast for the roles of Hermione, Harry and Ron, respectively.
J K Rowling supported Emma from her first screen test.
The release of Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone in 2001 was Emma's debut screen performance.Kim is best known for her social life and her role on the E! reality show Keeping Up with the Kardashians.
Kim had a Sex tape scandal in 2007. A pornographic home video she made with her then-boyfriend, R&B singer Ray J, was leaked. Kim sued Vivid Entertainment over the tape but later dropped the suit and settled for $5 million.
Kim was a contestant on the seventh season of Dancing with the Stars.
Kim released a workout DVD, in 2008.
Kim posed nude for the December 2007 issue of Playboy magazine.
Kim starred in the 2008 disaster film spoof Disaster Movie as Lisa, alongside Carmen Electra and Vanessa Minnillo.Bruce's career began in television in the 1980s famously in the series Moonlighting.
Bruce is well known for his role as John McClane in the Die Hard series, which were critical and financial successes.
Bruce has also appeared in over sixty films, including Pulp Fiction, Sin City, 12 Monkeys, Armageddon, and The Sixth Sense.
Motion pictures featuring Bruce have grossed US$ 2.55 to US$ 3.05 billion at North American box offices, making him the seventh highest-grossing actor in a leading role.
Bruce was married to actress Demi Moore and they had three daughters, before their divorce in 2000 after thirteen years of marriage.
Bruce is a two-time Emmy Award-winning, Golden Globe Award-winning, and four-time Saturn Award-nominated actor.
Bruce attended Penns Grove High School in his hometown, where he encountered issues with his stutter.
Bruce used to be hatefully nicknamed Buck-Buck by his schoolmates.
After high school, Bruce took a job as a security guard at the Salem Nuclear Power Plant and also transported work crews at the DuPont Chambers Works factory in Deepwater, New Jersey. Bruce quit after a colleague was killed on the job, and became a regular at several bars.
After a stint as a private investigator (a role he would play in the television series Moonlighting as well as in the 1991 film, The Last Boy Scout), Bruce returned to acting.
Russell achieved mainstream fame in the UK for presenting a Big Brother spin-off, Big Brother's Big Mouth, and for his radio show, among other television series and award ceremonies.
Russell has also appeared in a number of films, including the romantic comedy Forgetting Sarah Marshall, St Trinian's, and Bedtime Stories.
Russell is noted for his flamboyant style, and has described himself as resembling "an S and M Willy Wonka".
Russell is also noted for various controversies that have surrounded him in the British media, such as the 2008 prank calls that led to his resignation from the BBC.
Russell's mother raised him on her own, giving Russell a somewhat isolated and lonely childhood.
Before Russell turned 17, his mother suffered three bouts of cancer.
Russell also stated during an interview on National Public Radio's Weekend Edition Saturday that he had "a strange relationship with his father, whom he saw sporadically and who took him to visit prostitutes during a trip to the Far East".
Russell made his theatrical debut at the age of 15 playing "Fat Sam" in a school production of Bugsy Malone, which prompted him to become an actor.
During his time Russell has smoked marijuana, became bulimic, and taken LSD.
In 1995, Russell applied for the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art and Drama Centre London and was accepted. By this point he was a heroin addict and an alcoholic.
After leaving Drama Centre, Russell decided to focus on comedy, and began writing material with Karl Theobald, whom he met at Drama Centre.
Russell's first significant stand-up appearance was at the Hackney Empire New Act of the Year final in 2000.