Eddie is best known for his stand-up comedy including - Live at the Ambassadors (1993) Unrepeatable (1994) Definite Article (1996) Glorious (1997) Dress to Kill (1998) Circle (2000) Sexie (2003) Stripped (2008/2009).
In 2007, Eddie was listed as number 3 of the 100 Greatest British National Comedians as part of Channel 4's ongoing 100 Greatest... series.
In a 2005 poll to find The Comedian's Comedian, Eddie was voted amongst the top 20 greatest comedy acts ever by fellow comedians and comedy insiders.
Eddie was number 75 in Comedy Central's 100 Greatest Stand-ups of All Time.
During the 1999 television special It's... the Monty Python Story, which Eddie hosted, John Cleese said Eddie was the "Lost Python".
In July 2007, Eddie was one of the presenters from the London leg of Live Earth.
During an interview for the 2008 Stripped tour, Izzard spoke about becoming more active in European politics as well as running for political office in Europe within the next decade.
Eddie added a stop in New Orleans during his 2008 Stripped tour. All proceeds from the June 23rd, 2008 performance were donated to Neighborhood Housing Services of New Orleans.
On 27 July 2009, Izzard began a seven week marathon run through the UK to raise money for Sport Relief, carrying a flag for each country in which he ran, from London to Cardiff to Belfast to Edinburgh and back to London.
Eddie has described himself as "a lesbian trapped in a man's body," when explaining his dress sense.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.Salma's charitable work includes increasing awareness on violence against women and discrimination against immigrants.
Salma is the first Mexican national to be nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actress.
Salma is one of the most prominent Mexican figures in Hollywood since the silent film era.o.
Salma is also, after Fernanda Montenegro, the second of three Latin American actresses (the other being Catalina Sandino Moreno) to achieve a Best Actress Oscar nomination.
In July 2007, The Hollywood Reporter ranked Salma fourth in their inaugural Latino Power 50, a list of the most powerful members of the Hollywood Latino community.
According to a poll, "65 percent of the .S. population would use the term 'sexy' to describe Salma".
In Deceber 2008, Entertainment Weekly ranked Salma number 17 in their list of the "25 Smartest People in TV."
Salma's first name, Salma, is Arabic for "safe".
Salma has been was diagnosed with dyslexia.
Salma was an accomplished gymnast aspiring to compete in the Olympics, but her father prevented her from being recruited by the Mexican national team.
Robert Rodriguez and his producer wife Elizabeth Avellan gave Salma the break she needed, starring in a role opposite Antonio Banderas in 1995's Desperado.
The movie caught Hollywood's attention, as moviegoers proved to be as dazzled by Salma as Rodriguez had been.
Due to Salma's loyalty to the director, she would later decline playing the role Catherine Zeta-Jones eventually took in The Mask of Zorro after Rodriguez abandoned the project.Shania's third album Come on Over is the best-selling album of all time by a female musician and the best-selling album in the history of country music.
Shania is the only female musician to have three albums certified Diamond by the Recording Industry Association of America and is also the second best-selling artist in Canada, behind fellow Canadian Céline Dion.
Shania has achieved both critical and financial success, having received five Grammy awards, 27 BMI Songwriter awards, and she has sold over 65 million albums worldwide to date, including 48 million in the USA alone.
Shania is ranked as the 10th best-selling artist of the Nielsen Soundscan era, with approximately 33,591,000 sales through April 5 2008, based on relatively few releases.
Because of her connection to her stepfather, in the past, people had presumed Shania's ancestry was Ojibwa, but she stated in an interview that her biological father was part Cree.
Shania's parents earned little, and there was often a shortage of food in the household as she was growing up.
Shania did not confide her situation to school authorities, fearing they might break up the family.
In the remote, rugged community of her youth, she learned to hunt and to chop wood.
Aside from working at an Ontario McDonald's restaurant, Shania began to earn money by singing in local clubs and bars from a very young age to support her family.
Shania was singing in bars starting at the age of eight to try to make ends meet, often earning twenty dollars between midnight and one in the morning performing for remaining customers after the bar had finished serving.
Although Shania has expressed a dislike for singing in such a smoky atmosphere at such a young age, Shania believes that this was her performing arts school on the road to becoming a successful singer.
Shania has said - I hated going into bars and being with drunks. But I loved the music and so I survived".
Shania wrote her first songs at the age of ten.
As a child, Shania has been described as "a very serious kid who spent a lot of time in her room.
In the early 1980s Shania spent some time working on her father's reforestation business in northern Ontario, a business that the family was heavily involved in and employed some 75 Ojibwe and Cree workers.
Although the work was very demanding and the pay very low, Shania has spoken of her experience - I loved the feeling of being stranded. I'm not afraid of being in my own environment, being physical, working hard. I was very strong, I walked miles and miles every day and carried heavy loads of trees. You can't shampoo, use soap or deodorant, or makeup, nothing with any scent; you have to bathe and rinse your clothes in the lake. It was a very rugged existence, but I was very creative and I would sit alone in the forest with my dog and a guitar and would just write songs".In 2009 it was announced that Robbie will receive the Outstanding Contribution To British Music award at the 2010 BRIT Awards.
Robbie is currently estimated to be the highest selling non-Latin artist in Latin America, having sold over 3 million albums.
Robbie appears in the list of the all-time Top 100 biggest selling albums in the United Kingdom six times.

In 2004, Robbie was inducted into the UK Music Hall of Fame, after being voted as the Greatest artist of the 1990s.
Robbie has ten BRIT Music Awards and six ECHO awards.
Robbie was entered in The Guinness Book of World Records after he announced his World Tour in 2006, for selling 1.6 million tickets in a single day.
Robbie's album sales stand at over 55 million worldwide.
Robbie's career started in 1989, at the age of 15, as a dancer and singer with the pop band Take That. Robbie left the band in 1995 to launch his solo career.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 gained critical acclaim in the early 1990s, culminating in his first Academy Award for The Usual Suspects (Best Supporting Actor), followed by a Best Actor Academy Award win for American Beauty (1999).
Kevin's other starring roles in Hollywood include Seven, L.A. Confidential, Pay It Forward, and Superman Returns in a career which has eventually earned him Emmy and Golden Globe nominations.
Since 2003, he has been artistic director of the Old Vic theatre in London.
Kevin attended Northridge Military Academy from which he was expelled.
At Chatsworth High, Kevin starred in the school's senior production of The Sound of Music, playing the part of Captain George von Trapp.
Kevin tried to succeed as a stand up comedian for several years, before attending the Juilliard School in New York City, where he studied drama, between 1979 and 1981. During this time period, Kevin performed stand up comedy in bowling alley talent contests.
Kevin's father was unconvinced that Kevin could make a career for himself as an actor, and did not change his mind until Kevin became a well known theatre actor.
Kevin appeared in the 1995 thriller film Seven, with Brad Pitt and Morgan Freeman, making a sudden and unexpected entrance late in the film as the serial killer John Doe, after going unmentioned in the film's ads and opening credits.
Kevin made his directorial debut with the film Albino Alligator (1996). The film was a failure at the box office, grossing $339,379 with a budget of $6 million, but critics praised Kevin's direction.
Kevin won universal praise and a Best Actor Oscar for his role as a depressed suburban father who re-evaluates his life in 1999's American Beauty; the same year, he was honored with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.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.Richard began acting in the 1970s, and came to prominence in 1980 for his role in the film American Gigolo, which established him as a leading man and a sex symbol.
Richard went on to star in several hit films including An Officer and a Gentleman, Pretty Woman, Primal Fear, and Chicago, for which he won a Golden Globe Award as Best Actor, as well as a Screen Actors Guild Award as part of the Best Cast.
In 1967, he graduated from North Syracuse Central High School, where he excelled at gymnastics and music, playing the trumpet.
Richard's first major acting role was in the original London stage version of Grease in 1973.
Richard's acting career took off with the film American Gigolo, followed by the romantic drama An Officer and a Gentleman, which grossed almost $130 million in 1982.
Richard's career was later somewhat resurrected after the release of both Internal Affairs and Pretty Woman in 1990.
People magazine named Richard the "Sexiest Man Alive" in 1999.
In 2002, he appeared in three major releases: the horror thriller The Mothman Prophecies, the drama Unfaithful, and the Academy Award-winning film version of Chicago, for which he won a Golden Globe as "Best Actor - Comedy or Musical".
Richard's 2004 ballroom dancing drama, Shall We Dance, was also a solid performer which grossed $170 million worldwide.
Most recently, Richard co-starred with Diane Lane in the romantic drama Nights in Rodanthe, released in 2008.
Richard was presented with a Khata by the 14th Dalai Lama.
Richard was married to supermodel Cindy Crawford from 1991 to 1995.
Richard is a practicing Buddhist and an active supporter of the Dalai Lama.
Richard is also a persistent advocate for human rights in Tibet. He is Chairman of the Board of Directors for the International Campaign for Tibet.Ryan is best know as the host of the Fox reality show American Idol, and of two other television programs: E! News on E!, and the annual Dick Clark's New Year's Rockin' Eve with Ryan Seacrest broadcast on ABC.
After graduating from Dunwoody High School, Ryan went on to attend the University of Georgia in the fall of 1993. There, he would host his first radio show at a local Athens station.
In 1994, the kids show called Gladiators 2000 (a spin off of American Gladiators) was hosted by Ryan for the first season.
Ryan appeared as the host of the fictional game show Lover's Lane on Beverly Hills, 90210 in "The Final Proof".Nicole is best known as the lead singer of the Pussycat Dolls.
Previously Nicole was part of reality TV girlgroup Eden's Crush and despite minor chart successes she left.
Nicole then joined the Pussycat Dolls when they were a burlesque troop before taking the role of lead singer when the group became a recording group.
So far the Pussycat Dolls have released two successful albums PCD and Doll Domination with two supporting tours.
In between the two Pussycat Doll albums Nicole made her first attempt at a solo album (Her Name is Nicole) which proved unsuccessful.
Currently the Pussycat Dolls are taking a break whilst recording their third studio album.
Nicole has appeared in the TV comedy, Half & Half, My Wife and Kids and the 2003 film Love Don't Cost a Thing.
Nicole met Nick Hexum of rock band 311 backstage at a Days of the New concert in 2000 or 2001. They dated and later became engaged, but broke it off sometime in 2004.
Nicole also dated actor Talan Torriero from 2005 to 2007.
As of 2008, Scherzinger has been in a relationship with former Formula One World Champion Lewis Hamilton.
Nicole was ranked at number 22 on Maxim's Hot 100 in 2006, and 21 in 2007.Charlie became one of the most famous actors as well as a notable filmmaker, composer and musician in the early to mid Classical Hollywood era of American cinema.
Charlie acted in, directed, scripted, produced and eventually scored his own films as one of the most creative and influential personalities of the silent-film era.
Charlie himself was heavily influenced by a predecessor, the French silent movie comedian Max Linder, to whom he dedicated one of his films.
Charlie's working life in entertainment spanned over 75 years, from the Victorian stage and the Music Hall in the United Kingdom as a child performer almost until his death at the age of 88.
Charlie's high-profile public and private life encompassed both adulation and controversy.
With Mary Pickford, Douglas Fairbanks and D.W. Griffith, Charlie co-founded United Artists in 1919.
In 1999, the American Film Institute ranked Charlie the 10th greatest male actor of all time.
In 2008, Martin Sieff in a review of the book Charlie: A Life, writes: "Charlie was not just 'big', he was gigantic. In 1915, he burst onto a war-torn world bringing it the gift of comedy, laughter and relief while it was tearing itself apart through WWI. Over the next 25 years, through the Great Depression and the rise of Hitler, he stayed on the job. It is doubtful any individual has ever given more entertainment, pleasure and relief to so many human beings when they needed it the most".
Charlie's parents were both entertainers in the music hall tradition.
Charlie's maternal grandmother was half-Gypsy, a fact of which he was extremely proud, but was also described as "the skeleton in our family cupboard".David is best known for his high-profile feats of endurance, and has made his name as a performer of street and close-up magic.
David has set and broken several world records.
Theatre owner James Nederlander as well as The New York Times have referred to David as a modern day Houdini.
David has also been called a "Houdini wanna-be" by the New York Daily News.

When he was four years old, he saw a magician performing magic on the subway. This sparked his interest in magic.
When David was a teen, he frequently traveled to Manhattan, New York to pursue acting.
David attended acting school and has appeared in some television commercials and daytime dramas.

David has said - I would like to bring magic back to the place it used to be 100 years ago.
USA Today calls David - The hottest name in magic right now.
During one of his endurance stunts David ate nothing and drank only two to three tablespoons of water a day.
Marie Blood, Harry Houdini's niece, once said of David's act, "My uncle did some amazing things, but he could not have done this."
David emerged from one of his endurance stunts and told the crowd "I saw something very prophetic. A vision of every race, every religion, every age group banding together, and that made all this worthwhile."
David stood encased in a massive block of ice located in Times Square, New York. David was lightly dressed and seen to be shivering even before the blocks of ice were sealed around him. A tube supplied him with air and water while his urine was removed with another tube. David was encased in the box of ice for 63 hours, 42 minutes and 15 seconds before being removed with chain saws. The ice was transparent and resting on an elevated platform to show that he was actually inside the ice the entire time. CNN confirmed that "thousands of people braved the pouring rain to catch a glimpse of David as workers cut away at the ice."
The New York Times reported, "The magician who emerged from the increasingly unstable ice box seemed a shadow of the confident, robust, shirtless fellow who entered two days before."
This illusion was questioned on Breaking the Magician's Code, shown on myNetworkTV on May 21, 2008. The masked magician showed how it could be performed as an illusion with two magicians taking turns in the block of ice.Gwen serves as lead vocalist for the rock band No Doubt.
With previous material ranging from punk rock to new wave music, their third wave ska oriented third studio album Tragic Kingdom (1995) propelled them to stardom, selling 16 million copies worldwide.
The band's popularity went into decline with its fourth album, Return of Saturn (2000), but Rock Steady (2001) focused on dancehall production traits, and generally received positive reviews.
Gwen recorded her first solo album Love. Angel. Music. Baby. in 2004.
Gwen's album was primarily inspired by music of the 1980s, and emerged an international success with sales of over seven million.
Gwen's album's third single "Hollaback Girl" became the first U.S. digital download to sell one million copies.
Gwen's second solo album The Sweet Escape (2006) yielded "Wind It Up", a moderate worldwide success.
Gwen (along with No Doubt) has sold more than 40 million albums worldwide.
Gwen won the World's Best-Selling New Female Artist at the World Music Awards 2005.
Gwen is known as a fashion trendsetter.
In 2003, she debuted her clothing line L.A.M.B. and expanded her collection with the 2005 Harajuku Lovers line, drawing inspiration from Japanese culture.
Gwen performs and makes public appearances with four back-up dancers known as the Harajuku Girls.
Gwen married British grunge musician Gavin Rossdale in 2002 and they have two sons.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.Leo has created, hosted, and contributed to a number of technology-related broadcasting projects.
Leo created and co-hosted Dvorak On Computers in January 1991 (co-hosted with computer pundit John Dvorak), and hosted Laporte On Computers on KGO Radio and KSFO in San Francisco.
Leo hosted Internet! on PBS, and The Personal Computing Show on CNBC.
In 1997, Leo earned an Emmy Award for his work on MSNBC's The Site, a daily Monday through Saturday hour-long newsmagazine he helped create and appeared on in the role of a computer-generated character named Dev Null.
In 1998, he created and co-hosted The Screen Savers and the original version of Call for Help on the cable and satellite network ZDTV.
Leo has also pursued acting, playing Uncle Charlie in the movie Phoenix Rising.
Leo was the host of the daily television show The Lab with Leo Laporte, recorded in Vancouver, Canada.
Leo also hosts a weekend technology-oriented talk radio program show titled Leo Laporte: The Tech Guy. The show, once an exclusive to KFI AM 640 (Los Angeles), is now syndicated on nearly 100 North American radio stations through Premiere Radio Networks, and on XM Satellite Radio.
Leo appears semi-regularly on Showbiz Tonight, Live with Regis and Kelly, World News Now, and briefly with Bill Handel on Friday mornings on KFI.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.Russell is a co-founder, of the pioneering hip-hop label Def Jam, and creator of the clothing fashion lines Phat Farm, Argyleculture, and American Classics.
Russell is the younger brother of Daniel Russell, Jr and the older brother of Rev Run (DMC).
Russell's brother Daniel Russell, Jr is an accomplished abstract artist.
Russell has been vegan since 1998, and advocates the adoption of veganism citing animal rights along with the environmental and health benefits.
In January 2009 he was named Editor-In-Chief of GlobalGrind.com: The World According To Hip-Hop.
Russell is the third richest figure in hip hop, having a net-worth estimate of $340 million, behind Jay-Z with $547M and Sean Combs with $358M.
In the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, Russell joined 22 other top executives in the apparel and home fashions industry to form Fashion Delivers Charitable Foundation, Inc. in order to unify the apparel and home fashions industry to donate new products to help needy individuals and families who fell victim to one of the USA's worst natural disasters.
In supporting the new charity, Russells label Phat Farm underwrote a t-shirt design contest with 100% of the proceeds going to Fashion Delivers.
In May 2009, Russell was appointed Goodwill Ambassador for the Permanent Memorial at the United Nations to Honor the Victims of Slavery and the Transatlantic Slave Trade by UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon.
Russell is also a supporter of the David Lynch Foundation for Consciousness-Based Education and World Peace, established to ensure that any child in America who wants to learn and practice the Transcendental Meditation program can do so.
Russell sold his stake in the his record company for $100 million to Universal Music Group in 1999.Denzel has garnered much critical acclaim for his work in film since the 1990s, including for his portrayals of real-life figures, such as Steve Biko and Malcolm X,
Denzel has been awarded three Golden Globe awards and two Academy Awards for his work.
Denzel is notable as the second African American man (after Sidney Poitier) to win the Academy Award for Best Actor, which he received for his role in the 2001 film Training Day.
Denzel's mother, was a beauty parlor-owner.
Denzel's father,was an ordained Pentecostal minister.
Denzel earned a B.A. in Drama and Journalism from Fordham University in 1977.
At Fordham, Denzel played collegiate basketball.
Shortly after graduating from Fordham, Denzel made his professional acting debut in the 1977 made-for-television movie Wilma.
Denzel made his film debut in the 1981 film Carbon Copy.
Denzel's big break came when he starred in the popular television hospital drama, St. Elsewhere from 1982 to 1988.
Denzel holds the record for most Oscar nominations by an actor of African descent; so far he has earned five.