May 8, 2011, at 4:28 pm
Amanda Seyfried – Born on December 3, 1985 in Allentown, Pennsylvania to an occupational therapist and a pharmacist. She began her career as a model at age 11, and soon after she began appearing in a slew of daytime soap opera’s like Guiding Light, As The World Turns and All My Children.
For some reason, Seyfried has always auditioned for lead roles but received supporting roles. For example, in her claim to fame Mean Girls, Seyfried auditioned for Rachel McAdam’s and Lindsey Lohan’s roles but ended up playing the plastics dumb blond. On Veronica Mars she auditioned for Kristen Bell’s role but ended up playing her murdered best friend.
However since 2008, Seyfried began landing the big roles. First she played Sophie on Mama Mia! alongside Pierce Brosnan and Meryl Strip, then in 2009 she starred alongside Megan Fox in Jennifer’s Body. Coming up for 2010… Dear John with Channing Tatum and Letters To Juliet (Previews showing in a theater near you).
Seyfried’s recent movies also include Red Riding Hood in the lead role and a movie called Now coming out in October 28, 2011. Among others, Seyfried has been linked to actor Ryan Philippe and Alexander Skarsgard.
Fun Facts:
- Has been dating her Mama Mia! co-star Dominic Cooper since they met on set
- She is addicted to jeans and collects them in all shapes and sizes
Nina Dobrev - Born on January 9, 1989 in Sofia, Bulgaria to an artist and a computer specialist. Even though Dobrev was born in Bulgaria, she moved to Ontario, Canada when she was only two years old. Ever since she was little she always had an affinity for the arts, she danced, did gymnastics, theater, music, visual arts, and of course acting.
Even though her older brother is studying to be an engineer, She took a completely different route and went to Wexford Collegiate School for the Arts in Scarborough, Ontario and later went to acting school in Toronto. After being scouted in Toronto she began modeling, then doing commercials and finally acting in feature films.
Her break came when she was cast as a single mother on Degrassi: The Next Generation, but her claim to fame I would have to say was Vampire Diaries. On Vampire Diaries, Dobrev plays Elena Gilbert, the love interest of two hot vampires – Stefan and Damon Salvatore – played by Paul Wesley and Ian Somerhalder (From Lost).
Nina may be a beginner in the Television business but I know that she will grow up to be a huge movie star. Rumors have even been flying that she and co-star Ian Somerhalder are seeing each other on their free time.
Fun Facts:
- She enjoys playing volleyball, soccer, swimming, rock climbing, wake boarding, snowboarding and horse back riding
- Nina represented Canada in Aesthetic gymnastics at an international competition
Agam Darshi – Born Agamdeep Darshi in Birmingham, England and should be somewhere in her late twenties (Unfortunately I could not find any record of her date of birth). Even though she was born in England and moved to Canada at a young age, it is my guess that she is of Indian origin.
When she was 14 she decided to pursue her passion for acting, and so she took matters into her own hands and moved to Calgary, where she studied acting, fine arts and photography. Apart from being devoted to acting, Darshi is also an artist, writer, graphic-designer, screenwriter and producer.
Agam has written several plays as well as scripts for independent films but her Television career includes Tru Calling, Dead Zone, The L-Word, Final Destination 3, Stargate Atlantis, Snakes On a Plane, Watchmen and 2012.
But the role that I love her from is non other than Sanctuary, where she plays Kate Freelander, a very funny lady. Freelander is an ex-con who’s services went to the highest bidder, but after a deal gone wrong she settled in the Sanctuary under the guidance of Helen Magnus (Amanda Tapping). Sanctuary is now airing it’s third season on Syfy, every Monday night at 10/9c.
Fun Facts:
- Agam loves backpacking and has already gone through Europe and Australia
- She is well versed in traditional Indian dance styles
Ashley Greene – Born on February 21, 1987 in Jacksonville, Florida to an Insurance agent and a U.S. Marine. Greene had originally set out to be a model but fortunately for us the 5’5 beauty could not make it in the modeling world due to her height (Or lack there of). She began doing commercials, and after taking some acting classes she realized that acting was her real passion.
At 17 she decided to move to L.A. to pursue her acting career and soon after began appearing in popular television shows such as Punk’d, MADtv and Crossing Jordan. Her big break came when she auditioned to play Bella in the teen sensation movie, Twilight.
Greene lost out to Kristin Stewart for the role of Bella, but her talent was unmistakable and she was cast as Alice Cullen, the cute and friendly vampire. Twilight may be the movie that launched her career, this is not the only Saga you will see dear ole Ashley in.
Greene will be appearing in the movies Butter, A Warrior’s Heart (with her Twilight co-star Kellan Lutz), The Apparition and the first part of The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn in 2011, the second part of Breaking Dawn and The Boom Boom Room will come in 2012.
Fun facts:
- She had to learn how to pitch professionally for the Baseball scene in Twilight
- She knew her Twilight co-star kellan Lutz prior to filming together and they are also set to appear in a movie called The Warrior next year.
Lea Michele – Born Lea Michele Sarfati on August 29, 1986 in The Bronx, New York to an Italian-American and Catholic Nurse and a Spanish-Sephardic Jewish Deli owner. Lea began her acting career on Broadway (That’s a pretty good place to start) in 1995 as a replacement in the role of Young Cosette in the original New York production of Les Miserables.
Since then she has appeared in many Broadway plays such as Ragtime, Fiddler On the Roof, Spring Awakening and a local production of The Diary of Anne Frank. Broadway plays however can only take you so far in terms of popularity and recognition.
It wasn’t until she took on the role of Rachel Berry in CW’s hit show Glee on May 19, 2009. Lea plays a High School Glee cluber, who has an amazing singing voice and thinks she’s going to be a huge star one day (And that day has come).
Michele is so good at playing a singing super star, that she was already nominated for a Screen Actors Guild and Golden Globe award for her performance and won a Satellite Award for Best Actress in a Series – Musical or Comedy for Glee.
Glee is now airing season 2 on FOX, every Tuesday at 8/7c.
Fun Facts:
- Lea Michele is a Jewish Singer and Actress, which is exactly who she plays on Glee
- Lea is rumored to play Dorothy in the 2011 rendition of Dorothy Of Oz.
Thank you so much, this was a good read. I was actually born in Spain ( not telling you what year though!) but was moved around various parts of europe and lastly settled in the UK when I was 7. I dont remember an awful lot of the few years I was in spain, but the smell of spanish food always seems to get me going or something. Funny, how I dont remember anything except the smells,isn’t it! I actually found a whole internet site dedicated to spanish recipes, which gave me great delight and thought I ought to share. Anyway, thank you again. I’ll get my husband to add your website to my rss thing…