Age: Provenance: Mumbai. He shows that Bombay does rise above it. By the fourth month I started getting obsessed with the role. Every time I met my friends I would read lines from the script! Provenance: Topanga Canyon, California. The same may not be said of Eyes Wide Shut, in which she played a smaller role. They expected that after that I would want, like, 50 takes. I thought I could learn a lot working with him. Provenance: London. Sensibly addressed the nepotism issue head-on by … making a triumphant professional debut in a West End production of Mrs.
Provenance: Adelaide, Australia. From Retail to International Rights … As a teen, she left her job at a local clothing store to make the low-budget film , which was accepted into the Cannes Film Festival. Go for it. Mischievous muse to the bearded bard of social realism: Hawkins stars as a preternaturally cheerful schoolteacher in Happy-Go-Lucky, a vehicle designed for her by Mike Leigh, who cultivated her in supporting roles in his two previous films, Vera Drake and All or Nothing.
Is she really happy-go-lucky? Provenance: The former Soviet Union, from which her family relocated in to a quiet little town in California called Hollywood. Collects comedy auteurs such as… Judd Apatow, who cast her in the nice-girl role in Forgetting Sarah Marshall; Mike Judge, who has tapped her to play a kleptomaniac in his upcoming Extract; and Seth MacFarlane, who uses her voice for the aggrieved teen Meg Griffin in Family Guy.
Provenance: Sarasota, Florida. Provenance: Glasgow, Scotland. Provenance: Allentown, Pennsylvania. She respected me. I have to try to save the small town we live in. Provenance: Panorama City, California. When the movie was over he gave me an iPhone with all of the songs on it. He is so, so funny. You know her from … Veronica Mars, the now defunct CW show, in which, as the title character, Bell played an amateur sleuth in her hometown, Neptune. Provenance: San Antonio. But it worked out in the end. Provenance: The Netherlands.
Von Stauffenberg is played by Tom Cruise. My head was so red—like a disease. It means … just a lucky, lucky child. Provenance: Born in Stockholm, raised in Toronto. And soon busting out of the rom-com mold with … a starring role in Watchmen, the next C. Fronts a band in her spare time called … the Petalstones, anchored by her drummer husband, Roberto Zincone. Provenance: New York—born, but with lots of time logged in L. Washington not only directs but also plays Tolson. She made me breakfast in the morning. I sang in her church. Provenance: Rome birth and Paris much of childhood.
In Europe we're not used to that kind of big, big machine. We have another mentality. We very much believe in minimalist things. It's not as if you make love from 20 to 50, and then it's over. I hope that people can see how brave Mike Newell was to do that. We freaked out [filming the scene]. We were all very tense, because you have to have sweetness, it has to be believable, but at the same time, it has to be ironic.
Provenance: Ponce, Puerto Rico. Her very first day on set, Nadal filmed her wedding scene with Washington. I was in grad school with a kid like that and it fascinated me. House of Representatives in Provenance: London though she "kind of grew up in L. Triumphantly crossing the Atlantic … to reprise her role as, er, Alice in the Broadway production of Tom Stoppard's epic, intricate play Rock 'n' Roll, which, under the direction of Trevor Nunn, wowed 'em in its West End debut last year.
On top of which, there's her imminent big-screen breakthrough in … Wayne Kramer's Crossing Over, another of those multi-narrative, big-cast films Eve's co-stars include Harrison Ford, Ashley Judd, and Sean Penn in which various characters tackle different aspects of a common subject matter—in this case, immigration.
Eve, whose brothers are naturalized U. Shia pet: "I'm into Shia LaBeouf. Oh my God, I love him! I watched Disturbia on a plane, and I went to sleep afterwards and I was dreaming of him. Provenance: Paris though she's part American, on her mother's side. From one kind of action to another: Best known till now as Vin Diesel's sidekick in The Chronicles of Riddick, Davalos is part of the ensemble cast with, among others, Morgan Freeman, Selma Blair, Fred Ward, and Greg Kinnear of The Feast of Love, Robert Benton's new film, out this month, based on Charles Baxter's acclaimed novel about the multiple ways that people experience love and sex.
Yes, this entailed her being naked a lot. Having been raised in Europe with European film, that's something that never really made me blink an eye until I was in the U. It's raw. People sit together in bed naked. It happens, you know. Look for it next year. Provenance: Louisville, Kentucky, followed by Manhattan's Juilliard School, "where my accent was completely beaten out of me. I live in Carroll Gardens, in Brooklyn. I also am not a phenomenal driver, so I think I'm calmer here, just letting public transportation do what it needs to do with me.
Provenance: Vaal Triangle, South Africa. Walked the red carpet at the Academy Awards … on account of her starring role in Tsotsi, which won the Oscar for best foreign-language film.
Walked it like she talked it because … Pheto is a product of a poor, crime-ravaged township outside of Johannesburg, much like the one where Tsotsi takes place. Next: She'll play a daughter of Nelson Mandela's in Bille August's Goodbye Bafana, a film based on the memoirs of one of Mandela's white prison guards. And after that? Unlike Hollywood, we in South Africa don't have enough movies being made. Therefore your choices are very limited.
Leslie Mann. I don't know what other households are like, if funny stuff is encouraged. But I never laugh at anything Judd says anymore," Mann says, chuckling. Like, if he says something that's really funny and we laugh, he knows that it is truly funny; we're not just giving him the complimentary laugh.
Provenance: The island state of Tasmania, Australia. On the cusp of mass exposure as … Maggie, a nose-ringed computer technician in Michael Bay's summer-blockbuster-to-be, Transformers, based on the Hasbro toy line. But even her acting debut was auspicious: "Peter Bogdanovich was the first person that I auditioned for. I remember he had this big scarf wrapped around his neck, and he had sunglasses on, inside.
So my first job, even in Australia, was very Hollywood-esque. They have this simple thing going on. I'm sure they would love to come and visit me [in L. You know, I go off, and then I come home to the house I was born in, and we sort of … talk about the dog. My parents are crazy dog people, so that's just as interesting [to them] as working with Michael Bay. Provenance: North Hollywood, California. I didn't know that it wasn't the norm. Now I wouldn't be as chill with it … " Because now she's a prolific industry veteran, with four films due out this year.
But is this the life for her? Not necessarily: "I want to go to college for literature. I want to be a writer. I mean, I love what I do, but it's not all I want to do—be a professional liar for the rest of my life. I can't wait till I'm going to be able to be tossed up in the air. There's a vulnerability that's transparent to me, when someone defines herself just by having an association with someone else.