Jada Koren Pinkett Smith (born September 18, 1971) is an American actress and singer. She is married to Will Smith.

• 1 Biography
  • 1.1 Early life
  • 1.2 Career
  • 1.3 Personal life
• 2 Awards/nominations
• 3 Filmography
• 4 See also
• 5 References
• 6 External links

Jada was born September 18 Jada Koren Pinkett in Baltimore, Maryland to Robsol Pinkett, Jr., who runs a construction company, and Adrienne Banfield, the head nurse of an inner-city clinic in Baltimore. Her parents divorced after only several months of marriage and her mother has since re-married twice; Jada's mother became pregnant with her while still in high school. Jada majored in theatre at the Baltimore School for the Arts, where she met fellow classmate Tupac Shakur with whom she developed a close friendship. In the documentary Tupac: Resurrection, Shakur says, "Jada is my heart. She will be my friend for my whole life." Also in this documentary, Jada calls Shakur "one of my best friends. He was like a brother. It was beyond friendship for us. The type of relationship we had, you only get that once in a lifetime." The two remained close friends until Shakur's death in 1996. After graduating from the Baltimore School for the Arts, Smith then spent a year at the North Carolina School of the Arts before dropping out to pursue her career in acting. Jada is an honorary member of Alpha Kappa Alpha, the oldest historically black collegiate sorority in the United States

Jada's big break came in 1991 when she was cast in the part of college freshman Lena James on the NBC television sitcom A Different World, a spin-off of The Cosby Show. She made her feature film debut two years later in Menace II Society (1993). She did not gain widespread recognition, however, until her role opposite Eddie Murphy in the remake of The Nutty Professor (1996). In 2001 she co-starred with her husband Will in the Academy Award nominated film Ali as the first wife of Casius Clay. In addition to being in front of the camera, she has spent time behind it, directing music videos. She has also created "Maja," a line of women's T-shirts and dresses that are mostly sold through small catalogs. In 2007, she starred in the Mike Binder film, Reign Over Me, also starring Adam Sandler and Don Cheadle.[1]

Jada is currently the vocalist for the nu metal band Wicked Wisdom, which released a self-titled debut album on February 21, 2006. The band also toured Ozzfest in the summer of 2005 as part of the second stage lineup. In 2006 the band played the Download Festival in Castle Donnington, UK as one of the first bands on the Friday.[2]

Jada married rapper/actor Will Smith on December 31, 1997, and together they had a son, Jaden Christopher Syre Smith (b. July 8, 1998); and a daughter, Willow Camille Reign Smith (b. October 31, 2000). She is also stepmother to Smith's son from a previous marriage. Jada Pinkett Smith co-founded the Will and Jada Foundation with her husband Will Smith. The foundation gives money towards youth educational projects and helps deprived children from inner cities and their families. In December 2006, Jada donated $1 million to the Baltimore School for the Arts, in memory of Tupac Shakur.

• Black Reel Awards
  • 2005, Best Supporting Actress: Collateral (Nominated)
  • 2001, Best Actress: Bamboozled (Nominated)

• Image Awards
  • 2005, Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Motion Picture: Collateral (Nominated)
  • 2004, Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Motion Picture: The Matrix: Revolutions (Nominated)
  • 2002, Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Motion Picture: Ali (Nominated)
  • 2001, Outstanding Actress in a Motion Picture: Bamboozled (Nominated)
  • 1997, Outstanding Actress in a Motion Picture: Set It Off (Nominated)
  • 1997, Outstanding Actress in a Mini-Series/Television Movie: If These Walls Could Talk (Nominated)

• Menace II Society (1993)
• The Inkwell (1994)
• Jason's Lyric (1994)
• A Low Down Dirty Shame (1994)
• Demon Knight (1995)
• The Nutty Professor (1996)
• Set It Off (1996)
• Princess Mononoke (1997) Toki - voice (English version)
• Scream 2 (1997)
• Woo (1998)
• Return to Paradise (1998)
• Bamboozled (2000)
• Welcome to Hollywood (2000)
• Kingdom Come (2001)
• Ali (2001)
• The Matrix Reloaded (2003)
• Enter The Matrix (2003)
• The Matrix Revolutions (2003)
• Collateral (2004)
• Madagascar (2005) (voice)
• Reign Over Me (2007)

Upcoming:

• Madagascar 2: The Lost Island (2008) (voice)

• Supercouple

• The Jada Pages Fan Appreciation Site For Jada Pinkett Smith
• Jada Pinkett Smith at the Internet Movie Database
• Wicked Wisdom's Site
• Jada Pinkett Smith's charity work

Deborah Mazar (born August 15, 1964), better known as Debi Mazar, is an American actress, best known for her trademark New York City Girl-type appearances, and as edgy, sharp-tongued women in independent films.

Mazar was born in Queens, New York. Her father, Harry Mazar, was born in the Latvian SSR, Soviet Union, to a Jewish family, while her mother was a Catholic who converted to Judaism and later became a Buddhist and for a period of time was a Jehovah's Witness;[1] Mazar is not of Italian descent,[2] despite several reports that have identified her as Italian on her mother's side.

Mazar began her career as a hip hop b-girl in New York City in the 1980s and befriended a pre-fame[citation needed] Madonna. Her first television appearance was on the pilot for a hip hop television dance show, Graffiti Rock in 1984. She also appeared in four of Madonna's music videos - "Papa Don't Preach", "True Blue" (both 1986), "Deeper And Deeper" (1992) and "Music" (2000).

Mazar has played a number of minor-yet-colorful supporting roles in a variety of movies, including: as Sandy, Henry Hill's girl on the side in GoodFellas (1990), The Doors (1991), Bullets Over Broadway (1994), and as Spice (of Sugar and Spice) in Batman Forever (1995). She gained her first real following from playing a character on Civil Wars in the early 90s. When that show was cancelled her character was brought over as a recurring role in the 1993 - 1994 season of the TV drama L.A. Law.

She played the villain Regina, a modern-day Cruella de Vil in the popular family film Beethoven's 2nd (1993). She has appeared in independent films like Inside Monkey Zetterland and Nowhere but has also dabbled in mainstream attempts like Batman Forever, and her short-lived sitcom, Temporarily Yours. (The sitcom was about a woman who, in an attempt to get a good apartment in New York City, lies about being employed with a temp agency and then shows up at the agency begging for work.) She also appeared as the genie in the Space Monkey's video, "Sugarcane".

Mazar appeared on a Friends episode in its eighth season ("The One Where Rachel Has a Baby, Part One"). Mazar played "Doreen, the Evil Bitch," a crazed pregnant woman who shares a hospital room with Rachel. She frequently refers to her husband as "sick bastard," "stupid bastard," and "sick son of a bitch" when she catches him creepily looking at Rachel. From 2000 â€" 2002 she played "Jackie" on the television drama That's Life.

Currently, she is in a supporting actor role on Entourage, an original comedy series on HBO. She also had a recurring role on the sitcom Living with Fran, playing Fran Drescher's character's cousin, Merrill. She also did a stint on the television series Ugly Betty, where she plays Leah Stillman, a scam artist who claims to be a lawyer in a pair of episodes.

She married Gabriele Corcos on March 16, 2002, and they have two daughters: Evelyn Maria, born on July 12, 2002, and Giulia Isabel, born on March 17, 2006.

• Ugly Betty (TV Series) (2006) ... Leah Stillman
• Red Riding Hood (2004/2006) .... Red's Mom
• Wait (2005) .... Joanne
• Edmond (2005) .... Matron
• Be Cool (2005) .... Marla
• My Tiny Universe (2004) .... The Girlfriend/Bonnie
• Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas (2004) (VG) (voice) .... Maria Latore
• Collateral (2004) .... Young Professional Woman
• Entourage (2004) TV Series .... Shauna
• The Tuxedo (2002) .... Steena
• Grand Theft Auto III (2001) (VG) (voice) .... Maria Latore (Chatterbox Caller)
• Ten Tiny Love Stories (2001)
• Held for Ransom (2000) .... Rita
• More Dogs Than Bones (2000) .... Mary
• The Insider (1999) .... Debbie De Luca
• House on Haunted Hill (1999) (uncredited) .... Jennifer Jenzen (deleted character, DVD only)
• There's No Fish Food In Heaven (1998) .... Rosie
• Hush (1998) .... Lisa
• Frogs for Snakes (1998) .... Simone
• Temporarily Yours (1997) TV Series .... Deb DeAngelo (1997)
• The Deli (1997) .... Teresa
• Trouble on the Corner (1997) .... Ericca Ricce
• She's So Lovely (1997) .... Georgie
• Meet Wally Sparks (1997) .... Sandy Gallo
• Nowhere (1997) .... Kozy
• Space Truckers (1996) .... Cindy
• Red Ribbon Blues (1996) .... Darcy
• Trees Lounge (1996) .... Crystal
• Girl 6 (1996) .... Girl #39
• Empire Records (1995) .... Jane
• Batman Forever (1995) .... Spice
• Bullets Over Broadway (1994) .... Violet
• L.A. Law (1993) TV Series .... Denise Ianello (1993-1994)
• Beethoven's 2nd (1993) .... Regina
• Love Is Like That (1993) .... Delores
• So I Married an Axe Murderer (1993) .... Susan, Tony's Girlfriend
• Toys (1992) .... Nurse Debbie
• Malcolm X (1992) .... Peg
• Singles (1992) .... Brenda
• Inside Monkey Zetterland (1992) .... Daphne
• In the Soup (1992) .... Suzie (Credited as Debi MAZER (with an "e") in the film's end credits)
• Civil Wars (1991) TV Series .... Denise Iannello
• Little Man Tate (1991) .... Gina
• Jungle Fever (1991) .... Denise
• The Doors (1991) .... Whiskey Girl
• Goodfellas (1990) .... Sandy

• Debi Mazar at the Internet Movie Database
• Debi Mazar at TV.com

Fifth Avenue is a major thoroughfare in the center of the borough of Manhattan in New York City. Lined with expensive park-view real estate and historical mansions, it is a symbol of wealthy New York. Between Thirty-fourth and Fifty-ninth streets, it is also one of the premier shopping streets in the world, on par with Oxford Street in London and the Champs-Élysées in Paris. It is one of the most expensive streets in the world, on a par with Paris, London, and Tokyo lease prices: the "most expensive street in the world" moniker changes depending on currency fluctuations and local economic conditions from year to year.[1]

Fifth Avenue originates at Washington Square Park in Greenwich Village and runs northwards through the heart of Midtown, along the eastern side of Central Park, through the Upper East Side and Harlem, where it terminates at the Harlem River at 142nd Street.

Fifth Avenue carries one-way traffic downtown (southbound) from 135th Street to Washington Square Park. Where Fifth Avenue had two-way traffic over most of its course until the early 1960s, it now allows two-way traffic north of 135th Street only. From 124th Street to 120th Street, Fifth Avenue is cut off by Marcus Garvey Park, with southbound traffic diverted around the park via Mount Morris Park West.

Fifth Avenue is the dividing line for streets in Manhattan. It, for instance, separates East Fifty-ninth Street from West Fifty-ninth Street. As the zero-numbering point for its street addresses, numbers increase in both directions as one moves away from Fifth Avenue, with 1 East Fifty-ninth Street on the corner at Fifth Avenue, and 300 East Fifty-ninth Street located three blocks to the east of it.

• 1 History
• 2 Notable sights
  • 2.1 Parade route
  • 2.2 Bicycling route
• 3 See also
• 4 References
• 5 External links
• 6 Further reading

The high status of Fifth Avenue was confirmed in 1862, when Caroline Schermerhorn Astor settled on the southwest corner of Thirty-fourth Street, and the beginning of the end of its reign as a residential street was symbolized by the erection, in 1893, of the Astoria Hotel on the site of her house, later linked to its neighbor as the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel (now the site of the Empire State Building). Fifth Avenue is the central scene in Edith Wharton's 1920 Pulitzer Prize winning novel The Age of Innocence. The novel describes New York's social elite in the 1870s and provides historical context to Fifth Avenue and New York's aristocratic families.

Originally a narrower thoroughfare, much of Fifth Avenue south of Central Park was widened in 1908, sacrificing its wide sidewalks to accommodate the increasing traffic. The midtown blocks, now famously commercial, were largely a residential district until the turn of the twentieth century. The first commercial building on Fifth Avenue was erected by Benjamin Altman who bought the corner lot on the northeast corner of Thirty-fourth Street in 1896, and demolished the "Marble Palace" of his arch-rival, A. T. Stewart. In 1906 his department store, B. Altman and Company, occupied the whole of its block front. The result was the creation of a high-end shopping district that attracted society ladies and the upscale stores that wished to serve them. Lord & Taylor's flagship store is still located on Fifth Avenue near the Empire State Building and the New York Public Library.

In the early part of the 1900s, the very rich of New York migrated to the stretch of Fifth Avenue between Fifty-ninth Street and Ninety-sixth Street, the stretch where Fifth Avenue faces Central Park. This area contains many highly notable apartment buildings, many of them built in the 1920s by architects such as Rosario Candela and J. E. R. Carpenter. A very few post-World War II structures break the unified limestone frontage, notably the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum between Eighty-eighth and Eighty-ninth Streets.

Many landmarks and famous buildings are situated along Fifth Avenue in Midtown and the Upper East Side. In Midtown are the Empire State Building,[1] the New York Public Library, Rockefeller Center, and Saint Patrick's Cathedral. The stretch of Fifth Avenue from the 80s through the 90s (i.e., from 82nd Street to 105th Street) has so many museums that it has acquired the nickname Museum Mile and includes such institutions as the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum. That area was known in the early twentieth century as Millionaire's Row after the many mansions built there, as the richest New Yorkers moved their residences north to face Central Park. Earlier, several opulent Vanderbilt houses and other mansions were built in the 50s and in even earlier times farther south. The New York Academy of Medicine is located at 103rd Street, and Mount Sinai Hospital is located at 98th Street.

Here are Tiffany, Cartier, and Bergdoff Goodman. Between Thirty-fourth Street and Sixtieth Street, Fifth Avenue is a popular retail center, with various luxury stores facing that street, most notably F. A. O. Schwarz on Fifty-eighth Street. Other famous Fifth Avenue retailers, no longer in existence, were B. Altman and Company, Bonwit Teller, and Peck & Peck.

Located on 720 Fifth Avenue is the Abercrombie & Fitch flagship store. Between East Fifty-eighth and East Fifty-ninth Street is Apple's 32-foot glass cube, which serves as an entrance for its completely-underground flagship retail store.

Fifth Avenue is the traditional route for many celebratory parades in New York City; thus, it is closed to traffic on numerous Sundays in warm weather. These are distinct from the ticker-tape parades held on the "Canyon of Heroes" on lower Broadway, and the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade held on Broadway from the Upper West Side downtown to Herald Square.

Bicycling on Fifth Avenue ranges from safe with a bike lane south of Twenty-third Street [2] to scenic along Central Park, to dangerous through Midtown with very heavy traffic during rush hours.

• Transportation in New York City
• List of upscale shopping districts
• Madison Avenue
• Park Avenue

• Gaines, Steven (2005). The Sky's the Limit: Passion and Property in Manhattan. New York: Little, Brown. ISBN 0-316-60851-3. 

Debra Lynn Messing (born August 15, 1968) is an Emmy- and SAG-winning American actress, known for portraying Grace Adler in Will & Grace and for appearing in a series of film roles.

• 1 Biography
  • 1.1 Early life
  • 1.2 Career
  • 1.3 Personal life
• 2 Filmography
• 3 Awards
  • 3.1 Golden Globe Awards
  • 3.2 Emmy Awards
  • 3.3 Screen Actors Guild Awards
  • 3.4 Teen Choice Awards
• 4 References
• 5 External links

Messing was born in the New York City borough of Brooklyn to Jewish American parents[1][2] Brian Messing, a sales executive for a jewelry manufacturer, and Sandra (Simons), who has worked as a professional singer, banker, travel and real estate agent.[3] When Messing was three, she moved with her parents and her older brother, Brett, to East Greenwich, a small town outside Providence, Rhode Island.

During her high school years, she acted (and sang) in a number of high school productions, including the starring role in the musical "Annie" and "Fiddler On the Roof". Messing took lessons in dance, singing, and acting. In 1986, she was Rhode Island's Junior Miss and competed in Mobile, Alabama in the America's Junior Miss scholarship program. While her parents encouraged her dream of becoming an actress, they also urged her to complete a liberal arts education before deciding on acting as a career. Following their advice, she attended Brandeis University in Waltham, Massachusetts. During her junior year, she studied theater at the prestigious London-based British European Studio Group program, an experience that fueled her desire to act.

In 1990, after graduating summa cum laude from Brandeis with a bachelor's degree in theater arts, Messing gained admission to the elite Graduate Acting Program (which accepts only about 15 new students annually) at New York University, where she earned a master's degree in fine arts after three years.

In 1993, Messing won praise for her acting in the pre-Broadway workshop production of Tony Kushner's much-lauded play Angels in America: Perestroika. Consequently, she appeared in several episodes of the television series NYPD Blue during 1994 and 1995.

In 1995, Messing made her film debut with a relatively small but important role in Alfonso Arau's A Walk in the Clouds playing the unfaithful wife of Keanu Reeves. This exposure led the Fox network to make her the co-star of the television sitcom, Ned and Stacey. The series lasted for two seasons, from 1995 to 1997. Messing appeared as Jerry Seinfeld's date in two episodes of the series Seinfeld: "The Wait Out" in 1996 and "The Yada Yada" in 1997. Messing turned down a starring role in another television sitcom to appear in Donald Margulies's two-character play Collected Stories, which opened at the Off-Broadway Manhattan Theater Club in 1997.

In 1998, Messing played a lead role as the bio-anthropologist "Sloan Parker" on ABC's dramatic science fiction television series Prey. During this time her agent approached her with the pilot script for the television show Will & Grace. Messing was inclined to take some time off, but the script intrigued her, and she auditioned for the role of Grace Adler, beating out Nicollette Sheridan who later guest starred on the show as a romantic rival of Grace's. Will & Grace became a big ratings success, and Messing gained renown.

In 2002, she was named one of the "50 Most Beautiful People in the World" by People Magazine. TV Guide picked her as its "Best Dressed Woman" in 2003. Messing was cast by director Woody Allen in a small role in his 1998 film Hollywood Ending. Her film roles since include a happily married but ill-fated wife in the supernatural thriller The Mothman Prophecies (2002) and a supporting role in Along Came Polly (2004).

The Wedding Date (2005) was Messing's first leading role in a high-profile film. It received mixed reviews but performed fairly well at the box office. Messing was featured as a judge on the season finale of the second season of Bravo's reality show, Project Runway. She also starred in the television mini-series The Starter Wife which was nominated for 10 Emmy awards including one for Messing for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Miniseries or Movie.

Messing met her husband, Daniel Zelman (an actor and screenwriter), on their first day as graduate students at NYU. The two were married on September 3, 2000, and live in New York City. On April 7, 2004, Messing gave birth to their son, Roman Walker Zelman.[citation needed]

• 2000: Best Actress in a Television Series: Musical or Comedy - Will & Grace (nominated)
• 2001: Best Actress in a Television Series: Musical or Comedy - Will & Grace (nominated)
• 2002: Best Actress in a Television Series: Musical or Comedy - Will & Grace (nominated)
• 2003: Best Actress in a Television Series: Musical or Comedy - Will & Grace (nominated)
• 2004: Best Actress in a Television Series: Musical or Comedy - Will & Grace (nominated)
• 2005: Best Actress in a Television Series: Musical or Comedy - Will & Grace (nominated)

• 2000: Outstanding Lead Actress in a Comedy Series - Will & Grace (Nominated)
• 2001: Outstanding Lead Actress in a Comedy Series - Will & Grace (Nominated)
• 2002: Outstanding Lead Actress in a Comedy Series - Will & Grace (Nominated)
• 2003: Outstanding Lead Actress in a Comedy Series - Will & Grace (Won)
• 2006: Outstanding Lead Actress in a Comedy Series - Will & Grace (Nominated)
• 2007: Outstanding Lead Actress in a Miniseries or Movie - The Starter Wife (Nominated)

• 2001: Outstanding Performance by an Actress in a Comedy Series - Will & Grace (Nominated)
• 2001: Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Comedy Series - Will & Grace (Won)
• 2002: Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Comedy Series - Will & Grace (Nominated)
• 2003: Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Comedy Series - Will & Grace (Nominated)
• 2004: Outstanding Performance by an Actress in a Comedy Series - Will & Grace (Nominated)
• 2004: Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Comedy Series - Will & Grace (Nominated)
• 2005: Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Comedy Series - Will & Grace (Nominated)

• 2001: Choice TV Actress: Comedy - Will & Grace (nominated)
• 2002: Choice TV Actress: Comedy - Will & Grace (nominated)
• 2006: Choice TV Actress: Comedy - Will & Grace (nominated)

• Debra Messing at the Internet Movie Database
• Debra Messing at the Notable Names Database
• Debra Messing at TV.com
• Newsweek interview (2005)
• MovieHole interview (January 12, 2004)
• the Jewish Journal interview (May 3, 2002)
• USA Today interview (May 3, 2002)

Eva Mendes (d. 5 Mart 1974, Miami) Küba asıllı Amerikalı aktris. Daha Hızlı Daha Öfkeli, Hitch ve Hayalet Sürücü (Ghost Rider) filmleri en çok tanındığı filmlerdir.

• Mortal Kombat Conquest (1998)
• Children of the Corn V: Fields of Terror (1998)
• A Night at the Roxbury (1998)
• My Brother the Pig (1999)
• Scream 3 (2000) (cameo)
• Urban Legends: Final Cut (2000)
• Exit Wounds (2001)
• Training Day (2001)
• All About the Benjamins (2002)
• 2 Fast 2 Furious (2003)
• Once Upon a Time in Mexico (2003)
• Out of Time (2003)
• Stuck on You (2003)
• The End Has No End (2004)
• Hitch (2005)
• The Wendell Baker Story (2005)
• 3 & 3 (2005)
• Trust the Man (2006)
• Ghost Rider (2007)
• We Own The Night (2007)
• 'Live! (2007)
• Cleaner (2008)
• The Fast and the Furious: California Sprint (2008)

• IMDb Sayfasi
• Eva Mendes