Claudia Schiffer

Claudia Schiffer Biography

Date of Birth: August 25, 1970
Claudia Schiffer is a spokeswoman for breast cancer and a volunteer for UNICEF, but easily best known for her supermodel status. Besides countless magazine covers she can be seen on the big screen in "Richie Rich" (1994), "Friends & Lovers" (1999) and "Life Without Dick" (2001).Claudia Schiffer was born in Rheinberg, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, which is a small town just outside Düsseldorf. She was born to Gudrun Schiffer and her lawyer father Heinz Schiffer. She has two brothers, Stefan and Andreas, and one sister called Ann Carolin.

During her school life, Schiffer commented that she was quite popular but felt socially overshadowed by the other girls in her year, who all acted like stars and were very dominant. She has revealed that because she was so tall, she became very shy and did not want to be noticed. She was also subjected to jealousy by others as she came from a wealthy family that were well-known locally in the area. Schiffer became fluent in French and English as well as in her home language of German.

Claudia Schiffer originally wanted to become a lawyer and work in her father's law firm. She later dropped these aspirations when she was spotted in a nightclub in Düsseldorf by Michel Levaton in October 1987 at seventeen, the boss of Metropolitan Model Agency who signed her up to become a model.

After she was spotted as a potential model in a disco at the age of just seventeen, she completed her education by her mother's wishes and then began to work as a model. She flew out to Paris for a trial photo shoot and soon after she appeared in the cover of French ELLE after being well received in Paris. After several other magazine appearances she quickly achieved supermodel status when she was selected by Karl Lagerfeld to become the new face of Chanel. Schiffer continued to become a world-famous supermodel, becoming instantly recognizable with her blue eyes, blond hair and tall figure.

Claudia Schiffer has also been the face of Mango, a chain of Spanish clothes stores and Accessorize, where she had her ears pierced especially for her Autumn/Winter 2006 Accessorize advertising campaign in 2006. Schiffer still holds a contract with L'Oreal and Ebel watches, and her billboard picture for Kenar has also hung over millions of tourists at Time Square. Since 1990, she has created a swimsuit calendar each year which she stars in and designs herself.

Her career continued to develop when she secured contracts with Pepsi appearing in advertisements promoting the brand, and has also danced with a cartoon version of Mickey Mouse in advertisements promoting Fanta for an estimated $2 million. She appeared nude in a 1998 Citroën advertisement, securing her a reputed £3 million. However from behind the car only her feet and shoulders upward could be seen and she did not know how to drive at the time. KarlLagerfeld recently filmed her for a Dom Perignon campaign, some ten years after her first appearances in Chanel adverts.

Schiffer has appeared in a number of films and music videos. Her first appearance in film was in the children's movie Richie Rich in 1994 and then starred opposite Dennis Hopper and Matthew Modine in Blackout. She went on to appear in Friends & Lovers and Black and White in 1999, In Pursuit andLife Without Dick in 2001, and then Love Actually in a semi-cameo role. Schiffer has made several other cameo appearances in film which include, Ben Stiller's Zoolander in 2001. However, she never became as successful as an actress as she did by modelling.

As well as many film appearances, Schiffer has appeared on several chat and television shows such as Larry King Live, The Tonight Show, The Late Show with David Letterman, Late Night with Conan O'Brien, Dharma & Greg and Arrested Development. She was also in boyband Westlife's music video of Billy Joel's "Uptown Girl," as the iconic uptown girl and had a cameo in Bon Jovi's video "Thank You for Loving Me".

During her modelling career, she has also released four exercise videos, entitled Claudia Schiffer's Perfectly Fit, which were successful and reached the bestsellers list. Schiffer has hosted the French Fashion Awards and the World Music Awards in Monaco.

With fellow supermodels Christy Turlington, Naomi Campbell, and Elle Macpherson, Schiffer was joint owner of a chain of fashionable restaurants called the Fashion Café in 1995. Schiffer remains a prominent figure in German society and helped present and carry the trophy with Pele during opening ceremonies at the 2006 World Cup. She also presented Prince William with a polo trophy in 2002.

Claudia Schiffer was engaged to the magician David Copperfield for about six years until 1999. They first met at one of Copperfield's stage shows, where he invited her on stage to take part in his 'Flying' illusion, and he then subsequently sawed her in half during a joint appearance on German television. Following the end of her engagement to Copperfield, she met and had a relationship with Tim Jefferies.

Schiffer has had two significant problems with harassment in the past. In 2002, an Italian kitchen porter, known as Agostino Pomata, was arrested after making nine visits to Schiffer's £5 million Suffolk mansion near Bury St Edmunds, attempting to see her. Charges against Agostino Pomata were dropped however, as he was sectioned under the Mental Health Act. He had believed that the Pope had told him to marry Schiffer. Then later in 2004, Louis Brisette a Canadian man, was accused of harassing Schiffer, again at her mansion in Suffolk. He reportedly called at her mansion three times in total in the hope of seeing Schiffer. He also repeatedly left letters at her home.

Cindy Margolis

Cindy Margolis

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Cindy Margolis Biography

Date of Birth: October 1, 1968

Cindy Margolis was voted the most downloaded woman ever in 1999 by the Guiness Book of World Records. She gained fame on the big screen as Fembot in "Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery" (1997) and currently hosts "The Cindy Margolis Show" (2000).

Margolis was born in Los Angeles, California of Jewish heritage. According to an interview in Playboy, her career began with a business class project on greeting cards at California State University, Northridge, where she produced cards with a photograph of herself wearing lingerie and including her phone number. Her modeling career took off when agents started asking about the woman on the cards. She has modeled in advertising for companies such as Reebok, Vidal Sassoon, Coors, Frederick's of Hollywood, Hanes, and Sunkist.

Among late night television viewers, she is best known as an infomercial co-presenter including work with Tony Robbins and Don Lapre. Margolis also appeared briefly as one of Barker's Beauties in 1995 on the game show The Price Is Right. She was a sexy, killer fembot in the movie Austin Powers. She had a late night Saturday talk show in 2000 called The Cindy Margolis Show, which was filmed in Miami Beach.

Cindy Margolis emerged as a star in the early days of the Internet. She was named Yahoo! Internet Life magazine's "Queen of the Internet" from 1996-1999. She also found her way into the 2000 Guinness Book of World Records as a result of being the "most downloaded" person in 1999 - a statistic that has no way of being accurately measured. At the age of 34, the peak of her popularity, she was downloaded 70,000 times in a span of 24 hours.

In November 2005 Margolis teamed up with the World Poker Tour to become the new hostess for Chipleaders. In 2006 Cindy posed completely naked for playboy magazine after 20 years of vowing never to take her clothes off.

In an April 2006 interview with The Washington Post, Margolis discussed her nude photo session for the December 2006 issue of Playboy, saying that she had posed for Playboy many times in the past, but never full frontal nude. She cited her good looks at age 40 and wanting to be an inspiration to mothers and women her age as the reason she chose to finally pose nude. "It will be fun to go up against the 20-year-olds and show them that they don't have anything on me!" she told the AP. In an interview with EXTRA she said that Desperate Housewives had been an inspiration for her as it showed that mothers her age can also be fit and sexy. Margolis' nude pictorial was published in the December 2006 issue of Playboy. A portion of the proceeds from issues sold will go to a charity for which Margolis is a spokesperson, Resolve. The charity aims to get fertility treatment better covered by insurance companies.

A portion of the sales of her issue went to her charity, the Cindy Margolis Get a Download of This Fertility Fund. She was very proud to have posed, stating:“Me, of all people, the ultimate girl next door, the one who made it by not taking off her clothes. And now my crowning achievement is doing Playboy and being comfortable in my own skin.”

In spring 2006, Margolis was winner of NBC's Celebrity Cooking Showdown. She teamed up with renowed celebrity chef Wolfgang Puck to win both the first round and the final round.

In November of 2006, Margolis signed an exclusive poker representation agreement with Tropical Poker. Margolis has become a highly sought-after poker player and will represent Tropical Poker in the press, media interviews, poker events and appearances, as well as at the 2007 World Series of Poker.

Cindy Margolis is married to restaurateur Guy Starkman. Following fertility treatment, she gave birth to a son, Nicholas Isaac, in 2002 and twin daughters, Sabrina and Sierra, in 2005 via a surrogate mother.

Paz Vega

Biography And Filmography:

Paz Vega was born in Seville, Spain and is well-known for her sense of humor and outstanding sex appeal. Born January 2, 1976 as Paz Campos Trigo, she would later assume her grandmother’s family name when she started acting. She originally aspired to become a sports star, but later turned to government and politics while still in school, finally settling on journalism. At age sixteen, her life changed considerably when she saw the movie "La Casa de Bernarda Alba", and ever since then wanted to be an actress and Hollywood celebrity.

Paz attended the Centro Andaluz de Teatro, a renowned acting and performance school close to Seville, and after graduation moved to Madrid, Spain to follow her dream of acting. She spent an incredible amount of time auditioning for movie and television roles, while working at a bar before being hired for four episodes on the Spanish television series “Menudo es mi Padre” (1997). She was then cast in her first feature film, “Zapping” in1999, a dramatic comedy thriller about the power of TV and its influence on people’s ordinary lives.

Returning to the small-screen, she was hired and cast on the trendy Spanish award winning situation comedy, “7 Vidas” in 1999 for 50 episodes. The show told the story of a man who wakes up after being in a coma for eighteen years only to find his world entirely changed. She was then cast in the feature film, “Nobody Knows Anybody” (1999), a romantic thriller set among the spectacular festivities of Holy Week in Seville Spain, where an aspiring novelist struggles with his job and pays his bills by composing crossword puzzles.

Vega was then hired for the lead role of Angela in the dramatic film “Mine Alone” (2001), where she portrayed a physically abused wife who takes matters into her own hands after her family and the police are unable to help. She was nominated for a Goya, Spain’s equivalent of the Oscar Award, for Best Actress. She then won worldwide attention with her role as Lucia in the romantic drama “Sex and Lucia” (2001). In this sexy and erotic movie, she played a waitress who escapes to the island paradise of her deceased boyfriends dreams, where she encounters two others with a connection to her past life and former lover. The film won the actress another Goya Award for Best New Actress, and she was also nominated for her role in “Solo Mia”—the first time ever in Spanish Goya Award history that the same actress was nominated for two different categories for two different movies. Vega was red hot and now a certified celebrity, and everybody wanted to see more of the actress.

She then returned to television series work for eighteen episodes in the Spanish comedy "Companions" (1998), about the lives and interactions of a group of young teenage students and their teachers set in a Spanish high-school. She was next cast in a small role in the movie “Talk To Her” (2002). The Oscar Award winning dramatic story about two men who share an odd friendship while they care for their girlfriends who are both in deep comas. Next, she was cast in a lead role for the comedy “The Other Side of the Bed” (2003), Spain's biggest box office hit of the year. She sang and danced her way through the story of two couples who become trapped in their search for love.

She was next hired for the title role in the romantic “Carmen” (2003), another box office smash hit in Spain, directed by Vincente Aranda, "Carmen" told the story of a journey through Spain, and the French writer Prosper Merimee (Jay Benedict) who is forced by fate to be the witness to a story of love in the boundless, mysterious nature of a woman named Carmen, who turns the character of Jose into the victim with a dangerous chain of bizarre events, chaotic loves, jealousy and bloodshed.

She finally made the move to American movies in the Adam Sandler movie “Spanglish” (2004), a romantic comedy starring Sandler and Tea Leoni, about a woman name Flor, and her daughter who emigrate from Mexico for a better life in America, where they start working for a family where the patriarch is a newly celebrated chef with an insecure wife. She had finally arrived in Hollywood and was a red hot sexy celebrity. She next starred alongside Morgan Freeman and Jonah Hill in the romantic comedy "10 Items Or Less" (2006), about an actor prepping for an upcoming role who meets a peculiar grocery clerk, and the pair hit the road to show one another their respective worlds.

She then starred with Danny Huston and Christopher Walken in the mystery thriller "Fade To Black" (2006), an independent film that tells the story of Orson Welles, who in an attempt to recover from his marriage to Rita Hayworth and restart his career, travels to Italy only to be drawn into a dangerous web of intrigue, murder and politics when an actor is murdered on his set. Now fully embracing American cinema, she starred a long string of hit films that would make her a household name in the world of Hollywood.

Her next starring role was as Michael in "The Human Contract" (2008), with Jason Clarke, Steven Brand, Ted Danson and Jada Pinkett Smith, about a successful corporate man harboring a deep, dark secret who becomes friends with a a free-spirited stranger who encourages him to ditch his stuffy lifestyle and live life in reckless abandon. Next was "The Six Wives of Henry Lefay" (2008), starring Elisha Cuthbert, Tim Allen, Jenna Elfman and Vega, in a tale about a grieving daughter who tries to arrange her father's funeral while putting up with all of his ex-wives.

She ended that year with the action drama "The Spirit" (2008), starring with Scarlett Johansson, Gabriel Macht and Eva Mendes, in a story about a rookie cop, Denny Colt (Gabriel Macht), who returns from the beyond as "The Spirit", a hero whose mission is to fight against the bad forces in Central City. Another big break and starring role followed with the thriller "Not Forgotten" (2009), set in a Texas Mexico border town where a man and his wife must face their tortured pasts in order to save their kidnapped daughter.

She wrapped her year starring next to Colin Farrell in the mystery thriller "Triage" (2009), where the girlfriend of a photojournalist (Farrell) sets out to discover why he came home from a recent assignment without his colleague and best friend.

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