One of the American Actresses, who has obtained immense popularity is Julia Fiona Roberts and she was born in Georgia, United States of America. She is famous as Julia Roberts in the Showbiz world. Julia Roberts belongs to a highly creative family as her parents were also actors. Julia Robertss is of English, Scottish, Irish, Welsh, German, and Swedish descent.

In her childhood, Roberts had a desire to become an animal physician but she had never dreamt that she would become a renowned Hollywood star in future. One of the typical features in her personality is her gorgeous smile which has tremendous liking around the globe.

Julia Roberts : Amazing actress from Hollywood

Julia Roberts started her showbiz career with appearance on the television series “Crime Story.” But the big screen debut of Julia Roberts was made by her performance in the 1988 film Satisfaction  alongside Liam Neeson and Justine Bateman.  In the very next year, Julia Roberts was nominated first time for Academy Award as Best Supporting Actress for her splendid performance in Steel Magnolias, as a young bride with diabetes. She also received her first Golden Globe Award for the same.

Julia Roberts was cast in "Pretty Woman" with actor Richard Gere in 1990

Julia Roberts was cast in “Pretty Woman” with actor Richard Gere in 1990. Her role in this super hit movie earned her a second Oscar nomination, this time as Best Actress, and second Golden Globe Award win also. After this, Julia Roberts performed significant roles in many films and she became one of the highest paid actresses of Hollywood. The biggest milestone achieved by Julia Roberts is her win of “Academy Award for Best Actress”, when she portrayed the role of Erin Brockovich. In this film which is based on a true story, Julia Roberts played the title character: a blustering and struggling single mom who files a lawsuit against a multinational power energy company. After Erin Brockovich, Roberts became so selective in her work that she participated in some other films with lighter roles.

Julia Roberts, the pretty woman has also contributed with her time and resources to UNICEF and to some other charitable organizations. The recent religious controversy about Julia Roberts is her present belief and practice of Hinduism, as previously she belonged to Catholic school. Julia Roberts has remained involved in many men in her life and currently she is married with the cameraman Daniel Moder.

Dave Matthews Band – Dream Girl Feat. Julia Roberts

The Man in the Moon, Cruel Intentions, Elections, Legally Blonde, Sweet Home Alabama and Walk the line; these are the names of the hit movies on the credit of Laura Jeanne Reese Witherspoon who is a world renowned American Actress and Film Producer. Reese Witherspoon, the dazzling starlet of Hollywood was born on March 22, 1976 in New Orleans, Louisiana, United States of America. Her childhood showbiz milestones include being a fashion model for a florist’s television advertisements and Ten-State Talent Fair presentations.

Laura Jeanne Reese Witherspoon

Witherspoon started her proper acting career in 1990 with impressive performance in The Man in the Moon. Witherspoon made her TV acting debut with the cable movie Wildflower, directed by Diane Keaton and starring Patricia Arquette. She also performed a role as a 14-year old tomboy earned her critical acclaim. And she was offered roles in bigger movies like Jack the Bear (1993) and A Far Off Place (1993). From 1996 to 1998, Reese Witherspoon accomplished her prominent appearances in Fear, Overnight Delivery, Pleasantville and Twilight.

Reese Witherspoon - Stylish pose

In 1999, Witherspoon starred in the drama thriller Best Laid Plans in which she performed as Lissa. Witherspoon’s first Golden Globe and Independent Spirit Award Nominations were made after the success of the 1998 film adaptation of the novel Elections. Reese Witherspoon also played a supporting role in American Psycho in 2000 and also made a cameo appearance in Little Nicky. One of the most popular roles of Reese Witherspoon to date came as Elle Woods in the 2001 comedy Legally Blonde (2001) which was a huge box-office hit and established Reese as one of the top female draws in Hollywood. In 2002 it was followed by another major commercial success Sweet Home Alabama.

Walk the Line, which earned Reese Academy Award Oscar

The best decision which was made by Witherspoon was to portray June Carter Cash, the second wife of country music singer and songwriter Johnny Cash, in Walk the Line. She was admired throughout the world by the critics and she won several awards for her performance, including the Golden Globe Award, the Screen Actors Guild, the BAFTA and the Academy Award for Best Actress in a Lead Role.

The charitable works of Reese Witherspoon, the dazzling starlet of Hollywood include her support for children and women rights organizations. She is also affiliated with Save the Children and Children’s Defense Fund.

The fantastic artist, Kate Winslet or Kate Elizabeth Winslet started her showbiz career by stage appearances in the United Kingdom. She was born on 5^th  October, 1975 in Reading, Berkshire. Kate Winslet belonged to an artist family and she started learning drama at a young age while she was only 11 from Redroofs Theatre School.  Her regular appearance on television was started when she co-starred in a science fiction series which was prepared by BBC for children.  In 1992, Kate Winslet was assigned a role of Juliet Hulme in a British Sitcom “Heavenly Creatures”, directed by Peter Jackson.

Kate Winslet

Kate Winslet grabbed the actual attention in 1995 in the Jane Hudson novel’s film adaptation named as “Sense and sensibility”. Kate Winslet also achieved an Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actress for this film.

Kate and Leo in Revolutionary Road

When Kate Winslet came in front of her viewers in the record-breaking blockbuster of James Cameron, “Titanic”, she became as one of the iconic film stars of Hollywood. Kate Winslet also earned her second Academy Award nomination for Best Actress for this movie. Kate Winslet also earned the fame as an amazing vocalist, when she lent her voice in 2001 to the animated British feature, “A Christmas Carol”, a song from the movie, “What If I”. After this she also became as the lead vocalist and a top ten single in the United Kingdom. After 2000, Kate Winslet was nominated for numerous awards in her many tremendous performances in the films such as Quills (2000) , Iris (2001) , The Sinshine of the Spotless Mind (2004) and Little Children (2006 ). The romantic comedy The Holiday and the animated film Flushed Away (both 2006) were among the biggest commercial successes of her career.

Kate Winslet receiving Academy Award for best Actress

In 2008, Kate Winslet, the fantastic artist won an Academy Award for Best Actress for her performance in The Reader. In the same year , Kate Winslet was awarded with Golden Globe Awards, Best Actress (Drama) for Revolutionary Road and Best Supporting Actress for The Reader.In total , Kate Winsle has earned six Academy Award nominations, seven Golden Globe nominations, and seven BAFTA nominations.

Whenever the most talented artists from Hollywood film industry would be talked about, the name of Tom Hanks shall remain on top forever. This legendary actor was born on July 9, 1956 in Concord, California. In his childhood Hanks was a shy and spaz boy and about whom nobody had any idea , even his parents, that one day he would be one of the biggest stars from the largest film industry of the world.

Thomas Jeffery Tom Hanks : A true legend

With a vision of becoming the most flamboyant star , Tom Hanks started his learning of performing art and theater initially from the Chabot College in Hayward, California, and after two years, he moved to California State University, Sacramento. During his studies , Tom Hanks also started his internship and he learned theater production, lighting, set design, and stage management. Today Thomas Jeffery Tom Hanks is worldly known as an actor, producer, writer and director.

The professional career of Tom Hanks was started in 1978 from his performance in The Taming of the Shrew and he also received a Cleveland Critics Circle Award for Best Actor for his tremendous performance of Proteus in The Two Gentlemen of Verona. During this Tom Hanks was fallen in love with Samantha Lewes who was a famous actress of that times and with whom he got married later. In the early 80’s , Tom Hanks remained busy in numerous Shakespeare productions but his film career started ultimately, when he managed to get a small role in the low-budget horror movie, He Knows You’re Alone. Same year he also performed in the television movie Mazes and Monsters.Tom Hanks got the actual exposure when he got a leading role in a sitcom, Bosom Buddies. This one proved to be a best humorous show that was telecast on ABC for three years. But if we say , Tom got his major breakthrough from the romantic comedy “ Splash “, it would not be wrong. This movie was a real success and Tom became the favorite for his charismatic performance. After this a series of hit movies was started such as The Money Pit (1986), produced by Steven Spielberg, in a romantic drama set during World War II, Every Time We Say Goodbye (1986), and in Dragnet (1987), a parody movie version of the TV series. In 1986, Tom Hanks performed in Garry Marshall’s Nothing in Common that made him more famous.

The Endearing Hanks in his famous comedy drama "Forrest Gump"

The actual prime time of the fame of Tom Hanks starts after the releases of “Philadelphia” in 1993 and “ Forrest Gump” in 1994. Tom Hanks won the 1993 Academy Award for Best Actor for his role as a gay lawyer in Philadelphia and on the very next yeat Tom Hanks won his second Best Actor Academy Award for his role in Forrest Gump. This way he became only the second actor to have achieve the consecutive Best Actor Oscars. Similarly Saving Private Ryan in 1998 and Cast Away on 2000 were also the blockbusters on his credit. In all this period, Hanks proved himself in all the spheres of performing art like an actor, producer , director and actor. There is a long list of the unforgettable performances of this acting legend. We would like to mention for his incredible accomplishment in The Terminal of 2004 and unbelievable execution of the role of Professor Robert Langdon in 2006 film adaptation of The Da Vinci Code.

Like many other big celebrities, Thomas Jeffery Tom Hanks who is really a true legend has also remained involved in many other activities including political campaigns, environmental movements, alternative fuels programs and NASA‘s manned space program.

The world lost the legendary lavender eye beauty Dame Elizabeth Rosemond “Liz” Taylor at the age of 79 on March 23, 2011, who died due to congestive heart failure. She earned incomparable fame during her film career due to her glamorous looks and real life dramas.

Elizabeth Taylor, Legendary Hollywood Actress

In 1944 the famous movie National Velvet brought Taylor in the lime light of the world cinema. And after this her journey as a top film actress began. Her famous movies include Father of the Bride , A Place in the Sun, Giant ,Butterfield 8 , Cat on a hot Tin Roof , Raintree County ,Suddenly, Last Summer , Cleopatra and many more.  Two time Oscars winner Elizabeth Taylor performed in more than 50 movies and her tremendous film career is spanned over six decades. She remained a mesmerizing figure in the minds of her fans around the world who was blessed with extraordinary qualities.

Elizabeth Taylor was born in London, England on 27 February, 1932 and started her film career as a child actress with MGM. She won the best actress award for Butterfield 8 (1960) and Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1966) with actor Richard Burton, whom she would marry twice.She was in a class by herself. She also ruled over the minds of the people and media for her dramatic personal affairs featuring thrilling romances and later recriminations. In her much publicized personal life; she got wed eight times with seven husbands.

But apart from all these controversies Elizabeth Taylor was a great activist for fighting against AIDS. She co-founded the American Foundation for AIDS Research in 1985, and the Elizabeth Taylor AIDS Foundation in 1993. She was among the first to speak out on behalf of people living with HIV when others were so reluctant and hesitant to debate and talk bout AIDS.  She received the Presidential Citizens Medal, the Legion of Honor, the Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award and a Life Achievement Award from the American Film Institute, who named her seventh on their list of the “Greatest American Screen Legends”.

In her life, Elizabeth Taylor suffered from serious sickness and she was first diagnosed with congestive heart failure in 2004. She had more than 20 operations in her life suffering from benign brain tumor, skin cancer, pneumonia and cardiac problems.