Gemma Arterton. Early life[edit] Career[edit] She is the face of Avon's Bond Girl 007 fragrance, which launched in October 2008.[18] Having already started in a series of advertisements for Avon, Arterton in May 2008 requested a role opposite model Kate Moss for Rimmel, but was blocked on contractual terms under her Avon contract.[19] In 2010, she made her West End debut in the UK premiere of The Little Dog Laughed.[20] She was originally attached to star in a new adaptation of Wuthering Heights[21] as Catherine Earnshaw, however, she later left the project.[22] She is set to star in Burden of Desire.[23] Arterton starred in the action horror film Hansel and Gretel: Witch Hunters as Gretel opposite actor Jeremy Renner who played Hansel. The 3-D film was set 15 years after Hansel and Gretel killed the witch who kidnapped them.[26] It was released on 25 January 2013. Personal life[edit] By early 2013, she had separated from her husband.[30][31] Filmography[edit] Arterton in 2010 Awards and nominations[edit]
Katrina Hodge. Corporal Katrina Hodge (born 29 March 1987) is a serving member of the British Army from Royal Tunbridge Wells, Kent in south-east England who was Miss England 2009. Biography[edit] Born and raised in Tunbridge Wells, she was educated from age 15 at the BRIT School for Performing Arts and Technology in Croydon.[1] Previously, she had attended Hillview School for Girls in Tonbridge. Army career[edit] Challenged by her older brother to join the Army, she signed up aged 17.
After basic training she was assigned to the Royal Anglian Regiment but as a member of the Adjutant Generals Corps. She reported for duty at their barracks in Winchester, Hampshire, wearing kitten heels, false eyelashes and with her clothes in a pink suitcase, earning her the nickname Combat Barbie.[1] She was deployed to Iraq in 2005. Modelling[edit] Hodge was the first military member to ever enter a UK pageant. Return to army[edit] Personal life[edit] References[edit]
Hannah Tointon. Hannah Marie Tointon[1] (born 28 December 1987)[2][3] is an English actress. She is best known for playing Katy Fox in the long running Channel 4 soap opera Hollyoaks, and Tara Brown in sitcom The Inbetweeners. Early life[edit] Tointon was born to parents Ken and Carol[4] in Southend-on-Sea, Essex, England.[3] She and her actress sister Kara (born 1983) were brought up in Leigh-on-Sea and attended St Michael's School, Leigh, and St Hilda's School, Westcliff-on-Sea, Essex.[4] Career[edit] Hollyoaks[edit] Tointon is best known for her appearance on the Channel 4 soap opera Hollyoaks.
It was announced on 3 November 2007 that Tointon had quit Hollyoaks to try new things, and that she will have played the character of Katy Fox for a year.[7] She said that her intention was always to stay just for a year.[6] After Hollyoaks[edit] Filmography[edit] Awards and nominations[edit] References[edit] External links[edit] Hannah Tointon at the Internet Movie Database. Lara Mullen. Homegrown beauty, Lara Mullen is well on the way to becoming one of autumn/winter 2012's most popular catwalk show girls.
BY Alicia Waite | 23 February 2012 Lara Mullen opens the Mulberry show at London Fashion Week 2012. Photo: Vladimir Potop Lara Mullen opens the Topshop Unique show at London Fashion Week 2012. Photo: Vladimir Potop Six months ago the name Lara Mullen would have meant nothing to anyone, save her family and friends. Top ten show girls of spring/summer 2012 Spotted when she unknowingly asked Premier Models' director of scouting, Anthony Gordon to take a photo of her and a friend at a gig last August, the 17-year-old model, who hails from Northamptonshire, has had no ordinary start to her modelling career. Top 10 highest earning models. Erin O'Connor.
Erin O'Connor (born 9 February 1978) is an English fashion model. Early life[edit] Erin O'Connor was born and brought up in the Metropolitan Borough of Walsall, England[2] and went to Brownhills Community School (now Brownhills Community Technology College/Brownhills C.T.C). She was raised Catholic and her father is from Ballycastle, Northern Ireland.[3] On a school trip to the Birmingham Clothes Show she was spotted by a scout.[4] Modelling career[edit] Karl Lagerfeld has described her as "one of the best models in the world.
"[2] She is signed to Tess Management in London.[9] In other media[edit] In 2001 she appeared as herself in the "Paris" episode of Absolutely Fabulous.[10] In April 2009, she appeared as a mentor and judge on the Irish reality TV series The Model Agent for RTE 2. [12] O'Connor runs the "Model Sanctuary," an area of relaxation for catwalk models between shows.[14] References[edit] External links[edit] Holliday Grainger. Early life[edit] Grainger was born in Didsbury. She is of partial Italian descent through a grandfather.[2] Growing up in Manchester, Grainger's first taste of acting came at age six when she was scouted for a BBC TV series. From then on, she appeared in multiple TV shows and independent films as a child actor.[2] She attended Parrs Wood High School from 1999 to 2006,[3] and in 2007 began a degree in English Literature at the University of Leeds.
However, with her passion for acting, she eventually opted for the Open University[2] where she recently gained a First Class Honours Degree.[3] Career[edit] Personal life[edit] Grainger lives in Manchester with her mother Gian, a graphic designer.[4] She went to piano, gymnastics lessons, Taekwondo and was a pupil at the Madeley School of Dancing in Manchester.[8] Filmography[edit] Television[edit] Film[edit] Theatre[edit] References[edit] External links[edit] Holliday Grainger at the Internet Movie Database. Kate Winslet. Kate Beckinsale. Kate Moss. Aside from modelling, Moss has embarked on numerous ventures, both fashion related and non-fashion related, which include her own clothing line and involvement in musical projects. Moss has won numerous accolades for her modelling career, in 2007, TIME magazine named her one of the 100 most influential people in the world.[4] Moss has also been used as inspiration in a large amount of cultural depictions including a £1.5m ($2.8m) 18 carat gold statue was made of Moss in 2008 as part of a British Museum exhibition.[5] The statue is said to be the largest gold statue to be created since the era of Ancient Egypt.[6] Moss's private life has received fervent media attention.
Moss began dating Jefferson Hack in the early 2000s with whom she has a daughter, Lila Grace Moss Hack. Moss later dated musician Pete Doherty. Moss is currently married to Jamie Hince, guitarist for The Kills. Moss has received media scrutiny for her party lifestyle, and drug use. Early life[edit] Career[edit] Florence Welch. Early life[edit] Family and childhood[edit] Florence Leontine Mary Welch was born in Rotterdam, The Netherlands on 28 August 1986. Her British father is Nick Welch, an advertising executive,[5] and her mother is an American expatriate from New York[5] and the Harvard University- and Warburg Institute, University of London-educated[6] Professor of Renaissance Studies and Vice-Principal for Arts and Sciences at King's College London, Evelyn Welch.[7] Nick and Evelyn later divorced in 1990,[8] and both remarried;[9] when she was 13 years old, Welch, her mother, and her two younger siblings moved in with their next-door neighbour and his three teenage children.
According to Welch, "We get on brilliantly now, but it was a nightmare then. I just used to stay in my room and dance around".[10] Education[edit] Music career[edit] 2006–2008: Career beginnings[edit] According to Welch, the "Florence + the Machine" as a band name "started off as a private joke that got out of hand. Artistry[edit] Lily Allen. Adele (singer) Sarah Brightman. Sarah Brightman (born 14 August 1960) is an English classical crossover lyric soprano, actress, songwriter and dancer. She has sung in many languages, including English, Spanish, French, Latin, German, Italian, Russian, Mandarin Chinese, Japanese, Catalan and Occitan.[1] Family and early life[edit] Brightman is the oldest of six children of businessman Grenville Geoffrey Brightman (1934[23]–1992) and Paula Brightman.
Her younger sisters are Nicola, Claudia and Amelia (aka Violet). She was raised in Berkhamsted, Hertfordshire, England. At age three, she began taking dance and piano classes and went on to perform in local festivals and competitions.[24] At age 11, she successfully auditioned for the Arts Education School in Tring Park, a school specialising in performing arts. Education: Elmhurst Ballet School, Arts Educational School, and Royal College of Music. 1981–1989: Stage career[edit] 1990s: Solo career[edit] 2000–2004: Further international success[edit] J. K. Rowling. Born in Yate, Gloucestershire, Rowling was working as a researcher and bilingual secretary for Amnesty International when she conceived the idea for the Harry Potter series on a delayed train from Manchester to London in 1990.[11] The seven-year period that followed entailed the death of her mother, divorce from her first husband and poverty until Rowling finished the first novel in the series, Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (1997).
Rowling subsequently published 6 sequels—the last, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (2007)—as well as 3 supplements to the series. Since, Rowling has parted with her agency and resumed writing for adult readership, releasing the tragicomedy The Casual Vacancy (2012) and—using the pseudonym Robert Galbraith—the crime fiction novel The Cuckoo's Calling (2013), the first of a series.
Name Although she writes under the pen name "J. K. Biography Birth and family Childhood and education Inspiration and mother's death Harry Potter. Diana Wynne Jones. Diana Wynne Jones (16 August 1934 – 26 March 2011)[1] was an English writer, principally of fantasy novels for children and adults, as well as a small amount of non-fiction. Some of her better-known works are the Chrestomanci series, the Dalemark series; the novels Howl's Moving Castle and Dark Lord of Derkholm; and The Tough Guide to Fantasyland.
Early life and marriage[edit] Jones was born in London, the daughter of Marjorie (née Jackson) and Richard Aneurin Jones, both of whom were educators.[2] When war was announced, shortly after her fifth birthday, she was evacuated to Wales, and thereafter moved several times, including periods in Coniston Water, in York, and back in London. In 1943 her family finally settled in Thaxted, Essex, where her parents worked running an educational conference centre.[2] There, Jones and her two younger sisters Isobel (later Professor Isobel Armstrong, the literary critic) and Ursula spent a childhood left chiefly to their own devices. Career[edit] Gabriella Wilde.
Early life[edit] Wilde attended Heathfield St Mary's School, Ascot, and St Swithun's School, Winchester, before leaving to pursue a course in art while continuing with her modeling career.[1] She smuggled vodka into Heathfield, resulting in suspension and a transfer to prestigious St Swithun's.[1] She studied fine art at the City and Guilds of London Art School but dropped out to pursue acting.[5] Career[edit] In December 2009, Wilde made her acting debut in the adventure comedy film St Trinian's 2: The Legend of Fritton's Gold.
In May 2010, Wilde appeared in an episode of the BBC television series Doctor Who.[7] Personal life[edit] Wilde is engaged to musician Alan Pownall.[4] The couple have a son, Sasha Blue Pownall, (b. 3 February 2014).[13] Ancestry[edit] Filmography[edit] References[edit] External links[edit] Naomi Campbell. Gabriella wilde. Cara Delevingne. Jourdan Dunn. Jourdan Dunn (born 3 August 1990)[2] is a British fashion model. She was discovered in Hammersmith Primark in 2006[2] and signed to Storm Model Management in London shortly thereafter. In 2008, she was the first black model to walk a Prada runway in over a decade.[3][4] She has attracted attention because of the paucity of black models in the fashion modelling industry.[3] In April 2014, it was announced that Dunn was signed as the new face of Maybelline New York.[5] Early Life and Discovery[edit] Jourdan Dunn was born and raised in the West London suburb of Greenford, with her mother, a receptionist and two younger brothers.
She admitted to being self-conscious as a teenager, due to her height and weight.[6] She stated growing up, people would often tell her she should become a model, but was apprehensive as she wasn't really sure what a model did. She commented that shows like America's Next Top Model intrigued her on the industry, as it gave her a new perspective of the job.[7] Cara delevingne. Agyness Deyn. Agyness Deyn /ˈæɡnɨs diːn/ (born Laura Michelle Hollins;[1][2] 16 February 1983)[3][4] is an English fashion model, actress and singer.[5] Early life[edit] Deyn is from Littleborough, near Rochdale in Greater Manchester.[6] Deyn later moved to Failsworth near Oldham.[7][8] The daughter of a nurse, Lorraine, and second of three children she moved to Rossendale, Lancashire, and attended All Saints Roman Catholic High School, as well as Bacup and Rawtenstall Grammar School and Sixth Form in Waterfoot, Rossendale.
Deyn's name was apparently coined to further her modelling career after she consulted her mother's friend, a numerology expert, who advised her of the most 'fortuitous' way to spell the name 'Agnes'.[9] It was reported that her mother Lorraine and sister Emily have both changed their surname to Deyn, while Lorraine has changed the I in her first name to Y.[10][11][12] Career[edit] Modeling[edit] Deyn in 2008 Vogue Paris declared her one of the top 30 models of the 2000s.[21] Music[edit]
Rachel Hurd-Wood. Agyness deyn. Lily Cole. Daisy Lowe. Career[edit] Lowe began modelling at the age of two, and did some photoshoots when she was 12 and 14 years old.[3] At 15 she was approached by a talent scout in Camden Town and, as a result, she signed with Select, a London modelling agency. Of the Whistles campaign, Lowe said, "[It] was a favourite shoot of mine... Modelling is a cool outlet for me to express myself, and fashion has always fascinated me. I love that fashion crosses into my other passions – music and art.
"[6] She was chosen to be in the 2010 Pirelli Calendar photographed by Terry Richardson in Bahia, Brazil.[11] Throughout May 2010 Daisy documented her daily fashion and style choices for Vogue.co.uk's Today I'm Wearing feature.[12] In August 2010, Lowe became the face of the newly relaunched Sixties label Biba.[13] She is also the face of Stephen Webster's 2011 jewellery campaign.[14] Personal life[edit] At 16, Lowe said of the press, A lot of the stuff that gets written is just complete, mindless bullshit. References[edit] Lily cole. Naomi Watts. Keira Knightley. Rosamund Pike. Rachel Weisz. Helena Bonham Carter. Elizabeth Hurley. Judi Dench. Michelle Ryan. Emma Watson. Jennifer Ehle. Emma Thompson. Maggie Smith. Brenda Blethyn. Helen McCrory.