Bruce Willis

The US Trends | Bruce Willis | Bruce Willis is an American actor,producer,and musician.\\\HisCareer began inTV in \\the1980s and has continued both inTV and film,\\including dramatic,comedic,and action roles.\\\Willis is well known for the role of JohnMcClane in the Die Hard series,which were mostly critical and uniformly financial successes.\\\Willis has also appeared in over sixty films,including box office successes like PulpFiction,Sin City,12Monkeys,TheFifth Element,Armageddon,and TheSixthSense.

Motion Pictures featuring Bruce Willis have grossed US$ 2. 64billion to 3. 05 billion atNorth American box offices,making him the ninth highest grossing actor in a leading role and 12th highest including supporting roles. Willis is a 2-time Emmy Award-winning,Golden GlobeAward winning and 4-time Saturn Award nominated actor.Willis was married to actress Demi Moore and they had three daughters before their divorce in2000,following 13years of marriage.

Walter Bruce Willis was born onMarch19,1955 inWest Germany.Bruce Willis is the oldest ofDavid andMarlene Williston\\\'s 4 children,a group that includes 3sons and a daughter.Initially an Army brat, his father was stationed in theWest German town of IdaOberstein Willis moved with his family to Carney\\\'s Point, New Jersey, in1957 following his father\\\'s discharge.

There, the seeds for the tough, blue collar edge that's come to define so many of Willis' roles were planted as he watched his father feed the family through work as a welder and later a factory employee.

By all accounts Bruce Willis, nicknamed Bruno by his friends, was a popular kid with a good sense of humor who in high school was elected Student Council President. He liked pranks and wasn't immune from getting into occasional trouble. Coupled with this, however, was a slightly softer side that centered on his interest in the theater and the stage. It was born oddly enough out of the realization that a stutter that plagued his speech as a youngster, immediately went away as soon as he began performing in front of large groups.

After graduating high school, Bruce Willis followed in his father's footsteps and found work with his hands, first in a chemical factory and then as a security guard, before returning to the classroom as a drama student at Montclair State University in New Jersey. Willis' interest in acting didn't wane, but eager to strike out on his own, he quit school after his sophomore year and moved to New York City to try and make it as a working actor.

For Willis, whose acting heroes include Robert De Niro, Gary Cooper, Steve McQueen, and John Wayne, work didn't come easy. He waited tables, tended bar and, when he had the chance, auditioned for roles. His first real break of any kind came in 1977, when he debuted in the off-Broadway play, Heaven and Earth. More stage work followed, but in 1980 Willis jumped over to film when he scored a bit role in the Frank Sinatra film, The Fist Deadly Sin. Two years later he landed another minor part in The Verdict, starring Paul Newman. There was some exposure on the television screen, too, with occasional appearances on episodes of Hart to Hart and Miami Vice.

In 1984, after replacing Ed Harris in the off-Broadway hit, Fool for Love, Bruce Willis headed west to Hollywood to audition for the Madonna vehicle, Desperately Seeking Susan. He didn't get the part, but in a decision that would prove to be incredibly smart, stuck around an extra day so that he could audition for a new romantic comedy called Moonlighting, set to debut the following March on ABC.

As the story goes, Bruce Willis dressed in combat fatigues and, donning a punk haircut, read for the part of David Addison, a wise-cracking private investigator. He wowed the TV executives with his gregariousness and charming attitude to beat out some 3,000 other actors.

Co-starring Cybill Shepherd, the show revolved around the complicated, crime-solving duo of Maddie Hayes (Shepherd) and Addison, who ran a down-and-out Los Angeles private investigation firm, The Blue Moon Detective Agency.

The show, which aired until May 1989, was a huge hit for ABC and an even bigger launching pad for Willis. "Women find him appealing, and guys have a fantasy that they could be like him," ABC talent vice-president Gary Pudney told People magazine. "That's why he's become such a valuable commodity to us so quickly."

In 1987 Bruce Willis returned to film when he was matched with Kim Bassinger in the comedy, Blind Date. That same year, the actor hitched himself to a future of tabloid gossip when he married another star, Demi Moore. The couple, who divorced in 2000, have three children together: Rumer Willis (b. 1988), Scout LaRue Willis (b. 1991), and Tallulah Belle Willis (b. 1994).

The same year as the release of Blind Date, Bruce Willis, an avid blues fan and harmonica player, stepped into the music studio for Motown Records to record Return to Bruno, a collection of bluesy soul songs that produced a modest sales return.

If his music failed to turn him into the star he dreamed of being, his next film choice wouldn't. In the summer of 1988, Die Hard, an action-packed flick that cast Willis as the muscle-pumping hero, John McClane, hit movie screens across the country with a bang. Even before its release, the film had managed to catch some notice, in part because both Sylvester Stallone and Arnold Schwarzenegger had turned down the McClane role. When movie executives settled on Willis, in part because he brought a level of warmth and humor to the character, they agreed to pay him $5 million, a huge sum for an actor many still considered a relative Hollywood novice.

The viewing public didn't care. With Bruce Willis doing his own stunts and whipping out memorable one-liners, Die Hard garnered an impressive $81 million at the domestic box office and spawned three later sequels. It was just the start for Willis, who in the ensuing decades has starred in films that have grossed more than $3 billion in ticket sales.

A year after Die Hard, Willis was at the wheel of another hit, and back in a full-on comedic role as the voice of Mikey, the ever-observant baby, in Look Who's Talking.

His role as the English tabloid journalist in Bonfire of the Vanities (1990) drew mixed reviews, and in 1991 the action movie Hudson Hawk, a vanity project of sorts, which Bruce Willis wrote and starred in, proved to be a box office failure. Other, less memorable projects soon followed.

Then, in 1994, Bruce Willis experienced a comeback of sorts when he took on the role of the weathered but still tough boxer, Butch Coolidge, in the Quentin Tarantino-directed smash hit, Pulp Fiction. Perhaps sensing the film was going to do well, Willis agreed to take a modest salary ($1,685 a week) in return for a share of the profits. The film went on to gross more than $100 million.

\\From there a steady run of hits followed,from a 3rd installment of theDie Hard series(Die Hard:With a Vengeance)in1995,to the1998 sci-fi action thriller,Armageddon.In1999, Bruce Willis came through with 1 of his more memorable roles as child psychologist Dr.MalcolmCrowe in the M.Night Shyamalan film, TheSixthSense.Along the way,Willis kept busy with more comedy(TheWholeNine Yards)and a bevy of television appearances(Ally McBeal,Mad About You,and Friends)\\.

In recent years, Bruce Willis has shown no signs of slowing down,demonstrating a range that mixes muscular intimidation(Sin City,Live Free or DieHard)with sharp comedic timing(The Whole Ten Yards)that few actors can claim.

"It\\\'s not just that he\\'s so incredibly cool—it\\'s that he makes you feel like you're cool too,\\"crowed one film critic in2007."\\Willis is the bouncer who listens to you and smiles as he\\\'s tossing you from the bar."

OnMarch21,2009Willis,who remains close toMoore and shares custody of his 3children with her,back tracked on his pledge never to marry again,when he wed model actress,Emma Heming at Willis\\\' home on theTurks andCaicos Islands,in the WestIndies.

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Johnny Depp

The US Trends | Johnny Depp | Johnny Depp is an American actor,producerAnd musician. Depp has won the Golden GlobeAward and Screen Actors GuildAaward for BestActor. \\\\Depp rose to prominence on the1980s television series 21JumpStreet,becoming ateen idol.Turning to film,Depp playedThe title character of Edward Scissorhands(1990) and laterfound box office successin films suchas SleepyHollow(1999),Charlie andthe Chocolate Factory(2005),Rango(2011)andthe Pirates ofthe Caribbean film series(2003–present).Depp has collaborated with director and friend Tim Burton in 7 films,most recently with Alice inWonderland(2010).

Johnny Depp HASreceived recognitionFOR HISdescriptions of people likeEdwardD.WoodJr.,EdWood,JosephD.Pistons inDonnieBrascos, HunterS.Thompson inFear andLoathing inLasVegas,GeorgeJung inBlow,&the BankRobber JohnDillinger inMichael Mann////'s PublicEnemies.Films featuring Johnny Depp has recorded more than 3.1 billion dollars in U.S. box office and $ 7.6 billion worldwide. He was nominated for the top prize on several occasions, winning the Best Actor Golden Globe for Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street and the Screen Actors Guild for Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl. He also won a sex-symbol status in American films, is twice named sexiest man alive by People Magazine in 2003 and 2009. He was listed in 2012 Guinness Book of World Records as the highest paid player with $ 75 million.

Born John Christopher Depp,Jr. inOwensboro,Kentucky, onJune9,1963,to parents John and BettySue Depp. Johnny's father worked as a civil engineer,and his mother came from full blooded Cherokee stock,and worked as a waitress and homemaker.The youngest of 4children,Depp was withdrawn and a self admitted oddball. "\\\\Imade odd noises as a child,\\\\"he later revealed in an interview. "\\\\Just did weird things, like turn off light switches twice. I think my parents thought I had Tourette's syndrome.\\\\"

Johnny andhis family moved frequently to accommodate his father'////s job, finally landing inMiramar,Florida,when Johnny was seven years old.The family lived in a motel for nearly a year, until his father found ajob. Depp hated his new home and, by the age of 12 began smoking, experimenting with drugs,and engaging in self-harm due to the stress of family problems. "\\\\Puberty was very vague,\\\\"he has said. "\\\\I literally locked myself in a room and played guitar.\\\\"

In1978, when Johnny Depp was15, Johnny////'s parents divorced.As the youngest of 4,it became Johnny////'s job to go to his father////'s office and pick up the weekly child support money.The split caused a rift between Johnny andhis father.

At 16, Johnny Depp dropped out of high school and joined the garage band, The Kids. The group became successful enough to open for the Talking Heads and the B-52s, but they barely made ends meet. Depp lived for months in a friend's '67 Chevy Impala.

In 1983, at the age of 20, Johnny met and married 25-year-old makeup artist Lori Allison. That same year, the couple moved to L.A. with Depp's band in the hopes of striking it big. Still living on a shoestring budget, Depp and his band mates supported themselves by selling pens for a telemarketing firm.

A year later, Johnny Depp fell into acting when his wife introduced him to her ex-boyfriend, actor Nicolas Cage. Cage saw potential in Depp, and introduced the hopeful musician to a Hollywood agent. After several small roles as a film extra, Depp landed his first legitimate movie role in the horror film Nightmare on Elm Street (1984). By 1985, the Kids had broken up—and so had Depp's marriage. After his split with Allison, Depp met actress Sherilyn Fenn, whom he met on the set of the short film, Dummies (1985). The couple dated, and were briefly engaged, but split shortly after. After their break-up, Depp then met and proposed to actress Jennifer Grey; their romance was also short-lived.

Johnny Depp started to study acting in earnest, first in classes at the Loft Studio in Los Angeles and then with a private coach. The lessons paid off in 1987, when he replaced actor Jeff Yagher in the role of undercover cop Tommy Hanson in the popular Canadian-filmed TV series 21 Jump Street. The role thrust Depp into almost immediate stardom. Johnny Depp became a teen idol overnight; a title that he greatly resented. When his contract on Jump Street expired in 1989, he leapt at the opportunity to pursue weightier roles.

In 1990, Johnny Depp starred in the John Waters 50s-kitsch musical, Cry-Baby (1990), which became a cult hit, and succeeded in changing his image. That same year, he received an opportunity to exhibit his versatility as an actor in the title role of Tim Burton's fantasy film, Edward Scissorhands. The movie not only established Depp as an A-list actor, but it also grossed more than $54 million at the box office. Following the film's success, Depp carved a niche for himself as a serious, somewhat dark, idiosyncratic performer, consistently selecting roles that surprise critics and audiences alike.

It was during shooting for Edward Scissorhands that Depp finally met co-star Winona Ryder, whom he'd been eyeing since a brief meeting at the premier for her film Great Ball of Fire (1989). The two began dating on the set, and soon became a Hollywood power couple. Five months after their first date, Depp and Ryder became engaged. To solidify their love, Depp even had "Winona Forever" tattooed on his right arm. The couple split, however, in 1993 after Ryder's parents forbade their daughter to marry.

Outside of his personal life, Johnny Depp continued to flourish, gaining critical acclaim and increasing popularity for his work. Several of his most notable roles included his role as the social misanthrope Sam in Benny & Joon (1993), which earned him a Golden Globe nod, and Gilbert in What's Eating Gilbert Grape? (1993), which cast him as a young man dissatisfied with the confines of his small-town life.

In August of that year, Depp and two business partners bought The Viper Club in L.A., which instantly became the hippest spot on the Sunset Strip. Depp began using the club as an opportunity to introduce patrons to music from his newly formed band, P, which offered popular shows at the venue. But tragedy hit the club on October 31 of that same year, when teen heartthrob and critically acclaimed actor River Phoenix suffered a drug overdose outside the club. Phoenix died later that evening.

Depp's life began losing control as the star dabbled with drugs and spiraled into a deep depression. Around this time he also started a very public, destructive relationship with the waifish supermodel Kate Moss. Depp and Moss constantly made headlines for their passionate and unpredictable behavior; in 1994, Depp famously trashed a New York hotel room after one of the couple's many fights.

Johnny Depp's wild behavior didn't seem to have an effect on his professional life. In 1994 he re-teamed with Burton in the biopic Ed Wood, about the famously awful B-movie director. The film won Depp critical acclaim, and another Golden Globe nomination. Other notable films in the late 90s include Don Juan DeMarco (1995), in which Depp plays a character who believes he is the famous fictional character Don Juan, and Donnie Brasco (1997), which featured Depp as an undercover FBI agent seeking to infiltrate the Bonano crime family.

In 1998, Depp split from long-time girlfriend Moss, and took the role of journalist Hunter S. Thompson's alter ego in Terry Gilliam's adaptation of Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas. During filming, Depp cultivated a strong friendship with Thompson, which lasted until Thompson's death in 2005. Johnny Depp  would later finance the writer's funeral.

Around this time, Depp also met another person who would become an important figure in his life; while filming the sci-fi drama The Ninth Gate (1999) in France, Johnny met French actress, singer and model Vanessa Paradis. Paradis became pregnant with the couple's first child later that year. In May of 1999, the couple welcomed daughter

For Depp's next film project, he tried his hand at sci-fi horror with The Astronaut's Wife in 1999. The same year, he teamed up with Burton once again on Sleepy Hollow, starring as a prim, driven Ichabod Crane. He appeared the following year in the small but popular romantic drama Chocolat, followed by a big-budget role as real-life cocaine kingpin George Jung in Blow in 2001. Depp's next film was the terror drama From Hell in 2001 and Robert Rodriguez's Once Upon a Time in Mexico in 2002. In April of that year, Paradis gave birth to the couple's second child, Jack.

In 2004, Johnny Depp  earned an Academy Award nomination for his starring role as Captain Jack Sparrow in the family adventure Pirates of the Caribbean. The film was a box office smash, and led to the creation of a Pirates franchise. At the end of that year, Depp also turned in a critically acclaimed performance in Finding Neverland, in which he starred as Peter Pan creator J.M. Barrie. The film earned him more than 10 award nominations, including both Academy and Golden Globe nods.

In2006, Johnny Depp returnedas CaptainJackSparrow forTheSequel Pirates ofThe Caribbean:Dead Man's Chest,which broke a BOX OFFICE record in reaching the highest weekend tally ever.The 3RD installment fared well,too. Pirates ofthe Caribbean:At World////'s End(2007) was releasedon MemorialDay weekend,bringing in$138.8million.

SayingGoodbye to CaptainJack, Depp tookOn 1 of theater\\\\'s mostNotorious characters..in SweeneyTodd:The DemonBarber of FleetStreet,also in2007.Directed by TimBurton & costarring HelenaBonhamCarter,the dark&gory musical tells theTale of aBarber kills some of his customers who then turned into pies madeby his downstairs neighbor.Depp netted a GoldenGlobeAward for his work on the film.

MostRecently, 3 Depp films —////TheImaginarium of Doctor Parnassus, PublicEnemies, and RumDiary////— areAll slated toPremiere in2009.A film adaptation ofthe LewisCarroll classic,Alice inWonderland,isSet toHit theaters in2010.

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Orlando Bloom

The US Trends | Orlando Bloom | Orlando Bloom is an English film actor. Bloom performed his roles in 2001, Elf-prince Legolas in The Lord of the Rings and interpreted in 2003, as a blacksmith Will Turner Pirates of the Caribbean film series, and then settled in as the lead in Hollywood films, including Elizabethtown, and Kingdom of Heaven. And Bloom appeared in 'the ensemble films in New York, I Love You, Sympathy for Delicious and Main street. Bloom made a professional debut in the West End stage, in honor of the Duke of York Theatre, St. Martin's Lane, who ended just 15 September 2007. On October,12 2009, Bloom was appointed UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador.

Orlando Bloom, born Orlando Jonathan Blanchard Bloom on January 13, 1977 in Canterbury, Kent, SE England, UK. Orlando Bloom studied at the British American Drama Academy in London and the Guildhall School of Music and Drama, and continued to get small parts on television and an appearance in the 1997-film Wilde. He was known for his film role as a warrior elf, Legolas Greenleaf in The Lord of the Rings (2001-3). Other films: Black Hawk Down (2001), Pirates of the Caribbean (2003, sequel2006), Troy (2004), and Kingdom of Heaven (2005). Bloom recently married Victoria Secret supermodel, Miranda Kerr and the couple gave birth to their first child on January 7, 2011.

Orlando Bloom was born in Canterbury, Kent, England, and has one sister, Samantha Bloom, who was born in 1975. His mother, Sonia Constance Josephine (née Copeland), was born in the British section of Kolkata, India, the daughter of Betty Constance Josephine Walker and Francis John Copeland, who was a physician and surgeon. Through her, Bloom is a cousin of photographer Sebastian Copeland. Bloom's maternal grandmother's family lived in Tasmania, Australia, Japan, and India, and were of English descent, some of them having originally come from Kent. During his childhood, Bloom was told that his father was his mother's husband, Jewish South African-born anti-Apartheid novelist Harry Saul Bloom; but when he was thirteen (nine years after Harry's death), Bloom's mother revealed to him that his biological father was actually Colin Stone, his mother's partner and family friend. Stone, the principal of the Concorde International language school, was made Orlando Bloom's legal guardian after Harry Bloom's death. Bloom is named after the 16th century composer Orlando Gibbons.

Bloom was raised in the Church of England. As a child, he managed to get through The King's School Canterbury and St Edmund's School in Canterbury despite his dyslexia. He was encouraged by his mother to take art and drama classes. In 1993, he moved to London to follow a two year A Level course in Drama, Photography and Sculpture at Fine Arts College, Hampstead. He then joined the National Isa Youth Theatre, spending two seasons there and earning a scholarship to train at the British American Drama Academy. Bloom began acting professionally with television roles in episodes of Casualty and Midsomer Murders, and subsequently made his film debut in Wilde (1997), opposite Stephen Fry, before entering the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in London, where he studied acting.

Bloom's first appearance on the screen was in a small part, as a rent boy, in the 1997 film Wilde. Two days after graduating from Guildhall in 1999, he was cast in his first major role, playing Legolas in The Lord of the Rings (2001–2003). He had originally auditioned for the part of Faramir, who does not appear until the second movie but the director, Peter Jackson, cast him as Legolas instead. While shooting a scene, he broke a rib after falling off a horse, but eventually recovered and continued shooting. At the same time, Bloom also played a brief role in the war film Black Hawk Down as PFC. Todd Blackburn. The success of both The Lord of the Rings film trilogy and Black Hawk Down transformed Bloom from an unknown actor into one of the world's best-known celebrities. In 2002, he was chosen as one of the Teen People "25 Hottest Stars Under 25" and was named People's hottest Hollywood bachelor in the magazine's 2004 list. All members of the cast of the Rings films were nominated for Best Ensemble Acting at the Screen Actors Guild Awards for three years in a row, finally winning in 2003 for the third film, The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King. Bloom has also won other awards, including European Film Awards, Hollywood Festival Award, Empire Awards and Teen Choice Awards, and has been nominated for many others. Most of Bloom's box office successes have been as part of an ensemble cast.

Bloom next starred opposite Johnny Depp and Keira Knightley on Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl, which was a blockbuster summer of 2003. Following the success of Pirates of the Caribbean, Bloom took the screen as Paris, the man who effectively started the Trojan War, in the2004 spring blockbuster Troy opposite Brad Pitt, Peter O'Toole and Eric Bana . Then played the lead role in the Elizabethtown and Kingdom of Heaven (both 2005). In 2006, Bloom starred in Pirates of the Caribbean as follows: Dead Man's Chest and the independently made Haven, where he was also executive producer.

In the same year he was one of the guest stars, in comedy series Extras, in which he described as overly arrogant, narcissistic version of himself, who had a great dislike for Johnny Depp (with him the star of Pirates of the Caribbean), Bloom pushed for Extras going well, doing their part and contributed to the unpleasant gagging admired Depp out of pure jealousy that Depp was much more talented than him, not to mention the highest estimate of what its "hottest graphic at the top. Also in 2006 , Bloom was the man most searched on Google News. In May 2007 Bloom has appeared in four more top 15 highest grossing film of all time.

Bloom's latest role in the film Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End, which was published May 24, 2007. Bloom, who was to become an stage actor after graduating from the Guildhall School of Music and Drama, had announced that he wants to leave films for a while, and instead appear in stage roles, and is "anxiously looking for the right kind of material can do something with, "and go" back to basics. " In the summer of 2007, he appeared in London revival of IN Celebration, a play by David Storey. His character was one of three brothers returning home from the fortieth wedding anniversary of their parents'. On August 24, 2007, he made his first appearance on TV commercials on late -night Japanese TV to promote the Uno brand of cosmetics maker Shiseido . A "One Nightonly", a 2-minute version of the Sci-Fi themed commercial kicked off a campaign of product marketing. In 2008, he signed on to play a small role in British film An EDucation, but dropped out to take the lead in the film Johnny To's film Red Circle. Also in 2009, Bloom was one of many stars to appear in New York, I Love You, which contained 12short films inone.

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