Actress Kerry Washington

Kerry Washington is an actress who has appeared in many roles in different dramatic media.

She has played, among other characters, the wives of two prominent men - one famous, the other infamous - in the movies. She played Ray Charles's wife Della Bea Robinson in the 2004 biopic Ray and the wife of Ugandan dictator Idi Amin Dada in The Last King of Scotland.

In 2010, she made her Broadway debut in the David Mamet play Race.

One little-known fact about Kerry Washington is that she likes to keep momentos of roles she plays, such as an item of wardrobe associated with the character.

French actress Audrey Tautou

The world was introduced to Audrey Tautou in 2001 through French director Jean-Pierre Jeunet's film Amélie, about a shy, insular waitress in Paris who sets out to change other people's lives for the better. :-)

She's probably best known to American audiences for her role as Sophie Neveu in The Da Vinci Code, which arguably solidified her status as an international star.

Other films Audrey Tautou has appeared in include Dirty Pretty Things, A Very Long Engagement, and Priceless.

Actress Zoe Saldana

Because of her role in the James Cameron blockbuster Avatar, Zoe Saldana is now a huge Hollywood star. But because what you saw of her was an animated, computer-generated blue-skinned extraterrestrial being based on live-action shots, she couldn't exactly capitalize on her looks.

That's what this blog is here for. :-)

Zoe Saldana has in fact appeared in numerous pictures since the turn of the millennium, including Center Stage, The Terminal and Vantage Point. Her other famous role is as the pirate Anamaria in 2003's Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse Of the Black Pearl.

Newswoman Robin Roberts

Robin Roberts has been associated with both ABC and/or its sister sports cable network ESPN since 1990.

She began her broadcasting career working as a sportscaster and reporter for various television stations in the South before joining ESPN's "Sportscenter." Roberts joined ABC's "Good Morning America" as a feature reporter in 1995 and became a co-anchor a decade later, with a stint as the show's news anchor and continued work on ESPN in between.

She handled her battle with cancer in 2007 and 2008 with great dignity.

Canadian actress Ellen Page

Ellen Page, who only turned 23 in February 2010, is already one of the hottest actress in the movies today.

The Nova Scotia-born Page first gained fame in the title role of Juno, a film about a pregnant teenager, which earned her Golden Globe and Oscar nominations for Best Actress. She has since appeared in films such as Smart People and Peacock.

Ellen Page currently appears in commercials for Cisco Systems, in which she returns home to Nova Scotia and visits Lunenburg, amazed by how people are electronically connected. Although the ads intimate that Page is from Lunenburg, she's actually from Halifax, where she still lives.

Actress Daphne Maxwell Reid

Daphne Maxwell Reid, the wife of actor and "WKRP in Cincinnati" alumnus Tim Reid, is best known for playing Will Smith's aunt Vivian in the three latter seasons of "The Fresh Prince of Bel Air," replacing Janet Hubert in that same role.

Wait a minute, you must be asking yourself, in case you're not familiar with that sitcom's first three seasons, Janet Hubert was Aunt Viv too?

No, Daphne Maxwell Reid was Aunt Viv Two. Janet Hubert was Aunt Viv One!

Seriously, Mrs. Reid has had a distinguished career as a television actress beyond "The Fresh Prince of Bel Air." She was in "Hill Street Blues" for six seasons, and she also starred with her husband in the critically acclaimed but short-lived restaurant drama series "Frank's Place." Today she owns and operates New Millennium Studios in Petersburg, Virginia with her husband and also serves on the Board of Visitors at Virginia State University.

Fun fact: Before she got into acting and married Tim Reid, the former Daphne Maxwell was a model and became the first black woman to appear on the cover of Glamour.

Actress Julianna Margulies

Julianna Margulies first came to many people's attention on the NBC hospital television drama "ER" as Nurse Carol Hathaway, a role she played for six years.

She's appeared in several films, such as A Price Above Rubies and The Man From the Elysian Fields, and she also stars in the Andy Garcia movie City Island. She recently returned to TV in the CBS drama "The Good Wife," about a Chicago lawyer who returns to practicing law after her husband resigns his government attorney post amid a sex scandal.

Pennsylvania TV news anchor Kim Lemon

Kim Lemon is hardly someone who lives up to her name.

The television newswoman has been with NBC's Lancaster, Pennsylvania affiliate, WGAL-TV Channel 8 (odd for a VHF station to serve a minor-league market, you'll agree) since 1979, when she joined WGAL-TV as a reporter and weatherperson. After a few years co-hosting the local edition of a nationally syndicated news magazine, Kim Lemon became an anchorwoman in 1985. She anchors two early evening newscasts every weeknight.

She has been repeatedly named the best local news anchor in the Lancaster area.

German actress Diane Kruger

A highly visible presence in the movies in the past several years, Diane Kruger may very well be on her way to being the most successful actress to come out of Germany since Elke Sommer. :-)

Her movies include Wicker Park and Copying Beethoven, and she played Helen of Troy in Wolfgang Petersen's 2004 movie Troy. She played Bridget von Hammersmark, a German actress and saboteur, in Quentin Tarantino's World War II movie Inglourious Basterds (earning a nomination for a best actress Screen Actors Guild award for her role) and has played Dr. Abigail Chase in the National Treasure franchise.

Actress Gillian Jacobs

Gillian Jacobs is a young actress getting attention these days. :-)

She's been in a few television shows and movies before, but she has a high-profile gig now. She currently appears as Britta Perry, a community college student connected with a motley crew of students in a study group, in the NBC sitcom "Community."

Double meaning, there. :-D