Mena Suvari Profile -

Name : Mena Suvari
Birth Name : Mena Adrienne Suvari
Date of Birth : American
Place of Birth : February 9, 1979
Height : 5' 4
Education : Ashley Hall, all girls school, in Charleston, S.Carolina; Providence High School in Burbank, California (class of 1997)
Nationality : American
Profession : actress, model
Claim to Fame : as Angela Hayes on American Beauty (1999)
Nickname : Bean

Mena Suvari Trivia -

• Graduated from Providence High School in Burbank, California class of 1997.
• Her first name came from an Egyptian godmother.
• Is a natural blonde.
• Last name "Suvari", pronounced "soo-VAHR-ee", is Estonian.
• First name "Mena", pronounced "MEE-nah".
• Has 3 older brothers, 1 of them in the US army.
• Mother is a nurse; father is a psychiatrist.
• Mena was raised in a Rhode Island home that was built in 1870 and which she and her brothers believed was haunted. They saw several apparitions over the years, all of which she believed were friendly.
• People Weekly magazine titled an article about her "All-American Girl" (1999).
• Declared as the most "patriotic" artist of 2000 by Entertainment Weekly magazine, making allusion to her 3 consecutive movies with the word "American" on their titles: American Pie (1999), American Beauty (1999) and American Virgin (2000). In 2001, she added American Pie 2 (2001) to that list.
• Her mother is of Greek descent.
• Mena and her husband Robert Brinkmann have taken considerable flak because of their age difference - 18 years. Robert is a cinematographer.
• Did her own singing in American Pie (1999).
• Auditioned for the role of Mary Jane in Spider-Man (2002).
• Her father is Estonian.
• Her older brother A.J., formerly an Intelligence Analyst in the U.S. Army, is currently a real estate agent in Virginia Beach, Virginia.
• Is a vegetarian.
  Born on the same day as "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (2000)" star Ziyi Zhang.
• Born on the same day as "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" star Ziyi Zhang.

Yana Gupta Maxim Photoshoot

Neha Dhupia in Sizzling Whites

Barkha Kaul Photoshoot

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Barkha Kaul - The Cover Story

Even though the fresh and bubbly BARKHA KAUL has made her presence felt as a promising and upcoming model, she is absolutely not content to bask in her past glories. Barkha is without doubt an ambitious lass who believes in living for today as she is amply aware that the coming future shall be a reflection of the choices she makes now and here.While she was still in school-back home in Agra, she was virtually cajoled to take part in a prestigious beauty test and she took up the challenge-just for a lark, what is more the dew fresh Barkha ended up being crowned Miss Agra in 1999. The restigious title was to prove to be the crucial turning point in deciding her career prospects as she took to serious modelling, shortly thereafter. Moving from Delhi to Agra to pursue her further studies also saw Barkha plunge neckdeep into modelling as a full-time profession. Her striking good looks and svelte figure made Barkha ideally suited for both ramp modelling as well as product endorsement, both of which there has been no dearth off-in her kitty.

In the last two odd years that Barkha Kaul has been making impressive strides on the modelling circuit, her professional portfolio boasts of her having endorsed such elite products as Levis, Libaas, La Pashmina, Oasis Mobiles, Mrignayani Emporium, Lee Cooper, STG Computers. She has also done designer shoots and fashion shows for some of the best designers which include Ritu Beri, Nikhil Shivdasani & Sonia Kumar amongst several others.

Barkha Kaul has also done several commercials on FM Channel as well as done a stint of anchoring for Star T.V., D.D-Metro & Sahara T.V. She has also acted in a docu-serial with Sohaib Illaysi for UTN. She has also hosted Jassi's live show recently. Amongst the programmes she has been successfully anchoring include Chat Masala on DD-Metro and another programme was co-anchored with Shekhar Kapoor on Star Plus. Apart from her first being prominently features in HT-City, Barkha has also made her presence felt in other popular magazines that include Cosmopolitan, Bride & Home, Zing, A&M, Woman's Era and Magnet.

Barkha Kaul is also a diploma holder in acting from the prestigious Asian Academy of Film & Television at NOIDA where she has been groomed and polished under the eagle eye of the dynamic founder director-Sandeep Marwah. With Barkha's modelling career in top gear, she is fully prepared for an alternative career in acting too. Already she has made her presence amply felt on the small screen and the next step promises to take Barkha Kaul into the lap of Bollywood.. Just a matter of time, one assumes.

Biography

Date of Birth
7 June 1981, Moscow, USSR [now Russia]

Birth Name
Anna Sergeyevna Kournikova

Nickname
Murzik ("my little pet" in Russian)

Height
5' 8" (1.73 m)

Mini Biography

Anna Kournikova was born on 7 June 1981 in Moscow, Russia. At the age of 7, her father began teaching her how to play tennis. Anna practiced everyday. When she was a teenager, she was entered in her first tennis competition. For her looks, Anna became known as the "Britney Spears of Tennis". In 1998, during the Paris Indoors of 1998, her fastest serve was clocked at 111.2 mph. Anna's talent for playing tennis got her noticed not just for tennis competitions, but for TV as well. When she was 19 years old, she got a small, but noticeable part in Me, Myself & Irene (2000) playing a Motel Manager. She also appeared and played Enrique's girlfriend in Enrique Iglesias's music video "Escape".
Anna was voted the Sexiest Woman in the World in FHM's 100 Sexiest Girls poll for 2002. In September of 2003, she sustained an injury to her lower back and worked as an on-site reporter for the U.S. networks coverage of the U.S. Open. But, as of March 2004, Anna retired from professional tennis due to chronic lower back trouble. She has never won a WTA singles title but did win 2 Australian Open doubles titles with Martina Hingis.