Matthew McConaughey - the best "dad"

Some guys are just lucky: After a chance meeting with director Richard Linklater, Matthew McConaughey was cast in the 1993's Dazed and Confused.

What was meant to be a small part kept growing, and a too-handsome-for-words Hollywood career was born.


Whether appearing in serious dramas (A Time to Kill, Contact) or romantic comedies (How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days, The Wedding Planner), his wry Texas charm is always on display.



Even his 1999 arrest for marijuana possession after being found playing the bongos naked in his home, tends to only make people smile.

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Halle Berry

Halle Maria Berry was born on the 14th of August, 1968 (though some insist it was 1966), in Cleveland, Ohio.

She was named after the town's Halle Building, which originally housed the Halle Brothers department store but is now an office block (it's also used in the Drew Carey Show).

Her father, Jerome, an African American and a hospital attendant by trade, left when she was just four, so she and her elder sister Heidi were raised by their Caucasian, Liverpool-born mother, Judith, herself a nurse in a psychiatric ward.

Jerome would return after four years but the violence he directed towards Judith and Heidi meant that he did not stay for long.

Throughout her adult life, Halle Would have no contact with him at all, still being estranged when Jerome died in 2003.

Halle's first few years were spent in a black neighbourhood of Cleveland.

Here her fair complexion made her stand out, but not as much as she did when her mother moved them out of the inner-city to a mainly white suburb.

Now, a little older and in this conservative milieu, her "difference" was not so readily tolerated. "I'm black," she said later.

"I realised very early in my life that I wasn't going to be this mulatto stuck in the middle, not knowing if I'm black or white".

SCARLETT JOHANSSON BIOGRAPHY

Scarlett Johansson was born on November 22, 1984 in New York City, New York to parents Melanie and Karsten (divorced in 1998).

She has a twin brother (Hunter – younger by 3 minutes), an older sister (Vanessa) and an older brother (Adrian) she also has an older half-brother (Christian). Her grandfather is writer Ejner Johansson (d. 2001).

Her first professional acting job, at the tender age of eight, was in an off Broadway play entitled Sophistry (opposite Ethan Hawke). Her first big screen debut came soon two years after (in 1994) with a small role as Laura Nelson in the movie North.

Her rise to fame came in 2003 with the critically acclaimed and international box office hit Lost in Translation with Bill Murray. She was praised for her acting abilities as well as the memorable sexy opening scene of the movie.

For this role she was awarded the Venice Film Festival’s Upstream Award for Best Actress, the Sant Jordi Award for Best Foreign Actress and the BAFTA Film Award for Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role. She was nominated for many awards, including:

Golden Globe Award for Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture - Musical or Comedy; the Teen Choice Award for Choice Breakout Movie Star – Female; OFCS Award for Best Actress; MTV Movie Award for Breakthrough Female Performance; IFTA Audience Award for Best International Actress; the Golden Satellite Award for Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting; the BAFTA Film Award for Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role; the BFCA Award for Best Supporting Actress; and the CFCA Award for Best Actress, the Chlotrudis Award for Best Actress.

She is currently working on a few more movies and expect to see her soon in Black Dahlia, A View From the Bridge and an untitled Woody Allen project.

She is also spending her time doing charity work and is currently helping out the The Make Poverty History campaign.

She has also stated in an interview in the January 2005 issue of Harpers Bazaar that she has no problem with showing her breasts and is quoted as saying "I'm proud of my girls. They're my charms, my feminine wiles."

You can read more about Scarlett Johanson at the Sex Toys Forum

Scarlett Johansson