PROFESSION-Film Producer,Actor,Model and Philanthropist.

Katherine Heigl is an American actor and producer, best known for her role as a doctor in sitcom Grey’s Anatomy and movies such as The Ugly Truth,27 dresses and Life as we know it.She was the cover model of Vanity Fair and Cosmopolitan.She is married to Josh Kelley.

CHILDHOOD

Katherine Marie Heigl was born on November 24,1978 at West End,Washington D.C. in U.S.A.She moved to Virginia,Denver and finally settled down in Connecticut with her family.She attended New Caanan High School in the Connecticut. Heigl dropped out of  High School after her sophomore year to pursue her career in Hollywood.

DAWN OF MODELLING CAREER

Heigl’s life took a turn when she was 9, after an aunt sent pictures of her to modeling agencies. She signed with the international agency Welhelmina Models as child model.

She debuted with a magazine advertisement. She appeared in her first feature film, That Night, at age 11, and took her first lead role at age 14 in 1994′s My Father the Hero. In 1994, she appeared on the cover of Seventeen Magazine.

Despite an increased focus on acting, she still modeled extensively, appearing regularly in magazines.In the same year  Heigl’s parents divorced and her mother was diagnosed with cancer. After her mother’s successful recovery, Heigl and her mother moved to Los Angeles to try to break into Hollywood.

ADVENT OF FAME

In 1996, Katherine Heigl was cast as Isabel, an alien human hybrid in the scince fiction drama Rosewell,which eventually ran for just three seasons.She also appeared on the magazines namely TV Guide,Teen,Life and FHM as she continued her modelling career along with acting career.

After Roswell was canceled in 2002, Heigl appeared in several made-for-TV movies, including a prequel to Romy and Michele’s High School Reunion and two Lifetime movies based on the Janet Oke novels Love’s Enduring Promise and  Love Comes Softly.

She was also starred in the movies like 100 girls and Valentine.

ACCLAIMATION OF BEING ACTOR

Grey’s Anatomy premiered in March 2005 and immediately became a smash hit, elevating Heigl and her co-stars’ profiles in Hollywood. In Grey’s Anatomy she played a role of a medical intern Dr.Isobel “Lzzie” Stevens.Following the same year she was also cast in the movie Side Effects. With her mother, she has been an activist for the past several years, speaking on behalf of donor organizations.

After the release of the movie Knocked Out her fees  hiked as the movie did a good business and her role was critically praised.On July 2009,The Ugly Truth was released in which she worked with Ashton Kutcher.In the same year Life as we know it in which she worked with Josh Duhamel.Heigl left Grey’s Anatomy in 2010.

Abishag Productions was formed in 2007 by Katherine and Nancy Heigl.In 2011, she starred in romantic comedy New Year’s Eve alongside Jon Bon Jovi. Recently it was reported that Heigl would return to television in an NBC drama series named” State of Affairs” about a CIA attache.

MARRIAGE AND MOTHER

In June 2006, Heigl became engaged to singer Josh Kelley, whom she had met a year earlier on the set of his music video for Only You.They exchanged vows on December 23,2007 in Park Utah. In September 2009, the couple adopted a daughter, Nancy Leigh “Naleigh” Kelley. Naleigh  was born with a heart defect and underwent open heart surgery before leaving Korea. In April 2012, Kelley and Heigl adopted a second daughter, Adalaide Marie Hope Kelley.

CONTROVERSY

Heigl caught more heavy flak in late 2007 for statements that she made during an interview with Vanity Fair magazine. During the interview, she called Grey’s Anatomy storyline at the time “a ratings ploy” and professed her strong opposition to the portrayals of women in Knocked Up. Soon after the interview was published, Heigl was vilified by the press, called ungrateful, pretentious and the like by many critics. This criticism continued after Heigl withdrew herself from Emmy consideration in June 2008.

PHILANTHROPY

Heigl has worked with Best Friends Animal Society.The Jason Debus Heigl Foundation (JDHF) was founded by Nancy and Katherine Heigl to increase awareness of inhumane animal treatment and support efforts for rescue, medical care, training and placement needs in the Greater Los Angeles area.Heigl and her mother, Nancy, then started Heigl’s Hounds of Hope which operates as part of the Jason Debus Heigl Foundation.

On behalf of PETA, she signed a letter to members of the Utah legislature, urging them to reject a law that would make undercover filming in factory farms a criminal offense.She also supports AIDS healthcare foundation and Chrysalis.

ASSETS-

MANSION

Katherine Heigl and her husband Josh Kelley purchased the lavish traditional looking mansion in September 2007 for $2.55 million in Los Feliz,California.It is 3,690 sq.feet.

CARS

Heigl owns a white Audi Q5 and a burgundy colored Range Rover SUV.

BRANDS

Katherine Heigl is the owner of several brands

• Valentino Rock Stud Leather Shoulder bag.
• Christian Louboutin Lola Nappa Pumps
• J Brands Maria High Rise Skinny Jeans.
• Maria Lucia Hohan Rhonda Gown.

AWARDS AND ACCOLADES

Heigl has won Emmy Awards for Oustanding Supporting in Drama Series for Grey’s Anatomy in 2007.She also did won People’s Choice Awards for Favourite TV Drama Actress in 2010 and Favourite Female TV Star in 2008.She also bagged Screen Actors Guild Awards for Outstanding performance by an Ensemble in Drama Series for Grey’s Anatomy in 2006.

She has been nominated for Golden Globe Awards for Best performance by an actress in a Supporting Role for Grey’s Anatomy both in 2006 and 2007.She was also nominated for MTV Movie Awards in the category of Best Performance for Knocked Up in 2008.She was nominated for Screen Actors Guild Awards for Outstanding performance by an Ensemble in Drama Series for Grey’s Anatomy in 2005 as well as 2007.

Heigl appeared in the FHM and Maxim calendars, FHM‘s annual “100 Sexiest Women in the World”.In May 2006, Maxim awarded her #12 on their annual Hot 100List as well as voted the 19th “Sexiest Woman in the World” by readers of FHM magazine. Heigl was announced the Most Desirable Woman of 2008, according to AskMen.com Ranked #72 in Stuff magazine’s “102 Sexiest Women In The World” (2002). Ranked as #55 in FHM’s “100 Sexiest Women in the World 2005″  special supplement. (2005). She was named one of Entertainment Weekly’s Top 25 Entertainers Of The Year (2007).

QUOTES

• My mother says she thinks I wouldn’t have appreciated success the same way if it had come faster or more easily. Now it’s a much bigger reward.
• I pride myself on being kind. But that’s not to say there aren’t moments when I’m a diva. Everybody has bad moments.
• I love changing my look. I would love, love, love to cut all my hair off into a really short, punky haircut.

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Thomas William  Selleck, Amrican actor and producer, best known for his role as the private investigator  ’Thomas Magnum’ in the TV series Magnum P.I. based in Hawaii. Born on January 29, 1945, in Detroit, Michigan his family moved to Sherman Oaks, California during his childhood. He graduated from Grant High School and attended University of Southern California. He also served as a soldier in the 160th Infantry Regiment of the California Army National Guard and his unit as activated for the Watts Riots in Los Angeles. Tom Selleck, is as famous for his moustache as he is for his TV and film roles.

TV Appearances and Films

Tom’s first TV appearance was as a college senior on The Dating Game in 1965, and again in 1967. He also appeared in commercials for products like Pepsi-Cola. He started his career with smaller movies like Myra Breckinridge and The Seven Minutes. He appeared in a number of TV series, TV mini-series and TV movies. His first big break came when he was cast in the lead role as Thomas Magnum in Magnum P.I. He passed on the enticing film project for the role of Indiana Jones in Raiders of the Lost Ark because the producers of Magnum P.I. would not release him for other projects. Indiana Jones then went to rising star Harrison Ford. Selleck had a recurring role on the series The Rockford Files, in which he played the character of private investigator ‘Lance White’.

He then appeared, extensively, on television in roles such as “Dr. Richard Burke” on F.R.I.E.N.D.S (1994) and A.J Cooper on Las Vegas (2003).  Since 2005, Selleck has starred in the role of transplanted lawman ‘Jesse Stone’ in a series of movies based on Robert B. Parker’s novels. To date the series comprises of eight films, with the most recent released on May 20, 2012. He has appeared on more than 50 made-for-TV movies, including Mr. Baseball (1992), Quigley Down Under (1990), Lassiter (1984) and among his most notable movies were, Runaway and 3 Men and A Baby (1987). 3 Men and A Baby was the highest grossing movie in 1987.

He did a couple of leading-man cowboy roles in Western films. His first role as a cowboy and frontier marshall ‘Orrin Sackett’ was in the 1979 film The Sacketts opposite Sam Elliott, Jeff Osterhage and Western legends Glenn Ford and Ben Johnson. Quigley Down Under is probably one of his best known Western films. He most recently appeared in the movie Killers with Katherine Heigl and Ashton Kutcher.

Tom rejected a couple of lead roles which went on to become very popular. Selleck was offered the role of ‘Mitch Buchannon’ in Baywatch, but turned it down because he did not want to be seen as a sex symbol. The role went to David Hasselhoff. Tom also turned down the role of Richard on the TV show Titans (2000).

Other Trivia

He is a board member of the non-profit Michael Josephson Institute of Ethics and co-founder of the Character Counts Coalition.

When he was in his senior year at University of Southern California, Selleck earned a basketball scholarship after walking onto the team as a junior.

His trademarks, other than the mustache are Hawaiian shirt, Detroit Tigers Baseball cap and hairy chest.

He has studied acting at The Beverly Hills Playhouse with Milton Katselas.

He is also a member at the Sigma Chi Fraternity.

He played competitive volleyball with the Outrigger Canoe Club and was a three-time All American selection, twice winning the over-35 division in the National Championships.

Selleck starred in six failed TV pilots before landing his first breakthrough role in Magnum P.I..

Among his very rare appearances without the mustache are on the film In and Out (1997), in the Broadway show A Thousand Clowns in 2001, and on Charlie’s Angels: Target: Angels in 1976.

Personal Life

From 1971 to 1982, Selleck was married to model Jacqueline Ray. During that time, he adopted her son, Kevin Shepard.

In August, 1987 Selleck married Jillie Mack. They have one daughter, Hannah Margaret Selleck.

His parents were Robert and Martha Selleck. His father was manager of the San Fernando Valley office of a prestigious commercial real estate company.

Tom’s father had English, with a smaller amount of German, ancestry. All four of Tom’s maternal great-grandparents were English immigrants.

He has a German shepherd named “Ooma”

He is an accomplished indoor and beach volleyball player playing the outside hitter position for the Outrigger Canoe Club, Honolulu. He is also an avid Ice hockey fan and often attends Los Angeles Kings games at the Staples Centre.

For a number of years, Selleck appeared in television advertising for National Review. He endorsed Senator John McCain in the 2008 presidential election. Selleck describes himself politically as “a registered independent with a lot of liberterian leanings.”

Awards and Recognition

He “won” a Worst Supporting Actor Razzie Award for his role in Christopher Columbus: The Discovery (1992), Selleck became one of the first stars, ever, to accept the $4.97 dis-honor.

On April 28, 2000, he received an honorary doctorate from Pepperdine University. He was chosen because of his outstanding character and ethic. He is a board member of the non-profit Joseph and Edna Josephson Institute of Ethics and co-founder of the Character Counts Coalition.

Tom Selleck received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 1986.

Won the 36th Primetime Emmy Award in 1986 for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series.

Won the 42nd Golden Globe Award (1985) for Best Performance by an actor in a TV-Series-Drama.

Also won the People’s Choice Award for two consecutive years; 1984 and 1985 for Favorite Male TV Performer.

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