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Kim Kardashian was born on October 21, 1980. She is an American "celebutante", socialite, model, actress, businesswoman and television personality. She is best known for her social life and her role on the E! reality show Keeping Up with the Kardashians. She’s well known as Paris Hilton’s best friend, her incredible social life, her sex tape with Ray J, which was bought by Vivid Entertainment and is sold online, and her famous reality TV show, Keeping Up With the Kardashians.

Kimberly Noel "Kim" Kardashian is of Armenian descent and was born in LA to her parents, Robert Kardashian and Kris Jenner. She has two sisters, Kourtney and Kloe, and a brother, Robert, as well as several step-brothers and sisters. Kim owns and participates in a number of businesses, including her clothing store, Dash, and her health line, which she launched in 2008 with a workout DVD called Workout with Kim Kardashian.

Kardashian has done many small modeling jobs on the side of her television career. Kardashian posed nude for the December 2007 issue of Playboy magazine. In February 2008 Bongo Jeans announced that Kardashian would be their new face model. Kardashian is also a model for Travis Barker’s Famous Stars and Straps clothing line. Kardashian is one of the stars of the reality television series Keeping Up with the Kardashians along with her two sisters, mother, brother, half-sisters, and stepfather.

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On May 2, 2008, Kardashian released a workout DVD, Workout with Kim Kardashian, and a set of workout cards with the help of trainer Kathy Kaehler. In July 2008, Kardashian announced on her personal blog that she is working on her own perfume line to be released in 2009. In March 2009 Kardashian launched a shoe shopping service. Kardashian is slated to appear as a guest judge during Cycle 13 of America’s Next Top Model. Kardashian co-owns a clothing boutique called D-A-S-H with her sisters Kourtney and Khloe.

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Michelle Marsh was born on 30 September 1982. She is a glamour model from Royton in Greater Manchester, England. She has been a Page Three girl, has appeared in many men’s magazines, has featured on popular British television programmes, and has released a pop single that reached number 27 in the UK singles chart.

Marsh is married to footballer Will Haining and has one child. She went on to appear in men’s magazines such as Loaded, Perfect 10, Nuts, Maxim, Zoo and Playboy. From the beginning of her career, Marsh was regularly partnered with Lucy Pinder, with whom she has appeared in magazines, television and corporate appearances.

In September 2007, while pregnant with her first child, she appeared as a contestant on a special charity edition of BBC quiz show The Weakest Link, which featured glamour models with romantic connections to footballers.

She also made a guest appearance on the 2009 edition of Celebrity Big Brother. As an actress, Marsh has played minor roles in episodes of the television series Hotel Babylon and Life. She also appears in the 2009 feature film Clubbed.

Reon Kadena was born on Feb. 19, 1986 in Osaka, Japan. She is a female Japanese idol whose photobooks and films largely feature her in revealing costumes, underwear and bikinis. She previously did nude photographs, but quit after garnering more attention. She is one of Japan’s top magazine models and has been making a strong move towards the big screen. She’s appeared on numerous late night comedy skits and TV commercials.

Her self-promotional DVD and gravure idol book sales have been phenomenal. Naturally petite, Reon Kadena weighs a mere 95 lbs and is 5′5" tall, but still remains extremely voluptuous with her 35C-23-34 measurements. Her bubbly personality and cuteness paired with her sexy body has made her one of the most searched for models on the Internet. 

Reon Kadena’s fabulous figure and candid personality have also made her a regular on Japan’s most popular talk shows as well as in glossy adult publications, such as Urecco Gal, Mecha ii and Pent-Japan, among others. In addition to being an eye-popping pinup, Reon has also starred in eight tantalizing films.

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Brooklyn Decker was born in Kettering, Ohio. She is an American fashion model best known for her appearances in the Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Edition. She married tennis player Andy Roddick at a private ceremony in Austin, Texas on April 17, 2009. She reported on the Dan Patrick Show that her birthday is in April, not August.

Brooklyn Decker began her modeling career as the face of Mauri Simone, a popular prom dress maker. She won the 2003 Model of the Year award at the Connections Model and Talent Convention. She has been featured in pictorials in Teen Vogue, Cosmopolitan, FHM, and Glamour, and has modeled for The Gap, Intimissimi and Victoria’s Secret. She has also appeared in music videos for Jimmy Buffett and the band 3 Doors Down.

In 2005, within two months of moving to New York City, Decker auditioned for the Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Edition, in which she first appeared in 2006. She was again featured in the 2007 edition, also hosting the 2007 behind-the-scenes television special, and returned to the magazine for a third consecutive time in 2008. In 2007, she had a recurring feature on the CNN/SI website called "She Says, Z Says," along with Paul Zimmerman, discussing NFL football games of the week. Decker also appeared in the 2007 made-for-television Lipshitz Saves the World.

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Decker worked for a period in Australia. She joined the cast of Sports New York to discuss the upcoming NCAA basketball tournament. In 2008, Decker rang the Stock Exchange bell with other Sports Illustrated models. Decker is represented by Click Model Management and Marilyn Agency.

Decker made a guest appearance on NBC’s Chuck, where she played a model applying to be a Buy More Girl. She will be making a guest appearance on USA Network’s Royal Pains on July 30, 2009. Decker plays swimsuit model Rachel, while Peter Jacobson will play Alan, her nebbishy hubby.

On the July 2, 2009, episode of the The Dan Patrick Show, show blogger McLovin’ mentioned that Decker may be making guest appearances approximately every three weeks on the show, in conjunction with the show moving to new studios and being simulcast on DirecTV.
 

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Mary Rose Byrne was born on 24 July 1979. She is a best known as Rose Byrne, is an Australian actress. She is most notable for her ongoing role of Ellen Parsons in the US TV Series Damages. Further to this, she has featured in a number of blockbusters, including 28 Weeks Later, Troy, Sunshine, and Star Wars Episode II: Attack of the Clones.

In 1999 Byrne studied acting at the Atlantic Theatre Company developed by David Mamet and William H. Macy. Known to family and close family friends as Chabs after a family cat she had in her youth named Chablis, after the wine, a favourite of her native Australia. Both Byrne’s parents are atheists, while she describes herself as agnostic.

Byrne appeared in the music video of Darren Hayes’s single I Miss You and starred with Australian musician Alex Lloyd in the music video for his single Black The Sun and was featured on the cover artwork for the EP. She also appeared in the TV Commercial for Sony and reunited with Alex Lloyd, appearing in his music video for 1000 Miles from the album Distant Light.

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In 2002, Byrne entered Hollywood with a small role as Dormé, the handmaiden to Natalie Portman’s Senator Padmé Amidala, in George Lucas’ Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones. She appeared the same year in City of Ghosts with Matt Dillon. The year previously she had flown to the UK to shoot I Capture the Castle, Tim Fywell’s adaptation of the 1948 novel of the same title by Dodie Smith. In the 2003 release, she portrayed Rose Mortmain, the elder sister of Romola Garai’s Cassandra.

In 2003 she also starred in three Australian films: The Night We Called It a Day alongside Melanie Griffith and Dennis Hopper; The Rage in Placid Lake for which she was named Best Actress at the Australian Film Institute with singer Ben Lee; and Take Away another comedy.

In 2004, Byrne starred as Briseis, the Trojan priestess who is abducted during the Trojan War by Achilles (played by Brad Pitt), in Wolfgang Petersen’s epic Troy, also starring Eric Bana, Peter O’Toole, Sean Bean, and Orlando Bloom. She then reunited with Peter O’Toole in the acclaimed BBC TV drama Casanova. Byrne appeared with Snoop Dogg in Danny Green’s film The Tenants, based on Bernard Malamud’s novel, and starred with Josh Hartnett and Diane Kruger in the romantic psychological thriller Wicker Park where she played Alex, the woman who manipulated Josh Hartnett’s character to keep him apart from the woman he falls in love with.

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In 2006 Byrne portrayed Gabrielle de Polastron, duchesse de Polignac, a French aristocrat and friend of Marie Antoinette, in Sofia Coppola’s Marie Antoinette, alongside Kirsten Dunst, and appeared in The Dead Girl, directed by Karen Moncrieff. She and Marie Antoinette director Sofia Coppola have both played handmaidens in the Star Wars prequels: Coppola appeared in The Phantom Menace, Byrne in Attack of the Clones.

In 2007, she played Cassie, the pilot in Danny Boyle’s science fiction suspense film Sunshine, Scarlett Ross, an army medical officer in Juan Carlos Fresnadillo’s sci-fi horror 28 Weeks Later, the sequel to Boyle’s 28 Days Later, and appeared in the independent film Just Buried, a Canadian dark comedy written and directed by Chaz Thorne. Byrne is currently in an FX drama production Damages, playing the regular lead role of Ellen Parsons, a young attorney torn between her hard-hitting, high-stakes new boss and her own ambitions.

She appeared in the Australian film noir The Tender Hook with Hugo Weaving. Byrne was the face of Max Factor between 2004 and 2006 and named in the Most Beautiful People of 2007 list in Who Magazine. Byrne has supported UNICEF Australia by being the face of the 2007 Designers United campaign and a member of tropfest jury in 2006 and tropfest@tribeca in 2007.

Byrne is a graduate and ambassador for NIDA’s (National Institute of Dramatic Art) Young Actors Studio. She was recently named the first patron of Chauvel Cinemas presented by the Brisbane International Film Festival and named in honour of Charles Chauvel. Byrne has used several different accents in her films: Australian, British, American and Canadian. Find Rose Byrne Posters.