Actress and comedian Ellie Kemper comes from a long line of incredibly successful Kempers. Her father, David Woods Kemper, is a son of one of the wealthiest families in Missouri and the executive chairman of Commerce Bancshares. Her grandmother, Mildred Lane Kemper, was the namesake of the Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum…
Leelee Sobieski first found fame as a teenage actress. After being cast in Stanley Kubrick’s “Eyes Wide Shut” at the age of 13, her star quickly rose and she went on to be cast in more than 30 film and television roles throughout the late 1990s and early 2000s. She appeared in many popular films…
Jodie Foster has been famous nearly her entire life. She first began acting in commercials at the age of two. By the time she was 12, she had appeared in more than 50 commercials, had recurring roles on “Gunsmoke,” “The Courtship of Eddie’s Father,” “My Three Sons,” and starred in her own short-lived series, “Paper Moon”…
Shakira is a global phenomenon, with a catalog of 145 songs and an estimated 80 million records sold worldwide. She has won humanitarian awards for her charity work, building and running schools in her homeland. She is unafraid to be a political activist, using her platform to communicate her message…
American actress Sarah Wayne Callies has appeared in more than two dozen roles for film and television since emerging onto the scene in 2003. She is best known for her roles as Lori Grimes in the AMC mega-hit “The Walking Dead,” Katie Bowman in the USA Network’s science-fiction drama “Colony,” and Robin Perry in NBC’s drama “Council of Dads”…
Australian-born American journalist Brianna Keilar currently co-anchors CNN’s morning show “New Day” with John Berman. She is based in the network’s Washington bureau and first joined in 2006 as a national correspondent for CNN Newsource. She has also served as a White House correspondent, senior political correspondent…
In the professional poker playing world, there is a beautiful blonde strategist that has racked up more than $3.5 million over the course of her career. Online, she is known as Lady Maverick, and she’s been sponsored by PokerStars, one of the best online poker rooms in the business. At the tables, she is Vanessa Rousso, and she’s placed in the money seventeen times at the World Series of Poker…
The year was 2002. Jeans were low cut, phones were Nokia “bricks,” the United States was trying to heal post 9/11, and the song playing on every radio station was “A Thousand Miles” by Vanessa Carlton. Twenty years ago, the worldwide smash was released and with its opening piano sequence – with notes falling like a steady rain – music lovers everywhere were smitten…
Tracee Ellis Ross has had no problem establishing herself as an icon and legend. The daughter of Motown Queen Diana Ross is an actress, singer, comedian, and activist. She is most known for playing Dr. Rainbow Johnson, an anesthesiologist and biracial mother, in the long-running ABC sitcom “Black-ish”…
Emmy Award-winning American journalist Norah O’Donnell has spent more than two decades covering news stories worldwide and conducting stimulating interviews. She is currently the anchor and managing editor of the “CBS Evening News,” anchor of CBS News election specials (including primary, debate, and election nights), and a correspondent for “60 Minutes”…
