Charlize Theron

Charlize Theron was born in Benoni, South Africa, on the 7th of August 1975. Her father Charles worked on the family's road-construction business, and also had a farm which mother Gerda took over after Charles' death in 1990. Her hard working parents instilled genuine family values in her. At the age of 6, young Charlize began studying ballet, a pursuit that would command her attention throughout her adolescent years. Whenever she was not dancing, she devoted her free time to a consuming passion for American movies. Charlize had to use dance and her imagination to entertain herself when not tending for the farm animals. After dancing in Johannesburg, she began modeling in Milan, Italy by the time she was 16.

After tiring of modeling, Theron returned to her first love, dancing, which resulted in a move to New York to dance with the Joffrey Ballet. Unfortunately, her career was halted by a knee injury, which led Theron at her mother's behest to travel to Los Angeles to try her luck with acting.

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Chandra North

A native of Dallas, Texas, Chandra North was born on 31 July, 1973. Chandra had one aspiration when growing up in Dallas - Ballet. Like many a young girls dream, Chandra wanted to be a ballerina. Every spare moment in her young life was devoted to ballet, such was her determination.

The story of how she started a career as a professional model is somewhat intertwined with her desire to to be a ballerina. It all started when she was on "summer vacation" sun bathing near the swimming pool at Southern Methodist University when another model approached her.

In essence, he believed she had what it takes to be a top model and talked her into modelling. He even helped her off to a good start by getting her stints in newspapers ads and department-store catalogs.

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Catherine Zeta Jones

Catherine Zeta-Jones was born in Mumbles, a small fishing village near Swansea, Wales on 25th September 1969. Her name stems from two different grandmothers; one grandmother is named Catherine, while the other is Zeta, named after a ship Catherine's grandfather sailed on. Her Irish mother was a seamstress and her Welsh father managed a candy factory. She became an accomplished singer and dancer at a young age due to her involvement with the local Catholic's congregation amateur dramatic society. At the age of 14 she went to London to audition for a part in the musical Bugsy Malone and there they recruited her for the touring production of the Pajama Game and took her off to London. At 17, Zeta-Jones nabbed the lead role in 42nd Street and once the show closed, Zeta-Jones traveled to France, where she received the lead role in French director Phillippe De Broca's Scheherazade, her feature film debut.

In 1991 Catherine returned to England having been offered a role as Mariette Larkin in the new Yorkshire TV series The Darling Buds of May, an adaption of the H.E. Bates novel. The series also starred David Jason and was an immediate hit, turning Catherine into a U.K. superstar. Zeta-Jones became a tabloid favorite, constantly hounded by the paparazzi. Once the intrusiveness of the media became unbearable, she decided to take her life and career across the Atlantic.

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Catherine Zeta Jones

Catherine Zeta-Jones was born in Mumbles, a small fishing village near Swansea, Wales on 25th September 1969. Her name stems from two different grandmothers; one grandmother is named Catherine, while the other is Zeta, named after a ship Catherine's grandfather sailed on. Her Irish mother was a seamstress and her Welsh father managed a candy factory. She became an accomplished singer and dancer at a young age due to her involvement with the local Catholic's congregation amateur dramatic society. At the age of 14 she went to London to audition for a part in the musical Bugsy Malone and there they recruited her for the touring production of the Pajama Game and took her off to London. At 17, Zeta-Jones nabbed the lead role in 42nd Street and once the show closed, Zeta-Jones traveled to France, where she received the lead role in French director Phillippe De Broca's Scheherazade, her feature film debut.

In 1991 Catherine returned to England having been offered a role as Mariette Larkin in the new Yorkshire TV series The Darling Buds of May, an adaption of the H.E. Bates novel. The series also starred David Jason and was an immediate hit, turning Catherine into a U.K. superstar. Zeta-Jones became a tabloid favorite, constantly hounded by the paparazzi. Once the intrusiveness of the media became unbearable, she decided to take her life and career across the Atlantic.

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