Maria Ozawa

Maria Ozawa was born January 8, 1986 in Hokkaido, Japan. Her mother is Japanese and her father is French-Canadian. Since she always attended an international school, she claims that her English reading and writing ability is better than her Japanese. While at school, Ozawa played hockey every day, and often went to karaoke after class. She says she became sexually active at the age of 13, and learned the "48 sexual positions" from a book she bought herself.

Who used the name Miyabi early in her career, is a Japanese adult video (AV) actress known in Japan as an AV idol. Ozawa enjoys playing video games, and owns a pink Nintendo DS Lite, and a pink PlayStation 2 console. She has been fairly open about her private life granting several interviews.

Ozawa first became familiar with Adult Videos (AV) by watching sex tapes that belonged to a friend's brother. Unlike most AV actresses, Ozawa was not scouted. Instead, she was introduced to the AV industry through a friend appearing in AVs. She began by modeling as Miyabi for the pornographic site Shirouto-Teien.com in June 2005, which resulted in several sets of photographs and a short hardcore gonzo video released in CD-R and DVD-R formats.

Besides adult videos, she has appeared in V-Cinema films, a photobook and several glamour ("gravure") videos. In 2007, she played the character Anita on the popular Japanese TV drama Tokumei Kakarichō Tadano Hitoshi on TV Asahi. In addition, Ozawa was on a 2007 episode of the Japanese variety show Megami no hatena ("The Goddess of What Is That") on Nihon TV as part of a series with AV actresses telling why they went into AV work. She has also appeared on Japanese MTV with the hip hop artist SEAMO and in the 2007 music video Summer Time in the D.S.C. with the Yokohama hip hop group DS455. (source: wikipedia)

Shahrukh Khan

Shahrukh Khan was born November 2, 1965 in New Delhi, India. Khan is a muslim. Khan is an Indian film actor and a prominent Bollywood figure, as well as a film producer and television host. Khan began his career appearing in several television serials in the late 1980s. He made his film debut in Deewana (1992). Since then, he has been part of numerous commercially successful films and has earned critical acclaim for many of his performances. Khan has won fourteen Filmfare Awards for his work in Indian films, eight of which are in the Best Actor category (a record). In 2005, the Government of India honoured him with the Padma Shri for his contributions towards Indian Cinema.

His father, Taj Mohammed Khan, was an Indian independence activist from Peshawar, British India. According to Khan, his paternal grandfather was originally from Afghanistan. His mother, Lateef Fatima, was the adopted daughter of Major General Shah Nawaz Khan of the Janjua Rajput clan, who served as a General in the Indian National Army of Subash Chandra Bose. Khan's father came to New Delhi from Qissa Khawani Bazaar in Peshawar before the partition of India, while his mother's family came from Rawalpindi, British India. Khan has an elder sister named Shehnaz.

Khan's films such as Dilwale Dulhaniya Le Jayenge (1995), Kuch Kuch Hota Hai (1998), Chak De India (2007), Om Shanti Om (2007) and Rab Ne Bana Di Jodi (2008) remain some of Bollywood's biggest hits, while films like Kabhi Khushi Kabhie Gham (2001), Kal Ho Naa Ho (2003), Veer-Zaara (2004), Kabhi Alvida Naa Kehna (2006) and My Name Is Khan (2010) have been top-grossing Indian productions in the overseas markets, making him one of the most successful actors of India. Since 2000, Khan branched out into film production and television presenting as well. He is the founder/owner of two production companies, Dreamz Unlimited and Red Chillies Entertainment. Globally, Khan is considered to be one of the biggest movie stars, with a fan following numbering in the billions and a net worth estimated at over Indian Rupee symbol.svg2,500 crore (US$555 million). In 2008, Newsweek named him one of the 50 most powerful people in the world. source: wikipedia

Jet Li

Jet Li (Li Lian Jie) was born April 26, 1963, is a Chinese martial artist, actor, film producer, wushu champion, and international film star who was born in Beijing, People's Republic of China, and has taken up Singaporean citizenship in 2009. the youngest of two boys and two girls. His father died when he was two years old, leaving the family struggling.

Li is a practitioner of Tibetan Buddhism. His master is Lho Kunsang of the Drikung Kagyu lineage of the Kagyu school. Li as a Buddhist believes that the difficulties of everyday life can be overcome with the help of religious philosophies. He thinks that fame is not something he can control; therefore, he does not care about it.

According to Li, everything he has ever wanted to tell the world can be found in three of his films: the message of Hero is that the suffering of one person can never be as significant as the suffering of a nation; Unleashed shows that violence is never a solution and Fearless tells that the biggest enemy of a person is himself. Li thinks that the greatest weapon is a smile and the largest power is love.

Li's first role in a Hollywood film was as a villain in Lethal Weapon 4 (1998), but his first Hollywood film leading role was in Romeo Must Die (2000). He has gone on to star in many Hollywood action films, most recently co-starring in The Expendables (2010) with Sylvester Stallone, in The Forbidden Kingdom (2008) with Jackie Chan, and as the title character villain in The Mummy: Tomb Of The Dragon Emperor (2008) opposite Brendan Fraser. He also appeared in the Hong Kong film Ocean Heaven (2010), directed and written by Xue Xiaolu.

Vivian Hsu

Vivian Hsu born March 19, 1975 in Taichung, Taiwan is a Taiwanese singer, actress, and model who has gained remarkable popularity in East Asia, mainly in Taiwan and Japan.

vivian Hsu is a second of three children, Hsu was born to a Taiwanese father and Tayal -Taiwanese mother as Hsu Su-chuan, and used this name until she began her modeling career. Her parents divorced when she was a young child. She attended Taipei Jianxing Elementary School and Taipei Shulinguo Junior High School.

where she made her first appearance in 1995 in Japan and has become a highly-recognized celebrity with her countless appearances in media during the late 1990s.

Hsu's career in entertainment industry started after winning first place in a "Talented Beautiful Girl" contest held by Taiwan's CTS in 1990. At that point, she was working by delivering food on her bicycle, and her customers began to recognise her from her television appearances. The same year she joined a musical trio named "Girls' Team". They released two albums, in 1991 and 1992, then broke up. Following this, Hsu started modeling.

As a model, she posed in two photo books titled Angel and Venus. Hsu's success in modeling achieved its zenith in July 1996 when she was featured on the cover of two Asian-edition Penthouse magazines (the Japanese edition, and the comparatively low-distribution Hong Kong edition). Like the photobooks, both these items have become very sought after by collectors and fans.

Stephen Chow

Stephen Chow (Chau Sing Chi) was born 22 June 1962 in Hong Kong, is a Hong Kong actor, comedian, screenwriter, film director and producer.

Awards won

• Hong Kong Film Critics Society Awards
  1995: Best Actor for A Chinese Odyssey Part One: Pandora's Box
• Asia Pacific Film Festival
  1999: Best Actor for Justice, My Foot
• Golden Bauhinia Awards
  2002: Best Director for Shaolin Soccer
• Hong Kong Film Awards
  2002: Best Picture, Best Actor, Best Director for Shaolin Soccer,2003: Best Picture for Kung Fu Hustle
• Blue Ribbon Awards
  2003: Best Foreign Language Film for Shaolin Soccer
• Golden Horse Awards
  2005: Best Picture, Best Director for Kung Fu Hustle
• Amsterdam Fantastic Film Festival
  2005: Silver Scream Award for Kung Fu Hustle
• Golden Globes Award
  2006: nomination: Best Foreign Language Film for Kung Fu Hustle

Stephen Chow began as a temporary actor for TVB. He entered TVB in early 1980s, and was trained there, although he had few opportunities to appear in films. Chow graduated from TVB's acting classes in 1982. Chow began to find some success with the children programme 430 Space Shuttle , which he co-hosted with Tony Leung Chiu-Wai.

In 1987, Chow entered into the movie industry through the film Final Justice, which won him the Taiwan Golden Horse Award for Best Supporting Actor.

Chow often casts relatively new young actresses to play opposite him, especially as romantic leads, and many of these actresses have gone on to have successful film or music careers of their own. These actresses are collectively called the "Sing girls", and include Karen Mok, Vicki Zhao, Sharla Cheung, Athena Chu, Michelle Reis, Christy Chung, Gigi Leung, Cecilia Cheung, Huang Shengyi, and Zhang Yuqi.