Adrianne Palicki : A New Wonder Woman

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Adrianne Palicki was born May 6, 1983 in Toledo, Ohio, to Nancy and Jeff Palicki, they are a Polish descent.  She has an older brother, Eric, who is a comic book writer who influenced Adrianne's own interest in comics. She graduated from Whitmer High School in Toledo in 2001. She played basketball and ran track in high school and was named runner-up for homecoming queen.

After graduating from high school, Palicki packed up and moved to New York City to participate in a modeling and talent competition. Three months later, she decided to devote herself 100% to her dream of making it as an actress, and she subsequently moved to Los Angeles. She worked at Togo’s as a sandwich maker when she first got to Los Angeles. She quickly landed roles in a pair of 2003 indies, with her big break coming the very next year after she successfully auditioned for a starring role in a Lost in Space pilot directed by John Woo. Though the show wasn’t picked up, Palicki had managed to get her foot in the door and subsequently spent the next few months popping up in a variety of popular shows (including Smallville, Quintuplets and CSI: Crime Scene Investigation).

Palicki’s willingness to pose for a risqué photo shoot has only increased our esteem for her, and it’s certainly not surprising to note that she was ranked No. 79 on Maxim’s 2007 Hot 100 list (ahead of such natural beauties as Abbie Cornish, Emmanuelle Chriqui and Isla Fisher).  She has a tattoo of her parents’ names – Jeff & Nancy on her arm.

She appeared in the Aquaman-based WB pilot Aquaman as the evil Siren, but the pilot was not picked up for series by the CW network, a result of The WB and UPN network merger, which occurred while the pilot was being filmed.

Other television credits include Smallville as Kara in the season 3 finale (“Covenant”). Palicki also starred in Supernatural as Jessica Moore, Sam Winchester’s doomed girlfriend, killed by the demon, in its pilot episode. The character reappears in the Supernatural season 2 episode, “What is and What Should Never Be”. Palicki also appeared as Judy Robinson in John Woo’s unsold pilot, The Robinsons: Lost in Space. Palicki will be starring in Legion opposite Dennis Quaid in 2010. Palicki made an appearance in the music video by Will.i.am called “We Are The Ones” in support of 2008 presidential hopeful Barack Obama. 

Most people credit her breakthrough performance as the ill fated girlfriend of Sam Winchester in the hit CW show “Supernatural”, however most remember her very small role in the Smallville finale, “The Covenant”.

In February 2011, Adrianne Palicki landed the role of Wonder Woman -- and her true identity, corporate powerhouse Diana Prince -- in a Wonder Woman pilot for NBC.

Given that the Wonder Woman pilot (directed by Jeffrey Reiner, who also directed Friday Night Lights) revolves mostly around the superhero aspect of the character’s life, it’s a good thing Palicki recently had some practice with the action-packed Legion in 2010. She will also star in the upcoming action film remake Red Dawn before taking on her role as Wonder Woman.

Palicki will have also a heavy job in her arms as she will be playing not only wonder Woman but also the alter ego billionaire CEO Diana Themyscira AND Diana’s mousy assistant Diana Prince. That’s right three roles in one show!

It seems Kelly had her in mind for some time, as Palicki was the only one who screen tested for the super heroine role.  According to Deadline.com:

“Palicki won the role of Wonder Woman, closely associated with Lynda Carter, who played Diana Prince in the 1970s series, in a decisive manner – she was the only actress invited to test for it.”

Upon hearing the news, classic Wonder Woman Lynda Carter congratulated her for getting the job. “Congratulations Adrianne!” tweeted Carter yesterday.

What do you think of this casting choice?

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Kirsten Dunst named Best Actress 2011 at Cannes Film Festival

Kirsten Dunst won The Best Actress Award (French: Prix d'interprétation féminine) is an award presented at the Cannes Film Festival on Sunday for her role in "Melancholia," directed by Denmark's Lars Von Trier who was thrown out of the film festival for joking he was a Nazi and Hitler sympathiser.

Melancholia, a psychological drama inside a disaster movie, is billed as a “beautiful movie about the end of the world” stars Kirsten Dunst, Kiefer Sutherland and Charlotte Gainsbourg star together with Alexander Skarsgård, Charlotte Rampling, John Hurt, Stellan Skarsgård, Udo Kier and Jesper Christensen. It is Von Trier‘s first feature since the controversial Antichrist, which also featured Gainsbourg. 

The trailer sets the scene: Kirsten Dunst‘s character Justine is celebrating her wedding to Michael (Alexander Skarsgard) at the luxurious home of sister Claire (Gainsbourg) and brother-in-law John (Sutherland). Meanwhile the planet Melancholia is heading towards earth, setting off a distructive chain of physical and psycological events.

After receiving the Prize from Edgar Ramirez, Dunst exclaimed: “What a week! My thanks to the Jury, this is a real honour. I’m grateful to the Festival for keeping the film in Competition. And I’m grateful to Lars Von Trier for letting me play the role with such freedom.”

The 55-year-old film maker, a winner of the top Palme d'Or award in 2000 for "Dancer in the Dark," has been banned from coming within 100 metres of the festival site where the awards ceremony brought a curtain down on the May 11-22 event.

Biography :

Kirsten Caroline Dunst was born April 30, 1982 in Point Pleasant, New Jersey, to Inez (née Rupprecht), her mother was an artist and one-time gallery owner and Swedish descent. and Klaus Dunst, her father worked as a medical services executive and German descent. She has one younger brother, Christian. 

Until the age of six, Dunst lived in New Jersey, where she attended Ranney School. In 1991, she moved with her mother and younger brother to Los Angeles, California. In 1995, her mother filed for divorce. The following year Dunst began attending Notre Dame, a private Catholic high school in Los Angeles.

After graduating from Notre Dame, Dunst continued the acting career that she had begun at the age of eight. As a teenager, she found it difficult to deal with her rising fame, and for a period she blamed her mother for pushing her into acting as a child. However, she later expressed that her mother "always had the best intentions".

When asked if she had any regrets about the way she spent her childhood, Dunst said: "Well, it's not a natural way to grow up, but it's the way I grew up and I wouldn't change it. I have my stuff to work out ... I don't think anybody can sit around and say: 'My life is more screwed up than yours.' Everybody has their issues

Dunst began her career when she was three years old as a child fashion model in television commercials.She was signed with Ford Models and Elite Model Management. At the age of eight years old she made her film debut in a minor role in Woody Allen's Oedipus Wrecks, a short film that was released as one-third of the anthology New York Stories (1989). Soon after, she landed a small part in The Bonfire of the Vanities (1990), as Tom Hanks's daughter. In 1993, Dunst played Hedril in "Dark Page," the seventh episode of the seventh season of Star Trek: The Next Generation.

At the age of 12, Dunst gained widespread recognition playing the role of vampire Claudia in Interview with the Vampire (1994), a performance for which she was nominated for a Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress. The same year she appeared in Little Women, to further acclaim.

Dunst achieved international fame as a result of her portrayal of Mary Jane Watson in the Spider-Man trilogy (2002–07). Since then her films have included the romantic comedy Wimbledon (2004), the romantic science fiction Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004) and Cameron Crowe's tragicomedy Elizabethtown (2005). She played the title role in Sofia Coppola's Marie Antoinette (2006) and starred in the comedy How to Lose Friends & Alienate People (2008). 

In 2001, Dunst made her singing debut in the film Get Over It, in which she performed two songs. She also sang the jazz song "After You've Gone" for the end credits of the film The Cat's Meow (2001)

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