Miss America 2009 Katie Stam

Katie R. Stam (b. July 1986) is a beauty queen from Seymour, Indiana who at 22 won the Miss America 2009 contest.

Growing up, Stam was a 4-H member and showed dairy cattle at the Jackson County Fair. She graduated from Seymour High School and is currently a senior at the University of Indianapolis studying communications.. She is a member of Immanuel Lutheran Church, Seymour, Indiana, where her mother teaches 5th grade at the Lutheran elementary school.

Stam entered and won her first pageant at the age of 15. After winning the Teen Jackson County title she advanced to the Miss Kentuckiana Pageant. She won the overall Miss Kentuckiana title (a title won by several successful pageant winners) and advanced and won the national pageant and edging out first runner-up, Amber Seyer, who went on to compete in Miss Teen USA and Miss USA. According to Pageant.net, Stam made history as the first Hoosier to win a triple crown in the same pageant system starting at the local, state, and national levels.

She returned to the local level in 2005 and won the title Jackson County Jr. Miss, taking home more than $9,000.00 in college scholarships. Following in the footsteps of one of her predecessors, Deven Waymen, Stam became the second young woman from Jackson County to win the Indiana Jr. Miss title and advance to the last televised America's Jr. Miss Scholarhip Program. Stam finished the competition as 2nd runner-up, securing another $20,000 in college scholarships.

In November 2007 she won the local Miss Duneland title (Michigan City, Indiana). She competed in the Miss Indiana pageant for the first time, in June 2008. At the conclusion of the final competition was crowned Miss Indiana.For her state talent she performed "Art is Calling Me".

Stam went on to represent Indiana in the Miss America 2009 pageant competition.

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Monet Mazur

Monet Happy Mazur (born April 17, 1976) is an American actress, model and musician.

Personal life

Mazur was born in Los Angeles, California, the daughter of a former fashion model mother and Ruby Mazur, an illustrator who has worked in the record industry and at one time was the manager of Billy Joel. Mazur has four siblings: Nicholas, Cézanne, Matisse and Miro. Her cousin is Epic Mazur, co-frontman of the Hollywood-based band Crazy Town. Mazur is of Jewish ancestry on her father's side.

In the summer of 2005, Mazur gave birth to son Preston Daniel de Rakoff, her first child with husband Alex de Rakoff, whom she married in April 2005. She previously dated actor Adrien Brody, Ashton Kutcher, and guitarist Dave Navarro.

Career

Mazur began modeling and acting in her teens. One of her most well-known ad campaigns are the three TV commercials for Gap she did with director Gianni Oconnor in 2008: "Everybody in Cords", "Everybody in Leather" and "Everybody in Vests". She has appeared in a number of widely released films in the past several years, including Monster-In-Law and Just Married. She has also appeared in several television shows, including CSI: Miami, Cold Case, Jack & Jill, Strange World and Party of Five.

Melissa Theuriau

Mélissa Theuriau (born 18 July 1978, Échirolles, Isère, France) is a French journalist and news anchor for M6.

Broadcasting career
Theuriau obtained a DUT in News-Communication from the Technical University (Institut universitaire de technologie or IUT) Pierre Mendès-France in Grenoble, and later a Master's degree in Audiovisual Journalism from the Institute of Communication and Media (ICM) at Échirolles.

Theuriau was a reporter at Match TV in 2002. Since 2003, she has been a reporter and anchor for La Chaîne Info, where she became better known to the French general public. She made her breakthrough as a newscaster and travel show host for LCI, the news channel and for TF1. Her programs were LCI Matin (LCI Morning), the 6:40 news on LCI and TF1 from Monday to Thursday and the Voyages travel show on Wednesdays at 13:55 on LCI.

In May 2006, she surprised the management of TF1 by refusing the offer to be the anchorwoman of the weekend evening news of TF1, as a summer replacement for sitting anchorwoman Claire Chazal. In June 2006, M6, another French television channel, announced her arrival for September as editor-in-chief and presenter of Zone interdite, a weekly magazine show featuring investigative reporting. She also presents Un jour, une Photo and Deux, trois jours avec moi on the French TV channel Paris Première, in partnership with Paris Match. Un jour, une photo features stories behind iconic and historic photos. Deux, trois jours avec moi is a weekly travel programme in which an invited guest reveals more about him or herself during a trip.

Since September 2006, she has been a writer in chief and anchor of the TV magazine Zone interdite ("Forbidden Zone") on Métropole 6.

In March 2007, she launched, with five other journalists (Claire Chazal, Marie Drucker, Laurence Ferrari, Béatrice Schönberg, and Tina Kieffer), the organization “La Rose”, which works with UNICEF to help educate girls.

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Laura Vandervoort

Laura Dianne Vandervoort was born September 22, 1984 in Toronto, Canada. She was involved in several sports (Soccer, Karate, Basketball, Tennis, Gymnastics, Baseball…etc.) Entering karate at age 7, she earned a second degree Black Belt from Northern Karate Schools by the age of 16.

Laura began acting at the age of 13. She had always enjoyed entertaining, putting on shows for family and friends, however what triggered her interest in the arts was a film called My Girl. She received the movie from her aunt at a very young age and after watching realized that acting was what was inside her, and this became her focus.

After taking several classes and doing background work on Canadian shows such as Road to Avonlea and Harriet the Spy she got her first speaking role in Canadian children's series Goosebumps (3 Episodes) and Are You Afraid of the Dark?
Laura Vandervoort at Wizard World Texas 2007.

After commercials and guest stars (Mutant X, Prom Queen, Twice in a Lifetime, Doc, Sue Thomas: F.B.Eye, Troubled Waters, The Dresden Files) and a few Disney movies of the week (Mom's Got a Date with a Vampire & Alley Cats Strike) Laura at age 19 landed a lead role as “Sadie Harrison” on the CTV TV series Instant Star. Instant Star ran for 4 seasons.

In 2006 Laura shot her first feature titled The Lookout with Jeff Daniels, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Mathew Goode and Isla Fisher. It was the directorial debut of screenwriter Scott Frank. Several other TV appearances such as CSI: Crime Scene Investigation led Laura into the hands of the CW network, where she landed the coveted role of Clark Kent's Kryptonian cousin "Kara Kent" (the woman destined to become Supergirl) on the hit CW series Smallville. She was a regular in season seven but was written off in the season finale. She appeared in the "Bloodline" episode for Season 8. No word on whether or not she will appear on any other episodes. [2]

Following the CW and Smallville, Laura then shot the sequel to the feature film Into The Blue titled Into the Blue 2: The Reef. In this film will be Laura alongside Chris Carmack (The O.C) and Marsha Thomason (Las Vegas, Lost). Following The Reef, Laura went directly into filming an independent production titled The Jazzman, which also starred Canadians stars Michael Ironside and Corey Sevier.

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Audrina Patridge

Audrina Cathleen Patridge (born May 9, 1985) is an American reality television and actress personality, best known as one of the cast members, along with Lauren Conrad, Heidi Montag and Whitney Port, on the MTV reality show The Hills.

Reality TV

After moving to LA, Audrina moved into Hillside Villas and got a job at Quixote Studios as a receptionist. In 2006, Laguna Beach stars Lauren Conrad and Heidi Montag moved into her building to shoot their MTV show The Hills. Audrina quickly became friends with both girls and joined the cast of the smash hit reality series.

Acting

Patridge launched her acting career when she scored the lead role of Kelsea in Into the Blue 2: The Reef, the sequel to the 2005 hit Jessica Alba movie Into the Blue. The movie will be released straight to DVD on April 21, 2009.

It was announced in May 2008 that Patridge had been cast in the 2009 thriller The Silent Killer, the film is scheduled to begin production in March 2009.

In August 2008 she landed another lead film role alongside Rumer Willis in the remake of the 1983 horror film, The House on Sorority Row, now renamed Sorority Row; production began in October 2008 and ended in November.

In September 2008 Patridge made a cameo appearance in the season premiere of the short-lived 2008 sitcom Do Not Disturb.

Personal life

Audrina Patridge grew up in Yorba Linda in Orange County. She briefly dated Shannon Leto, from the band 30 Seconds to Mars, as well as Brian Drolet, a supporting cast-member on The Hills. She is currently dating Philip Bowman the lead singer of "Education". There are talks of marriage but a formal confirmation of any rumors has yet to surface.. In August 2008, Patridge purchased a house in Los Angeles' Hollywood Dell neighborhood.

In March 2008, nude pictures of Audrina were leaked onto the internet. "They were taken when I was just out of high school and beginning to model," Patridge has explained. "I was naive, overly trusting of people and inexperienced."

On February 22, 2009, Patridge's home was robbed by two unmasked thieves. Patridge posted footage taken from her surveillance camera on her personal website , in hopes of the public helping her find the two thieves that stole numerous personal items from her Hollywood Dell mansion.

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