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Olivia’s been Wilde about acting since the age of two. That’s how old Olivia Wilde was when she caught the acting bug.

The poor girl didn’t stand a chance. The bug spread, eventually turning Olivia into the butt-kicking artificially intelligent life form known as Quorra in 2010’s Tron: Legacy (in which she starred opposite Tabs).

Born Olivia Jane Cockburn on March 10, 1984 in New York City, she took Wilde as her stage name while in high school, borrowing it, she’s said, from Irish author Oscar Wilde to honor the many writers in her family. Journalists, really. Her mother, Leslie Cockburn, is a 60 Minutes producer and journalist. Her father, Andrew Cockburn, who was born in London, England, and raised in Ireland, is also a journalist, as are two of her uncles. From them, she’s said, she inherited a “strong journalistic streak” which made her “really critical and analytical.”

She landed her first major recurring acting role playing Alex Kelly on The O.C. from 2004-2005, and now has a recurring role on House as Dr. Remy “Thirteen” Hadley. Wilde told Star magazine how she sometimes takes cues from her character even when she’s not working, saying, “I’m now convinced that I’m a doctor. I mean, if someone says they have a pain, I’m like, ‘Well, that’s your spleen.'”

When she isn’t busy taking the No. 1 spot on Maxim magazine’s Hot 100, she’s busy acting. Very busy. She has four movies coming out this year — Cowboys & Aliens (YES!), The Change-Up (starring Ryan Reynolds and Jason Bateman), In Time (sounds pretty neat, sci-fi, starring Justin Timberlake and Amanda Seyfried) and Butter.

Even though she’s seen sporting dark hair most of the time, Olivia’s actually a natural blonde. “I’m a natural blonde,” she’s said, “but I feel like a brunette.”

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Your friendly neighborhood beauty addict,

Karen

P.S. Got any plans this weekend? I just found out that the baby shower I was supposed to go to tomorrow got postponed to a later date, so I’m probably just gonna do some cleaning, go grocery shopping and then head to the pool for a while to veg with some magazines. Whatever you’ve got going on, I hope you have some fun. 🙂

Born Milena “Mila” Kunis, on August 14, 1983 in the former Soviet Union, Mila’s family moved to America when she was seven in search of a better life.

Not a native English speaker, it wasn’t easy at first, adjusting to life in a new place. “I blocked out second grade,” she once said. “I didn’t understand the culture. I didn’t understand the people. I didn’t understand the language. My first sentence of my essay to get into college was like, ‘Imagine being blind and deaf at age seven.’ And that’s kind of what it felt like moving to the States.”

But it didn’t take long for Mila to find her way. Her father, a mechanical engineer, and mother, a physics teacher, had moved the family to Los Angeles, and by 12 Mila was getting small acting parts in TV shows (her first was an episode of Baywatch). Her big break came in 1998 when she was cast as Jackie Burkhart in the Fox sitcom That ’70s Show, and the rest, as they say, is history. Her new movie, Friends with Benefits, starring Justin Timberlake, opens July 22.

The girl’s got fab hair, fo’ sho’. And she knows it, too. “Blondes definitely do not have more fun,” she says. “Trust me.”

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Your friendly neighborhood beauty addict,

Karen

P.S. Oh, yeah. 🙂 Happy hump day!

There’s something about…Cameron. Cameron Michelle Diaz (born August 30, 1972) grew up, as she puts it, “in Southern California on the beach, basically.” She wasn’t born into the entertainment business — her father worked more than 20 years maintaining and supporting oil wells, and her mother worked as an import-export agent — but she was well on her way into it by the age of 16, when she began her career as a fashion model, contracting with modeling agency Elite Model Management.

By 17, she was on the cover of Seventeen (here’s the cover); by 21, she was starring in movies (her first was The Mask in 1994).

Since then she’s either starred in or voiced (in Shrek) more than 30 films, like Vanilla Sky, one of my favorites of hers (she played that psycho), and In Her Shoes (LOVE!), opposite Toni Collette.

If you’re ever in the mood for a fun, physical comedy, check out Knight and Day. Not because I think it’s an Oscar-caliber movie, mind you, but because I think it’s just a lot of fun.

I’ve always liked her casually sexy approach to hair. It’s very easy, very California girl (she’s an avid surfer), with mostly unstructured styles. It seems to suit her well.

Right now she’s starring in Bad Teacher, which I’m thinking about seeing tomorrow night (have you seen it yet?).

Lawd knows I had a few of those! 🙂

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Your friendly neighborhood beauty addict,

Karen

A natural. That’s what they’re calling 20-year-old Jennifer Lawrence (born August 15, 1990), the lucky young lady picked to play Katniss Everdeen in The Hunger Games movie due out next March (CAN’T WAIT!). Despite no formal training — not one drama class or acting lesson — Jennifer earned an Academy Award nomination for the lead role in last year’s Winter’s Bone. The award eventually went to Natalie Portman for Black Swan, but Jennifer picked up quite a few new fans. And roles. She’s also playing the young Mystique in the upcoming X-Men: First Class, opening June 3 (yup, next week!).

Born and raised in Louisville, Kentucky, Jennifer somehow managed to convince her parents to take her to New York City to find a talent agent when she was just 14. With little more than a few church plays under her belt, she was already sure about her future career.

I was surprised by how many different ways she’s worn her hair. For someone so young, she’s already worn it DOZENS of different ways, including this one here…

Jennifer Lawrence as Katniss Everdeen in The Hunger Games movie, set to be released in March 2012 🙂

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Your friendly neighborhood beauty addict,

Karen