Posts Tagged ‘Underwear’
Scrub Donald Faison
September 2nd, 2009 | 
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Name: Donald Faison
Born As: Donald Adeosun Faison
Birth date/place: June 22, 1074 in New York City
Claim to Fame: As “Dr. Christopher Turk” on Scrubs
Trivia: He is best friends with his Scrubs co-star Zach Braff
Faison has played “Dr Christopher Turk” on Scrubs from 2001 until its final season in 2009. Prior to appearing in Scrubs Faison became famous for playing the role of “Murray Lawrence Duvall” in the 1995 film Clueless and the subsequent TV series which ran from 1996-1999. In 2002 and 2004 he won the BET Comedy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series. In addition to his onscreen roles he has done the voice of many animated cartoon characters.
Flo Rida from Florida
Name: Flo rida
Born As: Tramar Dillard
Birth date/place: December 16, 1979 in Miami Gardens, FL
Claim to Fame: His first single Low from his 2008 debut album Mail on Sunday
Interesting Fact: Came up with his rap name because he is from Florida (get it?)
Aside from his debut album Mail On Sunday he released another album in 2009 called R.O.O.T.S. which stands for Route of Overcoming the Struggle.
Smooth Lance Gross
Name: Lance Gross
Born As: Lance Gross
Birth date/place: July 8, 1981 in Oakland, CA
Claim to Fame: As Calvin Payne in Tyler Perry’s House of Payne
Gross has made brief appearance in television shows such as Eve, and The Bernie Mac Show. He appeared, as “Tony Gene” in the 2006 film Changing Blossoms and as “Michael Brown” in Meet the Browns released in 2008. Gross has played the character of “Calvin Payne” on House of Payne from 2007-2009. He won Image Awards for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Comedy in 2008 and 2009.
Pharrell on Fire
Name: Pharrell
Born As: Pharrell Williams
Birth date/place: April 5, 1973 in Virginia Beach, VA
Claim to Fame: With Chad Hugo, the record production duo of the Neptunes
“The Neptunes” created an off-kilter, stripped-down electronic funk sound was very successful for Hip hop, R&B and Pop artists on the late 90s and 2000s Williams released his only solo album titled In My Mind in 2006. He and Chad Hugo received a Grammy in 2004 for Producer of the Year and Best Rap/Sung Collaboration. Williams won another Grammy Award in 2007 for Best Rap Song.
Williams co-founded the clothing brands: Billionaire Boys Club and Ice Cream Footware amd co-designed a series of glasses and jewelry for Louis Vutton.
Trey Songz Doin His Thing
Name: Trey Songz
Born As: Tremaine Aldon Neverson
Birth date/place: November 28,1984 in Petersburb, VA
Songz is a R&B/Hip Hop performer with two studio albums to his credit. I Gotta Make It was released in 2005 and Trey Day in 2007. A new alums titled Ready is scheduled for release in August of 2009.
Songz appeared in Queen of Media, a film released in 2008, in the role of “DJ I.V.”
On stage with DMX
Name: DMX
Born As: Earl Simmons
Birth date/place: December 18, 1970 in Baltimore, MD
DMX started rapping in 1990. At that time his stage name was Dark Man X, which he later shortened to DMX. He has released many album, both studio and compilation, and has sold over 28 million worldwide. His best-selling album was And Then There Was X released in 1999.
In addition to his rapper career, DMX made several films such as: Belly, Exit Wounds Romeo Must Die and Last Hour. In 2002, he wrote his autobiography titled E.A.R.L.: The Autobiography of DMX.
Djimon Hounsou, Black and White
Name: Djimon Hounsou
Born As: Djimon Gaston Hounsou
Birthdate/place: April 24, 1964 in Cotonou, Benin
Claim to Fame: His role as Joseph Cinqué in the Steven Spielberg film Amistad (1997)
Bio: Djimon Hounsou is pronounced Jie-mon Hahn-soo.
Hounsou made his film debut was in the film Without You I’m Nothing. He then had some television parts on Beverly Hills, 90210 and ER and a guest starring role on Alias. He played a larger role in the science fiction film Stargate. He starred in a 2002 Gap commercial directed by Peter Lindbergh. He was nominated for a Golden Globe Award for his role as Cinqué in the 1997 Steven Spielberg film Amistad. He gained further recogntion as Juba, in the 2000 film Gladiator. He was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor, for In America, in 2004, becoming the first black African to be nominated for an Oscar. In 2006, he won the National Board of Review Award for Best Supporting Actor for his performance in Blood Diamond; he received Broadcast Film Critics Association, Screen Actors Guild Award, and Academy Award nominations for this performance. Hounsou became the new Calvin Klein underwear model in 2007. He will be staring in an upcoming film, The Tempest to be released in 2009.
Lickable Model Corey Reese
Name: Corey Reese
Birth date/place: 1980 in Decatur, Georgia
Claim to Fame: Male Model
Reese is a successful modeling career. He has also appeared as “Shanika’s” boyfriend in the 2006 movie Unforgiven Sins: The Case of the Faceless Murders.