Madonna
Date of Birth
16 August 1958, Bay City, Michigan, USA
Height
5' 4?" (1.64 m)
Mini Biography
The remarkable, hyper-ambitious Material Girl who never stops re-inventing herself, Madonna has sold over 300 million records and CDs to adoring fans worldwide. Her film career, however, is another story. Her performances have consistently drawn scathing or laughable reviews from film critics, and the films have usually had tepid, if any, success at the box office. Born Madonna Louise Veronica Ciccone in August 1958 in Bay City, Michigan, she moved to New York in the late 1970s and studied with renowned choreographer Alvin Ailey, joined up with the Patrick Hernandez Revue, formed a pop/dance band called "Breakfast Club" and began working with then boyfriend Stephen Bray on recording several disco-oriented songs. New York producer / DJ Mark Kamins passed her demo tapes to Sire Records in early 1982 and the rest, as they say, is history. The 1980s was Madonna's boom decade, and she dominated the music charts with a succession of multi-million-selling albums, and her musical and fashion influence on young women was felt around the globe.
Madonna first appeared on screen in two low-budget films marketed to a teenage audience: A Certain Sacrifice (1985) and Vision Quest (1985). However, she scored a minor cult hit with Desperately Seeking Susan (1985) starring alongside spunky Rosanna Arquette. Madonna's next effort with then husband Sean Penn, Shanghai Surprise (1986), was savaged by critics, although the resilient star managed to somewhat improve her standing with her next two films, the offbeat Who's That Girl (1987) (although she did receive decidedly mixed reviews, they weren't as negative as those of her previous effort) and the quirky Damon Runyon-inspired Bloodhounds of Broadway (1989). The big-budget and star-filled Dick Tracy (1990) had her playing bad girl "Breathless Mahoney" flirting with Warren Beatty; the film was a big hit, but not as big as anticipated. Taking an earthier role, Madonna was much more entertaining alongside Tom Hanks and Geena Davis in the highly enjoyable A League of Their Own (1992), a story about female baseball players during WWII. However, she again drew the wrath of critics with the boring whodunit Body of Evidence (1993), an obvious (and lame) attempt to cash in on the success of the sexy Sharon Stone thriller Basic Instinct (1992).
Several other minor screen roles followed, then Madonna starred as Eva Per?n in Evita (1996), a fairly well received screen adaptation of the hugely successful Broadway musical. The Material Girl stayed away from the movie cameras for several years, returning to co-star in the lukewarm romantic comedy The Next Best Thing (2000), followed by the painful Swept Away (2002). If those films weren't bad enough, she was woefully miscast as a vampish fencing instructor in the James Bond adventure Die Another Day (2002).
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14th March 2009, 10:03
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29th March 2009, 00:06
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Madonna - Herb Ritts Photoshoot 1985 - 18x
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Madonna - Herb Ritts Shooting 1985 - 18x
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[05/04/09] Madonna @ Costume Institute Gala - x2
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5th July 2009, 06:39
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5th July 2009, 13:07
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1st August 2009, 03:15
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10th August 2009, 04:42
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Madonna - Kees Tabak Photoshoot 1984 - x21
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10th August 2009, 05:13
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Re: Madonna - Kees Tabak Photoshoot 1984 - x21
oh my lord. these were the muthafuckin' days!
man, I miss the 80's. 
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21st August 2009, 18:15
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Madonna - Dazed & Confused Outtakes 2008 by Steven Klein - 16x
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26th August 2009, 17:35
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Madonna - Hard Candy Photoshoot - 19x
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14th September 2009, 16:46
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[09/13/09] Madonna @ 2009 MTV Video Music Awards, New York - 16x
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[09/13/09] Madonna
@ 2009 MTV Video Music Awards, New York - 16x
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1st October 2009, 12:56
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26th October 2009, 01:37
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Madonna - Black & White Photoshoot 1979 - x4
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15th November 2009, 17:00
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Re: Madonna - Dazed & Confused Outtakes 2008 by Steven Klein - 16x
OMG ! Who is that old woman ? 
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15th November 2009, 20:24
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Re: [11/01/08] Madonna @ performs part of her "Sticky & Sweet Tour" x32
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