Game 58 Katherine McPhee vs Charlize Theron

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Game 58 between American Idol runner Up Katherine McPhee and Academy Award winning Actress Charlize Theron. Winner advanced to the Final 4 loser gets # 5 in the tournament. Bios to follow

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Lost to Actress Rachel Weisz in the 1st round 6-5
Beat Academy Award winning Actress Nicole Kidman 2nd round 7-2
Beat Singer Alicia Keys in 3rd round 5-3
Beat Singer Britney Spears 4th round 5-2
Beat Tennis Star Marie Sharpova 5th round 4-2
Beat Actress Angelina Jolie 6th round 4-2

Katherine McPhee Bio

In elementary school, sixth-grader Katharine sang Mariah Carey's Hero even though she was extremely nervous to sing on stage. But she had a good role model, as she would go to the shows her mother starred in, including Showboat and Man of La Mancha. Even though her mother was a voice teacher, Katharine and her sister enrolled in dance classes instead of taking singing lessons. My mom wanted my vocal talent to develop naturally and for me to discover my voice on my own. At 14, Katharine visited New York City with her family and saw her first musicals on Broadway: Chicago and Les Miserables. Katharine never lost the desire to perform, and received encouragement from her teachers at Notre Dame High School. After graduation, she enrolled at Boston Conservatory. Away from family and home, Katharine grew up quickly. She studied acting and dance and on breaks came home to attend the California State Summer School for the Arts. Katharine was in her sophomore year of college when she signed with a small agency. She went out on auditions but didn't find work until she was signed for an MTV pilot. It didn't sell, she says, but all of the auditions and pounding the pavement were good experiences for me. In 2004, Katharine enrolled in the Broadway Theatre Project, a summer arts program in Tampa, Florida, headed up by Ann Reinking. Guest lecturers included Julie Andrews and Ben Vereen. As the calendar turned over to 2005, Katharine made a New Year's resolution to open the trades and audition for the first musical production she found. I opened Backstage West and found an audition for Annie Get Your Gun. She even recognized the director's name because she had sung in his church. Then, the night before the audition, she had a change of heart and decided to go back to school instead. She called the director to let him know she wasn't going to show up for the ensemble audition. He told me to come in anyway, because he hadn't found an Annie yet. It was a real lesson in how we limit ourselves I wasn't even thinking about the lead. Katharine won the role and followed it with a starring role in a musical version of The Ghost and Mrs. Muir. By the summer of 2005, Katharine was in a workshop for a Las Vegas-bound musical featuring songs of the 80s. Friends who were in the show with me kept telling me I should audition for American Idol. Katharine had watched the first two seasons of the series, and at her friends urging, went to the show's website for the first time. She discovered auditions were being held in San Francisco and drove up to the Bay Area with a friend. I had no idea what I was going to sing for my audition, Katharine laughs. Five minutes before I was supposed to sing, my friend asked me which song I was going to perform and I said I don't know. Two minutes to go and he asked me again and I still didn't know! When Katharine found herself in front of American Idol producer Megan Michaels, she sang Whitney Houston's Run to You.Megan was tough, Katharine recalls. She asked me to sing quite a few songs off the top of my head, so I did Come Rain or Come Shine and Bonnie Raitt's I Cant Make You Love Me. I was so nervous I made up my own lyrics. Megan told Katharine she would have to do a better job in the next round when she auditioned for executive producers Nigel Lythgoe and Ken Warwick. Katharine had to wait two days to see Nigel and Ken. She sang Run to You again, and loudly. Nigel told her she was making the eyes bug out of the head of the guy on the sound boom. I thought they weren't going to put me through, she says. But Ken told her she had a chance of doing very well in the competition, and she was through to Simon Cowell, Paula Abdul and Randy Jackson. The three judges sent her to the next round in Hollywood and Katharine was selected as one of the top 24 contestants. America voted her into the top 12, and then kept voting for her week after week until she made it all the way to the show's finale, where she finished as runner-up. Shortly after the fifth season of American Idol was history, Katharine was signed to RCA Records. Her first single, Somewhere Over the Rainbow / My Destiny, debuted at No. 2 on Billboard's Hot Singles Sales chart. On the Hot 100, Katharine became the first Idol singer to begin her chart career with two debuts in the same week, as Rainbow entered at No. 12 while My Destiny bowed at No. 60. Now Katharine is on tour with American Idols Live and is in the process of recording her first album. It's a destiny fulfilled. There was never any doubt about what I wanted to do with my life, she confirms. I always knew I wanted first and foremost to be a singer.

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Defeated in the 1st round Maxim's Hot 100 Winner Lindsay Lohan 11-0
Defeated in the 2nd round Interent Star Tiffany Teen 6-1
Defeated in the 3rd round Pro Golfer Natalie Gulbis 5-2
Loss in the 4th round to Actress Jessica Alba 5-2

Charlize Theron (born August 7, 1975) is an Academy Award winning South African actress and former fashion model. She won an Academy Award for Best Actress for her role in Monster (2004).

She was first featured in 2 Days in the Valley (1996), starring alongside such actors and actresses as Danny Aiello and Teri Hatcher.

Biography

Early life
Theron was born in Benoni, Gauteng, South Africa. Her father, Charles Theron, was a construction company owner of French Huguenot descent; her mother, Gerda, is of German descent and took over her husband's business after his death. Theron's first language is Afrikaans. She is also fluent in English and speaks some Xhosa. In the United States, both in her films and while being interviewed, etc., Theron speaks with a typical American accent and style of speech, leading most people to assume she is American.

"Theron" is a French surname pronounced in Afrikaans as "Tronn," although she has said that she prefers the pronunciation "Thrown."[1] The pronunciation commonly used in the United States involves two syllables, with stress on the first.

Theron grew up as the only child on her parents' farm near Johannesburg (Benoni). At the age of thirteen, Charlize was sent to boarding school and began her studies at the National School Of The Arts in Johannesburg. At fifteen, Theron witnessed the death of her father, an abusive alcoholic; her mother shot him in self-defense when he attacked her. The police laid no charges against her [1]


Career
At the age of 16, Theron traveled to Milan, Italy, on a one-year modeling contract, after winning a local competition. Her contract ended while she was in New York City, and she decided to remain there, attending the Joffrey Ballet School, where she trained as a ballet dancer. A knee injury closed this career path when she was 18.

Unable to dance, she bought a ticket to Los Angeles. After eight months in the city, she was cast in her first film part, a non-speaking role in the direct-to-video film Children of the Corn III. She followed this with larger roles in widely released Hollywood films, and her career skyrocketed in the late 1990s, with box office successes like The Devil's Advocate, The Cider House Rules, and Mighty Joe Young.

The May 1999 issue of Playboy published nude photos of Theron, taken during the early years of her modeling career. Claiming they had been "for private use", Theron ended up suing photographer Guido Argentini.

After appearing in a few notable films, Theron starred as serial killer Aileen Wuornos in the film Monster (2003). Film critic Roger Ebert called it "one of the greatest performances in the history of the cinema",[2] for which Theron won the Best Actress Oscar at the 76th Academy Awards in February 2004, as well as the SAG Award and the Golden Globe Award. She is the first South African to win an Oscar for Best Actress.

Having signed a deal with John Galliano in 2004, Theron replaced Estonian model Tiiu Kuik in the J'ADORE advertisements by Christian Dior; she is the current spokeswoman for Dior perfume. From October 2005 to December 2006 Theron endorsed Raymond Weil watches; in February of 2006 she was sued by them for breach of contract.[3] On September 30, 2005, she received her own bronze star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. In the same year, she starred in the financially unsuccessful science fiction thriller Æon Flux[4] and was given positive reviews. Additionally, she received a Best Actress Golden Globe nomination for her lead performance in the drama North Country. Ms. Magazine honored her for this performance as well with a feature article in its Fall 2005 issue. She had also been nominated for an Oscar as a lead actress for the role, although she did not win; this was her second nomination.

In 2005, Theron also portrayed Rita, Michael Bluth's (Jason Bateman) love interest on the third season of FOX's critically acclaimed sitcom Arrested Development.

She also received Golden Globe and Emmy nominations for her role in the HBO movie The Life and Death of Peter Sellers.


Salary and status
After her Oscar win for Monster, she earned $10,000,000 for both North Country and Aeon Flux. According to The Hollywood Reporter's 2006 list of highest-paid actresses in Hollywood, she ranked 7th, behind Halle Berry, Cameron Diaz, Drew Barrymore, Renée Zellweger, Reese Witherspoon, and Nicole Kidman.[5]


Personal life
Theron dated the lead singer of Third Eye Blind, Stephan Jenkins, from January 1998 to July 2001. They broke up after Jenkins failed to take her requests of marriage seriously.[2] Theron now resides in Los Angeles with her long-time boyfriend, Stuart Townsend, with whom she starred in the 2004 film Head in the Clouds, as well as in the 2002 film Trapped; she has said that they will not marry until same-sex couples are able to have their marriages recognized. In October 2005, her mother, Gerda, was married in California. The media thought that Charlize was the one getting married (to Townsend) and the paparazzi got as close as they could for the photos.

While filming Æon Flux in Berlin, Germany, Theron had surgery on a herniated disc in her neck, the result of an injury incurred on the set during a stunt.

In May 2006, Maxim magazine named Theron #25 in its annual Hot 100 issue.[6]

Theron is also involved in women's rights organizations.[7]

In 2006, Theron won GLAAD's Vanguard Award at the GLAAD Media Awards for increasing "visibility and understanding in the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender community."

Theron is a supporter of animal rights and active member of PETA. She recently appeared in a PETA ad for their anti-fur campaign. [8]


Selected filmography
Year Title Role Other notes
1996
2 Days in the Valley Helga Svelgen
That Thing You Do Tina Powers
1997
Trial and Error Billie Tyler
The Devil's Advocate Mary Ann Lomax
1998
Celebrity Supermodel
Mighty Joe Young Jill Young
1999
The Astronaut's Wife Jillian Armacost
The Cider House Rules Candy Kendall
2000
Reindeer Games Ashley Mercer
The Yards Erica Stoltz
The Legend of Bagger Vance Adele Invergordon
Men of Honor Gwen Sunday
2001
Sweet November Sara Deever Razzie Award Nomination for Worst Actress
The Curse of the Jade Scorpion Laura Kensington
2002
Trapped Karen Jennings
Waking Up in Reno Candy Kirkendall
2003
The Italian Job Stella Bridger
Monster Aileen Wuornos Academy Award for Best Actress
2004
The Life and Death of Peter Sellers Britt Ekland
Head in the Clouds Gilda Bessé limited release
2005
North Country Josey Aimes Academy Award Nomination for Best Actress
Æon Flux Æon Flux
2007
Ice at the Bottom of the World Pre-production
Ferris Wheel (film) Post-Production
Jinx In talks
2008 The Brazilian Job Stella Bridger Pre-production
Awards
Preceded by
Nicole Kidman
for The Hours Academy Award for Best Actress
2003
for Monster Succeeded by
Hilary Swank
for Million Dollar Baby
Preceded by
Nicole Kidman
for The Hours Golden Globe - Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture - Drama
for Monster
2004 Succeeded by
Hilary Swank
for Million Dollar Baby


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