Madonna

Madonna was born on Aug 16, 1958 in USA. Madonna's big-screen debut came with A Certain Sacrifice directed by Stephen Jon Lewicki in 1979. Madonna is known for A League of Their Own directed by Penny Marshall, Tom Hanks stars as Jimmy Dugan and Geena Davis as Dottie Hinson - Catcher. Madonna has got 50 awards and 117 nominations so far. The most recent award Madonna achieved is CinEuphoria Awards. The upcoming new movie Madonna plays is Arthur and the Invisibles which will be released on Jan 12, 2007.

The remarkable, hyper-ambitious Material Girl who never stops reinventing herself, Madonna is a seven-time Grammy Award-winner who has sold over three hundred 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 Ciccone in August 1958 in Bay City, Michigan, she moved to New York in 1978 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/D.J. Mark Kamins passed her demo tapes to Sire Records in early 1982 and the rest is history. The 1980s was Madonna's boom decade, and she dominated the music charts with a succession of multimillion-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 an adolescent audience: A Certain Sacrifice (1979) and Crazy for You (1985). However, she scored a minor cult hit with Recherche Susan désespérément (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 off-beat 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 Il était une fois Broadway (1989). The big-budget and star-filled Dick Tracy (1990) had her playing bad girl "Breathless Mahoney" flirting with Warren Beatty, but the epic failed to catch fire at the box office. Taking an earthier role, Madonna was much more entertaining alongside Tom Hanks and Geena Davis in Une équipe hors du commun (1992), a story about female baseball players during W.W.II. However, she again drew the wrath of critics with the whodunit Body (1992). Several other minor screen roles followed, then Madonna starred as Eva Perón in Evita (1996), a fairly well received screen adaptation of the hugely successful Broadway musical, for which she received a Golden Globe for Best Actress. The Material Girl stayed away from the movie cameras for several years, returning to co-star in the lukewarm romantic comedy Un couple presque parfait (2000), followed by the painful À la dérive (2002). If those films weren't bad enough, she was woefully miscast as a vampish fencing instructor in the James Bond adventure Meurs un autre jour (2002). After finally admitting that her acting days were over, Madonna began a directing career in 2008 with the barely remembered Obscénité et Vertu (2008) and a year later she reunited with In Bed with Madonna (1991) director Alek Keshishian to develop a script about the relationship between the Duke of Windsor and the Duchess of Windsor that led to his abdication in 1936: the result, a movie named W.E. (2011), starring James D'Arcy and Andrea Riseborough as the infernal but still royal couple, was released in 2011 to lukewarm critics but it gathered one Oscar nomination for costumes and won the Golden Globe for Best Original Song for "Masterpiece".