Victoria Beckham

Victoria Caroline Adams

Also known as Posh, Posh Spice

Born 17 April 1974 (1974-04-17) (age 37)

Harlow, Essex, England

Origin Goffs Oak, Hertfordshire, England

Genres Pop, R&B

Occupations Singer-songwriter, dancer, model, actress, fashion designer, businesswoman

Years active 1994–present

Labels Virgin (1996–present)

19/Telstar (2002–04)

Associated acts Spice Girls

Victoria Caroline Beckham (née Adams; born 17 April 1974) is an English singer-songwriter, dancer, model, actress, fashion designer and businesswoman. During her rise to fame with the late 1990s girl pop group the Spice Girls, Beckham was dubbed Posh Spice, a nickname first coined by the British pop music magazine, Top of the Pops in the July 1996 issue. Since the Spice Girls pursued separate careers, she has had a solo pop music career, scoring four UK Top 10 singles. Her first single to be released, "Out of Your Mind", reached Number 2 in the UK Singles Chart and is her highest chart entry to date. During her solo career, she has been signed to Virgin Records and Telstar Records.

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Peta Louise Todd

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Misha Barton

Born Mischa Anne Marsden Barton

24 January 1986 (1986-01-24) (age 24)

Hammersmith, London, England, UK

Occupation Actress, model

Years active 1995–present

Mischa Anne Marsden Barton (born 24 January 1986) is an English-American fashion model, film, television, and stage actress, best known for her role as Marissa Cooper in the American television series The O.C..

Mischa Barton was born in Hammersmith, West London, England, to an Irish mother,Nuala (née Quinn), a photographer, and a Mancunian English father, Paul Marsden Barton, a foreign exchange broker. She has two sisters, younger Hania and elder Zoe, a barrister in London. Her father's work took the family to New York City when Barton was six, and ten days after her twentieth birthday, she became a naturalised citizen of the United States in 2006. Retaining her British citizenship, Barton in reference to her English roots states, "I actually feel more comfortable in England a lot of the time" yet stresses that, "I like people to discern that I'm an English-Irish girl who grew up in New York."

Barton graduated from the Professional Children's School in Manhattan in 2004, and took a summer short course called Acting Shakespeare at The Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in London, in June and July 2006, at Sir Richard Attenborough's urging, after he directed her in Closing the Ring.

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