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Star (name)
Star is a given name and a surname. Notable people with the (name) include: Surname * Darren Star (born 1961), American producer, director and writer * Jeffree Star (born 1985), American CEO of Jeffree Star Cosmetics * Ryan Star (born 1978), American singer-songwriter * Susan Leigh Star (1954–2010), American sociologist * Tamaiti Willie Star (1926–2007), Nauruan diplomat and politician Given name * Star Jones (born 1962), American co-host of the television show ''The View'', lawyer, journalist and writer * Star Lotulelei (born 1989), National Football League player * Star Parker (born 1956), American columnist, Republican politician, author, and conservative political activist * Star Simpson, American engineer and inventor * Star Stowe (1956–1997), American model and ''Playboy'' Playmate of the Month Fictional Characters * Star, a half-vampire from the film ''The Lost Boys'' See also *Starr (given name) *Starr (surname) Starr is a family name, originating from the pre ...
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Darren Star
Darren Star (born July 25, 1961) is an American writer, director and producer of film and television. He is best known for creating the television series ''Beverly Hills, 90210'' (1990–2000), ''Melrose Place'' (1992–1999), ''Sex and the City'' (1998–2004), '' Younger'' (2015–2021), and ''Emily in Paris'' (2020–present). Early life Darren Star was born to a Jewish family in Potomac, Maryland. His mother was a freelance writer and his father was an orthodontist. He attended Winston Churchill High School and UCLA where he studied English and Creative Writing. Career He created the television series ''Beverly Hills, 90210'' based on his own high school experiences and ''Melrose Place'', and he was the creator and a writer for the HBO series ''Sex and the City''. He also worked on ''Central Park West'' (1995), ''Grosse Pointe'' (2000), ''The $treet'' (2000), ''Miss Match'' (2003), '' Kitchen Confidential'' (2005), '' Runaway'' (2006) and '' Cashmere Mafia'' (2008). He was ...
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Jeffree Star
Jeffree Star (born Jeffrey Lynn Steininger Jr., November 15, 1985) is an American YouTuber, makeup artist, and former singer-songwriter. He is the founder and owner of Jeffree Star Cosmetics. In 2009, Star released a studio album, ''Beauty Killer'', which included songs such as "Lollipop Luxury" featuring Nicki Minaj. He embarked on several world tours to promote his music. In 2010, he signed to Konvict Muzik but abruptly left the music industry by 2013 citing legal issues the label’s owner faced between 2007 and 2010. In November 2014, Star founded the company Jeffree Star Cosmetics. In 2018, ''Forbes'' revealed that he had earned $18 million from his YouTube endeavors alone, making him the fifth-highest-paid YouTuber that year. Early life Jeffree Lynn Steininger Jr. was born in Los Angeles County, California, on November 15, 1985 and grew up in Orange County, California. He says that he began experimenting with his mother's makeup as a child, and convinced her to let him we ...
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Ryan Star
Ryan Stahr Kulchinsky (born January 7, 1978) is an American rock singer-songwriter from Long Island, New York, currently signed on Island Records. His first major label record '' 11:59'', released via Atlantic in 2010, reached No. 31 on Billboard 200 and No. 10 on Billboard Rock albums chart. Star became known to a wider audience as contestant on the CBS reality TV show '' Rock Star: Supernova'' in 2006. His songs have featured on several TV shows and promotion. His song "Brand New Day", featured as the main theme to Fox TV series ''Lie to Me'', earned him a BMI TV Music Award in May 2009. His first single for Island Records, "Stay Awhile" reached No. 28 on Billboard Adult Pop Songs, and its music video has logged over 1 million views on YouTube to date. "Stay Awhile" was released on iTunes August 14, 2012. Early life Star was born in Huntington, New York on Long Island, and grew up in nearby Dix Hills. He was 14 years old when he formed his first band called Stage. They ...
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Susan Leigh Star
Susan Leigh Star (1954–2010) was an American sociologist. She specialized in the study of information in modern society; information worlds; information infrastructure; classification and standardization; sociology of science; sociology of work and the history of science, medicine, technology, and communication/information systems. She commonly used the qualitative methods methodology and feminist theory approach. She was also known for developing the concept of boundary objects and for contributions to computer-supported cooperative work. Biography Life and education Star grew up in a rural working class area of Rhode Island. Her family was of Jewish, English, and Scottish descent and she describes herself as "half-Jewish". Starved for philosophy she befriended an ex-nun during high school and eventually obtained a scholarship to Radcliffe College where she began taking philosophy classes. Not fitting in and deterred from taking a Religion degree, Star dropped out, mar ...
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Tamaiti Willie Star
Tamaiti Willie Star (October 192626 June 2007) was a Nauruan diplomat and politician. Early life Star was born in October 1926. He was a member of the Iruwa tribe. Career Star served on the Nauru Phosphate Corporation board of directors, and chairman of the Nauru Phosphate Royalties Trust. Star was posted in Melbourne, Australia as a welfare officer in 1968, shortly after Nauru became an independent country. He later became a representative of Nauru, before becoming the first consul-general in Melbourne from Nauru. On 29 March 1980, Star was appointed as ambassador to the United States. He was the first to hold this position. He presented his credentials to President Jimmy Carter on 6 June 1980. In January 1981, Star was appointed as acting chief secretary of the Nauruan public service and stopped serving as consul-general to Melbourne. In the 1980s, Star was given an award by the University of the South Pacific. By 1987, Star served as consul-general in Guam. A new U. S. ambass ...
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Star Jones
Starlet Marie Jones (born March 24, 1962), better known as Star Jones, is an American lawyer, journalist, television personality, fashion designer, author, and women's and diversity advocate. She is best known as one of the first co-hosts on the ABC morning talk show '' The View'', which she appeared on for nine seasons from 1997-98 through 2005-06. She was also one of sixteen contestants of the fourth installment of ''The Celebrity Apprentice'' in 2011, coming in fifth place. On January 10, 2022, it was announced that longest running courtroom series, ''Divorce Court'', would enter its milestone 24th season on September 19, 2022, with Jones, a former Brooklyn prosecutor and district attorney, as the show's next arbitrator. The move will be Jones's return to the court show genre, having previously served as arbitrator over the 1994-95 series, ''Jones & Jury''. The broadcast made Jones the first Black person to preside over her own court show and first female to preside over ar ...
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Star Lotulelei
Starlite Lotulelei Jr. ( ; born December 20, 1989) is a Tongan professional American football defensive tackle who is currently a free agent. He was drafted by the Carolina Panthers in the first round of the 2013 NFL Draft. He played college football at University of Utah, and shared the Morris Trophy for the best lineman in the Pac-12 Conference. High school and junior college career A native of Tonga, Lotulelei attended Bingham High School in South Jordan, Utah. Playing defensive lineman at 240 pounds, he helped the football team to a 14–0 record and a state title in 2006. Lotulelei registered 72 tackles and seven sacks as a senior. Regarded as a three-star recruit by Rivals.com, Lotulelei was listed as the No. 3 overall prospect from Utah. However, he was overshadowed by Oregon-bound Simione Fili of Cottonwood High School, who was labeled the best defensive lineman from Utah since Haloti Ngata, but eventually bounced around between junior colleges before falling into ...
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Star Parker
Star Parker is an American syndicated columnist, Republican politician, author, and conservative political activist. In 1995, she founded the Center for Urban Renewal and Education (CURE). In 2010, she was the unsuccessful Republican nominee for the United States House of Representatives in California's 37th District. Biography Parker was born Larstella Irby in Moses Lake, Washington; she was raised in a non-religious home by often-absent parents. She has made the claim that after one arrest for shoplifting, her high school guidance counselor told her "not to worry about it, because I was a 'victim of racism, lashing out at society.'" She began advocating for conservative social and political causes, and founded CURE in 1995. After she was laid off from her job as a program host on Los Angeles radio station KABC (after the outlet was purchased by Disney), Parker devoted her efforts to CURE full-time. Center for Urban Renewal and Education In 1995, Parker founded the Coalit ...
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Star Simpson
Star Simpson is a prominent maker, inventor, and serial entrepreneur based in Los Angeles. She is responsible for a number of high-profile projects with drone design and applications, including developing autonomous aircraft for DARPA at Otherlab, a Research & Development lab in San Francisco. Early life Simpson was born and raised in Hawaii, where her parents owned a jewelry business. She was drawn to technology at an early age. Simpson first heard about MIT when she was 8. In high school, she got involved in projects that helped develop her technical skills. She contributed to building one of the world's largest wifi networks, and worked with what was at that time an emerging software with the Hawaiian name of "wiki". Education Shortly after arriving on the MIT campus, she met a small student group called MITERS (the MIT Electronic Research Society). MITERS is centered around a machine shop, and everyone is welcome as long as they want to learn how to turn ideas into ...
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Star Stowe
Star Stowe (born Ellen Louise Stowe; March 19, 1956, Little Rock, Arkansas – March 16, 1997, Coral Springs, Florida) was an American model. She was ''Playboy'' magazine's Playmate of the Month for its February 1977 issue. Stowe was murdered by an unknown assailant. Biography Stowe was born Ellen Louise Stowe on March 19, 1956 in Little Rock, Arkansas and grew up in Arkansas, Louisiana and Nevada. Her father was an engineer. When she was a teenager she moved to Las Vegas and then to Los Angeles, where she worked as a stripper in an adult club. Stowe chose to call herself "Star" because of her love of the skies and had a blue star tattooed below her bikini line. She dated Gene Simmons and he sent her photos to Playboy. Her shoot was photographed by Pompeo Posar, and included some pictures with a Rickenbacker bass guitar. The shoot was used as the centerfold in the February 1977 issue, and she was Playmate of the Month. She was the first playmate with a visible tattoo. Stowe ...
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The Lost Boys
''The Lost Boys'' is a 1987 American supernatural black comedy horror film directed by Joel Schumacher, produced by Harvey Bernhard with a screenplay written by Jeffrey Boam, Janice Fischer and James Jeremias, from a story by Fischer and Jeremias. The film's ensemble cast includes Corey Haim, Jason Patric, Kiefer Sutherland, Jami Gertz, Corey Feldman, Dianne Wiest, Edward Herrmann, Billy Wirth, Brooke McCarter, Alex Winter, Jamison Newlander, and Barnard Hughes. The title is a reference to the Lost Boys in J. M. Barrie's stories about Peter Pan and Neverland, who, like vampires, never grow up. Most of the film was shot in Santa Cruz, California. ''The Lost Boys'' was released and produced by Warner Bros. Pictures on July 31, 1987 and was a critical and commercial success, grossing over $32 million against a production budget of $8.5 million. The success of the film has spawned a franchise with two sequels ('' Lost Boys: The Tribe'' and '' Lost Boys: The Thirst''), and two comic ...
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Starr (given Name)
Starr is a given name which may refer to: People * Starr Andreeff, Canadian actress * Starr Andrews (born 2001), American figure skater * Starr Faithfull (1906-1931), American socialite * Starr Roxanne Hiltz, American retired computer scientist * Starr Kempf (1917–1995), American sculptor * Starr Long (born 1970), American game developer * Starr Parodi (), American composer * Starr Walton (born 1942), American alpine skier Fictional characters * Starr the Slayer, a Marvel Comics hero * Starr Carter, protagonist of ''The Hate U Give'' * Starr Manning, on the soap opera ''One Life to Live'' See also *Star (name) Star is a given name and a surname. Notable people with the (name) include: Surname * Darren Star (born 1961), American producer, director and writer * Jeffree Star (born 1985), American CEO of Jeffree Star Cosmetics * Ryan Star (born 1978), Amer ..., given name and surname {{given name North American given names ...
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