Thanks huffnpuff. When I need a bio I just google the persons name and add Wiki on the end for Wikipedia. OK who is this lady?

Thanks Sandman, I copied the bio same as usual (same para as Sheba posted), but the post here said it was flagged as spam.....

My guess is going to be Helena Rubinstein.  Just because Sheba mentioned her :D

You know how to psychoanalyse me huffnpuff I thought I would trick you all  Yes she is Helena Rubinstein. Who do you have for us.

Helena Rubinstein (born Chaja Rubinstein; December 25, 1872^[2] April 1, 1965) was a Polish-American businesswoman, art collector, and philanthropist. A cosmetics entrepreneur, she was the founder and eponym of Helena Rubinstein Incorporated cosmetics company, which made her one of the world's richest women.

Move to Australia

After refusing an arranged marriage, Rubinstein emigrated from Poland to Australia in 1896, with no money and little English.^[6] Her stylish clothes and milky complexion did not pass unnoticed among the town's ladies, however, and she soon found enthusiastic buyers for the jars of beauty cream in her luggage. She spotted a market where she began to make her own. A key ingredient of the cream, lanolin, was readily at hand.

Coleraine, in the Western Victoria region, where her uncle was a shopkeeper, might have been an "awful place" but was home to some 75 million sheep that secreted abundant quantities of lanolin. These sheep were the wealth of the nation and the Western District's vast mobs of merinos produced the finest wool in the land. To disguise the lanolin's pungent odour, Rubinstein experimented with lavender, pine bark and water lilies.

Rubinstein had a falling out with her uncle, but after a stint as a bush governess began waitressing at the Winter Garden tearooms in Melbourne. There, she found an admirer willing to stump up the funds to launch her Crème Valaze, supposedly including herbs imported "from the Carpathian Mountains". Costing ten pence and selling for six shillings. Known to her customers only as Helena, Rubinstein could soon afford to open a salon in fashionable Collins Street, selling glamour as a science to customers whose skin was "diagnosed" and a suitable treatment "prescribed".

Sydney was next, and within five years Australian operations were profitable enough to finance a Salon de Beauté Valaze in London. As such, Rubinstein formed one of the world's first cosmetic companies. Her business enterprise proved immensely successful and later in life, she used her enormous wealth to support charitable institutions in the fields of education, art and health.

Rubinstein rapidly expanded her operation. In 1908, her sister Ceska assumed the Melbourne shop's operation, when, with $100,000, Rubinstein moved to London and began what was to become an international enterprise. (Women at this time could not obtain bank loans, so the money was her own.)

She was gorgeous looking.  I'd buy her facecream if it could bestow her skin on me.  :D

Who is this?

Yes her looks and her undamaged (by the sun) skin helped sell her products. I recognised the guy straight away but I will wait till tomorrow to see if someone else gets it.

Jacques Cousteau.

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Jacques Cousteau.

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You've got it Sheba

Jacques Cousteau, in full Jacques-Yves Cousteau, (born June 11, 1910, Saint-André-de-Cubzac, Francedied June 25, 1997, Paris), French naval officer, ocean explorer, and coinventor of the Aqua-Lung, known for his extensive underseas investigations.

After graduating from Frances naval academy in 1933, he was commissioned a second lieutenant. However, his plans to become a navy pilot were undermined by an almost fatal automobile accident in which both his arms were broken. Cousteau, not formally trained as a scientist, was drawn to undersea exploration by his love both of the ocean and of underwater diving. In 1943 Cousteau and French engineer Émile Gagnan developed the first fully automatic compressed-air Aqua-Lung (scuba apparatus), which allowed divers to swim freely underwater for extended periods of time. Cousteau helped to invent many other tools useful to oceanographers, including the diving saucer (an easily maneuverable small submarine for seafloor exploration), in 1959, and a number of underwater cameras. (source: Brittanica)

Thanks hnp.  Sorry Sandy. .         Here we go.

Jeanne Tripplehorn?

Not Jeanne, hnp.  Had to take some time to double-check though.  These two could be Twins, even with different Hair Colour !!!   .

Ashley Judd?

Not Ashley.

How about Katherine Heigl?  I know that face....

Is she a young Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis

Not Jacquie Sandy.  

Katherine it is hnp.  Off you go.

Katherine Marie Heigl is an American actress and former fashion model. She started her career as a child model with Wilhelmina Models before turning her attention to acting, making her film debut in That Night and later appearing in My Father the Hero as well as Under Siege 2: Dark Territory. Heigl then landed the role of Isabel Evans on The WB television series Roswell, for which she received nominations for Saturn and Teen Choice Awards

Does any-one know how to contact huffnpuff ?   Hope he's OK.

Sheba.

So sorry, I was away from my computer and didn't have the logon password.... I thought somebody would have jumped in when I "disappeared".  

Gday hufnpuf. I'll have a go at Karmin Mirranda. (Not sure of spelling)

Cheers.

Yes, you've got it, ballast2

Carmen Miranda was a young hatmaker before she was invited to display her singing talents at a music academy. That attempt proved successful and she went on to become a popular singer in clubs and on radio in Brazil. It was during this time that she developed the costume with the distinctive fruit hat from the traditional headdress seen on black women fruit sellers. In the mid-thirties, a theatrical producer named Lee Shubert saw her act in Brazil and offered her a spot on his new Broadway show. Knowing the need for a real Brazilian band to keep the appropriate music true, she insisted that her backup band be included in the deal. With the help of the Brazilian government who saw the good national image opportunity in Carmen, her demand was met. She proved to be a hit on Broadway and went on to make some films.  (source IMDb)

She died very young (46) of a heart attack :(

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Gday and thanks hufnpuf. OK all. Who is this?

Cheers.

Can't get his name, [AGAIN], but he's been in American Detective and/or Cop shows on TV.  Never seen him with such Grey Hair before though.   

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but he's been in American Detective and/or Cop shows on TV.  

I love hot chips.....

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Think Sci Fi.

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 oh, it's thingummy from thingummy, of course it is.....  I was thinking Erik Estrada :D

Gday hufnpuf. Sorry not him. My bloke is in one of a long running series with different crews.

Cheers.

It's Chakotay from Star Trek Voyager, isn't it?  The actor's called Bob Balitran or something like that, I think.  

His name is Robert Beltran.  Please let hufnpuf have it, 'cause I wouldn't have found him without his Clue.

Cheers,

Sheba.

Beltran.  I was mixing his name up with Bob Balaban.... :D You got it, Sheba, what with Erik Estrada  and Bob Balaban, I was way off :D

G'day Sheba and hufnpuf. If you are sure Sheba it's over to you hufnpuf. Who do you have for us?

Cheers.