Katherine Heigl - Everything You Need To Know
Katherine Heigl is a well known American Actress.
She was born as Katherine Marie Heigl on 24th November 1978 to parents Nancy and Paul Heigl.
She attended the New Canaan High School from which she dropped out in the sophomore year, to pursue her career in Hollywood.
She started her career as a child model at the age of nine, when her aunt sent her photographs to a number of model agencies and she was taken in by the Wilhelmina, an renowned international modeling agency.
After few weeks she was picked up for a magazine advertisement.
Her first appearance on television was through the advertisement for "Cheerios cereal".
She made her debut in 1992 in the movie "That Night".
She also appeared in the drama "King of the Hill".
She did her first lead role in the movie "My Father the Hero".
She later went on to do movies such as the "Under Siege 2: Dark Territory".
She also turned her attention toward the television and acted in the TV drama "Rosewell".
Apart from doing films and her work with television she still continued with the modeling appearing in magazines such as "Seventeen".
She also was featured on photo essays in magazines such as Life, TV Guide, Teen, and FHM.
She has been featured as one of the "100 sexiest women in the world" on the magazine calendars.
The readers voted her as the 19th sexiest woman in the world.
Her first major breakthrough came in 2005, when she was cast in a medical drama called "Grey's Anatomy".
The show got huge ratings and is still one of the highest rated television series on broadcast television.
In 2006 she was nominated for the Golden Globe for the Best Supporting Actress in a Series, Mini-series, or Motion Picture Made for Television.
However, later in 2007 she won an Emmy for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series for her role.
Her film "Knocked Up" became one of her most talked about films.
It was well received and was proved to be a box office success.
This also led to her financial success.
For her film "27 Dresses" she received $6 million.
She has been tagged as the one of the potentially important and assertive modern proponent of women's rights.
She works with the Best Friends Animal Society, one of America's best known animal welfare rescue groups, on their several projects.
She also provided them with a grant which would fund them for a year.
She was born as Katherine Marie Heigl on 24th November 1978 to parents Nancy and Paul Heigl.
She attended the New Canaan High School from which she dropped out in the sophomore year, to pursue her career in Hollywood.
She started her career as a child model at the age of nine, when her aunt sent her photographs to a number of model agencies and she was taken in by the Wilhelmina, an renowned international modeling agency.
After few weeks she was picked up for a magazine advertisement.
Her first appearance on television was through the advertisement for "Cheerios cereal".
She made her debut in 1992 in the movie "That Night".
She also appeared in the drama "King of the Hill".
She did her first lead role in the movie "My Father the Hero".
She later went on to do movies such as the "Under Siege 2: Dark Territory".
She also turned her attention toward the television and acted in the TV drama "Rosewell".
Apart from doing films and her work with television she still continued with the modeling appearing in magazines such as "Seventeen".
She also was featured on photo essays in magazines such as Life, TV Guide, Teen, and FHM.
She has been featured as one of the "100 sexiest women in the world" on the magazine calendars.
The readers voted her as the 19th sexiest woman in the world.
Her first major breakthrough came in 2005, when she was cast in a medical drama called "Grey's Anatomy".
The show got huge ratings and is still one of the highest rated television series on broadcast television.
In 2006 she was nominated for the Golden Globe for the Best Supporting Actress in a Series, Mini-series, or Motion Picture Made for Television.
However, later in 2007 she won an Emmy for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series for her role.
Her film "Knocked Up" became one of her most talked about films.
It was well received and was proved to be a box office success.
This also led to her financial success.
For her film "27 Dresses" she received $6 million.
She has been tagged as the one of the potentially important and assertive modern proponent of women's rights.
She works with the Best Friends Animal Society, one of America's best known animal welfare rescue groups, on their several projects.
She also provided them with a grant which would fund them for a year.
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