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BAFTA and Emmy Winners Judge Brits in LA’s 5th Annual Toscars



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Janina Zione Gavankar :  TRUE BLOOD - is an American actress and musician of mixed Indian and Dutch descent. Gavankar is also trained as a pianist, vocalist, and orchestral percussionist. She majored in Theater Performance at the University of Illinois at Chicago. Gavankar's is known for her more notable roles as Papi, a promiscuous lesbian in The L Word, Leigh Turner, a cop with a big secret on "The Gates", and Ms. Dewey, the personification of a Microsoft branded search engine who comments about the user's searches. Gavankar has appeared in theater, commercials, short films, independent films, as well as Barbershop and its sequel, Barbershop 2: Back in Business. Gavankar has returned to music with a rethinking of Kanye West's Love Lockdown. She used to be in Endera, a group signed to Universal Records. She also collaborated on a project for a song called "Tell Me What" in India. She has had songs licensed to movies and television, and has played marimba on film scores.


Bai Ling had previously appeared in several Chinese movies. In 1984, Bai appeared as a fishing village girl in the movie On the Beach (海滩). Later she filmed several other movies, including Suspended Sentence (缓期执行), Yueyue (月月), Tears in Suzhou (泪洒姑苏) without much attention. She became famous after playing a girl with a psychological disorder who has an affair with her doctor, in the film Arc Light (弧光) directed by Zhang Junzhao (张军钊). She attended Moscow International Film Festival in 1989. Since coming to the United States in 1991, she has appeared in a number of American movies.

She appeared in The Crow (1994), playing the half-sister/lover of the main villain, Top Dollar. Hu guang was her most celebrated role in the Chinese film industry, and Red Corner (1997) would be considered her break-out role in English film. She was named one of People's "50 Most Beautiful People in the World" in 1998. She appeared in Chris Isaak's music video "Please" in 1998. She shaved off her hair, which had exceeded a length of 36 in (90 cm) for her role in Anna and the King, and is widely known in Thailand as "Tuptim", her character's name from the film, even though the movie is officially banned because of its depiction of the King of Siam. She filmed scenes for Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith (2005) as Senator Bana Breemu, but her role was cut during editing. She claimed that this was because of her posing nude for the June 2005 issue of Playboy magazine, whose appearance on newsstands coincided with the movie's May 2005 release, but director George Lucas denied this, stating that the cut had been made more than a year earlier.[6] Her scenes were included in the "deleted scenes" feature of the DVD release.

Later in 2005 Bai was a castmate of the VH1 program called But Can They Sing?. The show gave several non-singer celebrities an attempt at singing on every episode and then allowed the audience and home viewers to vote off one contestant each week. Bai Ling was most famous for her risqué and raunchy get-ups and her performances of Madonna's "Like a Virgin" and The Ramones' "I Wanna Be Sedated". Bai was eliminated just before the grand finale but was invited back on the final week for a special performance of Divinyls' "I Touch Myself".

She appeared in one episode of the show Lost.

Bai made a guest appearance on a episode of Entourage titled "China Town". She played a stunt co-ordinator named Li Lei, who Vincent Chase (Adrian Grenier) sleeps wit
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On Feb 21st, Red Carpet was at 7pm.  Show started after 9pm


BAFTA and Emmy Winners to Judge Brits in LA’s Highly Anticipated 5th Annual Toscars

On the 21st February the much-awaited award ceremony ‘The Toscars’ will be held at Hollywood’s premier venue The Supperclub.  Non other than the Queen’s favorite British comedian and BAFTA winner Jim Tavare will host this fun filled event, which has been rumored to be the most fun attendees will have during the awards season!  A panel of celebrity experts will judge the short parodies of the 9 Oscar nominated films including multiple EMMY winner and Oscar writer Bruce Vilanch, one of Hollywood’s favorite TV and Film stars Skeet Ulrich, 80's icon Siobhan Fahey from Bananarama and Perez Hilton’s favorite Drew Droege as Chloe Sevigny.

The glamorous red carpet awards ceremony 'The Toscars' is now in it’s 5th year and will benefit The Actors Fund.  As soon as the 2012 Oscar nominees for best picture were announced, plots were written, actors were cast and it was time for ‘lights, camera, action’ to film these humorous parodies.  Last year ‘The King Speak’ took the Toscar.  Other coveted awards are given to the best ‘Whactress’ or ‘Whactor’ of the night.  Actors starring in the films are from hits like True Blood, NCIS:LA, Fringe, Desperate Housewives and a special aerial Performance by cirque artist  Michael Lipari is set to wow the audience.

Previous years have seen British celebrities Michael Sheen, Luke Evans and Chris O'Dowd enjoy in the festivities.   This year will be bigger and better then ever.  Who will win the 2012 Toscar and be gifted the golden fist?  We will find out on February 21st

For more information and last years winners www.thetoscars.com 


Who:
Adria Tennor (The Artist), Ken Davitian (The Artist), Shaun Parkes (Stephen Speilberg's The River), Skeet Ulrich, Doris Roberts (Everybody Loves Raymond), Janina Gavankar (True Blood), Judi Shekoni (Twilight Breaking Dawn), Bruce Vilanch (6 time Emmy Winner), Carlos Ramirez (Crank 2), Amadou Ly (Twilight Breaking Dawn), Samantha Mumba (Singer), Jim Tavare (BAFTA Winner and Comedian), James Kyson (Heroes and Hawai 5-0),  Bradley Walsh (UK's Coronation Street), Natasha Alam (True Blood), Siobhan Fahey (Banarama), Alice Amter (The Big Bang Theory), Treva Etienne (Pirates of The Caribbean), Emrhys Cooper (Desperate Housewives), Terry Moore, Steve Mango (Big Time Rush), Bobby Sabel (British TV Personality and Model), Craig Robert Young (NCIS LA), Ace Bhatti (UK's Eastenders), Drew Droege (as Chloe Sevigny) and more..

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