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Name: Madonna Louise Veronica Ciccone Born: August 16, 1958 |
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| Welcome to The Madonna Picture Sites! This site truly contains only high quality scans, so you can stop searching for Madonna pictures from now on! For those new to the site, my philosophy on exactly what constitutes 'high quality' is found here. Be sure to check out all three picture galleries to your left. A pop diva of the 1980s, Madonna created a raunchy blonde bombshell persona that propelled such music-video hits as "Like a Virgin" (1984), "Material Girl" (1985), "Like a Prayer" (1989), "Vogue" (1990) and "Justify My Love" (1991). A high-energy performer of aggressively sexual and irreverent material who has been called "the queen of bimbo rock" and a "punk Mae West", Madonna has outraged many with her messages of assertiveness and kinky sexuality as well as her outrageously suggestive costuming. Her champions, however, have praised her catchy, danceable music (most of which she co-writes and produces), her iconoclastic humor, her bravado in expressing female desire, her provocative assaults on such sacred cows as interracial relationships, homophobia and ignorance about birth control, her shrewd business sense and her post-modern performance style, ideally suited to the end of the 20th century. The working-class Midwesterner moved to New York in 1978 to become a dancer, but after several false starts as a model and actress (in an underground soft-core feature, "A Certain Sacrifice", 1979), she hit the clubs and made her name as a high-energy singer. Vibrantly ambitious, Madonna propelled herself to pop stardom, becoming the first queen of the MTV era by the mid-80s. After a cameo appearance in the film "Vision Quest" (1985), she had her first starring role as the rule-breaking, free-living, punk title character in Susan Seidelman's "Desperately Seeking Susan" (1985). It won her acclaim as a unique new screen presence and showed her talent at wisecracking farce, not unlike tough 30s comics Patsy Kelly and Thelma Todd. Madonna's subsequent film performances, however, have proven less than sensational and it has been said that she is an actress "desperately seeking a role." While never abandoning her music, she has tried to refashion herself into a modern-day Marilyn Monroe or Marlene Dietrich. In 1986, she co-starred with then-husband Sean Penn in the flop comedy "Shanghai Surprise". Despite her charmingly kooky performance, her next film, the screwball "Who's That Girl?" (1987) also bombed. She got an "A" for effort for her Broadway debut in the underwritten female role in David Mamet's "Speed-the-Plow" (1988). Madonna went on to appear in a small role in the episodic period film "Bloodhounds of Broadway" (1989), then turned on the high-voltage glamour to good effect as Breathless Mahoney in the big-budgeted Warren Beatty showcase "Dick Tracy" (1990). In 1991, Madonna returned to the character she plays best--herself--in Alek Keshishian's behind-the-scenes documentary of her Blonde Ambition tour, "Truth or Dare". A riveting, self-important and fascinating look at superstardom, it is overshadowed only by comedienne Julie Brown's dead-on parody, "Medusa: Dare to be Truthful". Madonna engaged in unintentional self-parody with "Sex" (1992), an X-rated photo book of herself and "friends" disporting themselves. She earned her best notices since "Susan" for another tough-gal comic role, in Penny Marshall's ensemble film "A League of Their Own" (1992). As WWII baseball player Mae Mordabito, Madonna expertly played off co-stars Geena Davis and Rosie O'Donnell and once again proved what a smart, funny performer she could be. But Madonna's hoped-for dramatic breakthrough continued to elude her: the over-wrought melodramas "Body of Evidence" and "Dangerous Game" (both 1993) quickly disappeared. She made cameo appearances as a hooker in Woody Allen's "Shadows and Fog" (1991), as a singing telegram girl in Wayne Wang's "Blue in the Face" (1995), portrayed a witch in Allison Anders' segment of the critically lambasted "Four Rooms" (1995) and briefly appears as a phone sex veteran in and Spike Lee's "Girl 6" (1996). Madonna was cast in what many feel was a role she was born to play, the Argentine First Lady Eva Peron in Alan Parker's film musical "Evita" (1996). The Material Girl's seemingly inexhaustible energy continued to propel her through a number of projects, despite her new role as a mother. While continuing to actively develop projects at her Maverick company, she released the electectronica influenced album album "Ray of Light" to rave reviews in 1998. Sporting an unbelivably fit post-birth body in the trendy dance floor video which accompanied the video for the "Ray of Light" single, Madonna proved once again how adept she is at morphing into just the right thing at just the right time. She also proved still influential in pushing trends and ideas forward: her commitment to the religion Kaballah, which influenced the album, helped popularlize its practice outside of its core followers and a small cadre of the Hollywood elite. She followed up the success of this album with the smash hit from the "Austin Powers" soundtrack in 1999, the infectious tune "Beautiful Stranger." In 2000, Maddonna starred in the film "The Next Best Thing" opposite Rupert Everett but she found that she still could not find the success in acting that has come so easily to her in her pop career. The movie was not a hit but, not surprisingly, her "Drowned World Tour" of 2001 was a phenomenal success. Now a mother of two and wife to acclaimed director Guy Ritchie, Madonna showed no signs of slowing her takeover of the world. In 2002, she made her stage debut in London, to mixed but not horribly scathing reviews and also began working on her husband's next film "Swept Away," playing the role of a rich and spoiled, arrogant wife who finally meets her match in a brash fisherman who despises her all-consuming self obsession. That same year, Madonna also made the switch from "Material Girl" to Bond Girl, writing and performing the title song to the 20th 007 outing "Die Another Day" and appearing in a cameo role in the action film. She proved to still be able to capture headlines when she appeared on stage with the of-the-moment superstars Britney Spears and Christina Aguilera at the 2003 MTV Music Video Awards and shared a steamy lip-lock with Spears (the two later collaborated on Spears' single "Me Against the Music"). In 2005 she released her latest album "Confeessions on a Dance Floor," which completely set aside any ballads in favor of a full slate of dance tunes. In additon to her musical and acting efforts, Madonna also had a successful side career as a bestselling children's book author, penning 2003's The English Roses and Mr. Peabody's Apples 2004's Yakov and the Seven Thieves and The Adventures of Abdi and 2005's Losta de Casha > Cheaper by the Dozen 2 (2005) (singer: "Holiday") Click on a link on the left to go to each gallery.links Please note that all pictures are assumed to be in the public domain. |