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Ewa Laurance (aka Ewa Mataya aka the Striking Viking) was born on February 26, 1964 in Gävle, Sweden. She is a Swedish-American professional pool player, most notably on the Women's Professional Billiard Association nine-ball tour. She is also a sports commentator for ESPN.
Laurance is playing pool since she was 14 years old in her native country and moved to the United States in 1983.
She has authored three books related with pool i.e. The Ewa Mataya Pool Guide, The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Pool and Billiards and Quick Start Guide to Pocket Billiards. She has also written monthly columns for the Pool & Billiard magazine.
In 2004, she was inducted into the Billiard Congress of America's Hall of Fame.
In 2005, Ewa Mataya Laurance bested three of her peers, WPBA tour members Allison Fisher, Dawn Hopkins, and Gerda Hofstatter, at the Women's Trick Shot Challenge held at the New York Hotel Casino in Las Vegas, Nevada, pocketing $25,000 as the grand prize.
She has also done modeling for many brands.
Sunday, July 22, 2007
She is the first person to become a US-dollar billionaire by writing books with fortune of £545 million. In 2006, Forbes named Rowling the second richest female entertainer in the world and ranked her as 48th on the 100 most powerful celebrities list of 2007.
The seventh and final book of the Harry Potter series with title Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows was released on 21st July 2007.
Recently released Harry Potter and Order of the Phoenix is the picturization of fifth novel from the Potter series by J K Rowling. Emma Watson and Katie Leung are leading actress in this movie.
Check more about J K Rowling here.
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She has been the host of the reality television program Top Chef since season two and an ambassador for the United Nations Development Fund for Women. Her first cookbook Easy Exotic was awarded Best First Book at the 1999 World Cookbook Awards at Versailles.
Padma and her novelist husband Salman Rushdie filed for divorce on July 2, 2007.
Check out more about Padma at her official website.
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She appeared twice on the cover of the Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue in 1984 and again in 1985. She was also the cover model for the 20th Anniversary issue of Cosmopolitan magazine in November 1985.
Paulina was the first to be voted off from ABC's fourth season of "Dancing With the Stars", which began last week.









































