Teenage Actress Emmanuelle

After two years of pestering film actress as in celebrities, I still get the same questions at parties and at, well, more parties. Who is the nicest celebrity? Who is the biggest jerk? Who is the smartest, the stupidest?

Being a gentleman, I politely respond: Wait for my tell-all book. But I can say I have learned that British celebrities are the funniest, American stars the most cautious, and Canadian artists the happiest. Draw your own cultural conclusions.

And the happiest of said gleeful lot has to be Montreal-born actor Emmanuelle Chriqui a.k.a. Sloan McQuewick in the hit dramedy Entourage (now in its sixth season on HBO Canada).

Having worked her way up from sought-after child actor (with dozens of credits in such family-friendly material as Are You Afraid of the Dark ?, Snow Day and The Adventures of Sinbad ) to adult co-star (the Adam Sandler vehicle You Don't Mess with the Zohan , and the upcoming Saint John of Las Vegas , wherein she plays a disabled stripper no less), Chriqui's career trajectory gives her every reason to be sunny. She's too busy to be otherwise.

Another truism gleaned from this job: People who survive childhood teenage modeling fame to become successful adults do not always end up sleeping in oxygen tanks and becoming best friends with chimpanzees.

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