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Actress, for Soul Food. In 2003, she was honored with the Lady of Soul Lena Horne Career Achievements in Film. In 2005 and 2006, she won the NAACP Image Award and the Prism Award for Best Actress in a television series-drama.

In 2008, the NAACP awarded Fox the celebrated Spirit Award for starring in and producing the stage play Whatever She Wants. Moreover, Fox, in 1997, was voted one of People Magazine's fifty most beautiful people (and appeared on other similar lists).

SYDNEY POLLACK
Sydney Irwin Pollack, born July 1, 1934 in Lafayette, Indiana, was a film director, producer, and actor.

Pollack's filmography credit is rather lengthy; he directed more than 20 films and television shows, acted in over 30 films/shows, and produced over 40 films. In the 1960s, he directed two successful television series The Fugitive and Alfred Hitchcock Presents. His directing debut occurred in 1965 with the film The Slender Thread, starring Sidney Poitier and Anne Bancroft. A few of his notable films include They Shoot Horses, Don't They? (1969), The Way We Were (1973), Three Days of the Condor (1975), Tootsie (1982), and Out Of Africa (1985).

Pollack's films garnered more than forty Oscar nominations and rendered eleven Oscar wins: Out of Africa won 7 Academy Awards (Pollack won for Best Director); The Way We Were won 2 Academy Awards; Tootsie and They Shoot Horses, Don't They? won one Academy Award. Collectively, he won more than fifteen awards and garnered dozens of nominations.

Pollack died on May 26, 2008 (at the age of 73) due to stomach cancer in Los Angeles, California. His body was cremated and later scattered near Van Nuys Airport in California.

KENNETH EDMONDS
Best known as Babyface, Kenneth Brian Edmonds, born April 10, 1958 in Indianapolis, Indiana, is an R&B/Pop singer, songwriter, guitarist, keyboardist, music/film producer, and entrepreneur.

In the 1980s, Babyface was affiliated with two groups, Manchild (he was the guitarist) and The Deele (he was the keyboardist, playing alongside the drummer, Antonio "L.A." Reid). In 1989, he and L.A. Reid founded LaFace Records; the label's name was inspired by the names of both founders. The label has produced many artists such as, Toni Braxton, TLC, Usher, Outkast, Jermaine Jackson, Donnell Jones, and Ciara.

Babyface has produced/written for many artists: Mariah Carey, Whitney Houston, Michael Jackson, Janet Jackson, Diana Ross, Celine Dion, Vanessa L. Williams, Tamia, Toni Braxton, Mary J. Blige, Paula Abdul,

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