(Cherilyn Sarkisian La Piere)

Occupation: Actress, Director, Singer
Date of Birth: May 20, 1946
Place of Birth: El Centro, Calif., USA
Sign: Sun in Taurus, Moon in Capricorn
Relations: Ex-husbands: Sonny Bono (singer turned politician), Gregg Allman (musician); kids: Chastity Bono,
Elijah Blue Allman
Education: High school dropout

Academy Award-winning pop star turned actress turned infomercial queen whose films include Moonstruck (1987), for which she won a Best Actress Oscar, and The Witches of Eastwick (1987). Cher and her first husband, Sonny Bono, sang as a duo and had a hit television series, The Sonny and Cher Comedy Hour (1971–74). Her recordings include Heart of Stone (1989), Believe (1999), Living Proof .

Facts about Cher:

Beat out Celine Dion's My Heart Will Go On for the best selling single of 1998 with Believe.

Born in El Centro, Calif. on May 20, 1946, Cherilyn Sarkisian was a poor, fatherless kid whose eight-times-married actress-mother struggled by on occasional singing gigs and bit parts.

Cher and Sonny's 1974 split brought the hit show to a premature end, devastating CBS executives and fans.

Cher has cancelled a trip to London so she can remain in America, and try to keep George W. Bush out of the White House.

Cher is desperately trying to persuade THE MUMMY RETURNS star Brendan Fraser to play her leading man in her directorial debut The Enchanted Cottage.

Ever fearless, Bono launched Cher in films, spending his own cash when studio financing dried up. But their movies, GOOD TIMES and CHASTITY, weren't hits and the duo lost the wealth they earned as pop stars.

Her music video If I Could Turn Back Time was the first video to be banned by MTV.

Legally changed her name from Cherilyn Sarkisian LaPierre Bono Allman to simply Cher.

Popstar/actress Cher likes to step out with men younger than her, whilst her son Elijah prefers older women.

In THE PLAYER (1992) Cher appears at the awards ceremony in a bright red dress, despite the invitation specifying black and white only. In real life, Cher never wears red.

Holds the record for having the longest time period with # 1 hits (1965-1998)

When Cher was thirteen years old, she drove her mother's car from Toluka Lake all the way to Hollywood.

When she was a child, Cher back-flipped off her swing set and landed on her sister's box of crayons. She injured her foot so badly, the doctors thought she might never walk properly again.

Sonny & Cher were not legally married until 1967.

Cher named her daughter after a film that she and Sonny were involved with when Chastity was conceived. Cher chose Chastity's middle name (Sun) so that she could also be named after her father, Sonny.

Her heroine is Audrey Hepburn, whom she first saw in the film BREAKFAST AT TIFFANY'S in the 1950s. She was thrilled when Audrey congratulated her on winning her Oscar in 1988.

Personal quotes:

"Has everyone lost their f***ing minds? Doesn't anybody remember the illustrious Reagan-Bush years when people had no money and no jobs? What has happened to people's memories? It's like they have Alzheimer's or something. I don't like Bush. I don't trust him. I don't like his record. He's stupid. He's lazy."
- Cher

"Sometimes I feel like an old hooker."
- Cher

"I'm insecure about everything, because . . . I'm never going to look in the mirror and see this blond, blue-eyed
girl. That is my idea of what I'd like to look like."
- Cher