Jennifer “Unabombshell” Tilly: Celebrity Poker Hottie

Jennifer Tilly is the modish celebrity poker hottie making shakes in the women's poker circuit. She made history when she became the first Hollywood star to take home a World Series of Poker gold bracelet Ladies' No Limit Hold'em event. She then broke records again by finishing the invitational 2005 World Poker Tour Ladies night. Her WPT win made her the first woman to win both the major World Poker Tour and World Series Of Poker women's events.

Jennifer Tilly has been best known as an actress, having performed on top of 100 movies and television shows such as Bound, Bride of Chucky, and Liar Liar. Tilly is most known for her appearance in Woody Allen’s Bullets Over Broadway, in which Tilly was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress.

Jennifer Tilly has also done a lot of voice-over work including roles such as the killer doll Tiffany in Child’s Play, and as the voice of the Griffin Family’s neighbor Bonnie in the hit TV show, Family Guy.

Jennifer Tilly became stitch up with poker in the same way that many other Hollywood celebrities have in the last few years, through playing on television celebrity poker programs. She has appeared on Game Show Network’s Poker Royale as well as on Poker Superstars III, where she was busted in the preliminaries. Other TV appearances include Bravo’s Celebrity Poker Showdown and ESPN’s Pro-Am Poker Equalizer, where she appeared as a celebrity.

She became the hottest poker player during her break out performance in the ladies No Limit Texas Holdem World Series Of Poker in 2005 when she won the title and took home the $156,825.

Jennifer Tilly outlasted 600 women including She outlasted some tough players, including touring pro Isabelle "No Mercy" Mercier WPT Season 2 Ladies Night champion, Cecelia Mortensen tournament player and wife of 2001 WSOP champion Carlos Mortensen and Aidiliy Elviro fiancee of Michael "The Grinder" Mizrachi to earn that WSOP bracelet and showed the poker world she was not a one time fluke on September 2005 by winning the 3rd World Poker Tour Ladies Invitational Tournament at the Bicycle Casino in Los Angeles. Jennifer Tilly's WSOP success made her the first non-poker celebrity to win a World Series of Poker bracelet.

During an interview on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno, Jennifer Tilly said, “I was astonished too. As it started to approach the moment where I thought I might possibly be winning a new piece of jewelry, I was freaking out. And you know, I had almost all the chips, I had like 1,300 chips and the other girl had maybe, um, 57 chips. And I was like, I know because I'm on ESPN and the cameras are on me, there's going to be some way I'm going to lose my entire stack in one hand. But it didn't happen”.

Jennifer Tilly take advantages of an aggressive style that can be daunting. She manage to do well in tournament play. She’s an exceptionally intelligent celebrity gone sexy poker hottie who uses her smarts in a sagacious manner. She’s gone from being a celebrity poker player to a professional in a relatively short amount of time. And she’s gone from being a professional into retirement in an even shorter amount of time.

As Jennifer Tilly told Bluff Magazine in 2008, “I’m not giving up poker entirely — gambling is an addiction after all. I’m just going to treat it more like a hobby and less like a career."

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Celebrity Poker: Milla Jovovich

Think celebrities do nothing but party all night at discos, binge drink, and get divorced? Think again. Celebrities more often prefer to stay at home for a quiet evening of board and card games like poker with their friends, just like Milla Jovovich.

Milla Jovovich is a supermodel, actress, musician, and fashion designer of Russian-Serbian- Montenegrin origin. Over her career, she has appeared in a number of science fiction and action themed films, for which music channel VH1 has referred to her as the “reigning queen of kick-butt” In 2004, Milla Jovovich was ranked #69 on Maxim magazine’s “Top 100 Hot List” and ranked #82 in 2005. Maxim also named her #11 on their list of “Hottest Nerd Crushes”. In 2008, she was ranked #90 on Ask Men’s Top 99 Women of 2008 List.

It goes without saying that celebrity poker player Milla Jovovich possesses an incredible amount of sex appeal, as befits her status as a former supermodel. In addition to her gig as a professional clothes horse, Milla established herself as a sexual being early on thanks to roles in risque projects like 1998’s Two Moon Junction and 1991’s Return to the Blue Lagoon. Even when she embarked on her music career in 1994, Milla Jovovich relied on her sexuality to grab the attention of the masses -- as evidenced by the sultry video for the single “Gentleman Who Fell.”

Milla Jovovich is the action hero after the last action hero, and she has become a huge star on the ultrawide screen by alternately threatening the world and saving it in films such as The Fifth Element in 1997, UltraViolet and the Resident Evil series. Milla Jovovich has been one of the stranger career arcs of our time: From being a child star and then taking over the Brooke Shields nymphette franchise, she moved on to supermodeldom, then became an independent film actress and ultimately an unlikely kick-ass superwoman who seems to have taken over the Stallone-Willis-Schwarzenegger saving-the-world business.

Though she spent the first five years of her life in the Soviet Union, Milla Jovovich and her family relocated to the United States and eventually settled down in Los Angeles. Her parents split up a short time later, and Milla’s mother -- a performer in her native Kiev -- briefly attempted to make a living as an actress before eventually taking on house-cleaning jobs. 

Though Milla Jovovich picked up English within three months of moving to America, she found that many of her peers picked on her because of her accent and her communist background. 

Milla Jovovich’s striking looks were in place virtually since birth, and by the time she was 9 years old, she had become a fixture within the modeling world’s auditioning circuit. After being signed by the Prima Modeling Agency, Milla Jovovich began popping up in a variety of print ads and other campaigns -- though it wasn’t until famed photographer Richard Avedon discovered Milla that big things started to happen for her. 

She was immediately placed alongside two other models in a campaign for Revlon makeup, and Milla Jovovich quickly found herself being asked to pose for such prestigious names as Donna Karan and Versace.

Milla Jovovich has played Joan of Arc, a supreme being, and a genetically transformed superweapon and/or savior, but this year she’s kicking butt in a more down-to-earth way, in MGM’s The Perfect Getaway, in which she plays a terrorized honeymooner who strikes back, and in The 4th Kind, a conspiracy-theory thriller set in Alaska. She’s also shooting Keep Coming Back, the directorial debut of the great actor William H. Macy, where she plays a former stripper.

Milla Jovovich’s stint as Alice in the hugely popular Resident Evil series only confirmed her A-list status.