Nicole Kidman mini-bio : Nicole Mary Kidman is an Academy Award-winning actress, and one of Hollywood's leading actresses. She has also ventured into singing. In 1995, she appeard in To Die For, a satirical comedy that earned her praise from critics and she won a Golden Globe Award for her work in the film. In 2002, Kidman received an Academy Award nomination for her performance in Moulin Rouge! and in 2003 she won the Oscar for her work in The Hours.

Gerry Armstrong is a former member of the Church of Scientology who is now one of the most active critics of the Church. In 1980, the Church assigned Armstrong, then a member of the Church's elite Sea Org, to organize some personal papers of L. Ron Hubbard that were to serve as the basis of a new biography of Hubbard. A non-Scientologist, Omar Garrison, had been hired to write the book.

Tory Christman (former married name Tory Bezazian; online name "Magoo"), born 1947, is a former member of the Church of Scientology. She left the organization in 2000, after being a member for about 30 years and is now one of its most visible and high-profile critics, making frequent media appearances.

Robert Vaughn Young (April 23, 1938 - June 15, 2003) commonly known by his initials RVY, was a whistleblower against the Church of Scientology after working high inside their organization for over twenty years.

The American writer Arnaldo (Arnie) Pagliarini Lerma (b. November 18, 1950) is a former Scientologist, and critic of Scientology, who has appeared in television, media and radio interviews.

Charles Milles Manson (born November 12, 1934) is an American convict and career criminal, most known for his participation in the Tate-LaBianca murders of the late 1960s. Manson had spent most of his adult life in prison, initially for offenses such as car theft, forgery and credit card fraud. He also worked some time as a pimp.

Stacy Brooks (born April 8, 1952) is one of the most public and outspoken critics of the Church of Scientology.<;sup></sup> Like her late ex-husband Robert Vaughn Young, a Scientology whistleblower employed by Scientology for over 20 years, Brooks was also a member of the Church, working in its upper level management in Los Angeles for almost fifteen years.<sup&gt;</sup> After leaving in 1989 Brooks joined the Lisa McPherson trust, …

Jerome Seinfeld (born April 29, 1954) is a Golden Globe- and Emmy award-winning American comedian, actor, and writer. Seinfeld is often described as an observational comedian. He is best known for playing a semi-fictional version of himself in the long-running sitcom "Seinfeld", which he co-created, helped write, and executive produced.

Werner Erhard introduced a breakthrough access to "transformation" making it readily available to the public. His thinking gave rise to the idea that people could transform their lives in a short time, yielding powerful and long-lasting results. In 1971, he created the est Training. Over a decade, the est Training was attended by approximately a million people, world-wide. It was an extremely popular personal growth seminar that produced unprecedented results.

Sharon Vonne Stone (born March 10, 1958) is an Academy Award-nominated, Golden Globe- and Emmy-winning American actress, producer, and former fashion model. She came to international attention for her performance in the 1992 Hollywood blockbuster film "Basic Instinct".

Noah Antrim Lottick was an American student of Russian studies who is notable for having committed suicide on May 11 1990 by jumping from a 10th-floor window, and the controversy ensuing after his death. This controversy revolved around his parents' concern over his membership in the Church of Scientology.

Emilio Estévez is a Spanish American actor, director and writer.

Patrick Wayne Swayze (born August 18, 1952) is an American dancer, actor, singer and songwriter. His breakthrough role was as the dance instructor in the 1987 film "Dirty Dancing", and he also had a hit with the 1990 film "Ghost"

Elli Perkins was a mother of two, a professional glass artist, and a Scientologist who lived in Western New York. She was a senior auditor at the Church of Scientology in Buffalo, New York. Her son, Jeremy, started showing signs of strange and disturbing behavior. She attempted to correct this with treatment approved by Scientology. Jeremy's schizophrenia eventually progressed to the point where he felt Elli was poisoning him, prompting an unsuccessful suicide attempt.

Philip Chandler Gale (1978, Los Angeles, California - March 13, 1998, Cambridge, Massachusetts) was a pioneering internet software developer and computer prodigy, and avid musician, born and raised a Scientologist but rejected that upbringing and turned to the Church of the SubGenius. Gale earned roughly a million dollars worth of stock options for his innovative internet service provider (ISP) programs at EarthLink, …

Diana Canova (born Diana Rivero on June 1, 1953 in West Palm Beach, Florida) is an American actress. Her professional last name is taken from the maiden name of her mother, actress and singer Judy Canova. Her most famous role was that of nymphomaniac Corinne Tate on "Soap", a sitcom that parodied soap operas, between 1977 and 1980. In 1980 ABC executives offered Canova her own television series, …

Ronald DeWolf (May 7, 1934 - September 16, 1991), born Lafayette Ron Hubbard, Jr., also known as Nibs Hubbard, was the eldest child of Scientology founder L. Ron Hubbard and Hubbard's first wife, Margaret Louise Grubb.

Louis Allen Rawls (December 1, 1933 - January 6, 2006) was a Chicago-born American soul music, jazz, and blues singer. Known for his smooth vocal style, Frank Sinatra once said that Rawls had "the classiest singing and silkiest chops in the singing game." Rawls released more than 70 albums, sold more than 40 million records, appeared as an actor in motion pictures and on television, and voiced-over many cartoons. He had been called "The Funkiest Man Alive".

John Riley Brodie (born August 14, 1935) is a former professional American football quarterback for the San Francisco 49ers, and had a second career as a Senior PGA Tour professional golfer. Brodie was born in San Francisco, California. He grew up in the Montclair district of Oakland and attended Montclair Grammar (later Elementary) School and Oakland Technical High School and was a standout athlete even then.

Jerome David Salinger (born January 1, 1919) is an American author best known for his 1951 novel "The Catcher in the Rye", as well as his reclusive nature; he has not published any new work since 1965 and has not granted a formal interview since 1980. Raised in Manhattan, New York, Salinger attended several boarding schools, where he began writing short stories. He attended college briefly but dropped out to devote his time to writing, …

Harry Palmer, born April 3, 1944, is the developer of the Avatar® self-development system of courses and later founded and owns Star's Edge, Inc., which franchises Avatar worldwide. He started development on Avatar in 1986, first releasing it on October 15, 1986. In his literature, he is described as a "[w]riter, teacher, lecturer, scientist, programmer, environmentalist, businessman, spiritual leader, explorer ... truly a Renaissance man."

Gloria Gaynor (born Gloria Fowles September 7, 1949) is an American singer, best-known for the disco era hits "I Will Survive" (Hot 100 #1, 1979), "Never Can Say Goodbye" (Hot 100 #9, 1974), and "I Am What I Am" (Hot 100 #82, 1983). She was born in Newark, New Jersey.

Candice Patricia Bergen (born May 9, 1946) is an Academy Award-nominated and Emmy Award-winning American actress and former fashion model, primarily for her roles in sitcoms and television. She is currently best known for her starring role on the television situation comedy "Murphy Brown", and as William Shatner's legal partner, Shirley Schmidt, on the ABC hit dramedy, "Boston Legal".

Cyril Ronald Vosper (7 June, 1935 - 4 May, 2004) was a Scientologist and later a critic of Scientology. He wrote "The Mind Benders", which was the first book on Scientology to be written by an ex-member and the first critical book on Scientology to be published (narrowly beating "Inside Scientology" by Robert Kaufman).

Soleil Moon Frye (born August 6, 1976 in Glendora, California) is a U.S. actress and director. Frye is best known for her childhood role as the title character in "Punky Brewster", a television sitcom. Frye's father is Virgil Frye, and her mother is Sondra Peluce Londy. She has two half-brothers, Sean Frye and Meeno Peluce. "Soleil" is French for the sun.

Katharine Hope McPhee (born March 25, 1984) is an American pop singer who was the runner-up to Taylor Hicks on the fifth season of "American Idol" in 2006.

Stanley Clarke (born 30 June 1951) is an American musician and composer known for his innovative and influential work on double bass and bass guitar as well as his numerous film and television scores.

Cathy Lee Crosby (born December 2, 1944) is an American actress. She achieved TV and film success in the early 1970s and is probably best known as a co-host of the television series "That's Incredible".

Adi Da Samraj (born Franklin Albert Jones, November 3, 1939 in Jamaica, New York is a contemporary and controversial guru or spiritual master, artist and writer, and founder of the new religious movement known as Adidam. He has used names such as Bubba Free John, Da Free John, and Da Love-Ananda to correspond with changes in his work as a spiritual teacher.

Mona Vasquez was a scientologist in the 1980s and active in Scientology's headquarters in Europe, in Copenhagen. She went on a hunger strike in August 1989 at Scientology's offices in Paris when she wanted to quit the program, in order to get her money back. She did receive almost 60,000 Euro back from Scientology.

Bárbara Carrera is a film and TV actress as well as a former model. She was born in Bluefields, Nicaragua, the daughter of a US ambassador and a Nicaraguan mother. Barbara Carrera has married (and divorced): # model Uva Barden # Baron Otto von Hoffman # Greek shipowner Nicholas Mavroleon. She has no children. At some point she was involved with Scientology, but left shortly afterward. She is currently friends with journalist Cameron Docherty.

Lawrence Wollersheim is an ex-Scientologist. He brought a case against the Church of Scientology in 1980. In the course of this case, the story of Xenu came to public light. Wollersheim joined Scientology in 1969, signing the Sea Org's "billion-year" contract to serve the church. Wollersheim claimed to have been held captive in the hold of a ship docked off California for 18 hours a day, what he called a "thought reform gulag".

Kate Bornstein is a transgender author, playwright, performance artist and gender theorist. Bornstein, born Albert Bornstein on March 15, 1948, underwent sex reassignment surgery in 1986. : "I know I'm not a man...and I've come to the conclusion that I'm probably not a woman, either...The trouble is, we're living in a world that insists we be one or the other." - Kate Bornstein in "Gender Outlaw: On Men, Women, …

Mike Garson is an American professional pianist, most notable for his work with Nine Inch Nails, David Bowie, Billy Corgan and The Smashing Pumpkins. Garson was originally noticed when he played on the "I'm the One" album by early 1970s experimental artist Annette Peacock. When Peacock was asked by a very interested David Bowie to join him on his tour she refused. Garson however did not and so began one of the most enduring relationships in rock history.

Gábor Szabó was a jazz guitarist. He was born in Budapest in 1936 and began playing guitar at the age of 14, inspired by jazz music on the Voice of America broadcasts. He escaped Hungary and moved to the United States in 1956 and attended the Berklee School of Music in Boston. In 1958, he was invited to perform at the Newport Jazz Festival. From 1961-1965, he performed with the Chico Hamilton quintet.

William Seward Burroughs II, more commonly known as William S. Burroughs (pronounced), was an American novelist, essayist, social critic, painter and spoken word performer. Much of Burroughs' work is semi-autobiographical, drawn from his experiences as an opiate addict, a condition that marked the last fifty years of his life. A primary member of the Beat Generation, he was an avant-garde author who affected popular culture as well as literature.