Sharon Osbourne

Sharon and Ozzy Osbourne first met in the late '70s, when Sharon took on her shoulders the task of managing the ex-Black Sabbath frontman's music career pending his own decision to go solo. In seemingly no time at all, she helped him maintain, and build on, his superstardom -- and did the same for numerous other up-and-coming rock celebrities through the late '90s. The MTV program, of course, represented Sharon's most visible trip into the limelight up through that time. When it wrapped in 2006 (at the end of its fourth season), Sharon -- who endured and emerged victorious from a very public battle with colon cancer -- moved on to other filmed projects. These included hosting her own short-lived talk program, The Sharon Osbourne Show, and serving as a judge on the talent-search-themed reality series The X Factor and America's Got Talent. Cinematically, Osbourne voiced one of the characters in the CG-animated outing Garfield: A Tail of Two Kitties (2006) and tackled a live-action role in the teen comedy It's a Boy Girl Thing (2006). ~ Nathan Southern, All Movie Guide