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Paula Abdul

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Paula Abdul was born in San Fernando Valley, California. At eight, she started taking dance classes. She went to Van Nuys High School, in which she was a senior class president and head cheerleader. She graduated in 1980 and entered college at Cal State Northridge to major in radio and TV. After joining the L.A. Lakers cheerleaders, she became head cheerleader/choreographer after only a few months, eventually dropping out of college to dance and choreograph full-time. The Jacksons recruited her to choreograph the 1984 "Torture" the first of a series of films and videos she would choreograph. The first album she released was "Forever Your Girl" the singer's career took off. But the hit single "Straight Up" was a huge success and she has been a wildly successful performer/singer ever after. This is aided by her stint on American Idol (2002-2004). Her father (Harry Abdul) is from a Sephardic Jewish background from Syria. Her mother, too Jewish, was born a...

Mary McDonnell

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Mary McDonnell, a two-time Oscar(r),-nominated actress, is best known for her performances on screen in traditional and contemporary roles. She also has a long history of roles both on stage and screen. Mary Eileen McDonnell was born on April 28, 1952 in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, to Eileen (Mundy) and John McDonnell, a computer consultant, both from Irish heritage. She was raised in Ithaca, New York, she graduated from the State University of New York (SUNY) in Fredonia. She then attended theatre school, after which she was accepted into Long Wharf Theatre Company (East Coast). Her first film role came in Dances with Wolves (1990) by Kevin Costner. She played the character of "Stands with a Fist" as a Sioux Indian-born white woman. In exchange for the role, she received her first Academy Award nomination. McDonnell's film credits also include Lawrence Kasdan's Grand Canyon (1991) & Mumford (1999) in which she starred alongside veteran actors such as Robert R...

Paula Faris

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Paula Faris is an American journalist who formerly worked as a television correspondent for ABC News. Her stints as co-anchor of Good Morning America Weekend (2014-2018) and co-host of The View (2015-2018) are very well-known. In the past, she anchors World News Now and America This Morning. After graduating, she worked in several communications-related jobs including an operations position at Mills/James Productions in Columbus, Ohio. The position she held was in radio sales, due to the lack of television opportunities. After a few years of working as a production assistant at WKEF/WRGT she was capable of reporting and anchoring periodically. She was the anchor for weekends for WCPO TV in Cincinnati as well as the weekday anchor for WCPO TV in Cincinnati from 2002 to 2005. Following the expiration of her contract she took on the role of anchor and reporter for sports at the NBC affiliate WMAQ-TV in Chicago between November 2005 and December 2011. In December 2011, she was recruited by...

Markie Post

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Markie Post grew-up in Walnut Creek. She started her career as a film and TV producer, notably "The New Card Sharks", (1978) and "Card Sharks" (1986). She continued to produce projects such as Double Dare (1976), and was a guest on numerous TV shows, including E! True Hollywood Story (1996) and Electra Woman (2000). Her most memorable TV performance was as "Christine Sullivan" in Night Court (1984). From 1984 to 1992 she was in 156 episodes. Marylee (Armstrong) Post is her daughter. She was a poet and a well-known nuclear physical scientist Richard Freeman Post (November 14 1918 until April 7 15th, 2015). Alongside her second husband Michael A. Ross, she had two children: Katie Ross (born June 26 in 1986) and Daisy Ross (30 March 1990). She was born in Palo alto, California and grew up near Walnut Creek in California. She was a cheerleader at Las Lomas High School, Walnut Creek, California. Earned her Bachelor of Fine Arts degree at Lewis & Clark C...

Sarah Chalke

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Sarah Chalke was born in Ottawa, Ontario Canada on 27 August 1976. Her parents are Angie Chalke and Doug Chalke. Sarah is the middle child having an older sister, Natasha Chalke, and one younger, Piper Chalke. Sarah's acting debut was in City Boy (1992), a movie made for TV. Following her debut film, Sarah auditioned for the role as Becky on Roseanne (1988) in 1993. The show was searching for a replacement after Alicia Goranson quit the show to attend college. Sarah graduated from high school in 1995, during the filming of the 1994-1995 seasons of Roseanne (1988). Sarah also starred alongside Jim Varney (1994) in Ernest Goes to School (1994). She also appeared in Robin of Locksley (1996) and Stand against Fear(1996). In these films she played the part of Krista Wilson as a cheerleader. Sarah was asked to be a part in a show from 1998 called Nothing Too Good for a Cowboy. It was a year after Roseanne (1988). It was based on the TV film of the same name which was called Nothing Too G...

Lauren Ash

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Lauren Ash is a recent Second City Chicago Mainstage alumni. She is also a graduate of the Second City Toronto Mainstage and is part of the sketch comedy duo "Cory!". She's a two-time Canadian Comedy Award winner for Best Female Improviser. She has also won awards for Best Comedic play in 2008 and Best Sketch Troupe in 2006. She has played a variety of characters in "Scare Tactics" and "Almost Heroes,"" an Canadian television series. She played a recurring character in "The Ron James Show" and made guest appearances in "Lost Girl,"" "Cracked," "Bomb Girls" and "Call Me Fitz." Other credits in television and film include "Video on Trial,"" "Hotbox" and the Oscar Award-nominated feature "Lars and the Real Girl." She also appears as Sam in the animated Canadian show "The Dating Guy." Her wealth has grown significant in 2019 and 2020. How much does Laur...

Paula Patton

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Amy Carlson

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Amy Carlson was raised in Glen Ellyn (Illinois) and spent most of her childhood living in Chicago. Amy was a resident of Glen Ellyn the city of Illinois, up until she graduated from junior college. Her family also resided in Middle East, where her parents, Bob (and Barb) taught at American School. Amy is the younger sister of Betsy, Lori, and brother Joe. Amy has traveled extensively across Europe with her family , and independently. They both worked as teachers and could travel and camp together each summer due to this. They've stayed in every state except Alaska. Amy was also in Rwanda following the war in 1994 to aid in relief efforts. Amy was a talented actor in school productions and was a winner of writing contests. In high school, she excelled as an athlete, placing in the first ever 3200-meter relay for girls in Illinois track. After suffering an injury, Amy returned to theater and perform a variety of roles that included Lanford Wilson's "Fifth of July" and W...

Penelope Cruz Sanchez

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Penelope Cruz Sanchez is the daughter of Eduardo Cruz, a Madrid hairdresser, and Encarna Sanchez, a hairdresser from Madrid. As a child, she was an obsessive performer. She would even re-enact commercials on TV for the entertainment of her family. However, she decided to devote her energies to dancing. After pursuing classical ballet for 9 years in Spain's National Conservatory, she continued her studies under a group of prominent dancers. At the age of 15 she followed her purpose when she beat over 300 girls at an audition at a talent agency. The agency offered her roles in Spanish music videos and TV. The contract led to many more roles, and opened the doors to a successful career on the world of big screens. Cruz was first seen in a movie in The Greek Labyrinth (1993) (The Greek Labyrinth) Then she appeared briefly in the Timothy Dalton thriller Framed (1992). Her final film was an Oscar-winning film, Belle Epoque (1992), where she played one of the four sisters fighting for the...

Milena Govich

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Milena Govich, a writer, actor and musician, has directed numerous episodes on TV including Chicago Med (2015), The Equalizer (2021), FBI The Most Wanted(2020), Chicago Fire (2012) and many more. Milena was the Co-EP/Producing Director of Dick Wolf's CBS series FBI (2018) and is currently attached to two pilots. Milena was selected as one of the eight directors in AFI's prestigious Directing Workshop for Women. Unspeakable was her TV show as well as a short film. It starred Jeff Kober and Laura Vandervoort The film won the best episodic award at the Seattle International Film Festival as and the Best Pilot award at SoHo International Film Festival. Her short film Temporary (2017 written by Milena Vandervoort) has been shown all across the nation. It was awarded the title of Best Narrative Short at Anthem Film Festival and Best Dark Comedy at Atlanta ShortsFest. The Director's Choice Award was also given at Sedona International Film Festival. Milena has acted in over 100 epi...

Piper Perabo

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Piper Perabo is a Golden Globe nominated film, stage and TV actor. Born in Dallas, Texas, and raised in New Jersey, she graduated in the summa cum Laude class at Ohio University. In 2000 she was cast in a starring role in Coyote Ugly. Since then she has been in movies such as Christopher Nolan's "The Prestige" featuring Hugh Jackman and Christian Bale, "Because I Said So" with Diane Keaton and "First Snow" featuring Guy Pearce, "Cheaper by the Dozen" films with Steve Martin, "Imagine Me and"Imagine Me & You" with Lena Heady and Matthew Goode and the crime thriller "10th and Wolf" with an ensemble cast which included James Marsden and Dennis Hopper. In Rian Johnson's sci fi action film "Looper," she starred with Bruce Willis and Joseph Gordon Levitt. Perabo was Annie Walker on USA Network's spy drama "Covert Affairs" for five seasons. Following that she co-starred in ABC's legal ...

Ayelet Zurer

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Ayelet Zurer is one of Israel's most well-known actresses. Her birthplace is in Tel Aviv and was first noticed by Hollywood when Steven Spielberg cast her in her first English-speaking role as Eric Bana’s wife in Munich (2005). Zurer has appeared in several Studio films since her arrival in America, which includes Sony Pictures' Vantage Point opposite William Hurt and Dennis Quaid Samuel Goldwyn's Fugitive Parts with Stephen Dillane, Paul Schrader’s Adam Resurrected opposite Jeff Goldblum, and Willem Dafoe. Ron Howard's Angeles and Demons opposite Tom Hanks. Darling Companion is an ensemble film by Lawrence Kasdan which includes Diane Keaton and Kevin Kline. Warner Bros. Man Of Steel along with Russell Crow. Ewan McGregor filmed Rodrigo Garcia, Last Days in the Desert. She was waiting for the release of The Last Knights, a film directed by Kazuaki Kiriya. She is starring alongside Clive Owen. She recently won the Gold Nymph Award for Outstanding Actress in the Drama Ser...

Pollyanna McIntosh

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Pollyanna McIntosh is a native of Scotland. She was raised in Portugal, Colombia and then returned to Scotland. It was here that she began to perform on stage in The Edinburgh Festival. When she was 16, she moved to London and was soon involved in the indie filmmaking (her first job paid for was as an actor in Irvine Welsh's The Acid House (1998)) and theatre and acting as both an actress and director. In 2004, she moved to Los Angeles in 2004 brought new theatre opportunities, including a production of "The Woolgatherer", in which she was director Anne Dudek (a regular on Mad Men (2007)/Big Love (2006)) and David Dayan Fisher (a regular on 24 (2001)/NCIS (2003)) to great reviews. In Headspace (2005) the actress landed her first US movie part as "Stacy" who was a manipulative person who was a newly-baptized Christian. It was in the role of crazy "Thumper Wint" in the comedy, Sex and Death 101 (2007) (Simon Baker and Winona Ryder) directed created by He...

Paget Valerie Brewster

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Paget Valerie is an American actor, singer, as well as voice actor. Her character as Kathy an recurring character on Friends Season 4, was her first recognition. The first time she was recognized was her role as Emily Prentiss, Supervisory Special Agent on the crime show Criminal Minds. She appeared frequently on the show from 2006 until 2012. The show has been back regularly since then , with guest appearances. Her other roles include voiceovers for Elise and Mr. Mumbles on Dan Vs., Frankie Dart on the final season of Community, the voice of Birdgirl in Harvey Birdman Attorney at Law, Sara Kingsley on the Fox sitcom Grandfathered and also voicing Donald Duck's twin sister Della in the 2017 series of DuckTales, marking the first appearance in animation of the character. Brewster was born in Concord, Massachusetts, on March 10 in 1969. Her mother, Hathaway Brewster (nee Tew), worked as an official for the government. her father, Galen Brewster, worked as an administrator in a school...

Pom Klementieff

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Pom Klementieff is a French actress was born on May 3, 1986. She attended the Cours Florent drama school, Paris. She has been in movies such as Loup 2009, Sleepless Night 2011 and Hacker's Game 2015. She plays the Mantis character in the Marvel Cinematic Universe film Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 (2017), Avengers: Infinity War (2018) and Avengers: Endgame (2019). Pom Klementieff was born in Quebec City to a Korean father and a French-Russian mom. He was working as consul with the French government. Eugene Klementieff, a painter was her grandpa. Her parents chose the name "Pom" because it's identical in pronunciation to Korean words for both "spring" as well as "tiger". Klementieff spent one year in Canada prior to moving her family frequently due to her father's work. After moving to France the family lived in Japan. Her father was diagnosed with cancer when she was five, and her mother had schizophrenia and was incapable of caring for childr...