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Paula Abdul

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Paula Abdul was raised in San Fernando Valley. At the age of eight older, she began her dancing lessons. Van Nuys High School was where she was the class president and chief cheerleader. Her high school graduation was in 1980. After graduation she entered the college process at Cal State Northridge. There she was a radio and television major. and television. 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. She was enlisted by The Jacksons to choreograph their 1984 "Torture" video, the first of a number of movies and videos she would choreograph. She branched out into singing through her first album, "Forever Your Girl" which was not a huge success until the single "Straight Up" exploded onto the charts in December 1988 and she has been a renowned singer/dancer ever since, enhanced by her appearance as an adjudicator on the po...

Mary McDonnell

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Mary McDonnell is an actress who has been nominated for two Oscars(r). She is well-known for her portrayals of characters from both contemporary and period screen roles. Mary Eileen McDonnell is a Pennsylvania-born actress. She was the child of Eileen (Mundy) the American computer consultant from Ireland, and John McDonnell. She was born in Ithaca and graduated from Fredonia State University of New York. After that, she went to drama school and was admitted to the famous Long Wharf Theatre Company on the East Coast. At the age of 22, she was when she was offered her breakthrough movie role in Dances with Wolves (1990) in which she played "Stands with a Fist", a Sioux Indian woman who was white. For the role, she earned her first Academy Award nomination. McDonnell has starred in the Lawrence Kasdan films Grand Canyon (1991), and Mumford (1999) alongside such veteran actors like Robert Redford as well as Sidney Poitier. She also was a part of Roland Emmerich's Independence...

Paula Faris

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Paula Faris, an American journalist, worked previously as the TV reporter at ABC News. Her most well-known work is her time as cohost of Good Morning America Weekend, from 2014 to 2018, and host of The View, 2015-2018. She was also co-anchor on America This Morning as well as World News Now. After graduating, she worked in several communications-related jobs including an operations position at Mills/James Productions in Columbus, Ohio. Due to the limited opportunities in television, she was offered a job as a sales representative for radio. After a year of work as a production assistant at WKEF/WRGT. She was then in a position to report and anchor at times. From 2002 until 2005 she was the sports anchor for weekends and the weekday sports anchor for WPO-TV in Cincinnati. The contract was ended and she was hired as a reporter and anchor for NBC affiliate WMAQ-TV, Chicago, from November 2005 until December 2011. In December 2011 she was recruited by ABC News the division for news of ABC....

Markie Post

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Markie Post grew up in Walnut Creek, California and began her career in films and TV shows like Card Sharks (1978) and "The New Card Sharks" (1986) and then went on to create projects such as Double Dare (1976) and has made appearances on such programs on television like 1st to Die (2003), E! True Hollywood Story (1996) and Electra Woman (2000). Her most famous TV part was "Christine Sullivan" in Night Court (1984). The actress was on an entire 156 episodes of this show from 1984 to 1992. Marylee (Armstrong) Post was her mother. She was an accomplished poet and nuclear scientist Richard Freeman Post (November 14 1918-April 7, 2015). She had two daughters with her second husband Michael A. Ross: Katie Ross (born June 26 in 1987) and Daisy Ross (born March 30, 1990). Her birthplace was Palo alto, California and grew up in the vicinity of Walnut Creek in California. As an athlete, she was a part of Las Lomas High school located in Walnut Creek. The Bachelor of Arts deg...

Sarah Chalke

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Sarah Chalke was born in Ottawa, Ontario Canada on 27 August 1976. Angie Chalke, and Doug Chalke are her parents. She is the middle child having one older sister Natasha Chalke, and one younger, Piper Chalke. Sarah's debut as an actor was City Boy (1992), which was a TV-produced movie. After her first film Sarah auditioned for the role of Becky on Roseanne (1988) in 1993. After Alicia Goranson left the show to attend college the show was in search for an alternative. Sarah graduated from high school in the year 1995, while shooting the 1994-1995 season of Roseanne (1988). Sarah also starred alongside Jim Varney (1994) in Ernest Goes to School (1994). She was in Robin of Locksley (1996) and Stand against Fear(1996). In both films, she played the role of Krista Wilson as an athlete. Sarah was asked to play a character in a television series named Nothing Too Good for a Cowboy (1998) the same year following Roseanne (1988). Based on Nothing Too Good for a Cowboy (2000), Sarah also app...

Lauren Ash

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Lauren Ash is a recent participant in the Second City Chicago Mainstage. She is also an alumna from the Second City Toronto Mainstage. She is also one half of the comedy duo "Cory!". She has been a Canadian Comedy Award nominee twice for Best Female Improviser. In 2008, she took home the Best Comedic Play award and , in 2006, the Best Sketch Troupe award. The actress has been in several roles on "Scare Tactics" and "Almost Heroes" and "Almost Heroes," as well. She was a regular in "The Ron James Show" and was a guest on "Lost Girl," "Cracked," "Bomb Girls" and "Call Me Fitz." Other television and film credits include "Video on Trial,"" "Hotbox" as well as the Oscar Award-nominated film "Lars and the Real Girl." She also appears as Sam in animated Canadian series "The Dating Guy." Her wealth has grown considerably between 2019 and the year 2020. So, how ...

Paula Patton

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Amy Carlson

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Amy Carlson was raised in Glen Ellyn (Illinois) and spent her entire childhood living in Chicago. Amy resided in Glen Ellyn in Illinois until she was in junior college. Her family also lived in the Middle East, where her parents, Bob (and Barb) taught at American School. Amy has three siblings: sisters Betsy and Lori and brother Joe. Amy has traveled across Europe both with her family and also independently. Both of her parents worked as teachers so they had the opportunity to spend their summers together in the campfire and travelling across the United States. They have camped in every state, except Alaska. Amy was sent to Rwanda to assist in relief efforts after the war of 1994. In the beginning, Amy showed artistic talent performing in school productions and winning writing contests. In high school she was an accomplished athlete who was a part of the very first 3200 meter relay in the Illinois girls track. After sustaining an injury, she returned to school and played many parts on ...

Penelope Cruz Sanchez

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Penelope Cruz Sanchez was born in Madrid to Eduardo Cruz, a retailer and Encarna Sanchez, hairdresser. When she was a child, she was already a fervent performer, who would reenact TV commercials for her family's amusement, but she ultimately decided to concentrate on dance. She continued to study alongside a group of highly respected dancers following her the last nine years learning ballet at Spain's National Conservatory. She realized what she wanted to do at age 15 when she smashed more than 300 other girls in an audition held by an agency for talent. The agency offered her roles on Spanish music videos and TV. The contract led to many more roles, and opened the door to a career in the big screen. Cruz made her debut film in 1993's The Greek Labyrinth (The Greek Labyrinth). She then briefly made an appearance in Framed (1992) which was a Timothy Dalton thriller. Her next film, Belle Epoque (1992) was an Oscar-winning production where she played one of the four sisters co...

Milena Govich

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Milena Govich, a director as well as actor and musician has directed many episodes of TV such as Chicago Med (2015), The Equalizer (2021), FBI The Most Wanted(2020), Chicago Fire (2012) among others. She was also the Co-EP/Producing Director on Dick Wolf's CBS series FBI (2018) and has been tapped to direct two pilots in the process of development. Milena was one of the eight women chosen by AFI for their famous Directing Workshop for Women. She also took part in the Sony Pictures Television Diverse Directors program. Unspeakable was her TV show and short film. The show starred Jeff Kober and Laura Vandervoort the film was awarded Best Episodic at the Seattle International Film Festival as in addition to the Best Pilot award at SoHo International Film Festival. The film she made in the short form Temporary (2017 written by Milena Vandervoort) has been shown all across the nation. It was awarded the award for Best Narrative Short at Anthem Film Festival and Best Dark Comedy at Atlan...

Piper Perabo

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Piper Perabo was nominated for the Golden Globes as a stage, television and film actress. Born in Dallas, Texas, and raised in New Jersey, she graduated Summa Cum Laude from Ohio University. Coyote Ugly was her breakout role. Since then, she's been featured in films such as Christopher Nolan's "The Prestige" with Hugh Jackman and Christian Bale, "Because I Said So" with Diane Keaton and "First Snow" featuring Guy Pearce, "Cheaper by the Dozen" films starring Steve Martin, "Imagine Me and You" featuring Lena Heady and Matthew Goode and the crime thriller "10th and Wolf" featuring an ensemble cast, which included James Marsden and Dennis Hopper. Perabo was the main character alongside Bruce Willis (with Joseph Gordon Levitt), Emily Blunt, and Jeff Daniels in Rian John's sci-fi action movie "Looper". On TV, Perabo was a part of Annie Walker in all 5 seasons of the USA Network's spy drama "Covert Aff...

Ayelet Zurer

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Ayelet Zurer one of Israel's best loved actresses, is an extremely special person. She was born in Tel Aviv, and first was noticed by Hollywood after she was cast by Steven Spielberg in her first English-speaking part, playing Eric Bana's character's wife in the Oscar(r) nominated film Munich (2005). After arriving in the United States, Zurer has appeared in Studio films including Sony Pictures' Vantage Point featuring Dennis Quaid and William Hurt and Samuel Goldwyn's Fugitive Pieces opposite Stephen Dillane, Paul Schrader's Adam Resurrected with Jeff Goldblum and Willem Dafoe. Ron Howard's Angeles and Demons, opposite Tom Hanks, Darling Companion, a Lawrence Kasdan ensemble cast featuring Diane Keaton, Kevin Kline and Warner Bros. Man Of Steel in the role of Russell Crow. Ewan McGregor filmed Rodrigo Garcia, Last Days in the Desert. She also waited for the release of The Last Knights, a film by Kazuaki Kiriya, starring Clive Owen. Recently, she was honored...

Pollyanna McIntosh

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Pollyanna McIntosh was born in Portugal and Colombia, but she returned to Scotland when she began her career on stage during The Edinburgh Festival. She moved to London at the age of 16 and soon was involved in filmmaking in the indie genre. The first time she was paid was working as a stoner in Irvine Welsh's The Acid House (1998). Also, she was an actor and director in theatre. After moving to Los Angeles in 2004 led to more stage work. She directed Anne Dudek (a regular star on Mad Men/Big Love (2006)) as in addition to David Dayan Fisher (a regular part on 24 (2001/NCIS 2003)) to acclaim. Her first US film role was "Stacy" as the manipulative woman who was a born again Christian as seen in Headspace (2005). It was as the crazy "Thumper Wint" in the comedy Sex and Death 101 (2007) (Simon Baker/Winona Ryder), from Heathers (1988) author Daniel Waters, that the public began to notice of her talents, citing a unique blend of powerful sexuality and hilarious humo...

Paget Valerie Brewster

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Paget Valerie is an American actor, singer, and voice actor. First recognized for her role as Kathy in the fourth season's NBC sitcom Friends, she was also vocalist and voice actress. Her first recognition was for her role as Emily Prentiss, Supervisory Special Agent on the crime show Criminal Minds. She was a regular guest on that show regularly from 2006 until 2012. She has returned regularly since then , with guest appearances. She has also played Mr. Mumbles and Elise on Dan Vs., Frankie Dart in Community's final season, Birdgirl in Harvey Birdman Attorney at law, Sara Kingsley in Fox's Grandfathered and Donald Duck’s twin sister Della on DuckTales 2017 was the first time that the character appeared in animation the character. Brewster was born in Concord, Massachusetts on March 10 of 1969. Her mother, Hathaway Brewster (nee Tew), was a government official. Galen Brewster was her father, and was an administrator at the school. Brewster was born in Massachusetts and then...

Pom Klementieff

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Pom Klementieff was born May 3, 1986. She was a student at the Cours Florent drama academy in Paris. Her role includes Loup (2009) and Sleepless Night (2011). She portrays the role of Mantis, in the Marvel Cinematic Universe films Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 (2017). Avengers: Infinity War (2018). Avengers: Endgame (2019). Pom Klementieff was the daughter of a Korean mother, as well as an American-Russian father. Her father was consul in Quebec City, Canada. Her father was a painter Eugene Klementieff. Since it sounds like the Korean words for "spring" or "tiger" her parents named their daughter Pom. Klementieff was a resident of Canada before her family moved extensively due to her father's job. They lived in Japan as well as the Ivory Coast, before settling in France. Klementieff's father, who died at the age of 5 from cancer, was her mother. She also suffered from schizophrenia and couldn't care for her kids. Klementieff was raised with her paternal...