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Paula Abdul

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Paula Abdul was born in San Fernando Valley, California. When she was 8 years old, young, she started dancing lessons. Van Nuys High School was where she was the senior class president and was the school's chief cheerleader. Her graduation was in 1980 and started college at Cal State Northridge to major in radio 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 recruited by The Jacksons to choreograph their 1984 "Torture" video, the first in a long list of films and videos she would choreograph. After her debut album "Forever Your Girl" started singing, she turned to singing and became a popular dancer and singer. The stint she held as an American Idol judge (2002) has made her a popular performer/dancer. Her father (Harry Abdul) is Sephardic Jewish and hails from Syria. Her mother is also Jewish and was born...

Mary McDonnell

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Mary McDonnell, a two-time Oscar(r),-nominated actress, is known for her portrayals on screen in both modern and historical roles. She has also had a long line of roles on stage as well as screen. Mary Eileen McDonnell is a Pennsylvania-born actress. She was the child of Eileen (Mundy) who was an Irish-American computer consultant, and John McDonnell. Raised in Ithaca, New York, she graduated from the State University of New York (SUNY) at Fredonia. She then attended drama school, and was then accepted into Long Wharf Theatre Company (East Coast). She was only 22 when she got her first movie role in Dances with Wolves (1990), where she was "Stands with a Fist", a Sioux Indian woman that is white. Her first Academy Award nomination for the part. McDonnell's film credits include Lawrence Kasdan's Grand Canyon (1991) & Mumford (1999), opposite veteran actors like Robert Redford, Sidney Poitier and Ben Kingsley; Roland Emmerich’s Independence Day (1996) (starring ...

Paula Faris

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Paula Faris is an American journalist from the United States. She was previously a TV correspondent for ABC News. She is well-known for her stint as cohost of Good Morning America Weekend, 2014-2018, as well as host of The View, 2015-2018. Before this, she co-anchored 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. Due to the limited opportunities on TV the company employed her in radio sales. After a few years of working as a production assistant at WKEF/WRGT, she was eventually allowed to anchor and report on occasion. She was the anchor for weekends at WCPO TV in Cincinnati as well as the weekday anchor at WCPO TV in Cincinnati between 2002 and 2005. She was a sports reporter for the NBC's Chicago affiliate WMAQ-TV from November 2005 until December 2011, after her contract had expired. In December 2011, she was appointed by ABC News the divi...

Markie Post

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Markie Post grew-up in Walnut Creek. She started her professional career as a TV and film producer, notably "The New Card Sharks", (1978) as well as "Card Sharks," (1986). She was later able to create projects like Double Dare (1976), and has been featured on many television shows such as E! True Hollywood Story (1996), Electra Woman (2001), and Dyna Girl (2001). One of her most memorable TV role was "Christine Sullivan" on Night Court (1984). From 1984 until 1992, she was featured in 156 episodes. Daughter of Marylee (Armstrong) Post, poet, and noted nuclear physical scientist Richard Freeman Post (November 14 1918 - April 7 in 2015). Two daughters, Katie Ross (born June 26, 1987) and Daisy Ross (born on March 30 the 30th of March, 1990) were born during her second wedding to Michael A. Ross. was born in Palo Alto, California, and grew up in Walnut Creek, California. She was an athlete at Las Lomas High School, Walnut Creek, California. She earned her Bac...

Sarah Chalke

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Sarah Chalke was conceived in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada on 27 August 1976. Angie Chalke is her mother and Doug Chalke are her father. Sarah is the middle child. She has an older sister Natasha Chalke and one younger sister, Piper Chalke. Sarah's first acting role was in City Boy (1992), a movie made for TV. After her debut film her audition, she was cast in 1993 for the role "Becky" of Roseanne (1988). After Alicia Goranson left the show to attend college the show was searching for someone to replace her. Sarah graduated from high school in 1995, and was involved in the production of Roseanne (1988) between 1994 and 1995. In 1994, Sarah starred alongside Jim Varney in Ernest Goes to School (1994). In 1996, Sarah starred in two movies: Robin of Locksley (1996) and Stand Against Fear (1996), where she was an actress called Krista Wilson. Sarah was asked to appear in a show from 1998 called Nothing Too Good for a Cowboy. It was a year following Roseanne (1988). Based on Nothin...

Lauren Ash

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Lauren Ash is a recent participant in the Second City Chicago Mainstage. She is also an Second City Toronto Mainstage alumna and one half the sketch comedy duo "Cory!". She has been an Canadian Comedy Award nominee twice for Best Female Improviser. In 2008, she received the Best Comedic Play award and in 2006, she won the Best Sketch Troupe award. She's appeared in various roles on "Scare Tactics" and "Almost Heroes" and "Almost Heroes," as well. She was a regular in "The Ron James Show" and made guest appearances in "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 feature "Lars and the Real Girl." She's the voice of Sam in "The Dating Guy,"" an animated Canadian series. Her net worth has grown significantly between 2019 and 2020. Wh...

Paula Patton

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Paula Patton was the daughter of Joyce (Vanraden) and Charles Patton. Her father is African-American, and her mother is caucasian and is of German, English and Dutch ancestry. When she was growing up and her family lived in front of the 20th Century Fox lot. She was a fervent movie enthusiast from childhood. Her mother, also liked good movies, was a schoolteacher, and her father was an attorney. Paula says that she used to escape from her mother by pretending to be a different person as young. It is not surprising that she took part in Hamilton Magnet Arts High School's high school plays. Her most beloved role was one played by Abigail in "The Crucible". After finishing the University of Southern California's summer school, she studied film and was assigned a three-month project to make documentaries for PBS. The result was that she began working as a production assistant in TV documentariesand for Howie Mandel's talk show. In the following time she was able to ma...

Amy Carlson

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Amy Carlson was born in Glen Ellyn in Illinois and spent her childhood in Chicago. Amy lived in Glen Ellyn, Illinois, until she was in junior college. Her family also resided in the Middle East, where her parents, Bob (and Barb) taught at American School. Amy has two sisters, Betsy and Lori, along with a brother Joe. Amy has traveled across Europe as a family member and also independently. They both taught and were able to go camping and travel together every summer due to this. In reality, they've spent time camping in every state other than Alaska. Amy was in Rwanda in 1994 following the war in order to help with relief efforts. Amy was a gifted artist from the beginning by participating in school productions and winning writing contests. She was an athlete of great potential in high school and participated in the first ever 3200 meter relay in Illinois girls track. After college, she suffered an injury, she returned to the theater and performed in a variety on stage beginning wi...

Penelope Cruz Sanchez

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Penelope Cruz Sanchez was born in Madrid to Eduardo Cruz, a retailer, and Encarna Sanchez who was a hairdresser. She was a performer with a passion when she was a kid and even reenacted commercials on TV to entertain the family. However, she decided to concentrate her energy on dancing. After pursuing classical ballet for 9 years in Spain's National Conservatory, she continued her education under a variety of highly acclaimed dancers. She discovered her true passion at 15 years old when she smashed more than 300 other girls during an audition for an agency for talent. The resulting contract landed her a variety of roles in Spanish television shows and music videos. This in turn led to a career on the big screen. Cruz made her debut in a film with The Greek Labyrinth (1993). (The Greek Labyrinth). After that she appeared in a brief scene in Framed (1992) directed by Timothy Dalton. Her next film, Belle Epoque (1992) was an Oscar-winning film in which she was one of the four sisters ...

Milena Govich

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Milena Govich is an actor, director actress, musician, and actor who has directed numerous episodes of TV, including The Equalizer (2021), Chicago Med (2015), FBI: Most Wanted (2020), Chicago Fire (2012) as well as other. She also was the Co-EP/Producing Director for Dick Wolf's CBS series FBI (2018), and she is slated to direct two pilots that are in development. Milena was one of the eight women selected for AFI’s highly regarded Directing Workshop for Women. She also took part in the Sony Pictures Television Diverse Directors program. Unspeakable was her short film and TV series proof of concept was premiered at SXSW. It also received Best Episodic at the Seattle International Film Festival, and Best Pilot at the SoHo International Film Festival. The short film she made, Temporary (2017) has been screened across the United States and won the Best Narrative Short at Anthem Film Festival, Best Dark Comedy at Atlanta ShortsFest as well as the Director's Choice Award at Sedona I...

Piper Perabo

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Piper Perabo was nominated for the Golden Globes in the category of stage, TV, and film actor. She was born in Dallas, Texas, and living in New Jersey, she graduated with a summa cum Laude degree from Ohio University. Coyote Ugly was her breakout role. Since then, she's been featured in films such as Christopher Nolan's "The Prestige" featuring Hugh Jackman and Christian Bale, "Because I Said So" with Diane Keaton and "First Snow", with Guy Pearce, "Cheaper by the Dozen" films with Steve Martin, "Imagine Me &"Imagine Me & You" with Lena Heady and Matthew Goode and the crime thriller "10th & Wolf" with an ensemble cast including James Marsden and Dennis Hopper. In Rian Johnson's sci fi action movie "Looper," she starred alongside Bruce Willis and Joseph Gordon Levitt. In television Perabo starred as Annie Walker in all 5 seasons of USA Network's spy thriller "Covert Af...

Ayelet Zurer

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Ayelet Zurer one of Israel's best beloved actresses, is a truly special woman. She was born in Tel Aviv and was first noticed by Hollywood when Steven Spielberg cast her in her first English-speaking role , Eric Bana’s wife in Munich (2005). Zurer is an American actress that has been featured in Studio films, such as Sony Pictures' Vantage Point and Vantage Point, starring Dennis Quaid (with William Hurt) Samuel Goldwyn's Fugitive pieces with Stephen Dillane, Paul Schrader’s Adam Resurrected along with Jeff Goldblum and Willem Dafoe. Ron Howard's Angeles and Demons is opposite Tom Hanks. Darling companion, a Lawrence Kasdan cast, stars Diane Keaton and Kevin Kline, and Warner Bros. Man Of Steel, opposite Russell Crow, is Ron Howard. She also filmed Rodrigo Garcia, Last days in the desert opposite Ewan McGregor in addition to awaiting the release of the film The Last Knights by the Japanese director Kazuaki Kiriya opposite Clive Owen. Recently, she received the Gold Nymp...

Pollyanna McIntosh

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Pollyanna McIntosh was born in Portugal and Colombia before returning to her native Scotland and where she initially began to perform on stage, at The Edinburgh Festival. When she was 16, she relocated to London where she quickly started working in independent filmmaking. (Her first professional gig on The Acid House was as a stoner in the film Irvine Welsh (1998)). She has also participated in theater as an actor as well as director. In 2004, she relocated to Los Angeles to direct "The Woolgatherer" the play which Anne Dudek (a regular guest on Mad Men (2007)/Big Love (2006)) was directed. The play was praised by critics. Her first US film role was "Stacy" as the manipulative woman who was a born again Christian as seen in Headspace (2005). Her first movie role was in the film Headspace (2005) as the manipulative, born-again Christian "Thumper Wint". This comedy was written by Heathers (1988). Exam (2009), which was filming in London and LA and was her su...

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 (born 3 May 1986) is a French actress. She studied at the Cours Florent drama school, Paris. She has been in films like Loup 2009, Sleepless Night 2011 and Hacker's Game 2015. She appears as Mantis in the Marvel Cinematic Universe films Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 (2017), Avengers: Infinity War (2018), and Avengers: Endgame (1999). Pom Klementieff was the child of two parents: a Korean mother and a French-Russian father. Her father was a consul of Quebec City, Canada. Eugene Klementieff, a painter was her grandpa. Her parents picked the name "Pom" due to the fact that it's identical in pronunciation to Korean words for both "spring" and "tiger". Klementieff lived in Canada for a time of one year, before her family travelled extensively because of her father's work. Prior to making the move to France, they lived in Japan as well as on the Ivory Coast. Klementieff's father died of cancer when she was 5, and her mother had s...