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Paula Abdul was born in San Fernando Valley, California. When she was eight years old, she began dancing lessons. Van Nuys High School was where she was the senior class president and the chief cheerleader. Her high school graduation was in the year 1980. After graduating she started college at Cal State Northridge. There she was a radio and television major. 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 hired her to choreograph their 1984 film "Torture", the first in a long line of movies and videos she choreographed. After her debut album "Forever Your Girl" she began to sing and soon became a well-known performer and dancer. Her stint as an American Idol judge (2002) has helped her become more well-known as a performer and dancer. Her father (Harry Abdul) is from a Sephardic Jewish background from Syria. Her ...

Mary McDonnell is an actress who has been nominated for two Oscars(r). She is famous for her portrayals of characters from the past and present screen roles. Mary Eileen McDonnell was born on the 28th of April 1952 in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, to Eileen (Mundy) and John McDonnell, a computer consultant, both from Irish origin. Growing up in Ithaca, New York, she graduated from the State University of New York (SUNY) at Fredonia. She then attended the drama program and was accepted into the prestigious Long Wharf Theatre Company on the East Coast. After a few decades, she landed her breakthrough film role, in Kevin Costner's Dances with Wolves (1990) where she played "Stands with a Fist" who is a white woman born to the Sioux Indians. Her first Academy Award nomination for the character. McDonnell's film credits also include Lawrence Kasdan's Grand Canyon (1991) & Mumford (1999), opposite veteran actors such as Robert Redford, Sidney Poitier and Ben Kings...

Paula Faris is an American journalist who was previously a television correspondent for ABC News. She is known for her tenure as co-anchor of Good Morning America Weekend from 2014 until 2018 and also in her role as co-host on The View from 2015 to 2018. 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. Due to the lack of TV opportunities the company employed her in sales for radio. She was recruited as a WKEF/WRGT production assistant and then became a anchor and reporter. From 2002 until 2005 she was the weekend sports anchor and weekday sports anchor at the WCPO-TV station in Cincinnati. She was hired as a sports journalist for the NBC's Chicago affiliate WMAQ-TV between November 2005 and December 2011, when her contract ended. In December 2011 it was revealed that she had been hired by the news division of ABC, ABC Ne...

Markie Post grew up in Walnut Creek, California and began her career with films and TV shows, like Card Sharks (1978) and "The New Card Sharks" (1986) and continued to produce such projects as Double Dare (1976) and appeared on such TV shows like 1st to Die (2003), E! True Hollywood Story (1996), Electra Woman (2001), and Dyna Girl (2001). She was perhaps best known for her character "Christine Sullivan" as the Night Court star (1984). From 1984 until 1992 she appeared in 156 shows. Marylee (Armstrong) Post was her mother. She is an accomplished poet and nuclear scientist Richard Freeman Post (November 14, 1918-April 7, 2015). Alongside her second husband Michael A. Ross, she had two children: Katie Ross (born June 26, 1986) and Daisy Ross (30 March 1990). Her birthplace was Palo Alto, California and grew up near Walnut Creek, California. As an athletics coach, she attended Las Lomas High School in Walnut Creek. Earned her Bachelor of Fine Arts degree at Lewis &...

Sarah Chalke was born 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 began her acting career in the film City Boy (1992), produced for television. In 1993, following her first film, she auditioned for the role of "Becky" on the TV series Roseanne (1988). The show was looking for a replacement after Alicia Goranson quit the show to attend college. Sarah graduated from high school in 1995 while filming the 1994-1995 season of Roseanne (1988). Also, in 1994, Sarah co-starred in the film Ernest Goes to School (1994), along with Jim Varney. She was in Robin of Locksley (1996) and Stand Against Fear(1996). In these films she played the part of Krista Wilson who was who was a cheerleader. Sarah was also invited to star in a TV show named Nothing Too Good for a Cowboy (1998) which was a year after Roseanne (1988). Base...

Lauren Ash is a recent participant in the Second City Chicago Mainstage. She also graduated from the Second City Toronto Mainstage. She is also a part of the sketch comedy duo "Cory!". She is a twice-winner of the Canadian Comedy Award for Best Female Improviser. She also took home the 2008 best Comedic Play and the 2006 Best Sketch Troupe Awards. She's appeared in various roles in the shows "Scare Tactics" and "Almost Heroes" as well. She played a recurring character in "The Ron James Show" as well as guest appearances in "Lost Girl," "Cracked," "Bomb Girls" and "Call Me Fitz." She also has been featured in "Video on Trial,"" Hotbox, and the Academy Award-nominated film "Lars and the Real Girl." She also plays the role of Sam in the animated Canadian series "The Dating Guy." Her wealth has grown significantly between 2019 and 2020. What's the sum of Lauren Ash wor...

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 origins. When she was growing up and her family lived in front of the 20th Century Fox lot. She was a fervent movie buff from the time she was a child. Her mom was a teacher and her father worked as an attorney. Paula admitted that she tried to escape as young girls through "pretending" to become someone else. So it's not a surprise that she appeared in Hamilton Magnet Arts High School productions. Her favorite character was one of Abigail in "The Crucible". After having graduated from the University of Southern California's summer school, she took film classes and was then given a 3 month task to produce documentaries for PBS. It led her to work as a production assistant on TV documentariesand for Howie Mandel's talk show. Later, she produced documentary segments for Medical Diaries (2000 ...

Amy Carlson was raised in Glen Ellyn (Illinois) and was a part of her early years living in Chicago. Amy was a part of her family in Chicago while she was in junior high. Parents, Bob, and Barb taught at the American School in the Middle East. Amy is the mother of two sisters: Betsy and Lori, and a brother Joe. Amy has traveled across Europe as a family member as well as alone. Since her parents were teachers who taught, they could spend the entire summer traveling and camping across the United States. In fact, they have been camping in every state, with the exception of Alaska. Amy also went to Rwanda after the 1994 war to help in relief efforts. Early on, Amy showed artistic talent acting in school productions as well as winning contests to write. In high school, she excelled in athletics winning the first ever 3200-meter relay for girls in Illinois track. After suffering an injury, Amy returned to college and played many parts on the stage, starting with Lanford Wilson’s “Fifth of J...

Penelope Cruz Sanchez was born in Madrid to Eduardo Cruz, a retailer and Encarna Sanchez, hairdresser. As a young child she was an obsessive performer who would recreate commercials from the television to entertain of her parents. But, she decided to focus her efforts on dance. After nine years of classical ballet classes in Spain's National Conservatory she was able to continue her dance training under the guidance of a number of famous dancers. When she was 15, she heeded her true call when she topped over 300 other girls at an audition at a talent agency. The resultant contract secured her several roles in Spanish television shows and music videos, which set the stage for a career on the big screen. Cruz made her movie debut with The Greek Labyrinth (1993). (The Greek Labyrinth). Then, she appeared briefly in Framed (1992) by Timothy Dalton. Her third film, Belle Epoque (1992) was an Oscar-winning film in which she played one four sisters who were competing to win the love of an...

Milena Govich is a writer, director musician, actor, and actor who has directed many episodes of TV, including The Equalizer (2021), Chicago Med (2015), FBI: Most Wanted (2020), Chicago Fire (2012), among others. Milena served as the Co-EP/Producing Director for Dick Wolf’s CBS series FBI (2018) and is currently in the process of completing two pilots. 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 is her short film as well as a television show proof of concept, was shown at SXSW. It also won Best Episodic Award 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 was awarded the Best Narrative Short at Anthem Film Festival, Best Dark Comedy at Atlanta ShortsFest, and the Director's Choice Award at Sedona Int...

Piper Perabo was nominated for the Golden Globes in the category of stage, TV, and film actor. Her birthplace was in Dallas and was raised in New Jersey. Coyote Ugly was her breakout role. Since then, she's 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", with Guy Pearce, "Cheaper by the Dozen" films starring Steve Martin, "Imagine Me and"Imagine Me & You" with Lena Heady and Matthew Goode and the crime drama "10th Wolf" featuring an ensemble cast that included James Marsden and Dennis Hopper. In Rian Johnson's sci fi action movie "Looper," she starred alongside Bruce Willis and Joseph Gordon Levitt. In the television world, Perabo was a part of Annie Walker in all 5 seasons of USA Network's spy drama "Covert Affairs." She also appeared in ABC's legal drama "Notor...

Ayelet Zuer is an Israeli actress who has received praise for her performances. Born in Tel Aviv in 1967, she first gained the attention of Hollywood when she was given the role of Eric Bana's wife in the Oscar(r) nominated film Munich (2005). Zurer has appeared in several Studio films since arriving in America, which includes Sony Pictures' Vantage Point featuring William Hurt and Dennis Quaid, Samuel Goldwyn's Fugitive Parts, which starred Stephen Dillane, Paul Schrader’s Adam Resurrected opposite Jeff Goldblum, and Willem Dafoe. Ron Howard's Angeles and Demons, opposite Tom Hanks, Darling Companion, an ensemble Lawrence Kasdan casting that features Diane Keaton, Kevin Kline and Warner Bros. Man Of Steel opposite Russell Crow. The actress filmed Rodrigo Garcia, Last days in the desert alongside Ewan McGregor in addition to waiting for the release date of the film The Last Knights by the Japanese director Kazuaki Kiriya in the role of Clive Owen. Recently, she won the ...

Pollyanna McIntosh is from 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. After 16 she moved to London and soon found herself involved in independent filmmaking (her first job paid for was as a stoner in Irvine Welsh's The Acid House (1998)) and theatre in both roles as an actress as well as a director. In 2004, she moved 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 received rave reviews. Her first US movie role was as "Stacy" as the manipulative, born again Christian as seen in Headspace (2005). The role was later recast as "Thumper Wint", a unorthodox, born-again, Christian in Sex and Death 101 (2006) (Simon Baker/Winona Rider), by Heathers (1988). The reviewers were impressed by her unique mix of powerful sexuality and irreverent humor. Working in ...

Paget Valerie Brewster is an American voice actress, actress, and singer. Her first recognition came from her role as Kathy in the fourth season of the NBC sitcom Friends. The first time she was recognized was her character Emily Prentiss, Supervisory Special Agent on the crime series Criminal Minds. She appeared frequently on the show from 2006 to 2012. She has returned often since then , with guest appearances. She also portrayed 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 appearance on animated television for the character. Brewster was born in Concord, Massachusetts, on March 10, 1969. Her mother, Hathaway Brewster. (nee Tew), worked in the government. Her father, Galen Brewster worked as school administrator. Brewster was raised in Massachusetts. She was able to move to New York City for Parsons ...

Pom Klementieff (born 3 May 1986) is a French actress. She received her training at the Cours Florent drama school in Paris and has been featured in films such as Loup (2009), Sleepless Night (2011) and Hacker's Game (2015). She portrays the role Mantis, in the Marvel Cinematic Universe films Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2. (2017). Avengers: Infinity War (2018). Avengers: Endgame (2019). Pom Klementieff was born in Quebec City, Canada, to a Korean mother and French-Russian father who was working as a consul there for the French government. Her grandfather was a painter Eugene Klementieff. Pom was her name since it sounds like the Korean words "spring" and "tiger" in Korean. Klementieff spent one year in Canada before her family moved frequently due to her father's work. They resided in Japan as well as the Ivory Coast, before settling in France. Klementieff's father died of cancer when she was just 5 and her mother suffered from schizophrenia and could n...