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Paula Abdul

Paula Abdul was born in San Fernando Valley, California. She began dancing at the age of eight. Van Nuys High School was her high school. She was also the cheerleader of the year and class president for senior year. Her high school graduation was in the year 1980. After graduating, she began the college process at Cal State Northridge. There she majored 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. She was approached by The Jacksons to choreograph their 1984 "Torture" video, which was the first in a long list of videos and movies she choreographed. After the release of her debut CD "Forever Your Girl", she began singing and was soon a well-known dancer and singer. Her stint as an American Idol judge (2002) has helped her become an increasingly popular performer/dancer. Her father (Harry Abdul) is from a Sephardic Je...

Mary McDonnell

Mary McDonnell, a two-time Oscar(r),-nominated actress, is best known for her portrayals on screen in both modern and historical roles. She also has a lengthy history of acting roles on stage and screen. Mary Eileen McDonnell is a Pennsylvania-born actress. She was the child of Eileen (Mundy), an Irish-American computer consultant, as well as John McDonnell. Born in Ithaca, New York, she graduated from the State University of New York (SUNY) at Fredonia. After that, she went to the drama school and was accepted to the Long Wharf Theatre Company in East Coast. In the following two decades she scored her first major film role, in Kevin Costner's Dances with Wolves (1990) where she played "Stands with a Fist" as a white woman raised by the Sioux Indians. The role was so well-loved that she was awarded her first Academy Award nomination. McDonnell's film credits include Lawrence Kasdan's Grand Canyon (1991) & Mumford (1999), opposite veteran actors like Robert...

Paula Faris

Paula Faris is an American journalist who formerly worked as a television correspondent for ABC News. She is most famous for her stint as cohost of Good Morning America Weekend, between 2014 and 2018, as well as hosting of The View, 2015-2018. She was previously co-anchor of America This Morning and World News Now. After graduating, she worked in several communications-related jobs including an operations position at Mills/James Productions in Columbus, Ohio. She was employed in sales for radio, due to the lack of television opportunities. After one year working as a production assistant for WKEF/WRGT, she eventually was able to report and anchor periodically. She was one of the weekend and weekday sports anchors for WCPO TV, Cincinnati, from 2002 until. After her contract was up she took on the role of anchor and sports reporter for the NBC affiliate WMAQ-TV in Chicago from November 2005 through December 2011. In December 2011, she was recruited by ABC News, the division for news of A...

Markie Post

Markie Post grew up in Walnut Creek, California and started her career on films and TV shows such as Card Sharks (1978) and "The New Card Sharks" (1986) and continued to make projects like Double Dare (1976) and was a guest on television projects like 1st to Die (2003), E! True Hollywood Story (1996), Electra Woman (2001), and Dyna Girl (2001). Perhaps she is most well-known for her performance in "Christine Sullivan", the Night Court star (1984). From 1984 until 1992, she was a part of 156 shows. Marylee (Armstrong) Post was her mother. She is a noted poet and nuclear scientist Richard Freeman Post (November 14, 1918-April 7, 2015). With her second husband Michael A. Ross, she had two children: Katie Ross (born June 26, 1986) and Daisy Ross (30 March 1990). Born in Palo Alto in California and was raised in Walnut Creek. She was a cheerleader at Las Lomas High School in Walnut Creek, California. She received her Bachelor of Arts degree from Lewis & Clark Col...

Sarah Chalke

Sarah Chalke was conceived in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada on 27 August 1976. Angie Chalke is her mother and Doug Chalke are her father. She is the middle child of two brothers, the older one, Natasha Chalke, one younger, Piper Chalke. Sarah began her acting career in a TV-made film called City Boy (1992). After her first movie Sarah was a candidate for the role of Becky on Roseanne (1988) in 1993. Following the time that Alicia Goranson left the show to go to college the show was in search for someone to replace her. Sarah graduated from high school in 1995, and was involved in the making of Roseanne (1988) between 1994 and 1995. In 1994, Sarah co-starred in the film, Ernest Goes to School (1994) as did Jim Varney. In 1996, Sarah starred in two movies: Robin of Locksley (1996) and Stand Against Fear (1996), where she was a cheerleader who was named Krista Wilson. Sarah was asked to be a part in a 1998 show called Nothing Too Good for a Cowboy. The show was released one year following Rosea...

Lauren Ash

Lauren Ash is a recent Second City Chicago Mainstage alumna. She also graduated from the Second City Toronto Mainstage. She is also a part of the comedy duo "Cory!". She's been an Canadian Comedy Award nominee twice for the award of Best Female Improviser. In 2008, she took home the best Comedic Play award and , in 2006, she was awarded the Best Sketch Troupe Award. She's been featured in different roles in the shows "Scare Tactics" and "Almost Heroes" and "Almost Heroes," as well. She played a frequent role in "The Ron James Show" and was a guest on "Lost Girl,"" "Cracked," "Bomb Girls" and "Call Me Fitz." Other credits in television and film include "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 show "The Dating Guy." The timeframe of 2019-2020 i...

Paula Patton

Paula Patton is the daughter of Joyce (Vanraden), Patton, and Charles Patton. Her father is African American and her mother is caucasian. She is of German, English, Dutch and English ancestry. Her family lived right next to the 20th Century Fox lot as she was growing-up, and she was a huge film buff since the beginning of her life. Her mother was a teacher and her father worked as an attorney. Paula states that as an teen she would get away by "pretending to pretend to be someone else" so it was not the case that she appeared in plays for high school at Hamilton Magnet Arts High School. Her favorite character was "Abigail" from "The Crucible". After finishing the University of Southern California's summer school, she studied film and was offered a three-month assignment to create documentaries for PBS. As a result, she was able to work as a production assistant on TV documentaries and on Howie Mandel’s talk show. She then began to produce documentaries...

Amy Carlson

The family was born in Glen Ellyn, Illinois, Amy Carlson spent most of her early life in the Chicago area. Amy resided in Glen Ellyn the city of Illinois, up until she was in junior college. The family also lived in Middle East, where her parents, Bob (and Barb) taught at American School. Amy is the older sister of Betsy, Lori, and brother Joe. Amy has traveled across Europe together with her family and independently. Because her parents were teachers and teachers, they could spend the entire summer traveling and camping across the United States. They've camped across every state, except Alaska. Amy has also traveled to Rwanda after the 1994 war to aid in relief efforts. Amy was a gifted artist from the beginning when she was acting in school plays, as well as taking part in writing competitions. In high school she was a promising athlete who finished in the first ever 3200-meter relay in the Illinois girls track. Following an injury, she went back to university and played many par...

Penelope Cruz Sanchez

Penelope Cruz Sanchez was the daughter of Eduardo Cruz (a retailer) and Encarna Sanchez (a hairdresser). When she was a toddler she was an obsessive performer, and would reenact commercials from the television to entertain of her parents. However, she decided to focus her efforts on dancing. She continued to study alongside a group of highly respected dancers after spending nine years studying classical ballet in Spain's National Conservatory. When she turned 15 she realized her real destiny when she outclassed more than 300 other girls at an audition by a talent agency. The contract that resulted in her being signed secured her several roles in Spanish television shows and music videos. This led to a future career on the screen. Cruz made her film debut in 1993's The Greek Labyrinth (The Greek Labyrinth). After that, she briefly appeared in Framed (1992) which was a Timothy Dalton thriller. The Oscar-winning Belle Epoque (1992) was her third film. In it she played one of four ...

Milena Govich

Milena Govich is an actor director, musician, and actor. She has directed a number of episodes of TV and film, including Chicago Med (2015) (211) and The Equalizer (221). Milena was the Co-EP/Producing Director of Dick Wolf's CBS show FBI (2018) and is currently attached for two pilots. Milena was one of the eight women chosen by AFI for their most prestigious Directing Workshop for Women. She also took part in the Sony Pictures Television Diverse Directors program. Her short film and TV series proof of concept called Unspeakable featuring Laura Vandervoort and Jeff Kober, featured its World Premiere at SXSW and was awarded Best Episodic at Seattle International Film Festival and Best Pilot at SoHo International Film Festival. The short film Temporary (2017 written by Milena Vandervoort) has been screened across the United States. It won the title of Best Narrative Short at Anthem Film Festival and Best Dark Comedy at Atlanta ShortsFest. The Director's Choice Award was also giv...

Piper Perabo

Piper Perabo was nominated for the Golden Globes in the category of stage, TV, and film actress. She was born in Dallas, Texas and raised in New Jersey. In 2000, she was chosen in the role of a breakout character in Coyote Ugly. 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" with Guy Pearce, "Cheaper by the Dozen" films with Steve Martin, "Imagine Me and You" with Lena Heady and Matthew Goode and the crime thriller "10th Wolf" with an ensemble cast including James Marsden and Dennis Hopper. Perabo was in the film alongside Bruce Willis (with Joseph Gordon Levitt), Emily Blunt as well as Jeff Daniels in Rian John's sci-fi action film "Looper". Perabo was Annie Walker's television character in five seasons of the spy drama on USA Network "Covert Affairs." After that...

Ayelet Zurer

Ayelet Zurer, one of Israel's most beloved actresses, is a truly special woman. Her birthplace is in Tel Aviv, and first garnered the attention of Hollywood when she was cast by Steven Spielberg in her first English-speaking role, as Eric Bana's wife in the Oscar(r) nominated film Munich (2005). Zurer is an American actress who has been featured in Studio films, such as Sony Pictures' Vantage Point, with Dennis Quaid (with William Hurt), Samuel Goldwyn’s Fugitive pieces opposite 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 with Lawrence Kasdan, stars Diane Keaton and Kevin Kline, and Warner Bros. Man Of Steel in which she is opposite Russell Crow, is Ron Howard. Ewan McGregor shot Rodrigo Garcia, Last Days in the Desert. She also has been waiting for the release date of The Last Knights, a film directed by Kazuaki Kiriya, opposite Clive Owen. In recog...

Pollyanna McIntosh

Pollyanna McIntosh grew up in Portugal and Colombia before returning to her hometown of Scotland, where she first began to perform on stage on stage, at The Edinburgh Festival. After 16 she left for London and soon found herself involved in indie filmmaking (her first job paid for was as stoner in Irvine Welsh's The Acid House (1998)) and theatre, both as an actress and director. After moving to Los Angeles in 2004 led to more theatre. She directed Anne Dudek (a regular star on Mad Men/Big Love (2006)) as well as David Dayan Fisher (a regular actor in 24 (2001/NCIS 2003)) to acclaim. Her next project was her first US film role in the movie as the manipulative and a born-again Christian, "Stacy", in Headspace (2005). She was then cast in the role of "Thumper Wint", a rebellious, born-again Christian in Sex and Death 101 (2006) (Simon Baker/Winona Rider) in Heathers (1988). The reviewers were awed by her distinctive combination of the power of sexuality and the ir...

Paget Valerie Brewster

Paget Valerie Brewster is an American voice actress, actor as well as a singer. Her role as Kathy the character who appeared in recurring roles on Friends' fourth season, was her first major recognition. Her first fame was due to her role as Emily Prentiss, Supervisory Special Agent on the crime show Criminal Minds. She appeared on that show regularly from 2006 until 2012. She has returned regularly since then to guest appearances. She 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. This was the first appearance in animated form for the character. Brewster was conceived in Concord, Massachusetts on March 10 the year 1969. Her mother, Hathaway Brewster. (nee Tew) was employed by the government. Her father, Galen Brewster worked as school administrator. Brewster was born in Massachusetts and then moved ...

Pom Klementieff

Pom Klementieff (born 3 May 1986) is a French actress from France. She was a student at 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). Avengers: Endgame (2019). Pom Klementieff was born in Quebec City, Canada, to the parents of a Korean mother and French-Russian father who was employed there as a consul with the French government. Eugene Klementieff was her grandfather. Her parents picked the name "Pom" due to the fact that it's identical in pronunciation to Korean words for "spring" and "tiger". Klementieff was an American citizen for one year. Her family had travelled extensively due to her father's work. They resided in Japan and the Ivory Coast, before settling in France. Her father was diagnosed with cancer when she was five ...